At dusk, when he returned to his tent again, Zhao Ning was still meditating and cultivating.

Although the achievements in the past two days have been good, and they have played an extraordinary role in helping the army quickly train into elites, Zhao Ning is not very satisfied with the current situation.

The realm of the early stage of the Yuan Shen Realm was still too low, even if his various abilities were outstanding enough, he would not be able to make an essential breakthrough in the battle situation.

If you can't easily solve the middle stage of the Yuan Shen Realm, and if you can't threaten the late stage of the Yuan Shen Realm, you can't shake the foundation of the Beihu Army, and the battle at Baifengkou will be stalemate for a long time.

Once the Yanmen Army, which attacked Flying Eagle Mountain and Blackstone Valley, suffered heavy casualties for several days without making substantial progress, its combat strength was damaged too much, its morale fell too much, and it was successfully counterattacked by the Tianyuan Army, it would be a catastrophe.

If the situation really develops like this, there will be no chance of his plan being carried out at all, and the army will definitely be defeated.

As a reborn, he actually knew that there was still a good force in the current Yanmen army.

If the timing is right, this force will play a very important role, which is why he is in favor of a large army attacking Blackstone Valley. But this force is limited after all, and it is possible to find an opportunity to break through, but it is impossible to turn the tide.

In any case, he had to break through to the middle of the Yuan God Realm before the Tian Yuan Army counterattacked.

After a night, the bottleneck loosened a lot. When the dawn came, Zhao Ning turned out the "Blue Sea Tide Sheng" sent by Zhao Qiyue. There are two bottles of pills, which are mainly used to heal injuries and save lives, and also have the effect of assisting cultivation.

Because it is the world's top elixir, even if the elevation realm is only an auxiliary effect, the effect is not comparable to that of the high-grade elixir that is generally used for cultivation.

"Within three days, if you can break through the realm, that's it, if you can't, take a bottle. Zhao Ning weighed it for a while and put the pill back.

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A few days later, when Zhao Ning appeared in front of Baifengkou Pass City again, he was already in the middle of the Yuan Shen Realm!

Today's siege is the Meng Qi Division.

This also means that all the Yanmen military units in front of Baifengkou have already attacked Guancheng and completed a complete round of training. Now they are no longer new pawns on the battlefield.

And today is the time chosen by Zhao Ning to break the customs.

It was on this day that An Siming led his troops into the battle, took over the previous Yanmen Army, and continued to attack the Black Stone Valley.

The battle was difficult, and the forbidden army that An Siming brought to Yanmen Pass from Yanping City behaved even worse than the Yanmen army. is also a new pawn on the battlefield, whether he is well-trained or not, the difference has been shown at the first time.

"After so many years of pampering, and being in the land of Gyeonggi, there is no worry about border troubles, the forbidden army is really too slack, and its combat strength has dropped too much. Ainsmin is well aware of this.

When he was in the forbidden army, he trained his soldiers very strictly, and in this regard, few of the sixteen generals could compare with him.

He thought that he had done a good job, but now that he was on the battlefield, he realized that he was much worse than the Yanmen army.

Seeing that the siege troops suffered heavy casualties and could not gain a firm foothold in the city, An Siming estimated that these soldiers were afraid that they would not be able to hold out for even an hour.

The Yanmen army has been besieging the city for many days, the city is seriously damaged, and the Beihu generals have suffered many casualties, and they are inevitably tired. According to reason, he led his troops to attack today, and the possibility of breaking through the pass is the greatest in the past few days.

"Beihu's military strength is really so strong?" An Siming looked at the banner at the head of the city, thoughtfully, the banner showed that these defenders belonged to the Khitan Department, "Hasn't the Khitan Department not fought in these years?"

Unable to think of an answer, An Siming decided to ignore so much for now, no matter what, his troops could not be compared to the Yanmen Army Headquarters, otherwise he would not be able to explain to the emperor after the war, and it would be difficult for him to gain prestige in Yanmen Pass.

If this continues, his task of coming to Yanmen Pass will never be completed.

