Yanzhou.

Shen Zangfeng after touring the camp, returned to the general's residence. Only to sit down in the study, not yet finished approving an official document, but heard a rush of footsteps outside the door, followed by the door of the study was thumped Shen Zangfeng nodded slightly, Shen folded over and opened the door, saw Su Xiu Ming's old servant Su drinking water with a sweaty head across the door, hurriedly said "Third Duke, the Master asks you to hurry to the main hall to deliberate!"

SuXiuMing is SuXiuWei lead that 20,000 xiliang army to east hu after aid, the imperial capital big brother worry ShenZangFeng young, in this eye on the bone sitting town a city, but also is an important city will have negligence, so in February sent SuXiuMing over to assist him. And this Su drinking water is Su family son, leaning on the old a little said, Shen Zang Feng or he watched grow up. People have always been stable, otherwise Su Xiu Ming came to Yanzhou with only an old servant, will not choose him from the many family son.

At this moment Su Drinking Water was actually so flustered, Shen Zangfeng's heart could not help but sink, he put down his Zhu Pen and asked while getting up, "But there is news from East Hu?"

Sure enough, Su Drinking Water shivered his lips slightly and said briefly, "I heard that the Liu Family was defeated."

"Ah!" Shen Stack was caught off guard and couldn't help but let out a low cry!

"...... Although the Rong people claimed 300,000, but according to the previous scouts return, at most is only 240,000 or 250,000 only. Donghu troops are more than double, more occupy the advantage of defending the city, how will get a big defeat? Could it be that the information is wrong?"

When Shen Zangfeng hurriedly arrived at the main hall, he happened to hear a general of the ministry asking in a loud voice in an urgent, even exasperated tone.

This general's name is Liu Xi, the original vice-general of the Liu family's side branch, the Donghu army that attacked Yanzhou. After Yanzhou was destroyed, part of the Donghu army returned to Donghu to defend their homes, while Liu Xi stayed behind to keep an eye on Yanzhou's supply wagons for the Liu family the Liu family had suffered enough from Yanzhou's rebellion before, even though they knew that Su Xiuming and Shen Zangfeng wouldn't do anything to Donghu's supply wagons when the Rongs were attacking, they wouldn't feel comfortable if they didn't have their own people here. I'm not sure.

Nowadays, Liu Xi and Shen Zangfeng are the nephews in charge of Yanzhou city.

I think it is because Liu Xi is the identity of the Liu family, so Su Xiu Ming told him first, and he came more urgently, but is one step earlier than Shen Zang Feng.

"Originally since it will not be a big defeat," outside the hall guarded Su Xiu Ming's personal guards, but this eye on the bone there is nothing to report first not to report, Shen Zangfeng went inside, but see Su Xiu Ming on the face of the hall, eyes containing anger.

But this anger of his was not because of Liu Xi's impolite attitude in the heat of the moment, "But 80,000 servicemen rebelled, as it were?"

"What?!" Liu Xi exclaimed in shock, including Shen Zangfeng who had just entered the door and stopped in shock!

Shen Zangfeng fixed his mind and asked urgently, "How could the servicemen rebel?"

Although Yanzhou and Donghu are neighboring states, the number of soldiers used to transport the provisions from the state to Donghu, especially in the case of the Rong people's massive invasion, is also extremely large. Because almost all of Donghu's young men were conscripted into the army, the soldiers were generally drawn from the neighboring states of Youyan.

This time, due to the urgency of the situation, a group of men had even been temporarily recruited to serve from Xinzhou, which bordered Youzhou, as well as the northern part of Fengzhou.

Although it was said that this move made the folk more discontent, it was better than being beaten in by the Rong.

Moreover, in order to prevent the servants from revolting, these people were never given enough to eat, not to mention weapons, but they were required to serve heavy labor at all times, almost falling head over heels on the ground to rest at the slightest break in the day. Even so, there are still soldiers to keep an eye on them at all times all this is so that if they cause trouble, they can be easily suppressed by sending troops!

Su Xiu Ming said "I don't know what kind of person spread the matter of Xinzhou to Donghu, Xinzhou servicemen demanded to return to their hometowns to protect their wives, children and families. These people have not been pacified, the rest of the servicemen were also encouraged, and together they demanded to return home, Liu family killed the first few troublemakers, and as a result, the scene calmed down at that time. But in the middle of the night, Xinzhou servicemen suddenly rebelled, killed the soldiers of the Liu family supervising them, snatched the horses and blades, and fled to Xinzhou! It would be fine if that was all, but before these shameless people left, they burned the provisions that they were supposed to send to the front within three days!"

