Qin Zhao retreated to his camp and drove to Kuilong Pass.

After walking on the Yangyan Road, he bypassed Xiliang Lake on the north bank of the foothills of Jiugong Mountain, Qin Zhao walked all the way northeast. After walking for a whole day, he found what Yuan Jixian called the key throat place - Kuilong Pass.

As soon as Qin Zhao arrived at the Kuilong Pass, he knew why no general was willing to guard the pass.

Kuilong Pass is located between the two foothills, and there are two big lakes on both sides. It is indeed a one-man pass that can’t be opened. However, Jiayu County has not had war for many years. It is now just an adobe pass built by a patrol department, with a length of more than twenty meters on the left.

The height of the city wall of the pass is only about half a foot.

If it weren't for the half-meter-high walls of adobe piles, they would have really climbed up with just one rush.

Hold the army that rebels on such a pass and fight to the last man?

Qin Zhao wanted to curse at that time. Did Yuan Jixian and Zuo Liangyu get in the heads? Is this small pass worth fighting in the last person's dangerous pass?

Qin Ning looked up and down the pass, shook his head.

Qin Ning shook his head and looked at the pass for a long time, pointing to the north of the pass, and said, "Master Qianhu, this pass is so small, you must know that it is Chuanggui. You must first capture our small pass first, blocking the contact between Yuan Jixian's Western Route Army and Zuo Liangyu's Eastern Route Army."

"At that time, if our pass is lost, the connection between the two east and west armies will be cut off. You can break the back of the two east and west armies at any time. According to Zuo Liangyu's virtue, I bet that he will withdraw his troops immediately and withdraw to Jiujiang, Ganzhou. Once Zuo Liangyu retreats, Yuan Jixian will no longer have the capital to fight to the death, and will definitely retreat southwest to Tongcheng."

Hearing Qin Ning's words, Qin Zhao's men's faces turned black.

Qin Ning sneered: "Zuo Liangyu arranged for Qianhu to guard this pass, and the arrangement was very clever. He thought Qianhu was a new recruit who killed Liang and took the lead, so he naturally thought that Qianhu's troops would scatter. At that time, he explained that he retreated without fighting in the name of an unexpected fall in Kuilong Pass and was attacked from both sides, which would have found a good excuse."

Zhao Liangce snorted coldly, understood, and cursed: "This Zuo Liangyu used our lives as an excuse to escape, and he really deserved to kill thousands of people!"

Qin Ning smiled and said, "Zuo Liangyu's escape without fighting in Wuchang has aroused the anger of the people of the world. Now he wants to escape without fighting in Jiayu again, but there is no excuse. He does not want to fight, so Yuan Jixian naturally has no way to resist the rebellion and can only retreat to Tongcheng. He asked Mr. Qianhu to guard this Kuilong Pass to use Mr. Qianhu's life as an excuse for him to escape without fighting."

When Qin Zheng heard this, his eyebrows were already standing up and shouted loudly: "Zuo Liangyu, who was killed in Qiankang!"

Huang Deneng was a little panicked and asked, "Master Qianhu! What should we do?"

Qin Zhao's face was solemn. He walked to the highest point of Kuilong Pass and looked at the terrain of the canyon in front of the pass.

Qin Ning took a breath and said, "Yuan Jixian gave the death order to Master Qianhu. We must not retreat without authorization now. Otherwise, if a crime of escape is in the pretext of war, the killing will be light."

Huang Deneng kicked the ground angrily, kicking the soil out of a small hole.

After looking at the pass for a long time, Qin Zhao suddenly laughed.

"Since we can't retreat, let's guard Kuilong Pass."

...

For two days, Qin Zhao was commanding two thousand people to increase the height and strengthen the Kuilong Pass.

There is a canyon in front of Kuilong Pass, with a small low place and a large high place. But there are steep mountains on both sides of the canyon. There are many steep places in the mountains and cannot be walked up and down. There are only a flat terrain of about twenty feet below the canyon. There are many trees and a small path facing Kuilong Pass.

Kuilong Pass was originally only half a meter high, but under Qin Zhao's reinforcement, it was built into a rammed earth city wall that was two meter high at dawn. Qin Zhao also built earthen bushes above the rammed earth city wall, and hung hanging doors between the earthen bushes and the bushes to make shooting holes.

The so-called hanging door is the guarding party in ancient times, using bamboo or wood to protect the guard plate above the shooting hole. This guard plate extends to the outside of the shooting hole a little bit, which can effectively prevent the ejected arrows shot from the city.

As for the trees in front of Kuilong Pass, all of them were cut down by Qin Zhao. These trees are likely to become obstacles to rockets killing the enemy, so of course they have to be cut down.

