Fengming Mountain.

After the three reinforcements arrived one after another, Charahan arranged them all into the second line of defense at the first time. During this period, the main force of the Yanmen Army was also encamped and arranged, and did not attack rashly.

When both sides were ready, Charahan quietly breathed a sigh of relief. The rapid loss of the first line of defense, and the heavy losses of 20,000 royal court elites, had made him a little breathless.

Most of the reinforcements that came were the army of the Tianyuan tribe, and the soldiers of the Khitan tribe accounted for only half of them.

The Khitan warriors are not to be underestimated.

In the past three years, Tianyuan Khan has sent many generals and veterans to step up the training of soldiers from the Khitan and Jurchen departments, and at the same time equip them with the Sky Wolf Bow, which has given the latter a radical change.

Of course, compared to the combat power, the Tian Yuan Ministry's own army still has an absolute advantage.

Today, the army under the control of the Tian Yuan Royal Court can be roughly divided into three echelons, and the combat power is decreasing one after another: the elite of the Royal Court, the ordinary Tian Yuan army, and the Khitan and Jurchen armies.

Compared with the ordinary Tianyuan tribal army, the elite of the royal court is mainly strong in armament, and the former are equipped with armor obtained from the Western Regions, which can be attacked and defended. In the ordinary Tianyuan army, there is no obvious difference in armor equipment rate with that of the Khitan and Jurchen armies.

This time, Charahan took over the task of intercepting the Yanmen army, and he brought half of the more than 60,000 elites of the royal court.

The elite of the royal court is very precious, it was originally used as a Dinghai Divine Needle, and he thought that he had the chance to win the first battle, so he sent them to fight, but he lost most of it, and this crime has to be said to be very great.

But Charahan is not panicking now.

Although no one in the ordinary Tianyuan Army wears armor, but the Sky Wolf Bow has it, as a veteran of the battlefield, he is now defending against danger, and when he is fully prepared, it is still safe to block the Yanmen Army.

Of course, Charahan was not satisfied with just holding Fengming Mountain, his plan was to defend first and then attack.

In the early stage, the second line of defense was used to consume the living strength of the Yanmen army, and when the Yanmen army suffered heavy losses and the soldiers were exhausted, that was the time for him to counterattack.

Chalahan, who has rarely been defeated for many years, is undoubtedly proud, and in the case of the elite of the royal court losing nearly 20,000, only by completely defeating the Yanmen army can his self-esteem have a place to rest.

Of course, this is not only about self-esteem, but also about his status as the right virtuous king.

This time, the Tian Yuan Royal Court used the two armies of Tian Yuan and Khitan, totaling more than 400,000, as well as a large number of Wang Ji Realm masters.

Although the main task of the army is to quickly annex the Dadan Division, Charahan has only forty percent of the troops, but there are also more than one hand of Wang Jijing.

Coupled with his mid-stage Wang Extreme Realm, his top combat power is undoubtedly much stronger than the Yanmen Army.

"After the war began, you sat in a pass in pairs, and according to the offensive momentum of the Yanmen Army, you looked for an opportunity to kill the senior generals of the Yanmen Army, especially Zhao Beiwang and his wife!"

In the military tent, Charahan instructed the six Wang Extreme Realm cultivators in front of him, "Attacking fortifications is not better than battle, the losses of the Yanmen army are bound to be greater, and their senior generals will definitely take the lead in order to make progress!"

"It's true that the Yanmen Army was lucky enough to win for a while, but their cultivator strength is very different from ours. Not to mention anything else, at the moment, in the Yanmen army, at most, there are two kings in Zhao Xuanji and Zhao Zhenzhong.

"With two against eight, they will definitely lose!"

All the kings of the Extreme Realm masters nodded their heads and echoed Chalahan's judgment. As a rare king in the world, each of them has an extraordinary status, even in the face of Chalahan, they don't have too much red tape.

Bai Yin is also in the Wang Ji Realm, but he is the mastermind of Chalahan, and he will not go into battle in person when he is idle, and after listening to Chalahan's arrangement at this moment, Bai Yin groaned:

"Great King, Wang Ji Realm is all dispatched, exposing his cultivation, it is really unwise, and he can't choose this way until he has to. In this battle, we want to block the Yanmen army, but if we can expose less strength, we will have to do less.

