Tongshan Pass.

As the focal point of the battlefield of the Middle Route Army of the Imperial Civil War, it was divided into two distinct pieces by the combined three or four hundred thousand armies of the two sides. After the sunrise was three poles, the two counties of the Songjiang Army and the Yanyun Army launched feints from each section one after another, and the momentum was amazing.

The same is offensive and defensive, and the intensity of the war here and the precedence are far greater than those of Northern Luzon.

On the defensive line of Tongshan Pass and the positions of the coalition forces outside the city, a large number of siege weapons cannot be seen at a glance. Even, the well-prepared defenders smeared grease on the stones of the stone thrower in advance, and after igniting, the stones thrown were like flame meteorites, which was staggering in terms of power and momentum!

If it is a real onslaught, I am afraid that there will be a staggering number of casualties in an instant.

The city guards defending the city did not know the exact plan of the coalition forces, and they only received reports that all sections of Tongshan Pass had been attacked on all fronts. If it were to change troops, it would be likely that in the face of such an obviously prepared attack, it would be in a hurry and blindly mobilize troops to respond. However, Tang Mingzhe, the commander of the City Guard Army who personally passed Tongshan Pass, is a veteran who has been in the army for more than 30 years and has extremely rich experience.

Of course, Tang Mingzhe is clear about the advantages and disadvantages of the Tongshan Pass defense. He quickly guessed that the seemingly massive attack of the combined forces of Songjiang and Yanyun was most likely a bluff.

"So, where is the real point of attack?"

He was not sure for the time being, and while ordering all units to defend steadily, he also ordered the division commanders to come to the front line to supervise the battle. Their judgments were far more accurate and reliable than the information reported by the defenders' departments themselves.

This sophisticated order is undoubtedly very wise.

The elite Cheng Dù of the City Guard Army was the first-rate in the world, and it was a defensive operation, and it was impossible for any unit to break through lightly. After several waves of tentative attacks, seeing that the city guards seemed to be unmoved, the combined forces of Songjiang and Yanyun let go of their restraints and let the troops in the northern section of Tongshan Pass use all their strength.

A hundred bed crossbows and twenty torsion stone throwers were pushed into battle from the hidden rear.

In an instant, huge arrows the size of javelins rained down. Even the strongest, double-armored warriors could not stop the power of such a giant arrow. Even if you don't get hit, the mere tearing and bleeding of the wound is enough to cut off any possibility of rescue.

The suddenly strengthened offensive force immediately suppressed the city defense in the northern section of Tongshan Pass.

The soldiers of the 8th Division of the City Guard Regiment stationed here soon felt the pressure far beyond before. What frightened them even more was the determination of the Songjiang Army to attack subsequently.

More than sixty ladders lined up, and elite soldiers used their shields to withstand the rain of arrows on the city's head, and climbed the city walls from all directions. Although most of them were smashed down by rolling logs and gravels, and many of the ladders were damaged, or even pushed down by push hooks, new ladders were added immediately afterward.

At the same time, eighty paces outside the defensive line, a series of six huge arrow towers rose from the ground.

Hundreds of foot archers climbed the heavily guarded turrets and stood at the level of Tongshan Pass, or even slightly higher, to shoot the defenders with their bows, suppressing them to help their own soldiers attack the city. Under the arrow tower, bundles of large piles of feathered arrows were carried by the auxiliaries like flowing water, and they were immediately shot out by the archers.

The sounds of fighting, screams, and flames, mixed with the dull crashing sound of boulders, made the northernmost section of Tongshan Pass a hell on earth.

Under such a ferocious offensive, only half an hour later, the two brigade commanders of the Eighth Division of the City Guard Army were sure that this was the direction of the main attack. While dispatching troops to organize defense, three waves of soldiers were sent in succession to ask the corps commander for help, asking for reinforcement of the garrison.

However, reinforcements are not something that can be adjusted. The attacker will always be more proactive than the defender, and can play tricks like the virtual and the real. Therefore, before Tang Mingzhe determined the main attack points of Songjiang and Yanyun and dispatched troops to arrive, the Eighth Division of the City Guard Army had to survive this period on its own.

This is undoubtedly the best window period for the Songjiang Army to make a breakthrough!

………

This civil war in the empire can be said to be a battle of life and death for both Qian Minghao and Qian Mingde. Once it is fully launched, it is natural to do everything.

In addition to the frontal offensive and defensive, other aspects of the dark war are also being carried out. Not to mention anything else, just the sentinels sent by Tongshan Pass have lost dozens of people in the past few days. Most of them were discovered and killed by the combined forces of Songjiang and Yanyun, and a small number were captured. But correspondingly, they also brought back a lot of false and real information about the coalition forces.

