Copper City.

This is the westernmost county of Lingzhou, and further west it will enter the boundary of Tiandufu.

Afternoon.

The rain had stopped, the ground was muddy, and a large number of cavalry suddenly appeared on the official road leading to the copper city.

The leader rode a cyan horse, held a tiger-headed Zhan golden spear, and wore a Rukai, with a dignified appearance and heroic posture, it was Wang Cheng, the general of the left.

Behind him were two or three thousand cavalrymen, all of whom were the Lingzhou army, and they were also the people who followed him to fight the Guangling army last night.

Although the road was slippery, the speed of the horses was there, and the crowd quickly approached the copper city.

The gates of the city were closed, but there was not a single person in the city, like a dead city.

Wang Cheng sat on Qinglei's back, clairvoyance could not see the situation in the city, he turned his head to call a knight who was half a position behind.

The knight was not tall or strong, his skin was somewhat dark, lean and lean, giving him the feeling that he had been tempered a lot.

His eyes were bright and bright, and he was holding a pitch-black spear in his hand, and the whole figure seemed to be integrated with the gun.

"Tang Jian, you take some brothers to see what's going on, remember to be careful!" Wang Cheng commanded.

"Yes!"

Tang Jian should go down, and then ordered more than a dozen people to come to the city of Tongcheng.

When he was more than ten meters away from the county seat, he ordered everyone to shoot arrows towards the city.

Three waves of arrows were fired into the city, but there was no movement at all.

With doubts in his heart, he drove his horse to the city gate, and as soon as he raised his spear, he was about to make a move, when the city gate suddenly opened.

A short and fat man in a green official robe led several officials trotted out of the city, and he was still ten meters away from Wang Cheng, he led a few people to kneel on the ground with a "poof", and shouted loudly: "Xiaguan Tongcheng County ordered Li Xiao to meet Wu'an Hou!" ”

Wang Cheng drove his horse to the front, looked at the short and fat man, and said, "You know me? ”

"Marquis Wu'an attacked Huaiyuan County this morning, and the lower officials have received the news." Li Xiao said truthfully.

Wang Cheng changed color slightly, he didn't expect this matter to spread to Tongcheng so quickly.

Huaiyuan County fell into his hands for less than four hours, and the news had already spread to Tongcheng, which was hundreds of miles away, as if it was flying over.

Wang Cheng looked at Li Xiao, whose head was on the ground and didn't dare to move, it seemed that this Humpty Dumpty man was much more shrewd than he imagined!

It's just that sometimes being smart is mistaken by being smart, he thinks that Huaiyuan County was beaten down, but he doesn't know that he didn't spend a single soldier at all.

Because the Tang family is in Huaiyuan County, it is a top martial arts family in Yicheng, and Tang Cheng's grandfather is a famous great master, and he is deeply rooted in Huaiyuan County.

Several people of the Tang family hold important positions in Huaiyuan County, and they are almost the soil emperors of Huaiyuan County, and the overall situation of Huaiyuan County is in the hands of the Tang family.

As soon as Wang Cheng's soldiers and horses arrived in Huaiyuan County, the city gate was opened, and Tang Cheng's grandfather personally came to welcome him into the city.

Therefore, it didn't take much time to pass through Huaiyuan County, if the Tang family intervened to stop them, it would be impossible for them to reach Tongcheng so quickly.

"Get up!"

Hearing Wang Cheng's words, Li Xiao got up from the ground trembling as if she had been pardoned.

Wang Cheng didn't look at him again, and led the army into the city.

It wasn't until the army completely entered the city that Li Xiao turned his head and said to the county lieutenant behind him: "County Lieutenant Ge, what do you mean by Wu'anhou?" ”

All of them took refuge in Ninghou in private, and according to the laws of the imperial court, they should be punished for treason, but Wang Cheng didn't do anything.

"The lower officials don't know, this Wu'anhou always acts unexpectedly, and no one knows what he is thinking in his heart."

County Lieutenant Ge frowned, quickly stretched out again, and said, "However, Xia Guan thinks that this may not be a bad thing, at least our heads are still there." As long as the head is still there, we have a chance to keep it. ”

"Lieutenant Ge is right, if you don't cut off our heads, it means that we have a chance."

Li Xiao nodded, suddenly remembered something, and said, "Let's hurry into the city, as long as we serve Wu'anhou well, our heads will definitely be saved." ”

As he spoke, he trotted into the city.

After Wang Cheng and his party entered the city, the shops on both sides of the street poked out some heads one after another, looking at them secretly.

After seeing that it was the familiar Lingzhou army, they boldly walked out of the house, but no one dared to come forward and ask anything.

Every time an army enters the city, there must be a war, and all the people can do is how to keep their families.

