Xiongguan Yanmen, ranking first in the "nine stops in the world". Since King Wuling of Zhao during the Warring States Period, all dynasties have regarded this place as a strategic location. Yanmen Pass is located in the south of Mayi, which was an important pass for the Central Plains Dynasty to defend against the Hu people in the north, and the Hu and Han sides fought many bloody battles here.

After capturing Mayi, Zhang Fang was thinking about how to seize Yanmen Pass, as long as he took Yanmen Pass, he could force the hinterland of the state. Although Mayi is a border city, it is not as majestic as Yanmen Pass, and with Yanmen Pass, the Jin army can rely on this pass to resist the threat from the north.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our army has just captured Mayi, and presumably the Hu people in various places have not reacted at this time. The general planned to take this opportunity to take the Yanmen Xiongguan, which is bordered by the Yanbei Plateau in the north and the Xinding Basin in the south. The peaks of Yanmen Mountain are upright and the terrain is dangerous, and it is a moat to resist the southern invasion of the northern nomads. In the case of our lack of heavy weapons, how to take the Yanmen Pass as soon as possible will have a bearing on the future operational arrangements. ”

As soon as Mayi was recovered, Zhang Fang gathered the generals to prepare a plan to seize Yanmen Pass, as long as Zhang Fang's department took Yanmen Pass, they could temporarily occupy the initiative, after all, they belonged to fighting behind enemy lines, if there was no Xiongguan to rely on, I am afraid that they would not be able to escape the end of destruction under the encirclement and suppression of the Hu army.

"In the face of this heroic pass, I don't know what the adults have to do?"

"Well, I planned to select some elites from the cavalry, and then cooperate with some Hun prisoners to attack Yanmen again." Speaking of this, a fine light shot out of Zhang Fang's eyes, since he led the troops to cross the river alone. Zhang Fang felt the blood around him burn again.

This expedition was very different from the past, he didn't have to think about other issues, he just needed to focus on the battle, which allowed Zhang Fang's ability in strategy to be fully reflected, whether it was a clever plan to cross the Yellow River, or a plan to earn Ma Yi basically did not lose many troops, which also made his prestige in the army continue to rise.

In the evening of the second day after taking Mayi, outside the Yanmen Pass, a team of about 2,000 people wearing Hun armor rode to the Yanmen Pass. It seems that this Hun cavalry horse team is a little messy. All of them were panting, and their armor was uneven.

The Hun cavalry stationed at Yanmen Pass saw that a cavalry was approaching, and immediately ordered this group to stop. Afterwards. Among the Hun cavalry under the city, several Huns wearing officer uniforms ran out. Speak fluent Hun language. Impatiently conversed with the Huns at the city gates.

Roughly speaking, they were the defenders of Mayi, after the city of Mayi was broken. They escaped the pursuit of the Jin army, and it took a lot of trouble to escape here. These people had nowhere to go, and the northwest of Yanmen County was occupied by the Han Chinese, so they had to go south to Yanmen.

Guan Shangshou listened to his Xiongnu fluent speech, and spoke the truth, plus a few were indeed Xiongnu generals, but unfortunately he didn't know that these guys were just prisoners of the Jin army. At that moment, the guard was puzzled, and immediately ordered the soldiers to open the city gates. Two thousand Huns slowly walked into Yanmen Pass.

Among these people, there is an eight-foot majestic man, dignified appearance, a pair of black eyes, he is mixed in the cavalry team slowly approaching the Yanmen Pass, after the team has entered the pass, the city guards come down to greet him, and say some inaudible nonsense.

At this moment, the big man suddenly exerted his strength, pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist and rushed to the Yanmen Pass guard desperately, and the Hun general was cut off by his head before he could react. Blood was flying, and with the sudden attack of the Great Han, the 2,000 Hun fake soldiers who had just studied the capital immediately started to cut down the hundreds of Huns guarding around the gate in three strokes and five by two.

This big man is the vanguard officer under Zhang Fang, Li Duwei, who originally planned to earn Ma Yi. The 2,000 Huns were dressed as elite cavalry of the Jin army, and the people who shouted under the city just now were the Huns that Zhang Fang found from the captives. Originally, Zhang Fang captured many Huns in the battle to recover Mayi. A lot of Hun honor guard uniforms were also captured, which was just enough for this batch of men and horses.

"Light the fire, open the gates, and let the brigade enter."

Li Duwei immediately shouted loudly after taking the Yanmen Pass, and immediately two Jin troops opened the city gate, and not far away, Zhang Fang led the main force of the Jin army of about 10,000, and was lying in ambush thirty miles away, anxiously waiting for the signal of the forward. Suddenly, a scout ran from the direction of Yanmen Pass, only to see him run in front of Zhang Fang, roll off the saddle, and bow to the ground: "Lord Qiqi, the striker has taken Yanmen, please hurry up and enter the customs!" ”

"Good! The generals listened to the order, and the army entered the customs immediately! Soon Zhang Fang led the main force to Yanmen Pass, at this time the gate of Yanmen Pass was wide open, and 10,000 Jin troops quickly rushed into Yanmen Pass, so this northern Xiongguan was considered to have fallen into the hands of the Jin army.

At this time, the Huns in the pass had not yet completely figured out the situation, and Li Duwei was leading his subordinates to slash and kill the Huns who refused to surrender in the pass. The entire Yanmen Pass was in chaos.

