The fifth candidate hurriedly presented the latest information, and now the army besieging Yunzhong is the Zhenbei Army and the Pingbei Army, while the Xinyulin Army is raging in the three counties in the north, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil.

They did the same, and they killed the old men and children, pierced their heads with wood, and stood outside the city gates.

The young men were reduced to slavery, and the young women became the most important trophies, and when they returned to the steppe, they were distributed like goods to the meritorious soldiers.

The fifth candidate introduced: "General, the soldiers and horses of the Bearded People have arrived at the jurisdiction of the Western Governor's Mansion, and now the Sixteenth Prince and the Marquis are too busy to take care of themselves. I'm afraid I'm going to miss something."

Wang Rong looked at the banner on the sand table, did not speak, but fell into deep thought, he carefully observed the distribution of the new Yulin army, and ordered: "Su Jie, order the second division, go forward to Zengshan in Linhe County. Ordered the 3rd Division to advance to Huqu City. The 1st Division, the Wolf Cavalry Brigade, and the Pioneer Brigade, led by me personally, will cross Mayi to the north and reach Yuanhu Mountain, where we will relieve the siege in the clouds."

Li Sujie listened to Wang Rong's words, his face was incredulous, he stepped forward to block the troops who were about to go out, and asked loudly: "General, these three divisions of our Hezhou Army are all elite, if they are concentrated and used, is it more certain to annihilate the enemy with superior forces?"

Wang Rong listened to Li Sujie's words, shook his head, and said, "Sujie, the situation is different this time, everyone comes to see."

As he spoke, Wang Rong raised the wooden pole, pointed to the sand table, and said, "Now this Bearded Man and the New Yulin Army have become a plate of scattered sand, and their troops have been divided into several or even a dozen team-level units, and they are looting everywhere, and they don't look like my Dayong army at all. Let these people continue to plague us, and we will regain the barren land."

Immediately afterwards, Wang Rong leaned on a wooden pole and said to the people in the tent: "Therefore, I did not concentrate the army for use, and you have also seen the terrain of this state, there is no condition for large-scale cavalry battles, so after the second and third divisions arrived at the designated position, they attacked and harassed the Imperial Army and its ally Dongzhuan Khan *** team in the territory of the three counties at the level of a team. Remember, piecemeal wins make big wins."

The commanders of the second and third divisions who were called bowed together and saluted, "Whoa!"

Li Sujie then asked, "Zhong Ming, this state army is gone, what should we do if the enemy invades?"

Wang Rong looked at him with a playful look on his face and said, "Are you testing me? Su Jie, you're not honest, don't think I don't know, you've recruited another 100,000 people. You've trained all of these 100,000 people."

Li Sujie knew that this Zhong Ming was not at ease, and the roots of his angry teeth itched, and he said, "These 100,000 people, but I managed to get them together, you actually want to hand over such an important line of defense to a group of recruits. Please, Zhong Ming, I'm old and young, crying in the middle, can you think of a more reliable idea."

Wang Rong smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, this new army is now the time to use it. Once we and the state army enter the territory of the Xushan court, they will know. And big wars and bloody battles cannot be avoided. My merger with the state army has attracted the attention of these troops, and Gu Jishan is naturally under a lot of pressure."

In this way, according to Wang Rong's order, the machine of the state army began to operate.

Wang Rong led the two brigades of the 1st Division, the Wolf Cavalry Brigade and the Xiandeng Brigade along the Fenshui River to the north, on the east side of the official road, the surging Fenshui, and the west side of the lofty mountains, which were covered with high platforms and ravines, and the people living in this area were active as hunters and herb collectors all year round.

Gujishan is not particularly steep, and there is only one official road for heavy wagons, horses and livestock, but if you are a skilled soldier, you can get by climbing mountains and mountains.

Wang Rong's army scurried through the canyon where the Fenshui had brought, and the bones of Bai Sensen's animals could occasionally be found in the bushes or cracks in the stones on both sides of the canyon.

The scout, who was the guide, pointed to the bones of the goats on both sides of the road and said, "General, there are many mountain leopards in this area, and they have crossed the mountains and mountains, and they are walking on the ground, and the old and weak goats cannot escape their claws."

The scout's name is Ling Ping

, about 30 years old, born in Yanmen County, joined the Bingzhou Army a year ago, repeatedly made military exploits, and was promoted to the general of the scout battalion because of his merits.

Wang Rong looked at the surrounding environment, nodded and asked, "Where does this canyon lead?"

Ling Ping said respectfully, "General Hui, it will soon be at the end, and then climb up and pass through a forest of more than twenty miles and pass Luo County."

Wang Rong then asked, "How far is it from Luo County?"

Ling Ping replied, "It's about twenty miles, but we can't see it until we pass through the canyon."

Wang Rong led the army out of a few miles, in front of it was the end of the canyon, a slope up, above the slope there were a few abrupt boulders, there were already soldiers who guarded the capital to tie the rope ladder to the boulder, and the rest of the soldiers pulled the rope ladder up and climbed.

