"Sure enough, there were no troops at all." Li Xu stepped on the ice and snow to climb Yanmen Mountain, and there was no one on the mountain.

"General...... Let's go down when you're done...... It's too cold......" Cheng Cheng said, rubbing his hands. Yanmen Mountain is low, and the mountains on both sides just form a wind outlet, and the wind continues to blow the two of them, plus the ice and snow on the mountain have not yet melted, and the temperature is still relatively low, even if it is a crystal soul person of Cheng Cheng's level, he can't stand it after blowing for a long time.

"Just this place, Jiuping really came from here, straight into our defensive hinterland, who can defend it? And then withdraw troops from the Northern Front at that time? Or draw people from Qingling Pass? It's a hammer sooner or later. Li Xu said viciously.

"General, the environment in this place is so bad, even the Crystal Soul Soul can't stay for long, how can Jiuping get so many people up? Besides, even if that's the case, we can't garrison troops here, this place is not a place for people to stay at all, and that army can be stationed here for a long time? "Cheng Cheng actually didn't believe that Jiuping would attack from this place at this time.

"Let's go." Li Xu snorted, turned around and walked down the mountain.

"General, your Highness will definitely not be satisfied with your trip, remember to talk to His Highness when you go back, even if you are soft." Cheng Cheng is not a person with high emotional intelligence, but at this time, he also thinks that Li Xu and Shen Hao are good at talking, which may make the situation better, maybe Shen Liang will get off the donkey, and both sides will take a step back, and they will be happy.

"Who said I was going back, go to Xiayang Valley." Li Xu said.

"What? Xiayang Valley is still a few hundred miles away from here, let's run here, it's enough, right? Do you want to go to Yanggu again? Cheng Cheng asked.

"Yes, go to Yanggu." Li Xu said indifferently.

"Or run?"

"Shall I carry you?"

"Forget it, let's run...... General, if I die of exhaustion, please bury me in Qingyuan. ”

"Then take a break." Li Xu said with a sigh.

"Great!"

"A quarter of an hour, that should be enough, right?"

“……”

"If you don't speak, you'll acquiesce."

"General, I kind of regret coming with you."

……

Before the Qingling Pass, Gong Chengfeng finally reorganized the troops, and began to try to attack the Qingling Pass, this move, so that the defenders of the Qingling Pass were very nervous, according to the information they had, as long as Jiuping began to attack, it must be a full-scale attack, and at this time, all the troops of Qingyuan were in the north to resist the attack of the Great Prince, so they were equivalent to an isolated group of people, even so, they could only resist the attack of Jiuping.

However, the orders received by Gong Chengfeng were only harassment and retaliatory attacks, so compared to the nervousness in Qingling Pass, the Jiuping army in charge of the attack was very relaxed, and it was very easy to attack if it got up early, and attacked later when it got up late. After lunch, if you want to eliminate your appetite, you will launch a wave of attacks, and if you don't want to move after eating, you will rest all of you. That unit was in the mood in the middle of the night, so they found a few catapults and arrow towers to hit twice, and remembered to put them in storage after the fight.

It was also this inexplicable, unorganized way of attacking that made the defenders in Qingling Pass almost collapse, and after a few days of fighting, the defenders also found a problem, these people didn't seem to plan to really attack, they just wanted to simply disgust themselves. Of course, some people think that Jiuping's move is obviously to use a virtual and real strategy to suddenly launch an attack when they relax their vigilance and break through the level in one fell swoop, but even if this is the case, they have nothing to do, no one knows which attack on the other side is real, which time is acting, and after a few days, some soldiers began to be unable to bear it.

"Boss, we can't hold it like this, they shoot arrows and throw stones here every day, and our brothers can't stand it."

"Don't call, let's take turns to rest for a while, and when the next shift arrives, we can go back to rest." The little soldier said.

"When they are on duty, the other side will call us again, and they will have to call us back."

"What then? Why don't you tell the above and say that we just switch and surrender? The little soldier glared at him, leaned against the arrow battlements of the city wall and closed his eyes, "Look at the movement on the other side, remember to call me when you are a hundred feet away from the city wall." ”

"Boss, you've slept all day."

