The wind was a little cool, and standing in front of Jade Street, the emperor tightened his cloak.

"Recently, there has been a secret report from Qin Guan's side." The Emperor asked.

Li Chaoen hurriedly replied: "Not yet, Your Majesty." ”

The emperor sighed, "Now that the domestic situation is critical, if Qin Guan is in the country, he may be able to make a difference." ”

Li Chaoen thought for a while and replied: "Qin Guan is in the country, and he may not have played a big role in attacking the Liao State, and the slave feels that this time the Liao State launched a fierce attack, and there may not be no reason for the urgency of the domestic situation in the Liao State. ”

The emperor nodded, "I hope Qin Guan will not let me down, whether the sailor is ready, whether he can keep the Yangtze River line and stop the footsteps of the Liao army." ”

"General Cheng Min is in charge of the naval division, Lao Cheng is good at water warfare, and there are more than 300 warships of the size of our naval division, which will definitely protect the Yangtze River, and Your Majesty does not need to worry too much." Li Chaoen persuaded.

"Even if I can stop the footsteps of the Liao army, but the north has lost most of it, I am ashamed of the people of Zhao and the entrustment of the emperor." The emperor said in a lonely tone.

"Your Majesty, we are not defeated, we still have more than 200,000 soldiers in Jiangbei, and we still have hundreds of millions of people, who will definitely hold back the Liao army. Seeing that the emperor was depressed, Li Chaoen hurriedly persuaded.

"I hope so." The emperor looked at the gloomy sky and said, "I'm afraid it's going to snow."

As soon as the Emperor finished speaking, a few tiny flakes of snow fell, fell to the ground, and then melted into droplets.

The heavy snow fell for two days and two nights, and the North Route Army always stopped in Zezhou City and did not go anywhere, although Zezhou City became an empty city, and the Liao people ran away, but the North Route Army had sufficient supplies and a residential fire, so it was not bad.

Originally, Luming Mountain was just a small fortress, because the terrain was dangerous, there was a pass, so a small walled pass was set up, and only three hundred soldiers were stationed at ordinary times.

But now that an army of 30,000 has poured in all of a sudden, where can they be accommodated, so almost all of these Liao soldiers live in tents outside the country.

The heavy snow for two days made these Liao soldiers living in the wild miserable.

In the camp, an adjutant general reported: "Marshal, more than 30 soldiers froze to death yesterday, and the soldiers are now complaining very much, shouting every day for cow dung, spirits, and hot food. ”

After listening to the report, Xiao Tzuye said in a stiff tone: "Where can I get these things for them, this march is in a hurry, and I didn't bring enough supplies at all, and now I only have more than ten days of food, as for other things, I have to wait for the logistics troops to send them." ”

The adjutant general said: "When will the logistics troops be able to send the supplies over." ”

"Who knows, we were still raising money when we set off, and even if we do, now that the road is closed by heavy snow, it will take at least three or four days for them to arrive." Xiao Tart Wild Road.

"You go and tell the people below, let them hold on for a few more days, and when the logistics supply comes, there will be cow dung, milk wine, ghee, hot food, jerky, everything."

The adjutant general hesitated for a moment and said: "But I'm afraid I won't be able to hold out for three days, you also know that these people are all transferred from various families, and they are very disobedient, and now some people have begun to shout that if they can't guarantee logistics, they will retreat." ”

Xiao Tzuye's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he said coldly: "Now that they have been transferred, they are the people of the army, don't mention any family here, if someone makes trouble, directly engage in military law, I don't mind killing a few people." ”

Two days later, the snow finally stopped.

The sky began to clear, and the sun rarely showed its face, giving a touch of warmth to the ice and snow world.

But three days have passed, and the logistics supply of the Liao State has not yet arrived, Xiao Tzuye sent people to Dading Mansion to inquire, and found that the materials have not been raised yet, and many departments have been ripped off, and only forty percent of the materials have been raised so far.

When the news reached Luming Mountain, those generals were angry, and the soldiers were also angry when they heard about it, and some even shouted the slogan of going back to Dading Mansion directly.

Xiao Tzuye could only send his own personal guards and kill a few people before temporarily suppressing these guys, but the atmosphere of the entire temporary army was very dull, and it could be said that there was no combat effectiveness at all.

Zezhou City is about 80 miles away from Luming Mountain, and Qin Guan sends scouts to investigate every day, and is also studying whether to storm the Luming Mountain Pass or take a detour to Dading Mansion.

"Marshal, we caught a few fleeing Liao soldiers and asked for some information." The bear walked in with a rush.

"Oh, what kind of information." Qin Guan asked.

Xiong Er reported with some excitement: "The Luming Mountain Fortress turned out to be a group of rabble, which was temporarily dispatched by various families, plus some Khitan tribesmen, forcibly gathered 30,000 people out, and now their supplies can't keep up, the interior is already chaotic, the cow dung is not enough, camped in the wild at night, and many people froze to death, these guys I caught were originally herdsmen of a tribe, and they really couldn't hold on, so they became deserters at night, originally they wanted to bypass the road ahead, I didn't know it, but it was discovered by our scouts. ”

Qin Guan was in front of him when he heard this, this information was too important.

Originally, Qin Guan thought that if there was a Royal Forest Army on Luming Mountain, with the narrow section of Luming Mountain Pass, even if he broke through, he might need to pay a lot of soldiers' lives.

He's struggling with how to attack.

Now hearing that this was the case with Luming Mountain, Qin Guan immediately made a decision to attack Luming Mountain.

"Xiong Er, let those deserters tell all the commanders of the army in Luming Mountain, the deployment of troops, and the focus of defense."

"Guards, inform the generals, the big tent is on the agenda."

After a while, Xiong Da and others came, Qin Guan explained the situation, and after a while, Xiong Er came over with a confession, Qin Guan smiled and said: "It's done, order down, get dressed today, and enter Luming Mountain early tomorrow morning, I want to take Luming Mountain within a day, and we will go to Yuzhou for dinner." ”

"Yes, Marshal."

All the generals should be in unison.

Early the next morning, the North Road army set off and approached Luming Mountain.

In the distance is a continuous mountain, and there is a valley road between the two mountains in front, which is the only road that passes for hundreds of miles around, and this is the pass of Luming Mountain.

On both sides were steep cliffs, and in the middle there was a city gate, six or seven meters high, which looked very solid.

Qin Guan learned from the mouths of the few captured herdsmen that the Liao State already knew that Qin Guan had a sharp weapon to blow up the city gate, so as soon as Xiao Tzuye arrived here, he ordered the soldiers to block the city gate with rocks, even if Qin Guan blew up the city gate, it would be useless.

Now there is only one way, the siege.