"Why isn't this damn mountain over? It's been more than a month, and we're still walking around in the mountains. "On the way from Rongzhou to Mazhou, the core area of Qiqi, accompanied by the cursing of Li Tianyi and others, spread far away in the valley.

"I said Tianyi, don't scold, even if it's scolding, can you change something fresh? Just a few words back and forth, my ears can hear the cocoon coming. Li Tianyi looked at the continuous mountainous area in front of him early in the morning, and just scolded a few words, Yang Hu's joking voice came from behind him.

As soon as Li Tianyi turned around and saw Yang Hu's smiling face, he suddenly felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly, "I'll go, my dignified cavalry corps was actually caught up by you road builders, if I return to Chang'an, I will be laughed at by Chen Fan's guys." Hurry up, what's the way, hurry up and take it out. ”

Yang Hu waved his hand and said: "I don't have any good way, you just stop for a while, that is, this southwest winter is not as cold as the north, otherwise my road repair brigade will have no way to advance." You just have to endure for a few days, I just met the people of Xuanyingwei, and they said that according to our speed, it is estimated that there will be ten more days to leave the mountains, that is, at the beginning of December, and the road behind will be much easier. ”

Yang Hu's words made Li Tianyi's face a little better, and when he was bored, he could only divide the cavalry into hundreds of squads and scatter them to the periphery, on the one hand, to be on guard, and on the other hand, to expel the small forces of the almost ubiquitous Qiqi people around, so as not to disturb Yang Hu's road repair brigade. In fact, Yang Hu's subordinates were already very fast, and under the work of explosives bags and hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war in three shifts, they were forced to build bridges from Xuzhou all the way to the mountains and rivers, and built a straight road in the mountains and mountains. In order to speed up the progress, this time the engineering team carried the latest excavators developed by the industrial group, a large number of steel carriages, inverted buckets, and pulley sets have been popularized, and the efficiency is more than twice as fast as when the road was built in the mountainous areas of northern Hubei in the past.

After Li Tianyi sent out the cavalry, he left part of the infantry to carry out combat preparations, and the rest of the men and horses also took off their military uniforms to carry out the task of escorting and monitoring prisoners of war, and most of them also joined the upsurge of road construction.

A huge explosion sounded in front of the "boom", and the huge mountain was forcibly stripped from the main mountain by the impact of the gunpowder explosion, and then slid down into the valley on the side, and countless boulders, earth, rocks and trees were also swept down and piled up in front. With countless blasting experience to support, Yang Hu's 11th Construction Brigade has unparalleled experience in mountain blasting, and they can easily find the right blasting point to maximize the effect of gunpowder blasting.

"Brothers, work hard, the canned beef from the logistics department is already on the way, let's finish this, I'll give everyone canned food." Yang Hu roared in his throat, these people around him suddenly had a light in their eyes when they heard about canned beef, you must know that the construction brigade is the backbone of the industrial workers who have been registered, and the field operation is not only subsidized, but also the food is guaranteed, but most of the prisoners of war do not have this treatment, they belong to the stage of hard labor, so the food is naturally much worse, at this moment, when I heard that there is canned hair, or beef, I immediately started to work a lot faster. The excavators and bulldozers pushed all the obstacles such as rocks and trees in front of them into the valley, and the workers next to them began to clear the obstacles with hammers and shovels out of the reach of the excavators. The other manpower continued to find the blasting point and continued to blast, and in one morning, the mountain was forcefully penetrated, and all the earth and rocks were pushed into the valley, directly opening a road. After the excavators and bulldozers drove over, the remaining manpower began to trim the road surface, lay the stones and sand brought from the rear, and then compacted the road surface.

If Li Xuanqing was here, he would definitely frown, the quality of the road built by this method was seriously problematic, and it would not last long and would need to be maintained. However, at this time, it was wartime, in order to be able to quickly open up the road to the front line, this method did not matter, even Yang Yi himself did this before, and the Ministry of Communications also nodded in agreement. As long as the mountainous area is opened, even if the road surface is resurfaced in the later stage, it can be drawn.

Since Li Tianyi had nothing to do, he simply soaked in the construction site of the engineering team, chatting with Yang Hu, and directing the workers around him to hurry up and work. There are countless blasting and construction sites like this in this lofty mountain, and Yang Hu adopts the method of sectional construction and starts construction at multiple points at the same time. It's just that large machinery such as excavators can only be hoisted in the rear, and cannot be directly transported to other construction sites. Therefore, countless laborers are still needed in other places to remove the obstacles such as soil and rocks caused by blasting.

