After half a stick of incense, the spies sent by Lonely came to report back. They did not find that Hou Qing had set up an ambush on the way the army passed through Lishan Pass.
After learning the intelligence from the spies, Lone Ran asked his subordinates to immediately send green signal arrows to the Flame Dragon King to allow the subsequent army to quickly clear the level.
The anxious Yanlong King finally put down his heart after seeing the green signal arrow sent by General Lonely. "They passed safely. They are fine. It means that the Queen did not set up an ambush on the way our army passed the customs." Yanlong King ordered. Yan Hua said: "We are also preparing to pass the pass immediately." Yanlong King asked: "Remember, the army must pass through Lishan Pass as quickly as possible."
The follow-up troops, led by King Yanlong, passed Lishan Pass as quickly as possible without any hindrance from General Houqing.
After safely clearing the customs, Yan Hua sent a small team of troops to explore the rear and observe whether Hou Qing organized troops to pursue them.
Yan Hua was still puzzled by Hou Qing's sudden 180-degree change. He believed that there was no reason for Hou Qing to let the Yunmeng coalition pass through Lishan Pass, especially after sacrificing so many guards. After life.
Yan Hua believes that now is the time when the Yunmeng Alliance Army has truly entered a dangerous place. If the Hou Qing colludes with the guards at the rear pass and puts them into the area under the jurisdiction of Jiuli City, the purpose is to choose an excellent place. They surrounded and annihilated them, catching them all in one fell swoop.
Thinking of this, a chill ran down Yan Hua's spine. He sent a team of troops forward quickly to detect any strange phenomena in the pass ahead, and also found out the geographical environment along the road. Those places were most likely to have ambushes. When the army passed through those places, he required the army to be particularly careful. careful.
In order to avoid having too many dreams at night, the Yanlong King led the Yunmeng coalition forces to move forward quickly, trying to get to Jiuli City as quickly as possible and rescue Chi You. As long as they successfully rescued Chi You and helped him to the Jiuli Throne, they would be considered safe.
Until now, the Yanlong King was very puzzled by Houqing's sudden change of offensive and defensive attitude. He couldn't figure out how the Houqing, who had always preferred death over surrender, suddenly let them pass. This made the Yanlong King puzzled. Yanlong King asked Yanhua about his doubts and asked him what he thought of the comparison.
Yan Hua glanced at Yin Lingzi beside him and said, "I wonder what the general thinks of the comparison?"
Yin Lingzi said: "For a tough guy like Hou Qing, besides Patriarch Jiuli, who else can make him act like this?"
The Yanlong King looked at Yin Lingzi in disbelief and said: "According to the general's words, could it be that Mr. Jiuli ordered the Queen to give up the resistance and let our Yunmeng coalition pass?" At this point, the Yanlong King was in disbelief. He sneered and said: "Huh... Huh... How is this possible? Doesn't the second child of Jiuli know that our Yunmeng coalition is going to take his life and seize his throne? If he does this, unless he is dissatisfied Long life.”
Yin Lingzi replied: "Otherwise, someone like Hou Qing, who values honor and integrity more than his life, would not take the initiative to give up the pass city he was guarding unless we stepped over his body. "
Yanlong King didn't dare that Ancestor Jiuli would do this. Why would he do this? What he did was tantamount to digging his own grave. As long as he was a normal person, he would not do anything that would put him in a desperate situation.
Ancestor Jiuli looked at Yanhua with a pair of puzzled eyes, wanting to know what he thought about this moment, "Does it mean that Yanhua loves you, do you think so too?"
Yan Hua nodded and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, General Yin Lingzi and I have the same view. People like Hou Qing will not take the initiative to surrender. There are still people in the world who can do this." If you ask him to open the gate of Lishan Pass and let the enemy troops enter, no one except Patriarch Jiuli can do it."
Yanlong King couldn't believe their conclusion. He asked in confusion: "Why did the ancestor of Jiuli do this? Doesn't he know that our attack on Jiuli City will cost his life?"
Yan Hua replied: "Maybe something happened in Jiuli City that caused more headaches for Jiuli Ancestor than the Yunmeng coalition's attack on Jiuli City, so he had to worry about one thing and the other, temporarily give up the confrontation with our army, and concentrate on to deal with the sudden changes in the city."
Yin Lingzi continued: "There is another possibility. All this is a trap set by Jiuli ancestor for us, in order to annihilate all our Yunmeng coalition forces in one fell swoop."
Yan Hua reminded King Yan Long uneasily: "Your Majesty, that's why the Yunmeng Alliance Army has really entered a dangerous situation now. From now on, while ensuring the necessary marching speed, we must move step by step to prevent Jiuli Patriarch from attacking us. What kind of conspiracy did the Yunmeng Alliance Army use to prevent the army from entering a desperate situation of destruction?"
After listening to the analysis of the two military think tanks, the Yanlong King, who had always been optimistic about this, suddenly became nervous. He did not expect that the Yunmeng Alliance Army was in such a dangerous situation at this time. There is a risk of annihilation of the entire army.
Under the leadership of the Yanlong King, the Yunmeng coalition did not encounter any obstacles along the way and rushed towards Jiuli City as quickly as possible. While they were marching at high speed, they were waiting for news about the two teams sent by Yanhua.
After about an hour, the detective sent by Yanhua to monitor the military movements of Lishan Pass came back and reported to him, "Sir, we went all the way to Lishan Pass and did not find any troops organized by Hou Qing, the guard of Lishan Pass, to pursue us. Signs of the Yunmeng Alliance."
After a while, the spies sent by Yanhua to investigate the movements in the passes ahead returned to the army. They reported to Yanhua: "Sir, my subordinates did not find any military movements in the passes ahead."