As the defense envoy of Yanmen Pass, commanding the 60,000 forbidden troops guarding Yanmen Pass, An Siming has a special imperial order.

Under the circumstance that Beihu did not invade the border on a large scale, within a year, he increased his troops to Yanmen Pass, which originally had only 100,000 garrisons, and increased his troops by 60,000.

The truth is that the reason why the emperor did this was not to enhance the power of the Zhao clan.

Zhao Ning's strength in the army is strong enough, and among the garrisons at the border passes of the four borders of Great Qi, only the Zhao clan alone controls the Yanmen Pass and commands an army of 100,000.

Nashan Customs is also an important border area, but the garrison is jointly controlled by the Sun and Shi clans.

The emperor had no reason to increase the power of the Zhao clan, and he had strengthened it so much at once. Which of the world's great families does not need to be guarded against? The Zhao family is no exception.

Especially in today's holy dynasty.

Daqi has come to this day, and through the efforts of the previous emperors, many things have been laid in place, and some things that will happen after all are happening.

In a word, the dynasty is about to change.

Today, as the emperor of Great Qi, he should be completed, and it is also a mission that must be completed.

Centralization, centralization, centralization of power in the emperor. This is an irreversible process.

The emperors of all dynasties, whether it is a bright monarch or a faint monarch, in this matter, there is only a difference between doing more and doing less, and no emperor is against and destroys this matter from the bottom of his heart.

The world's big families occupy too much power, which is the biggest obstacle on the road to centralization.

From the perspective of facts, the increase of 60,000 troops to Yanmen Pass was just a strategy of dividing the military power of the Zhao clan by pushing the boat down the river when the emperor had a ready-made opportunity and reason.

His position as a defensive envoy came into being because of this.

If you want to divide the military power of the Zhao clan and directly let other generals come to Yanmen Pass with a large army, then the behavior will be too straightforward and explicit, which will inevitably cause dissatisfaction and resistance of the Zhao clan, and it will be difficult to implement it under the situation that Zhao Xuanji is the governor of the capital.

It is much more convenient to use him An Siming, a cold general.

He came to Yanmen Pass in order to grasp the military power of Yanmen Pass step by step. The worst is to reach the point where you can compete with the Zhao family.

Just like the Sun clan and the Shi clan jointly control the mountain navy, he wants to win over all the Hanmen generals in the Yanmen army, so that the Yanmen army will become a Hanmen force headed by him, and the Zhao clan will have the final say.

And this first step is to establish prestige, stabilize the position, and win the recognition of the poor general school.

Others don't know, as the emperor's confidant, An Siming knows very well that the emperor is actually happy to see the affairs of the state.

If there was no such opportunity, the Yanmen Army, which the Zhao clan had operated for a hundred years, would be monolithic, and it would be impossible for the emperor to install his own forces in Yanmen Pass.

From this point of view, Xiao Yan's meticulous work actually did not make the emperor so angry, because it actually gave the emperor another opportunity to increase troops to Yanmen Pass.

This time the army went to the grassland, which was a good thing that the emperor could not ask for. War, the army needs war to make meritorious achievements, establish authority, and ensure status, and this is true for generals, and even more so for generals from humble doors.

The children of the generals, who have no military merits, that is, they can't fight civilian officials, and within the army, they can still make steady progress on their own one-third of an acre of land.

And the generals of the poor sect, who have no military merits, what can they do to compete with the children of the generals? Why do they have real power in the army, occupy important positions, and form their own forces?

Meritorious, An Siming urgently needs meritorious service, and the emperor urgently needs him to make meritorious service.

However, military merit is not easy to obtain, and war is opposed by civilian officials.

It just so happened that there was a Beihu tribe who didn't know whether to live or die, and they were disrespectful to Daqi, which gave An Siming and the emperor a good opportunity to look forward to it.

When An Siming left Yanmen Pass, his heart was full of strange thanks to Zhao Xuanji, and the other party did not leave him to guard the pass, but let him personally go into battle to make meritorious contributions.

