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Chapter 197: Seize Xianxia Pass

Chen Hongyi quietly left with his servants at some unknown time. When everyone woke up and asked each other, no one noticed him.

Zhou Dapeng shook his head, "Old Prince Chen is reminding us that there is something wrong with our sentry. Since he ran away with dozens of servants and no one noticed it, it means that if the enemy comes to steal the camp, we won't be able to find it either!"

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Chen Jingyi, who was proud and arrogant, lost his temper at this time, "It seems that the experience Mr. Chen has gained over the years is not what I can get after practicing martial arts for more than 20 years! It is true that there are mountains beyond the mountains, and there are people beyond the mountains!"

Three days later, an army of 5,000 troops began to attack the first county town occupied by the Wei army they encountered. Each of the eight commanders gathered their energy and set up their positions. Even stretchers to collect the bodies and wounded were arranged outside the city.

Zheng Da's palms were sweating. "Brother Zhou, when did the rolling wood, stone, and golden soup fall on the city wall? Could it have hit me when I rushed up?"

Chen Jingyi pretended to be calm, "Our army is well prepared and will fight steadily. We are not afraid of any rolling wood, rocks or golden water!"

Li Xiaofei and Zhou Dapeng saw that the city gate was closed and there was no one on the city. They also thought that the Wei army might be ambushing behind the wall stacks, so they ordered the crossbow battalion to shoot a round of arrows first.

One round was enough to finish shooting the ten arrows in the tube carried on the body. The bow and crossbow camp could not wait for a long time. With a single order, all eight thousand arrows were shot into the city in the blink of an eye.

But the city was still deathly silent, and no one outside the city heard the screams. Zhou Dapeng nodded and shouted, "Fifty men from the Sword and Shield Camp came out to attack the city gate! The Gongxu Camp is preparing for the second round of arrows!"

When Zheng Da led fifty men from the Sword Shield Battalion and rushed to the city gate, they actually pushed the gate open.

There was no one behind the city gate, and the others were about to rush in. Zhou Dapeng shouted again, "Everyone, get back, be careful of ambush!"

Zheng Da led fifty people and crawled back to the formation. The bow and crossbow camp were all aimed at the city gate, waiting for Zhou Dapeng's order.

Li Xiaofei stepped forward and took a look, "This is an empty city! Don't panic, everyone, the Sword Shield Camp will go first! The Halberd Camp will follow!"

After everyone entered the city, they found that the doors of the houses on both sides of the street were wide open and there was no one in the city.

After the Liang Army flag was planted, Zhou Dapeng ordered the Gongnu Battalion to pick up the arrows that had been shot earlier. The soldiers in the Gongnu Battalion complained endlessly, but they had no choice but to endure it.

After staying in this county for two days, I finally met a few locals who were passing by. After asking, I found out that after Li Xiaofei swore an oath in Panyu, the county magistrate and the general guard fled north together with all the people in the city.

Li Xiaofei was a little puzzled: "Although our army is powerful, we are not afraid of this!"

"My lord, you don't know. People from the north say that Chen Hongyi in Nanhai is invincible. He can defeat hundreds of thousands of troops with just a few hundred men. They also say that his disciple, Li Xiaofei, can use magic to attract thunder from the sky and blow people up."

No hair is left! How dare you stay!"

Li Xiaofei and everyone laughed, "Why don't I know this? I am Li Xiaofei!"

"Excuse me, sir. I call you by your first name. Please don't chop me up. I have an eighty-year-old mother and an eighteen-year-old son."

"Hahahaha, we are neither monsters nor gods, we are the Nanhai rebels who want to regain the land of Daliang!"

A few passers-by agreed for a while and then left in a hurry.

Li Xiaofei looked at the county and found that it was indeed a bit remote, so he left thirty dead soldiers and a hundred civilians here to wait for the subsequent transfer of grain and grass.

The subsequent cities were captured very easily. Zhou Dapeng gave some locals cloths along the way and asked them to spread the news that Chen Hongyi had arrived with a hundred thousand troops from the South China Sea.

The cities along the way have long known Chen Hongyi's name. They heard that it was him who led the troops. No one dared to send people out of the city to investigate, let alone fight. They basically ran away with gold and silver.

There are also a few who do not believe in evil

, stay and fight Li Xiaofei and the others.

