Fires were shining on the top of the city, and more than a hundred torches shone the city walls like daytime. Wei Lu, the prefect of Xingyang, was from Guanzhong, and his parents, wife and children were in Chang'an. It was precisely because of this that he was persuaded by Li Xiaoji to surrender and planned to organize 30,000 civilians to support the battle of Luoyang.

Wei Lu took the order arrow from a soldier and looked at it for a while. The order arrow contained four golden words "Qin King's Military Order". He had never seen the Qin King's Military Order and was puzzled. At this time, there was another sound of footsteps behind him. Li Xiaoji, the King of Yong'an of the Tang Dynasty, walked over quickly.

Li Xiaoji was the nephew of Emperor Tang Li Yuan. He was about thirty years old and was fat and had a big nose hanging on his face like an eggplant. He was ordered by Li Yuan to rebel against officials of various counties in the Central Plains, but the gain was not very big. Except for the prefect of Xingyang Wei Lu and Puyang Du Youcai who was instigated by him, the other prefects were ambiguous and had an ambiguous attitude. He was preparing to return to Chang'an to report his life, and today he happened to be in Guancheng County.

"What happened?" Lee Hyo-gi walked up to him and asked.

The prefect Wei Lu quickly handed him the command arrow, "It was the King of Qin who sent the army to pick us up. This is their command arrow."

Li Xiaoji took the order and sneered. He was the prince's faction and had no good impression of the King of Qin. More importantly, he came to the Central Plains under the secret order of Li Yuan. No one in the court knew about it except the prince. How did Li Shimin know about it? Could it be that his Tang Feng found out his secret activities in the Central Plains?

Even if he knew that his activities in the Central Plains were to be able to meet him, he had to cooperate with an imperial edict. It would be unconvincing to rely on an arrow alone, especially as the prince, Li Shimin would not rashly send troops to assist him. This is not his style of doing things.

Thinking of this, Li Xiaoji vaguely guessed in his heart that this was not the Tang army, but it was very likely that Wang Shichong's army came to deceive the city. He quickly winked at Wei Lu. Wei Lu understood it and waved his hand. More than 100 soldiers immediately set their bows and arrows and slowly approached the battlements.

Li Xiaoji said loudly again: "Since it is the Qin King's army, then please ask your leader to talk to us."

Luo Shixin didn't know that the other party had seen through it, so he urged him to step forward and said, "Luo Song, the commander of the King of Qin, is ordered to come to help. Please open the city gate as soon as possible!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lee Hyo-ki on the front of the city shouted loudly, "Take it!"

More than a hundred archers stepped forward at the same time, opened their bows and shot them quickly, and more than a hundred cold arrows shot at Luo Shixin in a dense manner. Luo Shixin was shocked. It was too late to hold the gun and too late to raise the shield. He reacted very quickly. His body shook and he got under the horse's belly. Dozens of arrows shot his war horse. The war horse neighed and fell down with a bang.

The sudden change made the Sui army unprepared. When Luo Shixin's war horse fell down, the Sui cavalry reacted and rushed up to shoot arrows. The arrows were like rain. Several soldiers on the city could not dodge at all and were shot on the forehead. They screamed and fell on their backs. More than a dozen soldiers protected Wei Lu and Li Xiaoji to retreat to the city.

At this time, more than a dozen soldiers had rescued Luo Shixin. Luo Shixin's war horse was killed. This war horse was Lu Mingyue's mount. After being captured by the Sui army, Zhang Xutuo rewarded Luo Shixin, which was a strong thousand-mile horse. After following Luo Shixin for many years, Luo Shixin felt as if he had been killed in battle. He pointed to the top of the city and cursed: "Old man, I won't kill you. I swear I won't be a human being!"

He turned over and rode another horse, and carried his big iron spear with another horse. Since the other party saw it through, he could no longer make the idea of ​​Guancheng County. He waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"

The Sui army quickly evacuated Guancheng County and rushed towards Xingyang County in the northwest.

Xingyang County is not far from Guancheng County, only eighty miles apart. At dawn, the cavalry team arrived in Xingyang County. A thousand Sui soldiers ran for a day and a night, exhausted. Luo Shixin ordered the soldiers to rest in a small wood.

It was mid-June and the weather was extremely hot. It was still early in the morning. As soon as the sun came out, the ground seemed to have fire. Some gray gas that looked like clouds but not clouds, fog but not fog floated low in the air, making people feel like they were in a steamer, almost unable to breathe.

Fortunately, there was a small river next to the woods. The soldiers and the war horses drank water and washed up again. Their bodies became a little cooler. The soldiers ate something randomly and fed the horses again. Many people fell to the ground and fell asleep soundly.

Luo Shixin couldn't sleep. He put a wet towel on his neck to relieve the heat, and sat on a big rock in a daze. Guancheng County's setback made him very depressed. He had never failed since he entered the Sui Dynasty. This time the plan was discovered, which made him feel embarrassed.

At this time, Cheng Yaojin sat down beside him and handed him a piece of Hu cake, "Eat it! The mutton stuffed is delicious."

Luo Shixin didn't want to eat, so he shook his head, "I'm not hungry!"

At this moment, the rag on Cheng Yaojin's nose had been removed and his face was washed. Although it was not as heroic, it was also radiant and joyful. When he saw Luo Shixin not accepting it, he was not polite and chewed it voraciously.

Luo Shixin glanced at him, feeling a little strange. He was beaten up by himself and failed to cheat the city. I wonder what he had to be happy about, "You seem to be in a good mood?"

