Chapter 381: Lost East, Harvested Mulberry Elm (Second Update)
"Zuo Yulin Army, attack!"
Zhao Xiong, who was riding on a war horse, saw that the city wall of Lengquan Pass had been smashed open, so he pulled out the matching sword at his waist and shouted at the Zuo Yulin Army behind him.
Cold Spring Pass is named because there is a cold spring in the pass. The cold spring spring water is cold, the four seasons remain unchanged, the water volume is stable, the place is located in the north mouth of the Bird Mouse Valley, according to the yin and yang of the north is yang, so it is also called "Yang Liangguan"
Lengquan Pass, forty-five miles north of the county, that is, the ancient river mouth also. Outside the pass, the north is the plain wilderness, and the pass is the left mountain and the right river, the only line in the middle, the weight of the throat of the north and south--- Ming Wanli version of "Lingshi County Chronicles".
"Kill!"
Looking at the Cold Spring Pass, which had walked the old road of Yindi Pass in front of them, the soldiers of the Zuo Yulin Army marched neatly and advanced towards the wall step by step.
When passing by the Tiance Cannon, these Yulin Army soldiers couldn't help but look at it twice, although they had already seen the power of the Tiance Cannon, but when they approached the wall, they were still frightened by the power of the Tiance Cannon.
The impenetrable wall that seemed to them was smashed open again and again by the Tiance cannon with boulders.
No matter how strong the city wall is, it can't withstand the attack of the Tiance cannon, even if the Tiance cannon can't do it, transporting a few truckloads of black powder to the city gate can also raze all the people around the city gate.
So in the eyes of the forbidden army, there is no strong city wall, only a city wall that can only be broken after a few smashes.
The previous battles were all the right god army, but the left Yulin army was suffocated.
A Yin Di Pass, there are only a few thousand frightened Shatuo soldiers, which is not enough for the 20,000 soldiers of the Zuo Yulin Army, so after the capture of the Yin Di Pass, Zhao Xiong ordered the main force to continue to advance north, and asked other armies to assist the artillery to disassemble the Tiance Cannon and transport it to the front of Lengquan Pass.
As a result, Lengquan Pass didn't last long, and was still smashed open by Zhao Xiong with a Tiance cannon.
Lengquan Pass shouted and killed the sky, and Li Ye came to the Yin Pass despite the persuasion of the minister.
When I came to the Yin Di Pass, the strong smell of blood permeated the inside and outside of the Guancheng City, and it could not be dispersed for a long time. At the foot of the mountain, on the side of the road, there are piles of corpses of Shatuo soldiers everywhere. If it weren't for the low temperature now, it might stink for the past two days.
For the power of the Tiance cannon, many ministers in the court and the central government have never seen it, and before coming to the Yin Di Pass, these ministers have a deep understanding of the Tiance cannon.
Although the Yin Di Pass at this time has been changed beyond recognition, these ministers can still see that the wall should be more than three feet before, but now except for some parts, it can still be out of the previous height, but most of the city walls have collapsed.
The city wall seems to have been torn down, and the houses in the pass are rarely intact, and what caused all this is the boulders weighing dozens or hundreds of catties, and some of the boulders directly sink into the ground three feet deep.
Zhao Xiong's Zuo Yulin Army, who was in charge of cleaning up the battlefield, was trying hard to find the corpses of Shatuo soldiers from the ruins, and they couldn't let them rot here.
As for the corpses of the forbidden army, I didn't see much of it, not that the forbidden army didn't die, but that even if the forbidden army died in battle, it was mostly in the streets, not in the ruins. Therefore, the bodies of the forbidden soldiers were carried out and buried at the first time, while the bodies of the Shatuo soldiers were everywhere.
Liu Jurong looked at the Yin Di Pass, which had been reduced to ruins, and was still very shocked in his heart, swallowed his saliva, and hesitated, "This Yin Di Pass is like this?" How else to defend? ”
"Now that the forbidden army has such a big killing weapon as the Tiance cannon, I believe that Lengquan Pass will not be able to stop the attack of the Zuo Yulin army. As long as the cold spring is closed, then you can directly attack the city of Fenzhou, and naturally there is no need to defend here. ”
When he caught an opportunity, Wei Zhaodu couldn't help but slap a few sycophants.
