The battle of Xianren Pass was successful, and the Jin army's forces gradually merged, and Cao Wangfu did not stop to strengthen his hand, and quickly engulfed the southern part of Longnan after repeated battles.

Under the brazen army, the Song League was defeated and retreated one after another, suffering heavy losses. By the time the battle line was pushed south to the outside of the Short Knife Valley, the two sides were already far apart.

However, there was no shortage of those who went against the current during the surging rout, giving the Song army a respite from the brink of crushing and stopping the Jin army north of Baili Lin for longer than expected, where Feng Mingjian and Dai Zong teamed up to fight several small climaxes of defensive battles, picking up Xu Yuan and Feng Xiaoyin and helping them gain a foothold and turn the corner.

As the saying goes, "a strong dragon does not suppress the snake". Feng Mingjian had long followed the words of the military advisor Xun Wei, bought and hoarded all the grain in Xingzhou, and with the help of Yang Juyuan, the old prison supervisor's connections, the resources of Chengdu and Hanzhong could not be used for a while. How can you not seize the opportunity?

Before the war, Xun Wei made this argument: "Although the invasion of Longnan endangered our army, the Jin army also had practical difficulties: the supply line was too long, and the terrain was extremely dangerous and the climate was rainy...... It will be difficult for them to fight a protracted war within our borders. ”

"Our army can adopt tactics such as running attacks and guerrilla attacks to harass the enemy's existing grain routes and attack the heart, and lure them to come to our army to grab food and set up an ambush to annihilate them. ”

"In order to avoid dying from the word 'grain', the Jin army can only fight a 'quick battle', but in the battle of Xianren Pass, they also lost their troops and were difficult to get urgently; General Feng, Mr. Dai Zong, it's up to you. ”

Sure enough, after a long period of recuperation, Feng Dai and the two of them were more than enough to fight against Ling Dajie and Mrs. Lone, who came from afar. In the past few days, the two generals led the elite soldiers and horses of the twenty families of Xu Gu Guo Han, Xiao Xie Yang Tian, Song Chen Lu Baili, Cao Fan Su Gu, and Wei Luo Jingcheng.

However, the Jin army came with a great victory over the immortal pass, and the edge was strong, the morale was high, and it was inevitable: if the garrison of the Short Knife Valley was destroyed in one fell swoop, it would not only remove the barrier of the people of Sichuan and Shu, so that the Jin army would not have to worry about the unification of the country of abundance in the future, which could be called once and for all, but also would make the anti-Jin alliance that had been thriving for ten years lose its foundation and fall apart, and deter the collapse of the Zhao and Song dynasties, which had no skin and no hair...... There is a hundred benefits and no harm, why not do it?

But twenty-six years ago, even if the battle of Longnan was full of blood, and the martial arts predecessors of the Southern Song Dynasty fought out a fault, they never let the chariot of a foreign enemy who killed 10,000 people and damaged 8,000 run over the Short Knife Valley - how could the juniors lose!

In this way, they went forward to face the broken cauldron and sunken boat, met on a narrow road, and the raging fire that burned in the hearts of the two armies extended all the way from Xianren Pass to the Short Knife Valley.

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"At present, although our army can still hold on, we are afraid that the Jin army will threaten or disturb the soldiers with the prisoners of war of Xianren Pass in order to attack quickly. Xun Wei said worriedly to Xu Yuan and Yin'er. For a person like a wolf warrior who knows how to use war to nourish war and has no bottom line, who knows if he would suggest that Wan Yan Yonglian use the hostages in his hands to disintegrate the various departments of Xu Congrong and Yang Zhicheng in the valley? This does not involve ordinary people, and within the scope permitted by the art of war, Yan Yonglian will not object if he wants to come.

"Do you want to play Sun Zhongrui's rebellion on my allies as well? I think they think too much, which of the Xu family and the Yang family is afraid of death?" Yin'er burst into tears to boost morale, and the children cultivated by Xu Congrong and Yang Zhicheng could not insult their parents by saying anything.

