Chapter 197: Capture Xianxia Pass

Chen Hongyi quietly took his family away at some point, and when everyone woke up and asked each other, they didn't find out.

Zhou Dapeng shook his head, "Old Prince Chen is reminding us that there is a problem with our sentry, since his old man slipped away with dozens of family members and no one found out, then it means that if the enemy comes to steal the camp, we can't find it!" ”

The arrogant Chen Jingyi also lost his temper at this time, "It seems that Old Prince Chen's experience over the years is not something I can get by waiting for more than 20 years of martial arts!" It is true that there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people! ”

Three days later, the 5,000-strong army began to attack the first county occupied by the Wei army, and the eight commanders were each riveted and set up in position, and even the stretchers for the bodies and wounded were arranged outside the city.

Zheng Da's palms were sweating, "Brother Zhou, when will the rolling wood and stone soup fall on this city wall, should it hit me when I rush up!" ”

Chen Jingyi pretended to be calm, "Our army is ready for battle, steady and steady, and is not afraid of any rolling wood, stones, and golden soup!" ”

Li Xiaofei and Zhou Dapeng saw that the city gate was closed, but the city was empty, and they also thought that the Wei army might be lying in ambush behind the battlements, so they ordered the bow and crossbow battalion to shoot a round of arrows first.

In one round, the ten arrows on the back of the body were shot, and the bow and crossbow battalion couldn't wait for a long time, and at the sound of an order, eight thousand arrows were shot into the city in the blink of an eye.

But the city was still as silent as death, and the people outside the city did not hear the screams, Zhou Dapeng nodded and shouted, "Fifty people from the sword and shield battalion attacked the city gate!" The Bow Battalion prepares for the second round of arrows! ”

When Zheng Da led the fifty people of the sword and shield battalion to rush to the city gate, he squeezed the city gate open.

Behind the city gate, there was no one, and the rest of the people were about to rush in, and Zhou Dapeng shouted again, "All retreat, be careful of the ambush!" ”

Zheng Da took fifty people and crawled back to the formation, and the bow and crossbow battalions were all aimed at the city gate, just waiting for Zhou Dapeng's order.

Li Xiaofei stepped forward and looked, "This is an empty city!" Don't panic, everyone, the sword and shield battalion is advanced! The halberd camp is behind! ”

When they entered the city, they found that the doors of the houses on both sides of the street were wide open, and there was no one in the city.

After planting the banner of the Liang army, Zhou Dapeng ordered the bow and crossbow battalion to pick up the arrows that had been shot earlier, and the soldiers of the bow and crossbow battalion complained bitterly, but they had to endure it.

After staying in this county for two days, I finally met a few locals passing by, and after asking, I learned that after Li Xiaofei swore in Panyu, the county commander in the county fled north with the people of the city.

Li Xiaofei was a little puzzled: "Although our army is powerful, we are not afraid of being like this!" ”

"My lord doesn't know, the people from the north say that Chen Hongyi of the South China Sea is invincible in the world, and he can defeat hundreds of thousands of troops with a few hundred people, and he also said that his disciple is called Li Xiaofei, and he will make the demon law lead the sky and thunder to blow people up! Where do you dare to stay! ”

Li Xiaofei and everyone laughed, "Why don't I know this, I'm Li Xiaofei!" ”

"Adults forgive sins, villains call adults by name, and please don't split me, I have an eighty-year-old mother and an eighteen-year-old son"

"Hahahaha, we are not demons, nor are we gods, we are the South China Sea rebels who are going to recover the land of Daliang!"

A few passers-by echoed for a while and hurried away.

Li Xiaofei looked at the county seat, which was indeed a little remote, so he left thirty dead soldiers and one hundred people here to wait for the follow-up transfer of grain and grass.

The next cities were captured very simply, and Zhou Dapeng gave some locals cloth along the way, asking them to spread the news that Chen Hongyi had come with an army of 100,000 in the South China Sea.

The cities along the way have long known Chen Hongyi's name, and I heard that he was the one who led the troops, who would dare to send someone out of the city to investigate, let alone face the battle, basically ran away with gold and silver.

There are also a few who do not believe in evil

, stay and fight Li Xiaofei and them.

The eight commanders had already held back their strength along the way, and under the city of Yongjia, the bow and crossbow battalion shot ten rounds of arrows, and then it took five days to pull out the arrows.

