Chapter 168: The Fall of Xiongguan

Just as Zhao Chun was preparing to reorganize his forces and annihilate the remnants of the enemy in Wufeng Mountain in one fell swoop, he suddenly heard the news that the Black Ice Tribe had gathered 1.7 million troops to storm Xiongguan. The canopy, the sky, and the others hurriedly asked him to immediately lead the army to reinforcements, because they were afraid that the 400,000 troops of Tianmen would not be able to hold the Xiongguan.

This made Zhao Chun very entangled, seeing that the more than 400,000 remnants of the Black Ice Tribe were in his mouth, such a big piece of fat could not be swallowed in one bite, which made him panic. After repeated considerations, it was decided to send Taodong Xiaonei with 200,000 people to join the 300,000 army of Tiancang, and then reinforce Xiongguan together, so that with 900,000 troops against 1.7 million, although there is still a bit of a disparity, it is not too outrageous. What's more, with the natural danger of Xiongguan, and the veteran Tianmen guarding, how can it be supported for a period of time, and after solving the more than 400,000 remnants of the army here, it should be too late to concentrate on dealing with them, otherwise he will take people away, and when the remnants of the army here recover and attack again, it will be very passive.

Zhao Chun quickly led the army to complete the encirclement of the enemy army in Wufeng Mountain, and only one day passed. But just as Zhao Chun was preparing to launch a general attack and eat this enemy army in one fell swoop, Tiancang sent him an urgent telegram, saying that the enemy's offensive was too fierce and Xiongguan would be unable to hold it, and asked him to immediately lead the army to support.

Zhao Chun had to give her a call back, and had already sent Taodong Xiaouchi to join her, and then Taodong Xiaouchi would be under the unified command of Taodong Xiaouchi, if Xiongguan really couldn't be held, he would take the initiative to give up, preserve his vital strength, and find an opportunity to fight the enemy again.

However, Tiancang did not accept Zhao Chun's suggestion, but felt that Xiongguan was a natural danger, if the natural danger could not be held, and if the enemy could not be held, it would be like letting a wolf into the flock, and the Tianhai tribe plain in Yima Pingchuan could no longer resist the attack of the Black Ice Tribe, and the capital would be in danger. Not to mention the fact that the cities behind are so populous that it is too late to evacuate now. Moreover, the abandonment of Xiongguan will also greatly undermine the confidence of the military and the people in the War of Resistance. At the end of the message, she also scolded Zhao Chun for being greedy and reckless, wanting to kill bloodthirsty, and ignoring the interests of the country and the nation......

However, Zhao Chun had already issued a general attack order at this time, and it was impossible to take it back, and he was unwilling to take back this order, because he felt that even if he led the army to rush over at this moment, it was too late, and he could only let the whole country fall into a more passive situation, and only the best policy was to take the initiative to give up Xiongguan, he could only explain his thoughts to Tiancang with painstaking words, and asked her to prepare for Tianmen while building several lines of defense on the main road leading from Xiongguan to the cities of the Tianhai tribe, if he really couldn't resist it, he would fight and retreat, save the living force, find suitable fighters and annihilate the enemy one by one。 In his opinion, in the face of an enemy with absolute superiority, it is very foolish to fight with them, and he can only consume his own vitality.

However, Tiancang still didn't listen, insisted on leading the army to help Tianmen, Xiongguan must not be lost, and said that even if there was no Zhao Chun, the Tianhai tribe would definitely win.

In desperation, Zhao Chun had no choice but to send a telegram to Taodong Xiaonei, asking him to lead his troops to build a defensive line, and at the same time prepare to meet the Heavenly Gate.

When Zhao Chun was about to solve the enemy army in Wufeng Mountain, he received an urgent telegram from the canopy, saying that the enemy army suddenly found a secret path from the side of Xiongguan, and more than 500,000 people attacked from that path overnight, and now the 400,000 defenders of Xiongguan have been surrounded by regiments, and Tiancang wanted to lead the army to rush in for reinforcements, but it was repulsed again and again, and he couldn't rush in at all. At the end, he didn't forget to scold Zhao Chun for being ungrateful, not saving him when he died, and he must look good in the future.

When Zhao Chun received this telegram, he couldn't help but be shocked, the Dark Dao Xiongguan is really over this time, and the gate of heaven is also over, this loser who doesn't listen to advice is going to lose all the little family foundation he has worked so hard to build.

Fortunately, after the enemy army in Wufeng Mountain learned that they had been abandoned by the Black Ice Tribe and used as bait to attract the enemy's firepower, they did not have much fighting spirit, they were originally united by various tribes, and naturally they could not be substituted for others, so under Zhao Chun's fierce attack, they only lasted for more than ten hours before they completely collapsed, and the rest surrendered one after another.

Zhao Chun hurriedly reorganized the team, leaving Shen Ju to lead 50,000 people to hold Wufeng Mountain, and then took the rest of the men and horses to run in the direction of Xiongguan.

However, when he led his team after three days and two nights of rapid marching, the vanguard finally joined the canopy's troops, but heard a bad news, Xiongguan completely fell, Tianmen was killed when leading the army to break through the siege, 400,000 troops, and finally escaped to join the canopy, less than 10,000.

Tiancang got the news and was heartbroken, Uncle Tianmen Wang was her most beloved uncle, but now he was martyred, how could she not be sad?

Zhao Chun was naturally extremely depressed, and in the past, he had always admired his own strategic and tactical thinking, and how could Tiancang, who had always been extremely observant and obedient to his words, be extremely stubborn at this critical moment, and sing the opposite tune to herself? If she obeyed her command and let Tianmen withdraw from Xiongguan in time, would such a tragedy still happen? Even if not all of them withdrew, it would be better to withdraw some of them. In this way, although Xiongguan will still fall, the Tianhai tribe has preserved its vitality and can flexibly counterattack at any time.

It's good now, being made such a fuss by her, the strength of the Tianhai tribe has been weakened by a quarter at once, and the entire strategic deployment has fallen into passivity, if she is not the acting leader of the Tianhai tribe, Zhao Chun doubts that she has received any benefits from the Black Ice tribe to make such an abnormal behavior......

But the matter has come to this, it is useless to complain about each other, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, if Zhao Chun does not make a decisive decision, maybe the tragedy of Tianmen will be repeated again. Although Tiancang was extremely resentful of Zhao Chun in her heart, she also knew that at this time, only Zhao Chun could save the Tianhai tribe, so she had to unwillingly hand over the command to Zhao Chun, and gave an order, if any general did not listen to Zhao Chun's command, behead!

Since the army has not yet been integrated, and the shadow of the fall of Xiongguan is hanging in his heart, it is very unwise to start a decisive battle with the army of the Black Ice Tribe at this time, so Zhao Chun decided to take the initiative to retreat first, and then concentrate his forces to find fighters.

As soon as Zhao Chun's decision came out, the entire Tianhai tribe was in an uproar, and people accused Zhao Chun of being greedy for life and fearing death, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, ignoring the interests of the territory and people of the Tianhai tribe, and letting the iron horses of the Black Ice Tribe crisscross the land of the Tianhai tribe without firing a single shot, allowing innocent people to be ravaged and slaughtered by the iron horses of the Black Ice Tribe.

Zhao Chun said that the pressure is great, it's not that he doesn't want to fight the enemy, but his strength is not allowed for the time being, but if he wants people to understand, I'm afraid it's too difficult.