In addition, attacks and harassment of the grain routes have not stopped.

Since it was the defending side, there was enough grain for the army in Tongshan Pass for March, so the pressure on the grain route was smaller. And the army of Yanyun of Songjiang River had to transit through Shangyang in Guò Yuanshan County and transport it from the rear. In contrast, the pressure is much greater, and the risk of being harassed and attacked increases accordingly.

Tang Mingzhe is a veteran soldier, so he doesn't know how to start with this. Half a month before the big battle, six or seven cavalry teams were dispatched, ranging in number from three to five hundred. That is, it can ensure that the scale is not too large, it is convenient for activities, and it has enough ability to threaten the baggage team of the coalition forces after tandem. For this reason, Songjiang River Yanyun had to invest several times more cavalry forces to specifically track and deal with these troops.

Almost every day, there are short but fierce battles.

It can be said that as long as the offensive and defensive sides do not make serious mistakes, this fight will last for a long time. Until the combined forces of Songjiang and Yanyun made a breakthrough and penetrated Tongshan Pass...... Or the coalition forces continue to bleed in front of the impregnable level, until they are too weak to maintain the offensive and surrender the initiative!

Compared with the middle road, the south road in the three-way army is more tragic than the one.

Since the battle started earlier than the middle lane, there were more casualties on both sides of the southern route. Unlike the simple stalemate on the northern route and the west-to-east offensive on the central route, the Zhongzhou army on the southern route took the initiative to attack, while Qianmingde's troops defended step by step. Although the Eagle Yang Regiment is a newly formed division, after all, it was taught by Cheng Guogong, and it has been honed on the battlefield against the Wudou Midao rebels in the southwest, and its combat effectiveness is far higher than Qian Mingde expected.

A great battle in Ganding Province that lasted for half a month, with more than 10,000 casualties on both sides, ended with the fall of the capital city of Ganding Province and the voluntary retreat of the Northern Army sent by Qianmingde to reinforce it.

In this battle, the soldiers of the Eagle Yang Legion shocked Taiping County!

Although Ganding Mansion is only one of the four prefectures of Taiping County, it is also the most inconspicuous one, but after all, it is the northwest barrier of Taiping County. After occupying this place, the Yingyang Legion could march eastward from the border of the two provinces at any time, and follow a route roughly perpendicular to Chen Wu's march from Longshan Mansion to Wu'an, and go straight to the county seat of Taiping County!

Although this road is difficult to walk, it will be blocked by the full force of the Northern Army of Qianmingde, and it will be a war ten times more difficult under the city of Wu'an, but it is still a good news for Qianminghao in Zhongzhou. Naturally, it was not so pleasant for the soldiers of the Northern Army and the Wu'an Lin family.

It should be noted that although the Lin family has the energy to reach the sky in Wu'an, and is one of the eight major valves, it is still a certain distance from truly mastering the entire Taiping County. Although he had previously made a decision to support Qianmingde with the governor of Taiping County, under the co-optation of Yanyun County and the threat of soldiers, it did not mean that the Lin family had fully fallen to Qianmingde, and he was even more unwilling to tie the rise and fall of his family to the faction of the Great Prince.

Unless the family itself wants to dominate, the best thing in the face of the situation of the two families competing for the crown is not to help each other and wait for the final winner to appear. If they could, of course the Lin family wanted to do the same, but just like the Di family and the Feng family in Zhongzhou, the geographical location determined that they didn't have much right to choose.

Of course, if Qianmingde's army fought all the way to Zhongzhou, it would be nothing. But the current situation on the South Road is unfavorable to Qianmingde. If one is not good, the Lin family may become the first victim of it.

This had to make Lin Anhe think deeply.

What makes the Lin family's attitude even more unfirm is that although there are only two kings competing for hegemony on the chessboard of the empire, there may actually be a third Thai king who has entered the meteor-like rise!

However, although the meteor is bright, it is only short-lived. The King of Thailand is different!

In just a few years, the Omani army was defeated in a row when everyone was not optimistic, and their offensive was firmly blocked under the fortress of the South Peak. Under his rule, the three counties of Songjiang showed no signs of decay, but showed signs of becoming more and more prosperous. In order to win him over, Qian Mingde even had to reluctantly give up the territory of Donghai County. I also heard that Songjiang has recently been distracted by the capture of Luzon in the South Seas.

Lin Anhe, who had met Chen Wu, instinctively felt that this Luzon Island might be very unusual.

