Since Geng Shang's coalition army withdrew his troops, Cheng Xiaolian frowned, these people are so fierce, the firearms that were originally prepared may not be able to scare them.

The firearm is a thing that is caught off guard, so that you don't know what the other party has in his hand, and then there is a fear in his heart, and finally the army's heart is turbulent, and this battle is not easy to fight.

But now that he has seen the ferocity of Geng Shang's coalition forces, he feels that even if he sacrifices the trump card palm thunder in his hand, he may not be able to scare them, and when the time comes, he will expose his hole cards prematurely, and until the last moment, he is unwilling to use this thing.

Yang Youcai showed Cheng Xiaolian's troubles: "Your Highness, I don't know if I should say something or not. ”

"Don't come to these vain heads, let go of a fart quickly."

"I think we can have a fire tonight."

Cheng Xiaolian smiled bitterly: "Now the story of Cao Mengde being burned in Chibi is well known, even if Geng Jingzhong and Monk Kexi are stupid, it is absolutely impossible to tie the boats together, although the water in Qutang Gorge is turbulent, but they are not soldiers who only fought 6 battles when they attacked the Ming Dynasty, the fiefdoms of both of them are near the sea, otherwise the waves of Qutang Gorge alone will make them dizzy today." ”

Yang Youcai scratched his head: "They don't connect the boats, we can connect them, and then put sulfur charcoal on the boat, and the small boat will go downstream, as long as their big boat is still on the shore, it will be ignited by us. ”

"Yang Youcai, I didn't see it, you still have this ghost idea, I said a long time ago that you would lead the troops to fight."

"If you don't have it, I will have this little bit of a ghost idea, the normal military formation will not be flexible, let me lead the army to fight, and I have to let the whole army scold my ancestors again."

"This matter still has to be discussed with Lord Qin, after all, he can be regarded as the most experienced person around us."

Qin Yue was improving his morale at this time, so he stewed meat in the army, and told everyone: "Fight hard tomorrow, and eat meat after the battle." "The flaw of the defense of the city is here, there is no way to order not to seal the sword, and the random looting is exciting, only to eat some meat, and some silver is inspiring.

Hearing that Cheng Xiaolian was coming, he walked out: "Your Highness, we have to think of other ways, I have calculated, today Geng Shang's coalition army has lost four or five thousand people, if we continue to fight like this tomorrow, it won't take a few days, we will have no soldiers available." ”

Jin Ming next to him opened his mouth: "It's better to transfer some of the Northern Sweeping Army to come over to support." ”

Cheng Xiaolian waved his hand: "No, the Northern Sweeping Army is now guarding the border, and the army under Wang Pingfan is waiting in Hanzhong, if we know that we have transferred people here, maybe the whole of Sichuan will be lost at that time." ”

Jin Ming was stunned for a moment: "Then what is good, we can't give up Qutang Pass." ”

Qin Yue snorted beside him: "Jin Ming, we are now a court, we must not be rude, Your Highness is right, if you transfer people over, won't you lose the face of our mountain and river army in front of the Northern Sweeping Army?" People also defend the city, and we also defend the city, why can't we defend it? ”

Jin Ming wanted to argue about something more, but seeing Qin Yue glaring at him fiercely, he immediately withdrew what he was about to say.

At this time, Wen Ruzhen suddenly spoke: "The minister thinks that Qutang Pass will be lost if it is lost. ”

Ma Jiugong laughed: "The minister also thinks so. ”

Jin Ming's eyes widened: "What nonsense are you two talking about?" ”

Wen Ruzhen coughed: "I'm not talking nonsense, since ancient times, entering Sichuan from the east, most of them have to go through Qutang Pass, so the east wall of Qutang Pass has been repaired and repaired, and it is very solid, but the west city wall is an ornament, even if we let the pass out, one day we want to take it back, isn't it easy?" ”

Cheng Xiaolian frowned: "Why do you two have the idea of giving up Qutang Pass?" You must know that artillery has been built on the rock walls on both sides of Qutang Gorge, and the pass has been strengthened so much, the enemy has to take the waterway if they want to attack the city, this is a natural danger given to us by God, give up Qutang Pass, and other cities are only afraid that we will not be able to defend it. ”

Wen Ruzhen laughed: "Has Your Highness ever thought that now that the enemy army is attacking Qutang Pass, is our pass useful?" ”

Cheng Xiaolian was stunned for a moment, it is indeed like this, Geng Shang's coalition army relied on the big ship to jump directly to the city wall, although it was very dangerous, but for the soldiers, this is much better than being smashed by stones and wood under the city, the reason why Qutang Pass is steep is because the pass is difficult to attack, and now the pass has become useless, and the two sides are like fighting on the plains.

Thinking of this, he suddenly shouted: "No, if Qutang Pass is so easy to attack, why hasn't it been easily captured before?" Also, where did the Geng Shang coalition find such a big ship? ”

Ma Jiugong next to him smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, since ancient times, although Qutang Pass has fought several fierce battles, it has never been opened by a single man, which shows that although this pass is dangerous to defend, but now that people have brought a big ship to go straight to the city, we have no good way." As for where the Geng Shang coalition army found the big boats, they came along the river, and it was not easy to find some big ships. Even if it was built from Huguang, it was estimated that it would be completed when they arrived here. ”

Cheng Xiaolian was also a little confused: "Kuimen Tianxiong, since this is not a good place to guard, why did you choose here?" ”

Qin Yue coughed: "This location was chosen by the old ministers, if their combat strength is not good, Qutang Pass is their desperate place, but now it seems that their combat strength is not weak." ”

Cheng Xiaolian was a little worried: "But let's put them in Qutang Pass, but it's really easy to invite God and send God, and it's difficult to blast them out when you enter Sichuan." ”

Qin Yue nodded: "The old minister knows, but instead of sticking to this meaningless place, it is better to take a step back." ”

Cheng Xiaolian had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and suddenly remembered something: "Since their big ship can go straight to the city, why don't we set up iron cable barriers to prevent them from marching?" ”

Qin Yue's eyes also lit up: "I said how can I always be missing something, if Qutang Pass is so easy to conquer, how can it be the gateway to Sichuan, the old minister is stupid, and he actually forgot about the iron cable." ”

Everyone hurriedly found the information to read, only to see, when the Ming Dynasty was founded, the main general of the East Road Tang and his general Liao Yongzhong attacked Qutang Pass to lose the army, and finally conquered the iron rope and iron pillar in a fit of anger to destroy all the iron cables, and later the imperial court in order to prevent the rebellion in Sichuan, this natural danger has never been set up iron cables.

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "Maybe in a few days we will have to withdraw from Qutang Pass, but before that, we have to make Geng Jingzhong Monk Zhixin suffer a little." ”

(End of chapter)