Before Yue Fei led the army to the expedition, Guo Rong gave him a military order to take the Sikou Pass at all costs.

Taking the silt pass is equivalent to opening the passage to recover Yanyun.

According to Guo Rong's deployment in advance, the 100,000 troops on the left led by Zhao Kuangyin followed behind Yue Fei's vanguard army, about three days behind.

Once Yue Fei successfully took the Sikou Pass, he would send flying cavalry to inform Zhao Kuangyin and Guo Rong of the Chinese army, and then, leaving 5,000 people to defend the Sikou Pass, he led the army straight to Yingzhou.

Zhao Kuangyin will personally lead the lightly armored cavalry to rush to the Sikou Pass to take over the defense.

And Guo Rong will order the 100,000 troops on the right led by Zhang Yongde to immediately change direction, separate from the Chinese army, and go straight to Yijin Pass.

If Yue Fei can't overcome the Sikou Pass in time, then his role as a vanguard army will be gone.

When Zhao Kuangyin's troops catch up, Yue Fei's troops will withdraw from the attack sequence and stand by, and Zhao Kuangyin's troops will be responsible for attacking the city.

After all, Yue Fei's vanguard army paid attention to speed and surprise attacks, and attacking fortifications was not their strong point.

As for Yue Fei, most of them will be stripped of their military positions as the commander of the vanguard army by Guo Rong, and they will be arranged separately, and the vanguard army under his command will also be merged into Guo Rong's Chinese army.

The problem now is that Emperor Guo Rong's strategy of playing with fiction and reality made both the Liao State and the Northern Han Dynasty very nervous.

In particular, the Liao State will inevitably deploy heavy troops at Sikou Pass and Yijin Pass.

Therefore, as the vanguard army, Yue Fei actually undertook the task of tackling tough problems.

The reason why Guo Rong boldly used Yue Fei as the commander of the vanguard army was that on the one hand, he appreciated Yue Fei's talent, and on the other hand, he was helpless.

Yue Fei's ability to lead the army to fight has not been verified, and at present, among the Great Zhou army, the most capable of fighting well, and Emperor Guo Rong is also excluded, only Li Chongjin and Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhang Yongde still has some gaps compared with Li Chongjin and Zhao Kuangyin.

However, Guo Rong was not at ease with Li Chongjin, so he could only stay in the Chinese army.

The 100,000 troops on the right led by Zhang Yongde are definitely not used to fight tough battles.

For example, Guo Rong's deployment, once Yue Fei conquers the Sikou Pass, the Liao State will inevitably send a large army to counterattack, and it is the fastest to transfer troops from Yijin Pass and Waqiao Pass, as well as Ying and Mo Prefectures.

Zhang Yongde led the army to separate from the Chinese army and go straight to Yijin Pass, it is better to be able to defeat it, even if it can't be defeated, it can also involve the military strength of the Liao State.

The breakthrough of the Sikou Pass has been completed, and Ying and Mo Erzhou are under the front of the Great Zhou Army.

Yue Fei led the army to attack Yingzhou City, and after Zhao Kuangyin took over the defense of Sikou Pass, he would divide his troops to go north from the left road to Ulzhou, and the target was Feihukou.

The Chinese army led by Guo Rong will follow in the footsteps of Yue Fei's vanguard army and recover Ying and Mo Erzhou in one fell swoop, and Yijin Pass will be self-defeating.

These are Guo Rong's strategic assumptions, and whether they can be realized depends on whether Yue Fei's vanguard army can successfully overcome the silt pass.

This can also be regarded as a test for Guo Rong to Yue Fei.

Yue Fei, in a sense, was discovered and promoted by the crown prince Guo Zongxun himself, once Guo Rong found out that Yue Fei was an excellent general, then ......

Yue Fei, as well as Cao Bin, who Guo Rong specially arranged for Guo Zongxun's side, will be the prince's team.

Guo Rong knew that his fate would not be long in coming, and this was paving the way for the prince.

