At the end of the first year of Shengwu, Chu Yun returned to Chang'an City, Chang'an City basically did not change, and did not encounter any attacks, the armies of the four countries have successively approached the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the only surprise is that the Eastern Jin Dynasty did not follow Hou Zhao to the eastern line, but followed the Dacheng Kingdom to the southern line, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

However, Chu Yun did not change his deployment, and still let Xie Ai resist the opponent on the southern front, Lu Zhong resisted Xiqian Qianliang, and Chu Yun was ready to personally defeat Shi Di's army before returning to the southern front. Although Dacheng Guo secretly allied with Da Ming, but the ghost knew what they really thought, Chu Yun sent someone to send a letter to Xie Ai, telling him to be careful, although Chu Yun was very optimistic about Xie Ai, but this was only the first time he was in charge.

In the second year of Shengwu, in the spring of 332 AD, Chu Yun led an army of 80,000 troops into Tongguan, which is located at the eastern end of the Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi Province, at the junction of Qin, Jin and Henan provinces. It is the throat artery connecting the northwest, north China and the Central Plains, the confluence of the Yellow River, the Wei River and the Luo River, bordering the Yellow River in the north, the Qinling Mountains in the south, and Huashan in the west, and the geographical location is extremely important. Since ancient times, the matter of the martial king's war has an extremely important position. And now the decisive battle that will determine the fate of the Ming and Later Zhao countries is coming again.

After the construction of Chu Yun, the city wall of Tongguan is as high as more than ten meters, much higher than the ordinary city, on both sides of one side is the surging Yellow River, on the other side is the precipitous cliff, it is really a male pass that can not be opened.

However, Chu Yun was not ready to fight here, Chu Yun was ready to raid Hangu Pass, the east gate of Sili Prefecture, when Shi Di's main force had not yet arrived at the battlefield, and the strategic position of Hangu Pass was no less than that of Tongguan. Hangu Pass, according to the plateau in the west, bordering the absolute stream in the east, connecting the Qinling Mountains in the south, and the Yellow River in the north, the degree of its easy defense and difficult attack is not less than that of Tongguan at all, the Hou Zhao general stationed here is called Ma Qiu, although this person is not much famous now, but it is also the earliest fierce general who followed Shi Hu to conquer the north and the south. Moreover, this person was later promoted to the general of Zhengdong and the assassin of Liangzhou, and he led the three invasions of Liang's annihilation battles, and he was an outstanding commander in the later period of Later Zhao, and this person was not easy to deal with.

However, Chu Yun had to take advantage of the lack of troops in Hangu Pass to occupy Hangu Pass. Chu Yun wants to annihilate Shi Di's army on a large scale and must occupy here, otherwise under Tongguan, even if Chu Yun defeats Shi Di, Shi Di can completely retreat to Hangu Pass to hold on, Chu Yun's strategic goal is difficult to achieve, and the two sides are likely to fight a tug-of-war, which is not the result Chu Yun wants. Moreover, once Hangu Pass is occupied, the entire Sili Prefecture will become an undefended area for Chu Yun, which will also be conducive to Chu Yun's annexation of Sili Prefecture. Now that there are only 5,000 people stationed in Hangu Pass, Chu Yun must take advantage of this God-given opportunity to take Hangu Pass.

"Ran Liang, I have given you a task. Chu Yun called Ran Liang over.

Ma Qiu is worthy of being a famous general who later achieved a career, every inch of land from Tongguan to Hangu Pass, Ma Ball has left hidden piles, some of these hidden piles seem to be hunters, some seem to be ordinary farmers, once they see the enemy, they can light the wolf smoke, let the hemp ball on Hangu Pass know.

It was precisely when Chu Yun found out the news that he would let Ran Liang take fifty secret guards to clean up these hidden piles, and when the dark piles were cleared, Chu Yun could personally mention the Iron Blood Tiger Ben Army to quickly kill under Hangu Pass, and catch him off guard. Don't look at the Hangu Pass is extremely steep, but Chu Yun has secret guards, Chu Yun doesn't believe that hundreds of secret guards are swarmed up, and the hemp ball can resist it.

Even the so-called Divine Stone Alliance has no excuse to interfere, you must know that Chu Yun's secret guard nature is like a divine power derivative who eats bloodstone, although it is all the subordinate combat power made by the divine stone controller, but it is not the divine stone controller who directly does it, so it is not against the rules of the Divine Stone Alliance, otherwise the so-called divine power derivative will not reproduce unscrupulously.

