Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

In less than half an hour, it was enough for Zhang Huaiwei and Yu Guni's troops to arrive under Qingyangling from Han Guangling.At this time, Xu Jingzong was even more puzzled. He kept looking up at the dangerous terrain on both sides. He couldn't figure it out anyway. How did Chen Ying know that there was such a road here, and he was sure that this road must be Nearly [-] infantry cavalry can pass here smoothly.

It is impossible for Chen Ying not to know about the side pass if others don't know about it.As the barrier of the Ming Dynasty, the Outer Three Passes have always been the frontline of resisting the Mongolian army.Of course, the tragic battle took place in the 15th year of Chongzhen. Shanxi general Zhou Yuji resisted the rebels here. Zhou Yuji resisted for five days and five nights. Under the attack of the rebels, the Ming army ran out of ammunition and food. Guancheng was breached.The thieves and rebels broke through the three outer passes, and then slaughtered Ningwu, leaving behind all the babies and children, and many people were killed.

It is a pity that more than [-] corpses were left behind in the Civil War for this little-known pass.It has to be said that this is a great irony.

Along the rugged valley, Tang Jun walked with difficulty, passing under Baiyangling Mountain, Caoduo Mountain, and Mingdeng Mountain. When passing Mingdeng Mountain, a smooth road appeared.Zhang Huaiwei was finally relieved to enter the Shenchi.

Xu Jingzong asked Zhang Huaiwei: "Are you sure that General Chen has never been to Hedong?"

Zhang Huaiwei shook his head and said, "Of course not. When we were in Jingyang, General Chen and I were eating in the same ladle. At that time, he said that he had never been out of Guanzhong! I really can't figure it out, General Chen Why are you so sure that you can enter Shenchi through Linhu Lake!"

"If you can't figure it out, that's right. That's why you are the captain of the fifth rank Zhechong, and he is the general of the third rank Wuwei." Xu Jingzong was really jealous of Zhang Huaiwei. It is used as cannon fodder, and the grass on the grave is estimated to be three feet high.

Thanks to Chen Ying, Zhang Huaiwei is not only living a good life, but is now an official of the fifth rank.

Xu Jingzong naturally recalled that when Chen Yingwei was the right guard and led the Xun Erfu to rush to the captaincy, he had intentionally wooed him.If I chose to follow Chen Ying, I am afraid that I would not be a sixth-rank official, or I could have become a fourth-rank Lingzhou governor.

Xu Jingzong secretly made up his mind that he must follow in Chen Ying's footsteps, maybe he can make his family famous.

From Linhu to Shenchi, although the road is not good, the horses can trot. Yu Guni was depressed by the forty-mile-long valley of Linhu. Seeing a good road, he couldn't wait to order to speed up the march.Shenchi is located behind Yanmen Pass, and it was never expected that Tang Jun would appear.When Yu Guni led the Lingwu Zuo Army to appear under the city of Shenchi, the captain of Shenchi defending the city surrendered without firing an arrow.

Without a single soldier, he easily captured Shenchi.

Chapter 61 Xu Jingzong's debut

It is common knowledge that infantry is slower than cavalry.It is also common sense for cavalry to raid and harass, and infantry to attack a city.But common sense is sometimes unreliable.For example, now, Zhang Huaiwei led his subordinates in a hurry to conquer Shenchi City before Liu Wuzhou's Tianju army came to help.

However, when Xu Jingzong arrived at Shenchi with Zhang Huaiwei's infantry, Yu Guni was already sitting in the lobby of the Shenchi County Yamen.He heard the sound of a woman crying.Zhang Huaiwei glared at Yu Guni and said, "How dare you disobey the general's order?"

As early as the beginning of the formation of the army, both the Lingwu Army and the Dingyuan Army had an iron law, whoever touches them will die: "Whoever rapes a silver woman will be killed!" This is the iron law set by Chen Ying.

Yu Guni said lightly: "Master's order, Yu Guni never dared to disobey!"

Zhang Huaiwei ignored Yu Guni, but rushed to the back hall.In the main hall of Houya, Zhang Huaiwei saw a middle-aged man lying on the mat, to be precise, it should be a corpse.The three fell down beside the corpse and wept bitterly.One of the three was probably in his thirties, the youngest woman should be her son, probably thirteen or fourteen years old, and there was an eight or nine-year-old boy.

Seeing that these women were not violated, Zhang Huaiwei was relieved.As an old soldier from abroad, what he hates the most is the robe that was cut at him.

When Zhang Huaiwei looked at the older woman, Zhang Huaiwei's heart beat faster unconsciously.The older woman is only relatively speaking, but in fact she is only in her thirties.However, women in this era get married too early. Usually women from aristocratic clans get married at 16 years old (two years old), while Xianbei people get married earlier. For example, the eldest grandson Wugou was only 13 years old when she married Li Shimin.The woman's daughter is already in her teens, but she is actually only thirty.

Zhang Huaiwei opened his mouth and made a low voice: "Madam, please give me condolences!"

The beautiful woman said pitifully: "The deceased husband had no choice but to follow the thief. I hope the general will show mercy. Poor husband and wife."

