It is confirmed that the main force of the rebels is in the Tongbei Mountains, and it is even possible that the Tongbei Mountains have been operating as a nest for several years, and Wei Yuji, who still knows nothing about the Red Mei Sect, naturally regards the final victory as imminent. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When he personally urged the main army to continue to advance the siege of the city, he also officially ordered Chen Hai to lead his troops from Nanzhangfu to the north and join them to make up for the lack of troops in the front.

In Wei Yuzhi's opinion, although the main force of the 50,000 Xiyuan Army was enough to defeat the rebels, if the rebels scattered and fled to the deep mountains and old forests of Qintong Mountain, if they wanted to expand the results of the battle, the more soldiers and horses they chased out, the better.

At this time, Ge Tong, Ding Shuang, Cao Shan and others led the first batch of 5,000 people to Nanzhang Mansion to join Chen Hai.

Chen Hai led his troops first, and Fan Chun, who stayed in Qintong Pass, overcame all kinds of difficulties as much as possible, and continuously transported the carriages and horses to the canyon west of Qintong Pass, and waited for Ge Tong, Ding Shuang, and Cao Shan to lead the first batch of people in Taohuawu to rush to Qintong Pass to assemble, so that they could use this batch of carriages and horses to rush to the road, and they arrived at Nanzhang Mansion four days later than Chen Hai.

For Minyong, who has only been formally trained for half a month, such a marching speed can be regarded as fast enough.

Of course, these people are directly recruited from the mines, quarries, and logging yards opened up in the north of Taohuawu, not only are they very disciplined, but Cao Feng and Cao Shan's father and son have long taught them the art of martial arts, and their foundation is not bad.

After the official training of the people, in addition to the two veterans and hundreds of veterans from the seventh capital, Chen Hai also used the thousands of sets of armor stored in the armor shop to equip them first, and then Dong Pan also sent thousands of sets of armor; after Ge Tong, Ding Shuang, and Cao Shan led the group of soldiers to arrive at Qintong Pass, Fan Chun made up for the remaining missing armor.

And according to Chen Hai's order, Ge Tong has already incorporated more than 100 guards who stayed in Taohuawu into this group of people. Even if the combat effectiveness of this group of people is still very limited, when necessary, they ensure that they can follow Chen Hai's orders and firmly enter the battlefield.

In the future, more people will arrive one after another, but Chen Hai has no time to wait, so he ordered Fan Chun's son Fan Cheng to lead Fan's five hundred elite guards as the vanguard, and open the way first, and he led more than 10,000 soldiers in the seventh capital to serve as the Chinese army.

At the same time, Chen Hai organized more than 40 elite disciples of the Hexi Taiwei Sect such as Cen Yunfei and Chen Qing with 5,000 Minyong as reserves, as reserve combat forces, and followed the main force to the north.

With a large number of chariots and horses coming in, Chen Hai and their northward march accelerated a lot.

The rebels also seemed to be aware of the great threat posed by Chen Hai's troops, and from the first day that Chen Hai and his troops left Nanzhang Province and marched north, small groups of rebels continued to harass from the two flanks.

These small groups of rebels were weak enough to pose any effective threat to Chen Hai and them, but moths came out of the mountains like moths to the fire, intending to slow down Chen Hai's northward advance.

The more small movements of the rebels, the more they could see that the long-planned decisive battle between the Red Mei Sect and the rebels in the Tongbei Mountains was about to start in an all-round way, and Chen Hai's determination became more and more determined, and he was not disturbed by the harassment of the rebels by a small group, and pushed the army to advance north at full speed.

Thirty or forty spirit birds monitored every grass and tree on both wings of the mountains day and night, and more than 15,000 generals were firmly and continuously advancing northward, and every day passed, the distance between them and the main force of the Xiyuan Army led by Wei Yuzhi would be two or three hundred miles closer.

On the sixth day, Chen Hai led his troops to advance to the periphery of Zuojin Valley, and as many as 1,000 Hexi horses were exhausted and killed on the way, and countless damaged baggage carts were lost.

At this time, Chen Hai had already entered the northern foothills of the Qintong Mountains, and the gorge was becoming more and more dangerous.

Fortunately, Fan Cheng's forward moved faster, like a storm suddenly swept by, the rebels were caught off guard, and only a small group of soldiers and horses lurked in the mountains on both flanks, and they had no ability to destroy the road that Chen Hai and them passed.

The mountains on both sides are like halberds and swords, piercing the sky, and the figures of the rebels can be seen at any time in the dense forests of the mountains.

Ahead is the Satsu Valley.

The rebels already knew that the small group of harassment could not slow down the advance of Chen Hai's troops at all, so they formally organized their troops to fight out from the deep mountains on both flanks and rushed to Chen Hai in front of them to occupy the Zuojin Valley.

Chen Hai took the lead in the first and second battle camps, first reorganized the formation on a grassy slope on the outskirts of Zuojin Valley, seized the time to chew the dried meat, and each person also took an additional Jingyuan Pill that nourishes qi and blood.

Passing through the Zuojin Valley, it is the largest mountain dam basin in the deep mountains at the northern foot of Qintong Mountain.

Officially, this basin is called Tongbei Mountain, although the basin is also full of mountains and mountains, but compared with the surrounding mountains, there are 300 miles of Tongbei Mountain, the terrain is much more gentle, rivers and lakes are vertical and horizontal, the climate is warm and humid, and it is also conducive to cultivation and nourishing people.

Qintong Mountain is also the most prosperous in Tongbei people, the villages are dense, Dayan set up Tongbei Mansion here, under the seventeen counties, perennial full of the nuisance of thieves and robbers, local military equipment and clan township Yong forces are also relatively strong.

