Volume XX, Chapter 11

"Yes!" the sentry saluted Lai Rong, and then said: "Report to the general, the horses of Xionglingguan may be carrying twenty or thirty thousand people, rushing towards Tianguan, the purpose is unknown!"

"Okay, hard work, you go down first. Lai Rong waved his hand at the sentry. Then he asked Zheng Ti: "Commander Zheng, do you know what Commander Ma is here for?"

Zheng Tai thought for a while and said to Lai Rong: "The general doesn't need to worry, his subordinates think that this horse may definitely come to reinforce his subordinates, he must know that there is news of the battle before Tianguan, so he led the army to support us, usually he supports each other like this, but I was thinking about luring him tomorrow and offering it to the general, but I didn't expect him to send it to the door, please wait a while, I will definitely give the horse or capture to the general, as a meeting gift for my subordinates to meet the general, please approve the general." ”

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you, I'm here waiting for your good news. Lai Rong said happily, if he can take down the horse, then Xionglingguan will be able to catch it.

When Zheng Ti heard that Lai Rong agreed, he took Yingxue, Yanlong, Zeng Zhaoli and other soldiers from the first brigade to capture Ma Or with him, and Ying Xue and others followed Zheng Tie and stopped Ma Or halfway.

The matter is too simple, Zheng Ti caught the horse or caught the horse by surprise, and the horse or saw that the soldiers threw a rat trap, so he asked his soldiers to retreat to the Xiongling Pass, and be sure to guard the Xiongling Pass, Zheng Ti and the others did not chase after him, and took the horse or came back to ask Lai Rong for credit.

Lai Rong saw that Zheng Ti really caught the horse or came back, he was very excited, and was ready to persuade Ma Or. forced him to sacrifice his male spirit, but Ma or was unmoved. also scolded Lai Rong and Zheng Ti.

Seeing this situation, Zheng Ti said to Lai Rong: "The general doesn't need to talk to such people. If the general can go to the strength in person, I am sure that I can use horses or hostages to force the guards of Xiongling Pass to open the city gate and surrender. ”

"Is Commander Zheng really so sure?!" Lai Rong asked with some skepticism.

"It's not a secret, Liu Xin and Li Biao, the two brigade commanders under Ma or his subordinates, are old acquaintances with their subordinates, they see that the Tianguan has been lost, and the general's army is pressing. The horse or in my hands, they must be in turmoil, use the horse or threaten them, you can let them collapse the army, the most important thing is that Wang Zhuo does not believe in his subordinates and horses or the two, how can he treat people with sincerity like a general, so we are not ready to serve him Wang Zhuo loyally, finally. I persuaded them again with affection and reason, and promised that they would open the gates of Xionglingguan and welcome the general into the city. Zheng Ti's analysis is very reasonable.

"Good. In that case, without further ado, lest there be many long nights. Let's go now, and today we will have breakfast at Xionglingguan. Lai Rong looked at the strategists around him. Seeing that no one objected, he beckoned Zheng to bring all the men and horses to prepare to go straight to the Xiongling Pass. The horse may have listened to the scolding from the sidelines. It's a pity that no one paid attention to him, and he was carried out by the dragon.

Lai Rong in order to build momentum for Zheng Ti, all the troops except the first army of the town guarding the sky were brought to the front of the Xiongling Pass, although the losses in the battle were heavy, but now Lai Rong still has more than two more than two troops, plus Zheng Ti's troops, nearly 100,000 people will be surrounded by the Xiongling Pass, the defenders of the Xiongling Pass saw that the Lord will be captured, and Zheng Di surrendered to them under the city, so the defenders made a mess for the question of surrendering or not surrendering, although Lai Rong did not know what the situation inside the Xiongling Pass was, but he heard the sound of the blades colliding and the screams of people continuously, knowing that there was already a serious internal strife inside, but this did not matter to him, Lai Rong asked Zheng Ti to lead a brigade to stand in front of Xiongling Pass, since he boasted about Haikou, he wanted to see if Zheng Ti could really make the guards of Xiongling Pass surrender, seeing that there was nothing to worry about, Lai Rong's troops had been exhausted after a night of fierce fighting, and now some people were already standing and sleeping, Lai Rong couldn't say anything when he saw this, after all, everyone was exhausted, and it was up to the soldiers.

After a while, the voice in the Xiongling Pass gradually weakened, and after a while, Liu Xin, the guard general in the Xiongling Pass, stood at the gate of the city and shouted to Zheng Ti: "General Zheng, we have eliminated all the people who are unwilling to surrender, we are willing to surrender to the general, but you must ensure our personal safety, and promise to find us a good position, otherwise, we would rather burn all the jade than open the city gate to surrender!"

