Under the dark sky, the wind was cold and a group of cavalry surrounded by several carriages, galloping along the official road.

Not far behind this group of cavalry and several carriages, dust was flying, and another group of cavalry with a larger number of people were chasing the group of cavalry and several carriages in front.

"Brother, the bastards of the Xiao family are about to catch up. You will take your father and others first! I will take the remaining Ma family iron guards to meet the enemy!" A young general shouted loudly.

"Second brother, take your father and the others away! I will stay with the Ma family's iron guards to break the rear!" A general in his thirties tied the reins of the war horse and said decisively to the young general.

"No, brother, I'll stay."

"Second brother is obedient and protect your father and leave!"

Both of them knew in their hearts what it meant to stay at this time. After all, there were less than a hundred guards left, and the pursuers behind were at least more than a thousand.

At this time, the curtains of a carriage were lifted, revealing an old and pale face, "Bo Chang, Fengxing, you take all the iron guards and leave quickly! Although our Ma family is defeated, I believe the Xiao family will not be killed!"

The old man in the carriage was Ma Huaizhong from the Ma family in Beijing and the lord of Li Bin's father Li Zhao.

In order to compete for the throne, Yong'an City still did not escape a tragic battle. In the end, the four generals and civil servants in the frontier won the victory of the battle in the capital at an extremely fierce price.

In this tragic battle, all of them were damaged. Even the new emperor supported by the nine generals in the capital died in the chaos.

However, the nine generals in the capital did not bow to the four generals and civil servants in the frontier. After withdrawing from Yong'an City, the nine generals in the capital relied on the forces of each family in various prefectures and counties, and still broke out with the four generals in the frontier and the army controlled by the civil servants.

In this war that almost swept over half of the territory of the Great Yan Empire, the four generals and civil servants on the frontier who were originally allied had broken up because of the struggle for power, which made the war even more chaotic. Even the nine generals in the capital, and even the four generals in the frontier would fight for profit.

Now this chaos has lasted for almost two years, and several top generals have completely lost, including the Ma family, which was originally among the nine generals in the capital.

After withdrawing from Yong'an City, the forces of the Ma family all entered Qizhou Prefecture and began to compete with the Xiao family of Qizhou Prefecture, one of the four major generals on the frontier for control of the entire Qizhou Prefecture.

When the Ma family was at its peak in Qizhou Prefecture, it had more than 200,000 troops. However, after a series of battles with the Xiao family in Qizhou Prefecture, the power of the Ma family in Qizhou Prefecture was almost uprooted by the Xiao family, and even the head of the Ma family Ma Huairen died in the battlefield.

Ma Huaizhong originally led the last 20,000 troops of the Ma family to defend a county city in Qizhou Prefecture, but under the attack of the Xiao family's superior forces, the last city in Qizhou Prefecture of the Ma family also fell.

Ma Huaizhong led his family to break out before the city broke through, but Ma Huaizhong was seriously injured during the break, and there was not much left of his army.

The general in his thirties was Ma Huaizhong's eldest son Ma Renju, and the youngest general was Ma Huaizhong's youngest son Ma Renhuan.

After hearing what his father Ma Huaizhong said, the two brothers Ma Renju and Ma Renhuan couldn't help but smile bitterly.

There was something happened before that the two brothers had been hiding from their fathers. After the defeat of the Ma family, Ma Huairen, the family members and captured Ma family members had already been slaughtered by the Xiao family.

After such a long war, the friendship between the Thirteen Generals had long been swallowed up by the battlefields all over the mountains of corpses.

In order to compete for control of Qizhou Prefecture, the Ma family and the Xiao family did not say anything about the romance. The coach of Xin'an Guard, Xiao Shike, is the younger brother of Xiao Shijie, the head of the Xiao family, was also killed by a master warrior from the Ma family on the battlefield.

If the two brothers Ma Renju and Ma Renhuan keep their father and family, they will inevitably be killed by the Xiao family.

Ma Renju suddenly sighed and said, "Second brother, can you dare to fight with me?"

Ma Renhuan laughed heartily and said, "Brother, I don't want to escape so cowardly. Today, let's have a good fight with the bastards of the Xiao family!"

Ma Huaizhong in the carriage said anxiously: "Bochang, Fengxing, you go quickly! Go to Zhennan Army to find Li Zhao and Li Lie. With the face of them, your brothers have a way out in Zhennan Army!"

Ma Renju said with a wry smile: "Father, now that things have come to this point, let us die together! Some things... my father may not know about it."

Ma Huaizhong sighed long, "Don't you know the tragic incident of your uncle's family, and you never expected that my Ma family would end up like this in the end."

Just when Ma Huaizhong, Ma Renju, Ma Renhuan and his son were desperate, a group of cavalry with more people appeared in the other direction of the official road.

The pursuers of the Xiao family found another cavalry in the distance, and they couldn't help but slow down. Finally, they even stopped at about one hundred cavalrymen and several carriages from the Ma family about one hundred cavalrymen and several horse-drawn cars.

