Shi Ziling said unhurriedly: "This is also a matter of no choice, the news that I went north to rescue the Xiahou family this time should have already spread all over the world, and it is not surprising that Li Yuan will speed up the pace of the attack in order to sweep the north before I arrive."

"Although Yanzhao Pass was lost earlier than we expected, Li Yuan's two major legions also paid a lot of price, consuming a lot of their legion's strength. This will always be beneficial for our head-to-head confrontation in the future. ”

Nangong Xia said a little anxiously: "But in this way, it will be even more difficult for us to sneak attack Li Yuan behind and form an echo attack with the Xiahou family's men and horses, first of all, we must first take Yanzhao Pass." ”

"But our existing men and horses add up to only 100,000 people, how easy is it to capture the Yan Zhao Pass, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if Li Yuan turns around and deals with us first, it will be a big disadvantage!"

Shi Ziling said indifferently: "Senior, I have long been prepared to become a benevolent person if I lead the army north this time, no matter what the situation of Yan Zhaoguan is, I will do my best to deal with Li Yuan to the end." Fortunately, our capture of Mijing City this time was extremely smooth, thinking that Li Yuan should not know that his lair has changed hands in a short period of time, I think we still have a chance to sneak attack Yan Zhaoguan again successfully. ”

The city guard of Mijing City is now the temporary command post of Shi Ziling, and after welcoming Nangong Xia into the palace, Shi Ziling will roughly talk about the process of taking Mijing City this time and the subsequent plan of going north to attack Yanzhao Pass.

Nangong Xia couldn't help but be greatly moved when he heard this, he high-fived and praised: "Although your plan is simple but reasonable, and your ability to act is even stronger, it is unimaginable to me, if the news of the capture of Mijing City has not yet reached Yanzhao Pass, with your action power to take Mijing City, you will indeed have a chance to succeed in another surprise attack." ”

"Counting Li Yuan, he should have led a large group of men and horses to attack Black Dragon City by now, although Yanzhao Pass is an important place for soldiers, but there may not be good generals stationed for the time being, if you can really mix into the pass according to the plan, there is indeed a great chance of success. ”

Nangong Xia is the head of the five great families in the world, he has dominated one side for many years, and he is a very prestigious figure in the world, even he praised Ma Yu's plan, and the generals of the Songhu Army are even more confident.

Shi Ziling said: "My Songhu Legion has been resting in Mijing City for three days, and since your Narcissus Legion has arrived, I have decided to immediately raise troops and rush to Yanzhao Pass, and this place will be handed over to your people." ”

"In addition, half of the original defenders of Mijing City have been sent back to their hometowns by me, and the rest have all surrendered, I will lead 10,000 of them to the north together, and the remaining 20,000 troops will be taught to you to be incorporated by the Narcissus Legion. ”

Nangong Xia was surprised: "Listen to what you mean, do ......you want to take your Songhu Legion away completely?" Won't you leave some of your horses in the city?"

Shi Ziling said: "I only brought a total of more than 50,000 people this time, even if you add Yin Qi's 10,000 troops, it is only 60,000 people, and the troops in the north against Li Yuan are still limited and thin. You and I are allies, anyway, your Narcissus Legion needs to take a break after coming, isn't it just right that Mijing City will be handed over to you to control?"

Nangong Xia was surprised, and he didn't expect that Shi Ziling would decide to withdraw all the Songhu Legions and completely entrust such an important Mijing City to himself, which was equivalent to giving up Mijing City. You must know that Mijing City is the largest city in the west, and it is also Li Yuan's lair, so it is really something that no one can imagine that such an important city can let go so easily.

Nangong Xia was surprised and also quite moved, and realized that Shi Ziling really wanted to defeat Li Yuan wholeheartedly this time, and he didn't have the selfish intention of occupying Mijing City and not leaving, so he couldn't help but sigh:

"Ziling, it's rare that you trust me so much, and leave such an important city to me to take care of, don't worry, my men and horses will definitely follow up and support you immediately after a little adjustment. Here in Mijing City, I will definitely let people manage it properly, and I will never delay our joint attack on Li Yuan's army......"

After quickly handing over Mijing City to Nangong Xia's Narcissus Legion, Shi Ziling led his Songhu Legion and Yin Qi's 10,000 troops to embark on a journey north to Yanzhao Pass.

As before, the Songhu Legion was still divided into three echelons, Shi Ziling led a special attack division of 15,000 people at the forefront, and with them were the 2,000 elites selected by Yin Qi from the 10,000 descending army. Behind them, Ma Yu led 20,000 horses and 8,000 troops in the center, and the Duanmu brothers led the remaining 15,000 people as the third echelon of the palace.

After three days of rest, the physical strength of the Songhu Legion has been fully recovered, and now that it has embarked on the journey again, the morale of the whole legion is high.

All the soldiers understood that it was extremely important to go to Yanzhao Pass for the first battle, and if they could successfully take this important military place, then even if the Songhu Army suffered setbacks in the subsequent confrontation with Li Yuan's army, at least they would have a reliable and solid base to retreat to.

