The place where Shen Yun and other martial soldiers temporarily lived, the surrounding mounds that were not steep were called Shangyanpi, and the small river flowing south through the hills was called Xiaciqu, all of which were local conventions and local names, and the mountains and rivers were ordinary, not long-lasting places.

When they had just arrived at the border, the Fenwu soldiers had a fierce battle with the cavalry of the Qiang army who came to test the attack, and even the general Shen Yun fell off his horse and was injured.

Probably because the Fenwu army exuded too much evil spirit in this battle, the Yedi army did not continue to launch any large-scale attacks after that, but all kinds of harassment were inevitable. But this level of harassment, not to mention the battle-hardened Fenwu army, even the people of Xiangguo who followed all the way to the south, can turn a blind eye to this.

In the next few days, the situation did not change much, but there were more and more troops roaming around the Qianguo army, and the scouts sent by the Fenwu army became more and more difficult to move, so that they were gradually compressed within a few miles of Shangyanpi, but anyone who exceeded this range would be expelled and pursued by the cavalry of the Qianjun army.

Obviously, the Qiang army was planning to trap the Fenwu army and the tens of thousands of people of Xiangguo who followed it here. Not to mention that Shen Yun is injured at the moment, it is no longer suitable to go into a fierce battle, even if he is still intact, it is difficult to break through the blockade line of the Qian army under the condition of leading such a large number of people.

It is comforting to say that although the current situation is very bad, the people who have followed from Xiangguo have not yet collapsed on a large scale, and are still willing to obey the orders of the Fenwu army, and stay in this mountain col honestly, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

This made Shen Yun feel quite comforted, the Fenwu Army was not without the possibility of wandering and breaking through, but because they were unwilling to give up these Hebei people who followed all the way, they chose to stay and wait with them for help.

War is sometimes a very cruel logic, because if the Fenwu army stays, these people will have the possibility of being rescued and surviving. However, once the Fenwu army left, no matter how merciful Xie Ai of Fangtou was, it would be impossible for him to mobilize the Wang division of Fangtou to break through the blockade of the Yedi army and rescue these people.

Because Xie Ai is a general of Xingtai Town, he must first be responsible for the general of Xingtai and the soldiers under his command, and will not disrupt his own military deployment for the lives of tens of thousands of Hebei people.

Although even if these people can't stand the oppression of the bad situation and collapse and scatter, basically nothing good will come of it, and most of them will be harvested by the Ye army as a military merit. But how can people keep their sanity all the time, and many brilliant big people will inevitably make foolish choices, not to mention these little people who are not organized and just want to survive.

They were able to stay here at this moment, willing to believe in the possibility of life created for them by the Fenwu Army, which naturally gave Shen Yun a sense of relief that his goodwill had not been disappointed.

Of course, this is also because most of these people who followed the south live in the vicinity of Xiangguo, and it can be said that they have been oppressed by the tyranny of Xiangguo all year round, so the pressure is also extremely high.

The calm of the people here is not alarmed, which has contributed to the dire situation. With the temporary settlement, some of the Shengmin Zhuangli began to do some work within their capacity under the organization of Liu Du and other Xiangguo village tycoons, such as picking wood between the surrounding hills, building some simple shacks, and replenishing the Fenwu soldiers with spears and other equipment.

But even so, the situation is still very bad, and the most urgent thing is not the Yedi army that is increasingly active in the surrounding areas, but the urgency.

Although it was also useless before, it could more or less meet the needs of the soldiers who fought for it, but when they were trapped here, the way to replenish them was really limited. Even if the villagers are still working hard to hunt, fish and hunt, they will be constantly harassed and expelled by the army, and secondly, this realm is by no means a rich and well-governed land, how can there be so many ingredients in the suburbs to meet the consumption of these tens of thousands of people!

If seven or eight days have passed, except for the war horses that the Fenwu Army needs for basic operations, the rest of the animal power has been slaughtered and eaten. But even so, people continued to starve to death every day, so much so that the Fen warriors had to personally enter the market to collect the corpses and bury them, so as not to be hidden by the hungry people.

According to this situation, there is no need for the surrounding troops to rush and kill again, and this alone is enough to consume them. In the process, although Shen Yun also organized several outward attacks, he was either forced back by the Qianjun army, or the other party was deeply grounded in the fort and should not fight, completely not giving the Fenwu army a chance to use it against the enemy.

