Chapter 518: Deng Jun enters Baishui

On June 30, the 24th year of Qianyuan, Deng Qiang and Li Xiucheng led their troops to form an array in front of the pass. This was the south gate of Baishui Pass, which had been closed for a long time, slowly opened. Gong Qi led a group of Baishui Pass generals to walk out of the city with their surrender books in their hands and came to Deng Qiang. Li Xiucheng bowed and raised the surrender books and said, "The general did not know the time of heaven and tried to fight against the heavenly soldiers, causing the people of Baishui Pass to fall into dire straits. Today, the generals suddenly woke up and led a total of 20,000 soldiers from Baishui Pass to ask for surrender to the heavenly soldiers. I hope the general will accept it!"

Deng Qiang and Li Xiucheng looked around and found that the Qin army was really trying to surrender, not to cheat. So they looked at each other and turned over and dismounted. Seeing that the two elder brothers had dismounted, they couldn't continue to stay on the horse, so they all turned over and dismounted, following Deng Qiang and Li Xiucheng.

Deng Qiang and Li Xiucheng came to Gong Qi together. Deng Qiang took the surrender letter from Gong Qi and personally helped Gong Qi up and said, "The general can understand the righteousness and surrender with the whole city's military and civilians, so that you and I can turn wars into jade and silk in this battle. I am very happy. I will accept you with General Li Xiucheng on behalf of Da Deng."

"Thank you General!" The Qin generals led by Gong Feng were all very happy and finally let go of the big stone in their hearts.

After appeaseing Gong Feng, Deng Qiang and Li Xiucheng turned around and shouted loudly to the 100,000 troops behind him: "All the soldiers, come to the city with me!"

"Step! Step! Step!" One hundred thousand Deng troops slowly walked into Baishui Pass with rhythmic steps. At this point, the most powerful pass in the south of Qin State fell into the hands of Deng State, and the loss of Baishui Pass also means that the battle between Deng, Qin and Hanzhong is gradually coming to an end.

Under the leadership of Gong Qiong and others, a group of Deng Jun generals, led by Deng Qiang and Li Xiu, walked into the General's Mansion, which symbolized the highest power of Baishui Pass. In the lobby, Deng Qiang and Li Xiucheng sat side by side in the main seat, while the rest sat on both sides.

At this time, someone should have spoken, but Deng Qiang and Li Xiucheng have equal status, so it is not appropriate for anyone to speak first. At this time, Li Xiucheng nodded to Deng Qiang and signaled Deng Qiang that, after all, Deng Qiang is the general of the guard, but also the royal family of the Deng Kingdom. In terms of identity and status, he is the most suitable as the leader.

Deng Qiang no longer pretentiously, smiled and said to everyone: "Today our army enters Baishui Pass, all the generals will make great contributions. If we return to the court in the next day, we will personally ask for the merits of General Li Xiucheng."

"It's all up to the general to have good leadership, and the last generals dare not take credit!" When everyone heard this, they suppressed their inner joy and said humbly.

"Who has made any contribution? I and General Li are very clear. Where is General Gong Feng?" Deng Qiang waved his hand and said.

Gong Feng, who was at the end, heard Deng Qiang calling him, and hurriedly stepped out and bowed: "General, the last general is here!"

Deng Qiang looked at Gong Feng in front of him and said with a smile: "Our army was able to take down Baishui Pass so smoothly, and all the generals of Baishui Pass were wise to understand the righteousness and abandon the secret. Since the general and others had already joined our army, they should be incorporated into our army. However, the appointment of military positions required the approval of the General General's Office. Now they had to aggrieved the general as a side general in our army. They followed the general north to join General Yue and join Weisong to fight Chenggu. After pacifying Hanzhong in the future and returning to the court, I will definitely ask for credit for the general himself. I wonder what the general thinks?"

Although Deng Qiang said that he was asking Gong Qi for his opinion, his tone was undeniable. Gong Qi also knew the system of Deng's military, so he had no objection. However, Gong Qi was not very willing to follow the army to attack Chenggu, so he said: "When he returned to the general, the Mo General and others had no objection. However, the Mo General and others all came from Qin. Although they returned to Deng today, they still did not want to fight against their former comrades. I hope the general will be approved and the general will not need to follow the army to go north."

Gong Feng's words made the generals of the Deng army very dissatisfied. Damn, he was so skillful that he was so weak that he was begging for mercy. He even dared to make a request. Deng Qiang just exaggerated you a few words, really thinking he was a scallion?

Just as the generals of the Deng army were about to scold Gong Li, Deng Qiang smiled and said, "General Gong Li is able to say such words, which shows that General Gong Li is a person who values ​​friendship and righteousness. The general said it well. Although Qin is unrighteous, the general and others are from Qin people after all, and it is reasonable to think of the past chariot and brotherhood. Since this is the case, General Gong Li led the army south to Jianshan to accept the inclusion of Li Jing, the general of Tianwu Guard, and the specific appointment. After the battle in Hanzhong is over, we will make a decision."

"Thank you General!" In fact, when Gong Qi finished speaking, he was also worried. In the eyes of others, his actions were still in his homeland. If Deng Qiang was angry, he would probably die without a place to die. Fortunately, Deng Qiang was also a person who was very wise and did not blame himself for this.

Just after Deng Qiang and others controlled Baishui Pass, the Yongning Guard and Shenwu Guard outside the northern gate of Baishui Pass also discovered the abnormal movements of Baishui Pass.

"What? You said that the big flag on Baishui has become my Da Deng's military flag?" Murong Chui looked at the scout who came to report incredibly and asked.

