The mountains on both sides are very steep rock walls, and there is only one road that is not a road that can lead to the upper level. It is not suitable for a large number of sergeants to operate and fight.

Huang Yuanwu led his soldiers to move forward on this rugged mountain road at a very slow speed. But since he had discovered the enemy's location and proved the existence of the ambush, it was impossible to ignore it. This matter must not be delayed. Huang Yuanwu must seize all the passes in the mountains and clear the forests before they take the next move.

On the steep rock walls, a few thin trees grew lonely. Huanu Park led thousands of soldiers to walk slowly on this road and kept moving upwards. From time to time, soldiers stepped on the air, but no one fell down. The 50,000 soldiers in the front army were all veterans in the service of the Eastern Prince's Mansion, with rich experience. In such an environment, their value can be better reflected.

Many soldiers were based on teams and looked after each other. Although they were slow and dangerous, they did not have any major problems until they reached the top of the mountain.

This pass-by mountain range is made into a piece, with trees growing on the mountain range, and it is even less popular. It is not suitable for combat at all, but it is definitely suitable for ambushing.

The moment he climbed to the top of the mountain, Huang Yuanwu narrowed his eyes and looked forward, looking at the mountain near the sixth pass, but because the distance was too far, he could not see clearly, and at this distance, he could not hear a clear shout of killing.

Huang Yuanwu did not speak, but waved his hand gently, and the soldiers on both sides understood and divided into different directions and marched near the sixth level.

The road to the top of the mountain is much easier to walk than the road to the mountain, but this is also a wilderness that has never been developed. The marching speed is not fast. If you follow the current marching speed, you may have arrived at the battlefield and the battle will be over.

However, Huang Yuanwu was not panicked. He had ordered all the defenders of the relevant pass to attack and advance in stages. Reinforcing the vanguard troops, other troops would arrive faster than them. Huang Yuanwu's arrangement has two benefits. First, the front-line battlefield will be reinforced as soon as possible, because the Sixth Pass is also under the control of the Eastern Prince's Mansion, where three thousand troops are sent to support the battlefield, which can solve the urgent problem.

The soldiers from the next few passes were dispatched and entered the jungle on the top of the mountain, and they would search the entire area along the way to ensure that no other enemy troops would enter from other places.

In addition to the confrontation between Huang Yuanwu and the orders of the latter two armies, the central army filled the gaps in the pass to ensure that the several levels that had been occupied were absolutely safe. The rear army built camps on the spot and formed effective fortifications based on the first level. There was no need to worry about enemy attacks from the rear. Even if the battle ahead was not going well, Huang Yuanwu could immediately arrange reinforcements to support him and evacuate calmly.

This progressive approach in sequence solves the attacks that may come from any direction to the greatest extent.

But what Huang Yuanwu didn't expect was that the Northern King Emperor Zhengchu would actually do something to himself here, and he used this method. He almost didn't have to guess what he wanted to do.

If Huang Yuanwu's estimate is good, the number of troops blocking the Dongwang Mansion this time will definitely not be too large. The purpose is still the same, and it will delay the speed of the Dongwang Mansion's march.

As for why the pass guards in the imperial capital cooperated with Huang Zhengchu's actions, it is unknown how Emperor Yuanwu reached a certain tacit understanding between Yang Qin of the imperial capital and Northern King Emperor Zhengchu, which is certain.

The speed of the march was much faster than when I was going up the mountain before. Huang Yuanwu led the army forward. The mountains were covered with jungles and the mountains were covered with stones and forests. All the soldiers walked forward on foot, and it was not suitable for war horses. While moving forward, all the soldiers were responsible for carefully checking the surrounding environment. This was a work that must be done. The troops entering the mountains were led by Huang Yuanwu. They must ensure that they would not be attacked from behind, and that the battle ahead could be won.

It was not until ten minutes noon that the main force led by Huang Yuanwu reached the edge of the battlefield.

Huang Yuanwu stood on a mountain, squinted his eyes and looked into the distance. He could vaguely hear the shouts of killing in the distance. Through the dense forests, he could vaguely see the battle in the distance, but a large number of trees blocked his sight and could not see it too clearly.

"Transfer the order, the two brigades immediately stepped forward to support the front line, and the rest were on standby." Huang Yuanwu observed for a while and felt that the battle in the distance was not the core point of the battlefield. He could feel that because of the order of direct attack, the troops of the Dongwang Mansion had obtained a steady stream of reinforcements. At this moment, they had gained some advantages on the battlefield, and the opponent could not suppress the troops of the Dongwang Mansion head-on.

The messenger took the order, and then two brigades of soldiers entered the jungle and headed straight for the battlefield in the distance. Huang Yuanwu had been standing on a high place, constantly watching the situation on the battlefield, always feeling that something was wrong.

After a while, he clearly saw that the two teams he had sent just now joined the battlefield. The entire edge of the battlefield immediately advanced forward. The Eastern Palace gained an absolute advantage and was pushing against the other side. Huang Yuanwu then came down from a high place and ordered: "All soldiers obey orders, slowly. Go forward, think about controlling the situation, and be ready to fight at any time."

Immediately, the sword from the waist of the Emperor Yuan general pulled out and walked ahead with the lead. His escort team immediately followed him to protect his safety.

The large army slowly advanced forward, and the closer they got to the battlefield they had just seen, the stronger the bloody smell in the surrounding jungle, until Huang Yuanwu saw the corpses and blood on the ground, and the smell of blood in the forest reached a peak.

The battle seems to be over.

