Chapter 266

The nine Jedi are ancient and mysterious, especially xiyuanze, the top three. Even Lu Que and Gu Qingcheng, who have been there once, don't know much about xiyuanze. Gu Huairen thinks that since zhaining can use the underwater stone bridge to return to the south bank, they can.

And if the stone bridge is strong enough, then the Army crossing the river first can add the thunder riding. On the open plain, no army can withstand the impact of the thunder riding. Last year Qiu lie's crazy lion army can't, and now Yan Tuohai's xiyuanze army can't either.

After another discussion with Shen Zhang, Gu Huairen, for the sake of safety, sent 100 Chinese Army guards and Yulin scouting camp to investigate the place on the map. These Chinese Army guards were all soldiers of Dingguo government, all of whom had followed him in the northern Xinjiang war. Compared with Yulin scouting camp, he believed these veterans who had followed him for many years.

When Shen Zhang left, Gu Huairen picked up the letter from his daughter, Gu Qingcheng, and read it several times. However, there was a bitter smile on his lips, and his heart was empty. He was dissatisfied with Lu que, who was in the imperial capital, as if his most precious thing had been robbed by others.

Gu Huairen knows very well that the reason why his daughter Gu Qingcheng volunteered to attack Pingshan pass is that Pingshan pass has a special position in the whole war situation, but the most important thing is to maintain the situation of strategic coercion arranged by Lu que. Otherwise, the battlefield in Heyan county will become impasse, and if they can't cross the river here for a long time, the whole war situation will fall into deadlock, After six months of strategic development, Lu has a tendency to collapse.

As soon as he thought of his daughter, who had taken care of her like a jewel since childhood, and now was heading for the army in the wind and rain, Gu Huairen felt a lot of heartache. In his heart, he complained a little more about the young man he attached great importance to. But at this time, he was on the North Bank of Huangyan River, and even if he wanted to help, he could not help him. He could only pray in his heart that his daughter Gu Qingcheng would be successful and would not be hurt in the chaotic battlefield.

At the same time, after entering Xihe County, he led 10000 Yulin scouting battalion and Zhai Ning's 10000 cavalry to Gu Qingcheng, where Pingshan gorge and Zhuge Ya met. He had arrived at Zhuge Ya's camp at the south end of Pingshan gorge. As for Fengxiang's footmen who followed her, they would not arrive until three days later.

Zhuge Ya's camp was set up in Pingshan gorge, about 90 li away from Pingshan pass. Zhuge Ya chose to camp here to bully Pingshan pass and block the way to attack Xihe county from the north. After receiving a letter from the flying eagle of Fengxiang army headquarters, he learned that Gu Qingcheng was leading the army, Zhuge Ya had already expanded the camp, which could only house 10000 troops, five times ahead of schedule, just enough to accommodate 26000 cavalry and 30000 soldiers brought by Gu Qingcheng.

The reason why Gu Qingcheng broke away from the infantry and led Qingqi to here was to investigate the defense of Pingshan pass in advance, so as to decide what method to use to get the pass. But because of the war between the two countries and the restlessness of bandits on the road, Gu Qingcheng took away Fengxiang yunqi and zhaining's 10000 Qingqi, but left Meng Cang's Fengqi camp and Li Chang's scouting camp to guard 30000 soldiers.

"Deputy commander, when I learned that you were leading the army, the general had already transported the siege equipment from Xihe county's treasury in advance. In addition, the equipment built during this period included 18 well appendages, 12 washing cars, 70 catapults, 30 bed crossbows, and more than 200000 bows and arrows." After Zhuge Ya helped Fengxiang yunqi and Zhai Ning Qingqi to camp, he found the big account of the Chinese Army prepared for Gu Qingcheng. As soon as he met, he made it clear that he was preparing to attack Pingshan pass.

"Aunt hard, there is no outsider here, or call me the best." Gu Qingcheng took off his helmet, shook his sweating hair, and said, "I'll talk about the war later. Can my aunt prepare some hot water for all the soldiers to wash up first? They have been running in the cold rain for more than ten days, and let them take a bubble bath to get rid of some damp and cold air in their bodies."

