Chapter 293: Confrontation

Flying Fox Pass.

After more than two days of marching, Zhao Xu and his party arrived here.

After hearing the news, Feihu Pass guards Niu Cha, Zhongli and Chen Hu came out to greet them, and the army entered Feihu Pass to station.

"How is the situation outside Feihu Pass now?" After resting for a while, Zhao Xu climbed onto the Feihu Pass city wall and looked at the looming Xiliang camp and said.

As a guard general, Niu Cha naturally had the obligation to grasp the military situation. He clasped his fists and said, "Go back to Your Highness. Just one day before Your Highness arrived, a large number of Xiliang infantry entered the camp."

Zhao Xu nodded.

Feihu Pass is the approximate location of the contemporary Pingxing Pass.

The terrain here can be said to be really choke point.

On both sides of the mountain road are towering mountains covered with lush trees.

At the bottom of the mountain is a flat road about fifty meters wide.

Feihu Pass is built at one end of the mountain road.

At this time, Xiliang's camp was set up at the other end.

It means that he won't let Xiliang in, and Xiliang won't let him out.

If you want to enter Jinzhou, you must fight here.

The camp in the distance doesn't look very clear.

Zhao Xu then reached out to Chang Wei.

Chang Wei understood and immediately handed the telescope to him.

Picking up the telescope, Zhao Xu adjusted it and looked towards the Xiliang Camp.

Through the telescope, Zhao Xu could see the wooden fence of the camp.

There are gray tents in the fence, and Xiliang soldiers go in and out of these tents.

There is also a tall sentry tower in the camp, with archers standing on it.

At this time, Chang Wei took the telescope from Qin Shan and started looking at it, roughly counting the number of tents in the camp.

He said: "Your Highness, a tent in Xiliang usually houses thirty people, but there are at least thirty thousand people in this camp."

Zhao Xu put down the telescope and frowned.

With so many soldiers crammed into such a small place, Xiliang's camp almost took on the shape of a long snake.

Niu Cha, Zhong Li and Chen Hu listened to the two talking and their eyes fell on the telescopes in their hands with strange expressions.

After hesitating for a long time, Zhongli asked: "Your Highness, what is this? Why are you holding this thing in front of your eyes?"

Chang Wei chuckled twice, put the telescope in front of Zhongli's eyes, and asked him to look towards the Xiliang camp.

Zhongli didn't react at first, but when he looked at it again, his jaw almost dropped.

"What is this?" he shouted.

When Chen Hu and Niu Cha saw this, they couldn't help their curiosity and asked to take a look.

Upon seeing this, they were immediately as shocked as Zhongli.

Chang Wei was proud for a while and explained to them.

After the three of them listened, they looked at King Yan with expressions of reverence.

Unexpectedly, this thing was created by King Yan.

Zhao Xu saw several people being attracted by the telescope, waited for a while, and when their fresh energy had passed, he said: "Unplug this camp tomorrow."

"Yes, Your Highness." Chang Wei responded.

…

Xiliang camp.

Deputy leader Ye Renrong looked at Feihu Pass from a distance.

Beside him, four generals were waiting for his orders.

Ye Renrong arrived here yesterday, bringing 20,000 people with him.

Before, there were only more than 20,000 Xiliang soldiers stationed in the camp, led by a general.

In order to confuse Dasong soldiers, Ye Renrong ordered forty soldiers to live in each camp to conceal the true strength of the troops.

"Deputy leader, there are some faces you haven't seen before at Feihu Pass." At this moment, a Xiliang soldier who was in charge of inquiring came back and reported to him.

"What are the characteristics of those people?" Ye Renrong asked.

"One is young, about sixteen or seventeen years old, and the other is tall with a beard." The soldier said.

Ye Renrong nodded and said to the generals: "It seems to be King Yan and his general Chang Wei."

They had already obtained the date of King Yan's attack on Jinzhou from Wuwei.

Now the appearance of these two unfamiliar faces undoubtedly confirms this matter.

"So, the war will only last these two days." A general said.

Ye Renrong looked at Yanguan again.

The order he received was to test the strength of King Yan's army and consume some of his troops.

If they are defeated, they will abandon the camp and retreat to Jincheng, luring King Yan's army deep into Jinzhou, and then dispatch cavalry to harass King Yan's supplies.

Thinking of this, he said to the general beside him, "You ambush 10,000 troops at night in the mountains and forests on the left. You ambush 10,000 troops in the mountains and forests on the right. The rest stick to the camp and wait for King Yan's troops and horses to come together and the horns sound. Attack him three times at once to catch him off guard."

"Yes, deputy chief." Zheng Jiangmen shouted.

…

Jincheng.

Murong Wuji stood at the top of the city and looked east.

It was as if his gaze could pass through the earth and reach Feihu Pass.

At this time, in addition to the Xiliang generals, there were several officials with big faces beside him.

They are the heads of the four major wealthy families in Jinzhou.

Under the city, Xiliang soldiers drove the people of Jinzhou to smash a stick of wood into the ground.

The earth becomes like a hedgehog.

At the city gate, the driven people piled sandbags one after another behind the city gate, layer after layer.

"Hmph, even if King Yan has artillery, I still want to see how he can take down Jincheng, which is as strong as a copper wall." Murong Wuji said.

After more than a hundred years, the Xiliang people finally occupied Jincheng.

Now I want to take Jincheng away from them unless all Xiliang soldiers in Jincheng die.

"The leader is right. Jincheng is strong and has thick walls. I think the artillery is just exaggerated. Otherwise, why did Dasong agree to the peace request from Beidi? If it is so amazing, wouldn't it be better to directly take back their Ningjindusi?" said an official.

His name is Cao Rui, and he was once the governor of the same county.

The four great families in Jinzhou are Cao, Qu, Hou, and Chang.

After Xiliang took Jincheng, they immediately surrendered to Xiliang.

And in order to stabilize Jinzhou as soon as possible, the people of Xiliang also accepted them.

Now, they are real Xiliang officials.

Murong Wuji frowned when he heard this.

As the most outstanding general in Xiliang, he is not so arrogant.

During this period, he got a lot of news about artillery from the Ma family.

And the real power of artillery has also been verified in Jinling City of Dasong.

The officials who went to visit the artillery shooting would not lie.

It was because he faced the power of the King of Yan's artillery that he made so many responses.

But the good news now is that the Ma family will not attack Jinzhou from two sides with the King of Yan.

This will greatly ease the pressure on Jinzhou.

At the same time, he saw a flaw of the King of Yan that was obvious to all.

Cao Rui said that the King of Yan did not dare to leave Yanguan because the artillery was not so powerful.

In his opinion, it was wrong.

The King of Yan did not dare to leave Yanguan because he did not dare to extend the food route too long.

Otherwise, facing the fierce Beidi cavalry, the food route was cut off, and even with artillery, the soldiers of the King of Yan would be defeated.

Therefore, he formulated a strategy of fighting and retreating, consuming the King of Yan's troops, and at the same time luring the King of Yan's troops to go deep into Jinzhou.

Although his Xiliang cavalry was slightly inferior to the Beidi.

But he was confident that he still had a huge advantage against the cavalry of the King of Yan who had only trained for a few months.