Chapter 179: Take Zimeng Pass
After making some preparations, Miao Qian's soldiers and horses on the Northeast Road were the first to be dispatched, followed by ten senior swordsmen led by Xiao Yu.
The next dispatch was 1,500 people led by Ning Guobin, who would set up an ambush on the northwest mountain road and build a simple checkpoint.
The next dispatch was the Southwest Road army led by Wu Gang. Hao Xingui and Tian Yong's 1,000 soldiers and horses, plus the twenty senior swordsmen led by Xiaomei and Xiaolan, they will take the initiative to find the main force of the imperial court's southwest army for a decisive battle.
The most rearly dispatched was the army of the Southeast Road led by Gu Yun. This route was composed of 3,000 soldiers and horses of Li Jizhou, Su Mao and Kong Chao, and the masters of the accompanying army only brought ten senior swordsmen except Clark and Gu Yun.
The remaining ten senior swordsmen were left behind in Luozhou City, and they would cooperate with Liu Ruyan and Christie with Xiaobai to prevent any masters from raiding the base camp.
……
Miao Qian's soldiers and horses on the northeast road first arrived at Zimeng Pass.
Zimeng Pass is located in a valley between two mountains, in the valley, two seven or eight meters high, more than ten meters wide city walls across the valley. And in the middle of the two city walls, there are two military camps with two teams of court soldiers. They were usually negligent in training, and their numbers were less than enough, at this time there were only about five or six hundred people.
When Miao Qian led the army to advance to the front of the pass, the defenders of Zimeng Pass found out and immediately made them jump. The defenders of Zimeng Pass would never have imagined that such a group of soldiers and horses would suddenly appear in the hinterland of Dashun, let alone that they would dare to come to the front of the pass. By the time they reacted and organized the soldiers to close the gate, Miao Qian's army was already less than five hundred meters away from Zimeng Pass.
Fortunately, when Miao Qian's army marched to a distance of two hundred meters, it stopped, which made the imperial court soldiers on the pass breathe a sigh of relief.
Miao Qian ordered the army to stop, and then called his adjutant and a few hundred guard commanders, plus Xiao Yu, to have a meeting together.
"Everyone, Zimeng Pass is right in front of you. In order to reduce casualties, I wonder if there is any good way for everyone to do it? Miao Qian touched the shallow beard on his chin, glanced at the people attending the meeting, and finally stopped at Xiaoyu. As a master's intuition, he felt that Xiao Yu would not be a cronie of Gu Yun's casual faction, and he should have some real skills.
Sure enough, Xiao Yu listened to Miao Qian's words and volunteered: "What's so difficult about this, I only need to take ten senior swordsmen to the pass to sweep it, and Zimeng Pass can be captured!" ”
"Only the eleven of you?" Miao Qian's eyes widened, a little disbelieving. Not only him, but most of the other people here did not believe it. After all, Xiao Yu looks like a delicate and weak woman, even if she is strong in martial arts, but there are 500 soldiers in Guan, and fighting with soldiers is not the same as fighting with martial arts masters. Besides, Zimeng Pass is eight meters high, so it's a problem to go up!
"Yes, just wait!" In the stunned eyes of Miao Qian and the others, Xiao Yu called the ten senior swordsmen she led and went straight to Zimeng Pass.
The soldiers on Zimeng Pass were greatly relieved to see that only Xiaoyu and other eleven people broke through the pass, and the officer guarding the pass gave an order, and two rows of archers bent their bows and arrows on the pass, aiming at the eleven people under the pass. Others began to prepare stones, sasswoods and other objects, preparing to release them when Xiaoyu and others attacked the city.
Xiao Yu and the others approached quickly, and when they were almost within the range of the soldiers guarding the pass, Xiao Yu took out a magic wand, waved it continuously, and released several magic spells in front of the pass.
