The moment the whistle blows.

It was as if the quiet night had suddenly awakened to the whistle in the wilderness.

All the Tuntian people immediately threw down their farming tools and ran towards the Tuntianhu manor in the city or the surrounding areas in a panic, while the peasant army hurriedly began to assemble.

"What's going on?"

In Yingyin City, Zaoyi, the captain of Tuntian who was appointed by Cao Cao, was counting some data.

He and Han Hao suggested to Cao Cao that Tuntian, so Cao Cao appointed Ren Jun as the general of Diannong Zhonglang, and Zao Yi as his deputy, responsible for the entire Tuntian affairs.

Suddenly, Zao only heard the whistle inside and outside the city, and he didn't even have time to put on his armor and hurried out of the mansion.

Someone came to report: "Report, there is an enemy coming from the west!" ”

"How many."

"Five hundred."

"Only five hundred?"

Zaoyi immediately brought the horses and hurried up to the city wall to watch.

I saw that there were indeed only 500 enemy troops outside the city, and after driving away the peasant army in the west of the city at this moment, they began to destroy the farmland.

"Damn!"

When Zao Yi saw this scene, his eyes were red.

Cao Gong is now in Guandu, and there is already a shortage of food, and now he is counting on the harvest of summer millet in September and transporting it to the front. Now that the enemy has actually attacked the rear and destroyed their farmland, how can Zao Yu swallow this breath.

"General, beware of deception."

Left and right persuaded him: "What if they have ambushes outside the city?" ”

Ambush?

Zao Yu calmed down instantly, and then said, "We must find out where this enemy is coming from. ”

Someone said: "General, this must be Kunyang's team that feinted to attack Yang Zhai." ”

"Oh?"

Zao only asked, "How do you say this?" ”

The man analyzed: "General, think about it, the latest news is that Shen Chen of Kunyang sent people north to feint to attack Yang Zhai, but in fact, the main force went south to Dingying, and together with Liu Bei, he killed Runan Taishou, defeated the Duwei of Yang'an, and is now calling the tomb." Therefore, they are now fighting with General Xiahou, and it will be impossible for them to come to Yingyin, only the feint attack division in Kunyang can come over. ”

Recently, Shen Chen once again attacked the east and west, using the partial division to attract Xiahou Yuan and Li Dian, and then the main force went south to join Liu Bei to kill Man Chong, and the news of defeating Li Tong had already spread throughout Xu Du. For this reason, Xiahou Yuan, Li Dian, Cai Yang and others led the main force south to confront Liu Beijun's main force.

Zhaoling is directly south of Xudu, while Yingyin is due west of Xudu. They only got the news this morning that Liu Bei had arrived at Zhaoling the day before yesterday and was confronting Xiahou Yuan, so it would not be possible to appear here today.

So the man naturally thought that this was Kunyang's team that feinted to attack Yang Zhai, taking advantage of the emptiness in the north of Xudu, and bypassed the Yingyang area of Jiaxian County.

This inference is actually very reasonable, after all, from Dingying to Yingyin, it is much farther than from Kunyang to Yingyin. One is more than 120 kilometers, and the other is only 80 kilometers.

And the news they got this morning was lagging behind, only knowing that Liu Beijun arrived at Zhaoling the day before yesterday, and normally according to the time of rest, how should he rest for a day or two before setting off, the ghost knows that Shen Chenjun's iron feet, from Dingying to Zhaoling, walked more than 80 kilometers in two days to the outside of Yingyin City.

Therefore, hearing the man's reasoned analysis, Zao Yi nodded and said: "You are right, since there are ambushes outside the city, there should not be too many, okay, gather people and immediately go out of the city to destroy this enemy." ”

"Yui!"

Left and right, immediately do according to Zao's orders.

Yingyin does have more than 1,000 Tuntian soldiers, and even if it is organized a little, it can still form a team of tens of thousands of Tuntian people, but first, there is no weapons and equipment, and second, there is no training, and a group of rabble is useless, so Zao only did not gather Tuntian people.

