Chapter 182: Attacking the Great Pass, Three Battles and Three Victories (Part 1)

"Governor!"

Situ Yue, who was only a few steps away from Situ Rui, saw that the situation was wrong and was too late to rescue him. He watched Situ Rui wipe his neck in front of him. Situ Yue was terrified and cried out twice, then turned to look at Meng Hu's eyes with violent murderous intent!

"Damn Meng Hu, I can't spare you!"

Situ Yue roared to the sky, urging his horse to rush towards Meng Hu. Behind Situ Yue, two hundred Qingzhou soldiers suddenly howled like wounded beasts, waved the sword in their hands, and rushed towards the surrounding tiger army with a ferocious face. At this moment, these Qingzhou soldiers completely gave up their defense, opened their empty doors in their chests, and even allowed the enemy's swords and guns to easily penetrate their bodies. At this moment, they only wanted to gain life and live with their lives!

"Go to die!"

Situ Yue rode his horse to Meng Hu, and his sword raised high and slashed it down fiercely.

Before Meng Hu could take action, a strong figure suddenly appeared in front of Situ Yuema. Two dark, dull, shocking geese flashed by like lightning. Situ Yue felt himself floating gently, and then the whole world began to flip over powerlessly. Before the endless darkness completely swallowed him, he clearly saw rows of glorious imperial troops rushed forward, rows of sharp spears and poisonous snakes sting forward. In the end, the remaining two hundred Qingzhou soldiers were all stabbed into sieves...

puff!

Situ Yue threw the flying head and fell heavily on the snow, but his wide eyes never closed until death.

Looking at Situ Yue's headless body falling from the horse's back, Meng Hu suddenly sighed deeply and said sadly: "The Qingzhou Army is a respectable army, and Situ Rui is a respectable veteran. Xingba asked his brothers to bury the old general Situ and these Qingzhou soldiers with great tribute."

Zhang Xingba agreed and took the order.

Zhanying strode meteor to Meng Hu, clasped his fists and said, "General, most of the Qingzhou army has been annihilated, only a few troops have fled. General Ma Sifeng has led the light troops to pursue him."

As soon as he finished speaking, a rapid sound of horse hooves sounded in front of him.

Meng Hu and Zhan Ying looked up and saw Ma Sifeng galloping towards this side surrounded by a group of light cavalry. The horse was dragging two Mingyue generals with ropes. The Mingyue general was tied into rice dumplings and was dragged on the snow by Ma Sifeng's mount and sliding forward, looking very embarrassed.

“Well…”

After rushing to Meng Hu, Ma Sifeng shouted and slammed the horse, then turned over and dismounted and clasped his fists to Meng Hu and said, "General, no soldiers who fled Qingzhou had escaped, and they also caught two senior enemy generals. Look at their armor, helmets and battle robes, they should be the commanders of two divisions!"

"Oh?" Meng Hu said happily, "Have you caught two division commanders?"

A cavalry officer brought the two prisoners from the snow.

Meng Hu and the generals of the Tiger Legion such as War Eagle looked closely and saw that the two prisoners had their helmets off and their hair was scattered. Their face was covered with snowflakes. The one on the left was covered with blood and their face was pale. They seemed to have suffered a serious injury, but their expression was very arrogant. The one on the right seemed to be spineless. After seeing Meng Hu, they even showed a smile that was even worse than crying.

Zhan Ying suddenly took a step forward and shouted: "Why don't you kneel when you see my general?"

The Mingyue General on the left groaned from his nostrils, raised his head more and more, and didn't even look at Zhan Ying. Zhan Ying was furious and pulled his sword to put it on the neck of the Mingyue General, shouting grimly: "The defeated general dares to show off his power, which is simply seeking death!"

"die?"

General Mingyue glanced at Zhan Ying with contempt and said sneeringly, "Boy, if you have the guts, just chop them. If your grandfather frowned, he would not be a soldier of the Qingzhou Legion!"

"you……"

Zhan Ying was furious and furious. He turned around and looked at Meng Hu, and just waited for Meng Hu to nod and he was about to draw his sword to kill someone.

Meng Hu's sharp eyes swept past the Mingyue general on the right and said calmly: "Then let's help them."

Zhan Ying agreed and was about to raise his knife to kill someone, the general Mingyue on the right could not hold on. He cried and said to Meng Hu in a pleading tone: "General, if you have something to say, you have something to say, don't, don't kill someone with a knife, you have something to say, hey, hey..."

The Mingyue General on the left was furious when he heard this, and turned his head and shouted: "Tuoba Ye, you coward, you have lost all your face!"

A hint of embarrassment flashed across the face of the Mingyue general on the right, and then he became angry and said, "Situ Ying, you are looking for death by yourself, don't take me with me, I don't want to die with you!"

"Bah!" Situ Ying spitted thick phlegm on Tuoba Ye's face, "Coward! Little man!"

