On the third day, they received an order from General Zhengbei's Mansion. Soldier Qin Hu was promoted to a high rank due to his meritorious service and was still under the command of Li Xiaokun.

There was no mention of the reward of one thousand taels of silver.

All the benefits basically went to Li Xiaokun. Li Qin was very excited about his victory in this first battle. He exaggerated the results and reported Li Xiaokun's achievements to the court, praising him for "annihilating thousands of enemies" in the first battle, for his decisive command and his talent as a general.

All the brothers in the pioneer camp spat in the tent and greeted Li Xiaokun's family.

Who doesn't know that he was a coward who was greedy for life and afraid of death that night, and now that he hasn't received the bonus, it will be no good for everyone, so it must be that he talked nonsense in the submission.

At the same time, the superiors ordered them to move the camp 50 miles forward, and the large army of General Zhengbei was only 30 miles away from them.

Seeing that a big war is about to begin.

That day, Li Xiaokun led people to sweep the villages in the mountains and found that the places where Qin Hu had been had been cleared out. A lot of luggage, grain, grass, and horses were left at the scene, which showed that what Qin Hu said was true.

The soldiers admired Qin Hu even more.

However, Li Xiaokun did not report this matter because he delayed the opportunity and caused losses.

If Qin Hu hadn't stopped him last night, his entire vanguard battalion would have been wiped out. If Li Qin found out about this, he would probably be skinned.

Two days later, Li Qin, the general who conquered the north, personally led an army of 20,000 to Yuguan.

When he first arrived at the pass, he met Li Xiaokun in person. In front of all the soldiers, he praised him, patted him on the shoulder, gave him wine, and conveyed the order of the Ministry of War to promote him to the rank of captain of a thousand soldiers.

There is no mention of the contributions of other soldiers.

How should I put it, when Qin Hu saw Li Qin's 20,000 troops, his heart suddenly went cold.

Although this team was well-equipped and capable of demonstrating Dayu's national strength, its discipline was loose, its actions were slow, and it was not uniform. It could not even perform the most basic orders and prohibitions.

Various signs show that generals from Li Qin on down were incompetent and very slack.

For example, the quartermaster is often not available to receive rations, the craftsmen are lazy and inactive, and even the medical soldiers are assigned temporarily and cannot perform their duties. The manure pits in the camp are not regularly filled with soil, making the stench overwhelming.

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The soldiers were even running around in other camps. It can be said that the military affairs were in a complete mess.

Yuguan was originally a pass for the Yu Dynasty, but Emperor Tianming of Dayu lost this pass during his last expedition. Therefore, if you want to enter the Liaodong Kingdom, you must first capture this pass.

Yuguan is located in Yanshan Mountain, surrounded by dangerous terrain, with undulating mountains and winding rivers. It was originally more difficult to capture it than to climb to the sky, but due to a war last year, the pass was very dilapidated and there were gaps everywhere on the city wall.

It is probably that the Liaodong side did not expect that the Yu Dynasty was so powerful. They lost hundreds of thousands of sets of armor and weapons, tens of thousands of war horses, and killed more than 200,000 people. It only took a year for them to recover, so they did not do anything at all.

Prepare.

Anyway, their country does not have such a large inventory, and it will not be able to recover in another ten or eight years.

Li Qin set up camp and repaired it for a day, then immediately sent troops to the city to prepare to seize the pass.

"Ohh Ohh ohh!"

"Ohh Ohh ohh!"

“Male Gobi’s!”

To be honest, Li Xiaokun was nothing. Before attacking the city, he specially arranged for Qin Hu to be the vanguard.

Give him a nice name and give him a chance to make meritorious deeds.

Front row, first attack!

Qin Hu spat on the ground. At this moment, he was holding a round shield in one hand and a two-meter long spear in the other, preparing to attack the city.

Three rows behind him were rows of soldiers carrying ladders.

Li Qin threw all 10,000 horses into the battlefield except the civilians.

There are 5,000 infantry in the front army, 2,000 elite cavalry in the middle army, and 1,000 cavalry in the rear army, while the two wings are a military formation composed of a mixture of horizontal sword infantry and cavalry.

The most unscrupulous people are the two thousand heavy armored cavalry of the Chinese army, because they are not here to attack the city, but to supervise the battle. During the battle, if anyone dares to retreat, they will draw their swords and chop them.

"Let me go!"

There were no bows and arrows in this era, but there were stone-throwing machines. In the beginning, the stone-throwing machines of both sides smashed down several holes in the already dilapidated city wall.

After the stone machine was fired, the three-way cannon fired, the messenger's battle flag pointed forward, the soldiers shouted, spread their legs and rushed forward.

Qin Hu was in the first row of the 500 people who attacked in the first wave, but he knew very well that among these 500 people, there would not be more than 50 veterans who really dared to rush up the ladder.

The rest are all new recruits, that is, cannon fodder. To put it bluntly, if you let them come, they will come. If they don't come, they will also die.

The composition of these cannon fodder soldiers is very complex. Most of them are prisoners captured in the past, including Xianbei people, Khitan people, Mohe people, Ryukyu people, and even people from the Western Regions.

So they won't work hard.

In this case, if the defenders really wanted to fight tooth and nail, boil water, burn kerosene, and use rolling logs and thunder stones to attack, the cannon fodder soldiers would not dare attack at all. If hundreds of people died, it would be considered a heavy loss and no more fighting could be carried out.

But what I fear most is that the opponent's generals are timid.

The one who wins is easy to win.

And maybe it was Qin Hu's luck that this happened to him this time.

As soon as the ladder was set up on the city wall, Qin Hu was the first to rush up because he found that there was no smoking cauldron on the top of the city wall.

Without a big pot, that is, without boiling water or kerosene, he might be able to save his life by just rolling wood and stones, so let's fight for it.

Qin Hu was very fast and agile. He was hit several times while holding his shield. He relied on dodging to move around. In addition, the soldiers at the top of the city had to avoid the stone-throwing machine, so the attack was not intensive and he was not hit.

"go to hell."

Soon Qin Hu unexpectedly found that he had reached the top, but the soldiers on the top of the city were afraid of death. They were suppressed by the stone machine and did not dare to raise their heads. Only a few soldiers stabbed him in the head with guns.

Qin Hu saw several other ladders and people were trying to climb to the top, and he suddenly became anxious. He had to win this first climb.

Not to mention the bonus of 5,000 taels of silver, this is a huge contribution.


Chapter completed!