As the various policies were read over and over again below Guancheng, the defenders hiding in Wengcheng gradually started to stir. They are the descendants of refugees. They grew up in a comfortable environment and have long lost the blood of their ancestors.

Coupled with Yunfeng's various commitments and guarantees, they are looking forward to it

Acknowledging the fait accompli, not forcing people to return home, redistributing land on a per capita basis, with unbelievably low taxes, and adopting a voluntary principle for military service. With so many preferential measures, who would have the thought to work for the Li family and his son anymore?

Li Qi's face became increasingly ugly, and he saw all the hesitations of the sergeants. What shocked him was that many generals around him also had evil looks in their eyes, and some of them were whispering to each other.

What? He had a premonition that as long as one person took the lead at this time, mutiny would be inevitable.

Li Yue also noticed this, carefully pulled Li Qi and said: "Brother, retreat quickly. If you don't leave, something may happen."

Li Qi's body was uncertain, and he was obviously struggling fiercely deep in his heart, but his reason told him that he could not delay it any longer. Time was running out, and a mutiny could happen at any time. By then, being tied to the Jin army's camp would be enough.

Fortunately, it is possible to directly kill the rebels

Death immediately stopped hesitating and shouted: "Retreat, the whole army retreats to Jiange" and immediately rushed to the pass with his personal guards and Li Yue. He even lost the courage to turn around and order the sergeants to go together. As for these people

Will you retreat with him? He can't control that much anymore.

Just as they stepped onto the stairs, someone shouted: "Catch them, don't let them run away, hurry up, brothers, let's open the city and surrender, and use these two sons of the Li family as gifts to the Jin army."

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"Close the door quickly, brothers guarding the door, don't let them rush out."

With all kinds of shouts and shouts coming together, the mutiny that Li Qi was most worried about finally happened.

I saw the sergeants at the top of the city rushing in like a torrent. Nearly three hundred people had just rushed down to Guancheng when they were surrounded.

Li Qi was shocked and angry: "You...you want to rebel? Aren't you afraid that His Majesty will destroy you and the whole clan?"

No one paid any attention to him. The soldiers' eyes were all filled with ferocious light. They held swords and guns in their hands and pushed the encirclement smaller and smaller.

Not far away, the door creaked loudly. Looking at the door that was only ten steps away, Li Qi panicked and shouted: "Everyone, hurry up and get out of the gate. Let's go into the mountains and hide."

In an instant, loud shouts of killing erupted in the pass. Yunfeng was not in a hurry, waiting for the defenders to come out and accept the surrender...

In this battle, a total of nearly 9,000 Yangping Pass defenders were recruited. Li Qi and his remaining dozens of personal guards narrowly escaped before the gate closed. However, Li Yue was unlucky to be shot in the leg and was killed by the defender.

Yunfeng was treated as a prisoner by the army and sacrificed to Yunfeng. Originally, Yunfeng planned to send personal guards to chase Li Qi, but the rolling mountains outside the pass made him give up this idea. The terrain was unfamiliar and he could not catch up.

The whole army was stationed at Yangping Pass for three days to rest and recuperate. Yunfeng only left a thousand troops to garrison. On May 27th, they led the troops to the sword pavilion.

From the map, the straight-line distance from Yangpingguan to Jiange is very short, but if you take the Jinniu Road among the mountains, the total distance is about 600 miles.

This section of the road lasted for nearly half a month. There was no way to cross the valley from Ju County and go down to the Qingmuchuan River, which is now the northwest corner of Ningqiang County, Shaanxi Province. It is the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, along the Jinxi River, a tributary of the Bailong River, to the Qingchuan Sandbank.

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Then go down the Bailong River and pass through Jiameng and now the ancient city of Zhaohua to reach Jiange. Along the way, there are either valleys or river gorges. In order to prevent being caught in the trap, Yunfeng would send his guards up the mountains to check the situation every time and make sure it was correct before moving on.

Be careful with your ten thousand year ship. He would rather march slowly than have any accidents happen.