Meng Hu waved his hand and said that the guards had come forward to arrest Situ Ying, and Tuoba Ye was left alone. When he met Meng Hu's extremely sharp eyes, Tuoba Ye felt a chill in his back. Although this was the first time he had seen Meng Hu, Meng Hu's reputation was already well known to him.

"You are Tuoba Ye?"

"Yes, the villain is."

"Who is Tuoba Tao?"

"It's the little human brother."

"So, the Governor of Bingzhou Tuoba Shou is your clan uncle?"

“Yes, yes.”

"You Tuoba family should be a prominent family in Bingzhou, right?"

"This is true."

Meng Hu and Tuoba Ye asked questions and answers. Many generals of the nearby Tiger Legion had already expressed contempt on their faces. Speaking of which, there were many famous families in the Mingyue Empire, such as the Situ clan in Qingzhou, the Yan clan in Shuozhou, the Qin clan in Dingzhou, the Gongsun clan in Youzhou, and the Tuoba clan in Bingzhou were also considered wealthy clans. Why did Tuoba Ye be such a soft boy?

Meng Hu asked with a smile: "Tuoba Ye, do you want to survive?"

"I want to." Tuoba Ye nodded repeatedly, "No one wants to die, and villains don't want to die."

"Okay." Meng Hu smiled, "Now I will give you a chance to survive. As long as you do what I want, you will be free after the matter is done."

Tuoba Ye couldn't help but say, "General, take this seriously?"

Meng Hu sneered: "I have always said nothing but never break my promise."

The capital of Qingzhou, Qu'a.

Mengyan's middle army had successfully retreated outside Qu'a City, but Shi Miyuan did not let the army enter the city to station, but instead set up a camp on Sanqing Mountain in the south of the city. Only Leyu led 20,000 remaining troops from the Southwest Legion into Qu'a City, and supported each other with the Southwest Camp, and put on a long-term stand.

In terms of marching strategy, Shi Miyuan is also a resourceful veteran after all. With his skill, he can naturally see the natural disadvantages of Qu'acheng in the terrain at a glance. Qu'acheng's terrain is relatively low. Once the Mingyue Empire army digs the embankment of Tianhe River, the endless Tongtian River water can flow back into Qu'acheng. The army entering the city will be a death sentence.

Shi Miyuan's temporary headquarters.

Except for Le Yu who was stationed in the city, the rest of Zheng Chongguang, Han Feng and others had all gathered.

Meng Yan is still unconscious, so Shi Miyuan is still the temporary commander of the Western Expedition Army. Zheng Chongguang, Han Feng and others, but Shi Miyuan can be said to be obedient. Although Park Sanzhi was not angry, he did not dare to say anything more. In addition, he also knew that his ability was far inferior to Shi Miyuan.

In the rear of the yamen, Shi Miyuan unexpectedly received a "letter" from Xijing.

After reading the secret letter in his hand, Shi Miyuan could not hide his shock. He looked at the shadow in front of him in disbelief and asked in a voice: "Will this be wrong? How is this possible?"

"The Great Elder, there is absolutely no mistake."

The black shadow replied with great certainty, "This is the black line urgent letter we just received from the Qingzhou Intelligence Station. This black line bird was indeed released by intelligence personnel lurking in Xijing. Moreover, no country in the Middle Earth world has domesticated the black line bird. It is impossible for others to forge it. How could it be wrong?"

The Black Line Bird is a unique magical bird in the Eastern continent. It has a strange flight speed and is good at long-distance flight. What is even more rare is that it has the ability to return to the nest from a distance like a pigeon. It is a messenger better than a carrier pigeon. However, this kind of bird is very rare and extremely difficult to tame. Only a few countries in the Eastern continent can be tamed.

Shi Miyuan actually said this casually, and of course he knew the reliability of the black-line urgent book!

Since this black line emergency book was released by the intelligence personnel lurking in Xijing, the authenticity is beyond doubt. The reason why Shi Miyuan had this question was because the content in the secret letter was too horrible: Meng Hu, a crazy guy, actually led a partial division in the North Wing to travel thousands of miles to the Zhongzhou to attack Xijing. What is even more unbelievable is that he succeeded!

What exactly did Meng Hu do? How did he pass through Qiu Yutang's hundreds of thousands of troops? What method blinded Qiu Yutang and made her relax her vigilance and defense against Meng Hu's northern wing division?

What is even more incredible is that Meng Hu’s northern wing division is not a small army with only a few thousand or hundreds of people, but an army of nearly 100,000 people. How did such a huge army conceal its traces when it attacked the hinterland of the enemy country for a long distance? How did the logistics supply of the army be solved?

Shi Miyuan thought that since it was a long-distance raid, he naturally had to go forward with light equipment, so he had to throw away all the excess food and supplies. Each soldier only carried a small amount of food with him, because he brought too much food, the speed of the march would be severely sluggish. However, Shi Miyuan would never have imagined that the transportation of food and supplies was not a problem for Meng Hu, because he had a horse to pull a sled! As for the hidden figure, it was even more not a problem. Meng Hu took a very simple approach, but it was also very cruel. That is, where the army passed by, no matter what people and animals, they would be killed, and then the corpse would be destroyed!

