Fu Song

Chapter 323 Ambush
In the past, the roads from Dingbian City to Shentangbao were not very good. It took most people almost a whole day to get from Dingbian City to Shentangbao.

This standard was once Xiao Ding's standard for evaluating Dingbian soldiers.

A Dingbian soldier was wearing armor and armor, and at the same time brought all the weapons and equipment and could rush from Dingbian City to Shentang Fort within one day, so he accepted the soldier.

According to the standard at that time, more than half of the Dingbian soldiers were eliminated.

This was when Zheng Jihua and Lei Dejin, who were still battalion generals at the time, tried their best to recruit some soldiers.

But now Zheng Jihua and Lei Dejin have long been well-known figures in the Western Army. The two were ordered by Xiao Ding to lead troops to attack the Western Regions, and they were invincible. In the Western Regions, they had already become figures who could stop children from crying at night.

Not anymore.

Several years of continuous repairs have greatly improved the road conditions from Dingbian City to Shentangbao. It used to take a day's journey, but now it only takes half a day to get there.

After Hao Yue took down Dingbian City, he immediately blocked all the roads to Shentangbao. People like Hao Yueqiu Zhengjiedong are also born and bred locals, and they are naturally familiar with the terrain, roads, and roads here. in the heart.

According to what Hao Yue said to Li Dan, even a fly would never want to fly to Shentangbao at this time.

After only waiting for a day in Dingbian City, Li Dan has gathered all the infantry in the fort along the way and rushed to Dingbian City.

It was said that there were [-] people, but the number of people who actually arrived was [-]. Li Dan brought all his own soldiers with him, and Zhang Chao also assigned [-] of his own soldiers to Li Dan.

Both Zhang Chao and Li Dan placed great hopes on the first match.

So far so good.

The news from Shentangbao’s inner line was indeed as Li Dan, Zhang Chao and the others guessed, that the Western Army had indeed known the news of Xiao Yu’s death, but because of Xiao Cheng’s absence, the Western Army had been arguing endlessly, and no one was unified. caliber, nor a specific charter.

Everyone is waiting for Xiao Ding to return from Montenegro.

For example, at Shentangbao, although the rest of all soldiers has been cancelled, and they have entered a state of combat readiness, they have not really realized anything.

From the fact that a convoy of salt delivery arrived at Dingbian City from Shentangbao yesterday, it can be seen that there is indeed no awareness of the imminent war.

The interrogation of the salt-carrying drivers, Lifu, and shopkeepers once again confirmed the cognition of Li Dan and others, which also made them full of confidence in successfully capturing Shentangbao.

One thousand people were left to guard Dingbian City, and the remaining [-] people ate at the second watch, and set off from Dingbian City at the third watch.In this case, they will be able to arrive at Shentangbao tomorrow morning, and thus launch an attack on the Western Army stationed in Shentangbao.

Xie Dong led [-] cavalry to advance forward, Li Dan led [-] cavalry and [-] infantry in the middle, and Qiu Zheng led [-] infantry to the rear while carrying some siege equipment.

There is a distance of about Li Xu between each of the three parts.

Countless torches lit up, illuminating the sky brightly, like a winding fire dragon, moving forward all the way.The hooves of the war horses stepped on the solid road, making a crisp trampling sound. Li Dan watched several rows of soldiers trotting forward holding torches, but felt extremely emotional in his heart. This road was built by Xiao Ding's Western Army. !Now, it is convenient for the imperial army to attack him.

Does this count as being in a cocoon?
Now all the areas controlled by the Western Army, even in Hengshan, regard road construction as the top priority.

The reason is that when Xiao Jiaerlang was here, he said "If you want to get rich, build roads first", it was regarded as a standard by the Western Army. Whether it was Zhang Yuan, Tuoba Yangwei, or Nan Renzhong, they were all here In the next few years, this article was faithfully implemented.

The road is well repaired!
It can be convenient for themselves, of course, it can also be convenient for their enemies, such as the current self.

He let out a long breath, and under the light of the torch, the white air rose straight up. Li Dan, who was riding on the horse, could clearly see the white smoke steaming in the marching team, which was the breath of the soldiers.

