After Zhang Mingqi, the commander of the Suzhou Xiangjun Army, agreed to the plan of the general Zhou Jiling, Zhou Jiling volunteered to lead an elite force to cross the mountains and ridges between the two passes, opening the gate to the capital for the entire Suzhou Xiangjun.

To be honest, the mountains and ridges around Canglong City are extremely steep. Zhang Mingqi is actually unwilling to let his general Zhou Jiling take risks. Once Zhou Jiling has an accident, it will be a huge loss for the entire Suzhou Xiangjun.

However, Zhou Jiling was very persistent in this, hoping to lead the team by himself, and even issued a military order to Zhang Mingqi.

Zhang Mingqi finally agreed to lead Zhou Jiling to carry out the task of crossing the mountains and seizing the gate of the pass. At Zhou Jiling's request, he sent the powerful general Zhang Shaohua to Zhou Jiling.

On the afternoon of September 4, Zhou Jiling, with a carefully selected thousand elite soldiers, as well as several powerful generals and powerful generals under Zhou Jiling, went directly into the mountains and ridges between Mengjin Pass and Arc destiny. Zhou Jiling selected the target of seizing the gate of the gate as Arc destiny.

In order to cooperate with Zhou Jiling's operation, Zhang Mingqi not only asked the general Wu Zan to mobilize the main force of the two guards under him to move closer to the Arc deputies, but also drew a guard's troops from Mengjin Pass and secretly transferred them outside the Arc deputies.

In addition, in order not to let the imperial army notice, the Suzhou Xiang Army continued to launch a fierce attack on Mengjin Pass, and at the same time organized a lot of auxiliary soldiers to start digging tunnels into Mengjin Pass.

Zhou Jiling, an elite unit, encountered unimaginable difficulties in the mountains between Mengjin Pass and Arc destiny. Just to climb a cliff, more than 50 soldiers fell off the cliff and died during the climbing process.

After Zhou Jiling's elite troops went through thousands of difficulties and dangers, they finally entered the suburbs of Beijing on the morning of September 8, only 560 elite soldiers from the Suzhou Xiang Army were left, almost half of which were lost.

There were also two brave generals under Zhou Jiling who were always left among the mountains and ridges, which made Zhou Jiling feel very distressed.

In the woods at the foot of a mountain, Zhou Jiling took a look at the surrounding environment, and then said in a deep voice to his confidant Wang Bo, "Let the soldiers rest in this woods for half an hour and eat something, and then we will move towards the Arc destiny and strive to seize the Arc destiny tonight!"

At this time, the remaining Suzhou soldiers crossed mountains and ridges, and their clothes were torn. If they were not for weapons and armor, they would be like a group of victims.

Wang Bo said to Zhou Jiling with some concern: "Master, we don't have much food anymore, so it's enough for brothers to have a meal."

Zhou Jiling said indifferently: "Divid all the food you can eat to your brothers. If we can't take down the Arc de Arc depart tonight, it will be useless for us to keep what we eat!"

Zhou Jiling and others were lucky. On the afternoon of September 8, they arrived at the north gate of Arc deputies without any trouble.

Like Mengjin Pass, Arc deputies are also built with passes. The entire Arc deputies are about four thousand meters long, the city wall is twelve meters high and seven meters thick, and there are also two city gates, north and south. At this time, the large army of the Suzhou Xiangjun was outside the south gate of Arc deputies.

In order to support Mengjin Pass, more than 10,000 troops had already arrived outside the southern gate of Arc deputies and launched several tentative sieges.

In order to prevent the Suzhou Xiangjun outside the city, the imperial guards of the court kept closing the south gate, but the north gate of the Arcmen Pass was not closed. There were food and grass and various materials to be transported from Canglong City to Arcmen Pass.

The imperial army would never have thought that the Suzhou Xiang army would cross the mountains and ridges between the passes and enter the suburbs of Beijing. The entire suburbs of Beijing was not strong.

At this time, the imperial army stationed at Arc deputies, including 20,000 imperial guards and 20,000 servants of various aristocratic families, as well as 25,000 troops of Luo Youpeng, the prefect of Ganmeng County, Yuzhou. These troops are currently stationed in Arc deputies.

Zhou Jiling observed the situation at the north gate of Arc destiny for a while, and immediately led his men to set up an ambush on the necessary route from the capital to Arc destiny. He soon ambushed a team of hundreds of people in the grain transport team. Hundreds of auxiliary soldiers of this team of grain transport were easily captured by Zhou Jiling and others. Hundreds of ox carts filled with grain also fell into the hands of Zhou Jiling and others.

When the grain transport team continued to advance towards Arc deputies, all the auxiliary soldiers of the grain transport team had become Suzhou Xiangjun, while hundreds of auxiliary soldiers turned into corpses stripped naked and were hidden deep in the woods.