Thirty miles in front of Jiange is Guangyuan, Sichuan, Jinshou County. When Yunfeng led his army to arrive, the entire city had turned into an empty city. The people and defenders all retreated into Jiange. It seems that Li Xiong had already retreated after receiving Li Qi's report.

I lost the confidence to defend this city and pinned all my hopes on the sword pavilion.

On June 13, after resting for two days in Jinshou County, Yunfeng led 2,000 infantry, some personal guards and ten trebuchets to march towards Jiange

There was originally no road in front of the Jiange Pavilion. Zhuge Liang built nearly 20 miles of winding pavilion road on the cliff during the Northern Expedition, allowing people and vehicles to pass through. Moreover, the Jiange Pass was also built by Zhuge Liang. Thinking of this, Yunfeng couldn't help but look a little reproachfully.

I looked at Jiang Fa next to me

This makes this old guy feel quite strange.

Yunfeng still has no clue about attacking Jiange. The pavilion road can only accommodate one vehicle, and its end is connected to Guancheng. There is no way to deploy troops on the entire road. According to Tianjimen, there is an upward slope in front of the pass, which can only accommodate two people.

With about a hundred people, the trebuchet can only be placed on the pavilion road, and due to the restrictions of the surrounding mountains, the cross is the limit.

When he got closer, Yunfeng couldn't help but feel chilly. It is said that being famous is not as good as meeting him. Seeing the Jiange in front of him, he finally understood the reason why Zhong Hui's hundreds of thousands of troops were blocked outside the pass and could not enter.

The sword pavilion is built at the break of the cliff of Dajian Mountain, the main peak of Liangshan Mountain. The city is six feet high and less than ten feet wide. The mountains on both sides are steep and dangerous, and the cliffs are towering. They stretch from northeast to southwest and cannot be seen at a glance.

At the end, Dajian Mountain, where Guancheng is located, has peaks like swords, stone walls stretching across it, as dense as a city wall, interrupted by cliffs, two cliffs facing each other, and a straight line leading through, shaped like a gate, and the terrain is extremely steep

In this kind of terrain, a bed crossbow can only fire a few arrows at a time, which will not have any effect. Large equipment such as chariots and ladders cannot be transported to the pass, and infantry can only

Being able to climb the city with ladders using the thin fire cover provided by ten trebuchets can be said to be a fortress that will never fall under normal circumstances.

But similarly, the defenders were also restricted. Since the pass was only less than ten feet wide, it could only accommodate a few hundred people to defend the city, and it was impossible to distribute many troops. Moreover, the sword pavilion was limited by the terrain and only had one city wall, so the urn city could not be repaired.

stand up

Li Xiong stood on the city wall and looked at the Jin army getting closer and closer. He felt a little nervous. He had not fought in more than ten years. He had not been accustomed to bowing and horses for a long time. He was used to an easy life, but Jiange was the throat of Shu.

After hearing the news of the fall of Yangping Pass, he decided to come to supervise the battle in person. If the Jiange defenders were persuaded to surrender like Yangping Pass, he would not even have a place to cry.

Zhang Zhaocheng stood next to Li Xiong and cupped his hands to persuade him: "Your Majesty, don't worry. With such a strong pass, how could the Jin army be able to enter? Back then, Jiange blocked Zhong Hui's army of more than 100,000 and could not advance. If Deng Ai hadn't forcibly crossed the Yinping Trail, only

I'm afraid that even today, the world is still divided into three parts, and now that His Majesty has ordered the Yinping garrison to be on strict alert, why worry?"

Li Xiong finally calmed down and continued to look down.

Yunfeng also understood that simply mobilizing two to three hundred men to climb the city from the front without the cooperation of siege equipment would be tantamount to a dream. The purpose of his trip was mainly to observe the terrain on the spot and test the defenses.

The army immediately ordered the crossbowmen to deploy ten trebuchets along the mountain road and attack every five.

Following the order, sparse kerosene bullets flew towards the Jiange Pavilion. Even Yunfeng looked at it with disinterest.

