Wang Tao knew very well that this battle was inevitable, Jingcheng Pass was between Hebei and Hebei, and the Bingzhou Army had always deployed troops at Weize Pass, and he might send troops to attack Jingcheng Pass at any time, so the burden on his shoulders was very heavy and the pressure was great.

  Wang Tao is Lu Zhao's confidant, and it is Lu Zhao who can put him in such an extremely important position, which proves that Lu Zhao is very relieved of Wang Tao and thinks that he is enough to take on this important responsibility.

  Wang Tao naturally will not live up to Lu Zhao's trust, no matter what kind of predicament he faces, he must keep the Bingzhou army out of Jingcheng Pass.

  Lu Zhao has already written to tell Wang Tao that he only needs to hold on for a month, and after a month, the general's reinforcements will arrive in Jizhou, and the battle situation in Jizhou will inevitably change fundamentally, so the most difficult thing is this month, and he asked Wang Tao to hold the Jingcheng Pass no matter what, and there must be no loss.

  Although the defenders of Jingcheng Pass are only 3,000 people, but the soldiers are well prepared for battle, Wang Tao naturally has reason to believe that he will be able to defend the city, and he will not dare to defend it for a long time, but if he only guards it for a month, this task can still be easily completed.

  Since receiving the order, Wang Tao has always paid attention to the movements of the Weize Pass, and sent scouts at any time to reconnoiter the movements of the Bingzhou army.

  Wang Tao already knew about it from the time the Bingzhou army set off from Weize Pass, and he immediately ordered the city gate to be closed, and the whole army was on guard and ready for battle.

  By the time the news of the approaching state army came, it was already dusk, and it stands to reason that at this time, the state army must be camping in place and staying until early tomorrow morning, and then they will fight again, but I didn't expect that Xianhong would lead a team of men and horses to kill at this time under the Jingcheng Pass and call for a battle.

  Wang Tao and Zhan Hong are also old acquaintances, a few years ago when Lu Zhao led the army to attack Wei Ze Pass, Wang Tao was the vanguard of the front, and Zhan Hong had many battles.

  It's just that feng shui takes turns, Wang Tao was the attacking side, and Zhan Hong was the defensive side, Wang Tao scolded under the Wei Ze Pass, and scolded the eighteen generations of Zhan Hong's ancestors.

  And now that Lianhong has become the attacking party, Wang Tao is guarding the pass, of course, Zhanhong remembers that he failed to take revenge back then, so he ordered the state army to shout loudly under the city.

  As expected, Wang Tao did not dare to go out of the city to fight, and the state army followed with a scolding, foul language, unbearable, not only Wang Tao was scolded as a shrinking turtle, but even the ancestors of the eighteenth generation and the female relatives within the eighteenth generation were all greeted.

  Wang Tao was so humiliated in the city, his face naturally couldn't hang up, a burst of blue and a burst of white, but he couldn't swallow this breath, after all, the situation was different, at the beginning, he scolded arrogantly under the reed gate, and now the feng shui is turning, and he has become scolded.

  But due to the situation, he couldn't scold back, or go out of the city to meet the enemy in a rage, so that he could only swallow this anger and turn his back, as if he couldn't hear it.

  Wang Tao did not dare to fight, but it did not mean that these generals under his command were indifferent, they were angry by the foul language of the Bingzhou army, and they asked Wang Tao to fight to the death.

  "Soldiers can be killed, but not humiliated, General Wang, the last general asks to go to war, even if it is a horse leather shroud that dies in battle, they will never be allowed to be so insulting!"

  Wang Tao sneered and said, "This man's method of agitating generals, you are not going out of the city at this moment, and you are not trying to get into the middle of the people!" Wait to defend the city with all your heart, and don't pay attention to the enemy's foul language. ”

  Although Wang Tao also wanted to rush out of the pass and kill with the state army, but as the main general, he understood his responsibilities better.

  That's why he gritted his teeth and swallowed this breath, everything is focused on the overall situation.

  The refusal of the defenders of Jingcheng not to fight is completely expected by Zhan Hong, after all, the Bingzhou army is now a large army pressing, and the defender Wang Tao will not choose to fight at this time if he has a little brain.

  At that time, I couldn't count how much I was scolded by the Jizhou army, if the scolding was like a knife, I was afraid to die millions of times.

  After scolding a lot, Zhan Hong was refreshed, the depression that had been accumulated in his heart for many years was relieved, it was getting late at the moment, the twilight was gloomy, and the Jizhou army was probably not likely to fight, so his subordinates persuaded Zhan Hong to return to the camp and wait until tomorrow to fight again.

  But he was not willing to evacuate, he just retreated a mile or so, and ordered his generals to camp here, he would sleep here tonight, so that he could get up early in the morning and continue to call for battle at Guanxia.

  The general looked embarrassed and said to him: "General, this place is too close to Jingcheng Pass, and it is far away from our army's camp, if the enemy army comes out to attack at night, the army of the battalion may not be able to save it." ”

  Lian Hong laughed and said: "Wang Tao, the enemy guard, this person is a well-known turtle with a shrunken head, and he sneaks up in the middle of the night? If he borrows ten guts, he may not dare to go out of the city! General Ben is going to camp here tonight, so that he doesn't have to go back and forth tomorrow morning. ”

  Since Lianhong insisted again and again, his subordinates had no choice but to set up camp tents in the cluster, because it was too late, and the state army could only reluctantly set up some tents, and it was too late to erect fences and other fortifications, and the so-called camp was really simple and could not be more simple.

  Zhan Hong didn't think so, and said: "Very good, just set up some camp tents like this, anyway, all of them are temporary, and the armies will be able to enter Jingcheng Pass tomorrow night, no matter how well the military camp is built, it will be in vain." ”

  The Jizhou army is right to think about it, the Jizhou army defending the city is afraid that it has long been frightened, how can it have any courage to go out of the city to fight, and the vanguard army is camped under the Jingcheng Pass, so there is no need to worry about the Jizhou army doing something in the middle of the night.

  After the tent was erected, Zhan Hong ordered Bingzhou to light a few fires in front of the tent, and the firewood and grass used to light the fire were all found by the Bingzhou army everywhere.