:.       Zhang Zhinian was about 30 years old and had a burly figure. He weighed 70 pounds and had a strong martial arts skills. He was the confidant general of Wang Xuanying, the prince of Zheng State. He was not only good at fighting, but also had some brains. So Wang Xuanying kept him guarding Hulao Pass...zhaosfok.

However, with more minds, his mind became alive. Zhang Zhi realized that Wang Shichong was already late and he had to find a future for himself. So under the traction of Li Xiaoji, he secretly surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.

At this time, Zhang Zhi was a little surprised. If Wei Lu sent someone to deliver food, he should have written a letter in advance. He immediately ordered: "Let all brothers be alert!"

He ordered a soldier to go out of the city to investigate. A crack was opened in the city gate, and a soldier rode out on a horse and ran towards the grain transport team two miles away.

After a moment, Wang Xiong followed the soldiers to the city. Wang Xiong bowed and smiled and said, "General Zhang, it's time for this county to go to Luoyang to deliver food."

The soldier also whispered loudly: "General, it is indeed food, about 2,000 stones, all the farmers in Xingyang County drove the car, and there were more than a hundred pigs and sheep."

"Pigs and sheep are rewarding the brothers in Hulao Pass. General Zhang, can you open the city?"

Zhang Zhi knew Wang Xiong and heard from the soldiers that he had no doubts, but he still asked: "Why didn't the magistrate Wang send a letter in advance?"

Wang Xiong laughed, "Do you have to send a letter first when dealing with neighbors?"

This is true. Hulao Pass and Xingyang County are only 30 miles apart. There is indeed no need to send any more letters. Zhang Zhi nodded and turned around and ordered: "Keep the city!"

The city gate slowly opened, and Luo Shixin was overjoyed. Although Guancheng County failed to succeed, Hulao Pass was successful. This strategy was almost perfect. The only loophole was whether the prefect Wei Lu would send someone to inform Hulao Pass. For this reason, he arranged for soldiers to intercept the necessary road, but he did not gain any results.

Luo Shixin always had a concern in his heart, but now it seems that God is favoring him, and Guancheng County did not send anyone to report to Hulao Pass. It is very likely that Wei Lu regarded them as Li Mi's army.

Luo Shixin led the 300 "military soldiers" to escort the grain trucks slowly forward. Each of them wore armor inside and had a black soap suit of the yamen runners outside. Although the heat was abnormal, the soldiers survived, and even the old farmers who transported the grain did not realize that they were the Sui army.

When the team reached the city gate, Luo Shixin glanced at these honest and kind old farmers who delivered grain, and immediately ordered: "The grain truck will slow down. The cavalry will enter the city first!"

The grain trucks stopped one after another. Luo Shixin led 300 cavalrymen to jump onto the suspension bridge and ran into the city, and above the city. Zhang Zhi was always watching them, and he did not take these 300 guards at first. He knew that these were county soldiers.

But Zhang Zhi soon discovered something strange. The war horses of these 300 county soldiers were particularly strong, obviously Turkic horses outside the border. As county soldiers, even if they had war horses, they should be inferior horses in the Central Plains, and they would never have such excellent war horses.

All the soldiers of these three hundred counties have agile bodies and skillful horsemanship. Generally, soldiers in the Central Plains have no such riding skills or physique. This made Zhang Zhi suddenly feel suspicious.

At this time, his eyes were on Luo Shixin again. This should be the other captain. He remembered that the captain of the county soldiers of Xingyang County was Wang Xiaode, the nephew of Wang Xiong, who was much shorter than this general and not as tall and burly.

Moreover, this person's weapon turned out to be a big iron spear. Zhang Zhi estimated that this big iron spear was at least about 120 kilograms, which shocked him. Who is this person?

A cold sweat oozed out of Zhang Zhi's forehead. He began to realize something was wrong and immediately rushed to the inner wall to shout: "Stop the county soldiers. Don't allow them to enter the pass!"

There were hundreds of soldiers standing in the city gate, each holding a spear. Just as Zhang Zhi ordered, three hundred Sui cavalry rushed into the pass. The situation suddenly changed. Hundreds of soldiers rushed up with spears in their hands, and countless spears poked at Luo Shixin, who was leading the way.

Seeing that it had been discovered, Luo Shixin shouted loudly and blocked dozens of spears. Then he shook out the spears, and the spears flew like divine lightning. In an instant, four or five people were slashed by his spears. Seeing that they were extremely brave, the defenders were so scared that they shouted, turned around and ran away.

Luo Shixin turned his horse's head and rushed towards the corridor of the city. Dozens of arrows roared towards him. He waved his iron spear and called Diao Ling, and rushed into the corridor with a horse.

He shouted loudly, a guard general could not dodge and was stabbed through the chest with one shot. The body flew out. Then the iron spear shook and stabbed hard. The tip of the spear actually pierced the chest of three soldiers. The three of them burst into screams of bitterness at the same time.

Among the ten powerful generals in the world, Luo Shixin ranked fourth. Since Yuwen Chengdu was dead, he was actually third. Not only was he very skilled in shooting skills, but he was also extremely powerful. In addition to being defeated by his senior brother Yang Yuanqing, he was invincible and won every battle.

The corridor of the upper city was filled with more than a hundred soldiers, everyone holding spears in their hands, staring at the enemy generals rushing up in horror. The enemy general's courage scared them to death, and they were trembling with waves.

Luo Shixin was like a tiger entering a pack of wolves, and became more and more brave as he fought. He was buried under his iron spear, and more than forty people had died under his gun.