However, Qin Zhao only had two days. On the third day, Li Zicheng's troops squeezed over from the small road.

At the beginning, the whistle came from the pond horse.

The pond horses were very arrogant, holding their bent bows high, aiming at the soldiers at the two-meter-square-meter gate here from time to time, and shooting a few arrows from time to time. The bent bows and arrows were shot from seventy or eighty meters away without any accuracy, and had no power after landing, but they forced the soldiers of the service regiment to protect their heads, forming a psychological pressure.

Moreover, there were more and more horses pressing against the formation. At the back, there were a thousand horses galloping freely within a hundred meters in front of the formation, throwing arrows, making all kinds of sharp and strange screams.

The small flag of the word Liu was planted on the backs of those pond horses.

Arrows are like hail, shooting from a certain direction from time to time. They don’t look lethal, and they will be injured even if they are stuck in the head.

Zhao Liangce asked: "Which general is the thief with the surname Liu?"

Qin Ning looked at the arrows that flew down from time to time and cursed: "Zhi Niang! It's Liu Zongmin, the general of the trespass!"

Qin Zhao asked, "Qin Ning, do you know Liu Zongmin?"

Qin Ning smiled and said, "Master Qianhu, I heard from the teacher in the county government that the generals surnamed Liu under Li Zicheng include Liu Zongmin and Liu Fangliang. The one who led the troops alone must be Liu Zongmin. Liu Zongmin is very fierce, with a pair of big swords swinging without leaking. He is Li Zicheng's number one general. He extorted money from officials in the capital, also known as Liu Suoxing."

Qin Zhao smiled and said, "Your relationship has been connected to the county government."

Qin Ning said: "Brother Zhao, I know many secrets of the county magistrate now."

"If you don't talk about this, Brother Zhao. Liu Zongmin is now General Quan of Li Zicheng, Ru Hou, and it is very difficult to deal with."

Qin Zhao smiled and said, "What a great official!"

Qin Ning said loudly: "Master Qianhu, Liu Zongmin has blackmailed officials in the capital. He has the most silver under his command. Let's kill their pond horses with rockets? Go up and touch their pockets?"

Qin Zhao smiled and said, "Don't be anxious, it's not time yet."

Qin Zhao put away his smile and shouted loudly: "Sign up the shield! Archers look back!"

Two hundred archers walked behind the pile wall and began to shoot back under the protection of the hanging port and shield formation. However, the pond horses ran very fast while galloping. Where did the archers shoot at moving targets seven or eighty meters away? They kept shooting on both sides, which was to grab a momentum.

There were more than a thousand pond horses there. One thousand people were tired of shooting, and another thousand people came up from behind and continued to shoot here. However, there were only two hundred archers on Qin Zhao's side, and he couldn't replace them even if he was tired of shooting, so Qin Zhao simply stopped shooting.

However, the soldiers got used to it after a while when they saw that the crusade army's bows and arrows could not be injured.

Slowly, the main infantry behind the pond horse came up.

The soldiers who rushed to the first year of Hongguang were no longer the Wuxia Ameng. Chuang Ni burned and killed all the way to the north, attacked the capital and plundered all the equipment. Moreover, Li Zicheng did not lead the old and the weak, and 40,000 people went south to be elite soldiers, and the equipment was incredibly well-equipped.

All 12,000 infantrymen were wearing chain mail at least, and many were wearing scale armor, with cotton armor inside. Everyone was holding their waist knives.

This time I went south quickly and did not bring cannons.

Every fifty soldiers of the trespassed the banner of the word "Liu", which covered the entire canyon like a forest. The infantrymen of the trespassed the drums on all sides and the infantry slowly advanced with the rhythm of the drum beats. Standing at Kuilong Pass, they looked like a flood filled the valley lowlands.

The old thieves with war were all vicissitudes and calm, and they were about to fight, but the old thieves were not panicked at all. They stood firmly in their own military formations, without making noise or whispering. The front-line soldiers in front were holding high ladders, and they had barbs on them, so they could not push them down if they were on the city wall.

Liu Zongmin rode a fat horse and rode at the Central Military Office of the Rebellion Army with a relaxed expression. Thirty or forty generals with a tiger back and bear waist gathered beside him, pointing at Kuimen Pass here one by one.

Looking at the relaxed expressions of those generals, it seems that just one rush, Kuimen Pass here will change hands.

After all, you can tell by looking at the iron armor on the Chuangjun and the standard combat jacket of the Han Guojun. The combat strength of the cold weapons of both sides is not at the same level.
Chapter completed!