Miao Qian and the others only saw that a strange black mist suddenly appeared in front of the pass, and it quickly spread. And when it was closed, skeletons suddenly appeared. The skeletons charged like warriors at the location of the guards. And because of the sudden appearance of the skeleton, the soldiers guarding the gate seemed to be frightened and stimulated, and suddenly there was a big chaos. Many people put down their work and shouted to dodge, many archers were so frightened that they threw away their weapons, and even a few soldiers ran down the city wall.
The accident of Zimengguan made Miao Qian and the others widen their eyes. Being brought here like this, not to mention the soldiers on Zimeng's pass, even the soldiers and horses led by them are likely to be chaotic. This made them awe of Xiaoyu, they didn't expect this delicate beauty to be so powerful, she alone almost disintegrated the guards of Zimeng Pass!
After Miao Qian and the others were stunned, the black fog in front of Zimeng Pass spread even more, and a small section of the closed gate, including the city wall, was gradually shrouded in black fog, and everyone couldn't see what was happening inside.
At this moment, Xiao Yu gave an order, and the ten senior swordsmen behind her suddenly appeared with various lights and began to fly towards the gate. It turned out that Xiao Yu gave each of the ten senior swordsmen a flying scroll on the way, and ordered them to fly up the city wall to clear the guards.
The guards on the gate were still not afraid of death, they took out the skeletons that were not strong in defense, and at this moment, when they saw ten senior swordsmen rising into the air, they hurriedly bent their bows and arrows, wanting to shoot them. But the arrows hit these people, but they were blocked by all kinds of light coming out of these people, and they fell to the ground one after another.
Seeing that the arrows did not work, the morale of the soldiers guarding the gate was extremely low. And ten high-ranking swordsmen flew up the city wall and began to slaughter the surrounding guards mercilessly. They are all top masters, and at this time, they are like sheep in a herd of tigers, which immediately makes many soldiers fall into despair.
Xiao Yu also moved after the ten senior swordsmen were dispatched. She walked into the black fog alone, and when she was only ten meters away from the city gate, she took out her LG4 grenade launcher and pulled the trigger at the city gate.
After a few "bang" sounds, the city gate was blown up by high-explosive anti-personnel grenades fired by Xiaoyu, and the stones urgently stacked by the soldiers guarding the gate behind the city gate were exposed. But this was not difficult for Xiaoyu, she put away the grenade launcher, took out her wand, and began to summon skeletons.
Xiao Yu summoned thirty skeletons in a row, and with a wave of his hand, the skeletons began to move the stones blocking the passage behind the city gate. The thirty skeletons had no idea that they were tired, and after working continuously for half an hour, the city gate was finally cleared.
So, with Xiao Yu's order, these thirty skeletons went up the steps of the city gate and climbed the city wall. The appearance of thirty skeletons seemed to be the last straw that overwhelmed the soldiers guarding the gate, and many people gave up resistance and fled in all directions regardless of it. Some people even jumped off Zimeng Pass in a hurry, and it was inevitable that they would be killed and injured.
Zimeng Pass was quickly captured by Xiaoyu and other eleven people, and when Miao Qian led people into the pass and went up to the city wall, they were still immersed in the battle just now. They were thinking in their hearts that if they were to be attacked like this, how would they deal with it, I was afraid that there was no better way than to use guns to fight indiscriminately, which made them can't help but be in awe of Xiao Yu's eleven team.
After Miao Qian's team entered Zimeng Pass, they immediately began to arm their defenses. The results of the battle here were quickly notified to Luozhou City, and Liu Ruyan gave the order and sent a small number of soldiers to cooperate with the people of the Suzaku Department to pull people outside the pass. As for how many people can be brought back, I don't know.
The Northeast Road has already achieved results, which makes the soldiers and horses of other roads also anxious.
Under the leadership of Wu Gang, after five days of continuous marching, the army of the southwest road finally met the vanguard of the imperial court soldiers and horses in the southwest. Wu Gang's soldiers and horses were all equipped with AK47s, so they didn't have anything to say, and directly set up a position and crushed towards this vanguard force.
Following the results of the Northeast Road, the Southwest Road also achieved results, which made the army of the Southeast Road led by Gu Yun also speed up the march.