Yaoguan is the main road from Chang'an to the hinterland of the Central Plains of Nanyang, with the mountain in front and the latest chapter of the eternal immortal body of the mountain in the back. In the past, when Liu Bang entered the customs, he used the tactics of forcible attack and bribery, and he succeeded. Liu Bang, the old man, under Zhang Liang's persuasion, gritted his teeth and took out some gold and silver treasures and handed them over to Li Shiqi to engage in bribery. At the same time, he led the sergeants to "cross the mountain", copied the back road of the Qin army, and after two major battles, tore open the southeast gate of Xianyang.

In fact, continuing to move forward to the Central Plains along the pass, there is also a Xiongguan, that is, Wuguan. Guanzhong is known as the land of four stops because there are four major passes (Wuguan, Hangu Pass, Xiao Pass and Dasan Pass). However, Wuguan was always occupied by the Qi army. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Daqi has always been passively beaten and in a defensive position, so much so that Wuguan has become a barrier for Daqi to defend against the Western Xia army.

Because of this, the Tangut people paid more attention to the defense of the pass. As for the cities of Shangzhou, Shangluo and Shangluo between Yaoguan and Wuguan, although they were also occupied by the Western Xia army, these towns were limited by the terrain and served as a buffer zone between the Western Xia and the Great Qi.

Since the party annexed Guanzhong, they have attached great importance to the southeast gateway of Yaoguan, not only has the pass been built very strongly, but even the dangerous places on the mountain and the mountain have been fortified, and the Great Qi army cannot follow Liu Tingchang's feat of "going around the pass and surpassing the mountain".

The Great Qi attacked the pass with two groups of men and horses, one was led by 30,000 Shandong Pass soldiers and horses led by Xiao Dingguo, the soldier and horse envoy on the left side of the Shandong Road, and the other was 55,000 people led by Guan Bi, the soldier and horse envoy on the right side of Tokyo Pass. After the two sergeants met in Shangluo on the 10th day of August, they began to discuss how to attack the pass.

Due to the limited terrain, the army of more than 80,000 people could not launch an attack on the pass at once. Therefore, after discussing with the two sides, they attacked the pass separately for a period of five days.

The governor of Tokyo Seki is a cypress, and there are many people who come out, too. Therefore, Guan Pyo should attack first. On 13 August, 20,000 soldiers were dispatched to attack the pass, but after five days of bloody fighting, they tried all kinds of methods, but they still could not enter the pass.

Guan Biao was greedy for merit, and he was also in a hurry, not only pulling more than 50,000 soldiers up, but also changing the agreement. First, the time limit was changed from 5 days to 10 days, and then to 15 days. Until August 27, after half a month of fighting, nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses were lost, and there was still nothing to be done about it. The reason is that the pass is too important to Li Yuandan, from here it is only seventy or eighty miles away from Chang'an, once it is lost, Chang'an is like a naked big girl, placed in front of the Qi army. Li Yuandan repaired this place enough to make any army desperate. Even a famous general like Gu Poyu sighed when he retreated.

The sergeants of Tokyo Pass really couldn't fight, so they had to be replaced, and the soldiers of Shandong Pass continued to attack.

Xin Qiji was also included in this expedition, and when Xiao Dingguo personally went to Shaanzhou to make a big account, he presided over the work of the Shandong Guanxi expedition. Xin Qiji accepted the lesson of Sergeant Tokyo Guan, and did not choose to blindly attack, but chose to combine punches: night attacks, infiltration of small forces around the mountains, harassment, and an irregular strong attack on three or five days.

From August 29 to the eighth day of September, for ten days, although Xin Qiji did not capture the pass, he also disturbed the Western Xia defenders on the pass.

For example, in the middle of the night, the Qi army would beat gongs and drums in front of the pass, put a few cannons from time to time, and even used firecrackers and two-kicks, anyway, it would not let the Western Xia soldiers sleep soundly.

Or they sent a raid force along a path known only to the local hunters, intending to bypass the mountains, and although most of them were prevented from returning, they also scared the Tanguts into a cold sweat.

All kinds of tactics, coupled with the previous half-month strong attack by tens of thousands of soldiers at Tokyo Pass, made the entire Western Xia army in a state of extreme fatigue and had to take turns to guard the pass.

