There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that the place where the star fell must be captured by the Han army.
Of course Sima Huan had never heard of this rumor, but when he was at the mountain pass, he was indeed frightened by this inexplicable star drop.
At that time, two star drops appeared at the mouth of the river valley, and he was almost cut off from his escape.
Now another star has fallen.
And they are exactly the same as the two at the mouth of the river valley.
He scrambled to his feet and ran towards the location of the soldiers he had brought back without looking back.
The cavalry that came back from the mountain pass had not yet rested and their morale was low, so the only people guarding the various city gates at this time were hundreds of local county soldiers.
There were only about a hundred people assigned to each city gate.
On weekdays, there is no problem in maintaining order at the city gate. It can also be used to cheer for people from behind.
But it would be too difficult for hundreds of them to fight against the black and invisible army outside the city.
They were able to close the city gate tightly at this time and did not flee immediately, which already showed great courage.
Just when the city of Jinyang was in chaos due to the large army outside the city, a group of rangers quietly gathered on the street near the north gate.
But when Xinghui appeared, someone suddenly shouted: "Reverse the Wei Dynasty and restore the Han Dynasty!"
This slogan is like a clarion call for charge.
These rangers immediately drew out their swords and shouted: "Reverse Wei and restore Han!"
The county soldiers at the north gate were still looking up at the star drop appearing above them, when they saw a group of people rushing toward the north gate with swords raised.
These county soldiers also said that the Han army outside the city had already invaded the city from somewhere, and some of them turned around and tried to escape.
However, among the county soldiers there were old soldiers who had retreated from the formation. They quickly stopped them and said loudly:
"Don't run away, these are just some scoundrels who want to take advantage of the chaos, so there is nothing to be afraid of!"
"Raise the gun, raise the gun!"
"Follow your usual practice, hurry!"
After a moment of panic, with people's hearts fluctuating, the old soldier was able to organize thirty or forty people into a sparse formation to face the enemy.
After all, it is not a regular army. It is rare to see such a reaction when the army is pressing down on the situation and people's hearts are fluctuating.
Someone not far away saw this scene and couldn't help but muttered: "It's really troublesome. Sure enough, the plan can't change as quickly as it did."
"hurry up!"
"Enough!"
Two short spears made in Hanyang, the head of one was removed, and then the lower end of the other was butted together to form a forbidden long spear.
It shook a bit, and it was shaking a bit, and it probably wasn't too strong, and it was definitely incomparable to a real spear.
It's almost enough to deal with county soldiers.
"Walk!"
"Han Long, the commander-in-chief of the Liangzhou Army of the Han Dynasty, is here. The traitor shall die!"
There was a loud shout, but suddenly a dozen people rushed out from the side. Everyone was holding a spear, arranged in a small charging formation, and used Han Long as an arrow to kill from the side.
Originally, the rangers holding swords rushed forward with bloody courage, but they were stabbed randomly by the old soldiers leading the county soldiers with their spears, and several of them were knocked down on the spot.
The Ranger's courage suddenly gave out and he retreated. Someone was loudly encouraging everyone to prevent them from scattering.
However, the ranger rushed in a random manner. Although it was anticlimactic, it successfully attracted the entire attention of the county soldiers.
The county soldiers never thought that the real killing was from the side.
The dozen or so people led by Han Long, not to mention the rangers, were even more well-organized than the sparse county soldiers.
Caught off guard, the county soldiers killed several people at once, and several others fell to the ground groaning.
For the regular army, this situation would be trivial, and the rear team would immediately make up for it.
It's just that these county soldiers have no big problem dealing with the unorganized rangers.
Now that he was rushed out of the gap, and he saw blood on his side, he became timid for a moment.
One of the guards guarding Han Long stabbed him too hard, and the spear he put together in his hand broke with a "click".
He secretly screamed bad luck and took a step back. His teammates quickly filled the gap. He took the opportunity to pick up a long spear from the dead county soldier on the ground.
