By the time the news from Tong Pass arrived, it was already afternoon. Yang Rui had spent a lot of time reorganizing his troops and transferring them onto the ships. By the time Yang Rui's army arrived at the Yellow River near Tong Pass, the sky had already turned completely dark. Tsk.
Since the Yellow River was almost completely under Yang Rui's control, Li Jue and Guo Si should have already known about the existence of the Qingzhou Navy. Furthermore, the two of them were in a heated argument, so neither side paid special attention to the situation on the Yellow River.
After all, Li Jue and Guo Si's main conflict area was near Chang 'an City.
Although Yang Rui's navy had many ships, they did not attract the attention of Li Jue or Guo Si. After reaching the river near Tong Pass, Yang Rui ordered the ships to stop at a distance.
Looking from afar, Tong Pass was indistinct between the mountains and rivers. With Yang Rui's eyesight, he could not even see the specific situation clearly. The topography of the river and the distance from Tong Pass meant that Yang Rui's vision was not very good.
If it had been before when he could use Sky City, he would have been able to observe from a high vantage point. Even at night, the information he could obtain would not be so limited.
Under such circumstances, Yang Rui had no choice but to send soldiers ashore to continue approaching Tong Pass to investigate. Yang Rui himself also followed the small boat to the shore.
After all, whether it was the scaled soldiers or the Iron Guards, they were not very good at investigating and hiding. Yang Rui's participation was also good for dealing with them.
"Reporting to my lord, more than 20000 soldiers have left Tong Pass. During this time, there seemed to have been two or three conflicts. According to the situation before dark, the soldiers in Tong Pass should belong to Guo Si's side, and there aren't many of them."
Previously, one of Yang Rui's exploration ships had been staying on the surface of the water near Tong Pass, and the information they brought back had been enriched by a lot. When Yang Rui approached the shore, one of the scaled soldiers came forward to report.
According to the scaled soldier's report, the defense of Tong Pass was already quite weak. Even if Yang Rui were to attack, it shouldn't be difficult to take down Tong Pass.
Currently, Yang Rui's army rations were very limited. As an important checkpoint, Tong Pass should have a lot of rations stored within.
If Yang Rui could take over Tong Pass, on one hand, he would solve the problem of food supplies, and on the other hand, he would be able to defend the main path of the current storyline.
If Yang Rui did not take down Tong Pass, he could only wait for the food supplies from Yan Province to arrive. If they could not be delivered in time, Yang Rui would have no choice but to leave the series.
Even if Yan Province was able to send supplies on time, Yang Rui wouldn't be able to achieve much if he continued to participate in the plot.
In the current storyline, the soldiers that Yang Rui could use, be it the scaled soldiers or the Iron Guards, were all very strong in certain areas. However, their overall combat strength was not ideal.
In the end, Yang Rui would only be able to move freely on the surface of the Yellow River. It would be difficult for him to obtain plot points and control the storyline.
There was also a worst-case scenario, which was that Yang Rui would not be allowed to replenish rations in the storyline. This meant that the rations from Yan Province could not be transported to the storyline region.
This situation was not impossible. If the provisions could be replenished, under this analogy, could the soldiers of the participants also be replenished?
From the looks of it, the best choice for Yang Rui was to attack Tong Pass and obtain the geographical advantage to continue participating in the storyline.
Of course, Yang Rui would not act rashly before he did enough investigation. Taishi Ci's special soldier class, the scaled soldiers, could be replenished if they were damaged.
This situation did not exist for the Iron Guards. As a powerful special soldier class, their existence was no different from ordinary soldiers. Once they were damaged, they could not be replenished unless they obtained the relevant soldier skill books.
In the previous storylines, Yang Rui had paid great attention to protecting these special soldiers. Even if they were damaged, Yang Rui would use the plot points and achievement points to revive them immediately. This allowed the 40000 Iron Guards to remain intact.
In this storyline, the Sun Ran points system still existed, including the settings of the points ranking. It was not much different from before. However, when Yang Rui looked through the current storyline settings, he did not find any information about using points to revive soldiers.
This meant that this setting should have been removed.
Such a setting wasn't a coincidence. At the current stage of the game, the acquisition and popularity of the Soldier Skill Book had changed quite a bit. It was no longer as rare as it was at the beginning of the game. It was understandable that the related protection had been removed.
"Retreat, head to the other side of the pass to investigate."
Translator: Transn Editor: Transn Under the cover of night, Yang Rui waved his hand and led a dozen soldiers to investigate before slowly retreating to the small boats by the river bank.
Since he could not use the points to revive soldiers, Yang Rui treasured the troops he had. He had complete control of the Yellow River, and one of his advantages was that he could investigate from both sides of Tong Pass and attack at the same time.
After an hour, Yang Rui had roughly investigated the situation on the east side of Tong Pass.
After investigating both sides of Tong Pass, Yang Rui discovered that Guo Si's forces were mainly focused on the west side of the pass. As for the side facing the Hengling Plateau and Hangu Pass, their defenses were very lax.
There was nothing wrong with Guo Si's troops doing this. At this time, Zhang Ji and the other forces to the east of Tong Pass were not involved in the battle between Li Jue and Guo Si for the time being. Guo Si's main target was still Li Jue from the west.
This information made Yang Rui give up on attacking Tong Pass from both sides. If he attacked from both sides of Tong Pass at the same time, it would be better in terms of momentum and attack.
However, if that were to happen, Guo Si's army inside Tong Pass would have nowhere to retreat to. It was very likely that the defenders inside Tong Pass would have to fight to the death. Perhaps, Yang Rui would have to face an even more difficult siege, and his losses would be even more severe.
"Buzz buzz buzz"
"Sou sou sou
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First, Yang Rui mobilized three ships equipped with Divine Armament Sky Shattering Crossbows to the north of Tong Pass and launched a strong attack on Tong Pass.
The Divine Armament Sky Shattering Crossbows were originally designed to shoot upward. Now that they were attacking from above the water, it did not affect the effectiveness of their attacks at all.
The huge bolts from the Sky Shattering Crossbows flew in a parabola towards Tong Pass, catching Guo Si's forces on top of Linshui City and even further away by surprise.
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