The 300,000-strong Sichuan-Zhenjun Allied Forces stayed in the mountains for one night and waited until the early morning of the next day to enter the depths of the mountain forest. They were guided by medicinal farmers and secretly climbed up the mountain through the wind break.
When Ren Fang and Nie Ze thought about it, it was impossible for the Feng Army to place sentries in the mountains, and it was impossible for the Feng Army to discover their crossing the mountain. However, God's calculations are not as good as those of humans, and everything is a coincidence.
It is true that the Feng Army was unaware of the Sichuan-Zhen Allied Forces' move to climb up the mountain, and did not deploy any spies into the mountain. However, this morning, a quarrying team organized by the people of Pianpian Feng Country was quarrying in the mountain.
During this period, in order to resist the enemy's attack, the Feng army consumed a lot of stones and stone projectiles fired by trebuchets. People from the Feng Kingdom near Baguan spontaneously went into the mountains to collect stones to supplement the city defense needs of Baguan.
Among the people, there were several young and strong youths who went deep into the mountains to find new quarrying sites. When people were sitting on the ground, resting and chatting, they suddenly heard the rumble of footsteps in front of them.
Not knowing what was going on, I climbed up to a high rock out of curiosity and looked around.
At this glance, several people were startled. They saw that the mountain stream deep in the mountains was densely packed with people. Some were wearing steel helmets and armor, and some were wearing brown leather helmets. Because there were too many people,
The team could not be seen at a glance, but the opponent did not raise a flag, and the few young people from Feng Country did not bother to tell which country's army this was.
It took them a long time to come back to their senses, and one of the young men muttered: "Strange, when did the king send the army into the mountains? Could it be that we didn't collect enough stones, so the king mobilized the army to quarry the stones?"
"How is it possible? If you want to quarry stone, why don't you even have a truck to load the stone?"
"Could it be an ambush in the mountains?"
"It's even more impossible. Looking at the direction of march, it's out of the mountain, not into the mountain."
Several people said something to each other, and even after talking for a long time, they still didn't understand what this army was about. It was only then that a young man suddenly took a breath of cold air and said in surprise: "That's not right! My Gale's army is all over the place."
It's a black helmet and black armor, but why is the opponent wearing a steel helmet and steel armor? Could it be..."
"Is it the enemy?" another young man asked.
A word to wake up the dreamer. They were ordinary people who had not participated in the city defense battle, and had never seen the Sichuan Army and the Zhen Army, but the strange armor on the opponent's body aroused their vigilance. Several young people were shocked and fell down almost at the same time.
They fell to the ground, looked at each other, and without saying a word, they all slid down the high stone, turned around, and ran back.
After running back to the foot of the mountain, several young men shouted to the hundreds of people quarrying around: "Run! The enemy has climbed over the uphill mountain and is coming to kill them."
As soon as the people heard this, their expressions changed greatly. They threw away the tools in their hands and dispersed, shouting and screaming, and fled towards Baguan to report the news to the garrison in the city.
Now Tang Yin is preparing to lead his army to evacuate Ba Pass. At this time, he and his generals gathered at the General's Mansion to discuss the next tactics against the enemy. Without Ba Pass, the next battle can only take place within the territory of Feng Kingdom, and all arrangements must be made.
All have to be considered in the long term.
At this time, a guard from the Feng Army hurriedly ran in from outside. When he came to Tang Yin, he intervened and saluted, and then said in a hurry: "Your Majesty, the quarrying people just brought news that a large number of enemy troops were found in Shangxing Mountain!"
"What?" After hearing this, everyone present was stunned, including Tang Yin. The first thing people thought of was whether the news was true or false? Enemy troops would appear on the way up the mountain. How could that be possible? How did the enemy survive?
Mountain? Could it be that it still flew over?
Before Tang Yin could speak, Qiu Zhen couldn't wait to ask: "Where are the people who reported the news?"
"Just outside the house."
"Bring them here quickly!"
"yes!"
The guards took the order and left. After a short time, they brought in a few young people. Tang Yin looked around at the few people. These young people were young, dressed in ordinary clothes, and seemed to have never seen the world. Recently, some people kept coming.
People were looking around, and some people were standing with their heads down, trembling, not daring to breathe.
"When you see the king, why don't you kneel down quickly!" the guard shouted in a low voice.
Hearing that the king was here, several young people were shocked at the same time. They knelt down in unison, kowtowed forward and said: "Kowtow to the king!"
Tang Yin had no time to worry about etiquette anymore. He strode up to a few people and asked, "Have you seen the enemy troops in the mountains?"
"Yes...yes!" Several young people pressed their heads against the ground, not even daring to raise their heads. One of them bravely said: "The opponent did not fly a flag, but he was wearing a steel helmet and armor. The villain suspected that he was an enemy.
military!"
We have not sent any troops to Shanhangxing Mountain, and the opponent is made of steel armor, so it must be the Sichuan Army. Tang Yin pondered for a while, then turned his head and said: "Letian, Ai Jia, send someone to investigate immediately!"
"Yes! Your Majesty!" Letian and Ai Jia both responded and walked out quickly.
Tang Yin looked at several young men again and asked: "How many enemy troops are there?"
Several young people shook their heads together and said in a trembling voice: "Look... I can't tell. The number of people is too... too many. It's boundless. It must be more than tens of thousands, and it's estimated to be hundreds of thousands..."