Wang Cheng naturally didn't have the heart to care about these people, he went straight to the county office, and as soon as he got off the horse, he ran into Li Xiao and County Lieutenant Ge who ran all the way.

"The county lieutenant has placed my brothers well, and the Li county order will come with me."

After instructing Tang Jian a few more words, Wang Cheng walked into the county government and sat down on the main seat in the lobby.

Li Xiao stood at the bottom of the hall, waiting for Wang Cheng to speak.

"Li County Order, what is the movement in Tiandu Mansion in the past two days?" Wang Cheng asked.

Li Xiao thought for a while and said: "Xia Guan doesn't dare to hide the prince, Tongcheng is famous for copper and iron minerals, and a small county town is far less important than Tongling Town outside the city, and Ning Hou does not take the county seat to heart. Ninghou's people infiltrated Tongling Town very early, and now Tongling Town has been completely controlled by Ninghou's people. ”

"Tongling?"

Wang Cheng knows that this place is the place with the largest copper mine output in Lingzhou.

Counting the Guangling army, there are 100,000 defenders in Lingzhou, and almost all of their armor is produced in Tongling.

If Ning Hou wants to succeed, he will naturally have to have no less armor, so he will definitely send someone to control Tongling.

"Li County Ling just said that Ning Hou's people infiltrated Tongling very early, and it seems that Li County Ling has known about Ning Hou for a long time." Wang Cheng seemed to be smiling.

"Poof!"

Li Xiao was so frightened that he knelt directly on the ground and said, "Xia Guan didn't know that Ning Hou's people had infiltrated Tongling before, and he only learned about it later. ”

Wang Cheng smiled and said, "Li County's order, please get up, the general just said it casually." ”

Li Xiao was about to be scared out of her urine just now, and when she heard this, she finally held it back.

He wiped the sweat from his face and carefully got up from the ground.

"Li County Commander should know, what is the crime of betraying the imperial court?"

Wang Cheng's question sounded in his ears again, and Li Xiao collapsed directly to the ground after hearing it.

After a while, he crawled to Wang Cheng, kowtowed, and shouted: "Junhou, it's not that the lower officials took the initiative to join Ning Hou, it was Ning Hou's people who forced the lower officials, and the lower officials had no choice." ”

"Li County's plight would have been sympathetic, but the law of the country is intolerable." Wang Cheng shook his head and sighed.

Li Xiao's eyes were dark, but he had been in the officialdom for many years, and after a short period of panic, he heard something in Wang Cheng's words, and said: "Junhou, Junhou spare your life!" ”

Wang Cheng no longer scared him, and said bluntly: "You are a native of Tongcheng, and you have been an official in Tongcheng for many years. Ben will give you a hundred cavalry, can you take Tongling in one day? ”

How dare Li Xiao say half a "no", even if he can't do it at this time, he has to say "yes", so he stubbornly responded to this matter.

However, he quickly realized that something was wrong, and boldly asked, "Did the prince say that he would give a hundred cavalry to his subordinates?" ”

"What? Less? Wang Cheng asked rhetorically.

It's not just less, it's just nothing!

Li Xiao cried with a sad face and said, "Junhou, only give a hundred cavalry, will there be too few people?" ”

After all, Tongling is now controlled by Ning Hou's people, and there are many good players in it, and I am afraid that a hundred cavalry will not even be able to make a splash if they throw it in.

"Don't you still have eight hundred Tongcheng County soldiers in your hands?" Wang Cheng said.

Li Xiao was stunned, are those county soldiers counted?

Seeing that Wang Cheng's face had turned cold, he immediately realized that most of his head would be in danger if he continued to talk about it.

He gritted his teeth and said, "The lower officials will not fail in their mission!" ”

At this time, Tang Jian, who had settled the cavalry, walked in, and Wang Cheng said to him: "Take the Li County Commander to pick a hundred cavalry, and you will personally accompany the Li County Commander to Tongling." ”

"Yes!"

Tang Jian nodded in response, and then walked out of the lobby with Li Xiao.

Looking at the backs of the two leaving, Wang Cheng's face gradually showed a cold color.

This Li County Commander is far from being as honest as he seems, he is very shrewd.

Having said so much, he only mentioned the infiltration of Ninghou into Tongling, and never mentioned the situation in Tongcheng.

To the west of the copper city is Tiandu Mansion, how can it be as calm as he said, Ning Hou must have laid some things here, such as the county soldiers in charge of the city defense.

There must be someone from Ning Hou in the county soldiers!

He didn't know what this Li County Commander had done, and he actually "bypassed" Ninghou's people and directly "opened the city and surrendered", there must be something strange in this.

He didn't have the heart to investigate one by one, and he didn't have time to investigate, so he directly took those county soldiers out for a walk, and then everything would jump out.

"Gu Xin!"

Wang Cheng shouted outside, and soon, a young man walked in.

