After Ning Jun passed Xiushan, he had to face directly the Hubi Pass, which is known as one of the seven dangerous passes in Shuzhou.

Shuzhou is the most dangerous place in the world. When Emperor Taizu of the Great Chu was so powerful, it was difficult to attack Shuzhou.

Now that Ning's army enters Shu, what they are walking on the way the Chu army entered Shu back then, and what they have to fight is a battle that the Chu army cannot move forward.

However, the difference is that in this first battle, the Ning army fought without bloodshed.

It takes a few days to walk from Xiushan to Hubi Pass. Gao Zhen led his troops as the vanguard and explored the way for the army.

Perhaps the Shuzhou army knew that it was impossible to defeat the Ning army from the front battlefield, so there was no threat along the way.

The Shuzhou Army should have placed all the heavy troops at a critical junction to consume the Ning army's strength.

Gao Zhen led the team to outside Hubi Pass and walked over like this, let alone blocking him, he didn't even see the shadow of a Shuzhou army.

After arriving at Hubi Pass, I realized that Pei Qi's tactic was to gather all the scattered teams at the pass and fight a protracted battle with the Ning army.

Unlike Kaoshan Pass, the Hubi Pass has a longer horizontal direction, which is four or five miles long, and the city wall is also higher.

From the appearance, the city walls of Hubi Pass are built with huge stones. Shuzhou has unique geographical conditions that provide such good stone.

If this hardness of the city wall was in the past, there might be no way.

However, Ning Jun is now equipped with a large number of stone throwing cars, which can pose a threat to Chengguan.

After Gao Zhen's team arrived, he dispersed some of the troops to explore the two wings.

The rest began to prepare for the arrival of the army, building walls and barracks.

No matter from any aspect, the difficulty of fighting the Tiger Block is greater than that of the Kuangshan Pass.

Even Kuoshanguan is one of the seven dangerous passes in Shuzhou, but its geographical location determines that Kuoshanguan cannot be built very large.

A few days later, the main team of Ning Army arrived and began to build a camp outside the Kuoshan Pass.

Li Chi and his men climbed up to the high place and observed the Hubi Pass opposite.

"Look at it."

Xiahou Zhuo pointed at him.

"They obviously stole the stolen."

Outside the city wall of Hubi Pass, thick straw curtains were hung, and wood was hung in some places.

Ning Jun used this method before, which can offset the attacks of most stone throwing cars.

Keeping the straw curtains and wood wet always can also prevent Ning Jun from attacking rockets.

This kind of fighting style was used by Ning Jun, but now it has been learned by the enemy. In this way, it will be difficult for the stone throwing car to cause a devastating blow to Chengguan.

"It's interesting."

Dan Tai said to himself.

The team that can still compete with Ning Jun now is not trying hard to learn Ning Jun’s tactical style.

Only by constantly learning can you protect yourself as much as possible under the power of Ning Jun's thunder.

"Fire attack is not very useful."

Xiahou Zhuo said: "But the cart throwing stone cannot destroy the city wall, and can't it be possible to smash the city wall?"

As long as the distance is adjusted, it is still very likely to let the stone fall on the city wall and cause damage to the defenders.

But this is actually not a big chance.

Because stones vary in size and shape, no one can use standard stones.

After Dan Tai said this, Li Chi's eyebrows raised slightly.

"Stones vary in size and shape, so we can use something that can be almost the same."

Li Chi looked at Zhuang Wudi: "We accompany the army with many sacks and tarpaulins, so we used these things to fill the soil to smash them."

Zhuang Wudi said: "But if you pretend to be a turtle, it will not be very harmful to the defenders."

Li Chi smiled: "What if we are going to do is not to kill and injure the defenders as the main goal?"

Everyone looked at Li Chi and waited for his next sentence.

Li Chi smiled and said, "When I was besieged by Han Feibao, he used the simplest and most rude method, which was to pile up a ramp regardless of life."

Li Chi pointed to Hubi Pass: "We have a large number of sacks. If we don't have sacks, we use other things to gather and throw them on the city walls, so that their defenders have no place to stand."

He looked over to Hubi Pass: "Raise the city walls for them!"

Whether it works or not, try it first.

From the second day after Ning Jun arrived, the people from the auxiliary barracks began to work hard and kept collecting soil to bag.

The speed of 20,000 people doing this together is imagined. In just one day, a big hole was dug out outside Hubi Pass.

