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The land of Taozhou controlled Fanrong in the west, covered Huanglong in the east, received Shengfan in the south, and reached Shiling in the north.

Compared with Xizhou and Hezhou, this Taozhou is almost a barren land.

And when the sky was freezing and freezing, Song Jun's actions to cross this exposed mountain definitely exceeded everyone's expectations.

After the preset decisive battle in Hezhou failed, Zhang Yue led his army over Lugu Mountain according to the backup plan, while Chong Shidao divided his troops to attack Zhuozhu City, and Xibawen attacked Yigong City.

Because of the sufficient preparation, the soldiers carried all the winter clothes and other winter clothes, and invited a special guide to lead the way.Despite this, there are still constant staff attrition in the winter.

In order to achieve the purpose of the surprise attack, this is also an inevitable price.

The so-called surprise attack means that when the servant Bojie just drew out his sword, I had already put the knife on your neck.

The problem is that you draw the sword first!

Zhang Yue couldn't help but think of Napoleon and Hannibal's great feats when they crossed the Alps respectively.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue is full of longing for conquering this naked mountain.

The army just crossed Lugu Mountain, but they saw a mountain pass in front of them, named Lao Pass.

Lao Pass is a wooden bridge crossed between two mountains. On this wooden bridge, there is a Wubao of Taozhou Fan people, guarded by hundreds of Fan Ding.It seems that Bian Bojie is not an incompetent person, he has sent someone to guard this important place.

Zhang Yue saw that this Wubao was not difficult to attack, but the wooden bridge was the only way down the mountain. Once the Tibetans destroyed the wooden bridge, the Song army's surprise attack would fall short.

Zhang Yue still used the old plan of Zhongshi Dao to take Minzhou, and spent a lot of money to recruit warriors.

Zhang Yue originally thought that the soldiers were afraid of difficulties, but he didn't expect that the whole army would rush to sign up.The crowd didn't come here for the bounty, the main reason was that when Zhang Yue attacked Xihe before, he was rewarded for his meritorious service and appointed as an official. How many soldiers changed their lives because of Zhang Yue's overthrow, so the soldiers all enthusiastically joined.

Immediately Zhang Yue recruited a hundred soldiers, climbed up from the bottom of the mountain at night, and cooperated with the Song army to attack frontally at dawn.

The soldiers in Fanbao never dreamed that the Song army would cross the bare bones mountain in winter, and would sneak attack like a magic soldier descending from heaven.

Most of them were killed by the Song army in their sleep, and all the rest were captured.

Seeing that this natural danger was taken without any effort, the morale of the Song army was very high.

After three days, the Song army finally crossed the exposed mountain. Although hundreds of people were lost, it was almost a miracle.

When they arrived in the hinterland of Taozhou, it was mostly half-agricultural and half-pastoral. There were many fields, cattle and sheep in captivity, as well as temple houses and so on. .

There are lofty mountains in the back, and flat ground and low slopes in front. The more you walk, the easier it is to feel relaxed. This feeling is really great.

But the population ahead was getting denser and denser, and the Song army passed through without any offense. They were not allowed to harm the old, weak, women and children of the Fans, and they were only prisoners of the Fans who did not resist.

And right in front of the army is Taoyang City.

This Taoyang City is the place where Jiang Wei defeated Deng Ai. It was also Jiang Wei's ninth and last Northern Expedition.

At that time, Jiang Wei fraudulently took Qishan and actually took Taoyang.But Jiang Wei's intention to send troops was seen through by Deng Ai. Deng Ai said that Jiang Wei was definitely not trying to take Qishan, but wanted to capture Taoyang to get in touch with the Qiang people.

Therefore, troops were stationed here in advance, and Jiang Wei was defeated.

But before Zhang Yue arrived at Taoyang City, he heard from the captives that Bian Sibojie went to Minzhou to fight grass valley this time, and took away almost all the strong men, so there were no soldiers in such a heavy city like Taoyang. defense.

