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Yindiguan is about 30 miles away from Huoyi County, located at the junction of Xihe County and Linfen County, it is actually a canyon about ten miles long, only two miles wide, here is the narrowest place in the Bird Mouse Valley, and it is also the only way to walk through the north and south of the state. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Yindi Pass was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty, in fact, it is to build a city wall at both ends of the canyon, which guards the north and south ends of the canyon, and is the most difficult and dangerous terrain in the whole Bird Mouse Valley, and it is also the most important pass in the strategic position.

The strategic intention of the Zhou Dynasty's army was already obvious, that is, Wei Chigong used 20,000 troops to contain the defenders of Taiyuan City near Taiyuan City, while the other army took the opportunity to capture the Bird Mouse Valley and cut off the connection between Taiyuan City and the southern part of Bingzhou, and then the Zhou army attacked Bingzhou on a large scale, and would occupy the entire territory of Bingzhou except Taiyuan City as quickly as possible.

This is the loophole in the Tang army's strategy of defending Taiyuan City, this loophole is very obvious, except for Taiyuan City, and other places in the state Tang Army can not take care of it.

The key to this battle was to capture the Bird Mouse Valley, cut off the connection between Taiyuan City and the southern part of Bingzhou, and make Taiyuan City an isolated city.

The reason why the Zhou army did not attack Huoyi County in a big way, but seized Huoyi County by means of rebellion, the biggest advantage of this is that the defenders of the Yin Pass will not find that Huo Yi County has been lost, so as to create conditions for the Zhou army to seize the Yin Pass.

In the afternoon, Jin Jiong's carriage finally arrived at the gate of Yindi Pass, followed by a thousand Tang Army soldiers, and a personal guard rode forward and held up the pass token and shouted: "Jin joins the army to pass the pass, open and close the door quickly!" ”

The chief general of the Yin Di Pass is called Dai Wende, and like Xie Yingdeng, he is also a guard general appointed by the crown prince Li Jiancheng, but he is far more sleek than Xie Yingdeng, and tries his best to please Li Shenfu, Li Deliang and Pei Lian's henchmen, so that he has continuously avoided the fate of being cleansed, not only was he not demoted, but he was promoted to Zhonglang General by Pei Lin two months ago, but he was one level higher than his former boss Xie Yingdeng, which made him very proud and had a very arrogant attitude towards Xie Yingdeng.

Dai Wende's best stammering person is Jin Jiong, when Jin Jiong was inspecting the defense of the Bird Mouse Road, he accepted a bribe of three hundred taels of gold from Dai Wende, and praised him greatly in front of Pei Lin after going back, and Dai Wende was promoted to Zhonglang General, originally Dai Wende was quite painful about the three hundred taels of gold he had worked hard to get over the years, but three hundred taels of gold in exchange for his promotion to the first level, Dai Wende was suddenly overjoyed.

He began to think again, how to be promoted to another level, he was not wishful thinking in this way, you must know that Xie Yingdeng's position as general is still vacant and has not been filled, why doesn't he have this hope?

Dai Wende was preparing to have lunch, when he heard that Jin Jiong was coming, he was overjoyed, and his opportunity had come again, he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to prepare a banquet, and he personally went out of the city to welcome Jin Jiong's arrival.

In front of the carriage, Dai Wende knelt down on one knee and saluted respectfully, "Your Majesty Dai Wende greets the defense envoy!" ”

The curtain of the car opened, revealing Jin Jiong's pale face, and there was a slight tremor in his voice, and he ordered Dai Wende: "Let all the soldiers in the city come down, I have something important to announce!" ”

Although this order was a bit unreasonable, Dai Wende did not dare to disobey it, and immediately turned back and ordered: "Quickly order all the soldiers at the head of the city to go down to the city." ”

There were a thousand soldiers stationed on the city wall, they were condescending, and they would pose a great threat to the Zhou army's capture of Guancheng, although Jin Jiong also knew the consequences of the soldiers withdrawing Guancheng, but a sharp dagger was against his heart, and he had to follow the orders of the Zhou army to order Dai Wende.

Jin Jiong immediately ordered again: "The army enters the city!" ”

The carriage drove towards the Guancheng, and the 1,000 Tang troops behind also sped up and quickly rushed into the gate of the Guancheng, at this time, Dai Wende, who was confused, finally felt that something was not quite right, he hurriedly chased the carriage and asked: "Lord Defense, what happened?" ”

Jin Jiong in the carriage ignored him and drove straight into the city, Dai Wende finally became a little annoyed, and shouted: "Stop all the troops, and don't enter the city!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a war horse galloped behind him, and the general on the war horse shouted, "Leave your life behind!" ”

When the gun arrived, Devonde couldn't dodge, 'Poof! With a bang, the spear pierced the back of his heart, and the tip of the spear leaked out of his chest, Dai Wende screamed, and immediately died of anger, and the Tang army around the city gate was suddenly shocked into chaos.

