The combat strategy of the Xinghua Army was correct, and the stronghold chosen was Jianguan in Yunzhou. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoWhen Yunzhou still belonged to the Xia Kingdom, the Sword Pass had not yet revealed its important strategic location, but it was just one of the checkpoints for entering and exiting neighboring countries with other Xia Kingdoms, and it had no special strategic significance.

However, after the Xinghua army occupied Yunzhou, because Yunzhou was no longer the territory of the Xia Kingdom, Jianguan suddenly became a key stronghold for the two countries to divide the territory, and it was a critical checkpoint for the Xinghua army to attack the rich areas in the central part of the Xia Kingdom.

Because of this, between the two hostile armies of the Xia Army and the Xinghua Army, whoever can finally occupy the Sword Pass will affect the final possession of Yunzhou to the greatest extent.

If the Xinghua Army captures the Sword Pass, then the Xinghua Army's subsequent march or combat route will be more comfortable and free to advance and retreat. When the time comes, the Xinghua army can reach Liangzhou in the north and Fuliangzhou in the east. At the same time, if the Xinghua army captures the sword pass, it can restrain the Xia army even more, making it difficult for the Xia army to approach Yunzhou by half a step.

If it is the other way around, it is the Xia army that occupies the Sword Pass, for the Xia State, its strategic significance is also extremely significant, because the Sword Pass is the only place for the Xia army to enter Yunzhou, if it cannot enter the Sword Pass, it is equivalent to losing Yunzhou forever, and then even the nearby states and districts may fall into trouble. In short, the Xia Kingdom was still in a hurry to regain ownership of Yunzhou.

As the guard of the sword pass, of course, he will also be very aware of this. That is, it is impossible for his nerves to relax at all. The enemy army will definitely not let go of the sword pass easily, and will definitely stare at the sword pass and attack all the time, such pressure can be imagined.

Therefore, the degree of fear in the guard's heart is naturally indescribable, how many times he wanted to abandon the pass and escape, but he didn't dare. Xia **** Law has clear regulations that you can be defeated, but you will never be allowed to escape.

"My lord, the enemy army has already arrived in the city, what should we do!" A squad leader guarding the pass reported to the guards a situation that he was not willing to face at all.

"Closing the city gate, Liangzhou can't be counted on, notify Jiangzhou Huguan, and ask them for help. Take 10,000 steps back, even if the sword pass is really undefinable, but as long as there is a pot pass, we have a way back, and the situation can be controlled. "The guard said. Although the defender has 10,000 reluctance in his heart to face the imminent flames of war, he has a duty.

After Qin Zhengguo led his army to arrive at the Jianguan Pass, he stood under the Jianguan Pass, looking at the seemingly unattainable wall, and he immediately ordered an archer to tie the letter of surrender to the arrow and shoot arrows into the city, so as to ensure that the letter of surrender was successfully sent into the pass. The letter of persuasion required that the defenders of Jianguan must open the city gate and surrender within half an hour. If it can be done, the Xinghua army can live after the siege, but if the Xia army still has no intention of surrendering before the sword pass is breached, then the Xinghua army will not leave prisoners.

Not only that, in order to urge the guards in the pass to surrender, and not to let them have more time to wait for reinforcements or something, Qin Zhengguo ordered the mortar team to fire shells at the gate of the pass of Jianguan from time to time, which made the soldiers of the Xia army guarding the pass suffer from mental pressure. As long as the morale of the soldiers defending the city of the Xia army is in turmoil, the siege battle of the Xinghua army can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Boom, boom, boom...... The shelling several times per minute was indeed as Qin Zhengguo wished, making the defenders of Jianguan like frightened birds, and they suddenly fidgeted and were in turmoil. And their leader, the guard of the sword pass, was even more intuitive and hesitant, if he abandoned the city and surrendered, the military law would not allow it, and if he went out of the city to fight, it was not what he wanted.

However, the sound of cannonballs at the city gate from time to time was like a heavy hammer hitting the hearts of the people of Jianguan, and this kind of mental torture greatly consumed their fighting spirit. Therefore, after the defenders of Jianguan got the letter of persuasion, about five minutes later, they decided not to touch the stone with eggs, and simply went out of the city to surrender.

The strength of the sword pass was greatly weakened, there were no crossbows, and the bows and arrows could not hit the mortar team, and in the face of the attack of the Xinghua army, they were almost powerless to fight back, and it was only a matter of time before they broke the pass.

Even for the last struggle, while deciding to surrender, the sword pass guards still sent a few herald cavalry to inform the Huguan defenders of the news that the sword pass was about to break.

After all the preparations were completed, less than half an hour after receiving the letter of surrender from the Xinghua Army, the Jianguan guard made the final action.

Soon, Qin Zhengguo saw the white flag on the sword pass. This made him happy for a moment.

The Xinghua Army captured the Sword Pass, marking that the Battle of Yunzhou was coming to an end, and so far, the Xinghua Army had Yunzhou in the true sense.