In the afternoon, Gan Ning and his soldiers had destroyed hundreds of acres of farmland, and according to the output of about three stones per mu, it caused the loss of more than 1,000 stones of grain and grass, which made Zao Yi feel distressed and urged the soldiers to attack again and again.

And here, Gan Ning saw that the enemy was really out of the city, and immediately roared, causing people to blow a bone whistle, and the soldiers who were destroying the farmland began to assemble at the post road.

"Array!"

Gan Ning rode on horseback and raised the big knife in his hand.

If you run directly backwards and go to the dense forest where Shen Chen's army was ambushed, the enemy will definitely not be fooled, so you must fight first, feigning defeat, so as to lure the enemy deeper.

On this side, Zaoyi led the army out of the city, and his pawn peasant army was twice as large as the enemy, so he began to line up and press forward.

But after arriving closer, Gan Ningjun immediately ordered the release of arrows.

His formation was different from that of Zaoyi, who was composed of spearmen in front of him, and his was a sword and shield man, and then the crossbowmen hid behind the sword and shield men, and when the order was given to release the arrows, the sword and shield men crouched down, revealing seventy or eighty crossbowmen behind them.

"Woohoo!"

Dozens of bows and crossbows fired in a volley, shooting at the spearmen at the front of Zaoyi, and there was a big chaos in an instant.

"Huh?"

Seeing this situation, although he wondered why the enemy did not have a sword, shield and bow and crossbow, but the opportunity could not be lost, Gan Ning seized the opportunity and immediately shouted: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!"

Five hundred soldiers charged forward, and the distance between the two sides was no more than thirty or forty paces, and they were killed in an instant, and the battle was together.

Zao Yi desperately ordered the soldiers to stabilize, but the previous rounds of bow and crossbow firing caused chaos in front, and the soldiers dodged the rain of arrows, causing the formation to scatter and not listen to the command at all.

Gan Ningjun took advantage of the situation to cover up the killing, and he himself rushed directly to the direction of the enemy's banner with the word "Zao", and with the help of his own guards, he opened a bloody road and came to Zaoyi, and only fought for a few rounds, and then beheaded Zaoyi under the horse.81zw.?? m

The lord was killed, and the Tuntian soldiers were suddenly in chaos, and the entire battlefield showed a one-sided posture.

Soon they were victorious.

And Shen Chen, who was in the distance, saw that the two sides had already fought together, and originally planned to wait for Gan Ning to retreat and ambush him, but he didn't expect that he seemed to win, so he hurriedly sent someone to kill him.

Immediately, the entire battlefield was in chaos, and thousands of people were either killed, fled, or surrendered on their knees.

After half an hour, the situation had stabilized.

Gan Ning killed Zao Yi with a knife, and was breaking the banner with the word "Zao", and when he turned around, he saw Shen Chen's army leading the army to arrive, so he carried the big flag and said with a smile: "I didn't expect this Yingyin defender to be so weak, and it was rushed to kill at once." ”

Shen Chen looked around and saw the equipment of the Yingyin defenders, so he said: "This is because the Cao army has moved almost all the supplies to Guandu, and the only supplies in the south are also on Xiahou Yuan and Li Dian's side, so there is a lack of bows and crossbows and shields. But this is a battle outside the city, and if we attack the city, it will certainly not be so easy for us. ”

"That's just as well."

Gan Ning nodded and said, "Ah Chen, what should I do now?" ”

Shen Chen looked into the distance, pointed to the Yingyin city and said: "Without further ado, let the soldiers enter Yingyin first, everyone is running from afar and fighting for a long time, and they are very tired, first rest in the city for half an hour, and then leave a song of men and horses, and the rest of the people will attack Xudu before entering the day." ”

Gan Ning scratched his head and said: "When you came here before, Ah Chen, you said that the soldiers were fast, why did you get outside the city of Xudu, but you have to rest first." ”

Shen Chen smiled bitterly: "That can't be helped, from the day before yesterday to now, we have been walking for two days, everyone has not had a good rest, there are more than 200 people with foot diseases alone, and now the soldiers must have sore legs and feet, although Yingyin is only a stone's throw away from Xudu, but people are not iron." ”

This is an indisputable fact.

