: One shot

Lengshui Pass, close to Lujiang City, is equivalent to opening up the road to Lujiang City. Moreover, the location of Lengshui Pass is very special. Taking Lengshui Pass can not only threaten Lujiang City, but also cut off the road to Gushan to the north.

Now Shucheng has been taken down by the border army, and Huoshan is in danger. It can be said that the peasant army stationed in Gushan is the only way to retreat Lengshui Pass, so Gao Yingxiang and others attach great importance to Lengshui Pass. After learning that Shucheng was defeated, Gao Yingxiang sent an urgent letter to Li Zicheng, and at the same time ordered Wang Yan to withdraw from the Tongling battlefield and lead troops to station Lengshui Pass.

Zhou Dingshan did not rush to attack Lengshui Pass, but instead led people to explore nearby and carefully observed the terrain of Lengshui Pass. It has to be said that Lengshui Pass has a typical southern landform, with steep stone walls on both sides. The entire Lengshui Pass is like a semicircle with a wide outer periphery and narrower the further inside. Lengshui Pass is built in the highest and narrowest place. Lengshui Pass has many similarities with Hangu Pass, the worse is that the mountain road ahead of Lengshui Pass is much gentler.

The officers and soldiers did not rush to attack Lengshui Pass, but Wang Yan was a little worried. It was because the Xuanfu border army entered Luzhou Prefecture, and the offensive was too sharp, and they went to Shucheng and other places. The opposite side was Zhou Dingshan, the number one general under the command of the Living King of Hell. Wang Yan was really afraid that one would not be able to defend Lengshui Pass. In the past two days, Wang Yan would come to the city to see almost every two hours, "The officers and soldiers outside have not yet moved?"

"Don't worry, the officers and soldiers showed no sign of attack, but another army came from the north. The troops on the opposite side were now over 10,000. Also, they also brought that kind of Vulcan cannon!"

"Boat?" Wang Yan shivered involuntarily. He was too impressed by the new type of artillery. When this cannon was powerful, it almost made him feel like he was pissed out. Because it was too powerful, the peasant army also gave a nickname called "Vulcan Cannon". This place should not be suitable for firing cannons. The mountain roads are rugged. How did they send the cannons? This thing is very heavy, and it is unrealistic to rely on people to lift it up. Wang Yan felt that it was all scary and had to cheer himself up and said, "Brothers, don't be afraid, the cannons are like ghosts, so they can't get it up, so let them do it."

With a nervous mood, Wang Yan returned to the command office with a dark face. Just now, it was purely to calm morale and cheer him up. In fact, Wang Yan was very scared. If the Xuanfu people really sent the Fire God Cannon up the mountain, how could they keep Lengshui Pass? Of course, they can guard it, but the price must be very high. After sitting in the house for a while, a guard broke in with panting. Wang Yan was thinking about his thoughts, but was startled by the sudden sound of hitting the door and said angrily: "Do you still understand the rules? A bastard."

The guard shivered and hurriedly said, "Captain Wang, the young man didn't mean it, it was... something happened outside..." The guard drooled, his eyes full of fear, as if he had just seen a ghost.

Wang Yan was so angry that he stood up and stomped his feet, cursing coldly: "Bastard, what happened again? I just came back and made trouble for me. Has anyone caused an internal strife again?"

Wang Yan instinctively thought that some of the leaders under his command had started to make trouble because of something. He hated such a thing and was helpless. Wang Yan's military discipline was the worst, and the leaders had their own ulterior motives. The leaders often made trouble for some trivial interests, so Wang Yan was a little annoyed. However, this time, Wang Yan was obviously wrong.

The guard shook his hands and shook his head with a sad face, "Captain Wang, it's not this matter, it's the officers and soldiers... When the brothers were just following, they saw the officers and soldiers pulling a Vulcan cannon up the mountain. Where are the cannons now?"

"What thing?" Wang Yan's eyes widened, as if he was about to jump out. In just a moment, cold sweat appeared on his forehead. "Impossible, how did they get such a heavy thing and fly up?"

"Captain Wang, this is something that the villain saw with his own eyes. Many brothers have seen it. If you don't believe it, you can go out and take a look!" The guard was also helpless. This was indeed quite bizarre, but it happened. Wang Yan couldn't believe it, or he didn't want to, so he breathed a breath and followed the guard out of the house angrily. He came to the city and took a thousand-mile mirror from his deputy.

