Of course, there will be death in war, so Wei Xuan requires all officers above the rank of the team, including himself, to designate a replacement before the war, and once he is injured and can not continue to command or dies, he will be led by the designated person to continue the battle, and the designated person also needs to formulate a replacement.

When a team is broken up, the nearby commander of the higher level merges into the team.

Wei Xuan actually has a lot of good ideas, but he thinks these are cumbersome enough now.

On the day of the agreed expedition, Yin De took the initiative again, came to participate in the oath meeting, in the previous communication, Yin De also asked about Wei Xuan's battle plan, Wei Xuan smiled bitterly and said honestly, the purpose of this expedition is only one, that is, to try to drag down the thief soldiers, so that they have no energy to attack the county more, and it is not expected to defeat the thief soldiers.

Although Yin De was not very satisfied, he could understand that the worst thing in his mind was that 3,000 people were wiped out by the thieves, at least where in the imperial court, he Yin De defended Anyi and sent reinforcements to support other county seats.

However, he was still taken aback when he saw the recruit battalion lined up outside the east gate after a short period of training, he felt that if he gave Wei Xuan 5,000 people a month at this rate, he would definitely be able to train a team that was always enough to resist the thief soldiers, thinking of these Yin virtues from the bottom of his heart, he still admired the Wei family, in the end, it was the Hainei Wang clan that could cultivate such an excellent young man!

Three thousand people went out to fight, Taishou Yinde gave Wei Xuan a full amount of 3,000 recruits, plus cavalry and private soldiers, there were 3,003, and Taishou sent 500 people to transport grain and grass. The whole team looks like Haidian is on a large scale, and the feeling of standing on the high platform is that Wei Xuan is crowded. Wei Xuan sighed in his heart that Mrs. Guo might have been carried away by this illusion and came directly to fight Anyi!

Everyone thought that the first stop of Weixuan must have chosen to recover Dongqiu, which was located south-east of Anyi, and was a very important county town in the defensive line to prevent the thieves from continuing to move south and west.

Guo Tai, Li Le, Hu Cai and others also thought so, when they heard that Anyi City had actually sent five or six thousand troops to pursue them, they were dumbfounded, and their first reaction was that these were the private soldiers of the Wei family and other families!

Then they successively sent scouts to investigate, and the information they got was about 5,000 people, but definitely not less than 3,000 people, Guo Tai thought that Yin De and Wei Xuan were taking a risk to shoot all the county soldiers in Anyi City. So a few people thought about whether to separate some people to confront Wei Xuan in Dongyi, and then divide their troops to detour to Anyi, which at this time may be an empty city! But who should be sent to attack Anyi, everyone had a disagreement again, because the losses suffered under Anyi City were not small, especially when the fourth and fifth phalanxes rushed up, the losses were very large, and some people suspected that the county soldiers in Anyi City had not been transferred, if so, they had just occupied Dongyi, and the additional troops were not enough for them to consume in the next day of Anyi City.

Soon they lost the trace of the Wei Xuan army, and the scouts sent out were either killed or intercepted, and they could not accurately understand the speed and trajectory of the Wei Xuan army's movements.

Wei Xuan adopted the method of using cavalry to isolate the battlefield. Your own troops are at a disadvantage and most of them have no combat experience, if you still let the thieves feel it clearly, if you are ambushed, won't you wipe out the whole army? Wei Xuan was only able to isolate the battlefield, naturally thanks to his private soldiers and the two hundred cavalry led by Zhao Yun.

Two days later, in the evening, a group of three or ten thieves outside the city of Xiangfen came to the outside of the city, these people were in tattered clothes, dusty, the leader of the thieves on the city wall was Guo Dong, another henchman of Guo Tai's own clan, he took Guo Tai and several other leaders left behind 2,000 people to be responsible for the garrison of Xiangfen, although Xiangfen had already been looted by them, but this was the first county town under their Baibo army, and a large number of materials were hoarded.

He also knew the news that Guo Tai and others were not attacking in Anyi, which further highlighted the importance of Xiangfen. Therefore, before Mrs. Guo switched to Dongqiu, she specially sent someone to tell him to defend Xiangfen well.

The sudden appearance of the thief naturally aroused their thief and naturally attracted his attention. saw that two of these people were people he knew, and they turned out to be scouts of Li Le's team, so he asked with a smile on the city wall: "Wang Ergou, you are not in front of the general, what are you doing when you come back to Xiangfen?" Is there no food so soon? ”

Wang Ergou glanced at Guo Dong angrily and said: "Open the city gate quickly, something big has happened in Donglu, General Guo and General Li have encountered the army of the thief court in Donglu, and now the situation is critical, the general sent me to inform you and General Yang to hurry up and send more Yun troops to Donglu!" ”

Guo Dong was surprised, even if Wei Xuan's team was brave, it was only three or five thousand people, how could he still force his subordinate brother and Li Le's people to the point of asking for reinforcements. I definitely can't shoot reinforcements here, the main thing may be to invite Yang Feng, they just had an awkward relationship with Yang Feng, and Yang Feng is now in Xiangling.

