Yue Kaishan did not sleep well all night. From time to time, he was awakened by nightmare. Even if he could only fall asleep again, what he saw in his dream was still a bloody battlefield and the soldiers who fled back after failure. Once Guanning failed, the already stretched troops in Xiaoshi City would be even more tight. How could he face the next siege of nearly 100,000 Qi troops?

He got up early in the morning and looked haggard and with two dark circles on his eyes, he frightened his personal soldiers. He returned to the general office without any taste after breakfast, but he had no intention of handling official duties. Every short time, he walked to the door, looked outside, looking out, looking back to the latest news to Xiaoshi City.

I had something in my heart, and the time was extremely difficult, and I always felt that it was too slow. Finally, after gritting my teeth and returning to the case, I forced myself to pick up a document and read it.

The ground dragons in the room were burning vigorously, but they were so warm that Yue Kaishan felt very upset. The words on the official document in front of him were flying around like flies, but they couldn't see them in detail.

He stood up very annoyed, and simply pulled a piece of rice paper, picked up a piece of wolf charity, and wrote big words to stabilize his mind.

Just halfway through the words, there were sudden rushing footsteps outside. He just raised his head when the door was knocked open from outside with a slam. Zhou Gang, the general of Zhou who was left behind in Xiaoshi City, appeared in front of him with a happy face.

"Mr. Yue County was very happy. General Guanning attacked Zhong Ai's camp at night and won a great victory. He killed the enemy's chief general Zhong Ai, and destroyed the entire army of ten thousand enemy vanguards." Zhou Gang's voice was particularly loud, which made Yue Kaishan's ears buzz.

Yue Kaishan's hand trembled, and a large drop of ink fell from the pen. The big words that had just been written were immediately stained with ink traces and were no longer like this.

"What did you say?" he asked again with a trembling voice.

"The Guanning army won a great victory, and killed Zhong Ai in the formation, and the entire army of 10,000 enemy vanguards were destroyed. Guanning army was on the way back to Xiaoshi City, and it was estimated that it would be possible to reach Xiaoshi City in about an hour." Zhou Gang repeated loudly.

Hahaha! Yue Kaishan laughed loudly and slammed the pen in his hand on the rice paper in front of him. The ink paper splashed everywhere, "Okay, great, great, Zhou Gang, immediately spread this news to the entire Xiaoshi City, so that all the soldiers could share the joy, haha! Prepare in the city and welcome the return of General Guanning's troops."

"Yes!" Zhou Gang, who was full of joy, turned around and ran outward.

After a night of worry, the smoke and clouds had passed away. Yue Kaishan was so happy that he was at a loss. He turned around in the house. The destruction of the 10,000 vanguard troops was destroyed. This was not the most important thing. More importantly, he actually killed Zhong Ai. This was the chief general of the Qi army in Luzhou. If Zhong Ai was not dead, the Qi army could reorganize its troops and make a comeback. However, once Zhong Ai died, it would not take a moment to organize an attack on Kunling County again.

Zhong Ai's death will inevitably cause the Qi army in Luzhou to be in chaos. Xiaoshicheng can even take advantage of the enemy's chaos to counterattack and enter Luzhou. Not to mention occupying any land and cities, it is OK to disrupt the situation in Luzhou and steal some materials, food, and other wealth.

After walking around the house for a few circles, Yue Kaishan rushed out of the house.

Xiaoshi City has become a sea of ​​joy, and deafening cheers sounded everywhere on the city and below. To be honest, 100,000 Qi troops came to attack. No matter whether it was a soldier or a commoner, no one in Xiaoshi City was not worried. Even after Guanning's troops came to help, it was still impossible to change the huge gap in strength.

I thought that something that could not be changed in a hard battle took place overnight, and even the enemy commander was shot dead. This means that for a long time, Xiaoshi City will be safe.

When the figure of Guan Bi who returned victoriously appeared on the snow field in the distance, bursts of sounds burst out from the city wall.

Yu Hong walked proudly on a tall horse and rode his head in front. This was specially arranged by Guan Ning. Yu Hong's adventure achieved the greatest victory for the Guan army at the lowest cost. When the news of Zhong Ai's death spread, the Qi army, which was still resolutely resisting, suddenly collapsed. They were already at a disadvantage and struggled to resist, after the collapse, they immediately became fish on the felt board of the Ming army.

In this battle, hundreds of officers below Zhong Ai were killed, more than 4,000 soldiers were killed on the battlefield, more than 3,000 were captured, and the rest were missing. I thought they had escaped in the dark, but this had nothing to do with the overall situation. These people escaped alone, and in such a heavy snowy day, they would have suffered enough to escape all the way.

