At the beginning of the rain after the rain, all things are born to the sun. After a few days of silence, Jinzhou's fang market and commercial port finally became lively.

At this time, it is the morning market, and the streets are full of vendors and pedestrians.

"Wow!Wow!Wow!"... The sound of horses' hooves hitting the tiles could be heard in the distance.

"Get out of the way!" a war horse galloped through the flow of people, knocking down many stalls and frightening many pedestrians, but it kept moving forward. "Get out of the way!" shouted the soldier on horseback, with a palpable sob.

"Wow!" the horses came to a halt at the gate of the Salt Transport Minister's Mansion. I saw the soldiers on it half-jumping and half-falling off the horses, taking out something from their waists, rushing to the government soldiers, and then led them inside.

"My lord, the post soldiers from the Anxian outpost are coming!" Fu Xuan hurriedly hurried to Mei Siyuan's study and reported loudly.

Mei Siyuan was reading the record of the salt production in the first half of the month of the Blind Mountain Salt Farm sent by Yunhu and Fu Chou, and when he heard that it was the post soldiers from the outpost post who came to report, he hurriedly put down the booklet and said hurriedly: "Where are the people? Take me quickly!" According to the order of the Dahua Tun army, the outpost supervised the foreign enemy, and the garrison army supervised the internal strife. Now that the Anxian outpost has come to report, there must be an accident at the border, Mei Siyuan is the chief official of Anxian, how can he not be in a hurry!

"The postman is waiting in the right side hall. Fu Zhi replied in a deep voice, but he thought in his heart, "Hey, a wave has not stopped, a wave has risen, when will the master have a moment of peace?"

Mei Siyuan hurriedly followed behind and walked to the right side hall. When the two of them walked to the right side hall, they saw a soldier with a filthy body and a bloody face standing in the middle, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What happened to the Anham outpost?"

When the post guard saw Mei Siyuan arrive, he immediately knelt on one knee and cried: "Lord Hui, on the 16th, Shatuo suddenly led troops across the border and killed two teams of border guards at our outpost. After that, it came all the way to the east, and the momentum was huge, and it had captured Tianmen City and Yanzhou!"

"What!" Mei Siyuan's surprise was really extraordinary, his eyes were round, his beard trembled slightly with his lips and teeth, and he asked loudly, "What about Xu Ding'an, the staff general of the outpost? It's nineteen today, why did you come to report at this time? I don't know if you missed the military plane!"

The post guard also knelt down on the other leg, his body was almost paralyzed, and cried: "The post got the news on the 17th, and on the same day, General Xu pulled out the camp and marched westward to intercept the Shatuo army. Before leaving, he sent a small group of post soldiers to report for help in several ways. The small one had already set off, but it was only a few days of heavy rain, and there was deep water blocking it all the way, so it was really impossible to move forward, and it was definitely not intended to delay. The water had only dropped slightly, and the little one drove his horse all the way to it. ”

Mei Siyuan listened, knowing that what the post soldier said must be true, the anger in his heart gradually subsided, and then asked: "How many people and horses did Sha Tuo attract when he crossed the border this time?"

"The exact number is not yet known. I'm afraid that there will be no less than 200,000!" replied the soldier tremblingly.

Mei Siyuan's heart tightened when he heard this, he couldn't hold it anymore, he sat down on the chair, with an incredible look on his face, and muttered: "Two hundred thousand... 200,000... The number of troops stationed at the Anxian outpost is only 28,000, and Xu Ding'an leads 28,000, how can he resist the eight-fold enemy?"

"General Xu said, 'Raise soldiers for a thousand days, use them for a while', the outpost has 28,000 iron-clad men, and everyone needs to defend the frontier against the enemy with the heart of death. If he dies in battle, the lieutenant will lead the troops, and if the lieutenant is killed in battle, the lieutenant will lead the troops... No matter how difficult the road ahead is, we must hold back the enemy before reinforcements arrive, and we must not allow the army of Shatuo to enter our hinterland. The postman said as he lay on the ground and cried.

When Mei Siyuan heard this, his heart was excited, and he finally came back to his senses. After thinking about it, he hurriedly ordered Fu Punishment on the side: "You quickly send someone to the Political Secretary's Mansion and the Resident General's Mansion to invite He Zhengsi and General Guo to come here!

