Seeing that it was getting dark, there had been no movement at the iron gate on the opposite side, Shi Jin ordered the head of the city on duty to guard carefully, and then walked to the gate.

"The third and fourth teams are ready for the game, and the other two teams are resting."

"Yes"

"Yes"

Zhang 13 asked his soldiers to rest, and then chased after Shi Jin.

Shi Jin heard the footsteps, turned around and saw that it was Zhang Shisan, nodded and said, "Something?" ”

Zhang 13 said: "Don't hide it from the captain, the villain wants to avenge his brothers." ”

Most of the casualties today were under Zhang Shisan's command, and nearly half of the 100 casualties were killed. Each team of 100 people is fixed when they practice in Tokyo, and they practice in Tokyo for half a year, and then they are assigned to various places. Zhang Shisan's team has been together for almost two years and has a deep sense of comradeship.

Shi Jin nodded and said: "They are also my brothers, and I also want to avenge them, but the Jin people don't come." If we want to fight the Iron Gate, we will have to wait for General Shi's order. ”

Zhang 13 hurriedly said: "Attacking the Iron Gate Pass, I'm afraid I have to ask the prince, how many days will take to go back and forth, but the fighter plane is fleeting." The Jin people are barbaric, and the golden people of the eagle must be the generals of the Jin country, otherwise the iron gate guards will not fight back. If we can capture the golden man, we can not only avenge our brothers, but also make a great contribution. ”

Shi Jin nodded and said: "I know what you said, there are several fierce generals around the Jin people, otherwise the brothers who came out of the customs would not have been killed and injured so much." But there are 1,500 or 600 Jin people who came to our pass today, and we can dispatch a maximum of 500 people in the pass, and it is not easy to break down the iron gate. ”

Zhang 13 said: "The Jin people have always looked down on us Han people, and I am afraid that we will guard against their night attacks in Guanli, and I must not have imagined that we would attack them at night instead." If you are unprepared, and then attack with more fire and thunder, you will definitely be able to seize the Iron Gate Pass and capture the Golden Chief. ”

Shi Jin is not a stable lord, after thinking about it, he nodded and said: "It's okay, then we will take five hundred people to attack the Iron Gate Pass at night, and you go and order six to ten teams, let them recuperate, and start on the fifth watch." ”

"Yes"

Zhang Shisan saw that Shi Jin agreed, and immediately ran happily to pass the order.

There were two more meat dishes for dinner than usual, and the soldiers had a full meal, and the soldiers on duty continued to go to the pass to defend, and the rest of them went to sleep early.

The military camps in the Daliang prefectures have all been renovated, and although the food at the border passes is not as rich as that in Tokyo, it is still better than the life of most small landlords. This is also an aspect that attracts young people to join the army, the staple food tube is full, which really attracts a lot of big stomachs, of course, most of these people are strong men.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, Daliang had 500,000 regular troops, but the military expenditure exceeded the military expenditure of the Song Dynasty when there were millions of miscellaneous soldiers. In the three years of the Apocalypse, the number of soldiers and horses has been increasing, and it is foreseeable that military spending will hit an astronomical figure.

On the fourth watch, Shi Jin was awakened by his own soldiers, dressed neatly and came out, the five hundred night raiding soldiers and horses had been assembled, and the black military uniforms allowed everyone to better blend into the darkness.

Shi Jin looked up at the sky, it was another dark cloudy night, and he couldn't say when there would be a heavy snowfall, but tonight was just right for a night attack.

The defenders silently opened the gate, and as soon as the soldiers and horses of the night attack came out, they immediately closed the gate.

The group walked quietly in the valley, and soon arrived at the iron gate closed.

The bonfires lit outside the iron gate had long since been extinguished, except for a few torches still stuck in the gate.

After the two countries demarcated the border in the second year of the Apocalypse, they have been at peace with each other, and the garrison of the Jin people has gradually relaxed. Although there was a battle today, the Jin people didn't think that the Han people dared to come to sneak attack, but they just lit a few more bonfires outside the pass, but after there was no wind and grass in the middle of the night, the Jin people didn't bother to go out of the pass to make bonfires again.

It is impossible to open and close the door at night, you can only use the hanging basket to go up and down, and you have to find something that is resistant to burning. Moreover, the guard also said that the military discipline of the Han people is much stricter than theirs, and it is already bold to dare to go out of the city to attack Yan Zonghan, and he will definitely not rashly attack Tiemen Pass again.

Zhang 13 sneaked under the gate with a bag of explosives, put the bag of explosives, and shook the fire.

"Snort"

The fuse made a slight sound, but under the cover of the whistling wind, no one could hear it except for Zhang Shisan in front of him.

