In the fifth year of the empire, in mid-June, the city of Sichuan in Jiuchuan Prefecture. ^^

The sun sets, the sunset burns half of the sky, the afterglow of the setting sun falls on the middle of the city, on the official road outside the gate of the east city, seven or eight men dressed as hunters each carry a rod of hares, pheasants and a basket of leather goods appear outside the city gate.

"Fortunately, I caught up, I know the sentry at the city gate well, and I shouldn't be too strict when I give them some mountain goods! Zhang Orion whispered to the sand hero beside him.

"You know, you can go yourself!"

Zhang Lihu nodded, stepped forward a few steps, and came to the gate of the city: "Sentry Liu, you are on an errand again today?"

"Oh, I thought it was whoever it was, it turned out to be Lao Zhang of Hutou Mountain, how did it drop, and what kind of good fox skin did you hunt, the skin you hunted last time caused a lot of popularity in the city, tsk, the fourth-order Qingguang Xuehao!"

"Luck, luck, but also bumped into, otherwise even if you give a few years to a small may not be able to touch a hair, this time there is no good goods, good quality is only a dozen, but these two days encountered a group of fanged wild boars, let me and the neighboring village in a few villages in the hunters finally catch all, although the fanged boar is fierce, but the meat is a good thing, our small place can not sell the price, this is not early in the morning to come over, but this road is not easy, almost did not catch up with the door!"

"The fanged boar? Why didn't you see it!"

"In the back, I'm afraid that this door will be closed in advance, or I will sleep in the field for a night, look at this cloud, maybe there will be rain at night, hehe, can Officer Liu be accommodating, close the door for a quarter of an hour or two late, this time there is a lot of hunting, and go back to the brothers guarding the door to leave a pheasant, hare, everyone has a share!"

When Officer Liu heard this, he groaned for a while, and said, "It's okay to close the door later, but we can choose which one we want later, don't try to make a pig fool us!"

"How can it, brothers, put down the chickens and rabbits first, they are still alive, and it is the freshest to turn around and kill!"

After a while, there was a howl of a fanged boar on the official road, the sound was loud, and the guards guarding the door stepped forward to take a look: "Tsk, this fanged boar must weigh more than a thousand pounds, look at that head, look at the sharp fangs, it is said that even the big insects in the mountains can't provoke this big guy!"

"Good guy Zhang Orion, you are really a litter, there are twenty or thirty pigs in this herd!"

"Hehe, counting the small ones, there are forty-one heads, and the dead ones are removed, and there are small piglets, this is twenty-three, the largest is estimated to be 1,500 catties, and it was not easy to lead us to the trap after killing two or three of us, for these big guys, more than 300 people were dispatched from five villages around us to get it, and the dead and injured all pointed to this time for a good price pension!"

"You are brave enough, you dare to provoke such a large herd of pigs!"

"Isn't this also forced, you choose one first!"

"It's all covered with cloth, how to choose this!"

"If you don't stop covering this wild boar, you won't let us toss along the way! Look at this one!" Zhang Orion said and stepped forward, picked up a piece of cloth, revealing a huge wild boar, as if he felt that someone was approaching, and suddenly launched a frenzy, and the rod carried by the four men actually shook for a while.

"It's really going to make a fuss, okay, that's it!"

"Okay, Sentry Officer Liu, let's discuss it again, our brother really doesn't have the cash in hand, can you enter the city first, and when these pigs are dealt with, I promise to make up for it for you tomorrow!"

"Why do you think it's a big deal, I'm in charge of this matter, you have to make up for it when you go back!

One hundred and ten men carried about twenty fanged wild boars into the city, and then the gates of the city creaked and closed.

The sun soon set in the western mountains, and the night fell on the earth, but the bright moon hanging in the sky was hidden by a cloud drifting in the distance, and the night was even darker.

In the mountains and forests to the east of the city in Sichuan, as the darkness shrouded the earth, the five fingers could not be seen all around, and the three thousand elite and more than a thousand elite hunters recruited from Hulu County came out of the forest one after another, running towards the city of Sichuan, and in this night, few people walked outside, more than 20 miles of road, but quietly came to the outskirts of the city in Sichuan, lying in the ground, waiting for the signal from the city.

Sha Yingying and his entourage mixed into the city, and soon armed, the fanged wild boars carried by a hundred and ten people were actually only three or five, and the others were actually armor, if the sentry officer who checked the door really wanted to check one by one, he had to be exposed, fortunately, these guys were all masters who loved to take advantage of small things.

"Wait for the next action, you must be clean and neat, everything is mainly to seize the city gate, after capturing the city gate, defend on the spot, and wait for this place to enter the city!