After Zheng Dai listened, he asked Lai Rong for instructions, and saw that Lai Rong nodded in agreement, so he shouted to the head of the city: "Brigade Commander Liu, I have discussed with General Lai Rong just now, as long as you are willing to surrender, we will accept all the conditions you put forward, I Zheng Dai will definitely not deceive you with my personality, quickly open the city gate to welcome the general into the city." ”

After a while, the gate of Xionglingguan opened, and the soldiers inside came out of the city, apparently preparing to surrender to Lai Rong to sacrifice the city.

At this time, Liu Xin, the guard of Xiongling Pass, walked out of the army, came to Lai Rong and Zheng Ti, and said to them: "Please wait a while, the city is exterminating those diehards, if you enter the city now, there may be an accident, so please wait a while, we can enter the city immediately." ”

At this time, Lai Rong saw that there seemed to be three fire magicians in the air with magic flames and a group of magicians fighting in the air, it seemed that what Liu Xin said was true, so he nodded and said that he was willing to wait outside the city for a while, and then enter the city, Lai Rong's soldiers saw that the overall situation had been decided, they all took off their battle armor, sat down to rest, and prepared to recuperate their spirits into the city.

Suddenly, a large number of arrows rained out from the left and right, and the unsuspecting soldiers immediately fell a large piece, mutated elbows, and Lai Rong's troops were suddenly in chaos, at this time, Zheng Ti waved his hand and said loudly: "Protect the general, protect the general!" After finishing speaking, he drew his blade and cut the rope on the horse or body, Yingxue, Yan Long and Zeng Zhaoli heard Zheng Ti's code, and immediately attacked, putting down all the soldiers of Lai Rong beside him.

And at this moment, a large number of soldiers were impacted from the woods on the left and right, and it was Xiao Tian who ran in the front, and it turned out that Eagle Snow actually let Xiao Tian lurk in the woods with the soldiers. Xiao Tian first rushed towards Lai Rong's troops, and instantly rushed into the enemy's army. Now that no one can stop him at all, Xiao Tian didn't take much time to come to Yingxue's side.

Lai Rong's troops were preparing for battle. Unable to prevent another killing within himself, it turned out that Zheng Ti arranged the two brigades mixed in Lai Rong's troops and Tang Bin and others also began to make trouble, Liu Xin and others in front of Xiongling Pass also quickly joined the battle circle, and launched an attack from the front, the front, the center, and the left and right three aspects of the impact, which caught Lai Rong and his troops off guard at once, and lost a large number of troops inexplicably, and when Lai Rong came back to his senses, he knew that he had fallen into the big trap of Zheng Ti. He and Zhu Xiaochun have been played by Zheng Ti and others, and they pity themselves for being wise all their lives, but today they are planted in front of this small Tianguan guard, thinking of this, Lai Rong also has a desperate heart, and orders Zheng Dai and Ma or the two to be killed, so as to vent the hatred in his heart.

It is a pity that his order was given too late, and his troops were already in a state of collapse, and there was simply no way to organize effective resistance. Now that the sky is clear, Zheng Ti and Ma Or's troops have no need to scruple about killing the wrong people, because their clothes are fundamentally different, as long as they are the enemy's troops, they can see at a glance. Moreover, the power of the Five Elements Battle Array is even more amazing, and the army is like a small whirlwind, everywhere it goes. Either dead or wounded, no one can stop it. Lai Rong's soldiers dodged one after another when they saw the amulet. lest it be too late to avoid it, and no one listened to Lai Rong's order, because there were Yingxue, Langlong and Xiaotian three to protect Zheng Ti and Ma or the two, it was simply not leaking, Yingxue saw that the situation was not too severe, so he asked the dragon to capture Lai Rong, and the dragon led the order to go, who knew that under the dragon missed, he actually punched Lai Rong to death, so he had to come back empty-handed, Yingxue saw this, and only shouted loudly: "Lai Rong is dead, the one who descends does not die, the one who descends does not die!"

Hearing that the general was dead, and that the soldiers had heard that those who surrendered would not be killed, in fact, everyone had already lost their fighting spirit, so they immediately threw away their weapons and raised their hands to surrender.

Ying Xue ordered the horse to deal with the surrender of troops and clean up the battlefield here, while he and Zheng Ti led the elite troops of these two armies with 40,000 people, together with Tang Bin, Zeng Zhaoli and the Special Guards, and went straight to Tianguan.

