That night, this heavy army camped on the top of Yaoling Mountain, and most of them fell asleep late in a state of apprehension.

After dawn, there was no movement all morning, and the entire baggage team became more and more uneasy, and it was easy to get caught until noon, the war drums suddenly sounded in the direction of Xianxia Pass, and Jiang Qianhu and others ran up the wall with Yao Qisheng to look.

"It's fighting again! Xiucai, do you think you can win the first pass this time? Jiang Qianhu's mood was too nervous, and he wanted to hear a few auspicious words from Yao Qisheng.

"I watch a play! The Zhenxiao camp passed the kiln ridge last night, and according to their footsteps, they should have arrived at Xianxia Pass two shifts ago, and I can't guess what they are doing these few hours, but it's definitely not sleeping......"

Seeing that the battle really started, Yao Qisheng didn't dare to talk too much, Xianxia Pass is a natural danger that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, how will the battle of Zhenxiao Camp be fought? The distance was too far away, and nothing could be heard except for the faint sound of war drums, and there seemed to be no special situation in the direction of Xianxia Pass, seeing that there had been no flame smoke rising, Yao Qisheng's heart gradually sank.

I don't know when, the sound of war drums stopped without warning, everyone looked at each other, and a few people who were afraid and panicked couldn't help but start scolding their mother. Yao Qisheng noticed that the war drum sounded and the end was actually only a quarter of an hour, and it was only because he was too nervous that it made people feel that the time was very long.

After waiting for another half an hour, a herald came from the front and informed Jiang Qianhu that Xianxiatou Pass had been captured, and this baggage force should rush over immediately.

Up and down the kiln ridge, the sound of joy is thundering!

The auxiliaries and the chief husband have no combat effectiveness, and when they fight, they are like small fishing boats that encounter a typhoon. A lot of times it's just fate. Hearing that the battle had been won, the entire baggage team was greatly relieved, and the morale of the auxiliaries and the chief men was high. The speed of rushing forward is a few points faster out of thin air.

Five steps and a turn, three steps and a ridge, on one side is the deep pit of the flowing spring vortex, and on the other side is the cliff Chihiro that birds can't fly. turned a very ordinary corner, but the scenery in front of him changed, and the majestic Xianxia Pass suddenly filled the field of vision.

"People swirl up from the bottom of the well, and the heavens open to the door."

The first pass of Xianxia is all built with stones. It is equipped with a double arch to close the door, and the wall is one zhang thick, and one zhang eight is high. Twenty zhang long, built according to the canyon and mountains, there are high mountains on both sides, and there are some corpses and wounded soldiers lying in front of the pass. There are many clearly visible breaks and blood stains on the wall. Some of the surrounding buildings and trees are smoking, proving that a fierce battle has just been fought here.

Most of Chen Bangfu's main force was here, but the war drums were thundering not far ahead, and he had already begun to attack the second pass on the mountain, but only because the mountain road was narrow and the troops could not be deployed, he did not send all the 5,000 soldiers up. There were still some corpses and wounded soldiers before and after the pass, and Jiang Qianhu led the auxiliary soldiers to start cleaning the battlefield according to the order. Yao Qisheng didn't say a word. He kept looking around, his eyes thoughtful. From time to time, a hint of surprise and confusion flashed.

I don't understand! Yao Qisheng prides himself on knowing the affairs of the army, but he still can't understand how this battle was fought.

Observing the traces left on the battlefield, Xianxiatou Pass was only broken by internal and external attacks, probably because the Zhenxiao battalion suddenly launched a surprise attack after going around the pass, but the mountains on both sides were so steep, how they got around, Yao Qisheng couldn't understand it at all.

After searching left and right for a long time, I found no trace of the soldiers of the 500 town camp.

Yao Qisheng set his sights on the second pass of Xianxia on the top of the mountain, is the Zhenxiao camp so powerful? After just conquering the first level, you launched a surprise attack on the second level?

An hour later, a red flag fluttered at the juncture of the second pass of Xianxia.

Another hour passed, and the third level was overcome, and the peak of Xianxia Ridge had been occupied by the Ming army.

Yao Qisheng originally wanted to go to the top of the mountain to see, but he never found the opportunity, and heard that the reinforcements from the Tartars had come up, and they had already started a fierce battle with the Ming army in Sanguan. The baggage team sent a group of strong auxiliaries to carry all kinds of materials up, but Yao Qisheng was left in Yiguan to be responsible for bookkeeping.

These simple writings and calculations are all pediatrics for Yao Qisheng, and he is busy with his hands, but he is secretly thinking about it in his heart. If this battle continues, it should be to defend Xianxia Pass and close the northern gate of Fujian, he has already seen the combat effectiveness of the Chu army with his own eyes, and there is no need to continue to stay here.

"It's time to go, go to Quzhou Mansion again, if you have the opportunity, it's best to go to Jiangxi and Huguang."

A glimpse of the whole leopard, he has no doubts about the Chu army, if this army is as strong as the Zhenxiao battalion, he does not dare to say that it is not a big problem to recover the northern provinces and hold the south of the Yangtze River. However, the war between countries is not only a military issue, but also involves politics and economy, and after Yao Qisheng saw the Zhenxiao camp, he became deeply interested in Huguang and Jiangxi under Wang Kefan's rule...... Perhaps, it is a better choice to take refuge in Wang Kefan.

Yao Qisheng made up his mind to leave, but found that he couldn't go. This Xianxia Ancient Road is a road to the rectum, if he deserts, he is likely to be caught and beheaded, let him be full of wisdom, and now he is helpless, so he has to stay for the time being, and continue to work as a clerk in the baggage team......

