The Legend of Honghuang Erlang

It was getting dark at night, but the gate of Qinglong Pass was quietly opened for some reason.

The hundreds of thousands of troops led by Nezha and Huang Tianhua poured directly into Qinglong Pass without hindrance, raised their flags, raised their torches, and headed towards the merchant camp to hide and kill them.

All of Su Hu's subordinates have been transferred from the merchant army camp, and they are gathering near the general military mansion at this time. Nezha and Huang Tianhua can let go of their hands and feet for a big fight, and make the first contribution to conquering merchants.

Qinglongguan was in chaos in an instant.

The east gate of Qinglong Pass is also wide open. This is Yang Jian's deliberate intention to give the people in the city and the remnants of the merchant army an escape exit, and let them drag down the morale of the merchant army in the five passes.

As long as the news of Zhou Jun's capture of Qinglong Pass overnight spreads throughout the Shang Kingdom, the big merchants will inevitably fall into great panic, which will be of great benefit to the merchants.

The Shang army was invincible, and the camp was robbed in the pass without any precautions, and the main general went to the general's mansion for a banquet...

In just two hours, the merchant army in Qinglong Pass was completely disintegrated, tens of thousands were killed and injured, tens of thousands surrendered, and two to three hundred thousand fled everywhere in the city...

In another two hours, countless merchants and common people escaped from the East City Gate and headed towards various parts of the pass.

"Run away! Zhou Jun is calling!"

"Nezha is the one who is stepping on the Hot Wheels! He has killed hundreds of generals in our army!"

"Let's go! Qinglongguan is lost, I'll wait in the rear and form an formation to fight with them!"

All the streets were full of people running in a hurry. Most of the common people didn't know the details of the battle. They only knew that Zhou's army was fierce and killed innocent people, and those with their families ran away for their lives.

There was chaos in the pass.

In a street, there was a figure wrapped in a bamboo hat. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help clenching his fists.

"Damn it! Why is the guard so incompetent? He didn't even have a moment to attack the city, and the Zhou army has already entered the pass!"

The man cursed a few words angrily, as if he wanted to make a move, but held back his anger.

"Your Highness," a Taoist came out of the alley behind him unhurriedly, and said in a low voice, "Qinglongguan is lost, I might as well retreat to the rear, join the army, and then seek revenge."

"Hmph! Who is the guard of this city?"

The Taoist replied: "It is Su Daji's father, Jizhou Hou Suhu."

"What?"

Under the cloak, the pair of eyes were like daggers, extremely sharp and murderous.

"I will take the life of this bastard tonight! If he hadn't given birth to such a demon concubine, why would my mother be persecuted, and why would my father be bewitched by her demon concubine!"

With such words, this person is undoubtedly Yin Jiao; and the Taoist behind Yin Jiao is Shen Gongbao who hasn't shown up for a long time after Lu Yue's defeat.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, don't worry!"

Shen Gongbao put his hand on Yin Jiao's shoulder and said in a low voice, "There are millions of Zhou troops tonight, and there must be many immortals among them. If you act, you will only expose your whereabouts. At that time, not to mention avenging your mother and brother, you will not be able to protect yourself."

Yin Jiao could bear it, and his temperament was a bit better than Yin Hong's. He took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "Taoist, what should I do?"

"Pindao has already invited a few fellow Taoists to help out, all of them are Da Luo Jinxian and other well-known monks from all over the world," Shen Gongbao said in a deep voice, "Let's join them first, and then make a decision. If we can't get together and commit danger alone like Lu Yue, then we will really fulfill your enemies!"

"Forget it, I've heard that the Taoist is good."

Yin Jiao fixed his eyes on the General Military Mansion, snorted coldly, turned and walked into the alley.

Shen Gongbao followed closely behind, his expression normal, and with a flick of his sleeves, the two figures disappeared immediately.

Outside the alley, a merchant army fled in embarrassment, followed by countless Zhou troops.

Yang Jian's order was not to burn, kill, loot, or act recklessly; Zhou Jun's killing of these merchants who did not surrender was naturally a normal march and war, and there was no violation of discipline.

If some civilians are accidentally injured in this process, if it is not intentional, they will not be punished by military law.

Otherwise, why fight...

There used to be 700,000 troops in Qinglong Pass, this was the 700,000 troops that Chaoge City worked so hard to 'save', and it was declared destroyed overnight.

Zhou's army had not yet exceeded 10,000 casualties, and two mortal generals died in battle and entered the list of gods.

The immortal generals were not compromised, after all, the other party did not have half a master, so Nezha and Huang Tianhua also killed some leading merchant generals, and did not kill mortals.

After the battle, Yang Jian entered the General Army Mansion.

Su Hu led 100,000 elite soldiers into the Zhou army, was rewarded by Yang Jian, and directly took out the will from King Wu, canonized Su Hu as the general of the merchants, Zheng Lun as the left vanguard, Su Quanzhong as the deputy general of the Su Hu army, and also gave Su Hu a fiefdom in Zhou Guo.

Su Hu's family has been taken out of Jizhou today and sent to Zhou Capital.

"Tonight's battle, the Marquis of Jizhou should be the first one," Yang Jian said softly, "I have ordered people to send the battle report to the king, and I will reply in a few days, and I will definitely reward Lord Su."

"Alas," Su Hu looked at the still wet blood in the front hall, forced a smile, and seemed to be a few years older.

Yang Jian said in a deep voice: "Hou Mo of Jizhou should relax, and you have to lead your troops back to Chaoge City."

"The prime minister is laughing, I am indeed a bit useless at my age," Su Hu forced a smile, and bowed deeply to Yang Jian, "Thank you, prime minister, for your fulfillment."

