With his feet on the cold ground, Zhang Hu felt that his trouser legs were wet with dew, and his boots were filled with water.

More than 300 people around him sneaked lightly, each leading a hound, and walked in front and back.

In the rear, lightly armed chariots move slowly, with oxen pulling chariots in relatively flat soft mud, heavily armored sergeants driving oxen carts, lightly armed infantry leading oxen, and heavily armored sergeants holding torches on their carts.

The knight rode on a horse to accompany the chariot on the left and right sides, each leading the charging horse.

This is a mixed army of about 4,000 people in the chariot and cavalry, Zhang Hu is exploring the road in the front, and his brother Zhang Xiong is supervising the main force of chariots and cavalry in the rear.

The climatic effects of heavy rain and dense fog mean that it is difficult for Beifu soldiers to ...... It was almost impossible to capture the city.

As long as Shangluojian City stands there, the Beifu soldiers will lack a base for advancement, and there will be no palace army, strongholds, or positions to block when retreating.

In other words, the Beifu soldiers will attack Lantian Pass, and they will continue to divide their troops to besiege Shangluo, and the transfer of materials in Beifu will become more difficult.

Therefore, it is very necessary to strengthen the garrison of Lantian Pass, and there is no need for tens of thousands of people, but three or four thousand people are enough.

"It's a tiger roar again!"

Zhang Hu crouched at the bend of the ravine, where the steep mountains on both sides exposed large rock walls, as if a pair of stone gates stood between the ravines.

During the decisive battle in the Central Plains, Tian Xin took the tigers out of front of the battle, which greatly interfered with the morale of the Wei army.

Twenty tigers will never be able to kill fifty armorers, and when the armies are strangled together, more than 100 tigers can also be hacked to death if they participate.

Therefore, the lethality of tigers is limited, but the deterrent power is too strong, and the fear of tigers is rooted in everyone's heart.

Now the two fierce tigers raised by Tian Xin are nearly two feet long at the head and tail, and they often haunt the mountains, giving great pressure to the defenders of the Wei army's strongholds.

Especially when orders are passed at night...... The three or five cavalry is not safe, and it is necessary to increase the scale, which increases the cost of the Wei army's military order transmission.

However, the roars of the two tigers triggered a response from the tigers, leopards and wolves in Nanshan, and the demonstrators roared one after another, declaring their respective territories.

So that the hounds around Zhang Hu barked one after another, couldn't stop drinking, and were manic, as if they were also declaring their own strength, the dogs barked intensively, and they became louder and louder, until the roars of the beasts everywhere subsided, and this huge group of hunting dogs stopped barking, as if they had won.

Separated by more than 20 mountains, the guards of Lantian Pass did not hear the dense barking of dogs, nor did the guards of Beifu who were walking in the opposite direction.

Tian Xin led the lightly armed guards in front, behind were knights leading horses, and then behind were carts pulled by oxen, armor and combat equipment were mostly placed on the carts, and the infantry marched around the carts, and if the wheels fell into the mud pits, these infantry would push the carts and spread the bundles of grass they carried on the muddy ground.

The forward torches composed of the guards were sparse, and the main forces of the Huya Army and the Eagle Yang Army following in the rear were lined with torches, and the fog obscured the fire, looking like a fire dragon from the nearest peak.

"Wang! Woohoo! ”

On the periphery of the Wei army's stronghold on Anshan Plateau, suddenly the hound barked wildly, and the night officials immediately woke up and hoped to each other: "Is it a tiger?" The tiger is coming? ”

"It should be a tiger...... Let's beat the drums! ”

A Dubo said bitterly, whether the tiger was staying or for other reasons, now the barking of the dog was abnormal, and the whole army must be warned.

The presence of those two huge tigers in the vicinity put a lot of pressure on the Wei troops in various strongholds.

Ansan Plateau, as the name suggests, is a high-lying highland with relatively gentle terrain, and is the largest Wei stronghold on the periphery of Lantian Pass.

The terrain is high, can be planted, but also to prevent bandits, beasts, in the early years there is an Ansan Pavilion, so there is always a population here to gather and live.

The sound of the Wei army's drums sounded, five or six miles away, and Tian Xin could not hear the drums, let alone the other forward officials.

The Wei army at Ansan Plateau soon stopped beating drums again...... Some can't do it, and there are too many reasons for the hound to be vigilant and bark.