"It's not just a few hundred thousand, it must be at least hundreds of thousands! When the villain was watching, he found that the mountain stream was full of enemy soldiers."
Tang Yin took a breath. According to what they said, there must be a lot of enemy troops, at least more than 100,000 people. But how on earth did such a large number of troops get over such a steep mountain? I don't understand what's going on.
, there was no flickering expression on the faces of the young men when they were lying. He waved to the guards on both sides and said: "Take them down to rest. If everything is true, everyone will be rewarded!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Several young men who reported the news were taken down by the guards. As soon as they left, the hall became a mess. People were talking about it and seemed a little overwhelmed by the sudden appearance of the enemy army.
Qiu Zhen walked to Tang Yin and asked, "Your Majesty, what do you think?"
"It is better to believe that they are there than to believe that they are not. If their reports are true, this enemy army is here to steal our army's retreat. Now we must withdraw from Ba Pass immediately!" Tang Yin said with a solemn expression.
Qiu Zhen had the same idea as Tang Yin. He nodded and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"
Tang Yin originally planned to retreat after discussing the next strategy to deal with the enemy, but now he ran out of time.
More than 400,000 people from the four armies of the Directly Affiliated Army, the Chifeng Army, the Western Border Army, and the New Army began to withdraw from Baguan one after another. Soon, the spies sent by Tianyan and Diwang returned quickly, and the news they brought back told the people.
Just like the previous one, a large number of Sichuan-Zhen allied troops did appear in Shangshang Mountain, numbering more than 200,000, but there was no large baggage in the army, and most of them went into battle lightly.
The detection of Tianyan and Diwang confirmed the accuracy of the enemy's situation. Now there are two ways in front of Feng Jun. One is to retreat to the hinterland, completely abandon Baguan and throw it to the enemy; the other is to stay in Baguan.
Nearby, there was a head-on confrontation with the enemy troops coming over the mountain.
After discussing with his generals, Tang Yin chose the first path and gave up Ba Pass completely. Ba Pass has now become a place where the plague spreads, and it is definitely impossible to defend it. Even if he fights the enemy now, he will have to fight in the end.
Instead of retreating, it would be better to leave Baguan, a place of plague, to the enemy.
After setting the goal, the Feng army retreated from Ba Pass, and then the whole army went north and retreated towards Chongcheng.
Chongcheng, the largest city closest to Ba Pass, is also the commercial center of Feng and Mo. In recent times, due to the alliance between Tang Yin and Shao Fang, the trade between Feng and Mo has been fully opened, and Chongcheng has developed extremely.
With great speed, the city is prosperous and there is an endless stream of caravans.
The Feng Army's goal was to retreat to Chongcheng, rest for a while, and then have a showdown with the Sichuan-Zhen Allied Forces.
The same target as the Feng Army was the 200,000 Zhen Army led by Li Cheng. Li Cheng also set the city as the primary goal of his attack, and it was also the springboard for the army to penetrate into the hinterland of Feng State.
The Zhen army went up the mountain with light equipment. The whole army did not bring any baggage. The largest baggage was the ladder necessary for siege. Even the rations brought by the soldiers were only enough for two days. If they could not capture the city, they would not be able to capture the city.
The army will have to run out of food.
The Feng Army went in a straight line to Chongcheng, while the Zhen Army took a diagonal route, which was much farther than the Feng Army, but their speed was much faster than the Feng Army.
The Zhen army went into battle lightly and had no baggage. When marching, the soldiers did not have any burdens. They just ran forward with all their strength. However, the Feng army was different. The baggage carried by the Feng army was complicated and complicated, and in order to prevent the people near Ba Pass from being attacked by the enemy.
The killings of the Feng army took the people with them to rush to the city, which greatly slowed down the Feng army and made its march slow.
On the other side, the main force of the Sichuan-Zhen coalition has begun to launch an all-out attack on Baguan.
There are more than 600,000 Sichuan and Zhen allied troops in front of Baguan, and there are 100,000 enemy troops in the back of Baguan. The two armies are attacking from the front and back, and Baguan immediately becomes in danger.
The ensuing battle to defend the city was a nightmare like living in hell for the Baguan defenders, who had only more than 60,000 people left, and more than half of them had lost their combat effectiveness.
At the critical moment, Yingbu assigned 10,000 soldiers to guard the north city wall, and he personally led the remaining 20,000 soldiers to fight to the death on the south wall to resist the main force of the Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces.
The Sichuan and Zhen allied forces currently attacking the city all wore sweat scarves covering their mouths and noses, and they were extremely fierce when they launched their attack. The attacking regiments advanced one after another, with one person falling in front and a group of people behind doing so.
To make up for it, under such an overwhelming onslaught, how could the defenders with only more than 30,000 people left withstand it?
The first one to be attacked was Beicheng.
Baguan's city defense is typically strong in the south and weak in the north. There are almost no defense facilities placed on the north city wall, and the city wall is pitifully short. Although there are 10,000 Feng troops defending it, it really can't stop the 100,000 Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces from attacking.
As the North City Gate was breached by the enemy, a large number of Sichuan and Zhen allied forces rushed into the city, and the North City's defense line completely collapsed. Almost no one of the 10,000 Baguan defenders was spared, and they all died in the battle.