Countless sacks were piled up in front of the formation for use, and this scene made the defenders of Hubi Pass confused.

The general who was originally responsible for guarding Hubi Pass was Yao Zhiyuan. After he volunteered to lead troops to Xiushan, Pei Qi dispatched another extremely capable general under him to sit here.

This person has a very close relationship with Yao Zhiyuan. He can be called Yao Zhiyuan's sect master or Yao Zhiyuan's noble person.

If it weren't for this old man, Yao Zhiyuan wouldn't have stood out in the Shuzhou army.

In an era where class division is so strict, it is very difficult for people from poor families to stand out.

This person is Gao Guangxiao, a famous general in Shuzhou.

Originally, Pei Qi invited Gao Guangxiao, who had retired and returned home, to cooperate with Yao Zhiyuan.

Pei Qi knew the relationship between Yao Zhiyuan and Gao Guangxiao well, so he was sure that such two people would be able to unite with sincerity.

Yao Zhiyuan is in Xiushan, Gao Guangxi is in Hubi Pass. If he cooperates with a tacit understanding, it is enough to block Ning Jun from the outside.

But Pei Qi never expected that Yao Zhiyuan would choose to give up resistance.

At this time, in Hubi Guanzhong, there were naturally many soldiers who were retreating from Xiushan.

About half of the more than 10,000 people chose to go home, and there were two or three thousand people who chose to hide first to see the situation.

There were about two or three thousand people back to Hubi Pass. These people had already informed Gao Guangxiao about what happened on Xiushan.

On the city wall, Gao Guangxiao looked at Ning Jun's actions and frowned.

"Is it a siege at any cost?"

This old general, who is nearly 70 years old, has a self-disciplined sentence.

According to normal analysis, Ning Jun prepared so many sacks and kept loading soil, which was to use the simplest, rough and most casualties to attack the city.

Gao Guangxiao, an old subordinate, Han Zai, the fourth-rank general of Shuzhou Army, whispered: "Old general, it is rumored that King Ning Li Chi loves soldiers like his sons, so it is unlikely that he will use such a tactic."

Gao Guangxiao nodded.

As a man who led his troops for most of his life, he certainly knew the importance of understanding his opponent before the war.

So after he accepted Pei Qi's invitation, the first thing he did was to ask Muying to provide him with Li Chi's information.

It’s not just Li Chi’s, but also the more information about Tang Pi, Xiahou Zhuo, and all the famous generals in Ning’s army, the better.

At this time, the person responsible for providing him with these things was a general banner officer in the Muying Camp, named Cui Shang.

After Han Zai reminded him, Cui Shang added a few more words.

"Not only King Ning Li Chi, but also the generals under King Ning, have never had such a precedent for fighting without hesitation of troops."

Gao Guangxiao nodded.

If you didn’t want to use the method of stacking ramps to attack the city, why would you prepare so many sacks?

Because Ning Jun had not assumed the stone throwing cart yet, Gao Guangxiao could not have thought of it for a while.

In fact, there was no such thing as a rock throwing cart in the era when Gao Guangxiao led his troops.

"First watch the changes."

Gao Guangxiao gave an order, then turned around and got down the city wall.

Back at his residence, Gao Guangxiao ordered his subordinates to bring over a few people who had escaped from Xiushan.

After several soldiers arrived, they hurriedly fell to Gao Guangxiao.

In the Shuzhou army, if Yao Zhiyuan is the respect in the hearts of most soldiers and the goal of every soldier from a poor background, then Gao Guangxiao is the legend in their hearts.

Gao Guangxiao is an old-fashioned general from the Chu army's military system.

In him, he had the special sense of pride of the general of the palace soldiers, and the domineering style of the general of the palace soldiers, and the unique domineering behavior of the general of the palace soldiers.

Because when the Great Chu was in power, the palace soldiers were indeed the ceiling of the combat effectiveness of the Central Plains army.

It is natural to imagine the pride of a person who can lead the army alone.

Even though the Great Chu became chaotic later and rebellions in various places were springing up like mushrooms after a rain, they still could not shake the dominance of the government soldiers.

At that time, the soldiers of the government went to fight against the rebels, and it was not an exaggeration to say that they were cutting melons and vegetables.

But later, this rebellion changed, from small-scale rebels everywhere to large-scale rebels.
To be continued...