This kind of cooperation is clearly superior to that of Jinyang County soldiers.
The small team battle at the city gate is suitable for a master like Han Long.
He charged left and right with a gun, and few county soldiers could stop him.
Seeing that the chaos was getting bigger and bigger, the old soldier leading the county soldiers ignored the ranger directly in front and hurried over to stop Han Long.
How could he stop Han Long and dozens of elite soldiers by himself?
With his rich experience in battle, he managed to avoid Han Long's shot, and three more spears pierced several parts of his body.
The armor on the old soldier's body was already in tatters, and many places had been patched up with leather armor.
Blocked two shots, but couldn't block the third one.
"puff!"
Blood gushed out like a fountain.
Han Long took another shot in the gap between lightning and flint.
The old pawn said "uh huh" twice and was picked to death on the spot.
Without the leader, the remaining county soldiers no longer had the courage. Whoever took the lead shouted and fled one after another.
Jinyang North Gate changes hands!
"Open the city gate, quickly!"
Seeing that the county soldiers were killed and dispersed, the courage of the rangers returned, and they quickly stepped forward to help turn the winch.
The gate made a heart-wrenching "click-click" sound and was gradually lifted.
There is no Wengcheng at the north gate. After all, for more than two hundred years, even dangerous passes such as Yanmen Fortress have not received much attention. Who would have thought that the enemy would come from the north?
Liu Hun, who had been waiting outside the city for a long time, raised his glass and shouted: "Kill!" before the city gate was fully opened.
Can't wait to lead the people through the city gate and rush into the city.
They entered the city only a hundred feet away, but saw a Wei army arriving at the end of the street. Who was Sima Huan, who had just gathered the remaining soldiers?
Sima Huan ran all the way back to Jinyang, but he still hadn't had time to take a few breaths.
The soldiers below were even worse. Not only were they scattered, but their morale was extremely low.
In a hurry, he could only gather a few hundred people and hurried to the north gate.
Unexpectedly, before he arrived, the sound of horse hooves could be heard on the other side of the street.
Looking up, the Han army's cavalry was already galloping in Jinyang City.
"Kill the thief!"
Although it is on the street, Jinyang is the largest city in Bingzhou, and the streets are wide enough.
More importantly, Sima Huan led a group of remnant defeated generals in a hurry, without any formation at all.
When Liu Hun saw the scattered Wei army, he leaned down slightly and his long horse drooped. Instead of slowing down, the horse's hoofbeats became more rapid.
The red cavalry swept through the Wei army in a moment.
In the rush, Sima Huan only saw the cold light flashing across Ma Shan's head, and then a touch of blood rose up.
Sima Huan's last thought was: It would be better to fight to the death at Yamaguchi!
It's just that they didn't consider that the Huns would rebel, and they didn't even have a chance to formally fight face-to-face with the Shu captives at the mountain pass.
Five thousand soldiers were chased all the way, and less than two thousand escaped back to Jinyang. As a result, the undefended Jinyang City was easily captured by the Shu captives...
It can be said that this battle was an inexplicable and sudden death.
It was not only Sima Huan who died suddenly. After the governor Bi Gui learned that the Han army had broken into the city, he laughed several times and immediately committed suicide in the governor's mansion.
The county soldiers in Jinyang City were not afraid, but the Wei army who fled back was completely discouraged. The Han army that entered the city barely encountered any decent resistance and took control of Bingzhou, the largest city.
"Da da da……"
General Guan, riding a tall horse, passed through the door and entered the city under the escort of his personal guards.
The ranger who had been guarding the city gate and did not leave could not help but feel a commotion.
General Guan faced dozens of blazing gazes, smiled slightly on his extremely handsome face, suddenly reined in the horse's rope, turned over and dismounted, clasped his fists at the ranger and said:
"Guan thanked you all for your help."
