The sound of shouting and killing on the gate of the wild goose gate shook the sky, thousands were crowded on the narrow mountain road, above the mountain road was a closed city, the city gate was closed, the arrows on the city were like rain, shooting towards the Youzhou army a hundred steps away, and above the head of the Youzhou army, there were constantly rolling wooden stones falling down, so that they could not prevent it, the mountain road was full of corpses, and hundreds of people were hit by big stones, rolling down the cliff.

The battle for Yanmen Pass lasted for two whole days, Youzhou suffered thousands of casualties, and still couldn't take Yanmen Pass.

General Zheng Jingji persuaded in a low voice: "Your Highness, Yanmen Pass is a Xiongguan Pass in the world, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it has nothing to do with the number of troops. ”

"It's not easy to fight!" Zhu Tao said distressedly.

"There is a plan for lowly duties, and Lou Fuguan is at your fingertips."

Zhu Tao perked up and hurriedly asked, "Will the plan be released?" ”

"We can choose hundreds of elites to climb over the mountains, and then ....... like this."

Zhu Tao was immediately overjoyed, "This plan is wonderful!" ”

Zheng Jingji said with a smile: "I am willing to lead the army to go!" ”

Zhu Tao approvingly: "Capturing Lou Fu Pass is your first major achievement!" ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang!"

Zheng Jingji immediately selected 800 elite soldiers with high martial arts, and under the guidance of the guide, they crossed the mountains and walked the mountain road to the south.

There will inevitably be readers who wonder why the other 30,000 people don't go there with the other 30,000 people, when hundreds of people can go over the mountains.

If you can quickly capture Yanmen Pass or Lou Fu Pass from the other side, it will be fine, but once you can't attack it, the food will be cut off, and it will inevitably be the consequence of the annihilation of the whole army.

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The original guard of Lou Fu Pass was called Tuoba Wunan, and it can be judged from this name that he was the general of the Yuan family and served the Yuan family for generations, but when Yuan Ren led 8,000 troops to Lou Fu Pass, Yuan Ren became the main general of Lou Fu Pass.

There are 11,000 defenders in Lou Fu Pass, and the army is strong, and the pass can be described as foolproof.

On this morning, countless fleeing people suddenly poured into the valley road south of Lou Fu Pass, and they were all terrified, and there were thousands of them.

The soldier immediately ran to report to Yuan Ren, who was taken aback and hurriedly ran down to the city to inquire about the situation.

"Where did you escape? What happened? ”

An old man cried: "We are from Yanmen County, Yanmen Pass was broken by the Youzhou army, countless Youzhou soldiers came to kill, robbed of food and livestock, many of our villagers were killed, and the county was also destroyed by fire!" ”

Yuan Ren was taken aback, Yanmen Pass was breached, so what should Taiyuan do? There were only 5,000 defenders in Taiyuan, and the troops were all transferred to Yanmen Pass and Loufu Pass.

He was immediately anxious, and immediately ordered: "The whole army gathers and returns to Taiyuan City immediately!" ”

Tuoba Wunan hurriedly said: "The general should send someone to take a look!" Be on the safe side. ”

"What else do you suspect, are they lying?" Yuan Ren is an index of thousands of people.

The people shouted: "We are not lying, tens of thousands of people are coming." ”

"Do you hear, do these people lie?"

Tuoba Wunan was also anxious, "Either the general will lead the main force to evacuate, and lead a thousand people to guard the Loufu Pass." ”

Yuan Ren was furious, "The Yanmen Pass has been breached, and the Lou Nu Pass is still guarding a fart!" ”

Tuoba Wunan was about to explain again, but Yuan Ren pulled out his sword and said: "Those who violate the order will be killed!" ”

Tuoba Wunan had no choice but to run back to gather the army, and the 11,000 troops gave up the Lou Fu Pass and rushed to Taiyuan.

Just when Yuan Ren led the army to evacuate Loufu Pass, Zheng Jingji, who was hiding in the shadows, immediately led 800 troops to occupy Loufu Pass, and two days later, Zhu Tao led the main force of the Youzhou Army to also arrive at Loufu Pass, and the north gate of Taiyuan Mansion was opened, and 25,000 troops slaughtered to Taiyuan City.

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Yunzhou, 3,000 Hui cavalry is rushing south, they received the silver wolf head order sent by Yuan Xuanhu, this is the Hui second only to the golden wolf head order of the senior military order, Taiyuan safety is related to the vital interests of the Hui Hui, the commander of the 10,000 cavalry Sau Qiao did not hesitate, immediately led the three thousand Hui cavalry south to rescue.

As soon as they ran out of Yunzhong County, the Tang Army scout, who was hiding in the shadows, released a letter eagle, which circled twice in the sky and flew south with its wings.

The road from Yunzhou to Taiyuan is far away, the cavalry has to run for at least three days, of course, the Hui army will not carry dry food, they loot grain all the way, the next afternoon, three thousand cavalry arrived at the Lahe Valley, the Lahe Valley is located in Shuozhou, fifty miles north of Mayi County, this is a valley of more than ten miles, the last three miles are steep and narrow, the narrowest point is only more than ten zhang.

