The situation of Guanbei was determined by the war. Although the Qingtian army was defeated, the death toll was only 3,000, and most of its troops were retained, which greatly enriched Bai Qi's military. After the surrender, Li Shaoyuan from Longbei saw the general trend and came to Bai Qi's army with great tactfulness and expressed his willingness to accept Bai Qi's leadership.

Bai Qi did not spend much effort to get more than 70,000 troops. After selecting the surrendered soldiers of the two states, they removed the old, weak, sick and disabled, dispersed and reorganized them, and appointed trustworthy leaders to lead them. Bai Qi's army expanded to 150,000 in a short time. Fortunately, the territory was also large, otherwise it would be really hard to raise so many soldiers.

Regarding local administration, Bai Qi gave full power to Jie Dongshan. As for Li Shaoyuan and Geng Zhicheng, after investigation, Li Shaoyuan was competent in office and continued to serve as a magistrate, but now he does not do military command and becomes the prefect. Although Geng Zhicheng's reputation is not very good, in fact, this is all Li Shaoyuan's propaganda. In fact, Qingtian Prefecture is stronger than Langbei, which is largely due to Geng Zhicheng's effective governance. In the last battle, Geng Zhicheng had tens of thousands of soldiers following him, which also shows his ability. After consideration, Bai Qi decided to continue to let him lead his troops.

Although it is for the best use of the people to let Jingzheng lead the troops, Jingzhengzheng should still be kept by his side. First, he can continue to observe and second, he is also convenient to control.

As Bai Qi's decisions began to be implemented, news came from Jiezhou that Zhang Chu had concentrated nearly 100,000 troops near Jiezhou, and had the intention to take down Jiezhou.

The situation suddenly became more serious. Zhang Chu's actions prevented Bai Qi from attacking Duliang with all his might. The fire in the backyard was not a joke.

Xu Yuyan was sitting in the carriage, and the bumpy road made people feel sleepy. Wu Ming brought fifty brothers as the guards to escort Xu Yuyan. Now Xu Yuyan is no longer the master who is on par with everyone, but the person close to Bai Qi. Although his position in the door has not changed, his status has been different in the eyes of everyone, so Wu Ming has no slackness in protection work, and personally sets the way forward to ensure that Xu Yuyan returns to Yulong Pass safely.

Due to the approaching of Jiangzhou army and the threat of Bai Qi at Yulong Pass, Su Yuncheng, who had a tight force, narrowed his defense range and basically all of his defense lines were within 20 miles of Duliang City, so it was safe along the way. As long as you bypass Duliang City, there was Yulong Pass ahead.

A sound of shouting animals drove Xu Yuyan away from sleep. A convoy came from Duliang opposite him. The two teams crossed on the narrow road. Xu Yuyan habitually looked at these people carefully.

The other party has a large number of people, with a hundred people. The road is not peaceful at this time, and it is common for people on the road to travel together in a brigade, but this group of people gives Xu Yuyan an unusual feeling.

Xu Yuyan found Wu Ming, looked at the convoy that had just passed and said, "Master Wu, do you think there is something wrong?" Wu Ming is also old and smiled slightly and said, "Master Xu refers to the person who has just passed by?"

Seeing Wu Ming's strange expression, Xu Yuyan knew that he had discovered something, so she smiled and said, "It seems that everyone is thinking about it."

Wu Ming looked at the convoy that was slowly moving away and said, "It would be strange if such a team is not suspicious. There is only one carriage, and everyone else is riding tall horses. The knights on the horse are all tall and tall, and they are obviously born in the army all year round."

"Are you sure to keep them?" Xu Yuyan asked in a low voice.

Wu Ming sneered: "Only one hundred people are not the opponent of the brothers. Master Xu, please take a look. Brother, I will play with you beautiful hands."

After Wu Ming said a whistle, all the killers stopped immediately and lined up in two instant, and more than a dozen carriages were thrown on the side of the road. These killers were wearing wide casual clothes just now, and now they all took off their casual clothes, revealing the tight clothes inside. If they didn't pay attention just now, it would be hard to see that these people were the honest-looking traveling merchants just now.

"Leave a few people to watch the carriage and protect Master Xu, and the others chase me, and the target is the convoy that I just passed." Wu Ming simply arranged the mission. When Xu Yuyan heard Wu Ming meant to laugh, she stepped forward and smiled, "I'll go with you, and watch the fun."

When it comes to the skills of killing, Xu Yuyan may be very ordinary, but Xu Yuyan was trained by Izumoko himself after all, so she would not be too bad in her skills. Self-protection is not a problem. Wu Ming did not insist, and nodded as if he agreed.

When she was locked up in the palace, Duanmu Xiu felt that she should be put back soon, and her special identity was placed there, and it was not fun to offend the Huns and Zhang Chu at the same time. What made Duanmu Xiu depressed happened, and Xue Yiran wanted to bargain with her, but before she could negotiate, Xue Yiran's life was gone first. After Bai Qiwei occupied the palace, soldiers found Duanmu Xiu who was detained under house arrest in the backyard. After reporting Bai Qiwei, Bai Qiwei considered her special identity and did not think about what to do for the time being, so he continued to lock her up.

