Day 4.

Heyang City, the city lord's mansion.

"The time of the battle is the seventh day. Mu Suifeng said, "Daozun said that only cavalry will be sent out in this battle, and it will cost 30,000. Now in the realm of the seven cities in the Southern Regions, all the live horses that can be pulled have been brought to Heyang City. ”

"How much is it now?" Zhao Dun asked him.

"Twenty thousand. Mu Suifeng said, "In three days, I can't get 10,000 horses." ”

"Do your best, let it be the fate of heaven. Zhao Dun said, "Staring at 30,000, no, let Lu Qian calculate the marching route and see where you can get horses." Whether it is a war horse or a horse plowing the field, since the Tiger Prison Pass said 30,000, it will be 30,000. ”

"To get horses on the march?" Mu Suifeng said, "from here to the Tiger Pass, the cavalry's foot strength will take at least five days. In addition to the expedition of horses, we had to set out a day earlier in order to reach the Tiger Prison Pass on the twelfth day. ”

"Then go a day early. Zhao Dun said, "Time can't be delayed." Xie Xuan said that he would set off on the seventh day, and he must have calculated the time. The army of the pioneers was tireless, and the stars and nights were combined, and now I am afraid that they have reached the Tiger Prison Pass. An army of 200,000 besieged Tiger Pass, if it was an ordinary army, Tiger Pass would be able to hold it. The army of the dead, hanging. ”

"In eight days, 200,000 troops attacked the city, and 50,000 defenders were difficult to defend. Mu Suifeng said, "Tian Dan, one of the four gods of war in the national war, went out with King Qi Cheng, and the 400,000 army besieged the Tiger Prison Pass without success. Half of the reason is that the Tiger Prison Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the city wall is fifteen zhang high. The other half of the reason is that King Zhao is stubbornly defending the Tiger Prison Pass, and the Yan army is fighting to the death, and the morale is high. ”

"King Qi Cheng knows that fighting to the end, no one will benefit. Mu Suifeng said, "Otherwise, with Tian Dan's ability, the tiger prison will not be able to hold on." ”

"Now the opponent is the first general in the national war who is more fierce than Tian Dan, the first. Zhao Dun frowned, "The Great Zhou Martial King is eloquent, and there are few people in the world who can let him put it in his eyes." The man who can make him evaluate as the first god of war in the national war should not be underestimated. ”

"But herein lies the problem. Mu Suifeng said, sighing, "The news of Xian Zhen leaving Dushan has spread all over the northern border, and our soldiers know who to fight against. How will the morale be boosted when you go out?"

Confucian sages once said that since ancient times, war has been inferior to the right time, and the best place is not as good as the people.

People and what?

To put it bluntly, it is the morale of the three armed forces.

The morale is high, and the three armies rush forward in one go, and they will not be frightened to turn around and flee because of a little wind and grass, and the grass and trees are all soldiers.

Now the Heyang army is afraid of being the first, the number of 200,000 troops is crushing 30,000, and the enemy is afraid that the enemy will be dead.

The morale is so low, I'm afraid that ten miles out of the city, some people will think about how to escape.

"Do you know which mountain gate is the first in the Northern Dao Gate?" Zhao Dun asked Mu Suifeng.

"Tianzhu Mountain on the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Mu Suifeng said, "The Tianzhu Mountain Immortal Gate is the Dao Gate of the Northern Realm, and it is recognized as the first mountain gate, what is the doubt about this?"

"If the Great Grandmaster of Tianzhu Mountain, at this moment, is in Heyang City. Zhao Dun said, "Moreover, he has decided to go out with the three armies to meet the army of 200,000 ghost pawns." You say, with him, can morale be ignited?"

"The Great Grandmaster of Tianzhu Mountain?" Mu Suifeng was shocked, and then rejoiced, "Is that the Tongming real person whose strength even surpasses that of the head of the sect, and the people of the rivers and lakes call him a half-immortal?"

"Exactly. Zhao Dun said.

......

The first is coming.

With his army of 200,000.

The black torrent submerged all the fields outside the Tiger Prison Pass, and at a glance, it looked like locusts in transit.

It's dense and daunting.

The three armies lined up.

Huge siege engines towered over the flat ground, as if a huge beast was quietly dormant.

The bigwigs of the Tiger Prison Pass are all at the head of the city and looking out of the pass.

"Twenty years ago, Wang was so angry that I couldn't fight in the north and south, and Pingyan was in civil strife. Wang Lang stood at the head of the city, and in the cold wind in the north, he looked more and more slender, "Now, I have waited for ten years, and finally waited for this day." ”

For generals, they are afraid of loneliness.

Wang Lang has been familiar with military books all his life, but when it comes to fighting, it is all petty fights. Never fought a major battle with more than 100,000 troops.

Now the veterans and recruits of the Tiger Prison Pass add up, 60,000 horses. Against the first general of the national war, he took the army of 200,000 ghost soldiers, and no matter whether he won or lost this battle, he had no regrets.

The angry blood of the war was surging in the body of this Yan State Grand Sima.