At that time, Guo Rong died, the crown prince succeeded to the throne, and Li Chongjin, Zhang Yongde, and Zhao Kuangyin all became the former ministers of Taizu and the first emperor Guo Rong.

And there is Cao Bin in the guard division, and Yue Fei in the front of the palace.

The crown prince can resist the power of the old ministers in the army, even if it is built.

Guo Rong's bold use of Yue Fei can be regarded as well-intentioned.

At this time, the Chinese army led by Guo Rong followed behind the left army led by Zhao Kuangyin, about two days behind.

The rear army, this time Guo Rong paid full attention to it, led by Wang Xianqi, and was fully equipped with an army of 100,000.

Once the war began, the transportation of grain and grass was also extremely important.

Guo Rong, who was sitting in the middle of the dragon, was looking at the military report coming back from the front, which made the old lady doctor Guo Wanche very worried.

"Your Majesty, when you should work hard for the war, the old minister will never stop you, but the emperor, you also have to think about the dragon body, after the old minister's conditioning these days, the emperor's dragon body is getting better and healthier, this is the blessing of my Great Zhou Sheji."

"I know, Imperial Doctor Guo, you don't have to comfort me, how about reading the prince's letter after I read the military report?"

"The emperor is wise, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really filial, saying that a letter to his family every day has not fallen for a day."

"He dares, if the prince dares not to write a letter to me, I will send someone back to reprimand him."

Guo Rong put down the military newspaper, picked up the letter sent by Guo Zongxun these days, read and read, why can't he read enough.

Xun'er already has the appearance of a Ming monarch, just look at his handling of Fan Zhen and Wang Pu, watch him exert power in the harem, and look at the first edict of the prince he promulgated, all of which show thunderous means, which ...... Is it something that a six-year-old child can do?

Guo Zongxun was satisfied with what he did after becoming the prince of the prison state, although he would be puzzled, but he would not delve into it, anyway, the position of the emperor of the Great Zhou, I would have passed it on to him.

However, Guo Zongxun's treatment of Qin Li, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, made Guo Rong a little dissatisfied.

"Li Tongjie, a traitor like Qin Li, I can't wait to kill him, but the prince just put him in prison, and then he didn't move, why is this?"

Guo Rong didn't bring a civil official with him this time, and all of them were left to Guo Zongxun, and now he really regrets it, and he can't find anyone to discuss something.

Then you can only ask the great eunuch Li Tongjie and the old lady Guo Wanche.

Guo Wanche didn't know anything, the old minister only took care of His Majesty's dragon body, and the rest of the old minister didn't know anything.

The great eunuch Li Tongjie became the only person Guo Rong could confide in.

"Your Majesty, why don't you send someone back to ask, or simply urge the crown prince?"

Li Tongjie is much bolder now than before, in his own words, who doesn't have a dream of a teenager, if I, Li Tongjie, don't enter the palace and become a eunuch, then I also have an ambition.

Li Tongjie dared to be so bold, and he also knew that Guo Rong would not blame him at all now.

"Forget it, wait a minute, the prince may have his own considerations."

"The emperor is wise."

"Grinding ink, it's time to send a letter home to the prince."

"Your Majesty, it's still an old slave to ghostwrite, Your Majesty, just dictate it."

Guo Wanche decocted medicine on the side, this emperor's dragon chariot is lenient, this is also the first time Guo Rong has taken the dragon chariot in person, and he used to ride a horse directly.

"Your Majesty, Manager Li is right, Your Majesty, you should rest more."

"Alas...... I have the two of you by my side now, but I am really constrained, the horse is not allowed to ride, and the words are not allowed to be written, hurry up and sharpen the ink, this first family letter, I must write it myself. ”

In the evening, in the camp of the vanguard army, 50,000 troops were ready to pull out the camp.