Now it is no secret that Qianli Mirror is the thing. Since seizing a Qianli Mirror from Xuanfu, the leaders of each of them have known how big the gap between the two sides is. Later, although they could not get the Qianli Mirror, the leaders of each of them valued the captured Qianli Mirror and took it as treasures. Recently, Xuanfu seems to have discovered this problem. Once the situation is unfavorable, destroy important objects such as Qianli Mirror first, making it more and more difficult to seize. In this way, the existing Qianli Mirror in your hand is even more important.

Through the Qianli Mile Mile, Wang Yan clearly saw a cannon in a relatively flat place in front of him. The gun was shaking, like a wild beast that could eat. Wang Yan really wanted to roar up to the sky, why did the officers and soldiers really get the cannon? This is not in line with common sense. This thing has been exposed to, it is very heavy. It can be dragged by two wheels on the ground, but the mountain road is rugged, how can it be done?

Besides, I have heard that Xuanfu has insufficient supplies. Since the Maojindu War, the shells in the hand of the Living Hell have been almost empty, and the follow-up has not been added. The cannon without shells is just a tiger without teeth. So Wang Yan had to comfort himself: "Brothers, don't worry, the officers and soldiers are probably scaring people. They have no shells long ago. I think that's an empty shell."

Wang Yan felt that it made sense, but what happened next was a bit unexpected. Not long after he put down the Qianli Mile Mile, he heard a bang, and groaned in pain against the stone wall not far from the city wall. Pieces of gravel fell off, leaving a black and gray mark.

Looking at the thick smoke there, Wang Yan was completely stunned. He held the Mile Mile Mile and opened his mouth, as if someone had imposed a fixed technique. The leaders next to him had the same expression, one of them was even more gray, his hands were trembling, and he couldn't speak, "This... this... this... leader Wang, that can't be fake, it's real... it's really... this gun, my mother, if it hits the city, and a few guns come down... wouldn't we... be in danger..."

"Yes, this thing is so terrible... We can't disperse it even if we stay on the top of the city." Another leader was even more unbearable and was already leaning against the city wall and breathing heavily.

It is really that this new artillery brought too much fear to the leaders of the peasant army. So far, they have never forgotten the craters of one meter in radius and the broken corpses. The best way to deal with this artillery is to disperse the formation and minimize the losses. Death, now everyone gathers at the city of Lengshuiguan, and cannot be dispersed, so they can only rely on Lengshuiguan to defend. Can a mere Lengshuiguan block the artillery fire of officers and soldiers? The leaders are very unconfident about this. When Lengshuiguan was first built, they probably didn't consider this matter at all, right?

Wang Yan didn't say anything for a long time. After a while, his face turned gloomy and calm, and walked towards the gate. "It seems that it is necessary to tell the situation here to the King of Chuang. Lengshuiguan... is not optimistic!"

Actually, what Wang Yan really wants to say is whether he can stop Lengshui Pass? Hurry up and let Gushan’s troops withdraw. If Lengshui Pass is bombed open, Gushan’s troops will become lonely. At that time, tens of thousands of elite soldiers of Xuanfu will be surrounded, so that they can eat whatever they want. But Wang Yan dared not say it openly. If he really said it, would he still have a face? He can’t tell everyone directly that Wang is so scared that he wants to run away?

It’s strange that the officers and soldiers hid the cannon after testing it, and they didn’t rush to attack. Wang Yan had a headache. Someone put the knife around his neck and kept lifting it up and putting it down, but he didn’t cut it. Do you think it would be better? Killing people just tilted the ground. What’s going on?

Just when Wang Yan was frowning, Zhou Dingshan, who was under Lengshui Pass, was also frowning deeply, without any joy. Li Jiucheng looked at Lengshui Pass in the distance and muttered in his heart, "General Zhou, is Mr. Wang's method reliable?"

"Mr. Zhou doesn't know, but Mr. Wang has his own reasons for this arrangement. You might as well wait, and it may be a result soon." Zhou Dingshan didn't dare to say too much. Although he was very confident in Tie Mo and Wang Zuokao, the matter this time was really evil. He wanted to get the Lengshui Pass after a fake firework. No matter how he thought about it, he felt a bit fantasy.

In fact, the gun just now was completely scary. Although the new gun was lighter and much more flexible, it was a bit unrealistic to transport it along the mountain road. The cannon that was sent to the mountain just now was actually a tin shell, with nothing except appearance, and its weight was at most one-tenth of a real gun. As for that gun, it looked scary, it actually secretly buried the explosives in advance, ignited the medicine twist, and calculated the time, and pretended to fire a shot when it was almost done.

This kind of trick is not very clever. As long as Wang Yan sends people who know how to go to the explosion place to carefully investigate, you can find out the trick. However, it seems that Wang Yan has no idea. He is probably scared by that shot now.