The Wei army that resisted in Yongjia City was first unable to appear on the city wall by a rain of arrows, and then the city gate was opened by the dead soldiers, and the rest were all battalions pouring in to chop melons and vegetables.

Fortunately, Li Xiaofei ordered the surrenderer not to be killed in time, and only then did he rescue the Wei army, who had already been frightened and weak, from the knife of the South China Sea.

These Wei troops were actually recruited by the locals, and after most of them were shot and hacked to death, the remaining hundreds of people thought they were dead, but Li Xiaofei spared them.

Li Xiaofei asked them why the other cities had surrendered with interest, but this Yongjia City had to be used as a car.

The remaining Wei troops cried and said that their Taishou Qian Tiren wanted to frustrate the spirit of the Southern Navy, and ordered the entire city to resist together.

"Then where is Qian Tiren?" Li Xiaofei asked

The Wei soldiers looked at each other, and a veteran said, "Lord Qian is afraid that he will commit suicide by throwing himself into the water, and when the city is broken, I heard Lord Qian say that he is going to be martyred!" ”

Li Xiaofei immediately ordered Gao Yongxin to take the diggers to the wells and ponds in the city to find Qian Tiren.

After a while, Gao Yongxin tied up a wet person, needless to say, this is Qian Tiren.

Qian Tiren closed his eyes and didn't speak, Gao Yongxin snorted, "Master Li, do you know this guy, when we found him, he was climbing up from a pond with ducks!" ”

"Haha, is this a martyrdom to escape?" Li Xiaofei glanced at Qian Tiren

"We asked him and he said he couldn't die in the pile of animals, the ducks were too dirty!" Gao Yongxin said with a smile

"Good, good, pretentious! Okay, take him to the corpse of the Wei army that has been collected and kowtow! Let him take a good look, this kind of person is loyal and patriotic, and all he gives away is the lives of others, if he wins, he will make great contributions alone, and if he loses, he will pretend to die rather than give in to gain a good reputation, and the enemy will let him go! It's a pity that I met Zhou Dapeng today! Let him kowtow to the dead soldiers one by one, and send him on his way after kowtowing! ”

After Zhou Dapeng finished speaking, he waved his hand to let Qian Tiren take him away, and Qian Tiren desperately fell to the ground, "You barbarians!" Trespass on my city, and tarnish my name of loyalty! ”

Zhou Dapeng looked at Li Xiaofei, Li Xiaofei nodded, "Marshal Zhou is right, this kind of person, send him to where he should go, if he had picked up a knife and gun and fought us face to face, I would really let him go, but unfortunately he is not!" ”

Li Xiaofei had to admire Zhou Dapeng, if Zhou Dapeng hadn't broken it, maybe Li Xiaofei would have really let go of this Qian Tiren.

Qian Tiren was kowtowed to less than a hundred by everyone, and he was already knocked to death, and after his death, Zhou Dapeng sent someone to throw his body into the barren mountains and mountains to feed the wild dogs.

After repairing in Yongjia City for half a month, and when 10,000 people and thousands of carts of grain and grass and military supplies came, it took 30 carts of cloth to appease the people in the city.

broke Yongjia City and killed Qian Tiren. South of Xianxia Pass, wherever the Southern Navy went, it was to surrender to the wind, after all, the name of the Chen Jiajun was too big, and it was the elite who set out from Lingnan, where did the states and counties along the way dare to resist.

In order to prevent the officials of these prefectures and counties from having bad intentions, Li Xiaofei listened to Chen Jingyi's idea, transferred all of them to different places, and sent 300 people and 30 soldiers to assist in the defense, and left Zhou Dapeng as the recruitment manager to recruit new soldiers.

In this way, the grain route was ensured, and the 3,700 men on the front line had enough food, grass, and archers to attack the city all the way.

Zhou Dapeng is also worthy of being a person who has followed Chen Hongyi for many years, and in ten days, 30,000 soldiers were recruited, of course, 25,000 people were people, and only 5,000 people could barely go into battle.

However, Zhou Dapeng's most powerful thing is not to recruit soldiers to fool people, but to teach the locals to use bamboo as arrows, and in ten days, he made 30,000 arrows, enough for 500 bows

The hand volley was sixty times. The most important thing is that from the eleventh day onwards, nearly 6,000 arrows can be made every day.

