In Tongguan City, which is steep and unusually steep on the surface of mountains and rivers, there is already an atmosphere of high mobilization and combat readiness of soldiers and horses. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And the soldiers and horses that originally planned to assemble in Shaanzhou and go to Hedong to attack the puppet dynasty of the Northern Han Dynasty who pretended to be the founding of the country also withdrew their camps and returned here.

And in the main palace of the city,

"Defeated, defeated."

As the queen of Shannan West Road and the commander of the soldiers and horses of Tongguan in Shaanzhou, Yan Tieshan was listening to the bad news brought by his subordinates with a solemn face.

"Whether it is the Qingfeng Army or Guangping Town, or the Tongzhou Town Guard, as well as the Bashang Army and Lantian Pass."

"It's all under the banner of those thieves."

"Only the prominent part of Chang'an escorts the strength of this high control system and stands out from the encirclement."

"The last time I got the news was that it was rumored that they had retreated into Taibai Mountain."

"There is an envoy from the Ba Shang Army...

At this time, there was a news coming in from outside.

"Please also ask Yan Shuaibing to answer."

Then the messenger, who was covered in dust and blood, so that he couldn't see his face clearly, squatted in front of Yan Tieshan and gasped and wailed

"The sons and daughters are still fighting at Baqiaoyi."

"What's going on, tell me about it."

Yan Tieshan couldn't help but have a grim expression, and walked in front of him.

"Is there anyone still alive in the Ba Shang Army?"

Then he was answered by the oncoming sword light and the gushing blood fountain.

"This is the big snow camp greetings."

The assassin who had his two arms cut off after solving the case looked at Yan Tieshan, who covered his wounds and retreated into the guards, with all his strength and roared, and then crashed headlong and was cut into meat sauce by a random knife.

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Fengxiang Mansion, known as the eleventh cave of Taoism Taibai Mountain,

The mountain path that vaguely twists and turns in the forest is already full of corpses, of course, mainly left by attackers who are trying to climb from the bottom up.

And in the middle of the higher mountainside, a rocky stall in front of a small waterfall where the mountain wall burst down, was already full of many soldiers of the Guannai army, their robes were torn and scraped, and the city was ragged, and their armor was also covered with blood and mud. The only remaining weapons and broken flags were also scattered all over the ground.

At this moment, they seemed to have no strength to speak, except for the sound of nibbling on the compressed rations and strips of dried meat that they carried with them on cold water.

Sitting on a big stone on the edge of a deep stream, the queen of the Seunai and the Xichuan army ruled Gao Favor, and he also drank the cool stream water offered by his subordinates and gasped, and began to reflect on the situation along the way.

After holding on to a whole winter and most of the spring, Xiao Pass, as an important town in Xiongguan in the west, was still lost in his hands, although he received follow-up support from Tongguan and Shudi in Dasanguan, but he still could not recover, and he was not able to hold the result of the military city fortified on the ruins of the ancient city of Chang'an.

At the beginning, he took the Shu army as the foundation, annexed several small feudal towns and more than a dozen local people and horses in the Guannai, recruited the people to reclaim and gather in the blue wisps of the road, and finally painstakingly managed a full 40,000 soldiers, but now there are no more than one or two who can follow him.

When he led his troops westward to receive the Guanzhong Dao, the land of Guanzhong, which was once known as the fertile soil of Qinchuan for eight hundred miles, was only barren and dilapidated and decayed, the population withered and scattered everywhere, although he walked hundreds of miles without hearing human tracks, the white bones were exposed in the wild and the jackals were rampant on the road.

Although he had a wide area under his jurisdiction because of the lack of local output, most of the food and military supplies needed to travel all the way, and after the coordination of Jiangning, the food and materials that could be allocated were only eighty percent of the daily needs of the military horses under his command;

Moreover, this is still the number on the public books, after the usual routine systems such as "collection and consumption" and "floating" in the national and dynasty system, and after the "normal attrition" of the local transportation and transportation according to the distance along the way, and finally to the front of the Kannai army, there is only a relatively conscientious barely sixty percent.

