Chapter 106: In the Battle of Liangming Pass

Yan Guo is too small, so small that no one cares about it, just like a weed that grows hard in the gap between two boulders!

The neighboring Zhao State is too strong, no matter who attacks Yan, Zhao State will always subconsciously feel that the other party will offend him, and he has the idea of competing for the supremacy of the north.

For so many years, whether it is the Jin State, the Zheng State, or the Saiwairong Clan, whenever the Yan State is attacked, the Zhao State will participate, but the position of the Zhao State has been decided, and if the Yan State is destroyed, it is necessary to cross the long Cangyan Mountain.

The delicate geographical location has caused the Yan State to survive for decades after the successive emperors lost the ancestral inheritance, which has to be said to be a miracle.

After Lei Jieying and the three of them gathered troops from the west of Liangming Pass, within three days, they only sent a small group of infantry every day to cross the valley and constantly try to attack the city, testing the reality and reality.

It had little effect, but it also harassed the iron cavalry army in Liangming Pass, but unfortunately Zhu Hai seemed to guess the tentative intentions of the Yan army, so there were not many defenders west of Liangming Pass.

The news of the Song army, Lei Jieying and the three of them knew that the Song army had been attacking continuously in the past few days, and they must have known that the Yan army occupied the central part of Pishan Mountain, and was eager to capture Liangming Pass and move westward.

"General Lei, besieging without attacking, after all, it is not a good way, once the iron cavalry army in Yudao in the west has caught its breath and advances eastward, Zhao Jun's 50,000 cavalry may not be able to stop it, and then the favorable situation in front of us will come to naught, and we will fall into a two-sided attack." After several days of observation, Zhao Hongru noticed that the main force of the Iron Cavalry was mostly concentrated on the Liangming Guandong Line, hoping to capture the Liangming Pass in one go.

It's a pity that I don't dare to guarantee that after the pass, it will be controlled by the Yan army, and after a few days of thinking and observing the terrain, I probably have an idea in my heart.

"Lao Bai, what can you do to say it directly, don't beat around the bush!" Lei Jieying asked, without the slightest clue in three days, he began to get a little angry, and became a little impatient.

Winning Liangming Pass in front of the Song army, the difficulty has no intention of reaching the sky, if the sword soldiers are used, the two countries start a war, not to mention the defeat of the Yan army, this is not what Lin Feng wants to see.

Zhao Hongru did not hide it, motioned to Lei Bai and the two to walk to the map, pointed to the terrain of Liangming Pass, and said: "Two generals, you see, this Liangming Pass is on the eastern line of Dashan, which is a hundred miles away from the place where we are stationed, and there is a long and narrow passage in the middle.

I thought that since it was impossible to take the Liangming Pass in the hands of the Song people, it was better to build two new checkpoints between the mountain roads, one in the middle of the mountain road called the Yao Pass, and the other in this place called the Thundering Pass. Leave the male soldiers behind and block the Song army's westward advance.

It is necessary to know that Liangming Pass is the throat of the Central Plains to the east, if it is in an offensive position. For the attack from Bishan to the east, it is necessary to control Liangming Pass. Otherwise, if the Song forces took control of Liangming Pass, Zheng's eastward advance would be closed.

But in the current situation, Yan is not like Zheng Guo, there are many ways to go east, and it is currently on the defensive, setting up two new passes, and holding two new checkpoints, cutting off the enemy from the east, preventing the invasion of the Bishan area, and preserving the results of the victory of the war is the best policy.

Moreover, the two new passes were successfully built, which is closer to the Bishan Plain, convenient for supply, and easy to defend. Rao is the Song army to break through the Liangming Pass, let's defend the front line of the Pass, the Song army may not be able to conquer it, and it is not impossible to retreat in the face of difficulties.

If we insist on attacking, we are lucky enough to break through the pass, and there is also a thundering pass to resist, and the westward march of the Song Kingdom into the Central Plains will be stopped, unless we are incompetent and rely on two natural hazards, we still can't hold it.

