At this time, the situation in the north was not too good, Song Zhong was the same as in the original history, first let Yu Yao stand in Juyong Pass, but he garrisoned his own troops and did not move, this battle can actually be regarded as the first important turning point of the Battle of Jingyan.

After all, Song Zhong was born in Jinyiwei, and it was almost interesting to fight.

Juyong Pass is also a heroic pass, he wants to send more elite soldiers and horses to support Yu Yao, and the Yan army will definitely not be able to break the pass for a while.

The Yan army can't break through the Juyong Pass, and as soon as Bu Wan's soldiers and horses arrive, it will really be a two-sided attack, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, may be directly encircled and suppressed under the Juyong Pass.

Just because he didn't move his troops and didn't vigorously support Juyong Pass, Zhu Gaoxu and Xu Xiang easily came to Juyong Pass.

And in the original history, it was Xu Xiang who led people to break the Juyong Pass, don't look at him at the age of sixty-eight, he first followed Chen Youliang, and then descended to Zhu Yuanzhang, who has experienced a hundred battles and has rich experience.

On the same day, Zhu Gaoxu took him to Juyong Pass late at night, and he didn't have much experience in attacking the city, and this Juyong Pass was quite famous in later generations, so he asked, how to break the pass?

Xu Xiang took advantage of the moonlight and rode around Juyong Pass to look at it for a while, and finally said, just give the last general two thousand elites.

This dwelling is confined in the mountains, surrounded by mountains.

He led people to cut down trees and build five ladders, and then lit fires in the forests on both sides of the pass, and then shot rockets into the wall at night. ”

At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu concentrated hundreds of archers in his hands and threw them at the head of the city as support.

At that time, it was early in the morning, the sky was not completely bright, and the Yan army only built five ladders in a hurry, but the scene was very large, and there were fires outside and everywhere in the city.

In addition to the defenders on the city wall, the officials and soldiers in the city really thought that the Yan army had attacked, and they were immediately in chaos, and they did not listen to the command.

The key is that Yu Yao was also scared, he fled here from Beiping, and now he saw that the general situation was not good, so he hurriedly ran away and fled to Huailai with two or three thousand remnants.

Zhu Gaoxu asked his subordinates to shoot arrows to the city in this battle, and then stood behind and watched Xu Xiang break the Juyong Pass with 2,000 people, he was secretly happy in his heart, this Xu Xiang is really powerful, fortunately, Lao Tzu did not dislike his age.

After the war, the two entered the pass and gathered more than 1,000 troops.

At this time, Xu Xiang found that Zhu Gaoxu's people were collecting bows and arrows everywhere.

"I just attacked the city, but thanks to His Highness's brothers, there are so many arrows that they can't raise their heads on the wall." Xu Xiang quietly patted Zhu Gaoxu's ass at this time.

But he didn't say a word, that is, among those who shoot arrows, many archery skills are not good, they are completely indiscriminate, and some people even shoot at their own people.

"When this king was training his troops, he required all soldiers and horses to learn archery, and it didn't matter if they were accurate or not, as long as they could shoot." Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile.

"Ah" Xu Xiang was surprised, what kind of practice is this?

Of course, he also knew that elite archers were difficult to train, and they couldn't be trained in a few years.

So there are not many archers in the Ming Dynasty.

Historically, the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty were a little famous, but that was when there were bows and crossbows, and the Song Dynasty also commonly used crossbows, but they were not as famous as the previous dynasties.

In the early Ming Dynasty, it was used more, and in the late Ming Dynasty, crossbows were rarely seen in the basic army, and the proportion of bows and arrows in the infantry army was even less.

On the other hand, at this time, the Ma army in the early Ming Dynasty basically required to be able to shoot arrows.

But in the Ming army, archery on horses was very good, and the Mongolian cavalry who surrendered was the mainstay.

Xu Xiang obviously didn't understand why Zhu Gaoxu had to train like this, which not only wasted time, but also hurt his bow and arrows.

How many bows and arrows do you have to practice?

Now he knew why Zhu Gaoxu immediately began to collect all the bows and arrows he could use after entering the city.

"Let's talk about siege." Zhu Gaoxu said lightly: "Just now, hundreds of our archers were below, shooting at the city. ”

"In fact, it's okay if the shot is not very accurate, Sergeant Yu Yao at the head of the city will be very jealous when defending, and most people will subconsciously avoid, which is called ---- firepower suppression, and it may not have much lethality, but suppressing the other party, not allowing the other party to easily probe or lean out to see the situation outside, is more beneficial to the besieging side."