Zhang Huaiwei said: "Everyone is their own master, Madam, don't worry, we are the masters of the Tang Dynasty, we will not embarrass women, children, old and young." Zhang Huaiwei turned to the door and shouted: "This general's military order, until the ban on the people of Shenchi is lifted, no Go out. No soldiers are allowed to enter the house to disturb the people, and those who violate it will be killed!"

The soldiers outside the door bowed and said, "No!"

The beautiful woman kowtowed to Zhang Huaiwei and said, "Thank you General for protecting you!"

Zhang Huaiwei stepped forward to hold the beautiful woman's hands, and suddenly realized that something was wrong.Hurry up and stop, but just a moment of contact made Zhang Huaiwei feel his heart beating faster.

Zhang Huaiwei smiled sheepishly and said: "Madam, please give me some condolences, this general...resign!"

Zhang Huaiwei left Hou Ya, but the shadow of the beautiful woman in his head could not be lingered.

When Zhang Huaiwei came to the main hall of the county government, he found Xu Jingzong's face was gloomy.Zhang Huaiwei asked: "Xu Canjun, what happened?"

Yu Guni said angrily: "The treasury of Shenchi County is so clean that mice can run away!"

"This..." Zhang Huaiwei also frowned slowly.This time they carried half a month's supplies.Originally wanted to take the opportunity to occupy the Shenchi, and the supplies were consumed.

In fact, Yu Guni was exaggerating when he said that the Shenchi county government treasury was so empty that mice could run away. There were still more than a dozen shi of grain in the Shenchi official warehouse, and there were hundreds of five baht coins in the treasury.This amount of property is barely enough for a day's consumption for their tens of thousands of troops.Although the people in Shenchi may have some food in their homes, they can't rob the people of Shenchi County like bandits.

"What should we do now?" Zhang Huaiwei suddenly lost his mind, looked at Xu Jingzong and said, "What trick does Xu Canjun have?"

Xu Jingzong smiled, and said disapprovingly: "I don't know if you two want to explain with merit or without merit."

Zhang Huaiwei said: "What is the solution with merit, and what is the solution without merit?"

Yu Guni's Tang Yan at this time has only reached the level of everyday oral English.Like Xu Jingzong and Zhang Huaiwei's conversation like a tongue twister, he was immediately stunned.

Xu Jingzong also wanted to show off his knowledge in front of Zhang Huaiwei, and said with a slight smile: "Back then, Han Gaozu fought against the overlord of Chu, and sent his mansion into Qi. It was already said that Qi surrendered, but Han Xin held a heavy army in Qi. Willing to give credit to a scholar. Therefore, the battle of Suishui was launched, and the merit of two months was to destroy Qi. Therefore, Han Xin once again refrained from building the master of the earthquake. If the two of you are willing to learn from Han Xin, you can march into Yanmen Pass with a large army and destroy Liu Wuzhou If it goes well, then Liu Wuzhou can be defeated in one fell swoop. This is a meritorious solution. However, if Liu Wuzhou’s soldiers see that their way back has been cut off, and they are desperate, I am afraid they will seek refuge in the Turks or the Turks. Dou Jiande, at that time, the land of Hedong can be regained and returned to the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and the general also has the merits of recovering Hedong, but there is still a big problem in Hedong."

In fact, Zhang Huaiwei didn't feel that there was anything wrong with doing this, but he still wanted to know the solution of vain work, so he tried to ask: "Then what about the solution of vain work?"

Xu Jingzong said: "The solution to the futility is to invite two generals, Yu Gu and Zhang, one to guard Shenchi, and the other to guard Chen Binglou. But send one person into the barracks of the Loufan army. If it goes well, he can seize his horse. Descend to Loufan Pass. Join forces with Liu Canjun and General Ashina at Loufan, and the two armies will join forces to conquer Taiyuan. Liu Wu and Zhou Da will be defeated in one battle. If it does not go well, the Yanmen Pass will still be broken. The general’s soldiers and horses broke through the difficulty of Yanmen, took Taiyuan, and restored the east of the river.”

Zhang Huaiwei is not an assertive person, nor is he a handsome talent who can stand alone.Xu Jingzong asked him to make a simple choice between the two, but he didn't know how to choose.Zhang Huaiwei looked at Yu Guni, but Yu Guni vaguely understood Xu Jingzong's meaning after listening to Lianmeng.

After all, Yu Guni was a tribal leader, and his thoughts and vision were much higher than Zhang Huaiwei's. After all, Zhang Huaiwei, who started as a gang leader, had limited vision.

Yu Guni looked at Zhang Huaiwei's uncertain face, and said calmly: "Xu Canjun, if there is a meritorious solution, it may not be easy. If there are enough troops in Loufan and Yanmen Pass, they can go from Loufan Pass, Yanmen Pass, Taiyuan and Xinzhou sent troops to surround and annihilate us under the city of Shenchi."

Xu Jingzong was also taken aback when he heard Yu Guni say this.He really didn't expect Yu Guni to have such insight.Xu Jingzong said indifferently: "It is indeed possible."