Cheng Yaojin's mouth was filled with stuff and he said vaguely: "I'm not like you, but I'm worried that I'm not going to win the city without taking it down. What's the big deal? Even if I'm defeated, as long as my life is still there, I should drink and celebrate. What's the point of being competitive? As long as I can eat well, drink well, and save my life, that's the blessing I've cultivated in my previous life."

Luo Shixin nodded. In fact, what Cheng Yaojin said made sense. Victory and defeat were common in military affairs. If you look at it a little open, you will feel at ease.

"Okay! You lead your brothers to rest in the woods, and I will take some people to take Xingyang County."

Cheng Yaojin stuffed the last piece of cake into his mouth and stood up and said, "I admit that it is not as good as you in commanding thousands of troops to fight, but it is not as good as me if I cheated you. If I pretended to be a businessman last night and didn't alarm the prefect, I would have successfully seized the city. Look at me, I will teach you how to take down Xingyang City."

Luo Shixin remembered that the general manager specially asked Cheng Yaojin as the deputy general, just to give full play to his unique skills in the attack, so he nodded, "Okay! I wish you a smooth journey."

Cheng Yaojin curled his mouth, "I wish me a smooth journey and my teeth are so sore. I didn't care about the punch I was beaten last night. Do you still have your hands hurt?"

Luo Shixin laughed, "Get out! It's best if you are caught by the county magistrate and stripped naked for public display."

Cheng Yaojin laughed, "I'll strip the county magistrate's clothes to see if he listens!"

He turned around and left proudly. Luo Shixin felt better. He touched his stomach and turned around to ask his personal soldiers, "Is there any food? Give me some."

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Xingyang County is a central county with a population of less than 1,000 households. The city also seems a bit dilapidated due to years of war. Cracked gaps can be seen everywhere on the city walls. In the early morning, the city gate was filled with farmers entering the city to sell vegetables, and they were clamoring.

Although a war broke out in Luoyang, more than 200 miles away, Xingyang County was quiet and unaffected. More than a dozen soldiers guarding the city became lazy and unconscious due to the hot weather. Especially the farmers entering the city had no money to fish for, so the soldiers didn't care and let them go in and out.

At this time, a group of horses came from a distance, and more than a dozen horse dealers rushed towards the city gate. The soldiers immediately cheered up. The leader of the horse dealer was a strong man with a dark and green face. He knew it was a loud horse falling from the mountains at a glance, but this was nothing. More than 70% of the young and strong men in the Central Plains had become bandits, including these soldiers guarding the city.

"Where are the horse merchants coming from?" The team guarding the city was very polite. In the Central Plains, horse merchants are usually fierce people and are not easy to mess with. Everyone is just for money, so why bother themselves?

Cheng Yaojin traveled around the world and was experienced. He was not like Luo Shixin. He even wanted to alarm the prefect when he entered the city. He knew it would be more reliable to deal with small people. Cheng Yaojin threw a bag of copper coins to the team leader, "The old rules are the same, tea money and wine money, and there is no more money."

The team was taking over the cloth bag, and it was heavy and worth ten coins. He was suddenly overjoyed. How could he make things difficult for such a sensible person? He waved his hand quickly and said, "Put it into the city!"

Cheng Yaojin led his men to drive a group of horses into the county town in a grand manner. His men admired them very much. He couldn't enter the city with such great effort last night. Today he came in so easily, and General Cheng was still powerful.

Cheng Yaojin proudly said to everyone: "You must be sleek in doing things. These soldiers are just to support your family. He cares who you are. As long as you give money, what will happen? You should learn from it in the future. Don't go to the city in the middle of the night like Lao Luo, and pretend to be Tang Jun. Wouldn't that cause trouble for yourself?"

The soldiers were very impressed and some people asked, "Then where are we going now?"

Cheng Yaojin snorted, "Of course I'll go to the county magistrate, can we still have to massacre the city?"

"But where is the county magistrate?"

Cheng Yaojin wanted to kick the questioner to death. He brought more than a dozen people directly to the county government office, and did not go to the back house. He went up the main entrance stairs and raised the drumstick and knocked it hard. The drum sounded thud, accompanied by Cheng Yaojin's shouting: "It's unfair!"

The county magistrate of Xingyang County was named Wang Xiong. He was sitting in the official room drinking tea when he suddenly heard someone beating a drum and shouting for justice. He didn't care about drinking tea. He came to the lobby in a panic, sat high under the mirror, and said sternly: "Who is calling for justice? Bring it up!"

Two yamen runners brought in more than a dozen horse dealers, "Report to the county magistrate, these people are calling for justice."

When the county magistrate Wang Xiong saw that the visitor did not kneel, he slapped the agglomeration heavily, "Don't you dare not kneel when you see this official?"

Cheng Yaojin laughed, "I can't find you, so I beat the drum and called you!"

He stepped forward a few steps, grabbed the county magistrate's clothes, dragged him off the couch, and his subordinates also took action together, picking up the county magistrate and chief clerk next to him at the same time.

The sudden incident shocked dozens of yamen runners around. They had never seen such a complaint. Someone wanted to run away, but was knocked over by Cheng Yaojin's subordinates. The county magistrate was frightened and asked with a thorn in his mouth, "Who are you? Do you dare to bully me? Do you want to rebel?"

As soon as the county magistrate finished speaking, a sharp dagger hit his throat. Cheng Yaojin said coldly: "I am the devil king of Wagang Village. Come to Gui County to borrow some food!"

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