Chapter 299: Undercurrent (25)

The first position Han Zhong obtained after defecting to the Liao State was his old profession: staff member. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As in Zhao, the staff of Liao were only staff members and had no real power. If you want to gain real power, you can only hope to get a key position after you have left while serving as a staff member. In this regard, Liao and Zhao are much the same.

This appointment as Wan Yanying's staff member is a rare opportunity for Han Zhong, and Han Zhong will naturally seize this rare opportunity to perform well.

In the battle to capture Datong, Han Zhong had already shown his skills, showed his talents, and was appreciated by Wan Yanying.

And now the next goal of the Liao army under Wanyan Ying is to go south and enter Shanxi. Shanxi people are good at doing business, and Jin merchants are famous all over the world. If he could enter the hinterland of Shanxi and plunder the wealth of the Jin merchants for the Liao State, it would be a relief for the Liao State, which was in urgent need of money.

"In front of it is Yanmen Pass, which is famous in the world." Wan Yanying sneered and looked at the Yanmen Pass in front of her.

The barrier is very cold, and the stones wrapped around the surface of the barrier tell people that Yanmen Pass is a very strong fortress and is difficult to break.

However, there are withered grasses everywhere in the cracks of the stones, and if this is not winter but spring and summer, the stone walls will probably be overgrown with weeds.

The long grass on the pass also shows that the defense of this pass is not very tight, at least the defenders are very lax. A slightly tighter guard, the commander in the fortress will naturally not allow the grass to happen.

Wan Yanying looked at Yanmen Guansai, and her eyes revealed unremitting. Such a good fortress is really a waste in the hands of Zhao Jun.

However, Wan Yanying was happy to see Zhao Jun ruining this pass, and the more Zhao Jun's defense was relaxed, the happier he became. It shows that the easier it is to take the Yanmen Pass, Wan Yanying of course hopes that the easier it is to win the Yanmen Pass, the better.

"Yanmen Pass is the gateway to Shanxi, and it is the only way to enter Shanxi from Datong!" Han Zhong said that Han Zhong has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and Han Zhong was very excited to see the name mentioned in the military books.

Yanmen Pass is the most important pass from Datong to Shanxi, as long as the Yanmen Pass can be opened, the hinterland of Shanxi is like opening the door for the Liao army, allowing the Liao army to enter and exit freely.

"There is nothing to be afraid of fighting such a pass, the defenders of Yanmen Pass are weak, do you believe that this king can take Yanmen Pass in just one day?"

Wan Yanying was very confident in taking Yanmen Pass, and did not take the defenders of Yanmen Pass in his eyes at all.

Before the Liao army marched into Yanmen Pass, Qiao Shaoyuan had already sent the deployment and relevant information of the Yanmen Pass Town Army to the Liao army under Wanyan Ying in advance. In Qiao Shaoyuan's intelligence, the defenders of Yanmen Pass were not compared with the town troops in other places.

Qiao Shaoyuan even made a special note at the end of the intelligence: The guard general of Yanmen Pass, the general Luo Tengda, is a very tricky person, not easy to deal with, and especially reminded Wan Yanying not to miss a major event because of underestimating the enemy.

The facts always backfired, Qiao Shaoyuan didn't want Wan Yanying to have the psychology of underestimating the enemy, and Wan Yanying finally produced the psychology of despising the enemy.

There is no need to Liaodong, the Liao army still has more or less strong enemies. There has been the experience of losing battles, but since entering Datong to fight with the town army of Zhao. Every battle that Wan Yanying experienced ended in a victory for the Liao army, and all of them were won quite smoothly.

Including the Liao army's original thought that the most difficult attack on Datong City was much easier than the Liao army expected. The Liao army attacked a big city like Datong City, and the casualties were not large.

Yanmen Pass was of great significance to the Liao army. The reason why Wanyan Shengcong divided his troops and sent another army to the west to attack Shanxi was certainly not to simply loot supplies. Wanyan Shengcong has a deeper level of consideration.

Wanyan Shengcong was afraid of the Qin army and the Ganzhou town army left behind in the northwest region. These two armies were the most feared armies by Wanyan Shengcong except for the Qin army and the private soldiers of the He clan.

Wanyan Shengcong's main battlefield of the Liao army is in Beizhili, and in order to achieve greater results, Wanyan Shengcong needs a guarantee, that is, he hopes to contain the Qin army and Ganzhou Zhenjun who stayed in Shaanxi in the area west of Beizhili. As long as the two armies that posed the greatest threat to the Liao army in the Guannai region were contained in the area west of Beizhili, Wanyan Shengcong could free up his hands and concentrate on dealing with the war in Beizhili. Achieve greater results.

Of course. Wan Yan Shengcong will not tell Wan Yan Yingming about this purpose, after all, doing so will be suspected of pushing Wan Yan Ying out to be cannon fodder, and everyone will feel very embarrassed if he says it. It's better not to say it, everyone knows it.

As a staff member, he is speculating about other people's thoughts many times, and Han Zhong can guess Yan Shengcong's intentions.

"It's better for the prince to be cautious, in the information sent by Gongzi Qiao, it is also said that the Zhao army in Yanmen Pass is not easy to deal with."

The success or failure of the attack on Yanmen Pass is extremely crucial for the Liao army that has completed Yanying's journey, and it is related to whether or not it can extend its hand to the inner area of Shanxi in the next step. After all, although Datong is big, it is only a military town. The military role is greater than the economic role. In this dynasty, there is another common characteristic of military towns, that is, the military towns are generally poor.

"The Qiao family is in business, not in war, they are experts in business, and we are all laymen. But when it comes to fighting, we are the experts, and the Qiao family is just a layman. Wan Yanying said with a smile, "In terms of military affairs, we can believe the information given to us by the Qiao family and keep five points." Not to be trusted. ”

Han Zhong shook his head secretly, Wan Yan Ying not only has a big gap with Wan Yan Shengcong, but compared with Wan Yan Fushen, the gap between Wan Yan Ying and Wan Yan Ying is not ordinarily big. It is not without reason that Wan Yanying can only do nothing to be a second-tier prince.

Han Zhong is just a staff member, he only has the right to make suggestions, and standing up and saying a few words is already his greatest power. Other than that, there was nothing he could do.

"Sir, I have worked hard all the way with this king." Wan Yanying laughed, his smile was very hearty and atmospheric, he didn't hate Han Zhong. For this Han who can speak well, Wan Yanying even likes it a little, Wan Yanying is surrounded by some more rigid Manshu people, and suddenly there is such a ghost staff as Han Zhong, which makes Wan Yanying feel a little novel.

"Let's see how this king knocks down this wild goose gate." When Wan Yanying said this, he seemed to feel that Yanmen Pass was already in his hands, not in Zhao Jun's hands.

Under Wan Yanying's order, tens of thousands of Liao troops, as well as the armies of the Menggu tribe and the rest of the tribes outside the Saiwai, began to prepare for the attack on Yanmen Pass. (To be continued.) )