Yu Hong raised his head, and if his head was not wrapped like a dumpling, he would have seemed even more powerful. Killing Zhong Ai did make great contributions, but they were in the enemy's storm and fought in chaos, and they were surrounded by many sieges. But they were surrounded by Qi's soldiers. The enemy soldiers who collapsed in the darkness were like crazy and demons. Whenever someone approached, no matter how hard they were, they would have slashed with swords, and the sixth team scouts led by Yu Hong finally came back alive, and the rest of them were all killed in this chaos. Even Yu Hong, if Guan Ning had not come quickly, he would have been corpse.

Yue Kaishan took Zhou Gang and others to welcome him outside the pass in person.

Guanning suffered losses in this battle, with more than a thousand casualties, more than 600 people killed and more than 400 injured, but compared with the enemy's losses, it is worthy of the reputation of saying that it was a great victory.

When the war broke out in Kunling County, in Izumo County, a team that looked extremely ordinary entered Izumo County on thick snow and headed straight towards the Princess' Mansion.

The entire terrain of Izumo County was narrow and long, originally stretching between Chu, Qin and Qiming. Later, after Ming State got this place from Qi State, it vigorously rectified it. Especially when the Ming Dynasty Empress Min Ruoxi started killing here, killing almost all the bandits rampant in this area. The cut off head was even stationed in Jingguan outside the city. The blood flowing completely changed this place called bandit paradise and became a place that was particularly law-abiding. In this regard, Izumo County can now be called a model of the Ming Dynasty, almost without picking up the leftovers and not closing the door at night.

The flowing blood and the lost life are more shocking than any law.

Geng Qiancheng, who is good at managing, has been the county magistrate here since he first established Izumo County. This has been done for nearly ten years. Now Izumo County has long become a thoroughfare of the Three Kingdoms because of its special geographical location. Countless merchants gather here to form a commercial city of extremely large scale.

The group arrived at the county magistrate's mansion and entered directly from the side gate. The county magistrate's mansion seemed to have known for a long time that such a group of people would arrive at this time, and there were people waiting early.

A group of people stepped into the door of the mansion. Geng Jingming, the county magistrate who had been waiting there, closed the door. He immediately took a few steps, walked to the leader, knelt down and kowtowed: "Geng Qiancheng, the governor of Izuyun, kowtowed to His Majesty the Emperor, long live His Majesty."

Qin Feng smiled and pulled off the mask on his face, took a step forward to help Geng Qiancheng up: "The Geng County Governor's County Governor, this is the first time I have come to Ichyun County. In the past, I only saw the prosperity of Ichyun County in the report or through word of mouth. Today, I saw it as a real thing. It is indeed worthy of its reputation. It is worthy of being the most developed place in the Ming Dynasty. Even Shayang County is shocked."

Geng Qiancheng said modestly: "Your Majesty has been too much. Izumo County has not much fertile land for cultivation, but the advantage is that it is because of its special geographical location. It is connected to Qi in the north and Chu in the south. It is located in a critical situation. There is no other way except doing business, so we can only work hard on this."

"It's done well." Qin Feng smiled and said, "You, father and son are both talented in this area. Haha, smart people do a great job in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, which saved me a lot of worries. Su Kairong was also good in the past, but this old guy can only reduce money and not open up the source. Smart people spend money big, but he makes money very fast."

Hearing His Majesty’s praise for his son, Geng Qiancheng felt embarrassed: “The genius is crazy and can only show his strengths in front of a wise monarch like His Majesty. Your Majesty, please go into the house and talk. It’s cold outside.”

"Okay, let's talk about it. This year's weather is really weird. I haven't seen it colder in years." Qin Feng nodded. "It's really hard to get along the way. Zou Ming, do you think we're just going from frugality to extravagance, but from extravagance to frugality? Do you remember when we were in Yanshan? It was also snowing all over the sky. At that time, we all lived in caves, and didn't feel it was too hard. Now we've just been traveling in the wind and snow for a while, and I feel a little unbearable."

Zou Ming, the leader of the Pili camp who welcomed Qin Feng with Geng Qiancheng, felt warm in his heart by saying this. In recent years, he has been staying in Izuyun County. In addition to fighting with the State of Xinning County of Chu, he was basically sitting on the bench. Seeing the former clerks showing off his skills on various battlefields, he could only watch Yang Zhi and Zou Zheng, who walked out of his command, are now the leader of the battalion, and he still stood still. It doesn't matter whether he is promoted or not, but his official position is not small. The key is that others show their faces, but he can only drool on the side. This feeling is indeed not good.

It would be impossible to say that he had no resentment towards His Majesty the Emperor. So, Zou Ming was also the first group of old men to follow His Majesty to conquer the country. But now when His Majesty the Emperor spoke, there was no trace of resentment in his heart.
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