After the newly emerged cavalry approached the nearly 100 cavalry and several carriages of the Ma family, Ma Huaizhong, Ma Renju, Ma Renhuan and his son couldn't help but show surprise because the newly emerged cavalry was under the banner of Zhennan Army.

"Bo Chang, Fengxing, where is your father?" A general from Zhennan Army said anxiously after seeing Ma Renju and Ma Renhuan.

"Uncle Zhao, why are you here in Qizhou Prefecture? My father is in the carriage!" Ma Ren shouted excitedly.

The general of Zhennan Army who was talking was Li Bin's father Li Zhao.

When Li Zhao heard Ma Huaizhong in the carriage, he immediately urged Ma to come to the carriage. Ma Huaizhong kept lifting the curtains of the carriage. When he saw Li Zhao urging the horse to come, a hint of blush appeared on his pale face because of excitement, "Li Zhao, you are here."

After seeing Ma Huaizhong, Li Zhao immediately turned over and dismounted, "Lord, I'm late, I'm making you suffer."

After Li Bin disappeared in a storm at sea, Li Bin's father Li Zhao and Li Bin's second uncle Li Lie immediately rushed to Guizhou City until Li Bin brought his people back to Guizhou City, Li Zhao and Li Lie did not leave either.

At that time, the battle in Yong'an City was about to break out. Li Bin was reluctant to let his father and second uncle return to Yong'an City to help the Ma family work hard, so he forcibly detained Li Zhao and Li Lie.

Thanks to Li Bin's forced father and second uncle to stay in Guizhou City, otherwise it would be hard to say whether Li Zhao and Li Lie could survive in the battle of Yong'an City where millions of people were killed. After all, in that battle, even many of the direct descendants of the Ma family died in Yong'an City.

Ma Huaizhong smiled wryly and said to Li Zhao: "I didn't expect to see you alive. Now there are thousands of cavalrymen from the Xiao family chasing me. If Li Zhao hadn't brought Zhennan Army to the scene, my family might have died tragically at the hands of these cavalrymen of the Xiao family."

Li Zhao glanced at the Xiao family cavalry who was parked in the distance, "Don't worry, lord, with us Li Zhao here, no one in the world can hurt the lord's family."

After Li Zhao finished speaking, he did not continue to reminisce about the past with Ma Huaizhong, and brought some cavalry from Zhennan Army to meet the Xiao family cavalry.

"I am Li Zhao, the father of Zhennan Hou Li Bin. The person you are chasing is my Lord Li Zhao's family. This time I personally led a large army to Qizhou Prefecture to bring my Lord Huaizhong's family back to Guizhou City. I hope the Xiao family can save me."

A burly general of the Xiao family snorted coldly and said, "Others are afraid of your Zhennan Army, but I, Xiao Rui, are not afraid. Today, the lives of Ma Huaizhong and his family are determined."

As soon as Xiao Rui finished speaking, a general of the Xiao family next to Xiao Rui hurriedly said, "General, don't act irresponsible, the opposite is Zhennan Army!"

Xiao Rui turned his head and shouted angrily: "So what about Zhennan Army? The current Xiao family is no longer the Xiao family before. Now my Xiao family controls Qizhou Prefecture and Xuanzhou Prefecture, with hundreds of thousands of troops, and this is Qizhou Prefecture!"

The general of the Xiao family next to him said with a wry smile: "General, the Zhennan Army has millions of troops. If you want to be enemies with the Zhennan Army, do you have to get the consent of the head of the family first?"

Xiao Rui waved his hand and said, "I will explain where the head of the family!"

Then Xiao Rui crossed the iron spear in his hand and shouted loudly to Li Zhao: "I have heard that the powerful generals of Zhennan Army are like clouds. Today, your Zhennan Army wants my Xiao family to let Ma Huaizhong go. As long as some of you can beat the iron spear in my hand, I will immediately turn my head and leave with the cavalry of the Xiao family!"

Xiao Rui's words made the Xiao general and thousands of Xiao family cavalry nearby breath a sigh of relief. It seemed that General Xiao Rui was still rational and was not prepared to really fight with the Zhennan Army.

Li Zhao curled his lips slightly, turned his head to a very burly general beside him and said, "Wang Ming, go and meet this powerful general of the Xiao family for a while!"

The general who Li Zhao called him a wise man was named Wang Yanzhang, and he was summoned by Li Bin in the battle to destroy Jinluo.

Li Bin originally hoped to stop this war within the Great Yan Empire, but in the end, under the persuasion of four military advisors, Li Bin gave up this unrealistic idea.

After all, the nine generals in the capital, the four generals in the frontier and civil servants have reached the point of fighting for the throne. Moreover, although the Zhennan Army has millions of troops, it is impossible to force the other thirteen generals to surrender with their own strength.