"5,000 war horses are wrapped in hooves, all cavalry troops lead horses on foot, 30,000 infantry troops carry swords, shields and spears, siege equipment only carries long ladders, no torches, Chai Yong is responsible for guiding the light armored cavalry, Niu Gao is responsible for leading the way for the infantry army, the general is with the infantry army, 10,000 crossbowmen are in reserve, in addition, leaving 5,000 people to be responsible for the grain and grass baggage, and the whole army set off."

After a day's rest, the 50,000 vanguard troops are now all in good spirits and full of murderous spirit.

According to the defense situation of the troops at Sikou Pass sent by Dugu Sheng, Yue Fei already had a plan in his heart.

God bless my Great Zhou, Liaogou actually did not set up heavy guards at Sikou Pass, presumably they were also worried that Chen Chongbing was at the border, but it would annoy my Great Zhou Emperor.

Since your Liao Kingdom is ready for a decisive battle with my Great Zhou, then come on, I will fight you.

In the middle of the night, the vanguard of the vanguard led by Yue Fei had arrived only 500 meters away from Sikou Pass.

The pass is not high, the long ladder and the jumping soldiers can climb up in the dark, and there are lamp oil torches illuminating the city at this time, but the number is not much.

"General Ben led five hundred infantry troops to touch the past, Vice General Li led the rest of the infantry to wait here, Deputy General Xu led the light armored cavalry to get on the horse and prepare, once you see the chaos, the infantry army immediately began to attack, Vice General Xu, if you see the gate wide open, immediately lead the cavalry to break through to the city gate."

"The last general will be ordered."

After giving some orders, Yue Fei led five hundred soldiers to carry a long ladder and quietly touched the Guancheng, and touched the place where the lamp oil torch on the Guanlou could not shine.

After setting up five long ladders, Yue Fei was the first to climb the long ladder and soon climbed to the battlements of the gate.

This piece of the city wall located in the corner of the city is not a single Liao soldier patrolling and guarding.

When the five hundred soldiers successfully climbed the city wall, Yue Fei looked around and found that this section was not a soldier standing guard, but ...... They were all killed.

"Dugusheng, this kid is okay, it seems that General Ben can't accept him anymore."

The sneak attack went so smoothly that Yue Fei temporarily changed his tactical arrangement.

"Niu Gao, you lead two hundred soldiers to kill from here, hold the main road for the Liao soldiers to ascend to the city for reinforcements, and drag the Liao soldiers in the pass as much as possible, the bigger the noise, the better, and give Vice General Li as much time as possible to get to the city."

"Commanded.

"Chai Yong, you lead a hundred soldiers to seize the gate, and once you succeed, quickly raise the gate."

"Mark and command."

"General Ben led two hundred soldiers to seize the city gate and act."

At the sound of an order, Niu Gao led the people to quickly pounce on the nearest places where there were lamp oil torches, and killed the middle of the city gate, guarding several key roads from the inner city.

Chai Yong led people to attack the middle of the city gate, and the winch that pulled up the gate of the pass was here.

Outside the pass, Vice General Li saw the chaos at the head of the city, and immediately led the infantry to launch a general attack on the Sikou Pass.

"Da Zhou is mighty, kill Liao dogs."

"Wind, kill the dog."

At the head of the city, Niu Gao led people to start a fierce battle with the Liao soldiers who came up with reinforcements in the city, and Chai Yong led people to capture the position of the winch and immediately began to open the gate.

Yue Fei led people to touch down from the side of Guancheng, and directly killed the first city gate hole through the urn city.

As long as you break through this gate, victory is in sight.

There were about 1,000 Liao soldiers on duty tonight, 300 at the head of the city and 700 under the city, and they were caught off guard by Yue Fei and his people.

Most of the 300 Liao soldiers at the head of the city had not had time to react, and they were almost slaughtered by the Great Zhou soldiers before they could even organize a decent resistance.

The winch rattled and turned, and Chai Yong, together with dozens of sturdy Great Zhou soldiers, used their strength to pull up the gate as fast as possible.

