Li Zhun had suffered the loss of Shiziling, and he was also extremely jealous of Shiziling, he said: "Shiziling sent troops from Songhu City in early December, and according to the distance, Shiziling will take at least 60 days on the road, that is, it will not be possible to reach here until early February."

"Today is the third day of the first month of January, if Xiahou Feiyang has Bai Wuya's help, it will still be a little difficult for us to break through Yanzhao Pass within a month. ”

Li Yuandao: "Shi Ziling's marching speed must be faster than you think, maybe he can get here in only fifty days, or even fifty days, that is to say, he can arrive at the end of the month at the earliest." Although his 50,000 soldiers and horses may not be able to change the entire battle situation, this person is a big problem after all. ”

"Therefore, in order to avoid a long night of dreams, we must break through Yanzhao Pass within twenty days, and then break through Black Dragon City in about twenty days, and it is best to sweep the north before the arrival of Shiziling. At that time, we will be able to annihilate all the reinforcements of Shiziling. ”

The crowd exclaimed: "It only took twenty days to break through Yanzhao Pass......?" Even if we succeed, we're going to pay a very heavy price......."

Li Yuan sneered: "What's so difficult, the masters of the Xiahou family guarding the city have almost been consumed, even if you add the people of Bai Wuya Shura Mansion, it won't last a few more days." Fifteen days later, we'll send our strongest elite to launch a general attack, and we'll be able to break through their defenses, and if necessary, I'll be able to do it myself. ”

When everyone heard that Li Yuan was willing to take action in person, they were all in good spirits. Everyone knows that Li Yuan came with one of the three major artifacts this time, if he is willing to take action in person, even if Yan Zhaoguan has a natural risk, he will not be able to stop him.

Due to the siege of the city for several days, the current loss of martial arts masters in the Tongtian Sect is also quite large, and it is estimated that the defense ability of Yan Zhao Pass is indeed close to the end of the strong crossbow, once Li Yuan opens a gap with his supreme divine skills, and the masters of the Tongtian Sect take advantage of the situation to launch a strong attack, it is still entirely possible to take Yan Zhao Pass in one fell swoop.

Li Xiaoyao said happily: "If my father personally makes a move, we do have a chance to break through Yanzhao Pass within twenty days." As soon as Yan Zhao Pass is broken, the Xiahou family no longer has an excellent defensive basis, and the defeat has been achieved, whether it is the combat power of the legion or the number of masters, it is not as good as ours, at that time, as long as we cover all the way down, the breakthrough of Black Dragon City will be just around the corner. ”

Li Zhun nodded in agreement: "It's good that the Xiahou family has not collapsed until now, once reinforcements from the Shura Mansion appear on the city of Yanzhao Pass, it means that the martial arts of the Xiahou family have been almost exhausted, and we can also prepare to launch a general attack." ”

"Since the iron cavalry of the Yanyun Legion was broken by our hook formation, the Xiahou family no longer has the strength to fully confront our two major legions, once Yanzhao Pass falls into our hands again, the Xiahou family's camp will definitely collapse, even if Shi Ziling leads the army to arrive later, it is expected that there will be no tricks. ”

Li Yuan groaned slightly, and said to Li Xiaoyao: "Xiaoyao, you have to send more spies over there in Shiziling to keep an eye on them, and report to me at any time on the progress of their march." This person's martial arts strength is almost the same as mine, and it is said that he will not rashly send troops to help Xiahou Yuan do useless work, I always feel that there seems to be something wrong with him suddenly sending troops to rescue Xiahou Yuan this time. ”

Li Xiaoyao said: "The spies in front of us are always keeping an eye on the marching movements of Shiziling, and every three hours they will send people to fly pigeons to report back to each other, and once they have any abnormal movements, I will report to my father as soon as possible." ”

"In fact, anyone with a discerning eye should understand that this time we are determined to annex the north, and the 50,000 horses and horses in Shiziling District have traveled a long distance, even if they really rush to the north, it will not play a big role. I think Shi Ziling has probably been too successful in the battle of martial arts recently, and I think that marching and fighting to dominate the world is also a simple matter. When he arrives with his army, we must let him not return!"

Li Yuan frowned slightly, he always felt in his heart that there was something wrong with Shiziling's sudden expedition this time, but what was wrong was not clear for a while.

Li Yuan's operation to lead his troops to annex the north this time was bound to succeed, but Yan Zhaoguan's strong defense capability was still somewhat unexpected to him. Now it seems that there will be a maximum of twenty days to break through Yanzhao Pass in one fell swoop, and there is nothing else to care about for the time being.

Li Yuandao: "The capture of Yanzhao Pass is imminent, and we have already lost a lot of military strength for this, so naturally we can't give up halfway, but everyone else must also be cautious." Xiaoyao, you notify it, not only the movement of Shiziling, but also the old fox Nangong Xia of Southern Narcissus City should pay more attention. In addition, let Li Yan of Mijing City also be more careful, don't be careless. ”

Li Zhun was puzzled: "Big brother, Nangong Xia, this old fox has always been a grass on the wall, and he will fall wherever he is strong." We are now about to annex the north, and we still have too late for Nangong Xia to join us, how can we dare to make a ghost behind our backs? As for Mijing City, where the second brother is stationed, there is no need to worry. I also plan to let the second brother support tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to help us attack the city!"