All in all, the Liangming level is good for attacking and has a defensive function, but the purpose of the two new levels is to defend.

For the Yan Kingdom, the Thundering Pass, the Yaoguan Pass is the gateway, the Liangming Pass is the pass to the east, for the Song Kingdom, the Liangming Pass is the gateway, the Thundering Pass, the Yaoguan Pass is the pass to the west, once the two passes are completed, it is difficult for the Song State to enter the Central Plains from the Liangming Pass line.

The emperor ordered that the Liangming Pass should be captured, not only the geographical location advantage of the Liangming Pass, but also the main hope to keep the Bishan area, once the two new passes are completed, to stop the Song army, there is no need to seize the Liangming Pass, but also to keep the fruits of victory, so, what do the two generals think? ”

Without any hesitation, Bai Yisheng affirmed Zhao Hongru's plan. "This plan is very good, it can go against the emperor's intentions, I don't know if the emperor agrees, and if you want to build two checkpoints, you must start preparing immediately, otherwise, once the Song army breaks through the Liangming Pass, it will not be able to stop the other party's footsteps."

Bai Yisheng supports this suggestion, but he also has concerns.

"Lao Bai, the emperor will not be subject to foreign military orders, and the emperor will not understand the situation on the front line, so he will make the decision to take Liangming Pass, and the emperor's real purpose is to keep the Bishan Plain area, so as long as the Bishan Plain is kept, the emperor will blame the new state capital." Zhao Hongru explained.

"What Lao Zhao said is true, this plan must be implemented immediately, you two immediately find a dangerous place, set up a checkpoint, I will write a letter to the emperor to explain, if the emperor blames in the future, I will take responsibility!" Lei Jieying said, he felt that what Zhao Hongru said was good, and he had a very strategic vision, once the two checkpoints were completed, Song Yan and the two countries would confront each other at the three checkpoints.

No matter where the war occurs, the Bishan Plain area of the Yan Kingdom will not be attacked by the Song State.

The three of them unanimously decided, saying that the construction would be built, the time was tight, the task was heavy, Zhao Hongru did not dare to delay, fortunately, when he was stationed in the three days, he led people to personally survey the terrain of the valley, and the location had already been selected.

Now that he has persuaded Lei Bai and the others, now he only hopes that Liang Ming's guard Zhu Hai can hold on for a little longer.

The battle of Liangming Pass is still continuing, in the face of 200,000 Song soldiers outside the pass, the generals who defend the city, Zhu Hai is still calm and moderate, dispatching troops and sending generals, resisting the enemy outside the pass, without the slightest cowardice, or the idea of abandoning the city and fleeing.

It's just that what worries him is that the spies reported that in the valley west of Liangming Pass, the Yan army did not take the initiative to attack, but tens of thousands of troops used the rocks on the mountain to cut off part of the valley and began to build fortifications on it.

In front of that section, the Yan army set up countless traps, stumbling horses, on the mountainside, huge boulders coiled horizontally, if the battle rolling boulders, not only will block the mountain road in a short time, but also cause casualties to the attackers, basically blocking the road to the west.

Zhao Hongru's idea was very simple, never let the enemy of Liangming Pass step into the pass, either die or surrender, and during the construction of the city pass, in order to prevent the iron cavalry from sneaking attack, he had to be cautious.

160,000 elite soldiers, for the repair of the pass and the thundering pass is day and night, in the Liangming Pass when the battle is raging, within three days, in the valley, a male pass prototype rises from the ground, across the middle of the valley, the long valley is divided into two sections, has the effect of blocking the enemy of the Liangming Pass.

On the Song army's side, Song initially noticed that the Yan army was besieging but not attacking, and he didn't feel any accidents, but after a long time, the Yan army captured the Bishan area, and still besieged but not attacked, and Song Qi was a little angry.

wrote a letter to return to China and put pressure on Yan Guo, but unfortunately Lin Feng received a letter from Lei Jieying in advance, and had acquiesced to the actions of Lei Jieying and others, and he couldn't overcome it for more than ten days, and the Yan army still didn't move.