"Da Zhou is mighty, kill Liao dogs."

"Wind, kill the dog."

Under the cover of Niu Gao, Chai Yong and others, more Great Zhou soldiers ascended the city through the long ladder, and Yue Fei at this time also led people to rush to the first gate of Sikou Pass from the inside.

The gate had been opened, and the seven hundred Liao soldiers in the urn city were also taken by surprise, and by the time they reacted, Yue Fei had already begun to order the soldiers to open the city gate.

"Kill Liao Dog at this time, all the soldiers, with the general charge."

"Kill, kill Liaogou."

When Vice Admiral Li saw that the city gate had been opened, he led the remaining infantry to attack the Sikou Pass from the city gate.

In the distance, Adjutant General Xu, who led the cavalry, also brandished a spear and shouted:

"Kill Liao Dog at this time, all the soldiers, with the general charge."

"Da Zhou is mighty, kill Liao dogs."

Five thousand war horses neighed, carrying the roaring Great Zhou cavalry on horseback to the pass.

After Chai Yong led people to pull up the gate, he led people to launch a fierce attack on the winch position of the inner gate of the urn city through the circular road.

"Brother Niu, I, Chai Yong and the back of the brothers will be handed over to you."

Chai Yong was also covered in blood at this time, wielding a pair of big iron halberds, in the dark night, it was really as if evil had come to reincarnate.

"Ah Yong, don't worry, brothers, kill, kill the Liao dog, protect Ah Yong and them, so that they can start the gate with peace of mind."

Niu Gao is also covered in blood, really fucking enjoyable, in Kaifeng when the gangster has a bird feather meaning, the big husband should go into battle to kill the enemy, this is the life of the big bird.

"Kill the dog."

"Kill."

At the first city gate, more and more Great Zhou infantry troops came in, quickly cleaned up the seven hundred Liao soldiers in the urn city, and killed the city wall from all the roads.

Soon, the second gate was also pulled up by Chai Yong and others, and Niu Gao led people to rush down the urn city to the inner city of Sikou Pass, and successfully opened the second gate.

At this point, the gate of the silt pass has been broken, and it only took less than half an hour.

When the cavalry rushed into the city gate, they also brought Yue Fei's war horse over.

"Please get on your horse."

Yue Fei flew on his horse, took off the spear from the winged ring of the victory hook, and shouted:

"The Great Zhou is mighty, all the soldiers, kill it."

"Kill the dog."

"Kill."

Yue Fei led the cavalry to rush into the Sikou Pass, rushing all the way, but felt that the 10,000 Liao troops at the Sikou Pass did not seem to have organized any effective resistance.

When they arrived at the city guard's mansion, they found that the city guard of the Sikou Pass had already heard that the Sikou Pass had been breached, and they had fled with their people.

In the silt pass, shouting and killing, there are corpses of Liao soldiers everywhere, and Liao soldiers kneeling to surrender everywhere.

Above the city, the banner of the Great Zhou Warrior Army was erected.

Dugusheng hid in a big tree on the hillside not far from the pass, overlooking the blazing silt pass, and his heart was also excited.

"The avenue is not lonely, you can also practice kendo when you kill, such a good opportunity to kill, how can I miss it."

After capturing the Sikou Pass, Yue Fei quickly ordered the whole army to enter the pass, gather the Liao troops to surrender, and clean up the battlefield.

"Hold the general's order arrow, the fast horse flies to report to General Zhao Kuangyin, the fast horse flies to report to His Majesty the Emperor, Fei is fortunate not to be dishonored, the first battle is successful, the mouth is closed, and the ...... is broken"

"Mark the order."

After the battle, count the number of enemies killed and the number of casualties of the vanguard army.

In this battle, more than 3,000 enemies were killed, more than 4,000 prisoners were captured, and the general of the Sikou Pass led less than 3,000 Liao soldiers to flee.

The Great Zhou Vanguard Army suffered 13 killed, 56 seriously wounded, and 154 lightly wounded.

