Chapter 992: Local Snake
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 falling stars 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 valley.
He climbed up on the ground 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. Therefore, there were only hundreds of local county soldiers guarding each city gate at this time.
At each city gate, there were only about a hundred people.
There is no problem in maintaining order at the city gate on weekdays. 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 Wei and restore Han!"
This slogan is like a clarion call for charge.
These knights immediately pulled out their swords and shouted: "Reverse Wei and restore Han!"
The county soldiers at the North Gate were still looking up at the falling stars that appeared above them, when they saw a group of people rushing towards the North Gate with swords raised.
These county soldiers also thought 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 front of 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 what you practice on a daily basis, hurry up!”
After a moment of panic, and 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 have 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 fast 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 little, and it was probably not very strong. It was certainly incomparable to a real spear.
It's almost enough to be used against 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.
The knights holding swords originally charged once with **** courage, but they were stabbed randomly by the county soldiers led by the old soldiers with their spears, and several people were killed on the spot.
The knight'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 without any means. 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, let alone 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 is trivial, and the rear team can immediately make up for it.
It's just these county soldiers who have no big problem dealing with the unorganized rangers.
Now that he was rushed out of the gap, and because he had seen 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 pieced 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 group battle at the gate of the city is exactly suitable for a master like Han Long.
He charged left and right with a gun, and few county soldiers could stop him.
Seeing the chaos 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 was able to avoid one shot from Han Long, and three more spears pierced several parts of his body.
The armor on the old soldier's body has long been in tatters, and many places have been patched up with leather armor.
Blocked two shots, but couldn't block the third one.
“Poof!”
Blood gushed out like a fountain.
Han Long took another shot during the gap between lightning and flint.
The old soldier said "Uh-huh" twice and was picked to death on the spot.
Without their leader, the remaining county soldiers lost their courage. Whoever took the lead shouted and fled one after another.
Jinyang North Gate changes hands!
“Open the city gate, quickly!”
Seeing the county soldiers being killed and scattered, the courage of the rangers returned, and they hurriedly 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 troops?
Sima Huan ran all the way back to Jinyang, but he still hadn't had time to take a few breaths.
The soldiers below are even worse. Not only are they scattered, but their morale is 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 from 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 defeated soldiers and hurriedly arrived 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 iron cavalry swept across the Wei army in a matter of seconds.
In the rush, Sima Huan only saw Ma Shan's head, a cold light flashing across somewhere, and then a touch of blood-red floating up.
Sima Huan’s last thought was: It’s better to fight to the death at Yamaguchi!
It was just that they did not consider that the Huns would rebel, and they did not even have the opportunity to formally fight face-to-face with the Shu captives at the mountain pass.
Five thousand soldiers were chased all the way. After escaping back to Jinyang, less than two thousand soldiers were able to escape. 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. When the governor Bigui 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 discouraged. The Han army that entered the city barely encountered any decent resistance and took control of the largest city in Bingzhou.
"Da da da…"
The ranger who had been guarding the city gate and did not leave could not help but feel a commotion.
Facing dozens of blazing gazes, General Guan smiled slightly on his extremely handsome face. He 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 knights saw the handsome general dismounting from his horse and thanking him, many of them looked flattered and returned the favor, saying in a flurry of words:
"Although we are reckless, we still know a little bit about the great righteousness. To fight against the Wei Dynasty and restore the Han Dynasty, this is where the 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 Feng Meng’s lead.”
“That’s right, everyone in the world despises the knights, 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 problem?”
…
General Guan heard that these rangers kept saying "Feng Alliance Leader", and his eyes widened in confusion, and he subconsciously looked at Han Long who was mixed in the crowd.
Han Long coughed, stood up and explained:
“General, our rangers, although they are vulgar, are still willing to serve the country. Now that we are all gathered together, we are all comrades.”
“So I learned the story from the chivalrous novel 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 "The Legend of Purple Lightning Green Frost", who can assist Emperor Gaozu in accomplishing a great undertaking."
