"I'm not afraid to tell you, although this Zhenshui Pass, although it is located in a key chong, and the waterways are even more accessible, but in fact, this is just a lonely city, we have no reinforcements, no food, ......"

"Isn't there food in Zhenshui Pass?" said a cultivator with a puzzled expression.

"Yes, there is a lot of grain in Zhenshui Pass, if we save some food, it will not be a problem to eat until next year's autumn harvest, but the question is, after the autumn harvest next year, what will we eat? Now, the Crusader rangers have completely controlled the suburbs, and the peasants cannot work, even if they plant crops, it is still a problem that the Crusaders will not allow us to harvest, so there will always be a time when the grain in Zhenshui Pass will be eaten up, and once the grain in Zhenshui Pass is eaten, when the time comes, Zhenshui Pass will be self-defeating......"

There was a quiet silence audible from a falling pin.

When Zhao Yuan raised this question, people realized the seriousness of the matter.

Zhenshui Pass is surrounded by fertile farmland, but as long as you leave the city, it is the territory of the crusaders, which means that it is impossible to grow crops at all.

Now, more than 90% of the territory of the Great Qin Empire has been occupied by the Crusaders, which also means that it is impossible for Zhenshui Pass to wait for foreign aid, as for the emperor of Blackwater City, it is thousands of miles away from here, even if it is killed, it will be a matter of a year and a half, and when the Great Qin soldiers of Blackwater City come to kill, the daylily will be cold.

"Now, there is only one way, and that is to take the initiative to attack and expand the living space of Zhenshui Pass!" Zhao Yuan said word by word.

"General, we are all rough people, we don't know any art of war, in short, in a word, you let us go east, we will never go west!"

"Yes, yes, the general Tao is amazing, if there is any way to say, just leave the matter of killing people and overselling goods to us. ”

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Everyone was gossiping for a while, swearing to show their loyalty, and they couldn't wait to dig out their hearts and show them to Zhao Yuan.

"I don't know if you have noticed it? This huge Zhenshui Pass is located in a key area, and the land under its jurisdiction is hundreds of miles away, and there are only 80,000 defenders in such a military town, what does this mean? It shows that the crusaders are in a tight supply, think about it, our Great Qin Empire has a vast territory and a population of hundreds of millions, not to mention a million crusaders, even if it doubles the crusaders, it cannot hold every city. The Crusaders have the advantage of being mobile and aggressive, but they don't have enough men to defend the breached cities, so we have a chance to take advantage of them......"

People's eyes lit up.

The reason Zhao Yuan said was very simple, using the skills of the characters in the rivers and lakes and the cultivators, taking Zhenshuiguan as the radiation center, recovering some surrounding towns, and then, relying on the towns, gradually compressing the scope of the Crusader cavalry's activities, using the advantages of population and resources, and encroaching on the territory occupied by the Crusaders little by little.

The biggest advantage of the characters and cultivators is that this is the territory of the Great Qin Empire, with huge population resources, and the crusaders are one less to kill one, and one pair to kill is one less, and in the long run, the crusaders will be annihilated in the art of the sea of people.

At the beginning, when the crusaders entered the Great Qin Empire, they had an army of one million, attacking cities all the way, and they were like bamboos, but as the territory they occupied became more and more extensive, the weakness of the crusaders was exposed.

If it was at the beginning, at most a few days, the army would have been pressed to Zhenshui Pass, and now, from the fall of Bafang City to now, it has been nearly a month, and the Crusader's army movement has not been completed, which has shown that the Crusader's army movement is not as free as before......

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The cultivators and the heroes of the rivers and lakes were excited by the blueprint outlined by Zhao Yuan, and they were all gearing up, eager to fight on the battlefield immediately.

After some discussion, Zhao Yuan aimed his first target at the Hexagonal Pavilion downstream of Zhenshui Pass.

The Hexagonal Pavilion is not a pavilion, but a place name.

Hexagonal Pavilion is a small town, with a population of less than 50,000, located sixty miles downstream of Zhenshui Pass, according to the information provided by the Zhenshui Pass Army, only 2,000 cavalry were stationed in Hexagonal Pavilion.

Two thousand cavalry!

It's a lot of no more and no less.

People showed embarrassment on their faces, especially the cultivators, who fell into silence, but a group of Jianghu figures and warriors were ready to move one by one.

Looking at the expressions of the cultivators, Zhao Yuan immediately understood.

In the Great Qin Empire, cultivators rarely directly participated in secular wars, and even if there were cultivators who served the imperial court, they only fought with the opposing generals, and would never slaughter ordinary soldiers with flying sword spells.

