Soon after Kyoto was besieged by rebel armies from all walks of life, Xiao Jiu of Yangcheng County, Yuzhou, personally led a cavalry of 2,000 people to set off in the direction of Yuzhou.

After thinking about it for a while, Xiao Jiu decided to go to Kyoto to explore the outlet, no matter what the outcome of the incident was, Xiao Jiu always felt uneasy if he didn't go to Kyoto once.

So after making a decision, Xiao Jiu rushed to Kyoto with the most mobile cavalry battalion in Yangcheng Starry Night.

It's just that there is still a Yuzhou city separated from Zhili in Yangcheng County, and it is not a small trouble if Yuzhou City dispatches troops to launch an ambush.

While Xiao Jiu was marching in a hurry along the way, he sent scouts to investigate at all times, but fortunately, he was not ambushed.

"Lord Xiao, there is Yuzhou City in front."

A thin man covered in burly armor pointed not far ahead and said to Xiao Jiuyan.

This man was none other than the shrimp crawler who had been serving as a captive on Wolf Mountain before.

With the continuous growth of Xiao Jiu's career, the shrimp crawler has also been promoted from the original substitute to the current cavalry battalion general.

It's not that the shrimp crawler has much ability, or how much credit it has made.

It's that Xiao Jiu rose in a short period of time, and there were no trustworthy subordinates under his hands at all.

As one of the first veterans to follow Xiao Jiu to start a family, although the two sides had a hostile relationship before, Shrimp Crawler was still promoted to his current position.

This also made the shrimp crawler and the bandits on the Wild Wolf Mountain even more desperate for Xiao Jiu.

Listening to the words of the shrimp crawler beside him, Xiao Jiu's cold face showed a little emotion, and he squirmed his lips lightly but no sound came out.

Now Xiao Jiu's biggest worry is that the other party will send men to stop him.

Although Xiao Jiu's expedition was followed by fast-moving cavalry, their rootless duckweed, which was far away from the base camp, would undoubtedly be fatal once they ran out of food and grass.

Xiao Jiu glanced at Yuzhou City, which was close at hand, and did not order his subordinates to rush out, but chose to bypass the city and take more mountain roads.

Naoli's Kyoto was besieged, and his team of more than 2,000 people actually did not play a vital role.

Now leading the troops, there is a plan to detect leaks, and then wait for the opportunity to move and then decide on the next plan.

Bypassing the heavily guarded Yuzhou, Xiao Jiu and his entourage spent three days, during which Xiao Jiu also received a letter from Jizhou.

Before this expedition, Xiao Jiu had already sent his soldiers to Jizhou, preparing to contact Xia Ming, the governor of Jizhou.

After waiting for a few days and seeing that there was no news from the other party, Xiao Jiu had no choice but to lead the army by himself.

Now that he received a letter from Jizhou Mansion, Xiao Jiu smiled slightly, but he didn't pay too much attention to it.

Today's Jizhou has long since become stronger, and since the death of Xia Cheng, the governor of Jizhou, Jizhou has been in a state of separation.

The local civil and military officials have a similar smell of controlling the local political economy and the army, and the officials of the Jizhou government cannot intervene at all.

And because Xia Cheng's family is not a local family power in Jizhou, the local squires and wealthy families do not buy the official account at all.

Every time a new decree is issued in the Jizhou government, all localities will not pay much attention to it at all, and still act according to the rules in their own small circles.

Such a loose political environment naturally could not support a strong army to aid Kyoto, which was in danger.

In the past few years, the world has gradually become chaotic, and many careerists have also been born.

At this time, the people who watched the predicament of the imperial court coldly held the attitude of watching from the wall, looking for opportunities to benefit themselves.

The demise of Great Xia is a foregone conclusion, and what Xiao Jiu can do now is to plunder more benefits for himself in this gap of alternating powers.

Before the Qingzhou Army besieged Lingshui County, it was dragged by Zhang Ben for more than a month, and Lu Yaoliang in the east didn't have to worry too much.

But if the rebel army in Yuzhou is allowed to grow bigger until Kyoto is captured, Xiao Jiu and his Yangcheng County and Lingshui County will become very passive.

Perhaps in the near future, in the face of the two-sided attack of Yuzhou and Qingzhou, he can only survive by choosing to defect to the rebel army in Yuzhou.

But now that the matter is not a foregone conclusion, Xiao Jiu still doesn't know the news of the fall of Kyoto and Qin Yu's death, so he still rushes to Kyoto non-stop.

Bypassing Yuzhou City, although Xiao Jiu was not sniped by the rebel army in Yuzhou, he encountered many refugees who fled south from the direction of Zhili along the way.

According to their dictation, Xiao Jiu gradually sorted out the information he knew, and knew that Kyoto was in great danger, but he had no choice but to speed up the march.

Just when Xiao Jiu and his cavalry battalion were encamped in a village and town, Li Hao, the captain of the guards, anxiously ran to Xiao Jiu's military tent.

Looking at Li Hao, who was in a hurry, rushing in from outside the tent, panting heavily, Xiao Jiumian Lou was displeased, what happened in a hurry, forgot what I usually told you? ”

Xiao Jiu put down the information in his hand and sorted out the information with Zhou Jin, and reprimanded Li Hao softly.

But Li Hao turned a deaf ear to this, and a series of incomprehensible words popped out of his mouth.

