The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 381 Blood Stained Arrow Gate Ridge
The next day, Tong Guan led the army to Bangyuan. After arriving, he discussed with Zhao Kai and decided to go directly to Jianmenling.

The battle lasted for three days and three nights before it was over. On the fourth day, just after dawn, the fog on Jianmen Ridge was thick, and the thousands of cliffs and ravines spit out clouds of smoke, billowing like waves on the sea. The wailing of the wounded echoed.

At this time, Liu Zhen and Yang Keshi led the reserve army to the foot of Jianmen Ridge, only to see that the troops of Yijing on the ridge were fighting with the bandit army Xia Houcheng. There was the sound of "ping ping ping cha cha" swords, the sound of "feeding" when a spear pierced into a person's chest, the sound of a wooden stick hitting the head, all kinds of sounds were confused with the screams of tearing the liver and gallbladder mixed together.

The blood soaked the mountain soil to the point of mud, piles of corpses undulating like hills, the flesh and blood splashed on the green grass looked like blooming red flowers, and the bushes were covered with broken limbs and dirt, it was a fierce fight.

Yijing's lieutenants, Zhao Ming, Zhao Xu, Jiangzhou, and Jiang Jun held the spears in their hands and personally supervised the battle. The soldiers of the western army who were retreating were reprimanded by them to move forward again. There are no rules, but they are not afraid of death.

Liu Zhen and Yang Keshi saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so they each led an army, temporarily abandoned their horses, and ran up the left and right trails on foot. Fighting at the ridge slope.

This Jianmen Ridge is a weird terrain, slow outside and steep inside. It is extremely easy for the Song army to climb the mountain from the outside, but the bandit army has no advantage in climbing the hill from the steep slope. The two Western armies Liu Zhen and Yang Keshi are extremely aggressive. A group fell, and the whole Menling became a mountain of fleshy corpses, which was too horrible to look at.

At this time, Xia Houcheng had two wounds on his body, and the steel knife in his hand had already been chopped into a saw, but he still fought to the death and refused to retreat.

At this moment, the road behind the mountain shouted: "General Xiahou, don't worry, this king is here to help you!"

Xia Houcheng looked back and found that it was the Fangwu of the Eight Kings of the Holy Dynasty who led the troops. This Fangwu was born with supernatural power and occupied the position of the king of Dharma in the Ming religion. He was called the King of Elephant with Red Eyes. Li Wang.

Xia Houcheng was overjoyed immediately, as if he had been in the rain for a long time, his strength and spirit doubled at this moment, and he shouted "Eight kings be careful".

Fang Wu led his troops up to Menling, and shouted: "General Xiahou, please take a step back, rest and recuperate, I will lead people to resist here."

After all, this square house held a big knife and swung it like a mad lion into the Song army in front.

The big knife in his hand weighed more than sixty catties, and he flew up and down in the air, slapping his head with "cracking", hitting the Western Army soldiers with blood and flesh, calling their parents and mothers, and retreating.

Seeing Fang Wu's bravery, Liu Zhen secretly marveled, and asked left and right: "Who is this reckless man?"

Those who recognized him said, "He is Fang La's eighth brother, Fang Qifo's younger brother, Fangwu, the eight power king of the bandit army!"

Liu Zhen's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and immediately sent an order: "Anyone who can capture this square house will be rewarded with a hundred gold, and a thousand coins!"

When the soldiers heard the reward, they immediately waved their knives and shouted, and all rushed towards the square house. At this moment, they saw that the money could perform magical powers. After a while, the front of the square house was crowded into a wall of people.

Hearing Fangwu's loud roar, it was like a thunderbolt in mid-air, and the Western Army heard it, and all felt chilled.

Fangwu's big knife circled and flickered past, startled the soldiers of the Western Army to flee one after another, like the tide receding and a landslide, and the knife fell like chopping melons and vegetables. Although the Western Army had a large number of people, it was difficult to get close to them.

Zhu Shahu, deputy general of the Huanqing Army, frowned upon seeing this, he possessed extraordinary courage, carried two iron maces, separated the crowd and came to the front, shouting: "Rebels, don't be brave!"

Fang Wu greeted him with a big knife, and the sound of "Dang" opened the double mace, and raised the knife high in a circle, and roared: "Song Dog accepts the move!"

A force smashed the cover of Huashan, and Zhu Shahu wanted to raise his mace to fight, but only heard the sound of "click", and he fell to the ground with his mace.

