In the year of disaster in the book, the villain girl is the real winner

The Xirong people could never have imagined that this was not help from God, but a trap set for them by He Qiudi.

They drank the water and after a day, no one was seriously injured.

Who could have imagined that before dawn the next day, their water source had been poisoned.

The Xirong people planned to fight to the death, so after daybreak, everyone started to fetch water and cook around the pond.

After breakfast and preparing to leave, I found out that I had been poisoned.

When they reacted and tried to disperse, they were surrounded by Feng Shiyan and his men.

They became prey, and most of the Xirong people didn't even have the strength to resist.

Last night, after confirming the location of the Xirong people, Yang Yi took Yang Qi out and told Feng Shiyan the location of the Xirong people.

The soldiers of the Great Zhou made preparations and hid in the outskirts of the mountain overnight.

After daybreak, they narrowed the encirclement until the Xirong people were completely surrounded.

Although most of the Western Rong had lost the ability to resist, they were not completely powerless. Some Western Rong generals discovered the problem and stopped eating. They took the remaining survivors to fight against the Great Zhou's troops.

In the mountains.

The soldiers of the Great Zhou were unable to move freely, allowing some of the Western Rong people to escape by chance.

But the large army of Xirong was still captured.

Feng Shiyan arranged his men to hunt down the remnants who had escaped.

More than 90,000 prisoners.

It took a lot of time just to count them.

Feng Shiyan did not stop. He took the prisoners and had them taken to Jinshan County and Changning County respectively. The defenders of these two counties had already become frightened. After being besieged for more than 20 days, the city was short of food and water and could not endure it any longer.

Seeing that the large army of Xirong was captured by Feng Shiyan of Da Zhou, the defending generals lost confidence in resisting the enemy one by one, and had to surrender after negotiating with Da Zhou.

There were also a few remnants who took advantage of the chaos to escape.

Feng Shiyan arranged people to hunt down and suppress them. They must not let these Western Rong people break into the territory of Da Zhou and harm the people.

After conquering Changning County and Jinshan County, Feng Shiyan let the army rest and the next target was Huangquan Pass.

At this time.

The person arranged by Feng Shiyan in Ningyuan County came to report that intelligence from the court had arrived.

He said that he would order Feng Shiyan to withdraw his troops.

Let the Xirong people go back.

Apparently, the imperial court thought that Feng Shiyan was still besieging the large Western Rong army in the mountains on the border of Lan County and Jinshan County.

It was the Queen Mother and the King's brother-in-law who fanned the flames, causing the court to choose peace as the main approach and negotiate peace with the Western Rong people.

They were pretending not to want a war. In fact, they didn't want Feng Shiyan to make any contribution in this matter. Once he defeated the Western Rong army, it would be tantamount to helping the Crown Prince increase his bargaining chips.

The current emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty is the descendant of his elder brother, not his son.

There is precedent.

The Crown Prince was in good health, and his son had military merit to protect him. The balance in the court had already been slowly tilting.

Only the current emperor still occupies the throne.

If he died one day, all the civil and military officials in the court would immediately support the crown prince to succeed to the throne.

The Queen and the King's brother-in-law could not just sit and watch Feng Shiyan achieve military merit.

In fact, he had already teamed up with the Xirong people and assassinated Feng Shiyan many times.

But the intelligence was temporarily blocked by County Magistrate Du and his men.

Magistrate Du reacted quickly. When the intelligence arrived, he sealed off the city on the grounds that there were Western Rong spies in the city.

A thorough investigation is needed.

The spy cannot get out.

Although it can only be delayed for a day or two, these one or two days are enough for Feng Shiyan to come up with a countermeasure.

Feng Shiyan had no choice but to give the order for the entire army to get ready and take over Huangquan Pass.

Since the intelligence could be sent over, it means that in the court, my father's power has not been able to surpass the power of the queen and the king's uncle.

Only by taking over Huangquan Pass as soon as possible can the matter be settled.

After this, whether the imperial court wanted to negotiate peace or continue attacking the Western Rong, they were in the active position.

He Qiudi knew that Feng Shiyan had ideals and ambitions.

After seeing Feng Shiyan's siege strategy, she provided technical assistance.

He took out the explosive pack made from the gunpowder he had saved for several months.

There is gunpowder in this world, but it is not used for military exploits.

The ingredients are not precise enough and the power is not great, so it is generally only used to make firecrackers.

Night attack, using explosive packs.

The gates and walls of Huangquan Pass were quickly blown open.

soon.

Huangquan Pass was breached.

There were not many defenders in Huangquan Pass. Once the city gate was broken and the Zhou army entered the pass, the defenders of the Western Rong abandoned the pass and fled.

Feng Shiyan acted decisively and selected the soldiers and generals to pursue the victory, radiating towards the Xirong grassland with Huangquan Pass as the center, and attacking the four nearby counties and fortresses.

The defenders of the four counties near Huangquan Pass, seeing that Huangquan Pass had been breached, dared not offer any more resistance. When the Great Zhou army came charging at them with unstoppable force, they abandoned the city and fled into the depths of the desert with their soldiers and civilians.

Further west of these four cities are even drier grasslands and deserts.

Feng Shiyan asked the soldiers to defend these four cities and there was no need to pursue them for the time being.

Waiting for the court's response.

Besides, if they chased into the prairie, the area there would be vast, with a sparse population and little food. It would be unrealistic for the army to find food and supplies on their own.

Once the battle line is extended, the Great Zhou will not be able to keep up with the food and grass, which is likely to have a counterproductive effect.

Soldiers are valuable and quick.

It took only seven or eight days from capturing the Western Rong people in the mountains on the border of Lan County, Jinshan County and Changning County to taking down four important cities outside Huangquan Pass.

After taking these four cities, Feng Shiyan stationed his troops at Huangquan Pass while waiting for the reactions of Xirong and the imperial court.

Huangquan Pass was originally an important military fortress of the Great Zhou.

Fourteen years ago, it was forced to be divided among the Western Rong.

Now that it has been taken back, the people of the entire Western Territory have breathed a sigh of relief.

Especially the people in Wei County, Lan County and Liu County.

Taking back Huangquan Pass is equivalent to adding an extra safety bolt between the Great Zhou and the Western Rong.

later.

If the Western Rong people wanted to break in and steal food and property, they had to pass Huangquan Pass first.

But Huangquan Pass is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and can be said to be a natural barrier.

prior to.

The Western Rong people broke through Huangquan Pass because they bribed the defending general, who defected and led his subordinates to open the gate for the Western Rong people.

It also indirectly illustrates the importance of Huangquan Pass.

this time.

Feng Shiyan decided to guard the place himself until the dispute between Xirong and the imperial court came to an end.

The Western Rong people have occupied Huangquan Pass for more than ten years, but the buildings and layout of the pass have not changed much.

It was not difficult for Feng Shiyan to take over. He quickly arranged the defense of the pass and repaired the bombed city gates and walls.

He Qiudi told Feng Shiyan the formula of the explosives.

With his ability, it would not be difficult for him to find someone to make the explosives himself as long as he had the formula.

Feng Shiyan didn't wonder why He Qiudi didn't use such a siege weapon earlier.

He just wanted to protect her.

In the end, Yang Yi took all the responsibility. To the outside world, it was said that it was Yang Yi's credit, that he had researched gunpowder and made the formula for explosives, but because they had to catch the Xirong people off guard, they had not mentioned this matter to anyone before.