The commander of the first army of Tianguan's guards is also considered to be loyal, he also didn't sleep all night, and was consolidating the fortifications of Tianguan, and got a report that Zheng Ti had an urgent order from the general to tell him, and he was wondering why the general would send Zheng Ti to give an order, but he still went to meet Zheng Ti, because Zheng Ti didn't bring many people, so he went to see him with confidence. The dragon, Zeng Zhaoli and the others were killed quietly.

At this time, most of the soldiers in Tianguan City are still asleep, and they don't know that the change has been born, Zheng Ti solved the defender generals, and immediately led the elite soldiers to the Tianguan City Tower, such a big action will of course attract people's attention, however, now the general trend has been decided, and no emergency horn was heard, everyone didn't care, and continued to sleep, Zheng Ti and Ying Xue rushed to the Tianguan City Tower, told the defenders that they were here to change the guard, of course the defenders did not believe it, and asked for the commander's warrant, but Zheng Ti and Ying Xue did not hesitate at all, and immediately killed the leader of the defenders, and the rest of the people saw this situation and obediently withdrew, when Zheng Dai took over the strategic position of the city towerAfter the rest of the people were woken up, they found that they had become prisoners under the stairs, and the general trend had gone, and when they saw this situation, they had no choice but to surrender, of course, a few diehards could only be corrected on the spot.

After Ying Xue ordered Zheng Ti to send the army to Xiongling Pass to be handed over to the horse or guard, he ordered Zheng Ti to immediately start repairing the troops, and he immediately rushed to the palace of the northern capital to see Wang Zhuo, and told Wang Zhuo about the battle situation at night.

"General Wang, I don't know how many troops we have now to put into battle? I plan to immediately take Lai Rong's Qingjian City and Zhu Xiaochun's Mianzhong City. Yingxue didn't want to be polite with Wang Zhuo, now the situation was urgent, and the opportunity was lost, he didn't want to waste any more time, so he asked Wang Zhuo directly.

"This, although we have the strength of five armies, but the troops that can be used for the time being are only three armies, and the surrender of the other two armies is still being trained, if we insist on withdrawing them, we can probably draw the strength of 120,000 troops of the three armies, I don't know what the general means?" Wang Zhuo asked tentatively.

"There's no way around it. We only have to take a risk, if the news that Zhu Xiaochun and Lai Rong were eliminated by us leaks out. The rest of the enemy will surely take advantage of the situation and sit back and enjoy the benefits. Since we only have the strength of three armies, we have to bring them all out, and my plan is like this......" Yingxue explained her plan to Wang Zhuo in detail, and Wang Zhuo kept nodding his head when he heard it.

"Okay, general, I will immediately dispatch the troops of Zhang Luo, Li Li, Liu Linfeng and Zhou Ming to Tianguan immediately, while Lu Qi and I continue to guard here. Wang Zhuo immediately began to move troops.

After Wang Zhuo gave the order, Yingxue also said goodbye to Wang Zhuo, now is not the time to talk about credit. It is necessary to take over all the territories of Lai Rong and Zhu Xiaochun before the other enemies, otherwise, it will change later.

Ying Xue used the magic array to return to Tianguan before Zhang Luo, Li Li and the others, this back and forth has taken a lot of time, and after Ying Xue came back, she immediately met with Zheng Ti.

Zheng Ti told Yingxue that he had repaired the troops, and that the insufficient soldiers had been drawn from horses or places to fill up. The strength of an army was full and ready to enter the battle at any time, Yingxue didn't say anything else, and asked Zheng to find Zhu Xiaochun's body. Be sure to find his token. Then, he rushed to Xiongling Pass to call the horse or find Lai Rong's body, and found his token. Yingxue told Ma to do a good job of surrendering troops and not to cause a mutiny. Moreover, horses or male spirits are under martial law, and no one is allowed to go out. Because there is about to be a major military operation, and there will be a large army passing through the Xiongling Pass, the stability of this rear will all depend on horses or management. After Ying Xue and Ma or said goodbye, they brought Lai Rong's body and tokens back to Tianguan.

After Yingxue found Zheng Ti, seeing that the things on both sides had been found, the two found Tang Bin, and after explaining a few words, they hurried away with Zheng Ti.

Yingxue and Zheng Ti came to Mianzhong City with Zhu Xiaochun's token, and first told the defenders that General Zhu had successfully taken over Tianguan, but Lai Rong was unwilling to fail, and was about to attack Tianguan, and the big battle was imminent, due to the lack of troops in Tianguan, General Zhu ordered all the troops, except for leaving the necessary defensive forces, to all go to Tianguan, because Lai Rong's troops were about to attack Tianguan, General Zhu had decided to fight to the death with Lai Rong in front of Tianguan, after hearing the order, he saw Zhu Xiaochun's token again, Zhu Xiaochun's troops did not hesitate to mobilize immediately, ready to go to Tianguan。 Zheng Ti added that Lai Rong had received news that he might set up an ambush on the road, and that all army commanders must be careful to guard against it, and if there is an enemy, they must destroy them all halfway.