It is not a big problem to shock the bandits with one shot, but it is very unlikely that the bandits will give up the Lengshui Pass.

As expected by entering Zhou Dingshan, Wang Yan was scared to death after a shot. He returned to his residence and quickly compiled a letter to Anqing Mansion. When the letter arrived at Gao Yingxiang of Anqing Mansion, it was already the second day. Looking at the content of the letter, Gao Yingxiang did not come back to his senses for a long time. After a while, he said with a cold face: "Come here, go and invite Mr. Niu to come over, and he said there is something important to discuss."

Niu Jinxing came very quickly. When he learned about what happened in front of Lengshui Pass, Niu Jinxing's first reaction was that he didn't believe it. "King of Breaking, is the news confirmed? As far as his subordinates know, the cold water pipe is built along the mountain, the road is narrow and rugged, how can the heavy guy with the cannon be transported up unless it is dismantled."

"Mr. Niu, this matter is absolutely true. The people of the Living King of Hell have tried it in front of the pass. Many people have seen it with their own eyes. In my opinion, Wang Yan is so brave that he dare not lie about such things!"

"This..." Niu Jinxing frowned, thought for a while, remembered something, and slapped his forehead and hesitated: "King of Chuang, is there any movement in Gushan recently?"

"That's not. The Living Hell just sent troops to station in the north of Gushan and did not launch an attack." Gao Yingxiang finished speaking, thinking for a while, and then added, "New news has been heard from Chaohu Lake. According to the spies' response, the Living Hell photographed Butcher Geng to Chaohu Lake. Recently, the Butcher Geng is constantly collecting ships, and Chen Bing is on the east bank of Chaohu Lake, with unknown purpose."

When he heard this, Niu Jinxing's expression moved and quickly climbed to the map to figure it out. Although the map was simple, the basic place name was still clear. After looking at it for a while, Niu Jinxing raised his head and a hint of panic flashed in his eyes, "King of Chuang, we are afraid that the estimate was wrong. Judging from this situation, the real purpose of the officers and soldiers is not Lengshui Pass, but the Wushan Mountain in the southwest corner of Chaohu Lake."

Pushing the map forward, Niu Jinxing pointed to the location of Mount Wu and said worriedly: "King Chuang, Mount Wu and Mount Wu are sandwiched between Mount Gu and Lengshui Pass. It seems safe and worry-free, but if the officers and soldiers set out from Chaohu, they can directly reach Mount Wu and Mount Wu. At that time, cooperate with the Butcher Geng to get the naval army, and the guy Zhou Dingshan turned north and rushed directly to Mount Wu and Mount Wu. With the two working together, how can the Mount Wu and Mount Wu be unable to take it? Of course, we can counterattack Mount Wu and attack, but our subordinates have learned that this Butcher Geng was the number one general under Mao Wenlong from Liaodong before he took office. The water battle skills are definitely not comparable to those of us. With the Butcher Geng leading the navy to cruis in Chaohu, even if we have several times the strength of our troops, we may not be able to regain Mount Wu. By then, the 20,000 troops in Gushan would not be able to retreat even if we wanted to."

Gradually, Gao Yingxiang also knew the seriousness of the matter. His face turned cold and his voice asked in a low voice: "From this point, isn't it meaningless for us to stick to Lengshui Pass to the death?"

"If things really happen, that's true!" Niu Jinxing nodded with some difficulty. If the Xuanfu army Chen Binglushan was not in a hurry to take down Lujiang City, what's the point of building heavy troops at Lengshui Pass? In this way, he would be a little in a dilemma.

If everything is right, Lengshui Pass will become useless and it is meaningless to defend it. The soldiers will go out to Lengshui Pass and fight with officers and soldiers near Mount Wushan? As soon as this idea comes out, Gao Yingxiang and Niu Jinxing will automatically filter out. Both of them are well aware of the combat effectiveness of the Xuanfu border army. In recent years, the combat effectiveness of the Xuanfu Nine Borders is the most terrifying one, because most of the soldiers and horses of the Xuanfu were the soldiers of Yunfu under the command of the Living Hell.

These direct troops from Yunfu have been confronting the Mongolian Tartars on the grasslands for many years, especially the cavalry, which traverse the north of the desert, and rarely have enemies. With Lengshui Pass, you can fight with the city of Guan and pull them outside. Even if the terrain in this area is not conducive to cavalry fighting, you really don’t have much confidence in fighting head-on with the Xuanfu army. And even if you win, it may be a big deal.
Chapter completed!