"Wen Mo people want to be guarded? Nothing wrong with it, right? After Wan Yi arrived at the front line and Shi Jian carefully inspected the Tiger Hill Pass, they were a little angry about the behavior of this old opponent in the past. He had never seen a man defend a city from the end of the world.

Shi Jian took a step forward and said, "Dashuai, I'm afraid that the thoughts of the Wen people are not so simple, and I am afraid that this dangerous city is waiting for the rescue of the Uighurs." Zhao Si of Xuan Yingwei has already begun to conduct a secret battle in Ganzhou, and the Flying Eagle Brigade has also entered the area west of Huqiu Pass in disguise. Since the news of the Uighur troops had not yet been delivered to the Tiance army at the front, this did not prevent Shi Jian from speculating on the movements of the Uighurs, and comparing his attitude towards other tribes along the way must have made the Uighurs feel sad that the rabbit had died and the fox had died, and most of Ganzhou itself was ruled by the Uighurs.

"Don't worry about the Uighurs. Although Wen Mo'er blocked the advance of our army at Tiger Hill Pass, the terrain of this place was also not suitable for Uighur reinforcements. It can be said that although the Wen people chose a dangerous pass to guard, they actually cut off most of the roads that reinforcements might give them support. Wan Yi paid little attention to the Uighurs. In fact, even if the Uighurs were able to appear on the battlefield, he would not have any worries. Tieliang's heavy cavalry battalion has emerged from the rear, and the heavy cavalry battalion still retains the general heavy armor formation, which is used for the large-scale cavalry of the opponent that may be encountered during the western expedition. It is this Tiger Hill Pass that makes Wan Yi frown, Tiger Hill Pass is built on the mountain, located between the two mountains, it is the first pass after the west out of the Hexi Corridor, and it is also an important checkpoint to lock the Northwest Desert into the Hexi Corridor. Originally, when the city was built, in addition to the defense factors, the most important thing was to block the wind and sand from the west from entering the west of the river. It's just that now it has become a major difficulty in blocking the westward advance of the Tiance army.

"Dashuai, Xuan Yingwei's side is probably trying to open the city gate after entering the city, should we wait?" Shi Jian saw that Wan Yi's eyes were always on the Tiger Hill Pass, and he knew his thoughts, so he stepped forward and asked.

Wan Yi shook his head and said: "This level is too steep, I'm afraid that Xuan Yingwei will not have much chance under Wen Mo'er's key defense, and besides, the Han people in the Western Regions are in a difficult situation, even if Xuan Yingwei can rebel against some people, I am afraid that there will be no way to open the city gate." We still have to base ourselves on fighting. But it's just in time, try the latest shells from the equipment department. You go and find a way to inform the Xuan Ying Guard, and let them evacuate all the people in the city that we can control to the West City, away from the battle zone. After Wan Yi gave these orders, he began to order Liu Xuan, who was the chief of staff of the Western Expeditionary Group Army, to set up camp and arrange the position of the artillery battalion in advance. Today's Tiance Army has completely entered the era of hot weapons, and firepower preparation is a necessary procedure before all battles begin, so the Military Academy has studied the coordinated tactics of infantry and artillery under the prompting of Li Xuanqing, and is ready to further clarify the role and strike order of artillery in different battlefield situations.

Just when Wan Yi began to prepare for the battle, Zhao Si followed the Flying Eagle Brigade into the Tiger Hill Pass, but found that the geographical conditions here were not suitable for the tactics formulated by the Xuanying Guard, although the combat effectiveness of the Flying Eagle Brigade was very strong, but it was still unable to pry open the city gate under the strict defense of hundreds of thousands of troops, and in desperation, he could only let the Xuanying Guard in the city continue to cooperate with Su Xiaohu to wander around the city, and he drilled out of the Tiger Hill Pass overnight and returned to the camp.

However, although Zhao Si did not complete the task, he also had a clear understanding of the terrain and structure of the pass, which was still very useful for the next artillery battalion's artillery bombardment plan. After much thought, Wan Yi decided to abandon the Xuanyingwei's plan, and asked him to inform the Flying Eagle Brigade to withdraw from the Guannai and cover the surrounding Han people's operations instead, destroying their ruling base in the surrounding areas while attacking the main force of the Wenmo people, and killing the few tribal leaders who were still serving the Wenmo people.

This plan is very much in line with the operational characteristics of the Flying Eagle Brigade, after Xuan Yingwei informed the Flying Eagle Brigade, Su Xiaohu led the people to withdraw from the Guannei overnight and began to go to the area of about a few hundred miles in the northern land, and successfully destroyed the three bases of the Wen Mo people that night, and about tens of thousands of war horses were directly released by the Flying Eagle Brigade The railings around the horse farm were directly bombarded to the grassland.

