Chapter 293 confrontation
Feihu Pass.
After more than two days of march, Zhao Xu and his party arrived here.
Upon hearing the news, Niu Cha, the guard of Feihu Pass, Zhongli and Chen Hu both came out to greet him, and the army entered Feihu Pass to station.
"How is the situation outside Feihu Pass now?" After a brief rest, Zhao Xu climbed onto the Feihu Pass wall and looked at the vaguely visible Xiliang camp and said.
As a guard general, Niu Cha naturally had the obligation to grasp military information. He clasped his fists and said, "Go back to Your Highness, just one day before Your Highness arrived, a large number of Xiliang infantry entered the camp."
Zhao Xu nodded.
Feihu Pass is the approximate location of the contemporary Pingxing Pass.
The terrain here can be said to be a big throat.
On both sides of the mountain path are towering mountains, with lush trees on the mountain.
At the foot of the mountain is a flat road about fifty meters wide.
Feihu Pass is built at one end of the mountain road.
At this time, Xiliang's camp was at the other end.
It was equivalent to not allowing Xiliang to come in, and Xiliang would not allow him to go out.
If you want to enter Jinzhou, you must fight here.
The camp in the distance doesn't seem very clear.
Zhao Xu then extended his hand to Chang Wei.
Chang Wei knew it and immediately handed the telescope to him.
Picking up the telescope, Zhao Xu adjusted and looked at Xiliang Camp.
Through the telescope, Zhao Xu could see the wooden fences of the village.
There were gray tents in the fence, and Xiliang soldiers were in and out of these tents.
There are also high whistle towers in the camp, with archers standing on it.
At this time, Chang Wei took the telescope from Qin Shan and looked at it, and roughly counted the number of tents in the camp.
He said, "Your Highness, there are usually thirty people in a tent in Xiliang, and there are at least thirty thousand people in this camp."
Zhao Xu put down his telescope and frowned.
In such a small place, so many soldiers were stuffed into the shape of a long snake in Xiliang camp.
Niu Cha, Zhongli and Chen Hu listened to the two of them, their eyes fell on the telescope in their hands, and their expressions were strange.
After hesitating for a long time, Zhongli asked, "Your Highness, what is this? Why are you holding this thing in front of you?"
Chang Wei laughed twice, placed the telescope in front of Zhongli, and asked him to look at Xiliang Camp.
Zhongli didn't react at first, but when he looked again, he almost fell off his chin.
"What is this?" he shouted.
Seeing this, Chen Hu and Niu Cha couldn't help but be curious and asked to take a look.
When they saw this, they were as shocked as Zhongli.
Chang Wei was proud for a while and explained to them.
After hearing this, the three of them looked at the King of Yan and showed a reverent look.
I didn't expect that this thing was created by King Yan.
Seeing that several people were attracted by the telescope, Zhao Xu waited for a while, and waited for their freshness to pass, and said, "Tomorrow, pull out this camp."
"Yes, Your Highness." Chang Wei replied yes.
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Xiliang Daying.
Deputy leader Ye Renrong looked at Feihu Pass from afar.
Around him, four will be waiting for his orders.
Yesterday, Ye Renrong arrived here and brought 20,000 people.
Before, only more than 20,000 Xiliang soldiers were stationed in the camp, led by a general.
In order to confuse Dasong soldiers, Ye Renrong ordered forty soldiers to live in each camp to cover up their real forces.
"Deputy leader, several faces that I have never seen before appear at the head of Feihuguan City." At this moment, a Xiliang soldier who was in charge of inquiring came back and reported to him.
"What are the characteristics of those people?" Noriien asked.
"One is young, about sixteen or seventeen years old, and the other is tall and full of beard." said the soldier.
Ye Renrong nodded and said to the generals: "It seems that it is King Yan and his general Chang Wei."
They had long obtained the date from Wuwei that the King of Yan attacked Jinzhou.
The appearance of these two strange faces undoubtedly confirms this matter.
"So, the war has been going on these two days." said a general.
Ye Renrong looked at Yanguan again.
The order he received was to test the strength of the Yan King's army and to consume some of the troops.
If they lose, they will give up the camp and retreat to Jincheng, luring the King of Yan's army into Jinzhou, and then dispatch cavalry to harass the King of Yan's supplies.
Thinking of this, he said to the general beside him, "You ambush 10,000 troops in the mountains on the left at night, and you ambush 10,000 troops in the mountains on the right. The rest of the people guarded the camp. When the King of Yan was in the army, the ox horn sounded, and three times went out to kill him off guard."
"Yes, deputy leader." The chief shouted.
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Jincheng.
Murong Wuji stood at the top of the city and looked east.
It seemed as if his eyes could pass through the earth and reach Feihu Pass.
At this time, besides following the generals of Xiliang, there were several officials with Dasong faces.
They are the heads of the four great families in Jinzhou.
Under the city, the Xiliang soldiers drove the people of Jinzhou to smash sharp trees into the land.
The earth became like a hedgehog.
At the city gate, the driven people piled sandbags behind the city gate, stacking them layer by layer.
"Hmph, even if the King of Yan has artillery, I will see how he can take down Jincheng like a brick wall." Murong Wuji said.
After more than a hundred years, the people of Xiliang finally occupied Jincheng.
Now I want to take Jincheng away from them, unless all the soldiers in Xiliang in Jincheng are dead.
"The leader is right. Jincheng is strong and thick. The cannon officials are just bragging a little more powerfully. Otherwise, why did Da Song agree to Beidi's request for peace? It's really amazing. Wouldn't it be better to directly take back their Ningjin Dusi?" said an official.
His name is Cao Rui, and he was once the governor of the same county.
The four major families of Jinzhou, Cao, Qu, Hou and Chang.
After Xiliang took Jincheng, they immediately surrendered to Xiliang.
In order to stabilize Jinzhou as soon as possible, the people of Xiliang also accepted them.
Now, they are real officials of Xiliang.
Murong Wuji frowned when he heard this.
As the most outstanding general in Xiliang, he is not that arrogant.
During this period, he received a lot of news about artillery from the Ma family.
Moreover, the real power of the artillery has also been verified in Jinling City of Dasong.
Officials who came back from the cannon shooting would not lie.
It is precisely because he faced the power of the King of Yan artillery that he did so much response.
However, the good news now is that the Ma family will not attack Jinzhou from both sides with the King of Yan.
This will greatly alleviate the pressure in Jinzhou.
At the same time, he saw a flaw that King Yan had seen by him.
Cao Rui said that the King of Yan did not dare to leave Yan Pass because the cannon was not that powerful.
In his opinion, it was wrong.
The King of Yan did not dare to leave Yan Pass because he did not dare to pull the food channel too long.
Otherwise, facing the ferocious Beidi cavalry, the food route will be cut off, and even with artillery, the soldiers of the King of Yan will be defeated.
Therefore, he formulated a strategy to fight and retreat while consuming the King of Yan's troops, and at the same time lure the King of Yan's troops into Jinzhou.
Although his cavalry in Xiliang was slightly inferior to that of Beidi.
Chapter completed!