The city tower of Yingyangguan is built directly behind the head of the goshawk, the height is only three stories, the pillars of the building are mottled with vermilion paint, and the furnishings in the house are simple, but the real dreading thing about Yingyangguan is the city defense. Arrows are set up at every other level at the head of the castle, extending from the bottom of the pass to the head of the castle, and if you look directly at the pass from the outside, you can find a patchwork of holes scattered throughout the wall.

These openings are usually obscured by their counterparts, and when it's time for battle, the cobblestones are removed for the guards to shoot from. These regularly distributed openings are not randomly selected, they are designed with full consideration of the attack surface covered by each opening, so that when these openings start shooting arrows at the same time, almost all the directions outside the pass can be included, leaving no dead ends.

The design of Yingyang Pass was enough to open Xuan Shaoning's eyes, and he never thought that the unexpected was still to come.

The three armies placed the war horses, and the king of Yu took Shen Yongnian, Ou Luyang, He Yunke, and Shantai Guizong to the top of the city, and Zhang Hanshan came forward to see the king of Yu at this time. An Changli said that Zhang Hanshan is currently a loyal general on the fourth grade, and his military rank is four levels worse than that of King Yu, even if he does not talk about the military rank, just because King Yu is the Prince of Wuzhu, Zhang Hanshan must go out to greet him.

Several generals saw such an arrogant move, but King Yu didn't say anything, and they naturally didn't have the right to speak.

"Zhang Hanshan see the general!"

"General Zhang, please get up, use extraordinary methods at all times, all along the southeast line have fallen, and now your Eagle Yang Pass is the last barrier to protect my Daliang Portal."

"Please speak in the house!"

Zhang Hanshan invited everyone into the city tower, and the only five chairs were all given to the people who came, and Zhang Hanshan stood at the end of the five people.

"The military situation is urgent, and the battle situation must be transmitted to the Beijing division as soon as possible. I need to know about Jinchangcheng. ”

King Yu set his sights on the return of the sect, he had expected this scene for a long time, and he hurriedly went out to ask for guilt: "As far as I know, the Tang Dynasty raided Hanzhou, and at the same time, Liu Yi was connected to foreign ......."

"General Shantai, we all know these things, what everyone wants to know is whether the Divine Killing Cavalry cooperates with the Cold Sword Guard and the Rusty Guard, and if so, why will the two guards be wiped out?" When Xuan Shaoning returned to Anzhou City, he had already told King Yu about the battle outside Jinchang City, and at this moment, he needed to listen to the personal explanation of the parties in the face of the return of the sect.

He finally untied the cloth bag that had been hanging on his waist, he opened the cloth bag and there was a wooden box inside, and when he opened the wooden box, a human head was impressively displayed in front of everyone.

"This is the head of the Lower Tang Dynasty guard general Fan Luo, who led the army to besiege Jinchang City at the beginning, and the Divine Killing Cavalry are all cavalry who are good at field warfare but not good at defending the city, which is why we watched the Cold Sword Guard and the Rusty Guard fall into the enemy's trap and couldn't come to the rescue!"

Speaking of this, Tai Guizong wiped his face, paused for a while, and continued to speak, "But it is also the sacrifice of the two guards that creates an opportunity for us to break through, it is the night god who kills and rides out of the city to break through, and after killing Fan Yu, he immediately went to rescue Anzhou City, but when we arrive in Anzhou City...... Anzhou was already a sea of fire, so we took the southeast from the upper reaches of Taoshui to Minzhou. ”

At first glance, Ou Luyang immediately came out to speak for the Tai Guizong, "Returning to the general, if the god kills the cavalry and sticks to Jinchang City, it is tantamount to making Jinchang City an enclave, and it is unintentional in the overall situation, Jinchang City is the hard work of the Shantai family for a hundred years, and it is difficult to give it up once." For today's plan, we must work together to defend the Eagle Yang Pass, so that we can give an account to the court and the saint! ”

"Commander Ou is right!" Zhang Hanshan said: "The last general has been guarding Yingyang Pass for more than ten years, relying on the geographical danger and the courage of the soldiers. ”

"Holding the Eagle Yang Pass is just the first step, we must use this pass as a basis to counterattack the enemy and recover the southeast front line as soon as possible!"

