Chapter 435: Wu Sangui, a great hero, Shanhaiguan was attacked
"Whoosh!"
As the Great Jin army soared into the sky carrying Li Dingguo's latest military order and flew away towards the southwest sky, the Pi Xiu Corps, under the arrangement of Liu Zhiqing, accelerated the cleanup of the battlefield post-war work.
By the time the soldiers finished their work and had dinner, it was already three quarters past midnight.
"Dudu..."
Another half hour passed, and a loud military bugle sounded. The soldiers of the Pixiu Legion, who had taken a short rest, mounted their horses one by one and began to line up.
"Wu Honglei, you lead the 100,000 soldiers of the Fifth Battalion to escort the logistics corps to come later. The remaining 400,000 main force soldiers will set off immediately to the southeast of Mamengshan to join the Taotie Corps!"
Cao Bianjiao shouted to a core general in front of him.
The area on the east bank of the Kuan River where the Taotie Legion is now located is located in the southeast of Mameng Mountain, with a wide hilly canyon running through it.
The Pixiu Legion is composed entirely of cavalry, and can easily bypass the source of the Kuan River from here and join up with the Taotie Legion at the fastest speed.
Their army heading south must take the Guanning Defense Line before the Guanning Army surrenders to Huang Taiji, so as to prevent this round of major crisis and save hundreds of millions of ordinary Han people from the scourge of the Tartars.
"Dabai, the task of leading the army is now left to you."
Cao Bianjiao gave instructions to his spirit bird mount.
"Chirp..."
The great white crane, which had recently broken through to the middle stage of the sixth-level spiritual bird, stretched out its long neck, raised its head and chirped softly, nodded its big head, and flapped its pair of large snow-white wings. It immediately arrived at a height of a thousand feet and flew slowly, pointing out the direction for the army to advance and conducting high-altitude reconnaissance.
The reason why the Pixiu Legion has been able to achieve such tremendous results in the past year is not only due to Cao Bianjiao's bravery and Liu Zhiqing's genius, but also the role of the white crane.
The white crane, whose intelligence is no less than that of an ordinary adult, not only eliminates the risk of the Pixiu Legion's soldiers being ambushed by the enemy, but can also accurately detect the enemy's situation and guide the soldiers forward across the vast grassland.
At this time, the white crane had become an experienced spiritual bird that was proficient in this field, and brought unimaginable help to the Pixiu Army.
"set off!"
Cao Bianjiao waved his hand, and teams of cavalry soldiers began to ride forward.
"Da da……"
It was early autumn. Under the bright moonlight, hundreds of thousands of elite cavalry soldiers were marching faster and faster. In the night, they were like a large dark cloud sweeping across the grassland, rushing towards the end of the prairie ahead.
……
Just after dusk, night fell, and the Shanhaiguan Fortress, like a prehistoric beast crawling among the mountains, was already brightly lit.
The Zhenyuan Tower at the East Gate is the tallest part of the entire Shanhaiguan city wall and is also the most core pass area.
The Zhenyuan Tower is more than 100 meters high and is divided into two floors. It has a beautiful and elegant shape, majestic and solemn, and is built entirely of basalt.
Climbing up the city wall, you can see the blue sea on one side and the starting point of the Great Wall that stretches for millions of miles on the other side, which makes you feel proud.
"Cousin, has my uncle really decided to join Huang Taiji?"
This morning, Wu Sangui, who had just led the army back to Shanhaiguan from the south, stood under the plaque on the towering Zhenyuan Tower that read "The No. 1 Pass in the World" and asked Zu Kuan, who was gazing at the sea outside the city.
Wu Sangui was the nephew of Zu Dashou, and he was able to hold his current official position thanks to the support of his Zu family.
So even though he was feeling a little nervous, he didn't have the confidence to question his uncle's decision.
"good."
Zu Kuan's tone was very complicated. He turned to look at Wu Sangui and said, "To be honest, I am also opposed to the decision made by my uncle."
"But the civil and military officials of the court have collectively decided to move the capital south. Once our Guanning Army loses the Guanning defense line, escorting His Majesty south to settle down will require us to start all over again. How easy is that?"
"Without the foundation in Guanning, will the Guanning Army still be the Guanning Army?"
Zu Kuan, as one of the few hard-line war advocates in the Guanning Group, has always been very hostile to the Later Jin Tartars. But now he has to surrender to them. He feels extremely depressed and wants to vomit blood.
In June nine years ago, Zu Dashou was promoted to the general of the Liaodong vanguard. Since he was stationed in Jinzhou with the seal of the general of the Liaodong vanguard, the Zu family began to prosper rapidly.
Later, as Zu Dashou's status rose rapidly, all members of the Zu family were granted official positions by the imperial court.