Qin Zhengguo couldn't help it, and wanted to write a telegram in person to send a message of victory to the emperor and cabinet.

At the same time that the Sword Pass was broken, the first batch of soldiers sent out by the Sword Pass Guards before surrendering for help happened to enter the Hukou Pass. The soldiers and horses of the Xia Imperial Court were therefore being quickly dispatched from Jiangzhou to enter Huguan.

Different from the army of Liangzhou, it was 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Xia State who entered Huguan, and the one who led them was the Huaishan Gong of the Xia State and Zhang Zhenguo, the general of the Southwest Expedition.

Zhang Zhenguo is a rare veteran with rich battlefield experience in the Xia Kingdom, and he is also an eighth-level boxer, especially good at using spears in battle, and he can be called a respected veteran in the Xia Dynasty.

It's just that after receiving the military emergency information from Jianguan, the Xia Imperial Court actually used such an extraordinarily powerful general to deal with the Xinghua Army, isn't the Xia Imperial Court afraid of showing the embarrassment and impatience of the donkey's poor skills?

Not really.

Tang Longhui, the emperor of the Xia Kingdom, is far-reaching. He sent Zhang Zhenguo out, not only not to let him personally lead the Xia army to repel the Xinghua army that invaded Yunzhou, nor to let him be responsible for solving the dilemma for Jianguan, in fact, he wanted Zhang Zhenguo, an experienced general, to play the role of Dinghai Shenpin, and more importantly, as the supreme commander of the Xia army, commanding in the center, after the other Xia army detachments drove away the Xinghua army, Zhang Zhenguo would lead the Xia army, and then attack any territory of the Xinghua Empire, so as to give the Xinghua Empire a cruel lesson!

As for the task of driving away the Xinghua army, Tang Longhui handed it over to Qiu Qianjun, and after he repelled the Xinghua army, Zhang Zhenguo could go into battle!

It's just that Tang Longhui would never have imagined that Qiu Qianjun would fail.

The defeat of Qiu Qianjun will cause the entire Xia Kingdom to shake. The Liangzhou Army also undertook the task of defending against the northern wolf clan. The loss of 50,000 elite Liangzhou troops in Yunzhou will inevitably lead to a great decline in Liangzhou's defensive strength.

Zhang Zhenguo rode a horse, and not long after entering Huguan, he heard news that annoyed him.

"The army of Yunzhou was defeated, and Shucheng was attacked by the thief army. "The Huguan guards will tell Zhang Zhenguo the news they got last night.

Zhang Zhenguo was furious and said: "Zhang Guangwu is incompetent! Faint! He can't even defeat a group of mountain savages!" In Zhang Zhenguo's heart, whether it is Xinghua or once left the country, their land is located on the plateau, and they are all a group of uncivilized people.

After Zhang Zhenguo finished scolding angrily, a soldier hurried into the city and told the guard general a bad news. The guard's face changed suddenly, and he didn't care about interrupting Zhang Zhenguo's annoyed thoughts, and hurriedly said: "General, there is urgent news from Jianguan! ”

"Call the herald in. Zhang Zhenguo also knows that on the battlefield, news is very important, so he responded.

"What's the news?" Zhang Zhenguo immediately asked as soon as he saw the herald of Jianguan.

It could be seen that the herald's face was very anxious, and his whole body was wet with sweat. Next, the words of the herald of the sword pass frightened everyone in the lobby of the official residence even more.

"My lord, the sword pass is urgent, ask Huguan to send reinforcements!"

Zhang Zhenguo was taken aback and asked, "What! What happened to Jianguan?"

"The Xinghua army is attacking the Sword Pass, and the Sword Pass is afraid that the day will be in danger, and the guard will send a villain to ask for help!" said the herald.

"Could it be that the Xinghua army bypassed Shucheng and directly attacked Jianguan in an attempt to besiege the city? How could they move so fast!" Zhang Zhenguo exclaimed, he guessed in his heart whether the Xinghua army had bypassed Shucheng and wanted to occupy Jianguan first. At that time, Shucheng will not be able to hold for long without reinforcements. However, the herald's words surprised Zhang Zhenguo again.

"My lord, Shucheng has fallen, and General Zhang Guangwu has died in battle!" the herald cried.

Zhang Zhenguo was stunned and stared at Xiao Bing, unable to believe the news that came out of his mouth.

Order Huang Fu Qi to lead his five thousand soldiers and horses to rush to the aid of Jianguan and defend Jianguan. ”

More than ten seconds later, Zhang Zhenguo reacted and gave an order. The Sword Pass is very important, if the Sword Pass is lost, the 200,000 troops of the Xia Kingdom will have to be crowded into the narrow Huguan. What's more, Zhang Zhenguo and the others didn't think about attacking Jianguan, and they didn't carry any siege equipment, which was not conducive to attacking the city.

