Zhao Xing's order to give up the Crouching Tiger Army defending Kei Pass was not a decision made by a moment of hot-headedness or emotion, he had the certainty and confidence to stop the 90,000 army personally commanded and led by Lu Zhi.

Although there were no millions of soldiers waiting for Lu Zhi in Jiguan, there were four million people of the Jin Kingdom waiting for Lu Zhi and his 90,000 army. Instead of letting the hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides of the war fight to the death in the north and south of Jiguan, it was not allowed to let the millions of people of the Jin State drown Lu Zhi's 90,000 troops.

The current people of the Jin Kingdom, who have been influenced and inspired by Zhao Xing for more than ten years, not only have a strong sense of belonging to the country, but also have a strong martial spirit. The people of the Jin Kingdom are the people who pay the most attention to rules and order in the world, but at the same time, they are also the people who are least afraid of foreign invasion in the world. According to the teachings of King Pingxi, once the enemy is found to have entered the homeland, the common people will turn every city, every village, and every inch of land into a battlefield under the organization of the reserve officers and soldiers, so that the enemy can see what it is to unite as one and what is a people's war!

On the road from Keiguan to Crouching Tiger City, Lu Zhi's mood became heavier and heavier. Along the way, all he saw were people with various weapons and angry eyes, these people did not take the initiative to attack the imperial army, but looking at their posture, he knew that as long as the imperial army invaded their fields and villages, they would definitely be met with mortal resistance. Fortunately, the road leading from Keiguan to Crouching Tiger City was a wide enough official road, and the army led by Lu Zhi also had sufficient food, so on the way to Crouching Tiger City, the imperial army did not have a large-scale bloody conflict with the people of the Jin State.

Lu Zhi was not a bandit leader, and the 90,000 army he led was not a bandit bandit, if he rushed into the territory of the Jin State and began to burn and plunder, then Zhao Xing would definitely not mind fighting back with the most drastic means. The reason why Lu Zhi's army was able to approach Crouching Tiger City for a long time was because Zhao Xing ordered the reserve forces in various places not to take the initiative to attack, as long as they defended the safety and property of the local people.

For Lu Zhi, the elder, Zhao Xing has always retained enough respect and appreciation in his heart. Lu Zhi is not a careerist, nor is he a butcher, he is a typical scholar and Confucian general, he also has the ambition of saving the country and the people in his heart, but because of the restrictions of the times and the environment, he does not see Zhao Xing in the long run.

If Zhao Xing was not a traverser who opened a "super plug-in", then he would have no chance to become the opponent of a big man like Lu Zhi. But then again, if it weren't for Zhao Xing's birth, a famous general like Lu Zhi would only be framed and excluded by eunuchs and relatives according to the original trajectory of history, and would not have had the opportunity to get to his current position.

In order to fulfill the indomitable will of a generation of famous generals, Zhao Xing opened up an avenue, giving Lu Zhi the opportunity to see the outline of Crouching Tiger City with his own eyes, but it was limited to that.

The Crouching Tiger Army had a full 40,000 troops, and only 10,000 troops were defending Jiguan, and when Lu Zhi attacked Jiguan, the 30,000 troops stationed in various places had quickly moved closer to the direction of Crouching Tiger City. The Liaodong Army, which received an urgent military order, threw away all its baggage, and rushed to the Crouching Tiger City at the speed of a forced march, and immediately accepted the top equipment distributed by the Crouching Tiger Equipment Institute in the city, which only made this group of young men from the northeast happy. The Dingyuan Army, which was originally stationed in the north, also urgently dispatched 20,000 cavalry to rush south, led by the army commander Hu Che'er himself, and is now only hundreds of miles away from Crouching Tiger City.

Compared with the cold reception that Lu Zhijun received when he entered the Jin Kingdom, whether it was the Crouching Tiger Army familiar to the people of the Jin Kingdom, or the Liaodong Army, which was somewhat unfamiliar, and the cavalry of the Dingyuan Army who came with the ice and snow that had not yet melted on the northern grassland, they were warmly welcomed and supported by the local people along the way.

In order not to delay the march of the troops defending Crouching Tiger City, the common people along the road prepared eggs, braised pork, white flour steamed buns, cold boiled water and forage for horses to eat early, and as long as they saw the army coming, they lined up on both sides of the road in an orderly manner for the soldiers to use. There was that bold and enthusiastic young descendant, holding some rudimentary weapons, following behind several rapid marches, and when he arrived at the foot of Crouching Tiger City, tens of thousands of people had gathered!

For these young descendants who are full of enthusiasm for serving the country, Zhao Xing did not pour cold water on them, but stood on the Zhengyang Gate and shouted to everyone: "From today on, you are the reserve force under my command Zhao Guochang, everyone obeys the order and immediately enters the city to receive intensive training from the Crouching Tiger Training Corps!"

Zhao Xing's words came, and tens of thousands of stunned youths in the city were thunderous with joy, and they poured into Crouching Tiger City from under the Zhengyang Gate, which only Zhao Xing could enter and exit on weekdays.

When Lu Zhi arrived twenty miles outside Crouching Tiger City with his army, he saw that the Crouching Tiger Army, the Liaodong Army and the Dingyuan Army guarding outside the city had already lined up a formation that could launch a large corps at any time.

Zhao Xing stood on Zhengyang City, and behind him stood Xu Huang, Hu Che'er, Li Jinwu, Li Jinsi, Zhao Zhenbang, Wang Lu, Ma Tan and others. Zhao Xing said calmly: "Since the completion of Crouching Tiger City, only Ding Yuan's troops have been fortunate enough to get close to the city. Now that Mrs. Lu has led an army of 90,000 people from afar, don't be lazy. Now that he has decreed the determination of the Shroud of Horseskin, we have fulfilled his ......"

After Zhao Xing finished speaking, he turned his head and walked down the Zhengyang Gate, and went back to the mansion to concentrate on writing and talking, but as for what kind of dark scene would be outside Crouching Tiger City, he couldn't arouse any interest. With Xu Huang personally in command, how could Lu Zhi's 90,000-strong army get close to Crouching Tiger City? Even if they could get close to Crouching Tiger City, how could they break through the attack of the countless firearms at the head of the city?

As soon as Zhao Xing left, Xu Huang immediately ordered Crouching Tiger City to open the welcome door and the triumphal arch at the same time, and then led several generals in the city to walk out with Shi Shiran. Xu Huang walked out of the city, but the city gate behind him was still wide open, as if he was silently assuring the people in the city: even if these two city gates were wide open, the troops of the imperial court would never think of rushing into the city beyond the troops of the Jin Kingdom!

Since the king of Pingxi did not issue an order to ban the city, they swaggered out of the city, and stood behind the city army, and began to cheer for the soldiers of the Jin State.

The final battle between Lu Zhi and Xu Huang outside Crouching Tiger City was actually a decisive battle between the nascent Jin Kingdom and the decaying Han. The two sides will face each other head-on without any fancy when their forces are similar, and the losing side will not only lose their lives, but also announce their complete defeat to the world.