When Zhang Yue's army arrived at the foot of Taoyang City, the defenders of Taoyang panicked and immediately offered the city to surrender without any resistance.

Song soldiers took Taoyang City without bloodshed, and there were hundreds of shi of food in storage.

Just at nightfall, a group of Fan troops passed through Taoyang and were about to rush to Minzhou to join the Biansi Bojie. As a result, this group of Fan troops did not know that Taoyang had fallen on the way, and was ambushed by the Song army and captured. Thousands of people were killed, and there were hundreds of horses.

With continuous victories, Zhang Yue not only took the food and grass to fortify the city, but also spread the news behind the sideman Bojie's surprise attack over the exposed bone mountain to the whole Taozhou.

At the same time, the Song Army, who cultivated the way of teachers, also conquered Zhuozhu City, and Xi Bawen sent troops from Fuqiang City to threaten the front line of Yigong City.

Xibawen was originally a local aborigine and the original chief. When he arrived in Yigong City, he recruited the guards to surrender in his own name.But was rejected by the guard.

But Xi Bawen didn't worry about it, he appeared under the city of Yigong every day dressed up in fine clothes, and loudly asked the defenders in the city to surrender with words.

After all, Xi Bawen has been in the Guizhang Department for many years, and many city guards know him. After he surrendered and the Song army besieged the city, the army's morale in the city was unavoidably turbulent.

Breaking the city is only a matter of time.

On the front line of Tiechengzhai, the sidemen waited for the army to gather. Nearly [-] troops flooded in, and the flags and staffs were dozens of miles away.

But before the other party arrived, Zhong Er burned all the bridges on Taoshui ahead of time.

Bian Sibojie had no choice but to send troops to cross the river through the ice, but as a result, less than a thousand troops crossed the river. Unexpectedly, the river ice was not frozen solid, and dozens of people fell into the river when the ice cracked.Seeing this scene, Zhong Er led three hundred elite cavalry to hide and kill, and in the end, none of the thousand or so men escaped.

Zhong Er ordered the soldiers to strip off the clothes and pants of the Fan captives, let them go barefoot in the ice and snow, picked up their clothes and pants with the tip of their guns and pulled them up with a rope, and walked triumphantly around the city.

This scene made the servant Bojie explode in anger on the spot.

Then the servant Bojie urged the soldiers to cross the river again, and this time they succeeded in crossing the river.

But it was a day's delay.

Then Bian Sibojie did not make much preparations to attack Tiecheng.

The four villages of Tiecheng were built under the supervision of Shen Kuo, a technical nerd.With Shen Kuo's meticulous attention to the construction of the Four Villages, he was completely picky.

Zhong Er defended this fortified city under the conditions of ice and snow, facing the Fan army who lacked siege weapons, and withstood the siege for three days.

Seeing this, Bian Sibojie was furious, and immediately ordered his soldiers to dig up sandbags and attack the city.

But in this world of ice and snow, how easy is this kind of soil work.Soldiers Fan's fingers were frozen to dig the soil, but it is still far from satisfying the needs of the soldiers.

Bian Sibo was so angry that he killed dozens of people, but the work was not completed.

On the fifth day of Tiecheng's defense, Mu Zheng and You Shixiong led tens of thousands of Minzhou fan troops to the foot of Tiecheng.

Seeing this, Bian Sibo had no choice but to retreat, and set up a formation to face Mu Zheng and You Shixiong's soldiers and horses.

Just at this time, Mu Zheng learned that the Song army had crossed the exposed mountain and captured Taoyang City.

At the same time, the troops from Xihe Road who had gone to Qinzhou for food and the Song army's forbidden troops from Qinfeng Road were passing by Qinfeng Road, so Zhang Shen led them to the battlefield day and night.

In Qingtang City, Aligu presided over the military meeting to discuss whether to reinforce the Bian Si Bojie. After more than ten days of debate, there was still no result.