Zhang Huaiwei said: "It doesn't matter what meritorious or ineffective solutions are. General Chen did not hesitate to commit the danger of beheading first and then attacking. He sent troops to Hedong just to rescue Princess Pingyang at Weize Pass. Now we still keep his opinion. I was sitting in Shenchi, and General Yugu led the cavalry to attack Loufanguan. After the Lingwu left army and Lingwu right army joined forces, we have more soldiers and horses in our hands. We can attack when we advance, and defend when we retreat.

Xu Jingzong summoned the respectable gentry in Shenchi County, and at the same time let Zhang Huaiwei's trilogy take over the defense of Shenwu County.Zhang Huaiwei didn't dare to be careless. After all, Liu Wuzhou's troops were all around here. Once Liu Wuzhou heard the news, he would definitely take back Shenwu City while he was still in a precarious position.

Now he and Yu Guni are divided into two groups. He needs to rely on more than [-] troops under his command to resist the first wave of counterattacks by Liu Wuzhou's army, and he may need to persist for several days.

Although Zhang Huaiwei was careful, something went wrong.

PS: Happy weekend everyone, there will be more later.

Chapter 62 Better to Die than Surrender

"Report to the captain, someone ran out of the city while in disorder!" Zhang Huaiwei immediately realized something was wrong when he heard the news.Now there are no more than [-] people left in Shenchi City.If Liu Wuzhou knew the news of Shenchi's fall, Liu Wuzhou would be ahead of Yu Guni and attack Yu Guni with Lou Fan's guards before attacking Shenchi. Chen Ying's two raiders might all be defeated.

This is actually due to Zhang Huaiwei's inexperience.When they were in Lingzhou, the captives were all Turkic people, which was very different from the Tang people.It is also easy to identify.However, in Liu Wuzhou's army in Shenchi County, if the people and the army were not carefully screened, it was easy to get mixed up.A Tianxing army junior hiding in the cellar escaped from Shenchi City when Zhang Huaiwei relaxed his vigilance.

Who would have thought that this little schoolboy would be such a thief that he would snatch a horse while the officers and soldiers of the Ning Yuan Army were not paying attention, but it was too late when Zhang Huaiwei set up the rangers of the Yuan Army to pursue him.Shenchi County is only more than a hundred miles away from Yanmen Pass, and the Dingyuan Army is not familiar with the place, so they were surrounded by this Tianxing Army junior, and lost their target.

Liu Wuzhou who was at Yanmen Pass heard the news that night.But with the messenger came, there was also a team of rangers.In fact, this Ranger was just sent by Zhang Huaiwei to capture this little schoolboy.

Seeing the cavalry of the Tang army appearing in the south of Yanmen, Liu Wuzhou's whole body became bad instantly.

The geographical location of Shenchi was originally not important to Liu Wuzhou.Because he has Yanmen Pass to resist the Tang army's attack.However, Shenchi is too important to Tang Jun.Shenchi is located in the west of Yanmen Pass, at the key point of Yanmen Pass and Xinzhou.In the east, you can attack Yanmen Pass, in the south, you can go down to Xinzhou, and then take Taiyuan City.At the same time, you can also side-click the building troubles.

But when the Tang army appeared in Shenchi County, the guards at Yanmen Pass lost their meaning.The originally impeccable defense system has become full of loopholes.What's more, the defensive center of gravity of Yanmen Pass is in the north, and attacking Yanmen Pass from the south will get twice the result with half the effort.This is actually not important, the most important thing is that Shenchi can cut off the supply line of Yanmen Pass.If Liu Wuzhou's subordinates did not have supplies from Taiyuan, they would have no food to eat for at most one and a half months.

Without food, the Tianxing army will collapse without fighting.

Seeing the panic in Liu Wuzhou's eyes, Fan Junzhang stepped forward to persuade him: "Your Majesty, the loss of Shenchi is nothing more than two possibilities: a small group of troops came from the forest, lakes and mountains, or they came by forcefully crossing the Yellow River in the direction of Wuzhai. No matter which direction they come from, the number of Tang troops will not be many, I invite you to fight and take back Shenchi!"

As a native of Shuozhou, Liu Wuzhou is very familiar with both Shenchi and Linhu.Although Linhu does not have mountains as steep as Motianling, the mountains and dense forests of Linhu are not suitable for large troops to walk.If it came from Linhu, this Tang army would definitely not exceed a thousand people, otherwise there would be no way to guarantee the supplies of more than a thousand people.

Similarly, it would be even more ridiculous to cross the Yellow River from the direction of Wuzhai.The Yellow River has an altitude drop of nearly 600 meters between Shuozhou and Haozhou. The river is rushing, and crossing the river is not only easy to capsize, but also difficult to gather. With the flow rate of the Yellow River in the direction of Wuzhai, if the river is crossed, even if it is guaranteed not to capsize, then the boats must be at least The process of crossing the river is three to five thousand steps down the river.In this way, there will be a drop of more than ten miles when the ship comes back and forth.If Tang Jun really crossed the river on such a large scale, Liu Wuzhou would be relieved.