Li Xiu is still ignorant of what happened in the court.

At this time, he was working hard to cooperate with the Hanhai Army in Tingzhou to wipe out this Tuqishi army.

Li Xiu's troops were divided into two groups, one led by Gao Xianzhi, with about 3,000 people guarding Longquan Gorge. This is the only way to go from Tingzhou to Gaochang. If you guard this canyon, you will not be able to go south to Gaochang.

Li Xiu personally led the main force to Yiwu County and cut off the retreat of the thunder cavalry and Shi people.

Yiwu County is in the northeast of Gaochang, with the vast Tianshan Mountains running across the east and west. From Gaochang to Yiwu County, you can only march northeast. After walking thousands of miles, you can bypass the Tianshan Mountains and arrive at Yiwu County.

Yiwu County is today's Hami. Like Gaochang, the physical Yiwu Kingdom was destroyed in the early Tang Dynasty, leaving only one nominal King Yiwu, which is a spiritual symbol of the local people.

At this time, two thousand Tuqi Shi people were stationed in Yiwu County. Shortly after Sun Zhaoyang led his army south, the Tuqi Shi people sneaked into the country to capture Yiwu County and massacred more than 500 Han men who rose up to resist.

In order to effectively control Yiwu County, Tuqi Shiren only opened the city gate for one hour every day, allowing food and sheep outside to enter the city, and no one in the city was allowed to leave Yiwu County.

That afternoon, Pei Min led a dozen warriors to Yiwu County. Their mission was to investigate the information of the thunder cavalry and squeezing people in the city, and at the same time organized the resistance forces in the city.

Although Pei Min was still Li Xiu's number one warrior, after the Luoyang incident, he joined the imperial guards and was named the sixth-rank Zhaowu Captain, with the title of Guo Yi.

In the woods, Pei Min took Li Xiu's glasses to observe the city head for a long time and said to his deputy Wang Ze'an: "There should be only one or two thousand soldiers in the city, and the number of patrolers at the four city heads is only about a hundred. I will bring a few brothers into the city, and you will lead the other brothers to respond outside."

Wang Ze'an nodded, and Pei Min then took four soldiers with great light skills to the northwest corner. He found that Tuqi Shiren was not very concerned about the northwest direction. From the afternoon until dark, no soldiers had been there before.

As night fell, Pei Min and four subordinates were already standing at the bottom of the city. Their location was at the corner of the northwest corner wall, with a corner tower on it, but no one was there.

By the third update, the city was completely quiet, and the patrol soldiers began to relax and found a place to sleep in groups of three or three. Only soldiers were paced back and forth above the city gate, watching the outside of the city vigilantly.

Pei Min waved his hand and a steel claw flew up to the top of the city wall. He jumped gently and climbed up, and the men behind him also climbed up.

Pei Min climbed up to the battlements and looked at both sides. There were no soldiers on both sides of the city.

Pei Min turned around and waved his hand. Several soldiers quickly climbed up the city, rolled over at the top of the city, and then went to the other side of the city wall. Several people quietly sneaked into the city.

If the people in the city unite and work hard to defend the city, then the move of working inside and outside will not work.

On the contrary, if the people in the city are disinterested and the defenders are weak, there is no need to force the attack on the city, and the best way is to cooperate inside and outside.

More than 60% of the people in Yiwu City are Han people, and almost all of them are Tang army's family. Although hundreds of people were killed in resistance, it does not mean that tens of thousands of other Han people surrendered.

Now someone needs to organize them secretly, Pei Min shoulders this important task.

Pei Min first touched the mansion of Yiwu County Magistrate Zhang Huan. Zhang Huan had been dismissed by Tuqi Shiren. The new county magistrate is Luo Fanglin, the chief clerk and an official appointed by Yuan Tao. He had long been bribed by Tuqi Shiren.

Zhang Huan was sleeping in a daze and was pushed by his wife, "Husband, someone knocked on the window outside!"

Zhang Huan was startled and walked to the window and asked tremblingly: "Who is outside?"

"We are coming from Gaochang, and the emperor's thirty-eighth son, please open the door!"

Of course Pei Min would not come to Zhang Huan rashly. He had learned about the basic situation in Yiwu County on the way. Although he didn't know whether Zhang Huan surrendered to Tuqi Shiren, it can be seen from the fact that Zhang Huan was dismissed from his post at home that he was not bribed by Tuqi Shiren.

Zhang Huan invited Pei Min and others to the study room, and asked his wife to boil water and boil tea.

