The north wind was howling and the snow was falling. After hearing what Hu Shi'an said, Pei Xiaoer suddenly stood up and braved the continuous heavy snow to walk out of the city. He saw a vast expanse of white snow outside the city, and everywhere was covered with snow, thick and thick.

The snow clumps almost buried the big trees, and in some places the snow even reached an adult's waist.

Such heavy snow is simply a nightmare for travelers abroad. Pei Xiaoer looked at such a grand snow scene in ecstasy and couldn't help but murmured: "What a heavy snow!"

Just when Pei Xiaoer was blocked by Xunyang and unable to move forward, Chen Tianming had already learned from the newly surrendered Han Yuan's narrative that they had been unable to capture Xixiang for a long time, that Nanzheng had been captured by Wang Wanjin, and that

to the news of their battle with Jia Mingquan, who was under Wang Wanjin's command, and the news that they were defeated and fled in embarrassment.

"So even if Jia Mingquan was victorious, they still suffered heavy losses?" It has to be said that some people seem to have a natural intuition that can help him keenly discover the key points in the chaotic battlefield. Obviously, Chen Tianming

in this column.

"Exactly," Han Yuan said.

At this time, Tian Jingyou on the side suddenly interjected unconvinced: "That Jia Mingquan relies on his own strength of numbers. Their number is estimated to be 50,000, which is five times the size of our army. But even so, it is necessary to

If we were not careless, they would have been beaten by our army and fled in embarrassment."

Chen Tianming glanced at him sideways and did not answer. A win is a win, and a defeat is a defeat. How careless can it be to say that? Even if they were to fight again now, maybe Jia Ming would still win in the end.

Quan.

"How many soldiers do you think Jia Mingquan will have left after this battle?" Chen Tianming pondered.

Han Yuan glanced at Chen Tianming unconsciously, as if he wanted to see through Chen Tianming, "I don't know the details, but our army repeatedly charged and killed Jia Mingquan three times in the formation, until the third attack was stopped.

, no matter what, you can kill or injure fifteen thousand of them."

"I just don't understand, how can that ragtag group of people be able to withstand three attacks?"

Chen Tianming ignored Tian Jingyou who was still complaining, and began to calculate silently in his mind. If Han and Tian did not lie, then there would be 15,000 Jia Ming and Gan's soldiers killed and wounded, and there would only be more people fleeing.

You must know that in this era, as long as it is not an encirclement and annihilation war, after a big war, only a few people will die on the spot. In most cases, their soldiers just flee and then find a place to hide.

After such a calculation, Jia Mingquan now has only 20,000 people left in his hands, plus the thousands of people in Xixiang City. Therefore, Chen Tianming concluded that Wang Wanjin's tribe near Xixiang will not exceed 30,000 at most.

On the other hand, although our own side has been recruited three times by Yang Yunti, Tian Ji, and Han Yuan, it now has only 3,000 people at full strength. However, if it is operated properly, it may not be impossible to defeat Xixiang.

And if once Xixiang is captured, some rebel troops are gathered to balance Yang Yunti, Tian Ji, Han Yuan and others who were born in the Tian family, then their control over the people below will become more powerful, instead of what they do now.

Generally speaking, the order can reach at most Yang, Tian and a few others.

Chen Tianming met Han Yuan's unusually bright eyes and said in a seductive voice: "I wonder if you two have the guts to attack Xixiang again?"

Xixiang County.

Jia Mingquan has led his army into this war-torn city for more than two days. He still feels frightened when he thinks of the battle outside Xixiang City, secretly thinking it was a fluke.

In that battle, Jia Ming'an's army did not have much training. Most of them were ordinary people who had just been captured. However, their advantage lay in their large number of people. Although the Tian family's army had a small number of soldiers, its victory was that it had been in the army for a long time and had gone through a period of training.

But in general, from the perspective of combat experience, the two sides are fighting each other with half a pound and half a pound, which is a rivalry between rookies.

If his army had not been dispersed enough and fought independently on the battlefield, and if the morale of each unit was not bad under the leadership of their respective generals, and if Jia Mingquan had led his troops in time to stop the enemy's attack,

I'm afraid this war will end in their disastrous defeat.

