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"I'm afraid it won't burn!" Zhou Jun looked at each other in blank dismay. No one thought that such a wet forest could be ignited.At least their commander-in-chief Xia Guoxiang felt that he couldn't burn it before going to war.

"Where are you talking so much nonsense, hurry up and cut down trees." Jin Tingxian actually just wanted to vent, and he didn't know if he could burn it.

It was too easy to cut down trees in the forest, and soon a large pile of trees was put together by Zhou Jun, forming a huge pile of firewood.All the Zhou troops were waiting for Jin Tingxian to announce the ignition, but Jin Tingxian strode to the hundreds of Zhou Jun's corpses.

"Take off their armor." Jin Tingxian had a gloomy expression on his face.

"General, they are our paoze." A small school said.

"When you're alive, you're dead. When you're dead, you're a dead person. Crack!" Jin Tingxian's words made people feel a deep chill.

The fire was lit quickly, and not only was there green smoke, but also black smoke soaring into the sky.If it is said that the whole forest cannot be ignited with wet wood, the burning of more than 100 corpses is enough to burn a raging flame.

The Ming army hiding in the dense forest was still laughing at Zhou Jun's stupidity when he saw the soaring smoke at first, but half a day later, after letting the soaring fire dragon illuminate half of the sky along the ridge, everyone was shocked.

Zhao Yinxuan was standing on a mountainside, and the people on the opposite mountain were roasting his cheeks.Right at the head of the fire was the retreat route for him to lead his subordinates back to Hangu Pass.

"We can't go back." A group of soldiers from the [-]th Army said softly.There was a little bit of parting from life and death in his words, because only they knew that the backpacks behind each soldier had run out of food.

"Withdraw! Withdraw to the west." The west is the enemy's territory, and Zhao Yinxuan has few opportunities to choose, but he chose another road of no return.After hearing Zhao Yinxuan's words, all the soldiers followed silently without saying a word.

The night sky was very beautiful that night. The fire dragon stretched over the top of the mountain for more than ten miles. From a distance, it looked like hundreds of thousands of troops walking at night holding torches.

Not only Xia Guoxiang, but of course the [-]th Army also saw it.Across the city of Hangu Pass, the commanders of both sides stood silently in the field watching the fire dragon burn to a further place.

"Kill!" Accompanied by the sound of bugles, Hu Yiqing rushed out from the direction of Qinglong Mountain with the main force of the 53rd Division, and rushed towards Hangu Pass.

"Quickly, let the 54th Division go up for reinforcements. I must rescue Hu Yiqing." Deng Zhirong saw that a large army was forced out of Qinglong Mountain by the fire, and he guessed without thinking that it should be Hu Yiqing.

It's a pity that Hu Yiqing's attack on Hangu Pass was futile, because he attacked the left wing of Hangu Pass, where there are not only forests, but also a river.

Xia Guoxiang looked at the crazy Ming army with a sneer. Although he knew that these people would not be able to conquer Hangu Pass, he was still ready to evacuate.What Xia Guoxiang was afraid of was the Ming army outside the pass, and he had already seen the Ming army outside the pass starting to move.

"Report: General Qi, the reinforcements sent by the emperor have arrived." Just when Xia Guoxiang was about to retreat, a long black army appeared to the west.

This is the reinforcement Wu Sangui sent to Xia Guoxiang, a typical infantry guarding the city.

Hu Yiqing was furious, and he could only lament that his luck was really bad. The defense line established after two or three days of bloody battle was almost roasted into a rabbit by an inexplicable fire.

When he wanted to take revenge, he happened to meet the enemy's reinforcements.He wondered if he didn't count the days when he went out this month, and he was in bad luck.

"Withdraw!" Hu Yiqing gave the order to withdraw to the outside of Hangu Pass.

This time, Hu Yiqing completely surrendered Hangu Pass to the enemy.

5Chapter 17: Prelude to the war between the two armies next week

Hu Yiqing sat in front of Deng Zhirong with his head shrugged, his appearance was indescribably bald, and Deng Zhirong couldn't find a word to hate him at all.

"Commander, I made a mistake." Hu Yiqing admitted his mistake as soon as he opened his mouth, and his attitude was quite good.

"Where did you go wrong?" Deng Zhirong didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"I shouldn't have asked Zhao Yinxuan to take the initiative." After thinking about it, Hu Yiqing found that this incident was the most serious. After all, it was an army of 3000 soldiers.

"We are not a regular army. What's wrong with moving the battlefield to the enemy's territory?" Deng Zhirong asked.

"Then where did I go wrong?" Hu Yiqing asked.

"Yeah, I also want to ask you, where did you go wrong?" Deng Zhirong stared at Hu Yiqing.

"Didn't you ask me to review my mistakes?" Hu Yiqing was taken aback.