Saucho led 3,000 cavalry into the valley, and the cavalry had eaten all the food they had plundered along the way, and they were so anxious that they waited to enter Mayi County and plunder it on a large scale.

The valley road was getting narrower and narrower, and they had to slow down, and there was a turning road in front of them, and when the team was halfway there, two swarthy boulders suddenly rolled down from the top of the hill, and the cavalry shouted one after another, trying to avoid the boulders, and the boulders fell to the ground with a sneering snack, and before Saugio could react, the two boulders exploded like a landslide.

These were two giant iron fire mines, the explosion was extremely powerful, and the strong explosion sound drowned out the screams of the Hui cavalry, and I don't know how many people were killed and injured.

In an instant, the valley was filled with gunsmoke, and the thousands of Hexi Army cavalry waiting outside were killed, and the valley was like a Shura hell, full of stumps and broken arms, the heads of war horses that were blown apart, and the bodies of soldiers who were blown in two, and the blood flowed like a river, and the smell was incomparable, and although thousands of Hui cavalry were not injured, they were stunned by the strong shock wave.

The soldiers of the Hexi army mercilessly slaughtered the fainted enemy, and hundreds of Hui cavalry were frightened, turned their horses' heads and fled north, but they were greeted by a storm of crossbow arrows, and 2,000 Hexi crossbowmen had blocked the valley.

Hundreds of cavalry were shot and fell off their horses, and there were less than 100 people left, and they were just about to turn around and flee back to the valley, when the Hexi cavalry in the valley came out, and the Hui cavalry was cornered, and they were overturned and fell off their horses, and were ruthlessly killed by the enemy.

Leading this Hexi army was the Zhonglang general Li Tie, a total of 3,000 people, who came from Fengzhou and joined the scout general Zhang Zhiyuan.

Zhang Zhiyuan had already explored the terrain, and the Lahe Valley was undoubtedly the most suitable place for ambush, and they relied on supplies from Mayi County and waited patiently for the Hui army to move south.

When the smoke in the valley was completely dispersed, all the 3,000 Hui cavalry died in the three-mile-long valley road, and none of them escaped or survived.

The Hexi army then dug a large pit several zhang deep, piled up the corpses, poured fire oil, burned them into black charcoal, and then buried the corpses, and the 3,000 Hui army completely disappeared.

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Luliang Mountain is like a giant dragon lying on the land of Jinzhong, separating Taiyuan Mansion and Shizhou, the mountain stretches for thousands of miles, there are many canyons and mountain cols hidden in it, from the Yellow River across the middle section of Luliang Mountain to the Fenhe River Basin, of course, there is also an official road, this official road is the famous ancient road of Jin Shang in history.

Starting from Lishi County, through Wangpo Mountain to Wucheng Town, and then from Wucheng Town over Huangluling into Xiangyanggou, and then through forty miles of Taohua Cave can reach Fenzhou, about 300 miles long, all the way the mountain is undulating, the mountain is high and the road is dangerous, it is difficult to walk, there are many river valleys and rivers along the way, you can not walk the cart, you can only rely on donkeys and mules to transport grain and grass.

This was the most difficult part of the road, the Hexi army walked for four days, and finally got out of the Taohua Cave, entered the Fenhe Valley, and arrived at Xicheng County, the Hexi army was exhausted, and Guo Song immediately ordered the whole army to rest.

Xicheng County's surname is Zou, why didn't he expect the Hexi Army to fall from the sky, so frightened that he hurriedly opened the city to surrender, Guo Song did not embarrass him, and asked him: "How much grain and grass is there in the official warehouse in the city?" ”

"Envoy Qi, there are 3,000 stones of corn in the official warehouse, but there is no forage."

Guo Song frowned, this is a bit difficult, the forage for the war horse has been exhausted, there is no forage, the livestock can eat some weeds casually, but what about the war horse?

Guo Song thought for a while and asked, "Are there black beans in the city?" ”

Zou Xianling hurriedly said: "There is no official warehouse, but there are a lot of people, I remember that there are a lot of black beans in the three major grain stores, and then go to the people's homes to find it, maybe you can find a lot?" ”

"How much is a bucket of black beans?"

"Black beans are very cheap, ten pennies a bucket."

Guo Song immediately said: "I pay twenty yuan a bucket, how much in the city can I buy as much?" ”

They got a lot of old copper coins in Lishi County, which they could just use.

Zou Xian Ling hurriedly summoned people to buy black beans in all directions, the price of Hexi Army's purchase was high, and it was the most popular old money in the market, and the people enthusiastically sold the black beans stored at home, and only three large grain stores purchased 3,000 stone black beans.

In just half a day, Hexi purchased 6,000 stone of black beans, and Guo Song immediately ordered the black beans to be cooked and fed to the horses, which solved the shortage of food that the war horses urgently needed.

The next morning, the army reorganized its troops and began to move north along the Fenshui.