Chapter 358: Breaking the Barrier
After Wu Yunzhao gave the order, he sighed, this time the mission was even more dangerous! Back then, he faced the Li Lord, who suddenly raised troops, but today he is facing the Qin army in a hundred battles, or the Qin army that has to fight to the death!
Fifty thousand against two hundred and fifty thousand, is there any hope? Wu Yunzhao shook his head and smiled bitterly, the arduousness of this task can be seen!
If you just stick to the city, it's fine, but it's difficult to prevent the Qin army from crossing the city!
But the Qin army can't help it, and if it doesn't block the Qin army under this city, then letting the Qin army escape from a single soldier will be difficult for the follow-up Qin strategy!
Only at this time, block enough Qin troops, and the follow-up battle will be easy to fight!
Wu Yunzhao sent out the elite cavalry to scout around, so that the Qin army lost its eyes and ears, the later the northern army of the Qin State withdrew, the shorter the time he would have to bear the pressure at that time!
Thankfully, there were no losses in this siege! Wu Yunzhao pondered for a moment and discussed it with Du Fuwei, Cheng Yanjin and others.
Then he sent Du Fuwei and Cheng Yanjin to lead the team to the front line of Zitong Pass respectively, to carry out the activities of clearing the wilderness, domestic defense operations, and geographical advantages, the northern Qin army will not have much grain and grass, as long as they can no longer get supplies from the people, the more than 200,000 Qin army, he can stop it!
Wu Yunzhao said in a deep voice: "The Qin State is established by force, not only the soldiers are fierce, but even the ordinary people should not be underestimated, so don't underestimate those people, if you don't obey the order to retreat, let them get rid of the people first, and then burn the houses and grain!" ”
Du Fuwei and Cheng Yanjin were stunned when they heard this, but they all immediately nodded in agreement with Wu Yunzhao's meaning!
This is a national war, nothing else, and I can't care about the kindness of those women; Besides, the Sui army did not intend to slaughter the people!
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Three days later
"What!"
In Zitong Pass, Meng Tian got the news of the fall of Fucheng in the rear, and immediately froze, his eyes widened, he couldn't believe it, he grabbed the herald, his eyes widened, and he asked!
"Marshal Qiyu, how dare the little one take such a major militaristic drama, General Meng Yi sent dozens of horsemen to report to Zitong Pass, but there are too many enemies intercepted and killed along the way, and the small ones have changed their tracks, and they have only arrived today over the mountains and mountains!"
When Meng Yi heard this, he couldn't believe that Fucheng was in the rear, guarded by 20,000 elite soldiers of Daqin in the city, and 20,000 elite cavalry cruising outside the city, how could it be suddenly captured by the Sui army!
Indeed, some time ago, the Sui army had countless celestial beings over the mountains and mountains to invade the Qin State, but such a strange person, not to mention hundreds of thousands, even millions is not to be feared!
Although they inflicted a little damage on the Qin army, they attacked aimlessly, and they didn't even capture a single city, so how could they suddenly capture Fucheng?
Meng Tian remembered several "celestial people" in the Qin military camp who had committed direct admonitions in the past few days, and originally thought that they were babbling, but it turned out to be true!
Just stunned for a moment, Meng Tian gritted his teeth, put down the herald, and immediately said: "Come on, take him down, and then send the generals to come to discuss the matter!" ”
After saying this, he said again: "The detective cavalry is detective in the direction of Fucheng, and Zhao Gao of the Black Ice Platform is also summoned, so that he can immediately summon Your Majesty, the Northern Army is in danger!" ”
Meng Tian waited for his soldiers to give orders, but he couldn't sit down, walking back and forth, with a confused face!
Why is the situation changing so fast? How many elites did the Sui army infiltrate? Who is leading the team? Is there any room for salvation?
At that moment, he heard hurried footsteps outside the tent!
"General, urgent report!"
"Read!"
"General Zhang Han sent a message from the front, the Sui army is attacking fiercely, and the Sword Gate Pass may not be able to be defended, please prepare as soon as possible!"
The house leak happened to be rainy, Meng Tian heard the news, hesitated for a moment, and immediately said: "Order General Zhang Han, abandon the Jianmen Pass, and when you receive the order, immediately retreat towards Zitong Pass!" ”
What else can Jianmen Pass be counted, I'm afraid that the main force of the Sui army has already received the news, why is it so slow on his side?
A haze rose in Meng Tian's heart!
"Generals, immediately gather all the troops to march towards the back of Zitong Pass, without delay!"
After summoning the generals, Meng Tian immediately ordered after a little explanation, without further ado, at this time, he could only plan for the worst!
These levels can be given up one by one, but if the more than 200,000 northern legions have a bad pool, the Qin State will really be finished!