However, he received news that the Yan army could not attack Liangming Pass for a long time, and drank and had fun, and it seemed that there was no intention of breaking through Liangming Pass from the west.

After more than ten days, the Song army almost crippled the Xiliangming Pass every day, and the iron cavalry army would be reinforced overnight, and the two sides fought to the death, and fell into a stalemate for a while.

However, the news sent back by the spies scattered all over the country made Song Qi angry, and the Yan army stayed in Liangming Pass for more than a month, and he did not move forward an inch, and actually built a city pass in the valley, after reading the letter, Song Qi couldn't hold back anymore, and tore the letter in his hand into powder.

I was sorry for thinking about Yan Guo before, but Yan Jun not only broke his promise, but also hid from the sky and the sea, and secretly repaired the city pass, isn't this obviously guarding against the Song army?

Liangming Pass is strong, but it is not difficult to overcome, it has not been broken so far, because Song Qi hoped that Zheng Yan and the two countries would fight, and the Song army fished in troubled waters to overcome the pass, waved its army eastward, and took the opportunity to capture the Bishan area.

Now, the army in the west of the Yan army did not move forward an inch, planted ambushes on the mountain road and on all sides of the camp, forbade outsiders to approach, hid in the valley and built a pass, and built a thundering pass in the mountain pass.

The Song army took the Liangming Pass again to manage a bird, the mountain road that stretches for hundreds of miles is not suitable for fighting at all, if it is forcibly broken, it is strange that the Song army does not suffer heavy losses, but if it does not take the Liangming Pass, this March is not wasted.

What's more, because of the two new passes built by the Yan army, it is difficult for the Liangming Pass to advance westward, but if it is not captured, the Liangming Pass will be conquered by the Yan army in the coming day, and the Song army will be threatened by relying on the geographical location of the Liangming Pass to the east.

He can see it, the whole Yan State is on guard against the Song State, and it is clear that they are jointly attacking Zheng State, but now you are besieging and not attacking in the west, building Xiongguan, what is the difference between this and the pit father, fortunately, the Song State brought the victorious army to suppress the Iron Cavalry Army, if there were other battle conditions, I am afraid that it would have been killed by the Yan Army.

Annoyed, Song Qi ordered a fierce attack on Liangming Pass, and before the Yan army completely completed the construction of the two checkpoints, he arrived at the plain north of Bishan Mountain, and seized Shannan Road, Huainan Road and other places to vent his hatred.

Zhu Hai in Liangming Pass, after learning that the Yan army had built a pass in the mountain road and a thundering pass in the west mountain pass, already knew that the road to the west was blocked.

In front of the more than 100,000 iron cavalry soldiers in Liangming Pass, the only chance to survive is to defend Liangming Pass and wait for the rescue of Yudao in the west.

Otherwise, once the pass is broken, he will not be killed by the Song army, but for the sake of his life, he is afraid that he will have to surrender to the Yan army, which is a naked shame for him and for the Iron Cavalry.

is known as a famous general of Zheng Guo, but he is besieged by a group of unknown juniors on the east and west, which he can't bear.

"Quick, archers, crossbowmen, spread out on the walls!" Looking at the dense Song army outside, the arrows, spears, and boulders thrown on the siege equipment were flying in the air, and Zhu Hai had to make a decision to distribute the few archers and crossbowmen to the city wall.

In the past two months, the situation of you attacking and defending has never stopped, and the Song army, with its super powerful siege weapon, launched an attack on Liangming Pass day and night.

If it weren't for the steep Liangming Pass, the high pass of the city, and the danger of the city, one husband should be the pass, and ten thousand people would not be opened, that is, there were 200,000 guards in the city, and I am afraid that the pass would have been broken long ago.