At the same time, the blockade of this area of Shangyanpi by the Qiang army became more and more tight. This kind of tightness does not mean that the territory is completely surrounded by a large army, but there are too many troops thrown into it. Fangtou and Yedi have been facing each other all year round, and if Ma Qiu can calmly dispatch more than 10,000 soldiers as a mobile force that can move freely in a short period of time, it can be said that Xie Ai is derelict in his duties.

Therefore, the blockade of this territory by the Qiang army is mainly based on the defense line that was originally built, with the forts where the passages are located as the fulcrum, based on the private songs of local townsmen, and widely distributed rangers as eyes and ears, as long as there is any movement of the Fenwu army, it can be intercepted in the shortest possible time.

"What the hell is Xie Ai doing?"

After arriving in Yebei, it was less than ten years in the past, and for Shen Yun, it could be said that he had lived the most dull and torturous period since Rong. Its own strength was gradually consumed and squeezed, but the reinforcements from the outside world were slow to act.

Although he also knew that Ye Di's army was a real tiger, even if Xie Ai wanted to make any effective moves, it would be difficult for him to make a breakthrough in such a short period of time. Moreover, the current Karma army only encircled them and did not fight them, which also showed that Xie Ai's containment of the Yedi Karma army was very effective.

But in adversity, even if Shen Yun can survive, he is really worried about the state of those people. Although Liu Du and other township tyrant leaders are still trying to maintain people's hearts, that kind of despair has begun to spread.

On the tenth day, the turnaround finally happened. Just when more than 100 soldiers of the Fenwu Army knocked on a dock wall located a few miles away on the northwest side of Shangyanpi, it was clear that the dock wall had no signs of being breached, but the dock wall suddenly burst into flames, and then the door opened, and hundreds of men, women and children appeared in the rear, and between them were piled up with all kinds of belongings, and they made it clear that they wanted to return to the same righteousness!

Hearing this news, Shen Yun was also wide-eyed, regardless of the pain and trouble, he personally left the camp to interrogate, and then learned that Xie Ai had already made a move, first of all, he sent a message to the villagers on all sides of Yedi, calling on them to join forces to fight the army.

Many villagers have surged up and responded to the call, but because Ma Qiu blocked this place very carefully, even if these villagers have the enthusiasm for righteousness, it is difficult to break through the blockade of the army for a while.

But there is a mistake in Baimi, and Ma Qiu can prevent the outside power from sending reinforcements to the encirclement, but it can't stop the villagers who are on this encirclement front from changing their courts!

The scale of this dock wall is not very large, the Fenwu army previously sent hundreds of soldiers to requisition this dock to defend in order to blockade the Fenwu Army, although the Fenwu Army had several previous knocks in vain, but also made the Fenwu soldiers have a lot of casualties.

It was precisely today that the owner of the dock wall felt that there was finally the possibility of counter-killing the Qiang army, so he took advantage of the fact that the Fenwu army continued to attack, and when the Qiang army responded to the enemy in front, he carried out a counterattack in the rear, so the next scene happened.

The scale of this dock wall is not very large, and the help that can be provided to the Fenwu Army is also very limited, even if it destroys the family and relieves the difficulties, it can only provide a hundred and ten grains.

But the excitement of this to people's hearts is huge, it is like a glimmer of light in the darkness full of despair, so that the soldiers and civilians trapped here understand that there are still a large number of people in the outside world who are working hard to rescue them, and they are even less qualified to do anything to give up on themselves!

Moreover, the surrender of the owner of the dock wall also allowed Shen Yun to learn a lot about the military arrangements of Yedi and information from the outside world. Although he didn't know about Xie Ai's private communication with Ma Qiu, through Ma Qiu's pile arrangement, he also realized that the other party was planning to use the Fenwu Army as a bait to force Fang Tou to come to the rescue.

Determining this situation is enough for Shen Yun, the owner of the dock wall is willing to donate and lose, he is not in a hurry to disperse to the public, but gives priority to satisfying the fighting soldiers, and when the nearly 1,000 soldiers regain their strength a little, he will personally lead these people to march out and go straight to the defense line set up by the Qian army around them.

This trip is not to kill the enemy, but to be strong, Shen Yun's pain has not healed, but he has people tied himself to the back of the horse with a rope, and he led thousands of brave soldiers, shouting the slogan of Wang Shi all the way, swaggering in the suburbs.

