In the Yanmen Pass, the red-striped Wang Yi's heart was full of anxiety.

When he hadn't moved the shogunate of General Duliao to Yanmen Pass, he simply felt that he was mainly responsible for the military at Yanmen Pass, and when he really came, he found that he had thought things simple.

In other words, he thought about the Yanmen Pass simply.

He thought that Yanmen Pass was guarding a military road, but in fact, Yanmen Pass was a commercial road.

Yanmen Pass, along with Loufu Pass to the west, defends the Yiding Basin and the Taiyuan Basin, both of which are under the jurisdiction of Yanmen County.

And Yanmen Pass is sandwiched between the Hengshan Mountains and the Luliang Mountains, so its territory is mountainous.

The origins of these mountain squatters are also very complex, there are natives who have lived in this mountainous area since ancient times, and there are also some people with household registration, but the majority are still homeless. These people either committed an accident at the foot of the mountain, evaded labor, or had some special reason to go into the mountain, or they could only go into the mountain to survive.

But no matter who these people are, they are all closely connected to this Yanmen Pass.

This is not to say that these people can't survive in the mountains, in fact, the conditions in the Hengshan Mountains near Yanmen Pass are quite good. For example, there is a leopard spring outside the west gate of Yanmen Pass, and the gushing volume is very large, and it flows directly into the Sanggan River. And mountain springs like Leopard Spring are not a few here.

If there is a water source, there must be grassland, which can also be used for animal husbandry and farming. And these also constitute the realistic basis for the deregistered households in the customs to continue to enter Hengshan to survive.

In addition, a considerable number of mountain people enter the mountains for logging.

The high mountains and dense forests in the Hengshan area, coupled with the willingness of the wealthy families in Bingzhou to build country houses, have a very strong demand for forests, which also stimulates a large number of displaced people to go to the mountains to cut wood in order to earn compensation.

Not to mention, Yanmen Pass, as the main road to the grassland, has an ordinary number of business trips between it every year. This also gave birth to the idea that Shanliao relied on business to eat business.

Those who do not pay attention to directly plundering business travelers, and pay attention to some trickles and long-term flows, will take the initiative to act as the escort of these business travelers, which is actually a disguised payment of protection money.

It can be said that through private reclamation, logging, and extortion in Hengshan, these Hengshan squatters are living more and more nourishing.

But when they are moisturized, there are those who do not.

Two of these groups are victims.

The first one is the Taiyuan County Government.

Because almost all of those who fled into the Hengshan Mountains in a steady stream ran away from Taiyuan County. Since you can open up private land in Hengshan, you don't have to pay taxes, let alone be exploited by the local tyrants, so the Qianshou in Taiyuan County always tries every means to flee to Hengshan.

In other areas, the plains and Qianshou fled into the mountains to endure hardship, but here in Hengshan, they are happy. What a temptation!

And the Han family's assessment of the local county Taishou, one of the most important is the calculation of Ding, that is, the taxpayer population. Therefore, for the loss of population under the rule, Taiyuan Taishou has a painful experience.

In addition to the victims of the Taiyuan County Government, the military in Yanmen Pass also suffered a big headache.

Because these shanliao are very unsophisticated, they often collude with the Hu people outside the Guan. Some of them simply resell some supplies, and some even serve as the eyes and ears of those people.

For example, in the first year of Emperor Yanguang, Xianbei people led tens of thousands of people to control the strings, in October Kou Yanmen, Dingxiang, when Yanmen Pass was broken because of these mountain liao back stabs, to November, Xianbei hit Taiyuan.

It is precisely because there is such a group of fatherless people in Hengshan Mountain that there are hidden dangers in the defense of Yanmen Pass.

So it was probably in the period of Emperor Shun, proposed by Situ Huguang, and the court finally began to purge the squatters entrenched in Heng Mountain.

After a hundred years of development, the number of private fields opened up by the sliao people in Hengshan has been considerable. As a result, not only the army of Yanmen Pass began to enter the mountain, but also the heroes of Taiyuan and Yanmen also began to spontaneously enter the mountain to clear the mountain liao.

With the entry of local powerful factions, the private fields in Hengshan were redivided.

Among them, the military in Yanmen Pass made the greatest profit. Not only occupied a considerable part of the land and assigned it to the army, but also incorporated the elite and brave people in the mountain liao into the army.

and other parties, such as Taiyuan Xun and Linghu; Jiexiujia's house; Wen's and Wang's in Qi County; Jinyang Wang; Yangqu Guo and other wealthy families have also gained a lot.

They built dock forts in the mountains, reclaimed the land, absorbed the mountain liao, and grew in strength step by step.

No one knows exactly how much these people have profited. But just one thing is clear.

One year, the Xianbei people went south to Yanmen again. At that time, Taiyuan was short of grain, so he asked various wealthy families to help co-organize.

At that time, the people of Yangqu Guo said:

"My strength is enough to give ten thousand armies, and I am obligated to lose for the Son of Heaven."

Then the Guo family really united several heroes and arranged the grain for that year.

Since then, the strength of Taiyuan's wealthy family is known to the world.

When the army and local tycoons entered Hengshan, the original predicament was not changed.

Whether it is smuggling, logging or smuggling, it is more widespread than before.

The guards of Yanmen Gate, who were supposed to be banned, are now shielding and protecting these people. In other words, the interests under the water did not disappear because of the government's ban, but were transferred from the hands of the displaced people to the hands of the Taiyuan heroes.

And these Taiyuan heroes have deep interests in the Yanmen Pass, so they are very opposed to the closure of the gate.

