It seemed to want to rain, and the weather was unusually muggy. In the dense tent of the Chinese army of the Lingzhou Army, it was stuffy and hot, Chen Ying stood in front of the map, his feet were already covered with sweat and water, and he didn't know how long he had been standing here.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Chen Ying said without replying: "Is there any news from the scouts sent to Taiyuan?" How is Taiyuan now? ”

Ai Ai's way during the Ryazan period: "Corpse Mountain...... Blood! ”

Ryazan had no great talent, and he was in charge of the soldiers and horses of the Chongfu Mansion, which made him feel that his head was as big as a fight. In desperation, Chen Ying had no way to make it difficult. Zhao Chunyang, the captain of the Yue cavalry, was transferred to the first Zhichong Mansion of the Dingyuan Army as the lieutenant of Zuo Guoyi, and although Ryazan was still nominally the first Zhichong Commander, at this time, the first Zhichong Governor of the Dingyuan Army changed back to his old profession and became Chen Ying's pro-army Zhichong Governor.

Mountains of corpses and a sea of blood...... It is a very vivid description of the situation in Taiyuan. Liu Wuzhou led Taiyuan City, set up the banner of the Tianxing Army, and recruited soldiers and horses on the spot. However, Taiyuan, as the place where Li Yuan started, has a very strong foundation of people's hearts here. However, it is not that there are no people who respond to Liu Wuzhou, but most of them are poor families and broken households, and these poor families and broken households have just taken up arms and began to liquidate.

The rich families and wealthy families in Taiyuan City, whether good or evil, were all stolen and killed. Of course, poor families and dilapidated families have no overnight food, and there is nothing to rob. In the first month of Liu Wuzhou's occupation of Taiyuan alone, more than 30,000 people were killed in Taiyuan City, and countless people were destroyed and exterminated.

Today, the land of Longxing in the Tang Dynasty has become a city of death.

A sentence of corpses and a sea of blood also made the eyes of the generals of the Dingyuan Army red. Their resentment came up again, and they all looked at Chen Ying's back sadly. The generals in the Dingyuan Army, especially at the rank of captain, many of them were veterans who followed Li Yuan to raise troops in Taiyuan, and they were either family members or relatives in Taiyuan. Knowing that Taiyuan City was killed in a river of blood, there was only one thought left in their heads - revenge.

Chen Ying turned to look at Ryazan and said, "Order, take advantage of the cool weather at night to pull out the camp and set off." ”

Chen Ying didn't want to pull out the nail of Taiyuan, but before entering Taiyuan, Yanmen Pass couldn't fly. Yanmen Pass is an important pass on the Great Wall, known for its "danger", known as "the first pass in China", and has the saying that "there are nine stops in the world, and Yanmen is the head". Together with Ningwu Pass and Partial Pass, it is called "Outer Three Passes". Although Chen Ying suddenly entered Hedong from the Hetao area, he took the Turks and Liu Wuzhou by surprise. However, five days have passed, and Liu Wuzhou's messenger should climb in front of Liu Wuzhou even if he climbs, and now Liu Wuzhou has not made any changes, which is very weird.

The only explanation is that Liu Wuzhou definitely didn't hold back his fart.

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In fact, as Chen Ying guessed, Liu Wuzhou did not hold back his fart.

Liu Wuzhou now basically occupies Hedong, creating an unprecedented good situation. However, he was not arrogant for a moment, but cautious. He has been in the army for a long time, and he has seen countless amazing and brilliant people die on the word arrogance, so he is more cautious than anyone else.

When he heard that Chen Ying had raided Hedong, he did not immediately meet the enemy, but Zhang Lun, the secretary of the five soldiers, collected Chen Ying's information. The news of this era is too slow, and the information that Liu Wuzhou can collect is actually very limited. However, he was evaluated as "unparalleled in the field" by Chen Yingzeng's four defeats of the Turks.

Liu Wuzhou's family background at this time was thicker than that of the Liang division, and although the cavalry was not as good as the Turks, it was more than enough to pull up 20,000 cavalry. These cavalry were an important decisive force for the rest of the Tang army, but he knew better that the 20,000 cavalry, which were actually mounted infantry, was a joke in front of Chen Ying.

