Lu Junyi rushed into Yanzhou City with hundreds of cavalry, not greedy for merit, but commanded soldiers and horses to stick to the city gate and receive the army behind to enter the city.

Seeing that Lu Junyi and Yan Qing had already led their troops to the city, Lang Yanming also felt panicked, and rushed towards the three defenders who were stubbornly resisting.

"Be careful"

Lang Yanming cut down the two of them, and then he heard the clansmen behind him scream, and a cold light came straight to the front door.

Seeing that Lang Yanming was about to die under the defender's sword, suddenly a cold star flashed, and the defender wielding the knife had an extra crossbow arrow in his throat, and he turned over and fell to the ground.

Everyone turned their heads to see that it was Yan Qing who saved Lang Yanming's life with a crossbow arrow.

Lang Yanming also took a big breath when he escaped death, turned over and bowed down, and knocked: "Thank you for the general's life-saving grace." ”

Yan Qing picked up Lang Yanming and said with a smile: "Now you and I are both Liangliang people, and we should help each other." ”

Lang Yanming got up and returned the bag tied around his waist to Yan Qing, and said, "There are not many defenders, and there is no use of divine thunder." ”

Fire and thunder are controlled items in the army, and how much they are used must be recorded, and Yan Qing can't take it to give favors, take the bag, and return it to Lu Junyi's personal soldiers.

The soldiers opened the bag and checked the number of fires and mines, and then put it away.

Lu Junyi had just commanded the soldiers and horses to set up a formation under and above the city, and the sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, but the defenders in the city heard the sound of horns and rushed to come.

"It's the big beams and soldiers, withdraw."

When the Western Xia Fan who rushed in front of the horse saw the black-clothed and black-armored soldiers and horses at the head of the city, he exclaimed, turned his horse's head and fled.

The soldiers in the back heard that it was the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang, and they suddenly made a mess, and the people in front directly restrained the horses, and the people behind couldn't hold back for a while and crashed into it.

After a burst of neighing and shouting, the defenders of Yanzhou fled in a hurry more than a hundred paces away.

Deng Fei, who was waiting under the city, saw the Western Xia soldiers and horses in chaos on the street in front of him, turned his head and shouted to the city: "The last general, please order to hunt down and kill the Western Xia soldiers and horses." ”

Lu Junyi saw that the dust raised by the charge of the army outside the city was not far away, so he said: "Okay, you can lead your troops to drive all the soldiers and horses out of the city." ”

"Order."

In the distance, the defenders of Yanzhou saw that the soldiers and horses of Daliang were pouring like a flood of embankments. It's even more desperate to escape.

Soon, the army outside the city also arrived, Lu Junyi divided his troops to seize the city gates on all sides, and then sent a team of soldiers and horses to kill the soldiers in the city.

However, in half an hour, there was no sound of fighting in Yanzhou City, most of the soldiers and horses fled when they heard the wind, most of the soldiers and horses who could not escape abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and only a few people resisted stubbornly and were easily killed by the Liangshan veterans.

In the yamen, Lu Junyi's soldiers immediately made two cups of tea.

Open the tea lid. The aroma of tea immediately rises.

It was the tea that Lu Junyi was used to drinking, but he had just drunk leather-smelling water in the desert for three days, and suddenly changed to fresh tea, and the tea fragrance seemed to be much more fragrant than before.

Lu Junyi drank a cup of tea, and then he put down the tea cup and said, "Yanzhou has been captured, where do we go next?" ”

Yan Qing also put down the teacup in his hand and said, "We might as well guard it in Yanzhou, although Xue Sichang on Huanqing Road wants to block Renzhong's soldiers and horses to change their lives." But 200,000 soldiers. He may not be able to block it. Most of Renzhong's subordinates are the Jianing Military Division and the Xiangyou Military Division, and they should come to Yanzhou after they return. We can wait for a while and kill him. ”

Lu Junyi thought for a while and said, "Will they go north along the Lingzhou River?" To save Xingqing Mansion? ”

Yan Qing said with a smile: "Looking at the way the defenders of Yanzhou fled when they heard the wind today, I am afraid that the soldiers and horses of Western Xia have lost their hearts. Renzhong's army fled all the way back, and it should not go to the Yinchuan Plain to die again. ”

Lu Junyi nodded and said, "You have seen the same, and the soldiers and horses under his command have traveled thousands of miles. Let's rest in Yanzhou. If there is a military merit sent to the door, we will laugh at it; If not, that's it. ”

Yan Qing said: "The master does not send troops. You can also do some work. ”

"Oh? How so? ”

When Lu Junyi heard Yan Qing say this, he was also interested, put the tea cup that the soldiers had just changed on the table, and looked at Yan Qing.