After Yingxue and Zheng Wei handed over the token to the defenders of Mianzhong City, they immediately took their leave and rushed back to Tianguan, and the defenders of Mianzhong City did not suspect it, because General Zhu's token was genuine, and no one could afford to disobey the military order. And after Yingxue and Zheng Ti got out of Mianzhong City, they immediately rushed to Qingjian City, and it was the same old saying, using Lai Rong's token, sending troops to support Tianguan, the geographical location of Tianguan Everyone knows, if Tianguan is lost, then there will be no place in the three northern provinces, see the general's token, the defenders in Qingjian City did not dare to slack off, and immediately led the troops to support Tianguan. As soon as the matter was done, after Ying Xue and Zheng Ti left Qingjian City, they opened the magic array and returned to Tianguan.

At this time, Tang Bin was already in full swing, and Zhang Luo, Li Li, Liu Linfeng, Xie Hao, Yang Yuhai, and Zhou Ming of the Northern Capital had also arrived at Tianguan, Yingxue divided the strength of the four armies into two groups, leaving a brigade of troops to defend Tianguan, and told Ma or to pay attention to the movements of Tianguan at any time, and the rest of the departments were immediately ready to go out of the city to take over Mianzhong City and Qingjian City.

Ying Xue let the troops stand by in Tianguan City, and dived alone to observe, just like Ying Xue's plan, Zhu Xiaochun's troops and Lai Rong's troops are fighting inseparably, it is also a coincidence, the strength of both sides is about the same, the strength of the three armies, the battlefield is in front of the Longjing Pass on an open field, because both sides have been ordered, see the enemy must be wiped out, so the two sides fought extremely fiercely, want to rush to Tianguan to invite themselves to take credit, as long as they can win, no matter how many soldiers' lives he sacrifices, as long as they can win, so both sides spare no effort to fight, want to put the opponent to death and then quickly。

Ying Xue observed for a while, and saw that both sides were almost consumed, so he returned to Tianguan and immediately asked Zheng Ti and others to take the people of the headquarters with him to receive Mianzhong City and Qingjian City.

When Yingxue took Zhang Luo, Li Li, Liu Linfeng and others to Longjingkou, Zhu Xiaochun and Lai Rong's men and horses on both sides had already fought hard, Yingxue and others did not have much effort to disarm all the soldiers on both sides, then the people on both sides knew that Yingxue's big dang, but now the general trend has gone, it is too late, since the situation is not as good as others, there is only one way to surrender, Yingxue disarmed all the troops, and it is still divided into Zhu Xiaochun's old department and Lai Rong's old department, Zhu Xiaochun's department consists of Yingxue, Zhang Luo, Zheng monitored the three of them and headed towards Lai Rong's Qingjian City, while Lai Rong's old department was monitored by Zhou Ming, Yang Yuhai, Liu Linfeng, Xie Hao, Li Li and Tang Bin, and rushed to Mianzhong City.

Yingxue rushed to Qingjian City, first hid the army, intended to open the city gate by Yingxue and Zheng Ti, the defenders were Zheng Ti did not suspect, opened the city gate, Zheng Ti and Yingxue took more than 100 elite soldiers into Qingjian City, when the defenders were unprepared, quickly controlled the city gate, and at the same time sent a signal to attack, the strength of the two armies, 80,000 people rushed towards Qingjian City, the defenders in the city had been transferred out by Yingxue, the defenders in the city, at most only 20,000 people, and they were old, weak, sick and disabled, in defenseless, Yingxue suddenly attacked, there was no will to fight at all, Zheng Ti and Zhang Luo's army quickly attacked Qingjian City, and immediately occupy the strategic position, and all the troops are controlled, after confirming that Qingjian City has been occupied, Yingxue hurriedly explained a few words to Zhang Luo and Zheng Ti, and hurried to Mianzhong City, what he is most concerned about now is whether Mianzhong City has been successfully obtained.

Sure enough, when Yingxue arrived at Mianzhong City, Tang Bin and others were blocking the gate of Mianzhong City, although there were few defenders left in the city, but the defenders refused to go out of the city to surrender, and Tang Bin and others were unwilling to attack, so the two sides were deadlocked in front of Mianzhong City.

When Tang Bin and the others saw Yingxue's arrival, they knew that Yingxue had already taken Qingjian City, but they didn't expect Yingxue's speed to take Qingjian City so quickly, Tang Bin and the others were really embarrassed. (To be continued.) )