Xianxia Pass has four gates, all of which are built in the pass of the dangerous rock cliff between the two mountains. Each one is easy to defend and difficult to attack, showing a trend of being a man and a man.

Xianxia Pass guard Sun Shengwu said that the Lingnan Chen family dared to attack the pass, and first threw down 10,000 lives.

Li Xiaofei and Zhou Dapeng took the diggers to explore the terrain in front of Xianxia Pass, and this place is indeed not easy to attack.

The enemy is condescending, and it will get twice the result with half the effort by throwing arrows and stones, while the southern navy besieging the city has to bend over and climb the mountain road and cannot raise its head.

"This is a Jedi, rashly attacked, I'm afraid 10,000 people can't defeat it!" Zhou Dapeng looked at the pass in the distance

"Xianxia Pass is not broken, how about a detour?" Li Xiaofei asked

"The detour is too far, not to mention that once our army avoids Xianxia Pass, the enemy army will come south through Xianxia Pass to recapture the city we occupy, and the gains will outweigh the losses at that time!"

"It seems that this Xianxia Pass must be taken!" Li Xiaofei pointed to the front pass

"No matter what, we have to find a way to take it!" Zhou Dapeng said very firmly

Gao Yongxin looked at the cliffs on both sides of the pass: "Unless someone flies to the top of the mountain on both sides, our army will not be able to attack!" But even if you are a good climber, you can't climb this cliff! ”

While he was talking, a few flying squirrels suddenly slipped over the cliff, and Li Xiaofei pointed "What is this?" ”

"Flying squirrel! That's what this thing loves! Gao Yongxin said

"It's a pity we can't fly! Otherwise, if you can fly to the top of the mountain, are you afraid that you won't be able to take this pass? Li Xiaofei sighed

"Well, the mountain can't be surrounded by cliffs on all sides, these two mountains must be able to go up! It's just that the peak is too far away from the pass, and the bow and crossbow will be useless by then! Zhou Dapeng looked at the mountain and felt that it was possible to go to the top of the mountain.

Gao Yongxin nodded: "I have a way!" Go back to camp first! ”

After the men returned to the camp, they decided to send half of the diggers and dead men to the top of the hill on both sides and set off fireworks on the top of the mountain.

Two days later, fireworks were lit on the top of the mountains on both sides of the pass, and the Wei army guarding the pass hurriedly reported to Sun Shengwu when they saw this.

Sun Shengwu looked at the top of the mountain and smiled, "What are you afraid of, it's hard for them to jump down!" They can't close it with stones or wood! Hundreds of feet high cliffs, what are you afraid of! Be careful to keep the front! ”

In front of the pass, Li Xiaofei led people to wave flags and shout drums every day, but they didn't get close! For ten days in a row, the Wei army was also accustomed to it, but the Southern Navy was afraid of the bows and crossbows on the closed and did not dare to approach.

In the past ten days, the remaining half of the diggers and the rest of the battalion soldiers took turns digging the earth to find the way, and they had dug a dark ditch and came to the gate.

The matter of digging a ditch has long been seen by the Wei army, and Sun Shengwu also sent people to dig a trench in front of the pass to block it, and also ridiculed Li Xiaofei and others for their incompetence.

On the tenth day, at night and three watches, the sound of killing was turned off and the sky was shaken, and several Kong Ming lanterns rose. Countless large rocks and fire cages were lifted from the top of the mountain, and the camp of the dead had already touched the pass.

It turned out that in the past ten days, hundreds of people on the top of the mountain had already tied knots, made five ropes hundreds of zhang long, and quietly lowered them from the top of the mountain in the night, and the dead soldiers followed the ropes from the top of the mountain to the pass.

Kong Ming's lantern was the signal of the attack, Li Xiaofei immediately led the whole army to attack and pounced, and under the combination of the inside and the outside, the Wei army was caught off guard, and Xianxia Pass fell into the hands of the Southern Navy.

The captured Sun Shengwu shouted dissatisfied, Zhou Dapeng untied him, and pointed to dozens of bloody corpses at the foot of Guannei Mountain, "Our army spared no life, and died nine times from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain by a rope, what else do you disagree?" If you can pull the rope down from the top of the mountain, we will exit Xianxia Pass immediately! ”

Sun Shengwu looked at the top of the mountain and the dozens of corpses that had fallen into a bloody blur, lowered his head, and said nothing.