In the battle of attacking Sikou Pass, the Great Zhou Vanguard Army won a complete victory.

When Zhao Kuangyin received the news of the victory at Sikou Pass, it was already a day later, Pegasus came to report that Sikou Pass was a great victory, and General Yue led the vanguard army to attack Sikou Pass at night, and won a complete victory.

"Pengju is a real hero."

Even Zhao Kuangyin, who has always regarded himself very highly, expressed his sincere admiration.

Zhao Pu was silent on the side, sighing in his heart, Yue Fei's rise in the army is definitely not a good thing for the lord.

"This general will lead the cavalry battalion to quickly open and rush to the Sikou Pass as soon as possible to take over the defense, and the rest of the soldiers will not stop day and night, and within two days, they must rush to the Sikou Pass."

Yue Fei won a big battle, and Zhao Kuangyin had to be ruthless.

According to the deployment of Emperor Guo Rong, after Zhao Kuangyin took over Yue Fei to guard the Sikou Pass, and waited for Guo Rong's army to arrive, Zhao Kuangyin could lead the army to the north-west direction to attack Ulzhou, and the troops pointed to Feihukou.

"I, Zhao Kuangyin, will never lose to Yue Fei."

Yue Fei won a complete victory at Sikou Pass, which also represented the victory of the Great Zhou army in the Liao Campaign, and Zhao Kuangyin was happy, but more or less regretful.

The head work was robbed by Yue Fei, how good it would be if Yue Fei couldn't attack it.

When Guo Rong learned the news of the victory at Sikou Pass, he was almost a day later than Zhao Kuangyin, and the whole army was excited.

"Pengju is brave and good at fighting, and can make good use of strategy, I am very comforted, pass on my will, the vanguard army is rewarded for meritorious deeds, Yue Fei and the prince Shaobao, the vanguard army is renamed the Hanzi Army, the prince Guo Zongxun is the general of the Hanzi army, and Yue Fei leads the position of the left general of the Hanzi army."

Fools can see that the emperor directly put Yue Fei in the prince's camp, and he is also abnormally important.

There are a bunch of old people in the army, and there are not so many twists and turns, and this news will only cause the courtiers to speculate if it is transmitted back to Kaifeng.

After all, it still depends on the civil officials to play with their brains.

Since ancient times, when the emperor was in his prime, even if he favored the prince, he did not have the habit of handing over military power to the prince.

First, there is no need, but I am afraid that the prince has military power in his hands and is in a hurry to succeed to the throne and do something.

Guo Rong is good, Yue Fei, who made the first contribution to Liao, made the crown prince Shaobao, and renamed the vanguard army of Yue Fei's department as the Hanzi Army.

The number of the prince's Hugh army suddenly expanded to 50,000, plus the 20,000 people of the Kaifeng Guards, the total number of the Hug army reached 70,000.

The most incomprehensible thing, the emperor, we don't have any opinion on rewarding meritorious soldiers, the prince is sitting in Kaifeng City to supervise the country, why is he promoted again in the army?

The general of the special entry army, the prince of the prison country, what is the emperor trying to do?

It is said that a companion is like a tiger, does the emperor also want to raise a tiger by his side?

Only Guo Rong's own heart is the same as Spiegel.

"Spread my will, the Chinese army will pull out, and rush to the Sikou Pass at full speed."

Guo Rong's strategic deployment this time is to take Liao by surprise, and now the expected results have been obtained.

The rest is to be tough with the Liao State.

On the first night of the capture of Sikou Pass, Yue Fei sat in the main hall reading a book, and the gate of the city guard house was open, and even the doors and windows of the main hall were open.

On the handsome case in front of Yue Fei, there was a sword.

There were no guards guarding the city guard, Dugusheng hid in the shadows, observed for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion.

"This must be another trap set by General Yue for me Dugu Sheng, this is to show me an empty city plan, hum, my Dugu Sheng is not Sima Yi, will I be scared away by you."

