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At the same time when Li Shou and Xie An led the army to Yanshi

i, Nanguo Gong Lu Song is leading 8,000 southern troops to fight under Hangu Pass.

is different from the gentle and elegant Lu Gong in Xie An's memory, today

i's Lu Gong, all wearing armor, his face is sinking like a fierce beast that chooses to enter and devour.

"Lin Zhen, the rebel general who killed Fan'er, is it in this pass?"

Lin Zhen, the head of the three generals of the Southern General, hugged his fists, gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "Yes, Grandpa, that thief is in Guanzhong!" ”

"Good!" Clenching the eight-point steel spear in his hand, Lu Song said in a deep voice, "Scolding the war!" ”

"Yes!" Lin Zhen clenched his fists and led the order, rode a war horse to the front of the battle, pointed the spear in his hand at the Hangu Pass, and scolded sharply, "There are no cowardly children in the pass, listen, my grandfather personally led the army here, if you know each other, come out quickly and send it to death, don't be a turtle with a shrunken head!" As he spoke, there was a lot of unbearable insults.

At this time, Tang Hao had not yet surrendered to Xie An's command, and when he heard this, he frowned slightly.

He naturally knew that the southern army was scolding the war, in order to force the rebels in their pass to fight, but compared with the disparity in strength of the two armies, Tang Hao was really a little puzzled.

Since ancient times, it has always been the side with the advantage of troops scolding and fighting under the city, but at present, the southern army, with only 8,000 troops, is fighting against Hangu Pass, which has more than 100,000 troops, which is simply eating the courage of an ambitious leopard.

If you change to a side, most of them will not say a word and lead their troops to battle, but Tang Hao has seen the strength of the southern army as early as the first wave of the Western Expedition Zhou army to attack Hangu Pass.

At that time, Lu Fan, the commander of the Zhou army of the Western Expedition, not only blocked the attack of tens of thousands of rebels with 20,000 southern troops, but even defeated the tens of thousands of rebels in turn.

In Tang Hao's view, this Southern Army is simply an army dressed in a turtle shell, and ordinary bows and crossbows do not have the slightest lethality at all, and even the soldiers of the Southern Army do not have to resist at all, leaving the bows and crossbows of the rebels on their bodies.

In fact, after the first round of the Battle of Hangu Pass, Tang Hao made calculations based on the captured equipment of the Southern Army, and roughly calculated that the weight of each Southern Sergeant when he was fully armed was as high as more than 200 catties, not including the spears in their hands and the iron shields that were high.

Tang Hao couldn't imagine how the Southern Army carried this nearly 300 catties of iron armor and weapons to fight on the battlefield.

Naturally, he didn't understand that the one who was fortunate enough to enlist in the Southern Army was a strong man with a burly figure and strength far beyond ordinary entry, and in the Southern Army, the basic training in the army was only for physical strength and arm strength.

In other words, the Southern Army can be said to be a veritable heavy infantry! It is a solid barrier made of steel.

In fact, in the first Battle of Hanguguan, if it weren't for the fact that Lu Fan, who was not the commander, was killed by the rebel general named Chen Bei, which led to the turmoil of tens of thousands of Zhou troops in the Western Expedition and the escape of Queen Cang, the southern army would not have paid more than half of the casualties at all.

Those generals of the Zhou Army who fled from the Western Expedition did not take into account the embarrassing mobility of the Southern Army at all, and only cared about fleeing by themselves, so Lin Zhen, one of the three generals of the Southern Army, had no choice but to leave half of the troops behind.

To put it nicely, it is the queen of the palace, to put it mildly, the reason why the Zhou army of the Western Expedition was able to escape from the pursuit of the rebels was that the southern army of the 10,000 queens of the palace blocked the route of the rebels' pursuit, and while the friendly troops fled in embarrassment, they simply blocked the charge of more than 100,000 rebels until they fought to the point of one soldier.

And if Lu Fan hadn't died in battle, I'm afraid that most of the battles in Hanguguan would have been rewritten.

Tang Hao admitted this, Bi Jing had never seen such a terrible army.

