High in the sky, birds flew, clouds flowed over the earth, and on the ground in the northwest, thousands of troops and horses traveled rapidly from east to west.

Occasionally, the sun shines through the cracks in the sky, and the heavenly river of light pours down. Columns of wolf smoke rose, and the running soldiers occasionally intersected, and after the collision, they dispersed like waves, leaving the remnants of corpses and deserters in all directions.

It's a race against the clock for anyone.

There are times when war doesn't necessarily give warning.

By the time the warning message of the wolf smoke was transmitted to the city of Yanzhou, it was already halfway through, which was the fastest means of communication in wartime, but it was not accurate. The Western Xia general who was guarding the place, Ji Raselle, quickly gathered his generals and waited for further reports to arrive, while the army in the city began to assemble.

At noon, the first message rushed into the city of Yanzhou with a fast horse, and from the mountains to the east, a team of about 800 people was killed, extremely brave, and the line of the gravel village was broken in an instant, and the banner was a star on a black background.

This first message came from Kuihong, a general who had been dead for an hour thirty miles away. Not long ago, as the second small leader of the Western Xia who came into contact with the Black Flag Army for the first time, he decisively chose to flee when he witnessed his men collapse at an alarming speed, but a platoon led by Luo Ye relentlessly chased him down for five miles and cut him to the ground. In the message that came out before the collapse of this formation, he exaggerated the number of invading enemies, from more than 200 to 800, but of course, this exaggeration of hundreds of people did not change the overall situation.

In the original expectation of Western Xia, during the grain harvesting period, the most likely enemy to attack was the Zhejia who is now in Fuzhou. After being confused for a long time, the staff reminded him that the banner of the star on a black background was suspected to be the banner of the tributary bandit in the mountains. But at this point. It is also not entirely confirmed whether it is a conspiracy of the Zhejia army.

More battle reports followed, and it was overwhelmingly fast.

Since the gravel village, the lonely mountain pass has encountered the enemy! Your own defeat! Tagawa meets the enemy! Your own defeat! The Bassoonbu was attacked and routed, and the enemy brigade was coming! The San River meets the enemy. Rout! Within half an hour after the arrival of the first battle report, the Western Xia army in Yanzhou City almost exploded, and eight or nine defeated military reports flew in front of the eyes of the native Raselle and the generals. According to these military reports on the map, after a large army jumped out of the mountain, it was now in a position of five miles to the left and right, swept in a devastating manner, and followed the direction of the beacon smoke, and went straight to Yanzhou City!

Bloodstone Village is a checkpoint in the direction of Yanzhou City in the east, and the general Puda led 2,000 people to guard here. At noon, the news of his battle and the news of his defeat appeared in front of everyone almost at the same time. This is of course related to the strength and urgency of the front and rear transmission horses, but their arrival at the same time is enough to prove that the speed of the opponent's attack is jaw-dropping.

The horses that had reported the battle had just left, and Puda led 2,000 men to line up on the side of Bloodstone, and according to the news of the defeated army, the other side quickly rushed out of the mountains. The brigade assumed a posture of circumventing the card, just a moment when Puda adjusted the military formation. The opponent went straight to Bloodstone Village, and after a while, the entire Bloodstone Village's military formation was penetrated, and after the opponent broke through the defense line, he continued to pounce on Yanzhou without stopping!

The generals under the command of Spicy Sail have exploded! No matter who the other party is, this strategy of fighting fast and fast is aimed at the current situation in Yanzhou.

At the beginning of the southern arrival of Western Xia. The whole army was about 100,000 people, and after the defeat of the western army, more soldiers were sent over. He is a general who guards the Gansu Military Division in Ganzhou, with more than 50,000 people under his command. Today, more than 40,000 have been mobilized to the Yanzhou area to consolidate the garrison.

In order to guard the wheat fields everywhere, the harvest has begun so far, and the Western Xia army sent out by Rasaile outside Yanzhou City has exceeded 20,000, and more than 20,000 elites are stationed in the city. At this time, it was the harvest time of the wheat field, and a lot of wheat was still being loaded and transported to Yanzhou. At this time, the battle began, and the opponent killed at high speed to the city of Yanzhou, and more than 20,000 Western Xia soldiers would be blocked on the road by the opponent's people with food.

These grains were already in the pocket of Western Xia, and the other party entered the border of Yanzhou, whether it was the bandit or the broken army, they all belonged to the barefoot ones who were not afraid to wear shoes. How to deal with this sudden situation is the first priority.

At the same moment, in the direction of the southwest of Yanzhou City, the main force of the Black Flag Army from Xiaocang River was divided into three strands and swept over, and the distance had been shortened to within ten miles!