Dugu Sheng was very patient, and he had been dormant in the dark, guarding until midnight, and in the city guard mansion of Nuoda, except for Yue Fei reading in the main hall, he still couldn't see half a figure.

Where did General Yue hide all the ambush soldiers?

"No matter, I can't wait any longer, this is a godsend, as long as I can quietly touch it and rush into the main hall with lightning speed, even if I take one or two arrows, as long as I can rush in front of General Yue, this bet will be considered my Dugu Shengying, and at that time, I will see what excuse General Yue has not accepted me."

In order to be able to learn swords from Yue Fei's side, Dugu Sheng is now doing everything possible to be a big soldier under Yue Fei's tent, and he is really persistent.

Dugu Sheng acted, he jumped on the roof as lightly as a tanuki, and then acted quickly, and landed firmly on the roof closest to the main hall in a few vertical jumps.

Yue Fei was still reading in the room, and he didn't seem to notice it at all.

"Now is it."

Just when Dugu Sheng was about to rush to the main hall with all his strength, Yue Fei, who had been sitting in the main hall reading a book, raised his head and said with a smile:

"Dugu Sheng, you came in from the east wall of the city guard mansion, hid next to the lotus pot in the corner of the wall for an hour, and then moved to the grain stack near the east wall, and hid for another half an hour, you are indeed patient enough, since you are here, then please come in, General Ben has prepared drinks for you."

Dugu Sheng had a deep sense of frustration, as if a person was taking a bath in the bathtub, and suddenly wanted to dance on a whim, and was dancing happily, and suddenly found that there were many holes in the window, and in each hole there was a lustful eye staring at him.

It's a really exciting feeling.

Dugu Sheng jumped down from the roof, frustrated at the same time, but also a little excited, General Yue is finally going to accept me.

Entering the main hall, Dugu Sheng fell to the ground and said:

"Dugu Sheng meets General Yue."

Yue Fei stood up, put down the book, picked up the sword, and said loudly:

"Tonight, the moon and stars are scarce, it is a good day to drink and dance swords, Dugu wins, are you willing to fight with Yue?"

Dugu wins and says goodbye:

"Therefore, I dare not ask you."

In the open space at the entrance of the main hall of the Sikou Guancheng Guard, Yue Fei and Dugu Sheng once again had a hearty battle.

"General Yue's martial arts are strong, and I am willing to bow to the wind."

"Dugu Sheng, you have a firm heart, and you can get rid of stubbornness in time, this is very good, General Ben is asking you now, are you willing to join my Great Zhou Army and serve the country?"

Dugu Sheng hesitated for a moment and said:

"General Yue, if you say that you are willing to join the army just to learn swords from the general, will the general still not accept me?"

Yue Fei was secretly amused in his heart, wanting to pull this guy out of the tip of the horns, it seemed that it was still very difficult.

"No, you have passed the assessment of General Ben, and General Ben will fulfill his promise."

Dugu Sheng was overjoyed:

"Then if I am willing, just stay by General Yue's side and be a personal soldier."

Yue Fei Surong said:

"Dugu Sheng listens to the order, this general appoints you as the commander of the scout battalion of the Husg Army, leads a team of 500 people, gives you three horses, and hopes that you will abide by your duties, strictly abide by military regulations, be loyal to the emperor, and serve the Great Zhou."

"General Yue, ask more, can you really learn swords from the general from time to time?"

"This general will make a decision based on your performance in the army, last night you explored the silt pass at night, and solved the guard in a corner of the pass in advance, which made a great contribution to my Great Zhou Xiong's breakthrough of the pass, and the competition with you just now is considered a reward for you."

Dugu Sheng heard it, this is good, the eaves go to the wall to spy on the news, now I Dugu Sheng is familiar with the road, and if you want military merit in the future, it is not easy to capture.

"The lowly Dugu wins the order, and is willing to serve the general."