The eight commanders had already suppressed their energy and had nowhere to go. At the foot of Yongjia City, the crossbow battalion shot ten rounds of arrows, and it took five days to pull out the arrows.

The resisting Wei army in Yongjia City was first shot by arrows and unable to show up on the city wall, and then the dead soldiers climbed into the city and opened the city gate. The remaining battalions rushed in to chop melons and vegetables.

Fortunately, Li Xiaofei ordered the surrender in time not to kill, and was able to rescue the Wei army who was already weak in fear from the sword of the South China Sea.

These Wei soldiers were actually recruited by locals. After most of them were shot and hacked to death, the remaining hundreds of people thought they were dead, but Li Xiaofei spared them.

Li Xiaofei asked them why other cities surrendered willingly, but Yongjia City insisted on using the mantis as a chariot.

The remaining Wei troops cried and said that their governor Qian Tiren wanted to frustrate the Southern Navy, and ordered the entire city's soldiers and civilians to resist together.

"Where did Qian Tiren go?" Li Xiaofei asked

The Wei soldiers looked at each other in shock. One veteran said, "Master Qian is afraid that he drowned himself. When the city was destroyed, I heard Master Qian say that he was going to die for his country!"

Li Xiaofei immediately ordered Gao Yongxin to take the diggers to look for Qian Tiren in the wells and ponds in the city.

After a while, Gao Yongxin kidnapped a man who was all wet. Needless to say, this was Qian Tiren.

Qian Tiren closed his eyes and said nothing. Gao Yongxin snorted, "Master Li, do you know this guy? When we found him, he was climbing up from a duck pond!"

"Haha, are you trying to escape because you have sacrificed your country?" Li Xiaofei glanced at Qian Tiren

"We asked him, and he said he couldn't die in a pile of animals, ducks are too dirty!" Gao Yongxin said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, you pretend to be noble! Okay, take him to the restrained body of Wei Jun and kowtow! Let him take a good look. This kind of person talks about being loyal and patriotic, but all he sacrifices is the lives of others. If he wins, he will

A man takes great credit, and when he loses, he pretends that he would rather die than surrender to gain a good reputation. The enemy will let him go! Unfortunately, he met me, Zhou Dapeng, today! Let him kowtow to the dead soldiers one by one, and send him on his way after kowtowing!"

After Zhou Dapeng finished speaking, he waved his hands to take Qian Tiren away. Qian Tiren fell to the ground with all his strength, "You barbarians! You invaded my city and slandered my name of loyalty!"

Zhou Dapeng looked at Li Xiaofei, and Li Xiaofei nodded, "Marshal Zhou is right. Send this kind of person to where he should go. If he had picked up a knife and a gun and fought us face to face, I would really let him go. It's a pity that he

no!"

Li Xiaofei had to admire Zhou Dapeng. If Zhou Dapeng hadn't pointed it out, Li Xiaofei might have really let Qian Tiren go.

Qian Tiren was kowtowed to death for less than a hundred people. After his death, Zhou Dapeng sent people to throw his body into the barren mountains and wild ridges and feed it to wild dogs.

After half a month of repairs in Yongjia City, 10,000 civilians and thousands of carts carrying grain, grass and military supplies arrived, and thirty carts of cloth were spent to appease the people in the city.

Destroyed Yongjia City and killed Qian Tiren. South of Xianxia Pass, the Southern Navy was looking for surrender. After all, the Chen Jiajun had a great reputation and was an elite force starting from Lingnan. Where were the prefectures and counties along the way?

Dare to resist.

In order to prevent the officials in these prefectures and counties from having bad intentions, Li Xiaofei followed Chen Jingyi's idea and moved them all to different places. He also sent 300 civilians and 30 soldiers to assist in defense, and left Zhou Dapeng as the recruitment manager to recruit new soldiers.

This ensured that the food roads were open, and the 3,700 people on the front line had enough food, grass, and bows and arrows to attack the city and seize territory along the way.

Zhou Dapeng was indeed someone who had followed Chen Hongyi for many years. In ten days, he recruited 30,000 troops. Of course, 25,000 of them were civilians, and only 5,000 could barely go into battle.

However, Zhou Dapeng's greatest strength was not in recruiting soldiers and deceiving people, but in teaching the locals to use bamboo to make arrows. In ten days, he made 30,000 arrows, enough for 500 bows.

I fired sixty times with my hands. The most important thing is that from the eleventh day, the number of arrows that can be made every day has been close to 6,000.

