The fourth day.
Heyang City, City Lord's Mansion.
"The battle is scheduled for the seventh day." Mu Suifeng said, "Tao Zun said that only cavalry will be used in this battle, which will cost 30,000. Now, all the live horses that can be drawn from the seven cities in the southern region have been brought to Heyang. city."
"How old is it now?" Zhao Dun asked him.
"Twenty thousand." Mu Suifeng said, "We can't get ten thousand horses in three days."
"Do your best and listen to fate." Zhao Dun said, "If you can't keep an eye on 30,000, let Lu Qian calculate the marching route and see where he can get horses. Whether they are war horses or plowing horses, since Hulao Pass has said Thirty thousand, then thirty thousand.”
"Going to get horses during the march?" Mu Suifeng said, "It takes at least five days for the cavalry to get from here to Hulao Pass. In addition to the horses required for the expedition, we have to go out one day in advance so that we can catch up on the twelfth day. Go to Hulao Pass."
"Then set out one day in advance." Zhao Dun said, "We can't delay the time. Xie Xuan said that we should set off on the seventh day, so we must have calculated the time well. Xian Zhen's army worked tirelessly and traveled under the stars and night. I am afraid that they have already arrived at Hulao Pass. Two hundred thousand troops besieged Hulao Pass. If it were an ordinary army, Hulao Pass would be able to withstand it. But the army of the dead who was sent first was suspended."
"In eight days, 200,000 troops continued to attack the city, and the 50,000 defenders at Hulao Pass were difficult to defend." Mu Suifeng said, "Tian Dan, one of the four war gods in the national war, accompanied King Qi Cheng on the expedition, and 400,000 soldiers The army besieged Hulao Pass but failed. Half of the reason was that Hulao Pass was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the city wall was only fifteen feet high. The other half was because King Zhao defended Hulao Pass and the Yan army fought to the death, which raised morale."
"King Qi Cheng knows that no one will benefit from fighting until the end." Mu Suifeng said, "Otherwise, with Tian Dan's ability, Hulao Gate will not be able to hold it."
"Now our opponent is Xian Zhen, the number one general in the national war who is even more powerful than Tian Dan." Zhao Dun frowned, "Wang Wu of the Great Zhou Dynasty has great talent and great strategy. There are few people in the world who can take him seriously. He can evaluate him as the country's leader. The man who fights the number one God of War should not be underestimated.”
"But that's the problem." Mu Suifeng said, sighing, "The news that Xian Zhen came out of Dushan has spread throughout the northern border, and our soldiers all know who they are going to fight. How will the morale be boosted when we go on an expedition?"
A Confucian sage once said that in wars since ancient times, the weather has not been as good as the right place, and the right place has not been as good as the people.
What is human harmony?
To put it bluntly, it is the morale of the armed forces.
When the morale is high, the three armies will rush forward in one go. They will not turn around and flee in fear because of the slightest disturbance. This is harmony.
Nowadays, the Heyang army is afraid of being defeated first. Secondly, it is afraid that the 200,000-strong army will overwhelm 30,000. Thirdly, it is afraid that the enemy will be dead in battle.
Morale is so low that even ten miles outside the city, someone might be thinking of how to escape.
"Do you know which mountain gate in the Northern Realm is the best?" Zhao Dun asked Mu Suifeng.
"Tianzhu Mountain on the border of the Great Zhou Kingdom." Mu Suifeng said, "The Immortal Gate of Tianzhu Mountain is the Dao Gate of the Northern Territory and is recognized as the first mountain gate. Is there any doubt about this?"
"If the great master of Tianzhu Mountain is in Heyang City at this moment." Zhao Dun said, "And he has decided to go out with the three armies to fight Xian Zhen's army of 200,000 ghost soldiers. You said, he is here , can morale be ignited?"
"The Grand Master of Tianzhu Mountain?" Mu Suifeng was shocked, then overjoyed, "Is it the Tongming Zhenren who is even more powerful than the master, and is known as a semi-immortal in the world?"
"Exactly." Zhao Dun said.
…
Xian Zhen is here.
With his two hundred thousand troops.
The black torrent completely submerged the wilderness outside Hulao Pass. At a glance, it looked like passing locusts.
Densely packed and daunting.
The three armies formed a formation.
Huge siege equipment stood tall in the plains, as if huge beasts were quietly dormant.
The big bosses of Hulao Pass were all at the top of the city looking out at the pass.
"Twenty years ago, Wang killed people in anger, so that I could not stand up and fight in the north and south, and Yan was in civil strife." Wang Lang stood at the top of the city, looking even more hale and hearty in the cold wind of the north, "Now, I'm waiting I have been waiting for this day for ten years.”
All generals are afraid of loneliness.
Wang Lang has been familiar with military literature all his life, but when it comes to fighting, it is just a small fight. There has never been a major battle involving more than 100,000 troops.
Now the total number of veterans and recruits at Hulao Pass is 60,000. He faced the first general in the national war with an army of 200,000 ghost soldiers. No matter he won or lost in this battle, he had no regrets.
The anger and blood of war surged in the body of the great Sima of Yan State.
