Hearing this, King Sha Xi of Tuyuhun was very annoyed and scolded: "Since there are many people who will be discovered, why didn't you say it earlier, come here!" Dragged down and chopped. ”

Several of his own soldiers entered the tent, restrained the minister, and dragged him out of the tent.

"The king spares his life, the king spares his life, and Weichen still has a plan to break Guzang City." Seeing that Sha Xi wanted to kill him, the minister hurriedly begged for mercy.

Sha Xi was even more furious, and scolded: "You have made two plans to make our army suffer heavy losses, and you dare to mention it again, pull it down, and cut it." ”

When the soldiers heard the order, they carried the minister and walked out of the big tent.

"The king spares his life, spares his life!" He had been begging for mercy, but Shaxi had already made up his mind to kill him, so no matter how much he begged for mercy, it was useless.

After all, someone must be responsible for the continuous loss of the Tuyuhun army, as the king of a country, Sha Xi naturally can't admit his mistakes, in this way, the minister who came up with the idea has become a scapegoat, killing this minister, you can more or less put the responsibility for the failure on him, so as to maintain Sha Xi's own wise image.

"Your Majesty, our army has lost more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under Guzang City, and there are only 120,000 left in the 130,000 army, but Guzang City has not yet been breached, if this is spread, it will definitely greatly damage the image of my Tuyuhun army, so we must think of a safe way to break the city as soon as possible." A Tuyuhun general said.

"Yes! Your Majesty, our army is attacking Liangzhou, and it is impossible for the Jin army not to rescue, and if the main force of the Jin army arrives, we will have no way to break through the city. Another Tuyuhun general Zhengse said.

Broken Xi was insulted by the generals of the Jin army defending the city, and naturally wanted to break through Guzang City and kill all the living mouths in the city, but Guzang City was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Tuyuhun could not make particularly powerful siege equipment, so the measures that could be taken in the face of Guzang City, which was high and thick in the city, were extremely limited.

"Your Majesty, the soil near Guzang is soft, can you dig a tunnel into the city?" A ministry general suggested.

Sha Xi replied: "It is naturally feasible to dig tunnels. However, once the Jin army discovers that our army is digging tunnels, the tunnel strategy will be completely ineffective. ”

"Your Majesty, we can secretly dig tunnels in the farther forest, as long as we control the area around the forest. You can avoid being discovered by the Jin army, and when the elite of our army breaks into the city from the tunnel, you can easily break through Guzang City. The ministry general explained.

Broken Xi nodded, and said, "You can give this a try, but." Our army cannot completely count on authentic strategies, and there must be more strategies to break the enemy. ”

"Your Majesty, if you want to deter the Jin army in Guzang City, you must give them heavy casualties, the reason why our army has repeatedly failed to break through Guzang City, although it is because Guzang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is also because our army's siege equipment is not strong enough, if our army has a large number of powerful siege equipment, it will inevitably cause huge damage to the defenders of Guzang City." The general said.

Sha Xi nodded and said, "That's right, Guzang City is well defended. Our army does not have a large number of heavy siege equipment to assist, and the loss when attacking the city is too great, and a large number of siege equipment must be built! ”

"Your Majesty, catapults can attack beyond the range of the bows and crossbows of the defenders of Guzang City, as long as our army builds enough catapults, it will definitely be able to effectively suppress the Jin army archbows and crossbowmen in Guzang City, so as to provide excellent cover for our army's siege troops." The ministry general suggested.

Broken Xi thought for a moment and agreed: "Order the soldiers to build catapults with all their might, collect stones, and this king must get the most catapults in the fastest time." to suppress the crossbowmen on the Jin army's walls. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the last general will definitely go all out to build a catapult." The ministry will answer.

Subsequently, the main Tuyuhun soldiers began to be busy building siege catapults. A small force entered the dense forest not far outside the city of Guzang, and selected a place inside to dig a tunnel to the city.

Just when the main army of Tuyuhun was busy capturing Guzang City, the 40,000 Jin troops of the Thunderstorm Army from Wenshan County had already crossed the mountains and entered the territory of Tuyuhun and launched a strong attack on Baima Pass on the eastern border of Tuyuhun.

White Horse Pass is an easy-to-defend and difficult checkpoint, with treacherous cliffs on both sides to the left and right. There is only one small road in the middle, and the White Horse Pass is built on this path, so if you want to enter the hinterland of Tuyuhun, you must capture the White Horse Pass.

