Stone Town is a pass fortress on the southwest plateau, located on the Tianzhu Mountain Range. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fortress, with a circumference of three miles and a height of more than ten zhang, was made of stone and stuck between two steep mountains, facing the thin-air Oliangcheon Plateau on one side and the flat Ganquan Corridor on the other...... The strategic location is extremely important.

Therefore, if the stone city is in the hands of the Great Zhou, it can ensure the safety of the Silk Road, and if it is in the hands of the Tufan State, the condescending Tufan army, with this important pass, can cut off the communication between the Great Zhou and the Western Regions countries at any time, and the Silk Road will cease to exist.

More than 30 years ago, in order to seize this dangerous pass from Tufan's hands, Da Zhou mobilized 300,000 elite troops, stormed for eight months, and paid a heavy price of 100,000 casualties before taking Stone City.

In the following decades, the unwilling Tufan Kingdom, in order to recapture Stone City, launched dozens of large and small attacks, and the two sides carried out many tragic offensive and defensive battles, but Stone City was firmly in the hands of the Great Zhou State.

However, because the supply line was too long and the transportation of grain and grass was difficult, the garrison of the Great Zhou State in Stone City had no problem resisting the attack of ten times the enemy army under the condition of occupying a favorable position of about 3,000 people.

If the number of enemy troops besieging is more than thirty or forty times, the situation in Stone Town will be precarious for a long time.

Yumen Pass is about 500 miles away from Stone Town, and it is required that reinforcements arrive within five days and march 100 miles in a hurry, which is a big challenge for the Ganzhou army, which is dominated by infantry.

Moreover, Stone Town is located in the plateau area at an altitude of four or five thousand meters, and the environment with low oxygen content will cause great delay and distress to the physical load and marching speed of the soldiers......

Even so, after the military order was issued, it only took one day for the 50,000 Ganzhou army to be fully assembled, loaded with grain and grass, and loaded into the carriage.

After the whole army informed the enemy of the situation, they learned that they were facing a strong enemy of more than 100,000 men, and the generals and soldiers at all levels did not panic and laughed as usual.

The cowardly and cowardly are almost nowhere to be found, at most they are only solemn and serious......

The spirit and appearance of this army are completely in line with the image of an elite and strong army.

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The next day, early in the morning.

Yumen Pass, the gate of the city.

One after another, a group of soldiers wearing armor and holding soldiers, waving flags and walking in uniform steps, like a long snake, came out of the city gate, slowly twisting and advancing towards the tall mountains in the southwest direction, stretching for more than ten miles.

Zhou Ming, Li Dazui, Chu Jingling, and seven clan soldiers and a group of ten people also rode horses and appeared in the middle of this expeditionary procession.

The old general originally disapproved of Zhou Ming and them going out with him, the battlefield was dangerous, the sword and arrow had no eyes, if he was killed or injured, ordinary people would be fine, but Mr. Zihua is a famous man in the world, if he is accidentally damaged in this war, how to explain to the people of the world?

Zhou Ming's method of persuading the old general was very simple, he directly asked someone to bring a five-stone hard bow, pull the bow with arrows, and after pulling the bowstring into the shape of a full moon, ten arrows in a row, and the arrows hit the center of the target a hundred steps away, and his face was not red or panting, which attracted a round of applause.

The old general was also stunned and couldn't believe it.

As for the bodyguard Li Dazui, just that strange power, he can crisscross the army at will, and with his personal protection, it is more reassuring than sending an elite 100-person team to escort him.

The old general did not object to Zhou Ming and his entourage.

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After three days of rapid marching, the army marched nearly 300 miles and came to the outer edge of Tianzhu Mountain.

The terrain was high and difficult to walk, and the higher they went, the heavier the burden on the soldiers' bodies, the more tired they looked, and the slower their marching speed.

The morale of the army is still high, but there has also been a significant decline, and the old general sent many batches of banner soldiers to urge several times to speed up the march, but the effect is not very significant......

The remaining 200 miles were almost impossible to arrive in two days.

And the messenger sent out by Stone Town to ask for help also came with an increasingly urgent military situation: "On the imminent offensive of Zanqin, Stone City is in danger! If reinforcements do not arrive within two or three days, the city will be lost!"

How to speed up the march has become a matter of urgency.

Inside the manager's tent.

"The current plan is to divide the army into two and send a group of elite soldiers to rescue first, so as to alleviate the urgent need of Stone City!" said the lieutenant general.

"How many people should I send?"

"Five thousand is enough. ”

"It's not enough to make a decision! On Zanqin Nai Tufan's famous general, 5,000 elite soldiers, his 100,000 army will not be shaken by his plan! There is even a possibility that he will be besieged and helped...... It takes at least 10,000 elite soldiers to take the risk. Another general said.