As soon as Zhang Fang's main force arrived, he immediately joined the ranks of encircling and suppressing the Huns, since he knew the miserable situation of the Han people in Bingzhou. The Jin army led by Zhang Fang was full of hatred and anger for the Huns, and in the face of the stubborn Huns, the Jin army did not have a trace of mercy and politeness at all, and the killing was that one turned upside down, blood flowed like a river, and the entire Yanmen Pass was the miserable shouts of the Huns.

At this time, the Han people, who had been oppressed and tortured by the Huns for a long time in Yanmen Pass, saw that Wang Shi entered the city to fight, and his original intention to resist was infinitely expanded, and he also joined the ranks of the Jin army, picked up hoes, sickles, kitchen knives and other weapons, and went out of his house to fight with the Huns.

With the addition of the main force of the Jin army, the number of Xiongnu defenders was rapidly decreasing, and the resistance of the Xiongnu was becoming weaker and weaker. But the disaster of the Xiongnu did not end, and the Han people, who had been oppressed and persecuted, launched a crazy revenge against the Xiongnu in Guannei with the open support of the Jin army.

Many of their relatives were killed, taken captive to the territory of the Qianghu as slaves, or raped by them. Their hatred of the Hu people is absolutely impossible to describe in words, so no matter what kind of retaliatory actions the other party makes, they are strongly supported by the Jin army, and the Jin army is their backing for justice.

An hour later, there was no longer a living Hun in Yanmen Pass, and even so, there were still some Han people with green eyes, still looking around the city to see if there were any fish that had slipped through the net.

In the face of this situation, Zhang Fang did not stop it, the Han people in Bingzhou have been suppressed by the Hu people for a long time over the years, and they need to vent the hatred in their hearts. It wasn't until there was no longer a single Hun in Yanmen Pass that the ragged Han people stopped, and some knelt on the street and wept, and many Jin soldiers also sobbed when they saw this.

Zhang Fang also watched silently, and his heart was greatly shocked. It is said that Zhang Fang was also from a poor family, and he was not less oppressed by the big families at the beginning, and he understood the suffering of the people at the bottom very well. However, although Zhang Fang was born at the bottom, he did not pity the people at the bottom before, which is the main reason why his army is called the Beast Army.

Since surrendering to the imperial court, Zhang Fang received the latest military ideological education during his study at the Chang'an Military Academy, and at the same time, the idea of building the army pro-people advocated by Emperor Sima Shu also greatly influenced Zhang Fang. It's just that Zhang Fang has never been able to deeply understand the mystery before, but the scene just now made Zhang Fang completely comprehend, and at this time he realized how stupid his previous approach was.

Hermes-Epitek cried for a long time, but gradually stabilized, and when they learned the news that Wang Shi had begun the Northern Expedition and annexed the state, they were all excited. They have long had enough of the Hu people's iniquity over the years, and now that they have finally ushered in the king master, how can they not be happy? Many Hermes-Epitek began to take the initiative to help the Jin army.

After capturing Yanmen Pass, the entire northwest of Bingzhou was completely controlled by the Jin army, Zhang Fangnan was finally strategically deep by relying on Ma Yi according to Yanmen Pass, this time whether it was Xianbei in the north or the Huns in the south to attack, he was also confident to defend. Moreover, now that the Yellow River has been recovered by the Jin army, various military supplies on the west bank are being transported to Mayi and Yanmen in a steady stream.

A few days later, Liu He, who had just received the loss of Ma Yi and had not had time to react, received the news of the loss of Yanmen again, and this time Liu He was completely numb. In the face of the crisis, Liu He, who is not very capable of facing the crisis, can only guard the pass and take the initiative in addition to asking Jinyang for help.

"Uncle, what should we do next?" Liu He looked at his uncle Hu Yanyou with an anxious face, he had no choice but to count on Hu Yanyu now.

"Your Highness, don't worry, as long as we hold Guangwu, the southern part of Yanmen County will not be lost. Moreover, the Great Khan has already sent two generals, Ma Qiu and Liu Qin, to come to support, and when they arrive, we will not be too late to think about it in the long run! Hu Yanyu didn't expect the Jin army's offensive to be so fierce, and in just a few days, it swept through the entire northwest of Bingzhou.

"Alas, this time I'm afraid that this palace won't be able to escape being punished by my father Khan!" As soon as he thought of his father Liu He's heart darkened, he was not valued by Liu Yuan in the first place, if it weren't for Liu Yuan's efforts to win over the Han people, he Liu He might not be able to be the crown prince of the Han Kingdom.

Liu He's complaint cast a shadow on Hu Yanyou and the prince's two confidants, Liu Rui and Liu Cheng, knowing that the interests of the three of them have long been tied to the prince. Once the prince loses power, the three of them don't want to be happy. Maybe Hu Yanyou can still rely on his sister Queen Huyan to survive.

Not to mention that Liu He in Guangwu City is entangled, even the Tuoba Six Cultivators at the foot of the Great Wall are also entangled. At the beginning, Tuoba Liuxiu still swore that he wanted to attack Guanzhong, but in the past month, the Tuoba tribe has met on the front line of the Great Wall and broken the bloodstream, and finally let the Xianbei people realize the reality, and today's Han people are by no means lambs to be bullied.

The originally internally unstable southern Tuoba is now unfavorable with the war in the south, and the rule of Tuoba Liuxiu is even more stormy, in this case, Tuoba Liuxiu regrets that he formed an alliance with the Huns. (To be continued......)