Even Li Lifushi has suffered a big loss in front of Chen Ying, and even Shibi Khan can be a fierce man who can be hit hard in battle, and Chen Ying is compared to a field battle, which is simply a treasure between Hanako and the Dragon King. Therefore, Liu Wuzhou led more than 10,000 elite soldiers and stationed them in Yanmen Pass, and even in order to avoid a field battle with Chen Ying, he also arranged the cavalry in the city of Yanmen Pass, although he could get room for maneuver, but Liu Wuzhou's cavalry was still too weak to fight against Chen Yingdan, who had defeated the Turkic cavalry in a row.

Liu Wuzhou once carefully analyzed Chen Ying's combat methods, whether Chen Ying took Lingzhou, Bogulu City, or Fengzhou City, basically did not go through a similar siege battle. He came to an astonishing conclusion that Chen Ying was not good at attacking and defending the city. This is Chen Ying's weakness, if he doesn't make good use of this weakness, Liu Wuzhou will eat for more than ten years in vain.

"As long as you hold the Yanmen Pass, it will be a victory!" Liu Wuzhou said to Shangshu Zhang Lun very affirmatively: "Chu Luo Khan will not let Chen Ying go, as long as Chen Ying hits his head and blood at Yanmen Pass, Chu Luo Khan will definitely send a Turkic army to attack his back road, and Yanmen Pass will be the place where Chen Ying's children are buried." ”

However, Liu Wuzhou's later words were not spoken. As long as he can't stop Chen Ying, or let Chen Ying break through Yanmen Pass without much effort, the Turks will definitely turn around and return north and hide in the desert. The Turks are cunning foxes, they will take advantage of it, and if they don't, they will flee thousands of miles.

In order to defend Yanmen Pass, Liu Wuzhou's preparations were very thorough. He not only appointed Fan Junzhang, the best defensive general under his command and the internal history order (equivalent to the prime minister), as the chief of soldiers and horses at Yanmen Pass, but also crowned Fan Junzhang's son as the person who traveled to the stage. This Fan Junzhang, like Song Jingang, is Liu Wuzhou's brother-in-law.

After Fan Junzhang received the order, he immediately made preparations to defend Yanmen. Yanmen Pass originally had a dense forest outside the city, in order to prevent Chen Yinghui from using the trees of this dense forest to build siege equipment, he mobilized more than 8,000 soldiers to cut down trees day and night, when Liu Wuzhou led more than 18,000 people to Yanmen Pass, the entire Yanmen Pass outside the city stretched for more than ten miles, at this time even a bowl thick tree could not be seen.

Of course, Fan Junzhang has done even better. Not only are the trees cut down, Yanmen Mountain is a stony mountain, there are many stones in the mountain, but most of them are huge mountain rocks, which can be directly used as stone bombs, such as 35 catties to 150 catties of stones, all of which Fan Junzhang sent to pick up and throw into the Hutuo River.

Reducing Chen Ying's possibility of taking advantage of Yanmen Mountain and frantically reinforcing Yanmen Pass was part of Fan Junzhang's work, and at the same time, he was also very prepared when preparing defensive materials. Some of the felled trees were used to burn quicklime, and some were used to make trebuchets, and the water war pole invented by Yang Su of the Sui Dynasty was transplanted to the city of Yanmen Pass.

At the same time, Fan Junzhang also prepared more than 50 bed crossbows and built hundreds of trebuchets, of course, there are also all kinds of stone rolling wood, ash bottles and gold juice.

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When Chen Ying led the Dingyuan army to cross the Hutuo River in the first fold of Chongfu, he did not encounter the harassment of Liu Wuzhou's army or the Turkic cavalry, Chen Ying's mood was quite good, Chen Ying wanted to pretend to say: "Liu Wuzhou Xiao'er does not know soldiers, if thousands of soldiers and horses are arranged here, our army will cross the river, it will be a lot more difficult!" ”

When the army slowly entered the Yanmen Mountain Road along the mountain road, seeing the trees that had been cut down on both sides of the mountain road, Chen Ying wanted to scold his mother very much.