These soldiers in the capital were tall and strong, carrying shields, crossbow arrows, swords around their waists, and bags of dry food, and almost every soldier carried more than 30 catties of weight.

When the army climbed up the hill, in front of which was an endless forest, Wang Rong looked north, only to see more than 20 miles away, and could vaguely see the big flag on the city wall, where was Luo County.

Wang Rong waved his hand and ordered, "Speed up!"

Then he went into the woods with his guards and continued to gallop north.

At this time, the defender of Luo County was the rebel general Bai Zhou, who defected in the war and stabbed the Northern Army in the back, and he led the Yunzhong County soldiers to a crushing defeat in Linwo County, almost all of the army was wiped out, and then was captured by the eighth prince of Zhenbei General.

And this Bai Zhou was very aware of the times and surrendered to the Xushan court, and then took him to attack the Northern Army together. In order to buy horse bones for his daughter, the eighth prince specially ordered him to serve as the county guard of Yunzhong, leading 20,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Luo County, and when the battle was over, he naturally moved into Yunzhong City, but he was not able to make the trip at this time, because the situation in Yunzhong had changed.

Although Ling Ping's character is despicable, but also has outstanding points, otherwise he will not be reused by the Eighth Prince, when others thought that Wang Rong was going to attack Lin He County next, Ling Ping twice admonished the Eighth Prince, he thought that Wang Rong would attack Lin He County before he would first capture Zengshan, Huqu and Meiji and other important nodes, to ensure that his retreat could be completely cut off.

It's just that his idea was not recognized by the strategists under the command of the Eighth Prince, and the strategists all agreed that it was impossible for Wang Rong to lead his troops to take the initiative to attack, and it should be due to the lack of troops, so he could only defend on the front line of Guji Mountain. However, Ling Ping's words still gave the Eighth Prince a wake-up call, and he ordered the scouts to be on high alert and observe every move of the state army.

Ling Ping sent more than a dozen spies to Fenchuan County, and when Wang Rong appeared in Luo County, Ling Ping became nervous, and in the afternoon two days later, he received a letter from the spies Feige that the 50,000 Bingzhou troops originally stationed in Gujishan had moved to Linhe County.

Hearing this news, Ling Ping immediately became nervous, and the army of the state army moved in the direction of Lin He County, by no means to attack the new Yulin army, but only one possibility, and the state army was going to attack Zengshan and Meiji, which he guessed.

Ling Ping immediately wrote an eight-hundred-mile urgent letter, ordering people to ride fast horses to the imperial army camp outside Yunzhong City.

At the same time, Ling Ping recruited Xiangyong from the common people, increased the defenders of Luo County by 20,000 people, and planned to delay the Bingzhou army here to buy time for the reinforcements in Yunzhong, the core of the defense was Luo County, whose strength had reached 30,000 people, and Ling Ping personally supervised the battle here.

In terms of time, the reinforcements in the clouds can reach Luo County in about five days at the earliest, and in five days, Ling Ping feels that he will be able to defend Luo County for five days, and believes that he can certainly hold it.

Early in the morning, the sky was gloomy, Luo County was shrouded in a thin layer of morning mist, Ling Ping was wearing armor, his eyes were staring into the distance, and his heart was worried, he got an urgent report last night, tens of thousands of soldiers from the state came to Luo County, and the night passed, and he didn't know what happened to the reinforcements.

At this time, two cavalrymen came galloping from a distance, very embarrassed, one of them had an arrow stuck in his shoulder, and the two cavalrymen rushed to the city of Luoxian in a moment, shouting, "We are coming from the south, there is an urgent military situation!"

Ling Ping hurriedly shouted, "Open the city gate!"

The gate of Luoxian County opened, and the cavalry rushed into the city, and soon there were

The soldier led the messenger to Ling Ping, who asked anxiously, "What is the situation in the south, and how is the battle going?"

The messenger knelt on one knee and cried bitterly: "Qiyu Ling guard, tens of thousands of soldiers have come to the south, their cavalry is very powerful, our scouts are not opponents at all, and the last general has finally escaped."

"Ahh Ling Ping was stunned, there was also a state army here, is there so much strength of this state army? How come they are everywhere?

The messenger continued: "General Si did not escape, I don't know if he was alive or dead, only a few hundred brothers escaped from the southern battlefield, but they still couldn't escape the pursuit of the cavalry of the state army.

Several generals beside Ling Ping scolded the state army, Ling Ping hurriedly waved his hand to silence them, and he asked again, "Tell me in detail, how did the state army appear outside my Luo County?"

The messenger replied: "Returning to the county guard, the state army must have found the Fenchuan Gorge, this canyon is usually quite a lot of people walking, it is a main road through the three counties of Yunzhong, Yanmen and Fenchuan. Normally, it is okay for a small number of people to walk, but if a large army marches, they will basically be trapped in the canyon, but the Bingzhou army has done it, not only with their own equipment, but also a large number of siege equipment, cattle, sheep and horses."