When Xue Bao arrived, Ma Shuo did not hide Li Mu's meaning at all, and deliberately let Li Mu know. Bargaining chips, when necessary, are naturally to let the other party know.

Originally, according to the original plan, after the alliance between Li and Ma was formed, the first thing was to take the rest of the lock barbarian army. According to the agreement, once the other party's three counties are taken, the two sides should each get half of it. However, now that Xue Yong has taken the initiative to vote, Longxian can no longer be counted among the spoils of war between the two sides.

Therefore, when he heard the news, Li Mu's face was extremely embarrassed. However, Ma Shuo didn't care about this, and continued to maintain his own rhythm and communicate with the other party.

When Ma Shuo and Li Mu were constantly bargaining, Guo Jupython and He Yilong's forward team of 1,000 people had already rushed towards the direction of Longxian at an extremely fast speed. From the station of the Suzaku Camp to Longxian, the distance is actually not very far, only about two hundred miles.

In this way, at the speed of cavalry, it actually does not take too much time.

However, just as the cavalry of the Suzaku Battalion rushed towards Longxian at full speed, Longxian had become very nervous. Luo Hou had already learned that Xue Yong was going to join Ma Shuo, and he wanted to contribute to Longxian. It's tolerable, it's unbearable. Luo Hou naturally can't tolerate such a thing!

So, Luo Hou did not hesitate to take the men and horses to Longxian.

Luo Hou still had a total of about 80,000 troops, leaving 10,000 to defend the city in each of the two counties, and the other 60,000 were brought over. 60,000 horses and horses were killed in Longxian, and the situation was still very good.

However, after Luo Hou arrived, he did not immediately order the siege of the city, but asked people to send an order for Xue Yong to come out and reply.

In fact, Xue Yong knew what Luo Hou meant without anyone talking, because he had been stationed on the city wall and had seen Luo Hou's existence for a long time. It's just that he didn't expect that Luo Hou would not attack immediately after arriving, but would talk to himself.

"General Luo, don't come unharmed! I don't know what the general is doing when he doesn't stay in your Yicheng and goes to this poor country in Longxian? Xue Yong asked pretending not to know. Although he called the other party a general, Xue Yong did not have the slightest respect for Luo Hou, and stood high at the head of the city, with a condescending posture.

Obviously, Xue Yong's condescension made Luo Hou very unhappy. However, Luo Hou still suppressed his anger, raised his head and shouted: "General Xue's words are wrong! Luo, as the general of the lock barbarian army, should have the responsibility of inspecting the armies, and today he went to General Xue to inspect here, why did General Xue refuse to leave me? "Since Xue Yong did not play the banner of rebellion, Luo Hou took the identity of the general of the lock barbarian army to say things, although Luo Hou knew very well that there was no point in saying this, but he wanted to occupy the righteousness.

"General Luo wants to inspect, this is naturally necessary. However, Xue was lonely and unheard, and he had never heard of bringing an army of sixty or seventy thousand to inspect. General Luo, the army is not a child anymore, don't play this kind of little trick! If you want to attack the city, then please do it, and if you want to retreat, please leave quickly, so as not to disturb the people of my city! ”

Xue Yong didn't give Luo Hou the slightest face, and said straight to the point. Xue Yong's words naturally made Luo Hou furious, and he almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

"Xue Yong, you don't want to toast and don't eat and drink, Lao Tzu was going to let you live, since you don't know whether to live or die, then wait to die! - Sons, give me a siege and kill Xue Yong, that ungrateful man, anti-bone boy! ”

Luo Hou finally gave the order to attack the city.

It's just that with 60,000 horses, trying to break through a city garrisoned by 40,000 people is actually not the first easy thing.

"Kill—"

The shouts of killing rang out at the same time.

Luo Hou's men and horses, carrying simple ladders, rushed towards the city wall of Longxian County under the supervision of officials at all levels. The city wall of Longxian County is not very tall, only about five meters. Fortunately, Xue Yong has been preparing during this time, so the items for defending the city are still ready.

Condescendingly, when Luo Hou's men and horses entered the range of the bow and arrow attack, Xue Yong, who was defending the city, decisively issued an attack order. Suddenly, a rain of arrows fell from the sky and fell into the siege team, and suddenly a piece fell in the siege team.

was originally a family, but now they are facing each other with swords and showing no mercy. It's a really ironic thing to say. Fortunately, the two sides originally belonged to each other, so there was not much affection between ordinary soldiers.

Attacking the city is never an easy task, not to mention that Luo Hou's preparation this time is not very sufficient. Although the soldiers under his command were very heroic, the constant rain of arrows flying from the walls, as well as the rolling logs, stones, and boiling gold juice that fell from time to time, slowly weakened their morale.

For a whole morning, Luo Hou's men and horses were not able to climb the city wall for half a step, but instead left nearly 5,000 corpses under the city. Of course, the losses on Xue Yong's side were also not small, and after half a day's defense, there were more than 2,000 soldiers who lost their lives, and many were injured.

Seeing that the morale was already very low, Luo Hou had no choice but to choose Mingjin to withdraw his troops, withdraw his men and horses, and temporarily set up camp more than ten miles away from the county seat of Longxian.

The defeat in the first battle finally made Luo Hou sober up, and I am afraid that it will not be easy to break through Xue Yong's Longxian county. However, Luo Hou knew one thing better, it was impossible for him to leave a large number of people stranded in Longxian. Because after a long time, other forces around him are likely to send troops to steal his home.

What's more, at this time, more than 5,000 people have been lost, directly accounting for nearly one-tenth of the existing men and horses in their hands. This loss is actually very serious, especially for him who is not very strong now.

Continue to attack, or withdraw to confess!

Luo Hou's heart was entangled. It's just that at this time, he doesn't even have anyone to talk to. Luo Hou was very annoyed, and his soldiers were very at a loss, they fought a morning battle, and so many people died, but why they were fighting, no ordinary soldier could say. It's just that they heard that the people and horses in the opposite city actually belonged to the lock barbarian army like them, in other words, they were actually comrades before, and they were all the border troops of Great Qin.

Colleagues are fighting each other, what is this?

Once a soldier loses the spiritual goal of fighting, his combat effectiveness will naturally be greatly weakened. A decadent mood quietly spread in Luo Hou's barracks, and the eyes of some soldiers no longer had the brilliance of hope, and they were full of confusion.

At the same time, Xue Yong's mood was painful and happy!