At this time, there were 3,000 soldiers and horses of Tuyuhun stationed in the White Horse Pass, although the strength was much less than that of the Jin army, but with the strong and dangerous checkpoint, it was completely possible to block the 40,000 horses of the Jin army, and let the thunderstorm army have no way to pass.

Thunderstorm is a fierce general, in the face of such a strong pass, he naturally led his troops to launch a strong attack, however, after losing thousands of soldiers and horses in a company, Thunderstorm was stunned to find that it was impossible to break through the White Horse Pass with an ordinary strong attack, and better methods must be taken to avoid excessive losses of the army under his command.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Thunderstorm looked at the generals, and said: "Generals, our army has been attacking for several days, but it has never been able to break through the White Horse Pass, and it has also suffered thousands of casualties of soldiers and horses. ”

"What the general said is that Baima Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the casualties of the strong attack are too great, so it must be outwitted." The general nodded.

Thunderstorm nodded and said: "That's right, our army must outwit, and the strategy to outwit is the cliffs on both sides, if our soldiers can climb the cliffs, they can go around to the rear of the White Horse Pass, so that the White Horse Pass must be easily broken." ”

"General, there are cliffs on both sides of Baima Pass, and even apes can't climb it, how can our soldiers climb it, it's impossible." A subordinate general had already inspected the cliffs on both sides, so he came to this conclusion.

Thunderstorm sighed, and said, "If you can't climb, you have to find a way, do you want us to go home?" ”

When the generals heard this, they all bowed their heads and remained silent, obviously, he couldn't find any good way.

Thunderstorm walked out of the big tent of the Chinese army in a depressed mood, preparing to go to the cliffs on both sides to see how to go up.

Under the protection of a group of soldiers and generals, the thunderstorm rode his horse to the edge of the cliff on the left side of Baima Pass, the cliff here is 90 degrees vertical, which is much better than the situation of more than ten degrees of inclination on the right, however, the vertical cliff still makes people unable to climb, even the apes can't pass through, which can't help but make the thunderstorm frown, and the generals behind him are all at a loss.

"General, if only there was a plank road leading to the top of the mountain." One of the generals said jokingly.

"Plank Road." Thunderstorm was stunned when he heard this. Suddenly thought of the plank road that can be seen everywhere in Shu, and suddenly had some inspiration, the plank road is carved on the cliff, since the cliff can be carved plank road. Why can't a road be dug to the top of the mountain?

With joy in his eyes, Thunderstorm said, "Since the cliff can be carved into a plank road, why can't you build a road to the top of the mountain?" That's where our army came up. ”

A subordinate general immediately understood, and said with a straight face: "That's right! By simply carving a small hole in the cliff, the trunk can be embedded. This is indeed a good way to go all the way to the top of the mountain, so that our army will definitely be able to break through the White Horse City. ”

As soon as the general explained, all the soldiers immediately understood, and felt that this was a very good idea.

"General, although this strategy is good, we must not let the Tuyuhun soldiers and horses guarding the pass know, otherwise they are waiting for us above, and we will be in trouble!" One of the generals suddenly thought of a possible hidden danger.

Thunderstorm nodded. Zhengse said: "That's right, we must not let the Tuyuhun soldiers and horses guarding the pass know that we are digging the stone wall, and order all the armies to take turns beating drums to attack Baima Pass, so as to divert the attention of the defenders of Baima Pass to the front, in addition, let the soldiers speed up the excavation, and climb to the top of the cliff within half a day, and throw down dozens of ropes, so that the elite of our army can climb to the top of the cliff." and launched an attack on the soldiers and horses of Tuyuhun Pass.

"Yes, General, I'll understand." The general of the Jin Army, Zhengse, said.

Subsequently, except for a small group of soldiers and horses, the road to the top of the cliff was carved on the left cliff. The rest of the soldiers and horses took turns beating drums and marching to launch a feint attack on Baima Pass.

Due to the continuous offensive of the Jin army, for this reason, the defenders of Baima Pass never noticed that on the cliff face on the left side of the checkpoint, there was a Jin army unit that was digging a road to the top of the cliff.

The cliffs are steep though. But the height was only a few tens of zhang, so after a few hours, the Jin soldiers in charge of digging climbed to the top of the cliff along the carved wooden pillars and threw down a rope of sufficient length.

Seeing this, all the soldiers of the Jin army on the ground were extremely excited, and first tied up dozens of ropes and tied them to the ropes that were thrown down, so that the soldiers at the top of the cliff could pull them into the top of the cliff, so that dozens of ropes could be thrown down on the top of the cliff, so that they could climb to the top of the cliff better and faster.

