On July 6, 999, at the end of the Hai Dynasty, at 11:00 a.m., near the mansion of the Forward Marquis of the Zhennanguan, southwest province of the Empire.

"Sir, Jiang Kaishan has been mobilizing people." Xia Yufeng dressed in the costume of a civilian and chaotic man, facing Lei Dongfeng.

"Jiang Kaishan has been cautious for many years and is careful in his actions, but now he feels that he is sure to win, but he is too arrogant. He deserves this loss." Lei Dongfeng said coldly.

"Lei Army, if this beast can be successfully killed tonight, you will be the benefactor of my forward Zhang family." Zhang Yu said seriously.

"Brother Yaowu is such a bad word. Killing this villain is also my duty as a soldier of the Han family. Such a treacherous gangster who colludes with foreign enemies is not worth mercy even if he dies a hundred times. Moreover, I am also doing my best to clean up the grievances. Only by knocking off Zhuge Ting's minions can he bring him down and prevent him from turning black and white. As for his kindness, I hope that Brother Yaowu can place family and country first and keep foreign enemies out." Lei Dongfeng said seriously.

Lei Dongfeng's open-minded language made Zhang Yu feel more favorable and sincerely praised: "Brother Lei Gao Yi, Yaowu admires him."

"When you fight for a while, may the old Zhang Zhen's army appear in time?" Lei Dongfeng asked.

"Master Lin's wonderful hand is coming back to his heart. His ancestors are awake and are resting now. Just when we start a war with Jiang Kaishan, he came out to the camp to persuade the soldiers of the vanguard to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. Most of the soldiers are old subordinates who have followed the ancestors for many years. They just bewitched Jiang Kaishan, so they chose to go with him." Zhang Yu sighed.

"Can the gates of the four cities be guarded clearly?" Lei Dongfeng asked again.

"Except for the Ximen and Nanmen controlled by Jiang Kaishan, the other gates have been controlled by our army. The outside world of the South Gate, which the enemy may be attacking, has ambushed people as planned. The Jiang army led my personal guards to plagiarize Jiang Kaishan's camp, making it difficult for him to take care of. If this battle is successful, it should teach the invading enemy a lesson." Zhang Yu was full of confidence.

"Director Chen, once war starts in the city, please lead your own public security law enforcement team to maintain the safety of the city and not let Xiaoxiao take the opportunity to cause trouble." Lei Dongfeng said to Chen Ren again.

"Well, I've arranged it. I will lead the team myself later. As long as anyone dares to make trouble in the street, I will ask my subordinates to kill them on the spot." Chen Ren nodded.

"Brother Lei, Brother Dao is here, he has already caught the assassin." Guan Nubai Zong came to Lei Dongfeng. At this moment, the young man's blood seemed to be ignited, and his eyes were filled with a strong fighting spirit.

Guan Nubai had also been with the army to guard the border for several months before, but he had not experienced any battles. At most, he would warn the patrols of the vassal states that violated the border or suppress the bandits several times.

Today, it was his first time participating in such a large army battle, and it was a night battle, so how could he not be in a state of excitement?

At this moment, Lei Dongfeng and others were lying ambushed not far from the Forward Marquis' Mansion, so the old Taoist Lin Qingping soon found them.

"Have you captured the assassin?" Lei Dongfeng asked.

"Well, Boy Lei, the assassin is actually Chen Hanbing. It seems that Zhuge Ting is indeed the behind-the-scenes commander and has begun to intervene in this matter. However, Mu Tong analyzed that they should not be able to draw the army to support Jiang Kaishan, but they need to be careful that others will take the opportunity to assassinate you. It may be the Mu Fancen of Huaizhen Taoist Temple." The old Taoist said so concisely for the first time.

"Okay, when Mu Tong's signal, Jiang Kaishan moves and shines on his feet, and we will immediately jump into the west city!" Lei Dongfeng said.

"Here!" Zhang Yu replied subconsciously, and after a moment, he remembered that he was not Lei Dongfeng's subordinate, but he had no resistance to obeying Lei Dongfeng's orders.

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With hooves sounded, a team of cavalry marched rapidly on the street. The leading general was Jiang Kaishan, the deputy commander of the vanguard army.

Jiang Kaishan is 37 years old this year, which is the time to be strong. From the 19-year-old Higher Education College of the 6th Army of the Imperial Capital and joined the Forward Army, Jiang Kaishan sat up from the squadron leader to the position of the deputy corps of the Forward Army today, he can be said to be a step by step, and he is also a representative of the practical faction among the Forward Army.

It is precisely because of this that so many vanguard soldiers chose to surrender to Jiang Kaishan when Zhang Zhen was ill and Zhang Yu was "willing to fall".

In any case, Jiang Kaishan has a way of commanding the army. What's more important is that although he is a harsh person and even a little ruthless, he is not greedy for money or lust. For many years, as long as he truly follows his generals and soldiers, he will not stingy with a lot of rewards and even pay for his own money. Therefore, he has really united a group of loyal people around him.

At this moment, Jiang Kaishan stared at the front, and the firelight rising from the vanguard's mansion in the distance made his eyes turn red.

"As long as I can take down the Marquis' Mansion in this battle, kill the grandparents and grandchildren of the Zhang family, and then kill the Western Allied General who deliberately put them into Zhennan Pass, I will be the great hero to fight against the Western enemy." Thinking of Zhuge Ting's order, Jiang Kaishan couldn't help but be happy. Didn't he endure it for the moment of arrogance for many years?

For a person who is not greedy for money and is not lustful, what he wants is greater rights to ensure that he gains a higher status.

As for the Western Alliance if they choose to detour from elsewhere, Jiang Kaishan can pretend to turn a blind eye.

