The next day, at dawn

Western Zhou Daying

The north wind was howling, blowing the flags outside the gate, and when Xue Yang came out of the tent in armor, he was immediately poured a breath of wind.

"Ahem......"

Xue Yang, who was a little choked by the wind, coughed twice, looking at the constantly whistling wind, his face was a little unhappy.

As a battle-hardened general, he almost instinctively felt from today's wind upwards that it would increase and disadvantage the two warring armies.

There is no doubt that it is not difficult to see from General Xue's face that today's wind is towards the Jin army.

If the Zhou army wants to attack the city today, it must not only charge against the wind, but also accept the sharp arrows shot by the Jin army on the city wall.

"Damn, that's a bad deal."

Xue Yang, who was a little superstitious, thought that this was not a good warning for the Zhou army, and it was very likely that today's siege would still be in vain.

Looking at the banner of the word "Xue" in the camp that was blown out proudly by the strong wind, Xue Yang suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

However, General Xue was a battlefield general after all, and he quickly suppressed the throbbing in his heart, but shook his head and smiled.

That Yan Kui was blocked by him and attacked for half a month, although he kept the city, but he also suffered heavy losses, and he could only be trapped, and he had no power to fight back.

Coupled with the fact that the wall of Naxiao Pass was broken again yesterday, the situation was greatly favorable to the Zhou army here, Xue Yang really couldn't imagine how Yan Kui could turn defeat into victory.

Unless Yan Kui can use the demon law, he can summon the heavenly god soldiers!

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Thinking of this, the general of Western Zhou Annan finally let go of the discomfort in his heart and turned his head to look at the guards next to him.

"Tell my brother to hurry up and eat, and after half an hour, start attacking the city."

"Yes."

The guards took the order and left, and after a while, the smell of rice came from the direction of the Huotou camp.

Gossip aside, half an hour passed in a flash.

Xue Yang gave an order, except for a part of the Zhou army that stayed in the camp, 35,000 Zhou troops marched slowly towards Xiao Pass in a queue.

When he was about to arrive at Xiaoguan, Xue Yang, who was in the Chinese army, although he accidentally saw a valley not far away, his eyes moved, he stretched out his hand to call a general, pointed to the valley and commanded.

"Send some people to check out that place."

The general turned his head to look at the valley, looked at it carefully, and had some doubts on his face: "General, is there anything wrong with the valley?" ”

Xue Yang nodded, and explained: "In the past, when the army passed through this place, there were birds flying nearby, but on this day, there was no trace of any birds, and when you looked around, only the terrain of this valley was the most suspicious. ”

"The general is saying that there is an ambush here."

The general exclaimed, and then shook his head violently: "Impossible, Xiao Guanjin's army has limited troops, and it has to defend the city, so it will definitely not be able to squeeze out extra troops to set up an ambush here."

Besides, even if Yan Kui fought to the death and planned to set up an ambush to plot against our army, there were already scouts of our army between Xiaoguan and our camp, and they were constantly probing day and night, and if the Jin army had more than a thousand people, it would definitely alarm our army scouts.

And if it is a small force, although it is possible not to alarm the scouts, how can such a force ambush our tens of thousands of troops.

General, judging from the end of the future, I'm afraid you are too worried, and the birds flying near today may be because of the strong wind, not the reason for the ambush. ”

The general's analysis was reasonable, and Xue Yang nodded again and again when he heard it: "It seems that the general is too worried, but there is no big mistake in being careful, let's send a few people to take a look." ”

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Seeing Xue Yang so careful, the general smiled secretly in his heart, sat on the horse and arched his hand: "That is the case, the general will lead the army forward, and his subordinates will lead a team of men and horses to the valley to check." ”

Xue Yang frowned when he saw the general's indifferent appearance, but he didn't make a sound, just bowed slightly: "Go, remember to be careful." ”

"The last general commands."

The general answered, turned his horse's head, ordered a hundred-man cavalry from the army, and rushed towards the valley with a roar.

With the general leaving, the guards on Xue Yang's side couldn't help but show annoyance: "General, this guy is obviously disrespectful to the general, why spare him?" ”

It turned out that when he saw the general show a strange expression just now, the personal guard next to Xue Yang was about to reprimand, but Xue Yang stopped him with his eyes. At this moment, after he left, the guards couldn't help but have questions in their hearts, and asked why their generals were so tolerant of him.

Xue Yang's eyes showed disdain: "You don't know, Yu Qiang is the wife and brother of Lord Yin Zhang of Wuyue Mansion, and Lord Zhang and Qin Shuai are sons and daughters, in other words, this Yu Qiang is the uncle of Qin Shuai's daughter-in-law."

Others don't care, I have to take care of Qin Shuai's face, and the left and right guys are not disrespectful to Ben Jiang, just if he is a clown who jumps off the beam, you don't have to worry about it in your heart. ”

After listening to it, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they looked at each other and obeyed the order.

Xue Yang didn't take this matter to heart, after finishing speaking, he raised the horsewhip in his hand, and rushed forward a few steps with the horse under his crotch, urging the army to march quickly.

Within a quarter of an hour, he wanted the army to arrive in front of Xiao Pass.

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There are two sides to the story.

Here, when Xue Yang was hurrying away with the army, Yu Qiang also led people to the front of the valley.

Because he had long thought that there would be no ambush soldiers here, he was in a relaxed mood at this time, he rode his horse around the valley mouth for a brief two laps, and when he saw that there was nothing abnormal, he led people directly into the valley.

The valley is not big, but half of it is covered by dense forests, Yu Qiang didn't bother to go into the forest to investigate, and walked around casually twice in the place where there were no trees left, and was about to go back to Xue Yang to return to his life.

As a result, just about to turn the horse's head out of the valley, Yu Qiang's horse was stopped by a subordinate Baihu.