Zhang 13 saw that the gunpowder bag was already lit, and he didn't retreat, stood up and slipped under the wall, covered his ears with his hands, and walked quickly to the side.

After running a few feet, he heard a loud noise behind him, and the ground shook slightly, although he had stuffed cotton into his ears and covered his ears, Zhang Shisan's head was still rumbling in his head.

Shi Jin took advantage of the fire of the explosion to see that the city gate was blown apart, put down his hands covering his ears, and shouted: "Raise the fire, kill me." ”

The golden soldiers on the pass were all stunned, and when they saw the torches lit up outside, they didn't know how many people rushed to the pass, and hurriedly pulled their bows and shot arrows.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he leaned out, countless sharp arrows were shot in the dark, and he suddenly shot the few golden soldiers into hedgehogs.

The lurking archers cleared out the golden soldiers on the pass, and they all rushed in after Shi Jin.

This loud noise also woke up the sleeping Jin soldiers, and they howled one by one and picked up their blades and ran out, and they couldn't care about wearing their clothes.

If it was a Han Chinese, they ran out naked [***] in the middle of the night in November, and they were frozen, not to mention fighting, but these Jin people were not affected too much, and they howled and rushed to the gate one by one.

Afraid that the war horses would be frightened, the soldiers of the Great Liang came on foot. But Shi Jin's pace was not much slower than that of a war horse, Rao was so, Shi Jin rushed into the pass, and he had already seen dozens of naked [***] Jurchens rushing towards him.

Shi Jin didn't bring his three-pointed two-edged knife, but just straddled a waist knife around his waist, but now in his hand was a fire thunder, a fire fold, seeing that the golden soldiers had actually gathered, he was not polite, so he immediately lit the fire thunder and threw it into the pile of golden soldiers.

"Boom"

"Boom"

"Boom"

The soldiers in the back also kept throwing fire thunder and torches, bombarding the Jin people while setting fire to the houses in Guanzhong, so as not to hide in the corners and release dark arrows.

However, the Jurchens were fierce, all of them were naked and carrying knives, and no one hid in the house to fire arrows. Of course, they don't have this brain, for the simple-minded Jurchens, they can defeat the Han people with knives.

This also made the work of Shi Jin and the others much easier, and after throwing the fire thunder they carried, they would change it to the people behind them. If everyone throws fire thunder together, it will not only waste fire thunder, but also easy to get into trouble, if someone shoots someone with an arrow, the fire thunder will explode in their own crowd, and it is likely to detonate all the fire and thunder, and destroy their entire army. So there must be two people staring behind a fire thunderman, and once the fire thunderer is attacked, and the ignited fire thunder is not thrown, the other two are responsible for throwing the fire thunder out.

However, this time, the Liang soldiers were basically not attacked, and the Jin people came out with knives to fight hard after waking up, and no one thought of using bows and arrows in the night.

Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Sheyema were still staying in Tiemen Pass, and yesterday they withdrew to Tiemen Pass to discuss for a while, and it was getting late, so Wanyan Zonghan decided to go on the road again the next day.

When he was sleeping soundly, he was awakened by the sound of an explosion, and hurriedly rushed to the yard with his weapon.

Sheyaka and a dozen or so guards also ran out, and they were awakened from their sleep one by one, and their heads were in sharp pain and shaking.

Wanyan Zonghan was also a savage, so he didn't have to think about it, so he rushed out with his son and guards.

Seeing that the Jin soldiers in front of him were all blown down, Wanyan Zonghan felt that it was difficult to rush forward, and hurriedly shouted: "Go back, use a bow and arrow." ”

Shi Jin had already seen Wanyan Zonghan surrounded by everyone, and when he heard Wanyan Zonghan's howl, he immediately lit a fire thunder and threw it towards Wanyan Zonghan.

In the dark, Jin Ren couldn't see the trajectory of the fire and thunder, and when the fire and thunder smashed on his body, Yan Zonghan screamed in surprise and wanted to hide back. As soon as I ran two steps, I felt severe pain all over my body, and I no longer felt conscious.

The Jin people in the back saw that Yan Zonghan and Sheyema's father and son were blown to pieces, and they howled one after another, the boss died in battle, if they couldn't defeat the enemy, it would be a capital crime for them to flee back. And with Wanyan Zonghan's identity, even if they defeat the enemy in front of them, I am afraid they may not be able to survive.

The Jin people in the pass were almost in a dead end, howling one by one, as if the sky had fallen, waving knives and rushing forward, how could they still remember Yan Zonghan's orders.

Fortunately, Shi Jin brought out all the fire thunders stored in Gubeikou for this raid, and the fire thunders easily tore the golden people to pieces.