When Xin Yu was on the other side's grain and grass, he only bombed the camp, which was also related to the state of this group of sergeants guarding the grain and grass. They were the sergeants who had fought fiercely with the Great Qi army, and because of the heavy casualties, they were withdrawn to guard the grain and grass. After preparing to repair it, pull it to the gate again.

The previous bloody battle had made the nerves of these sergeants extremely tense. The slaughter of the servants by the patrol squad caused blood to flow and stimulate their nerves. Xin Yu and Yan Feng did not hesitate to make a move, which was the fuse for the bombing of the camp.

By the time Lu Ding, who was stationed in Lantian City, left the city, the guards of the outer city had already controlled the grain and grass camp. As soon as the losses were counted, Lu Ding almost fainted, and the grain and grass used by the defenders of Yaoguan for half a month were burned to only one-tenth of them.

The reason why Xin Yu and the others achieved such results was because several of his subordinates led by Yan Feng took the initiative to stay and took on the heavy responsibility of continuing to burn grain. And Xin Yu alone took advantage of the chaos to escape, and the news that the grain and grass of the Western Xia people were burned must be sent back to the Qi army outside the pass in time.

Xin Yu couldn't bear to abandon his subordinates, however, he was the best in this group, and he had carefully studied the terrain of the pass before the battle. In this case, it is only he who bears the burden of delivering the message.

When the grain and grass of Western Xia were burned, it was the night when Song Zheng fought against Liang Yiyue in the prince's mansion. When there was a dawn on the edge of the sky, Xin Yu was behind a big tree at the northern foot of the mountain, looking at the Lantian City where the fire was gradually extinguished. That's his brother who accompanies him day and night in Luoyang Pass! Xixia and his party all folded in, how could they not let Xin Yu's heart be like a knife hinge?

After Xin Yu bowed three times in the direction of Lantian City, he took advantage of the night to touch the mountains.

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On the morning of September 11, when Song Zheng was in Wuhou Temple, Xin Qiji was sitting in the big tent, looking at a secret letter from Xiao Dingguo from Shaanzhou, and the content of the secret letter made Xin Qiji's face bruise.

There are five contents.

First, the Western Xia gave up all the states in the north of the Weihe River, and the military strength was withdrawn and began to reinforce in the direction of Tongguan and Yaoguan. Originally, the grain and grass that had been suppressed by the states were also required to be transported to Chang'an.

The second is that due to the long-term inability to conquer Tongguan, the Luoyang Pass army is unstable, and there are more than 300 sergeants mutinied.

The third is that the prince is almost dying, "fainting three times a day", even if he takes the elixir "A Furong", it will not help.

The fourth news is that Cong Kui, the envoy of soldiers and horses on the right side of Shandong Road, secretly wrote to Jiangning, saying that since Daqi could not conquer Tongguan, it was better to take advantage of the opportunity of the Jin army to also enter the pass, cross the river and attack Jiezhou, and at the same time Shandong Pass made a force to attack Dezhou, Hebei. Jiezhou Salt Lake is an important salt-producing area of Daikin and one of the most important sources of salt for Daikin. Cong Kui meant to use the army attacking Western Xia this time to drag down the main force of Dajin, and to use nearly 80,000 soldiers from Shandong Pass and the Dengzhou naval army to take the central capital directly.

The last piece of news is that there is a logistical problem. Limited by the lack of finance, coupled with the grain storage of everyone in the south of the Yangtze River, the supply of grain and grass in Daqi is weak, although there is the support of Huitong Trading Bank, Huang Yuandu tried his best to raise it, but if it could not enter Guanzhong at the end of September, it would have to stop fighting.

Because of this, some officials in Jiangning City began to write a boycott of the war, although it is not the mainstream, but if the war does not improve again, more and more officials will write to the war.

Seeing these news, Xin Qiji was extremely indignant. The coach was terminally ill, the rear supply was weak, and the battle ahead was not going well, and the shortcomings of Daqi's march were suddenly exposed, and the journey was covered with a thick layer of gray.

Xin Qiji punched several cases and walked back and forth in the tent. The 30,000 troops of the Shandong Pass to the west had been delayed for 13 days under the Pass, losing three or four thousand soldiers and horses. Seeing that the fifteen-day deadline had arrived, Xin Qijian was anxious. The Western Xia army is desperately defending the pass, and its reinforcements are coming again, so it doesn't look like it can be captured in two days. If he is replaced by a sergeant at Tokyo Pass, Xin Qiji can't expect to do much. The first half month of fighting had already worn out the spirit of Sergeant Tokyo Seki.

