Boom-boom!

Boom-boom-boom!

Bags of salt were cut open with sharp horse choppers. He was then lifted up by two salters and thrown into the salt lake with all his might, before disappearing.

A group of Yanchi officials who were held to their necks with knives watched the white flowers and golden wealth turn into nothing in an instant, and their hearts were dripping blood. If these reservoir salts are transported out of Hedong and sold to all parts of the Han Dynasty, they don't know how much benefit and benefit they can get in private!

With the last sack of salt thrown into the lake, the salt workers seemed to have made a complete reckoning with their lives on this day, and now they had no way out except to flee north with this group of fierce soldiers.

What kind of day could be more desperate than the past when "the water in the lake was exhausted and the food was eaten without salt and salt"!

Yan Xi's 10,000 cavalry troops, escorting more than 30,000 salt workers, set out from Anyi, first arrived at Wenxi, and then to Jiangyi, and the next step would be along the dry Fen River all the way to the north, passing through Linfen, Pingyang, and Yong'an in Hedong County, and finally entering the territory of the Jin Kingdom.

Because the salt workers had no horses and could only rely on foot, the speed of the mixed army and civilian march was very slow, and they walked more than 40 miles in a day, so when the news of the robbery of the Anyi salt field reached the ears of Zhang Fei, the commander of the Yang County garrison, the team going north had just arrived at the Baibo Valley along the Fenshui River.

When Yan Xi broke into Hedong County, he chose to cross from Caisangjin on the bank of the Yellow River, but when he left with the salt workers, he chose to break through to the northeast of Hedong County, which had a very serious problem.

The imperial court garrison in Hedong was mainly the 30,000 Northern Army led by Zhang Fei, all of which were stationed in Yang County, northeast of Hedong County. Yang County is located more than 30 miles east of the middle section of the Fen River, just stuck between Yong'an and Pingyang on the bank of the Fen River, and on the evacuation route Yan Xi chose, Pingyang is the next target they will reach.

If Zhang Fei sent a heavy force to ambush Yan Xi on the bank of the river west of Yang County, the northbound team would face a great threat, and might even be completely annihilated. After all, Zhang Fei had 30,000 well-equipped soldiers with a large amount of gunpowder, and they had an absolute advantage over Yan Xi's 10,000 soldiers.

On the other hand, Yan Xi's side, because he had to take care of the lives of tens of thousands of salt workers, and the terrain on the riverbank was not conducive to a rapid cavalry assault, which added a lot of variables to the already dangerous escort task.

However, I don't know if Yan Xi did not receive systematic and formal military training, or if he was too blind and arrogant, while choosing such a bad retreat route, he actually organized the salt workers to go all the way in a hurry, and fooled more poor people from Shangdang to join the general of the team going north, for fear that Zhang Fei of the garrison Yang County would not know what he had done.

The ranks going north were getting bigger and bigger, and the common people always had to eat, drink, and sleep, and before Yan Xi's troops came to Hedong, it seemed that they had just plundered other places, and there was an endless amount of wealth for the officers and soldiers of Yan Sheng's division to buy grain and grass from the towns and villages they passed by.

The cavalry of Yan Sheng's division did not have the habit of giving white slips to the common people, and they used silver tickets issued by the Jin State Peasants, Soldiers, Merchants and Gold Banks, which could be exchanged in many states and counties in Dahan. Although the people who were harassed along the way were not very happy to accept the silver tickets of the Jin Kingdom, they did not dare to squeak after seeing thousands of fierce and vicious northern barbarians, holding white swordsmen in their hands.

Although the silver ticket of the Jin Kingdom is a bit troublesome to exchange, after all, the reputation of the people is the best in the world, if you don't agree to these barbarians' requests to buy grain and grass, maybe even your life will be difficult to protect. No matter how stupid the people of Hedong are, they can tell the difference, so they all chose to cooperate with Yan Shengshi in the end.

At the same time that Yan Xi led his army to break into the territory of Hedong, a force of tens of thousands of people also set off from Pingzhou City on the west bank of the upper reaches of the Fen River, and secretly marched south along the Fen River.

This force is 15,000 of the 20,000 new elites added after the expansion of the Crouching Tiger Army, led by the army commander Li Jinwu himself, and their mission this time is to capture Yong'an City on the bank of the Fen River, go south along the Fen River, and respond to Yan Xi, who led the people north.

In order to prevent the army from breaking into Hedong, Zhang Fei's subordinates entered the territory of the Jin State like the last sneak attack on Guyuan City, and the remaining 25,000 people of the Crouching Tiger Army, except for 5,000 people who were holding Jiguan, the remaining 20,000 were assigned to the line of Yang'a, Xishi, and Guyuan, forming a tight protective network against the Huoda Mountains in the west of Shangdang. If Wei Yan or Fu Wei's liver and gallbladder enter the territory of Shangdang again this time to cause sabotage, there will definitely be no good fruit to eat.

When Yan Xi's team marched to Pingyang City at the speed of a turtle's nest, another three days had passed. The common people in Pingyang County had already received the news from the south, and knew that a large group of barbarians on horseback were rushing to this side with "hundreds of thousands" of Han people, so they abandoned their homes and fled for their lives, including the county officials and officials in the city, who also fled to Yang County, where Zhang Fei was garrisoned.

This was cheaper Yan Xi, so he simply led the team to live in the empty Pingyang City, registered the poor people and salt workers along the road, mixed the group according to the old and young, women and children, and young and strong laborers, and designated the person in charge of each team, and asked them to take care of the people in their team who had difficulty in moving.

After preliminary statistics, Yan Xi "robbed" more than 35,000 salt workers from Yanchi, and took in and fooled nearly 40,000 poor people along the way, so that his team, including 10,000 cavalry, reached a total of 90,000.

The imperial court killed thousands of merchants who traveled around the Jin Kingdom without saying a word, and also confiscated the goods worth millions of taels of silver stored in the warehouses of the Jin Kingdom, which Qiu Zhaoxing has always remembered in his heart. This time, he asked Yan Xi to abduct the skilled laborers of the salt pond, and then dragged a group of people from Hedong County to return to the party, and also turned all the salt worth millions of taels of silver in the Anyi salt warehouse into brine, which finally took revenge.

Of course, the matter is only a wonderful start here, and the real finale depends on how Li Jinwu and Pang Tong designed and earned Zhang Fei and Yang County, and completely convinced the court.

So, after receiving the news that the Anyi salt works were robbed and the salt workers were captured, what is Zhang Fei, who has not been inconspicuous, thinking now?

Of course, Zhang Fei was thinking about how to leave Yan Xi's troops who broke into Hedong and the salt workers of Anyi Salt Works. The reason why he didn't take immediate action was because he was worried that others were using a strategy to divert the tiger from the mountain.

From the analysis of the information obtained, the barbarian army that suddenly appeared was obviously not the remnants of the Xianbei people, but should be a certain alien cavalry unit of the Jin State. Because judging from the means of their actions, they do not have the style of bandits and robbers at all, but they are very similar to the well-trained cavalry of the Jin Kingdom.

If this force was only trying to break into Hedong to create panic and cause chaos, there was no need to take so many salt workers on the road. Generals who have no experience in leading troops know that when cavalry and ordinary people go on the road together, war horses are useless.

Zhang Fei clearly saw that since the barbarians in the north abandoned their horses and chose to escort the salt workers to the north, and they also blatantly passed near Yang County, it could only show one problem - there was a cat here!