The matter of Xinzhou is like this this state is close to the sea, and rich in marine products, so most of the population in the state are living near the sea. In April, a hurricane broke out on the sea, and the waves swept from the south of the state to the north of the state, almost sweeping all the way across the state, and in a matter of days, the center of the state, which could have barely survived, turned into a hell on earth with nine out of ten empty rooms, and even the state government office could not be spared.

Not only that, after the disaster, according to logic should be the court or government relief, exemption from labor and taxes, in order to recuperate the people's strength. But in April, the late emperor is still for his Feng Ci water temple can not be rebuilt, can only build a Hanyuan building aggravated it, where will pay attention to Xinzhou people's life and death?

That's why Shinshu's woeful state is actually unattended.

Because the state government offices were destroyed in the hurricane, the state officials were buried alive by the collapsed houses, and the remaining officials' families were also victimized, so it was too late to take care of themselves, who cares about the people?

So the whole Xinzhou group without a leader, into a mess! In this case, some of the state's former wanderers, scoundrels and the like, gathered to take advantage of the fire robbery originally they were afraid of the government, but tried to raid the goods and captive women a few times down, do not see the government intervene, the courage to get bigger and bigger and In the first month of the Rong people attacked, most of the Xinzhou young men were drafted to the East Hu as a laborer, ordinary people without the backing and protection of the man of the house, under the hands of these people is simply no room to fight back!

Of course, although no one cares about the matter of Xinzhou, but Donghu is also aware of it. But at that time, the Rong people have already soldiers under the city, in order not to mess up the military center, affecting the overall situation, Donghu ordered to Xinzhou servicemen to hide the news down.

But after months of hiding it, now it's finally been poked and prodded.

Originally, these people traveled hundreds of miles, said goodbye to their families, rushed to the bitter cold of the East Hu service is very reluctant. Fear of imperial punishment and the Rong people into the Central Plains after the massacre of the people, they may not be able to escape. That's why they gritted their teeth and endured.

But now the Rong people haven't come in yet, their own family members have been attacked by the heavenly calamity first, and they have been victimized by the countryside bullies, how can they not be concerned? If the Rongs come in, there are still Donghu, Yanzhou, and Youzhou before Xinzhou is reached. But if we don't go back now, I'm afraid we won't have the chance to do so in the future!

In addition to Xinzhou, although the other states did not fall into Xinzhou's tragic situation, they were not very peaceful either. The example of Xinzhou's laborers has shocked them, and even though Donghu told them that the only place that suffered a natural disaster was Xinzhou, since people have doubts in their hearts, nothing they hear is reliable if the government can lie to Xinzhou's laborers, can't it lie to them? If you don't go back to your hometown to see for yourself, you won't be able to rest assured!

The servicemen are going home.

But how could Donghu release them?

On the border, the Donghu army is fighting the Rong people to the death, and if something goes wrong with the supply wagons at this time, the whole situation will collapse! Moreover, once the Donghu military manpower is not enough, these servicemen can also be temporarily issued with weapons, by the war team to catch up with the battlefield as a temporary defense, so as not to let the Rong people all of a sudden a breakthrough into the in short, the Donghu is absolutely not willing to let go of the people can not.

"The frontline soldiers have been killing with the Rong people in a hard time, plus no food on an empty stomach, how can they not lose?" SuXiuMing at this moment as YanZhou commander, from his position, naturally have no time to sympathize with the mood of XinZhou servicemen, but deeply feel that these people do not care about the big picture, simply is the country's sinner, at this moment roughly finished the process, it is the SenShenYanZhou, "from the east hu back to xinZhou, inevitably pass through my yanZhou, liuXi, you rate east hu army 10,000, to the road to set up an ambush, make sure to completely wipe out the escaped servicemen! We'll be sure to wipe out all the runaways! We'll cut off their heads and limbs, and send them to Donghu as a warning to the others!"

There are still hundreds of thousands of servicemen serving in Donghu, and if they all learn from the servicemen of Xinzhou, then this war should not be fought.

Liu Xi, when he heard about the killing of soldiers in Xinzhou, and caused the great defeat of Donghu, he hated the red eyes, even if Su Xiuming did not order, he was bound to ask for an order to go to the pursuit, and now he has heard the order, since there is no second thoughts.

Su Xiu Ming added "Although there are tens of thousands of escaped servicemen, they are all ragtag, even if they grabbed some horses and weapons from the soldiers, I think they are not enough to be compared to your elites. But now the troops are in short supply, this battle must be resolved quickly, I give you five days! After five days, regardless of the results of the battle, must come back to report!"