And in the following time, the combat goals of the Flying Eagle Brigade were directly focused on the rulers of these regions, Su Xiaohu did not have as much patience as Xuan Yingwei to check the history and family affairs of these people, and directly and categorically ordered that as long as they were not Han Chinese, they would be killed. This order directly paralyzed Gan Dongbei and put everyone in danger, almost within a few days, this murderous demon king army killed all the officials of dozens of settlements, and even the leaders of the northwest tribes who were originally local rich people were also killed.

In fact, Su Xiaohu gave himself a few mouths at this time, because he did not kill the backbone of these tribes in a hurry, and he did not contact the people of the logistics department to keep up, resulting in these properties basically not being able to be retained, but because of his own massacre, these tribes began to migrate one after another.

After realizing their mistake, the Flying Eagle Brigade also began to change its plan, and while letting the logistics department follow him, the Flying Eagle Brigade was divided into more than a dozen squads, relying on strong combat effectiveness and equipment armed to the teeth. They suppressed four or five Qiang forces who were preparing to flee to the northern mountains and grasslands at the same time, and left them trapped in the local area and unable to move. And after suppressing these people, Su Xiaohu didn't say much, and directly sent a message to these tribes, if you want to live, take money to buy it. There are even prescribing how much a person has to pay for a head, and how much money is for grain and horses. Even later, he came directly to say that he could exchange the heads of the Wens or Uighurs for his own life.

At first, many people of these five Qiang tribes did not believe in this evil, and began to counterattack the preset defense line of the Flying Eagle Brigade with a large force, but what shocked them was that these nameless troops with only a dozen people in a small team were not inferior to the regular troops in any way, and even their own people were killed one by one before they could enter their bodies at all. The Flying Eagle Brigade almost never uses a second trick to kill, whether it is a musket shot or a cold weapon engagement, they have made killing an art. Moreover, under the intervention of Li Xuanqing, the prototype cannon newly developed by the Equipment Department to imitate the mortars of later generations was brought to the battlefield by these guys. This kind of small cannon with a very fast rate of fire disrupted everyone's rhythm almost as soon as it entered the battlefield, and the continuous dense shells like arrows turned these Northwest cavalry armed with cold weapons into live targets, and there was no room to fight back. Moreover, the Flying Eagle Brigade basically had no rear when fighting, so they fought for a period of time to change places, and in order to kill these people, they used any tricks, and they did everything they could.

So now a strange phenomenon has formed near Huqiu Pass, the main force of Wan Yi's Western Expedition Force is still preparing for a decisive battle outside the pass, but in addition to Huqiu Pass, the Flying Eagle Brigade under the command of Su Xiaohu has been beaten into a pot of porridge, and the personnel of the logistics department will transport back a large number of military supplies, war horses, cattle and sheep, and even a lot of people almost every day, anyway, for Su Xiaohu's virtue, everything is a good thing, and it will always be useful to move back.

Therefore, Wen Mo'er, who was in the pass, had an illusion, that is, the main force of the Tiance Army in front of him was the feint army, and those active small forces were the real killer forces. But just when he was still hesitating to send people to support other places, Wan Yi was also ready. Compared with the battle of the Flying Eagle Brigade, which only weakened the local ruling base of the Wens and Uighurs, suppressed the resistance of a few tribes in the northwest to the entry of the Tiance army, and then supported those Han people who were lonely and had no hope of resistance, the victory or defeat of the frontal battlefield was the matter of life and death that determined the entry of the Tiance army into the northwest. So after getting ready, let Shi Jian be in charge of the front line command and attack Tiger Hill Pass. At the same time, Tie Liang was summoned to speed up, preparing to attack the Tiger Hill Pass while allowing Tie Liang to intercept the main force of the Uighur forces that had come out to support the Wen Mo people, and start a war on two fronts.

Today's Wan Yi has sufficient capital to fight on two fronts, and the Wen people are guarding the pass, which means that as long as his army is still under the city, the defenders in the city will not be able to fight out of the city, which provides conditions for Wan Yi to attack the city with a small number of troops. Therefore, when Wan Yi made siege deployments, he was basically Shi Jian's 30,000 vanguard troops, and in addition, two battalions of follow-up troops were prepared for entering the city, and the remaining 50,000 people had already lurked in advance according to the information provided by Xuan Yingwei and prepared to cooperate with Tie Liang's heavy cavalry battalion when necessary.

"Chief of Staff, why is the artillery we used this time different from the last time? I've seen the situation of the artillery battalion when Chen Dashuai was in the division from the northern front, why is the cannon barrel not as big as ours? "On April 28, the third year of the Apocalypse, today was originally the day when the artillery battalion conducted artillery tests, but early in the morning, Shi Jian came to the artillery position and saw that the dozens of artillery pieces in front of him not only had a lot longer barrels, but also carried one iron hoop after another. Shi Jian touched these barrels that looked almost a circle thick, and said with a smile: "How many caliber is this gun, Chief of Staff?" ”

"General Shi, our artillery has now reached 125 mm, but it is a circle larger than Chen Shuai's Northern Expedition. What we brought with us on this expedition to the west are the latest new guns produced by the Equipment Department. Because the metric unit of measurement advocated by Li Xuanqing has been fully popularized, Shi Jian and others knew how big the 125 mm represented when they heard it.

