Since Yan Xing sent Chen Yan to persuade the surrender, the army stopped moving. He used Nan'an County as a base to collect money and grain.

He also asked the Nan'an County Governor Liu Quan to train elite soldiers and plan to manage the city.

It is easy to train elite soldiers. Although the Liangzhou area is vast and sparsely populated, the people are strong and mostly outlaws. As long as you can give a bite of food, you can recruit many people.

Yan Xing then divided some people from the officers under his command to help Liu Quan train his troops.

Since Liu Quan betrayed Ma Teng, he had to consider the consequences of being captured by Ma Teng's army. He would definitely try his best to train troops and rectify the city.

Everything went well, but there was a big problem with money and grain. Before that, Ma Teng had already concentrated the money and grain of Longyou counties in Jicheng to hoard.

Although Liu Quan plundered it, he didn't find much oil and water.

Yan Xing had no choice but to send people to Lueyang County to allocate money and grain.

That morning.

The chief clerk Chen Yan led his entourage back from Didao City. After entering the city, Chen Yan cleverly sent someone to send Jinzi back to the mansion, and then arrived at the county magistrate's mansion and met Yan Xing.

In the study, Yan Xing was discussing matters with his camp Sima. When he heard that Chen Yan was back, Yan Xing was very polite and asked someone to lead him in.

"Chief Chen. What? What is Niu Ding's attitude?" After Chen Yan sat down, Yan Xing said politely.

"Report to the general. Niu Ding was unwilling to surrender at first, and it was all because of my inch-long tongue that he was willing to offer it to the city."

Chen Yan added fuel to the process and said it, and he had to brag about how powerful he was.

Don’t you know that Yan Xing is suspicious because of this?

"Although the county magistrate Liu Quan said that this person is eloquent, it is not so exciting. If it were so exciting, would he be the chief clerk in a county? He had been recruited by Ma Teng long ago. This person was either unkind and just added fuel to the fire. Or he was vicious and might have worked with Niu Ding and the others."

Although Yan Xing was suspicious, he was silent on his face. Instead, he listened to Chen Yan with a smile on his face, and finally complimented: "The chief clerk is so eloquent, I admire him. I will report to the Grand Sima Minggong truthfully. The contribution of the lord's lord will be rich."

"Thank you, General." Chen Yan was looking forward to this sentence, and he was suddenly filled with joy and thanked him.

After Chen Yan left, Yan Xing thought for a while, turned to his deputy general and said, "Send someone to investigate him."

"No." The deputy general replied and went down immediately.

Yan Xing waited in the study for a while before the deputy general hurriedly returned and whispered: "General. How did Chen Yan and Niu Ding talk about this? The entourage staff don't know. But they brought back a lot of gold."

"Although I don't know if there is a conspiracy, he at least accepted a bribe." Yan Xing gently pinched his chin, thought for a while before looking up to the deputy general and said, "You lead three thousand elite soldiers to take charge in the city, and I lead seven thousand elite soldiers to Didao City to take a look."

The deputy general was stunned when he heard this and said, "General, the situation is unknown now. You are a general, how can you easily take risks?"

"It's better to sit in Nan'an County first and wait and see the situation."

Yan Xing shook his head, his face showed a keen intention, and said proudly: "The Grand Sima ordered us to send troops, General Pang ordered me to take Nan'an and the two counties of Longxi. If I can't even do this, it's better to wipe my neck and commit suicide."

"Don't wait and see, I'll go there in person and have to take down the city."

After saying that, Yan Xing ignored the deputy general's dissuasion and ordered his personal soldiers to take out the armored spear, and immediately set off and headed for Didao City.

The deputy general had no choice but to go to see the county magistrate Liu Quan, and the two discussed together to guard the city.

.........

After Yan Xing set out, he walked for three days before he arrived outside Didao City.

Under the flag of "Yan", Yan Xing raised his eyes and looked at the city wall. There were flags of "Han" hanging on the city gate tower. The city gate was wide open, and people with civil and military officials looked like civil and military officials went out to greet them.

It seemed like a standard surrender style, but since Yan Xing had doubts in his heart, he had to think wrongly.

He thought for a moment and said to a personal soldier beside him: "Send someone to tell the governor of Niu County and Commander Jiang, and ask them to go back to the county magistrate's office to wait. Let Li Xiu lead 500 elite soldiers and take over the city wall first."

"promise."

The personal soldier responded to the promise and immediately passed the military order. Among the 7,000 elite soldiers brought by Yan Xing this time, he immediately divided five hundred elite soldiers and went to take over the defense of the city wall.

At the gate of the city, Niu Ding and Jiang Jiong were not wearing armor, each wearing official uniforms and standing with swords. On both sides were the civil and military officials in the city.

Only a very small number of people know the plans of the two, and the rest are unknown.

Yan Xing's personal soldiers soon came to announce Yan Xing's order, and the two of them also saw the five hundred elite soldiers separated by Yan Xing.

The two looked at each other, and they were silent.

But I thought in my heart.

"This Yan Xing is indeed a long-time general. He knows that he should take over the city, so the general should not come in easily. Fortunately, we have no intention of ambushing near the city gate."

The two of them had a very tacit understanding, and immediately turned over and led the civil and military personnel back to the county magistrate's mansion to wait. However, Jiang Jiong left in a very low-key manner halfway.

The five hundred elite soldiers sent by Yan Xing successfully took over the city gate defense. After that, Yan Xing led most of his troops into the city.

After entering the city, Yan Xing still did not relax his vigilance. The army kept moving together and did not divide the troops again, so as not to be defeated one by one.

But when the army came to a section of the road, what should have happened still happened.