The imperial soldiers guarding the north city gate of the Arc destiny did not suspect that the grain transport team was dressed in Suzhou Xiangjun. After all, Suzhou Xiangjun has been blocked outside the Canglong Eight Pass, and the entire suburbs of Beijing is still very safe.

After Zhou Jiling and others transported the grain to the granary in Arc deputies, they began to transport the grain from hundreds of ox carts into the granary. They were busy until the evening before they had all the grain transported.

Then Zhou Jiling and others were arranged to some tents near the granary by the imperial soldiers guarding the granary, and asked Zhou Jiling and others to rest here for one night, return to Canglong City early tomorrow morning, and sent someone to deliver supper to Zhou Jiling and others.

While having dinner, Wang Bo, the general under Zhou Jiling, sat beside Zhou Jiling and whispered: "Master, we are going too smoothly, which makes me feel a little nervous."

Zhou Jiling took a bite of the bread in his hand and said proudly: "The imperial army at Arc destiny would never have thought that our Suzhou Xiang army would come from the direction of the capital. It would be normal to relax like this. Let the brothers eat and drink enough. We will seize Arc destiny that night!"

Wang Bo nodded and said, "The Marshal is right. Even I can't believe that we can really cross the mountains and ridges and enter the suburbs of Beijing!"

Zhou Jiling looked at Zhang Shaohua who was eating noodles at this time and said, "Brother Zhang, you have to rely more on you to seize the southern city gate of the Arc depot tonight. From the time we open the city gate and the large troops outside the city enter the Arc depot, we must have a long time. We must stop the counterattack of the imperial army at all costs during this period and defend the southern city gate!"

Zhang Shaohua just nodded and was still fighting with the dough cake in his hand. Compared to seizing the Arc destiny, Zhang Shaohua thought that the dough cake in his hand was more important, and Zhou Jiling didn't care about Zhang Shaohua at all. Zhou Jiling had already gained a certain understanding of Zhang Shaohua along the way. In addition to his shocking martial arts and strength, Zhang Shaohua can be said to be useless. With such a stubborn person, you just need to tell him what he should do.

At midnight that night, Zhou Jiling and others came to the south gate of Arc de Gate without any obstacles. Some of the imperial soldiers responsible for patrol were quietly dealt with by Zhou Jiling and others.

In order to guard against the Suzhou Xiangjun outside the city, the guards here at the South City Gate were very strict. Seeing that there was no chance to take advantage of the situation, Zhou Jiling took his men to kill the South City Gate.

There were at least a thousand imperial guards near the south gate of the Arc de Gate. However, under the sudden attack of Zhou Jiling and others, the imperial guards at the South Gate were caught off guard. Zhou Jiling and others quickly entered the tunnel of the city gate.

Zhou Jiling, covered in blood, shouted loudly: "Kill them all! Open the city gate!"

The imperial soldiers in the city gate tunnel were quickly killed, and then the southern gate of the Arc depot was opened. According to the previous agreement, a general under Zhou Jiling sent a signal to the large army of the Suzhou Xiangjun outside the city with a torch.

The imperial army inside the Arc destiny discovered that the South City Gate was opened by spies and immediately launched a crazy counterattack, hoping to retake the South City Gate. However, under the desperate blocking of Zhang Shaohua, a peerless general and other Suzhou Xiangjun soldiers, the Suzhou Xiangjun outside the Arc destiny, entered the Arc destiny from the South City Gate.

As more and more Suzhou Xiangjun entered the Arctic Pass City, Luo Youpeng, the troops of Ganmeng County, Yuzhou, could not stand the defeat in the first place. A large number of soldiers fled from the north gate of Arctic Pass City to the outside of the city.

The collapse of Luo Youpeng, the troops of the prefect of Ganmeng County, Yuzhou, immediately caused the imperial guards and servants in the Arctic Pass to lose the courage to continue to resist. Soon, batches of imperial troops also fled from the north gate to outside the city.

The next morning, the Arc destiny, one of the eight passes of Canglong, fell into the hands of the Suzhou Xiangjun. At this time, the team of elite soldiers led by Zhou Jiling were only less than fifty people left, and even Zhang Shaohua, the peerless general, suffered several injuries.

However, in the entire battle to win the pass, the Suzhou Xiang Army only lost less than 4,000 people, including the losses of nearly 1,000 soldiers brought by Zhou Jiling.

In the mansion of Dou Yan, the Taiwei of the Ministry of War of Canglong City, after Dou Yan, the Taiwei of the Ministry of War, learned that the fall of Arc deputies, he quickly sent someone to find General Li Hong of the Cavalry and General He Guangzong of the Cavalry.