Originally, everything was going on in an orderly manner, and the pie that fell from the sky was about to be eaten in his mouth, and An Si was secretly happy.

But who would have thought that when he arrived at the battlefield, he suddenly found that in his eyes, it was just a military feat, and the Beihu army waiting for him to harvest was ridiculously strong!

In the first battle of the vanguard, the army won a bitter victory, losing more than 10,000 soldiers.

This is something that Ellsmin never dreamed of.

The duck on the plate is not cooked, and that's it, and the duck can still eat people, which is unexpected.

How did the Beihu army become so strong?

When have they ever been so strong?

This is not what they expected!

An Siming was a little at a loss.

Today, at this time, his troops can't capture the Black Stone Valley Pass, that's all, and they are worse than the Yanmen army, which makes An Siming uneasy.

His family knows his own affairs, and An Siming can't say anything about his suffering.

As a general of the Hanmen Gate, in the season when there was no war, he was able to become one of the generals of the Sixteen Guards in his forties, and now he has become the defense envoy of Yanmen Pass, what path did he take?

Fortunately, it was gone.

It's all up to the emperor's favor.

This is a path that is not recognized by many people in the world, and even spurned by those ministers and clear streams.

Others said that he was flattering, but they only knew how to flatter the emperor, and they all looked down on him. An Siming, who has no meritorious service, really can't prove his real talent.

His position was precarious. Relying on the emperor's favor to gain status, once he loses the emperor's favor one day, everything he has today will be replaced immediately.

That's why he was so eager for this war.

So this battle, he can't lose no matter what.

"Guancheng must be captured!" An Siming gritted his teeth and made up his mind, no matter what the cost, he must achieve the first merit in capturing the second line of defense of Fengming Mountain.

As long as he can take the lead in attacking Blackstone Valley, his position will be most stable!

From then on, his outstanding exploits will be remembered and become a glorious chapter in his life, and no one will look down on him and want to replace him at any time.

Fortunately, when he came to Yanmen Pass, because of the important task, the emperor also gave him strong support accordingly, and there were a large number of Hanmen cultivators in his lineage.

These cultivators from the poor sect are all materials carefully selected by him from the army with the support of the emperor, and they have worked hard and trained for many years, and they are the cornerstone of his plan with the emperor!

The number of elites of these cultivators from the cold sect made the combat power of the cultivators in his lineage, the combat power on paper, far superior to that of the Yanmen Army, and even stronger than the Northern Hu Army!

Iron must be hard first. In An Siming's heart, this descendant of his family carries an arduous and great mission, so it should be incomparably powerful and the best teacher in the world!

And now, this piece of music is also all the hope of An Siming.

Standing in front of the military formation, An Siming's sharp eyes swept over the cold warriors in front of him, and his voice was like a golden resonance:

"From the day you were chosen, you already knew what your mission was and what you were going to face in the future!

"Solve the king's worries and attack the thieves down, this road will inevitably be full of thorns, accompanied by countless bloody rains, on this road, you may shed blood, you may fall, you may die in battle!

"But this is the meaning of your existence! Ben will be like you, with His Majesty's ardent expectations on his shoulders, no matter where we fight, there is His Majesty watching from behind, how can we let Your Majesty down?!

"Over the years, you have been favored, your Majesty has given you everything you can give!

"Eat the king's fortune, share your worries for the king, now is the time for you to be loyal to the country and serve Your Majesty! The thieves are right in front of you, kill my comrades, kill my brothers, and insult the prestige of our country, what should you do?"

When all the cold men heard this, they were all emotionally excited and their faces turned red, so they shouted one after another: "Kill, kill, kill!"

"Okay!" An Siming turned around, faced the battlefield of Blackstone Valley, drew his knife out of its sheath, pulled forward, and shouted: "Today, Ben will swear with all his brothers to take the Guancheng and die without turning his heels!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

In the deafening shouting and killing, An Siming led this elite army of more than 10,000 people and rushed to the heavily guarded Black Stone Valley Pass, with a momentum like a rainbow.