Huang Zhong frowned slightly.

His arrow could shoot at least five pairs of piercing armor in the dense formation, but he shot through three pairs of piercing armor at this time, which was greatly degraded, which shows the toughness of this piercing armor.

Of course, the incompetence of the vine armor is for soldiers, but it is ineffective against a powerful general like Huang Zhong, and the vine armor will still be shot through.

"My vine armor soldier!"

Yuan Shu finally found the special type of vine armored soldiers in the Qinling Mountains, and used the vine armored soldiers as their trump card, but five hundred vine armored soldiers died like this.

Yuan Shu also accumulated a total of 1,500 vine armored soldiers in Shangluo Mountain. As a result, this time he left the Qinling Mountains, he directly lost 500 vine armored soldiers, which made Yuan Shu feel like a knife.

"The vine armored soldiers can only play the greatest role in the mountains and forests, and cannot fight these cavalry on the plains."

Yuan Shu continued to lead his troops to flee, and the mountain barbarians who were behind were defeated by four generals, Huang Zhong, Xue Rengui, Qi Bi Heli, and Chen Qingzhi.

Thousands of mountain barbarians were beheaded and tens of thousands were dispersed. Yuan Shu fled in a hurry under Ji Ling's escort and fled into the Qinling Mountains.

The other mountain barbarians and bandits followed Yuan Shu and fled into the mountains to avoid the cavalry's troops.

"It is not difficult to break the vine armored soldiers. You either attack with fire, or use heavy cavalry or blunt weapons to cause internal injuries to the vine armored soldiers."

Seeing Yuan Shu leading his troops into the vast Qinling Mountains, Chen Qingzhi summarized his experience in dealing with the next time he dealt with the vine armored soldiers.

The advantages and disadvantages of the fuji armored soldiers are quite outstanding, and such troops are not suitable for being the main force. Otherwise, once the opponent knows the weakness, the main force will be destroyed.

Yuan Shu fled into the Qinling Mountains with his troops. It was difficult for generals such as Chen Qingzhi to continue pursuing, and the terrain of the Qinling Mountains was not suitable for large-scale cavalry operations.

The orders received by Chen Qingzhi and others were to repel Yuan Shu and relieve Lantian County, not to chase Yuan Shu's territory.

Zhang Hua knew only about the rugged ancient Qinling Road, and he was not sure how many soldiers Yuan Shu had in Shangluo Mountain. If he rashly sent troops, he would only lose his troops and generals.

In addition, Qin Xiaogong, Cao Zhen, Wanyan Zongwang, Li Zicheng, and all four forces were eyeing Guanzhong and sent too many troops into the depths of the Qinling Mountains. These surrounding forces would probably take advantage of the situation.

"Qibi Heli, your leopard rider can be unaffected in the mountains and forests. During this period, you will be the one who guards Lantian Pass and waits for the next order."

Before going to war, Chen Qingzhi had already received Zhang Hua's arrangement, ordering Qiheli and Cheng Mingzhen's Leopard Cavalry Legion to guard Lantian Pass.

Before the completion of Lantian Pass and the infringement of Yuan Shu's power, the Leopard Cavalry temporarily stationed in Lantian to guard against Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu could only bully the local soldiers in Lantian County. When Zhang Hua sent the main cavalry, he swept away the fallen leaves like the autumn wind, and quickly defeated Yuan Shu.

Chen Qingzhi asked the bodies of the dead to bury the bodies of the war to avoid a plague breaking out during the busy farming season.

Chen Qingzhi, Xue Rengui and others beheaded thousands of people and captured nearly 10,000 people. After hearing this, they fell.

In Chang'an Town, good news came, and Zhang Hua immediately arranged for the Jinyiwei to interrogate the prisoners and explore Yuan Shu's troops.

Lantian County Magistrate Li She was killed, Zhang Hua was treated well by his family, and at the same time, he looked for a new Lantian County to be selected.