There are four gates in Xianxia Pass, all of which are built in the pass of a dangerous rock cliff sandwiched between two mountains. Each gate is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is a situation where one man can guard the gate and ten thousand people cannot open it.

Xianxia Pass guard Sun Sheng and Wu warned that if the Chen family from Lingnan dared to attack the pass, they would first sacrifice 10,000 lives.

Li Xiaofei and Zhou Dapeng took the diggers to explore the terrain in front of Xianxia Pass. It was indeed difficult to attack this place.

The enemy was condescending and fired arrows and stones to get twice the result with half the effort, but the Nanhai Navy attacking the city had to bend down and climb the mountain road without being able to raise its head.

"This is a desperate situation. If we attack rashly, I'm afraid even ten thousand people won't be able to defeat it!" Zhou Dapeng looked at the pass in the distance.

"If Xianxia Pass is not broken, how about a detour?" Li Xiaofei asked

"The detour is too far, not to mention that once our army avoids Xianxia Pass, the enemy will come south through Xianxia Pass to recapture the city we occupied, and the gains will outweigh the losses!"

"It seems that this Xianxia Pass must be taken down!" Li Xiaofei pointed to the front pass.

"No matter what, we have to find a way to win!" Zhou Dapeng said firmly

Gao Yongxin looked at the cliffs on both sides of the pass. "Unless someone flies to the top of the mountain on both sides, our army cannot attack! But even a good rock climber can't climb this cliff!"

While he was talking, several flying squirrels suddenly slid over the cliff. Li Xiaofei pointed, "What is this?"

"Flying Squirrel! This thing likes to be here!" Gao Yongxin said

"It's a pity that we can't fly! Otherwise, if we could fly to the top of the mountain, would we be afraid that we wouldn't be able to reach this pass?" Li Xiaofei sighed.

"Well, a mountain can't be surrounded by cliffs on all sides. It's possible to climb these two mountains! It's just that the top is too far from the pass, and the bow and crossbow will be useless by then!" Zhou Dapeng looked at the mountains and felt that it was possible to climb to the top of the mountain.

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Gao Yongxin nodded, "I have a solution! Go back to camp first!"

After several people returned to camp, they made a summary and decided to send half of the diggers and dead soldiers to the top of the mountain on both sides and set off fireworks on the top of the mountain.

Two days later, fireworks were set off on the mountaintops on both sides of the pass. Upon seeing this, the Wei army guarding the pass quickly reported it to Sun Shengwu.

Sun Shengwu looked at the top of the mountain and smiled, "What are you afraid of? Is it possible that they still jumped down? No matter whether they lift rocks or wood, they can't break it up! There is a cliff hundreds of feet high, what are you afraid of! But be careful to guard the front.

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In front of the pass, Li Xiaofei and his men were waving flags and shouting and beating drums every day, but they did not come near! After ten days in a row, the Wei army was used to it. It was just that the Southern Navy was afraid of the closed crossbows and did not dare to approach.

During these ten days, the remaining half of the diggers and the soldiers of the other battalions took turns digging in the earth to find a way, and they had already dug an underground ditch to reach the pass.

The trench digging had long been noticed by the Wei army. Sun Shengwu also sent people to dig trenches in front of the pass to block it, and also laughed at Li Xiaofei and others for their incompetence.

At midnight on the tenth day, the sound of killing was loud, and several sky lanterns were raised. Countless large rocks, rolls of wood, and fire cages were thrown down from the top of the mountain, and the dead soldiers' camp had actually entered the pass.

It turned out that during these ten days, hundreds of people on the top of the mountain had already tied the knots and made five ropes several hundred feet long. They quietly lowered them down from the top of the mountain at night, and the dead soldiers followed the ropes down from the top of the mountain to the pass.

The sound of the Kongming Lantern was the signal to attack. Li Xiaofei immediately led the entire army to attack. With the help of internal and external cooperation, the Wei army was caught off guard, and Xianxia Pass fell into the hands of the Southern Navy.

The captured Sun Shengwu screamed his dissatisfaction, but Zhou Dapeng untied him and pointed at the dozens of bloody corpses at the foot of Guannei Mountain: "Our army spared no effort in life and narrowly escaped death by descending from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain on a rope. What else do you have to dissatisfy?"

If you can grab the rope and come down from the top of the mountain, we will exit Xianxia Pass immediately!"
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