It's getting closer and closer to the New Year.

At this time, the situation in the southwest has been tense for more than a year, and it is becoming more and more tense, but this tension does not affect the people of Jincheng to welcome the upcoming New Year.

This is a very normal thing.

From ancient times to the present, as long as the descendants of Zhuxia are still alive, no matter how difficult it is, it will not affect everyone's celebration of the New Year's Festival, not to mention that the situation in Jincheng is very optimistic now, and the situation in the southwest has not affected much here.

If you have to say that there is any impact, it is that the price of grain has risen a lot during this time, but the price of grain in Jincheng is far less than that in other places in the southwest, under the influence of the Pingnan General's Mansion, the price of grain in Jincheng has only barely doubled, unlike Fuxian, which has more than tripled.

Jincheng, as the southwest center, is also the capital of the former Southern Shu, compared to other places, here is much richer, although the rise in grain prices has affected them for the New Year, but it will not be unbearable.

However, on the eleventh day of the lunar month, less than twenty days before the Chinese New Year, an urgent report was sent to General Pingnan's mansion and delivered to Li Shen.

The content of the military newspaper is simple.

The imperial army of Fucheng began to attack Mianzhu on the tenth day of the lunar month.

When Li Shen received this urgent report, he didn't panic much, but frowned and thought.

Because he couldn't figure out what Li Xin's move meant.

No matter how bad Mianzhu is, there are also 10,000 troops stationed, compared to Fucheng, Mianzhu is still a big city, a city of this size is not something that can be taken in a short time, if Mianzhu is well guarded, it is not a problem to drag several times the army of itself.

And now stationed in Mianzhu is Li Chuan, the deputy general of the Pingnan Army, who is responsible for the defense of the entire southwest, and may not be very good at attacking, but he is handy at how to defend, Li Xin will want to capture Mianzhu for a while, which is basically impossible.

General Zhu Guo took this urgent report and frowned.

The most terrible thing about leading troops to fight is not how fierce the opponent's forces are, or how big the disparity in strength between the two sides is, but the most terrible thing is that you can't feel the mind of the enemy's main general, and you don't know what he wants to do.

Now Li Shen doesn't understand what Li Xin is going to do, he attacks Mianzhu at this time, which is meaningless in Li Shen's opinion.

The one who came to report the news was a captain of the Mianzhu garrison, he was quite anxious at this time, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "General, the first wave of the army of these imperial courts has about 5,000 people, and the offensive attitude is very resolute, Vice General Li is worried that Mianzhu will lose, so let the last man come to Jincheng for help!" ”

Li Shen put the emergency report into his sleeve and slowly lowered his eyebrows: "The general knows, you go back to Mianzhu first, and Jincheng will send troops to support Mianzhu later." ”

The captain was overjoyed when he heard this, and said in a deep voice: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

After he withdrew, Li Shen unfolded the letter asking for help again, and after I don't know how long, the general of the Zhu Kingdom said in a deep voice to the guards at the door: "Go and call Cheng Ping over." ”

Someone at the door immediately agreed.

"Yes!"

It didn't take long for Deputy General Cheng Pingcheng, who was a little short and fat, to bow down into Li Shen's room and slowly bow his head: "The last general, Cheng Ping, has seen the general." ”

"The imperial court is concentrating its forces to attack Mianzhu, which is the most important acropolis in Jincheng, and it must not be lost."

Speaking of this, Li Shen paused and continued.

"You order 10,000 people now to support Mianzhu."

Cheng Fatzi was originally the main battle faction, and he was immediately overjoyed when he heard this, he looked up at Li Shen and said: "General, the last general invites 20,000 people, as long as there are 20,000 people, the last general will definitely help the general to completely sweep out these imperial court troops, so that the southwest hinterland will return to peace!" ”

Li Shen glanced at Cheng Fatzi lightly.

"The general said that he wanted you to help Li Chuan defend the city, not to let you attack."

The general of the Pillar Kingdom spoke calmly, but his voice was loud.

Cheng Fatzi bowed his head and said, "General, you can't just wait for them to fight Mianzhu, right?" ”

"The imperial army in Fucheng has at least more than 20,000 people."

Li Shen said in a sullen voice: "These 20,000 people are all forbidden troops of the imperial court who practice every day, and they are the troops brought out by Pei Jin and Pei Saburo, they are not inferior to the Pingnan army at all, give you Cheng Pingcheng Tanfu 20,000 people, can you guarantee to eat this forbidden army of the imperial court?" ”

"You can guarantee that Ben will give you someone right away."

In terms of personal treatment, the forbidden army near Gyeonggi is the best among all the armies in the entire Jin court, and at the same time, their training should be the largest, especially in the past ten years, the head of the forbidden army is the famous iron-faced Pei Sanlang, so the military quality of these forbidden troops is very good, and they are definitely not young master soldiers.

Although they have some combat experience compared to the border army, it is basically impossible to eat the 20,000 forbidden army with 20,000 or 30,000 Pingnan troops.

What's more, the forbidden army in Fucheng may be more than 20,000 people.

Sweat flowed from Cheng Ping's forehead.

After a while, this Cheng Fat Man finally confessed, he bowed his head and said: "The last general will go to prepare, no matter what, I will definitely help Vice General Li to guard Mianzhu." ”

"No, you must hold on."

Li Shen said lightly: "If you can't support Mianzhu and are about to lose, remember to send a letter to Jincheng, and then you will do your best to fight Jincheng's army and divide it with the army of this imperial court." ”

It's very simple, once Mianzhu is lost, Jincheng is equivalent to a young girl who has been stripped naked, and Jincheng has no choice but to do his best to fight with the army of the imperial court.

At that time, it was not only a matter of superiority but also life and death.

Cheng Fatzi wiped his sweat again, bowed his head and said, "General, the last general will go down and prepare." ”

…

Cheng Ping's movements were fast.

In the early morning of the next day, he ordered a whole 10,000 people and prepared to bring them to support Mianzhu.

Li Shen personally saw off the fat general, and clearly told him that in Mianzhu, unless there was a great opportunity, he would only defend and not attack.

Cheng Fatzi and his subordinates agreed with a bang, and 10,000 people left Jincheng in a mighty way.

In the face of Li Xin's bold move, General Zhu Guo pondered and meditated, and he didn't understand what Li Xin was going to do, so he could only choose the most conservative response,

The departure of 10,000 people did not weaken Jincheng's strength much, so naturally there would be no plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, let alone affect Jincheng's impregnable status.

The Marquis of Pingnan stood on the tower of Jincheng and watched Cheng Ping's departure.

After Cheng Ping and the others walked away, the former general of the Pillar Kingdom slowly closed his eyes.

He was thinking about the trend of the situation in the entire southwest, and he was guessing what Li Xin was going to do.

Just when the general of the Zhu Kingdom was meditating, a soldier delivering the letter stumbled up to the city tower and knelt directly in front of Li Shen, almost crying.

"Big... General! ”

"Those remnants of Nanshu in Hanzhou City suddenly proposed to leave Hanzhou, and the brothers naturally disagreed, and those remnants of Nanshu began to openly take up arms and prepare to forcibly leave Hanzhou City!"

The soldier stammered and said, "He'...... Many of them are covered with armor! ”

Whether it is a knife or a sword, there will not be too many problems in the circulation of the people, but the armor is different.

Those who secretly possess armor and do not report it to the government will be dealt with as treason after verification.

And what this herald means is that those remnants of Nanshu are armored!

Hearing this, General Zhuguo's breathing began to shorten.