Zhang Jia's whole army moved to Ulzhou, and he was really uneasy in his heart. But now he has no choice, if he doesn't go, his fate will either be annexed by Li Cunzhong, or by Yiwu Jiedu Peng Fang, staying in Weizhou, he can't find any strong supporters, and with his own strength, it is not much different from the fish on the felt board of others.

When he arrived in Ulzhou, although he faced the threat of the Lulong people, he had a strong foreign aid. When he moved to Ulzhou, Zhang Jia could only beg Li Ze in his heart to talk and count, not to treat him as an outcast, and discard him at will after using it.

The Heavenly Soldier Army, with 3,000 Turkic cavalry as the core, with more than 30,000 people, came from Weizhou to Ulzhou, but fortunately, this section of the journey was not far. And on the way, Li Cunzhong and Han Qi brought some grain for them, no matter what the purpose was.

Han Qi and Li Cunzhong were naturally unwilling to provide Zhang Jia with these aids, but they still sent them, which can only show that Li Ze's high-pressure posture towards them made them have to give in, which made Zhang Jia's confidence greatly increased. With food, the whole team slowly stabilized.

With Ulju City as the center, Zhang Jia settled down the more than 30,000 people who had migrated with him. As soon as he arrived in Ulzhou, Zhang Jia immediately began to mobilize everyone to build the dilapidated Ulzhou City.

The battle-hardened city of Ulju is almost in ruins, the rammed earth walls have collapsed in many places, the walls are even overgrown with wild grass, and most of the houses in the city are dilapidated, most of them have only four walls left.

It's already November, winter is coming, and both Zhang Jia and ordinary people know very well that they must build their hiding places before the cold wave comes, otherwise, winter will become their nightmare.

3,000 Turkic soldiers were deployed in the direction of Fuzhou, closely monitoring the Lu Long army in Fuzhou, and 30,000 people, under the organization of officials, accelerated the repair of the city walls and built houses.

The Yanzhou army did not move, but the aid from Yizhou arrived first. A large number of members of the Yixing Society escorted a new batch of grain and grass to Ulzhou, and the arrival of these people finally gave Xu Ziyuan a helper.

Now Xu Ziyuan's identity has changed, from an ordinary student of Wuwei Academy to the head secretary of the Heavenly Soldier Army. Zhang Jia was added by Li Zejia as the commander of the military and horses of the capital, supervising the military of Ulzhou, Weizhou, and Shuozhou, and Xu Ziyuan, the secretary, was naturally in charge of the civil affairs of the three states.

In this name, Xu Ziyuan naturally took the command of 30,000 people from Zhang Jia, and immediately, the members of the Yixing Society were arranged by Xu Ziyuan in various names and various official titles, and went deep into the people.

Zhang Jia didn't care about this, all he wanted was military power, Xu Ziyuan had no interest in his military power, and he was happy to be thrown to Xu Ziyuan by the burden of feeding so many people.

Anyway, where aid comes from Yizhou, the army must always be satisfied first, and only when the army is stable can there be stability in Ulzhou.

The team set up by the two of them is actually harmonious and stable, which can be called a miracle.

Zhang Jia in the people's livelihood of the stall, immediately put his energy into the rampant three places of some bandits, to deal with them, Zhang Jia's heavenly army is to capture, with 3,000 Turkic cavalry as the main force of the heavenly army, mobile is extremely strong, organized, fast, action of the regular army, for the bandits, is a catastrophe, in just half a month, the bandits in Ulzhou, almost swept away by Zhang Jia, either surrender, or die.

Under the pressure of Zhang Jia, almost all the bandits chose to surrender to him, and Zhang Jia selected the strongest ones to join the army, which increased his strength to 5,000 in a short time.

At this time, Zhang Jia's strength had actually made great progress, and in addition to the 5,000 regular army, among the more than 30,000 people controlled by Xu Ziyuan, thousands of young people were also mobilized in the war.

It's not enough to attack outward, but it's barely enough to defend a place.

Seeing that everything was developing in a good direction, Zhang Jia was almost frightened by a piece of news brought by the sentry scout.

Zhang Zhongwu actually appeared with 20,000 cavalry in person.

Not to mention Zhang Jia's current strength, even in his heyday, facing Zhang Zhongwu's 20,000 cavalry, he only had to eat ashes.

The panicked Zhang Jia was about to run away as soon as possible, and ordinary people naturally couldn't care about it.

He even hid the news from Xu Ziyuan.

However, Zhang Zhongwu didn't pay attention to the small force that was shrinking in Ulzhou, and 20,000 cavalry grazed the edge of Ulzhou and plunged straight into Yizhou, and it was not until this time that Zhang Jia understood that Zhang Zhongwu was going to deal with Li Ze.

At this time, Li Ze's main force had already crossed the Juma River and was approaching Zhuojun all the way, seeing that the situation was very good, and Zhang Zhongwu's move was very likely to reverse the entire battlefield situation.

Although Zhang Jia didn't have to run away immediately, he couldn't stay in Ulzhou when he thought that if Li Ze was killed by Zhang Zhongwu, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to stay in Ulzhou. At that time, there will be no more than two roads, one is to surrender to Zhang Zhongwu, and the other is to flee back to Weizhou.