"The strange thing is that Wolf Warrior and Lin Mo haven't appeared in front of the battle recently, even if they want to recuperate, but I don't know where they went?" Back in the tent, Xu Yuan looked through the map and found nothing. Perhaps he should be glad that he had not found anything: he had uprooted the stronghold of Kongxian Zhuang in the valley last spring, and it was impossible for any place name on the map to harbor a golden spy.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of this familiar mountain and river: Short Knife Valley, He Qinghai Yan, who has persisted for many years, I swear to you that I will not be cut off here.

"Qin Chuanyu is familiar with the Short Knife Valley, especially the East Valley, will he take the risk and bring a few people in first......" When Yin'er asked, he couldn't help but recall that Lin Mo was pulled by Su Xue and Gu Ting to fight a civil war in northern Sichuan in the past, and he seemed to be too familiar with this place...... He looked at Tianjiao for a moment, and shook his head together: "I'm not afraid to ...... when I come."

Because, having learned the lesson of the defeat of the Immortal Pass, when Xu Yuan and Yin'er deployed the defense of the Short Knife Valley this time, the first thing they did was to tell An Bingqian, the commander-in-chief of Donggu, to avoid Wu Xi's old department as much as possible to hold important positions, and try to use Li Haoyi, Yang Juyuan and others to punish Wu Yishi. For the personal safety of An Bing himself, Li Haoyi made a special trip back from Longnan and organized guards to protect him. Since he was no longer as defenseless as last time, Lin Mo might not be able to find An Bing even if he could get in.

While speaking, suddenly thirteen wings rushed to report in a panic: "Tianjiao, master, Donggu...... The officers and soldiers mutinied!"

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What is "no longer as defenseless as last time"? Even if you are fully prepared, you can't prevent it!

In the same vein as the situation at Xianrenguan, Sun Zhongrui's defection was repeated so quickly in the official army! Perhaps, it should be attributed to Wanyan Yonglian's continuous loosening of the relationship between the Southern Song Dynasty Righteous Army and the official army over the past several decades...... Blamed on the fact that no matter when and where, the rebels were originally prejudiced against the officers and soldiers, and the more carefully they protected them, the more they proved that they did not dare to entrust them?

In the battle report, following Su Xuexue, Guo Gao, and Wu Xi, An Bing, who took over the Donggu garrison, took the initiative to appear and completed the meeting and cooperation with Wanyan Yonglian in private while the allies and the Jin army were fighting to the death......

"How...... How could it be!" Yin'er's eyes widened, of course incredible. Although the official army always has inferior roots, An Bing is different from Sun Zhongrui, he is the number one leader in the Sichuan and Shu political arena after Wu Xi's death! If it is understandable that he was unfortunately found by the Jin army and tortured to surrender, how could he give up all his existing fame and fortune and "take the initiative to show up" to have an appointment with Wanyan Yonglian?

Looking horizontally and vertically, conspiring with King Cao to Sichuan and Shu and welcoming Wu Xi's seizure of power and reinstatement is not good for this Lord Wu Shougong An Bing in public opinion, isn't it! Therefore, the allies once took it for granted that even if the Jin army caught him coerced and lured, he would not necessarily reach a consensus with the Jin army, and besides, there was also a Li Haoyi by his side who was loyal to the country, and he was always mentioning and protecting him......

It's wishful thinking in the end.

According to the report of "Soul Extermination," Li Haoyi was betrayed to King Cao by An Bing at the first time; before the interview, King Cao quickly approached and lobbied An Bing through the channel of Wang Xi, an inner ghost who did not know when he had defected; after the meeting, King Cao should have made a heart-warming guarantee to An Bing, the specific content of which is unknown.

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The details are of course unknown.

After the defeat of the Great Dispersion Pass, the wolf warrior once reminded Wan Yan Yonglian that the hundred-legged insect of the Song spy died but did not stiffen, and the prince remembered that important military aircraft must be kept top secret, so as not to be stolen by the close "soul destroyer".

Therefore, when Wanyan Yonglian and An Bing met face-to-face, even Wang Xi or Zhang Yuan were not allowed to participate, and the generals of the Jin army could only protect them from afar.

