Pingzhou, which is the gateway to the north of the Dasheng Dynasty, as long as you pass through Shacheng, it is an endless steppe, the world of the Turks.

Outside of Shacheng, there should have been hundreds of miles of grassland belonging to the Dasheng Dynasty.

In the heyday of the Dasheng Dynasty, there were even tens of thousands of iron horsemen of the Dasheng Dynasty on this steppe to deter the Turks.

However, in the past two hundred years, the Turks had already driven the people of the Dasheng Dynasty out of the steppe and occupied the buffer zone that originally belonged to the two countries.

In this way, the Turkic tribes were able to drive straight into the city and often harass the sand city.

And this time, the Turkic iron cavalry attacked, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the entire Shacheng were all slaughtered, not a single living mouth was left, a fire burned in Shacheng for three days and three nights, even if it was a hundred miles away, you could smell the burning smell that came.

Pingzhou City, only a few dozen miles away from Shacheng, because in the past two years, the Turks often have a situation of buckling the border, there are 60,000 permanent troops here, plus Pingzhou's government soldiers, there are also 80,000 troops.

However, this time the Turks were menacing, and Pingzhou City held out for nearly a month, and it had already run out of ammunition and food.

The original army of 80,000, as well as the tens of thousands of people who spontaneously organized to defend the city, now there are less than 30,000 left.

As early as a month ago, Pingzhou sent out one distress letter after another, and the 800-mile rush was also sent dozens of times.

But so far, the army closest to Pingzhou has not reacted.

The soldiers and civilians of Pingzhou have long been like ashes, but they still do not retreat and stick to Pingzhou City.

Fortunately, the Turks are all cavalry and are not good at attacking cities, otherwise Pingzhou would not be able to hold out until now.

The knives in the hands of the defenders of Pingzhou have long been cut to the edges, the crossbow arrows have long been used up, and the equipment for defending the city has long been exhausted.

The houses closest to the gates were dismantled to defend the city.

Many civilians and defenders defended the city on a life-for-life basis, and sometimes, it took a few people to exchange the life of a Turk.

They were already exhausted, but they still had no intention of quitting Pingzhou City.

As soon as they retreated, the entire city of Pingzhou would be trampled by the horses' hooves of the Turks, and although the people who should flee were gone, there were still tens of thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the city who could not leave.

Behind them is their home, they can still retreat there, the city wall of Pingzhou is already the strongest checkpoint in the north.

If the Turks were allowed to come in, they would be able to run rampant in the north and come and go as they pleased.

The land of the six states in the north of the Dasheng Dynasty will not have any resistance.

Therefore, the remaining defenders and people of Pingzhou are looking forward to the arrival of reinforcements, and the closest army to Pingzhou is only a few hundred miles, but after so much time, they have not waited for anything, and can only watch their companions die every day.

The defenders who had just blocked another attack were resting under the walls tiredly, and there were fewer and fewer of them left, and according to the current strength of the Turks' attack, they could hold out for three days at most.

But even if it was three days, they still wouldn't retreat, and in their hearts, they also held the last glimmer of hope, hoping that the Dasheng Dynasty would not give up on them.

The Dasheng Dynasty did not give up on them, but someone had already given up on them, the city closest to Pingzhou had already gathered 100,000 troops, as early as half a month ago, they could come to Pingzhou City to support, but the general who led the army ordered to stay in Qingyang County.

Among the 100,000 troops, more than half of them were government soldiers who came from all over the country, and there were only 30,000 right tiger guards.

And this general of the Right Tiger Guard, surnamed Qin, his name is Qin Li, not only did he not bring his subordinates to the Right Tiger Guard to support, but he also did not allow the soldiers who came to support him to leave Qinyang County.

Even the eight-hundred-mile rush sent by Pingzhou was stopped by him.

Yang Zhi arrived in Qingyang County on the third day after setting off from Xiping Pass, and the reason why he arrived so quickly was because he led 2,000 cavalry to arrive first, and the remaining 8,000 soldiers and horses arrived with Zhang Erniu.

Under normal circumstances, because Yang Zhi's two thousand cavalry were lightly armed, they had to go to Qingyang County to replenish grain and grass.

But when he led 2,000 soldiers and horses to Qingyang County, he found that Qingyang County had already been blocked, and after Yang Zhi revealed his identity, he originally thought that the gate of Qingyang County would be opened for him.

It's a pity that Yang Zhi was wrong, he was waiting for the defenders of Qingyang County, and ten thousand arrows were fired.

Fortunately, Yang Zhi realized that something was wrong and didn't get too close, but even so, the two thousand cavalry he brought still lost hundreds of people.

The defenders on the tower were still shouting loudly, and the Turks disguised themselves as Dasheng's cavalry, trying to trick them into opening the city gates.

Yang Zhi hadn't been so angry for a long time, and looking at the brothers who were shot, his eyes seemed to be about to breathe fire.

These brothers did not die at the hands of the enemy, but at the hands of their own people.

The defenders of Qingyang County want to shoot arrows at them, don't say anything about the Turks pretending, Yang Zhi knows that someone must be going to die by himself.

I thought about why the military department had to transfer troops from the Northwest Province thousands of miles away, or let myself lead the troops to support.

Yang Zhi could already guess that the other party's target was him Yang Zhi.

Qin family!

For the first time, Yang Zhi had the idea of killing the Qin family, and it had already reached such a crisis time, and the Qin family had not forgotten to eradicate dissidents.

"Chen Dong, find out for me who the general of Qingyang County is?"

Chen Dong glanced at the banner of the army guarding the city, and then said: "It's the Right Tiger Guard, I look at their general flag, it seems to be the Right Tiger Guard stationed in Huizhou, if I'm not mistaken, the leading general of this Right Tiger Guard is An Ningbo, Qin Li." ”

Hey, no, isn't Chen Dong the nephew of Uncle Chen's hometown? Why is he so aware of these things?

Although Yang Zhi felt that Chen Dong's origin might not be what he said, but now that he heard the name Qin Li, he only had a strong killing intent in his heart.

It's really the Qin family, this Qin family, is it going to kill themselves because of the matter in Liuyang County?

"Young master, this is only three hundred miles away from Pingzhou City, if we hurry up, we should be able to reach Pingzhou City tonight."

Yang Zhi looked at the fluttering military flag on the city of Qingyang County, and thought that if they dared to shoot themselves with arrows, Pingzhou might have been finished.

"Leave a few brothers, quickly inform Zhang Lao Er, let them bypass Qingyang County, since they are here, we will go to Pingzhou to have a look."

Yang Zhi glanced at the location of Qingyang County, and said in a low voice: "One day, Lao Tzu must personally cut off this Qin Li's head, damn, killing so many of our brothers, it is not enough for him to die ten thousand times." ”

Chen Dong knew that Yang Zhi had always been stingy with his own people, and during this time, Yang Zhi and them could be regarded as eating and living together, and they had already had a relationship.

"Young master, don't worry, this Qin Li dares to shoot arrows at you, he will definitely die!"

Yang Zhi looked at Chen Dong and just said lightly: "Don't think about killing him yourself, keep his life for me, I will use his head to pay tribute to these dead brothers." ”