King Yuwen gave an order, and a team of 150,000 people marched out of the city. General Chen Jinchao led 80,000 soldiers and horses as the vanguard, King Yuwen and more than 40,000 soldiers and horses sat in the middle army, and Zhao Jian led 30,000 horses to retreat. More than 50,000 men and horses were left in Tongyuan City, and the city was defended under the leadership of the general army of Chu.

After King Yuwen's team drove out of the city for more than 50 miles, it did not attack in the direction of the capital in the south as King Zhenxi wished, but suddenly turned north, and followed the path of King Yuwen when he fled south, and went north.

It turned out that King Yuwen had already made a plan to take a shortcut to Yinzhou Mansion, the capital of Tufan, in order to force Deyong to withdraw from the Central Plains in order to resolve the difficulty of Wulingzhou.

The forward troops led by General Chen Jinchao, riding lightly and fast, went around the state and the capital all the way, along the mountains in the northwest, and quickly advanced to the north, and within a few days, the troops had entered the border of the Northern Regions, and quickly turned around, and went straight to the Northern Pass, and the capital was Gulu Pass.

According to the Malay report from the front, nearly 50,000 Tufan soldiers and horses in the northwest direction of the army are attacking a city, and the battle situation is very tragic.

Chen Jinchao opened the map to check, the place of war is located in the northwest corner of the northern region of Xingjing County, he thought that if he directly takes Gulu Pass now, the city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and these 50,000 local soldiers will return to help, it will definitely form a flanking attack on our army, which is very unfavorable to the capture of Guancheng. It is better to encircle and suppress it at this time, weaken the vitality of the Tufan soldiers, and then go north to capture the pass, the chance of victory is greater.

So, Chen Jinchao immediately ordered the troops to turn around and go straight to Xingjing County.

It is said that after Wu Kui led the officers and soldiers to recapture the county seat from Tufan, in order to prevent the Tufan soldiers from attacking again, he worked with the people and soldiers overnight to strengthen the city defense, and at the same time mobilized all the way to prepare for the resistance to the Tufan.

In the first ten days, the Tufan soldiers were busy attacking the city and taking land, and they had no idea about the lost Xingjing County. But gradually, as some of the people who lost the city around them ran to Xingjing County for refuge, Tufan found that the city had been lost, and sent 20,000 Tufan soldiers to attack the county seat.

At that time, there were nearly 30,000 officers and soldiers and civilians in Xingjing County who could participate in the defense of the city, which was the last city of the Central Plains in the northern region.

After several failed attempts to attack the city, the Tufan soldiers stopped their attacks and camped outside the city. It turned out that he was waiting for the 30,000 reinforcements sent by the mainland again.

When the fighting stopped for a while, the officers and soldiers and people in the city also breathed a sigh of relief for the time being, and they all seized the time to rest and adjust, treat the wounded, and repair the fortifications.

Lan Mei'er gave Wu Kui an idea, asking him to take thousands of elite soldiers out of the city to sneak attack the local soldiers outside the city, and unexpectedly inflict heavy losses on them and eliminate their living forces.

Wu Kui has always been obedient to Lan Mei'er, he immediately gathered nearly a hundred strong villagers, and went to find a leader who was a soldier, and asked him to send 2,000 people to follow him out of the city to attack the enemy.

The soldier was originally rescued by Wu Kui and others, and after listening to his reasoning, he agreed, and personally brought nearly 3,000 people out of the city with Wu Kui.

That night, more than 2,000 people went out of the city in the dark, traveled five or six miles by night, came to the place where the Tufan soldiers were encamped, cleaned up the soldiers on duty with crossbow arrows, and then rushed into the enemy camp with a muffled voice.

Wu Kui led 800 men to rush in front and cut down when he saw people, and the more than 2,000 soldiers who followed behind mainly destroyed the camp tent and quickly cut the rope that pulled the camp tent, causing the camp tent to collapse immediately.

The Tufan soldiers attacked the city for several days in a row, and they were already quite tired and tired, and they did not expect that the trapped Central Plains people would dare to go out of the city to sneak attack, and they were killed by surprise in the unguarded.

The hundreds of camp tents that were cut down in an instant were also lit by candles in the tents, igniting a raging fire, and in less than a moment, the entire Xiying Village was a sea of fire. The Tufan soldiers, who woke up in their sleep, fled like a ghost crying wolf.

