The battle in the imperial capital continued, and Liu Fan's appearance greatly boosted the morale of the Shenwu army, even if because of the rebellion of a large number of secret agents, there was a lot of chaos in the Shenwu army and the Jinwuwei and Dragoon Army, and even the Guards and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses. The battle at the city gate continued, and with the help of the nobles, Liu Fan's great kankan blocked a large number of enemy troops pouring into the city. The black iron armor was stained with blood, and the soldiers were already mechanically wielding the weapons in their hands, they had no purpose, no goal, all they were thinking about now was how to live.

Zhang Bai outside the city looked at the fighting Imperial Capital City, and his brows rose for a while, the defense in the Imperial Capital City was insufficient, and he was supported by the Qingzhou Army, Zhang Bai divided his forces into three parts, of which Deshengmen and Wushengmen were the focus of the attack, and Shuimen was responsible for containing a large number of Shenwu Army soldiers. Of course, Zhang Bai prepared far more than that, he also held a more favorable Liliang in his hand, and his Jihua was far more than that.

Jihua of Liu Fan in the palace is already halfway there, and now he only needs to wait for the appearance of a few key figures in Zuihou to achieve this near-perfect tactic. However, the situation in the outer city was completely unexpected by Liu Fan, originally Liu Fan was to attract the ground network in the city, and wanted to solve the instability in the city in one fell swoop, so as to stabilize the situation in the imperial capital and make every effort to deal with the army outside the city, but Liu Fan never expected that the army outside the city would come in first. The army's entry into the city was completely unexpected by Liu Fan, but this could not change the outcome of Zhang Bai's defeat.

"My lord, at present, Huo Qu of Watergate is sick, and the Desheng Guards and Youth Department have stabilized the situation with the help of the private soldiers of the nobles. Li Siye of Wushengmen is still in a fierce battle. I have sent all my soldiers to Wushengmen to support. It is not very difficult to stabilize the situation. Bai Qi pointed to a few points on the battle map and said to Liu Fan: "We are also pursuing the traitors in the city, and the Yue Fei headquarters of the Yongzhou Corps is approaching us, and we will arrive in less than a day." ”

"How is the battle situation elsewhere?" Although Liu Fan's injuries had healed very early, Liu Fan also took advantage of this rare opportunity to retreat and cultivate, and all the battle reports were not able to be delivered to Liu Fan in time. Now that the Shenwu Army is fighting fiercely on all fronts, what Liu Fan cares about the most is the Northern Corps of the Shenwu Army and the main force of the Shenwu Army that is fighting in Yuzhou, both of which will face strong pressure, once any of these two corps is defeated. It is said to bring a devastating blow to the Shenwu Army.

"The situation is not very good, the Northern Corps is fighting with the Xiliang Army, and both sides have won and lost the battle so far. It's just that the strength of the Northern Army is insufficient, and now it has mainly begun to shrink the line of defense, Wang Jian sent someone to send a military report, and the Northern Army will not let the Xiliang Army take a step forward. There was also news from Zhou Yu's department that they would arrive at the imperial capital at noon today. Bai Qi reported the current battle situation to Liu Fan, and kept comparing on the battle map: "The Li Jing Corps of Yuzhou is still fighting with the Imperial Merchant Corps, and Han Xin's department has also fought several battles with them, but the Tiger Prison Pass is still in their hands. News came from the spies ahead that they had begun to shrink their forces. It seems that there is a deliberate intention to transfer some troops to the imperial capital to support. ”

Bai Qi's words made the faces of all the generals present change, and I have to say that it was a wrong decision for Liu Fan to block all his troops in the imperial capital. Now that the imperial capital is surrounded by enemies, Liu Fan's Shenwu army is extremely powerful, but they are fighting in various places. Especially the dispersion of the armies in various places, and now all parties seem to have reached a consensus, that is, first to destroy the Shenwu army, and then to decide who can become the real master of this empire.