"An Bing is a scheming person, bold and ambitious. "As early as before Huixian and Bai Qingzhou played against each other, Wanyan Yonglian had already weighed An Bing's personality in the air. Weighing An Bing is based on the official positions of Li Haoyi, Yang Juyuan and others at this stage, as well as the actual contributions made by An Bing in the Zhu Wu incident relayed by Mrs. Gu.

Wanyan Yonglian had a bloodless plan in his heart at that time, and said to the wolf warrior: "Wu Xi can do more than one thing for me...... In the future, there can be bigger and more internal shoulds be used by me through him......"

The greater internal response refers to An Bing-

An Bingta, who was pulled into the team by Yang Juyuan almost at the last moment of planning, became the biggest hero of the "Zhu Wu" incident, and there are too many details worth playing......

Seeing that the wolf warrior objected, saying "Huairou is feasible, but too soft is wasted", Cao Wang smiled and shook his head: "It's also thanks to you, I will find the most suitable internal response through Wu Xi, so that Xu Yuan, who refuses to shrink the front, can see with his own eyes the 'power struggle and misguided country' in the rear." ”

Of course, it is the blessing of the wolf warrior, the blessing of the reward order of the wolf warrior, which excessively exalted An Bing's reputation, and provoked this person who may have been clean and innocent to begin to go crazy and confused for power. What is the difference between such a person and Wu Xi? Will he be willing to succumb to Li Haoyi in the future?

In addition, the information conveyed by the "Winged Bird" to Wan Yan Yonglian said that Feng Xiaoyin had told An Bing to "avoid Wu Xi's old ministry as much as possible to hold important positions", but An Bing still appointed Wang Xi, although it may be out of fear, but Wanyan Yonglian saw clearly that An Bing wanted to use Wang Xi to balance Li Haoyi. What "try to use Li Haoyi, Yang Juyuan, and others to punish Wu Yishi"? Feng Xiaoyin was still too naïve after all.

The power struggle misleads the country, and the people in the rivers and lakes can't see it clearly, such as Feng Xiaoyin, Xu Yuan, and even the wolf warrior, but Wanyan Yonglian's so-called unkind power plot is mostly just disdainful of using it to fight, as a prince, how can he not understand-

If Lin Mo's discord is full of stamina for Sun Zhongrui, then the wolf warrior's momentum is also uncontrollable for An Bing: it was the reward order that emboldened An Bing, and it was clearly Yang Juyuan and Li Haoyi who initiated Wu punishment, but An Bing was very likely to report to Song Ting, which was the credit of his An Bing alone......

At this stage, An Bing's riding tiger is difficult, and the letters to Song Ting are still being submitted, but Wu Xi's sudden resurrection will be the strongest slap in the face, and the interpretation of the reward order will always be with King Cao and the wolf warrior. Cheng also fights the wolf and defeats the wolf, at that time, the wolf warrior will build momentum to help Li Haoyi and Yang Juyuan complain, and Wu Xi will work together to give you An Bing'an a crime of bullying, see that you An Bing'an can still sleep and can't sleep?

Words like these confided to An Bing through Wang Xizhi's mouth, and the analysis was so far, so deep, although the strategists of the Song League, including Xun Wei, had also been in the officialdom for many years, most of them had not jumped out of the beacon fire of the Short Knife Valley for so long.

After meeting, from An Bing's conversation and demeanor, King Cao confirmed his thoughts even more: "An Bing, it's just the second Wu Xi." "How could King Cao see the wrong person? An Bingken took the first step of taking the initiative to appear, and he already had a certain expectation of falling to King Cao.

On the other hand, the reason why this exchange with An Bing is top secret is also because Wanyan Yonglian doesn't want Wu Xi to know - Wanyan Yonglian's guarantee to An Bing is that our army will take Sichuan, and you will be the king of Shu; Wu Xi He even dares to blaspheme the Mandate of Heaven, how can he have the will of the people?

An Bingyuan was still hiding his heart and pretending not to care, but when he heard the "King of Shu", his eyes couldn't help but light up.