"I forget that. I'll do it right now. There's Ginger stored in the camp. After the soldiers have taken a bath and boiled water for them, it must be all right for Zhuge ya to go all the way." ZHUGE Ya has been in Gu Qingcheng army since she swept the seven counties. Naturally, she knows that she loves soldiers like a son. As long as conditions permit, she is not strict with her soldiers, Turn around and get out of the tent.

Gu Qingcheng looked at Zhuge Ya's back and said to himself, "Xie Daoheng, when you see so many fireworks rising in the camp, you must have guessed that the marshal has arrived. The marshal of Pingshan pass is bound to win, but I don't know which one is better than the other two brothers."

The reason why Gu Qingcheng did this was to let the cavalry who had been galloping for more than ten days bathe to relieve their fatigue and get rid of the cold, so as not to catch the cold. But the main thing was to use the fireworks to make hot water for 20000 people, so that Xie Daoheng in Pingshan Guanzhong knew that there were soldiers and horses coming here. When Xie Daoheng's detective saw the Gu flag rising in the camp, Naturally, she will know that she is Gu Qingcheng, so she will create some psychological pressure on Xie Daoheng before the war.

Gu Qingcheng has heard from Zhai Ning that Xie Daoheng is the youngest of the Xie family, but he is the best at military strategy. However, being good at military strategy does not mean that he can apply what he has learned. Since ancient times, there are not too few people who talk about military affairs, but too many. There are too few natural talents like Lu que. Gu Qingcheng just wanted to see Xie Daoheng's reaction when he learned that she was leading the army, so as to analyze whether the general Tianxing in his early twenties was a real military talent or not.

After bathing and changing clothes, Gu Qingcheng suddenly felt refreshed. Although she was still a little tired, her body was relieved because of the pain of riding and galloping for more than ten days. She knew that it must be a bathing scene outside. As a woman, she was inconvenient, so she did not rashly walk out of the tent. Instead, she took out the marching map and thought about it quietly.

She is not thinking about the battle of Pingshan pass, which is about to start, but about the overall strategic situation. Compared with the military achievements she has made, she is more concerned about whether Lu's overall strategy can be successfully completed. In fact, in Gu Qingcheng's view, there is no problem with Lu's strategy. The standoff under Heyan city is only when there is a solution. Fengxiang army does not want to pay too much. Now, as long as she conquers Pingshan pass, she can revitalize the overall situation. At that time, whether she is stationed in Pingshan pass or going out of the pass, there will be more attack directions to choose from.

However, in Gu Qingcheng's consideration, the best way is to go north first, together with the two legions of Yulin and benlei, to annihilate Yan Tuohai's xiyuanze army. At that time, let her father Gu Huairen lead the army to encircle Tianxing capital. She can go directly south and fight again in Heyan County, forcing Xie Daoxian to surrender. However, it's still a little early to think about this. The most important thing now is to break the Pingshan pass in front of us.

According to Gu Qingcheng's knowledge, Pingshan pass was established in the early days of Tianxing's founding. When Tianxing founded the country, it only owned a piece of land near Wangji. At that time, there were barbarian tribes living on the plateau of Xihe county. In order to prevent the barbarians from invading northward, the early Tianxing King built Pingshan fortress in Pingshan gorge, and later expanded Pingshan pass.

However, after the second Tianxing King succeeded to the throne, Tianxing's national strength has been greatly developed. In the later period of his reign, he sent troops to wipe out the barbarian tribes who fought against each other on the Xihe plateau. Therefore, this Pingshan pass has never experienced any war since it was established more than 500 years ago. Because the first three generations of Tianxing kings had already pushed the territory to the South China Sea, the later generations of Tianxing kings didn't care about Pingshan pass, which was built in the mountains and valleys.

