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"I said, Mr. Qian, you didn't think about tidying up this cell. Look at the air leaking in the four walls, which made us all frozen!" Wang Gaoxing was in pain, and Qian Zerui, who was also trembling in the haystack like a quail, joked.

"I've had a riot just now, why is there no movement now?" Qian Zerui looked up and asked an official who was looking out of the ventilation window on tiptoe.

"The prison guard seems to have been dispersed. Just now, a few people ran away in scattered ways. There are no figures in the yard behind. It seems that there are more people coming into the city than Qian Langjun, you expected," the official was tall and thin. He folded the bedding under his feet and could barely see the feelings outside the small window. He turned his head in confusion and asked, "But it's strange, Wang Langjun, Qian Langjun, where do you think this army came from? He even came into the city in an instant? Is it the Marquis of Yin Jun in Xinzhou or the Marquis of Wen Jun in Taiyuan sent troops to aid? Or is it that Liu Linggong and Shaoxiang were not annihilated by the Chihu people at all, and they turned defeated and won, and sent troops back to Lanzhou?"

"How come it is not the soldiers who came back from Shuozhou?" Qian Zerui asked.

"Shuozhou?" the official smiled, "Shuozhou cannot protect itself. Besides, that person is a ruffian tiger and a yaksha fox. Who knows what he is from? If he really wants to be like the rumors, he will probably have already surrendered to the enemy before Cao Shixiong!"

At this time, the sound of "clang" smashing the door outside. Qian Zerui dragged his weak body and walked to the gate of the prison with Wang Gaoxing and others. He squeezed his head and looked to the side of the aisle. He saw a team of soldiers stained with blood in armor and rushed in.

The leader of the five-strong military officer, holding a bloody straight-rilling knife in his hand, grabbed the trembling and begging for mercy, but he didn't see him asking anything. He just pulled the head into the chest with a knife, and the white knife went in and the red knife came out, and then pointed the two lame old soldiers with the knife: "Open all the prison rooms; in addition, Wang Gaoxing, Wang Langjun, Qian Zerui, Qian Langjun, Zhucaosi, and the Langjun of the Military and Horse Commission, who is in the cell here?"

"Wang and Mr. Qian are here. How dare you ask this military officer who led his troops back to Kelan City?" Wang Gaoxing squeezed out from the gate and asked politely.

"My army marquis is Xu Huai, the marquis of Shuozhou. My army marquis specially asked two men to go to the prefecture yamen to discuss matters..." Zhong Jitang pulled an old prison to the cell and urged him to take the keys to open the cell. He immediately called for a few people to escort Wang Gaoxing, who was shocked, and Qian Zerui went to the prefecture yamen first.

Wang Gaoxing, Qian Zerui and others were all shocked - Qian Zerui said before that it might be the soldiers in Shuozhou, but it was just random speculation, and he didn't think there was much possibility. After all, in their opinion, Shuozhou only had one wing of Tongbai Mountain soldiers, with a full 2,500 troops. If Xu Huai did not surrender to the enemy, he was already a loyal minister and general of Dayue. How could they hope that Xu Huai would send troops to support Lanzhou, and Xu Huai also personally committed suicide into Kelan?

Wang Gaoxing suppressed his inner shock and asked, "You kill in, can you catch Meng Jian?"

"Meng Jian, who is the character?" Zhong Jitang asked.

"Meng Jian is the brother of Meng Ping, the surrendered general in Shuozhou. Cao Shixiong relies heavily on him and has evil ideas. When you came in from the West City Gate, he was still in the state prison. I don't know where to go now!" Wang Gaoxing said.

"We rushed in and didn't see this person. You go to the prefecture yamen first, and you have to search here." Zhong Jitang said.

The walls of the state prison are high and thick, and compared with the state yamen, we must be well prepared. The prisoners guard the state prison and guard against the prisoners robbing or rioting and fleeing, and the military preparations are relatively strong.

Zhong Jitang led fifty soldiers to kill, and even seven or eight people were killed and injured, and more than a hundred prisoners were killed and dispersed. There was no time to chase and suppress the remaining soldiers, let alone to pull Meng Jian out of some corner.

Besides, their troops were too limited in this raid on Kelan City, and Xu Huai even forbidden the scattered teams to further disperse their troops for an uncertain target.

Ji Zhongtang's current main task is to lead people to release all the officials in Lanzhou who were imprisoned by Cao Shixiong in the cell as soon as possible.

The main force of the Tianxiong Army was defeated in Datong, and the two thousand cavalry that could be called elite in the Qingshun Army, and three thousand studs of armor were also destroyed in Datong City. In the end, only six or seven hundred people were able to escape. This can be said to be the last elite left by the Qingshun Army.

Whether it was the Qing Shun Army or the Han people in Shuozhou, the first northern expedition to Yan was severely damaged; this was true. Seeing the weakness and incompetence of the Time of Yue Court, Cao Shixiong hated the weakness and incompetence of the Yue Court, which caused the Qing Shun Army to suffer terrible losses.

Cao Shixiong has been rooted in Shuozhou for many years and is very clear that if he wants to be strong, he cannot do without the support and consumption and supplement from local forces. Therefore, under the urging of Chihu people, Cao Shixiong had to attack the prefecture yamen with blood and plunder and slaughter the city of Kelan, but he did not give up his efforts to win over local forces.