Meng Tian knew the situation in the national capital, Qin had a total army of more than 800,000 people, and the northern army accounted for more than 300,000, and now only more than 200,000 are lost, and General Wang Jian in the south of the empire led 200,000 troops to entangle with Qi Jiguang of Sui State; Wu Anjun of the West led 200,000 and Yue Fei of Sui was entangled, there were only 100,000 defenders in the national capital, and the defenders of various cities along the way were all emptied.
"Report, marshal, after Zitong Pass, the traces of the Qin cavalry were discovered, and the number was about 20,000, all of which were Xuanjia elite cavalry!"
After receiving this report, Meng Tian no longer had any doubts in his heart, things had indeed reached the worst step!
What's slightly better is that fortunately, the army retreated early, and it was not occupied by the enemy that Zitong Pass, otherwise there was really only one way to die!
Now, we can still fight hard to see if the Sui army can stop the Great Qin Hundred Battles!
"Order, Zitong Pass will be guarded by General Zhang Han, and it will be held for at least a month before retreating!"
Meng Tian couldn't even wait for Zhang Han to come back, leaving 20,000 people in Zitong Pass, and he took the remaining 180,000 with him and ran towards Fucheng!
Ten days later
On a mountain road near the left of Fucheng!
"Get on the horse! Get ready! Seeing that the distance was almost over, Wu Yunzhao on the mountain gave an order, turned over and got on his horse, holding a bright weapon, staring murderously at a passing grain transport team under the mountain, and seeing that everyone was ready, he shouted: "Charge!" ”
As his two thousand iron horsemen swept away like a whirlwind towards the grain transport team under the mountain, everywhere he went, it was like a hurricane passing through, and the grain guard team suddenly saw a group of cavalry not far away, and was immediately frightened, and wanted to shoot arrows, but found that it was too late in time, and the other party rushed into their formation like a hurricane!
Seeing that he would come into contact with the food protection team in the blink of an eye, Wu Yunzhao let out an earth-shattering roar, which shook for nine days!
Hearing the howling, the well-trained scattered formations of the lieutenants, thousands of households, hundreds of households and other officers under his command attacked the grain team that formed a long winding dragon!
Wu Yunzhao personally led the pro-army to approach the grain team, and each of his pro-army turned their hands and took out their bows and crossbows on horseback, aiming at the other party with a salvo!
In just one salvo, the people of the grain transport team fell a few, and Wu Yunzhao's Sui cavalry pulled out his weapons and slashed all the way away, and the terrible screams echoed in this space!
Killed everyone, and there was no need for Wu Yunzhao to explain, so the Sui soldiers took the initiative to burn the grain and grass.
Looking at the raging flames and the green smoke that rose straight into the sky when the grain and grass burned, Wu Yunzhao smiled with satisfaction, but his emotions quickly became heavy.
The army of more than 200,000 Qin State surrounded Fucheng and could not enter it, and since three days ago, he was forced to evacuate the surroundings of Fucheng, and he has not been able to get news of Fucheng!
Seven days later, Wu Yunzhao looked at the sky in a daze on a mountain bag of considerable height, the Xuantie battle armor on his body had been somewhat damaged, and there were still a lot of blood stains stubbornly remaining on it!
This is already the twentieth day after the capture of Fucheng, in the past twenty days, Wu Yunzhao and they have successfully completed the task of robbing the retreat of the Qin army, not only blocking the retreat of more than 200,000 Qin troops, but also burning dozens of batches of grain and grass before and after, I believe that the Qin army at this time must have fallen into a grain and grass crisis.
But their casualties are also quite small, a few days ago, a team of thousands of households under Wu Yunzhao was raided by the Qin army that came quickly after burning the grain and grass, and in the end, Wu Yunzhao went to remedy it in time, but more than 1,000 people, only 300 people came back in the end!
Moreover, it was not only him who suffered such a thing, Du Fuwei and Cheng Yanjin also encountered such a thing, and there were even two thousand households who could not wait for the rescue army to arrive.
So far, there are only more than 18,000 people left in the 30,000 Xuanjia elite cavalry outside, this is the Xuanjia elite cavalry, and the three main generals are currently all injured, and there is already a right general under the highest level Cheng Yanjin.
But all this is not the most painful, the most painful thing is that they have absolutely no idea what is going on at the front!
Whether the main force has already laid down Zitong Pass, whether Fucheng has been defended, if Fucheng is not defended, then everything they have done here is completely in vain.
However, at this time, they didn't even have any news from the front line, and the latest news was that the day before yesterday they got a report from the secret guards that the Qin army was still desperately attacking Fucheng, and Li Jing was also attacking Zitong Pass day and night.
Because they didn't get the replenishment of arrows, now the crossbows held by the three Xuanjia Spirit Riders have been abandoned, and everyone's words are much less, whether they can hold on or not, and how long they can hold on, they really don't know!