In the lobby, Zhang Zhenguo's personal soldiers held the order talisman and left in a hurry to transfer troops.

Originally, the pot guard also wanted to hold a banquet to entertain Zhang Zhenguo. At this time, Zhang Zhenguo also lost his mind, took a short rest, hurriedly ate some food, and ordered another army of 10,000 people who had completed the whole team to go to Jianguan.

Zhang Zhenguo would never have thought that his plan would fall through again.

Huangfu Qi's department had just left Huguan, and he hadn't finished half of the journey, when he ran into the herald of Jianguan again. This time, the herald of the Sword Pass informed them that the Sword Pass was about to be broken.

Huangfu Qi was taken aback and asked the soldiers to speed up.

When Huangfu Qi's headquarters was still a kilometer away from the Sword Pass, they saw a group of remnants who had escaped from the Sword Pass. From the mouths of the remnants, Huangfu Qi learned that Jianguan could not resist the Xinghua army and had chosen to surrender. The sword guards the general, and I don't know if I live or die.

Huangfu panicked, rushed to Jianguan, and sighed gloomily when he saw the national flag and military flag of the Xinghua Army. Huangfu Qi's department is a light horse, and there is no siege equipment at all, and he can only look at the high level, helpless.

Huangfu Qi had to send soldiers to inform Zhang Zhenguo, the Duke of Huaishan.

Soon, when Zhang Zhenguo learned the news, he was so depressed that he fainted.

The 200,000 troops of the Xia Kingdom were stopped outside the Sword Pass.

Qin Zhengguo occupied the Jianguan and immediately closed the Jianguan, cutting off the connection between the Jianguan and the Huguan, and did not allow people outside Yunzhou to enter Yunzhou. Then, some Xinghua soldiers were sent to escort the Xia soldiers in the Sword Pass and sent them to Shucheng. Two thousand Xinghua troops stayed at Jianguan and guarded Jianguan. Then, Qin Zhengguo wrote a telegram and sent people to Shucheng, hoping to use the intelligence station in Shucheng to send information to the empire.

Later, Qin Zhengguo discovered that outside the Jianguan, there was an army of the Xia State, and ordered the logistics of the Eastern Expeditionary Corps to transport more munitions to increase the defense of the Jianguan.

Qin Zhengguo knew very well that the sword pass was not lost, and Yunzhou was the Yunzhou of the Xinghua Empire.

Qin Zhengguo looked at the Huangfu Qi army under the sword pass and looked down on it.

The army below does not even have a ladder to attack the city, so it is not worth paying attention to. Qin Zhengguo led his own troops and returned to Shucheng. Shucheng is a city with a population of nearly one million, and he must return to the city to preside over the overall situation of Shucheng.

In fact, there are still some small county towns in Yunzhou, which the Xinghua army has not yet conquered and is still under the control of Xia officials. For the time being, the Xinghua Army cannot divide its troops to solve those places.

However, Shucheng is not chaotic, and other places in Yunzhou cannot make any big waves. At this time, those local officials are probably worried about the arrival of the Xinghua Army. Therefore, the Xinghua Army completely controlled the Xinghua Army and could slowly clean them up.

Xinghua City of the Xinghua Empire, Yi Xingchen had just finished the banquet of the hundred officials and returned to the palace of Xinghua City, and he received a telegram of victory from the Eastern Expeditionary Army to attack Shucheng and occupy Jianguan.

After reading the telegram, Yi Xingchen laughed, the Xinghua Empire's occupation of Yunzhou will surely usher in great development.

Yi Xingchen immediately convened the cabinet ministers to discuss state affairs in the palace chamber.

The cabinet ministers were all fresh from the banquet and had drunk a lot of wine. When they arrived at the palace, their faces were red. Yi Xingchen ordered the maid to brew tea for hangover.

Yi Xingchen and the ministers drank a few sips of tea, and the strength of the wine went down for more than half before they began to deliberate.

"Everyone should know about the great victory of the Crusade Legion. Next, what kind of system should the empire implement in Yunzhou, and how to strengthen its control over Yunzhou, I hope you will come up with a charter overnight to give a guide to the Eastern Expeditionary Corps. Yi Xingchen said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, the ministers know, we will discuss it now!" Sheen said with a smile.

Under Sheehan's chairmanship, the cabinet ministers began to discuss, and there was no look of displeasure, they were all happy to see the expansion of the empire's territory.

Yunzhou is an occupied area, and the people in the occupied area often do not have any favorable feelings towards the invaders.

Some time ago, the Xinghua People's Army, the predecessor of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, operated wholeheartedly in Yunzhou, and finally gained some popular support. The policy discussed by the cabinet ministers is to expand the popular support of these people.

After more than two hours of discussions, the ministers finally came up with a plan and three main policies, which were to win the hearts and minds of the people, digest the occupied areas as soon as possible, and win over the people's support. (To be continued.) )