Chapter 838

The 300,000-strong Sichuan-Zhen Allied Forces stayed in the mountains overnight. They waited until the early morning of the next day to enter the depths of the mountain forest. They were guided by medicinal farmers and secretly climbed up the mountain through the wind break. Read the full text.

When Ren Fang and Nie Ze thought about it, it was impossible for the Feng Army to place sentries in the mountains, and it was impossible for the Feng Army to discover their crossing the mountain. Read the full text. But man’s calculations are not as good as God’s calculations, and everything happens by chance.

The Feng Army was indeed unaware of the Sichuan-Zhen Allied Forces' move over the upper mountain, and did not deploy any informants into the mountain. However, this morning, a quarrying team organized by the people of Pianpian Feng Country was quarrying in the mountain.

During this period, in order to resist the enemy's attack, the Feng army consumed a lot of stones and stone projectiles fired by trebuchets. People from the Feng Kingdom near Baguan spontaneously went into the mountains to collect stones to supplement the city defense needs of Baguan.

Among the people, there were several young and strong youths who went deep into the mountains to find new quarrying sites. When people were sitting on the ground to rest and chat, they suddenly heard the rumble of footsteps in front of them. Not knowing what was going on, I climbed up to a high rock out of curiosity and looked around.

Looking at this, several people were startled. They saw that the mountain stream deep in the mountains was densely packed with people. Some were wearing steel helmets and armor, and some were wearing brown leather helmets. Because there were too many people, The team could not be seen at a glance, but the opponent did not raise a flag, and the few Feng Country youths did not bother to identify which country's army this was.

It took them a long time to come back to their senses, and one of the young men muttered: "Strange, when did the king send the army into the mountains? Could it be that we didn't collect enough stones, so the king mobilized the army to quarry the stones?"

"How is it possible? If you want to quarry stone, why don't you even have a truck to load the stone?"

"Could it be an ambush in the mountains?"

"It's even more impossible. Looking at the direction of march, it's coming out of the mountain, not entering the mountain."

Several people said something to each other, and even after talking for a long time, they still didn't understand what this army was about. It was only then that a young man suddenly took a breath and said in surprise: "That's not right! My Dafeng army is all black helmets and black armor, but why is the opponent wearing steel helmets and steel armor? Could it be..."

"Is it the enemy?" another young man asked.

A word to wake up the dreamer. They were ordinary people who had not participated in the city defense battle, and had never seen the Sichuan Army and the Zhen Army, but the strange armor on the other side aroused their vigilance. Several young people were shaken and fell to the ground almost at the same time. They looked at each other and without saying a word, they all slid down the high stone, turned around and ran back.

After running back to the foot of the mountain, several young men shouted to the hundreds of people quarrying around: "Run! The enemy has climbed over the uphill mountain and is coming to kill them."

As soon as the people heard this, their expressions changed greatly. They threw away the tools in their hands and dispersed, shouting and fleeing towards Baguan to report the news to the garrison in the city.

Now Tang Yin was preparing to lead his army to evacuate Baguan. At this time, he and his generals gathered at the General's Mansion to discuss the next tactics against the enemy. Without Baguan, the next battle can only take place within the territory of Feng Kingdom, and all deployments must be considered in the long term.

At this time, a guard from the Feng Army hurriedly ran in from outside. When he came to Tang Yin, he intervened and saluted, and then said urgently: "Your Majesty, the quarrying people just brought news that a large number of enemy troops were found in Shangxing Mountain!"

"What?" After hearing this, everyone present was stunned, including Tang Yin. The first thing people think about is whether this news is true or false? Enemies will appear on the way up the mountain, so how is that possible? How did the enemy cross the mountain? Could it be that he still flew over?

Before Tang Yin could speak, Qiu Zhen couldn't wait to ask: "Where are the people who reported the news?"

"Just outside the house."

"Bring them here quickly!"

"yes!"

The guards took the order and left. After a short time, they brought in a few young people. Tang Yin looked around at a few people. These young people were young, dressed in ordinary clothes, and seemed to have never seen the world. After a while, some kept looking around, while others stood with their heads down, trembling, and their atmosphere was full of atmosphere. Don't dare to breathe.

"When you see the king, why don't you kneel down quickly!" the guard shouted from the side.

When they heard that the king was here, several young people were shocked at the same time. They knelt down in unison, kowtowed forward and said, "Kowtow to the king!"

Tang Yin had no time to worry about etiquette anymore. He strode up to a few people and asked, "Have you seen the enemy troops in the mountains?"

"Yes...yes!" Several young people pressed their heads against the ground, not even daring to raise their heads. One of them bravely said: "The other party did not fly a flag, but he was wearing a steel helmet and armor. The villain suspects that he is an enemy!"

We have not sent any troops to the upper reaches of the mountain, and the opponent is made of steel armor, so it must be the Sichuan army. Tang Yin pondered for a while, then turned his head and said, "Letian, Ai Jia, send someone to investigate immediately!"

"Yes! Your Majesty!" Letian and Ai Jia both responded and walked out quickly.

Tang Yin looked at several young men again and asked, "How many enemy troops are there?"