On the Manchu side, Zhou Lianggong led 5,000 reinforcements to hurry up, but after all, he was still a step too slow, and when his forward troops arrived at the fourth pass of Xianxia, they encountered the defeated retreat from the second pass and the third pass. Zhou Lianggong had no other choice, so he immediately ordered a strong attack, hoping to take advantage of the Ming army's unstable foothold to recapture the first three passes.

Two hours, three bloody battles, the Qing army returned with a feather.

Because of the heavy losses, Ma Degong and other generals asked to stop the attack, Zhou Lianggong had to agree, natural danger is natural risk, since the eagerness failed to overcome it, so he had to think long-term and find another way.

The two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties began to confront each other, and the Xianxia Ancient Road family accounted for half of them, because the Ming army had a condescending advantage, Zhou Lianggong was worried that the four and fifth passes of Xianxia could not be defended, and dug ditches and fortifications in the twenty-eight capitals, blocked several key bridges, and pulled up a solid line of defense.

In addition to being busy, he wrote another letter to Tong Yangjia, because Xianxia Pass was lost too quickly, and it was already difficult to break through from Fujian.

In contrast, the pressure on the side of the Ming army was significantly greater.

Although Tian Xiong's troops are temporarily insufficient, the reinforcements sent by Tan Tai are coming, and they can go directly to Quzhou from the Yangtze River into the Qiantang River, and attack Jiangshan County and Changshan County from the flank, which is a great threat.

According to Wang Kefan's order, the Ming army was constantly adjusting its deployment, Chen Bangfu's department guarded Xianxialing, Zhao Yinxuan's Hu Yiqing's department guarded Jiangshan County, Zhenxiao Camp guarded Changshan County, and the first part guarded Jianglang Mountain, the first pass at the northern end of Xianxia Ancient Road.

At the same time, Teng Shuanglin led the Tongcheng battalion into southern Zhejiang and rushed to support.

Wang Kefan's division of troops little by little is because of tactical needs on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also to reduce logistical pressure.

The ancients did not understand this truth, but because of the restrictions of road conditions and means of transportation, the large corps of this era almost had to divide the troops, for example, in ancient books, there are often several large armies marching together, most of them are still for the convenience of raising food...... Of course, having said that, if there is a strong sailor, the transportation problem can be solved, and the 100,000-strong army clenched its fists and smashed it down, almost indestructible.

Since the beginning of the war, Wang Kefan has been targeting southern Zhejiang, looking like he is cooperating with other Ming armies to launch an attack on Fujian, but his main force has remained in Raozhou, staring at Nanzhili to the northeast.

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In the spring of the fifth year of Longwu, no matter the north and south of the Yangtze River, there is a vigorous vitality full of hope everywhere, and the rolling spring thunder resounded all over the earth.

The Eastern Crusade continued to develop in depth, and the entire southeastern region was involved.

In Henan, Central China, 2,000 Ming cavalry were trekking hard in Funiu Mountain, and if it weren't for Zhang Qilun, the head snake, to lead the way, they would have turned their way in the mountains. Encountered a difficult road, followed by a hundred sappers played an important role, the mountain opened the road, the water bridge, and even built a 40-meter-long simple plank road, greatly saving the marching time, only took ten days to reach the northern foot of Funiu Mountain, Song County is in front of you.

At this time, the main force of the Qing army in Henan was still guarding the east of Funiu Mountain, and the reinforcements sent by Kong Youde were divided into the first line of Yuncheng, Xuchang and Dengfeng, and these places were guarded like iron buckets.

Luoyang? Luoyang is too far away, and if you want to cross the entire Funiu Mountain, will the southern thief fly over from the sky?

In mid-March, the Longwu court really named Sun Kewang, the commander of the Western Army, as the king of Yi, Li Dingguo as the king of Xining, and Liu Wenxiu as the king of Funan, but there was a special adjunct condition, their prince was not the king of the iron hat, but the hereditary decline, and more than five generations later, Tuen was a commoner.

For more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there has never been a king surnamed Yi (like Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, who were posthumously sealed after their deaths, not to mention a prince like Sun Kewang, this is already the greatest sincerity that the Longwu court can show. Although he was not the king of the iron hat, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were very satisfied, and together they played Ben Shanen, and took the initiative to ask for war and launched the Northern Expedition against Sichuan and Chengdu.

In late March, Sun Kewang and others mobilized 60,000 troops, swore troops in Kunming, attacked the Chengdu Plain from southern Sichuan, and connected more than ten state capitals such as Chengdu and Chongqing, and surrounded Baoning (now Nanchong, Sichuan), which was heavily guarded by the Qing army.

At the same time, Liu Fangliang and Hao Shaoqi, who were entrenched in eastern Sichuan and He Zhen in southern Hanzhong, heard the wind and launched an attack on the Qing army, and the anti-Qing volunteers in Gansu, northern Shaanxi, and northern Sichuan also took advantage of the situation and echoed from afar. Ding Guodong, the leader of the Gansu Hui resistance against the Qing Dynasty, fought fiercely with Daniel Zhang and Zhao Guodong of the "Four Generals of Hexi" in Lanzhou and Ganzhou, and Wang Yongqiang, a general of Yan'an in northern Shaanxi, suddenly returned to Ming and occupied 19 prefectures and counties in northern Shaanxi, connecting the area of Ordos with Jiangjiao in Shanxi.

The entire northwest and southwest were beaten into a pot of paste, and the Qing army's Wu Sangui, Meng Qiaofang, Li Guoying, Li Guohan and other troops were in a hurry, and they were clumsy on the left and right...... (To be continued......)