Moreover, Jiang Kaishan also has his own plans. Although their Jiang family has been dependent on the Zhuge family for thousands of years, they have not thought about independence. After all, they are vassals of a large family like the Zhuge family, and everything they have done has made Jiang Kaishan intolerable. Now this is a good opportunity. If he can unite with the Westerners and not fight with them, he can completely hold the position of the leader of the legion. Although his contact with the Westerners now must be through Annan, Jiang Kaishan believes that if the Westerners want to enter the empire smoothly from the southwest, they must make friends with him, a senior official who holds real power.

As long as he can make his family prosperous and become a famous prince, Jiang Kaishan can abandon anyone, including Zhuge Ting, who is now using him.

"Cangnan, Gangying, don't think I don't know that you were sent by Zhuge Ting to monitor me. When I get the vanguard army, you will all die." Jiang Kaishan said secretly. Now, everything he had planned for many years will be realized tonight. He has always been calm and has some different expectations.

I just got the news from the organization, and until tonight before going to bed, Zhang Yu was not prepared, and was still immersed in Zhang Zhen's joy of awakening. Now is a good opportunity to realize his ideal.

Soon, the vanguard's mansion appeared at the end of the street. At this moment, the door of the vanguard's mansion, hundreds of meters away, was wide open, and there were constant screams and swearing sounds coming from the mansion. From time to time, people covered in scars stumbled out of the mansion.

"All army will join me, rush in, no one will be left." Jiang Kaishan said viciously.

In order to keep it a secret, the people who followed Jiang Kaishan to attack the Forward Marquis' Mansion this time were his hard-core confidants. Although the number was only 3,000, they were all elite cavalry and loyal. They would never go back halfway just because he attacked the Zhang Mansion.

Other Jiang Kaishan's confidants may stay in the military camp to prevent riots from other military camps, or prepare to pick up Annan soldiers into the city at the South Gate and West Gate.

However, as long as Jiang Kaishan can control the situation smoothly and then kill all the Zhang family, then Zhennan Pass will be his world.

These more than two thousand cavalrymen marched into the dark streets, like thunders rolling across the sky. If ordinary people saw it, their courage would be half lost.

At this time, he dared to stand in front of Jiang Kaishan and others, either a warrior or a madman. But there were such people who dared to do such crazy actions.

"Jiang Kaishan, you colluded with the Westerners and dared to assassinate Zhang Zhen's army!" He rode and horse, and blocked the avenue.

This is a young man in black and cold-faced, holding a horse spear in his back hand, slowly walked out of the corner of the street in the dark, and stopped Jiang Kaishan and others carelessly, as if he was wandering around.

"Who are you!" Jiang Kaishan was about to issue a charge order, and he shouted with a finger.

Jiang Kaishan is a smart person, otherwise he would not have climbed to such a high position. But it is precisely because of his cleverness that he is very cautious. No matter how he looks at the other side, he feels something is wrong.

Unless he is a madman, he will intercept thousands of troops alone, but the person on the other side does not look like a madman?

"Jiang Kaishan, do you also want to know my name?" the man sneered.

"Legion, why bother to talk nonsense to him? When a certain knife cuts him, we can continue moving forward." Jiang Kaishan's general Qiu Ming, who was the first to go.

"Okay, Mingyuan, the battle is decided!" Jiang Kaishan nodded, and he was also a little suspicious. After all, on such a sneak attack night, there was suddenly such a person blocking your team alone. Anyone would doubt whether there were other ambushes?

So I simply let my powerful generals go out and try the depth of the other party. Even if they lead to an ambush, I can still respond.

Qiu Mingyuan was more than 1.90 meters tall and used a banmen knife of more than 20 kilograms. Under Jiang Kaishan's hands, he was able to rank in the top three.

At this moment, Qiu Mingyuan was deliberately trying to take this predecessor, and shouted, rushed towards the person blocking the road.

Qiu Mingyuan bullied this man as a general in the battle of the infantry. He took advantage of the horse's stance and slashed out in the air without any hesitation. And he was riding on the horse was nearly two meters taller than the man blocking the road opposite. When he slashed down, the sharp sword wind brought out actually made a sound of breaking through the air.

"Die!" Qiu Mingyuan seemed to see the body of the man blocking the road being split in half by him, and blood rose into the sky.

Even Jiang Kaishan felt that he was too careful. Seeing that the person blocking the road was so stupid, he had already known that he would have ordered the entire army to charge and directly step on the man into a meat paste, and wasted so much time in vain.

But just as the sword light reached its body, the young man suddenly flashed, rushed out of his horse spear in his hand, blocking Qiu Mingyuan's sword.

Although the horse lance is made of wood, it is wrapped in thick cloth and dehydrated and forged in all kinds of ways, but it is harder than gold and stone. At this moment, the weapons collided, and a muffled sound came out.

Qiu Mingyuan only felt his arm sore that he was almost shocked. On the other hand, the young man remained motionless, and his lower plate was as steady as a mountain, and his expression was still calm.

"What a lot of strength!" Qiu Mingyuan was shocked, but at this time the distraction took his life.

However, the young man was in power and refused to forgive him. After stopping Qiu Mingyuan's sword, he suddenly slapped his backhand and slapped hard on Qiu Mingyuan's front leg of the war horse.

The war horse broke its front leg on the spot, whining, and knelt down on the ground. Qiu Mingyuan was caught off guard and fell off the horse.

The next moment, Qiu Mingyuan was about to get up, but he felt a thunder flash in front of him. The big head was cut off by the young man with a spear. The young man took the other hand and held the head in his hand with his backhand, then shouted:
Chapter completed!