The rebels controlled by the Red Eyebrow Sect had about 1,000 elite scholars above the Piling Realm, and the Xiyuanjin, which retreated to the northern slope of Zuojin Valley, had only about 300 Piling Realm camps, which was a huge gap.

On the fifth day, the rebels gathered in the mountains north of Zuojin Valley covered the sky and closed the sun, which was as many as 400,000 to 500,000, and the absolute number was more than ten times that of the remnants of the Xiyuan Army.

However, the core advantage of the Xiyuan Army is that the grassroots generals and soldiers are extremely elite, far from being able to compare with the disabled and rebels who have not been trained.

The remaining Xiyuan Army had more than 40,000 generals and soldiers, and the seven or eight thousand people from the civil war were a little poor. However, the other generals and soldiers were selected by the Xiyuan Army from various prefectures and counties in the capital. The seventh commanded by Chen Hai was even the great enemy from all over the country. More than 40,000, and seven or eight thousand people had the foundation of martial arts in the Tongxuan Realm, and they could be called elite everywhere.

Although Yao Qitai and Tu Chongjin rebuilt troops and had not yet regained morale from the chaos, Chen Hai personally led the seventh capital to expand to 20,000 war soldiers, and had already taken the form of a tiger and wolf army. He stood firm in the camp, with Wei Yuqi, Tu Chongzheng and other strong men in charge, and did not fear the Heavenly Master Gong Liang dared to lead the Red Eyebrow Cultists and large rebels to attack.

However, the large number of rebels controlled by Chimei was on the one hand, and at the same time, they always gathered thousands of elite believers together. The speed of advancing and retreating was extremely fast. Chen Hai was unable to lead his troops out of the camp to fight. He could only do all means to strengthen the defense of the three camps that formed a horn.

For Chen Hai, sticking to the Taiwei Mansion to send reinforcements is a great victory.

Holding against the rebels and retaining the face of the Xiyuan Army was also the most core strategic intention that Chen Hai established at the earliest and led his troops north to Tongbei.

The Heavenly Master Gong Liang may not be willing to suffer too much casualties from the elite believers around him, but if the 400,000 rebel generals gathered here, he would never stand up in vain and could not let Chen Hai delay the reinforcements of the Taiwei Mansion arrive, and they were forced to retreat into the deep mountains and forests.

In addition to stepping up the capture of the city walls in Tongbei Prefecture, starting from the third day, the rebels' offensive against the three camps began one after another.

Forty-five hundred thousand rebels, about 700,000 to 80,000 people were wrapped in black scarves, with complete soldiers and armor, and even a large number of war horses, with combat power stronger than ordinary local military equipment. Although these black scarves were still not comparable to the tiger and wolf army led by Chen Hai, they could be said to be a rare elite among the refugee rebels.

These black scarf soldiers may only come mainly from the bandit camp deep in Qintong Mountain, and there are obvious signs of training, advance and retreat in an orderly manner, the cavalry, archers, shields, and infantry soldiers are relatively well organized, and the soldiers and armor are relatively well-deserved, and there are even a small number of chariots and weapons used to attack the camp and draw the village.

It can be seen that the Red Eyebrow Cultists had infiltrated and controlled the bandits deep in Qintong Mountains a few years ago.

This reminded Chen Hai of the scenes seen in Yulong Mountain and Chishan City. The three or five black-robed scholars of the Red Eyebrow Cultivator took tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of refugees to rebel. After a bloody battle with local military equipment, a large number of refugees were wiped out, but there were still a small number of elite troops who were transferred and withdrawn with the Black-robed scholars of the Red Eyebrow Cultivator.

Chen Hai suspected that the Black Turban soldiers gathered in Tongbei area at this time included some of the troops that had withdrawn from the south of Yulong Mountain.

When the rebels launched an attack on the three camps of the Xiyuan Army, Gong Liang, who was wearing bright yellow Taoist clothes, personally over a thousand elite members of the Red Eyebrow Cult, and used the black scarf soldiers as the central army to advance to the Xiyuan Army camp. However, the one who really pushed up and attacked the camp directly was a large number of refugee soldiers holding wooden shields and iron spears on both wings, and did not have a few pairs of armor.

Chen Hai naturally realized that the Heavenly Master Gong Liang still had to use the cruel attack and battalion war to train the refugee army. The refugee army wanted to grow up quickly, although the bloody war was cruel, it was the fastest and most effective.