Zu Dashou's brothers Zu Dale, Zu Dacheng, and Zu Dabi, and his sons and nephews Zu Zeyuan, Zu Zepei, Zu Zesheng, Zu Zefa, Zu Zerun, Zu Kefa, etc., were all officers of various levels from general to deputy general, lieutenant general, and guerrilla, and were stationed in Ningyuan, Dalinghhe, Jinzhou and other cities.
Until now, the Zu family has become the number one military family in the Guanning Army, controlling about 70% of the Guanning Army's forces and becoming a prominent family.
"With the imperial court moving south, Li Dingguo, who is about to take over the entire Guannei area north of the Yellow River, will not allow our Guanning Army to continue to follow orders and not obey orders. He will definitely disband and reorganize the Guanning Army."
Zu Kuan continued, "Especially generals like us, nine out of ten times we will be stripped of our military power, and at most we will just become rich men."
"Who among our Guanning Army generals can accept this dilemma?"
It has become a habit for them in the Guanning Army to act as local tyrants, so naturally no one would be willing to lose it all.
Over the past few years, Zu Dashou has rejected Emperor Chongzhen's imperial edict three times and ignored the summons to Beijing to be conferred the title. One can easily imagine how arrogant and domineering he was!
Under the current situation, it is impossible for the Guanning Army to go south to Nanjing with the court officials.
Surrendering to Li Dingguo was even more impossible.
Then there is only one way left: to surrender to Huang Taiji.
After all, if they did not surrender to the Later Jin clan, they would not be able to stop either Li Dingguo or Huang Taiji.
As long as you don't want to die and your clan to be wiped out, this is the only choice.
"But once we surrender to Huang Taiji, there will be no turning back!"
Wu Sangui heard this and said anxiously, "Besides, once Huang Taiji fully controls the Guanning area, he will most likely not let us continue to fully control the military and political affairs here. At most, he will let our Guanning Army become an independent army."
He also couldn't have imagined that the situation would change so quickly.
Wu Sangui, who had an amazing adventure, was not only blessed with a star destiny, but also had great luck, having obtained the inter-generational inheritance from the ancient god Chi You.
God knows what kind of earth-shaking changes took place on this land at the end of ancient mythology, making this big world sealed by the rules of heaven and earth the main battlefield of the cosmic war at that time. Countless powerful masters of the universe fell here, leaving behind countless treasures and relics.
Wu Sangui, who inherited the power from the great god Chi You, is the most hidden genius in the Guanning Army.
Not only did he obtain his natal divine weapon, the Tiger Soul Blade, he also obtained a drop of Chi You's blood. From the blood inheritance, he learned some shocking secrets from the ancient mythological period.
However, due to the limitations of his own cultivation, he is currently only at the peak of level five, and can only bear a limited amount of blood inheritance.
But just a few bits and pieces of information gave Wu Sangui a huge ambition. He originally wanted to stay alive and develop, so he naturally didn't want to join the Later Jin clan.
However, now that Li Dingguo was leading the aggressive Fuxing Army, the situation no longer allowed Wu Sangui to continue to develop.
"For now, the only option for our Guanning Army is to surrender to Huang Taiji!"
"Otherwise, are you going to lead the soldiers to become a bandit group?"
Zu Kuan said angrily, "In that case, we might as well give up the areas within the pass and choose to go south with the imperial court!"
"It's all Li Dingguo's fault!"
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He started to curse, "I don't know what kind of amazing adventure Li Dingguo had. He started out as a small thief, and in just a few years, he became a big bandit who could compete with the Later Jin clan and the Ming Dynasty!"
"Now they have captured the entire Qi and Lu land, Qin territory, and Jin province, and even the entire Yellow River basin on both sides, completely cutting off the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and most of the Yellow River basin, forcing the court to abandon the area north of the Yellow River and hastily move the capital south."
If there were no Li Dingguo and the Fuxing Army, would the Guanning Army have been able to run their own warlords well and live a carefree life?
"This……"
Wu Sangui was speechless after hearing this.
No matter how big the ambitions are in your heart, you can only sigh in vain because you don’t have enough time for development!
"Cousin, Uncle Wu has quietly brought the Wu family to Shanhaiguan. They will arrive tomorrow at the latest."
Zu Kuan patted Wu Sangui on the shoulder and said in a complicated tone, "Cousin, I know you are talented and ambitious and want to do something great."
"However, the situation forced me to swallow my anger for the time being."
"Besides, our Guanning Army has nearly one million people, and Huang Taiji can be called a hero. It is impossible for him to be so short-sighted as to suppress us."
"As for how it will develop in the future, we can only wait and see."
