On this morning, the Huzhou soldiers and horses who had marched all the way, under the leadership of Sun Jiangdong and Chonglai, had almost arrived at Lao Yeling. Just as he was about to take a rest, he rushed to the city of Jianzhou to meet Jin Chengzhang with the halberd, when a secret agent from the Wei Wangfu came to report that less than a hundred miles behind the Huzhou soldiers, there were more than 10,000 thieves from the southwest road following. This news really shocked Sun Jiangdong and Chonglai into a cold sweat.

The two people immediately made a decision, and Sun Jiangdong led 1,000 people to occupy Laoyeling Dazhai first, and then led 4,000 people to block Laoyeling, and at the same time sent people up the mountain to cut down trees.

This side has just been prepared, and the thieves of the Southwest Road have already rushed along the official road under the leadership of Hao Zhengtong. Hao Zhengtong checked the map and saw that this place was only more than a hundred miles away from Jianzhou City, so he was immediately overjoyed, and was ready to rush to the Laoyeling Mountain in one go, rest for the night, and go to assist Lin Guanqin and others in attacking Jianzhou City.

The thieves were marching on the official road in the mountains, and suddenly saw that the official road was blocked by a pile of rocks, and was wondering, and the fault code heard a horn sound, and then the rolling wood and boulders on the mountains on both sides fell one after another, and the thieves in the southwest road were suddenly attacked, and immediately there was a big chaos, Hao Zhengtong in the Chinese army brigade couldn't help but run away in all directions, angry and scolded, and secretly felt strange, his own line is also secret, who can know that he wants to lead the troops to Jianzhou?

Hao Zhengtong didn't know that after he passed Luye City, his whereabouts had already been mastered by the guards. Xiaowei's spies followed his team all the way, and even used Dongwei's undercover agents lurking in Hao Zhengtong's department, and got the exact news that he was going to Jianzhou to take advantage of the fire. Therefore, when the men and horses of Xiaowei learned that Sun Jiangdong and the returning Huzhou soldiers and horses were marching in front, they did not have time to report back to the Wei Wangfu, and directly notified Sun Jiangdong and the re-come.

The thieves in the southwest province retreated under this sudden offensive, found a mountain ridge, set up camp, checked the men and horses, more than 1,000 people were killed and fell down the mountain stream, and more than 2,000 were injured.

Before dark, the scouts captured a few local villagers and returned, and the villagers said that there was a small road behind Lao Ye Ridge that could bypass Lao Ye Ling, but it was rugged and difficult to navigate, and it was impossible for the brigade to bring baggage over. Hao Zhengtong laughed, "Lao Tzu went out of the Southwest Road, and he had already lost most of his baggage in Tong'an County, and he traveled lightly, God really helped me!"

Hao Zhengtong let the villagers lead the way, climbed the mountain trail behind Lao Ye Ling overnight, and made a detour of nearly 200 miles before he got out of Lao Ye Ling. Finally got out of the Laoyeling Pass, led the men and horses to successfully evade Sun Jiangdong and the defense of the re-come, and came to the east of Jianzhou City thirty miles, and met Huo Yunsheng's sentry detectives, one with each other

Communicating, knowing that it was a friendly army, Huo Yunsheng personally came out of the village to greet him.

Huo Yunsheng took Hao Zhengtong into Dazhai and told him about the current situation in Jianzhou, but he just concealed the contradiction between himself and Lin Guanqin. Hao Zhengtong told Huo Yunsheng about the ambush set up in Lao Ye Ling, Huo Yunsheng was very surprised, and said secretly in his heart: I thought that if the siege of Jianzhou failed, I could retreat to Lao Ye Ling to occupy the mountain as the king, where did I think that Lao Ye Ling had been occupied by others!

Huo Yunsheng thought about it again, since this unknown number of troops attacked Hao Zhengtong's men, it must be the men and horses of the Wei Wangfu, otherwise it could not be explained. Huo Yunsheng was even more jealous of the Wei Wangfu in his heart, and secretly said in his heart, I am already not firmly in this place, did I surrender to the Wei King in the past? I don't know what happened to Luye City, my family is still in the hands of the cows!

Hao Zhengtong saw Huo Yunsheng pondering, and didn't know what he was thinking, so he said with a smile: "General Huo, I led people from the southwest road and didn't bring any siege equipment, so I still need your help to provide some siege tools, such as catapults, ladders and the like." ”

Huo Yunsheng was full of promises, but he told Hao Zhengtong that it was not appropriate to attack now, and it would take a few more days to let the city know that there were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses outside the city, and the city would inevitably be in chaos without a fight. Hao Zhengtong nodded in agreement, and then sent more than 10,000 people to the village five miles away on the right side of Huo Yunsheng's camp to protect each other with Huo Yunsheng. Huo Yunsheng was originally cornered by Lin Guanqin, but suddenly someone came to help him, and his heart was a little more stable. just secretly separated Lin Guanqin's soldiers and horses on the other side, and constantly sent sentry spies, never letting Lin Guanqin's men and horses get close to Hao Zhengtong's camp.