In addition to the two tigers, there are other mountain beasts that will also trigger the hound to bark when they get close; Even some unspeakable beings will make the hound bark when they get close, and various rumors will also cause the hound to panic and be surprised.

An hour later, Tian Xin led the vanguard light troops to push away the antlers and fences, and smoothly passed through the stronghold of Ansan Plateau from under the ravine, handing over this stronghold to the main force in the rear to deal with.

Just surround ...... Judging by the information that there is no spring water in Ansanyuan, the Wei army here can easily surrender.

Anshan Plateau is the largest Wei army stronghold south of Lantian Pass, with more than 500 soldiers; Except for this stronghold, the other strongholds are all outpost strongholds that are mainly guarded and delayed.

The sky grew brighter, and after five noticeable turns, the striker finally met a river flowing northward.

The torrent of the river has receded, and the river beach is relatively open, free of silt, and full of sand and gravel, which is conducive to walking.

Walking along the river for nearly ten miles, the fog had not yet subsided, Du Yi, who was familiar with Wuguan Road, suddenly stopped, took out the map and looked at it, and then looked at the wide river in front of him that turned to the northeast, and endured the excitement, tears flowed down from his frozen face: "Gongshang, Beichuan, this is the mouth of the three rivers in Beichuan!" ”

He raised his arm and pointed to the north-east direction where the river was flowing: "If you go more than ten miles, you will be at the mouth of the gorge, Heilong Gorge." This is a dead end, not suitable for large armies...... Now cross the river, Lantian Pass is twenty-five miles away! ”

Tian Xin took out the compass, held it flat in his hand, lowered his head and stared at the magnetic needle pointing north and south, and the corners of his mouth curled: "It's good that you're not wrong!" ”

There are too many ravines in Nanshan, and valley passages and river valley passages are staggered, forming countless three-way passes.

Du Yi also has a compass, he crouched on the ground and spread the map on a shield, also put the compass on one side, and slid his index finger back and forth on the map to make a gesture: "Gongshang, after crossing the river, eat, slow down, and then walk for fifteen miles, and rest at the Red Stone Gate." The red stone gate is only eight miles away from Lantian Pass, and the sharp soldiers are in a hurry, but they can go down in one go! ”

Tian Xin and the surrounding military officials also came up to look at the map, and if Tian Xin did not object, these military officials would pass the order to the grassroots level by level.

In this way, after crossing the river, the sergeant will be able to remove the wooden pieces and eat them as he walks to replenish his physical strength.

Du Yi was excited, and the water of the Beichuan River naturally flowed northward and flowed into the Chanshui...... This is the water of my hometown!

His voice trembled: "After Lantian Pass, there are also Lanxi Pavilion and Lanqiao Ju, although there are Wei soldiers in these two places, but the steepness is far less than Lantian Pass, how can you stop my soldiers!" ”

Seeing Tian Xin's observation map, Du Yi nodded at the Bashui place in the north of Lantian County: "Gongshang, where this Bashui Guandu is, if our army successfully enters and occupies Lantian, we must send scouts and cavalry to reconnoiter the ferry." The ministers were afraid that the Wu thieves would flee and sent people to burn the ferry boats. ”

No one can say where the war will go, and now it is only a matter of preventing what might happen in one of them.

Tian Xin bowed slightly, looked up at the mist-obscured sun, still couldn't see the outline of the sun, and could vaguely detect the general direction of the halo.

He lowered his head and looked at Beichuan flowing northward in front of him, and turned his head to look at Du Yi: "Zi Teng, after you have to close the middle, Zi Teng can be the Marquis of Beichuan!" ”

Without hesitation, Tian Xin immediately began to take off the silk armor on his body, his body was smooth, and all the armor, equipment, and military rations were packed into waterproof bags, which were coarse silk stitched and coated with a layer of paint, and the texture was tough and hard, but it was not resistant to folding, and if he folded it a few more times, the creases would seep water.

The waterproof bag is loaded on the shield, Tian Xin slowly goes into the water, the shield is on his head, and the officials behind him are also like this, and those who are good swimmers put the shield on their heads, or put the shield on the water surface and drag and push forward.

The water of the Beichuan River is waist-deep, and you can imagine how turbulent the water formed by the confluence will be.

The two tigers took the lead in swimming across, and when Tian Xin was still in the middle of the river, the tiger had shaken off the water droplets on his body, standing on the bank and looking back at the dense muscular men in the river.