There is no snow, no rain, although there is no moon in the sky, but there are many stars, the weather is actually very good, but this kind of weather is really cold, when the wind blows, the ground will burrow into the bones .

"Drive!" Li Dan slapped the horse's butt with his backhand, and the horse neighed lightly, then trotted forward with small steps.

Jiufeng Mountain, the only place to go to Shentangbao, is also a section with extremely special terrain.

First of all, we have to cross the Jiufeng River, which is about ten feet wide. At this time, there is no water, but some water is left in the middle of the small river, which is less than ten feet wide, and it is still covered with ice.Although there is no water, it is not easy for people to pass through.Because the original river bed was full of big or small jagged rotten rocks everywhere, the infantry might be able to cross by groping, but the cavalry absolutely couldn't.

On this river, there is now a stone bridge, which was also built by the Western Army, and can accommodate a carriage.

In the past, this was a single-plank bridge. In the middle of the river, there were some wooden frames. Several logs were tied together and placed on these wooden frames. fall down.

After crossing the river and walking forward for more than [-] meters, the whole road took a sharp turn and turned into the valley next to it. Standing on the stone bridge of Jiufeng River, you can't see what is going on in front of you. of.After passing through this mountain depression, and then moving forward, I walked up to the protrusion of another mountain peak. The two sides seem to be not far apart, and I can clearly hear a few words when I open my voice. One side goes to the other side, but it takes a moment of incense.

Jiufeng River winds forward at the foot of the mountain.

However, compared with the flatness when crossing the river, this place is quite steep. From the road to the valley, the height is about ten feet, and it is full of extremely steep slopes.

After passing here, it is very easy to go forward, and you will step into the alluvial plain area where the Daqing River and the Dasha River meet, and you will be very close to Shentangbao.

Li Yi is waiting here for Li Dan.

After using Miao Shou to release the last false message, Li Yi's troops left Shentang Castle and arrived at Jiufeng Mountain.

Li Yi brought out the [-] troops stationed at Shentangbao and the [-] Hengshan Dangxiang regiments.

The current Shentang Fort is an out-and-out empty city, except for a few old, weak and sick people who are guarding the gate, there is not a single soldier left.

The [-] Hengshan Regiment was led by Tuoba Fenwu, and they were deployed on the three slopes of the groove of Jiufeng Mountain. They would pour all the feather arrows in their hands to the Song Army on the road below the mountain.

The [-] Hengshan garrison, led by Li Yi, deployed after the jagged stones in the Jiufeng River at the foot of the mountain, they will seal the exit of this groove, and the remaining [-] people will be Li Yi's reserve soldiers and horses are kept in case of emergencies, so that he can adjust his deployment at any time according to changes in the battle situation on the battlefield, and at the same time, he can provide effective support to the two fronts at any time.

"In such a dead place, even if a god steps in, I can kill him!" Tuoba Fenwu played with the scimitar in his hand, sometimes turning like a windmill in his hand, and sometimes turning into magic or sticking Elbow, or holding it in his hand, it seems that he has soaked in this knife for countless years, just like his arm. "General Li, you chose this place well!"

Li Yi chuckled: "Li Dan is greedy. He wants to win the Shentang Fort without any effort, and he doesn't even think about what the Shentang Fort means to us now? If he comes during the day, our ambush soldiers on the riverbed will hide it from us." If you can't stop him, this is an opening. But he just wanted to sneak attack us and chose to send troops at night, ha, when you are plotting against others, others are plotting against you too!"

"The key is that the information deception was done well this time!" Tuoba Fenwu said with a smile: "Miao Shou and his son have made a great contribution this time."

"It's not just them!" Li Yi said indifferently: "They thought that we would behave in a panic if the manager didn't come back. Foreshadowing is useless, so we have made all kinds of plans, and one of them is what to do if you turn against the court!"

"The manager thought about falling out with the imperial court before?" Tuoba Fenwu was a little curious.

"What we have done in the past two years is already a taboo!" Li Yi sighed: "Of course we have to be prepared to turn our face, but I didn't expect this day to come so soon, and it was at the expense of the supervisor's parents."

"In this way, our chief manager has a rebellious bone in the back of his head!" Tuoba Fenwu slapped haha.

