Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 288

[Chapter 288 Confrontation]

Feihu Pass.

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

Upon hearing the news, the guards of Feihu Pass, Niu Cha, Zhong Li and Chen Hu all came out to greet them, and the army entered Feihu Pass to station.

“What’s the situation outside Feihu Pass now?” Zhao Xu said after taking a brief rest, climbed onto the city wall of Feihu Pass, and looked towards the looming Xiliang camp.

As a guard, Niu Zha naturally had the obligation to grasp the military situation. He cupped his fists and said, “Return to Your Highness, just a day before His Highness arrived, a large number of Xiliang infantry entered the camp.”

Zhao Xu nodded.

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

The terrain here can be said to be a real throat.

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

At the foot of the mountain is a flat road about 50 meters wide.

And Feihuguan 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 Jinju, you must play a game here.

The camp in the distance is not very clear.

Zhao Xu then reached out his hand to Chang Wei.

Chang Wei understood and immediately handed over the telescope to him.

Picking up the binoculars, Zhao Xu adjusted it and looked at the Xiliang camp.

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

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

There are also tall sentry towers in the camp, with archers standing on them.

At this time, Chang Wei took the telescope from Qin Shan’s hand and looked at it, roughly counting the number of tents in the camp.

He said: “Your Highness, a tent in Xiliang usually houses 30 people, and there are at least 30,000 people in this camp.”

Zhao Xu put down his binoculars and frowned.

With so many soldiers stuffed in such a small place, the Xiliang camp almost took on the shape of a long snake.

Niu Cha, Zhongli and Chen Hu listened to the two talking, and their eyes fell on the binoculars in their hands, with weird 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 laughed twice, put the binoculars in front of Zhongli’s eyes, and asked him to look at the Xiliang camp.

Zhong Li didn’t react at first, but when he looked again, his jaw almost dropped in shock.

“What is this?” he yelled.

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

Seeing this, they were as shocked as Zhong Li.

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

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

Unexpectedly, this thing was made by King Yan.

Seeing a few people attracted by the telescope, Zhao Xu waited for a while, and when their freshness wore off, he said, “Tomorrow, this camp will be pulled

out.” “Yes, Your Highness.” Chang Wei replied yes.

…

Xiliang Camp.

The deputy leader, Ye Renrong, looked at Feihu Pass from a distance.

Beside him, four are waiting for his order.

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

Before, there were only 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 cover up the real strength of the troops.

“Deputy leader, there are some unfamiliar faces at Feihu Pass.” At this moment, a Xiliang soldier who was in charge of investigating 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.

The appearance of these two unfamiliar faces now undoubtedly confirmed this matter.

“In this way, the war will last for two days.” A general said.

Ye Renrong looked at Yanguan again.

The order he got was to test the strength of King Yan’s army and at the same time consume part of the troops.

If you lose the enemy, you will abandon the camp, retreat to Jincheng, lure King Yan’s army into Jinzhou, and then dispatch cavalry to harass King Yan’s luggage.

Thinking of this, he said to the general beside him, “Ambush 10,000 troops in the forest on the left at night, and ambush 10,000 troops in the forest on the right, and the rest stick to the camp. Go out three times and kill him by surprise.”

“Yes, deputy leader.” Zheng Jiangmen shouted.

…

Jincheng.

Murong Wuji was standing at the top of the city, looking east.

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

At this time, besides the Xiliang generals, there were also several officials with big faces beside him.

They are the heads of the four great families in Jinzhou.

Under the city, soldiers from Xiliang drove the people of Jinzhou and smashed sharp woods obliquely into the ground.

The earth becomes like a hedgehog.

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

“Hmph, even if King Yan has cannons, I want to see how he can take down Jincheng, which is like an iron wall.” Murong Wuji said.

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

Now I want to take Jincheng away from them, unless all Xiliang soldiers in Jincheng are dead.

“The leader is right. This city of Jin is strong and the walls are thick. This cannon official is just bragging. Otherwise, why did Da Song agree to Beidi’s peace? It’s so magical. Wouldn’t it be great to take back their Ningjin capital directly? Better?” one official said.

His name is Cao Rui, and he used to be the sheriff of the same county.

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

After Xiliang took Jincheng, they immediately voted for Xiliang.

In order to stabilize Jinzhou as soon as possible, the Xiliang people also accepted them.

Now, they are real Xiliang officials.

Murong Wuji frowned upon hearing this.

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

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

Moreover, the true power of the artillery has also been verified in Dasong’s Jinling City.

Officials who have gone to see the artillery fire come back will not lie.

It was precisely because he faced the power of King Yan’s artillery squarely that he took so many countermeasures.

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

This will greatly ease the pressure on Jinju.

At the same time, Yan Wang saw an obvious flaw in his eyes.

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

Wrong in his opinion.

The king of Yan did not dare to go out of Yanguan because he did not dare to stretch the food road too long.

Otherwise, in the face of the ferocious Beidi cavalry, the food road will be cut off, and even with artillery, the soldiers of King Yan will be defeated.

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

Although his Xiliang cavalry is slightly inferior to Beidi.

But he is confident that he still has a huge advantage against the cavalry that King Yan has only trained for a few months.

(end of this chapter)