The closed gate trembled under the impact of the siege cone, and with a loud bang, the gate of Tianwei Pass was finally slammed open. Then, countless Great Song armor soldiers raised their weapons and poured directly into the pass.

The Song-shaped banner that was planted at the head of the city officially announced that this Xiongguan, which was the northern gateway of Qidu Tianlan, had been occupied by the Great Song Dynasty at this time.

The Song soldiers above and below the city cheered together, even those Yanyun Iron Cavalry, who had always been silent.

Lu Bo in the crowd looked at this scene with mixed feelings in his heart.

A few hours ago, he was still the general of Qi State, but at this moment, he was standing here watching the Song army celebrate the victory of Tianwei Pass.

Lu Bo turned his head, and behind him was nearly 20,000 Qi troops. Like him, this group of Qi soldiers was out of step with the surrounding Song army. In such a situation, they seem to be a little helpless.

The 20,000 troops did not take the lead in attacking the fortifications as agreed, and in the previous battles, they only did some work to carry equipment.

Lu Bo raised his head, and then he saw the white-robed general in front of him who was riding on a white horse and waving to the armor soldiers around him from time to time.

The reason why things have become like this is because of the man in front of him.

……

Lu Bo fought with all his strength but still lost, and there were no regrets left in his heart. He stood still, waiting for the flying silver spear to take his life.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but the general's order ended up in the land in front of Lu Bo.

Just as Lu Bo was puzzled, Guo Yu's voice suddenly sounded.

"Leave a bunch of troubles, wipe your neck and wipe it all away." Guo Yu came to him and pulled the silver spear out of the land, "Where in the world is there such a beautiful thing." ”

"What do you mean?"

"It means that since you brought these 20,000 Qi troops over, you naturally have to take responsibility for managing them."

Guo Yu took his general's order and left.

"Don't think about repaying your kindness with death, is it really rare to think that your own life? If you have that strength, it's better to help Lao Tzu restrain your subordinates, tsk, there are more than 20,000 troops at once, and I feel a headache when I think about it. ”

As soon as Guo Yu left, the group of Qi soldiers behind him rushed up and surrounded Lu Bo. Although they didn't hear the conversation between Guo Yu and Lu Bo, the process of the two fighting was thrilling enough.

When the Qi State turned its back on them, it was Lu Bo who stood up and spoke up for them. After that, General Yingyang, who was known as a gentleman, did not hesitate to surrender to the Northern Song Dynasty with infamy, just to let them live.

The human heart is made of flesh, and how can they not be moved by Lu Bo? At that moment, a group of seven-foot men surrounded Lu Bo and asked questions, for fear that he would be injured in something.

Guo Yu's words and the actions of the sergeants around him suddenly made Lu Bo confused, he was thinking that he would die under this Tianwei Pass after a battle, but now if he raised his sword to kill himself, it seemed to be some...

Looking at the sincere faces in front of him, Lu Bo was silent for a long time.

That's it.

After Lu Bo led these soldiers to the Song army's formation, the Song army on the battlefield also gathered one after another, and countless siege equipment were carried over.

But to his surprise, the surrender he proposed was directly rejected by Guo Yu, and the reason was that Song Jun felt that this group of surrendered troops was unreliable and would drag them back.

"You lead them to move the ladder and push the siege cone."

Guo Yu grinned: "You don't need to get involved in the war." ”

Hearing Guo Yu say this, Lu Boden was a little anxious.

"General Guo, don't you want to regret it? I can guarantee that these 20,000 people will never defect, if General Guo doesn't believe it, when he tackles the key problems later..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Guo Yu shaking his head and said, "No, no, I didn't regret it, didn't I say it, let them help move the ladder." ”

"Then General Guo, what do you mean... Willing to accept 20,000 surrendered troops, don't you need them to be the vanguard? ”

Guo Yu nodded.

Lu Bo's expression suddenly became extremely strange.

Before, Guo Yu said that the number of troops surrendered was too much, the risk was too great, and he was responsible for the Song army, but now he has overthrown all of them all at once.

Isn't this a slap in the face?