"The soldiers are very fast, if you draw out 10,000 elite soldiers, not to mention that the speed of the march will not increase much, and the remaining 40,000 soldiers and horses and baggage will be very likely to be targeted by Ronzanqin and become his target!"

Another general said worriedly, on Zanqin is the god of the Tufan army, this person is bold and clever like a fox with soldiers, especially good at encircling points to send reinforcements and cutting off people's food and grass, and the Great Zhou has been fighting for more than ten years, bringing several defeats to the Great Zhou, to save the stone city from this person, without careful planning, the Zhou army, which is not very suitable for activities in the plateau area, will definitely be seized by him to seize the weakness and bring heavy losses.

There was a debate in the big tent for a while.

"Hugh is going to fight!"

The old general, who was sitting in the commander's seat, patted the table in front of him, stood up, his iron armor rattled, he looked at the generals and said: "Select 5,000 elite soldiers, I will personally lead this army! Starry night gallop to help Stone City! Follow-up soldiers and horses, be sure to arrive in four days!"

"No!"

No one from the generals raised any different opinions, and they all gave up their promises.

That night, the five thousand elite soldiers were selected, lightly armed, only brought three days of food and grass, after a short rest, set off in the stars and the moon, and walked through the mountains and valleys with difficulty, and the front of the team was the white-haired, but still vigorous, constantly cheering for the soldiers.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers' eyes were all red, and their extremely tired bodies seemed to be injected with a burst of energy, and their steps were more firm and powerful.

A military song suddenly came from the front of the queue:

"The emperor of the four seas is swept away, and the water is clear for thousands ......of years;

Hearing the singing, the soldiers in the rear also sang along, and the singing rang out:

"Looking back at Wei Sai as low as a horse, I gradually saw that the Beijiang River flows straight to the east; Tianwei directly rolls up the Yumen Stopper, and the Hu domain is full of business songs!"

A song composed by Zhang Chaoyi, a general of the Wei State thousands of years ago, after conquering the Western Regions, the music is majestic and majestic, and it has been passed down for thousands of years.

This song is also the old general Su 50 years ago, personally led 500 elite soldiers, climbed over the Dayin Mountain, and attacked the Eastern Turkic Khan's tent at night.

Today, the old general sang this song again, and the 5,000 soldiers naturally understood that this was the old general's encouragement to them, and their morale suddenly soared, and the speed of the march was accelerated a little.

In this scene, Zhou Ming, who followed, was full of emotion in his heart, and asked Li Dazui to bring a pen and paper, and composed a lyric in the bright moonlight:

"A glass of turbid wine is thousands of miles away, Yan Ran has no plan to return, Qiang Guan is full of frost, people are sleepless, and the general's white-haired husband is in tears......"

Looking at the lines of words on the paper and thinking about it, Zhou Ming shook his head: "No, these soldiers, they must think about home very much, but most of the soldiers have regarded this place as their home, and the land of the Western Regions as their home...... In their hearts, they have more love for this land and the sacred duty of guarding the border...... In their hearts, flowing with the most simple and sincere patriotic feelings, although they are ordinary, they understand their mission and are fearless. ”

Or is it a song "Breaking the Array? Night March" that is more suitable for them. ”

So, without a moment, a strong poem jumped on the paper:

Drunk to pick up the lamp to look at the sword, dreaming back to blow the horn company camp. Eight hundred miles of fire, fifty strings turned over the outside sound, and the battlefield was an autumn soldier.

The horse is a white dragon and fast, and the bow is like a thunderbolt. But the king of the world, won the name before and after his death, and the general happened in vain!

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Two days later, after two days and nights of rapid marching, except for a few people left behind, five thousand elite soldiers, finally in the middle of the night, arrived less than five miles from the stone town, in the night, the ruined city was still facing the attack of hundreds of trebuchets, and the stones rained down.

Fortunately, above the city, the big banner with the word "Zhou" painted on the blue edge and yellow background is still standing.

Even this flag is broken and crumbling.

"Soldiers, kill!"

In the early hours of the morning, 5,000 soldiers, after resting for two hours, before the army of Lunzanqin made adjustments, the old general gave an order, 5,000 reinforcements, with lightning speed, a strong assault, first destroyed a large number of catapults, and then successively chiseled through the three Tufan army hastily organized defense line, with the help of the defenders in the stone city, 5,000 reinforcements, like a new source, injected into the stone city.

The remaining defenders of less than 800 in the city were demoralized and cheered.

The enemy troops outside the city jumped to their feet and scolded, and their morale plummeted.