Zhao Zhihai smiled bitterly in his heart, and sincerely felt that this Rong people led the troops were really powerful.

In order to avoid a decisive battle with his own army, he used Xiao Guan as a bargaining chip to bet on the victory or loss of this battle, no matter what the outcome was, Zhao Zhihai really admired the courage of the leader of the Rong people.

Before the two armies fought, they used Xiao Pass as bait. And this gamble is full of dangers, and no one can be 100% sure that the course of this war will develop in the way they have predesigned.

As far as war is concerned, it is not as simple as the word "bait" seems to be, it may be the lives of thousands of soldiers, or the best opportunity in more than 500 years has slipped through your fingers.

Zhao Zhihai felt that the commander of the Rong people dared to do this, at least he could guess that he must be a confident and somewhat conceited person.

And such a person may really be a genius who marches and fights, or a fool who is rigid and conceited, but he also expected that the latter was not very likely.

As soon as he came to Xiao Pass, he was stuck in his throat, knowing that there was a gap between the combat strength of the frontal and Qin soldiers, so he avoided a decisive battle and trapped the Qin army in a quagmire with only a strategy, how could this strategy be a fool's doing.

If over time, the Rong soldiers can also make up for the tactical shortcomings of the military formation like the Qin soldiers, then there will be no more soldiers in this world who can fight with them.

Zhao Zhihai, who had been thinking for a long time, nodded to Zhao Zhidong, obviously agreeing with what Wang Min said, but then said:

"The Rong people are afraid of a decisive battle with me, so I will force him to fight a decisive battle, if it is not at the last moment, the outcome of this is not yet known, now it depends on whether General Zhong can occupy Yinyan Valley."

After that, Zhao Zhihai's eyes also showed war intent. After so many years of hard work, he has encountered countless difficulties, but after every confrontation, it will always be himself who wins, which is why he has the status of the first person with a foreign surname under the monarch of Qin today.

Facing difficulties has always been Zhao Zhihai's character, and over the years, who has he been afraid of.

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Zhong Xu ordered 30,000 troops from the east gate of Xiao Pass to Yinyangou, and he gathered the cavalry of nearly 10,000 in the whole army and personally led the lead to Yinyangou.

Zhong Xu thought clearly, the day before yesterday, when the army marched into Xiaoguan and passed through Yinyangou, there was no trace of the Rong people, and yesterday when the army was camped between Xiaoguan and Yinyangou, they did not find that there was a Rong army behind them.

This shows that if the Rong people want to occupy Yinyan Gully, they can only do it last night or this morning, so he ordered the cavalry to rush to Yinyan Gully, hoping to seize some high ground as a foothold before the Rong people occupy all the high ground, and then slowly try to figure it out.

The journey of seventeen or eighteen miles was only a matter of less than an hour for the cavalry, and in a short time, Zhong Xu and his party could see the rolling hills in the distance.

The Yinyan Ditch is located in the middle of this hill, and the clear water connecting Xiaoguan and Yuanzhou flows through the Yinyan Valley, impacting the largest passage in this hill.

This hill connects the Qinlan Mountains and the Sumeru Mountains from north to south, while the Yinyan Valley connects the east-west passage for six miles. Because the rocks here are generally white, emitting silver light under the scorching sun, it is called Yinyan Gully.

Before the 10,000 cavalry arrived at the Yinyan Ditch gallop road, they did not rush into the ditch in a hurry, but under the command of Zhong Xu, the 5,000 cavalry immediately dismounted and ran to the high ground on both sides of the Yinyan Ditch.

Zhong Xu's purpose is very clear, if he enters the ditch at this time, he will enter the ambush of the Rong people with a high probability, and only by occupying all the highlands along both sides of the ditch can he open up the life passage between Xiaoguan and Yuanzhou.

Although these highlands are not very high, they are difficult because of the steep slopes, and if you ride a horse, you will lose your speed, and it is not as good as a horse to attack.

