However, He Renlong still insisted on attacking Weinan. Weinan is not far from Xi'an, and it can be said that Gao Yingxiang is walking under his nose all day long, and he has long regarded it as a thorn in his side. In addition, he can boast about Haikou in Qin Shuhuai, saying that he will wait for Qin Shuhuai's next move after capturing Weinan, if he suddenly stops fighting now, won't Qin Hou Ye underestimate us when he turns around?

But Zuo Guangxian didn't think so. It has been so hard for an army of more than 40,000 to attack the tiny Pucheng County, and now that we have to pull more than 30,000 troops to fight the stronger Weinan County, what kind of battle will it be? The brothers are all born to their fathers and mothers, and who doesn't want to go back alive? Why should we do it when it is clear that we will suffer losses?

It's not that he is cowardly, but he wants to go with Qin Shuhuai to ask for soldiers, and if there are more people to attack the city, it will be better to grasp it, right?

The two of them have their own ideas, and neither of them can convince anyone. In the end, He Renlong, as the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi, made a decision to march to Weinan tomorrow, and began to attack the city in the evening the day after tomorrow!

The official level crushed people to death. Zuo Guang had no choice but to obey the order. However, he also sent a few cronies to Qin Shuhuai to write a letter and tell him in detail what happened in Pucheng. In the letter, it was estimated that He Renlong's face did not directly ask Qin Shuhuai for reinforcements, otherwise He Renlong would have to come to him after knowing this letter. But between the lines, he wanted Qin Shuhuai to send troops to help.

In fact, even if Zuo Guang didn't send a letter to Qin Shuhuai first, Qin Shuhuai would have already received the battle report from Pucheng, because Chen Jing would immediately send someone to send the war report to Baoji after the battle.

Qin Shuhuai was still a little surprised by the Demon Sect's assistance to Gao Yingxiang. The surprise is not that they "will" help Gao Yingxiang, but that they have already transported the materials to Gao Yingxiang, and Gao Yingxiang has already distributed them, which is a bit unbelievably fast.

After thinking about it carefully, there was only one possibility, that is, the Demon Sect had already contacted Gao Yingxiang before the army started! Otherwise, it would never have been possible for the assistance to arrive so quickly.

But it's useless to think about that now. Now that Gao Yingxiang's strength has improved, it will take a little more effort to eliminate him.

Zuo Guang wanted reinforcements first, and he felt that he still gave some points. The key is the 140,000 army in his hand, 60,000 to He Kegang, 15,000 has been given to He Renlong before, and now there are 65,000 left, plus there were 8,000 garrisons in Baoji City, and there were 73,000 people when it was full. These 73,000 people, but the main force that blocked the Demon Sect from coming west to aid Gao Yingxiang was not enough, and it would be even more insufficient if the troops were divided!

After thinking about it for a long time, he finally decided to send 5,000 soldiers to Zuo Guangxian. He originally wanted to plant a cottage fire flag in the five thousand soldiers, but after thinking about it, He Renlong and Zuo Guangxian may not know the beauty of the fire flag, if they are used as ordinary soldiers, wouldn't they be blind in vain?

In any case, the 5,000-strong army set out that afternoon and headed straight for Weinan, hoping to catch up with the battle of Weinan.

Compared with He Renlong and Zuo Guangxian, He Kegang is much easier. In the past two days, he almost bloodlessly took Chihe, Hanyin and other counties, and arrived at Hengkou Town, which was seventy or eighty miles away from Ankang City. However, he was cautious by nature and suspected that the journey was too smooth, so he was temporarily stationed at Hengkou and sent a large number of horse sentries to investigate.

Sitting in command of Ankang is Li Zicheng, a general under Gao Yingxiang's account.

Gao Yingxiang currently has three major cities, namely Ankang, Weinan and Shangluo. These three big cities are the biggest bargaining chips for Gao Yingxiang and the official army. As long as these three big cities are there, he will have a stable source of money and food, as well as a base camp to resist the official army's suppression.

In the face of the large-scale suppression of the official army, Gao Yingxiang had already prepared. He sent the general Liu Guoneng to lead 30,000 elite troops to garrison Weinan, and let Li Zicheng lead 40,000 troops to garrison Ankang, while he himself led 50,000 troops to sit in Shangluo. As for the rest of his allies, they were placed near these three cities to assist in the defense.

These three cities were the places he would defend, and he was sure he could defend them.

Because he has a secret pact with the Demon Cult!

On the seventh night of the first month of June, Qin Shuhuai tossed and turned, and always felt that something big was going to happen.

In the middle of the night, Meng Hu, who was on an errand shift tonight, knocked on Qin Shuhuai's door and shouted, "Master Hou, there is an urgent military situation." ”

Qin Shuhuai sat up with a spirit, and immediately said, "The door is not latched, come in." ”

Meng Hu hurriedly walked in and said, "Dongchang and Jinyiwei's brothers sent information at the same time, saying that they had discovered the Demon Sect army in the Guchuan area, more than seventy miles west of the city, and were rushing here! ”

Qin Shuhuai immediately put on his clothes, and said as he wore them, "You have called the managers of all the sects over, let's hurry up and discuss the countermeasures in the conference hall." ”

Meng Hu answered, and then ran out like the wind.

Qin Shuhuai came to the conference hall and saw that Cao Huachun and Wan Yunshan were already waiting inside.

Qin Shuhuai hugged his fists at them and said, "Duke Cao, Wan Tongzhi, what's the situation?"

Wan Yunshan said, "Let's ask Cao Dugong to say, the information on the Dongchang side is more careful." ”

Cao Huachun immediately said, "Marquis Qin, according to the news we got from Dongchang Fanzi, the Demon Sect just entered Guchuan half an hour ago, and judging from the number of people, there should be more than 20,000 people. Fanzi saw them camping in the clearing, where they were expected to spend the night tonight. ”

Qin Shuhuai thought for a moment and said, "Cao Sili, did the brothers in Dongchang only see more than 20,000 people?"

"Our family also asked, and Fanzi said that there were indeed only more than 20,000. ”

Wan Yunshan added, "The brothers of Jinyiwei also only saw more than 20,000 people. ”

Qin Shuhuai frowned and said, "So there is still one thing that we haven't mastered?"

Cao Huachun nodded and said, "Our family also thinks that the Demon Sect has more than 20,000. Since the Demon Sect wants to help Gao Yingxiang, it is bound to attack Baoji City, and these 20,000 people alone are not enough. ”

Cao Huachun's analysis is correct. The easiest way for the Demon Sect to save Gao Yingxiang is, of course, to attack Baoji, as long as Baoji can be captured, the official army must return to the aid of Xi'an, which is only guarded by 8,000 people, not far from Baoji and has a flat official road. Even if they can't capture Baoji, as long as they can force the official army to return to Baoji, Gao Yingxiang will be able to breathe. The so-called siege of Wei to save Zhao is like this.

In addition, there is another advantage of attacking Baoji, that is, once Baoji is captured, Hanzhong will be isolated, and it will be much easier for the Demon Sect to pull it out. And Baoji and Hanzhong are the barriers in the western part of Shaanxi, without these two cities, the road to the west of the Demon Sect will be unimpeded, and then they will be connected with Gao Yingxiang's territory. Gao Yingxiang can use the relatively wealthy Southern Shaanxi to help the Demon Sect raise money and food, and he can also become a pawn of the Demon Sect to annex Shaanxi, and the Demon Sect can help Gao Yingxiang train soldiers and provide equipment.