In the camp of the Tang army under Yique Pass, two successive defeats had a great impact on the morale of the Tang army, and panic spread among the army.

At this time, Wang Rong's role came out, in addition to thinking about things, he put on armor every day, carried a treasure knife that had not seen blood for a long time, and toured the various camps, laughing with the soldiers, and comforting everyone.

Wu Weijun followed him all the way from Shuofang to fight against the Qiang, and when he saw him, everyone's hearts settled down, and in the next two days, the army's morale gradually improved.

After that, the rout troops of Gou Anli all the way also ran to the vicinity of Yique Pass one after another, and gathered some people.

From Wangcheng to Yique Pass are small roads, to the south is a large forest, the army is inconvenient to march, and the Yu army does not dare to chase.

Wang Rong paid close attention to the movements of the Yu army on the side of Gucheng and Luoyang, and on the other hand, he was thinking about the future of the battle.

At the end of June, there was another light rain, and in the evening Wang Rong ate some grain cakes and boiled dried vegetables and meat, and people from the north came one after another, Wang Rong simply sent out the scouts to be responsible for the intelligence of the Yu army.

"Holy Lord, the main force of the Yu army has arrived in Gucheng, but for the time being, it is not in a hurry to go south, but to gather heavy troops here." Dai Qiuqiu marked the approximate location of the Yu army on the map of the big tent, and he was responsible for collecting the information in the past two days, and then sorted it out with the military division brought by Zhang Yunshu.

Zhang Yunshu said with a look of embarrassment: "Holy Lord, I don't know if they will go to the west or the east for the time being."

Wang Rong looked at the map, thought carefully, and hummed, "Damn, I can't wait to ask a Taoist chief to calculate a hexagram......

The crowd laughed.

Wang Rong smiled and said, "I want them to go to the west the most, but the east may not be, and Yu likes to divide troops when it fights."

Everyone nodded, and Wang Yu said very unhappily, "Yu likes to send a hundred cavalry to run around."

"In the worst-case scenario, we will guard Lu Hun Pass." Wang Rong said, "No matter what, it's not a loss."

He said so, but in fact, he was uneasy in his heart, and he waited for news from the north all day.

Later in the afternoon, the sun was setting in the west, the flags outside the tent were swaying, and the wind carried a strong smell of animal fat and metal, which was peculiar to armor and weapons, and was everywhere in the camps of tens of thousands of troops.

The wind in the sky was howling violently, and the wind and the scorching sun on a June day were a perfect match, and the already noisy brain was even more confused.

Fortunately, in the afternoon, Wang Rong got a good news, the scouts found that the former army of Yuguo had reached more than ten miles north of Yique Pass, and the follow-up army was following up.

"Who is leading the troops?" Wang Rong asked.

"Back to the Holy Shrine, it is said that there are two groups of men in the forward, which are Zhu Hai, the left general of the Yu Kingdom, and Li Li, the rear general." Wang Rong nodded, and laughed, "I don't know these two people well."

Zhu Hai He had never heard of the name Li Li, Wang Rong had only seen it in the military newspaper before, and the later general Li Li was the person who dealt with the Tang State the most.

At the beginning, when they were fighting Bashu, it was Li Li who took the opportunity to lead people to occupy Hangu Pass, and later repeatedly provoked westward expansion It was Li Li's actions, and he was the one who occupied the border county this year.

Wang Rong muttered to himself, "This Li Li always feels a little familiar......

Zhang Yunshu gritted his teeth and said, "He is left behind in Luoyang, and many of the conflicts with us over the years have been provoked by him, he is a complete villain, if you catch him, you will definitely break him into pieces!"

Dai Qiuqiu was much calmer and said, "Although Li Li is annoying, it is a good thing for us, he is a timid and afraid person, and many times he does not dare to go too west, let go of his hands and feet to compete with us. When we fought Bashu, the army was all in the south, and if he had the courage and courage, we would have suffered.

It was the left general Zhu Hai who was in Youzhou before, and it was the trouble, and the saint didn't remember the original battle of Gucheng."

How could Wang Bian not remember that the battle of Gucheng was followed by the battle of Xincheng, and it was the battle of his fortune.

"At that time, it was the left general Zhu Hai who led the advance of the Yu army to retreat from Luoyang, and our army." Pan Mei said unhappily, and Wang Rong also frowned at this time.

"If it weren't for his reinforcements, our hundreds of thousands of troops would have amassed troops under the city, Gucheng would have been breached, and Luoyang would have been recovered."

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Pan Mei said this, Wang Rong also felt that this Zhu Hai did have a big enmity with them, if there was no reinforcements from him at that time, the Tang army had already recovered Henan County, and the current battle would not have been so hard.

At the beginning, he fought against the Yu army in Gucheng, but he didn't know that the commander of the Yu army was the left general Zhu Hai, after all, he was just a low-level officer at that time.

"Next, all the armies must be ready to dispatch at all times, and I also want the Yu army to come as I think, but unfortunately they don't listen to me." Wang Rong spread his hands helplessly and continued, "So we have to be prepared for both, whether they go west or east, we must be able to respond quickly. Especially if their army goes east, we must be ready to support Yuan Tiangang in time."

Dai Qiuqiu smiled, "The Holy One has always been so thoughtful about things."

"That's nature, otherwise how can you win a hundred battles!" Wang Wei held the handle of the knife and said proudly, it seemed that he was honored, after all, Wang Wei was his cousin.

North of Yique Pass, Zhu Haizheng pulled hundreds of Tang army heads he had captured in a car to give gifts to the coach Wei Hua, Wei Hua was overjoyed and gave him additional troops on the spot.

At the same time, he was quite dissatisfied with the later general Li Li and said, "Ben Hou heard that you brought 10,000 people, but you didn't dare to cross the river when you arrived at the stream?"