Liu Xi, however, said, "Great General, since East Hu has been defeated in the war, I would like to rush to the aid of East Hu after destroying the Xinzhou servitors!"

"......" Su Xiu Ming pondered for a long time, then said, "Yanzhou is an important place, relying on 20,000 Xiliang troops to guard it is too thin. And you only lead 10,000 Donghu army think not very useful, now the new emperor ascended to the throne, I'm afraid that the news of the defeat of the Donghu army into the imperial capital, the imperial forest army when some action."

"But I have heard that the Imperial Army has accumulated weakness ......"

"That's because you haven't seen the Xuan Armor Guard!" Su Xiu Ming shook her head and said with a grave expression, "There's no need to discuss this matter any further, it's settled!"

Seeing that Liu Xi still had the intention to pester, Su Xiu Ming frowned and simply said, "Could it be that you want to test the military law with your body!"

After sending Liu Xi away, only the biological uncle and nephew were left, and they also resumed their private address. Su Xiu Ming said to his nephew with a heavy heart, "The Liu family has lost nearly half of their town, even if the Imperial Forest Army sends the Xuanjia guards to help, I'm afraid it won't help!"

Shen Zangfeng frowned, "The Xuanjia Guards are known as the elite, yet they are only for the imperial army. No matter how carefully and harshly Gu Xiaode trained them, after all, the imperial capital is accustomed to peace, these people have never been to battle, how can they be compared to the border army?"

But then he added, "But the Kingsguard is quite numerous."

"Although the number is large, the military discipline is lax and the armor is corrupted, the victory over the rabble is also limited." Su Xiu Ming sighed, "Just now in front of Liu Xi's face I'm not convenient to say if East Hu can't hold on, the imperial capital is bound to be in an emergency! Our relatives are all in the imperial capital, and the 300,000 imperial guards there, asking me to say that, that can only be looked at, and relying on your family's 20,000 Xilang army is afraid that it will be difficult to circumvent the clans. If that's the case, we can't continue to defend this place."

Everyone knows how difficult it is to fight in Yanzhou, even if Su Xiu Ming and Shen Zang Feng had Mo Binwei as their inner circle before, they still had a tough time. Although the city's provisions are very eye-catching, but compared to the Wei imperial capital, such as clouds of nobles, towering imperial palace, it is very cloudy. The Rong people are not stupid, as long as they take Donghu, the next step will be to take the imperial capital. For Yanzhou, they will only surround but not attack.

"If East Hu really can't hold on, we have to return to the imperial capital to defend our families." Shen Zangfeng pondered, "just Yanzhou if you just give up, you, Xin, Feng three states have lost their fences, I'm afraid of the situation of the people! Why don't we wait and see for a few days, and wait for the scouts to find out the details?"

Su Xiu Ming had his beard in his hand, pondered for a moment, and said, "This is good."

However, he said so, as soon as Shen Zangfeng left, he called into Su Drinking Water, "You go pick two guards who haven't met with Feng'er and who are good with their hands."

Su Drinking Water responded, and then heard Su Xiu Ming commanded, "Then find an opportunity to cut Feng'er ...... Remember not to cut the vitals, but also not too light, make sure to make him comatose on the spot, and unable to see for a few days!"

Su Drinking Water was instantly startled, "Master?!"

"This child is still soft-hearted." Su Xiu Ming heatedly said, "Once East Hu can't be defended, the Rong people's entry into the Central Plains is a foregone conclusion. So what if he can't bear to see Youyan and other states fall? That is claimed to be 300,000, in fact, there are more than 200,000 Rong people, my Qingzhou army can not be a moment to the imperial capital, the imperial army and can not say how much use, but ultimately is the royal forbidden army, the first to protect is the royal family, rather than our clan! We can only count on the Xilang army to be attentive! How can we continue to delay here?"

He grunted, "I am not completely regardless of the people of these states, just deliberately detained Liu Xi not to allow him to aid the East Hu, is to leave him down to guard Yanzhou. As for the guarding can not guard, that depends on the life of these states. Anyway, while Liu Xi is now going to kill Xinzhou servicemen, let's make a big fuss about the assassin sneaking into Yanzhou, when I fall with Feng'er, you remember to explain to the guards, to make a big fuss with them, and immediately call the whole army to escort me and Feng'er back to the imperial capital!"

And again, "Remember to emphasize that we are all unconscious and in critical condition, or else it would be a disgrace to the family to abandon the city and run away!"