In just a few months, great changes have occurred in Duliang City. After Bai Qiwei's death, Duanmu Xiu fell into Su Yuncheng's hands again. Su Yuncheng was still busy dealing with the Bai brothers at first, and had no time to care about her, so he kept her locked up. When the ambush Bai Yunfan failed and Bai Qi attacked Yulong Guan again, Su Yuncheng felt that Duanmu Xiu was really a bargaining chip that was a rare product.

Su Yuncheng first went to Duanmu Xiu's place and suggested that he wanted to let her go back. Duanmu Xiu was naturally happy when he heard that Zhang Chu and Li Hao were a weak scholar with a cowardly personality. Duanmu Xiu, who was dissatisfied with this marriage, did not want to go to Zhang Chu, so he suggested that he wanted to go back to the Huns. Su Yuncheng needed foreign aid now, and the Huns were fighting with the Later Jin Dynasty, so he was not concerned about anything else. Zhang Chu's uprising had been tending to be suppressed recently, so Su Yuncheng used the excuse that the road to the Huns was blocked by Bai Qi and decided to send Duanmu Xiu to Zhang Chu.

Duanmu Xiu knew that Su Yuncheng's purpose of doing this was to give Li Hao a favor. Although she was very dissatisfied, she could not control all this.

Su Yuncheng is in a crisis at the moment, but his illegitimate son Baiyunshan only knows that he is addicted to women all day long, and takes women and alcohol to numb himself. Unfortunately, Baiyunshan is Su Yuncheng's only son, so Su Yuncheng can only fight his life to help Baiyunshan.

After contacting Zhang Chu a few days ago, Zhang Chu expressed his willingness to send troops to help, which really made Su Yuncheng happy, but Zhang Chu's soldiers only gathered on the border and had no intention of attacking for a long time. In desperation, Su Yuncheng selected a hundred capable guards and sent his trusted butler Su An to lead the team to escort Duanmu Xiu to Xijing, hoping that this would allow Zhang Chu to send troops as soon as possible.

Thinking that he had to face Li Hao in the end, Duanmu Xiu was somewhat depressed and could not be energetic all the way. The most annoying thing was that Su Yuncheng was afraid that she would run away, so he could block her meridians. Although he had the time to do it, Duanmu Xiu had no chance to escape.

Wu Ming led the killers to catch up with the convoy escorting Duanmuxiu as fast as possible. Su An, the leader, was just busy rushing to the road, and did not observe carefully. Seeing that a horse team was catching up with him, he just signaled everyone to be careful.

Of course, Wu Ming understood that if he only acted like this, the other party was highly alert, his casualties would definitely not be small, which would go against the killer's purpose, so Wu Ming made a gesture to signal everyone to continue moving forward quickly and surpass his opponent.

Seeing Wu Ming and the others moving forward quickly, Su An was relieved that he would arrive at Zhang Chu in a long time, and he would be safe by then.

After setting a distance with his opponent, Wu Ming continued to move forward with the killer. Seeing that there were woods on both sides of the road ahead, Wu Ming then tied the reins and raised his hands. The well-trained killers stopped together.

"Enter the woods and prepare for battle." The order is very simple. The killers who have worked together for many years immediately dispersed and found their own locations to hide. Wu Ming did not need to explain more.

Wu Ming looked at Xu Yuyan who had been following him and said, "Lord Xu, stay in the forest and watch the fun later, don't come out."

In a while, all the killers found a good position, holding a new type of continuous crossbow in their hands, waiting for the prey to arrive.

"I've heard it all, don't shoot the carriage." Wu Ming didn't know what important person was in the carriage, but if the people in the carriage were killed, the ambush would be unnecessary.

Soon Su An came with the convoy. The frightened birds flying in the forest on the roadside made Su An worry. Considering that his outing was absolutely confidential this time, Su An felt a little relieved. He looked at the farmer farming in the distance and mistakenly thought that someone was passing by the frightened birds in the forest.

After hesitating for a while, Su An still did not order the convoy to stop moving forward. After all, it is too far from Yulong Pass and Jiangzhou, and the danger does not seem to belong to this place.

The convoy of one hundred people completely entered the ambush. Wu Ming raised his hand with a sneer and then fell down favorably. "Bangbang!" Two times, a battle order was issued.

The dense whirring sound surrounded the convoy. Before Su An and his men could react, the thirty people in the front were already screaming and falling off their horses. Su An knew that things were not good, but nothing was left to him.

The sound of crossbows continued to sound in a dense manner, and ruthlessly shot one guard after another. When the sound of crossbows stopped, there were less than twenty guards who could still stand.

Before Su An could recover from his overly frightened life, dozens of cold-faced killers had already rushed out of the woods, holding bright guys in his hands and surrounding the remaining guards.
Chapter completed!