When the rangers saw the handsome general dismounting from his horse and thanking him in person, many of them looked flattered and returned the favor one after another, saying in a flurry of words:
"Although we are reckless, we still know a little bit about the great righteousness. To rebel against the traitors and restore the Han Dynasty is where righteousness lies!"
"I don't know much about the truth. I only know that Feng Meng wants to revive the Han Dynasty, so just follow the leader Feng Meng."
"That's right, everyone in the world despises the rangers, but Alliance Leader Feng not only did not give up, but wrote an heroic article to rectify our names. This life is left to the Alliance Leader, so what's the harm?"
…
General Guan's eyes widened in disbelief when he heard that these rangers kept saying "Master Feng", and he subconsciously looked at Han Long who was mixed in the crowd.
Han Long coughed, stood up and explained:
"General, although our rangers are vulgar, they are still willing to serve the country. Now that we are all together, we are all comrades."
"So I learned the story about chivalry and established a martial arts alliance. Junhou Feng is the one who guides the knights in the world, so everyone jointly recommended Junhou as the leader of the alliance."
"I dare not expect to be like the heroic hero in "Purple Lightning Green Frost" who can assist Emperor Gaozu in accomplishing a great cause."
"I just hope that I can do my best for the country and the people under the leadership of the king."
When General Guan heard this, his expression and eyes were extremely strange.
At the beginning, she also thought that the story in "Purple Lightning Green Frost" was true, but it was just her own Alang, and she always firmly denied it.
Over the years, she has accepted the assumption that chivalry is fiction.
Who would have thought that Han Long would do this to her again.
This made her suddenly start to doubt again: Is the story in it true?
If those are all false as A Lang said, then what's the matter with A Lang trying to use You Xiaer to do things?
From the initial Battle of Longyou to the current Battle of Guanzhong, Youxiaer has been helping to spy on a lot of intelligence...
For a moment, General Guan, who was leading the army all the way south, became a little confused.
But after she glanced at the scattered rangers again, she thought for a moment and then asked someone to hand over a stack of tickets:
"You heroes are so righteous. I admire you. I would like to accept a small token of thanks. This is not for your righteous deeds, but because Leader Feng will never let everyone bleed and suffer."
As the leader's wife, General Guan Da expressed that she could temporarily represent the leader Feng.
"Everyone takes these tickets and goes to the Nanxiang Knights' Shop. Whatever you like, you can exchange the tickets for."
Having said this, General Guan smiled slightly again:
"Of course, if Chang'an returns to the Han Dynasty after this battle, then everyone doesn't have to go so far. It's okay to go to Chang'an to change."
Most people couldn't help but feel their ears warm and their hearts beat hot when they saw the words "Ten pieces of silk and satin", "One pound of brown sugar", "Three pounds of wine" and other words on their hands.
In particular, the notes that General Guan specially ordered to give to the deceased rangers had "Ten Pearls" written on them, which made people even more breathless.
Even if there are people who are not good with money, they still sigh in their hearts: Leader Feng really takes wealth lightly but values righteousness!
But they didn't know that in recent years, the Xinghan Association had traded with the Wu State, except for the five-baht money, and most of them only accepted special products such as pearls, jade, and tortoise shells, and never the large spring money of the Wu State.
These so-called pearls are nothing rare to the Xinghan Society.
Seeing the expressions of these knight-errants, General Guan knew that his "thousands of gold to buy horse bones" had been completed.
Although she doesn't know how Alang plans to use these rangers in the end, this does not prevent her from laying the groundwork.
General Guan then calmed everyone down a few words before heading towards the Governor's Mansion in Jinyang.
Bi Gui committed suicide, Sima Huan died on the street again, and most of the subordinate officials in the governor's office escaped in the chaos.
Li Xi was the only one who guarded Bi Gui's body and did not leave the governor's mansion.
After General Guan learned of this, he first had Bi Gui's body taken away for burial, and then he had Li Xi brought over.
"Li Xi has met the general."
