Chapter Ninety-Three: An Assassination on an Unprecedented Scale

There are more than twenty first-class masters, and there are four or five hundred second-rate and third-rate masters combined, and most of the clan soldiers from various families are also guys who have been practicing martial arts for a while.

After joining forces with the Blood Qi Army, Chi Yun did not ask for command, but left all of them to Dai Yun's arrangement. Those clan soldiers from major families may be able to obey Chi Yun's identity and qualifications, but they are not willing to obey the orders of a little girl who is less than twenty years old. Dai Yun was too lazy to entangle with those guys on the question of whether she was qualified or not, she asked Chi Yun to control the troops by herself, keep up with the pace of the Blood Qi Army, and didn't want to fight for the so-called unified command at all. However, in the next few days, on the march that finally led to Xunshan Pass, but still needed to evade the enemy's tracking and reconnaissance, the soldiers and the people of the rivers and lakes were completely convinced. As a disciple of the Lotus Leaf Sword Peng Ji, Dai Yun's swordsmanship and skills can probably only be said to be average, but on the battlefield, this little girl is so radiant, and the Blood Qi Army, under her precise and courageous command, has won several consecutive encounters.

After having the mixed troops led by Chi Yun join, and after weighing the risks of releasing the captured Dongping sergeants and the complications that might be caused, Dai Yun gave up his original plan, and instead marched at an ultra-high speed and after going around in a big circle, he marched to Dongjia Town, which was not far from Xunshan Pass. After taking control of all the access roads in Dongjia Town, they began to discuss a specific plan for attacking Xunshan Pass.

And the mixed troops, including many masters of the rivers and lakes, make a tactic that is absolutely impossible for an ordinary army to come out. There are still a few masters who are good friends with major families, or they are not deeply experienced, but they are people with high martial arts prestige, but more are guys who take refuge in the family. Some of these people had to go incognito because they had offended certain people, while others were protected by serving as attendants and worshippers. So that they can avoid being pursued by the government in some of the more troublesome cases. After listening to Dai Yun and Chi Yun's explanation, these masters let them sneak in first, carry out sabotage and assassination activities, and try to open the city gate, although most of them pretended to be reserved and silent, but many of them showed eager expressions. And the glint in the eyes of some guys who pretend to be decent gentlemen and pretend to be competent shows that they are obviously not indifferent to such tactics.

The vigilance of the Xiling army at Xunshan Pass cannot be said to be imstrict. But this kind of strictness has no great effect on the masters of the rivers and lakes. Xunshan Pass is built by climbing on the cliffs on both sides, and the rock walls that are difficult for ordinary people to climb are not a big problem for these people.

The fighting first began in the center of Xunshan Pass. More than ten years ago, when a famous Jiangyang thief infiltrated Xunshan Pass, he was accidentally noticed by several generals with good martial arts skills in the residence of the general of Xunshan Pass, and the battle broke out suddenly. But by this time, more than 200 people had already infiltrated Xunshan Pass. The door on the side facing Dongping has been controlled, and after the two canopies smoke, several people from the rivers and lakes easily opened the door. At the head of the city on this side, which originally stretched from both sides to the middle, there were already many Xiling soldiers who had their throats cut without seeing the enemy at all. When the lieutenants of the Xunshan Pass General's Mansion rushed into the police room to ring the bell to warn. found that the soldiers stationed in the police room fell to the ground, and the bronze bell, which was more than 800 pounds, was actually removed from the beam, placed firmly on the ground, and could no longer be sounded. That's when they realized. Dongping's infiltration of Xunshan Pass has reached a certain extent. The Xiling army stationed in Xunshan Pass could only spread from the center to the surrounding with the flames of war, and gradually entered the battle with the hurried heralds' call-out warnings, and in such an inefficient transmission, the true and false heralds gave the captains and sergeants in the barracks everywhere a headache. Some very confident guys will pretend to be heralds, hehe sneered and conveyed the warning signal and immediately killed the officer, and then fled in front of a group of Xiling soldiers......