"I agreed with Heyang City to set out in seven days, and today is the fourth day. Xie Xuan said, "30,000 cavalry, from Heyang City to here, it takes five days to march urgently. That is, the final decisive battle will be at noon eight days later. ”

"60,000 against 200,000, eight days. Yuan Zhe said, "No matter how you look at it, you can keep it." ”

"Since Xian Zhen is known as the first general in the national war, he naturally has his ability. Xie Xuan said, "I'm a person who has been casual since I was a child, and I don't know anything about commanding military affairs. Now that the city is besieged, what do the military advisors think?"

"As early as when I was in Handan, I told the general. Yuan Zhe said, "Two horses can't eat the same trough." At that time, I prepared a big gift for He Zongtang. Now that he has left Handan, this gift must not be needed by He Zongtang. ”

"Oh, isn't it just a gift?" asked Wang Lang.

"Daozun, General. Yuan Zhe said, "You see, how neat the army formation of the 200,000 troops is, one after another, densely packed. He pointed to the Tiger Prison Pass military flag, and saw the Tiger Flag hunting towards the south, "The wind direction is also favorable to us." ”

"Is the military advisor talking about, fire attack?" Wang Lang understood.

The 200,000 troops were arrayed intensively, and at this moment, the position of the army was at the downwind of the Tiger Pass. If it is a fire attack, it will inevitably form a prairie fire immediately.

"It's cold, where does the fire come from?" Xie Xuan asked, "The Tiger Prison Pass is fifteen zhang high, and when you look down from above, the human head is only the size of a fist. If the rocket is fired in a salvo, I am afraid that the fire will be extinguished by the wind before it hits the ground. ”

"So there needs to be a fire that can't be extinguished. Yuan Zhe said confidently, "At least, the wind can't extinguish the fire, and the water can't extinguish it." ”

"A fire that the wind can't extinguish, and water can't extinguish?" Wang Lang thought for a moment and exclaimed, "Could it be ......?"

"That's right. Yuan Zhe said, "It is the abyss black fire of the Song Kingdom!"

The abyssal black fire is said to have been produced in the abyss of the South China Sea of the Song Kingdom. This black fire, which looks like black mud before ignition, is extremely sticky. But once ignited, not to mention the wind, even in the water, it can burn violently.

"How much has the military advisor prepared?" Wang Lang was overjoyed and asked Yuan Zhe.

"This thing, even in the Song Kingdom, is a rare item. Yuan Zhe shook his head, "If it's enough, it's not impossible to burn all these 200,000 ghost pawns back to hell with one fire." But right now, that's all there is to it. As he spoke, he held out five fingers.

"Five barrels?" Wang Lang asked.

Yuan Zhe nodded.

As he spoke, the trumpet sounded. It's not the horn of the Tiger Prison Pass, but the desolate ghost horn outside the Pass.

The dead awakened by the demon path raised their heads in the wasteland, and the eyes of the 200,000 army swallowed red light, like fallen stars.

Xian Zhen sat on top of the skeleton war horse, his withered right hand pressed the famous sword that accompanied him all his life, and his bright red eyes stared motionlessly at the Tiger Prison Tower.

This is the first Xiongguan in the north.

Fifteen zhang, which is equivalent to two Weicheng piled up, and then add three zhang to the height.

This height is enough to discourage the vast majority of troops in the north. Seventy years ago, Tian Dan failed here, becoming the shame of the first general of the Qi country.

But he wouldn't.

Because this door is closed, it can stop the living, but not the dead. Drawing their swords first, the three armies pushed the huge siege equipment forward and prepared to attack the city.

The black torrent surged towards the Tiger Prison Pass with a destructive force that could destroy the entire Southern Regions.

The battle began in the early morning of the fourth day!

"Knock! knock!——"

The tiger prison closes the city, the wrestlers beat the drums, and the three armies shout. For a while, it exploded with an astonishing murderous aura.

Nine thousand monster cavalry hid in the formation of the army, waiting for the tiger prison to be breached, and the defenders charged out of the city, stabbing the most poisonous blade into the heart of the tiger.

The huge catapult was in place, and the pulling force was equivalent to a thousand war horses galloping across the country.

"!—— release"

Inside and outside the customs, catapults operate at the same time.

The living people in the pass threw out five iron buckets filled with the black fire of the abyss of the Song Kingdom, and quickly fell to the ground, smashing down pieces and rushing to the army of the dead on the wall of the Tiger Prison Pass.

"Boom !——"

The dead people outside the gate threw thousands of pounds of boulders into the sky and smashed them into the wall of the Tiger Prison Pass, with an amazing momentum.

Yuan Zhe stood at the head of the city, watching the fearless army of the dead drown those iron buckets, and the black slime flowing from the iron buckets was carried around by them.

"Shoot the arrows. Yuan Zhe said.

The archer drew the bow and released the arrow, and the arrow was dipped in the abyss black fire of the Song Kingdom, and after ignition, it burned violently, the wind did not stop, and the water could not be extinguished.

Five iron barrels were ignited by rockets falling from the sky.

"Knock !——"

I only heard the deafening sound of explosions rushing through the wasteland, and the flames that rushed to the sky were like flowers blooming in hell, blood red, bloody.

The fire burns the prairie fire.