Tianshui Pass, Gansu, since Wang Mang gave the order, Huo Rongsheng ordered 200,000 troops out of the mighty pass. After marching for more than ten days, he led the army to Tianshui Pass ten miles away and stationed there.

After coming here, he asked the soldiers to line up in formation, laid out siege measures, and asked the commander of Tianshui Pass to open the pass and surrender immediately.

The commander of Tianshui Pass disdained it, and urgently gathered all the soldiers of the pass to climb the city tower to defend and defend the pass.

Huo Rongsheng forcibly attacked the key points for several days in a row, but he still failed to shake the pass in the slightest, losing tens of thousands of soldiers, and the morale of the army was quite affected.

On the eighth day, all the generals under Huo Rongsheng were anxious and did not want to continue to storm this pass. I plan to withdraw my troops for the time being, and go to attack other passes first.

Huo Rongsheng naturally refused, he claimed that Tianshui Pass was an important pass controlled by the Ji family, and he couldn't leave in the first battle, and he had to break through the pass at any cost.

Wang Mang asked him to take the remaining five passes in Gansu in half a year, and now a mere Tianshui Pass stumped him, and his heart became more and more angry.

In the afternoon of this day, he personally commanded the whole army and soldiers to come to Tianshui Pass again, and shouted loudly.

The commander of Tianshui Pass stood on the city tower to supervise the battle, showing off his might, sneering again and again. At present, Huo Rongsheng's troops are strong and strong, and the troops in his hands are insufficient, so it is difficult to go out of the pass to fight, so he can only stick to the pass, strictly defend it, and wait for reinforcements to come.

"Huo Rongsheng, Wang Mang said that day that he would not interfere in the affairs of Kyushu. Now he has gone back on his word and wantonly stirred up strife, trying to drag the people of the world into the water, and his heart can be punished. If you surrender early, you may have a chance to survive in the future. If you continue to follow Wang Mang to do evil, you will not be able to escape death in the future. ”

"Bastard!" Huo Rongsheng shouted angrily: "Ji Shan, if you have the guts, can you dare to go out and fight?" Before, others said that as soon as your Ji family came out, all the heroes in the world would surrender. At first, I really thought that your Ji family had some great ability. Now it seems that your Ji family is nothing more than that. It's all shrunken turtles, greedy for life and afraid of death. ”

"Joke!" Ji Shan laughed and said: "You led an army of 200,000 to attack the city, and the defenders in my hands are only 350,000, how can I be provoked by you to go out of the pass to fight?" If you have the ability, you can try it. ”

"Damn bastard." Huo Rongsheng said to his subordinate generals: "Ladies and gentlemen, Lord Wang strictly requires us to unify Gansu within half a year. From the day of Lord Wang's order to now, almost a month has passed, and we have gained nothing, and we have suffered many losses. We can't go on like this, otherwise we won't be able to complete our mission. ”

Yan You asked, "Master Huo, what do you say?" ”

Huo Rongsheng said coldly: "I want the whole army to storm the city together." ”

"The whole army rushes together? I'm afraid that's a bit wrong, right? A senior general frowned and said, "If we do this, even if we break through the Tianshui Pass, we will lose at least seventy or eighty thousand troops." In this way, what will we attack the remaining passes? Lord Wang now has no extra troops to allocate to us. We can't afford to lose. ”

"I also know this, but this Tianshui Pass is extraordinary, it is a pass controlled by the Ji family. If we don't take it here, what will others think of us in the future? Huo Rongsheng said.

"Why don't we report the situation here to Lord Wang, and see what strategy Lord Wang has." Chen Shou suggested.

"Four days ago, I had already sent someone to interrogate. But the king did not give any instructions. Huo Rongsheng responded.

Ji Shan, who was standing on the tower of the pass city, saw that Huo Rongsheng neither attacked the city nor retreated, and he sneered in his heart.

He was about to order the soldiers to shoot arrows to force Huo Rongsheng to retreat, when a general under his command hurriedly walked over.

"Commander Qiqi, our reinforcements have arrived."

"Oh? Reinforcements arrived? Who led the army? Himeyama said happily.

"It was Feng Yi who led the army, and they have now arrived at the city tower."

"Feng Yi? Isn't he handling things in the imperial capital? How did he get sometime? Ji Shan wondered.

While the two were talking, Feng Yi had already climbed the city tower. And behind him, there were more than a dozen old men, as well as Ji Xuan, the lord of the earth sword, and Ji Shuang, the lord of the soft sword.

As soon as Ji Shan saw these old men appear, he was taken aback, and greeted him in a panic and saluted: "Ji Shan greets all the clan elders, what is the matter with the clan elders?" ”

The group of old men said in unison: "The patriarch has an order, let me and the Feng family master come to help the soldiers defend the pass to retreat from the enemy, and now you can hand over the command of the army to the Feng family master." ”

"Yes, clan elder." Ji Shan handed the Commander Seal Letter to Feng Yi and asked, "Master Feng, I wonder how many people you brought this time?" That Huo Rongsheng led an army of 200,000 to attack the city, and the momentum was fierce and should not be underestimated.

And the chain bow and crossbow in their hands are terrifying, with an extremely long range and penetrating power. If it weren't for the fact that our Tianshui Pass City was tall, I'm afraid we would really not be able to resist their impact. ”

"I've known all of this, so you don't need to worry." Feng Yi sneered: "That Wang Mang has always been arrogant, thinking that the world is invincible, but he doesn't know the background of your Ji family. This time, I sent 50,000 troops to Zhuzhou, and your Ji family sent 50,000 troops, a total of 100,000 reinforcements. This time, I will completely destroy the 200,000 horses brought by Huo Rongsheng. ”

"My Ji family dispatched 50,000 yuan?" Ji Shan exclaimed: "The head of the family is willing to use so much underlying power? ”

The lord of the earth sword said: "The head of the family is planning to shock the world in a battle this time, and he wants to take Wang Mang with a knife. Our 50,000 base combat strength is enough to be compared to 450,000 ordinary soldiers. I see how Wang Mang can escape the suppression of our Ji family this time. ”

"It turns out that the family has taken the initiative and is real." Ji Shan muttered secretly.

After Feng Yi took the letter, he said to the generals: "Ji Xuan, Ji Shuang, when Huo Rongsheng gives the order to rush through the pass, the two of you will lead my 50,000 army to open the way, and you will break through the opponent's army formation at any cost, even if the whole army is annihilated."

Ladies and gentlemen, you are leading your Ji family's 50,000 heritage to follow. After Ji Shuang and the two leaders broke through the opponent's army formation, you 50,000 elites can ignore the opponent's chain bow and crossbow. I figured out that their chain crossbow wouldn't be able to fight in close quarters. Ji Shan, you led the soldiers guarding the city to guard the two wings of our army, and assisted Ji Xuan and the two of them in their success. ”

"Yes, Master Feng." Ji Xuan and the two of them were gearing up, their hearts were happy, and they couldn't wait to get out of the city immediately.

They had long wanted to teach Wang Mang a lesson, but the true background of the Ji family had not come out before, and they did not dare to act rashly. Now that their Ji family has 50,000 yuan out of the mountain, they have nothing to worry about anymore.

These 50,000 heritage, all of them have monstrous combat power, good martial arts, three points more powerful than those disciples of martial arts families, and almost all of them have reached the chivalrous level.

Ji Xuan expected that as long as it was a close combat, the 50,000 base would definitely be able to torture and kill an army of four or five hundred thousand without being defeated.

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