At the end of the ancient high clouds, the autumn wind blew away the sound of horses' hooves.

The rivers and wilderness are still tied, and the mountains are not unresolved when they enter the Tongguan.

Tongguan is located in the eastern part of the Guanzhong Plain, and is located in the key places of Qin, Jin and Henan provinces.

The situation of Tongguan is very dangerous, there are Qinling Mountains in the south, the remaining veins of Huashan, there is the forbidden valley in the southeast, and there are 12 cities in the south of the valley; There are Wei and Luo Erchuan in the north, and the Yellow River hugs down, and the west is near Huayue. The surrounding mountains are even mountains, peaks are even peaks, the valleys are deep and the precipices are exclusive, the mountains are high and the roads are narrow, and there is a narrow official road in the middle, and only one car and one horse can be allowed to go back and forth. Tongguan is halfway up the mountain. In the Han Dynasty, a pass was built here according to the mountain-shaped mountain situation, and the Central Plains to the Guanzhong Plain was divided into two sections.

As the vanguard of the Central Plains coalition army, Meng Haigong, the king of Caozhou Songyi, led 50,000 Caozhou soldiers on this day and finally came to the place of 5 miles away from Tongguan City after a hard trek.

"Mr. Bai, my army has gone through hardships and dangers all the way to here, so let's camp here today and rest, and think about it tomorrow before going to the customs?" Meng Haigong saw Tongguan in his eyes, and secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, so he wanted to wait for Wang Shichong's army to arrive and make a statement.

"Your Majesty, the lower officials have this intention. Tongguan is dangerous, it is not something that my Caozhou family can take, so I will rest here and wait for the kings to discuss. Bai Shun, a middle-aged man who looked like a scholar, had already seen Meng Haigong's thoughts, so he said as he pleased.

"Lord, it's still early before dark, why don't you let the last general go to the pass to fight, and it's not too late to rest in the village." Marshal Shang Yiming said with a knife. This Shang Yiming was originally Meng Haigong's wife's uncle, and was appreciated by Meng Haigong because of his extraordinary martial arts, and he was the chief general of the army.

"The three armies are tired from afar today, and it is not too late to fight again tomorrow, so they will set up camp in place." Meng Haigong did not agree to Shang Yiming's request, but only commanded sharply.

When Shang Yiming saw this, he had to turn his horse's head and command the army to set up camp, and did not mention the war.

On the wall of Tongguan, the invading soldiers stopped for miles away. Yang Lin couldn't help laughing and said: "It's still early in the day, and I don't dare to go to the front of the pass to fight, which shows that these anti-king vanguards are really mediocre." ”

"Lord Wang, it is found that this anti-king vanguard is Meng Haigong, the king of Song Yi in Caozhou, and it is rumored that he has a man and a woman and two generals who are quite capable, and the man does not need to say, only this female general is named Ma Saifei, who is the wife of Meng Haigong, the king of Song Yi, and often accompanies him to go on expeditions everywhere, so that 24 willow leaf flying knives never go empty." Master Shang beside him whispered to Yang Lin.

"But every female general will be weird when she fights, and you two must be careful in tomorrow's battle."

When Xin Wenli heard this, he couldn't help but pout, obviously not taking the female general in his eyes at all.

Before midnight on the second day, the Caozhou army had already called for battle under the pass. Yang Lin took the master and apprentice and the second general of Xin Wenli to go to the city to look down the mountain, only to see about 10,000 horses and horses set up at the bottom of the mountain, and a general in front of the formation with a big sword in hand was commanding the sergeant of the army formation to shout insults at the top of the wall, fortunately, the distance was far, and the three people on the wall could not hear what they were shouting. But everyone can guess that this shout must be the meaning of the guard on the fierce pass.

"Lord Wang, seeing that there are no more than 10,000 rebels under the mountain, it seems that they want to attack the city. It is better to let the last general go out of the customs to fight with him, and first destroy the prestige of the Caozhou army. Xin Wenli had a hot temper, and when he saw that the enemy troops under the gate were shouting at the top of their throats, he knew that it was an insulting word, so he wanted to ask for his life to fight.