Yan Qing said with a smile: "Judging from the Yanzhou guards just now, the Xixia people have been terrified by us. We can try to recruit some tribes and say that we can take a few cities with a single soldier. ”

Lu Junyi was also thorough, and immediately asked his own soldiers to ask Lang to name the rock.

In the hall where Lang Yanming entered, he bent down and saluted the two.

Lu Junyi pointed to the side of the chair and said, "Sit down." ”

"General Xie."

Lang Yanming bent down again, and then sat down.

Lu Junyi said: "This time to seize Yanzhou, the credit for seizing the door should belong to your department. Do you want to join the military or become a civilian? ”

Lang Yanming said embarrassedly: "The villain is not very literate, I'm afraid he can't be a civil official." ”

Lu Junyi said with a smile: "This doesn't matter, if you want to govern the state capital where the ministries live together, you still need some people who are familiar with the affairs of various ministries, and you don't necessarily need to be literate and hyphenated." ”

When he heard Lu Junyi say this, he said happily: "I'm not afraid of the general's jokes, my department is not aggressive, and it is not as brave as other tribes. Therefore, the Western Xia soldiers did not use our troops, but only let our troops replace military service with money and grain. ”

Hearing Lang Yan's name say this, Lu Junyi and Yan Qing both nodded secretly.

Just now, nearly 100 people from the Langyan Ming tribe have gone to the city to deal with more than ten defenders, if it is a veteran of Liangshan, it will not take a moment to divide more than ten people into corpses. However, the Langyan tribe dragged the reinforcements five miles away and did not solve the problem, and it was polite to say that they were not good at fighting.

Lu Junyi also understood Lang Yan's intention, nodded and said, "Then I will ask for an official position for you when I go back." ”

Yan Qing said on the side: "Your department is the first tribe in Weizhou to surrender, and you have the credit of leading us across the Hanhai Sea and seizing the city gate of Yanzhou, the general intends to ask you for an official position to assist in the management of the large and small tribes in Weizhou." ”

There are dozens of large and small tribes in Weizhou, and the Langyan tribe is not a large part, although it only assists in the management of large and small tribes, but the chief official will undoubtedly be a Han person, and he is also the first person among the tribes.

Lang Yanming knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and said, "The general's great grace, the villain must not dare to forget." ”

Lu Junyi nodded and said, "It has to be approved by the imperial court, so you can get up." ”

Lang Yanming stood up and said, "No matter what, the villain remembers General Ende. ”

Yan Qing said on the side: "If you can make more contributions, this matter will be secured." ”

When Lang Yanming heard this, he hurriedly said: "Where the general can use the villain, just give the order, that is, let the villain go up the sword mountain and down the sea of fire, and the villain will never frown." ”

Yan Qing smiled: "You don't need to do anything, you often come to Yanzhou, you must know something about all the ministries in Yanzhou, right?" ”

"I often deal with various tribes, but the villain tribe is not big, and the people who come and go are the small leaders of each tribe."

Lu Junyi nodded and said: "If you can speak, I want you to come forward to recruit the tribes of Yanzhou, and even the tribes of Youzhou, Hongzhou and other places." ”

Lang Yanyan said: "The villains of the various departments in Yanzhou are still familiar with it, but the tribes of Youzhou and Hongzhou have never dealt with each other. However, they all have to buy salt from the Yanzhou tribe, and the tribes on this side of Yanzhou are familiar with the situation in Youzhou and Hongzhou. ”

Lu Junyi said: "Then you will be responsible for recruiting the Yanzhou tribe." ”

Lang Yanming was very confident in this matter, but there were some details to ask clearly, and said, "I wonder what conditions the villain can promise them?" ”

Lu Junyi said with a smile: "My army has already conquered Yanzhou, and I can send troops to wipe them out at any time, do you have to promise them any conditions?" ”

Yan Qing said: "What they have to think about now is how to save their lives, not what they want to keep. They can run away with their cattle and sheep, but they can't run from their salt ponds. Salt has always been controlled by the imperial court, and all the salt wells in the various departments of Xihe Road have also been collected by the imperial court, without exception. However, if they make meritorious contributions, the court can give them more pastures and farmland. ”

Lang Yanming nodded and said, "The villain understands, there are businesses of various departments in the city, and the villain will contact them." ”

Lu Junyi said: "Give them three days, and as soon as the three days are over, I will send troops to sweep away the various departments that have not returned to obedience." ”

Yanzhou has many salt ponds, some of which belong to the Western Xia court, and some of which belong to the major tribes of Yanzhou, and the main property of these tribes is the salt ponds of different sizes, so the various tribes live near the salt ponds to protect the salt ponds. These tribes can derive huge revenues from salt ponds and tend to be more populous. It was these tribes that Lu Junyi wanted to recruit. (To be continued......)