What to do? Do you really want to choose to attack at the risk of your life?

Xin Qiji clenched his fists and frowned, unable to make up his mind for a while.

"Report!" A long shout from the captain outside the door interrupted Xin Qiji's musings.

"Come in!"

A soap-clothed lieutenant hurriedly ran in, "General, my soldier captured a sergeant wearing a tattered Western Xia military uniform, but he claimed to be Xin Yu, the general of Luoyang Guanyu, the son of the general, and had important military reports. The guards did not dare to deal with it without authorization, so they came to ask the general. ”

"Yu'er?" Xin Qiji was stunned for a moment. His son is in Luoyang Pass, how can he wear a Western Xia military uniform? Or take the initiative to run to find yourself? It's ridiculous!

"Look first! Ask carefully and then return. Xin Qiji, who was in a bad mood, waved his hand, and the lieutenant turned around and was about to go out, Xin Qiji suddenly thought that his son had not heard from him since he had received a letter a month ago. Originally, I wrote a letter every half month.

"Stop, bring the men up." Xin Qiji changed his mind.

After the tea, two sergeants came in with a beggar-like figure. The hair of the person who came was unkempt, there were not a few grass clippings on it, there were even more blood marks on his face, and the torn clothes on his body could barely see the style of the Western Xia army. The man was so weak at the sight that if it weren't for the two sergeants holding him, he would have fallen down immediately.

When the man saw Xin Qiji, his blood-red eyes flashed, and he shouted hoarsely, "Dad! Then he fell into his body and fainted.

Xin Qiji was slightly stunned, and hurriedly stepped forward to support him, shouting, "Yu'er! Feathers! Tell the doctor! Tell the doctor! ”

After the tea, the doctor ran in, and a group of Shandong Pass generals also rushed into the tent. At this time, Xin Qiji was sitting on the ground, whispering his son's name, with tears on his face.

The doctor hurriedly squatted down, touched Xin Yu's veins, opened Xin Yu's eyelids and looked at it, and then arched his hand and said, "General, Ling Gongzi is just overworked, and his body is fine." ”

After saying it twice, Xin Qiji reacted. "Are you sure?"

The doctor looked at it again and replied, "Confirm the humble position." ”

Xin Qijian breathed a long sigh of relief, and relieved his mind, "I'm tired, go down." ”

Xin Qiji, who calmed down, touched his son's messy hair and was silent for a while.

Suddenly, he suddenly remembered that his son seemed to have an important military situation to report to him, so he sent someone to call back the doctor who had just left the tent to see if there was any way to wake up his son temporarily. It must be unusual for a son to give his life to report the news.

The doctor hesitated for a moment, and said, "This method may be disrespectful to Ling Gongzi, please ......."

"When is it, it's still disrespectful, hurry up!" Xin Qiji's heart was dripping blood, and his face was sinking like water.

The doctor sighed, took out the needle bag from the medicine box, pulled out a silver needle, and asked the sergeant to take off Xin Yu's shoes. Xin Yu's feet were covered with blood blisters, and one foot was even worn out, and the flesh and blood were blurred. Xin Qijian felt pain again, how many miles did his son walk, so he grinded his feet like this.

The doctor glanced at Xin Qiji again, and reluctantly pierced the silver needle into Xin Yu's toenails, Xin Yu's body trembled, but he still didn't wake up.

"Then use the needle!" Xin Qiji saw the doorway and drank again.

Reluctantly, the doctor took out another silver needle. Some of the generals next to him got the truth and were about to persuade him, but they were glared back by Xin Qiji.

It wasn't until the fourth silver needle pierced Xin Yu's nails that Xin Yu Fang let out a long howl, opened his blood-red eyes, and the first thing he said was, "All the grain and grass in Yuguan have been burned by us, please send troops quickly to avenge my brother." ”

Before he finished speaking, tears welled up again.

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Half an hour later, the drums beat loudly in the barracks, and all the sergeants poured out of their nests. At the same time, a ride galloped to Shangluo.

The time has come to tackle the problem with all its might.