Zhong Xu personally ordered a song of the military marquis and ordered him to lead the 5,000 soldiers to take down the high ground on both sides of the ditch, and the military marquis did not talk nonsense, and without saying a word, he led the 5,000 soldiers to pick up the strong bow and run to the high ground on both sides.

The Qin soldiers on the high ground on both sides dispersed and climbed up densely.

This highland starts from the middle of the mountain, is a lush forest, Zhong Xu observed for a long time, and knew that if the Rong people hid, they would definitely be in the forest on the top of the mountain, so when he saw that his soldiers were about to reach the edge of the forest, he also held his huge hand tightly.

Sure enough, what worried Zhong Xu the most happened.

Suddenly, I saw a rain of arrows shooting out from the forest on the high ground on the left, and in an instant, the Qin soldiers who were climbing in the front were shot to the ground, and the rest of the soldiers saw this scene, and they squatted down and put Changge on the ground, took off the strong bow from their backs and shot back.

But the Rong people are condescending after all, because of the terrain, they can easily shoot the Qin soldiers, but the Qin soldiers are rarely able to shoot arrows into the forest.

The Qin soldiers on the right also saw the scene on the high ground on the left, so they subconsciously slowed down their pace and looked at the forest above vigilantly.

Seeing this, Zhong Xu hurriedly stomped his feet, he saw that the only way at this time was not afraid of casualties, and it was the best strategy to rush into the woods quickly, so that if he stopped and lost the speed of the attack, he could only be beaten passively.

Sure enough, arrows were shot again from the forest in the highlands on the left, and arrows were also shot from the forests in the highlands on the right.

This time it was not a salvo like the previous one, but a shot at the Qin soldiers who were squatting or crawling one by one, Zhong Xu watched his charging soldiers fall one after another like a knife, but he was helpless.

But at this time, the military marquis who was on the front line stood up, raised the waist knife in his hand and pushed away an arrow shot at him, and shouted a few times.

Although Zhong Xu couldn't hear the voice, he knew that after the marquis finished speaking, the soldiers on the front line seemed to understand what they were going to do, because he saw all the soldiers lifting Changge again, standing up, shouting and rushing towards the forest at full speed again.

The cold arrows that came out continued to harvest the lives of the Qin soldiers, but the Qin soldiers had the strictest continuous sitting laws in the four countries of the world, so no one thought of fleeing at this moment, and after leaving a mountain full of corpses, the Qin soldiers finally approached the forest.

The sound of horns sounded in the forest, and the rain of arrows gradually stopped. The Qin soldiers who rushed to the edge of the forest also knew in their hearts that the real battle was about to begin.

Sure enough, a soldier dressed in animal skins rushed out of the forest with a slab axe made of stone flakes and screaming, his loose hair blown by the oncoming wind.

If there is one, there is a second. In the blink of an eye, a black line appeared at the edge of the forest, and in less than a breath, this black line turned into a dense army of Rong soldiers, rushing towards the Qin soldiers who were coming up the slope.

Seeing that the high ground on the left and right sides had exchanged hands with the Rong people, Zhong Xu felt a little relieved in his heart, although from his point of view, the Rong soldiers already had a one-sided advantage, but he believed that under his leadership, no matter how strong the enemy was, it was impossible for him to defeat him.

He personally ordered 3,000 cavalry to dismount, and under his own leadership, attacked the slope of the hill where there were more Rong people on the left.

There were as many as 3,000 Rong guarding the hillside on the left, and they had an overwhelming advantage over the 2,500 Qin soldiers who attacked for the first time, and they were about to be defeated, but then the 3,000 Qin soldiers who attacked and the first batch of Qin soldiers who only had 1,000 people left converged and quickly reversed the situation under the leadership of their main general.

The Rong people can see clearly that the fundamental reason for the reversal of the situation is that they are like the main generals of the gods.

