Li Xinchen arrived at Chencang and it was already the fourth day after the departure, and the heavy snow on the road basically did not melt, if it wasn't for the scouts exploring the road in front before, not to mention the delay along the way, there might be a lot of casualties if it was not good. After all, this mountain road cannot be compared with the roads of later generations, and there are no roads at all in many places, thanks to Li Xinchen's subordinates, these are some experienced veterans, if the army goes directly through the mountains, I am afraid that there will be some damage.

Rao is like this, when he arrived at Chen Cang, almost everyone was tired enough, and Changsun Sheng, who had been gritting his teeth and struggling to support Li Xinchen, was the first to be unable to support it, and fell to the ground and almost fell asleep, but fortunately, several guards supported him in time.

Obviously, the hardships of this journey have exceeded the imagination of the children of this family, but he can persevere step by step, which really makes Li Xinchen admire. Perhaps the tenacity of the eldest grandson Wuji and the eldest grandson queen is not traceless.

The small team of 800 people soon entered the rest, but Li Xinchen and Cheng Feng did not have time to rest, and Hou Mi had already led a few people to wait for Li Xinchen, including the people from the Niu clan. The turmoil in the northwest was started by the Northwest family headed by the Anding Niu clan, and now that it has developed to this point, they are of course more anxious than Li Xinchen.

If Li Xinchen doesn't come, the Northern Zhou army will be overwhelmed, and I am afraid that it will be a dead end.

"See the general!" Seeing Li Xinchen coming, Hou Mi and others bowed together.

"The lone army rushed to Chen Cang, and he did a good job, and he was worthy of the courage of the Hou family!" Li Xinchen said with a smile, his legs were trembling after such a long forced march, and he could only barely stand here, "What's the situation on Tianshui and Anding's side now?" ”

Li Xinchen was physically and mentally exhausted, and his voice was low with a bit of murderous aura, which made the representatives of the families look at each other, after all, this war was provoked by them, but now it has become such a mess, not only have several cities in the northwest not been taken down, but even these families will face extinction at any time, which makes them helpless at the same time, they can only be submissive to Li Xinchen.

Hou Mi also discovered Li Xinchen's abnormality, and immediately made a gesture of please, and Li Xinchen and Cheng Feng quickly followed. Chen Cangcheng's council hall is very simple, and naturally Li Xinchen's familiar sand table has nothing, only a simple map.

Hou Mi stretched out his hand and tapped lightly on the map: "General, please see, now several fortresses outside Tianshui and Anding City have fallen into our hands, and we have formed a joint siege of these two cities, and at the same time, the road leading to Xiaoguan from the two cities has also been cut off by us." There is not much grain in the city, it should be able to support about ten days, and there will be no more, and the soldiers and horses are probably eight or nine hundred. These cities belonged to the border cities for the Zhou people, and to the north was Hexi, which was the territory of the Turks, so the defense of the cities was sufficient. ”

Li Xinchen bowed slightly, now there is no need to worry about the Turks, before Yuwen Yong's five-way northern expedition, it really scared the Turks, so it should be honest for a while, which also allows Li Xinchen not to worry about the Turkic problems at least in a short period of time, but it is conceivable that in the future this is also a tricky enemy that has to be dealt with, in history Tang Taizong spent much financial and material resources to deal with the Turks, Li Xinchen is very clear.

The Northern Zhou Dynasty was originally too busy to take care of itself, after all, there was an enemy like the Northern Qi, and the Turkic attack was nothing, so the purpose of the defense in the northwest became very obvious. The population, grain, grass and equipment are concentrated in the city, the city is high and the pool is deep, and the Turks generally do not take the initiative to attack the city - in history, Li Shimin regarded the Weiqiao Alliance as a shame in his life all his life, and therefore spared no effort in dealing with the Turks, but I am afraid he must also admit that if it were not for the lack of enough siege equipment and experience, the Turks would never have seen the outline of Chang'an and retreated in a hurry.

"The news of Yu Yi's entry into Xiaoguan has already spread in the northwest, and the Taishou of these two cities have been shaken, and they have even taken the initiative to send people to negotiate with us, but there has been almost no movement since this news came." Hou Mi was a little annoyed, "On the contrary, the city has begun to tighten its precautions again······"

Speaking of this, Hou Mi was very ashamed, he naively thought at first that as long as the northwest was disturbed by these local snakes, it would intuitively fall into the hands of Li Xinchen, but he didn't expect that the situation would evolve into such an embarrassing situation today.

And Li Xinchen said lightly: "It's not your fault, being able to rely on such a small number of soldiers and horses from the headquarters to defend Chencang and transfer grain and grass is already a great achievement." ”

As soon as Li Xinchen said this, the faces of the representatives of the other Northwest families were even more unbearable, since Hou Mi was not at fault, but had merit, it meant that their families were really not angry.

Li Xinchen's gaze then fell on the middle-aged people who were a little nervous for a while, Niu Tong of the Niu clan of the Anding Niu clan, Liang Luan of the Liang clan of Tianshui, An Xiu of the Wuwei An clan, and the representatives of the three or four small families who followed these three big families. These families have a long history and can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, and the Lantian Yu clan and other emerging nobles in the Guanlong group are different from the old gate valves that have been precipitated for hundreds of years, and it is precisely because of this that they have always been closer to the same old families such as Hongnong Yang, which is why they have been moving closer to Hongnong Yang at the beginning.

It is natural for the emerging aristocracy to suppress the old aristocrats, but it does not mean that these old aristocrats will sit still.

But their rebellion now seemed to be more of a big problem.

"You don't need to panic," Li Xinchen smiled and pressed his hand at them, and then looked at the map, on which the strength of each family had been roughly marked. Because Wuwei County is close to the border and the deserted land, coupled with the scarcity of people, the An clan has already controlled the entire city, and the situation of Guangwu County next to it is similar to that of Wuwei County, which is already considered an empty city, but now the An clan has not had time to stretch out his hand.

Yu Yidun soldiers Xiao Pass, the soldiers pointed directly at the three northern cities, and they were no longer allowed to reach out to Guangwu County, and now the soldiers and horses controlled by the An clan and the children of the An clan were deploying outside the Anding city, obviously they also knew what was more important.

Tianshui is a little farther away, and it is naturally the best choice to win Valium first.

As for the Tianshui Liang clan and the Anding Niu clan, naturally one surrounded Tianshui and the other surrounded Anding, and the previous few attempts to attack were all repulsed, so they didn't dare to make a move easily. After all, the soldiers and horses in their hands are also temporarily composed of some domestic servants and border troops, not to mention not much morale and fighting spirit, and they lack a lot of basic training, so it is already good to be able to attack according to orders.

Therefore, Li Xinchen had little hope of winning these two cities with the strength of a few families.