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Chapter 17 The Battle of Jinyang (2)

There were about 2,000 people dispatched to Xiang Xun, including three or four hundred cavalrymen with a complete armor and a good military appearance, which should be considered as the elite and core force of this army. There were also a long list of infantrymen following behind, marching in long columns on the road; the four were in a row, and the team seemed to be about 3,400 steps long, so Guo Shao estimated that he was bringing two thousand people.

This infantry army is incomparable to the infantry of the Si Xiaodi Army in front of Guo Shao and his former palace. Most of them are incomplete in armor, a few people don’t even have helmets, the soldiers’ figures are staggered, and all kinds of weapons are mixed. It seems that Xiang Xun Department really relies on the three or four hundred elite cavalry soldiers around him. I am afraid that only these cavalry can have stronger combat power.

Thinking of this, Guo Shao felt that more than 20 cavalry under his command were not optional for Xiang Xun's reinforcements, and could be regarded as a force. Because Guo Shao felt that the soldiers in the team were all strong, Yang Biao was even more powerful, but he hadn't made a comeback.

The army marched during the day and camped at night. On the morning of the third day, it suddenly stopped during the march.

I saw a village next to the main road, a very ordinary village. Most of the disorderly houses were dilapidated. There were several big trees between the houses as usual, and there were not many strange places.

Guo Shao soon discovered something unusual. A group of soldiers were coming out of the village entrance, not only soldiers, but also several double-wheeled carts led by mules and horses. There were actually a few young women tied behind the cart, and their hands were tied to the frame with ropes, and they walked along with the mule cart crying.

Those soldiers were soldiers of the Zhou army. They were not yet Xinzhou, and they were all in the control area, with only the Zhou Dynasty's troops.

In Xiang Xun's horse army, two cavalrymen boarded the horses and left the main road to surround the left and right, and soon surrounded the riots who had just come out of the village. At this time, Xiang Xun personally brought his entourage, and Guo Shao and others were behind him. Seeing this, he led the horse slowly to see what happened.

Xiang Xun saw that the soldiers were pulling a car full of things, and there were women behind him, so he knew what was going on without asking. These soldiers not only robbed money, but also robbed people's wives and daughters.

"Mom!" Xiang Xun cursed, "Take it all!"

The riots were surrounded by elite cavalry, and they did not dare to resist when they saw this situation. They all stood there dejectedly.

At this time, a general around Xiang Xun spoke, "This place is close to Xinzhou. In addition to our troops, there are the soldiers of King Wei (Fu Yanqing), Guo Congyi, Bai Chongzan, and Shi Yanchao. The soldiers must be theirs. The lord is inconvenient to kill and punish him, so he can tie him to the army and hand him over to their chief general for disposal; all the wealth and goods will be sent back to the village."

After hearing this, Xiang Xun was angry and was about to give orders, he suddenly heard a sound of horse hooves coming from the north, and everyone followed the sound and watched.

After a while, a team of horse soldiers rode on horseback. At present, one person is very tall and may be half a head taller than Guo Shao. His torso is thick, and he looks like he is "large number one" than the ordinary people behind him. Even the war horses under him are made smaller... I think it would be much harder to be ridden by the horses. When he approached, he saw his thick eyebrows, big eyes, his face was as sharp as a knife, and his body was full of powerful and murderous aura. Just looking at his appearance, he was not like an ordinary person.

Guo Shao has been at the bottom of the imperial guards for a long time and does not know who this person is at all.

However, it seemed that Xiang Xun knew it, so Ce immediately stepped forward and bowed and said, "I never thought I would meet Shi Fengshou here."

The big man looked at him with a slanted attitude and was very arrogant, but he also replied with a tribute and said simply: "General Xiang."

Xiang Xun immediately said, "Brother Shi should know that the army's discipline after our army attacked Hedong was lax and sometimes plundered, so that the officials and people in Hedong were strong and defended themselves, making it more and more difficult for our army to replenish supplies. The officials and soldiers were not allowed to plunder the people again. Look at these people, not only rob the things, but also rob people... They should not be soldiers under Brother Shi, right?"

"Hmph!" Unexpectedly, the big man responded to Xiang Xun like this. Xiang Xun was a general after all, but the thick and strong man looked like he was not a little bitch.

Guo Shaoxun, who was standing by, thought that a general mentioned Fu Yanqing, Guo Congyi, Bai Chongzan, and Shi Yanchao. Only Shi Yanchao's surname is Shi. Could it be that he is Shi Yanchao?