Many soldiers from the Eastern Prince's Mansion who participated in the battle were sorting out the battlefield. The enemy's corpses were piled aside, emitting a pungent smell of blood. The withered grass in the forest was stained with blood. Whether it was the pungent smell of blood, the corpses and broken limbs all over the ground, they stimulated everyone's nerves.

Huang Yuanwu ordered all the members to stop moving forward, and he led the guards and walked forward.

The soldiers of the Eastern Prince's Mansion around saw Huang Yuanwu coming and saluted them one after another. Huang Yuanwu walked forward expressionlessly and carefully checked the situation around him.

During this observation, he discovered something. The proportion of the war loss between the enemy and us seemed to be somewhat unbalanced. He could see a large number of corpses of enemy soldiers wearing simple armor, but few could see the corpses of soldiers who died in battle in the Eastern Palace. The armor on the enemy mountain was very ordinary, and it could even be described as inferior. This was not a regular army of the royal palace, nor was it a garrison of the imperial capital. The identities of these people made Huang Yuanwu feel very suspicious.

He slowly walked to a corpse, squatted down, carefully checked the armor on the man's body, and his brows became deeper and deeper.

"Last general, see the little prince."

Just as Huang Yuanwu was checking the enemy's corpses, a voice came from behind Huang Yuanwu. He didn't have to look back and knew that this was Ding Jiang.

This time, Huang Yuanwu brought Ding Jiang, who had been depressed. Since the last enclave ended, Ding Jiang has been in Pingjin City and built the city walls under the command of the rest of his life. However, the fact that his friend Kou Long died in the enclave has always been a knot in his heart. In the past few months, he has been depressed. In order to relieve his emotions, Huang Yuanwu specially brought Ding Jiang with him on this expedition. This person's life belongs to the battlefield. If he does not let him find a way to relieve his boredom, this person may be depressed.

Huang Yuanwu did not look back, but waved his hand behind him, pointed to the enemy's corpse in front of him, and said, "This is not Qi Tian's standard armor, nor is it the troops of the Northern King's Mansion. Do you know what these enemy troops are from?"

"The General has carefully checked it." Ding Jiang came behind Huang Yuanwu and replied softly: "From the clothes and combat effectiveness of these people, they are not regular soldiers. If they are a group of unorganized bandits, I believe it."

"Bandit?" Huang Yuanwu was stunned when he heard this, turned around and looked at Ding Jiang, and asked, "How can I see it?"

Ding Jiang didn't say anything, but took a step forward and took off the helmet of the corpse in front of him, revealing a piece of fluffy and messy hair. Then he took off his breastplate and wiped the blood on his chest with the man's clothes. A very strange mark appeared on the upper left side of his chest.

The mark is small and looks like an arrow.

"Most of these people have such marks. I have seen this pattern before. During the war more than ten years ago, we put down a rebellion and destroyed a royal family with little effect. The royal family members of that royal family also had such marks on their bodies." Ding Jiang pointed to this strange and simple mark and explained to Huang Yuanwu: "Due to the strategy of my Eastern Prince's Mansion, we did not kill all the royal members of this small country at that time, and only killed the bad deeds of the fish and meat people at that time. The country finally surrendered to Qitian. Now it is a small province in Qitian, named Liang'an. Their royal members continue to manage Liang'an, but are under the supervision of the empire."

Huang Yuanwu frowned slightly after hearing Ding Jiang's explanation. When Qi Tian was expanding wildly, he destroyed countless such small countries. Most of these countries finally joined Qi Tian's command, because Qi Tian's strategy was to not conquer the people, but only target the royal family. Only in this way can such a large territory be built in a short period of time, and then use some strategies to allow local people to accept Qi Tian's rule.

Huang Yuanwu also personally led the team to annex many such places, but he had never seen this mark he saw now.

"What do you mean..." Huang Yuanwu frowned and expressed his guess: "What does it have to do with this Liang'an now blocking our enemy army?"

"It's not certain." Ding Jiang shook his head and said, "In terms of combat power, clothing and style, these people are more like bandits in the Wuwhistle Mountains, rather than soldiers who are being stolen. Even if they have any relationship with Liang'an, they are not as deep as the decisive. These people are used as cannon fodder."

When Huang Yuanwu heard this, his brows frowned even deeper. He immediately asked, "The battle is over, how about the damage to the war?"

"These people are almost vulnerable." Ding Jiang replied truthfully: "Our soldiers only suffered a large number of casualties when they were ambushed. According to the simple statistics now, in this battle, the enemy army suffered at least 2,000 casualties, and the remaining birds and beasts scattered. However, we only had more than 100 casualties, and the combat power between each other was not on the same level."

Huang Yuanwu nodded slightly: "Have you figured out the last pass?"

"The pass has been surrounded and has not yet been attacked." Ding Jiang replied truthfully: "I and several other generals think there is any problem with this, so they did not order the siege without authorization."

"Okay." Huang Yuanwu responded, stood up, and said, "Sweep the battlefield, these enemy troops were buried on the spot, leaving three brigades on duty on each side of the mountain range, and the rest followed me down the mountain and gathered before the Sixth Pass."

"Ode to the Lord!" Ding Jiang took the order and bowed and retreated.

Huang Yuanwu's eyes were cold. This matter was indeed not as simple as it seemed. A bad premonition appeared in his mind, which made him feel like he was trapped by others.

The large army did not experience any battle, and then followed Huang Yuanwu down the mountain road next to him.

Huang Yuanwu was thinking about the battle that had just happened.

The battle happened very strangely. These enemy troops that suddenly appeared seemed to be sent to the door to the East Prince's Mansion to kill. No matter who the person behind them was, Huang Yuanwu could not yet overcome this person's plan.
Chapter completed!