Xu Xiang should have understood, he thought about it, and it seemed that this was indeed the reason.

When they were attacking the city just now, there was a rain of arrows under the city.

Most of the archers don't aim at all, they just shoot at the city without brains.

And the commander Song Meng divided them into several groups, took turns to throw, and maintained a continuous rain of arrows falling to the city.

Especially that Song Meng, archery skills are extremely accurate, one arrow at a time, the officers and soldiers who dare to take the lead on the city wall, after being shot by him more than a dozen, they don't dare to take the lead easily.

Xu Xiang, who was originally complacent about the capture of Juyong Pass, suddenly found that this credit was half of the king of Gaoyang County.

At this time, the army of King Yan had not yet arrived, and they were rectifying and repairing Juyong Pass, and they were disorganized and assigned to various battalions.

Xu Xiang found that Zhu Gaoxu had about eight cronies in the hundred-man team, and when he was free, he would gather together for training, archery, and horseback riding.

Now the two of them have more than 5,000 soldiers and horses, but Zhu Gaoxu does not train other soldiers and horses, and only trains his own team of 800 people.

Almost all the bows and arrows in the whole army were concentrated in Zhu Gaoxu's own 800 soldiers and horses.

They rested at Juyong Pass for two days, and every morning and evening Zhu Gaoxu would ride out with 800 cronies and practice riding and archery around.

Xu Xiang also practiced for two days, and found that most of the soldiers were confused in riding and shooting, in Zhu Gaoxu's words, the battlefield can only play a role of scare, of course, if the opposite side of the soldiers and horses are dense, shooting indiscriminately, can also be injured.

On the thirteenth, King Yan led a large army to Juyong Pass.

The whole army of the Yan army rested near Juyong Pass, waiting for Meng Shan.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu stopped training and would go to the camp every day to meet King Yan and some generals with good relations.

He went to Qiu Fu's camp the most, and sometimes drank some wine with Qiu Fu, the wine was obtained from Juyong Pass, originally King Yan said, try not to drink during war.

But Qiu Fu is his confidant, and Zhu Gaoxu is his son, the two of them drink in private, and everyone should not know, and King Yan can only turn a blind eye.

On this day, Zhu Gaoxu took Zhou Hu to Qiu Fu camp again.

Qiu Fu saw that Zhu Gaoxu's head was bigger: "King Gaoyang, you can't drink anymore." ”

"It's okay for you to come and see me, can you stop me from drinking?" Qiu Fu stomped his feet.

"Why can't you drink?" Zhu Gaoxu asked strangely.

Qiu Fu looked at Zhou Hu, and Zhou Hu also stepped back with interest, staying away from the two of them.

He pulled Zhu Gaoxu into the camp tent and said earnestly: "King Yan once said that you are not allowed to drink alcohol in the army, and drinking in battle is a taboo in the army."

"Now some people privately say that you are conceited and arrogant, relying on military merits, and have no military discipline, so I can't drink it anyway."

Because Zhu Gaoxu was very fierce when he was in Jizhou, some people said that he was conceited and arrogant, and took the lead in drinking, and the small report had already hit King Yan.

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and said with a smile: "Okay, this king listens to General Qiu, and if you don't drink, you won't drink." ”

"But it's boring without drinking, isn't it?" Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile.

In these years, there is no mobile phone network, no drinking at night, two big men, big eyes and small eyes?

Qiu Fu had a bitter face, and he didn't know what he could do?

"Can you block money?" Zhu Gaoxu suddenly asked again.

"This." Qiu Fu's eyes widened, and he thought to himself, King Gaoyang, can you have a little talent, in this way, who will be optimistic about you?

There were only two people in the camp at that time, but this Qiu Fu was a famous big mouth.

That night, it was transmitted to Tan Yuan, Zhang Wu, Huo Zhen and other generals.

Tan Yuan and Zhang Wu said privately: "King Gaoyang is blocking money except for drinking, and his character is really bad, although he is brave in battle, he is not as good as the son of the world." ”

Zhang Wu also nodded, fortunately, I have already taken refuge in the side of the prince, and with King Gaoyang, there will definitely be no future.

However, the two immediately laughed, if King Gaoyang continues like this, he will not be worthy of being the opponent of the prince in the future, and he may have to guard against the third Zhu Gaosui.