"Hmmm! It's good. The new general can bring 3,000 men to meet him for a while, and the king himself will cheer you on. Yang Lin said. He knows what Xin Wenli is capable of, and the average enemy general is not an opponent at all.

"Order." Xin Wenli shouted excitedly and hurriedly turned around and went down to the city.

A moment later, the door was wide open, and Xin Wenli poured out of the city with 3,000 cavalry and ran directly down the mountain.

Today's general of the Caozhou army is Marshal Shang Yiming. Originally, Meng Haigong and Bai Shun did not agree to unilaterally send troops to provoke the guards of Tongguan, but Shang Yiming relied on his good martial arts and wanted to offer the first merit of beheading the generals before the arrival of the anti-kings, so he wanted to fight. Seeing that he was reasonable, Meng Haigong allocated 10,000 infantry troops to him and asked him to take them to the Guanxia Fierce Guards to fight.

Seeing that it was as he thought, under the scolding of his own ten thousand people, he closed the door and opened it, and he was killed in the future, and he was a hundred steps away from him. Shang Yiming raised his knife and shouted: "A certain is Shang Yiming, the general of Caozhou, who is coming?" Fight again. ”

"Huh! A certain is your grandfather, the backer of the king of the mountain under the general's new Wenli is also, have you ever heard of the eight horses? Xin Wenli made an iron square lance, weighing two hundred catties, sat on a Western Regions BMW Golden-eyed Beast, came to a place 50 steps away from Shang Yiming and stopped, shouting.

"You are only famous in Kansai, but you are a hero of the Central Plains, let the horse come over to fight." After saying that, Shang Yiming shook the reins, urged the horse out and went straight to Xinwenli.

"Okay, I'll let you taste grandpa's iron lance." Calling out, urging the war horse to dance and go straight to Shang Yiming.

Shang Mingyi saw that the two horses were approaching, and raised his knife to slash. Xin Wenli's face was fearless, and he raised the iron lance and knocked on the big knife that was chopped. In an instant, Shang Yiming's cut knife was knocked to the side, Shang Yiming endured the pain in the tiger's mouth of his right hand holding the knife, and turned around and slashed horizontally. Xin Wenli raised his lance to meet the blade and blocked, only to hear a loud sound of "bell", and Xin Wenli's iron lance blocked Shang Yiming's big knife again. Shang Yiming's knife-wielding hands had already cracked open, and blood flowed out.

Shang Yiming knew that it was not good, the opponent not only had more arm strength, but also the weapons in his hands were also extremely heavy, his big knife could not cut the other party at all, and now he was cracking his tiger's mouth and bleeding, if he continued to fight, he would definitely not be able to get benefits. Thinking of this, taking advantage of the intersection of the two horses, Shang Yiming slashed with a knife, and when Xin Wenli dodged, he hurriedly returned to his horse and ran into the formation.

When Xin Wen Lilerma looked back again, he saw that Shang Yiming didn't dare to fight again, and just ran back into the formation, and the evil spirit in his heart had no source. He was slashed three times in succession, and before he could fight back, the other party's general admitted that he had fled, so he chased after him.

"Uncle, don't panic, let the slave family come to fight him." I saw that the Caozhou army was separated, and a female future was killed, facing Shang Yiming, taking back to the formation, and waving a double sword to fight Xinwenli.

Xin Wenli suddenly saw that the enemy formation was loose, and he was not surprised, and his horse slowed down. But I saw a female general rushing out of the battle, only to see that this female general was wearing a golden phoenix crown, wearing a red embroidered dragon robe, covered with gold armor, sitting on a peach blossom horse, holding a pair of Xiuluan knives in her hand, and a vermilion bamboo tube tied on her shoulder, and twenty-four magic knives hidden in the tube. Xin Wenli smiled bitterly in his heart when he saw it, and stopped his horse and waited for the female general to come.

"Who are you, this girl? Dare to come to the front of the battle to fight! Seeing it closely, Xin Wenli hurriedly shouted.