However, the critical area is narrow and the defenders are densely packed. Although there are only five kerosene bombs at a time, not every one can hit the target, but the casualties caused are still significant. From time to time, there are fireballs rising from the crowd, and then

There was a shrill and painful scream

Yunfeng felt refreshed at this. He had brought five hundred kerosene bombs. He would not retreat until he threw them all away. As for the defenders carrying earth to put out the fire, he didn't care. The kerosene bombs were very cheap and it would not hurt to throw them out.

If you can't attack the city for the time being, just think of it as having fun.

Not just him, everyone accompanying him watched with interest with this idea in mind. On the contrary, the busiest people were the craftsmen. They had to change the load of the tip pole at any time, otherwise permanent damage would be caused.

Li Xiong, Zhang Zhaocheng and all the generals have retreated from Guancheng. Only ordinary soldiers are extinguishing the fires that have been lit everywhere. He does not dare to withdraw them all. He cannot afford to take this risk. Compared with this, the dead point

Soldiers are nothing

But seeing the sergeants who were burned to charcoal being carried off one after another, Li Xiong felt a sense of aggrieved that he could not fight back after being beaten, and his face was ugly. He had no choice but to send out hundreds of troops at a time from Jiange.

, there is a large group of crossbowmen in front of the trebuchet.

At this time, Zhang Zhaocheng stroked his beard and smiled and said: "Your Majesty is in a hurry, waiting for me to summon the magic soldiers to defeat the enemy."

Li Xiong was immediately overjoyed and said: "Okay, it's such a hard work for the national master."

Zhang Zhaocheng nodded slightly and gave a few instructions to the disciples around him. The disciples were ordered to return to the rear camp. After a while, a hundred strong men with pious faces were led to the front of the formation. They knelt down respectfully and bowed down.

Said: "I have met the Immortal Master, and I have met His Majesty."

Zhang Zhaocheng glanced at it, stroked his beard and said: "Today, the poor Taoist general will ask the magic soldiers to come to you to drive away the enemy troops outside the pass. Are you willing to serve His Majesty?"

The hundred people suddenly became excited, as if it was a supreme honor to be chosen, and kowtowed repeatedly: "We are willing to ask the immortal master to cast a spell."

Zhang Zhaocheng nodded with satisfaction, turned around and climbed onto a high platform. On the front of the high platform was a statue of Nanhua Laoxiang. There was a sacrificial table in front of the statue, filled with offerings, such as fruits, grains, and pig heads.

Zhang Zhaocheng first bowed respectfully to the old immortal Nanhua, then slowly pulled out the magic sword, stepped on Yu steps, and turned around on the high platform. The obscure mantras slowly spit out from his mouth, which seemed to contain deceptive words.

As powerful as it was, as the tone changed, confused expressions appeared on the faces of the hundreds of men one after another.

Even the sergeants around were not immune to the influence, and their eyes became dull.

Yu stepped faster and faster, and gradually a whirlwind blew up from the high platform. However, Zhang Zhaocheng suddenly stopped and shouted: "I have asked the Patriarch of Nanhua to appear and send down his divine weapons to help his disciples defeat the enemy. The Patriarch of Nanhua is as anxious as the law...

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Then he shouted to the disciples in the audience: "Please invite the Patriarch's Immortal Soup."

Several disciples immediately scooped out a black soup with a strong pungent smell from a wooden barrel, poured it into a bowl, and gave it to a hundred men to drink in turn, and then gave each of them an axe.

Within a few breaths, these people changed. Their faces were ferocious, their eyes were blood-red, their throats were roaring, and they were restless, just like wild beasts.

Zhang Zhaocheng turned to Li Xiong and said, "The magic soldiers have been lowered. Please open and close the door. Don't miss the opportunity."

Li Xiong quickly ordered the sergeant to do so.

"Creak" an unpleasant grinding sound sounded, the door was opened a little, and Zhang Zhaocheng recited strange syllables: "Wait outside the pass, destroy the opponent's trebuchet, kill the enemy soldiers, and go."

After receiving the order, one hundred men who had entered a violent state raised their axes high in the air, let out a dull roar, and ran impatiently to the outside of the pass (to be continued)
Chapter completed!