In the dilapidated Baisha Pass, a camp "cuts the north-south official roads like a wall" like a wall. The terrain in front of the camp is narrow, with steep and dangerous walls on both sides of the east and west, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. This is the Huangzhou military camp, and we must strive to block the enemy invasion in the south.

Baisha Pass has a long history. It was built in the Liang Kingdom of the Southern Dynasty. It was the governor of Shazhou Prefecture and led the Jianning and Qi'an counties. Since then, wars have continued. If the Huangzhou army cannot defend this place, there will be no barriers behind it.

In the second year of Tianjian of Liang Kingdom, Liang general Wu Ziyang divided his troops northwards and fought with Wei general Yuan Ying in Baisha. More than a thousand people later retreated. Later, Shazhou was occupied by the Wei Kingdom and sent troops to station here, causing the Liangguo Prefecture and County on the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains to be in a panic.

Time passed, after Qi was destroyed, Zhou State conquered Chen Guozhou County. After occupying this place, although the state was abolished, it still set up garrison troops in Baisha Pass to protect the Huangzhou General Administration.

When the Zhou and Sui clashed, Baisha Pass became a battlefield again. Now, battles broke out again outside Baisha Pass, but now both the enemy and us were originally Zhou troops.

Not long ago, the imperial court issued a manifesto to attack Yu Wenliang, a rebel thief. The imperial army immediately went south to attack Huangzhou, Shannan. The former comrades are now facing each other.

General Xie Xu of the founding government was ordered to lead two thousand soldiers to cross the Dabie Mountains. He had already arrived at the friendly troops outside Baisha Pass before, and combined a total of 3,000 troops to attack Baisha Pass.

The front troops had already broken through Baisha Pass, but were repelled by Huangzhou reinforcements. The opponent was in charge of the road in the south of Baisha Pass and tried to resist stubbornly. However, in Xie Xu's view, this was just a mantis arm to chariot.

There are trenches in front of the Huangzhou military camp, rammed earth walls, and heavy thunder in the village. It is conceivable that it will be very difficult to attack, but Xie Xu has made sufficient preparations, and the number of trenches erected is comparable to that in the pass.

After years of use, craftsmen have been able to build a trencher with wheels, so that they can first set up a trencher in the open space far away from the defenders, and then push it forward to reach the projectile position.

At the same time, there is also a good trench bridge, and the pointed-headed wooden donkey is pushing forward. In addition to the soldiers pushing the cart, there are also heavy thunder in the pointed-headed wooden donkey. As long as it enters the base of the wall, it can directly attack the village wall.

Of course, the defenders also have sky-bombing thunder. It is conceivable that the casualties of soldiers attacking the camp will not be small, but the casualties of the defenders will not be low, because the attackers' attackers have sufficient sky-bombing thunder.

The catapults are not all stone bombs, and there are also sky-blasting thunders that ignite fire twists. Although they often explode in advance or postpone the explosion, the power of attacking the city wall is still very amazing. It is precisely because of the transportation of these weapons that the marching speed of Xie Xu's troops has slowed down. It is not until now that they have begun to attack Baisha Pass.

The sharpening of the knife did not delay the chopping of wood. After everything was ready, Xie Xu ordered an attack. He was confident that he would take down the Huangzhou military camp within two days and take the lead in attacking the territory of the Huangzhou General Administration Office on the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains before other generals.

The distance between Baishaguan is more than a hundred miles southeast, and it is Menglong, the southern Dingzhou Prefecture, and if it is less than a hundred miles south, it is Lucheng Pass, Beijiang Prefecture. This time, the army went south to five routes, not a feint attack but a main attack. Xie Xu made up his mind to take the lead first.

"Transfer orders, beat drums, attack!"

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The Loess Pass guards the north-south valley and controls the north-south passage. The east-west and west-west sides of the pass are mountains. If the enemy attacks, they can only launch an offensive in the narrow area in front of the pass. The defenders' catapults and thunder are already ready.

Most half a month ago, the defenders were attacked by enemies dressed up as merchants. Fortunately, the soldiers were well-trained, had a perfect military preparation and high vigilance, so they did not let the other party succeed.

