Shuzhou is surrounded by natural dangers, coupled with the remote terrain, even in the rebellion of the kings of the empire a hundred years ago, the king of Shu also pressed the right treasure, which not only stabilized the royal family of Shuchuan, but also avoided a military disaster in the land of Shuchuan.

But things always have pros and cons, although the land of Shuchuan has avoided war, but the local noble forces are more entrenched, plus there are countless barbarians on the four sides of Shuchuan, although many barbarians are under the imperial empire, nominally under the rule of the empire, but in fact they are in their own way.

There are often frictions, and they are perennial, and in the inner part of the Sichuan Basin, the nobles can be said to be small warlords, and they are also quite wealthy, and each nobleman has a strong private army to defend the territory to deal with the friction and barbarian riots that may occur at any time.

In the territory, there were also a large number of purchases of furs, precious firewood, medicinal herbs, etc. in the hands of the barbarians, and at the same time sold salt, silk and other items at high prices, such transactions allowed these nobles to have enough money to arm their own private soldiers.

However, at the same time that the aristocratic private army is strong, the three major legions of Shuzhong that are guarded in the hinterland of the Sichuan Basin are becoming more and more corrupt in the intricate family power and hundreds of years of peace, although among the twenty-five local legions of the empire, the three major legions of Shuzhou are still in the middle and upper reaches, but this ranking is more based on equipment, the training of soldiers and horses, and the regimental competition every five years.

In the first battle of Fuhudu in Pingyang County, the strength of the two brigades was less than 1,000 Holy Sect soldiers and horses, and they fled in embarrassment, which can be said to have completely revealed the essence of the paper tiger.

Select the most elite soldiers, equip the best armor, under the threat of the Panlong Legion in Jiuchuan Mansion, and secretly dispatched two Holy Banner soldiers and horses to serve as the main force of this trip, and even the early scouting, paving the road is even more meticulous, and at the combat meeting, several sets of combat plans were formulated, and they were also prepared for greater losses, but the result was greatly beyond the expectations of the Holy Sect's high-level leaders.

The well-equipped soldiers and horses in Shuzhong were crushed by a thousand who just got off the ship and a charge, and in the following two hours, these 10,000 soldiers and horses were captured by more than 4,000, and most of the rest fled, and the battle dead did not exceed 1,000 people.

And after learning about the battle situation of Fuhudu, the general of the Holy Sect Army hesitated for a moment, and then made an order to pursue, less than 300 war horses, about 3,000 Holy Sect vanguards, under the leadership of a deputy banner master of the Holy Sect Holy Banner, went straight to Fuhu County.

At this moment, Fuhushan County was almost in chaos, the rout troops poured into the county, and before they all had time to enter the city, the city was already in chaos, and the three hundred Holy Sect cavalry who took the lead in chasing without stopping pursued the city gate without hesitation, and the defenders blocking the gate suddenly scattered as birds, and almost did not encounter many obstacles, and seized the city gate.

Leaving a hundred cavalry to guard the gate, the remaining two hundred cavalry slashed all the way along the street, and the streets were full of fleeing soldiers, but no one turned back to fight back, and with the follow-up infantry rising, Fuhushan County suddenly changed hands, and this was only four hours before the Holy Sect landed, and it was not dark yet.

After occupying the county seat of Fuhushan, the soldiers and horses did not continue to pursue, because the Fuhushan County is really rich, the granary is full of autumn grain that has just been harvested, and in the treasury, a large amount of gold and silver coins are piled up with more than a dozen large boxes, and those local wealthy families are hundreds of years of family business, and the family is like a cloud, and there are countless valuable objects of all kinds.

This night, the Holy Sect Army carnival in the middle of the night, and at midnight, another Holy Sect Army entered the city, when all the people saw the wealth in Fuhu County, all their eyes turned red, the vulnerable defenders, the rich towns, this is more exciting than the original capture of Chuzhou County.

Almost without urging, the generals of the various departments had already come to the door out of breath, and after a consultation, when the sun rose from the east again, from Fuhu County, a group of elite Holy Sect troops rushed out in the designated direction.

On November 7, the Holy Sect entered Shuzhou, arrived at Fuhudu in the afternoon, and half an hour later, defeated the defenders, and occupied the ferry port for an hour, and occupied the county seat of Fuhushan dozens of miles away before nightfall.

On the 8th, Anping County fell, Hechuan County fell, and the county town was surrounded by tens of thousands of holy religious troops.

On the 9th, the other two counties of Pingyang County were captured, Pingyang County completely fell, and the Holy Sect Army marched 800 miles a day, regardless of fatigue, and attacked this Qingyang County, where the government and county administration were located, and Sanchuan County in the east of Qingyang County fell, and the defenders held on for less than half a day.

On the 10th, the Holy Sect army arrived at the city of Qingyang, and within the next three days, captured the three surrounding counties of Qingyang County, cutting off all retreats in Qingyang.

On the 14th, more than 20,000 elite soldiers and horses of the Holy Sect Army arrived at the city of Qingyang, and with the assistance of the powerful water beast long-necked dragon beast, they successfully captured the head of Qingyang City, and on the same day, captured the eastern city.

On the 15th and 16th, after two days of battle, more than 50,000 defenders around Qingyang were not supported, and a small part withdrew from Qingyang City and was defeated, and Qingyang fell!