The general who assassinated Dai Wende was Zhao Liang, the main general of the Zhou army who attacked the Bird Mouse Valley this time, he was the general of Hu Benlang, and he was the right-hand man of Wei Chi Gong, Zhao Liang raised Dai Wende's body high, and shouted: "Kill me!" ”

A thousand Zhou soldiers pretending to be Tang soldiers shouted to the city wall to kill, most of the Tang soldiers on the city wall have already gone down the city, a very small number of soldiers who have not yet gone down the city were frightened by the Zhou army who rushed to the city, and they ran to the ground, and the Zhou army quickly occupied the southern city wall, at this time, 20,000 Zhou troops were coming from several miles away to the Yin Di Pass.

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The capture of Huoyi County and Yin Di two strategic points, which means that the Zhou Dynasty army has almost completely controlled the Bird Mouse Valley, although the northernmost Jiexiu County also has 3,000 garrisons, the strategic position is very important, but its strategic significance is only because it is the most important material transit city on the Fenshui, and there is no military advantage.

Although the rest of the small military cities such as Jiahu Fort occupy a favorable location, because the number of garrisons is too small, they can not withstand the pressure of 20,000 Zhou troops, and they are crushed into powder after a little resistance.

The news quickly spread to Jiexiu County, and the county garrison immediately sent a pigeon letter to Taiyuan for help.

Taiyuan City is still in a state of discord, and Li Yuan's suggestion of 'consultation and joint decision' did not solve the problem of the ownership of military power, but the fact that he appointed Xiangguo Pei Lin to Taiyuan to lead the defense itself is biased towards Pei Lin as the main and Li Deliang as the auxiliary.

Although Li Yuan drove the crown prince Li Jiancheng out of Chang'an and ordered him to inspect various places, in fact, he also knew the harm of too much control of military power by the clan, and at the same time he also knew the serious consequences of the imperial court's interference in the war, but Li Yuan did not trust the generals, and finally he came up with a plan of rights and interests, appointing Xiangguo as the temporary commander of the former army, and the civilian officials controlled the military power, so that to a large extent, he could avoid the military generals from supporting the army and standing on their own feet after controlling the military power, and at the same time, Xiangguo was in power, so that he could more effectively implement his strategic intentions. At the same time, it also avoids the disadvantage of talking on paper, which can be said to kill three birds with one stone.

In order to ensure the smooth operation of the system he created, Li Yuan inevitably favored Pei Lin of Xiangguo, and his 'consultation and co-decision' was to deny Li Deliang as the leader and continue to maintain the status quo.

On this morning, Li Deliang once again hurried to Pei Lian's official room, he had just received the news that the Zhou army had captured Huoyi County and Yindi Pass, and was rushing to Jiexiu County, this news surprised Li Deliang.

In the official room, Pei Lin stood in front of the map worriedly, he was also deeply worried about the crisis in the Bird Mouse Valley, he saw it more deeply and thoroughly than Li Deliang, he had already understood the strategic intentions of the Zhou army, if they lost the Bird Mouse Valley, it would mean that Taiyuan City would become a lonely city.

At this time, a soldier reported at the door, "Qi Xiangguo, Manager Li is here." ”

Pei Lin nodded, "Please let him in!" ”

Li Deliang strode into the official room and asked sharply: "There was an accident in the Bird Mouse Valley, did Xiangguo inform the Son of Heaven?" ”

His voice was very loud, and his tone was very rude, which made Pei Lin frown, and said coldly: "I have already reported to the Holy Lord, and I don't need to be reminded by the prince." ”

Li Deliang saw Pei Lian's dissatisfaction, and he asked Pei Lian for something, so he held back his anger and whispered: "Xiangguo, I have something to say about the Bird Mouse Valley. ”

Pei Lin glanced at him in surprise, it was the first time he saw Li Deliang breathing so lowly, so he smiled and said, "Lord Wang, please speak!" ”

"Xiangguo, the Bird Mouse Valley is very important, if the Bird Mouse Valley is lost, we will be isolated from the counties of Jinnan, the army of Jinnan is empty, the enemy army will sweep the counties of Jinnan, so that we only have a lonely city in Taiyuan in Bingzhou, so that Taiyuan City will not be able to hold for long, and the state has existed in name only, we must recapture the Bird Mouse Valley at all costs."

Li Deliang thought of going with Pei Lian, Pei Lin walked a few steps with his hand, and said with a long sigh: "Of course I know the serious consequences of the loss of the Bird Mouse Valley, and I also think that Jiexiu County must be kept, and at the same time, Jiexiu County will be used as the foundation to recapture the Bird Mouse Valley, but I can't think of who to send to rescue Jiexiu County for a while?" ”

Li Deliang reversed his low position just now, he straightened his waist and said proudly: "Since I am the governor of the state, then the important task of rescuing Jiexiu and recapturing the Bird and Mouse Valley is none other than me." (To be continued.) )