In his eyes, the Southern Sergeants were like monsters in iron skins, invulnerable, invulnerable, and their thick armor could not even penetrate with crossbow arrows.

When the southern army lined up in formation and advanced step by step, it was simply a one-sided crush, and in all fairness, Tang Hao really couldn't think of an effective way to deal with this army.

Although the world believes that the cavalry is the nemesis of the infantry, but this iron rule is not applicable to the southern army, when the southern soldiers put down their shields and build a steel defense line, the cavalry is not only faced with the iron shield weighing 100 catties, but also the spear that is more than a zhang long.

And just when Tang Hao looked at the southern army under the city and frowned and thought about countermeasures, Qin Wei, the main general of Hangu Pass, had already ascended the city tower with several generals.

"After what kind of general, is it Lu Song, the Duke of Nanguo?" Qin Wei showed a somewhat disapproving smile on his face.

It is no wonder that Bi Jinghan Guguan has twice blocked the offensive of the Zhou army in the west, and Qin Wei has no doubt that he will defeat the southern army under the city.

"Meng Ao, you bring 10,000 in, go and meet that old man!" Qin Wei waved his hand casually and said.

As soon as the words fell, a rude-looking rebel general stepped forward and clenched his fists to take orders.

"No!"

Looking at the back of Meng Ao stepping down from the city tower, Tang Hao frowned slightly, and clenched his fists to remind Qin Weidao, "Qin Shuai, Nanguo Gong Lu Song is by no means easy to deal with...... It is a rare fierce general beside Li Ji, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Liangqiu Gong soldiers attacked the Southern Tang Dynasty in two ways, and the Liangqiu Gong Lianke Southern Tang Seventeen Cities in a month, and this Lu Song captured eleven cities, although the feats are not as dazzling as the former, but they are also ......"

"That's it!" Qin Wei raised his hand to stop Tang Hao's words, and said unhappily, "Ben Shuai has always known that General Tang is brave, how can he get here."

But he is so perverse, he grows into his ambition and destroys the prestige of our army...... Ben Shuai also knew that Lu Song was a rare fierce general in the world thirty years ago, but now, is it still the time for such an old pawn to be capable? ”

"What Qin Shuai said is extremely true!"

"General Meng Ao is also a fierce general, enough to kill Lu Song!"

Nearby rebel generals echoed their words.

Seeing this, Tang Hao frowned slightly, and it could be seen that he was a little displeased.

Sure enough, the first two victories made this gang a little carried away...... Don't you know that the arrogant army will be defeated?!

Glancing at the triumphant eyes of the generals in the city, Tang Hao sighed secretly, after all, he didn't say what he thought in his heart.

After a while, the gate of Hangu Pass was wide open, and the rebel general Meng Ao led more than 10,000 foot soldiers to flock out of the city and form a good formation in front of the southern army.

Seeing this, Lin Zhen, the general of the Southern Army, came to Lu Song's side, hugged his fists and said, "Grandpa, the rebels are in battle!" ”

In fact, Lu Song had already seen it at this moment, and said in a deep voice when he heard the words, "Lin Zhen, the thief who killed my son, but here?" ”

"Not really!" After a few cursory glances, Lin Zhen shook his head, clasped his fists and said, "Grandpa doesn't know, that rebel general doesn't come forward easily, the last general remembers that when the first time he attacked Hangu Pass, the prince led the army to gain the upper hand, and only then did he force the thief to come forward......"

Lu Song frowned when he heard this, and said unhappily, "How arrogant is your arrogance! ”

At this time, Le Jun, who was also one of the three generals of the Southern Army, licked his lips when he heard this, clenched his fists and said, "Grandpa, please rest assured, we will inevitably force out the thief and avenge the prince!" ――Now that the rebels have not yet finished their formation, why not take the opportunity to attack? ”

"......" Looking at the rebels in the distance, Lu Song slowly shook his head and said in a deep voice, "No! Wait until these thieves are finished...... Let them see the courage of our Southern Army! - Defeat them with dignity! ”

Lin Zhen, Le Jun, and Wei Yun were shocked when they heard this, their eyes showed a little ruthlessness, and they nodded heavily.