Even though Guo Shao was only a low-level general for a long time, he was still a member of the army. He had never heard of Shi Yanchao's name and was embarrassed to call himself a martial artist? This Shi Yanchao was recognized as the number one powerful general in the Zhou Dynasty's military, and his reputation was Zhang Yuanhui of the Northern Han Dynasty. I don't know which of the two most powerful generals in the country had higher force... In the end, no one of them had single-handedly challenged each other, and Zhang Yuanhui was shot to death by an arrow by an unknown soldier Guo Shao.

Shi Yanchao snorted, then jumped off his horse and walked straight to the front of the rioters. The dozen people who had just been tied down their heads, not even daring to look at him.

Shi Yanchao didn't say a word, and everyone didn't move, standing there to see what he was going to do.

He then looked at the girls tied behind a mule cart. The girls all looked fearful, but one of them looked at him quietly. Shi Yanchao suddenly pulled out a long sword from his waist, lifted the sword and walked up; although the girls took a few steps back timidly, they were not too panicked... Maybe this general was here to cut the rope for them, and weren't the generals here just now talking about not being allowed to rob the people?

"Puff" and then screamed, and the little girl screamed. Shi Yanchao actually walked up and stabbed a person to death without saying a word.

"This..." Someone around Xiang Xun stepped forward, Xiang Xun stretched out his arm and made a stop gesture.

Then Xiang Xun ignored the women's begging and crying, and killed them in a moment, and there was a pool of blood on the ground.

At this time, with a "thump", one of the rioters fell to the ground first, begging for mercy: "General Xiang, we know we are wrong!"

Shi Yanchao's chest was covered in blood. He walked back with a sword dripping with blood. He went up and waved his sword and slashed down. The kneeling soldier screamed and fell to the ground. Shi Yanchao spitted, "Dog | Mother raised, a lustful cartilage!"

After killing one person, he walked to the second person again. The guy stared with his eyes wide open and his face was pale, and his hands were tied up on his back. Shi Yanchao grabbed his hair, chopped a sword across his neck, and burst out blood. The man fell down sideways, not dead yet, and his limbs twitched one after another like epilepsy.

Some of the people who were finally kidnapped in anger: "You bloodthirsty and cruel man! Shi Yanchao, you must die a good death!"

The soldiers present watched him kill more than a dozen people one by one. No one moved, and no one dissuaded them.

Shi Yanchao threw the blood sword on the ground, and the follower hurriedly picked it up and wiped it. At this time, he walked to the horse, took the reins, turned around and sneered, "General Xiang, are you satisfied with my handling?"

Xiang Xun replied speechlessly, clasped his fists and said, "There will be a time later. We will meet in Xinzhou."

When Shi Yanchao and his team left, Xiang Xuncai said, "Buried the body."

The army stayed next to this unknown village for a while, looking at the height of the sun, it was almost noon. Xiang Xun ordered to continue his journey, as if it was close to Xinzhou, and when he walked to the place, he was just about to have lunch.

As expected, at noon, I happened to see a city ahead. Walking north from Jinyang, the first city I saw was Xinzhou.

The city gate of Xinzhou was closed, and there were troops on the city to help with defense. Xiang Xun's army sent people to the city to negotiate and hang them up to the certificate. Then the city gate was opened, and the infantry and cavalry drove into Xinzhou one after another.

The city is important, but the city is not large, and the scene inside is still a bit bleak. However, there seem to be many troops stationed in the city now, and there are constantly queues of infantry and cavalry mobilization on the Central Cross Avenue, and a large number of troops were stationed in the city gate that had just entered.

Guo Shao was curious about how many troops had been transferred to Xinzhou, but he was not easy to ask Xiang Xun. The lower-level generals were used to doing it, and he knew that these military situations did not require him to understand or inquire about them.

But at this moment, the general who was the first to talk to Guo Shao in Jinyang to question "Why are there so many war horses in infantry?" asked about this. He asked, "How many people have come to Xinzhou?"

Xiang Xun said: "Now King Wei controls more than 10,000 generals, and Sang Gui, a surrendered general in the Northern Han Dynasty, had thousands of troops, and maybe 20,000 people in total."

The general said, "So many troops are asking us to reinforce us? Didn't there be any inquiry that the Liao army had only a few thousand cavalry?"

"Don't worry about him, ask the soldiers to rest on the spot. I will go to the headquarters of the Central Army to meet the King of Guards first." Xiang Xun said.

The crowd could only rest on a small open space inside the city gate. The place was too small to repair the stove and cook the pots. Everyone sat on the ground, eating dry food and drinking cold water to fill their hunger. Some people looked for wells everywhere, and some were busy feeding horses with bean cakes and salt. Guo Shao and others were from infantry, but after staying in the army for a long time, they were more familiar with war horses. Luo Mengzi was carefully checking the horse's socks.
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