Yanhua asked: "How about the defense of the pass city?"
The spy replied: "The pass ahead is very strange. There is no strict wartime city defense deployment at all. Their city defense is as usual, with a pair of people standing loosely guarding it. It seems that most of the defenders have been transferred. Other places. What is even more strange is that when our army is approaching, the city defense gate is wide open. It seems that the city defender does not want to confront our army and wants to let our army pass."
After hearing the spies' information, Yan Hua was puzzled, "Does the ancestor of Jiuli really intend to let our Yunmeng coalition force go all the way to Jiuli City without any hindrance?"
Yin Lingzi asked: "Do you know where most of the missing defenders have been transferred?"
Several spies shook their heads, expressing ignorance.
Yan Hua reported the information obtained by Tan Ma to King Yan Long, who was puzzled by the unreasonable defense of Guan Pass City, and was even more puzzled by the behavior of ancestor Jiuli.
He asked Yanhua and others how to pass through the Shangyu Pass in front of them.
Yan Hua said: "It is better to send a general to Guanshan to call the formation first to explore the actual situation. If there is nothing abnormal, we will repeat our old trick. The troops will be divided into two groups and enter and pass through Shangyu Pass in stages."
The army arrived at Shangyu Pass. The city defense at Shangyu Pass was exactly what the spies had said. The city gates were wide open. The defense officers on the city tower saw an army several times their size. Although they were a little nervous, they were not prepared for war. breath.
Yanlong King accepted Yanhua's suggestion. He sent Xiongran forward to call for battle to test the strength of the enemy's army. Xiongran led a small group of troops to the foot of Shangyuguan City and shouted loudly to the city tower: "I am General Yunmeng Xiongran, please." You will wait until General Zhenguan comes out to speak."
The soldiers guarding the city did not dare to neglect, and said with a slight panic: "Just wait, I will report it right away."
After a while, a head popped out from the tower, looking tired and as if he hadn't woken up yet. "I am Shang Zhengyu, the general who controls Shangyuguan." Then Shang Zhengyu said to him impatiently. Lonely said: "I know you are going to Jiuli City. No, the city gate has been opened for you. You can just leave. Why do you still bother me?"
Shang Zhengyu looked at Shang Zhengyu alone, who had no fighting spirit, with a puzzled look on his face. Ever since Hou Qing, the guard of Lishan Pass, let them pass, the territory under the jurisdiction of Jiuli City was full of weird atmosphere for them.
He originally wanted to ask Shang Zhengyu what was going on, but Shang Zhengyu had already reached this point and completely blocked his mouth.
After Shang Zhengyu finished speaking absentmindedly, he disappeared from Lonely's eyes. Lonely thought that this guy might have gone to lay the corpse again.
One man's one-man show made it impossible for Lone Ran to continue singing, so he had no choice but to lead the pair of men behind him back to the army. He came to Yan Hua and reported to the Yan Dragon King the result of his formation call at Shangyu Pass.
After hearing this, King Yanlong looked puzzled and said very puzzledly: "Are all the soldiers in Jiuli City crazy? Facing the pressure of our Yunmeng army, they didn't react at all and were still sleeping. It’s very unreasonable, what kind of medicine is this Jiuli old man selling in his gourd?”
Yin Lingzi stepped forward and said: "With Patriarch Jiuli's current cultivation level, what he did is beyond our ability to guess or see through."
Yin Lingzi's words made Yan Hua and Yan Long King very worried. "Could it be that Ancestor Jiuli is going to lay out another extra large bag for our Yunmeng Alliance Army? Let us dig in so that we can catch all our Yunmeng Alliance Army in one go." Yan Long King was worried. road.
Although Yan Hua was also worried about this, because, from a normal person's perspective, what Jiuli Patriarch did was really unreasonable. He was clearly digging a hole for the Yunmeng Alliance Army, and then looked at They jumped in one by one, and finally arranged for tens of thousands of people to fill the hole and destroy the corpses.
However, in Yan Hua's heart, there was still an optimistic thought. In order to stabilize King Yan Dragon and prevent him from getting into trouble, Yan Hua reported good things but not bad things to King Yan Dragon and said: "Your Majesty, things may not be like this. , maybe there is another possibility."
After hearing Yan Hua's words, Yan Dragon King looked at Yan Hua with eyes like the sun rising over the clouds and said: "Oh! What else could possibly exist? Is it beneficial to our army?"
Yin Lingzi continued: "This is indeed a trap, but it is not necessarily set for us, because if this is a trap for our Yunmeng army, it would be too obvious."
"Soldiers are crafty. Maybe this is the cleverness of Patriarch Jiuli. The purpose is to confuse us and let us fall into the trap he has set for us without any scruples." Yanlong King said uneasily.
Yan Hua said: "That's why Wei Chen said 'possible', that is to say, Wei Chen is not very sure about this." At this point, Yan Hua said to King Yan Long: "Your Majesty, even if this is Old Jiuli The trap set by the ancestors, I have a plan to break the trap set by the Jiuli ancestors against our Yunmeng coalition forces."
When the Yanlong King heard this, he happily said: "What a wonderful idea, please come to me and listen to it."
When he looked around, there were people everywhere. In order to prevent the wall from having ears and leaking the news, Yan Hua leaned into the ear of the Yan Dragon King and whispered his strategy to the Yan Dragon King. After hearing this, the Yan Dragon King looked happy, as if he was in a desperate situation. Among them, the person who suddenly found a way out.
Yan Dragon King's team Yan Hua was very satisfied with his plan. He slapped the table and shouted: "Okay! Just follow Master Yan's plan."