If Wu'an City is really destroyed by the war between the two kings in the near future, can the Lin family consider it......

When the news came that the Northern Army had retreated from Ganding Mansion and the Eagle Yang Army had captured the city, Lin Anhe was full of thoughts and secretly held a high-level meeting of the Lin family to discuss the future of the Lin family.

Walking out of the secret conference hall, Lin Anhe became more and more twilight. Compared with the high spirits of ten years ago, not only are people much older, but their hair is also grayer. Especially since he had just received another piece of news, the commander of the Northern Legion personally wrote a note, asking the Lin family to help with some food.

The so-called assistance is actually taken for nothing, and it is nothing more than saying it to sound better.

Although the emperor of the empire, Qian Mingde, and the commander of the Northern Legion, all said that all the materials needed were not taken free of charge, and would be repaid with titles, land, gold coins, etc. These days, the Northern Legion has indeed given hundreds of thousands of gold coins, but it is completely disproportionate to what they took from the Lin family.

Of course, if Qian Mingde really won the battle, these things would not worry about coming back, but in case they lost......

"Father?"

After a brief moment of distraction, a crisp voice woke him up.

Lin Anhe glanced up a little blankly and found that it was his slim third daughter in front of him. Suddenly, he realized that his daughter was already twenty-two!

In the feudal era, it was common for people to get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Those who have not yet married after twenty years are definitely married later. Even if the Lin family is the eighth major valve, and Lin Yunshuang is the daughter of the head of the family, she doesn't worry about getting married, and she is indeed very old at this age.

It's just that the current situation of the Lin family is really not suitable to talk about this.

He sighed, suppressed the melancholy of being a father in his heart, and asked, "Shuang'er is not in the back garden today, what's the matter with coming to me?" ”

"That's ......"

Lin Yunshuang seemed to be a little hesitant, probably thinking that the request would not be passed, so she said hesitantly: "In a while, it will be Lin Xing and Lin Yue's birthdays, I want to go to Dengzhou to see them." ”

The third lady of the Lin family has been the pearl of her hand since she was a child, but this also means that almost no one can play with her. And Lin Xing and Lin Yue sisters almost became Lin Yunshuang's only friends. Although they are nominally master and servant, in fact, Lin Yunshuang treats them like sisters. For two or three years, since the Lin sisters were sent to Dengzhou, Lin Yunshuang has never seen them again, and she really misses them very much.

"Ridiculous!"

Listening to Lin Yunshuang's request, Lin Anhe's first reaction was to be angry and not allowed. In his eyes, Lin Xing and Lin Yue are just a pair of maids sent out, how can there be a young lady from the main family who rushed all the way to visit his maidservant, wouldn't it make outsiders laugh when it was passed out? What's more, starting from Taiping County to Songjiang, due to the obstruction of the Bayan Mountains, it is necessary to go north and pass through Yuanshan County. And the border between Yuanshan County and Anqing County is a Tongshan Pass battlefield with hundreds of thousands of troops.

This soldier is running out in a hurry, isn't it ridiculous, what else can it be?

But...... Heading to Dengzhou?

Seeing that Lin Yunshuang's pretty face was a little disappointed, Lin Anhe couldn't bear it, and suddenly thought of something again, and couldn't help but move in his heart. I heard that Lin Xing Lin Yue is very pleasing to His Royal Highness the King of Thailand. Although he has been crowned king and there are a few beauties, he did not take concubines in a big way, but the twins sent by his family were the most favored. At this time, it seems good to go to Dengzhou, walk around more, and strengthen the connection.

"That's it, just go."

When Lin Yunshuang thought that things were hopeless, Lin Anhe was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly changed his words after subconsciously saying the word "ridiculous". With a smile with a little deeper meaning, he said: "It's not good to be trapped in the mansion all the time, since you are willing to go out to see them, I can't refuse." It just so happens that Taiping County has been unstable recently, and the Eagle Yang Army may hit Wu'an City one day, although it may not be able to tell the winner within a year and a half. Since it's rare to go there, you should stay there for a while in Dengzhou. ”

As far as the current empire is concerned, in addition to Zhongzhou, the safest thing in the world should be Dengzhou.

"Really?"

Lin Yunshuang's mood suddenly improved, she thought that it would not be easy to go and stay for a few days. Unexpectedly, my father not only allowed it, but also offered to live there for a period of time.

This is really good news for the third lady, who has never been out of Taiping County since she was a child, so much so that she even suppressed her worries about the Lin family and the recent situation in Taiping County.