The years before he were degraded made him deeply aware that although it has now been reactivated, the River Festival will be revoked sooner or later.
Where does he go from here?
When the imperial court pacified Hedong, not only Hezhong, but also Zhaoyi may also be included in the new Hedong Province.
Who will be the new envoy of the river east province, no one knows now.
Since the candidate has not been decided, Wei Zhaodu naturally wants to fight for it, and if he doesn't take advantage of the fact that he is now to behave in front of His Majesty, he will not be able to continue to follow when he enters the Hedong Territory.
After all, he is still the envoy of the river festival, and it is impossible to leave the river alone.
Li Ye smiled, "Defense still has to be defended, this Yin Di Pass is only the south wall has been destroyed, but the north wall is still there." When the battlefield is cleaned up, the army still has to be stationed here, just in case. ”
Although there is a Shenji Battalion, Li Ye does not dare to guarantee that he can pacify Li Keyong in one fell swoop, and it is still necessary to leave a way out.
"Your Majesty is wise!"
Wei Zhaodu didn't feel embarrassed, and as soon as Li Ye's voice fell, the other party began to echo, which made the other ministers also regard Wei Zhaodu as a surprise.
Especially those who have worked with Wei Zhaodu before, they suddenly feel that Wei Zhaodu has become strange, is this still the same Wei Zhaodu before?
At night, Li Ye set up camp in the Yin Di Pass, although the Yin Di Pass has been reduced to ruins, but there are still no destroyed houses, after all, stone bullets will not explode.
There were two good news that night, naturally the left Shenwei army and the right Shenwu army occupied Luzhou and the news that Lengquan Pass was captured.
However, Li Ye is also the same as Li Keyong, not long after the good news came, bad news came.
Early the next morning, the news of Li Sigong and Han Li's fiasco in Shizhou came.
Of the 30,000 troops, less than 5,000 escaped.
Only 2,000 people fled from the Dingyan army, and Li Sigong's third brother Li Sizhong and fourth brother Li Sixiao were killed in battle.
In this battle, the Dingyan army was greatly damaged, and the army of the Western Route was completely abolished, and Li Keyong no longer had to worry about the threat from the west.
Originally, Li Ye still wanted to conquer Lengquan Pass, so he sent a partial division to attack Shizhou from behind, and then attacked Li Keyong's main force with the 30,000 troops of Dingyan and Lingwu.
Although the armies of these two towns are not particularly brave and good at fighting, after all, there are 20,000 cavalry, and their existence can also help the forbidden army contain a part of the Shatuo army, who would have thought that this would be the situation.
Li Keyong actually inflicted a heavy loss of 30,000 troops at the cost of less than 10,000 people.
The Shatuo Army is really strong!
But..
Lose in hake, but gain in herring.
Although the 30,000 army commanded by Li Sigong was finished, Zhaoyi's side made a lot of gains.
When the news spread that Li Cunxiao and Gu Yanlang led the army to capture Luzhou and the forbidden army to capture Yindi Pass and Lengquan Pass one after another, Wang's Chengde army and the thousands of Wei Bo troops immediately changed their minds and marched day and night.
In addition, the southern camp was also forced to let Heyang's 8,000 troops go north under the urging of Li Ye's faction.
In view of the gathering of the Zhaoyi army at this time, Li Ye sent Pei Rong as the deputy envoy for recruitment, assisted by Li Yingxu, and unified the command of the soldiers and horses of the three towns of Chengde, Weibo, and Heyang, as well as the nearly 50,000 troops of the Left Shenwei Army and the Right Shenwu Army, starting from Luzhou, along Xiangyuan and Wuxiang, attacking Liaozhou, cutting off Li Keyong's retreat, and occupying Taiyuan Mansion.