On the southern city wall of Hezhou, the strong wind is blowing, and the cold goes straight into the bone marrow.

Yan King Li Hongji couldn't help but sneez, and the guards around him hurriedly stepped forward to add a jacket to him. Although Li Yuan was already wearing a big dumpling, he still felt that the cold wind was biting, and the Jianghuai disciples around him were dressed like big rice dumplings. In fact, this kind of weather is really rare this year, and you must know that the Jiangnan area has rarely experienced such cold.

"It's a strange day this year, it's so cold in December, and it's not easy for the soldiers. At that time, when the snow melts in spring, I am afraid that it will be more difficult. After returning to Beijing this time, the commander will definitely ask His Majesty to urgently allocate additional supplies such as cotton clothes and firewood for the winter of the soldiers and soldiers stationed in various places." Li Yuan sighed.

Hu Ze smiled and said, "Generalissimo, what is this? Half a month ago, when it snowed heavily in Hezhou, Fang was the most difficult time, when the supply of materials was a problem, the roads were buried, and they were impassable, and that was the most difficult time. The generalissimo can appreciate the suffering of his subordinates, and the soldiers will be very grateful when they know it, and the morale of the army will be greatly boosted!"

Li Yuan turned his head coldly and said, "Oh? Half a month ago, it snowed heavily here and the roads were impassable? How did the relief food allocated by the imperial court come down? Sixteen storehouses of grain and grass, how many manpower will be used to open the road to transport it?"

Hu Ze was shocked in his heart, and he didn't know how to speak for a while, and then swallowed his saliva and said, "Who dares to disobey Your Majesty's will? Even if the time is not good, there is always a way to send ......it over."

Li Yuan smiled lightly, and suddenly pointed to the pass between the two mountain beams in the distance, and changed the topic: "Is that the Danyang Mountain Pass?"

Hu replied, "Exactly, Generalissimo. Out of there, it is the valley that leads to the direction of Chizhou, and beyond the valley is the garrison company camp of the southern army of Nazhen."

Li Yuan nodded and said, "I know, go out of the city with Ben Shuai."

"How, how?" Hu Ze was stunned and said, "What does the generalissimo want to do when he goes out of the city?"

Li Yuan took the guards down the stone steps by himself, but did not answer, Hu Ze was stunned in place and suddenly at a loss, and suddenly swept to see Li Hongji, the king of Yan beside him, looking at him coldly: "Hu Tingshi, what are you still doing in a daze? The generalissimo went out of the city to lead the army to meet the enemy, and he ordered your general, why don't you hurry up and follow? Are you going to disobey?"

Hu Ze gritted his teeth and said, "Your Highness! How dare the lower officials! It's just that Xiaguan, as the assassin of Honshu, shoulders the responsibility of guarding this city, and Xiaguan—"

"The Generalissimo's order to disobey the disobedient behead! Next, this king will lead an army of 100,000 to defend the city for you, what questions do you have?" Li Hongji reprimanded in a deep voice: "Why don't you go quickly?"

Hu Ze was caught off guard, but he still replied stupidly: "The lower official obeys the order!"

Then Hu Ze ran down the city wall quickly, chasing the direction of Li Yuan, passing by the city gate, Hu Ze suddenly found that the 10,000 soldiers he had just brought over seemed to have been ordered by Li Yuan to be transferred elsewhere, and his heart was suddenly flustered, but fortunately, his lieutenant general and several other generals were waiting in place, Hu Ze secretly glanced at them, and then gestured to the direction of the king of Yan in the city, and then shook his head, and the two sides understood......

Soon after Fu Hong led the 30,000 pioneers of the forbidden army out of the city, Li Yuanti 70,000 main soldiers and horses also went out of the city from the south gate, and soon arrived close to the Danyang Mountain Pass. ….

Galloping in the corridor, the soldiers of the forbidden army only felt that the whole earth was trembling, their ears were filled with the sound of roaring horses' hooves, and the icy wind poured in fiercely from the corridor, blocking people from breathing. The whole person seems to be being swept forward by a torrent, and suddenly there is a sense of fear that he can't help but rush to the end.

But the next moment, the eyes suddenly opened up, looking at it, the mountains were like waves, the wind was sweeping strongly, the pine waves were like the tide, and in the blink of an eye, the Danyang Mountain Pass was left behind.

The valley is wide, the gravel valley has no natural scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, obviously after artificial excavation and construction, a road more than ten zhang wide is opened in the rocks, and the zigzag winds along the valley to the south.

On the flat ground on both sides, the axe and machete are sharpened, and on the several small hills that suddenly protrude, a huge fortress stands on it, and the flag with the word "Tang" inserted on it is waving in the wind. Faintly audible

Behind him, there was a low and majestic sound of horns from the Danyang Mountain Pass and both sides, as if it was sending everyone off to play music.

The valley was winding, and it was only five or six miles away to reach the exit of the valley to the south, but the road was really difficult, and the large group of men and horses had to slow down soon after rushing out of the Danyang Mountain Pass, because the gravel road could not support the horses to gallop, and the carriages pulling supplies could not support such violent bumps. Therefore, the brigade of soldiers and horses soon became a state of moving slowly, and Li Yuan could also take this opportunity to observe the situation of the battlefield around him.

The mountains on both sides are undulating, but every time there is a high place, there must be a beacon tower, and at the bottom of the valley, you can already see the figure of the forbidden army soldiers leaning down from the cliff to look down. At the mouth of the gourd in several narrow places, you can see a huge log fence built by man, and behind the fence you can see piles of boulders and thick logs.

Taking over the Danyang Mountain Pass and all the fortresses of the Hezhou defenders in the valley with the forbidden army, this is the first thing Li Yuan explained to Fu Hong to do. Above such a narrow valley, the arrangement of rolling wood and stones, needless to say, the lethality of this kind of thing is so strong, but it is not necessary to be blocked by someone with a heart to cut off the route of the army home.

In addition, in the event that a rebel army bypasses the frontal battlefield and rushes into the valley with the intention of attacking, these rolling logs and stones alone can effectively kill and injure the enemy army and temporarily block the enemy's advance path, which can buy a lot of preparation time for the garrison soldiers and horses of Hezhou City.

That's why this pass valley is so important. If there was only such a passage in the mountains, the gods would never want to attack from this valley, and there was hardly any way to break through except for a detour.

In the afternoon, Li Yuan led 70,000 soldiers and horses out of the mouth of the valley and arrived at the garrison to camp, Fu Hong had led 30,000 vanguard troops to reconnoiter and guard here, and first cut down wood and stones, this place was less than five miles away from the camp of the Zhennan army, and it was the real front line.

When the soldiers entered the camp, they were almost relieved. The road is difficult to navigate, and the cliffs and facilities on both sides give people a sense of oppression and insecurity. Although I knew that those facilities were set up by my own friendly forces, I always felt uneasy.

Naturally, there is also the Hezhou assassin Shi Hu Ze, and he obviously has another layer of worry in his heart, that is, Li Hongji, the king of Yan, did not come with the army, although he really wanted to secretly order the death battalion in the city to act immediately and put Li Hongji to death first, but in this way, another important target, Li Yuan, was bound to fail.

Unfortunately, at this time, all the fortresses were taken over by the forbidden army under Li Yuan's command, and Hu Ze could only try his best to hold his mind and pray that the war would start soon, so that he could take advantage of the chaos to do something.

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Qingli layman