The north gate of Zhennan Pass was closed, and the south gate was opened.

Yi Jiuxiao sent fifty forbidden soldiers on horseback to inform Yunfei that the horses were naturally captured by the Zhou army in the city.

Another 2,000 men were sent to patrol the city, search and arrest from house to house, and at the same time seal down Merlin's mansion.

The rest of the sergeants cleaned the battlefield and collected all kinds of loot.

The corpses in the defenders' camp were cleared, and various loot were piled up in the center of the training ground, which was placed in separate categories.

The storage bags of the 20,000 defenders, the two hundred rings of the chief and deputy commanders, and the rings of the chieftains, were among them.

Yi Jiu flew at a height of ten zhang, facing all the sergeants and commanders.

I only heard him say: "Half of the materials present, including the items in the ring, will be rewarded to you and the other four thousand forbidden troops who did not participate in the battle, and you will take an extra share than them." Two hundred rings were taken out and confiscated with the other half of the supplies, which were used to carry supplies on the march later. ”

Yi Jiuxiao likes to travel lightly and does not like to carry baggage, but the sergeant's storage bag is too small to hold many things.

Now with 200 rings, these contradictions will be solved.

Hearing Yi Jiuxiao's words, the sergeants below applauded thunderously and cheered.

In the past, it would be good for the sergeant to get a quarter of the spoils of battle, and the rest was confiscated.

And there are so many people that everyone gets a small amount of money.

This time it was different, 8,000 people divided 10,000 items, and the 4,000 sergeants on the scene would share more.

How could they not be excited, they were all cultivators, and they all needed cultivation resources.

Then, a ring appeared in Yi Jiuxiao's hand, which was the one that was taken off Mo Lin's hand from the Zhennan guard.

I saw him throw the ring in his hand from the air and said, "This ring is my reward to all the commanders, everyone take it and divide it, and the ring will be returned when the time comes." ”

According to the convention, Jin Dan is the main general, and the general of the same rank who kills the other party, the ring belongs to the individual.

This ring should belong to Yi Jiuxiao himself, so the reward he gave was very accurate.

Not only were the commanders who received the award very moved, but even the sergeants below were very moved, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted for a while.

At dawn, the four forbidden army formations that remained at Zhenbei Pass rushed over, including all the horses.

It was a reluctant move to give up horses before, but horses are indispensable, and horses can greatly increase the speed of marching in plain warfare.

The defenders of the city had 20,000 horses, but they were not as good as the horses of the forbidden army, which were all carefully selected horses.

Yunfei didn't come, and the border guards didn't come either, they still needed to defend at Zhenbei Pass.

Because the south pass of this town is difficult to defend, and there is an open area outside the north gate, it is easy for the Zhou State to form an array if it is attacked.

What should I do? Yi Jiuxiao will not give up this closed city, since it has been defeated, he will use it as a stronghold for the garrison.

Before Li Rui arrived, he didn't want to continue to attack Zhou Guo.

He only had 8,000 men and horses, and as soon as he walked on the front foot, Zhennan Pass might be lost.

After thinking about it all night, Yi Jiuxiao decided to renovate Zhennanguan.

Just waiting for Li Rui's army to arrive, there are still a few days of free time to use.

He has no ability to build cities and customs, nor does he have the ability to move mountains and seas.

What can be done now is to use the soil method, borrowing the trenches of the previous Great Song Dynasty, digging horse pits, and piling up soil mountains.

There are excavation tools in the south of the town, because the roads and city walls in the city also need to be repaired and must be prepared.

It's just that there are not many of them, but this problem is easy to solve, and Yi Jiuxiao sent people to bring all the people from Zhenbei Pass.

The 8,000 forbidden troops were divided into two groups, half of them patrolled and guarded, and the other half dug ditches and picked up soil, and the two groups of men and horses took turns to work.

Yi Jiuxiao personally went into battle to command, he fought against the Liao State for many years in his previous life, and he had a lot of experience in dealing with cavalry.

He asked the sergeants to dig a moat outside the city wall of the north gate of Zhennan Pass, because there was no water, it could only be counted as a large moat.

The width of this ditch is ten zhang, and the depth is one zhang and five feet.

There was only a two-zhang wide road at the north entrance, and I wanted to set up a suspension bridge, but I couldn't make it because of the urgency of time.

The excavated soil was transported by horse-drawn cart to the open space within a hundred zhang outside the north gate, forming huge mounds of soil.

These mounds are very useful and prevent the sergeant from forming arrays in the area.

In addition to this, some deep pits were dug scattered on both sides of the north-facing road, and then covered with grass and trees, and covered with floating soil.

The strength of the number of people was great, and the 8,000 sergeants took turns to work, day and night, and the prototype was formed in seven days.

On the eighth day, the Zhou army attacked.

The scouts sent by Yi Jiuxiao had already received the news that all the construction outside the city had stopped, and everyone was on standby.

On the day of the fall of Zhennan Pass, some traders and civilians still escaped from the city and spread the news that Zhennan Pass had been breached.

Zhennan Pass is located in Qianzhou of the Zhou State, and the border defenders have a total of three generals of Jin Danxiu.

Mo Lin of Zhennanguan is the main general, and the other two are named Song Chun and Yang Wan, who are deputy generals.