However, while Li Tianyi was jumping and staring at the construction team, Xue Yang's assault troops were walking through the lofty mountains, and the third battalion should have opened a way for the forward troops to walk out of a road in the mountains and march directly towards Enzhou in the north of Qiqi.

"Brother, how is the investigation over there in the mountain camp? How far are we from Enzhou? Xue Yang stood on the top of a mountain, and the large army on the mountainside set off in zigzags, and the whistling sound of the Jinsha River could be heard nearby.

"It stands to reason that we are not far from Enzhou now, and according to the current pace of marching, it is probably a matter of the next few days. I just don't know if Tianyi has mobilized the soldiers and horses to assemble in the direction of Mazhou, otherwise, even if we occupy Enzhou, I am afraid that we may not achieve strategic results. Xu Ying stood aside and sighed: "The people of Xuanyingwei said that the logistics troops we supported from the northern front are already waiting near Enzhou, and we can be regarded as being able to get support nearby in the past." ”

"Don't worry about Tianyi, as long as we are advancing, then we can't help but pay attention to the movements of the team, so it is easy for the people to guess the direction of Tianyi's march, so in order to keep Massachusetts, the people have to concentrate their troops and horses in Massachusetts to wait for Tianyi's arrival. Moreover, the main force has almost 100,000 troops, so there will be no shortage of men and horses that the Qiqi people need to assemble. After we take Enzhou, it will be equivalent to ending their supply location in the north. At that time, we will be able to gather with Tianyi's large army from Enzhou and defeat the main force of the Qiqi people outside the city of Massachusetts. Xue Yang shook his head, he didn't care about Xu Ying's worries, he was worried about so many mountains, he was afraid that he might not be able to cooperate well with Tianyi at that time, in case the speed of his return to the army was not timely, then Tianyi would need to face the pressure of the army alone.

"Order the troops to speed up, let's speed up again, throw away all the unnecessary equipment, and the whole army will advance lightly. Let Xuan Yingwei prepare in Enzhou City, let's find a way to raid Enzhou and completely destroy the grain base of the Qiqi people in Enzhou. As soon as Xue Yang thought of this, the solemn aura on his face also increased again, and he began to order the troops to speed up.

Xue Yang's worries Xu Ying naturally knew, so the two of them urged the troops to advance towards Enzhou one after the other. At this time, the Qiqi people also began to take countermeasures to the direction of Li Tianyi's brigade's march, because Li Tianyi's side was marching with great fanfare, and the blasting of the construction team was almost blatantly informing the Qiqi people of the direction of the Tiance Army's march, so the chief of the Qiqi naturally knew that the Tiance Army was coming towards his own Massachusetts. It's just that this place in Mazhou is not protected by a strong city wall like other Han cities, it is actually a water village by the mountains and rivers, and the Qiqi people do not have much awareness of building a city, and there is basically no condition to build a city in the Hengduan Mountains. Therefore, when the chief of the Qi Dynasty learned that he was coming directly to his lair, he immediately became anxious, and on the one hand, he summoned people from all directions to gather in Mazhou, and on the other hand, he was anxious that the elders and generals came to the water village to discuss countermeasures.

In fact, the losses of the Muqi people in the previous battles also made some people in the clan realize that the Han Chinese regime had re-emerged. It was only after the end of the Tang Dynasty that the central government lost control of the southwest region, and Nanzhao attacked Sichuan and Shu several times with the support of the Tubo people, and the result was that the ethnic minorities in the southwest region accelerated the pace of breaking away from the jurisdiction of the central government. But at this time, the news of the unification of the Central Plains and Jiangnan had spread to the southwest, and Qi Qi had also seen the combat power of the Tiance Army before, so some people, especially those old elders, began to think of the scene of the unprecedentedly powerful empire a hundred years ago.

It's just that this suggestion can't be done for today's great chieftains and young nobles, who are accustomed to the life of independent kings, and if they submit to the Tang Dynasty, they will inevitably lose this life, especially for the great chiefs who are interested in unifying the southwest and establishing a new kingdom of Qiqi, which is unacceptable. So the meeting broke up unhappily.