Wei Yu dared to lead a lone army to directly insert here, and it was also clear that in Tongbei Mansion, he could not only obtain food and grass supplies, but also requisition local armaments and civilian courage to fight with the army.

No matter how strong the rebels are, it is impossible to capture all 17 counties in Tongbei in such a short period of time.

Chen Hai was determined to lead his troops to capture Zuojin Valley, and a big factor was also to value the potential of Tongbei Province north of Zuojin Valley.

They occupy the Zuojin Valley, control the key passes in and out of Tongbei Prefecture, and after receiving the remnants of the Xiyuan Army, they will further integrate the military equipment of the prefecture and county that have not fallen, and the villagers and people, and it is possible to form a confrontation with the rebels in a short time, and if the time drags on, the situation will inevitably tilt to their side.

And if they are blocked out of Tongbei Mansion, the rebels will not only be able to eat all the 50,000 main forces of the Xiyuan Army, but also conquer a county in Tongbei Mansion, and the strength of the rebels will be strengthened.

There are millions of displaced rebels, and it is true that they are still a rabble at this time, but they have been tempered by cruel wars, and they can get sufficient supplies in Tongbei Mansion to recuperate, so that more elite disciples of the Red Mei Sect can better integrate and integrate into the rebels, and it may only take three or five months for this rebel army to become elite and will become a problem that is difficult to remove in the heart of the Great Yan Empire.

At this time, Wei Yuzhi led the main force of the Xiyuan Army, which had already passed through Tongbei Mansion and entered the mountains to the north to pursue the main force of the rebels, even so, the distance between Chen Hai's headquarters and the main force of the Xiyuan Army was only four hundred miles.

Chen Hai was surrounded by Sun Buregret, the barbarian slave Tie Kun and others, drove his horse forward, galloped up a mountain ridge, and saw that the southern end of the Zuojin Valley valley was less than a thousand steps wide, and the mountains on both sides were thousands of feet high, and there were high cliffs to lock the valley mouth, as if a natural gateway was guarding the southern end of Tongbei Mansion.

At this time, not only were 20,000 or 30,000 rebel soldiers piled up at the mouth of the narrow valley and set up a large number of obstacles, but there were also people on the high cliffs on both sides of the mountains sloping towards the mouth of the valley.

Fan Cheng led the advance to arrive outside the Zuojin Valley at the earliest, and tried to lead his troops to directly attack the rebels at the mouth of the valley, but before they approached the mouth of the valley, there were rocks and trees on the high banks of the dangerous ridges on both sides, and the momentum was like thunder, and they were forced to retreat.

"Captain Chen, this rebel army seems to be paying special attention to us!"

Surrounded by several guards, Fan Cheng galloped up the mountain ridge to meet Chen Hai, and pointed to the mouth of the gorge a few miles away.

Chen Hai was silent, it stands to reason that the rebels should put them in their "pockets", so that they can wipe out more of the main forces of the Xiyuan Army, instead of exposing their tracks, so hastily deploying troops to keep them out of Zuojin Valley.

The biggest possibility is that the rebels have realized the "unusualness" of their troops.

How is this possible?

More than 10,000 generals in the seventh capital have been closed in Fujiaoling for more than half a year, even the other generals of the West Garden army who are also training in the West Garden will never think that the combat power of the seventh capital can be stronger than them, why do the rebels pay special attention to them?

Seeing that Chen Hai was deep in thought, Fan Cheng asked again, "How are we going to fight next?"

Fan Cheng saw that Chen Hai only led the 2,000 soldiers and horses of the first and second battalions to rush to the outside of the gorge, and he hoped in his heart that he could temporarily rest on the relatively gentle slope outside the valley, and then launch a resolute offensive against the rebels when the elites of the nine battalions advanced to the valley mouth.

The Seventh Capital advanced rapidly to the north, and the Ninth Great War Battalion formed a long dragon on the gorge more than 30 miles long, and at the same time, it was also necessary to guard against arrows and stones from the mountains on both sides, and the formation was a little loose.

At this time, Chen Haicai led the two battalions of generals to form a formation at the mouth of the valley, and they did not ease their breath, according to reason, after the 10,000 soldiers of the seventh capital entered the gentle slope to rectify the formation, it was more prudent to consider attacking, but the spirit birds that flew into the blue sky could see that in the mountains on both wings, there were a large number of bandits with black scarves on their heads quickly gathering towards the mouth of the Zuojin valley.

Obviously, the rebels did not expect their advance to be so fast, and they are seizing every minute and every second to gather troops in the Zuojin Valley.

"You will lead your troops to attack Xiling at this time. ”

Chen Hai couldn't wait for Zhao Rong and Tu Ziji to come over from behind to join him, even if it dragged on for an hour, the battle situation would change differently, and when the rebels were assembled from the two wings, even if they could capture Zuojin Valley, they would have to pay a lot of price, and then they might lose the meaning of occupying Zuojin Valley.

He didn't know why the rebels paid special attention to them, and he didn't know how the rebels knew the details of the seventh general, but one thing he was sure of was that the rebels' response in Zuojin Valley at this time was also extremely hasty, and he still had a chance to fight quickly.

Chen Hai directly ordered Fan Cheng to lead the elite troops of the Fan clan to attack from the relatively gentle Xiling on the left.

There was a high cliff in that mountain range that approached the mouth of the valley, like a giant tiger with its mouth open to swallow the blood of the sky, and it was about to mercilessly devour the people and beasts that entered the Zuojin Valley.

At this time, there were one or two thousand rebel soldiers crowded on the high cliff, and throwing stones and trees could directly threaten the soldiers and horses attacking Gukou......