Ma Qiu is a general in his thirties, and he was able to gain Shi Hu's trust in the later period and become a general in his own right, which is also related to his identity as a member of the Qiang tribe. He is a typical Qian-ethnic appearance, with deep-set eyes, fair skin, large skin, and a faint red hair and beard, looking like a Xinjiang native in later generations.

He did not find out that Chu Yun's army was honestly stationed in Hangu Pass, but while asking Shi Di for help, he increased the dark pile between the two passes, Ma Qiu has learned some examples of Chu Yun's battles, Chu Yun's record is very dazzling, except for the last stop Chu Yun was inexplicably "killed" and collapsed, Chu Yun won all battles, that is, Shi Hu, the god of war of the Qian clan admired by Ma Qiu, was defeated by Chu Yun twice, how dare Ma Qiu be careless.

Because of Ma Qiu's caution, Ran Liang's action failed, and after knowing the hidden pile of no less than 100 people, Ma Qiu still found the abnormality of the dark pile, because the dark pile would release a message to Ma Qiu every three days, but because the branch of the dark pile and many ordinary people were mixed together, three days was not enough for Ran Liang to succeed.

When Ran Liang reported the news to Chu Yun, Chu Yun found that he still underestimated the famous generals of this world, Chu Yun immediately summoned Ran Liang back, and then personally raised 30,000 iron-blooded tiger guards to kill under Hangu Pass, and the army sent by Shi Di to rescue Ma Qiu arrived only about a week ago, and Chu Yun must capture Hangu Pass during this time.

But looking at the extremely steep Hangu Pass, Chu Yun smiled bitterly, this kind of level is not to say seven days, even if it is seven months, it is difficult to break it head-on, but Chu Yun didn't dare to make a move in person, because he felt two breaths of the divine stone controller that were as obvious as the sun, Chu Yun didn't dare to take the risk of breaking the rules of the Divine Stone Alliance first, and could only have normal means of war.

However, the only two battles in history to break through the Hangu Pass have little effect, one is the famous general Kuang Zhang of the Qi State, who once commanded the armies of Qi, Wei and Han and spent three years to break through the Hangu Pass, and it is also the only time in the history of the Qin State that the Hangu Pass was breached. But this time the battle was fought by desperate people, and Chu Yun couldn't learn from it at all. By the way, Zhangqiu in Lu Province became famous because Kuang Zhang was buried there, this is a famous general who is not famous in history, but is far underestimated.

And the other time was after the fall of the Qin State, Chu and Han fought for hegemony, Xiang Yu broke through the Hangu Pass where Liu Bangjun was stationed, this time it was even more impossible to learn from, at that time Xiang Yu was in full swing, Liu Bangjun was scared when he heard Xiang Yu's name, and he didn't have much combat effectiveness at all. Therefore, it was easily broken by Xiang Yu, and this time it was of little significance to Chu Yun.

Because Chu Yun came quickly, he didn't have many siege equipment at all, so Chu Yun could only send secret guards to try to open the city gate, but Ma Qiu was worthy of being a famous general, he was coated with fire oil on the city wall, and as soon as the secret guard climbed into the air, he began to set the city wall on fire, and the secret guards were caught off guard and killed more than a dozen, Chu Yun could only let them retreat.

"That's a funny boy. After Chu Yun saw this scene, not only was he not angry, but praised the hemp ball. Ran Liang asked for an order to personally lead someone to attack once, but Chu Yun shook his head and vetoed it.

Chu Yun looked at the bottomless Grand Canyon on the left, and the Hangu Pass on the right was a thousand feet of high mountains.

"Ran Liang, use attack tactics to make them unable to rest well day and night, their terrain is in the valley, and the echo is enough to give them a headache. In addition, the secret guards were sent to entertain them with rockets, and their walls were not smeared with oil, so that they often roasted the suckling pig. After Chu Yun finished speaking, Ran Liang immediately went to make it.

For three whole days, the garrison of Hangu Pass lived in this bad situation where life was worse than death, and Ran Liang must have made a loud noise every quarter of an hour, regardless of day and night, making it difficult for them to sleep. And he also asked people to use rockets to constantly entertain the defenders of Hangu Pass, and the walls of Hangu Pass were roasted like snake skin, falling down with a bang, and it really looked like molting.