"Heyang City and I agreed to go out in seven days, and today is the fourth day." Xie Xuan said, "It will take five days to march 30,000 cavalry from Heyang City to here. In other words, the final decisive battle will be in eight days. 's noon."
"Sixty thousand versus two hundred thousand, eight days." Yuan Zhe said, "No matter how you look at it, you can defend it."
"Since Xian Zhen is known as the number one general in national wars, he certainly has his abilities." Xie Xuandao, "I have been undisciplined since I was a child, and I know nothing about military command. Now that Xian Zhen is besieging the city, what advice does the military advisor have?"
"As early as when we were in Handan, I told the general." Yuan Zhe said, "Two horses cannot share the same trough. At that time, I prepared a big gift for He Zongtang. Now that I have left Handan, He Zongtang must also have received this big gift. It’s no longer useful.”
"Oh, it's not just He Dali?" Wang Lang asked.
"Tao Zun, General." Yuan Zhe said, "Look, how orderly the formation of Xianzhen's 200,000 troops is, one after another, densely packed." He pointed at the Hulao Pass military flag, and saw the tiger flag hunting towards the south. "The wind direction is also favorable to us."
"The military advisor said, fire attack?" Wang Lang understood.
Xian Zhen's 200,000-strong army formed a dense formation, and at this moment, the army's position was downwind of Hulao Pass. If it is a fire attack, it will inevitably start a prairie fire immediately.
"It's freezing cold, where does the fire come from?" Xie Xuan asked, "Hulao Pass is fifteen feet high. Viewed from above, a human head is only the size of a fist. If a volley of rockets were fired, the fire would have been extinguished by the wind before it even hit the ground. ”
"So we need a fire that cannot be extinguished." Yuan Zhe said confidently, "At least, it is a fire that cannot be extinguished by wind and water."
"A fire that cannot be extinguished by wind or poured out by water?" Wang Lang thought thoughtfully and asked in surprise: "Could it be..."
"That's right." Yuan Zhe said, "It's the Abyss Black Fire of the Song Dynasty!"
The black fire of the abyss is said to come from the abyss of the South China Sea in the Song Dynasty. This kind of black fire looks like black mud before being ignited, and is extremely sticky. But once it is ignited, it will burn violently even in water, let alone wind.
"How much has the military advisor prepared?" Wang Lang was overjoyed and asked Yuan Zhe.
"This thing is a rare item even in the Song Dynasty." Yuan Zhe shook his head, "If there were enough, it would be a good idea to burn all the two hundred thousand ghost soldiers back to hell with one fire. But right now, there is only this number." As he said, Hold out five fingers.
"Five barrels?" Wang Lang asked.
Yuan Zhe nodded.
As he spoke, the horn sounded. It's not the horn here in Hulao Pass, but the desolate ghost horn outside the pass.
The dead people awakened by the demonic path raised their heads in the wasteland, and the eyes of the two hundred thousand army swallowed red light, like fallen stars.
Xian Zhen sat high on the skeleton horse, with his withered right hand holding the famous sword that had accompanied him throughout his life, and his ferocious red eyes stared motionlessly at the Hulao Pass tower.
This is the most powerful pass in the north.
Fifteen feet is equivalent to two Weicheng piled up, plus another three feet in height.
This height is enough to scare away most of the troops in the north. Seventy years ago, Tian Dan failed here and became the first general of Qi to be humiliated throughout his life.
But he won't.
Because this closed door can block the living but not the dead. First Zhen drew his sword, and the three armies pushed forward the huge siege equipment, preparing to attack the city.
The black torrent rushed towards Hulao Pass with a destructive power that could destroy the entire southern region.
The war began in the early morning of the fourth day!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!!——"
At the head of Hulao Pass, strong men beat drums and the three armies shouted. An astonishing murderous aura erupted for a moment.
Nine thousand Warcraft cavalry were hidden in the army's formation, waiting for the Hulao Gate to be breached. When the defenders left the city, they launched a charge and pierced the most poisonous blade into the tiger's heart.
Huge catapults were in place, with a pulling force equivalent to a thousand war horses galloping across the field.
"put!!--"
Inside and outside the pass, catapults operate simultaneously.
The living people in the pass threw five iron barrels filled with the black fire of the abyss of Song Dynasty, and they fell to the ground quickly, knocking down pieces of the army of the dead who were rushing towards the wall of Hulao Pass.
"boom!!--"
The dead people outside the pass threw huge rocks weighing thousands of kilograms into the sky and slammed them on the wall of Hulao Pass with an astonishing momentum.
Yuan Zhe stood at the top of the city, watching the fearless Master of the Dead submerge the iron barrels, and the black mucus flowing out of the iron barrels was carried everywhere by them.
"Fire the arrow." Yuan Zhe said.
The archer drew his bow and released the arrow. The arrow was dipped in the black fire of the abyss of the Song Dynasty. After being ignited, it burned violently. The wind continued to blow and the water did not extinguish it.
Five iron barrels were set on fire by rockets falling from the sky.
"Boom!!——"
Just listen to the deafening sound of explosions running through the wasteland, and the firelight soaring into the sky is like the flower of the other side blooming in hell, blood red and bloody.
The fire started a prairie fire.