The main force of the enemy followed, attacked the Loess Pass, and both sides had catapults and thunder, so the battle was very fierce. The Loess Pass city wall collapsed several places, but in the end they all repelled the enemy's attack.

Yesterday, five hundred reinforcements arrived, bringing food, sky thunder and other supplies. The morale of the defenders was high and they vowed to stick to the pass to block the enemy's pace of going south. The soldiers were preparing to fight early this morning, but were stunned by the scene before them.

Flags fluttered on the mountains on both sides of Huangtu Pass. Although it was the flag of Zhou, the defenders knew that it was not their own flag. There were not only flags on the hills on both sides, but also many people.

The mountains and fields are full of grass and trees. Could it be that they misjudged and treated the plants and trees as humans? No, because these people were condescending and shot rockets towards the Loess Pass at the foot of the mountain.

There is a gentle south wind in the valley that runs north and south at this time. The rockets shot from the hills on both sides fly like fireflies, but most of them are blown by the mountain wind. In fact, not many of them can fall into the Loess Pass.

But the other party's purpose is not this, but to tell the defenders bluntly: a group of living people are here, your flanks will not be protected.

Although the rockets in the sky were blown away, as long as they were not blind, they knew that the archers on the hills on both sides had to add up to no less than 2,000. The other party just needed to walk south slowly to circle the south and attack the north and south.

Although the sides of the Loess Pass are steep, they can climb over slowly. If the defenders have sufficient troops, they can be divided into troops to intercept them. However, not only are there thousands of people surrounding the two wings, but they may not be able to deal with the enemy in front.

The team that was a team of more than a thousand people before, but now it suddenly doubled like a magic trick. Although the other party may use the method of multiple flags to bluff, since they can divide thousands of troops into a group of around them, it is probably a large-scale increase in troops.

The enemy's previous attack seemed to be just a tickling through the boots. The defenders thought it was a feint attack by the side division. As a result, it seemed that the opponent was just confusing them, delaying time and waiting for the main force to arrive, and then encircling overnight.

Just when the defenders were in panic, drums suddenly sounded from the camp outside the pass, and more than ten cavalry rushed forward, ventured to enter the pass, and shot a letter of persuasion to surrender at the pass. The content was very simple, the general idea was to surrender and survive, and to resist stubbornly.

After shooting the surrender book, the cavalry turned back to the camp. Most of them carried arrows on their bodies, but it was not a big deal to protect them with armor. After receiving the reward, the commander and general of the Pillar Kingdom, Shi Xun, looked at the Guan Building with a thousand-mile mirror and then put them away, with a look of contempt.

Seeing this, a general asked, "Do you want to attack now?"

"Okay, bluff first and add fuel to them!"

"What if the other party insists on not surrendering?"

"Don't surrender?" Shi Xun smiled when he heard this, "If you don't surrender, you can leave the gate and escape."

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The generals on both sides laughed. At this point, their advantage was already very obvious. The other party had always been foolishly thinking that their previous attack was a feint, but it was too late to come after it was understood.

The troops from Bozhou came to Guangzhou and were responsible for attacking the Loess Pass. The road to the Loess Pass was rugged and difficult to travel. In order to transport the baggage, they opened the road and built a bridge to reach the Pioneer Camp in front of the Pass, and then sent troops to climb the mountain overnight to cover the two wings.

Although many people were killed by the fall, as long as they could force the defenders to surrender or force the defenders to collapse, the siege was eliminated and more casualties could be avoided.

It's just morning now. If the defenders don't know how to fight back, they are confident that they will take down the Loess Pass before sunset and break through the Loess Pass. It's only a hundred miles away from the Nan Dingzhou Prefecture and the Beijiang Prefecture Lucheng Pass.

Shi Xun looked at the sky and ordered the first round of attack to start. His speed would be faster, because the Prime Minister set a strategy to advance in parallel with five routes and attack the five passes of Dabie Mountains at the same time. His marching speed was a bit slow, and now he was not moving more smoothly, and he might be taken first by other troops.
Chapter completed!