The two lieutenant generals guarded the other two passes, confronting the Yu Yishan and Yu Yishui brothers.

Song Chun was the first to hear the news of the loss of Zhennan Pass, so he flew to Yang Wan's station to discuss with him.

In the end, the two agreed to lead 5,000 border defenders to recover Zhennan Pass.

The two of them flew in the air, and the army on the ground was galloping.

Because these people have been assisting in the defense of the border for many years, they are very familiar with the terrain of Zhennan Pass.

In the impression that the terrain of the north gate of the south pass of the town is wide, and when the time comes, ten formations will form a queue outside the city, and it is quite convenient to attack the city.

Before sending troops, they also sent scouts, but these scouts did not come close to Guancheng.

In the place five miles away from Zhennan Pass, the patrol soldiers of the Yi State Forbidden Army were captured alive, and they did not know anything about the transformation of the Guancheng.

The current Zhennan Pass is no longer the Guancheng they have in their impression, and the Zhou army suffered a big loss two miles away.

One after another, the galloping horses fell into the pit, and the sergeant on horseback broke his bones and tendons.

More than 100 men and horses were lost in one time, and all the sergeants were terrified, and even the commander of the formation had no idea.

What's going on on the ground, why are there deep pits everywhere, they all have doubts and stops, and morale has been greatly reduced.

In fact, there was a trap in that section, and the time was urgent, and the Yi army couldn't dig so much.

This is Yi Jiuxiao deliberately arranging a maze array, causing panic among the enemy troops.

Song Chun and Yang were flying in the air, and they could see the ground clearly.

Not only did he see his sergeant fall into the pit, but he also saw a trench outside the south pass of Zhennan, and a mound of earth.

The two of them are also generals who have been fighting for many years, and they understand the situation when they see it.

This is not to let them close to the city walls, not to form a queue outside the city.

The two glanced at each other, and Song Chun asked, "General Yang, what should we do?"

Yang Wan thought for a moment and replied: "It's very difficult, this can't get close to the city wall, can't form a queue, and there is no offensive." But I just swept the city with my divine thoughts, and it seems that there are no masters. ”

"Well, it seems to be so!" Song Chun also probed with his divine thoughts, and then said.

The position where the two of them stood was only more than two hundred zhang away from Guancheng, and even the situation in the north of Guancheng could be detected.

"General Song, why don't we take a step forward and take a closer look. ”

So the two of them approached Baizhang to Zhennan Pass, and at this time they were almost standing above Guancheng, and the situation in the city was clear at a glance.

They only saw a formation of about 8,000 people, and the highest cultivation was in the late stage of foundation building, which couldn't help but be very strange.

"General Yang, what's going on? There really isn't a golden pill in the city!" Song Chun was very suspicious, this was not normal.

"General Song, didn't you leave something, or did you die with Lord Mo?"

In the competition between Jindan masters, if they are evenly matched, there is also the possibility of ending up together, so Yang Wancai guessed so.

"Then we can't do it, if there is no Jindan, you and I, plus ten formations, it will not be a problem to recover Guancheng. Song Chun asked Yang Wan.

"Well, it's a good opportunity, if you miss it, it won't necessarily happen, let's do it. ”

The two flew back into the sky above the team and immediately gave orders to the commanders of the formations below.

Let them divide into small groups close to the city walls, stand by the trenches, and carry out a strong attack.

So, the Zhou army, which had stopped moving, divided into small groups and slowly approached the city wall.

Song Chun and Yang Wan once again flew into the air a hundred zhang away from the city wall, preparing to attack the Yi army on the city wall from the air to protect and cooperate with the ground attack.

All this was seen by Yi Jiuxiao, who was standing on the city wall, Song Chun and Yang Wan couldn't see him clearly, but he saw everything clearly.

Yi Jiuxiao still divided the forbidden army into two groups, with four formations on the city wall and the other four formations on the main road at the north gate.

When waiting for most of the Zhou army to march to the edge of the moat, Yi Jiuxiao shouted "do it".

After speaking, he jumped into the air, flew into the air, and said to Song Chun and Yang Wan: "I'll come." ”

Song Chun and Yang Wan were stunned, and their divine thoughts swept over Yi Jiuxiao's body in unison, but they didn't feel a trace of mana fluctuations.

In an instant, Yi Jiuxiao, who was holding a spear piercing the mountain, appeared in front of Song Chun, and swept through thousands of troops with one move.

Song Chun's talisman shield had just been sacrificed, and it completely blocked the fatal blow of the spear through the mountain.

With a "poof", the spear pierced Song Chun's dantian and burst his golden pill.

His Yuan Shen hurriedly escaped, but was grabbed and pinched into powder by Yi Jiuxiao, who jumped up.

Everything only took two or three breaths, and a Jin Dan and a famous warrior on the border were gone.

Song Chun and Yang Wan did not stand together, but were lined up on both sides of the city gate, a hundred zhang apart, and Yi Jiuxiao attacked Song Chun who was close to him first.

Yang Wan saw it clearly on the other side, he sacrificed his magic weapon in the fastest time, and his magic weapon was a short hammer.

I saw the short hammer leave his hand, turning into a zhang in the air, and blasted towards the top of Yi Jiuxiao's head.

At this time, he was chasing Song Chun's Yuan Shen, and he couldn't dodge it at all.