In the early morning, Xiao Yu said goodbye to his wife and children, and returned to the camp.

At this time, the Central Army of the Northwest Army had already gone to the outside of Zhili Prefecture, and the Left Army had driven all the way to Qizhou.

Qizhou is the third largest state in Jiangbei in addition to Yuzhou and Zhili Prefecture, and Yuzhou is different from the drought year after year, the situation of Qizhou is slightly better, because of the coastal sake, the people have one more way to live, and they have not yet reached the situation of displaced people, but in recent years, it is also a serious banditry, and the local government is unable to suppress bandits, so it can only be resigned.

The bandits here are called ringing horses because of the good use of ringing arrows, and coming and going like the wind, and those horse thieves who are often hundreds or thousands outside the plug, and even dare to attack the city, the number of ringing horses is not much, the most is only more than a thousand people, generally only dare to loot the villages and towns, and there is nothing to do in the face of the county seat. This time the Northwest Army entered the country, and a large number of Xiangma fled when they heard the wind, either escaped into the lair in the mountains to watch the situation, or left Qizhou directly. Similarly, many Xiangma sent envoys to express their willingness to submit to the Northwest Army.

If it was placed in the past, these Xiangma, who did not put the officers and soldiers in their eyes, probably would not have put the Northwest Army in their eyes, after all, the combat strength of the Northwest Army was still too far away, if it was really invincible, why was it still defeated in the grassland? But after the first southern expedition and the second northern expedition, no one dared to underestimate the Northwest Army, although the army of the exiles of the White Lotus Sect was nothing, but the later Northeast Army and the Five Kings Coalition Army, that was a real elite army, also in the hands of the Northwest Army, the halberd sank sand, this time the Northwest Army broke through the barrier like a bamboo, the situation in Qizhou is dangerous, maybe there will be a change of master in the future, how can people not be afraid?

Outside the Dengzhou Mansion in Qizhou, a cadre of civil officials and military generals, including the prefect and the garrison, all went out of the city for more than 20 miles, and set up to rely on it, just to welcome a big man.

In today's time, to be called a big man, most of them have to hold military power, or can intervene in military affairs, so that they can be called big shots, if there are no above two points, let you be a gentleman and a famous Confucian, in this troubled world, you can only let people and flesh. To give the most obvious example, the king of Song is a prince, and the king of the northwest is also a prince, but the king of Song has no half of the military power, so he can only be a poor echo worm, and the king of the northwest has hundreds of thousands of troops, and he has already taken half of the country into his arms.

In a short time, the sound of horses' hooves sounded like thunder in the distance, followed by a great earthquake, and smoke and dust rose from the sky.

A black-pressed cavalry marched towards the capital of Dengzhou.

The knights are all in black armor.

The person at the head is dressed in the second-grade capital governor-style armor, and the waist is buckled with the unique black tiger head of the high-grade military generals of the Northwest Army, but his face is only more than thirty years old. There are a lot of Taoists around him, in fact, these Taoists are not new faces, but the backbone of Qizhou Daomen, and the first Taoist is Qi Yunzhen, the leader of Qizhou Daomen.

The Dengzhou prefect and the garrison and all the big and small officials bowed to the ground, "The lower officials (last general) Dengzhou prefect (garrison) greeted the general." ”

The man known as the general did not dismount, but said calmly: "Two adults, get up." ”

Dengzhou Mansion, one article and one martial arts, two high-ranking officials of the fourth grade, stood up, bowed their heads and stood with their hands down.

Behind them, the crowd was still on their knees, and no one dared to complain.

Not because of anything else, just because it was the person in front of him who led the army all the way through Xilingkou and sent troops to Qizhou, and now he is chasing and killing the governor of Qizhou so that there is no way to enter the sky.

His name is Wei Ban, the chief general of the Left Army of the Northwest Army.

In the ranking circulated in private, he was listed as the seventh in the Northwest Army, only below Xiao Yu, Xu Lin, Lan Yu, Xiao Jin, Lin Han, Min Xing and other six people.

As more and more of the Northwest Army appeared in everyone's sight, a poor and sour talent who was a little familiar with military affairs and good at directing the country actually whimsically arranged a seat for the Northwest Army, but he didn't expect it to spread all at once, and after word of mouth, even the princes in the eastern capital had heard of it.

