A group army of the Western Han Empire has long been in the city, but they have never launched any attacks, not even tentatively, which makes the emperor's people surprised, and the palace has already sent diplomatic officials to adjust, but these people neither retreat nor attack, they are really excited. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

According to the general situation, when the defender and the attacker are fighting, the loss of troops is one to three, and there are nearly 200,000 defenders in the North Pass, which means that the Western Han Empire must have at least 500,000 horses to have a chance to take the pass, and now the army stationed in front of the pass is only 200,000, and the defenders are in a one-to-one situation, so the soldiers of the Nanlu Empire on the defending side are full of confidence and fighting spirit.

However, there was one person who was very uncomfortable with such a situation, and he was the Marquis of Keno, the commander of the garrison.

Beiguan is not a lonely pass, but three, divided into the front pass and the back pass, Ling Xiaotian is now in the middle pass, Nino's commander camp is also here, the front pass is located in the northwest direction of more than ten miles, and the middle pass into a horn trend, the back pass is equivalent to the urn city of the middle pass, according to this five miles away, connected by the city wall, even if the front pass and the middle pass are lost, you can also guard the back pass.

The distribution of troops in the three passes is two main battle corps in Qianguan, two in the secondary battle corps, Zhongguan and Houguan are the main battle corps and a secondary battle corps, the army of the Western Han Empire is now stationed in the middle of the Qianguan and Zhongguan, no matter which pass they concentrate their forces to attack, the remaining one will send reinforcements to cooperate with it inside and outside, which may be the reason why they have been reluctant to move troops.

Commander Keno looked at the map in his tent every day, and he couldn't tell what the enemy was going to do next.

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A month has passed, Ling Xiaotian's squadron has changed a lot, about a quarter of the people have been promoted to the next level, and the rest are also full of confidence, in the barracks, there is not a lot of time to cultivate Dou Qi, so to make a little progress can make them happy for a while for these people.

Looking at the two neatly arranged teams, Jiang Yicheng and Liu Tiancheng stood at the front of the queue respectively, Ling Xiaotian was relieved: "You did very well a month ago, I'm afraid you yourself wouldn't have thought that you could have such a big change, I want to ask, do you think it's better to be in good shape now, or better when you were making rice worms a month ago?"

"Now," everyone replied aloud.

"Okay, have ambition" Ling Xiaotian said loudly: "Today, Commander Kino is going to personally assess our results, do you have the confidence to impress everyone?"

"Yes," the soldiers replied loudly.

"The voice is too small to hear," Ling Xiaotian said, "Do you have any confidence?"

The unison of "yes" was earth-shattering, and even Commander Keno, who was rushing from a few miles away, could hear it clearly.

Keno had two more things today, one was to inspect the defense of Qianguan, but to assess the results of Ling Xiaotian's squadron in the past month, he had just returned from Qianguan, and the master over there would be his confidant, and he was very satisfied with the fact that the defense was done well.

The adjutant next to him smiled and said, "If I guess correctly, the voice just now must have been shouted by Xiao Tian's soldiers, not to mention that this Xiao Tian really has the potential to be a soldier."

"Hehe, I believe in my own vision" Keno also smiled and said: "When I first saw Ling Xiaotian, I could be sure that he was good, a young man with no military experience could beat a group of straw bales into an elite division in a month, this is not easy, even you and I may not be able to do it, he did it"

"That's because you're being too lenient with him," he said, with a hint of disdain in his tone.

Keno shook his head and said, "Your words are not entirely true, you must know that a person's courage is not fully reflected under leniency, which means that he is capable, I admit that he is a bit lenient to him, but if he is just a pile of mud, I think you can't support the wall."

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In the Imperial Palace, Xiao Huang fell asleep comfortably on Helian Xiyue's lap, and there were three other people here, her mother, the Empress Dowager of the Imperial Empire, Helian Qing, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of War.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager of the Imperial Palace, the second group of people who sent the two empires have returned, and like last time, they have returned in vain."

The Minister of War said: "The invading army has no intention of retreating, and in general, the four passes are still in crisis."

"If you don't fight or retreat, what are these people thinking?" Helian Qing said in a cold tone: "Otherwise, send a team of defenders out of the customs and take the initiative to fight with them, and see how they deal with it."

