Yuchi Jingde also had a do-it-yourself temperament.
After receiving instructions from Gao Zhixing, Shuri set off with 10,000 Xiangyang troops.
They completely gave up their food, grass and baggage, each carrying only some dry food and hurried into the mountains.
Under the leadership of a local guide, we walked through the mountains on a small path and entered the Sichuan area.
At this moment in Shu, a large force of the Liangzhou Army was attacking Jianmen Pass in the north.
Inside, there are also 20,000 Liangzhou troops led by Li Chengqian, who are approaching Yizhou City.
Naturally, the east side was not spared. After Yuchi Jingde left, Gao Zhixing used all his strength to launch a fierce attack on Qutang Pass.
After Yuchi Jingde entered Shu, the situation in Shu was turned upside down.
It can be said that the entire Shu region is either fighting or preparing for war.
Let alone live in peace of mind, almost everyone is worried about their own survival.
Although the imperial officers and soldiers did not kill ordinary people.
But who can guarantee that they will not be affected by the war?
After all, gunfire is relentless.
When Li Chengqian attacked Mianzhou City, more than a thousand people were affected by the artillery fire and died unjustly under the fire.
But there is really no way, war is still ruthless after all.
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Shu region, Qutang Pass.
In the past few days, Gao Zhixing had given Xie Guangxian a lot of trouble.
For several days in a row, Gao Zhixing launched fierce attacks on the checkpoints.
Moreover, this guy's siege method was really unique, making Xie Guangxian want to cry and laugh at the same time.
The first is a daily round of shelling.
In the current Tang Dynasty, there are four hundred Zhenguan cannons in the royal division.
With so many artillery, of course they have to be used.
Gao Zhixing also fulfilled Li Chengqian's principle that the more the better.
Every day at noon, he would ask his soldiers to roll out all the Zhenguan cannons and bombard them at Qutang Pass.
After hundreds or even thousands of shells were fired, he turned around and left without any hesitation.
And more importantly, most of the cannons in the Tang Dynasty King's division are the latest models.
Although their cannons were about the same power, they hit farther than the Shu army's cannons.
The Shu army's artillery can only hit a target of 600 to 800 steps, while their artillery can hit a target a thousand steps away.
And this also left Xie Guangxian and others without a chance for revenge.
After all, they can't run out of the city and have a face-to-face artillery battle with them, right?
Besides, even if they want to fight, will Gao Zhixing accompany them to fight?
Or, even if Gao Zhixing accompanied them in the fight, would their cannons be able to hit each other?
Of course.
This is not what troubles Xie Guangxian the most.
After all, artillery is not a rare thing, and they have already thought of tactics to restrain artillery.
At the moment, what troubled him the most was that after the daily bombardment, the Gaozhi Guild specially found some surrender soldiers of the Shu army and sat under the city wall to persuade the soldiers in the pass to surrender.
For these surrendered soldiers, Xie Guangxian should have them killed, that's not the case.
After all, they are all fellow Sichuan people, and many of them know each other.
If they don't kill them, they still make trouble every day and preach some timid thoughts to their soldiers all day long, which is really troublesome.
Xie Guangxian rubbed his temples with a headache and said, "Everyone, can anyone tell me what I should do now?"
What to do now?
You, the general, don’t even know this, how can we know?
The generals, lieutenants, and counselors all lowered their heads and said nothing.
After all, the current situation cannot be settled in a few words.
Let’s first talk about the comparison of the numbers of the two parties.
There are 13,000 defenders at Qutang Pass, 3,000 of whom are elite troops who have been on the battlefield.
Although the remaining 10,000 people cannot be considered old, weak, sick or disabled, they are also composed of new soldiers or local troops.
Let’s talk about the King of the Tang Dynasty.
There are as many as 60,000 elite troops capable of fighting.
Among them, the Bingzhou Army and the Youzhou Army were the top ace teams of the Tang Dynasty.
Even if it is the Xiangyang Army, it is no less generous. He has always been known as the royal son.
Their weapons and equipment are not even inferior to those of the Liangzhou Army.
And with such a huge gap, do you still want to win?
Dream on...
Being able to hold on is like burning incense.
And Xie Guangxian naturally knew this.
"You can't think of a good way to defeat the enemy. I don't blame you."
"But I want to ask you something now."
"You tell me..."
Xie Guangxian narrowed his eyes and said, "How should we deal with those people outside who have betrayed our army and promoted cowardice to our soldiers?"
After hearing Xie Guangxian's words, a few people raised their heads, glanced at Xie Guangxian, and then lowered their heads.
These are not fools.
In other words, anyone who can reach this position from a soldier or a civilian is not an ordinary person.
Who among them could not tell that Xie Guangxian was planning to find someone to take the blame for him?
But who wants to take the blame?
After all, this war will end one day.
As Shu people, as long as they don't die, they will still have to live in Shu in the future.
If they take this scapegoat, they will definitely be scolded in the spine by the Shu people in the future.
It is not difficult to see from this that many people in the Shu army have no will to fight in their hearts.
Some people have even begun to think about their retreat after failure.
Looking at the appearance of these people, Xie Guangxian's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.
Unexpectedly, he had just finished laughing at Zhang Xiao, and then he would fall into the same fate.
Xie Guangxian said with a cold face: "I ask again, how should we deal with those people outside who betrayed our army and promoted cowardice to our soldiers?"
Still no one spoke.
"Since no one has come forward."
"Then I have to name you."
Xie Guangxian glanced at a deputy general and said, "Fan Bei!"
"The end...the end will be..."
The general named Fan Bei also cursed secretly.
He really didn't expect that Xie Guangxian would call his name.
At this moment, Xie Guangxian said directly: "Fan Canjun, tell me, what should I do with those people?"
"this……"
Fan Bei hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "After all, those are Shu people, they have the same roots as us, and we must be tolerant towards them..."
"tolerant?"
"This is war time, and they are on the side of our enemies. Are you telling me to be tolerant to them?"
Xie Guangxian stood up, looking at the case, and shouted angrily: "Come here, pull this guy out and behead him who can't distinguish between inside and outside, and who can't distinguish between priorities!"
Hearing this, Fan Bei was confused.
how?
Do you want to kill yourself just because of this?
After reacting, Fan Bei quickly knelt down and begged for mercy: "General, have mercy on me. I realize that I was wrong..."
Seeing this, another general who was familiar with Fan Bei also hurriedly said: "General, this is a time of war. It is taboo to kill the generals in the army."
"Big taboo?"
"hehe……"
Xie Guangxian obviously planned to scare the monkeys and let these people take a good look at the consequences of disobeying him.
Therefore, he immediately said: "Pull this man down together, and he will be responsible for thirty battles. Tomorrow, he will be executed in front of the entire army!"
This time, Fan Bei and the general were not the only ones confused.
Everyone in the place was stunned.
They all couldn't understand what Xie Guangxian's operation was...