"The last general...... Got it! ”

Perhaps except for the officers and soldiers of the Southern Army, no one will understand the deep meaning of Lu Song's words.

Defeat the enemy in a dignified manner?

Isn't it good to strike first while the enemy army has not yet finished arraying?

Why go far?

It can only be said that if the eldest grandson Xiangyu or Xie An were here, they would understand Lu Song's purpose.

Deterrence!

Lu Song planned to completely defeat the 10,000 rebels under the city in front of the countless rebels in Hangu, so as to hit the morale of the rebels in the city, which was similar to the plan made by the rebel Zhou Liang outside the southern city wall of Luoyang.

But then again, when he was in Luoyang, the eldest grandson Xiangyu achieved a situation of fighting more and less in a short period of time with the help of ingenious design, and the rebel generals Wang Meng and Zhou Liang's army, who attacked Fei **, did not notice at all that behind his back, the western expedition Zhou general Li Jingzheng rushed in a roundabout way, forming a counter-encirclement, plus the 4,000 soldiers led by Chen Gang suddenly killed from behind Zhou Liang's army, turning the entire 30,000 rebels into a two-layer sandwich cake thousand, not only could not echo from beginning to end, but even normal scheduling could not be done. So much so that in a moment's work, the rebels were stunned.

In other words, if it weren't for the ambush of Li Jing and Chen Gang, which hit the morale of Wang Meng and Zhou Liangjun and made the rebels panic, how could the Zhou army use the same strength to defeat the rebels in just one stick of incense?

However, at the moment, Lu Song, the Duke of Nanguo, wants to lead a mere 8,000 southern troops to confront 10,000 rebels head-on without ambush and reinforcements, and still wants to defeat the enemy army in a short time?

Is this kind of thing possible?

As one of the few generals in the rebel army who knew how to fight, Tang Hao was half-prostrated on the city wall, watching intently the fierce battle that was about to unfold under the city.

But what made him unbelievable was that among the eight thousand phalanxes of the southern army, only four of Jing Ran slowly approached the rebels, while the remaining four phalanxes did not move at all.

Seeing this, Tang Hao gasped.

Could it be that this southern army plans to use 4,000 troops to compete with the 10,000 rebels led by Meng Ao?

Underestimated...... Even Tang Hao couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart, not to mention the rebel general Meng Ao, who was leading more than 10,000 rebels to attack the Southern Army at this moment.

"What a half-cut old man, dare to insult me like this?" After scolding, the sword in Meng Ao's hand guided the army and shouted, "The whole army...... Charge! ”

"Oh!" More than 10,000 rebels roared in unison, fierce as beasts, and pounced towards the southern army.

It's too big!

Even if it's the Southern Army...... Tang Hao on Hangu Pass frowned, feeling ridiculous for such a stupid move by the Southern Army, and suddenly, his face was slightly stunned.

Because he saw that just when the more than 10,000 rebels were about to rush in front of the southern army, the four thousand southern troops who entered the phalanx suddenly stopped in unison, put down the shield in their hands, and built a steel city wall like a barrier.

Have you tightened your defenses?

Tang Hao frowned slightly, and secretly said that it was not good in his heart.

Oops, morale is interrupted!

As he expected, in the face of the sea of guns of the Southern Army, the charging rebel soldiers subconsciously stopped, Bi Jing, no one wanted to rush up stupidly, and was strung on the iron spears of the Southern Army.

And in this short stalemate, Lin Zhen, the general of the Southern Army, knocked on the edge of the iron shield in his hand with a spear, and shouted loudly, "The will to fall into battle......

As soon as the words fell, the four thousand southern troops took a step forward, knocked the iron shield with the iron gun, and shouted, "There is no advance or retreat!" ”

After that, Le Jun also repeated Lin Zhen's actions, and shouted loudly again, "The ambition of the battle ......"

The four thousand officers and men of the Southern Army once again took a step forward in unison, and shouted loudly again, "There is death and no life!" ”

"The will to fall into battle......" Wei Yun, who is also one of the three generals, also shouted.

"I'm invincible!" When the 4,000 southern troops shouted the last slogan, the fighting spirit of the officers and men in the army was completely ignited, and the fighting spirit like a stormy wave impacted the hearts of every rebel.