"This girl is Ma Saifei, the wife of King Song Yi, and she has come to take your life and watch the knife!" In an instant, the two horses got closer, and Ma Saifei slashed at Xin Wenli with a knife.

When Xin Wenli saw her knife coming, she didn't care, and only gently flicked the iron lance in her hand outward, and easily pushed the female general's single knife away. Seeing that the other party did not exert his strength, Marseille Fei dissolved the knife with all his strength, knowing that he could not win with his blade, so when he underestimated himself, he slashed out again. Xin Wenli was amused in her heart, so she should play with her, and easily blocked the knife with a lever. The two horses staggered in an instant, opening up a distance of more than ten steps. Xin Wenli hurriedly turned the horse's head to look, only to see that the female general did not return to the horse, but directly reached out and pulled out a willow leaf flying knife from the bamboo tube on her shoulder, and waved her hand back. Xin Wenli saw a white light rushing straight to his chest, and was immediately startled, and it was too late to swing the lance to fight, so he hurriedly shook his body to dodge, but he was still a little late, and saw that the flying knife had pierced into his left shoulder socket, leaving only a wisp of red knife fluttering in his chest.

Although the injury was not serious, but Xin Wenli's left arm could no longer swing the iron lance, so he had to rush forward before the other party released the second flying knife, and stabbed the female general with the lance in one hand. When Marseille saw the lance coming, he didn't have time to raise his knife to block it, so he had to hide in a stirrup to the left to avoid the lance stabbed by Xin Wenli. When he sat down in Ma'anshan to watch the new Wenli again, the new Wenli had already run back to the main formation with a wounded saddle, and the 3,000 cavalry of the formation saw that the main general was injured, and they turned around and closed the door without stopping for a moment, and the cavalry behind the palace were holding crossbow arrows and shooting backwards to prevent the enemy from pursuing.

Seeing that Xin Wenli had gone up the mountain to return to the pass under the protection of the guards, Ma Saifei wanted to take advantage of the situation to rush to the pass, but the crossbow arrows fired by the Tongguan cavalry were too dense, so he dispelled the idea of pursuing and turned his horse back to the battle.

Seeing that the opponent was defeated and returned, Cao Zhoubing began to scold more sharply. Fortunately, it was far away, and Yang Lin couldn't hear it clearly, but he saw Xin Wenli returning with a knife.

"Lord Wang, this Meng Haigong's woman is really powerful, a flying knife is fast and urgent, and the general didn't have time to dodge, and he was stabbed by her." Xin Wenli came to Guancheng, and as he spoke, he showed Yang Lin the red spike willow leaf flying knife he had pulled out.

"Humph! It's all because you were too careless to bear to hit her with a lance, and gave her a chance to take out the knife, but she suffered from it. Yang Lin took the flying knife, looked at it and said coldly.

"New general, are you seriously injured? Seek medical treatment from the military. Master Shang looked at it and said anxiously.

"It's just a minor injury, although this woman's reflexive throwing knife is accurate, but the strength is insufficient, only an inch into the flesh, and now the bleeding has stopped, just go back and apply some gold sore medicine, nothing serious." Xin Wenli said disapprovingly.

"Go down and rest! This king expects that he Meng Haigong will not dare to attack my Tongguan without authorization. Yang Lin looked at the Cao Zhou soldiers who were gradually withdrawing under the mountain and said.

After all the Caozhou soldiers under the mountain collected their troops and returned to the camp, Monk Yang Lin and his apprentices also walked down the wall and returned to the Shuaifu.

Caozhou Big Tent.

Meng Haigong was happy when he saw the victory in the first battle, and praised his beloved wife's ability again and again. What made Meng Haigong even more proud was that the news of the victory in the first battle had already been known to Wang Shichong and other anti-kings who came to gather troops in the future, which made his face very bright. My position as a pioneer is also complete.

After eight consecutive days of rapid marching in the mountains, Li Jing led 100,000 horses out of the Zhongtiao Mountain Trail and came to the mountains north of Pinglu City, a small county by the Yellow River.