The golden man was strong enough, but after rushing like a death squad for a while, someone finally began to flee backwards.

If one escapes, there will be a second soon.

Those who did not escape were either killed by fire and thunder, or were shot by archers, and occasionally a few people broke into front of the Liang soldiers, and they were also separated by random blades, almost unable to form a lethal force.

The Jin people, who were defenseless and were stunned by the loud sound of the explosion, and then were hit by the continuous explosions of fire and thunder, the Jin people had a headache, and it was not easy to find the right direction, how could there be any combat power.

Soon, Shi Jin led the troops to kill the iron gate, looked at the Jin people who fled naked [***] in the darkness outside, waved his hand to stop the soldiers and horses, and said: "Search and arrest all the Jin soldiers in the pass, don't worry about killing those who resist, don't hurt the prisoners." ”

Zhang Shisan also chased after him, unwillingly looked at the Jin people who fled outside, and said: "Those Jin people are not all in armor, why don't you catch them up." ”

Shi Jin shook his head and said: "This will be the coldest time, they will freeze their hands and feet if they run out naked, what are we wasting that energy for." Okay, you take someone to guard the back door, so that the nearby Jin soldiers don't come back. ”

"Yes."

Shi Jin took a few of his own soldiers to the largest mansion in Guanzhong, which was originally inhabited by the guards of the Iron Gate, but after Yan Zonghan came, he was driven out.

The soldiers quickly found a gold medal from the house, and said happily: "That golden man is Dutong, but I don't know if he was killed by the explosion." ”

Shi Jin took the gold medal, with a few Jurchen characters written on it, but he couldn't recognize it, so he could only wait for the Intelligence Department to verify the identity of General Jin.

Don't say that he can't recognize it, even in the Jin Kingdom, not many people can recognize the Jurchen characters created in this life.

It was not until dawn that the various departments finished searching the gates, and only five prisoners were captured.

The position of the Iron Gate Pass is critical, and the 1,000 soldiers and horses stationed are all Jurchens, these Jurchens are brave, and their first reaction when attacked is desperate, and only a few Jin soldiers can escape.

Only five surrendered intact, and all those who were injured and wanted to surrender were mended by Zhang Shisan, and Shi Jin also learned that the culprit was actually Jin Guoyi Bo Ji Yan Zonghan.

After figuring out that Yan Zonghan is one of the current five giants of the Jin Kingdom, Shi Jin also feels that his credit seems to be a little hot.

Shi Jin looked at the iron gate that had been half burned, and thought for a while: "Collect useful things in the pass and transport them outside the pass." Then collect the things that start the fire and prepare to burn the iron gate. ”

The Jin people are not much cleaner than the various departments of the grassland, and the Liang soldiers are really afraid that Shi Jin will let them live in this stinky pass, and when they heard Shi Jin's order, they immediately went to collect things in high spirits.

Half an hour later, the iron gate closed and black smoke rose into the sky.

Shi Jin returned with a full load of the team.

In the afternoon of the same day, the 3,000 reinforcements sent by Danzhou arrived at Gubeikou.

Shi Jin burned the iron gate on the second day, and the gold medal was hurriedly handed over before the first war report was sent to Bianjing.

Chao Gai, Chao Yong, Jiang Jing, Lin Chong, Lu Junyi, Xu Guanzhong, and Zhu Wu gathered in the Chongzheng Palace. The Ministry of War also needs the cooperation of the Ministry of Household Money and Food, so Jiang Jing, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, is qualified to participate in the discussion of the affairs of the Ministry of War. Xu Guanzhong and Zhu Wu are both in the military department, although their official positions are not high, but they have mostly given advice to Chao Yong, so they were allowed to attend by Chao Yong as an exception. Otherwise, the only people who are qualified to discuss the major affairs of the Great Liang military state are the emperor, the secretary of the military department, the secretary of the household department, and the left and right attendants of the military department. Of course, there is no trick of voting by a show of hands, the emperor can decide everything when he makes a statement, and all others can do is to give advice to the emperor.

However, Chao Gai added another constraint to his descendants, and if everyone else vetoed it, the emperor could not act arbitrarily. But this situation should also be difficult to appear, and not everyone may dare to confront the emperor. Of course, Chao Gai didn't want the courtiers to come together to fight against the emperor at every turn, and when it was related to the country, it was enough for them to oppose the emperor together.

