Chapter 58: Sending Troops
After staying in the valley for another two days, and giving good guidance on the soldiers' martial arts, Chu Chen left the valley alone in the evening and headed for Hanshan City.
Hanshan City, the first pass of the Northern Qi to prevent the Chu State, has a heavy army in it, just like the Lushan City of the Chu State.
It only took more than half an hour, Chu Chen came to the outside of the mountain, along the avenue, galloping towards Hanshan City, at this time, night has fallen, and this place is the border between the two countries, so there is not even a ghost shadow on the way, but from time to time on the side of the road, you can see a few bones and rotting corpses, these bones and corpses are refugees who escaped from the Qi country, and most of them are either sick or starved to death.
Almost half an hour later, Chu Chen came to the outside of Hanshan City, and from a distance, Hanshan became a tall city wall, standing majestically, and on the city wall, there were flames beating at intervals, like a fire dragon.
Hanshan Pass is similar to Lushan Pass, both are built on the mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, for the Qi State, Chu Chen has learned a lot about Lu Youzhi in Qingfeng Valley during this time, as long as they can capture Hanshan City, the Tianchen army will have a foothold, and as long as they act quickly enough, they can capture ten cities in a row, hundreds of miles of land area.
After looking at the Cold Mountain Pass in front of him for a while, Chu Chen moved under his feet, galloped away, and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye.
After a cup of tea, Chu Chen came to the Hanshan Pass, and after blessing himself with a stealth technique and a light body technique, Chu Chen walked a little under his feet and walked along the city wall to the city wall, and after a while, the ten-zhang high city wall was easily walked up by Chu Chen.
Standing on the city wall, Chu Chen looked around, there was a soldier standing in front of almost every torch, and every once in a while, a group of patrolling soldiers passed by.
Chu Chen stood on the city wall and did not walk around, but stayed on it for almost an hour, and after finding out the time passed by the patrol team, he walked down from the other side, and then, Chu Chen spent another two hours to touch the inside and outside of Hanshan Pass, and then left Hanshan Pass in a good mood.
When the sky was bright, Chu Chen returned to Qingfeng Valley, and after sorting out the distribution and defense of the Qi army in Hanshan Pass in the room, Chu Chen went out and summoned the generals of the three armies and Lu Youzhi to discuss in the conference hall.
"This is the distribution of the Qi army from Hanshan Pass last night, you take a closer look, after reading it, we will draw up a siege plan, tonight, after lunch, we will send troops to Hanshan Pass. Chu Chen handed over the sorted out drawings to Lu Youzhi and spoke.
"Sir, with our current strength, it is not difficult to break through the Cold Mountain Pass. After Lu Youzhi looked at the drawings, he smiled at Chu Chen and said, judging from the drawings, although the Qi army was well defended, their military camp was not very close to the city wall, and they were fully capable of attacking the city head and occupying the city wall when the enemy found them.
"The number of our Tianchen army is too small, I attack the Cold Mountain Pass, I want no one on our side to die, and with the smallest price, the greatest victory. Chu Chen said, every soldier of the Tianchen Army was personally taught by him, if he gave his life easily, then would he still have the face of Tianchen Immortal Venerable?
"You've probably read it, so now tell me what you think. After everyone finished reading the drawings, Chu Chen opened his mouth and said to everyone.
Next, everyone expressed their opinions, and most of them advocated a strong attack, they could take the city wall before the Qi army in Hanshan Pass could react, and then, they relied on the advantage of the city wall to slowly destroy the enemy.
There are also people who advocate a sneak attack, when the enemy changes defenses, they send the highest martial arts people to sneak up the city wall, kill all the guards of the Qi soldiers, and then quietly open the city gate, and when their large army enters the pass, they can go straight to the Qi army's military camp and destroy the Qi army.
"Everyone has a point, so let me tell you what I think. After everyone expressed their suggestions, Chu Chen spoke: "With the strength of our Tianchen Army, it is indeed possible to forcibly eliminate the 100,000 Qi troops in the Hanshan Pass, but in this way, our Tianchen Army will inevitably have casualties, my opinion, we not only want to capture the Hanshan Pass, so that our Tianchen Army has no one to sacrifice, we also have to make the 100,000 troops of the Qi Army surrender, so that we can be sure to capture the Qi State." ”
"Sir, what if the Qi army doesn't surrender?" asked Changyan.
"If they don't surrender, either let them go, or kill them until they dare not resist. Chu Chen said coldly.
Everyone nodded, feeling that what Chu Chen said was very reasonable, they did not kill the enemy, and persuaded them to surrender, it was benevolent and righteous, if they were stubborn and refused to surrender or leave, then they could only kill them cleanly.
Next, Chu Chen told him the detailed battle plan in his heart, and everyone agreed again and again.
Chu Chen's battle plan, they sneaked into the cold mountain pass late at night, Chu Chen would select hundreds of soldiers with the highest martial arts skills to sneak up the city wall with him, kill the guards of the soldiers, and then open the city gate as fast as possible, the army entered the city, went straight to the barracks, surrounded the enemy, and captured the enemy silently.
"Since everyone agrees, then follow my plan, now, everyone go back and prepare, after lunch, except for leaving five hundred people to escort the people out of the mountain, the others will go to Hanshan Pass with me!" Finally, seeing that everyone agreed to his plan, Chu Chen announced without hesitation.
Outer Valley, after hearing the news that the army was going to attack Hanshan Pass, almost all the people began to pack their things and prepare to leave Qingfeng Valley with the army, but there were also a small number of people who were reluctant to leave, they felt that it was very good here, and it was better to be displaced here than to be displaced outside, and another reason was that they were unwilling to drag down the Tianchen Army.
For those who stayed, Chu Chen left them enough food, seeds, and other daily necessities to make their lives worry-free in the future.
After lunch, the army began to set off, because there was no drag from the old and weak women and children, the speed of the army was extremely fast, and the soldiers were different from the past, one by one they had martial arts, so it only took about two hours for the army to leave the primeval forest and come outside.
"Childe, why should we go far and near, it's better to destroy the Chu State first, and then the Qi State, isn't it?" Zhao Ling'er looked at Lushan Pass from afar, and couldn't help asking, all she had heard in Qingfeng Valley these days was the destruction of the Qi State, but she had never heard of the destruction of the Chu State.
"The current emperor of Chu is still a good emperor, Chu has always been in good tune under his rule, and now to attack Chu will definitely make Chu all work together and resist desperately, it is not a wise choice, but Qi is different, now the emperor of Qi is cruel and unkind, pro-villain, killing virtuous ministers, it has reached the point of anger and resentment, how many people are willing to give him his life again?" Chu Chen explained with a smile.
"What Mr. said is that today's Qi State has been overdrawing the national capital, and it can't hold on for a few years, and it is better to fall into our hands than in the hands of the murderous and murderous Dajin State. Lu Youzhi next to him nodded and said.