Facing the cruel plot of the Heavenly Master Gong Liang, Chen Hai had no choice but to do anything.

There are many rebels of the Red Eyebrow Cult who are proficient in the art of using troops; this is not surprising. Ying Shu led his troops to fight against the Yunmeng Fan in the south and suffered a great loss from the Red Eyebrow Cult during the rebellion of the Yunmeng Fan.

After some sufficient defense and preparation, the elite Black Eyebrow Sect members, elite Black Wire Soldiers and refugee soldiers were extremely meticulous in the attack. Even if Chen Hai led his troops to attack, he would not get any advantage when facing the elite Black Wire Soldiers and elite Red Eyebrow Sect members inside.

After ten days of stalemate, Chen Hai could not catch the loopholes of the rebels and launched a fierce and ruthless counterattack, let alone defeating the elite Black Turban soldiers and the Red Eyebrow Cult, and could only let the war be delayed without any need.

In order to prevent the Tianshi Gong Liang from concentrating the elite Red Eyebrow Cultists to use magic and magical powers, Chen Hai was divided into three camps to defend, expand the scope of the camp as much as possible, so that there would be enough buffer area. Chen Hai also organized Cen Yunfei, Chen Qing and others, as well as some fleeing generals from Nangui, and formed an elite Xuan Cultivation team of hundreds of people to deal with the possible surprise attacks by the elite Red Eyebrow Cultivation at any time.

At this time, Chen Hai also played a crucial role in the incorporation of a large number of craftsmen in the logistics battalion.

When all resources are mobilized, the baggage battalion can transform more than a dozen three-bow crossbows with shooting ranges of thousands of steps every day. In view of the current simple conditions, it also creates more combat equipment such as side vans, iron beams, mobile walls, etc. that focus on defense, to be placed in the camp to prevent the elite Red Eyebrow Cult from attacking magic by the elite Red Eyebrow Cult.

The Heavenly Master Gong Liang, regardless of the lives of the refugees, urged thousands of refugees to attack the Xiyuan Army camps every day, and the bloody battles stopped for a day.

Even if the generals and soldiers of the Xiyuan Army have a much stronger physical cultivation than those of the refugees, the number of people is a major disadvantage after all. After the repeated battles of the refugee army, they will inevitably be exhausted. The number of elite soldiers of the Red Eyebrow Sect is also a great advantage. They are about to be in the back, and they can throw a large number of fallen rocks into the camp seven or eight miles apart, with a large number of flames and ice cones, tearing the earth, or creating a storm and storm to sweep the Xiyuan Army's camp.

Although Chen Hai and his friends had reserved a lot of talismans before leaving, the Red Eyebrow Cult can refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth as the true energy every day at the beginning of the sky and concentrate on using a round of magic and magical powers every day. The talismans on the Xiyuan Army consumed very quickly, and sometimes they were not prepared for it and became careless, and it was easy to cause mass casualties and injuries.

The Xiyuan Army soon accumulated considerable casualties.

The casualties of the refugees and rebels were even more tragic. Every day, thousands of people had to fall down, filling the trenches dug in front of the simple village walls, and filling the magical powers that tear open the cracks on the earth.

Blood flowed into a river, and the earth in the northern part of Zuojin Valley had turned red and black.

Because there were strong men like Gong Liang, the Tianshi, and the number of rebels was far greater than that of the Xiyuan Army, they quickly went around the mountains south of Zuojin Valley to establish a sentinel.

In this way, Chen Hai and the others were completely surrounded by the rebels, and they could not blockade through the Heavenly Master Gong Liang and the wine-level powerful people of the Red Eyebrow Cult to contact the outside world; the Qingpeng Bird and other spiritual birds could not fly out of the camp to reconnaise the enemy situation on the outside.

Subsequently, Tu Chongjin's troops and Yao Qitai's troops gradually got better after the initial chaos, especially those elite generals and soldiers saw that there was no other way out except to defend the camp. Even though casualties accumulated every day, the overall combat power was not greatly weakened.

It was always like an indestructible reef, standing in the north of Zuojin Valley, allowing the rebels to fight against the waves.