At that moment, the sky was full of dark clouds, as if even the land was afraid of the fighting spirit of the Southern Army.

"Don't be afraid!" Meng Ao, the general of the rebel army, roared, pointed at the southern army on the opposite side and shouted, "Kill the past, kill it, and reward five taels of silver!" Kill ten in, reward one hundred taels of silver! ”

"Oh!"

As the saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy rewards, and Meng Ao's words once again successfully inspired the morale of the rebel soldiers.

Under the watchful breath of the rebel generals at Hangu Pass, the two armies collided fiercely, but no one expected that the rebels, who obviously had an advantage in the number of troops, lost as many as 1,000 troops in one face-to-face effort, and the southern army, on the other hand, did not seem to have even a single wounded.

In the face of the chaotic offensive of the rebel soldiers, and in the face of the sword blades that were close at hand, the soldiers of the Southern Army did not even seem to blink their eyelids, repeating the actions of raising their shields and bayonet guns.

"Bell Bell Bell ......"

All the attacks were blocked by the shields in the hands of the Southern Army, and just when the rebel soldiers were stunned, a deadly spear head stretched out from the small hole on the right side of the shield, stringing them on the spear.

From beginning to end, the blades in the hands of the rebels could not even touch the bodies of the soldiers of the Southern Army, and no matter how hard they tried, they could not break the iron shields in the hands of the soldiers of the Southern Army.

"The ambition to fall into battle, there is no advance or retreat!"

While more than 10,000 rebels were terrified, the 4,000 southern troops roared in unison, took a step forward, and then lowered their shields again.

"Rush over, rush over!"

The rebel general Meng Ao roared angrily, but to no avail, although he had an advantage in the number of points, he couldn't even touch the opponent's body, how could this battle be fought?

"The will to fall into battle, there is death and no life!"

A platoon of rebels fell...... "The will to fall into battle, I am invincible!" ”

Another row of rebels fell...... The heavy footsteps of the Southern Army, every step seemed to be stepping on the hearts of all the rebels here, making them feel indescribably depressed.

Since ancient times, on the battlefield, generals have shouted more than once to boost the morale of their soldiers, but the southern army has never shouted even a single word so far...... This army is like a pool of stagnant water, as if it is a rock that is difficult to shake, shouting slogans like a machine, repeating the actions of raising shields and bayonets like a machine, and there is no change from beginning to end.

"It's not a fight at all, it's simply a ......"

One-sided slaughter!

Far above Hangu Pass, Tang Hao took a deep breath, even if he was extremely far away, he could feel the indomitable momentum of the Southern Army.

Why?

Obviously, he has already borne the heavy price of losing more than half, why is the momentum of this gang stronger than the previous one?

Thinking of this, Tang Hao frowned and looked at the huge banner fluttering in the wind in the middle of the Southern Army, with white characters on a black background, and four simple words written on it.

Is this the Southern Army? Known as an invincible iron-blooded army?

Tang Hao glanced down at his right hand, and he was shocked to find that a layer of sweat oozed from his palm.

Suddenly, cheers erupted among the rebels outside the city.

Tang Hao subconsciously looked up, only to find that under the leadership of the rebel general Meng Ao, the rebels concentrated their forces to break through a corner of the southern army, making the impregnable defense line of the southern army finally have a flaw.

"Good!" The rebel generals on Hangu Pass shouted as if they had won the battle, and I am afraid that even they did not know why they would cheer for such a trivial matter.

But it's a pity that the smiles on their faces only lasted for less than a few breaths...... Under their incredulous gaze, the southern army that had been broken through did not panic at all, and even those southern army officers and soldiers did not pay attention to the fallen Tong Ze at all, stepped over Tong Ze's corpse, and made up the defensive line.

The whole four thousand southern troops in the phalanx, not a single one of them cared about the sharp blade that had been suspended in their heads, and none of them entered Tongze to mourn the death of the battle, the soldiers in the front row died in battle, and the soldiers in the back row made up for it.

Looking at the four thousand phalanxes, the only thing that could be heard was the shouts, and beyond that, there was an unbelievable stride neatly in order.