The three enemy camps in the southeast and north suddenly saw a fire burning in the west, and the soldiers fled one after another, knowing that they were being attacked by a sneak attack, but they did not know how many enemy troops they did not dare to rush to block the attack, and they all fled from the camps and fled to the north.

Under the leadership of Wu Kui, the officers and soldiers of the Central Plains swept through the four camps of the enemy, set fire all the way, and after seeing the enemy flee north, they did not chase after them, and 3,000 people swept away all the ordnance and food that could be taken away in the camp, and threw all the weapons and food that could not be taken away into the fire, and then quickly evacuated by the fire, and returned with a full load.

This battle not only killed four or five thousand enemies and caused a lot of losses to the Tufan army, but also captured a large number of materials, replenished the needs of the city in time, boosted the morale of the army and the people, and boosted morale. Wu Kui also won the support of the people because of this, and they all called him the general who protected the city.

The Tufan army retreated 20 miles to the north, waiting for the reinforcements to arrive, and then made a comeback, and the Tufan army of nearly 50,000 horses surrounded the small county of Xingjing, after several sieges, the city wall of the county town has reached a precarious level, fortunately, the soldiers and civilians in the city resisted to the death, and repelled the enemy's attack with flesh and blood.

On this day, it had been nearly two months since the siege of the city, and the Tufan army outside the city was already insufficient to suppose, and they were determined to take Xingjing City within these two days. The leader of the Tufan army, General Abuka, concentrated all his forces and launched an attack on the east gate of the city.

At this time, the east gate of the city had almost completely collapsed, and there was only a pile of uneven stones, with a barrier of trees, dirt bags and various debris, and the soldiers defending the city fought the enemy on a pile of stones.

The city is even more miserable, it has been out of food for three or four days, in order to support the officers and soldiers defending the city, ordinary people have not been exhausted for several days, the weak, the wounded and sick have been scattered on the streets. In addition, the streets were full of wounded soldiers and civilians, and the city was filled with a smell of blood and a foul smell, flies flying around, wailing everywhere, and a terrible sight.

The Tufan soldiers attacking outside the east city gate found that there were almost no arrows shot out of the city, only some stones and wooden sticks flew out weakly, and under the leadership of a hundred household chiefs, the first batch of Tufan soldiers rushed into the city through a gap.

The Tufan soldiers behind suddenly shouted and rushed in, and the few Tufan soldiers who rushed in front suddenly saw the head of the hundred households in front flying towards them, and before they could react, several Tufan soldiers were smashed to the ground.

The Tufan soldiers who had just rushed into the gap were stunned by the rain of people in front of them, and five or six people flew out of it sideways, and some of them were torn in half and thrown out.

They shuddered when they heard a beast roar from the city, and suddenly a huge beast with blurred flesh and blood rushed towards them, and they all let out a heart-rending scream.

Just when almost all the vanguard troops of the Tufan soldiers had rushed into the city gate, the fast cavalry troops led by Chen Jinchao arrived, and they killed the Tufan troops outside the city in a burst of killing.

When King Yuwen's army rushed into Xingjing County, the Tufan soldiers inside thought that they had arrived, and were about to shout excitedly, but they were killed on the spot. Under the swift horses of the soldiers in the Northern Regions led by Chen Jinchao, it was like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and all the Tufan soldiers were quickly wiped out.

General Chen Jinchao knocked the last of the Tufan soldiers to the ground, wiped the blood of his long sword with his battle robe, and inserted it back into its scabbard. He looked around at this time, but was shocked by what he saw.

Behind a pile of corpses, there stood a giant, two of whom were tall, and both of them carried a Tufan soldier in their hands, just like carrying two big sticks and mallets, but these two soldiers, one of the heads were gone, and the arms of the other were gone, and they were all humanoid. The giant was surrounded by corpses, and there were more than a hundred people standing behind him, and it was impossible to tell whether they were soldiers or civilians, all of them were ragged, their flesh and blood were blurred, and each holding a knife, gun, club, etc.

When they realized that reinforcements had arrived and that they had been saved, they immediately burst into tears of joy and joy. Some rushed up and hugged the giant's leg and began to cry. The giant threw away the two cripples in his hand, and smiled a little wicked as he raised his hand to wipe the blood from his face.