Several young people shook their heads and said in a trembling voice: "Look... I can't tell. The number of people is too... too many. It's boundless. It must be more than tens of thousands, and it's estimated to be hundreds of thousands..."

"It's not just a few hundred thousand, it must be at least hundreds of thousands! When the villain was watching, he found that the mountain stream was full of enemy soldiers."

Tang Yin took a breath. According to what they said, the enemy must have a lot of troops, at least more than 100,000 people, but how did so many troops cross such a steep mountain? I couldn't figure out what was going on, and I couldn't see the flickering expressions of the young men when they lied. He waved to the guards on both sides and said, "Take them down to rest. If everything is true, everyone will be rewarded!"

"Thank you, my king!"

The young men who reported the news were taken away by the guards. As soon as they left, the hall was in chaos. People talked about it and seemed a little overwhelmed by this sudden appearance of the enemy.

Qiu Zhen walked to Tang Yin and asked, "My king, what do you think?"

"It's better to believe it than not to believe it. If what they reported is true, this enemy army is here to copy our army's retreat. Now we must withdraw from Baguan immediately!" Tang Yin said solemnly.

Qiu Zhen's idea was consistent with Tang Yin's. He nodded and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"

Tang Yin originally planned to retreat after discussing the next strategy to deal with the enemy, but now there was no time.

More than 400,000 people from the four corps of the direct army, Chifeng army, Western Border Army, and New Army began to withdraw from Baguan one after another. Soon, the scouts sent by the Sky Eye and the Ground Network returned quickly, and the news they brought back was the same as what the people said. A large number of Sichuan-Zhen coalition forces did appear in the upper mountains, with a number of more than 200,000 people, but there was no large baggage in the army, and most of them were lightly equipped.

The scouts of the Sky Eye and the Ground Network confirmed the accuracy of the enemy situation. Now there are two ways for the Feng Army. One is to retreat to the hinterland, completely abandon Baguan, and throw it to the enemy; the second is to stay near Baguan and engage in a head-on confrontation with the enemy coming over the mountain.

After discussing with his generals, Tang Yin chose the first way and completely abandoned Baguan. Baguan has now become a place where plague spreads. It is definitely impossible to defend it. Even if we fight the enemy now, we will have to retreat in the end. Instead of doing this, it is better to throw Baguan, a place of plague, to the enemy.

After setting the goal, the Feng army retreated from Baguan, and the whole army went north and retreated to Chongcheng.

Chongcheng, the largest city closest to Baguan, is also the trade center of Fengguo and Moguo. Recently, due to the alliance between Tang Yin and Shao Fang, the trade between Fengguo and Moguo has been fully opened. Chongcheng has developed very rapidly, and the city is prosperous and caravans are endless.

The goal of the Feng army is to retreat to Chongcheng, take a break, and then fight with the Chuanzhen coalition.

The 200,000 Zhen army headed by Li Cheng has the same goal as the Feng army. Li Cheng also set Chongcheng as the primary target of his attack, and it is also a springboard for the army to go deep into the hinterland of Fengguo.

The Zhen army went up the mountain but was lightly equipped. The whole army did not bring any baggage. The largest baggage was the ladders necessary for siege. Even the rations brought by the soldiers were only enough for two days. If they could not capture Chongcheng, the army would be out of food.

The Feng army went to Chongcheng in a straight line, while the Zhen army went in a diagonal line. They were much farther than the Feng army, but their speed was much faster than the Feng army.

The Zhen army went to Chongcheng with light equipment and no baggage. When marching, the soldiers did not have any burden. They just ran forward with all their strength. The Feng army was different. The baggage brought by the Feng army was complicated. In order to avoid the people near Baguan from being killed by the enemy, they took the people to Chongcheng together, which greatly slowed down the speed of the Feng army and slowed down its march.

On the other side, the main force of the Sichuan-Zhen coalition had begun to launch a full-scale attack on Baguan.

There were more than 600,000 Chuanzhen coalition troops in front of Baguan, and 100,000 enemy troops in the back of Baguan. The two armies attacked from the front and back, and Baguan immediately became precarious.

In the following battle to defend the city, for the Baguan defenders, who only had more than 60,000 people left, more than half of whom had lost their combat effectiveness, it was a nightmare like being in hell.

At the critical moment, Ying Bu separated 10,000 soldiers to guard the north wall, and personally led the remaining 20,000 soldiers to fight desperately against the main force of the Chuanzhen coalition on the south wall.

Now the Chuanzhen coalition troops attacking the city are all wearing sweat towels to cover their mouths and noses, and they are also extremely fierce when launching the attack. The attacking corps went forward one after another. When one person fell in front, there was a group of people behind to fill in. Under such an overwhelming attack, how could the defenders with only more than 30,000 people left stand up?

The first to be breached was the North City.

The defense of Baguan is a typical example of a strong south and weak north. There are almost no defense facilities on the north wall, and the wall is pitifully low. Although there are 10,000 Feng troops defending the city, they cannot stop the strong attack of the 100,000 Chuanzhen coalition forces.

As the north gate was breached by the enemy, a large number of Chuanzhen coalition forces rushed into the city, and the defense line of the north city completely collapsed. Almost none of the 10,000 Baguan defenders survived and all died in battle.