If it wasn't for the construction of Pingshan pass, which was built with long boulders and glutinous rice paste, and if it wasn't for Xihe County, which is rich in spices, and needed to transfer the capital through Pingshan pass, the Pingshan pass city might have been abandoned and become a ruin after 500 years of wind and rain.

Gu Qingcheng is very curious about what Pingshan pass is like now, because she knows that the garrison of Pingshan pass was sent by Qiu Xu after Yan Wensheng became king. There is not much time from now, and it is not enough time to restore the half abandoned pass for hundreds of years.

Thinking of this, Gu Qingcheng couldn't help walking out of the tent. She wanted to go and see the pingshanguan city with her own eyes. However, as soon as she came out of the camp, she found Zhuge ya, Zhai Ning, Gu qianxiao and ye Zhiqiu coming towards her camp. Looking at their perfect and ruddy faces, it was obvious that they had just taken a bath.

"Gu Shuai, how did you come out?" Gu qianxiao looked at wearing strong clothes and boots, no armour, hair is just a bundle in the back of his sister, hurried two steps, asked. When there was an outsider, Zhuge ya, or he, called Gu Qingcheng with his official title.

"It's hard to run all the way. Didn't Ben Shuai tell you to take a break? So he came together again, but what happened?" Gu Qingcheng glanced at several faces and asked in surprise. She had given military orders before, and they could rest after encampment. After all, the rapid march of the army for more than ten days was really very hard. Even with her present accomplishments, she felt sore all over.

"The sun is still early. Anyway, we have nothing to do. Let's come and see if Gu Shuai has any place to use us." Zhai Ning took the lead in speaking, and others nodded their heads when they heard Zhai Ning's words. They are all leading generals. Such trifles as setting up camp and preparing meals are naturally handled by the Deputy General of the army and the commanders of the battalions. They just came to Gu Qingcheng after taking a bath, because they all know that Gu Qingcheng's habit will definitely lead them to no rest. If the commanders are still like this, how can they lie down safely.

Gu Qingcheng glanced at Zhai Ning again, and then gave him a deep look. Although Zhai Ning had made great achievements, he was a demoted general after all. Seeing that he could get along well with others, Gu could not help but put down his heart. After all, Zhai Ning is the main user for her and Lu Cuili, and she is also afraid that Daqian's generals will have a bad heart. Now it seems that there is no need to worry about this.

Thinking of this, Gu Qingcheng pointed to the northern Canyon and said, "you're just in time. I just want to go to Pingshan pass to have a look. You'd better come with me and have a look."

"Go to Pingshan pass? Just us? If you take some cavalry with you, you can go out at any time. " Gu qianxiao said uneasily.

Gu Qingcheng shook his head when he heard the speech. "If you don't go to Pingshan pass, it's surrounded by mountains. Just look at a mountain from a distance. General Zhuge, general Zhai and military adviser ye will come with me. The defense of the battalion will be taken care of by my elder brother first. "

"The end will take orders." Gu qianxiao was shocked when he heard that he didn't take him. However, when he heard that Gu Qingcheng didn't go directly to Pingshan pass, he put down his heart and immediately accepted the order.

"Just in order to prevent Xie Daoheng's attack at night, I have set up a watchtower village on the northeast and northwest mountains, where we can see Pingshan pass directly. Let's choose one to have a look." Zhuge Ya thought and said.

"Well, then go to the northwest." Gu Qingcheng looked at the sun in the sky, thought a little, and said. Now it's only an hour or two before the sun sets. The shadow of the sun is slanting to the West. Zhuge Ya said that the northeast and northwest directions are Southeast and southwest to Pingshan pass. Gu Qingcheng chose the watchtower to the southwest of Pingshan pass because they saw the light from there, but Pingshan pass was just against the light.

Without any guards, they left the camp. Under the leadership of Zhuge ya, they went straight to the northwest of the mountain. This is a small mountain about 150 meters high. The vegetation on the mountain is luxuriant and the vines are curly. There is no obvious road in the mountain. It is obvious that no one has been here for a long time, because Zhuge Ya set up a watchtower on the top of the mountain before, We can still see some grass stalks and broken branches on the ground, and walk up the mountain along these traces. About half an hour later, the four of them have reached the top of the mountain.