“But I hope that I can do my best for the country and the people under the leadership of the king.”
General Guan’s face and eyes looked strange after hearing this.
At first, she also thought that the story in "Zidian Qingshuang Ji" was true, but it was just her own Alang, and she always firmly denied it.
Over the years, she has accepted the assumption that those chivalrous novels are fiction.
Who would have thought that Han Long would do this to her again.
This made her suddenly start to doubt again: Are the stories in the novel 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 time, General Guan Da, who was leading the army all the way south, actually became a little confused.
However, after she glanced at the scattered knights again, she thought for a moment and asked someone to hand over a stack of bills:
"You heroes are so righteous. I admire you. I would like to accept a small token of thanks. This is not to reward you for your righteous deeds, but because Leader Feng will never let everyone bleed and suffer."
As the wife of the alliance leader, General Guan Da expressed that she could temporarily represent the alliance leader Feng.
“Everyone takes these tickets and goes to Nanxiang Xia Ke Xing. You can exchange the tickets for anything you like.”
Speaking of 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 for exchange."
When you Xiaer saw the words "ten bolts of silk", "one pound of brown sugar", "three pounds of wine" and other various notes on his hand, most people couldn't help but feel their ears warm and their hearts beat hot.
Especially the notes that General Guan specially ordered to provide pensions to the dead rangers, with "Ten Pearls" written on them, made people breathless.
Even some people who are not good at money still sigh in their hearts: Leader Feng really takes money lightly but values righteousness!
They don't know that in recent years, Xinghan Association has traded with Wu State. In addition to five baht coins, most of them only accepted special products such as pearls, jade and tortoise shells, and never took Wu State's Daquan money.
These so-called pearls are nothing rare to the Xinghan Hui.
Seeing the expressions on 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.
Biejia Li Xi was the only one who guarded Bi Gui's body and did not leave the governor's mansion.
After General Guan learned about this, he first had Bi Gui's body taken away for burial, and then he had Li Xi brought over.
“Li Xi met the general.”
Li Xi behaved calmly at first, but when he saw that the young general sitting on the throne was so handsome, he couldn't help but feel a little lost, and blurted out:
“I dare to ask General...but your surname is Feng?”
Such a rare appearance 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 he couldn't believe it. "General Xi observed that his troops were as fast as the wind and his aggression was like fire."
"Since it was so important to use 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 lead of the army south."
And it has been planned for several years.
She looked 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’s assistant. 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 to do less massacres for the sake of the innocence of the people and officials in Jinyang City. If so, 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, and we have marched all the way south without any rivals. What kind of reward can you give me, and how dare you exchange the weight of Jinyang City?”
Li Xi’s face did not change and he said calmly:
"The general led tens of thousands of soldiers southward, but he wants to pass the pass?"
“Exactly.”
At this point, anyone who is not blind can see his purpose, and 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 Xiongnu 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 division. 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 spares the people and officials of Jinyang City, 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 from Bingzhou Shangdang.”
No wonder, it turned out to be a local snake.
General Guan understood this, but his heart also moved.
It’s not that the so-called looting of people’s hearts moved her, but this time going south, the speed of the army was to be as fast as possible.
While looting and collecting food and grass while heading south, how could any local snake take the initiative to cooperate quickly?
General Guan narrowed his eyes slightly:
“Why should I trust you?”
Li Xi was already prepared:
“Jinyang City is governed by Bingzhou Prefecture, and no one knows its treasury, branches, and household registration album better than me.”
"To be honest with the general, before the governor committed suicide, he sent people to burn the grain and grass in the government treasury. I quietly stopped him. The general can send people to take out the food now, which can be regarded as my sincerity."
"Xi is in the city, and he is somewhat thin. When the time comes, he will come out to discuss with the officials in the city and help raise more food and grass. He will not disappoint the general."
Although they are not good at fighting, certain instincts of aristocratic families are engraved in their bones.
General Guan’s mouth curled up slightly when he heard Li Xi’s words.
(End of this chapter)