After dismissing the elders, the Great Chief of the Heavens brought in the high priest with a radical young general, who prayed for the gods to give a little revelation. However, the high priest bluntly told the Great Chief that the Great Chieftain was facing an unprecedented calamity, and the gods allowed the Great Khan to think carefully and prepare for the future of his people.

It's just that the meaning conveyed by these words in the ears of the Great Chief of the Tomb is to prepare him for war. Because the high priest's previous two messages were the same as this time, he chose war, and he agreed, the first time to Nanzhaoren, and the second time to Liu Shizheng. After hearing this sentence for the third time, the chief of the Qiqi no longer hesitated, and immediately summoned all the soldiers and horses of the Qiqi to come to Massachusetts, and ordered all the Qiqi people to prepare for war, saying that this was a call by the gods to make the greatest efforts for freedom and independence.

This action of the Great Chief of the Elders made the elders of the Council of Elders sigh, and the Great Elder summoned everyone overnight to secretly study the follow-up matters.

"The meaning of the gods is incomprehensible to the Great Chief, and I am afraid that my people will face death and have no place to bury. Is there anything you can do to stop this catastrophe? The Great Elder's beard was snow-white, and he sat cross-legged on the ground and sighed as he looked at the old man beside him.

Now it seems that the only way to find the high priest is to find it. High Elder, the High Priest is your granddaughter, and we hope that you will be able to persuade the High Priest to re-read the will of the gods and stop the Great Khan. The Second Elder beside the Great Elder coughed a few times and then said intermittently.

"The High Priest alone is no longer able to return to heaven at this time. The Great Chieftain's side was ready for war, and even if the High Priest came forward to re-read the will of the gods, it would be useless. We need to disband the Great Chief's troops. "Compared with the second elder's method, the third elder is much more radical, and the method he came up with is also to the point. However, the government affairs of the Yakuza are basically the responsibility of the big chiefs. The Council of Elders was only able to oversee and did not use more power than other tribes. In fact, this was originally a big step forward for Qi Qi, who could concentrate the strength of the whole clan to do great things, but at this time it became a burden.

"I think we need to send people out to find the people of the Tang Dynasty, so that they know that we are not all trying to oppose the imperial court, and I hope that the other party can show mercy and keep the ordinary clansmen and fires for me to prevent the whole clan from being destroyed." The Great Elder shook his head and said his own solution. However, this method could not be agreed by everyone, and the weakness of a hundred years made these elders not believe in the Han people from the root, although they also thought that the Great Chief of Qiqi could not deal with the Tiance army, but they did not want to believe the Han people.

The Great Elder also knew that everyone didn't believe his idea, but what he didn't say was that he had actually done it, but so far he hadn't found anyone who could connect with the Tang Imperial Court.

After the Council of Elders, the Great Elder dragged his heavy steps to the temple of the Monk, which was the residence of the High Priest and the place where the gods were worshipped.

The Tiance army is facing a differentiation in the pressure of the Tiance army, and Li Tianyi's movements are also detected by the surrounding people and continue to spread to the Massachusetts royal court, the strength of the Tiance army and their method of opening mountains and blowing up rocks make the heart of the chief of the Tiance army shrouded in an indelible shadow. After thinking about it for a long time, he began to quickly send people to convey orders, mobilize tribal armies from the north to the south of Massachusetts, and began to urgently transfer himself and some noble families in the water village to Enzhou in the north.

This move of the Great Chief of the Qi was carried out in secret, but it brought new changes to this war, and what Xue Yang did not expect was that the Great Chief of the Qi would send such a big gift to himself. And what the chief of the Qiqi didn't expect was that he originally wanted to transfer his family out, but what he didn't expect was that it was directly delivered to the enemy, and even so, the army in the north did not return to help Massachusetts, but was completely annihilated by a force that appeared out of thin air on the way.

In fact, not long after the departure of the northern army, the troops led by Xue Yang also drilled out of the mountains and appeared not far from Enzhou City. There are also a lot more people here near Enzhou, even if Xuan Yingwei detected a relatively safe road in advance, it was still discovered by the people. However, at this time, Xue Yang immediately decided to enter the battle directly despite the fatigue of the troops, and appeared outside Enzhou City under the surprise of the Enzhou defenders, and under the secret guard arranged by Xuanyingwei, he opened the gate of Enzhou, and the army forcibly entered the city, surrounded Enzhou from the outside to the inside, annihilated the defenders in the city, and recovered the only big city in the north of the city.