"Captain, there are people in the jungle."

"Anyone?"

Although in Xue Yang's view, Yu Qiang is a relational household, but Yu Qiang, who has been in the army for many years, can get mixed into his current position, but he does not rely on his relatives to get to the top of the position.

This can be seen from Yu Qiang's analysis of the valley when he faced Xue Yang just now, although he is arrogant, he is not an incompetent and mediocre person.

At this moment, Yu Qiang heard that there were people in the dense forest under his subordinates, and without saying a word, he pulled out a waist knife from his waist, his eyes were cold.

"That's true."

The Baihu who said that there were people in the dense forest tightened his grip on the weapon in his hand, and pointed to his eyes with one more free hand, and said confidently

"Du Lieutenant, his subordinates are nicknamed Eagle Eyes, within a thousand steps, I can distinguish the male and female of flies, although just now it was just a figure flashing in an instant, but my subordinates can guarantee that it is definitely a person, and his skills are good."

"Alone?" Yu Qiang asked.

"That's right, definitely one person." Hawkeye Baihu affirmed.

"Straight lady thief, Lao Tzu was scared to death by you, I thought there was really an ambush, why are you making such a big fuss alone."

Hearing Baihu say that he only saw one person, most of the caution on Yu Qiang's face dissipated, and he scolded angrily, and then pointed to a few soldiers.

"A few of you, go into the woods and have a look, and if you see the man just now, bring him to Captain Pontus."

At this moment, although he has relaxed a lot, Yu Qiang has not completely lost his vigilance, even if he is curious about who is hiding in the dense forest, he does not directly take all the people into the forest.

Instead, he sent a few people to check the situation, and he took the rest of the people to wait outside the dense forest, if something was wrong, Yu Qiang could directly lead people to withdraw from the valley and ask for help from Xue Yang's army.

Yu Qiang thought carefully, those soldiers didn't think as much as him, and after hearing the order, he rode directly into the dense forest, and after a while, a soldier came out to return.

"I didn't find any figures, but there were indeed footprints, depending on the situation, there are still a lot of people."

Yu Qiang's face moved, and his intuition told him that there must be some terrible secret hidden in the dense forest in front of him, and he pulled out the waist knife that had just been put back in the scabbard, and Yu Qiang shouted.

"Come with me into the forest to investigate."

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"No, Captain."

Eagle Eye Baihu stopped Yu Qiang again: "Since there is an abnormality in the dense forest, it should be reported to the general as soon as possible, and there are few people in us, so it is not appropriate to act rashly." ”

Yu Qiang frowned, and glanced at the eagle-eyed hundred households: "Since we are scouts, how can we be afraid of danger and not enter, rashly report, the information is vague and not to say, in case something goes wrong, what kind of joke is made, how can we deal with ourselves." ”

"Then you can't go into the forest with the whole army, if there is anything wrong, who will notify the army, the subordinates are brave, please ask the lieutenant to answer outside the dense forest, and let the subordinates bring people into the forest to check."

was persuaded by Eagle Eye Baihu like this, Yu Qiang also regained his composure: "It's okay, you...... Be careful. ”

Hawkeye Baihu nodded, called for more than twenty rides, and turned his head into the dense forest, this time it was not as smooth and quiet as last time.

Soon after the eagle-eyed hundred households entered the forest, Yu Qiang and the others, who were guarding outside the dense forest, waited for a few miserable screams, and everyone changed color.

"It's not good, let General Xue guess correctly, there is really an ambush here, retreat quickly."

Yu Qiang scolded and helped beckon the rest of his men to prepare to withdraw from the valley, but it was too late.

In the dense forest, a sharp arrow rushed into the sky, and the firecrackers on it exploded.

As if in an instant, more than 100 cavalrymen appeared at the mouth of the valley, these cavalrymen were dressed in armor, half-covered white robes, holding long golf blades, and staring at Yu Qiang and the others expressionlessly.

Yu Qiang was startled by the sudden appearance of these white-robed cavalry, but then his eyes showed ruthlessness, and he was the first to charge towards Taniguchi.

"Get out of here."

Seeing Yu Qiang taking the lead, the cavalry behind him was encouraged, perseverance and fighting spirit appeared in his eyes, he clenched the spear in his hand, and shouted to accompany the horse.

However, soon, with the handover of the two armies, the dozens of cavalry of the Zhou army, from Yu Qiang to the soldiers, showed despair and fear in their eyes.

However, Baiqi Kung Fu is also a face-to-face charge.

All the Zhou troops fell under the horses of the white-robed cavalry, the north wind blew, and the whole valley mouth was filled with a disgusting bloody gas.

And the more than 100 white-robed cavalrymen were uninjured and painless, and even the hooves of the war horses under their crotch never moved.

Yan Kui, who had just come out of the dense forest with more than a thousand white-robed cavalry, couldn't help but show joy on his face when he saw this scene in front of him.

"It's worthy of being a top elite, terrifying."

Thinking of this, Yan Kui looked at the corpse of Zhou Jun who died at the mouth of the valley again, and couldn't help but shake his head.

The plan is not as fast as the change, he originally wanted to wait for the Zhou army to attack the city when it was in full swing and then take the white-robed army to sneak attack from behind, but he didn't expect Xue Yang to be so vigilant that he keenly sensed that something was wrong, and then sent scouts to investigate.

Now that this scout of the Zhou army is dead in the valley, I am afraid that it will not be long before Xue Yang can sense that something is wrong, and it seems that he can only launch a surprise attack in advance.

Thinking that the plan was not going well, Yan Kui was a little discouraged, but when he glanced at the white-robed cavalry behind him, his confidence became very full again.

There is a strong master under his command, so what about a surprise attack in advance!