"Swoosh swosh swosh swosh!!!" Suddenly, two teams of powerful crossbow soldiers appeared on the roofs on both sides. Without saying anything, they pulled the trigger towards Yan Xing in front of them.

"Ah!!!" Yan Xing screamed, and in full view of everyone, he was shot into a hedgehog and then fell to the ground.

"Hahahaha. Yan Xing is dead. You are already in a group of dragons without a head, and you are also a turtle in the jar. Why don't you dismount and surrender quickly?"

Amid the laughter, Jiang Jiong held a big gun and led his troops out of the left alley.

But the pleasure on Jiang Jiong's face suddenly stiffened. Yan Xing's army ahead was as motionless as a mountain, and there was no panic at all when he was shot and killed.

"I've been deceived!!!" Jiang Jiong took a breath and felt something was wrong. But he wouldn't collapse immediately. He raised his gun and shouted: "Kill them all."

"Military Guards, please be optimistic about your soldiers and don't be in chaos." Yan Xing rode his horse out, stabbed Jiang Jiong with a spear, and shouted loudly.

But it turned out that the general under the "Yan" flag was fake, and the real Yan Xing was hiding in the army behind.

Niu Ding and Jiang Jiong are certainly good at making a plan, so he asked you to get into the trap with a trick.

Yan Xing also used a move and used his plan. Now his army has entered the city, and the seven thousand elite soldiers are far more powerful than the defenders of Longxi County.

"Kill!!!" Yan Xing rode his horse out and headed straight for Jiang Jiong. He captured the thief and captured the king first, and then killed this guy first.

Yan Xing was arrogant and brave, and thought it would be easy to kill this person. But he was shocked.

Yan Xing stabbed him with a spear. Not only did he not kill Jiang Jiong, but Jiang Jiong stopped him, but instead stabbed him with a shot. Yan Xing was shocked and looked up.

"You guy!!!" Yan Xing was surprised and sighed when he saw Jiang Jiong's handsome and young face, but he didn't recognize the other person. "It's really awesome for young people."

"Kill!!!" Yan Xing was naturally not afraid of the unscrupulous courage of thousands of men, and he fought with Jiang Jiong in high spirits.

What a Jiang Jiong, who has a good marksmanship, he actually competed with Yan Xing, but he was just a little underdog.

However, the troops under Yan Xing were too strong. Although Jiang Jiong was good at training troops, he lacked enough money, grain and equipment compared with Yan Xing.

Raising soldiers is about food and money. If they lack food and money, no matter how powerful the general is, he is still a clever wife who can’t cook without rice.

Thousands of elite soldiers under Yan Xing launched a street battle with Jiang Jiong's soldiers. After the two sides confronted each other for a while, the elite soldiers under Yan Xing began to win one after another.

Jiang Jiong could have competed with Yan Xing, but after all, he was young, and after seeing this scene, he couldn't help but feel panicked.

"Puchi!" Yan Xing showed a little sneer on the corner of his mouth, and a spear stabbed Jiang Jiong's left shoulder. Jiang Jiong's left hand hurt and he couldn't hold the big gun. Yan Xing rode his horse forward, pointed the tip of his spear at Jiang Jiong's neck, and sneered: "Don't move."

"Kill me." Jiang Jiong was sweating in pain, but he was still very tough. His eyes seemed to have rocks and could not be moved, and he opened his mouth.

"Hey!!!" Yan Xing originally wanted to stab the man with a spear and kill him, but then he thought that this man was a talented man.

He couldn't help but flare his arms and changed to piercing. He swept Jiang Jiong down with his spear, and ordered his personal soldiers to rush forward and tie Jiang Jiong up to a strong position.

"You general led the army has been captured alive by me. If you don't surrender at this moment, when will you wait?" Yan Xing then shook his spear, looked around, and roared like a wolf.

The soldiers under Jiang Jiong were already retreating step by step and their morale was sluggish. Seeing that his general was captured, he lost his intention to fight. He put down his weapons and knelt down to ask for surrender.

"Li Niu, Chen Dian, and Zhang Sheng. You three each led 500 elite soldiers and occupied the other three city walls. Then they divided the troops to patrol the curfew in the city, and no one was allowed to go out. Niu San, you will lead 500 personal soldiers and follow me to the county magistrate's mansion."

Yan Xing sneered and ordered.

"promise."

The people who were called under Yan Xing all agreed and then quickly took action. Soon after, Yan Xing successfully entered the county magistrate's mansion.

However, the county magistrate Niu Ding had already drunk the poison and died first.

Then Jiang Jiong is the only one involved.

Yan Xing first asked his personal soldiers to untie Jiang Jiong's armor and asked the doctor to heal Jiang Jiong's injuries. After that, he met Jiang Jiong in the study.

"General Jiang. I won't kill you. Instead, I wait for Grand Sima Minggong to deal with you. What will happen to you depends on Grand Sima's intentions. But before that, can you tell me. Is this ambush you conspired with Niu Ding, or did you conspire with Niu Ding and Chen Yan?" Yan Xing did not make things difficult for Jiang Jiong and said politely.

Jiang Jiong just left his fate to do his best and did not have the determination to die here for Ma Teng.

He followed Shan Ruliu and said, "This matter is a conspiracy with my Niu County Governor, and it is not about Chen Yan."

"Yeah." Yan Xing nodded, the chief clerk Chen Yan was just stupid, not bad.

Immediately, Yan Xing sent someone to escort Jiang Jiong and sent someone to take care of him. Then he wrote the document himself and sent someone to report the victory to the general Pang De, the Western Expedition.

He did not let down the court or the Grand Sima's expectations. He went west with elite troops and swept across Nan'an County and Longxi County.
Chapter completed!