"The combat power of the army can no longer be hidden, this is enough to cause the Southern Dynasty to be jealous, if Wang Jijing reveals too much, then the Southern Dynasty is not just jealous.

"In that case, even if we achieve our goal in this battle and block the Yanmen army, once the Khitan Khan is thrown out after the war, the Southern Dynasty cannot feel that the threat is eliminated, and they insist on sending troops to invade the north, it will be a disaster.

"The current stock and output of our Heavenly Wolf Bow are not enough to equip the million-strong army of the four major tribes, and the number of armor we have obtained from the Western Regions has always been limited, and now we have lost another 20,000 sets......

"Without an elite army in armor, it is almost a fool's dream to conquer those Xiongguan moats on the border of the South Korea. Without all the men equipped with the Sky Wolf Bow, we would not be able to suppress the strong bow and crossbow of the Southern Dynasty. ”

"The most important thing is that the Great Khan's cultivation realm is ...... All in all, originally we could not fight the Southern Dynasties within two years, but now it seems that we need at least four years of preparation time. ”

When these words were spoken, there was silence in the tent.

Their army, just resisting the Yanmen army, suddenly appeared eight Wang Ji Realm, plus the strong men who attacked and destroyed the Da Dan Department, Wang Ji Realm was ridiculously numerous, and had an overwhelming advantage over Daqi.

This is a situation that has never been seen before in the history of the North and the South.

Once this situation occurs, Daqi will definitely not sit idly by, plus the previous events and this war, Daqi will never be able to condone the strong grassland, and it is bound to pour troops into the Northern Expedition.

And the national war started ahead of schedule, and the Tianyuan Royal Court was not well prepared, so there was no certainty of victory. The war more than 100 years ago, thinking about it now, still makes people feel chilling, and no one wants to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Charahan was silent for a long time, "Southern Dynasty...... Is it really that scary?"

Bai Yin smiled bitterly, "The prosperity of the Central Plains Dynasty is not just talking.

"They have a large land and abundant resources, a hundred times larger than us, and although the proportion of cultivators in the army is not as high as ours now, the absolute number of cultivators is at least ten times that of us.

"They can afford to lose, they can even lose again and again, and they still have a chance to make a comeback and make a comeback. But we can't afford to lose, but every one or two big defeats will break our bones. ”

Zarahan fell silent again.

At the height of the glory of the Prairie Court, the number of warriors was close to one million, and this was still a situation where everyone was a soldier, and many warriors could not be called warriors at all, but herdsmen with bows on horseback.

There are so many people in the grassland, and the young and strong people of each family participate in the war, which is the size of a million army. But the number of people under the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty, especially the current prosperity, is one or twenty times that of the grassland.

In the past, the Xiongnu were dominant in the north, controlled Henan, and controlled Hexi, so that they could fight against the Han for many years, and after losing these two places, the Xiongnu collapsed.

Now Henan and Hexi are in the hands of Daqi.

"If the Yanmen army comes out of a few Wang Ji Realm, we will send out a few. For the rest, suppress the realm to deal with the late stage of the Yuan Shen Realm in the Yanmen army, and ensure that they can be killed, unless they have to, they don't have to use the means of the Wang Ji Realm. ”

Charahan made the final decision, if he really wanted Wang Jijing to play no role at all, he couldn't accept it.

After saying this, Charahan came to the sand table, gave the six kings to the extreme realm, and arranged a specific place to go.

The second line of defense of the entire Tianyuan Army, the core of which is in three mountain passes, separated by more than ten miles from each other, they built a simple square city here, forming three relatively independent war zones in turn.

Different from the topography of Yanmen Pass, Fengming Mountain is not so dangerous here, Yanmen Pass only needs to hold one pass to block the border pass, but the Tianyuan Army needs to defend the three passes of Fengming Mountain.

For an army of more than 100,000 people, more than ten miles is naturally not a distance. The camps of the more than 100,000 Yanmen troops, plus logistical materials such as heavy grain and straw, stretched for dozens of miles on the grassy slopes of different heights.

"The Yanmen Army has just arrived, and they are not familiar with the terrain of Fengming Mountain, so we don't have to worry about being seen through our defensive line by them. The divisions are in order, and it is enough to resist their attacks. ”

Charahan looked at everyone with a solemn face:

"We've lost for a while, and this second line of defense, no matter what, we have to hold it. If Fengming Mountain is really lost, let the Yanmen army go to the royal court of the Dadan Ministry, although this king is guilty of no punishment, you will definitely not have a good time!