"Commander Ou is quite ambitious, which is a good thing! However, it is not enough to rely on ambition in the battle array, and I have also carefully checked it just now: the Divine Killing Cavalry is a neat 40,000 people," Zhang Hanshan deliberately paused here to see the reaction of the Tai Guizong, and seeing that he looked calm, he continued to analyze, "The only one thousand gold armor guards under the command of the general are even commanders; General Shen only has 1,000 left-rank guards under his command; In the end, counting the 10,000 soldiers under my command, can we recover all the cities on the southeast front with our 52,000 men? ”

"So according to General Zhang's meaning, we are trapped in Yingyang Pass and waiting for reinforcements?" Ou Luyang asked rhetorically rather unhappily, even if Zhang Hanshan's military rank was several levels higher than him.

King Yu stopped in time: "General Zhang is right, the number of the combined forces of Xia Tang and Xiliang exceeds us by several times, except for Yingyang Pass, we have no capital to fight a decisive battle with the enemy, and rushing to war will only make us passive." Holding on to Eagle Pass and waiting for reinforcements is undoubtedly the most reasonable move at the moment. ”

King Yu supported Zhang Hanshan so much that everyone present was not surprised, this Zhang Hanshan is quite qualified and has a mysterious background, and Emperor Liang also relies on him a lot, if not, he will not hand over such an important pass of Yingyang Pass to him to guard. Since King Yu came into contact with Zhang Hanshan, he felt that this person was also quite appetizing, and he also turned a blind eye to some of his behaviors.

"I will write down the battle situation in detail and submit it to Tianting, and as for the deployment of Yingyang Pass, everything will be subject to General Zhang's arrangement!"

King Yu said that he had made the final decision on the defensive battle, especially letting his subordinate generals obey Zhang Hanshan's arrangement, which made Ou Luyang and Shantai Guizong quite dissatisfied, but the performance of the two was different.

After returning to Guannei, the Emperor remained silent and strictly followed King Yu's arrangement; And Ou Luyang had a lot of complaints about Zhang Hanshang, and these words eventually reached the ears of the soldiers.

Xuan Shaoning didn't talk about others at first, his focus was all on Ling Scarlet, since Si Heng sacrificed, she hadn't spoken much, and she didn't seem to show any special sadness, but Xuan Shaoning knew that once she gave her heart to a woman like Ling Scaryan, it would be a lifetime.

Except for Xuan Shaoning, Duan Lang and Huo Qing were all by Ling Feiyan's side, but they didn't speak very tacitly, they just buried their heads in doing things by themselves, until Xing Gang brought Zhang Hanshan's strategy to them.

"Zhang Hanshan?" Xuan Shaoning chewed on the name, and began to search in his mind to see if he had seen it somewhere.

"Speaking of which, General Zhang's strategy is not wrong, we can only recover the lost territory by holding the Yingyang Pass, and I support him."

"Is there any other news?"

"I just heard that the commander of Europe was dissatisfied with General Zhang, saying that General Zhang was disrespectful to the general, and he didn't go out to greet him."

After Xing Gang's reminder, Xuan Shaoning finally realized this detail, and when he thought about it, it was really like that. But thinking about it, King Yu didn't pay much attention to these false courtesies, he paid attention to military discipline, so it should be okay.

"It seems that this Zhang Hanshan either has outstanding military achievements, or he has a deep background, otherwise how can he put on such a shelf?" Huo Qing came to such a conclusion based on his own experience.

Duan Lang then analyzed: "It's really possible that he has outstanding military achievements, otherwise he wouldn't have handed over such an important Yingyang Pass to him, but we have been in the army for many years, why haven't I heard that there is such a number one person?" It stands to reason that people with profound military achievements, even if they have never met, have at least heard the name, and obviously the name Zhang Hanshan is quite unfamiliar. ”

"As for the background, it's a bit difficult to say, although I don't know this person either, but judging from the principle of interaction with King Yu, he disdains to associate with people who only rely on background and have no military ability. But listening to Xing Gang, King Yu still attaches great importance to Zhang Hanshan. ”

Xuan Shaoning worships King Yu, and at present he thinks that King Yu's principles of doing things and being a man are worth learning from himself, since such people can intersect with Zhang Hanshan, it means that this Zhang Hanshan must have something extraordinary. The only thing that made Xuan Shaoning a little puzzled was that he always felt that he had heard of this person somewhere, but he couldn't remember anything now.

"None of this matters, after all, we are just soldiers, and obeying orders is our duty!" Huo Qing interrupted everyone's speculation, "Shaoning, I just want to know what happened to Zhengyuan?" ”