Mai Tiezhang led a thousand subordinates to help. The sudden appearance of the thousand-man Huainan infantry also surprised the Guanzhong cavalry who was immersed in the killing.∈◆They rushed along the way and rushed here with lightning speed. They caught the guards of Xiangcheng off guard. However, they were now caught off guard by the sudden appearance of the Huainan army.

Looking into the city, the county magistrate reached out to touch the quiver, but took a break.

Although I tried my best to save on arrows, I still used up all arrows.

"Mingfu, reinforcements, reinforcements have arrived!"

The county lieutenant wearing iron armor ran over excitedly. After a long battle, the brave county lieutenant was injured in many places. The white cloth wrapped in the wound on his left arm had already turned dark red. There was even a scratch on his face, but at this time his face was full of excitement, "The reinforcements are here, it is our reinforcements."

County magistrate Liu Hongji looked along his hand and saw a flag flying at the intersection of the street in the distance, and then a brigade of Huainan infantry came to form a formation with shields and guns.

"Damn, reinforcements are coming." Liu Hongji breathed a sigh of relief. He was almost ready to order surrender.

"It's really auspicious people who have the heavenly signs. If they survive today's disaster, they will have good fortune." The county magistrate laughed.

The Guanzhong cavalry in the city had already discovered that Huainan troops had arrived at this time. They gave up and continued to clear out the rebels in the city, turned around and began to gather, preparing to turn back and defeat the newly arrived reinforcements.

Liu Hongji raised his sword and roared, "Those who are not dead have a squeak, all the fuck come out and fight against the rebels!"

The number of cavalry in Guanzhong was not large, and there were even fewer defenders in the city. Guanzhong cavalry invaded the city by surprise. However, with the insistence of county magistrate Liu Hongji and county magistrate, they still defended for so long. At this time, the reinforcements arrived. Liu Hongji and others breathed a sigh of relief. The suffocation he had just been chased everywhere. Now they could finally exclaim. Liu Hongji had already seen clearly that all the infantry were coming, but at this time the cavalry in Guanzhong were all in the neighborhoods in the city. The neighborhoods in the city were not a good place for cavalry to fight. Now they were blocked by reinforcements, and it was when they took advantage of this momentum to defeat the rebel cavalry. He did not hesitate, and he picked up his sword and rushed down. The county magistrate behind him also rushed up with the rest of the people.

"Kill!" Mai Tiebang had already dismounted, standing in front with a big knife in his hand, and advanced step by step. Several horsemen came running. Mai Tiebang was not afraid of it. He raised the big knife in his hand high, exerted force, and slashed forward. He raised his hand and fell, and the knight who rushed in front had not yet stabbed the spear, but the head of the war horse was slashed by Mai Tiebang, losing its head, and the war horse suddenly fell to the ground. Under the huge inertia, he slid forward, and the knight was caught off guard and had been pierced by several spears.

Liu Hongji and his subordinates also rushed straight to the back of the Guanzhong cavalry. A battle in the streets began, and there were extremely fierce fighting, and people fell down constantly. More people filled the vacant seats.

"Shoot the arrow!" Qian Shixiong shouted.

Behind the spearmen and shield soldiers were three rows of crossbowmen. At this time, the two armies were in close combat. The spearmen blocked the cavalry, and the crossbowmen behind had a chance to show their skills. If the battlefield outside the city was hedging, the archers had no chance to shoot three shots at the battle, but now, these Guanzhong cavalry were trapped in this narrow city street and had no advantage of cavalry at all. The archers were behind and could shoot as much as they wanted.

Mai Tiebob held a big knife in his hand and led his staircase to move forward continuously. Under their feet were one rebel corpses after another.

The sunset shone on the tip of the Huainan Army's spear, with blood splashing. In front of the two armies, desperate roars everywhere.

Dengzhou, Neixiang County.

The county town had long been broken. Yang Xiu's army went out of Wuguan. Not only did he surrender the civilian craftsmen, but there were also 180,000 Han infantry, 70,000 cavalry, and 110,000 infantry. Yang Xiu almost brought all the soldiers in the capital. Except for Tongguan, Pujinguan, and Xiaoguan, the troops stationed in the country were not moved, Yang Xiu mobilized all the other soldiers who could move and went out of the city. After leaving Wuguan, he entered Dengzhou and the first city he encountered, the Xiangcheng in the village refused to surrender. Yang Xiu directly ordered a siege on all sides, Xiao Xiao

The soldiers in Neixiang County were less than a thousand, so how could they resist such a fierce attack? In less than an hour, Neicheng and rural areas were completely fell. In response to the resistance of Neicheng and rural areas, Yang Xiu's reply was to kill all the officials and guards in the city, not leaving any of them, only saving their lives to ordinary people. However, the crime of death can be avoided, but the crime of living cannot be spared. Regardless of the official warehouse or private house in the city, all the gold, silver, money and even food were plundered, and then the people were driven to the military camp to transport grain and equipment for the army.

"Is there no news from the vanguard army yet?" Yang Xiu asked the guards in golden armor.

"Back to Your Majesty, it's not yet."

"It's all a group of waste, 30,000 vanguard cavalry, and they asked them to raid Nanyang, but there is no result yet."

