Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Chapter 82: (Voluntary Withdrawal)

In the first year of Hongguang, on the fourth day of the first month of December, Wentai, who had besieged Mengjin Pass for as many as a month, suddenly announced the withdrawal of his army, and he led the army to withdraw from Mengjin Pass in an orderly manner, and retreated to Huozhou, which was far away from Mengjin Pass.

For this situation, Shangguan Yin Feng and all his subordinates were unexpected, in the month of Wentai's siege, the servant army attacked the city with heavy casualties, and Shangguan Yin Feng's casualties were less than four-tenths of Wentai's, in fact, the most critical reason was because of Luoyang's problem, when Tuoba Wenhong learned that Luoyang had been successfully taken by Huangfu Nan and these people, his hope of continuing to go south had actually been dashed, so he used an eight-hundred-li expedited document to order Wentai and others to get the land. According to the land', the lack of additional staff Wentai was also to repay Shangguan Yin Feng for saving him in Luoyang at that time, however, Tuoba Wenhong also knew that these were just 'small favors', the so-called 'life-saving grace, there is no way to repay', so he could only do something that was considered his 'ability'...

On the seventh day of December, Gongsun Longqin led an army of 70,000 people to arrive outside the Tiger Prison Pass, because the Tiger Prison Pass is a horse Pingchuan, in addition to the hills on both sides, there is only one pass, but what He Jing did not expect was that the right general Liu Qi led an army of 50,000 and Nangong Xiao 30,000 troops arrived at the West Pass of the Tiger Prison Pass.

(Gongsun Long Daying)

"Your Majesty, now that our army is in the stage of complete victory, Weichen thinks that there is no need to do the final fight with the traitor He Jing now, it is better to use psychological tactics to disintegrate the morale of his army, and when the time comes, the tiger prison will be self-defeating..."

After all, now Gongsun Long's banner is 'Qingjun side', and there must be a legitimate reason in the general righteousness, otherwise the people of the world will be confused and even chilled by Gongsun Long's dispatch of troops this time, after all, the people's heart is the foundation of a country, if you can't convince the people, the world will not return to the heart, and naturally you can't calm this troubled world...

"Your Majesty, the last general thinks that Lord Zhang is reasonable, now He Jing's party has run out of oil, and the Tiger Prison Pass is surrounded by water, they can't run away at all, according to the last general's exploration, there is not much grain and grass left in the pass, and within half a month, the Tiger Prison Pass will not be attacked, so it is most appropriate to use psychological warfare now, avoid taking the initiative to attack the city, if He Jing leads the army to break through, our army can set up a formation to meet the enemy, I believe that He Jing will not make a move to break the net until the last resort..."Yuan Huan stepped forward and said, his words also pointed out the key point, The same is true of what Zhang Zhi thinks...

"Okay, according to Aiqing's words, the army set up a formation, sent a few sergeants, and persuaded him to surrender, right, what happened to the East King?" Gongsun Long suddenly thought of Shangguan Yin Feng, who was still in Mengjin Pass, so he looked at Zhang Zhi and asked...

Zhang Zhi was naturally clear and replied in an orderly manner: "Your Majesty, the King of the East has successfully taken the Mengjin Pass, and the guard He Qing has abandoned the secret and surrendered to the King of the East, and the King of the East has written to ask the emperor to exempt He Qing from responsibility, and he is willing to make a guarantee to let He Qing make meritorious contributions..."

"Oh... Guilty of meritorious service? Gongsun Long never imagined that He Qing would surrender, after all, he was He Jing's son, and he had 100,000 troops to guard Mengjin Pass: "The Marquis of Xiangping is so well aware of the righteousness, I admire it very much, since the king of the east is the guarantor, then go back to the king of the east, and according to his words, let He Qing make meritorious contributions..."

"No..."

Just like Zhang Zhi said, the grain and grass in the Tiger Prison Pass can actually only last for seven days, which also makes He Jing and them jump up and down like ants on a hot pot, and the people who go to persuade them to surrender one after another every day have made great changes in the psychology of the soldiers guarding the pass, plus the problem of grain and grass, even more...

(He Jing's big tent)

"Father, the third brother has descended..."He Lin walked into the big tent, looked at He Jing who was discussing with the generals, and then walked to the front and whispered in He Jing's ear...

"What?" He Jing almost fainted when he heard the news, because the Tiger Prison Pass was surrounded, and their spies were the latest to learn the news, and those spies could only choose to go out at night, which was also the main reason: "This rebel actually surrendered, which really lost the face of my He family..."

At night, in a private house in Tiger Prison, several men in civilian clothes gathered together and talked mysteriously...