"Bang——" Dou Yan, the Grand Marshal of the Ministry of War, pounded the wooden table with his fist and shouted angrily: "How could Arc destiny be occupied by Suzhou Xiangjun overnight? With the loss of Arc destiny, the capital was directly exposed to the front of the Suzhou Xiangjun!"

General Li Hong of the Cavalry said with a wry smile: "There are hundreds of Suzhou Xiangjun troops who have entered the suburbs of Beijing. They ambushed a grain transport team, and then dressed as auxiliary soldiers of the grain transport team and sneaked into the Arc destiny. At night, these Suzhou Xiangjun troops suddenly attacked and seized the southern gate of Arc destiny, and welcomed the large troops of Suzhou Xiangjun outside the city into Arc destiny."

After pausing for a moment, General Li Hong continued, "The hundreds of Suzhou Xiangjuns may have crossed from the mountains and ridges to the suburbs of Beijing."

Dou Yan, the Grand Marshal of the Ministry of War, asked angrily: "Where is our army? In the Arc de arch, didn't we arrange more than 60,000 troops? It is rare that these more than 60,000 people watched the Suzhou Xiangjun seize the entire Arc de arch?"

General Li Hong sighed and said, "It would not be so easy for the Suzhou Xiangjun Army to seize the Arctic Pass, but in the Arctic Pass, the army under Luo Youpeng, the prefect of Ganmeng County, Yuzhou, was in chaos, which also implicated the imperial guards and servants in the city."

Dou Yan, the Grand Marshal of the Ministry of War, angrily smashed the wooden table, "Baoshi! It's really a waste who can't do anything but fail! Immediately arrest Luo Youpeng, the prefect of Ganmeng County, for me, and I'm going to chop him!"

The cavalry general He Guangzong next to him reminded Dou Yan, the Grand Marshal of the Ministry of War: "Taiwei Dou, Prefect Luo Youpeng is the brother-in-law of Han Renji, the Minister of War. Now the Suzhou Xiang Army is about to come to the capital. Let Prefect Luo Youpeng make meritorious contributions!"

Dou Yan, the Grand Marshal of the Ministry of War, remembered the relationship between Luo Youpeng, the prefect of Ganmeng County, and Han Renji, the Minister of War, so he shook his head helplessly, and could only change the topic and asked General Li Hong of the Cavalry and General He Guangzong of the Cavalry: "Now that Arc destiny has fallen into the hands of the Suzhou Xiangjun Army, Canglong Ba Pass is equivalent to losing its function. The two generals think, how should we deal with it next?"

General Li Hong of the Cavalry immediately said: "Master Dou, I think we should mobilize the army as soon as possible and take back the Arc destiny while the Suzhou Xiang Army has not yet established a stable foothold."

General He Guangzong of the Cavalry said with different opinions: "Since Arc destiny has fallen into the hands of the Suzhou Xiangjun Army, if we want to retake it, we will definitely pay a very heavy price, and it is very likely to pay a heavy price, but we still cannot capture Arc destiny. After all, Arc destiny is easy to defend but difficult to attack. I think the troops from the other seven passes should be transferred back to the capital as soon as possible, and rely on the capital to launch a decisive battle with the Suzhou Xiangjun Army!"

General Li Hong frowned and said, "General He, once Suzhou Xiang army encircles the capital, it will inevitably cause chaos in the capital and easily worsen the situation."

General He Guangzong of the Cavalry sighed and said, "I don't want the capital to be surrounded by the Suzhou Xiangjun, but I don't think there is much hope that we can regain Arc destiny."

Dou Yan, the Grand Marshal of the Ministry of War, then pondered for a long time before deciding to adopt the suggestion of General He Guangzong of the Cavalry, "Immediately transfer the troops from each pass to return to the capital and strive to defeat the rebels in Suzhou under Canglong City!"

General Li Hong of the Cavalry and General He Guangzong of the Cavalry looked at each other and nodded with a serious face. Once the Suzhou Xiang army was at the city, the thirteenth family would have no way out!

After Mengjin Pass has been leading troops to resist the main force of Suzhou Xiangjun, Xiao Su, the general of the cavalry who had been leading troops to resist Suzhou Xiangjun, received an order from the Grand Marshal Dou Yan of the Ministry of War to lead his troops back to Canglong City, he smiled bitterly at the general of the chariot and cavalry and said, "I never expected that the natural danger of Canglong Eight Pass would be easily broken by Suzhou Xiangjun. In this way, it would be meaningless to defend Mengjin Pass."

Dou Yan sighed and said, "The Suzhou Xiangjun, who suddenly appeared in the Arctic Pass and seized the southern city gate, probably entered the suburbs of Beijing from the mountains and ridges. We always thought that the Canglong Ba Pass was as solid as a decent place, and we did not consider that the Suzhou Xiangjun would send people to climb over the mountains and ridges, but suffered a great loss this time!"
Chapter completed!