Pei Min took out Li Xiu's pass gold medal and placed it on the table, "This is the pass gold medal given to the thirty-eighth prince by the emperor."

He took out his gold medal from Guoyi Commander, "This is my identity proof!"

These two gold medals are indeed necessary. Zhang Huan also knew that the 38th prince Li Xiu sent the princess to Gaochang to get married. Otherwise, he would not believe that he would have sent someone to cheat him?

"Where is the thirty-eighth prince now?"

"The prince has killed Yuan Tao and Sun Zhaoyang in Gaochang and took over the Yiwu army. In addition, Gaochang's 5,000 troops, and Tingzhou's 10,000 troops also obey the orders of His Highness 38. His Highness is ready to wipe out the invading Tuqishi army. I hope the county magistrate can also contribute!"

When Zhang Huan heard that Yuan Tao and Sun Zhaoyang were dead, he was extremely excited and sighed to the sky: "The sky has eyes! If they hadn't betrayed Yizhou, how could more than 600 innocent people be massacred?"

"What does Your Highness 38 hope I can do?"

"I need to organize a group of young and strong people. When His Highness leads his army, we will cooperate with the inside and outside to regain Yiwu County."

Zhang Huan thought for a while and asked, "How many people do General Pei need to organize?"

"Two or three hundred people are enough."

"To be honest with General Pei, we have secretly organized a group of militia soldiers, with about 500 people. I don't know what to do? General Pei came too timely."

Pei Min was overjoyed. This news was just timely rain for him!

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Three days later, Li Xiu led 7,000 troops to Yiwu County secretly.

In a forest more than ten miles east of Yiwu County, seven thousand soldiers were resting in the woods. Deputy Commander of the Warrior Wang Ze'an reported to Li Xiuhui: "General Pei has led his brothers to sneak into the city. He came out to contact him yesterday. He contacted a group of rebels in the city. There were about 500 people, and he could cooperate with His Highness to attack the city at any time!"

Li Xiu was overjoyed. There were actually five hundred people, more than he expected. He asked, "Can you contact them today?"

"It should be possible. Bei Zhi pretended to be a farmer who delivered vegetables and came to the city to deliver vegetables at noon. The news can be passed to them."

"Which is more beneficial, the North City Gate or the South City Gate?"

"Report to Your Highness, if the north gate does not open the city gate, the defenders will be half less than the south gate, with only about fifty people."

"Then tell Pei Min, you can operate at the North City Gate at the third update tonight!"

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The south city gate is the focus of the defense of the thunder cavalry. Relatively speaking, the north city gate is easier to seize. Not only are there not many troops stationed, only fifty people, but the soldiers are generally lax.

The night gradually became deeper, and Yiwu County was silent. The number of troops in the city was too small. Only hundreds of people were sent to patrol the city, but there were no soldiers patrolling the city.

In the dark night, shadows kept coming out of their homes and sneaking towards the north of the city. Hundreds of people had gathered in the Chenghuang Temple in the north of the city. They were originally militia soldiers from Yizhou, equivalent to militias in later generations.

The army left, and Yizhou was betrayed by Yuan Tao to Tuqi Shiren. It was these militia soldiers who rose to resist. However, before they had time to organize, they were bloody massacres by Tuqi Shiren. More than 600 people who resisted in advance were killed.

Later, militia soldiers learned their lessons and no longer fought against the thunderbolts, but waited patiently for the opportunity.

The militia soldiers put on leather armor, picked up swords and spears, and sat cross-legged in the main hall of the Chenghuang Temple.

It was already two o'clock, and militia soldiers were coming from all directions.

The leader of these militia soldiers was the county magistrate Zhang Huan. However, Zhang Huan was a civil servant, and it was okay to form a militia, but he was not good at leading troops to attack the thunder cavalry and Shi people.

Pei Min's arrival was a timely rain for him, and his final command was handed over to Pei Min.

Deputy Wang Anze was also there. He sneaked in at noon to convey Li Xiu's orders.

"Do I want to light a fire on the top of the city and notify Your Highness?"

Wang Anze shook his head, "Your Highness said that as long as the city gate is opened, he will come in!"

At this time, Zhang Huan ran over and said, "General Pei, it's coming at the third hour!"

"Are you all here?"

"All of them are here, no one is bad!"

Pei Min glanced at the 500 militia soldiers lined up in an orderly manner, and waved his hand and said, "Go!"

Five hundred soldiers left the City God Temple from behind and ran towards the north city gate along an alley.
Chapter completed!