"I asked you to explain what happened, who said you were the one to criticize?" Deng Zhirong was annoyed and funny.

The Hangu Pass was lost, but Deng Zhirong didn't think it was a big deal. Given his relationship with Zhu Youjian, a mere Hangu Pass was nothing, but the three thousand soldiers were more important.

"You fought in the forest for a day and a night, how was the result?" Deng Zhirong asked.

"If it hadn't been for the dog day's arson, give me two more days and I would have left behind all the enemies who entered the forest." Hu Yiqing became a little proud again.

"That is to say, Zhao Yinxuan and the others shouldn't suffer a loss?" Deng Zhirong asked.

"Absolutely not, I can guarantee this. As long as we don't fight positional warfare in the forest, the enemy will not try to take advantage of our division." Hu Yiqing said firmly.

"Then you find a way to find them and bring them back safely." Deng Zhirong said.

"The fire is too big. It has burned to more than a dozen mountain ridges. People can't get through." Hu Yiqing felt lingering fear when he thought of the incident.

Deng Zhirong said: "With such a big fire, Zhao Yinxuan and the others don't know where they are driven. What I am worried about now is that their rations are not enough. They will starve to death."

"I'll send someone right away." Hu Yiqing turned his head and was about to leave. Of course, he was also worried about his subordinates.

"Come back." Deng Zhirong said: "Let's repair for a day and replenish before we start."

"Then I will send more people to look for it from the southern foot of Qinglong Mountain tomorrow morning." The stone in Hu Yiqing's heart finally fell, and his task became to find Zhao Yinxuan.

Deng Zhirong finished appeasing Hu Yiqing, but he himself fell into a dilemma.Zhou Jun gathered more and more, and his chances of making meritorious service to regain face became smaller and smaller.Deng Zhirong felt that his official luck was really bad, and he couldn't seize the opportunity no matter what.

Deng Zhirong also didn't want to fight a positional battle with the Ming army, but judging from the current situation, I'm afraid it would be very difficult for the [-]th Army to escape this hurdle.Deng Zhirong's task became how to resist the enemy here at Hangu Pass.

The Ming army was stationed in front of the pass with a lot of troops, and because he was afraid of the firepower of the Ming army, Xia Guoxiang did not dare to attack immediately. Anyway, his first credit has already been obtained.

Wu Sangui's order to him was to seize Hangu Pass, and Xia Guoxiang estimated that Wu Sangui would make a big move when he waited for the next order.In this way, Xia Guoxiang's task became how to defend the Hangu Pass he had obtained.

A strange phenomenon appeared on the battlefield. Except for the raging fire, the entire battlefield was safe and sound.

However, regardless of the entire Hangu Pass battlefield, people in this small battlefield have no idea what the commanders of both sides think.

The decisive battle between the two armies was stirred up by a small temptation, and it began to slowly kick off.

On the official road in Beizhili, five carriages with four horses were galloping southward.No one knew that Li Dingguo and Yang Zhan were sitting in the carriage.Moreover, since they received Zhu Youjian's imperial decree, they didn't even enter the newly recovered capital, but rushed directly from Liaodong to Luoyang.

According to the imperial decree given by Zhu Youjian, Li Dingguo must rush to Luoyang and then complete the strategic deployment of the attack on Zhou Wu Sangui Da Zhou.And Yang Zhan will take over the two local armies that urgently reinforce Hubei from Huguang.

Li Dingguo sat in the car, and maps were hung around his car.He had to come up with an excellent plan along the way, not only to resolve the crisis, but also to find a way to consume Wu Sangui's elite.

Moreover, Zhu Youjian gave him less than 35 troops, including 20 from Zeng Ying's department, [-] from the [-]th Army, two local armies in Huguangbei and one local army in Henan.

Li Dingguo didn't know much about the situation. He only knew that Zhu Youjian's order to Deng Zhirong contained an order not to recover Hangu Pass temporarily.This order itself meant to show weakness to Wu Sangui.

The question before the Ming army was whether Wu Sangui would attack, and from where he would attack.Is it Hangu Pass or Wuguan Pass?

In Xi'an, Wu Sangui reopened his cabinet meeting.The excited Wu Sangui did not expect that Hangu Pass would be in his hands within two days.In other words, now all the passes in Guanzhong to attack the Central Plains are in his own hands. If Wu Sangui can be a turtle in this way, then he is too courageous.

What Wu Sangui thought of was to attack Daming.

"My dear friends, I plan to attack the Central Plains. Where do you think the focus of the attack will be?" Wu Sangui looked at the crowd in front of him. Among them were Hou Xun, Hou Fangyu and his son, who were high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, as well as famous officials like Wang Duo. There are also generals like Ma Bao.