What the hell is going on with this army?

Like Tang Hao, Meng Ao, the rebel general at this moment, also has the same suspicions, and even he feels deeper in this regard.

You must know that just now, he Meng Ao looked at the gap between the helmet and armor of a southern sergeant, and when he raised his sword to slash at that gap, he clearly saw that the southern sergeant glanced at him from the corner of his eye, but the spear in the hand of the sergeant was 1

I was stabbing towards the dense rebels in front of him...... The sharp sword in Meng Ao's hand slashed through the neck of the Southern Sergeant, and suddenly, the neck of the Southern Sergeant was red, and the blood couldn't stop gushing outward, but even so, the Southern Sergeant was 1

I shouted slogans, lifted an iron shield weighing more than 100 catties, and took a step forward with Tong Zeqi beside him, and then, after stabbing him with the last shot in his life, he fell to the ground with a bang...... Not even the last cry before death...... And what made Meng Ao feel even more unbelievable was that the Tongze people around him didn't say anything about the death of this Southern Sergeant, let alone rushing up to fight with him angrily, without even glancing at him.

What is going on with this army?

Looking at the Southern Army sergeant in the back row stepping forward and making up for the Southern Army soldier who was killed by Meng Ao, Meng Ao had a creepy feeling in his heart.

It was only at this point that he finally understood the meaning of the slogan of the Southern Army...... Suddenly, he was shocked, and subconsciously looked down, but saw a spear piercing his chest, and looked up at the enemy army in front of him, he found that it was a Southern sergeant with endless hatred in his eyes, but he tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart...... Can't win...... Can't win this army...... This iron-blooded army that is not inferior to the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army, the Southern Military Battalion!

With a snap, the dignified rebel general fell off his horse, and then, a Southern sergeant stepped over his corpse...... "Unbelievable!" When Hangu was closed, Tang Hao shook his head incredulously, looking at the rout of his own army outside the city, he couldn't believe it.

The only 4,000 southern troops competed to block the offensive of more than 10,000 rebels, and even defeated the rebels in turn...... With a long sigh, Tang Hao turned his head to look at the rebel generals on the pass, but found that the generals led by Qin Wei were not only blue in their faces, but also had a faint hint of shock and horror in their eyes.

I don't know how long it took, Qin Wei, the commander of the rebel army in Hangu Pass, took a deep breath and muttered, "No...... It is worthy of being one of the four towns in Jijing, and the southern army is in the camp! It's true that I'm underestimating this southern army, but ...... Just 8,000 people want to conquer my Hangu Pass, which is undoubtedly a dream! ――Zhou Bi, you order another 10,000 soldiers to go out to fight! ”

"I ...... I'll go? The general named Zhou Bi showed a little horror in his eyes.

Qin Wei's face showed a little anger, but he also understood that Bi Jing, even if He Jin saw the four thousand southern army crush 10,000 of his own soldiers and horses, he would be afraid.

"Don't worry, I will ask General Chen Bei to help you!"

Chen ...... General Chen Bei? Zhou Bi, who was still afraid, heard this, and without saying a word, he hugged his fists and ran down the pass.

Old...... Suddenly?

Tang Hao frowned slightly.

To tell the truth, Tang Hao roughly knows the generals in the rebel army, even if he doesn't recognize them, he has heard the names more or less and knows where to enter, but he doesn't know the details of this general named Chen Bei.

But one thing he knows very well is that the man named Chen Bei is very dangerous, quite dangerous!

The gate of Hangu Pass slowly opened again, and the rebel general Zhou Bi led 10,000 soldiers to walk out slowly, and behind the army, there was a man wearing a gray cloak at least following behind, holding a huge chopping knife that was one foot high.

If you think about it, you know how heavy this horse chopping knife is, but this man seems to be very relaxed, holding it with one hand.

There is no doubt that this male entry is Chen Bei in Qin Wei's mouth, the rebel general who twice disgraced the Western Expeditionary Army.

At the same time, Lin Zhen, the general of the Southern Army, also noticed the Hangu Pass Gate that was open again, as well as the familiar and hated one......