Every time Yanmen Pass was closed, their losses increased by one point.

As a result, the relationship between Gai Xun and the powerful people in Taiyuan became increasingly tense.

Yanmen Pass as a whole pass built by relying on Hengshan natural hazards, it has a total of eighteen gaps, and Gai Xun himself guards Taihe Ridge, which is also the main body of Yanmen Pass.

But in other gaps, Gai Xun's military orders could not be effectively enforced.

In the past 100 years, the infiltration of the Taiyuan heroes into the defenders of Yanmen Pass has been very serious. Eighteen openings, each of which has their people.

Gai Xun wants to lock up, but the Taiyuan heroes don't. If you stay in Taiheling, then they will go from Huyukou. If you wait for a while, will you still be able to let go of these snakes?

Therefore, Gai Xun found that the defense system of Yanmen Pass that he had built with all his heart was full of loopholes. Often, as soon as he inspected a gap on his side, the people on the back side would open and close the door to those powerful caravans.

Lawlessness, lawlessness.

At this time, on the wall of Yanmen Pass, Gai Xun personally gathered all the other seventeen pass chiefs together.

Gai Xun was heartbroken:

"Now the big war is coming, and the Taishan army has already killed Pingcheng. At this time, you are still in the traffic for your own selfish interests. Even if you don't have loyalty, aren't you afraid that your family members in the rear will be killed by your short-sighted behavior? What a loss of conscience! ”

Everyone present was scolded and silenced, and no one spoke.

Gai Xun sighed, knowing that these people were useless, and he couldn't listen to any more talk.

At this time, he was very glad that he temporarily recruited 3,000 knights from the Southern Xiongnu. It is precisely because of these people that Gai Xun has a usable army in his hands, otherwise the heroes of Taiyuan will be able to control him even more.

Gai Xun also regarded these Hun knights as his own hole cards, not only equipped them with the treasury of Yanmen, but their food supply was also the best in the army.

Each of these Hun knights had three horses, five swords in one shot, two leather armors in each horse, three hard bows, and fifty arrows.

It can be said that this cavalry regiment is also first-class even in northern Xinjiang.

That is, the abundant reserves of Yanmen Pass in the past dynasties can make Gai Xun so luxurious.

This was Gai Xun's response, and after not being able to count on the side wall of Yanmen Pass, he decided to rely on these three thousand knights to fight directly in the field.

Therefore, he spent most of his time training these people, trying to let them learn the Han tactics in the shortest possible time.

When the time comes, the knights who have both the strengths of Hu Han will become the sharpest weapons in Gaixun's hands.

It's just that the war came much earlier than Gaixun expected.

The vanguard of the Taishan army had already arrived at the Yin Pavilion along the Sanggan River, and the war broke out.

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On the east bank of the Sanggan River, Lu Xiang's banner was firmly in the phalanx.

At this time, the whole army of 2,000 soldiers was lined up in a neat phalanx.

On the opposite side of them, a group of more than 500 knights of the Han army was looking at them with fierce eyes.

Lu Xiang sat on the troop cart and carefully observed the enemy troops on the opposite side.

This is a typical Hun cavalry army, although he is wearing the crimson military uniform of the Han army, but he can smell the smell from so far away.

Lü Xiang fought with the Huns, and these people were much weaker than the Han knights, and they did not dare to rush into their own strong formation.

But this cavalry is not, it is too well equipped, something is wrong.

Therefore, Lü Xiang sought stability and ordered all departments to set up a standard anti-cavalry phalanx. The lancemen are outside, and the longbowmen and cavalry are inside.

Those Huns couldn't eat these Taishan troops, and they didn't move for half a day. Later, I don't know who gave the order, and this five-hundred-horse Hun knight began to accelerate.

Lu Xiang's heart jumped, he didn't think that these Huns really dared.

Infantry naturally has a disadvantage against cavalry, even if it is in a strong formation, as long as the opposite side attacks regardless of damage, it can still tear his formation apart.

But now that the enemy cavalry has charged, Lu Xiang can only wait for the result.

Soon, when the Hun knights rushed to the range of the arrows of the Taishan army, the longbowmen took the lead in accumulating arrows.

The first batch is a light arrow to mark the distance.

By the time the Hun knights continued to move forward, the longbowmen had already replaced themselves with heavy arrows, and they were shooting at each other in a round of cavalry.

Dense arrows covered the sky and covered the Hun knights' assault line, and suddenly the people turned on their backs.

Naturally, these Hun knights began to slow down, and a little knight on the periphery broke away from the line.

Lu Xiang laughed and shouted:

"The Huns are still so rats!"

At this moment, arrows were also shot from the Hun knights on the opposite side. The arrows flew and the locusts fell on the armor soldiers of the front army of the Taishan Army.

The Hun cavalry began to run in front of the formation, attacking and shooting, and gave full play to their proud riding and archery skills, but unfortunately they could not hurt the Taishan army.

In the case of Lu Xiang, a full-fledged lieutenant department, there were 2,000 officers and soldiers in the whole army, of which 70 percent were armored soldiers, and the remaining 30 percent were some shooting units.

It can be said that as long as these Huns do not make up their minds to rush into battle, this bit of cavalry shooting is an itch for the Taishan army.

The sound of whining breaking the air, and then the clanging sound of colliding nails, Lu Xiang listened with great relief.

Suddenly, Lu Xiang felt a pain in his chest, and then his breathing stagnated, and he was a little nauseous.

Looking down again, an armor-piercing arrow was stuck squarely in his breastplate.