Seeing that Fu Zhi had been ordered to retreat, Mei Siyuan turned around and asked the post soldiers, "Where do the post soldiers at the outpost ask for help?"

"Lord Hui, there are eight places to ask for help, including the North Outpost, the Shengjun Outpost, the Ram Wangfu of Cangsheng County, the Zhuge Wangfu of Limin County, the Panjun Outpost, the Fuyang Outpost, the Fanxi Outpost and the capital. General Xu has already made it clear that he wants to lead troops to intercept Shatuo's army in Mianzhou, and ask the reinforcements to pull out the camp and go straight to Mianzhou to help. The sentry replied.

"Mianzhou? The terrain of Mianzhou is high in the east and low in the west, and Shatuo's eastward advance is from low to high. It's just that the city wall of Mianzhou is low and dilapidated and in disrepair, and it is really difficult to defend the city... Yes, among the seven states of Anxian, except for Yanzhou, which has been captured, Mianzhou is the most scarcely populated, and Xu Dingan didn't want to lead the war to a densely populated place, so he intercepted the Shatuo army here. Mei Siyuan lowered his head and pondered, and muttered, "Mianzhou, that is only 400 miles away from Huangzhou, where Limin County is garrisoned! There are 140,000 ironclad troops in Zhuge Wangfu, and if you are willing to rush to help, you will arrive in two days at most!" Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh: "Xu Ding'an, worthy of being a famous general in the world, is full of great loyalty, bravery, benevolence and wisdom, and is a model of Nai Siyuan!"

Mei Siyuan asked the post soldier in detail again, and sent him down to rest. He is the only one left here, and he can prepare for the situation. I saw him stand up one moment, and then sit down suddenly, and so on for an unknown number of times.

Nine horses and a sedan chair stopped at the gate of the Yanzheng Mansion, and a young Taoist priest jumped off his horse, walked to the gate of the mansion, and asked the guards with a smile: "Two soldiers, this is the official residence of Mei Siyuan, the Secretary of the Salt and Salt Transport?"

The government soldier scolded: "You little Taoist can't see with your eyes?

Zhi Tuan didn't say anything, smiled and replied, "That's it." This is good! Our group is Mei Gongzi's fellow disciples and their dependents, and they have come to protect Mei Daren on the orders of the master, so please go and report to us. ”

That day, Mei Yuanchen and his entourage arrived in the middle of the night, and these four government soldiers were on day duty, and they didn't know that a group of Taoists had come to the house before. At this time, I saw that a Taoist priest came to ask, and he deliberately entertained him, and he was not polite at all. But when he heard that this group of people was here to protect their lord Mei Siyuan, he was very happy, and said with a smile on his face: "Really? Then you guys wait, I'll ask Mei Gongzi to ask." After saying that, he walked quickly to the inside.

Mei Yuanchen was sitting at the stone table in the courtyard of the West Wing, discussing martial arts with the three senior brothers Zhan Tong, Zhan Jue, and Zhan Xu. The three of Zhantong are all in their fifties, and although their martial arts are not stronger than Mei Yuanchen, they have far more experience and insight than Mei Yuanchen, and Mei Yuanchen also benefited from discussing with them.

"Childe, someone came from the main gate outside the mansion, claiming to be your family, the little one didn't recognize it, and didn't dare to let it in, do you want to take a look?" A government soldier hurriedly came and walked to the stone table to report to Mei Yuanchen.

When the four of them heard this, they were all overjoyed. "It must be Senior Brother Zhankong and his entourage that have arrived!" Zhan Tong laughed. Although he didn't believe that Zhankong and his party were in danger on the road, he was still a little uncertain when he waited here for a long time.

Mei Yuanchen said happily: "Yes! It's my senior brother and nephew who have arrived!" Without waiting for the government soldiers to lead the way, he slipped towards the gate like the wind with the "Dou Zhuan Diagonal Step Twenty-three". The soldiers were really shocked when they saw this situation, and they were stunned for a long time and couldn't speak.

"The talent of the little junior brother is too high, and even the most proud set of light skills of the senior uncle has been learned!" Zhan Jue couldn't help but sigh when he saw this.