Cao Feng and others expected that the Taiwei Mansion would send reinforcements to the city in ten or half a month, but in fact they held on until the 56th day, and waited until the seventh day of the twelfth month of the 73rd year of Emperor Yitian, that the rebels left nearly 100,000 dead bodies and retreated to the mountains to the north.

Fan Chun sent people to cross Zuojin Valley, which was blocked by a cliff, and entered the camp. At this time, Chen Hai and the others realized that in addition to the 30,000 elite troops left by the Xiyuan Army, the Taiwei Mansion transferred 50,000 soldiers from the Jingzhao Prefecture Garrison to command the general Fan Chun and the military commander, and the Sanqi Changshi Wen Boyuan and the two of them led the support of Tongbei. At this time, they arrived at the Taoshui River south of Zuojin Valley.

At this time, there were only three days left to store grain in the camp.

Tu Chongjin and others did not understand why the reinforcements were delayed until today, and they were inevitably resentful. Only Chen Hai, Tu Ziji, and Zhao Rong knew what was going on.

If the Taiwei Mansion recruited the elite troops of the Hu Ben Army from the Qinglongyu Camp, it would undoubtedly be the quickest move. However, from now on, the Xiyuan Army will not be able to run side by side with the Hu Ben Army, and even independence will be difficult to maintain.

The Hu Ben Army may not be willing to come and wipe the Xiyuan Army. At this time, there was no civil unrest in Qintong Mountain west of the capital. As the Hu Ben Army, which had the strongest combat power and the most soldiers, had to be responsible for military suppression in the other three directions at the same time.

In the end, General Fan Chun of the Suwei and the attendant of the Sanqi cavalry, Wen Boyuan, led the remaining 30,000 troops left by the Xiyuan Army, and transferred 50,000 soldiers from the Jingzhao Prefecture Garrison to help Tongbei. This should be the final result that many officials in the court and the Taiwei Prefecture had repeatedly argued.

Chen Hai, Tu Zhongjin led his troops to finally defend the camp in the northern part of Zuojin Valley, and stalemate with hundreds of thousands of refugees for nearly two months. However, the refugee rebels did not have the opportunity to take advantage of it. He also left nearly 100,000 corpses of refugee rebels in the northern part of Zuojin Valley. This battle was naturally not a big defeat.

It was also the most critical bargaining chip for General Fan Chun of the Suwei, and Wen Boyuan, the attendant of the Sanqi cavalry, led the main force of the Xiyuan Army to help Tongbei, and continued to retain the Xiyuan Army instead of directly abolition.

By this time, at least the combat power of the Xiyuan Army had been proven, which shows that the training of the Xiyuan Army in the past year was effective; and as for the collapse of Leiyang Valley, the Xiyuan Army suffered more than 20,000 casualties and more than 100,000 local military equipment were killed or injured, which was the responsibility of Wei Yuqi as the main general to observe the enemy.

The army envoy from the Taiwei Mansion accompanied Fan Chun to Zuojin Valley, and the Fu Zhao abolished the position of chief general of the Wei Yuqi Xiyuan Army and Fan Chun took over.

The Wei returned to Yanjing immediately and was subject to the review of the Taiwei Mansion. In the later stage, the war to suppress the rebels in Qintongshan was also under the charge of the guard General Fan Chun and the guard Wen Boyuan.

Only then did Chen Hai realize that the official title of "Mr. Wen" was the permanent attendant of the Sanqi who was in charge of the affairs of the Ying Prince's Mansion.

The imperial palace and the princes' palaces both set up internal governments to manage money, grain and other affairs. They are usually held by the emperor group and the kings' close ministers or eunuchs, and are given the title of regular attendant of the cavalry.

The close ministers of the inner court such as the Sanqi Changshi are an official position with low rank but very important status. Sometimes they often represent the emperor and the kings in charge of military affairs. The children of the eight tribes of the capital and the eight tribes of the capital are in charge of the government affairs. The emperor uses the close ministers of the Sanqi Changshi to suppress the forces of the eight tribes of the capital. This is a tradition that has existed since the founding of the Dayan Kingdom.

This time, Wen Boyuan directly served as the military supervisor of the Xiyuan Army. Without thinking, it was the result of the series of operations behind the scenes by Ying Shu, which means that the Prince Ying Dan officially agreed that the "direct line" Ying Shu directly intervened in controlling the Xiyuan Army.
Chapter completed!