The commanders of all battalions gathered in the hall of the government to report the results of the battle.

Liu Shi said: "The south gate killed thirty-five defenders, and none of them escaped. ”

Yuan Hua said: "The north gate killed forty-three enemy soldiers, and the west gate killed thirty-seven enemy soldiers, and none of them escaped!" ”

Su Zhong said: "Twenty-four enemy soldiers were killed at the east gate, and seven were killed during the inspection, and the enemy camp is not clear, there should be several hundred." ”

Seeing that others also wanted to brag, Yang Congyi immediately interrupted: "Okay, the people who defend the city are all old, weak, sick and disabled, what is there to say." Now that Liangshan has been taken, how to defend the city and how to capture Da Nan Pass next, this is what we should discuss. ”

Su Zhong said: "Prison Army, I'll get it from Da Nanguan." After a few days in the city, I found that they would transport grain in the direction of Da Nan Pass almost every day, and we could pretend to be Li Yue's people to transport grain into the pass and take Da Nan Pass in one fell swoop. ”

Yuan Hua hurriedly said: "Prison army, we fought a city gate just now, and it's not fun to kill at all, I'll take down Da Nan Pass!" ”

Liu Shi also said: "Prison Army, I'll go too!" ”

Yang Congyi nodded slightly, and then said: "Don't earn it, it's important to win the big difficulty, and it's equally important to defend Liangshan City." Su Zhong, you have been in the city for a few days, and there are several main passages leading to Liangshan in Li Yue, is there any danger to defend? ”

Su Zhong said with a smile: "The prison army asked the right person, I have been walking around the city and outside the city in the past few days, the entire Liangshan City is built in the valley around the mountain, the south gate and the west gate are dozens of zhang wide rivers, but the south gate and the west gate can directly lead to the rich Shenglong area of Li Yue, of which the main passage is outside the west gate, and there is a pass ten miles to the south, like the Great South Pass, it has been thousands of years, and the main defensive direction is also Li Yue, but because Liangshan has been in the hands of Li Yueren, that pass is not taken seriously. I've seen it myself, and the pass is built in a valley where mountains are everywhere, and it's very strong. The passage outside the south gate will pass through a small town of more than 1,000 people, and from the town to the south, it can also lead to the Thang Long area, but this road is in disrepair and deserted, and few people have walked it. So as long as you guard the pass outside the West Gate, you can keep Li Yueren out of Liangshan. ”

This is good news, since ancient times, the Central Plains has been mainly defensive on the border wasteland, and will not think about occupying it, so on the way to the Central Plains, it will build layers of passes to block it, if the small border countries are not strong enough to take the passes, don't want to get involved in the Central Plains.

The land of Li Yue has been directly ruled by the Central Plains Dynasty since the Qin Dynasty, the Qin and Han dynasties have never been interrupted, when the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains were in civil strife, the land of Li Yue was temporarily out of the control of the Central Plains, and the Sui and Tang dynasties were reincorporated into the rule of the Central Plains, and the powerful Tang Dynasty perished, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, it was self-reliant from the Central Plains, and after the Great Song Dynasty unified the world, because of the continuous wars between the sixteen states of Yanyun and the Liao State, there was no time to take care of the wild land in the south, Li Yue has completely separated from it, and in the past hundred years, step by step the area that is difficult to control in the Guangnan region of the Great Song Dynasty has been encroached upon. The area of Liangshan outside the Great South Pass is a place that has only been occupied in the past hundred years, and it doesn't matter to the imperial court that there is more or less barren land, the local state government does not report, and the imperial court will not care, and they only have the rich Sichuan, Shaanxi and Yanyun in their eyes.

Liangshan has been in the hands of Li Yue for a hundred years, and it has become an important border town, so he planned to capture the Yulin area. But the passes that originally defended them became useless once they reached their hands, which was a good thing for the Xuanwei army.

"The pass in the west of the city was guarded by two battalions of men and horses, and three battalions of men and horses were left in Liangshan, and the Danan Pass was captured by two battalions of men and horses. Defending the city is as important as attacking the city, and the capture of Da Nan Pass is to defend Liangshan, we will hold Liangshan for a month, and this battle will be won. Claim the quest yourselves. As soon as Yang Congyi said a few words, he let them choose for themselves.

"Supervising the army, I still want to go to Da Nan Pass, my team of men and horses is almost exactly two battalions of people, and I also have experience in attacking the city in Jingzhou, and the defense is okay, and I have to guard against the enemy army in Yulin City to attack when I take Da Nan Pass, let's go, it will definitely work!" Su Zhong did not hesitate to be the first to receive the task of Da Nanguan.

Seeing that Su Zhong received the task of Da Nan Pass, Yuan Hua gave up and captured the Chengchi Pass, Su Zhong was indeed more experienced than him, so he said: "If you can't capture Da Nan Pass, then I will go to guard the west pass of the city, who will go with me?" ”

Liu Shi immediately replied: "Brother Yuan, I'll go with you." ”

"Prison army, I will go with Liu Shi to guard the west pass of the city." Yuan Hua reported loudly.

Yang Congyi nodded: "Okay, then it's decided, Su Zhong will take two battalions of the Xuanwei Army to capture the Danan Pass before dark tomorrow, and Yuan Hua and Liu Shi will take two battalions of the Xuanwei Army out of the west of the city early tomorrow morning to control the pass." If there is a small force of no more than 1,000 enemy troops in the two passes to enter the pass, you can wait for the opportunity to put it into the pass to destroy it, and if you need help, you can send someone back to the city to report, be sure to do what you can! ”

"Yes." Su Zhong, Yuan Hua, and Liu Shi hugged their fists to receive their lives.