Moreover, the Dongman Protectorate and the Nanman Protectorate controlled by Zhennan Army both needed a large number of Yan immigrants to improve the population structure of these two Protectorate. Before Li Bin returned to Guizhou City, Zhuge Liang, Zhang Liang and others had already used the heavy taxes and bandits to immigrate more than three million Yan people to the Dongman Protectorate and the Nanman Protectorate before Li Bin returned to Guizhou City, Zhuge Liang and others had already used heavy taxes in the Great Yan Empire and the Random Bandits to immigrate more than three million Yan people to the Dongman Protectorate and the Nanman Protectorate.

The more chaotic the Dayan Empire is, the more beneficial it is to the Zhennan Army.

After Li Bin was persuaded by four military advisors, he did not insist on his own. After the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office secretly reached a series of secret agreements with several generals, the Zhennan Army began to choose to watch the wall, but just guarded its territory and did not participate in the chaos in the Dayan Empire.

However, the Zhennan Army suddenly sent troops to the Jinluo Kingdom again last year, and under the leadership of Li Bin, the remaining Jingcheng Road, Luzhou Prefecture and Yizhou Prefecture of the Jinluo Kingdom were completely annexed in the battle.

In this battle to annex the Jinluo Kingdom, Li Bin personally took action, allowing the Tai Chi Bagua Diagram to summon four new generals, including Wang Yanzhang, and the other three were Yang Dayan, Xia Luqi and Gao Aocao.

Wang Yanzhang, whose courtesy name was Xianming, was a famous general of the Later Liang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties.

When Zhu Wen established the Later Liang Dynasty, Wang Yanzhang was appointed as the general of the army with great achievements. He was promoted to the governor and the defensive commander to the governor.

Wang Yanzhang was brave and powerful. He was always a vanguard in every battle. He rushed with an iron spear and was as fast as flying. The army was named Wang Iron spear. Later, he was captured by Li Cunxu. He would rather die than surrender. So he was ordered to behead at the age of 61.

Yang Dayan was a famous general of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

During the Taihe period of the Northern Wei Dynasty, he was elected as the leader of the army and was transferred to the commander of the army. Yang Dayan took the lead and clashed with strong formations, which was extremely powerful.

After Emperor Xiaowen's attack in the south, he passed through fierce attacks and made many military achievements.

In the early years of Jingming, the general of Southern Qi, Pei Shuye, surrendered to Wei with Shouchun. Yang Dayan and other generals led their troops to support him and entered the city first. He was granted the title of founding the Imperial College in Ancheng County and was appointed as the General of Zhige. Later, he was promoted to the General of the Envoy and the Governor of Dongjingzhou.

In April of the third year of Zhengshi, Wang Mao, the governor of Liangjiang Prefecture, led tens of thousands of troops to attack Wei Jingzhou. At that time, Yang Dayan was appointed as General Pingnan. He was ordered to supervise the army to counterattack and defeat them. He killed more than 2,000 generals of Liang Fuguo, Wang Hua, General Longxiang, Shen Tianhua, and others, recovered Henan City, took advantage of the victory to pursue Wang Mao and others to the Han River, and then drove away five cities.

Xia Luqi, whose courtesy name was Bangjie, was a famous general of the Later Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

Xia Luqi was originally the Military Academy of Houliang. Empress Wu joined the Later Tang Dynasty and became the escort commander of Zhuangzong. He was famous for his bravery and killed more than a hundred people alone when he was escorting Zhuangzong. He was given a name for his merits and was awarded the title of the Governor of Cizhou.

After the establishment of the Later Tang Dynasty, Zhuangzong followed Zhuang to destroy the Later Liang Dynasty, captured Wang Yanzhang alive, and was promoted to Zhengzhou Defense Envoy.

During the reign of Emperor Ming Dynasty, Xia Luqi served as the governor of Heyang, the governor of Zhongwu Army, and the governor of Wuxin Army, so as to be appointed as the governor of Suizhou.

In the second year of Changxing, Suizhou was captured by Xichuan general Li Renhan, and he committed suicide and was awarded the title of Grand Tutor and Duke of Qi.

Gao Ang, whose courtesy name was Ao Cao, was a famous general in the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

The high-rise horse spear was peerless and brave. People at that time compared to Xiang Yu, they raised an army with their brother Gao Qian, responded to the Ge Rong uprising. Later, they surrendered to the court and were granted the title of Bo Wucheng County.

After Emperor Xiaozhuang Yuan Ziyou was killed, he joined forces with Gao Huan to raise an army in Xindu and openly opposed the Erzhu family. He once defeated Erzhu Yusheng's 5,000 people with more than ten cavalry.

In the second year of Yongxi, after Gao Qian was defeated and killed, Gao Ang joined the general Gao Huan and fought in all directions. He became Situ and General Cavalry, and was promoted to the title of Marquis of Wucheng County.

In the first year of Yuanxiang, Gao An underestimated the enemy and was defeated by the Western Wei Prime Minister Yuwen Tai. His entire army was wiped out and killed in Heyang. At the age of 48, he was posthumously awarded the title of Shizhong, Taishi, Grand Sima, and posthumous title Zhongwu.

Wang Yanzhang, Yang Dayan, Xia Luqi, and Gao Aocao were all great masters and warriors. At this time, the four of them were following Li Zhao.

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