Since the imperial court had no way to provide them with enough food and clothing, and they needed to find land to eat, they could only rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water, and rely on the eight immortals to cross the sea to show their magical powers, and they could find some ways to maintain and operate by themselves.

Fortunately, among the people from all walks of life in the Northland sub-town, there is at least one Huaizhen that has an earlier foothold and a relatively rich foundation, and the exchange of personnel and materials between the friendly forces of these neighboring towns in private is also the more and more people who come to the better.

Although, at the beginning, the object that still needed to be carried and coaxed by oneself has now grown to the point where it stands side by side, and even makes itself look up to the existence of the object; However, it did not prevent him from acquiescing and conniving at his subordinates, taking advantage of this old origin and relationship, from the other party to exchange the production of local materials in Fang Town for all kinds of grain, grass and Zi needed to maintain his army.

In the end, he even became human traffickers part-time, using the people looted and captured in the surrounding areas as the capital, and continuously transported all kinds of canned food, rations and ordnance from the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

So he also had to pinch his nose and admit the fait accompli. and took the initiative to use his identity and influence to cover up and confuse the public, thundering and raining down several groups of people who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, looking for the crimes and evil deeds of Huaizhen. Even connived at some of the more radical existences, who met bandits and died violently in accidents on the way.

But he never thought that this could affect his loyalty and determination to the dynasty, all of which was for the sake of better completion and realization, and the great cause of the dynasty was behind its backs, and there was only a compromise and a small price to pay.

Therefore, relying on the supplement of these foreign resources and the introduction of cattle and livestock, farm tools and improved breeds exported from Huaidi, he finally built up the structure of the army in the Guannei area, and set up military tuns and civilian tuns to supplement farming and warfare, thus creating a pattern of two military orders, five towns, and 19 civilian tuns.

Even he imitated the popular fashion of the armies of the northern region of the country, and began to arrange and set up a man in the army to use a special weapon.

However, now all of this has been wiped out with the fall of Xiao Guan, but he didn't expect that the more than 1,000 fire guns and more than a dozen camel pills brought out this time would actually become the last straw for them to fight and retreat here.

In particular, as part of the after-sales service and friendship, the two teams of gunners sent by the Huai Army to be responsible for training firearms arrays on the spot and escorting and transporting traded goods have played a key role in repeatedly rescuing emergencies.

When they first defended the city at Xiao Pass, as the firefighting team and the supervision team at the head of the city, they repeatedly blocked the western army that broke through to the head of the city, and further expanded the results of the battle.

Even among the defeated soldiers of this brigade, who were wounded and lacked food and clothing, their spirit was also prominent; Therefore, it was also mixed with Gao Zhong and his own personal guards, and served as a key force to break off and block the enemy.

After escaping into the mountains, they finally got rid of the threat of the iron cavalry pursued by the Western army, and the high mountains of Lin Mi blocked the vision and cavalry of these cavalry, and also limited their room for galloping.

The narrow and rugged mountain roads and terrain limited the manpower that those pursuers could put in, and no matter how many people came up from the western army, they were all beaten into a sieve by the dense firecrackers that hit the danger, and the gourds all over the ground rolled and fell.

Therefore, even after entering the mountains, most of the achievements and gains made by the pursuers were directly or indirectly produced by these Huai army commanders.

With this respite and buffer, Gao Pet can settle down to reorganize the interior and reorganize the ranks for the next step of planning and planning.

His ultimate goal was to pass through the forest hunting trail in the deep gorge and ravine in the Taibai Mountains, detour through the ancient road of Lantianyu, and finally arrive in Shangzhou, where Wuguan was located, before those western army fronts, so as to meet the remnants of the local defenders and make further plans.

In this way, when the pass is already in tatters and withered, and it is difficult to satisfy and feed most of the Western Army, he may still have a chance to save some of the situation.

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ps: Please add it here.,Just the day before yesterday, the second kitten of my family was born.,So I've been in the hospital for the past few days.,There are many thieves with all kinds of troubles.,I'm not in the mood to think about the plot if I don't have a good rest.,I can only take the time to write a little is a little.,

So I'll take a break from time to time, so I hope you'll forgive me.