On April 16 of the third year of Chongzhen, about 40,000 troops on the Northeast Road of the Demon Sect set off from Gulang County, all the way like a bamboo, Lianke Surabaya, Huangyang, Xie He, Han Zuo, Wunan and other towns.

On April 18, the Demon Sect soldiers came to the city of Wuwei. At that time, Yang Jiamo, the commander-in-chief of Gansu, led an army of 50,000 to resist, and the two sides fought fiercely for a day and night, and the officers and soldiers lost more than 10,000 soldiers.

April 19th, nightfall. The Demon Cult launched a surprise attack and sent eighty good men to quietly jump onto the city, causing chaos in the city. Later, under the cover of shield soldiers, the Demon Cult Fire Banner pushed several carts full of thunderbolts to rush to the city gate, and then detonated and blew up the city gate.

The army of demons swarmed in.

Yang Jiamo, the commander-in-chief, led the soldiers in the city to fight to the death, and Xiningwei, fifteen miles north of the city, immediately reinforced, and the two sides fought fiercely until dawn, and the officers and troops were defeated.

Yang Jiamo had no choice but to withdraw his officers and soldiers in the direction of Lanzhou, but was ambushed by the Demon Sect on the way and suffered heavy losses.

Wuwei was lost.

In this battle, the officers and soldiers lost more than 30,000 people, and when they withdrew to Lanzhou, only more than 20,000 remained. Ding Xue, the deputy commander-in-chief, was killed in battle, and dozens of generals under the general army, including thousands of generals, staff generals, deputy generals, and other generals, were killed in the battle.

Wuwei suffered a fiasco and shocked the government and the opposition.

The powerful combat power of the Demon Sect surprised everyone!

Lu Xiangsheng knew that Lanzhou must be defended, so the first thing he did after taking office was to order Cao Wenzhao to set off for Lanzhou overnight and be responsible for the city guard of Lanzhou. In addition, he also authorized Cao Wenzhao to control the major battalions near Lanzhou, and went to the imperial court to demand the removal of Yang Jiamo and the promotion of Cao Wenzhao to the commander-in-chief of Gansu.

Chongzhen didn't say a word, and agreed to everything.

At this time, there were 110,000 troops gathered near Lanzhou City, coupled with the thick walls of Lanzhou City, the moat, and the abundant grain, grass and firearms in the city, everyone in the government and the opposition thought that it was impregnable, and the Demon Sect would not dare to commit it.

Lanzhou's "impregnable" was obtained at the cost of giving up other parts of Gansu. At this time, not only the Demon Sect, but also Ma Shouying could come and go freely in all regions except Lanzhou and eastern Gansu, and capture the city at will.

This was a helpless move by the imperial court.

The imperial court was waiting, waiting for Qin Shuhuai's army to reach Gansu, and then it would counterattack.

At this time, Qin Shuhuai had just received the martial arts alliance and was stepping up training.

Time is urgent, the so-called training, in fact, is nothing more than to let these martial arts people familiar with the rules of the army, know the meaning of various military orders, as for formations, tactics and the like, they can only use the simplest kinds, such as collective charge, collective retreat, etc., to ensure that they do not trample on each other to complete the task.

It is a difficult task to train a full 180,000 martial arts people who have no experience in marching and combating. Among the 8,000 members of the Jianghe Gang, except for the cottage "Qingshui Banner", "Houtu Banner" and "Agni Banner" that were stepping up training, the rest of the people were all dispatched to help with the training as a teaching group. On average, each Jianghe Gang disciple had to bring more than twenty soldiers from other sects to practice day and night. Even Cheng Feng, who was doing chores in Qinglong Hall, because he had received two months of battle training, was kicked out by a leather dog and brought about a dozen people, so excited that this kid was like a chicken blood, and he tossed about a dozen people all night long.

These martial arts people are all used to being free and casual, and many of them are still figures with faces in the martial arts, so they naturally can't stand any orders and prohibitions at first. A few days ago, they could bear the majesty of the Qin Shuhuai Martial Arts Alliance Leader, but when they got to the back, they complained.

What kind of training? Isn't it just a formation and then running around? What is this, is it that if you run neatly, the enemy is afraid?

Qin Shuhuai had anticipated this, so he asked each faction to send an elder or someone equivalent to an elder to bring his disciples. These elders did not participate in the whole training, but offered good food and drink, and their role was to suppress their own disciples and make them obedient.

This trick is very effective. The elders don't need to be trained, so naturally they don't have any grievances, and they know very well that if their sect withdraws from the martial arts alliance, the consequences will be very serious, so no matter what kind of training their disciples are into, they can suppress them with majesty, or comfort them with warmth, so that they can persevere.

However, even so, there are still some elders who don't have long eyes, and they bring a group of disciples who don't have long eyes to make some moths.

On the fifth day of the training, five or six sects, including the Jiangnan Broken Sword Gate and the Daimyo Iron Sword Gate, quit and collectively staged a sit-in protest at the helmsman of the Jianghe Gang. They didn't dare to say that they wanted to leave, but said that they had already understood the military orders, formations, etc., and asked the Jianghe Gang to reduce the amount of training and stop tossing them for "Liwei".

They see this as the Jianghe Gang in "Liwei", or simply Qin Shuhuai in Liwei.

Soon, a Jianghe Gang disciple passed the news to Qin Shuhuai.

When Qin Shuhuai heard this, he came to Meng Wei with a gloomy face, and asked him to tell these people that he wanted to make trouble and wait for the end of the meal, so he gathered all the horses in the general helm and trained them in front of everyone.

Without saying a word, Meng Wei slaughtered violently at the door, and conveyed Qin Shuhuai's words to them as they were.

As soon as these five or six sects heard that Qin Shuhuai seemed to be going to move seriously, three or four sects suddenly didn't dare to make trouble. Just imagine, so many sects, including the five major factions and the three major gangs, did not make trouble, and it was a bit embarrassing for them to shout bitterly and tired in front of the crowd.

However, the two factions of the Broken Sword Gate and the Iron Sword Gate are very superb, and they even agreed ruthlessly.

Meng Wei glanced at them sympathetically, and then went back to report to Qin Shuhuai.

After lunch, Qin Shuhuai gathered disciples from various factions in an open space, totaling more than 40,000 people, and formed a square array, which was spectacular.

Subsequently, fifty or sixty disciples of the Iron Sword Gate and the Broken Sword Gate were brought to the center of the array.

Qin Shuhuai took the Heavenly Sword, came out with a gloomy face, and stood in front of them.

Among them, the chief disciple of the Iron Sword Gate, Xiao Lian, who is known as "Sword Without a Trace" by the people of the rivers and lakes, first said, "Alliance leader, you also have a limit to your prestige, right?

Wang Zizi, the elder who followed the Broken Sword Gate, also said, "Alliance leader, we are all raised by our fathers and mothers, and we practice like this every day, do you see how many blisters are on the feet of the brothers? If you let us practice kung fu, forget it, but all day long we practice are not to give orders, listen to orders, or to line up and run, what is the use of fighting? Could it be that the people of the Demon Sect are afraid to see us running neatly?"

Qin Shuhuai had a cold face and said to Zhang Xiao behind him, "Zhang Xiao, tell them what is the army and what is the military order!"