Longguan

This Xiongguan, which has been held for a hundred years, was completely broken today. Up and down the dragon pass, as if it had been washed with blood, it was all bright red.

In the Dragon Pass, there was not a single prisoner, all the officers and soldiers of the Chu army, fighting to the last soldier, and none of them surrendered.

Zhou Cheng admired Xie Yuan, the guard of Longguan, very much, although each was his master, he admired Xie Yuan's unyielding spirit of preferring death.

When the city was broken, Xie Yuan used his own strength to block the forbidden cavalry outside the Dragon Pass.

In the end, when all the soldiers under Longguan City were killed, Xie Yuan finally lost his strength and died of exhaustion. Zhou Cheng saw that although Xie Yuan was dead, he did not fall down for a long time, and he admired it very much, so he buried Xie Yuan under Longguan City.

As soon as the dragon pass was closed, Zhou Cheng immediately sent troops and began to attack everywhere.

And Liao Ziping and Qin Ba, who won the first merit in the siege, were seriously injured by Xie Yuan and were resting. Liao Ziping's left hand has been lost, but fortunately, after rescue, he picked up a life, and is lying on the bed at the moment, receiving thoughtful condolences.

"Although General Liao was seriously wounded, he still put important things first and sent such important information. After this battle, I will report to the imperial court and make General Liao's first contribution. ”

"The big marshal is serious, this is a matter of his subordinates. It is a blessing for my subordinates to be able to make a modest contribution to my Dali's thousands of years. Liao Ziping said modestly.

Zhou Cheng looked at Liao Ziping and nodded with satisfaction.

He single-handedly sent Liao Ziping to be an undercover agent.

Liao Ziping is a native of Central Chu, but his parents died at the hands of the Chu people, and he has also suffered humiliation since he was a child. In order to trap him, Zhou Cheng promised Liao Ziping that after he took the Dragon Pass, he would reward him with the land of Zhongchu Dragon City.

And almost no one knows about this except him.

At the beginning of the Triple Alliance, he secretly told Gu Liang Yangbo that he was absolutely sure that he would win the Dragon Pass, so that Gu Liang Yangbo would use the method of preserving his own strength in the later invasion.

In the past, the conditions were not ripe, and if Liao Zi was suddenly rehabilitated, Chu Jun would be able to react in time. But now it is very different, there are many factions in the Central Chu Dynasty, just the powerful ministers have rebelled, and there is an invasion of foreign enemies, and Central Chu has no time to look north, and then take the opportunity to rebel, it will be foolproof.

It's just a pity that hundreds of nails were originally arranged in the territory of Zhongchu, ready to take advantage of the chaos to set off turmoil in the territory of Zhongchu. But somehow it was unplugged, and the second-hand plan he prepared couldn't be used.

Inside the Longguan General's Mansion.

Zhou Cheng was looking at the sand chart, which showed the entire northern border of Zhongchu. Each of the places on it is marked in great detail, with roads, checkpoints, camps, and even permanent troops.

These are naturally the credit of Liao Ziping.

"General Gan, I received a report from the spies at the front, there is a support army advancing towards Longguan, you quickly lead 10,000 people, ambush the enemy first, and drag the enemy army at Huangshi Gang. If necessary, they can feign defeat and lead the enemy into the encirclement. ”

"Ordered. ”

"General Min, you lead 20,000 people and go straight to Lucheng to cut off the retreat of Longcheng. ”

"Ordered. ”

"General Qi, General Tang. ”

"The end will be. ”

"You two assist General Gan, and when General Gan is in a stalemate with the enemy, outflank him from behind and completely annihilate this group of enemy troops. ”

"Ordered. ”

After assigning tasks to all the generals, Zhou Cheng turned his head again and looked at Luo Jin, the commander of the forbidden cavalry.

"Commander Luo Jin, you lead the forbidden cavalry to attack, and you must destroy the northern camp before the enemy army reacts. ”

"Hmm. Luo Jin, the commander of the forbidden cavalry army in black armor, nodded.

"Zhou Shuai, slow down!" suddenly a shout came from outside the door, disrupting everyone's train of thought.

Everyone turned their heads to look, wondering who would dare to interrupt the task assigned by the marshal. When everyone looked at it, they were startled and immediately saluted on one knee.

The person who came was the third prince of Liguo - Houyu.

When he came back from Zhongchu in a gloomy manner, he always kept this matter in mind, and he was full of confidence when he heard that this time the troops were well organized. He had always been haunted by his humiliation, so he asked the Emperor Liguo to be sent as a prisoner.

"Your Royal Highness the Third Prince, I don't know what Your Highness commands?" Zhou Cheng asked.