And at this time, it was early spring, and it was very cold, but Chu Yun sent someone to set fire to the city wall, which was very comfortable at first, after all, the heat made people warm, but it was often cold and hot, so that a large number of defenders suffered from typhoid fever, and the tortured defenders were worse than dead. But fortunately, the oil smeared on the city walls was almost burned out, otherwise they would not have been able to stand it for two more days.

Ma Qiu is also a little unwell, as the main general, of course, he has been staying on the city wall by example, Chu Yun's sound wave harassment and ice and fire He felt it all, Ma Qiu couldn't help but admire Chu Yunlai, this person doesn't play cards according to common sense, no wonder he wins all battles, and he seems to be a wise general.

However, Ma Qiu is confident that he can resist for seven days, and all Chu Yun brought is cavalry, which is one of them. Second, he is very relieved of his subordinates, these 5,000 people don't look at much, but they are all the most elite Chinese (pure karma) soldiers, the combat effectiveness of these soldiers is not to say that one enemy is a hundred, and one enemy is no problem with three senses, at least he thinks so.

"Ahem, cough, Chu Yun, I want to see what other means you have. Ma Qiu said confidently while coughing.

On the other side, in Chu Yun's camp, Chu Yun looked at the big kite that the craftsmen had spent several days making, and nodded with satisfaction. Attacking the city with a kite is not Chu Yun's imagination out of thin air, many have written that although there is no case of a kite breaking the city in real history, but the kite also has an important military role, for example, the Ming Dynasty once tied gunpowder to the kite to kill the enemy.

In real history, the reason why kites can't carry people, Chu Yun thinks it's because ordinary people are too poor and can't wear too much in the air, and if they wear too little, they may freeze to death. Even if a few are lucky enough to arrive at the designated location, it will not play a role in the battle situation, and it will feel like a hot air balloon. But this is not a problem for the secret guards, Chu Yun has already explored the terrain, there is a high cliff a few hundred meters away from the Hangu Pass on the west side of Hangu Pass, which is difficult for ordinary people to climb, but the secret guard is not a problem. As long as the guards climb to the top and wait for the wind direction to be suitable, they can fly into the city with a kite from a high position, not to mention that, as long as dozens of guards go in, then it will not be a problem to open the city gate.

Since the establishment of the Divine Stone Alliance, the Divine Stones scattered everywhere have gradually been mastered, such as the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, which is the predecessor of the former Zhao, even a general like Gongshi Leopard can be given a Divine Stone, which is rare. Therefore, the Shi Di army seems to be extremely strong, but in fact, it has no high-end combat power, even if it is said that the opponent has a lot of divine power derivatives, but the limit is that the divine power derivatives of the seventh layer of the human realm are far worse than the dark guards, Chu Yun has always thought that the Divine Stone Alliance will make a move, and Chu Yun will have a decisive battle with them; if the Divine Stone Alliance does not make a move, Chu Yun will solve Shi Di as soon as possible, and then go to help several other battlefields.

Just two days before Shi Di's reinforcements arrived at Hangu Pass, the west wind finally blew, and Chu Yun felt the strength of the wind, nodded and gave the order. This time, Ran Liang, a powerhouse of the ninth layer of the human realm, led the team, and more than 100 secret guards followed, as long as he did not encounter the master of the divine stone above the ground steps, there was absolutely no problem with the task. Ran Liang's practice of Chu Yun's "God of War Technique" is really fast, although there are reasons why Chu Yun often instructs and personally helps him control his body, but his talent is also top-notch, to be honest, Chu Yun's talent is not as high as his. Coupled with his innate divine power, he is indeed one of the few geniuses in this world who can reach the ground level by himself without relying on divine stones.

"Are you ready?" Chu Yun stood on the top of the mountain and watched Ran Liang and the others prepare their equipment, the skin of the one-horned fire ox that Chu Yun brought out from the Xianwu Continent was very tough, and even better was that the skin of this kind of cow had a certain amount of heat even if it died, which could prevent people from being frozen in the air. All the big kites are dyed black and blend in with the night in the night sky.

"Your Majesty, please be okay. Ran Liang jumped out first, followed by more than a hundred secret guards, but Chu Yun did not go down the mountain, but stood motionless on the top of the mountain, the aura on his body was undisguised, and the strength of the peak of the ground level continued to spread outward.