This is a small village with only 50 soldiers. Among the soldiers, 40 were once soldiers of Xihe County, and only 10 were once soldiers of fengxiangyun riding. Seeing that four of them could get up, the guards quickly removed the roadblocks made of thorns in the mountains and let several people into the village at the top of the mountain.

Gu Qingcheng summoned the guards together and comforted them with words. With their happy faces, they boarded the watchtower, which is three feet high in the middle of the small village.

"From this point of view, the mountain here is like a dragon and a tiger. It can be said that it is a place for storing wind and gathering Qi. I don't know whether the king was buried here." On arriving at the watchtower, ye Zhiqiu looked at the mountain terrain in front of him and said with admiration.

"Does Mr. Ye even know the art of earth and star Gu Qingcheng looks at Ye Zhiqiu in surprise. He knows that Lu que is very good at these things, but he doesn't expect that ye Zhiqiu has such ability and insight.

"A little, just a little." Ye Zhiqiu bowed his hand awkwardly. He had read some miscellaneous books about this, but as he said, he only knew roughly, not very proficient. The reason why he said what he said just now is that the performance of the mountain landform here is too obvious.

"Gu Shuai, there is Pingshan pass." Zhuge Ya pointed to the distance and said.

Gu Qingcheng looked up and saw a huge wall between the two mountains, blocking the whole canyon. From here, the distance between the two places was not far, but Gu Qingcheng knew clearly that the reason why he was not far away was that he was on the mountain. If he actually went there, he would be far away.

From here, apart from the wall of qingshiguan, we can only see the huge slope which is about ten li long in front of Pingshan pass, but it cuts downward. Looking at the slope, Gu Qingcheng can't help but frown. She doesn't know whether it was made by the founder of Pingshan pass, or whether she chose such a place according to the mountain situation. This slope is too long, The overall slope is not very big, but this slope will hinder the advance of siege equipment, especially the shaft and car near the city wall.

The canyon in front of Pingshan pass is not very wide, so it is difficult for an army of more than ten thousand people to launch. If the siege equipment is not available, it will really have to rely on human life to attack. This is the last thing Gu Qingcheng wants to see.

Thinking of this, Gu Qingcheng holds a Taoist seal which is similar to Lu que's. Shuang Zhenyuan gathers in his eyes and looks at the Chengguan pass with all his eyesight. He sees that the Chengguan pass, which is built by blocks of huge long green stones, is full of green moss. The whole wall gives people a sense of simplicity and desolation. Gu Qingcheng can also see the cracks on the Chengguan wall caused by disrepair, We can also see that there are people tamping sand and gravel into these cracks. Obviously, the garrison in Guanzhong is also taking time to repair the city.

"What do you think?" After a while, Gu Qingcheng suddenly asked the people behind him.

"Xie Daoheng is sending people to repair the pass every day. Now there are 10000 soldiers in our camp. In addition to the 30000 Fengxiang soldiers who come later, there are 40000 soldiers. I think these soldiers should be divided into eight groups, with 5000 soldiers in each group, attacking the pass day and night. Qiu Xu didn't give Xie Daoheng a lot of troops. As long as we keep on attacking, we should be able to win this pass in five days. " Seeing that Zhai Ning and ye Zhiqiu didn't mean to speak, Zhuge Ya understood that Zhai Ning didn't speak first because he was a demoted general, and ye Zhiqiu was too young and too junior to speak first, so he took the lead.

"Attack day and night?" Gu Qingcheng muttered to himself that he knew that this was the most effective way, but he still wanted to hear if there were other ways. Thinking of this, Gu Qingcheng looked at Zhai Ning and ye Zhiqiu and asked, "do you two have any other ideas? Let's talk about them together."

"Gu Shuai, it's better to attack mountains than to tackle key problems." Ye Zhiqiu's eyes moved and said.