"Everyone, fight hard, don't fall into the majesty of the royal court and insult the prestige of the Great Khan!"

All the generals were commanded.

......

In the big tent of the Yanmen Army, Zhao Ning cut a detailed map in front of the generals, "This is the map of Fengming Mountain that we sent someone to draw before the start of the war, from the mountain peaks to the mountain roads, all of which are accurately depicted. ”

When everyone heard Zhao Ning's words, when they looked at this map again, except for Zhao Xuanji, Zhao Beiwang and his wife and other core figures of the Zhao family, the rest of the generals were stunned.

The map is drawn in great detail, and all kinds of terrain can be seen at a glance, but in the grassland map of the Yanmen Army, Fengming Mountain is only marked with one peak.

For the current war, the value of this map is self-evident!

But how could this map appear? Could it be that Zhao Ning had not known that there would be a great war here? If not, why would he have come up with a detailed map of the area of Fengming Mountain?

However, without a large number of master cultivators who are proficient in military affairs, it is absolutely impossible to draw such a map after a long time of field exploration in Fengming Mountain. And the Yanmen Army has not sent a large number of people to Fengming Mountain in the near future!

Everyone's eyes fell on Zhao Ning, and they wanted to know the origin of this picture.

However, Zhao Ning's expression told the chief general that he didn't mean to explain. Obviously, this is classified. Since it is a secret in the army, Zhao Ning doesn't want to say it, and the generals can't ask.

Yang Jiani frowned slightly, looking at Zhao Ning's eyes very curiously, related to Zhao Ning's various behaviors of walking the grassland before the war, she couldn't help but secretly think:

"Why does this guy have so many secrets, why did he already know that war would break out, why did he know so much about the plans of the Tian Yuan Army?

"Could it be that there was really another hidden story in the matter of Daizhou last year? Since that time, the Zhao clan has been preparing for war? They have already sent a secret stake to lurk in the Tianyuan Imperial Court? Or have they bribed the other party's magnates?

"Princess Tianyuan's fine work was also dug up by him......"

Zhao Ning's image in Yang Jiani's mind is becoming more and more blurred and full of mystery, the more she wants to see each other clearly, the more she finds that the other party is elusive.

Before last year's autumn hunting, she always thought that Zhao Ning was a gentleman who didn't know what to do, and he was also a romantic gentleman who embarrassed her.

If Zhao Ning's performance only proved his cultivation talent during the autumn hunt last year, then this returned to Yanmen Pass, and the more days she spent with Zhao Ning, the more highlights Yang Jiani saw in Zhao Ning.

The frivolous young boy in my impression has become a flower of tomorrow, as if it never existed. What appears in front of her now is a mature and steady, far-reaching and resolute young handsome man.

The other party has a good military quality, and his performance on the battlefield is as strong as a general

Find a rare balance, even if you win big, there is no pride in it.

In life, he can be regarded as polite and gentle, but he does not seem restrained, his words and deeds are relaxed, and the dissolute son of the family in the past seems to have grown twenty years old all of a sudden.

But he has too strong a sense of responsibility, both for the Zhao family and for the Yanmen army.

No matter how relaxed he seemed on the surface, the strings in his heart seemed to be tense all the time, and he was as worried as the head of the Zhao family and the emperor of Great Qi. No matter how much you have done and how many results you have achieved, you don't seem to be satisfied.

Yang Jiani felt that he was very tired from life.

But Yang Jiani thinks that Zhao Ning has done well enough, and the good has long gone beyond the scope of a young handsome man.

This is a complete stranger to Zhao Ning.

In all fairness, Yang Jiani can't find any son of a family who is as good as Zhao Ning, whether it is a general's son or a family. There are half of his excellent people, Yang Jiani can't find them.

Before meeting Zhao Ning, Yang Jiani's only thought of him was to beat him up and heal the psychological trauma that the other party had caused her. But now, this thought in her mind has faded a lot.

On the one hand, Yang Jiani admires Zhao Ning, except for the cultivation realm, she thinks that she is not as good as the current Zhao Ning in other aspects, but on the other hand, she has some pity for Zhao Ning, who lives so hard.

