In early April, the Zhou army launched an offensive just half a month ago. The Xiongwu Jiedushi of Qinzhou fled to Chengdu, and the Weiwu Jiedushi of Fengzhou was surrounded and killed in Weiwu City. No one in Qin and Feng could mobilize troops anymore. The Guzhen garrison believed that the wall of Jiedushi was too low, and Fengzhou to the east was surrounded again, so he rushed west to Chengzhou. Guo Shao's troops occupied Guzhen without bloodshed.

In the northwest Qinzhou (near Tianshui City, known as Shangqian in ancient times), after the Xiongwujie commander Han Jixun fled, he transferred the observer Zhao Qi to Qinzhou and ordered him to defend the city.

Zhao Qi felt helpless. As soon as he took over the city defense, many defeated soldiers came from the Qinling Mountains and Wei River. Whatever the situation was wrong. He ordered his generals to capture the riots and inquire about it, and then he found out that the Zhou army was entering Qinzhou from the north and south routes.

At this moment, the Shu army seized a secret master. The secret master called himself an envoy of the Zhou army and took him to Zhao Qi.

The envoy tore open his clothes, took out a letter, handed it over without being humble and arrogant, and said with his head raised, "I am General Xiang Xun, the general of the Western Expedition Army of Great Zhou..." He looked back at the surroundings and continued, "Mubin Zhang Qi, the commander of the Western Expedition Army, is now driving straight into the front of the Western Expedition Army, and has captured more than 10,000 yuan, and has occupied Guzhen; the Fengzhou towns are unable to fight again, and are trapped in a heavy siege, Qin Fengcheng is in the middle of the old man. Qinzhou is lonely and hangs outside the pass!

Fengxiang Army and Zhen'an Army have advanced to Qinzhou in two directions. Why not judge the situation and surrender to Qinzhou? First, to avoid the trouble of Qinzhou, and second, to promise Jieshuai that he would treat the soldiers of Qinzhou well first, and then ask for merit from the court, and recommend the chief general of Qinzhou to become an official in the Great Zhou..."

Zhao Qi pretended to be angry and said coldly before the envoy finished speaking: "It turned out that he was persuaded to surrender. Come and take it down for me!"

The messenger raised his head and said, "Faith words are unpleasant. If you can't listen and insist on doing it alone, please let me take a pot of water."

After Zhao Qi retreated to the hall, his cousin hurriedly followed and said hurriedly: "Qinzhou has become an isolated city, and the Zhou army is approaching. What the envoy said is consistent with the description of the defeated soldiers. The messenger of Chengzhou also confirmed that Guzhen was occupied... Why not take the opportunity to surrender? If the situation was not critical, how could Han Jixun run away overnight?"

"Follow me." Zhao Qi led his cousin to the signing room and said in a deep voice, "Although the generals of Qinzhou are panic and have no desire to fight, I am not familiar with them. If they say they want to surrender in public, what if any general rushed up and chopped us up with an order, what would you do?"

The cousin hurriedly said, "Brother means..."

"Chengzhou, the governor of Jiezhou is a good friend. You can secretly leave Qinzhou, run to Chengzhou at night, Jie, and ask them to surrender together with my handwritten letter. At that time, the contribution will be even greater." Zhao Qi pondered for a moment and said, "Qinzhou asked me to do it. In a while, I will quietly let the envoy go away and send someone to escort them out, and ask the coach Xiang Jie to come. When the Zhou army arrives, I will adjust my confidant to guard the east gate, open the city gate and let the Zhou army enter the city. The major matters can be settled!"

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A few days later, Weiwu City was captured by Wang Jing's troops, and Wang Huan, the governor of the Shu Army, died in battle. In mid-April, Qin, Cheng and Jiezhou opened the city and surrendered.

The lonely city of Fengzhou was surrounded by several armies and became an lonely city. Wang Jing ordered a three-sided siege and siege to attack wildly day and night.

Guo Shao personally rushed to Fengzhou, and on the excuse of strengthening his defense, he hurriedly withdrew the First Army at the left of Hujie. The troops moved west one after another. Guo Shao couldn't help but look back at Fengzhou City, and a familiar scene was right in front of him. This scene was so similar to what Jinyang saw!

Fengzhou is backing the mountain, and the city walls on three sides are full of people. From a distance, it makes people's scalp numb. The Zhou army went up to the imperial guards and down to the local towns. It seemed that there was no second trick to attack the city, but only one way to do it: climb the wall without brainstorming.

In this situation, the whole city seemed to be a cake thrown on the side of the road, crawling with a group of ants, and black figures kept falling on it. The smoke and dust rolled around it, and people's shouts could be heard clearly from two miles away.

There seemed to be a burnt smell of fever and burnt hair floating in the wind, and there was also a disgusting fishy smell. Guo Shao stopped stopping and led his army to Guzhen.

In the evening of that day, the scout reported that people from Tokyo had arrived. Guo Shao hurriedly left the military camp and waited outside the town. After waiting for a while, he saw a civil servant wearing black veil and a round-necked and green robe coming on a horse. There were several followers and more than ten cavalrymen behind him.