"General, now that our army is surrounded by water, how can we do it?"

"The siege is not the point, the point is that the food and grass in the city are only enough to last for seven days, what will we do after seven days?"

"The army of the king of Changsha is coming to the city, and now there are a lot of deserters in my battalion, although they fled into the homes of the people in the pass, but they were immediately captured by me and returned to the camp, general, go on like this, it is not a way, you have to think of a complete strategy..."

These people are no one else, they are all the guards of the Tiger Prison Pass, the leader of them, the middle-aged man who is called the 'general' by others, named Zhou Hao, the general after the official worship, the deputy commander of the East Camp, and He Lin's deputy general, now in the Tiger Prison Pass, except for He Jing, He Wen, and He Lin, he is the highest official position, so these people are also very respectful to him...

Zhou Hao looked around at everyone and said in a deep voice: "You are reasonable, if you fight against the king of Changsha, our army may not get any benefits, and I believe you have heard of the gossip in the court, now there is a shortage of food in the pass, and there is only one death in the end, and there are still tens of thousands of soldiers under your command, so you must not shed blood and sacrifice..."

"That's right..."A staff general looked a little excited: "General, even the former general Zhang Shuang can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and we can do the same..."

Because Zhang Shuang was also a member of the He family's party before, and now they have chosen to submit to Gongsun Long, they can naturally do it, if they get into trouble in the pass, and successfully help Gongsun Long win the Tiger Prison Pass, it can be said that it is not a great achievement, not only can they be exempted from responsibility, but they can also get a lot of rewards, which can also be regarded as the heroes of 'Conglong'...

"Without further ado..."After a short period of consideration, Zhou Hao resolutely made a choice: "You wait to return to the camp immediately to prepare, at the beginning of tonight, directly take action, be sure to open the gate of Dongguan City, and when the time comes, I believe that the King of Changsha will make an accurate judgment..."

"Yes..."

(He Jing's place of residence)

"Father, what are we to do now?" He Lin looked worried, although there are now 140,000 soldiers in the Tiger Prison Pass, but grain and grass is a big problem, if Luoyang has not fallen, He Jing can still mobilize grain and grass from the rear, but now Luoyang has been lost, not only him, but even Sima Xin of Yuncheng will fall into passivity...

"Sima Xin still has nearly 100,000 horses in his hands, but now we are trapped and killed in this tiger prison and cannot enter or exit, and the sergeants' hearts have changed, I am not worried about them attacking, I am now worried that they will use psychological warfare to surround but not fight, this is the most important thing..."

"Father, now that the situation is clear, I'm afraid we won't be able to win this war, even if there are more than 100,000 troops in this tiger prison, I think it can't be contained, the only chance now is to break through to the north, towards Linzhou, or, to the west, towards Yuncheng, we still have tens of thousands of troops in Michi, enough to support Yuncheng, and when we are united with Sima Xinhui, we will come back again, father, what do you think?" He Lin swore that yes, this was also their last resort, but they didn't know that Zhou Hao and the others were going to turn against each other tonight...

"Okay, according to what you said, early tomorrow morning, let's lead the army to break through..." He Jing threw out all the letters in his hand, and now he looks at it, only to fight to the death, in order to get the last chance of life...

At the beginning of the hour, Zhou Hao convened the soldiers of the headquarters in the Dongguan military camp, and joined nearly 50,000 soldiers to raise things in the starry night. The rebels' all the way to the Xiguan military camp to kill, the other way straight to He Wen's Dongguan City Tower, because it was late at night, most of the soldiers were asleep, except for more than 1,000 people on duty on the Dongguan City Tower, including He Wen himself was sleeping in the Weng Tower on the city tower, was caught off guard by the sudden rise of the soldiers, He Wen was rushed to Zhou Hao and others to raise a knife to kill, died in the chaos; He Ying's forward scouts who were in charge of monitoring outside the city saw the sound of killing in the Tiger Prison Pass, and the flames were everywhere, so they quickly ran to He Ying's big tent, at this time He Ying was still studying the art of war day and night, and heard the scout's reportOn the one hand, he sent people to the camp of the Chinese army to report to Gongsun Long, and on the other hand, he personally led 30,000 troops to the Tiger Prison Guandong Pass...

Liu Qi and Nangong Xiao outside the West Pass also heard that the shouting and killing sound in the pass was deafening, and the fire was everywhere, and after the scouts learned that there was a fierce battle in the city, they thought that the Gongsun Long army outside the East Pass had attacked the Tiger Prison Pass, and the high-spirited Liu Qi led the troops towards the West Pass with Nangong Xiao...