Although the strength of the emperor of Panlong City has become stronger and stronger, especially in Jialin Mansion, the aristocratic rebels who fought have been defeated and the Panlong City, which is a big city in the south of Sichuan, has made the rebels in the central Sichuan Valley panic Panlong City's main road to the central Sichuan Valley, and 30,000 soldiers and horses have been deployed on the South Sichuan Road to intercept the emperor of Panlong City from going north.

Although the towns in the valley are also in a tense atmosphere, after all, there has been no movement from the south to the north, so although the city in the middle of the river has set a curfew, closed the city gate on time, and strengthened the vigilance, but after all, the danger is still far away, so Sha Yingying and his party walked all the way through the alley to the place near the city gate, most of the defenders near the city gate are standing under the wall and leaning against the wall to doze off, or hiding in the dark castle to gamble, and there are only a few soldiers who are really responsible for guarding.

"Up!"

The battle at the city gate was not fierce, it was a smooth mess, and after easily taking the city gate, the sand hero asked people to open the gate, and then lit the torch and drew a fire circle at the city gate.

"General, they succeeded!"

"Okay, the order, the main force of the whole army will immediately follow me to kill the city, tonight, take the city of Sichuan!"

In the flickering candlelight, Leng Zhuo leaned on a rocking chair, and Liu Bowen shook his feather fan lightly, talking to Leng Zhuo about the things in the city.

"Vermilion Bird City's main defense force at the moment is the elite soldiers of the four cities, there are almost 100,000 or so, all of them are veterans who have experienced a hundred battles and died in the past half a year, and these are also the most precious things in Vermilion Bird City!"

"The main generals of the four cities are also divided into many forces, the situation in the southern city is relatively good, most of the forces were brought down by General Chen from Jiaocheng at the beginning, and the other soldiers and horses in the city have almost been subdued, and the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in the southern city must support the young master!"

"The remaining three sides, Dongcheng is the weakest, but the main general is a person who withdrew from Guangling Mansion, this person once served as the deputy division commander of the Python Legion, after leading the troops to retreat, first as the deputy general of Xiacheng in the northeast, and then, Xiacheng fell, the main general was killed, he led the remnants of the army to break out of the siege, retreated into the Vermilion Bird City, in the direction of Dongcheng, withstood the Tang Army's onslaught of a Zhichong Mansion for half a month, but a talent, this person also stood behind a cadre of Guangling wealthy families who retreated from Guangling Mansion, clans, there are no less than ten Tianling masters who listened to orders in Dongcheng alone, and the Dongcheng war has always been the least party, and his strength is also very intact！”

"Where's this person's force field?"

"For the time being, it is not attached to any party, and it is self-contained!"

"Oh, what about the other two cities?"

"Beicheng is now guarded by Pingnanhou's Vermilion Bird Legion, this force is the last foundation of the Vermilion Bird Legion, and it has been greatly expanded before this, but because the battle damage is more serious, the fight is also relatively ruthless, and the number of people is also two, three or four thousand, but the strength should not be underestimated, Beicheng not only has nearly twenty Heavenly Spirit powerhouses, but even has an Earth Spirit Battalion of no less than a thousand people, and the equipment is also the most sophisticated, otherwise Beicheng will not be able to stop the attack of the Tang Army from the north!"

"Then Xicheng should be the power of the Huang family, this is not a good thing!"

Liu Bowen nodded, and said: "The lord of Xicheng is Gong Yuting, and he is also the head of the Gong family, and he has always worn a pair of pants with the Huang family, but this Gong Yuting is not a wasted person, and he is also quite influential in the army.

"In terms of combat effectiveness, it is no worse than other soldiers and horses, and it is well established, it can be regarded as the main force of the elite, and the Holy Sect army has not been able to bargain for more than half of it in the west!"

"However, we are not without any strength in these three directions, for example, in Dongcheng, there is General Wei Xiaokuanwei, who can call on almost one-third of the strength in Dongcheng, and in Beicheng, there are two generals, Yang Yanzhao and Niu Gao, but the soldiers and horses controlled by the two are only equivalent to a brigade!"

"Xicheng, there are Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Tian Dan three generals, the three of them are now in Xicheng also hold a lot of positions, there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command, but only about half of them can really be trusted!"

"In addition, in addition to the elite soldiers of the four cities, there are also 3,000 guards and horses in the city, as well as various guards, and the reserve army composed of worship is about 50,000, and as for the young and strong, it is even more, which is the last strength!"

"Roughly calculated, the soldiers and horses that can be controlled by the young master are about 40,000, if you count the guards warrior regiment and the guards guard regiment that entered the city this time, more than 17,000 people are already superior to any side, and in the reserve army, we can also control almost half of the strength through the Jiang family!"

Listening to what Liu Bowen said, Leng Zhuo was not relieved at all, but frowned and said, "Have you heard clearly about the Huang family's dealings with the Holy Sect?"