They arrived outside Yingyin City at noon, and after only a little rest for less than half an hour, they immediately attacked the city, and now it is about two o'clock in the afternoon, and yesterday they slept in the field south of Yingyang for a night.

Then today I walked for another morning, passing through Yingyang to kill Yingyin, although it was only about 20 kilometers away, it was still a big burden for the soldiers.

Shen Chenjun's soldiers were barely able to hold on, but the two thousand people of the Ganning Army were indeed very hard, after all, they themselves had not been trained, and they were not as big as Shen Chenjun, supplementing protein, many of them were thin and weak, and it was already commendable to persist until now.

When the army entered the city, rested for half an hour, and then selected a song of soldiers and horses that were difficult to continue to hold on, and stayed to garrison Yingyin City, Shen Chen and Gan Ning set off again at about three o'clock in the afternoon.

The distance from Yingyin to Xudu is too close, because Yingyin County in the Han Dynasty is the center of Xuchang City in later generations. The capital of the Han Dynasty was located more than ten kilometers east of Yingyin, almost in the blink of an eye.

The wilderness in the east of the city is densely packed with tuntian households, and at this time, the news of Yingyin has already spread all over the world, and Xu Du got the news as soon as possible.

The Mansion of Shang Shuling in the outer city.

At sunset, seven-year-old Xun Yu, who Chinese New Year's Eve seven years old, knelt down at the table in a silk robe to deal with official documents.

Recently, he did not work in the Shangshutai of the Chengguang Hall in the inner city, because Cao Cao took Liu Xie under more strict supervision, so Xun Yu worked in his mansion every day.

Spices burn on the table, filling the room with a fragrant aroma.

Xun Yu likes this aroma very much, not only does he usually smoke incense when reading official documents, but even his clothes have to be washed and smoked with spices.

Therefore, the bamboo mat he sat on often left a fragrance, which gave rise to the idiom Xunling lingering incense.

At this time, the incense burner seemed to burn out, and the slave on the side hurriedly poked the ashes left in the incense burner with bamboo sticks.

He reluctantly looked at Xun Yu, Xun Yu looked at the summer breeze blowing in outside the window to disperse the fragrance, sighed, and waved his palm.

The servant hurriedly took a handful of new spices and threw them into the furnace, then lit them with charcoals, and lay on the ground to blow desperately.

There was no incense-making process in the Han Dynasty, and according to historical records, the column-shaped incense did not become popular until the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties. Therefore, in the Tang and Song dynasties, people burned incense and threw the spices directly into the incense burner, so it was a waste of spices.

Now that the imperial court is in short supply and spices are also very scarce, Xun Yu has recently reduced the amount used.

It's just like later generations often like to light a lonely cigarette when thinking about problems, after there is no fragrance, it will be difficult for Xun Yu to concentrate on dealing with the problems he faces. Once the aroma in the room is insufficient, it is easy to get distracted.

So no matter what, you still have to use a little bit of it.

After a while, the aroma in the room rose slightly as the new spices burned again. Xun Yu rubbed his hands, reached out and took another volume of documents, and skillfully ripped open the silk rope on the outer bundle.

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps from the cloister outside, and the sound came from the front hall, getting closer and closer, and the person who came seemed to be running at full speed in the mansion.

This made Xun Yu frown, he hated others acting in a hurry, doing things slowly rather than in a hurry, and it was easy to make mistakes in the panic.

Sure enough, because there was a threshold at the entrance of the hall, when the visitor ran to the hall, he stepped on the threshold and was caught and fell, and the whole person fell heavily into the hall below Xun Yu, and the clogs flew out.