Li Xiaoyao and others also held the same opinion on this, and everyone didn't understand Li Yuan's purpose of paying attention to Nangong Xia and Li Yan at this time.

Li Yuandao: "Nangong Xia, the old fox city, is quite deep, and the strength of their Nangong family is not strong or weak, and it stands to reason that he should really wait and see what happens." But at the moment, the situation will change at any time with the battle of the Bright Moon Continent, and Nangong Xia saw that there was a change in the Shiziling in the east, and it was difficult to guarantee that he would not have new ideas. ”

"As for Mijing City, although it will be fine for a while, we must also be careful that Xiahou Yuan once again sends troops to make a detour to attack our rear. Although their men and horses have been hit by our ambush twice before, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no third sneak attack, and it is always right to let the second brother be careful. ”

Although Li Xiaoyao felt that Li Yuan was a little worried, he still deployed according to Li Yuan's instructions.

A few days later, Li Yuan got a report that the surroundings of Mijing City were safe and sound, and the city guard Li Yan had arranged checkpoints at the intersections of various traffic arteries, and he would get news at any time if there was any trouble, and Xiahou Yuan did not have the slightest sign of sending troops to attack again.

As for Narcissus City, the Nangong family is indeed stepping up the training of military horses, but under the current situation, all localities are stepping up their recruitment of troops and horses, and they don't seem to see anything wrong.

What made Li Yuan feel most strange was that Shiziling's Songhu Legion was marching slower than he expected. According to the spies, with the current pace of the Pine Lake Legion's march, it would probably be about ten days later than they originally expected to reach the north.

Li Yuan was puzzled by this, and it was said that since Shi Ziling had sent troops to the rescue, he should have stepped up quickly, so how could it be much slower than he expected? Could it be that Shi Ziling really did not understand the way to lead the troops at all? Li Yuan had asked Li Xiaoyao to send someone to check whether the general of the eastern reinforcement army was really Shi Ziling himself, and the reply he received was that it was indeed Shi Ziling himself.

Although Li Yuan still had some doubts in his heart, since Shi Ziling couldn't catch up for a while, and the battle of Yanzhao Pass in front of him was approaching, he didn't think about it anymore, but just let Li Xiaoyao continue to send spies to report the news from all over the world at any time. He himself began to discuss with his subordinates the arrangements for launching a general attack on Yanzhao Pass.

On January 18, just as Li Yuan was about to launch a general attack on Yanzhao Pass, Shi Ziling led his special attack division to quietly approach Mijing City, the largest city in the Western Regions.

Due to the rapid advance along the way, the 15,000-strong special attack division was three days faster than the second echelon led by Ma Yu, and more than five days faster than the third echelon of the Duanmu brothers. As for the itinerary of the 50,000 Narcissus Army led by Nangong Xia, Shi Ziling is not very clear.

However, he didn't care much about this, because he knew that the key to the success or failure of this battle was not the number of troops, but whether he could be taken by surprise and unprepared. If Mijing City had been prepared early, then even if Nangong Xia's Narcissus Legion and Shiziling's Songhu Legion were all under the city, it would probably be difficult to break through Mijing City for a while.

After the special attack division marched to a place two hundred miles away from Mijing City, Shi Ziling handed over the team to Wei Song to lead, and he, Yu Wei, Yu Deping and others selected a small team of fifty people from the special attack team composed of five hundred martial arts masters, and carried out the longitudinal technique all the way, running towards Mijing City at full speed.

Along the way, the special attack team composed of these fifty martial arts experts would launch a surprise attack on the checkpoints arranged by Li Yan every time they went to a major traffic artery. Since their team is full of martial arts experts, and Shi Ziling, a top master, leads the team, they are naturally captured, and the soldiers in those sentry posts are usually restrained before they understand what is going on.

Even if some officers and soldiers at the checkpoint noticed something was wrong in advance, they would not have time to make an ideal response, because every time Shi Ziling rushed to the front of the special attack team, whenever he saw someone trying to escape, the silver coins in Shi Ziling's hand flew out, and they would immediately knock them to the ground.

Li Yan, the city guard of Mijing City, was not careless, he had already lined up checkpoints at various traffic crossings, and after receiving Li Yuan's notice that he was cautious, he added a lot of good martial arts masters to various checkpoints, in addition to arranging them on official roads, he also arranged secret sentry posts on various paths.

Li Yan expected that even if there was an enemy situation under such an arrangement, he would definitely receive a return in time, but he never thought that the enemy who came all the way this time would be so fast and strong, and the batch of checkpoints he laid down were all restrained before they could react.

Especially on the official road, these checkpoints set up by Li Yan were not alert enough, and he did not expect the enemy to come directly from the official road, and the special attack team of Shiziling came too fast, and by the time they were shocked, it was already too late.