Yuan Heng, Minister of War, said on the side, "Your Majesty, please be more patient. I believe that the vanguard army is sweeping across Dengzhou, Nanyang, Xiangcheng, and Luyang Pass Zhucheng Pass must have been captured, and the envoy to report the victory will arrive soon."

"Nanyang has only only 5,000 guards, and the leader is only Guo Yan's son. If their 30,000 cavalry can't even defeat the little bastard of the Guo family, then they are so eager to come to see me." Yang Xiu snorted coldly, "Clean the battlefield quickly and send some troops to stay. Most of them set off immediately. Let's go to Nanyang first."

"Don't you go to Xiangyang directly?" Yuan Heng asked.

"Although Xiangyang is important, there is no hurry for the time being. Take Nanyang first and then seize Luyang Pass. Let's clear the periphery of Xiangyang and block Yang Lin's way south. Then we will attack Xiangyang calmly. Even if Yang Lin comes by detour, Xiangyang Nanyang is in our hands, and Yang Lin will be too late. At that time, we will fight Yang Lin with the strong city and important towns of Xiangyang and destroy him in one fell swoop."

Yang Xiu held the Dingjian and thought to himself that Yang Lin would definitely not have expected that he would launch a large-scale army this time, not only to launch all the troops from Guanzhong to fight for Jingxiang, but also to leave Wuguan so quickly. Now Yang Lin might have just left Luoyang and was slowly walking on the road. When Yang Lin arrived in front of Luyang Pass, he suddenly found that the Guanzhong flag was already there. I guess Yang Lin would be shocked at that time. Well, when he knew that he had taken Nanyang and captured Dengzhou, he would be even more surprised.

The guards brought Yang Xiu's war horse, and Yang Xiu stepped on the guard's back and was full of energy. It is still unknown who will die.

"Report!"

"Report to Your Majesty, report urgently in front of you."

"speak."

"When our vanguard army attacked Luyang Pass, Luoyang rebel cavalry arrived and suddenly rushed out. Its force was fierce. Our army was defeated and thousands of cavalry were all destroyed. In addition, the 800 vanguard cavalry attacked Xiangcheng. Originally, they had already captured Xiangcheng, but one thousand infantry reinforcements arrived in Nanyang. At present, all 800 cavalry were missing!"

Yang Xiu gritted his teeth, held the hilt of the sword tightly in his hand, let out a long and deep breath, and spit out a few words from his teeth, "Where is Nanyang City, have you taken it?"

"Report to Your Majesty, the Nanyang defenders have been strictly guarded and failed to deceive the city gate. They have surrounded Nanyang City and launched a siege. There is no result yet."

"Bad, get out!" Yang Xiu shouted angrily, and the guard who reported the report rolled and crawled away.

Yuan Heng looked at Yang Xiu carefully and asked, "Your Majesty, are we going to continue to move towards Nanyang City now?"

"No, change the route, divide the troops into two groups. I will immediately dispatch 50,000 troops to capture Luyang Pass. I will lead the remaining 100,000 troops to surround Nanyang City. Yuanheng, you will personally lead the 50,000 troops. No matter what, you must seize Luyang Pass for me, do you understand?"

Yuan Heng swallowed and did not want to accept this task, but judging from the emperor's gloomy face, he did not dare to refuse, and in the end he had to bite the bullet and receive the order.

Ruzhou, Jiacheng.

After Yi Feng got up, he first fisted as usual, then danced his sword and pulled the bow and shot the target. Finally, he led his mount and walked the horse around. When he came back, he was sweating profusely and no longer had to prepare hot water to take a shower. He jumped into the Ru water and swam happily before returning to the camp.

Just after returning to the camp, I heard hurried footsteps coming. There were guards outside who reported, "Shi Shi Li asked for a meeting."

"Come in."

Li Mi came in with a smile on her face. Yi Feng immediately knew that there must be good news.

"What good news is that you can't wait to come and tell me."

"It is indeed good news. Qin Qiong and Lai Chiu arrived at Luyang Pass in time yesterday. The next battle of the pass will annihilate 5,000 prisoners of Guanzhong rebels. Luyang Pass has been stabilized. In addition, the rebels besieged Xiangcheng and the two cities of Nanyang. Xiangcheng was cheated of the city gate and almost lost. Liu Hongji, the county magistrate, organized the soldiers and civilians in the city to defend to the death. At the critical moment, Nanyang sent a thousand Huainan troops north to Luyang Pass to assist in defending, and promptly reinforced them, and finally wiped out the 800 rebels. Yesterday, 20,000 rebels besieged Nanyang, and the soldiers of the Nanyang defenders were united and did not give the rebels any opportunity to take advantage of."

After hearing that Luyang Pass was in control, Yi Feng breathed a sigh of relief, "It was indeed great news. The first battle of the army was a great victory. Since Luyang Pass has been stable and has not lost the city, we have to step up our south now, so don't let Nanyang fall."

"There is another news. After Yang Xiu learned that he had failed to attack Luyang Pass, he was furious and sent Yuan Heng to lead 50,000 troops north to seize the pass again. He himself led 100,000 Han soldiers to surround Nanyang City."
Chapter completed!