The scout nodded and said, "Yes, I can see clearly that the Qin army flag on Baishui Pass has disappeared. It is replaced by my Da Deng army flag. Moreover, I also recognize that the military flag on the city belongs to the Jinwu Guard and the Longwu Guard."

"The military flag of Jinwu Guard and Longwu Guard? Could it be that Jinwu Guard and Longwu Guard have already taken Baishui Pass? But it's wrong. There have been no traces of war between Baishui Pass these days. How did the Longwu Guard and Jinwu Guard enter Baishui Pass?" Seeing the scouts repeatedly affirmed, Murong Chui was also a little confused. He saw that there was no sign of fighting in Baishui Pass. How did the Longwu Guard and Jinwu Guard enter the city?

"Why bother General Murong? Let's lead the army to take a look, can't we know?" At this time, Lu Feng, who was sitting beside him, spoke.

"Yes!" The man in the dream woke up with a word. Since he didn't know, wouldn't he know by taking the troops to take a look? So he said to everyone: "Let's go, let's go to Baishuiguan to take a look."

When Murong Chui and Lu Feng led their troops to Baishui Pass, they found that as the scout said, all the Qin army flags on Baishui Pass were gone. Instead, they were planted with the Longwu Guard and Jinwu Guard flags in Deng's army. Murong Chui and Lu Feng looked at each other, and then sent people to the city to call Guan.

Soon, a quick cavalry rushed to Baishui Pass, and the soldiers immediately shouted to the city: "The ones in the city are the Longwu Guard and the brothers of Jinwu Guard? We are from Yongning Guard and Shenwu Guard, please report quickly!"

When the soldiers guarding the city heard that it was Yongning Guard. The Shenwu Guard was coming, they hurried to the General's Mansion. Everyone in the General's Mansion was happy. Suddenly, they heard that Yongning Guard and Shenwu Guard had arrived. Everyone suddenly realized why they forgot the Yongning Guard and Shenwu Guard outside the North Gate, so they did not dare to neglect at the moment. Deng Qiang, Li Xiucheng and others hurriedly took a group of generals to the North Gate to welcome the brother guards.

Outside the northern gate of Baishui Pass, Murong Chui and Lu Feng looked at the indifferent Baishui Pass, and were also very confused. Just when he was puzzled, the northern gate of Baishui Pass slowly opened. Murong Chui and Lu Feng hurriedly put the entire army on alert, but when they saw that the Longwu Guard, led by Deng Qiang and Li Xiu, who were the generals of the Jinwu Guard, were relieved and rushed forward.

After seeing Deng Qiang and Li Xiucheng, Murong Chui hurriedly asked: "General Deng, General Li, what's going on? Why did you get into Baishui Pass?"

"General Murong, General Lu doesn't know that the commander of Baishui Pass Gong Feng has surrendered to our army. Our army has already taken down Baishui Pass without any blood." Deng Qiang said with a smile.

Murong Chui and Lu Feng finally solved the doubts in their hearts. I said, why did the Longwu Guard and Jinwu Guard take down Baishui Pass without a sound? It turned out that the Baishui Pass commander Gong Yixian Pass surrendered, but what puzzled them was why did Gong Yi suddenly surrender?

Li Xiucheng, who was standing beside him, also saw Murong Chui and Lu Feng’s doubts, so he smiled and said, “We will talk about the experience here in detail, and now we will enter the city first.”

Murong Chui and Lu Feng nodded. Now Baishui Pass belongs to Deng State, and they don’t keep their word when they stay outside the city, so they nodded in agreement. Of course, it is impossible for a hundred thousand troops to enter the city. After all, Baishui Pass is not large in scale. When the Qin army was stationed, the total number of military and civilians in the city was only tens of thousands. How could they accommodate more than tens of thousands of troops?

After entering the city, Deng Qiang and Li Xiucheng's general Gong Feng surrendered, Lu Feng said it all the time and said it to Murong Chui, and then asked Lu Feng: "General Murong, General Lu, we have been in Shuzhong Road for a long time, and we don't know much about the situation in Hanzhong County. I don't know what the situation in Hanzhong is now?"

Murong Chui said, "Since our army entered Hanzhong County, we first suppressed the Dingyuan Fortress and forced the main force of the Qin army to rush for assistance. Then General Yue sent me to lead the Shenwu Guard to capture Anyang City and Yangping Pass. The troops forced Nanzheng City. The chief general of the Qin army retreated to Chenggu. Now he was trapped in Chenggu by General Yue. After I took Anyang City, Yangping Pass kept waiting for General Yue's military orders. Later, the Qin army reinforcements were approaching Yangping Pass, so I sent General Xie, General Ren Ping, to lead 20,000 troops to guard Yangping Pass. After the situation in the northern border of Hanzhong was slightly stable, I led the army to take Baozhong and Nanzheng, and went south to join General Lu Feng and came to Baishui Pass."

"I didn't expect the Qin army to come so quickly. Fortunately, General Yue had the foresight and sent General Murong to capture Anyang City and Yangping Pass in advance. Otherwise, there would be variables in the battle of Hanzhong." Li Xiucheng immediately understood when he heard this, and was also a little lucky. If Murong Chui hadn't reacted quickly enough, it would have been not so easy to capture Hanzhong County when the Qin reinforcements entered Hanzhong County.

"Okay, I'll take a break at Baishui Pass for a while, then head north to join General Yue, annihilate Wei Song from Chenggu, and completely end the war." Deng Qiang said.
Chapter completed!