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"What? There were more than 1,000 casualties in less than half a day, and he actually had the face to say that he couldn't break the barrier? Qin Zongquan, you are simply unlawless! ”

After receiving the battle report of Suoyun Pass sent by Qin Zongquan's order, Fa Ying's color changed.

But he soon calmed down, knowing that Qin Zongquan might really be in trouble, after all, in the previous intelligence, there was no news about Suoyun Pass.

"Could it be that Yu Jie's early prediction that Yongzhou City would fall, so he sent heavy troops to guard Suoyun Pass?"

He pondered for a moment, then shook his head and rejected the idea.

"Impossible, even if Yu Jie's really expected that Yongzhou City was at risk, he shouldn't have hoarded troops to lock Yunguan, not to mention that Yongzhou's strategic nature had not been revealed before, and it was impossible for him to get information to react."

After thinking about it for a long time, Fa Ying finally decided that he still had to go to Suoyun Pass to take a look in person before he could make a final decision.

With yes, Fa Ying immediately ordered someone to inform Luo Song, ordered him to arrange the fortifications of Yongzhou City, and quickly led his troops to meet under Suoyun Pass, and he went to Suoyun Pass to find Qin Zongquan to understand the truth.

When Fa Ying arrived at the barracks of Qin Zongquan's army, he realized that the truth was even more serious than he thought, and the injuries in the camp shocked him, and the morale of the sergeants and soldiers fell to an unprecedented level.

"The last general never thought that the little Suoyun Pass actually had sharp firearms that only existed in the Han army, and we fought hard, but still couldn't climb the wall, please forgive the prime minister."

Qin Zongquan took the initiative to admit his guilt, and only begged that Fa Ying could give him a lighter punishment.

Fa Yan sighed, looked at Suoyun Guan and said, "It seems that Liu Ce's movements are even bigger than we imagined, and the Han army has already stretched out his hand to Shu unknowingly. ”

Qin Zongquan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said, "Please make a decision." ”

Fa Ying said: "In any case, Suoyun Pass must be taken, the prime minister ordered General Luo to gather the army, and is currently rushing to the pass, waiting for your two armies to converge, be sure to concentrate superior forces, and take Suoyun Pass in a battle!" ”

"Yes!"

With the support of Fa Ying and Luo Song, Qin Zongquan is full of confidence, at least his head has been completely saved.

In the evening, Luo Song rashly led an army of 30,000 to Suoyun Pass to join Fa Ying and Qin Zongquan.

As soon as he arrived at the camp, Luo Song immediately went straight to the camp where Fa Ying was located, and asked eagerly: "Prime Minister, what are the instructions for urgently summoning the last general?" ”

Fa Ying said: "General Qin's men and horses encountered some setbacks in attacking Suoyun Pass, and the defenders of the Pass were equipped with firearms, hoping that General Luo could help General Qin and help him." ”

When Luo Song heard this, he glanced at Qin Zongquan contemptuously, but Qin Zongquan smiled with a smile on his face and bowed his hand to show favor to him.

"Hmph......" Luo Song snorted lightly, "You can't take a single lock cloud pass, Qin Zongquan, how did you become a vanguard general?" ”

This was said without any emotion, which made Qin Zongquan very embarrassed, and his heart was also full of resentment towards Luo Song.

Luo Song has always looked down on this defeated general who has been defeated repeatedly, and his character is very bad, so he has repeatedly played Huang Fu to kill Qin Zongquan.

However, Fa Ying pleaded with Qin Zongquan in reserve, and Huang Fu never thought about killing Qin Zongquan, at most he only gave a few verbal warnings, and did not continue to pursue Qin Zongquan's responsibility.

This made Luo Song very unhappy in his heart, and also made Qin Zongquan hold a grudge against Luo Song, and the contradiction between the two was deepening day by day, almost to the point of intolerability.

It's just that Luo Song, as a general, has great military exploits, Qin Zongquan can only bow down when he sees him on weekdays, if one day Qin Zongquan and Luo Song are on an equal footing, he vows to put him to death.

Regarding the contradiction between Luo Song and Qin Zongquan, Fa Ying saw it in his eyes but did not stop it, this is the scene he wants to see, and it is also a means to divert the contradiction.

Compared with the military, Fa Ying understands the horror of the mutiny, in case Luo Song and Qin Zongquan release their previous suspicions, maybe the next one to suffer is the Chu State, after all, the Chu State is only a few years, the foundation is unstable, and Luo Song is already dissatisfied with the national policy of the Chu State, which is very likely to happen.

Fa Ying got up and made a peacemaker: "Okay, General Luo, don't blame him, General Qin didn't expect Suoyun Pass to be so difficult, this minister decided to rest for one night, gather a large army tomorrow, and conquer Suoyun Pass in one go." ”

Luo Song turned his face away and didn't look at Qin Zongquan, and Qin Zongquan also retreated to the side without speaking, and this turmoil passed.

"What do you think about the precautions against firearms?" Fa Yan asked.

Luo Song replied: "As far as the last general knows, the firearms of the Han army were improved from the Jiang family, and Jiang Ze used the power of firearms to defeat the defenders of Liu Ce's arrangement in the Han Tomb in the Far East, but in the end this firearms army was annihilated. ”

Fa Ying frowned: "How did Liu Ce annihilate the Jiang family's firearms?" ”

Luo Song replied: "You may not believe it, Liu Ce used the chariot that had been eliminated in the previous dynasty, and used the impact of the galloping war horse to break up the firearm formation before defeating it. ”

Fa Ying sighed and said: "Liu Ce, worthy of being a rare military genius for thousands of years, actually thought of this method,

However, the terrain here is rugged, and even the infantry is difficult to walk, let alone cavalry and chariots, and besides, there are not many war horses in our Chu army.

In addition, the defenders of Suoyun Pass are sticking to the wall, and it is difficult to break through the level with this plan. ”

Luo Song said: "It's not that there is no way, there is a siege weapon in the Han army, called a trebuchet, which can throw boulders and hundreds of steps away, and the defenders are exhausted.

It just so happened that the last general had worked hard to obtain a trebuchet, which was placed at the mouth of the pot, except for those ironware called gears that could not be imitated, and the rest could be made according to this.

In this way, the enemy's advantage in firearms no longer exists, and our army can completely rely on trebuchets to collapse the wall of Suoyunguan. ”

Fa Ying's eyes lit up: "Yes, why didn't you think of it?" In the past, when I traveled in the Far East, I had heard of the power of the trebuchet under Liu Ce, which could be loaded with 100 catties of boulders and thrown at the enemy's city wall hundreds of steps away.

Wherever the bullet was hit, it was destroyed and withered, and the prime minister summoned Yongzhou craftsmen to imitate the trebuchet, and strive to put it into the battlefield as soon as possible and take the Suoyun Pass. ”

The original trebuchet is extremely powerful, and it is indeed easy to imitate, but the precision parts in Liu Ce's trebuchet cannot be imitated with the existing scientific and technological capabilities of the Chu army, but as long as it has half the power, Suoyun Pass will also suffer the threat of long-range strikes.

However, the construction of trebuchets can not be completed in a day or two, and according to Luo Song's calculations, it will take at least ten to half a month to build ten trebuchets.

However, the martingale gave a death order, for a maximum of seven days, to continue to put the trebuchet on the battlefield, and the longer the time dragged on, the greater the variables......