Shi Jian nodded when he heard this, and said, "In that case, what else are you testing?" Wasn't the shelling table determined by the direction provided by the Xuanying Guard? You're not really going to test the new cannon, are you? ”

Liu Xuan shook his head and said with a wry smile: "My General Shi, this is not a problem with the artillery, but a new type of artillery shell newly produced by the artillery shell factory of the Equipment Department this time, this is a new type of artillery shell, to be precise, it should be an incendiary shell." It seems that this is still the recipe provided by the queen's industrial group. During the live-fire test, we found that this kind of combustion elastic performance is unstable, and it is particularly prone to spontaneous combustion and self-explosion, and the transportation conditions are very harsh. We managed to bring in 500 pieces this time, so we plan to test it and feed back the data to the Equipment Division as soon as possible. ”

"Five hundred? Too little. Shi Jian didn't care about other things, but he felt that the number of only five hundred shells was too small. So he directly stopped Liu Xuan and asked him to wait and test again, and reflexively went to find Wan Yi, he couldn't waste such an expensive shell.

"You mean to put into siege immediately after testing?" After listening to Shi Jian's report, Wan Yi nodded after a long time and said, "It's also said that no matter how effective the incendiary bomb is, you need to siege the city, so these tests don't mean much to you." In that case, you should immediately inform the troops to prepare, and let the artillery battalion go on attack as soon as you are ready. If the incendiary shells are not effective, they are immediately replaced with the previous shells. At the same time, the blasting team was summoned to prepare, and the leap blasting was carried out at the same time as the shelling. "Obviously, Wan Yi is also worried about the problem of this fortress, you must know that it is unlikely to directly blow up the city pass by relying on artillery attacks, and if you want to break the city, you still need to rely on the demoman, fortunately, the demolition team on the side of the Tiance Army has become the official establishment of the army, and the blasting methods and techniques have also been updated several times, relatively speaking, Wan Yi's confidence in them is more than that of the artillery battalion.

Shi Jian immediately began to prepare after hearing Wan Yi's reply, and Wan Yi took Zhao Si to the front line to prepare for a close look at the battle after letting the herald convey the order to Tie Liang and Xue Wanli, who was in charge of the ambush. Because of Li Xuanqing's existence, after the advent of gunpowder, the weapons of the Tiance Army were updated too quickly, so the General Staff issued a hard indicator to the generals at all levels of the Tiance Army, that is, if it is necessary to organize all senior generals to observe as much as possible in every campaign or test of new weapons, so as to intuitively understand the power of new weapons, so as to avoid misjudgment of the power of weapons on the battlefield.

However, at this time, Zhao Si received the latest information from Xuan Yingwei on the way, and the cavalry of the Uighurs had appeared more than a hundred miles away from Huqiu Pass. The 100,000 cavalry dispatched with great momentum, so there were almost no mistakes in the intelligence of the Xuanying Guard's close range.

"Does that mean it's possible that we're going to fight on both sides on April 28th? Is the artillery battalion over there ready for Xue Wanli? A charge of 100,000 cavalry is no small matter. Wan Yi stood beside Liu Xuan and nodded slightly and asked.

"Please rest assured, the marshal is ready over there, General Xue's fifty artillery pieces have already been prepared, and they have been hidden, and when the time comes, they will hit the opponent's vanguard as soon as possible." Liu Xuan replied while looking at the preparations of the troops on Shi Jian's side.

"I'm just watching the battle today, and you and Shi Jian are preparing by themselves. The staff officers trained by the General Staff have now been gradually improved, and you will also have to participate in leading the army in the future, and you can't always be the chief of staff. Wan Yi nodded.

Wan Yi did not participate in the specific command, and Liu Xuan immediately communicated with Shi Jian, who was on the front line, through the flag, and immediately ordered the artillery battalion to immediately start shelling. I saw a completely different kind of shell marked red as before, stuffed into the barrel, and then ignited and fired.

"Boom, boom, boom" 50 artillery pieces opened fire at the same time, and a stream of fiery red flames rose into the sky, carrying more than 50 incendiary bombs straight to the Tiger Hill Pass, only to see that in an instant, these shells landed and exploded, and then brought up huge flames, instantly enveloping a whole area, and suddenly thick smoke billowed and the flames soared into the sky. The wreckage of the shells began to ignite everything around it.

"Oh my God, what the hell is this monster? It can't be a devil from hell, right? Wan Yi couldn't help muttering to himself when he saw that almost instantly, the entire Tiger Hill Pass was shrouded in smoke and flames.