"I'll sleep for another half an hour, tomorrow you sleep, I'll stand guard."

"Boss, that's what you said yesterday."

"Shut up, don't scream...... It's better to be a person on the mountain, basically don't need to be vigilant, just wait for us to send a signal. The little soldier snorted, complained a few words, and fell asleep.

……

"General, this trail is Xiayang Valley, this road is a total of thirty-three miles, sandwiched between the mountains, and there is a long trail close to the cliff, which can only be passed by one person, and one will fall into the abyss if you are not careful......"

"I know that I have walked this road before, when the emperor was there, I ...... Forget it, I'll tell you later. Li Xu said, walking into the path.

The road to Lower Yanggu is not easy to walk, because no one has walked here for a long time, the road is overgrown with weeds, and there are caves in some places. If it weren't for the fact that this place was marked on the map, maybe no one would have paid attention to it.

"Now, I feel more and more that this place seems to be more likely to be an attack location chosen by Jiuping." Li Xu said as he walked, "If Jiuping has thought about Yanmen Mountain, the best time should be in the summer, if this is the case, as long as we are stationed in Yanmen Mountain in the summer, it is impossible for them to call, Jiuping obviously will not choose that place so stupidly." On the contrary, it is here, very close to Qingyuan Mansion, Qingyuan Mansion is now ungarrisoned, as long as 10,000 people can sneak in from here, Qingyuan will be breached immediately. And even inside Qingyuan, few people know about this place, that is, I walked through here before, so I will have a little impression of this place......"

In fact, Li Feiqiu did not choose this Xiayang Valley, a very important reason is that there are not many people who can pass in this place, and it is impossible for Qingyuan Mansion to have no garrison, even if there are 10,000 people in the past, it will not be able to take the Qingyuan army stationed according to the city wall in a short time, and when the army on the border arrives, the front and rear are trapped, and the group of troops who raided in will immediately become a lone army.

But Li Feiqiu never expected that Qingyuan had a shortage of troops, and there was already a shortage of garrisons in Qingyuan Mansion, if he knew the news, he might really choose to take a small road from Xiayang Valley to attack Qingyuan Mansion.

"Let's go, don't look at it, this place is the focus of defense, go back and talk to Your Highness." The two of them walked to the mountainside of Xiayang Mountain, which is the highest point of the Xiayang Valley Trail. Whether it is from Qizhou or from Qingyuan to walk down the Yanggu trail, it is from low to high, to the mountainside of Xiayang Mountain, and then down the mountain, this section of the road in Xiayang Mountain happens to be the most difficult path to walk. Standing on the mountainside, looking to the south, it is the boundary of Qizhou, because the mountains are full of clouds and mist, so the two of them can't see anything.

"General, we ......"

"This place must be guarded, after you go back, tell Your Highness that Jiuping will definitely go from this place, and Yanmen Mountain, it is best to send troops to garrison it, it doesn't matter if you can't go now, it's not too late to go again in the summer, that's all, remember?" Li Xu asked.

"Yes, I see." Cheng Cheng opened his mouth, but finally responded.

"That's it, let's go back, what's going on on the northern front?" Because of his long-term attention to Jiuping's movements, Li Xu only remembered now that the threat of the great prince of the northern front to Qingyuan was greater.

"...... on the northern front" Cheng Cheng didn't know, because during this time, she had been exploring Jiuping's movements, so she was not very clear about the battle situation on the northern front.

"Jiuping ......" actually took a lot of responsibility for the defeat in Tanglin, although Shen Liang had to bear a lot of responsibility for the indiscriminate command, but Jiuping's strategic arrangement, the speed of troop transfer, and the control of the current situation did make her suffer a lot, and the entire battle of Tanglin, except for the last breakthrough took a big advantage, the other battles made her quite uncomfortable, and the concentration of the opposing generals made her quite disgusting. At least, if she had surrounded the enemy on all fronts, she would definitely not just stop and spend months with the other party, until the situation changed.