Xun Yu's face is not very good-looking, and the "Book of Rites" cloud: "The doctor enters and exits the monarch's gate, and does not practice the threshold."

It means that when entering and exiting the gate, you must not step on the threshold.

The slave tripped on the threshold, which was a very rude act, which made the most reasonable Xun Yu feel even more uncomfortable.

However, the person who came didn't seem to care at all, and crawled into the hall with a roll, shouting in the hall: "Da Lang, it's not good, the messenger has come to report that at the beginning of the day, an enemy has been killed outside Yingyin City!" ”

"What?"

Xun Yu stood up from the table with a rub, he originally wanted to scold the house slave for not respecting his past teachings and running in the mansion, but when he heard this urgent situation, he couldn't care about anything else, and hurriedly said: "Let the messenger come in." ”

"Yes, yes, yes."

The house slave got up again, and did not look for the clogs that flew out, but ran away in a hurry.

"How so? How so? ”

Xun Yu walked around the room anxiously, Yingyin was close to Xu Du, and the enemy actually killed Yingyin, which made Xun Yu, who was originally very calm, a little anxious and anxious, and wanted to know the situation as soon as possible.

Soon the messenger came in, he was sent by Zaoyi, and Zaoyi had only just received the news at that time, so he immediately sent someone to Xudu to report the news.

Therefore, the news that the messenger knew was that five hundred men and horses suddenly came from outside Yingyin City and were destroying the farmland, and Zaoyi was preparing to lead the army out of the city to meet the battle in order to protect the farmland, but now I don't know what the situation is on Zaoyi's side.

"If you suffer, Yingyin must have been broken."

Hearing the news that Zao Yu had already gone to war, Xun Yu's face turned slightly pale.

The messenger hurriedly said: "General Zao has not left the city at that time, let alone a thousand people against five hundred enemies. ”

"You go back to Yingyin first and then find out the news."

Xun Yu didn't answer the messenger's question, but just asked the messenger to go back to investigate the situation, thought about it for a long time, and then immediately left the mansion and went to Ren Jun's army outside the city to use it in Tuntian.

At the same time, after Shen Chen defeated the Zaoqi, the army rested for an hour and set off again.

Zao Yi sent a messenger to Xudu to report the news, it was on horseback, twenty kilometers away, and it would take an hour to arrive if the horse was fast, so when Xun Yu got the news, Shen Chen's side had just set off not long ago.

Although his foot soldiers had not set off for long, the scout team had already spread out widely, galloping everywhere around Xudu.

When the scouts in the red Han military uniform appeared near Xudu, exactly the same scene as in early April this year, the most well-informed major families got information one after another, and Shen Chenjun appeared outside Xudu again.

Now Xu Du is extremely empty, and the defensive force is only Ren Jun's thousands of peasant troops, as well as some palace guards, and a small number of clans.

But the clans of the clan are often only a few hundred people, like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, who can gather tens of thousands of troops after all, the clan is a minority, even the Hongnong Yang clan, who is as famous as the Yuan clan, Yang Biao was tortured by Cao Cao's faction, and he did not have the strength to resist, which shows that the private armed forces of the clan are not too strong.

Of course.

It's not that they don't have strength at all.

It's just that they are in Xudu, and the large amount of land, property, talents, and prestige they have are not in Yingchuan.

The Yingchuan family, such as the Xun family, the Guo family, and the Chen family, all supported Cao Cao.

Other clans, fields, property, and tribes were all in other places, and only a small number of Cao Cao's troops like Han Hao, Ren Jun, Li Dian, and Xu Chu participated in the clan with hundreds of clans.

Therefore, the private armed forces of these big clans in Xudu City are actually very small, and the power that can stop them is also very limited.

Therefore, to a certain extent, the current Xu Capital City is indeed in danger of being destroyed.

For a time, Shen Chen's second visit to Xu Du shocked Kanto!

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.