As dozens of ropes were thrown down from the top of the cliff, dozens of Jin soldiers began to climb the cliff, in order to reduce the physical strength required to climb the cliff, all the soldiers took off their armor and weapons, pulled the rope to climb to the top of the cliff, and after climbing to the top of the cliff, let the soldiers below tie their weapons and armor to the rope, so as to pull up the top of the cliff and wear it again.

Only half an hour later, the elite of the five hundred Jin army all climbed to the top of the cliff and quietly hid to wait for the thunderstorm's order at any time.

"General, the five hundred elites of our army have entered the top of the cliff." The general excitedly entered the Chinese army's tent and reported to the thunderstorm.

Hearing this, Thunderstorm hurriedly stood up and ordered loudly: "The whole army immediately assembles and storms Baima Pass, and after our army begins to attack the checkpoint, the five hundred elites on the top of the cliff immediately attack Baima Pass from behind, and attack back and forth with the main force of our army to break through Baima Pass." ”

"Yes, General." The general received the order and immediately went to prepare.

Subsequently, Thunderstorm personally led all the main Jin army to launch a strong attack on Baima Pass, and at the same time, under the order of Thunderstorm, the elite of the five hundred Jin troops who had climbed to the top of the cliff quietly rushed to the back of Baima Pass, and suddenly launched a strong attack on Baima Pass from behind.

The main defenders of Baima Pass are all facing the main army of thunderstorms head-on, and they did not expect that the elite of the Jin army would suddenly appear behind Baima Pass, and the defense facilities of Baima Pass are used to guard against the Jin army, for this reason, the defense facilities behind it are very weak, and there is not much defense at all, under the surprise attack of the five hundred elites of the Jin army, the back of Baima Pass was broken through.

The elite of the 500 Jin troops who broke into the White Horse Pass immediately launched an attack on the frontal defenders of Tuyuhun, who were fighting to the death against the Jin army.

Tuyuhun's main force was fighting with the main force of the Jin army attacking head-on, not noticing the situation behind them at all, and when they found out that the five hundred elites of the Jin army suddenly appeared behind them, it was already too late.

"General, the Jin army is coming from behind." The moment a Tuyuhun soldier turned around, he saw the elite soldiers and horses of the Jin army who were surging and killing.

When the general Tuyuhun saw the elite of the Jin army who was killing behind him, his jaw was about to fall in surprise, he couldn't figure out how the elite of the Jin army entered the back of Baima Pass and launched a surprise attack, after all, he was so familiar with the terrain near Baima Pass, he thought that it was impossible for the Jin army to cross over.

"Divine soldiers descended from the sky, is this a divine soldier descending from heaven?" The main general of Tuyuhun couldn't help but beat a drum in his heart, and was very afraid, at this time, the White Horse Pass was completely undefended, if he wanted to preserve his strength, he must take advantage of the fact that the main force of the Jin army had not yet entered the White Horse Pass, and immediately lead the army to evacuate the White Horse Pass.

"Retreat, the whole army retreats." Seeing that Baima Pass could no longer be defended, the Tuyuhun lord had to order a retreat to avoid the annihilation of the entire army.

Seeing that the Lord would give the order to retreat, they naturally gave up resistance, and quickly escaped from Baima Pass, and fled to Pingkang City, dozens of miles away, in order to save a small life.

The combat goal of the Jin army was to capture Baima Pass, and for this reason, they did not go to chase the fleeing Tuyuhun soldiers and horses, but dispersed their actions and immediately occupied all Baima Pass, completely placing Baima Pass under the control of the Jin army.

After the capture of Baima Pass, Thunderstorm and all the soldiers and horses under his command entered the hinterland of Tuyuhun through Baima Pass, however, in order to prevent the back road from being cut off, Thunderstorm left 2,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Baima Pass, and used Baima Pass as a transfer center for the army's grain and grass.

After resting for a day at Baima Pass, the main force of the Jin army began to continue its march, marching to Pingkang and Longgan, dozens of miles away, and preparing to continue to attack westward after capturing these two cities, threatening the area of Bailan City, the core of Tuyuhun.

Just when the Thunderstorm Legion won the victory in attacking Baima Pass, in the direction of Xiping County in Liangzhou, the 40,000 horses of the Guanzhong Army had also recovered most of the cities in Xiping County, and advanced to the western capital of Zhisuo, preparing to recover the western capital and recover all Xiping County. (To be continued.) )