Chao Gai saw that everyone had read the report, so he said, "If you have any ideas, tell me." ”

Chao Yong turned his head to look at Xu Guanzhong and Zhu Wu, and said with a smile: "You guys talk first." ”

Xu Guanzhong and Zhu Wu gave in slightly, and Xu Guanzhong said: "Let's talk about this Hai Dongqing attacking the spaceship, and Jin Guo also sent a few Hai Dongqing to the emperor." This Hai Dongqing is surnamed fierce, so it is likely that as Jin Ren said, it was Hai Dongqing who took the initiative to attack the spaceship. ”

Zhu Wu also said: "My Great Liang has just subdued all the departments of the grassland, and the Jin State has formed a situation of encirclement, and my Great Liang is strong and strong, and the Jin State should not dare to take the initiative to provoke a war." ”

Chao Yong nodded and said, "It may have been injured by mistake, but it did make one of my Liang's soldiers die, and it is reasonable for Shi Jin to take someone to ask for Hai Dongqing and his master." ”

No one in the hall felt that Shi Jin should not go out.

Xu Guanzhong nodded and said: "What the prince said is that there is also a crime for accidentally injuring people's lives, and it is reasonable for Shi Jin to ask for the culprit." Jin Bing's refusal to hand over Hai Dongqing and its master was a little ignorant of the national prestige of my Great Liang, and then there was a conflict, and he led his troops to attack my Gubeikou, which provoked my Great Liang even more. ”

Chao Gai nodded and said: "What Xu Qing said is that the Jin State attacked my Daliang Pass, which is to provoke my Daliang. But there is no way back from this. ”

Zhu Wudao: "It's a harsh winter now, and the Jin country is even colder. The Jin people grew up in the ice and snow, but my Liang soldiers have a worse surname of hardiness, if they send troops at this time, they will be occupied by the Jin soldiers on this day. ”

Needless to say, if you want to attack the Jin country, it must be the Jin country that occupies the geographical advantage.

There are only people in the Liang, although there are still some religious elements in the country who do not give up, but the army is united. Huge military spending is not useless.

Jiang Jing was the only moderate, and said with a smile: "We can salute first and then soldiers, if the Jin State hands over the Jin people and Hai Dongqing who caused the trouble, and then hand over the Jin generals who attacked Gubeikou, we can also use no force." The country of Jin is poor, and we will not get any benefit from defeating the country of Jin. ”

Chao Yong also nodded and said: "What Jiang Shangshu said is also reasonable, then we will first send envoys to protest to the Jin State, and ask for the Jin people who caused the accident and Hai Dongqing, as well as the Jin generals who attacked Gubeikou, to give the casualties to the martyrs, and then ask for some compensation." If the Jin State agrees, it will be enough, and if the Jin State refuses, we will send troops to seek justice for the casualties. ”

Chao Gai thought for a while and said, "The country of Jin is poor, so it needs 100,000 yuan." I will repair a letter of state, send it to Hebei urgently, and let Hebei send an envoy to Jinguo. You must also be prepared for war, and my beams cannot be attacked in vain. ”

Chao Yong hugged his fists and said: "Father and emperor rest assured, Erchen will let the soldiers and horses of Hebei and the grassland gather, as long as the Jin State does not know how to lift, Erchen will sweep away the Jin State." ”

Before Bianjing's decree and letter of state were delivered to Hebei, another war report from Hebei was sent to Bianjing.

Chao Gai and the others got together again to discuss the matter.

"He led the troops to raid the Iron Gate Pass, and also blew up and killed Yan Zonghan, the Jin State Shifter, this Shi Jin is really bold."

Everyone didn't know what Chao Gai meant, and they didn't dare to mess with it.

Chao Yong said with a smile: "Although those who commit me are strong and strong will be punished from afar, this Shi Jin is decisive in killing, and he raided the Iron Gate Pass that night." The Celestial Empire should not be insulted, and Shi Jin did a good job. ”

Chao Gai didn't mean to criticize Shi Jin, nodded and said: "Shi Jin is right, but Jin Guo is dead, and he is extremely fierce, I am afraid that he will not give up, and it seems that we are going to prepare for the battle." ”

Chao Yong said with a smile: "This matter was originally wrong in the Jin country, if they want to fight, my Daliang will ask for his surname to kill him, and there should be no country in this world that is equal to my Daliang." ”

Chao Gai said: "I'm afraid it's not appropriate to go deep into the Northeast this season." ”

"Our army is not good at fighting in bitter cold places, but the grassland departments and the places where the Jin people live are similar, and there are 100,000 vassal troops on the grassland road, and they are just used to wipe out the Jin country. With the grassland departments as the main force and our army as the auxiliary, we should be able to wipe out the Jin State. ”

Except for Yu Ben, Jin Guo is definitely the country that Chao Yong wants to destroy the most, how could he not think about this problem. (To be continued)