In the cultivation world, many cultivators often kill innocents indiscriminately, killing people and selling goods, but no matter how evil the cultivators are, they will also behave coyly, cover their ears and steal the bell, and are unwilling to join the army to slaughter soldiers.

After understanding what was going on, Zhao Yuan immediately promised to send 5,000 soldiers to fight together, led by warriors and Jianghu figures, and the cultivators only needed to cooperate with the periphery to disturb the military spirit of the crusaders.

After receiving Zhao Yuan's promise, the cultivators immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

If you just cooperate on the periphery, you don't need to face ordinary soldiers, and the cultivators will naturally not shirk it.

Cultivators don't kill soldiers on the battlefield, but it's not that they don't kill people, but the way of killing is different, for example, there is no problem in killing enemy generals, and in addition, cultivators kill ordinary soldiers, and the most taboo thing is to use powerful weapons such as flying swords and magic weapons, because mortals don't have the slightest ability to resist these weapons in the cultivation realm, which forms a massacre in a sense, which is likely to cause a catastrophe.

If a cultivator uses physical strength to kill people without using aura, it will naturally not cause a catastrophe.

Martial artists like the Four Heavenly Gods can kill enemies on the battlefield because the martial arts they cultivate are all primordial power possessed by human beings, the qi of heaven and earth, which cannot be perceived, and naturally cannot cause a heavenly tribulation.

Of course, when a warrior's strength reaches a certain level, it will also cause a catastrophe, but most of the warriors who can trigger a catastrophe are about to ascend and usually do not participate in worldly wars......

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Zhao Yuan selected a group of people.

Two hundred masters.

Among these two hundred people, there are twenty cultivators, sixteen martial artists, and the rest are heroes of the rivers and lakes.

It is worth mentioning that it was not these two hundred people who led five thousand Great Qin soldiers to raid the Hexagonal Pavilion, after all, they were all reckless heroes and had never led troops to fight.

Zhao Yuan arranged for 500 real soldiers to divide the 5,000 into groups of 10, and these 500 soldiers were either active soldiers or retired soldiers, all of whom had rich experience in military operations, so that the 5,000 people would not become a rabble.

In order to ensure that this operation was foolproof, Zhao Yuan equipped 5,000 men with a large number of crossbows, and the weapons were also configured according to the standard of the Great Qin Empire.

The opponent had only two thousand men, but those two thousand men were all cavalry, and the numerical superiority did not mean anything.

The best way to deal with the cavalry is to fight to the death, once they escape and make a comeback, it will be a great disaster.

There is no doubt about the horror of the lethality of the cavalry, even if a cavalry team of several hundred people escapes, it can defeat the infantry of 5,000 people, so this operation can only succeed, not fail.

Two hundred masters plus five thousand soldiers armed to the teeth can be said to have an absolute advantage against two thousand light cavalry, after all, five thousand soldiers are equipped with bows and crossbows.

The supreme leader of this army raided the troops.

When the sun was about to set, Zhao Yuan, Lan Cai'er, and some archers in Zhenshui Pass all climbed the tower to hunt the Crusader rangers who were moving around, and even sent a small group of archers to take the initiative to attack on horseback.

In order to cause psychological pressure on the crusaders, the Yunhai Golden Eagle and the Monkey against the Sky were also sent out.

We must not leak the news.

If there was no Yunhai Golden Eagle, Zhao Yuan would not be able to completely block the news at all, after all, the other party's black-winged Kunpeng was still moving around, and with the Yunhai Golden Eagle dispatched, those black-winged Kunpeng did not dare to approach Zhenshui Pass......

Night falls.

Under the cover of night, two hundred masters and five thousand soldiers of the Great Qin Empire, under the cover of the golden eagle of the sea of clouds and the monkey against the sky, quietly lurked out of the city.

If you hike to the Hexagonal Pavilion, I am afraid that you will not be able to arrive at dawn tomorrow, and even if you do, you will be exhausted, and Zhao Yuan chose to take a boat after the most reluctance.

In Zhenshui Pass, there are many large ships passing by, Tu Lao Er has already contacted two large ships, in order to hide people's eyes, the place to board the ship is not in the dock, but in an abandoned natural port downstream of the dock.

When I took a boat from Zhenshui Pass and went down the river to the Hexagonal Pavilion, it was just the time of dawn, and at that time, it was also the time when the human spirit was relaxed.

Now, the most important thing is to ensure that you can reach the hexagonal pavilion silently, once the target is exposed, it will be a catastrophe.

Although the two cargo ships were large, it was still difficult to carry more than 5,000 heavily armed people, and the people were crowded together like sardines, with their chests against their backs, densely packed......

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