They roamed around Fucheng, burning every team that tried to send grain and grass to the northern army of the Qin army, and they also had to repel every wave of rescue teams organized in the rear of the Qin army!
"General, General Cheng and General Du have arrived!"
Hearing the report of the pro-soldiers, Wu Yunzhao sorted out his emotions, and then saw Du Fuwei and Cheng Yanjin coming together; On this mountain bag, Wu Yunzhao glanced around and began to study the current situation with them!
Du Fuwei frowned tightly and asked, "We have been holding up for so long, now whether Li Shuai has laid down the Zitong Pass, this is very important!" And how about Fucheng? Otherwise, we're here for nothing! ”
"What about conquering Fucheng?" Cheng Yanjin asked with a dumbfounded face, he is really not good at this, so although he is old, he has really not been appointed to act independently, Wu Yunzhao shook his head and explained: "The geographical location is ......"
"The geographical location of Fucheng determines that it is very important, Fucheng is in our hands, the Qin army cannot go around the city with a large army, and Fucheng has also hoarded a large number of military supplies and grain and grass......
Our army took Fucheng, relying on Fucheng, the Qin army's army of two or three hundred thousand wanted to go, but there was only a detour, but the mountains and forests near here were deep, there was no road to bypass, and the Qin army did not have enough grain and grass, what did it mean if there was no grain and grass......"
"I said, General, why did you let us keep burning the grain transportation team of the Qin army!" Cheng Yanjin seemed to understand these truths at this time, patted his head and said: "Fortunately, Lao Cheng has not let go of a grain transportation team during this time!" ”
Cheng Yanjin doesn't know how to be resourceful, but he is strong enough to execute orders and obedient enough to execute orders, so he can become one of the generals of the thirty-six guards of the Great Sui!
"From today on, we can't disperse the team, the Qin army is on the verge of the end, I'm afraid it will start to break through in small groups, our current characters are forcing these Qin troops into the mountains and forests!"
Du Fuwei smiled at this time: "The grain delivery in the rear of the Qin army has been temporarily cut off by us, our strength is limited, and we can't support it for too long, I believe that the Qin army is also very clear about this, after all, we are in the rear of the people!" Maybe Emperor Qin has even sent a large army to encircle and suppress us......"
"Therefore, what our army needs to do is very simple, that is, to capture Zitong Pass as soon as possible before we can block the northern army of the Qin army, in that case, the Qin army will run out of food and be surrounded by our army, and there will inevitably be only a rout......"
Du Fuwei is also a heroic figure in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, his ability is also sufficient, and his ambition is not big, he is the most stable among those anti-kings back then!
The rest, such as Dou Jiande and Luo Yi, were punished for some mistakes and lost their positions, leaving only one idle position!
"Report, General, Secret Guard Urgent!"
At this moment, suddenly the herald broke in!
Seeing that the herald was about to speak, Wu Yunzhao raised his hand and said:
"Don't say it yet, if I'm not mistaken......" Wu Yunzhao closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, and suddenly burst out of this sentence: "There must have been some huge changes on the front line, it may be that Zitong Pass has been captured!" ”
All eyes were on the herald's face to see what he would say!
The soldier said with a happy face: "General, Li Shuai has already captured Zitong Pass yesterday, and our army is out together, and today we will encircle and suppress the northern army of the Qin army and capture Meng Tian alive!" ”
"Good!"
Cheng Biting Jin was the first to scream!
Wu Yunzhao breathed a long sigh of relief, don't worry about it, since Zitong Pass has been captured, and now there is no news from Fucheng, then the Qin army's two or three hundred thousand northern legions have only one way to die!
"General Du, General Cheng, let's immediately join forces and return in the direction of Fucheng!"
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"The sin will be entrusted by His Majesty and the Marshal; The Zhao Gao thief sneaked into the pass a few days ago, and opened the Zitong Pass with the Black Ice Platform and the others at night, and the Zitong Pass has been broken! ”
In the camp of the Qin army under Fucheng City, there was a dead air, even Meng Tian's pro-army looked weak at this time, and in the big tent, a man in tattered clothes was kneeling and reporting to Meng Tian!
"Where's Zhang Han?"
"The sin will not know, the sin will collect wild vegetables after the pass, seeing the shouting of killing in the pass, after the sin will listen, he got the news, he didn't dare to delay, and he came back immediately to report the news!"
"Stand down"
Meng Tian held his forehead and waved his hand!
Attacking Fucheng day and night, and sending people to report to the national capital, but these days, not a single grain of grain and grass has been delivered, and the small group of people sent to explore the road have not returned, and in recent days, they have not even been attacking the city, because the Qin army has run out of food!
(End of chapter)