He also wanted to ask for details, Wang Ergou said angrily: "Lao Tzu ran for two days, and the road was specially taken for fear of being intercepted by the scouts of the officers and soldiers, fortunately, there are many of us, otherwise we would have been killed on the road, you quickly Ankang City Gate let us go in and have a good meal, if we can get a few girls, it would be better!" ”

"Haha, you second dog, the general sent you to ask for reinforcements, but you want to *. When I see the general, I will definitely sue you. ”

When Guo Dong saw Wang Ergou's appearance, he immediately felt that he had picked up a good errand. Not only is it comfortable in the city, but there are also girls every day, so you don't have to think about it like Wang Ergou and others.

He is very familiar with Wang Ergou, and he can't bear to see them so pitiful, and he is thinking about whether to let a few girls in the city come out of these brothers.

The south gate of Xiangfen was opened in the defenseless situation of Guo Dong and others, and then more than 30 people suddenly broke out, Guo Dong was the most pitiful by Xu Huang with an axe and directly cut off his head, and the rest of the people wanted to run and were chased by Du Peng and others.

The thieves in the city heard the movement of the city gate and hurriedly ran down to see, and the result was naturally a few who were killed, and soon Du Chong found a torch and lit a pile of dry firewood, and then the thieves heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, and more than two hundred cavalry appeared at the south gate! Behind the cavalry were thousands of officers and soldiers, and the sharp-eyed people saw that the big flag was embroidered with a big guard character! Suddenly, they sat down on the ground one by one.

They heard that the 700,000 people of the second wave of baggage were served by more than 200 cavalry of the Wei family, and now these killing gods actually came to Xiangfen, and there are so many infantry behind.

Xiangfen City was guarded by a total of 2,000 thieves, except for the county government and the treasury, there were only two or three hundred people on each of the four city walls. If the city gate was not opened, they could still hold out until others supported it, and now that the city gate was captured, then two hundred cavalry blocked their way down the city wall, and before Wei Xuan's large army arrived, the remaining thieves chose to surrender.

Zhao Yun immediately led the cavalry to snatch the other three gates in three ways, and Xu Huang and the others also fought in several ways to kill everywhere.

After a stick of incense, Wei Xuan's large army entered Xiangling, leaving a qu to guard the south gate, and the rest of the people to support a city gate. He took two songs of people and horses straight to the county office.

Because Guo Dong was killed, the thieves in Xiangfen City were also four parts, which belonged to the four leaders, so when Zhao Yun's cavalry arrived, there was basically no resistance, but the thieves of the county government and the treasury were more tenacious, but they did not hold out for long in the face of the absolute superiority of the troops, and many recruits finally mustered up the courage to cut and kill the thieves who were at a disadvantage under the leadership of the guards of the guards. Many people are killing people while vomiting, and after vomiting, they are not less laughed at, but when they cut people again, they are much more decisive.

Before entering the city, Wei Xuan also deliberately explained to several military marquis, if you have an absolute advantage, don't rush to attack and kill, but let the recruits go into battle. The poor thieves scattered all over Xiangfen City became the experimental targets of the recruits to kill people.

Some of the cowardice were also forced by the commanders to pick up knives and stab the seriously injured thieves in the body, and these recruits were trembling and killing people, although the scene was comical, but the smell of blood began to affect everyone.

Half an hour later, the thieves who were scattered in the homes of the people who were having fun were basically cleared out, and more than half of the two thousand thieves were killed on the spot, and the remaining seven or eight hundred people were directly taken prisoner on the city wall.

When he checked the treasury, it was difficult for Wei Xuan, because the gold, silver and copper coins obtained from Xiangfen added up to nearly 50 million, and the grain was more than 20,000 stones. It seems that not only did Guo Tai and others gather here to seize in Xiangfen City, but I am afraid that most of the food they had looted nearby before the uprising was here, except for the one that Guo Tai sent to the front line in two consecutive batches.

The grain handling of 20,000 stones is a big problem, and it is necessary to leave a large number of troops to defend it, and it is useless if there are fewer people.

After thinking about it, Wei Xuan decided to gather the people in Xiangfen City, no matter how many of these people were heading towards Taipingdao, and recruited 2,000 people to repair the city walls and city gates, and Liu Ming left people to pacify the people and screen prisoners, and expand the team.

Wei Xuan's task to Liu Ming was that if Yang Feng or Guo Tai's army came to attack, he would not be able to leave until he had burned the grain and grass, and he would never let Guo Tai and Yang Feng use the grain and grass to use Xiangfen as a base.

Wei Xuan and the others continued to march in the northeast direction, because the intelligence of the scouts said that Yang Feng had captured Xiangling, and then sent troops to Pingyang, he wanted to take advantage of Guo Tai's efforts to attract officers and soldiers in the south to quietly become bigger. In fact, his army had grown from 5,000 to 10,000, but he, like Guo Tai and others, only left 2,000 in Xiangling.

According to Yang Feng's plan, Pingyang is in the north of Xiangfen and southwest of Xiangling, which is a triangle, and as long as Pingyang is successfully taken, the three cities can support each other. Moreover, Xiangfen is a barrier in the southwest, and he is leading troops to the west to plunder, and Xiangling is absolutely safe.