"What, you want me to send troops immediately to support the marshal?" Zhang Jia's eyes widened, and he looked at Xu Ziyuan incredulously: "That's 20,000 cavalry, Zhang Zhongwu's elite, do you want me to die?" ”

Xu Ziyuan glared at Zhang Jia without flinching: "Zhang Bing and Ma Envoy, you are a subordinate of the section commander, the section commander is in trouble, if you don't immediately raise troops to support, is it difficult to run away?" ”

Zhang Jia was forced by Xu Ziyuan, a scholar, and turned his head a little unnaturally: "It's not that I want to escape, but my strength is really insufficient, even if I go, I will kill myself!" ”

"Who said we are not strong enough." Xu Ziyuan sneered: "Just look at the Heavenly Soldier Army, the current strength is indeed insufficient, but Zhang Bing and Ma Envoy, don't forget, you are now a member of Wuwei, and the main force of the Jieshuai has indeed crossed the Juma River, but Yi County still has the Jieshuai's personal guards and righteous servants, as well as Wanfu, Liang Hanjiashi, and Min Rou's Chengde wolf ride, even if you don't count the Qingzhuang who can be mobilized in Yi County, this is more than 10,000 people, plus Qingzhuang, you can organize an army of tens of thousands of people, and there are city walls to use, and now our Heavenly Soldiers can send nearly 10,000 troops, all together, In terms of troops, it can also surpass Zhang Zhongwu. ”

Zhang Jia smiled bitterly: "My secretary, that's not how the account is calculated." ”

Xu Ziyuan said coldly: "Commander Zhang, you are also a long-time experienced, when should you make what kind of choice, you must know in your heart, you have missed it once, and you know very well the situation you have endured, if it weren't for our festival marshal to reach out and pull you, what would happen to you?" Now it's time for you to choose again, and I hope you don't make the wrong choice. ”

Zhang Jia listened to Xu Ziyuan's mockery and ridicule, and suddenly his face turned red, in Gao Yu's last blow, he did choose the wrong one, and then fell into an embarrassing situation.

Looking at Xu Ziyuan, Zhang Jia, whose face was flushed, flashed a trace of killing intent in his eyes.

The killing intent fell in Xu Ziyuan's eyes, but he was not afraid, and said with a sneer: "You naturally have another choice, that is, to surrender to Zhang Zhongwu, but Commander Zhang, don't forget, your core soldiers and horses are three thousand Turkic cavalry, will they follow you to Zhang Zhongwu?" As long as you dare to give this order, believe it or not, these 3,000 Turkic soldiers turned around and went to Li Cunzhong? Li Cunzhong is of the same species as them, and now you can still control them because you still have food and grass, they still have a very good treatment, and their families are also here, once you want to defect to Zhang Zhongwu, with Zhang Zhongwu's attitude towards the Hu people, they are only afraid that they will have to rebel immediately, are you ready to surrender to Zhang Zhongwu with your bare hands? ”

Zhang Jia suddenly withered.

"Commander Zhang, at the critical moment, he must stand still, see steadily, and choose accurately. In this battle, even if Zhang Zhongwu wins, Wu Wei will not hurt his muscles and bones, but the plan to attack Lu Long has to be postponed, but what if Zhang Zhongwu loses? When the time comes, you are close at hand, but you have not sent troops, what does the marshal think of you? Wuwei's other generals, officials, what do you think? Xu Ziyuan continued. Sending troops is your only option. Raise the army and set off for Yizhou. ”

Zhang Jia looked up to the sky and sighed, he hated God for always not letting him live that kind of smooth life, forcing him to make a choice every time, and every choice, as long as he chose the wrong one, he would almost suffer a catastrophe.

"Send troops, and the whole army of the Heavenly Soldiers will be dispatched." He almost gritted his teeth and yelled.

The Celestial Soldiers are almost out of the nest. Not only the standing army commanded by Zhang Jia, Xu Ziyuan also mobilized 5,000 young men to join the support team, and more than 10,000 people marched towards Yizhou.

Three days later, Zhang Jia stood in front of Xu Ziyuan and slammed him to the ground.

Because at this moment, the news of Zhang Zhongwu's defeat has come. With 20,000 Lu Long troops, more than half of them were lost, and Zhang Zhongwu escaped across the Juma River with the remnants in embarrassment.

Zhang Jia did not lose a single soldier, but his Turkic cavalry captured many Lu dragoons who fled in a panic.

Xu Ziyuan picked up Zhang Jia and said with a smile: "Commander Zhang, this is your own choice, congratulations, although you didn't make any effort in this battle, but the appearance of the Heavenly Soldiers here is already a great credit, and the commander will never treat you badly." ”

Of course, Li Ze did not treat Zhang Jia badly.

Thousands of sets of armor and thousands of war horses were distributed to him as trophies of Zhang Jia's war. Even if Zhang Jia didn't really set foot on the sound of battle, the hundreds of remnants of Lulong that he captured were real.

After Zhang Jia had an armed march, he returned with a full load, in addition to these spoils, he also got 100,000 stone of grain from Li Ze in Yizhou at one time, and this winter, he didn't have to worry.