Compared with Wu Sangui, Zu Kuan, who is also a top-level master of level five, is even more unwilling to surrender to the Later Jin clan.
But isn't there a solution?
As a vital military location, neither Li Dingguo nor Huang Taiji would allow the Guanning Army to continue to control the defense line within the pass.
If you don't want to die or your clan to be wiped out, you must make a choice.
There was a moment of silence.
"what?"
Wu Sangui suddenly felt that his innate divine weapon, the Tiger Soul Sword, was vibrating in his sea of consciousness. He seemed to have sensed something and hurriedly looked into the distance following his feeling.
In the dark night in the distance, there were several huge figures vaguely visible, flying towards the Donglou of Dongcheng Town in Shanhaiguan!
Wu Sangui inherited the essence and blood of the ancient demon god Chi You. He was extremely sensitive to murderous aura and immediately sensed that something was wrong!
"That's... a mysterious enemy formed a military killing formation and activated the killing formation's magical power to transform into a divine beast to attack!"
"Cousin!"
"Not good! A powerful enemy is coming! There are at least hundreds of thousands of them!"
Although Wu Sangui didn't really believe that there would be a strong enemy coming from the northeast, if it was a friendly force, it would be impossible for him to directly activate the killing array magic.
Therefore, there was no doubt that the newcomers were enemies, and their number was extremely large, at least not less than the number of defenders in Shanhaiguan.
At this time, the enemy was getting closer and closer to the city gate, and it was clearly visible that there were six large-scale military killing formations!
This means that there were at least 600,000 warriors and soldiers who launched a surprise attack on Shanhaiguan!
"what?"
Zu Kuan was awakened by Wu Sangui's words. He looked up quickly and was immediately frightened. He immediately sent out a stream of true energy and hit the huge alarm bell hanging on the city gate tower!
"Dong dong..."
As the alarm bell rang, the enemy's two frontline killing formations had already flown to within ten miles of the city gate tower!
"Xuan Huang Chaos Bell, go!"
"Wulian Tower, smash it for me!"
In an instant, the innate divine weapon, which was greatly amplified by the large military killing formation, turned into a size of seven hundred feet, and rushed towards the Shanhaiguan city defense formation first, smashing down on the protective light shield, causing ripples and making the formation light shield flicker in light and dark.
There is no doubt that the two major legions of the Fuxing Army quietly took a detour and arrived at Shanhaiguan. Li Dingguo and Cao Bianjiao, two mid-level sixth-level strongmen, each led an army consisting of 200,000 soldiers and took the lead in launching a surprise attack on this number one pass in the world!
"boom!"
"Boom!"...
As the city was suddenly in turmoil and chaos, the six armies of the Fuxing Army had all arrived outside the east gate of Shanhaiguan and launched a fierce attack.
Because the incident happened suddenly, the protective formation of Shanhaiguan was only in a conventional defensive state, rather than at its full wartime power.
As a result, under the all-out attack of the Renaissance Army, the defense of the formation was broken in a moment, and the light shield protecting the formation made a muffled sound, turned into star-like streams of light, and shattered, and then disappeared!
As Cao Bianjiao, who once guarded Shanhaiguan City, was very familiar with the defensive arrangements of Shanhaiguan.
It should be said that the guarding arrays of most of the fortress checkpoints within the Ming Dynasty have two defense states: normal and wartime.
After all, if a large fortress city with a radius of hundreds of miles maintains a high-intensity protective formation at all times, the energy consumed by the formation is too much and it cannot be sustained.
What's more, almost all officials in the Ming military are corrupt, so it is impossible for them to unleash the full power of the protective formation under normal circumstances, thus wasting a lot of formation energy.
This gave the Fuxing Army the opportunity to launch a surprise attack.
The intensity of the attack launched by the Renaissance Army was too great, leaving no time for the enemy to react, and they were able to succeed only when they activated the full power of the protective formation.
Otherwise, as the world-famous No. 1 pass in the world, even the normalized defense mode of the guardian formation is comparable to the defense strength of an ordinary large town. It can completely block the enemy's attack and promptly activate the high-intensity defense mode in wartime.
This is the first time since Shanhaiguan was built that it has encountered an enemy attack of such intensity.
“Swoosh!”…
As soon as the protective formation was forcibly broken, Li Dingguo and Cao Bianjiao each controlled the divine beasts transformed by the killing formation's magical powers, leaped high, and flew to the top of the city wall in an instant!
"Dong dong..."
"Wulian Tower, go!"
As the seven hundred-foot-tall Xuanhuang Chaos Bell and the Wuliang Tower launched fatal attacks in unison, the enemy troops on the east city gate tower were killed in large numbers, and this mighty pass was officially breached!
(End of this chapter)
