Jizhou is in the north, Tang County is in the south.

The banner swept in the autumn wind, the horses neighed endlessly, the traces of the Youzhou cavalry appeared and disappeared in the Tang County time, attacking the garrison scouts in the townships outside the city, the rider's curved bow seemed to have eyes, accurately shot over one dark post after another, and the action of coming and going like the wind made the Tang County Jizhou Army full of fear, so they had to retreat back to the township one after another, and constantly reduce their patrol range.

Other than that, the Jizhou army had no other way.

Qingxu at the foot of Qingxu Mountain, there are many monks living in seclusion on the mountain shaped like bamboo shoots, most of whom are the trouble-avoiders who studied the study of Huang Lao in the Han Dynasty, in order to protect themselves and live in seclusion on the mountain, isolated from the world. Over time, the Qingxu Mountain in Tang County also gathered the people and merchants from all over the township to exchange some food, herbs, animal skins, etc., but the scale was always small, and there were only 100 households living at the foot of the entire mountain.

After the defeat of Gongsun Zan in Qinghe State, soldiers and horses were stationed in various places in the northwest of Jizhou, and almost every township had a few dozen old soldiers, training the new soldiers in the township, and when the war came, they would be pulled to the battlefield to assemble...... Nowadays, when the army is used, it is difficult for the princes everywhere to escape this conscription routine, especially a pure warlord like Gongsun Zhan.

A sturdy horse on the hillside in the distance paced slowly, the knight on the horse had a strong and heroic posture, a big bow and two pots of arrows stuffed in the hip bag, and the long halberd in his hand was inserted in the loess, looking from the towering Qingxu Mountain to the Qingxu at the foot of the mountain. Tai Shi Ci said slowly: "Forward! ”

As soon as the words fell, he took out the big bow and drew the bow towards the sergeant on the sentry tower of the inner gate a hundred paces away, and the feather arrow was like thunder, and in an instant he shot over one of the sentry officers on it, and his heavy body hit the fence on the edge of the sentry tower, and then he fell from the sentry tower with a wail, and fell to the ground, staining the ground with blood, and raising a large amount of dust, which also caused a commotion in the clear void of the ancient well.

This wail was like a signal, hundreds of Youzhou cavalry roared out, and the people working between the ridges didn't even know what was going on, so they felt that the whistle of the cavalry galloping was everywhere, and they were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and didn't dare to raise their heads. Fortunately, these Youzhou cavalry did not have the idea of harming them, and when they saw the people kneeling on the ground, they swept past them like the wind without disturbing them in the slightest.

A hundred steps away but in a blink of an eye, the wide inner door has not had time to close, it was rushed straight into the Youzhou cavalry, the pawns wearing thin cloth armor on both sides of the door stared in horror when the Youzhou cavalry crossed the side, and even before they were ready to attack, the enemy had already swept past him, and a light red silk line gradually appeared in the light yellow cloth armor from the left chest to the position under the right ribs, and the gatekeeper looked down sluggishly, and his steps were a little staggering.

He swallowed his saliva with difficulty, raised his arm and touched his chest, and it seemed that he did not exert any force, and the cloth armor on his chest fell down and split in half, revealing the flesh of his dark chest turned to the sides, and large strands of blood gushed out of his chest, taking away all the strength from his body. The gatekeeper raised his head and reached out in the direction of the cavalry to say something more, but opened his mouth but could not make a sound.

A fast horse swept by its side again, this time the saber was precise and sharp, accurately swept the unprotected neck, and the ring knife with an inner arc seemed to only make a half circle around the neck, and the big head rose in the wind, and the blood gushed out on the faces of the cavalry who swept by...... Two arrows shot from different angles hit the headless corpse at the same time, and the body of the gatekeeper finally couldn't withstand such a seemingly slight impact on weekdays, and slowly fell down with all the attachment and unwillingness.

As the Youzhou cavalry rushed into the Qingxu Gate without any hindrance, it meant that the defense force of this Li, which had hundreds of households settled, was completely defeated. More than a dozen high-headed horses rushed into the narrow camp in the northwest corner, shot a few Gongsun old soldiers with weapons in the open space, and then slaughtered all the soldiers who could be in the formation with a single charge.

Youzhou rode in twos and threes to occupy the streets and alleys, and the two cavalrymen turned over and dismounted, and the spear shaft with the thickness of the child's arm was drawn on the kneeling Gongsun Lao pawn, and asked: "Where is the granary arsenal!" ”

Without much effort, there was no need to force the heroic old man to stiffen his neck, and ask questions with Youzhou Cavalry, and then the kneeling townsfolk invariably looked in the two directions of the open space of the school field, and they explained everything with frightened eyes.

One by one, the grain bags were moved out of the granary, and the Youzhou cavalry gathered more than 300 stones of grain and grass tied to the horseback, as well as more than a dozen sets of armor and hundreds of rusty spears in the arsenal, accompanied by a whistle to leave the frightened Qingxu and gallop on the endless Jizhou Plain.

The same attacks took place in the townships of Tang County, Beiping, and Guangchang. Whoever controls the city pass will have the full initiative. Although the order given to Gao Ran, the guard of Zhuo County, when Yanbei went to Liaodong, was to hold the city pass, they also needed to wait for the opportunity to fight. There are Gao Ran and Zhang Jaw in the city pass, as well as the royal city garrison from Goguryeo, which is enough to guard the city pass, not to mention that Gongsun Chan is in a hurry at the moment and has no chance to launch an attack on Wuruan Pass.

Now is the season of the grain harvest, and all parts of Jizhou need manpower, just as Zhuo County did not have a good harvest in a good year, and all parts of Jizhou Gongsun Zan also missed the agricultural time because of the war with Yuan Shao that lasted for half a year, not to mention that with the defeat of the southern front, there was not much food in their places. Therefore, Tai Shi Ci devised such a dispersed force to attack the garrisons in the villages of Nguyen Pass and villages, and robbed those worthless ordnance and a small amount of food.

The results were very fruitful.

Between day and night, the archers and cavalry battalions relied on fast horses and light knives, and quickly attacked more than 30 surrounding villages, and when they returned to Wuruan Pass, they had already snatched more than 7,000 stones, grains and grass, more than 2,000 spears and soft bows, and even dozens of strong crossbows.

Although these things are not of much use to them, even those new Jizhou pawns recruited by Tai Shi Ci can't use these old things. But the same thing is very important to Gongsun Zhan, who does not have his own iron-making workshop, not to mention that in this period of lack of food and clothing, everyone understands what it means to be plundered of nearly 10,000 stone of grain.

"Ziyi, now Gongsun Chan can only make two choices, either continue to send more grain, grass and ordnance, and more soldiers and horses to take care of his recruitment in various townships, so that we will continue to plunder; Either they will recruit the villagers from all over the country to the Tang County camp, and in this way, there will inevitably be a huge army of grain and ordnance convoys to assemble a large army. If this is the case, the pressure on the headquarters of the western koji generals can be reduced a lot...... If it is before winter, help General Koji capture Changshan, the lord will know about it, and he will be very happy! ”

Gao Ran smiled with the tip of his tongue.

Gongsun Bokyu, see how you cope!