Li Li cautiously defended himself: "Master Hou, the Tang army has blocked the ferry and bridge, our soldiers do not know the nature of the water, and the last general is worried that they may be blocked by them if they rush to cross the river......

Wei Hua waved his hand dissatisfiedly and said, "Hmph, give you 10,000 people, and you won't be able to bring back a hundred Tang Army heads!" What else can be quibbled, your merits, Ben Hou remembers, you used to have to face the Tang army carefully, but now that Ben Hou's army has gone south, you don't have to be as timid as a mouse anymore. We're going to go further south, there's still a lot of fighting to be fought and I don't want that to happen again."

Li Li didn't dare to quibble, and hurriedly said, "Yes, Master Hou."

Zhu Hai rode over and reported: "Master Hou, there are two roads to the south, one is the avenue, which leads south from the west to Yique Pass, and the other is to take Longmen Town in the east, do you want to divide the army."

Wei Hua ordered, "The whole army will go south from the official road in the west to Yique Pass, and send a team of men and horses to Longmen Town to see the situation."

Someone shouted in the rear, divided the horse team into a group, separated from the brigade with the flag, and headed for the fork in the road to the east.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wei Hua rode a white horse and many guards around him, led the Chinese army through a forest, crossed a small river, and finally arrived at the Yique Pass.

Yique Pass is less than a mile away from the river, and the towering city wall in the distance is more than four zhang, standing majestically at the end of the avenue, and the city wall stretches for several miles, looking up like a majestic mountain peak in the wilderness.

The former army had already been stationed five miles below the city, a large number of tents were densely packed, and the perimeter fence had been built, like a long iron dragon surrounding the entire camp.

Wei Hua and the accompanying generals looked up, and there were many banners on the city, and the miles of the city wall were full of Tang army figures.

After a while, someone from the former army camp came over, dismounted and knelt in the grass by the roadside.

Wei Hua asked directly, "How many soldiers does the Tang Army have in the city?"

The forward general of the Yu army said cautiously: "Back to the Hou Ye, we don't know, there are at least three thousand people in the light city, and their soldiers are standing all over the city, and the sound of the army training in the morning can be clearly heard outside the city, and there must be a lot of them inside."

Wei Hua's face sank, and he looked at Yique Pass in the distance: "It seems that the Tang Army has arranged a lot of people and horses here, can you get around?"

Zhu Hai's face was also not good-looking, "Master Hou, if there are few of them, we will send some men and horses to watch them and prevent them from leaving the city, and the army will make a detour to the east, which will be no big problem."

But now that the Tang army has a lot of people in this city, it will be dangerous, and there are dangerous places like Yique Pass and Daqing River in the south, if our army bypasses Yique Pass and continues to advance eastward, Tang Guo also has a large army in Yique Pass, and we will be flanked from front to back.

Even if there aren't many Tang troops here, they may be cut off from the back road."

Wei Hua was very embarrassed, the Yu army was not unable to attack the city, among their 300,000 elite army, there were tens of thousands of elite foot soldiers, among whom there were many craftsmen.

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The generals in Huahe's army were a little hesitant to attack the Yique Pass in front of them.

Wei Hua said helplessly, "Wait for the news from Longmen Town."

In the afternoon, the scorching sun finally set, the heat began to dissipate with the wind, and the jagged shadows of the trees on the roadside swayed in the evening breeze.

Wei Hua was resting in the military tent, and there was a commotion outside, and the voice was getting higher and higher, which made him feel irritable in his heart, and he snorted angrily and walked out with a knife, he wanted to kill someone! Kill the people who irritate him.

The guards at the door nervously followed behind, Wei Hua walked out of the big tent angrily, raised his knife and pushed everyone away, and the people around him were so frightened that they knelt down one after another.

At this time, Wei Hua found that in the commotion, the onlookers were actually a soldier with a bloody face, and there were hundreds of empty horses behind him, all stained with blood, and the air was full of blood.

As long as there are men in the country, most of them have to join the army since the age of fifteen, and they have their own horses at home.

An empty horse represents a dead person.

The soldier cried to him with a bloody face: "Master Hou, Longmen Town is full of Tang troops, and we have been attacked by them in the past."

"How many?"

The soldier shook his head and said, "I don't know, it's all in the east, and the city is full of people!"

Zhu Haidao: "It seems that the Tang army has been prepared for a long time, and has prepared a large army in the east, so we can only force one place, Yique Pass or Longmen Town, and march east after opening up."

Wei Hua thought for a while and said, "The army has arrived here, hit Yique Pass, let the craftsmen make siege equipment, start the siege tomorrow, go to the vicinity to catch some people, and tomorrow drive them in front of the army."

Zhu Hailian said: "Master Hou, this is not appropriate, the people here are our people, how can we drive them to be the forwards? How could Tang Jun be jealous."

"They surrendered to the Don Army!" Wei Hua was very angry and said, "They have all surrendered, so they are not the people of my Yu Kingdom."

Zhu Hai reacted very excitedly, Henan County was run by him with hard work, and he said coldly: "Lord Hou, in the future, this land will be recovered, it is still the land of my Yu Kingdom, and the people will still pay taxes and tribute to us, and if we do such a thing now, they would rather flee to Tang Kingdom in the future than pay us taxes and support us."

Zhu Hai had a rare tough attitude, and it was rare that he did not back down, and said, "Please Hou Ye must think about it, if it must be like that, the last general will never agree!"

Wei Hua's face was ugly, but he finally endured it, there were many people in the court who opposed him, Zhu Hai and Li Li were the few people who supported him, so he could only say nothing, endured his anger and acquiesced in Zhu Hai's words, and left a sentence.

"Siege tomorrow!"