Of these three armies, the first regiment led by Ho Zhicheng and the fourth regiment led by Sun Ye took the left road, which was the largest one, about 4,500 men. The 1,800 men of the 3rd Regiment led by Li Yi took the right road, guarding Pang Liu'an's 2nd Regiment and the Special Regiment led by Liu Chengzong, totaling more than 3,500 people.

These more than 9,000 people have not stopped at all since they left the mountain, of course, killing more than 20 miles in half a day, it is not the fastest forced march, but under the surprise of the other party, they have killed and sudden, and crossed the mountain, which is already an astonishing high speed. Along the way, seeing the wolf smoke rising, the Xixia army guarding the vicinity appeared from time to time, these food supervision teams assembled one team after another, occasionally, towards this army with a black flag, and then was scattered by several companies that were divided, the corpses were killed all over the mountain, and the deserters were scattered, if it weren't for the order of the middle and high level of the Black Flag Army not to fight, the number of people who died in two or three hours was very likely to double.

This is not to blame these Western Xia troops, they came here as conquerors. The army was defeated, the Wu Dynasty was powerless, and even though some mountain bandits and villagers rebelled, as soon as the army came out, it basically swept through. In such a situation, they naturally have high morale. These grain overseers are composed of hundreds of people, and if they collude with the surrounding areas and gather one or two thousand people, where will they not dare to attack the same team of several thousand people.

The fact that the other party dared to divide a small team to charge made them feel even more ridiculous. Only when the soldiers met and the front collapsed at an astonishing speed, and the other party rushed into the crowd with steel knives like chopping melons and vegetables, everyone could feel the even absurd sense of horror.

The incoming army was closing the distance to the city of Yanzhou, and reports of routs flew like snowflakes, because of the change in distance and the time difference, the frequency of the battle was more rapid than the actual situation. On the road of the Black Flag Army, the Western Xia soldiers in formation came over one by one, or teased or tempted, or resolutely blocked the way, and then they all scattered in all directions. The routs scattered in the nearby mountains and fields.

on the road. Many civilians who were forced to collect food saw the army's rapid march and hedging almost on the front line. After that terrible fight, the wounded soldiers would be left behind and left in the care of these people.

Other than that, no one greeted them.

Until it approached the range outside the city of Yanzhou, the people in the Black Flag Army who really fought with the Western Xia Army. Less than a quarter. In Qin Shaoqian's order, the generals in the army chose to use several fixed battalions and companies as the combat method of the sharp knife team against the Western Xia, and the rest of the people all walked quickly while maintaining their physical strength, even if the people in the queue couldn't look past it and wanted to take the initiative to ask for battle, they were not allowed. Thus, at about two o'clock in the afternoon, the ranks of the army went out to fight. Most of them were covered in blood. In the direction they came, thousands of Western Xia soldiers were scattering and fleeing.

From about 10 a.m. to about 2 p.m., this army crossed a distance of 25 miles in a straight line and a distance of about 40 miles, ran over several checkpoints, and approached the city of Yanzhou. At the same time, the 19,000-strong army of Yanzhou City attacked under the leadership of Ji Raselle, leaving 5,000 men to defend the city. They were the first to go up. It was a middle route army of more than 3,000.

For the Tangut people, this was actually the most correct choice. When you have the advantage. No one would tolerate the enemy roaming their territory, and although the Black Flag army marched fast, it was not long before the number of the army was roughly determined, each numbering in the thousands, and the total was not more than 10,000. Killing into a plate of scattered sand will naturally destroy it, but why should you be afraid of it.

In any case, Yanzhou City at this time would not tolerate being blocked by an army of less than 10,000 people.

The sun that had been slightly blazing in the middle of the day was now hidden behind the clouds. There are strange balls floating in the sky.

It was cloudy, and the two teams, which seemed to be equally gloomy, faced each other for a moment. The 3rd Regiment of the Black Flag Army led by Li Yi emerged from the hillside. The total number of them was 1,800, and now more than 1,200 have not participated in the war. These people lined up on the hillside, drew their swords, breathed in silence, and everyone's hearts were beating faster, and blood was ringing in their veins.

In the Western Xia army of nearly 20,000 people, the soldiers and generals also looked at the two attacking teams with the same pride, and then the fierce generals in the army, Chayan Gaibian, and the department came to ask for battle.

Again, this is a command, almost frustratingly correct. At this time, the northwest land is not against the seed army, if 20,000 people dare not fight in the face of five or six thousand people, the military spirit of his own men will not be wanted.

