After breaking through Xiaoyan Pass, Jiangxia lost more than 200 people, but killed more than 7,000 enemies. This is an astonishing proportion, and it is no exaggeration to describe it as "enough to be recorded in history".

Some people may think that there are 30,000 soldiers guarding Xiaoyan Pass, more than 7,000 people died, and aren’t there still more than 20,000 people?

In fact, this is not the case. In ancient times, when the generals lost the city, they would have their lives to worry about their lives. When the soldiers were defeated, they would flee. They would not go back until the war was decided. This is also a kind of self-protection.

After Jiang Xia passed Xiaoyan Pass, he naturally went straight to Taiyuan. On the Taiyuan Prefecture, because the King of Qi suddenly fell ill, Taiyuan Prefecture was temporarily under the power of the King of Qi's eldest son Zhu Xiao.

Of course, this is just on the surface. In fact, the owner behind the Qi Prince's Mansion has always been the representative of the Yuan family, Yuan Hanqiu. So even if Zhu Xiao was in power, his first thing was to ask Yuan Hanqiu how to deal with it next.

But on the first day, Zhu Xiao went to the Qiuhan thatched cottage built by Yuan Hanqiu in Taiyuan, but Zhu Xiao was rejected, and Yuan Hanqiu did not see him.

The Autumn Cold Thatched House.

Although it is called a thatched cottage, it is actually a luxurious mansion hidden in the dark. This mansion covers more than 70 acres of land, and from the outside it seems to be simple and casual in decoration. But after really entering this mansion, you can see that the layout of this mansion is in line with the principles of the Four Symbols and Eight Trigrams. All stones and woods are exquisitely used.

Especially the pile of rockery built in the back garden imitates the top of Mount Hua, which looks almost the same as the real mountain from a distance. I don’t know how much manpower, material resources and financial resources to build such a mountain.

However, Qiuhan's thatched cottage was just the temporary residence of Yuan Hanqiu in Taiyuan. At this moment, he was sitting in a pavilion in the middle of the rockery, beside him were three maids with long swords on their backs and jade-like wine for him.

On the stone table in front of me were a few exquisite dishes. Opposite the stone table, a middle-aged man in a Taoist robe sat.

Yuan Hanqiu picked up the wine glass and said to the Taoist priest in front of him: "Master Qingyun, Hanqiu will give you another cup."

The Taoist priest named Qingyun waved his hand, turned the wine glass in front of him upside down, and said, "I won't drink the wine. Why did Yuan's family find the old Taoist? Please be honest."

Yuan Hanqiu had toast directly, and I'm afraid there were not many people in the Ming Dynasty. However, Yuan Hanqiu seemed to be not angry at all for Taoist Qingyun's rejection. Instead, he drank all the glass of Chinese wine in one mouthful and said, "What's wrong with Hanqiu looking for Taoist Master? I believe Hanqiu doesn't have to say it clearly."

Qingyun smiled, picked up the wine pot and poured a little wine on the stone table, then stretched out his index finger and dipped it on the wine. Then he wrote two sentences on the stone table.

After writing, Qingyun stood up and laughed and said, "By taking care of Yuan's family, the old man will accept you 50,000 taels of gold in these two sentences."

Yuan Hanqiu looked at the two sentences, then raised his hand and patted it. After a while, more than twenty strong men came over the stone dam outside the pavilion, carrying more than a dozen large boxes.

After putting down the box, the strong men opened the box. The golden light immediately refracted, and more than a dozen boxes were filled with gold.

Yuan Hanqiu stood up and said to Qingyun: "Thank you, Master, for your advice. If you have free time in the future, Hanqiu will go to Zhongnan Mountain to visit."

Qingyun waved his hand and said, "You don't have to come within three years. With so much gold, the old Taoist must stay in the secular world for a longer time before he can go back."

Yuan Hanqiu nodded and said to the strong men: "Send the Taoist priest to leave and protect the gold for the Taoist priest."

"Yes!" The strong men answered in unison.

After Taoist Master Qingyun and the strong men left, Yuan Hanqiu looked at the handwriting that had not yet been completely dry on the stone table, and whispered to himself: "Don't avoid the edge for the time being, plan and move. Put your back on the big tree, and become one?"

After Yuan Hanqiu read these two sentences, he seemed to be in confusion, as if he could not understand the Zen strategy contained in these two sentences.

On the other hand, after a period of slow speed, Jiang Xia suddenly began to accelerate towards Taiyuan Prefecture.

King Qi was seriously ill, and Zhu Xiao went to Yuan Hanqiu to discuss countermeasures several times, but in the end he could not see Yuan Hanqiu. In desperation, Zhu Xiao had to order to withdraw all the troops along the way from Xiaoyan Pass to Taiyuan Prefecture and guard Taiyuan Prefecture with all his strength.

In this way, Jiang Xia's troops were as if they were entering and leaving the land of no one, and rushed towards Taiyuan Prefecture.

On the way, Zhang Meng asked Jiang Xia in confusion: "Master, why are we bringing such a few people to Shanxi?"

Jiang Xia smiled faintly and said, "If there are too many people, how dare they kill me?"

"Then where will we go after conquering Taiyuan?"

"I won't go anywhere, just wait for them in Taiyuan."

"Huh?" Zhang Meng widened his eyes and looked at Jiang Xia who was holding his horse's belly and urged him to move forward quickly. Only then did he realize that Jiang Xia was planning to use himself as bait to attract all those who joined the attack on the capital to fight to the death together in Shanxi.

This is undoubtedly a crazy act, even a little bit self-destructive and overestimating one's own ability.

But Zhang Meng knew that Jiang Xia must be sure of doing this. After following him for so many years, how could he fail?

The place near Taiyuan Prefecture is Yuci. Jiang Xia rushed to Yuci without any obstacles. However, he was also in a mess. Going forward next time, it would definitely be a big battle. Although Jiang Xia was confident, he was never blind and knew that he should let his people have a good rest in Yuci at this time.

Maybe I knew that Jiangxia was coming, and there would be a big battle after it came, so the whole of Yuci County was empty and there was no one.

After Jiang Xia and his friends arrived in Yuci, the entire county town was closely defended by them. Jiang Xia and his personal guards lived in the county government.

It was late at night, and Jiang Xia actually had two choices. One was to take advantage of the darkness and attack him directly. The other was to accumulate energy and wait until dawn to attack Taiyuan.

If it were in the past, Jiang Xia would probably choose to take advantage of the darkness. But now, his decision was to wait until dawn to attack Taiyuan Prefecture and directly kill King Qi.

Just as Jiang Xia was still thinking about the siege plan after tomorrow, he suddenly shouted to the closed study door: "Since you have come, then come in and sit down."

Squeak...

The door of the study was pushed open, and a man wearing a beige cloth dress and a tube of jasper flute hung around his waist walked into the room.

After seeing Jiang Xia, the man bowed slightly and said, "I am here in Yuan Hanqiu, see the emperor."

"Yuan Hanqiu?" Jiang Xia showed a little doubt on her face, because he had never heard of this name before.

Yuan Hanqiu smiled slightly and said, "Maybe I should introduce this, Yuan Family of Chen County, Yuan Hanqiu meets the emperor."
Chapter completed!