In many cases, the stalemate can be maintained because of a balance of power. However, as soon as some relatively large variables occur on one side of the situation, this equilibrium will be broken.

In order to maintain combat effectiveness and reduce attrition, even if the Fenwu Army made a surprise move to the periphery, it was often a small-scale operation of 100 people, but this time it suddenly rushed out with thousands of horses, and there was no direction for the main attack.

Previously, Ma Qiu had only consolidated the surrounding defense line to form an encirclement, and as for the main soldiers who were really used to kill and encircle and annihilate the Fenwu army, they had not yet reached the battlefield on the front line.

Therefore, when the Fenwu army suddenly made such a large move, it also made the troops on these defensive lines frightened, and strengthened their guards, lest they be broken out by the enemy. Of course, it is impossible for the Fenwu army to break through, and there are forts in some important passages, and perhaps a single side may not be able to win in the field battle, but it is very easy to block the Fenwu army back.

The Fenwu army swaggered by, and did not attack any of the strongholds of the Qiang army, which not only made the false alarm, but also made these Qiang troops a little confused.

However, in the eyes of those Jinmin villagers who had the intention of surrendering to righteousness, but were timid in the current strength of the Jin army, they could not help but be greatly encouraged, and the heroic deeds of the king's northward journey had already spread in Yedi. Now I saw that although they had been besieged for a long time, they were still full of strength, and I remembered all kinds of warnings from Fang Tou through various channels.

After wandering around, the Fenwu army returned to Shangyanpi Valley, and soon after it was dark, as if it was another ordinary night. However, after nightfall, suddenly there were riots of varying scales in all the defense lines of the Qiang army, and many people rushed out of the suburbs, shouting slogans of returning to the righteous army and helping the army, and rushed straight to the direction of Shangyanpi.

Within that night, a full 2,000 people rushed in from the encirclement line of the Qiang army and gathered near Shangyanpi. Although it is still not possible to immediately reverse this bad situation, but all this, but it is very exciting, the heavy and desperate atmosphere that originally permeated Shangyanpi has been swept away, and the people are all in ecstasy, sighing that there is hope for salvation, and the suffering of this period has finally paid off!

Although Shen Yun was also happy, he did not lose his mind because of this, he understood that with these helpers alone, he still had no strength to break out of the encirclement of the Qian army.

However, these people who defected to righteousness, in addition to many Hebei righteous people who were simply impulsive and admired the heroic deeds of the martial arts, there were also some family members who sent stones to ask for directions. And after these people saw Shen Yun, they also bluntly said that there was a trend brewing, and their local villagers were actively accumulating strength, or they were not able to help break through, but they would definitely be able to send a batch of food and goods in!

When this happened in Yebei, Ma Qiu was in Yenan to negotiate with Xie Ai directly. If he could learn about this in time, he would definitely categorically reject Xie Ai's proposal to negotiate peace. But at that time, he was neither so clear nor so decisive, and after many trade-offs, he said that he could talk, but he did not guarantee the outcome.

But what the result is, there is no need for Ma Qiu's guarantee, when the news that the two sides are preparing to negotiate peace spreads from the Yenan front to the north, those Yedi villagers who have already been gathering momentum have already heard the wind and moved, and there are many people who directly raised the banner of righteousness.

The little people are also not lacking in wisdom, their logic is simpler and more direct, this way Wang Shi directly copied the nest of the kingdom, and even the heirs of the lord Shi Hu were captured and killed. Such a great humiliation, as a result, the army in Yedi didn't even dare to kill and take revenge, so they still wanted to talk about peace? The alliance under the city, the void is revealed, so what confidence do you have to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf with me again!

At the same time, the envoy of Fangtou also took advantage of the chaos to pass through the blockade of the Qianjun army and arrived at Shangyanpi, bringing the password of Xie Ai, the governor of Fangtou, in addition to a note.

The note reads simply: "Don't worry, nothing will be disturbed." ”

Shen Yun looked at this note, but it was like a treasure, although he was still in danger, but his state of mind was completely settled. The general's mediocre handwriting that is impossible to evaluate, sometimes Shen Yun feels a little unbearable, but at this moment, it makes him full of fighting spirit, and there is no hesitation. ()

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