The situation is not only terrible, the Bingzhou Corps led by Chen Qingzhi, and the Jiaozhou Corps led by Di Qing and Ma Yuan, are still in a hard battle. In recent years, the demon clan and the barbarian clan have been abnormal, and they have not retreated immediately after the battle with the border army as usual, but they have chosen to die in the border and the two border armies to the end. In particular, the Sea Clan is also starting to move, even if an armistice is signed, but these people will not care about this agreement that is not worth mentioning at all. And now the only thing that is quiet in the empire is the lion empire in the north, and the lion empire seems to be waiting for the battle of the Tianlong Empire to be more tragic, so now it has been sparing no effort to support Dong Zhuo in the north.

What gave Liu Fan even more headache was the internal strife in the empire, and several major shili of the empire are now also launching an onslaught against Liu Fan. The square horns of the Sun Moon Divine Sect also led their own army to actively attack the territory of the Shenwu Army, and the Shenwu Army has not been able to free up their hands to clean them up over the years, and has always maintained a defensive position. The army of Wang Dong Zhuo in the north is extremely strong, and he is fighting with Wang Qian's army in the north, and the other aspect is Zhang Rang's army and the other three bloodline armies that Liu Fan already knows. They are Liu Fan's biggest enemies at present, but what reassures Liu Fan a little is that the northern corps has the support of the army guarding the imperial tomb, and now the situation has been stabilized if it cannot be won, and the situation in the palace has also stabilized, and the rest is to clear the remnants of the enemy.

"My lord, the current situation is still under our control, and my lord has no need to worry. Bai Qi looked at the sad expression on Liu Fan's face and suddenly said to Liu Fan, and a feeling of helplessness also rose in Bai Qi's heart. He has been an undercover agent in the imperial capital for several years, and he has always wanted to find out the various shili of the imperial capital, and he originally thought that he had already found it very clear, but when it happened, Bai Qi knew that he was a little too naïve. Liu Fan naturally knew what Bai Qi was thinking, and he didn't mean to blame Bai Qi, after all, the time he had been in the palace was too short, and there was really no way to completely control the imperial capital.

"Lord, the master of the six gates has also acted, this time we are not very strong in Liliang outside the inner city, after the troops are transferred, the six gates are responsible for clearing the enemy in the outer city. ”

"Six doors?" a look of doubt flashed on Liu Fan's face, he had never had any dealings with six doors over the years. The only time was that Six Doors had sent a peripheral person to send a wanted warrant to Liu Fan, which was the only time Liu Fan had dealt with Six Doors. The Six Doors belong to the Criminal Department, but more often than not, the Six Doors are a single existence. Moreover, the relationship with the Criminal Department is more often a relationship of mutual cooperation. Seldom cooperate with the outside world. Like the net of the Empire, the Six Doors are also mysterious.

After Liu Fan arrived in the imperial capital, he also wanted to find the help of the six gates, but the six doors did not respond positively to Liu Fan's request. Liu Fan didn't recover, so he didn't think about it anymore, after all, in Liu Fan's impression, the six doors were just a criminal investigation department to arrest crimes, and the strength could not be strong. Liu Fan gave up the six doors, but the six doors did not give up Liu Fan. This time, the strength displayed by the six doors made Liu Fan greatly surprised. The strength of the six doors turned out to be as strong as expected, and one department stabilized the outer city.

"Lord, don't underestimate these six doors, according to me, there are many masters of the six doors, and they are very mysterious, no one knows how many masters there are among the six doors. Zhao Gao walked in covered in blood and reported to Liu Fan: "This time, the six gates can stabilize the situation in the outer city, and it seems that they are also determined to cooperate with us." ”

Zhao Gao is talking about cooperation here, and he didn't say that the six doors are going to come to Liu Fan, after all, the owner of the six doors has not yet appeared. Just sent a large number of masters to cut out the enemies in the outer city. If they wanted to take refuge in Liu Fan, now the master of the six doors had already appeared in the palace to swear an oath to Liu Fan. The action of the six doors also made Liu Fan breathe a sigh of relief. If the situation in the outer city can be stabilized, the forces in the inner city can be reduced to deal with the incoming enemy.