"Fart!" Li Yi glanced at Tuoba Fenwu: "There is nothing to stop you from speaking, be careful, I will tell the deputy manager to interrupt your crutches!"

"Just talking, why are you so serious!" Tuoba Fenwu felt guilty. "And I don't think I'm wrong!"

"The manager and Erlang didn't think about rebelling. Erlang just said that fate must be in his own hands, and he must not let others decide his life or death with a single word."

"The emperor wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die!" Tuoba Fenwu flattened his mouth: "Isn't this what you Song people said in the classics! Xiao Erlang said that, it is almost..."

"Here we come!" Li Yi suddenly stood up.

Tuoba Fenwu also jumped up all of a sudden, looking up to the opposite side.

It seemed that in an instant, a long fire dragon appeared in the field of vision of the two of them.

A smile appeared on Li Yi's face, he stuck out his tongue, and licked his lower lip. The cold wind for most of the day was finally not in vain, and it was time to harvest.

If you are unkind, I will be unrighteous.

You came to the door yourself, it's not me who picks things up!

"I leave it to you!" Li Yi looked at Tuoba Fenwu.

"General Li, just look at the craftsmanship of my subordinates!" Tuoba Fenwu said with a smile: "These guys are holding torches, what a good target!"

An excellent target indeed.

Song Jun held torches and walked slowly on the road. After walking for most of the night, under the attack of the cold wind, everyone felt tired and walked more slowly.After passing through Jiufeng Mountain, everyone was able to take a good rest. After recovering their strength, it was almost dawn. At this time, it was time to launch the final attack on Shentangbao.

The Song army who was advancing couldn't imagine that thousands of bows and arrows were protruding from the grass and behind the trees above their heads at this time, and the cold arrows shone with the breath of death. Starlight in the sky.

A whistle flew out with a sharp whistle, and a Song soldier on a horse fell off his horse with a bang, and Tuoba Fenwu shot the first arrow.

After Ming Dy, thousands of feathered arrows buzzed like the black scythe of death and flew towards the brightly lit place.

The sound of screams filled the world in an instant.

"The enemy is on the mountain!"

"Raise your shield!"

"Fight back, fight back!"

Among the Song army, there were indeed many experienced elites. As soon as they were attacked, some soldiers were organized to counterattack the mountain with large shields.

But just as Li Yi said, this team was mixed. The imperial court transferred most of the troops who had experienced wars on Shaanxi Road to Hebei Road, and the remaining part could no longer support the overall situation.

The number of people who want to counterattack is too small, it can't be achieved at all, and they are soon suppressed to the point where they can't even raise their heads. When more people hear the feather arrows whizzing, they subconsciously want to stay away. The steep slope under the road slipped into the river.

At the front, Xie Dong suddenly turned his head.

He was not attacked by Feather Arrow, because as a striker, he had already crossed the encirclement.

"General!" the soldiers shouted.

"You can't turn back. Turning back will only cause more chaos. Go forward and keep going forward!" Xie Dong roared as he took the reins and rushed forward: "The enemy is ready, let's rush forward."

Five hundred cavalry followed Xie Dong and rushed forward. They turned the big bend in front of them, and then saw a torch lit up on the vast flat ground ahead, then ten, and then a hundred.

Li Yi raised the saber in his hand, pointed the halberd forward, and shouted: "Take them down!"

Thousands of cavalry rushed forward, shouting and waving sabers.

Li Dan just walked to the deepest part of the groove at this time, and his central army was the place where Yujian took care of the most, because he was surrounded by hundreds of tall horses.

The war horses were crowded on the road, and the front and back were crowded with people. When the feather arrow hit, they couldn't advance or retreat. After the arrow was hit, the pain made these tame war horses jump wildly, and the Song army on the road was suddenly hit hard. Unfortunately, in order to avoid being trampled by war horses, more people chose to slip down into the ditch.

"General, let's go!" Li Dan's personal guards immediately dragged Li Dan off the horse.These personal guards were experienced in many battles. Seeing the situation, they dragged Li Dan to the river without saying a word.

At this time, the river below is the only way out.

(End of this chapter)