Yang Congyi then ordered: "Zhang Dai guards the south gate and west gate, Yao Chang guards the north gate and east gate, and garrisons Liangshan with my personal guard battalion. ”

Zhang Dai and Yao Chang shouted loudly.

"Zhang Dai, Yao Chang, you immediately bring someone to take over the four gates. Su Zhong, Yuan Hua, and Liu Shi, your four battalions have a good rest for a few hours. ”

After the task was assigned, the generals left, and Yang Congyi sent two more teams to take over the granary and the military armory.

That night, after a period of busyness, Liangshan City gradually quieted down, and most of the Xuanwei army fell asleep.

A gust of wind came, and the bloody smell was scattered all over the city, and the people in this city could no longer sleep peacefully tonight.

At dawn, except for the Xuanwei army patrolling all the streets of Liangshan City, there was not a single local person to be seen, and this small city of 20,000 or 30,000 people seemed to have become a military camp.

The Xuanwei army stationed in Liangshan City took advantage of the night to clean up the corpses of the enemy, concentrated them all in the west of the city, and discarded them to a pond more than a mile away from the city at dawn.

After a night of winding, the bloody atmosphere in the city gradually faded, and when all the corpses were thrown out of the city, and the military camp and the city gate were cleaned up again, the bloody atmosphere in the city was gone.

When the sun rose, there were more people in the city, and nothing seemed to have happened, except for a few fewer people.

Xuanwei Jun buried the pot and cooked a good meal.

The sun shone on the city, Yuan Hua and Liu Shi each led a battalion of the Xuanwei army, with food and military equipment, went out of the west gate to cross the river to the south, and went straight down to the pass ten miles away.

Su Zhong led two battalions of the Xuanwei Army, and after dressing up, he took a large amount of grain, grass, and ordnance and went straight to Da Nanguan, thirty miles away.

Most of the Xuanwei army was transferred, but the defense of Liangshan City was not relaxed, and the Xuanwei army guarding the city gate had their tents set up within ten zhang of the city gate, and they were on duty in turn. The four teams of the guard battalion patrolled back and forth on the main streets of the city, and when they encountered suspicious people, they were immediately arrested, and if they resisted, they were immediately killed.

For a whole day, except for the four battalions of Xuanwei Army who went out early in the morning, the four gates were closed, and no one was allowed to enter or leave the city. There was also a dead silence in the city, and the people were shut out.

In the afternoon of the same day, news came from Yuan Hua and Liu Shi that they had successfully occupied the pass. It is said that the pass is intact, built of bricks and stones, very strong, more than two zhang high, 1,000 people can resist the attack of 10,000 people, if the food, grass, and military resources are sufficient, it is no problem to garrison for three or five months.

This is good news, the pass in the south is guarded, and there will be no attack in Liangshan from the direction of Shenglong, and the pressure on the city defense has been reduced a lot.

Da Nan Pass is very awkward for Liangshan, even if it is taken, it will not be able to effectively resist the attack from Yu Lin, but fortunately Yu Lin only has 3,000 defenders, and they dare not send a large army to attack and capture Da Nan Pass.

Also, the Youyi army should have already left, and the Youyi army didn't care if they reached Yulin or not, as long as they reached Tongmian and entered the sight of the enemy spies in Yulin, the enemy army would not dare to go out of the city easily.

It was dark, Yang Congyi didn't sleep, he was still worried about Da Nanguan, and he didn't know if Su Zhong had successfully won it. It is said that it should be a sure thing, but without the battle report ahead, he still can't let go.

The granary and armory in the city, he personally went to inspect it, although the grain is not much, only less than 10,000 quintals, but the ordnance is full of a warehouse, bundles of arrows, unwound strong bows, piles of long knives, short knives and spears, etc., how many are difficult to estimate, it seems that they have only been put into the warehouse recently, and they have not had time to reach the front line, if Li Yue takes Yongzhou, this batch of ordnance should be transported to Ningming, from Ningming down the river, straight into Yongzhou, but now it is impossible.

Yang Congyi registered the materials that had been checked in the city one by one, although they could not take these things away, but after destroying them, they also had to leave account books as evidence of meritorious service.

After a night of fear, the next morning, the herald finally came in through the north gate and went straight to the palace.

"Supervising the army, the Xuanwei army successfully took the Great South Pass yesterday evening, killed 467 enemy soldiers, captured more than 100 loads of grain, and a little military resources, and has completely controlled the Great South Pass. Now they are setting up an ambush, waiting for the enemy army in Yulin to throw themselves into the net. The herald was loud.

Yang Congyi's heart, which had been hanging all night, heard this, he really put it down, nodded and said: "Okay, go back and tell Su Zhong that you can defend the Great South Pass, don't attack blindly, if the enemy army comes out, it is bound to seize the Great South Pass, and the Great South Pass is given to them, don't fight hard, the strength of the Xuanwei Army is limited, don't make unnecessary sacrifices." ”

"Yes." The herald shouted yes and walked away in high spirits.

Since coming to Qinzhou, Su Zhongying has won many battles, capturing Jingzhou City by Li Yue, breaking the enemy camp at Liangshan, and then capturing Danan Pass, and they have shown the strongest combat power in the entire Xuanwei army. After this great victory, if it is a reward for meritorious deeds, Su Zhongying should also receive the most rewards, and it is reasonable for the herald to be so vigorous.

But once a proud soldier or general encounters a defeat, I am afraid that he will never be able to stand up again, and when this battle is over, it is time to talk to Su Zhong.

Looking at the departing herald, Yang Congyi was more or less worried.