Besides, after re-embarking with Sun Jiangdong, after repelling Hao Zhengtong's men, he was ecstatic, and he took people to wait for a day in the deep mountains of Lao Yeling, and he didn't see Hao Zhengtong's movement again, and he was very puzzled again. The next day, there was still no movement of Hao Zhengtong, and when I came back, I remembered to send some scouts to find out the news.

The scouts caught the lost Hao Zhengtong's subordinates at the mountain pass, and when they asked, they learned that Hao Zhengtong led people to steal out of the back mountain path late at night and had rushed to Jianzhou. When Zai and Sun Jiangdong got the news, they were almost angry. The two of them discussed with Song Yulan and Su Yiwen, since more than 10,000 people on the other side had already stolen the back mountain, it would definitely be disadvantageous for Huzhou to start a war on flat ground.

In addition, the other party still has more than 10,000 people outside Jianzhou City, no matter how you calculate it, you will lose if you rush over and fight hard. Since you can't fight the enemy, you have to find a way to outwit it. He and Sun Jiangdong simply occupied the Laoyeling cottage, and at the same time used flying pigeons to pass on the book in the city, and constantly sent scouts to find out the news of the enemy army outside the city. Again and Sun Jiangdong are waiting for the opportunity.

At this time, there were more than 40,000 people outside the city of Jianzhou, and the news in the city could not be transmitted except for the flying pigeons. Seeing that the enemy had increased his troops by more than 10,000, Jin Chengzhang simply built the fortifications taller and stronger, relying on the terrain.

and Huo Yunsheng and Hao Zhengtong outside the city.

In Luye City, the Songshan reinforcements who were waiting for Niu were still without any news, so they could only spend time with Cheng Rugao, and the two sides each occupied half of the city, and from time to time they carried out assassination attacks and the like. The cattle are in a hurry, and Cheng Rugao is also in a hurry, but it is useless to be anxious, and no one has any reinforcements, so they can only be consumed.

Anshu County has sent 6,000 soldiers and horses, Anshu County Shou Tao Zining only has 2,000 soldiers and horses in his hands at this time to defend the city, seeing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses outside the city besieged the city, scared enough, he went to the Wei Wangfu to ask to see Mr. Qi Siyuan and Xin Zhiping, the commander and the two princesses. The county guard already knew that the prince and the eldest princess were not in the palace.

Princess Ximen Yushuang, Du Ruo, Qi Siyuan, and Xin Zhiping met with Tao Zining, comforted him, and reassured him. Give him a thorough explanation, we still have mobile forces available in Weiwangfu, and the thousands of mountain bandits can also fight if necessary, Tao Zining is a little relieved at this time, and after saying goodbye, he will take people to the city to rectify the defense, and Xin Zhiping will also go to the city in person to arrange defense with the county guard.

In the evening, the people of the guards came in with the news, saying that there was reliable information to prove that there were thousands of ambush soldiers twenty miles outside the south gate, and they were preparing to intercept and kill the reinforcements who came to Anshu. Xin Zhiping immediately flew a pigeon and sent a message to Xie Pengcheng, who was rushing to Anshu, telling him to stay 100 miles away from Anshu and go down to the village to hold on, and wait for the notice from the city to make the next step.

Xie Pengcheng was marching in the direction of Anshu County with his men and horses, but he received a warning from Xin Zhiping, and immediately slowed down, and when he arrived a hundred miles away from Anshu County, he set up camp next to the official road, with deep ditches and high bases, and did not fight. The bandits who had been laid down at the south gate outside the city waited for several days, but no one came from the net, and sent out sentry sentries to learn that the enemy had set up camp seventy miles away from them.

When this group of bandits saw that the news was revealed, they suspected that there was a traitor, so they searched for the traitor within themselves, and tossed for several days, but there was no result. Seeing that the plan was unrevealed, the enemy could not be ambushed, so he had to withdraw from the siege. Xin Zhiping in the city got the news again, knowing that the siege had been withdrawn outside the south gate, and immediately sent a letter to Xie Pengcheng, instructing him to march to Anshu City in a starry night and enter the city to defend.

Xie Pengcheng got the news, set off with his troops overnight, and went straight to Anshu, sure enough, there were no ambushes on the road, and there were a few scouts, all of whom were killed by the scout team under Xie Pengcheng. By the next day, when the bandits outside the city learned the news that Xie Pengcheng's troops had entered the city, it was already too late. There were 5,000 more fresh troops in Anshu City, and the situation was immediately as stable as Mount Tai.

On Jiejia Mountain, Qiao Chongliang, the owner of the second village, was shocked when he learned that the main army of Dazhai was defeated by Yujiang, and now he rushed to Anshu to participate in the siege. This is far from his original intention, he means to finally take refuge in Tang Jiusheng, not to be an enemy of Tang Jiusheng. Trapped in Anshu County, once the Weiwang Mansion is really defeated, it will inevitably offend Tang Jiusheng, so what?

Qiao Chongliang hurriedly took hundreds of people to leave Jiejia Mountain, rushed to Anshu City, and came to persuade the master of Dazhai.

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