Yicheng, as a small county town farthest away from the governance office under the rule of Nanyang, has always had a weak sense of existence.

This is not only because it is so small, and the people inside and outside the city together are only 10,000 or 20,000, but also because the geographical location is not very important.

In terms of distance, he was more than 200 miles away from Nanyang City, but he was only 100 miles away from Xingyang, the big city on the other side. It is also located in a vast plain, with no important waterways flowing through it, and there are no minerals......

As a result, this small city has really become a small transparent in the Central Plains, perhaps only the local people, as well as those who know the geography of the Central Plains and remember the geographical map of the city in their hearts, will have a certain concept of this small city.

However, it is such a small city, in the autumn of this year, when the world has been chaotic for more than ten years, it has suddenly become the focus of the entire Central Plains and even the whole world.

Just because the imperial court suddenly took a fancy to its geographical location and wanted to use this place as a fulcrum for the future, it sent a steady stream of soldiers, horses, and material resources and hoarded them.

Then, in just over half a month, the already very small official warehouses in the small county town were filled with all kinds of grain, grass, weapons and materials. And the Liangzhou soldiers and horses that came with these materials also quickly occupied the whole city.

Although this bit of soldiers and horses is really too rare on the battlefield, only one or two thousand people. But in this small city with a total of only 10,000 or 20,000 people, this amount of troops can be called huge.

As soon as a few hundred people went to the head of the city, the four cities were crowded, and the military camps in the city could not accommodate people, so they could only temporarily set up camps outside the city.

These soldiers were also very unaccustomed to defending such a small city, so except for the first few days after they came here, everyone relaxed their vigilance, and the people who were ordered to go to the city to guard the city every day were just in vain.

Early in the morning of September 22, when the sun had just risen below the eastern horizon, two veterans yawned and walked slowly up to the city, one after the other, to take the place of the robes of the vigil above.

When the people were in a daze, the two veterans whispered:

"It's been about ten days, and it's too boring to stay here, so it's better to be at home, the wheat in the field is almost ripe."

"Who's to say it isn't? My mother-in-law also conceived a son for me, hoping to return in time to see him born. I don't know when the imperial court will directly wave the army, and when the time comes, Luoyang will be taken, and our credit will be great. ”

"Yes, if we lay down Luoyang, we can really be big officials......"

As he spoke, his voice suddenly stopped, and his body, which had been leaning lazily against the wall with a spear, suddenly straightened up.

Then, as if someone had been pinched by the throat, he shouted in a somewhat sharp voice, "You...... Look there, yes, what's it? ”

"What's all the fuss, can you still see the hell?" The companion suddenly laughed and said, "Even if there is a ghost, so many of our brothers will also ......take care of him" His mocking voice also quickly broke off when he looked in the direction of the other party's finger and looked northeast.

Two people, with four eyes fixed on the end of the horizon ahead, saw that in the golden sunlight, a huge cavalry team was rushing towards them at great speed.

Both of them opened their mouths wide, they couldn't believe their eyes, and one of them even rubbed his eyes hard, thinking that he had woken up in the morning and had hallucinations.

And the other one even grabbed his thigh, and the severe pain told him that this was not a dream, but a fact!

In the middle of this delay, the brigade of soldiers and horses, which was still more than ten miles away, and only faintly visible, had become closer and closer, and the huge army that could not be seen at a glance also convinced the two of them that a large number of enemy troops were really coming.

It was only a moment of consternation, and the two veterans with considerable experience no longer hesitated, quickly took the horn from their waists, and blew it vigorously.

The whining horn suddenly sounded, and the entire righteous city, from the officials and soldiers to the people, were all alarmed, and then naturally more people saw the tens of thousands of foot cavalry troops that swept and rushed to kill.

Suddenly, the whole city was shocked and in chaos.

As mentioned before, this is a very ordinary and unremarkable small town.

Even when there was a great chaos before, Luoyang and Xingyang and others attacked one after another, and this small city had not suffered any military disasters, let alone suddenly encountered such a large number of troops head-on.

So as soon as the people saw this change, they all panicked, crying directly for their father and mother, and ran out of the city. For a time, there was chaos inside and outside the city, and it was completely unstable.

The soldiers and horses who were ordered here were also in disarray, because they were too few men, because they were still in the camp outside the city at this time, and they had no time to respond.

Before they could panic and enter the city against the people, the thousands of enemy cavalry in front of them had already rushed towards them like rolling iron waves.

Only a burst of killing, whether it was the people outside the city, or the generals, all fell under the iron hooves, and the four gates of the city were broken by one attack, and the righteous city and the materials in it changed hands in a blink of an eye.

By the time the more numerous infantry in the rear slowly pressed up, the entire county would have only one dead man in the whole county, except for those who surrendered.

And Qin Yude, the governor of the Pingtian Army, who was surrounded by countless generals, only nodded his head slightly after seeing such a result, and then ordered to plant his own flag.

When the banner with the words "Pingtian" and the word "Qin" fluttered high on the small city tower, all the people who fled around couldn't help but turn back, and then continued to walk away in embarrassment as if there were tigers and wolves chasing after them.

They wanted to pass on this unexpected news back to the other cities in the rear, especially the Nanyang defenders, who were an important granary of the Northern Expedition, to know about it as soon as possible, so as to prepare for the next battle.

In fact, they didn't need to send letters, because the same situation happened in Xingcheng, dozens of miles away.

This small county town was also raided by Kaifeng soldiers and horses at almost the same time, and then it was also unguarded, and the city was quickly broken and captured.

When these news were brought back to Nanyang, the guards and officials in the city were also dumbfounded.

Obviously, the imperial court sent troops to rebel, but unexpectedly, the other party actually sent troops faster than himself, and he was so powerful...... 33

They could only hurriedly dispatch troops and horses to defend the city, and on the other hand, quickly send fast horses to the south to convey this astonishing news back to Liangzhou and Jinling.

Then, without waiting for other rear reinforcements to arrive, five days later, Qin Yude had personally led the army to the city of Nanyang.

100,000 people, Qi surrounded Nanyang, almost surrounded this important city in the Central Plains, which had only been rebuilt for a long time, three layers inside and out, and the water was impassable!

Some people died, but not completely......