Officials such as Wang Gaoxing, Qian Zerui, and other officials, officials from various courts, military officers and military officers, and 200,000 people, were captured in the prefecture yamen, and were all transferred to the prefecture yamen. Meng Jian had no prefecture yamen before, but he tried to surrender several captured officials in the prefecture yamen.

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The state prison was very close to the state yamen. Wang Gaoxing, Qian Zerui and others rushed to the back house of the state yamen. Just as the third round of the storm was ruthlessly dismantled, dozens of defenders retreated into the alley in a mess.

The ground was covered with corpses, and broken swords and arrows were everywhere.

The snow in the garden was trampled to the point of being trampled, mixed with solidified blood, it was black, but the snow in the corners was still there, all covered with blood spots, like countless plum blossoms falling.

Wang Gaoxing and his friends came in and buried a flagpole four or five meters high. They didn't care at first. Until the flagpole shaking, they looked up and suddenly saw Cao Shixiong's three sons, Cao Xuanwen, Cao Xuanwu, and Cao Xuanxing, tied them firmly to the flagpole, and were all shocked.

Seeing their struggle again, Wang Gaoxing and Qian Zerui were worried that the flagpole would break.

In the corner inside the flagpole, there were more than a dozen female relatives in the Cao family mansion, all of which were Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili, wives and concubines, tied up with hemp ropes and threw them directly on the mud-like ground.

From time to time, a battle shed was set up in the garden temporarily-

In summer, the state yamen backyard has a tradition of setting up a pergola, which is to use wooden shelves, bamboo mats, and wooden boards to cover the courtyard and garden. People will be more shade when they move in the courtyard and will not be affected by the heat. The pergola is usually removed after summer, but these materials will be specially stacked so that they can be reused every year.

At this time, these materials are convenient to take out and set up a battle shed.

The generals and soldiers who had retreated from the front also sat under the battle shed to rest, without worrying about the disturbance of the arrows.

Wang Gaoxing and Qian Zerui also walked into the battle shed with a shield under the cover of several armored soldiers, braved the arrows and met Xu Huai.

The official position, rank and general rank of Dayue are extremely confused, and they are also deliberately suppressing the status of military generals.

As the Du Yuhou, Xu Huai had a very high position in the army, but his position in the eight-class commander was only the ninth rank of Shuozhou inspector, and his status in the court was far lower than that of the ministers such as Wang Gaoxing and Qian Zerui.

However, Wang Gaoxing and Qian Zerui were proud of his heart, and at this time, he was extremely grateful to Xu Huai for leading his troops into the Kilan to rescue him, so that they did not need to face the test of death and surrendering to the enemy. They came over and bowed and said:

"Marquis Xu Jun, thank you for your kindness in helping each other. Wang, I am grateful! I have had many negligence in the past and feel ashamed. I hope Mr. Xu Jun is rude."

"Wang Langjun, Qian Langjun, you have suffered,"

Xu Huai also gave a greeting and asked them to stand at a safer shield, and briefly introduced the situation of the raid, saying,

"I only brought 300 cavalry to raid the city of Kelan. Now that I have to save all my husbands, I have to consider evacuation. Do you have any relatives and friends in the city that need to evacuate together?"

Hearing that Xu Huai led 300 troops, he dared to take the risk of raiding the city of Kelan. Wang Gaoxing and Qian Zerui were shocked and even more grateful.

They came to Lanzhou to take up their posts in another place. Although they had a family in Lanzhou, Cao Shixiong still wanted to surrender them before. They detained their family in the state prison and were not persecuted. After a moment, they would escort them to the state prison with the other prisoners.

In addition, they have been in Lanzhou for many years and have made some friends in the city. However, in the past few days, they have been in chaos and have been imprisoned in the state prison. They have not known the situation of these friends for a while, and they even have no idea whether they have joined Cao Shixiong...

"Cao Shixiong sent troops to attack the prefecture yamen, and the city of Kelan was in chaos, and we were captured and imprisoned. I don't know what the situation is now for some relatives and friends, and I don't know if they are willing to withdraw from Kelan City with us—" Wang Gaoxing said.

Qian Zerui asked, "But I don't know when Xu Junhou thought Cao Shixiong would send reinforcements to Kelan City as soon as possible? How much time does we have to use in Kelan City? What is the situation of Chihu's troops now? Will Liu Linggong, Shaoxiang and others be completely destroyed? Is Yingzhou and Yanmen Pass now losing the enemy's hands??"

Xu Huai saw Wang Gaoxing, Qian Zerui was humble, at least at this time he was grateful to him for sending troops to rescue him in time, and they were even better than Xun Yannian, and they kept their integrity and did not surrender to the enemy.

Furthermore, Qian Zerui and Wang Gaoxing had just escaped from the state prison, but their ideas were still quite clear. Xu Huai pondered for a moment and said, "The situation facing Dayue at this time is dangerous and difficult to describe for a while, but the two men don't need to be too anxious in Kelan City. I can win four or five hours for the two men, but I don't know how the two men will arrange the evacuation..."

Qian Zerui and Wang Gaoxing were not panicked, and their ideas were quite clear. Xu Huai was of course willing to hand over the evacuation to them. After all, more people were rescued from the state prison in a while. They were also the most familiar with Qian Zerui and Wang Gaoxing. It was most convenient to dispatch them by Qian and Wang.

There are only 300 people around him. No matter how smooth the fight was before, there were still casualties. It is not advisable to distribute personnel to complicated matters...
Chapter completed!