The dust in the sky obscured the sun, and tens of thousands of cavalry were frantically whipping the horses that sat down, rushing towards the imperial capital, they were Ma Chao's advance cavalry troops who came from Tongguan in the north. Originally, there were only 3,000 cavalry, and they gathered the defenders of Tongguan, gathered 30,000 cavalry, and galloped all the way to the imperial capital by changing horses without changing people, and thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of war horses were tired on the way, but these strong-willed soldiers still frantically whipped their war horses and rushed towards the imperial capital.

"General, urgent military report!" The two soldiers who were at the forefront rushed over frantically whipping their horses, and they didn't turn over and dismount and pulled the reins of the horses that sat down to report to the panting Ma Chao: "General, we found a force of about 100,000 people rushing to the imperial capital, the banners are very mixed, and it is impossible to identify which army belongs to the system, and they are waving the battle flags. ”

Ma Chao frowned immediately after listening to the scout's report, an army of 100,000 people was rushing towards the imperial capital, but at present, only Yue Fei's corps could support the imperial capital from the north. In the face of this sudden appearance of the army, Liu Fan also had to be cautious, Liu Fan's special identity made Ma Chao, who was with Liu Fan, also seen a lot of shili under various banners over the years. Ma Chao didn't dare to rashly attack this army, once it was to support the soldiers and horses of the imperial capital, it would be a big problem.

"Meng Qi, didn't the military newspaper a few days ago say that Zhang Bai recruited all the bandits and bandits in the vicinity, could they be these bandits and bandits?" Zhu Yao also walked to Ma Chao's side with a tired face and asked softly. Ma Chao nodded lightly, but whether these are Zhang Bai's people Ma Chao is still not sure, Ma Chao is not a hesitant person, if the target of these people is not Dijing, Ma Chao will definitely attack, but these people are all heading for Dijing.

"The army set off at once, and the scouts set out as quickly as possible to find out the identities of these people. Ma Chao's brows loosened and he made up his mind, since he didn't know the purpose of the other party, he would investigate and punish them. The cavalry under his command immediately moved after receiving Ma Chao's order, and several teams of scouts immediately changed into elite war horses and dared to go towards those miscellaneous soldiers. The cavalry under Ma Chao's command also changed into new war horses and rushed to the imperial capital.

The chaotic marching team gave Zhang An, who commanded this army, a headache, but fortunately, the combat effectiveness of these people made Zhang An feel a little relieved. These bandits and bandits are all perennial days of licking blood with knives, and in terms of discipline and combat effectiveness, it is obvious that they can't catch up with the elite guards even if they shoot horses, but the bravery of these people is not under the soldiers of the guards, not to mention that there must be brave men under the heavy reward, Zhang Bai promised them a lot of money, otherwise these people would not have served Zhang Bai. You must know that they are all bandits and bandits who have survived countless encirclements and suppressions by the Guards.

"I said the big boss, let's capture the imperial capital, that Zhang Bai can really let us go and grab it for three days?" A man with a long scar on his face found his big boss Poison Dragon and asked in disbelief.

"Hmph, you're going to believe that, I don't know what else is in your head besides women and wine. The poisonous dragon looked at his subordinates with disdain, the appearance of the poisonous dragon was completely at the opposite end of his name. The poisonous dragon's face was delicate. He was also dressed in clean white. The face and dress of the poisonous dragon. Even if you go to the door of the six gates of the imperial capital and shout that you are a robber and six gates, you will never believe it, but the fact is that the poisonous dragon is an out-and-out bandit, and he is the largest and most ferocious bandit in the vicinity.

The man with the scarred face glanced at his eldest brother helplessly, touched his head, and his eyes revealed a fierce gaze, and looked at the poisonous dragon with a smile and said: "Big brother, if this Zhang Bai doesn't rob us, we will rob it ourselves, there are so many rich and noble families in the imperial capital." Their ladies are all tasting tender meat, much better than our cottage girls, and those fine wines in Dijing, I want to vomit when I drink those garbage wine in my mother's cottage, this time I must grab enough. Big brother, those rich and noble families have a lot of treasures and collectibles, aren't you excited about it?"

