In fact, there are hundreds of large and small plateau basins (commonly known as dams) in Guizhou, and the Guiyang Basin is one of them, the city is not only surrounded by mountains, but also has a turbulent Nanming River in the south of the city, and the terrain is very dangerous.

Yaguan in the north of the city, Tuyun Pass in the south of the city, are all dangerous passes built by the mountain, plus the Nanming River that surrounds the city, forming a natural barrier in the periphery of Guiyang.

After Liu Wenxiu crossed the Nanming River, Guiyang was already close at hand, but he had been pressing the speed of the march, and was not in a hurry to attack Tuyun Pass, anyway, at this time, it was impossible for the Chu army to abandon the city and escape, Liu Wenxiu would rather spend more time adjusting the formation, while waiting for reinforcements from Yunnan and Guangxi.

Three days later, these two long-distance Western armies arrived in place one after another, Liu Wenxiu sent one of them to outflank the west side of Guiyang, and then sent a vanguard army to Tuyun Pass, because of the road conditions, the main force of the Western Army was concentrated on the south side, commanded by Liu Wenxiu personally, with a force of 100,000 troops, including more than 30,000 soldiers, a total of 50,000 horses in the other three directions, and more than 10,000 soldiers, mainly responsible for blocking and intercepting to prevent the Chu army from breaking through at the last moment.

Not surprisingly, Tuyun Pass was really guarded by the Chu army, Liu Wenxiu's vanguard tried to attack once, and saw that the defense of the Chu army had no obvious flaws, so they retreated and stopped at the bottom of the mountain, waiting for the follow-up main force, after Liu Wenxiu arrived, he set up a large camp in front of the mountain, left the baggage troops and most of the auxiliary troops here, and then led his troops into the mountain.

In the face of the brave and good fighting Chu army, as well as Tuyun Guantian, Liu Wenxiu did not dare to be careless, and ordered the auxiliaries to build this camp very strongly, so that it can not only rely on the unfavorable time of the war, but also ensure the safety of the baggage troops, and also make the bloated troops effectively streamlined, do not need to carry tens of thousands of useless auxiliary troops into the mountains, and do not have to take care of the vulnerable baggage troops when fighting, After conquering Tuyun Pass, just let the baggage troops follow.

The 100,000 army suddenly became a 60,000 army, including more than 20,000 auxiliaries, responsible for carrying heavy armor and weapons to ensure the physical strength of the soldiers, the number of this army is still too much, squeezed together will hinder each other, unable to march normally, in addition to the danger of being attacked by the enemy, Liu Wenxiu spread out the troops as much as possible, and divided them into the front army, the middle army and the rear army, and distanced themselves from each other and marched towards Tuyun Pass.

This big road of Tuyun Pass is the ancient post road in and out of Guiyang, although it crosses the mountains and mountains, but it is built wide to run horses, the two cars go side by side, the armor soldiers of the western army and the auxiliary soldiers who carry the armor and weapons all take the main road, the other light armor and the unarmored soldiers take the path of the mountainside and the foot of the mountain, tens of thousands of soldiers pull into a long dragon in the mountain, sometimes do not enter the woods, sometimes appear in the mountains, from time to time with flags and whistles to transmit information between each other, the Nanming River at the foot of the mountain meanders to the northeast direction.

The mountains were undulating, and when they came to a fork in the mountain, Liu Wenxiu looked left and right at the terrain and ordered the troops to stop advancing.

"Have you carefully explored this path on the west side?" He asked the scouts of the vanguard.

"Back to the prince's words, I waited for the day before yesterday to explore the west for twenty miles, and there was nothing abnormal, and there were also sentry sentries on several adjacent mountains, and if there was any wind and grass, I would raise a cigarette to warn ......" The scout replied in detail.

"The topography here...... Send one more team, no, three more scouts to the west, and every mountain peak and valley must not be missed. Liu Wenxiu looked at the surrounding terrain again, and the feeling of uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, and he rose and fell along the mountain, forming a long and steep slope here, and the road leading to Tuyun Pass passed under the hillside, if the Chu army hid an ambush on the west side of the path, it would pose a serious threat to the army.

The scout took the order and left, Liu Wenxiu closed his eyes and waited patiently.

The terrain road near Guiyang has long been engraved in his mind, this path should lead to the west of Guiyang, and the Tuyun Pass can be bypassed by crossing the mountains and mountains, if the Chu army does not dare to come out to fight with him, but to defend the Tuyun Pass, he can send a force to outflank the pass from this path, and attack from both sides.

This possibility is completely existent, Liu Wenxiu has fought for half his life, has seen a lot of unbelievable things, when an army falls into a desperate situation with no way to escape, sometimes it will do something completely unreasonable, in his opinion, the Chu army has fallen into a desperate situation, cornered, even if he knows that Tuyun Pass cannot be defended, it is possible that in order to delay the speed of the Western Army's attack, he must defend Tuyun Pass and waste his precious troops here.

Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong are not without opportunities.