I saw that the long Ge in his hand was like flying, and every forward stab could cause the Rong people who fought with him to fall to the ground, and then the guards around the general went up to mend the knife and completely killed the Rong people who fell to the ground.

Seeing that the Lord would be so brave, the rest of the Qin soldiers were all demoralized, shouting and fighting with the Rong people.

On the right side of the hill fell into a bitter battle, because the slope here is steeper than the left side, so the Rong people only have 2,000 people to guard, but still rely on the terrain to kill the larger number of Qin soldiers can not raise their heads. As soon as the melee battle was fought, the Qin soldiers retreated as a whole.

As soon as the marquis of the leading troops saw that the situation was not good, he led more than 100 of his own soldiers to catch the attack of the Rong people, so that the battle situation would not deteriorate again.

A big battle was killed for nearly two hours, and when more than 20,000 Qin soldiers arrived here, they only saw the dead bodies all over the mountain, and the two captains who commanded the infantry saw that the main general was also killing the enemy on the mountain, so they didn't care about repairing it, and hurriedly commanded the army to kill on the mountain.

20,000 horses slaughtered on the high ground, which made the Rong people who were still fighting to the death couldn't help but be afraid, and before the Qin soldiers climbed halfway up the mountain, they threw down the corpses and wounded soldiers, turned around and ran into the depths of the forest.

On a higher mountain in the distance, in front of a thousand soldiers dressed in black of the Qin army, a white-faced scribe in his thirties and medium height was waving a feather fan in his hand, looking at the scattered soldiers in the distance, he couldn't help but laugh.

"Haha, good, the soldiers of the Zhezhe tribe are indeed brave, 5,000 people resisted 10,000 people for nearly two hours, killing several times the enemy army, not bad, not bad."

When a rough man behind the scribe heard this, he laughed out loud, and said: "Thank you Da Shan Yu, this is the result of Shan Yu's training for the sons and daughters in the past few years. ”

After speaking, Zhezhe glanced at the other two Rong people who cast envious eyes around him, looking arrogant.

The two also looked quite unconvinced.

After listening to Zhe Zhe's words, the scribe known as Shan Yu said: "Don't be busy and proud, if you can decisively attack the whole army when the Qin soldiers in the first round of arrows are caught off guard, I think you won't be able to wipe them out without their turn to come up at all."

Secondly, there is a brave man on both sides of the hillside, and my Qin people have a saying that if you capture the thief and capture the king first, if you shoot those two first, the result may be better. ”

Originally, Zhezhe listened to what the scribe said, and looked like he was being taught, but when he heard that he wanted to shoot the brave and abnormal leader first, his face immediately became disdainful.

The scribe didn't blame, he just smiled.

He knew that the Rong people respected the warriors the most, and they would not say anything to the warriors they thought they would do.

The conversation between the two of them was in Rong language, and the few Qin-looking generals on the scribe's side did not understand what the two of them were saying.

But what the scribe said next made them understand it very well.

"This time I miscalculated, I underestimated Zhao Zhihai a little, he noticed it before his pockets were tightened, it seems that he is indeed the same as rumored, calm and resourceful, decisive in killing, and can put down his body, have the courage to doubt himself, not cowardly, if this time it is Fang Yuanheng's stubborn and self-righteous left greater person to lead the troops, then Xiao Guan is his place of death. And Zhao Zhihai is indeed a little troublesome. ”

Hearing this, several Qin generals around him trembled at the same time, and the two people who just said Shan Yu were not the ones who made the world shake by stomping their feet, but in Shan Yu's mouth, one was stubborn and self-serving, and the other was just a little troublesome.

This made the Qin people in the eyes of the generals here more and more mysterious and tall.

If Lihua is here at this moment, he will definitely find that these generals of the Qin people are almost familiar with them.

Lu Chang, Han Yun, Jiang Hong, Han Linhui, and Qin Danyu Xiao Jinxing, who once claimed to be the envoy of the Xia State.