Before Lu Bo could continue to say anything, he saw Guo Yu waving his hand at him impatiently, "Anyway, that's it, if you have nothing to do, go and let your subordinates prepare." ”

Then, as Guo Yu said, the Song army began to tackle the key problems, and Lu Bo led his subordinates to deal with the Great Song Jiashi on the side.

The Qi army in the pass suffered a big defeat, and it had already become a frightened bird, where could it resist the morale of the Song army? In addition, halfway through the battle, Che Tian took the lead in abandoning the pass with his cronies and fled, and the Qi army on the Tianwei Pass scattered as birds and beasts, and the Song army easily captured the Tianwei Pass.

……

After a brief celebration, the Song army moved again.

Clean up the battlefield, clean up the remnants of the Qi army in Tianwei Pass, and set up a large camp... There are things waiting for them to do, and Guo Yu, as the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army, naturally wants to be lazy.

By noon, the corpses and bloodstains in the pass had been cleaned up by the Song army's armor soldiers, and countless military tents had also been erected. In the central tent, Guo Yu was listening to Li Qipeng's report.

"General, more than 40,000 beheaded and captured in this battle... 20,000 were surrendered, while our casualties were about 8,000. ”

"Most of the Qi troops in Tianwei Pass fled to Tianlan, and the number should be about 20,000, and some of the defeated troops fled north."

Seeing Guo Yu nodded, Li Qipeng hesitated for a while, and finally asked: "Dare to ask General Guo, what do you plan to do with the 20,000 troops in the Guannei?" ”

"Included in the Song Army." Guo Yu stood up from his seat: "I know what you think, you are worried that with the current number of our army, you will not be able to suppress this surrendered army, but..."

Guo Yu smiled bitterly: "After this battle, our army is less than 30,000, and if you count the disabled armor soldiers, there will be 25,000 usable soldiers left when the battle is full." ”

"I joined the army and thought that with these people, I would be able to capture the first city in the world?"

Li Qipeng was stunned and did not answer.

The obvious answer is no.

Guo Yu was not carried away by this big victory, on the contrary, he was very calm.

Tianwei Pass was able to win the first battle, naturally because Chen Jianzhao killed Yang Zhiyong in a surprise attack on a single horse. But if there is no Yanyun Iron Cavalry, most of the Qi army will be involved. Even if Chen Jianzhao is a grandmaster, it is difficult to do this.

Without the Yanyun Iron Cavalry, the Song army is likely to not last long before being defeated by the Qi army, so even if Chen Jianzhao succeeds in the battle, it will still be the Great Song Dynasty that will lose.

After that, it was also because Che Tian abandoned the pass and fled first, and the Qi army in the pass lost all their fighting spirit, which made the Song army almost effortless to capture Tianwei Pass.

But Tianlan is different, Tianlan is the royal capital of Qi, and the Qi army will inevitably fight to the death, and even Che Tian is estimated to be unable to flee again.

Moreover, Tianlan City's high pool is deep and easy to defend and difficult to attack, coupled with the difficulty of the Yanyun Iron Cavalry in the siege battle, it is difficult to conquer Tianlan with just 20,000 Song troops.

In fact, for hundreds of years, since Tianlan was built, it has never been conquered from the outside, and several times it has been lost and opened from the inside like the previous Northern Wei Dynasty.

"With 20,000 people here, it can somewhat alleviate some of the embarrassment of our army, even if they can't fight the Qi army head-on, but it's good to help move something like today."

Guo Yu rubbed his eyebrows and continued: "Moreover, if you do that, the Qi army in the city will know that our army will not kill them all, and the resistance will not be so resolute at that time. ”

"In order to take Tianlan, it is worth taking some risks, and with Lu Bo here, they won't have any trouble in the future."

Guo Yu was indeed the same as Li Qipeng's idea at first, but when Lu Bo proposed to attack the fortified position by surrendering the army, he couldn't help but think of Tianlan City, which was about to be attacked in the future.

It is precisely because of this that Guo Yu took the initiative to cancel Lu Bo's plan.

He did this to appease this group of uneasy surrendering troops. Similarly, Guo Yu's refusal to kill Lu Bo was also for this matter.

As long as Lu Bo led them, this group of surrendered troops would naturally not move. And with Lu Bo's temperament, it is almost impossible for him to rebel again after surrendering to the Song army.