Could it be that once a frivolous teenager grows up, his requirements for himself will be so high?

Before the war, Yang Jiani didn't quite understand Zhao Ning's state, but after the vanguard battle, she realized the strength of the Tianyuan Army, and she felt that she already understood why Zhao Ning had to work so hard.

If he had known the strength of the Tian Yuan Army for a long time, then all his actions would be reasonable.

This is just a little understanding, Yang Jiani can't fully empathize.

At this moment, she still felt that the Tianyuan Army, which was only one of the four major tribes of the grassland, even if the wolf was ambitious, even if it had formed an alliance with the Khitan Tribe, even if it wanted to annex the Dadan Tribe, it was still a little worse to have a substantial threat to the Great Qi.

In this world, in the final analysis, the strong are respected.

As long as the top masters of Great Qi have an overwhelming advantage over the grassland, as long as the strongest King Extreme Realm cultivator of Great Qi can defeat the first person in the Tianyuan Royal Court, with the military strength of Great Qi, Beihu is not worried.

As for the map that Zhao Ning took out, Yang Jiani vaguely understood its origin. When she was in Xiaoyebu, Yang Jiani met Fan Yi of Paradigm and Su Yeqing of Yipinlou.

Although the paradigm has switched to the civilian government, this has only happened in recent years, and the heritage of the family is still there.

It is strange why the people of the paradigm appeared in the grassland on a large scale and bowed down to the Zhao family?

These questions made Zhao Ning's sense of mystery linger, Yang Jiani was rarely interested in people and things other than cultivation and eating, but now she had the idea of solving the mystery of Zhao Ning.

Zhao Ning didn't notice Yang Jiani's strange eyes, pointed to the map of Fengming Mountain, and said to everyone:

"The main area of Fengming Mountain, that is, the second line of defense of the Tianyuan Army, has undulating mountains and complex terrain, but the core area is these three passes. From left to right, there are Flying Eagle Mountain, Black Rock Valley, and White Wind Mouth.

"The Tianyuan army built Guancheng at these three passes as the focus of defense. Although the fortress was built in a hurry and was not very strong, we had to attack them head-on, because of the existence of the Sirius Bow, it was still not easy.

"Judging from the map, there are obvious differences in the size and danger of the terrain of the three passes.

"The area of Feiying Mountain is steep, the terrain is the most rugged and steep, the passage is narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and correspondingly, the fortress cannot be built very large, and from the inside, it cannot accommodate many troops.

"The terrain of the Black Rock Valley is the flattest, the passage at the mouth of the valley is very wide, and the mountains on both sides are relatively gentle, which is conducive to the deployment of soldiers and horses, but the Tianyuan army has built a number of fortresses here, and it is bound to be heavily guarded.

"Baifengkou is relatively mediocre, the mountain pass is not big or small, the mountain is neither high nor low, although there is only one Guancheng, it is the largest built, and the defense integrity is the strongest. ”

Zhao Xuanji carefully observed the map.

Wang Ji Realm cultivators, of course, can take to the air to check the terrain, but the premise is that there is no matching master in the opposing army, otherwise once Wang Ji Realm appears, it will inevitably be intercepted, and the two sides can only fall into a situation of catching and killing each other from a distance.

After Zhao Ning finished speaking, Zhao Xuanji bowed his head slightly and said:

"The terrain and strength of Flying Eagle Mountain are suitable for elite cultivators to participate in the battle, as long as your own masters can kill the opponent's strong and occupy the city, it will be easy to make a breakthrough.

"Blackstone Valley is suitable for the army to set up a formation, all kinds of strong bows and crossbows are in battle, but as long as there are elite troops, they can tear a hole in their long defense line, open a gap, and the army can rush in.

"As for Baifengkou, there are many tactics, and the competition is the comprehensive combat strength of the two armies, which seems simple and easy, but in fact it requires high cooperation and experience. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Xuanji paused.

Everyone's eyes fell on him, waiting for him to make an idea.

As we all know, three passes are ahead, and breaking one means victory.

Whether the Yanmen army would attack one or two of them or three of them together would have to make a choice, and if three of them were attacking together, they would inevitably have to choose a direction of attack, which in turn required a choice.

Zhao Xuanji pondered for a while, but did not immediately make an idea, but asked Wang Rouhua and Zhao Ning, "What do you think?"