"Jizhou Hou Duoli," Yang Jian stepped forward to support him, secretly passing through a trace of profound energy.

This Su Hu is really pitiful. As the father of Daji in name, she is scolded by old friends, shamed by merchants, and ridiculed and abused by people with lofty ideals in the world.

Even so, Su Hu was dying, but still dared to do such a thing, and made an oath to punish the demon concubine Daji and protect the name of the Su family.

In fact, Yang Jian wanted to secretly tell Su Hu about Su Daji's stay in the East China Sea, but he was worried about the consequences of leaking this matter, so he could only be bored in his heart.

That trace of profound energy can prolong Su Hu's life for decades. If Su Hu fails to enter the list of gods in the future, he will also have the opportunity to reunite with his daughter and relieve the regrets in his heart.

This is a side story, let's get down to business.

Zhou's army stationed in Qinglong Pass across the board, reinforced and widened the eastern city wall overnight, and dug trenches widely, turning this Xiongguan, which strangled Zhou State, into a sharp sword in Shang State's throat.

Afterwards, the Zhou army stood still, and the news of Qinglongguan changing hands spread all over Nanzhou.

The state of Zhou cheered happily, and King Wu even brewed a jar of wine himself, and ordered people to send it to Qinglongguan to reward the soldiers.

As soon as he paid homage to the general on the Dianjiang platform, the situation opened up here, and he directly won Qinglong Pass, one of the five most magnificent passes of Dashang. This result is quite exciting.

In contrast, the five passes of the Shang Kingdom were in turmoil, and Chaoge City was in mourning.

Some generals who escaped from Qinglong Pass wrote memorials, saying that Su Hu rebelled against Shang and returned to Zhou Dynasty, but the memorials disappeared after entering Chaoge City. Instead, there are memorials saying that Su Hu died in battle for the country.

Emperor Xin of the Shang Army was convinced, and ordered to praise Su Hu's family, and even cared for Daji who passed out from crying.

According to Di Xin's original words, there are five or six major passes in the northwest, but Qinglong Pass is lost, so don't be discouraged.

Emperor Xin decreed to seek out generals capable of recruiting and fighting, and once again raised an army of one million to recapture Qinglongguan as soon as possible.

If this decree continues, the ministers of the DPRK and China will recommend it, or Shen Gongbao will find a few 'good generals' among them.

Several court and central officials were ordered to lead the army to Wuguan. Among them were Hong Jin, Zhang Shan, and Li Jin, who were all famous generals on the list of gods.

Shen Gongbao lived up to Emperor Xin's entrustment, and invited Luo Xuan, Liu Huan and other immortals of Jiejiao to go to Qinglong Pass together.

But I don't know whether it was because the Jiejiao Immortal was afraid of death, or because he was strictly forbidden to enter Nanzhou by the Master Tongtian. Shen Gongbao found that it was becoming more and more difficult for him to persuade the Jiejiao Immortal.

Although it is possible to fight, it is difficult to make meritorious deeds.

It took only a few days for the army to march. When the counterattack of millions of merchants arrived at Qinglong Pass, Qinglong Pass had been turned into an iron barrel stone mountain by Yang Jian. The 20-foot-high city wall stood between the mountains, and Shen Gongbao felt a little dizzy.

It would be fine if it was just Qinglong pass that was difficult to capture. The merchant army received more than a dozen battle reports within a day, which put the generals in the army under pressure.

In the north, the Zhou army raised two million troops and marched southward, pulling out cities and seizing dozens of cities in the Shang Kingdom.

In the southwest, Jiamengguan was in a hurry, and they repeatedly asked for reinforcements, but all the merchants could send had already been sent to the north and east, and they couldn't mobilize extra troops for a while.

Zhou Guo's offensive was extremely fierce at the beginning, and the Shang army retreated steadily.

Emperor Xin had already beheaded more than a dozen courtiers in a row in a row, and the people in the Great Shang Dynasty were panicked, and the number of people who offered advice and advice became increasingly scarce.

What added fuel to the flames was that outside Wandering Soul Pass, Dongbohou's troops were gathering rapidly; outside Sanshan Pass, Nanbohou's army also set up a banner again.

It has only been two months since the Eastern Expedition of the State of Zhou took place. Although it has not captured too much land in the Shang State, the destruction of the State of Zhou has already become an inevitable trend.

Yang Jian ordered people to spread rumors in Chaoge City, and even made the best use of Fei You's two pawns to reduce the resistance of Zhou Guo's conquest of merchants in all aspects.

Under such circumstances, Emperor Xin placed high hopes on the general of the Shang army who attacked Qinglong Pass, known as Hong Jin who flew in the waves of Chaoge City.

The Shang army camped tens of miles to the east of Qinglong Pass by the water. Hong Jin called the generals in the army and strangers from other places to discuss the matter. Shen Gongbao and Yin Jiao were among them.

Hong Jindao: "Now our Shang country is in danger, surrounded by rebellious officials and thieves, we urgently need a big victory here to revive our military prestige. Gentlemen, please offer more good strategies to capture Qinglong Pass as soon as possible."

"What's so difficult about Qinglong Pass?"

With a chuckle, the Taoist priest sitting beside Shen Gongbao got up and lightly shook the whisk in his hand.

This person has long fiery red hair, and his eyebrows and beard are also fiery red. When he opened his mouth, it was as if a 'flame' spewed out of his mouth, and the tent was a bit hot.

"When Pindao burns all the soldiers and guards in the city, the marshal will attack the city directly."

"This..." Hong Jin glanced at Shen Gongbao, and really didn't dare to agree to the Taoist priest's challenge.