On the other side, the one-eyed general on the war horse was talking, and he stretched out his hand and pointed to this side, referring to the position of the commander of the Western Xia army. The Western Xia army divided into two formations and began to push forward, and thousands of people were silently changing formations here, and cavalry appeared, but a large part of the cavalry went to the rear - some of their horses carried boxes on their backs, and they used their war horses as heavy cattle, and it seemed that they did not plan to participate in the battle all. On the hillside, the front of more than a thousand people raised their shields and began to advance, their steps were calm and silent, and in front of them were four thousand Western Xia soldiers led by Tie Gang.

The pace is getting faster and faster.

A stone's throw away

"Give it to me...... Rush—"

Thunderous footsteps suddenly exploded on the ground! With countless hysterical shouts, these two small teams threw themselves into the arms of the Western Xia army in front like a roaring tide! In this head-on hedging situation, strategy and tactics have lost their meaning for a while. He was not sure, but when the two sides of the hedge suddenly collided, he still scolded: "Stupid." ”

After a cup of tea, two behemoths like huge rocks composed of four or five thousand Western Xia soldiers were brutally chiseled and collapsed. Waves of blood and corpses pushed away like a river, and the defeated soldiers tried to flee to their own formation, some running around.

He saw the soldiers shouting and raising their shields as they cut through the obstacles in front of them in a frantic slashing posture, but the pace under their feet did not pause in the slightest, and rushed towards their own side.

There was a loud bang, and on this day, the monstrous waves on the seashore broke through the huge mountain rocks.

In the city of Yanzhou, the people living in it had already noticed the strangeness of this day, and they saw the Western Xia soldiers assembled, martial law, and then the army attacked. Only an hour after the attack of the army, the defeated soldiers flooded into the city like a tidal wave, bloodied and terrified......

In the mountains.

In the desolate valley of earth and rocks, tents were set up and bonfires were lit.

As the sun set, Xu Qiang and several of his companions were eating, and they were surrounded by people with swords, in groups of three or five, either preparing dinner, or talking to each other, or even learning from each other. Some people's fights attracted many onlookers, or commented, or showed their skills.

In the past few days, Xu Qiang has met many martial arts heroes who have been admired for a long time, and after meeting, he has learned a lot from each other. This is also a good atmosphere that he has never seen in the green forest, and many people are no longer stingy with a few unique skills in their hands, communicating with each other and increasing each other's strength. He had heard of the grand scene when Grandmaster Zhou Tong led dozens of Green Forest masters to assassinate Zong Wang, and before the assassination, every night, Grandmaster Zhou was also like this, without hesitating to mention his companions around him.

Today, Zhou Dong's feat of stabbing sticky Han has become an immortal legend in the green forest. Xu Qiang believes that the chivalrous actions of his group of people will also leave a name in history and be remembered for future generations!

Looking around, among these people, there are young and outstanding green forest rookies, and there are famous green forest tycoons: Li Yanyi, who was once invincible in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, "Broken Door Knife", "Rogue" He Longqian, "White Fang Gun" Yu Lie, Chief Arrest of the Criminal Department, known as "Golden Eye Qianling" Fan Chong, former Liangshan hero, "Big Knife" Guan Sheng, "Thunderbolt Fire" Qin Ming, "Winged Tiger" Lei Heng, "Mixed River Dragon" Li Jun, "Jing Mu Qian" Hao Siwen...... All these heroes have broken his heart. And now, he is also one of them, he remembered this picture in his heart, and he couldn't help but stand up, his chest bulging, and his ambition fierce.

Tomorrow, all of them will go straight into the Xiaocang River to get rid of the rebellious demon for the world! All of them have put life and death on the line!

That's what he thought that evening.

The next day, at the foot of the mountain outside the Xiaocang River, when a bang sounded, Xu Qiang's feet trembled violently, and everyone saw half of Yu Lie's body flying up. The flying lower body crossed the top of Xu Qiang's head, dyeing half of his body into a piece of blood red.

On June 18, the second year of Jingping, even if there were still people mentioning the impact of the green forest people on Xiaocang River many years later, the legend of the demon slaughtering the martial arts was finally established and began in a tragic form.

At the same time, Li led dozens of people to walk in the farther forest. At this moment, he has truly put life and death out of the way.

To the east of Yanzhou City, three huge balloons flew in the sky, and the Black Flag Army lined up, facing the ancient city wall, and Ji Ra Celle stood on the city wall, his face was a little pale after being injured, looking at this terrible army that he had almost never seen.

Xiao Canghe, Ning Yi and Zuo Duanyou sat in the courtyard halfway up the mountainside, chatting while waiting for the gentle mountain breeze to bring all the information. At this moment, the sun was shining, and the sound of explosions came, like distant thunder on the horizon. (To be continued.) )