"Nine, Brother Jiu, uncle outside the city......"

Looking at Li Haoxiao Jiu, who was speechless, shook his head lightly, waved his hand and asked him to sort out his thoughts, organize his words and then say to him.

When Li Hao sorted out his clues and told Xiao Jiu about the news he had received, Xiao Jiu jumped up from his seat in surprise.

"My father-in-law was robbed by bandits?"

At this time, Xiao Jiu was surprised, and completely forgot what he had just warned Li Hao.

He never imagined that he would be able to pick up an old man on the way before he arrived in Kyoto City.

"Could it be that Kyoto has been lost?"

Xiao Jiu thought so in his heart, but he didn't dare to slack off in his actions, and urgently ordered all the big and small leaders in General Li Hao to shout.

No matter what happened in Kyoto City, another purpose of his trip was to pick up Li Luoyao's family.

Now that Li Luoyao is married to herself and is pregnant with Liujia, not to mention how Xiao Jiu and her respect each other like guests.

Let's just say that when Xiao Jiu was facing a predicament before, Li Luoyao went to Kyoto alone to bring rescue soldiers to herself, and this love is worth Xiao Jiu's life.

According to Li Hao's account, Xiao Jiu learned that the current Li Li was kidnapped by a group of bandits and caught Kotou Mountain, which is not far from here.

Although there were one hundred and ten bandits on Kotou Mountain, Xiao Jiu didn't take the other party in his eyes at all.

The only thing I'm worried about now is that I'm going late, and Li Li's family will be killed.

If this is the case, this matter will inevitably become a lingering shadow in Li Luoyao's heart in the future.

It didn't take long for all the leaders of the cavalry battalion to gather in front of Xiao Jiu's tent, and some even ran over in rags.

When these people were on the road, they had already learned about the incident through Li Hao, so no one asked, they all looked at Xiao Jiu and quietly waited for the order.

Xiao Jiu watched the people who didn't say a word all the way trotting over, and there was no extra nonsense, and he directly began to give orders.

"I think you already know what happened, and I won't talk too much nonsense."

"Shrimp crawler, you leave and take five hundred cavalry to go to Kotou Mountain with me, and the rest are all on standby."

With that, Xiao Jiu directly waved his sleeves and turned around to ride a horse in the improvised stable, and the rest of the leaders under the control of the shrimp crawler began to prepare to go back and call his men.

Seeing that the leaders of the cavalry battalion were eager to follow Xiao Jiu forward, the shrimp crawler hurriedly stepped forward, "Lord Xiao said that there are five hundred people, and there is no need for so many people. ”

Listening to the scolding of the shrimp crawler, many people stopped their physical movements, but some old people who had followed Xiao Jiu from Hare Mountain did not buy it.

"Shrimp crawler, that is, the owner of the village, we call you a blind general."

\"Now that the owner of the village has been robbed by the bandits, you let us all rest?" \"

Listening to the retort of a thin black man with five big and three thick next to him, the shrimp crawler wanted to scold him directly, but he still endured it.

The person in front of him is in the same position as himself, but unlike himself, the other party followed Xiao Jiu when he was in Hare Mountain.

Although he was at the same level as the other party at this time, his prestige in the army was far inferior to the former.

The current Xiao Zi Battalion is different from the past, there are more than 10,000 officers and soldiers in the army, and the generals who can hold the most core power are always the group of people who originally followed Xiao Jiu.

Although there are some corpse vegetarians among them, they have Xiao Jiu's trust.

Just when the shrimp crawler was still hesitating to continue to dismiss the eager people present, Xiao Jiu had already ridden his horse from not far away.

"Why are there so many people?"

Looking at the more and more soldiers gathering in front of him and the quarrels that came from time to time, Xiao Jiu frowned slightly.

But the most important thing at the moment is to rescue his father-in-law quickly, Xiao Jiu didn't care about anything else, and shouted and took the lead.

With the faint starlight, a team of more than a thousand people rushed out of the cavalry battalion station, marching towards the doghead mountain not far away.

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Doghead Mountain.

At this time, in the humble camp of Kotou Mountain, the hall was full of all kinds of mountain bandits, and in the middle of the hall kneeling was a middle-aged man, who was Xiao Jiu's eldest brother Li Yi.

"Your brother-in-law is a county guard?"

Sitting in the main seat was a man with a meaty face, who was asking Li Yi, but the smile on the corner of his mouth revealed a little sarcasm.

As soon as these words came out, the scene instantly aroused laughter.

No one believed what the man in front of him said, and now when the army is in chaos, even if it is a county guard, as long as it is not in Yuzhou, they will not be able to control their doghead mountain.

Now the man in front of him said that his brother-in-law was the county guard of Yangcheng County, and they only felt a burst of amusement.

Xiao Jiu in Yangcheng County, Yuzhou, they naturally had heard about it for a long time, and they didn't say whether this matter was true or not, just said that Xiao Jiu and the Yuzhou rebel army were incompatible, and they also expected that the other party would not dare to come.

Moreover, in the process of robbing Li Li and his party before, they were met with desperate resistance from the other party's guards, and many of their subordinates were lost in vain, and the two sides had formed a mortal enmity.

At this time, Li Yi was taken alone for questioning, just to see if he could squeeze out some more oil and water.

"You said that your brother-in-law is a county guard, so let him take five hundred taels of silver to ransom people."