Guo Shao had never been a civil servant, so he wore the governor's uniform once, but he also roughly understood the Zhou Dynasty's official clothing, and the civil servants who came from were not of high rank. He was very young, with a straight face, and sat on the horse with a steady face, and looked pale and thin. I wonder if it was because of the hard work of the journey.

Guo Shao stood still without moving when he saw the generals at the camp gate surrounded by a military general, and bowed and asked, "I am the left-handed captain, I want to meet the vanguard of the Western Expedition, Guo Du Envoy. First in Fengxiang, Fengxiang's colleagues told Guo Du Envoy to be in Guzhen."

"I am Guo Shao, I've been waiting for a long time." Guo Shao took the lead and smiled, "It turns out that he is a colleague from Tokyo. Please invite Doctor Lu to the headquarters of the Central Army."

Lu Duosun hurriedly said, "Congratulations, Guo Du has promoted Gao!"

After hearing this, the generals burst into laughter and were very excited. Yang Biao, who was present, completely ignored etiquette and grabbed Lu Duosun's sleeve and asked, "If you don't speak, what position will my elder brother be promoted?"

Lu Duoxun was stunned and couldn't shake off his sleeves, so he had to say, "Prime Minister Wang personally asked the lower officials to come and send the appointment letter. When he left the capital, the court did not know that Qin, Cheng and the three states had been recovered. This time, the Privy Council commended the recitation only on Guo Du's envoy's merits in Huanghuagu, Huanghuagu, who won the Shu army's merits. The lower officials had already informed the commander of the Western Expedition Wang Jieshuai..."

"Fuck! Why do you talk so much nonsense?" Yang Biao cursed. Everyone was smiling and didn't care.

Lu Duosun was scolded and forgot where he said just now, so he had to say: "The commander of the left-wing chief of Hujie was also the commander of Shangzhou regiment, and served as the supervisor of the Western Expedition Army."

"It's over!" Yang Biao cursed and quarreled again. Everyone didn't say anything for a while. They were probably thinking about how big the commander of the wings was... The four elite soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty's imperial guards were, the Hujie Army was one of them; the Hujie Army was divided into two left and right sides, which means that Guo Shao's military power was theoretically one-eighth of the main force of the Zhou Dynasty's imperial guards, and of course they would be subject to many restrictions.

Guo Shao laughed and said, "Doctor Lu, don't have the same knowledge as the martial artists. The brothers are all rough people."

"No, no." Lu Duoxun followed Guo Shao into the military camp, and mentioned casually, "I hope General Guo will say a few good words in front of Prime Minister Wang." He just saw that everyone was happy and took the opportunity to say something casually, and the generals might not care about such a sentence.

Unexpectedly, after Guo Shao entered the headquarters, he specifically said what he said: "I know Prime Minister Wang of the Minister of Rites. His second son once ran to the imperial guards' camp to join the army. I sent it back and then met him. If we could meet again next time, I would definitely talk about the fact that Doctor Lu traveled thousands of miles and went to the front line to express his condolences to the soldiers."

A civil servant who is a civil servant who checks for omissions and makes suggestions by the emperor. Guo Shao thought that he would not have money to say good things anyway, so he was quite polite in his words.

After all, Lu Duosun was young. Seeing his behavior as if he had just become an official, he heard a general treating him with such courtesy and immediately said sincerely: "It's not to be hiding that the lower-ranking official is from a humble background. He had just passed the Jinshi and was originally a secretary. He wrote a poem to Prime Minister Wang, and then he became a left-handed master. He was able to get the Prime Minister Wang to send official documents and reward the soldiers in front of him on behalf of the court. He was really honored and did not have any hard work."

"If you win the Jinshi, you will be one out of thousands." Guo Shao said casually, thinking that although he was close to a high-level general, he seemed unable to accept Jinshi as an aide.

Lu Duosun said that the letter of appointment had been handed over to Wang Jing, the chief general of the Western Expedition Army. Guo Shao had to talk with his generals. Lu Duosun was a civil servant who had read a lot of books and had nothing to say with the military generals. Apart from Guo Shao talking to him, only Li Chuyun could say a few words from time to time.

After a while, the subordinates brought supper. A large basket of wheat cakes and two wooden barrels of vegetable leaf soup were thrown into it.

Unexpectedly, Lu Duoxun didn't pick on it at all. He ate three big cakes in a row, drank two iron cakes of vegetable soup, and chewed it with relish, throwing away all his elegant behavior before. He suddenly found that Guo Shao looked at him with a smile and hurriedly said, "My family is a family of scholars for generations, but it is a family of cold scholars. If the way of heaven is not good, it is often eaten with braised vegetables. This wheat cake is made of fine grain and it tastes quite delicious."

After hearing this, the generals looked a little gentler when they saw Lu Duosun’s eyes.

Guo Shao said: "The soldiers rushed forward and fought bloody battles. The generals cannot eat better than the soldiers. The food is the same. If you really don't prepare any dishes, Dr. Lu will be used to eating it."
Chapter completed!