In this seat arrangement, Xiao Yu, as the king of the northwest, naturally deservedly sat in the first place, and the governor Xu Lin had a very high prestige and deep roots, and he defeated the herdsmen not long ago, so he ranked second and second. As a rare person in the Northwest Army, Lan Yu has a high status in the minds of scholars and scholars, and has good achievements in the Southern and Northern Expeditions, especially in the war built after the Northern Expedition, Lan Yu directly served as the governor of the expedition, so he sat in the third position. Next, Xiao Jin succeeded Lan Yu as the "Great Butler of the Northwest", always in charge of money and food, and it was rumored that the King of the Northwest obeyed the words of this little prince, so he ranked fourth. The fifth is Lin Han, who is known as the Shura general, and the reason is very simple, he is Xiao Yu's brother-in-law and the heir of the grassland royal court, no matter from which point of view, it is enough to occupy a place in the top five seats of the Northwest Army. The sixth is the northwest general Min Xing, the seventh is Wei Ban, who is known for his intrigues, the eighth is Xiao Yu's henchman Qu Cang, the ninth is Zhuge Gong, who was the first to follow Xiao Yu, the tenth is Han Xiong, who was the first to serve Xiao Yu in the First War of the Grassland, and the eleventh is Shi Le, the new chief military officer of Xiliangzhou.

This time, Xiao Yu waved his troops, Lan Yu, Lin Han, Min Xing, Wei Ban, Qu Cang and others followed, Zhuge Gong was stationed in Shuzhou, Shi Le was stationed in Xiliangzhou, Han Xiong was stationed in Xihe Prefecture, Xiao Jin was in Shaanzhou, and Xu Lin stayed in Zhongdu.

Among the princes from all walks of life, the Northwest Army has experienced the most wars, so the general star is the most brilliant, because an excellent general has to go through the baptism of war, if Wei Ban does not have the opportunity to fight in Shuzhou, it is now just a small capital.

Wei Ban only brought three hundred guards and many Daomen cultivators into the city, and the rest of the army camped on the spot outside the city.

Approaching the city gate, Wei Ban looked at the prefect of Dengzhou, who was following behind him on horseback, and asked, "Where is Sun Zhihua, the governor of Qizhou?"

The prefect of Dengzhou, who was already a handful of years, replied cautiously: "Back to the prince, Sun Zhihua had already led the remnants to leave Dengzhou Mansion three days ago and went in the direction of Laizhou Mansion. ”

Wei Ban sighed, and there was no joy or anger on his face.

For Sun Zhihua, the governor of the second rank of guarding Qizhou, Wei Ban is quite helpless, his ability to fight can only be regarded as third-rate, but his ability to escape is first-class, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "smelling the wind and moving, coming and going like the wind", it is just like the autumn wind in the realm of cultivation before the cicada feels first, it is often Wei Ban who has just pulled out of the camp, Sun Zhihua has already begun to run away, and the two of them are like playing hide and seek in Qizhou. Fortunately, Wei Ban has crushed most of the territory of Qizhou, and the scope of Sun Zhihua's tossing and turning is getting smaller and smaller, unless he flees from the territory of Qizhou, it is already a matter of time before he is caught up by Wei Ban.

Arrived at the Dengzhou Mansion, where he was temporarily recruited as the line of Wei Ban. The prefect of Dengzhou moved out of the mansion with his family early in the morning, and instead of being half resentful, he was quite happy, and finally formed a good relationship with this powerful man.

After entering the government, Wei Ban asked the prefect of Dengzhou to retreat first, leaving the Dengzhou garrison.

In the study of the government office, Wei Ban removed a piece of iron armor and put on a narrow-sleeved military attache robe.

The Dengzhou garrison couldn't figure out what the general of the Northwest Army meant, so he could only wait worriedly.

Wei Ban waved his hand and said, "Master Sun doesn't have to be nervous, this governor just wants to ask if you know Sun Zhihua?"

The Dengzhou garrison named Sun Qianhua breathed a sigh of relief and replied: " Hui Yu general, the last general and Sun Zhihua although is the same surname and the same clan, but not in the five suits, this person is an orphan, in the early years of the grass for the Kou, after many fights, become the leading giant in Qizhou, known as the Jiangbei Green Forest League Leader, Zhengming 30 years, he robbed a hometown of the official lady to do the pressure of the village lady, the official lady's father although Zhi Shi is at home, but in the early years is a big man in the eastern capital, the protégé is very many, under his frequent pressure, the official army has repeatedly encircled and suppressed Sun Zhihua, but Sun Zhihua is powerful, the officers and soldiers are less useless, and he hides in the mountains when there are more officers and soldiers。 After the officers and soldiers encircled and suppressed many times to no avail, the governor of Qizhou at that time was the main force to change the suppression to Fu, Sun Zhihua accepted the appeasement, was appointed as the deputy general of Qizhou, since he had an official body, the old man who was robbed of his daughter also pinched his nose and recognized him as a cheap son-in-law, and later helped in many ways, Sun Zhihua was promoted to the governor of Qizhou in the 36th year of Zhengming. ”

After listening to this, Wei Ban pondered for a moment and chuckled: "It turns out that he was born in the Green Forest Ringing Horse, no wonder it is so difficult to catch." ”