In addition, Mijing City is already under control, with these two major cities in hand, even if the battle situation is at a disadvantage, the Songhu Army will not fall into the enemy's encirclement in the northwest area, at least it has the capital to fight with the enemy for a long time.

Yin Qi led two thousand elite troops to advance hand in hand with Shiziling's special attack division, although these two thousand men and horses were already the elite of the defenders of Mijing City, but compared with Shiziling's special attack division, they were still much inferior.

The marching speed of the special attack division was extremely fast, but the formation was always maintained extremely neat, whether it was a general or an ordinary sergeant, all of them were full of energy and energy, and if it were not for the extremely rigorous and arduous training on weekdays, it would never have been possible to perform so well.

Relatively speaking, although Yin Qi's 2,000 troops were also full of energy, they only walked 50 miles, and they were already a little unable to keep up with the marching rhythm of the special attack division, and after walking out of 100 miles, the formation was even more scattered, completely lacking the neatness and rigor when they first set off.

Yin Qi was secretly anxious in his eyes, they went to Yanzhao Pass to try to be fast, just hoping to arrive before the news of the loss of Mijing City leaked, so that they could receive unexpected miracles. Otherwise, once Yan Zhao Pass has sufficient defenses, no matter how strong the Songhu Army is, after all, the strength is limited, and it is almost impossible to storm Yan Zhao Pass.

However, Yin Qi's 2,000 men and horses obviously couldn't keep up with the marching rhythm of the special attack division, and many times the special attack division had to slow down and wait for them, so that the speed of the entire army would be slowed down if it continued reluctantly.

Shi Ziling also saw the crux of the team, he asked Yin Qi to lead the team mainly to use their familiarity with the road to the north and their understanding of Li Yuan's army, but he didn't expect that the ability of this group of people was so poor, and they had already shown a state of obvious weakness after walking out of a hundred miles.

Shi Ziling thought about it for a while, and soon made a decision, he strangled the black rose BMW under his crotch, raised his hand to signal the team to stop advancing temporarily, and then said to Yin Qi:

"General Yin, our more than 10,000 people as the vanguard of the legion must be fast, not to mention that the time to go to Yanzhao Pass is urgent, since the speed of the marching army under your command cannot keep up, I think it is better to simply put them at the back of the team, and it is really not possible to follow with Ma Yu or Duanmu Xuan's team behind. ”

Yin Qi felt that his face was gloomy, and he said: "My two thousand men and horses are to lead the way for everyone, but I didn't expect it to slow down the marching speed of the legion, General Shi's special attack division is too outstanding, I originally thought that the two thousand elites I carefully selected were enough to keep up with your marching speed, but I didn't expect that it would be obviously overwhelmed after walking out of the hundred mile road." ”

Shi Ziling waved his hand and said: "My special attack division has also undergone repeated and arduous training to have the current combat strength, and when this battle is over, I will officially incorporate your team into my Songhu Legion, I think after a period of training, you can also do the same." ”

Yin Qi was very interested in the way of leading troops, and he was very eager to learn the tactical training methods of the Songhu Legion, and he was of course very happy to hear that Shi Ziling promised to include them in the legion.

Shi Ziling said: "In this way, you can select a hundred cavalry to lead the way in front of the team, and let the rest of the people follow the back of the team." If you really can't keep up, it doesn't matter if Ma Yu or the Duanmu brothers' people come and go together immediately. ”

Yin Qi felt that this was the only way, and immediately ordered a hundred fast riders to continue to lead the way in front, while the rest of the people were adjusted to the back of the team and asked them to follow as much as possible.

After a short period of adjustment, the special attack division returned to the road, except for the hundred cavalry selected by Yin Qi, the rest of the surrendered army was quickly left far behind, and was caught up by the teams of Ma Yu and Duanmu brothers one after another.

The 8,000 troops who accompanied Ma Yu also couldn't keep up with the speed of the brigade, and soon merged with the 2,000 troops that fell in front, and when they reached the end, Yin Qi's 10,000 troops became the fourth echelon of the entire legion.

Ten days later, the special attack division had gradually approached Yanzhao Pass. Along the way, they encountered several groups of heralds sent back by Li Yuan's army, all of whom went to inform the towns in the rear of the west to send supplies to the front line as soon as possible, and from them Shi Ziling roughly learned about the battle situation on the front line.

After Li Yuan captured Yanzhao Pass, he only rested for a short day and immediately waved his army north, and the two major armies of Yanyun and Black Dragon of the Xiahou family did not dare to resist due to low morale, and hurriedly fled back to Black Dragon City, while some small and medium-sized cities along the way in the north were simply unable to resist Li Yuan's army, and were swept all the way, and most of the defenders along the way also followed Xiahou Feiyang's team to retreat to Black Dragon City.

Li Yuan was unforgiving, and after easily breaking through the cities along the way, he directly killed in front of Black Dragon City.