The battle was a battle, but the battle was over.

A few days ago, the Tatar Dynasty's hidden spies in Lizhou reported that 80,000 elite soldiers of the Zhenxi Army had been killed.

The Tatar Dynasty had a great opportunity to invade Beiting. The Tatar Dynasty immediately ordered General Hubitu to lead 300,000 cavalry to Anxi Pass, and Zhang Anding, the hidden chess piece of the Tatar Dynasty in Anxi Pass, led the 20,000 troops prepared in advance to suddenly attack.

The gate was taken at a very fast speed, and the gate was opened wide. 300,000 elite Tatar cavalry entered the pass, and a disaster for the people of Lizhou began.

The two brothers Zhang Anding and Zhang Anman were chess pieces planted by the Tatar Dynasty ten years ago.

The Tatar Dynasty is located in the bitter cold land of the Western Regions. Since there are few crops that can be cultivated normally in the Western Regions, only some cold-resistant barley can be planted, and the yield is extremely low.

Therefore, the Tatar Dynasty basically relies on grazing for a living. What they raise in large quantities is not horses, but blue-horned cattle, which are known as the ships of the Western Regions.

Many years ago, when the ice and snow melted and the spring came, the Tatar Dynasty would organize a large number of people and horses to burn, kill and loot in Lizhou every year. But since fifteen years ago, the Beiting Dynasty spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build Anxi Pass.

The Anxi Pass wall, which is more than ten feet high, extremely solid, and stretches for hundreds of miles, has become a natural chasm. Coupled with the elite Zhenxi Army, which reached more than 200,000 at its peak, the Tatar Dynasty was unwilling to give up and sent troops to attack many times, but could only return in defeat.

From then on, the Tatar Dynasty gave up its covetousness for Beiting and never raised troops to attack again. No one expected that the Tatar Dynasty had always coveted Beiting.

But they could not find an opportunity to save Lizhou from disaster.

The rise of the Qin army this time gave the Tatar Dynasty hope. First, 80,000 of the 160,000 elite Zhenxi Army joined the Bandit Suppression Army, but were completely defeated by the Qin Army.

In addition, Zhang Anding has become the leading trader at the Anxi Pass. After lurking for ten years, he has already had a certain scale of power and has a good relationship with the generals of all levels of the Zhenxi Army from top to bottom.

Zhang Anman secretly trained troops and horses, and has been preparing for the Tatar Dynasty to invade Beiting.

When the opportunity came, Zhang Anding lied that he had a large amount of goods to be shipped out of the customs to the Western Regions. The generals guarding the customs did not suspect anything and prepared to let a huge caravan out of the customs.

Who knew that the thousands of guards of the caravan were all arranged by Zhang Anding in advance. When approaching the gate, he took the initiative and directly seized the gate.

The Zhenxi Army reacted quickly and suppressed the enemy, but Zhang Anman also rushed out with a large number of troops, and with the arrival of 300,000 Tatar cavalry, it was too late to close the gate.

Soon, under the siege of 300,000 elite Tatar cavalry, the 80,000 Zhenxi Army was completely wiped out, and the leader of the Zhenxi Army, Hou Yuding, who was at the peak of the martial arts king, died of exhaustion.

None of the 80,000 Zhenxi Army fled in battle, playing a magnificent and tragic song.

The 300,000 Tatar cavalry lost 120,000 people, but they finally achieved their goal.

Anxi Pass is called a strong pass, but in fact it is also a border city with a permanent population of 200,000.

After the 300,000 Tatar cavalry entered the pass, they burned, killed, looted, and did everything they could.

At this time, fires were burning everywhere in the Anxi Pass, and the Tatar cavalry slaughtered the people wantonly.

The strong men were used as slaves, their hands were tied with ropes, and they were lined up in a long line and taken directly back to Tatar.

The old and the young were basically slaughtered by the Tatar cavalry. They even took pleasure in killing people and held beheading competitions to see who could kill more and faster.

As for women, their lives were even worse than death. They were wantonly insulted, violated, and beaten by the Tatar cavalry.

The entire Anxiguan City almost became a purgatory on earth, and the fall of Anxiguan City was just the beginning.

After looting Anxiguan City, the Tatar cavalry quickly set their sights on Hunjiang Prefecture, Lizhou, which was not far away.

Tens of thousands of cavalrymen have now arrived outside the city of Hunjiang Prefecture, but their way is blocked by a moat more than ten feet wide.

The Tatar cavalry looked across the moat at the city wall of Hunjiang City, where the defenders were waiting in full battle array.

Hubitu made a prompt decision and ordered his generals: "Don't waste time here, take down the four counties under the jurisdiction of Hunjiang Prefecture first."

In this way, Hunjiang City escaped, but the four counties under its jurisdiction suffered. Under the full force of more than 100,000 Tatar cavalry, the four counties fell one after another within half a month, and the whole Hunjiang Prefecture was in mourning.

At this time, the Tianwei and Datang armies had arrived at the border between Lizhou and Mozhou.

The Tatar cavalry is still wreaking havoc in the northwest of Lizhou. The area bordering Mozhou in the southeast has not been affected by the Tatar cavalry.

In the Lizhou Prefecture, Governor Zhang Yuyang paced back and forth anxiously. The entire Hunjiang Prefecture, except for Hunjiang City, was looted by the Tatar army. The remaining Hunjiang City, with only the moat, may not be able to stop the Tatar cavalry for long.

The Tatar army has stepped up the felling of trees and built a floating bridge, preparing to cross the moat and capture Hunjiang City in one fell swoop.

Zhang Yuyang is now in a dilemma. It is undoubtedly a pipe dream to rely on the 20,000 defenders in Hunjiang City to resist the Tatar army. But now there are only less than 40,000 Lizhou troops in Lishan City, and Zhang Yuyang dare not easily send reinforcements to rescue.

Besides, with these 40,000 people, facing more than 100,000 Tatar cavalry, let alone saving Hunjiang City, even he himself is a clay Buddha crossing the river.

But if they ignore Hunjiang City, after hundreds of thousands of Tatar cavalrymen take over Hunjiang City, the next target will be Lishan Prefecture and Yugu Prefecture. Then the whole Lizhou may not be spared.

Zhang Yuyang sent a messenger to the capital a few days ago to report the news, but he has not received any news from the court yet.

Zhang Yuyang was born in a poor family and was an honest official. Under his governance, Lizhou was stable and prosperous.

However, Beiting is basically monopolized by noble families nowadays. Zhang Yuyang has no chance of promotion. He has been the governor of Lizhou, a border area, for more than ten years. He doesn't care about it and works hard for the people.

Compared with other provinces in Beiting, corruption and disregard for human life rarely occur in Lizhou, which is inseparable from Zhang Yuyang's efforts for more than ten years.

For now, the only way to solve the Tatar riots in Lizhou is to wait for the reinforcements from the court.

A soldier walked into the government office and reported to Zhang Yuyang: "Governor, the Qin army in Mozhou has sent two large corps, tens of thousands of elite soldiers stationed at the border of Lizhou, and their intentions are unclear."

Zhang Yuyang's heart moved. The Qin army might also come to Lizhou for the purpose of plotting, but the Tatar cavalry entered the pass suddenly, so the two corps of the Qin army waited and saw what would happen.

Zhang Yuyang pondered and said: "Arrange people to keep a close eye on the movements of the Qin army, but don't spend too much energy on them. The main thing is to know the situation of the Tatar cavalry in Hunjiang City."

At this time, the court was undoubtedly the last straw for Lizhou.

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