Chapter 679: Seizing the Pass

"Father, I'm back!" Ma Jin's blood stained the hem of Ma Han's gown. Read

Looking at the familiar city in front of him, a tear dripped from the corner of Ma Han's eye.

Dianzhang and other Ma family generals were moved, and they were equally excited.

The deep sense of guilt over the years of losing Qinzhou and Yongzhou has always made them unable to sleep and eat.

Now, their hearts are finally at peace.

Order Ma Jin's body to be hung at the east gate of Xiancheng for public display.

Ma Han and the generals returned to the mansion that once belonged to him.

Take a deep breath, he gradually calmed down from the pleasure of revenge.

Things have changed. Even if he takes back Xiancheng, this city is no longer the private property of his Ma family, but belongs to the court.

His goal is no longer to expand the power of the Ma family and take Qinzhou and Yongzhou for himself.

But to execute the order of King Yan, stir up the northwest of Dasong, cooperate with the royal palace's personal army to create trouble for the Yan coalition forces and disrupt their cooperation.

Therefore, he could not stop here. Next, he had to continue to implement the plan.

After a pause, he asked, "How many Beidi cavalrymen were killed in this ambush."

Ma Lan said, "Return to the master. After counting, there were more than 33,000 Beidi cavalrymen killed and wounded, and the remaining Beidi cavalrymen all fled."

Ma Han nodded, and he said to Dian Zhang, "The remaining Beidi cavalrymen are not to be feared. I will give you 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack Yongcheng. The rest of the soldiers and horses will follow me. We will travel day and night to take Xiaoguan."

"Yes, master." Dian Zhang nodded.

After deciding this matter, Ma Han ordered the soldiers to rest for a day.

The next day, he left 3,000 soldiers and horses in Xiancheng to guard the city, and led more than 75,000 people to Xiaoguan.

Dian Zhang led 20,000 troops and went north.

In order to guard against the Ma family army in Sizhou, Beidi concentrated its main forces in the two cities of Rangcheng and Xiancheng during this period.

The other cities in Qinzhou only had hundreds or thousands of people guarding and maintaining public order.

Ma Han did not take these cities one by one, but took the cities he encountered on the way to Xiaoguan.

After all, speed is of the essence at the moment, and they want to seize Xiaoguan while Beidi and Nanliang have not reacted.

After four days of rapid march, he arrived at the foot of Xiaoguan.

"This is bad." Looking at the Ma family soldiers who suddenly appeared under the city, the face of the Beidi commander of Xiaoguan was extremely embarrassed.

Because Ma Han advanced too fast, it took less than ten days from breaking through Rangcheng to Xiancheng and finally arriving at Xiaoguan.

And the Beidi cavalry who fled from Xiancheng brought him the news of the fall of Xiancheng only two days ago.

The scouts he sent to Wuwei may have just arrived.

The most fatal thing is that Qinzhou and Yongzhou are currently located in the territory of Beidi.

Xiaoguan is just an inner pass for Beidi. They don't have heavy troops stationed in Xiaoguan at all. On weekdays, there are only 15,000 people guarding it.

Even if some Beidi cavalrymen who are about to escape from Xiancheng are included, there are only more than 30,000 people.

"Attack the city."

Compared with the panic of the Beidi generals, Ma Han is full of confidence.

He is full of confidence in his soldiers all the way here.

After losing Qinzhou and Yongzhou, the morale of the Ma family was once very low.

And now, since leaving Qinguan and taking Rangcheng, the morale of the Ma family soldiers has been getting higher and higher, and everyone seems to have endless energy.

So, after letting the soldiers rest for half an hour, he gave the order.

Before entering Qinzhou, the four courtyards provided them with the deployment of Qinzhou and Yongzhou.

Therefore, he knew very well that there were not many Beidi soldiers in Xiaoguan.

This is why he dared to divide his troops into two routes, taking Yongzhou one way and Xiaoguan the other way.

"Boom boom boom..."

Under his order, mortars and field guns launched artillery fire on the city wall.

At the same time, he ordered the soldiers to aim at the Beidi soldiers on the city wall and shoot them as soon as they showed their heads.

The solid bullets of the field artillery hit the parapets, and the huge power smashed the parapets.

The shrapnel shells of the mortars burst into fireballs on the city walls.

The lime bombs made the city walls shrouded in white dust.

Under the fierce bombardment, the Beidi artillery was suppressed by the fierce firepower, and they were in chaos, with a large number of casualties.

Only a small number of Beidi artillery were still shooting at the scattered soldiers under the city wall.

But their artillery could only fire one shell a minute.

Such artillery fire basically could not hinder the advance of the scattered soldiers.

The scattered soldiers ran in irregular curves.

Each of them had grenades hanging around his waist.

Thousands of paratroopers were about one meter apart and moved forward in a staggered manner.

When they came to the city wall, they threw the grenades up.

The power of mortars and field artillery is indeed strong, but due to their small number, they are not as large as the killing range caused by dense grenades.

"Boom boom boom..." There was an explosion, and almost every position on the front wall was covered with flames.

After the first round of throwing, the sound of the cannon on the wall stopped.

Some of the remaining Beidi archers looked fierce, and they leaned over to look down at the city.

Seeing that the Ma family soldiers under the city were ready to throw sticks at them again, they bent their bows and shot at the soldiers throwing grenades.

However, at the moment they leaned over, the soldiers who had been staring at the wall pulled the trigger and shot at them.

Beidi archers were shot and killed one after another.

But a small number of archers still shot arrows, and the soldiers throwing grenades suffered casualties.

Seeing this, Ma Han immediately sent soldiers to drag the injured soldiers back, and ordered the reserve team to fill the position of the injured soldiers.

"Boom boom boom..." The explosion sounded again, followed by the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth times...

Ma Han squinted his eyes and looked at the wall of Xiaoguan. Compared with Ma Jin's soldiers, the resistance of the Beidi soldiers was indeed more fierce.

But their ferocity was meaningless.

At most, they needed to throw a few more rounds of grenades.

For him, the gap in firearms could no longer be made up by the bravery of the soldiers.

The wall was bombarded for half an hour until no more Beidi soldiers rushed to the wall, and the order to attack the city was immediately issued.

At this time, the cloud ladder team that had been waiting for a long time rushed to the wall with the cloud ladder.

The Ma family soldiers followed the cloud ladder team.

The moment the cloud ladder approached the wall, they used their hands and feet to quickly climb the wall.

At this moment, the walls were covered with the bodies of Beidi soldiers, and they didn't even have a place to stay.

They could only rush to the steps, stepping on the bodies of the Beidi people, and prepare to seize the city gate.

The moment they climbed the city wall, a sound of breaking air was heard.

The Beidi soldiers hiding under the city wall fired arrows at them, and some soldiers were injured and fell to the ground immediately.

"Son of a bitch." The injured soldier cursed, untied the grenade from his waist, pulled the fuse and threw the Beidi soldiers near the city wall.

The explosion sounded, and the screams of the Beidi soldiers were heard immediately.

Other soldiers also threw grenades at the Beidi soldiers, and explosions occurred all at once.

As more soldiers climbed the city wall, more explosions sounded.

At the same time, dense gunfire rang out, and the stubborn Beidi soldiers kept falling in a pool of blood.

Under the cover of other soldiers, a lieutenant led his 500 soldiers to the city gate.

More than 30 Beidi soldiers hid in the doorway to resist, but were immediately solved by the grenades thrown over.

The Ma family soldiers took the opportunity to open the city gate.