"Command to go down, the whole army lie in the mountains and do not make fires, and do not make loud noises." Li Jing climbed a hillside and looked at Pinglu County, only to see that Pinglu City was built along the river, saying that it was a city, rather than a water wharf. There are a few small boats floating on the wide river, and the whole county is unusually quiet, like a paradise.

"General, there is a small road leading to the city from here, all the way to the dock, and the villain caravan can enter the city to see the reality." A Zheng family caravan shopkeeper stepped forward and said.

"The shopkeeper can take advantage of the fact that it is not too late, go into the city to have a look, don't disturb the people in the city, and beware of the Luoyang spies in the city." Li Jing advised, for fear that his whereabouts would be exposed at this last moment, so that the Luoyang army on the other side would be on guard.

"General Li, don't be too cautious, there was originally my caravan post station in Pinglu City, and there was also a long-term garrison of the Military Intelligence Department, which was originally the boundary of my Hedong County, where are the spies from elsewhere? Besides, even the county town of Shaanxi on the other side is under the jurisdiction of our Hedong, although there are no soldiers and horses stationed in Hedong, but there are no people and horses from elsewhere. The general can rest assured that he will wait here, and he will let the Pinglu County Commander come to meet the general tonight. The shopkeeper of the Zheng family's caravan said lightly.

"So much for the best! I guess I'll be waiting here for a few nights. It would be best if you could find out the news of the rebels on the other side. ”

"Don't worry, the general can go back as soon as he goes, and he will definitely be able to find out the news on the other side." After that, he smiled and left under the gaze of everyone, feeling like going back to his own home.

Seeing that the shopkeeper of the caravan king had gone, he couldn't see anything wrong, so he had to wait for the shopkeeper to bring back the news. He ordered people to stay here and wait, and he turned around and returned to his military tent in the mountains, in which the old general Han captured the tiger had been waiting for a long time, and was roasting his clothes wet with mountain dew on the charcoal fire in the tent.

"Huh! I finally didn't throw this old bone in the mountains. Unexpectedly, a hidden trade road was created in this dangerous mountain, although it was rugged and narrow, but it was quite smooth. Han Baohu couldn't help but smile when he saw Li Jing picking up the curtain to enter the account. There was not the slightest thought of stopping to bake laundry.

"Yes! This trail was built when the lord first arrived in Luzhou, there are many post stations along the way, this trail is not my Luzhou Zheng family caravan is not in, it is very secret. ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin really has a heart, if he crosses the river from here to attack the old Hangu Pass, he will definitely be able to surround the rebels and horses, and if he goes to fight, he only needs to be trapped for a month, and the rebels will starve to death, hehe! What a belligerent strategy! It's just that, as far as the old man knows, the old Hangu Pass has long been abandoned, and the walls have collapsed, how can I hold the hundreds of thousands of rebels who broke through with all their strength with my 100,000 horses? Han Baohu raised his eyes and looked at Li Jingdao.

"The old general is right, the last general also knows that the wall there is dilapidated and has long been deserted. However, after occupying this place, he gained a great geographical advantage, and if he built an earthen wall more than a foot high in a short time at a critical place, the last general would have a way to hold the mouth of Hangu Pass and block the return route of the rebels. ”

"Hmmm! Reasonable. However, it is far from enough to rely on a single earthen city, and when the Hanguguan Gorge is used to set up a few more earthen cities and build layers of defensive positions, so as to gradually destroy the morale of the rebels. Relying on the defense of an earthen city alone, the corpses of the rebels alone can spread over the wall, so how can it be defended? Han Baohu said unhurriedly.

"Thank you to the old general for mentioning, it is time to take advantage of the geographical advantage to set up more earthen cities and defend them step by step, so as to demolish the morale of the rebels and trap the rebels." Li Jing was reminded by Han Baohu and suddenly realized, and then he was a little afraid in his heart, as Han Baohu said, a soil city, even if it is ten zhang high, if the rebels fight for their lives, the real corpses will be piled up Lao Gao, if the earth city is lost, how can his 100,000 people not be able to resist the hundreds of thousands of rebels who are dying.