In less than ten days, the first batch of 30,000 Holy Sect pioneers captured the two counties of Shuzhou and Sichuan, and obtained a large amount of grain, grass, wealth and countless weapons, all of which were accumulated in Shuzhou for hundreds of years, and now they are all cheaper Holy Sects.

When the cargo ship transporting soldiers and horses returned, it was loaded with war booty, and the entire Holy Sect high-level was stunned, and even the Holy Sect Leader had to admit that his estimation was still a little insufficient, and he underestimated the family background of Shuzhou, and also overestimated the strength of Shuzhou.

Then the high-level of the Holy Sect made a new decision, began to draw more troops and horses to gather in Luoyandu, and began to increase shipbuilding efforts, and the Holy Sect army from afar began the westward expedition, and the Xiyan Mansion, which they had previously guarded strictly, was like chicken ribs at this moment.

Compared to Sichuan Tianfu, a Xiyan Mansion is really not enough to see, if you want to choose between the two, fools know how to choose, the Holy Sect began to draw soldiers and horses scattered in the place, and even from the soldiers and horses guarding against Jiuchuan Mansion, an elite force of more than 100,000 people quickly gathered, and went straight to Shuzhou non-stop.

At the beginning of the Holy Sect, there was still some cover-up, but the transfer of troops in this blow was not concealed at all, and the spies hidden in the Holy Sect army soon spread the news back to Suzaku City.

At this moment, most of the energy in Vermilion Bird City is focused on local reconstruction and restoring people's livelihood, while the other part of the energy is also attracted by the Tang army in Xiaoxiang Mansion, which still wants to turn the sky upside down, and does not pay much attention to the Holy Sect.

"What, the Holy Sect marched westward, marched into Shuzhou, and captured the two counties of Pingyang Mansion in one fell swoop!" Leng Zhuo almost jumped up from his chair, originally Leng Zhuo drove the Holy Sect back to Chuxi, and the Jiuchuan Mansion Panlong Legion added chaos from time to time, which would definitely make the Holy Sect uneasy.

In particular, this year's grain harvest in Xiyan Mansion is more than 40% less than in previous years, and this will be the biggest bottleneck restricting the Holy Sect.

But now, the Holy Sect's expedition to the west and the two counties in one fell swoop, this time it disrupted Leng Zhuo's plan.

After Leng Zhuo was shocked, he frowned and said, "Could it be that the soldiers and horses in Shuzhou are all decorations? That is the Shuchuan River that is dangerous on all sides, and the Shuzhou Basin where no one can open it! Who can tell me what happened, could it be that those defenders have become Holy Sect disciples!"

"Probably not, the soldiers and horses of Shuzhou are ranked in the middle and upper reaches of the twenty-five legions of the empire, second only to the legions of the three northern states, although the Holy Sect Army has been tempered in the previous war, but after all, it does not occupy profits, how can it not lose two counties in ten days, even if it is a horse race, it will take seven or eight days!" Wei Zhilan also said with a little disbelief.

"This Baishuang knows a little, the Xuanbing Phantom Array Gate is on Kunlun Mountain, not far from Shuzhou, she also often goes to Shuzhou, she should know the situation better!" Qin Liangyu said, obviously this incident has a great impact, otherwise her handsome woman on the front line will not rush over.

The people in the small half of the room suddenly looked towards Bai Shuang, but Bai Shuang said generously: "I just heard what people said, and I don't know if it's true, in fact, every time the three major legions of Shuchuan have a big competition, the people sent are actually private soldiers borrowed from the nobles, as for the soldiers and horses of the three major legions, I heard that the empty food is very serious, and even a division is full of 25,000 people, and there are tens of thousands of empty quotas!"

Baishuang's little revelation suddenly shocked everyone in the room, and even the well-informed Nangong Yuhu stared at him: "Are you sure this is true?"

Bai Shuang shook his head and said: "I don't know, but I don't think it will be groundless, but once, I once saw that a few Bian Gui private soldiers were chasing dozens of local garrisons in a town, and at that time this matter was still widely spread, and I heard the local people say that this kind of thing is normal, and in private they all say that there are two tigers in Shuzhou, a real tiger and a fake tiger, the real tiger kills people, and the fake tiger bullies people!"

Although what Bai Shuang said was just a trivial matter, it was enough for Leng Zhuo to cover his head and sit back on the rocking chair, it seems that he still doesn't know enough about Shuzhou, I thought that Shuzhou has three major legions, not to mention nearly 400,000 soldiers and horses, and there are natural dangers to defend, not to mention that it is almost the same here, so Leng Zhuo and they didn't think about what would go wrong here.

But I didn't expect that the soldiers and horses in Shuzhou are just a fake tiger, and they will be broken when they are stabbed, ten days, two counties, this fucking is simply running all the way, and the time to fight is not as long as the time to run, this paper tiger is enough water.

"This situation is not good, the soldiers and horses in Shuzhong are fake tigers, but the wealth of the land of Shuchuan is not fake, if the army of the Holy Sect continues to encroach on the land of Shuchuan, the strength will gradually increase, and our plan to trap the Holy Sect will be miscalculated!" Nangong Yuhu said.

"En!" Leng Zhuo listened, Huo Di stood up and said, "You are all busy with yourself, you two go to the inner courtyard with me, this matter has to be discussed in the long run, it really doesn't stop!"