The sky seems to have leaked a hole, the torrential rain is like a note, this kind of rainstorm is rare in the arid northwest, the commander of the first brigade and a battalion of the wolf made Pang Shaochun wipe the rain on his face, he was ordered to lead a battalion to capture Hutou Mountain tonight, but soon after setting off was intercepted by the sudden heavy rain under a cliff, although he was anxious but helpless, the rain flowing down from the mountain gathered into a torrent on the mountainside and rushed into the valley, and he could not retreat.

"Commander, the road ahead has been washed out, and the water is too strong to pass at all!" The pioneer who explored the path retreated and said to Pang Shaochun.

"Galley, is there no other way?" Pang Shaochun's eyes were dark, and he couldn't tell who it was from face to face, and he could only tell who it was from his voice.

"No, it's raining too hard now, I can't explore the way, so if it doesn't work, go back!" Ga Lang said helplessly, in order to prevent the enemy from discovering that he did not dare to raise fire at all, and now it is raining heavily, there is really no way to move forward, he found out the situation by the light of lightning.

"No, the military order is like a mountain, we must capture Hutou Mountain in the early hours of tomorrow morning, this is a death order from the prince!" Ga Lang is from Hengshan Mountain, the first batch of soldiers in the mountain battalion, the mountain is like the back garden of their home, and he will not lose his way with his eyes closed, and now he has said that he will not go, but he knows how difficult the road is, but Pang Shaochun still decided to take the risk forward.

"Well, the commander waits, this rain comes and goes quickly, and it won't delay time!" Gal asked.

"Okay!" Pang Shaochun finally spit out two words, the success or failure of this battle depends on whether they can successfully capture Hutou Mountain, and tens of thousands of troops under the mountain are waiting for their news...

An hour later, the rain gradually stopped in everyone's anticipation. The attacking team was dispatched again. The road they took was the road that the prince said Taizu used when he attacked Chitang Pass, and the wind and rain of more than 100 years had already turned the plank road into rotten wood. If there is one word to describe this road, it is - dangerous!

The road is bordered by a steep cliff on one side and a sloping stone wall on the other. The heavy rain made the road more slippery, everyone struggled to move forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and some places on the road collapsed, and the road was more than a foot wide, they could only move forward step by step against the stone wall, and their bodies were scratched by thorns and sharp stones all over the bloody mouth, but no one dared to stop, there was a surging flood below, and if you fell down, you would die!

More than two hours later. The attacking troops finally walked through this dangerous road, and got into a forest to ambush them, at this moment the clouds and fog dissipated, and a crescent moon was revealed in the night sky, Pang Shaochun estimated that the time should be ugly, and now it was early in the morning, and there was not much time left for them.

"Commander, there is the main peak of Hutou Mountain above!" Garang whispered.

"Gao Lin, you lead the commandos to clear the sentry. Team A and Team B then follow up, and if the sneak attack is exposed, they will immediately launch a strong attack and resolutely destroy it! Pang Shaochun gathered several teams together to arrange combat missions, "Team C and Team D, you monitor the enemy on the two heights of No. 1 and No. 2. As soon as they descend the mountain to reinforce them, they immediately open fire and hold back the two heights! ”

On each side of the Chitang Valley were stationed a thousand-man army with crossbowmen as the main force, which was used to block the Song army attacking from the valley. The torrential rain caused a problem. But it also made the Jin army stationed on the mountain relax their vigilance, they did not expect that the Song army would risk going up the mountain to attack in this weather. There were no sentry posts, and they all went into the camps set up on the mountainside to take shelter from the rain.

The commandos quietly infiltrated the position of the Jin Army and found that it was empty. Immediately sent a signal to the two teams A and B who followed up, and they immediately surrounded the camp of the Jin army, and the unprepared Jin army filled the urn turtle, and after a short battle, they controlled the main peak of Hutou Mountain.

But the sound of gunfire also alarmed the Jin troops on the other two heights, but they had already tasted the power of firearms, and when they found that the main position was lost, they immediately dispersed and fled into the mountains. After successfully occupying Hutou Mountain, Pang Shaochun immediately ordered the destruction of the rolling wood and stones arranged by the Jin army on the edge of the cliff, sending a signal to the army waiting outside the valley, and at this time it was just dawn...

After receiving the signal that the 1st Battalion had captured Hutou Mountain, the engineer battalion quickly moved to repair the trestle, and the artillery brigade then sent an artillery team to the head of the tiger and set up an artillery position to bombard the Jin Army on the West Mountain. The Hezhong Army controlled all the perilous passes on both sides of the Chitang Valley.

At the same time, the battle in the valley also began, and without the cover of the crossbowmen on the cliffs, the golden army in the valley was not an opponent at all, and retreated. Zhao Ta reorganized the team to follow the defeated Jin army to Chitang Pass, more than ten miles of travel soon ended, in the evening, Chitang Pass was already in sight, scouts came to report, Jin Jun Supervisor Yinshu can lead the team at the juncture to line up, according to the danger to block the Song army.

Due to the narrow road in front of the pass, it was difficult to deploy troops, so Zhao Ta did not rush to the pass, but concentrated artillery bombardment of Chitang Pass. The sound of artillery rang intermittently for a whole night, and when it was dawn, everyone found that the city tower of Chitang Pass was destroyed, the wall of the battlement of the city wall was all flattened, and the city wall was covered with large and small craters, but the city still withstood the baptism of artillery fire and did not collapse.

Zhao Ta originally wanted to get the two heavy cannons, but it was too heavy to carry them, and if he wanted to completely destroy the city wall, he had to repair it. So he switched to bombarding the Jin army in the pass with flowering shells, suppressed the Jin army archers on the city wall with machine guns, sent troops to fill the trench in front of the pass, and then used sappers to send a full 1,000 catties of explosives to blow up the city gate and attack the pass.

Yinshu can lead the troops to fight to the death and do not retreat, the two armies are close to each other, repeatedly fighting for the gate, but in the end they are defeated by the sharp weapons in the river, the soldiers are brave, and the gate is lost. Then the two sides turned to street fighting, Zhao Ta waved his army into the pass, personally led the Guards Brigade to fight with the enemy, and the morale of the army in the river was greatly boosted and they moved forward bravely.

Yinshu can see that more and more Song troops entered the pass, leading the remnants of the army to flee from the north gate, and the Hezhong army then covered up. Yinshu can return to the army and fight, but the Song army moves too quickly, and fights as soon as it arrives, and the Jin army is defeated as soon as it is defeated, and flees as soon as it is defeated, and the two armies chase for thirty miles until Zong Han brings in troops to help end the game.

In the first battle of Chitang Pass, the Hezhong army beheaded 3,000, including two commanders and more than 20 officers below the centurion. 2,000 enemies were captured, 1,000 horses were captured, and countless armor banners were captured. The greatest significance of this battle is not in the number of enemies annihilated, but in the fact that Taiyuan has been given a barrier and eliminated the direct threat of the Jin army to Taiyuan!

After two days of truce, Zhao Ta sent an envoy back to Beijing to report the victory, ordered people to rebuild Chitang Pass, and then led the army to attack Shiling Pass, as long as this dangerous pass was recaptured, the Jin army could only retreat to Yanmen, and could no longer easily invade Taiyuan... (To be continued......)