Xunshan Pass was tossed by more than two hundred masters, and at this time. The closing door was opened. The cavalry of the Blood Qi Army roared directly into the Xunshan Pass. Although there are as many as 30,000 Xiling soldiers stationed in Xunshan Pass, due to the lack of unified command, even the vast majority of people still don't understand what is happening, and the low-level officers are the primary targets of many Jianghu people. The Blood Qijun are passionate troops, but they are not the kind of army that needs to constantly shout for their own courage. The Blood Qi Army surrounded a small barracks and slaughtered it quietly, except for the rumbling sound of horses' hooves. Only the screams of the Xiling soldiers remained.

Wait for a new day to come. The sun shone on the city of Xunshan Pass again, and the whole night of assassination, chaos and killing had come to an end. The Blood Qi Army has already taken control of the two walls of Xunshan Pass. The Xiling garrison in Xunshan Pass was basically cleared. This night, even though there were conditions for accommodating prisoners, the Blood Qi Army still implemented its iron-blooded characteristics and did not deliberately keep prisoners. In the end, the nearly 8,000 captives who were taken in surrendered to Chi Yun's department. The iron-blooded style of the troops led by Dai Yun, a young girl, not only cleared the enemy as quickly as possible, but also further deterred friendly troops from complex backgrounds.

The war has come to this point, and when Ye Tao's idea of the entire campaign is finally completed, Tong Bingwen can no longer make any tricks. Xunshan Pass, Miancheng, Ningshi City, Baishi City, a series of key points are in the grasp of the Dongping army. Although there were still more than 100,000 Xiling troops in Dongping at this time, these troops were not enough to attack those key locations at the same time. At this time, Zhuo Mang took advantage of the peak morale of the Dongping army to join the forbidden army that came from Danyang and launched an offensive against the Xiling army. In a head-to-head confrontation that was not too large, the morale-like Dongping army broke through Xiling, beheading 40,000, and surpassed Xiling in terms of the total number of troops put into the battlefield.

Tong Bingwen, as an old marshal, showed his courage to make a decision at this time, he immediately withdrew from Baishi City and Ningshi City, and the army slowly retreated to the southwest. He led the army into the territory of Chunnan, and then received the Xiling army on the other side, and returned to Xiling from the border of Xiling and Chunnan. Although the nearly 300,000 troops were only in their early 100,000s who could finally return to Xiling, they preserved Xiling's strength to the greatest extent. If he hesitates a little, Zhuo Mang will lead a large army to surround him, I am afraid that he will have a big problem withdrawing from the battlefield.

After seeing Tong Bingwen's expectations, although he was a little hesitant, Zhuo Mang still chose to let Tong Bingwen go. On the one hand, Tong Bingwen has also been an old opponent for many years, although he is in defeat, but if he wants to block him, then maybe Tong Bingwen can use the troops in his hand to play some tricks. Although the troops that Tong Bingwen was able to take away in the end were not fully formed, there were still a few elite troops that were very capable of fighting. On the other hand, Tong Bingwen's status in Xiling is considered. Although there is still a gap between Tong Bingwen in Xiling and Zhuo Mang in Dongping, where he leads a large army to fight, Zhuo Mang is almost the best candidate, but Tong Bingwen is one of the key figures in balancing the forces of several parties inside and outside the Xiling court. Ye Tao, who made the battle plan, didn't have to think about this matter, but as the general of Dongping, Zhuo Mang, as the head of the military attache of Dongping, couldn't ignore this problem. Momentary pleasure may lead to a more complicated situation.

Tong Bingwen's decisiveness also made Ye Tao's original vision of the ultimate goal of annihilating the Xiling army in the territory unable to be completed in the end. However, taking into account the various circumstances of the previous period, combined with the vivid history from the beginning of the Xiling invasion to the defeat of Tong Bingwen with 100,000 remnants, this result can be regarded as acceptable.

After the cessation of the war, Zhuo Mang closely monitored the dynamics of Xiling, and at the same time readjusted the defense of Dongping and the Western Front. After seeking the consent of Tan Xiaopei and the Ministry of War, Zhuo Mang set up the Dingxi General's Mansion in Miancheng, responsible for military affairs from Xunshan Pass, Miancheng to Baishi City and Ningshicheng, in addition to replenishing and slightly strengthening the number of defenders in various places, he also assigned a force of less than 30,000 people to the direct command of the Dingxi General's Mansion to deal with various emergencies. Not only that, several passes and fortresses facing Xiling have been strengthened, and on the entire national border facing Xiling, Dongping and Xiling have rarely maintained a balance of strength in numbers.