He was twenty-one or twelve years old, tall and thin, and his face was as hard as iron, and he looked as if someone owed him a lot of money.

This person is Gu Yanzhang's grandson, and he has never been out of office, until last night when Wang Cheng led the army into Yicheng, Gu Yanzhang stuffed his grandson into Wang Cheng's hands.

In fact, this was an agreement between Wang Cheng and Gu Yanzhang before, and he promised Gu Yanzhang that he could give his descendants some opportunities and would take care of them personally.

Gu Yanzhang's own honor and merit are enough, but his descendants are far worse than him.

As he gets older and older, he will naturally think about his own afterlife, and the only thing he can't let go of is Gu Xin's precious grandson.

Gu Yanzhang naturally has sons, three sons followed him to fight in the Quartet when they were young, two died in battle, one was disabled, and three grandsons were left, Gu Xin was the youngest.

He has always kept Gu Xin in front of him and prevented him from getting involved in officialdom too early, but as Gu Xin got bigger and bigger, he also began to think about Gu Xin's career.

It wasn't that he didn't have plans in this regard before, but he vetoed them one by one. With his connections, Gu Xin can naturally mix up some qualifications, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is the network that works, and it is not conducive to Gu Xin's future growth.

It's different with Wang Cheng, it's a military merit that can be mixed up, although there is a risk, but with Wang Cheng personally taking care of it, there will be no big problems, with military merit in hand, it will be much better to go to the place or the court in the future.

Wang Cheng called Gu Xin to his side and ordered: "Wait a while, you will personally lead a thousand cavalry, secretly follow Tang Jian and the others, and once you find any abnormal movement of the Tongcheng County soldiers, they will all be killed!" ”

"If there is no abnormal movement, you will lie in ambush outside Tongling Town and monitor every move inside."

He patted Gu Xin's shoulder and advised: "If you can't do anything, you will withdraw it for me quickly, don't fall in love, do you hear?" ”

Gu Xin's expression was solemn and he said, "Yes!" ”

"Go ahead!" Wang Cheng raised his hand.

After Gu Xin retreated, he did not continue to stay in the lobby, and led dozens of cavalry guarding the courtyard out of the county office.

Then they left the county seat and ran all the way west for dozens of miles to a high ground.

Standing on high ground, condescending, the outline of a city looms.

Wang Cheng pointed to the city and said, "That's Anping City." ”

A young knight following him said: "My lord is right, that is Anping County, and after Anping County is Tiandu City." ”

"Tiandu City ......"

Wang Cheng's gaze gradually became deeper, and his gaze seemed to pass through Anping County and come to the Xiongcheng.

He has experienced too many unforgettable things there, there have been joys, thrills, and endless hatred!

That was the destination of his battle, and now there is only one Anping County left, and after Anping County, no one can stop him from taking revenge!

As soon as he thought of this, Wang Cheng looked back at the thirty or so knights behind him, and said loudly: "Brothers, do you dare to go with me to the Anping Land Realm and gallop wildly?" ”

The crowd didn't think about it, and shouted loudly: "Dare! ”

Wang Cheng shouted "yes", and then rushed down the mountain with a tiger-headed golden gun in his hand.

The horses galloped, everything around them was regressing, and they soon entered the realm of peace.

On both sides of the official road are endless rice paddies, most of which have been harvested, leaving large open spaces.

Beyond the large farmland, two villages could be clearly seen, all of them busy drying rice, and no one paid attention to the cavalry that suddenly appeared on the official road.

Seeing that the county seat of Anping was getting closer and closer, two teams of cavalry suddenly rushed out of the villages on both sides.

There are about 200 people, all of whom are wearing fish scale armor, but different from the red on Wang Cheng and others, these people are wearing black, which is shiny black, and it is obviously new armor.

Moreover, each face is masked, revealing only the nose and mouth, and two eyes.

Two teams of cavalry, one from the north and the other from the south, outflanked Wang Cheng and others.

Hundreds of meters apart, one after another crossbow arrows had already shot at Wang Cheng and the others.

"Iron Arm Copper Crossbow!" A knight exclaimed.

Wang Cheng shouted, "Come here," and then his telekinesis shrouded all around, forming a huge telekinetic cover.

"Doot toot!"

The crossbow bolt seemed to be stuck in a swamp when it came within thirty meters, and its speed dropped sharply.

Within ten meters, the crossbow bolts were unable to follow, and they all stopped in mid-air.

Wang Cheng's face turned pale, and he resisted two hundred crossbow arrows at once, and his mental power was extremely consumed.

"Kill!"

He let out a loud shout, his mind erupting like an erupting volcano.

The next moment, these crossbow arrows shot at the black-armored cavalry on both sides with a "boom".

"Ding, ding, ding!"

The crossbow arrows hit the black scale armor, but they didn't get through, and they all crashed.