Jia Mingquan has been thinking about the battle over and over these days, and he has different thoughts after each rumination. Suddenly, soldiers came to report that Wei Shizhang, the magistrate of Xixiang County, had something urgent to see him.

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However, before Jia Minggan could react, Wei Shizhang's burly figure had already appeared in front of Jia Minggan.

Wei Shizhang said he was a county magistrate, but he was actually a warrior. In Wang Wanjin's grass-roots team, because Wang Wanjin, as the chief general, was of a humble background, and the time for raising the army was too short, there was no time to build his own team, and there were not many people who could read.

, and it cannot be constructed at all, so there is no distinction between civil and military affairs.

However, Wei Shizhang, who stayed in his hometown in Xixiang, must have something to say. Otherwise, others will follow you and work hard. You will eat meat in Nanzheng, while others drink the northwest wind in Xixiang, and they will get nothing. In the long run, who will follow you?

Therefore, Wang Wanjin pondered hard for a long time, and finally came up with the idea of ​​giving Wei Shizhang an official position, so as to balance Wei Shizhang's mind. But which official position was another question, after thinking about it, some wise man came up with an idea and suggested that he should directly

Let's make him the county magistrate. You will know he is a high official at first sight.

This idea coincided with Wang Wanjin's, so Wei Shizhang, a crude warrior who didn't know a single Chinese character, was honored to become the magistrate of Xixiang.

However, although Wei Shizhang was not a very good civil servant, he was quite good at fighting people with a knife. At least Tian Qifeng attacked Xixiang for a month and failed to capture it.

"What's the matter with you, Lao Qi?" Jia Mingquan waved his soldiers to go down, and then saw Wei Shizhang and asked.

When Wang Wanjin raised the army, in order to win over people, he actually begged a group of people, not to be born on the same day in the same year, but to die on the same day. Among their group of 'brothers', Wang Wanjin was naturally the well-deserved boss.

Jia Mingquan also reached the second eldest position by virtue of his good relationship with Wang Wanjin.

As for Wei Shizhang, because he was too young, a young boy in his twenties was ranked third. It was really outrageous for a group of people in their thirties and forties to call him third brother, so he had to be aggrieved and ranked seventh.

"Second brother, your place is getting more and more ostentatious. My brother, I need to report to you personally even if I come to see you." Wei Shizhang said in a strange tone.

Jia Mingquan was speechless, thinking that you had barged in without waiting for a report, and now you are still making such sarcastic remarks, but he also understood Wei Shizhang's temper, so he pretended to be angry and said: "Speak well, there are so many yin and yang weird things,

Tell me what happened?"

"Hehe." Sure enough, Wei Shizhang was no longer obsessed with what happened when he was stopped by the soldiers, and said with a smile: "Second brother, our people discovered the remnants of the Tian family's army."

"Oh?" This was a big deal. Jia Mingquan became serious, "Where are they? How many people are there?"

"In the north of Xixiang, next to the Han River, there are more than 600 people, and it looks like they are going to Dayang County."

"Yang County?" Jia Mingquan frowned.

Yangxian County is also currently under Wang Wanjin's control, but unlike Wanwangjin who deliberately left Wei Shizhang, the more capable of their brothers, to guard Xixiang and guard against the Tian family in the east, since Yangxian County was swept by Wang Wanjin, now

It has been in a state of abandonment, and there are only a few dozen defenders guarding a nearly empty Yangxian County in the entire county.

If the six hundred remnants of the Tian family fled to Yangxian, then with the fighting power of the Tian family soldiers, Yangxian would probably be defeated with one blow. By then, it might not be as easy to take down the remnants of the Tian family as it is now.

"We cannot allow remnants of the Tian family to enter Yangxian County," Jia Mingquan said firmly.

"Second brother, I think so too. We can't let Yangxian County be handed over to the remnants of the Tian family in vain." Wei Shizhang gritted his teeth and said. He had suffered a lot in the Tian family's siege during this period. He had to deal with these remnants of the Tian family.

I also hate it to the core.

"It's just that there is not only one main road leading to Yangxian County, but also four or five trails in Ziwu Mountain. What should we do?"
Chapter completed!