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An Bing's unexpected rebellion caused the Donggu of the Short Knife Valley to be surrendered by Yan Yonglian without a fight, and then the North Valley was also lost one after another due to this influence, and the morale of the Song army was greatly reduced, the territory was sharply reduced, and the situation collapsed, and a vicious circle.

Only then did he realize that the anger of Feng Mingjian and Dai Zongti in the past few days was just the last breath for the allies. Faced by the enemy on the back of the abdomen, the center of gravity of the two armies had to be brutally shifted from Baili Lin to Changping Road - this place, where the civil war in the Short Knife Valley was most frequent for decades, finally ushered in a strong foreign captives.

"An Bingta was also Wu Xi and the like, what kind of scheming is this, even I looked away...... Xu Yuan was able to fight side by side with Yin'er, but now he is separated from the east and the north and resists the enemy, barely having a short intersection.

"Alas, I am extremely remorseful! When he planned to kill Wu Xi, Yang Jiancang said that he wanted to pull An Bing to join, and General Li was worried that An Bing 'might not be reliable and pretended to be mixed in', and that he was 'cowardly and incompetent, just a chicken rib', and even more worried that he would 'compete for power and profit, and create extraneous branches'...... It's me, I can't wait to kill Wu Xi, and I accepted An Bing against the crowd!" Yin'er seemed to ignore the thirteen wings on her side, and shouted angrily, "The result ...... At the beginning, he did help us successfully kill Wu Xi, but it was the fourth situation that we didn't calculate, he was already 'ambitious, intending to kill people with a knife, and kill Wu Xi to take the throne himself'......"

"Since he is not selflessly killing traitors, but has long had the heart to fight for power, it is no wonder that he will be moved by King Cao...... The Jin army can allow him a higher fame...... "Xu Yuan was heartbroken, but he didn't have time to make more analysis - originally the Short Knife Valley could only rely on the advantage of the ground snake to equal the strong front of the Jin army, but when the backyard of An Bing, which was in the corner of the momentum, caught fire, the Song army's chance of "doing its best to stop the Jin army's rapid attack" seemed to have been reduced from six or seven percent to less than thirty percent, "Our army, it seems that we have to make full preparations for fighting to the death and martyrdom." ”

"I don't know when the reinforcements from Qianxi will arrive...... Yin'er also knew when he was looking forward to it, even if the people in the Demon Gate traveled thousands of miles a day, it was too late for them to leave, and it should be difficult to arrive in time to turn the tide.

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Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular.

The east and north of the Short Knife Valley were endangered for a long time, and on the night of April 23, it was learned that the west and south were also attacked by the Jin army......

The anxious Anti-Gold Alliance had no time to think about it before, "Wolf Warrior and Lin Mo have not entered the East Valley, so where did they go?" In the valley of death on this night, it suddenly became a clearer answer-

In the second battle of Shukou, the top-level design of the Jin army was originally to divide the troops into two routes, and attack from the north and south! On the front, Cao Wang, Ling Dajie, and Madame Gu continued to attack with open guns and arrows, and skillfully attacked by force; behind the flank, Wolf Warrior and Lin Mo cut the wall to open the way and make a surprise attack. However, Wanyan Yonglian eliminated the "hijacking the people in the hinterland" in the original plan of the wolf warrior, and asked the wolf warrior and Lin Mo to use all their abilities to really kill from behind the Song army.

When the allies heard the news, Wolf Warrior and Lin Mo had already lived up to their expectations and led the crowd across the Valley of Death overnight, less than five miles away from Jingzhou Hall and Guo Sanniang's station. The Jing family, the Guo family's Iron Scale Guard and the Women's Army are the two weakest in the Short Knife Valley.

At that time, looking at the general trend of the Western Front, Xianrenguan, Kangxian, and Luoyang had been lost, Qinzhou and Dasanguan had also partially fallen, and the Short Dao Valley was in danger from all sides...... Standing in a desperate situation, he has already changed from Cao Wangfu to the Anti-Gold Alliance.