At this time, Luo Shixin was less than two feet away from the city. A burly enemy captain quietly touched his head, holding a short spear in his hand. When he was still one foot above Luo Shixin's head, he suddenly stabbed the short spear out...

The short spear was like a poisonous snake, flying towards Luo Shixin's back neck. It was about to stab, at this moment, Luo Shixin turned around, the short spear passed by, and his big iron spear stabbed towards the enemy who was attacking him like lightning.

‘Puff!’ The big iron spear pierced the enemy general’s armor, pierced through the chest, and the spear tip came out from the back. The enemy general screamed in pain. Luo Shixin’s arm was strong and he picked up nearly 200 pounds of enemy general in the air. The spear tip swung, and the body smashed dozens of soldiers in front. More than a dozen soldiers were smashed over. This scene finally caused the remaining sixty enemy soldiers in the corridor to collapse.

They shouted, turned around and ran away. The corridor suddenly ran away cleanly. Luo Shixin rushed to the city and met Zhang Zhi, the leader who was riding a horse.

"Don't be rampant in the enemy generals, take my sword!"

Zhang Zhi waved the three-pointed two-edged sword and slashed Luo Shixin's head and neck. The blade came fiercely. Luo Shixin was already very aggressive at this time, and he also shouted: "Good come!"

The body retreated back and avoided the knife. The spear was thrust, and the shouting was like thunder. The spear was like thunder. It pierced the body of the war horse. The spear tip was raised, and the war horse was neighing and flipped sideways. The huge running inertia caused Zhang Zhi and his horse to roll down the top of the city. With a long scream, Zhang Zhi fell to death at Hulao Pass.

He poked the iron spear heavily on the ground and shouted loudly at the hundreds of enemy troops on the top of the city: "I am the Sui general Luo Shixin. If you don't surrender yet, when will you wait?"

The soldiers on the city wall were already shocked by his brave killing like a god. He also heard that he was Luo Shixin, the bravest general in the world. Hundreds of soldiers were frightened and put down their weapons and kneeled down to surrender. "We are willing to surrender to the general!"

At this time, Cheng Yaojin led more than 700 cavalrymen to arrive, with their horses galloping, their spear tips flashing, and seven hundred cavalry rushed into Hulao Pass like lightning. The first pass in the Central Plains fell into the hands of the Sui army.

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The southernmost part of Yingchuan County is also a place of hilly hills. The mountains in this area are low and gentle, with plains and hills intersecting, river networks are densely populated with large areas of farmland.

This is the location of Ye County in Yingchuan County. Ye County is located at the junction of five counties. It is Jingyang County to the southwest, Huaian County to the south, Runan County to the southeast, Xiangcheng County to the west, and Luoyang to the north of Xiangcheng County.

Yingchuan County is also the center of the entire Henan Road, which is Xuchang, the capital of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms. It was Liang County to the east and Xingyang County to the north. Therefore, since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the Central Plains are the world, and Xuchang is the Central Plains" and it is a must-fight place for military strategists.

On that evening, a team of scouts of the Sui army composed of ten people entered Ye County from Xiangcheng County and ran on the vast plain. They were originally large wheat fields under their feet, but now most of them are deserted, and only a few fertile lands relying on water planted wheat.

At this time, the wheat was harvesting season. The large wheat fields by the river were golden, and the wheat waves were rolling, filled with the joy of harvest. Farmers harvesting wheat could be seen everywhere in the wheat fields. They looked up from time to time and looked vigilantly at the scouts of the Sui army who were galloping by.

"Huochang, the harvest this year seems to be good. I wonder how the harvest in Hedong is like?" A Sui soldier asked loudly.

Huo Changen was about 24 or 25 years old, strong, not talk much, and has a relatively taciturn personality. The scout's rank is one level higher than that of ordinary soldiers. For example, this Huo Chang, in an ordinary army, he can serve as the rank of the team leader. Huo Chang's surname is Cao, and he is from Jiang County, Hedong. He served in the army for one year and made contributions in the Hebei battle and was promoted to scout's rank. This time he was ordered to explore the southwest area of ​​Xuchang County.

In the entire Henan Road, there are hundreds of scout teams like them. Each team has its own patrol territory. The subordinates are very concerned about the harvest, but Cao Huochang was thinking about other things and did not answer his subordinates' questions.

Last night they met several merchants. The merchant told him a piece of information that he had encountered a team of patrol soldiers with similar costumes in Ye County, with about a hundred people. This made Cao Huochang immediately alert. Ye County was his patrol range, so how could there be other troops, and there were more than a hundred people. He immediately thought that it was probably the patrol team of the Wei army.

Generally, if a patrol team of more than a hundred people appears, there will be a large group of people behind him. Could it be that the main force of the Wei army has arrived in Yingchuan County? He was puzzled and led his brothers to check the situation.

They ran another three miles, rushed up a low hill, and ran north along the mountain path, and soon reached the end. There was a cliff ahead, and there was an endless plain under the cliff. You could rush down the slope from the next path. This area was densely forested and sparsely populated.

Suddenly someone pointed at the front and shouted: "Long Fire, look ahead!"

Everyone was shocked and saw three miles away in front of the cliff, a huge military camp covering an area of ​​about hundreds of acres, with tents densely packed, one by one, with at least 70,000 to 80,000 people.

In the middle of the camp was a flagpole about five meters high. The handsome flag was flying, and the big flag was red and white. This was actually the military flag of the Tang Dynasty.

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Chapter completed!