"Zhou Shuai, I was really dull in the camp, I just heard that Zhou Shuai is deploying, which is exactly what I wanted. It's better for Zhou Shuai to hand over the forbidden cavalry army to his subordinates, and ensure that he fights a few beautiful battles for Zhou Shuai. ”

Zhou Cheng heard this, thought for a while, weighed the pros and cons, and agreed. Anyway, the forbidden cavalry army is under the command of Luo Jin, and there is no way to go wrong, so let the third prince take it, which can accumulate the prestige of the army for him.

"Since the prince is interested, the forbidden cavalry army is under the command of the third prince. I led the Chinese army and attacked Dragon City. ”

"The last general commanded. Luo Jin replied.

"Thank you Zhou Shuaicheng. Hou Yu also thanked.

The gray sky shrouded the dark and dreary earth, and the mountains and rocks around Huangshi Gang stood prominently, as if there was a dead silence, and no trace of life could be found.

Not far away, a large group of people and horses are approaching at great speed.

"Driving...... He ordered the whole army to advance quickly, and strive to reach Longguan before dark. Liao Song said to the generals beside him.

He arrived at the northern camp from Longguan day and night, transferred 20,000 soldiers from the northern camp, and had no time to rest, so he went straight to Longguan.

Along the way, Liao Song's heart fluctuated, and he always felt that something was happening, so he urged the army to march non-stop.

"General, the soldiers are a little tired, can you rest for a while?" the general of the northern battalion suggested to Liao Song.

"The situation in Longguan is critical, and one more minute of delay will be more dangerous. This time, the army is coming in a strange situation, beware of sudden changes, and wait for everyone to rush to Longguan to rest. ”

"But the general ......" The general wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Liao Song.

"General Cheng, needless to say, hurry up, and let the soldiers make adjustments after arriving at Longguan. ”

Seeing Liao Song's expression, General Cheng had no choice but to shake his head helplessly, turned around, and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "General Liao has an order, the whole army ......"

Before he could finish speaking, a sharp arrow pierced his chest.

"Yes...... Enemy...... Enemy. With that, he planted his head on the horse.

"Whoosh, whoosh. ”

As soon as General Cheng fell off his horse, a rain of arrows shot from the surrounding rocks.

"Set up a shield, quickly set up a shield, and form a defensive formation. Liao Song hurriedly commanded.

The troops of the northern battalion were suddenly attacked and suffered casualties, but under the command of Liao Song, they did not panic, only to see them form a square formation, raise their long shields, and block the arrows from the shield wall. Although one or two unlucky ghosts were occasionally hit by arrows, they still resisted the enemy's sneak attack, which reduced the casualty rate a lot.

"Kill. ”

Seeing that the lethality of the sneak attack was too small, General Gan was depressed, completely forgot about the task of the whole week, and led the army to rush down from the mountains and rocks.

Liao Song shouted in his heart, he was afraid that the enemy would hide in the middle of the mountain and rock and release arrows, so that he couldn't let go of his hands and feet, and now the enemy took the initiative to rush up, how could he have no reason not to fight.

"Brothers, kill me. After speaking, he took the lead to meet the Li army who rushed to kill.

When the northern battalion saw the enemy rushing towards them, they immediately put away their long shields, changed their formation, and met the Li army.

Liao Song rushed into the enemy formation first, he was not weaker than his brother Liao Bai at all, a half-moon halberd made it superb, between the left and right stabs, and the soldiers of the army died if they touched it.

With Liao Song rushing in front, the morale of the soldiers in the northern battalion was greatly boosted, while the Li army was defeated and retreated in front of the Chu army. With the morale built up at the beginning of the sneak attack, it also slowly disappeared under Liao Song's lead in breaking through. Moreover, although the northern battalion was attacked by surprise, the number of troops was only much larger than that of the army.

General Gan saw that the form was not good, although he could be defeated, but if he pretended to be defeated now, he would inevitably lose too ugly, and he would definitely not be reused in the future, thinking of this, he decided to face Liao Song.

With a slash, this general is not an ordinary person, a long knife is as heavy as a rock, and it is not difficult to wield it.

Liao Song knew that there would be a little battle qi in front of him, and the long knife must have been blessed with war qi.

However, he was not afraid at all, and the halberd stabbed and hit the key point. If you fight straight straight, you will have no power to fight back.

In the end, Liao Bai's hands were full of fighting spirit, and he slashed down with a halberd, and killed General Gan when it was too late to block back.

As soon as General Gan died, the Li army immediately lost its will to fight and abandoned their armor and fled.

"Don't chase after everyone, quickly tidy up the battlefield and retreat to the northern camp. Liao Song stopped the halberd and ordered the soldiers behind him.

This attack was something he didn't expect, and he blamed him, just rushing to the road, and didn't wait for the investigation. Now it seems that the enemy army can set up an ambush here, and Longguan is afraid that it has fallen. Thinking of this, he was so sad in his heart that he couldn't even understand that with General Xie's ability, how could Longguan fall casually?

For today's plan, the only way is to retreat to the northern camp, and then combine the forces of the northern and Xiaocai battalions to retreat to Longcheng and block the attack of the Li army.