When they captured Guiyang, they once held the initiative, and the best choice was to rest for two days, and then abandon the city and flee while the encirclement of the Western Army had not yet closed, and start a large-scale wandering operation, which was the most headache for the Western Army, and Liu Wenxiu could not predict how long it would take and how many places would be destroyed in order to destroy this Chu army. But Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong were reluctant to give up Guiyang, and had been waiting here for the Western Army to attack, although the city of Guiyang was strong, and there was a lot of grain and grass in the city, but the lone army guarded such a dead city, and after being surrounded by the Western Army, it would be a dead end sooner or later.

Up to now, the most likely choice for the Chu army is to take advantage of the geographical advantages of Tuyun Pass and fight to the death with the Western Army here.

If Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong have 20,000 soldiers, they will not have no chance of winning against Liu Wenxiu's more than 30,000 soldiers, but Liu Wenxiu will also plan and deliberately divide his troops into four ways to lure them into battle, in order to end the war in Guizhou as soon as possible.

"Come on, set up an ambush on this path, the terrain here is an excellent battlefield, even if Tan Thief and Zhou Thief don't know soldiers, Liu Thief is a veteran general, it shouldn't disappoint me!"

In Liu Wenxiu's mind, Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong are not worthy of being his opponents, these two young people are also lucky to become the generals of the Chu army, and they don't have much real ability, the ones who are really commanding the battle in the Western Expeditionary Army are still Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun, since Yuan Zongdi is not here, Liu Tichun is the opponent in his mind.

"Whoosh~!"

An arrow suddenly rushed into the sky, and then, a white pillar of smoke rose from the peak on the west side, Liu Wenxiu looked up, the peak of the pillar of smoke was far away, and there were two mountains in between, the Chu army hid the ambush there, no wonder it could avoid the scouts.

"Liu thief, Liu thief, you are really cunning."

An imperceptible smile flashed on Liu Wenxiu's face, Liu Tichun arranged the ambush soldiers so far, it was really painstaking, it was estimated that he wanted to wait until it was dark and then quietly touch it up, outflanking the back road of the Western Army, and now that they have been discovered, they will be easily eliminated, and the enemy will be cut off.

On the mountain peak in the distance, the wolf smoke changed again, and the first pillar of smoke had been extinguished, replaced by five pillars of smoke, black and white, forming a rough circle.

"Five thousand soldiers? Hehe, Liu Tichun's capital is not small. ”

According to Liu Wenxiu's speculation, the Chu army has a maximum of 20,000 soldiers, but the actual situation may be far lower than this number, for example, it is normal to have only 10,000 soldiers, Liu Tichun's troops are limited, but he ambushed 5,000 soldiers here, which shows that he has high hopes for this ambush.

As long as these 5,000 soldiers are defeated, half of the battle of Guiyang will be won.

Liu Wenxiu had already arranged just now, and transferred the two generals Gao Wengui and Lu Mingchen to the west path, they had 10,000 elite soldiers under their command, and they were just sent to attack the 5,000 Chu army, and there were continuous mountains nearby, and this path was very narrow, if the Chu army escaped, it would inevitably cause a rout, and could only fight with Gao Wengui and Lu Mingchen, and take this opportunity to weigh the combat effectiveness of the Chu army.

Escorted by a team of personal soldiers, Liu Wenxiu climbed to a high place, and the battlefield in the distance was unobstructed.

The 5,000 Chu army was hiding in the ravine just now, and when they saw the Western army attacking, they rushed to climb a hillside first, condescendingly faced Gao Wengui and Lu Mingchen, and lined up to meet them.

The drums of war were fierce, bows and arrows rained down, and the two armies quickly engaged in battle, like two beasts of prey, first probing each other a few times, and then slamming into each other.

"Courage is commendable."

Liu Wenxiu bowed slightly, no matter whether the combat effectiveness of the five thousand Chu troops was strong or weak, but with this courage alone, he had already defeated most of the armies in the world.

Generally speaking, the two armies at war are always strong and weak, the weaker side will choose to defend, the scene of the two armies choosing to attack at the same time is rare, the Chu army with 5,000 troops, but dare to hedge head-on with 10,000 Western Army, the opposite Western Army also rushed up without hesitation, thousands of soldiers sacrificed their lives and forgot to die bravely forward, this magnificent scene made Liu Wenxiu, who had experienced a hundred battles, also moved.

"Good soldier!"

Less than a stick of incense after the battle began, Liu Wenxiu had already determined that the combat effectiveness of the 5,000 Chu army was very strong, no less than the elite of Gao Wengui and Lu Mingchen's Western Army, and it was difficult to take down the other party in a short period of time with only Gao Wengui and Lu Mingchen's 10,000 horses.

The enemy's combat power is stronger than imagined.

This made Liu Wenxiu faintly worried.

He secretly made a decision that he could not continue to advance towards Tuyun Pass until the five thousand Chu troops were eliminated, so as not to be threatened in the rear.

Standing on a high place, looking at the surrounding terrain again, Liu Wenxiu frowned slightly, this mountain range is full of yellow grass and vegetation in winter, all of which are flammable materials in case of fire, if the Chu army uses fire to attack, the western army will inevitably be anxious.