This person had already arrived at the palace of Chang'an Town. Before the new Lantian County Magistrate took office, Zhang Hua personally summoned him.

Before the appointed governor and county magistrate take office, Zhang Hua will summon him specifically to deepen the relationship between the two parties and make the other party think that he is valued by Zhang Hua, so that he is qualified to be summoned.

The candidate who was appointed as the new county magistrate was a person that Zhang Hua was very familiar with, that is, Li Shangyin, a poet of the Tang Dynasty and known as "Little Li and Du" together with Du Mu.

The fallen Lantian County Magistrate has some relationship with Li Shangyin - Li She was Li Shangyin's Gaozu.

This time, Li Shangyin was appointed as the new Lantian County Magistrate, which also made some sense to compensate Li Shangyin's family.

Li She defended Lantian Pass to the death and bought time for Chang'an reinforcements, so he made contributions to conceal Li Shangyin.

The father-in-law of the poet Li Shangyin was the governor of the Tang Dynasty. However, because his father-in-law passed away soon, Li Shangyin lost his political backer, so he was unhappy in the late Tang Dynasty and was depressed and unsuccessful.

Before this, Zhang Hua had already checked Li Shangyin's abilities in advance.

【Hero】: Li Shangyin

【Level】: 27

[Commander]:41 [Military power]:40 [Intellect]:81 [Politics]:71

[Talent]: Poet (Li Shangyin has a continuous creative idea of ​​creating poetry, and will attract other poets or literati to visit. The cultural index of the city it belongs to will increase, making it easier for poets, novelists, painters, famous actors, etc.)

[Article]: A famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty.

Li Shangyin's ability is quite good. Although his political ability is very different from famous civil officials or political theorists such as Xie An, Fan Zhongyan, and Han Fei, it should be no problem for Li Shangyin to manage a county.

"Li She died in battle to defend Lantian. As his descendant, you must not let Li She down when you take office in Lantian this time."

When Zhang Hua saw Li Shangyin, he hinted that Li Shangyin's position as a county magistrate was related to Li She's death in the war, so that Li Shangyin could not slackew easily.

"I will definitely live up to the expectations of my elders and ancestors."

Li Shangyin was in a heavy mood.

Zhang Hua simply appeased Li Shangyin and asked him to go to Lantian County to replace Li She as the county magistrate.

"Yuan Shu..."

After Li Shangyin left, Zhang Hua arranged for people to go deep into the Qinling Mountains to explore the reality of Yuan Shu.

If necessary, Zhang Hua would consider sending troops to wipe out Yuan Shu's forces, and then establish Wu Pass to form a layered defense system with Lantian Pass to consolidate Guanzhong.

In Shangluo Mountain, Yuan Shu returned with the defeated generals, and his morale was sluggish.

Yuan Shu, who failed to plunder the food and grass of Lantian County, had a gloomy face.

Not only that, Yuan Shu lost tens of thousands of soldiers.

"I thought I was recruiting soldiers and horses in the Qinling Mountains, and I had enough strength. I didn't expect that Zhang Hua was stronger. Should I give up Guanzhong and go to Nanyang?"

Yuan Shu thought of another direction of expansion.

Yuan Shu's territory is located in the Qinling Mountains and can lead to Guanzhong or Nanyang.

If it is impossible to conquer Guanzhong, Yuan Shu can only choose to go to Nanyang to plunder food and grass. After all, the number of farmland in the depths of the Qinling Mountains is too small.

Yuan Shu led his troops back to Shangluo Mountain, less than ten miles away from Shangzhou Town. The troops left behind Shangzhou Town fled and met with Yuan Shu: "Lord, our territory was stolen by a group of peasant soldiers!"

"This group of mud legs dares to steal my territory!"

Yuan Shu had just been defeated by Chen Qingzhi, Xue Rengui and others. He finally escaped back and found that the territory was occupied by another force, and he was furious.

He, Yuan Shu, was defeated by Zhang Hua of unknown origin, for nothing, but now even farmers dare to steal his territory?
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