Chapter 343 Tiger Leaping Gorge
Lin'an City is a gate city at the junction of Daxia and Linan Kingdom. It should be under the jurisdiction of the Town Shoufu. However, because Lin'an City is a gate city and a military town, due to its particularity, Lin'an City is not under the jurisdiction of the Town Shoufu, but is directly under the jurisdiction of the generals of the Lin'an City garrison.
Tiger Leaping Gorge is the only way to Lin'an City to Chengzhao Prefecture.
When we first built Lin'an City, someone in the Daxia court suggested building a city in the Tiger Leaping Gorge, which is truly easy to defend but difficult to attack.
But it was too difficult to build a city in Tiger Leaping Gorge. In the end, this proposal was abandoned and instead built a city in Lin'an City, which is the current Lin'an City.
According to the calculations of the Daxia military, even if Lin'an City is broken, as long as the troops retreat to Hu Leaping Gorge, they can still block the invading enemy.
But no one expected that the King of Zhennan would actually make a desperate bet.
The worst thing is that his desperate battle was betrayed by someone and he became a meat bun to beat a dog.
Lin'an City fell, and no one even retreated to the Tiger Leaping Gorge.
At the suggestion of Qin Shiyu, the betrayer, the commander of the Li Nanguo army sent an order to make all the tired Li Nanguo soldiers rushed towards the direction of the Machizhao Mansion in a crazy way.
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At sunrise, Mr. Zhou was already waiting on the cliff walls on both sides of the Tiger Leaping Gorge.
He hoped that his guess was wrong, and even if he guessed correctly, he was praying that King Zhennan would succeed in his desperate bet.
Although he didn't like King Zhennan and hated King Zhennan for losing 100,000 old soldiers from Daxia outside Kangshou City, if Lin'an City fell, the Tiger Leaping Gorge would become the last line of defense for the Townzhao Mansion.
"General, the people of Li Nan are here!"
Zhou Monday, who was responsible for watching outside the Tiger Leaping Gorge, rushed back soon, bringing very bad news to Mr. Zhou.
The people of Li Nan are here!
This means that Lin'an City has fallen and the King of Zhennan has been killed in battle.
"Prepare for the war!"
Mr. Zhou is not much sad.
His here means that he has thought of this worst situation.
Fortunately, when he decided to bring people to Tiger Leaping Gorge, he had already submitted a memorial to Emperor Xuanwu, and at the same time he also sent a letter to the prefect of the Town Shoufu, mobilizing the soldiers and weapons from various major cities in the Town Shoufu to come to Tiger Leaping Gorge to prepare for war.
At this time, the middle section of Tiger Leaping Gorge had been blocked.
The army of Li Nanguo wanted to pass through the Tiger Leaping Gorge, unless Mr. Zhou and others all died here in battle.
Waiting is torment.
But in order to seize the spoils, the soldiers of Li Nanguo ran very fast. They arrived at the Tiger Leaping Gorge, and were not even worried about being ambushed here. They rushed into the narrow passage of Tiger Leaping Gorge without any warning.
Mr. Zhou did not order an attack, but instead sent these soldiers from Li Nanguo into the Tiger Leaping Gorge.
Only when the people in front of the soldiers of Li Nanguo arrived at the middle section of the canyon where the road was blocked, Mr. Zhou gave the order.
There was no rain of arrows, but a bucket of lamp oil was poured on.
Fire Attack!
It’s not that Mr. Zhou is cruel, but that he has to do this.
They did occupy the advantage of the terrain of Tiger Leaping Gorge, but the arrows they can use around them are limited, so they have to save some use.
Before the arrival of reinforcements and ordnance supplies, he could only do everything possible to block the army of Li Nanguo in the Tiger Leaping Gorge.
Therefore, a warning is necessary.
The lamp oil was poured down, and torches were thrown down one by one.
The raging fire quickly ignited.
In order to enter the Shoufu of Okara Town as soon as possible to plunder gold, silver and money, the soldiers of Li Nanguo rushed forward very quickly, and one hundred-man team chased each other, and the distance between them was very short.
At this moment, the canyon was densely filled with soldiers from Li Nanguo, especially the road ahead was blocked, but the soldiers behind had no idea that the road ahead was blocked, so they just kept rushing forward.
In this case, the lethality of fire attack and the geometrical stage increase.
The wailing sound was deafening.
Mr. Zhou carried his hands on his back and looked up at the sky with a solemn expression.
Mr. Zhou didn't feel much reluctant to do with fire attack.
His fire burned at most thousands of soldiers in Linan. The country dug the Longyou River and destroyed the 100,000 Daxia Erlang outside Kangshou City.
He can remember this hatred in his heart.
As a veteran general in the army, Mr. Zhou has always been famous for loving soldiers like his sons. This is why the old man is still valued by Emperor Xuanwu and admired by many generals in the army even though he retired to the field.
War does not matter whether it is right or wrong.
You kill my people, I kill your people.
Only the final winner is qualified to judge right or wrong.
Besides, Mr. Zhou did not want to determine whether it was right or wrong.
As for national wars, you can do everything you can.
But as a person from Daxia, then Mr. Zhou must have thought about the problem from the standpoint of Daxia.
The soldiers of Li Nanguo in the canyon screamed for a long time and finally died in despair.
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In Lin'an City, the head coach of the Li Nanguo army received the news from the vanguard troops, which directly made people find Qin Shiyu in front of him.
"Mr. Qin, don't you explain?"
Before he could see who the enemy was, more than 3,000 warriors were damaged under his command.
You should know that after destroying the defenders of Lin'an City, the soldiers of Li Nanguo who still have the energy and ability to run in the front are definitely the elite among the elite.
But now, more than three thousand warriors are dead, and they are tragically dead.
"What happened?"
Qin Shiyu was a little confused. He didn't know what was going on.
"Tiger Leaping Gorge, there is news that the officers and soldiers of the Daxia are stationed. Why don't you tell me?"
The commander of the Li Nanguo army was in charge of Qin Shiyu.
However, considering Qin Shiyu's identity, he could only temporarily suppress the anger in his heart and decided to explain the situation carefully to Qin Shiyu first.
"impossible!"
Qin Shiyu was also shocked when he heard the words of the commander of the Li Nanguo army.
"The people and horses of the King of Zhennan have been killed. There has never been a soldier and a soldier in Lin'an City. It is impossible for anyone to garrison the Tiger Leaping Gorge!"
"Mr. Qin, my commander's three thousand warriors have been lost in the Tiger Leaping Gorge. Would I be joking about such things?"
The head commander of the Li Nanguo army looked at Qin Shiyu's innocent and puzzled look, and his face darkened.
"Report—"
Before Qin Shiyu could respond, a messenger rushed over.
"Master, the king has an order!"
The messenger approached and presented the letter written by the Lord of Li Nan as Su Zhengfa's request.
"Well? The king actually arrived at Beiding Pass?"
The commander of the Li Nanguo army took over the letter and read the letter at a glance, and couldn't help but be surprised.
"General, no!"
Qin Shiyu hurriedly said, "General, the king of your country has been captured by the people of Daxia. If you rush to Beiding Pass now, you will fall into the trap!"
"What are Mr. Qin's words?"
Chapter completed!