"It seems that it's true." Shi Miyuan said in a faint voice, "This Meng Hu is really amazing!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the voice of the attendant suddenly sounded outside the door: "Sir, all the generals have arrived and are waiting for each other in front of the throne."

"I understand." Shi Miyuan waved his hand and said, "You go and inform me and I will come soon after I have finished handling the urgent tasks at hand."

When the attendant left, the black shadow suddenly asked, "Great Elder, should you find a way to reveal this news to the Guanghui Empire Army to boost your low morale?"

"no."

Shi Miyuan shook his head flatly and said, "This matter is not to be made public for the time being. After all, this matter sounds too untrue. If someone investigates the source and finds you, it will be a big deal. In that case, the elder will not be able to gain a foothold in the Glorious Empire, and the old chief will have no way to discuss the important tasks assigned by the old chief."

Fifty miles west of Qu'a, thousands of horses and 300,000 bright moon troops of Qiu Yutang were stationed here.

Because of the lack of certainty of victory, Qiu Yutang did not rashly choose to fight the decisive battle with Meng Yan's middle army, but followed the enemy eastward until Meng Yan's middle army retreated back to Qu'a. Qiu Yutang's army retreated fifty miles and retreated to Qianqigang and stationed.

Although Qiu Yutang's people were on Qianqigang and commanding Mingyue's army to confront Meng Yan's middle army, her heart had already flown back to the imperial capital. She was anxiously waiting for news, waiting for news from the imperial capital and the three reinforcements of Yan Shisan, Gongsun Xiang and Situ Rui.

Prince Mingyue Qiuye was as anxious as Qiu Yutang because he was also concerned about the safety of his father and mother.

Qiuye no longer had the mind to do his homework. He was stunned for a long time in front of the white snow outside the window, and then turned around and asked, "My aunt, count the time. The Qingzhou army of the Old General Situ should have arrived at the imperial capital. The Shuozhou Legion of the Old General Yan and the Youzhou Legion of the General Gongsun will arrive in at most three or two days, right?"

"Yeah." Qiu Yutang nodded lightly and replied quietly, "It's time to arrive."

Akino hurriedly said, "This means that the imperial capital has not been lost yet, otherwise there would have been news from the father."

"Report..." As soon as Akino finished speaking, Xiao Lang, the commander of the Guards, stepped into the central army's tent, knelt on one knee and reported, "Prince, Your Highness, the imperial capital is urgently reporting!"

Seeing Xiao Lang's panicked expression, Qiu Yutang knew that something was wrong!

Prince Mingyue Qiuye asked anxiously: "General Xiao quickly tell me, how is the imperial capital?"

Xiao Lang lowered his head and said with a sad expression: "Go back to the crown prince, the imperial capital was captured by the Tiger Legion three days ago. The whereabouts of His Majesty the Emperor and His Highness are unknown, and the rest of the details are unknown!"

"What!?" Akino was stunned when he heard this. After a while, he fell to the ground and burst into tears. "Father, Queen Mother..."

Qiu Yutang's slender body suddenly shook, and the maid Qiu Yirou and Qiu Hanyun rushed forward to support her. The careful Qiu Yirou suddenly realized that the beauty of His Royal Highness, the beauty of His Royal Highness, seemed much haggard in this moment. Although Qiu Yutang was talented, she was a woman after all, and she was a young woman. From this moment on, the national affairs of the entire Mingyue Empire were about to be pressed on her weak shoulders. The reality was indeed too cruel.

Xiao Lang opened his hands slightly and wanted to come forward to support Qiu Yutang. He felt a strong desire to share the pressure for Qiu Yutang, but he didn't dare to extend this hand after all, because in his heart, Qiu Yutang was the sacred and inviolable goddess, and she was the goddess of light in Xiao Lang's heart.

After a while, Qiu Yutang sighed faintly and said to Xiao Lang: "General Xiao, please immediately convene all the division commanders and above generals of each legion to hold an emergency military meeting!"

"yes!"

Xiao Lang agreed and took the order.

Behind him, Prince Mingyue Qiuye was still lying on the ground and crying loudly. After all, he was just a child under thirteen years old. Now that Xijing has been captured by the enemy, how could Qiu Fengjin be spared as the emperor of the Mingyue Empire? The notorious tiger would not have to dismantle his father?

Xijing, outside the east gate!

The Shuozhou Legion of Yan Shisan and the Youzhou Legion of Gongsun Xiang rushed to outside Xijing almost at the same time. Unfortunately, when they arrived, the entire nine gates of Xijing were wide open and had become an empty city. There was no sign of a glorious imperial army in and outside the city. Only the rolling smoke was still rising in the city.
To be continued...