In today's battle command, Chu Yun appointed Wang Jie with full command, don't think that he is tempering his subordinates, in fact, he is suppressing the two masters of the Divine Stone who are watching the play. When they were within ten miles of Chu Yun's side, and Chu Yun did not hide his divine stone aura, they could feel each other's existence. One of these two people made Chu Yun feel the danger, which was enough for Chu Yun to pay attention to. Chu Yun stood here to prevent the two of them from interfering in this battle, Chu Yun believed that the two people were by no means his opponents, but Chu Yun did not have the idea of destroying them now, although Chu Yun had some news about the Divine Stone Alliance, but it was not much, Chu Yun did not have the idea of fighting them in an all-out battle for the time being, after all, as time went by, his strength would become stronger and stronger, and this speed was faster than the so-called Divine Stone Controller, so Chu Yun's posture now was that people did not offend me, I would not offend others. There's no need to ruin your own big things for the sake of two little minions, even if it's a little minion who can make you feel threatened.

The battle situation is not going very smoothly, Ran Liang and more than ninety secret guards entered Hangu Pass, more than a dozen of them were discovered by the city defenders, shot down from the air, and fell into meat cakes, don't look at them They are masters of the seventh layer of the human realm, but the seventh layer of the human realm in this world is not a little bit worse than the Xianwu Continent, their physical fitness is far behind. The seventh-layer martial artist of the human realm of the Xianwu Continent fell from a height of 100 meters, at most, he fell half to death, and his vitality was very strong.

The beginning was not smooth, and the next thing did not go well, although the group killed the city gate with an unstoppable posture, but found that the city gate was blocked by the Sanhe soil knot, Ran Liang and others could not open the city gate in a short time, at this time Ma Qiu also brought a large number of soldiers to kill, among these soldiers there were no less than thirty people of divine power derivatives, although they could not defeat the secret guards alone, but there were five thousand troops behind them, so Ran Liang fell into passivity by the way.

Thanks to Wang Jie's improvisation, he quickly relied on the cloud ladder built during this time to carry out a strong attack, under the desperate attack of the Tiger Ben Army and the desperate interception of Ran Liang and others, a steady stream of Tiger Ben Army entered the Hangu Pass, and finally captured this Xiongguan with more than 4,000 dead and wounded and more than 50 secret guards.

Chu Yun saw the Ming Dynasty's sun, moon and star flags fluttering above Hangu Pass, glanced at a huge rock on his right, and quickly disappeared in place. After Chu Yun left, two figures walked out, and the two of them turned out to be a Taoist priest and a monk.

I saw that the monk's polished head was covered with sweat, and it was obviously not hot on the top of the mountain in early spring.

"I was scared to death the great monk, I thought we were going to die, I thought that the master deliberately asked us to die, but the man looked at us and scared my heart to stop. His aura is probably not weaker than those three adults, he is really a monster, and he doesn't know how to cultivate. The great monk didn't care about wiping the sweat on his face with his dirty sleeves, seeing that he was a lama again.

And although that Daoist's face was not good-looking, his eyes were full of fighting intent, but he knew that he was also very nervous when he tightly grasped the scabbard on his waist.

"Let's go, this time he didn't use his divine power, and we don't have to make a move. The Taoist finally let go of the scabbard in his hand, but his fingers were a little pale because he had been holding the sword for a long time.

"Cut~~ Shoot? Is it to death, he really made a shot, do we really dare to go up?" the lama muttered, but how could he escape the ears of the Taoist, he glanced at the lama fiercely, and then left first.

Chu Yun entered the Hangu Pass that was cleared out, but unfortunately the guard of Hangu Pass, Ma Qiu, had already fled from the east gate with the remaining more than 2,000 people, Chu Yun originally wanted to annihilate the Hangu Pass guards, and then Yin Shi Di's reinforcements, but now it seems that it cannot be realized. However, being able to occupy this Xiongguan can be regarded as having achieved the set goal.

Chu Yun mobilized 40,000 troops from Tongguan to enter Hangu Pass, ready to use these 70,000 troops to play with Shi Di's 100,000 army, if it weren't for the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Qianliang, and Dacheng Guo and they were holding back, Chu Yun might not be able to sweep the entire Sili Prefecture after Shi Di's defeat, after all, as soon as Hangu Pass was lost, Si Lizhou was opened to the east gate.

At the same time that Chu Yun took Hangu Pass, he was oppressed for several years, and Qianliang, who had been wronged, made a move against Daming with the attitude of a tiger descending the mountain, Zhang Jun personally raised an army of 120,000 and killed it from the Hexi Corridor, and the 60,000 defenders led by Lu Zhong immediately felt the pressure of the mountain.