The poisonous dragon looked at his most powerful subordinates, a hint of ferocity flashed on his face, and he said sinisterly to Scar: "Action, why don't you be moved." It's just that this time I don't think it's an easy task to conquer this imperial capital. That guy in the Imperial Capital City is not simple, not to mention that there are millions of troops on the defensive. It's up to us 100,000 people to go inside and make waves. We were all used as spearmen by others, and they didn't count on us from the beginning, and if my guess was right, we must have followed an elite army not far away, just waiting for us to consume a large amount of the enemy's liliang, and they could take advantage of the fisherman. Of course, there is also the possibility that when we are in the heat of battle, they will destroy us and the enemy directly from behind. ”

Scar's words made Scar's face change suddenly, what is the situation? Scar looked at the poisonous dragon, only to see that the poisonous dragon was looking at the sky with a smile on his face, unable to figure out what his eldest brother was thinking. The poisonous dragon looked at Scar with a smile and said: "So this time, after we enter the city, we don't act according to the other party's orders, go directly into the city and hide with our brothers, and wait for the two sides to fight almost when the two sides are almost killed, we will wash all the rich and noble families in the imperial capital in blood, and then take our things out of the city to take advantage of the chaos, and immediately escape to Liangzhou after leaving the city." ”

"Big brother, will this method work?" Scar looked at his eldest brother excitedly, and the poisonous dragon scolded Scar fiercely, and Scar immediately closed his mouth in amusement, and at the same time began to imagine the scene of entering the imperial capital. The situation was indeed the same as the poisonous dragon imagined, Zhang Bai would not be so stupid as to pin all his hopes on the heads of ordinary bandits and bandits. Zhang Bai did arrange an elite army to follow behind them, and there were quite a few of them, an entire legion of elite cavalry. It's just that this cavalry has been following them from a distance, and no one has noticed them.

"Newspaper. A scout immediately reined in his horse and said to Ma Chao: "General, an elite cavalry corps was found fifty miles north of this army, and the other party was under the banner of the Xiliang Army. The other party did not seem to have the intention of marching in a hurry, but just followed the group of miscellaneous soldiers from a distance. ”

"Xiliang Army?!" Ma Chao suddenly gasped after listening to the scout's report. The Xiliang Army, how could the Xiliang Army appear here? The Xiliang Army is still fighting fiercely with the Northern Army, and the Xiliang Army that can appear here is obviously from Yongzhou in the north, but how did they bypass the scouts of the rear army? The Xiliang Army appeared here quietly, and the identity of the group of people in front of them is self-evident, it must be the group of bandits and bandits that Zhang Bai has recruited.

"Meng Qi, what should we do?" Zhu Yao's face was also very abnormal, the Xiliang Army appeared here, their cavalry with only 30,000 people was not the opponent of this group of wolf-like Xiliang Army at all, not to mention that these 30,000 people were still exhausted, fortunately, the Xiliang Army had not found them yet.

"Someone, immediately send a letter to the army in the rear, and immediately report the information of the Xiliang army to the governor. Ma Chao said to the soldiers under his command with a gloomy face: "The rest of the soldiers continue to follow those soldiers and continue to advance, the distance between them is fifty miles, try not to let the other party find out, from now on save horsepower and prepare to fight at any time." ”

"No. The generals who followed Ma Chao agreed in unison and immediately conveyed the military order to the army under his command. Fifty miles, with the speed of the cavalry charge only needs half a pillar of incense to reach, Ma Chao stipulated that fifty miles can just avoid the scouts of the Xiliang army, and can also rush over to support the emperor at the fastest speed when there is a crisis in the imperial capital, the cavalry under the command of Ma Chao is rushing day and night, and now it is also exhausted, such a distance can just maintain enough horsepower and manpower to prepare for war.

Dijing, because of the appearance of 300,000 Xiliang troops, once again began to violently turmoil. (To be continued......)