"It's not appropriate" The military minister hurriedly said: "After all, they have not started a war against us, and the skin should not be torn by us, which is tantamount to fundamentally provoking them, and besides, we have the advantage in defending the city, and sending a force out is undoubtedly hitting a stone with an egg, you must know that each of their armies has 200,000 people, this is to use our shortcomings to fight against other people's strengths, it is not advisable, it is not advisable"

Helian Qing said angrily: "Then it's so consumed, everyone in the empire is in danger, there has not been such a situation of large soldiers pressing the border for many years, after a long time, it is difficult to ensure that there is no chaos within the empire, and when the internal and external troubles are all pressed, it will be difficult to deal with."

"Yes, yes, what the Empress Dowager said is very reasonable" said the Minister of War: "However, as long as we can't hold out, the enemy will have nothing to do, and if the confrontation continues, their morale will soon be worn out, and they will retreat without a fight when the time comes."

Just kidding, when did they still have such a dream, if they could retreat without a fight, the envoys would not have returned twice in vain, you must know that the envoys came with gold and silver treasures, and the matter that could not be solved with money shows that this matter is not a trivial matter.

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"That's good, the mental outlook is very good" This was Ling Xiaotian's squadron's first impression of Commander Keno.

"Thank you Commander for the compliment" Ling Xiaotian bowed, and then the soldiers shouted loudly in unison: "Thank you Commander for the compliment"

Keno quieted down with everyone, and said to Ling Xiaotian with a smile: "Don't be happy too early, just because you look good on the surface doesn't mean that you are also good on the inside, don't let me think that your soldiers are all guys with yin and yang spearheads."

"Please ask the commander to inspect it himself" Ling Xiaotian made a gesture of invitation, and said in his heart that a mule is a horse, and he has to come out to slip around, I am very confident in my soldiers.

The regiment commander and the captain also followed Kino here, and later these days, the two of them rarely cared about Ling Xiaotian's affairs, in their eyes, Ling Xiaotian's soldiers didn't say anything in terms of momentum, but whether they could become a tiger and wolf division really needs to be verified.

"Okay, that's what I mean" Nino turned back to his guard captain and said, "Then send ten guards to fight against them."

"Yes" The captain of the guard quickly selected ten guards, these guards were Keno's own soldiers, and all of them were of extraordinary strength.

Keno smiled and said: "Captain Xiao Tian, you dare to let one of your squadrons fight with my ten guards, as long as you win, I will promote you by two levels, and let you be the commander of the main battle legion, if you lose, I will also be promoted to an officer, but I will be the captain of the second battle legion, what do you think?"

"Okay" Ling Xiaotian waved his hand, and the sixty-three soldiers, under the command of Jiang Yicheng and Liu Tiancheng, quickly formed a defensive formation, and the formation was the item they had been focusing on training.

Keno glanced at Jiang Yicheng and Liu Tiancheng, and said in his heart that with these two squad leaders, I am afraid that they have a great chance of winning, how could I forget that Xiao Tian has such two capable generals under him, you must know that his ten personal soldiers are also fighters in their twenties.

Forget it, if Xiao Tianbing loses, what good will it do me? I can't let him win, so I can justifiably transfer him to the main battle unit, Keno thought about this, and his face was full of smiles.

"What, Captain Xiao Tian, you have so many people, six or seven times the number of guards, do you want to adopt a defensive formation and not take the main attack?" The adjutant asked with a smile.

Ling Xiaotian replied: "The commander's personal soldiers are all elites, and the best thing on weekdays is to protect the safety of the commander, so they are definitely first-class strong in defense, why should I use my own shortcomings to fight with their strengths."

Keno was once again impressed by Ling Xiaotian, such a young boy without any military experience, but he could have such an opinion, it was not simple, it was really not simple.

"Start" was given, and a guard pounced like a hungry tiger.

Liu Tiancheng shouted: "Please enter the urn"

The neat queue quickly surrounded the ten guards who had returned, and then dispersed them, six or seven people surrounded one, and the guys in their hands greeted them like raindrops.

The ten guards immediately had the upper hand, they didn't expect the opponent to use such an attack, they were completely scattered in an instant, how could they fight in unison compared to the coordinated battle, their strength was greatly reduced.

The most courageous are Jiang Yicheng and Liu Tiancheng, these two guys relied on their own level to be higher than their opponents, and they managed to get three people by dividing five by two, which made the other party, who was already suffering in numbers, even worse.

Ling Xiaotian kept smiling and watching the battle between the two sides, if he didn't let Jiang Yicheng and Liu Tiancheng go up, it was estimated that he would suffer a loss, after all, these two guys didn't have a trace of panic against opponents in their thirties during the academy competition