Li Xi behaved calmly at first, but when he saw that the young general sitting on the main seat was so handsome, he couldn't help but feel a little lost, and blurted out:
"May I ask General...but your surname is Feng?"
This kind of appearance, which is rare in the world, is indeed worthy of such a masterpiece full of elegant and fairy spirit.
"My surname is Guan." A smile appeared on General Guan's face, "Why would you guess that my surname is Feng?"
"It's not Feng Gui...Feng Langjun," Li Xi couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, and then he couldn't believe it. "General Guan used his troops as fast as the wind and invaded like fire."
"With such a deep understanding of the importance of using troops, I thought it was the rumored Feng Langjun who personally led the army, but it turned out that I was wrong."
General Guan gave a rare explanation: "It's not wrong. It was Feng Junhou who personally planned my march south."
And it has been planned for several years.
She glanced at Li Xi up and down, but seeing that the man did not show any fear, she couldn't help but asked curiously:
"I see that everyone in this mansion is fleeing, but Mr. Li neither flees nor surrenders, nor does he raise his sword to fight. Why is this?"
Li Xi sighed:
"I am the governor of Bi. I can neither help the governor to retreat from the enemy nor prevent him from killing himself. I have greatly neglected my duty."
"If I run away again, how can I face my father? The only thing I can do now is to stay at the house and beg to see the general."
"Oh?" General Guan was a little surprised and asked, "You want to see me? Why?"
"I just ask the general, for the sake of the innocence of the people and officials in Jinyang City, to refrain from massacres. If possible, I will be rewarded generously."
Li Xi said and kowtowed deeply.
General Guan laughed and said:
"I have tens of thousands of soldiers under my command. We have marched all the way south without any rivals. What kind of reward can you give me? How dare you exchange the weight of Jinyang City?"
Li Xi's face didn't change and he said calmly:
"The general is leading tens of thousands of soldiers southward, but he wants to capture Guanzhong?"
"Exactly."
At this point, anyone who is not blind can see his purpose, so General Guan will naturally not deny it.
"As the saying goes, before the three armies are moved, food and grass go first. The general seems to be powerful and invincible, but there is a hidden worry. Doesn't the general not know?"
"What?"
"Food and fodder! An army of tens of thousands and a long-distance expedition will need countless amounts of food and fodder, not to mention that there are many barbarians under the general's command. If the supply is insufficient, I'm afraid it will be difficult to make him do his best."
Li Xi raised his head and looked at General Guan:
"Bingzhou is cold and bitter, and the Huns have been entrenched for many years. Even if the general loots all the way, it is not easy to raise enough food and grass."
"Moreover, the Han army claims to be the king's master. Emperor Zhaolie is known for his benevolence and righteousness. It is easy for the general to plunder now, but it will be difficult to win over the people of the state in the future!"
"If the general lets the common people and officials of Jinyang City go, Xi is willing to come forward and raise food and grass for the general so that the army will have no worries."
General Guan raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "May I ask where Li Jun is from?"
"General Lao, please inquire. I am a member of the Shangdang Party in Bingzhou."
No wonder, it turned out to be a local snake.
When General Guan understood this, his heart also moved.
It wasn't that the so-called looting and losing people's hearts moved her, but this time going south, the speed of the army was as fast as possible.
While looting and collecting food and grass while heading south, how could anyone take the initiative to cooperate quickly?
General Guan narrowed his eyes slightly:
"How can I trust you?"
Li Xi was already prepared:
"Jinyang City is governed by Bingzhou, and no one knows its treasury, branches, and household registration album better than me."
"To be fair to the general, before the governor committed suicide, he sent people to burn the grain and fodder in the treasury. I quietly stopped him. The general can send people to take it out now, which can be regarded as my sincerity."
"I am a bit of a loser in the city. I will go out to discuss with the officials in the city and help raise food and grass. I will not let the general down."
When General Guan heard this, the corner of his mouth curled up slightly.