Song Bing and Song General saw that the zhusha tiger looked like a watermelon that had been split in half, and the two iron maces were bent into a bow.

When Fang Wu swung the sword, it swept across like an oolong. Wherever it went, the soldiers of the Western Army retreated one after another, and those who touched them were injured, and those who touched them died.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers were defeated, Liu Zhen couldn't help but shoot down the officers and soldiers himself, and seeing that the strength of the square house continued unabated, he became furious. The gun nodded like a lion and stabbed him.

Fang Wu gently lifted the big knife upwards, put it out of the circle, and pointed it at Liu Zhen's front with a superficial touch, Liu Zhen hurriedly dodged out of the way.

The two fought for more than ten rounds, and Liu Zhen thought to himself: Why don't I use a unique move to get you?
He twisted the head of the pointing steel gun, took a big step back to draw the body of the gun, and rushed forward to the dantian of the square house.

Fang Wu hastily knocked at it with a big knife, but unexpectedly the gun was drawn back with a "shua", and then Liu Zhen fought back with a jade belt wrapped around his body and collapsed like a lightning bolt.

Fangwu Da Dao lowered a little to the ground, a feihong leaped up, and the spear "crashed" and went empty, nothing collapsed.

At this time, Liu Zhen was panicked, he didn't expect that even such a unique move could not be used by Fang Wu, and he was defeated by his light-handed kung fu.

He was thinking, the square house fell from the top, the sword danced wildly like a rotating lotus flower, mysteriously, and went straight to Liu Zhenhang.

Liu Zhen had never seen what kind of trick this was since he was born in the womb. It seemed like a god and man falling into the clouds, so scared that he dragged his gun and left.

Hearing a "pop", the square house fell to the ground, and Liu Zhen's long spear was split into two pieces with one knife, which shocked Liu Zhen's mouth to burst into blood.

Then Fang Wu hooked his lower body with his toes, and kicked the golden bell upside down to roll up Liu Zhenping in the air, and shouted: "Slave of the Zhao family, how can you be vicious and evil, I will beat you to the eighteenth floor today!" Dark place!"

After finishing speaking, the big knife volleyed down into the air, aimed at Liu Zhen's head and chopped it off.

At this moment, an arrow flew from the Song army with a "swish", and it hit Fangwu's left shoulder. When hooking the arrow, Fang Wu used too much force, the shaft of the arrow was pulled out, but the arrowhead remained in the flesh, bright red blood gushed out from the wound, the pain was unbearable.

He yelled: "Dog officer, stab someone in the back, what a hero!" He gritted his teeth, put down the long knife, and pulled out a six-ringed steel knife with a snowy green light from his armpit with his right hand, and waved it in the wind, "choking!" Bang" noise.

He wielded the saber with one arm, and retreated backwards, and the Western army rushed forward immediately, only to see the blue light steel knife in his hand whistling in the cold wind, "scratching" continuously, cutting the head of the Western army was like chopping melons and vegetables. Where the soldiers of the Song Dynasty and the generals of the Song Dynasty ran around, not daring to confront each other.

Just now Yang Keshi shot an arrow to save Liu Zhen, but now he saw that the square house was still so brave, he couldn't help being stunned in the crowd.

Yi Jing shouted at this moment: "Fang Wu, if you surrender now, you will be spared!"

Fang Wu laughed loudly, then stared at a pair of fiery eyes, and said: "Dog officer, don't try to trick me, I wish I could catch you, peel skin and cramps, cook bones and eat meat!"

When Yi Jing heard this, he was furious. Regardless of the obstruction of the people behind him, he raised his horse lance and rushed to the front, "Fang Wu, your time of death has come, look at the lance!"

He went straight to the neck of Fangwu with a horse spear, and a green horse came to the square house, passed the horse spear, turned sideways, made a white crane spread its wings, and slashed down obliquely with a steel knife, Yi Jing hurriedly pulled the spear shelf, The two soldiers collided and sparks flew.

The two fought for twenty or so rounds, Fang Wu gradually felt powerless, the blood on his left arm was gushing, soaking through his armor and filling his combat boots.

He felt a sharp pain in his chest, big beads of sweat rolled down, his whole body felt like a fire, and he was weak and weak, but even so, Yi Jing couldn't beat him.

At this time, Yang Keshi sent an order, and the soldiers of the Western Army immediately gathered around to fight. Poor Fangwu, who is known as the mighty King of Eight Powers, ended up with heavy arrow wounds, bleeding profusely, his face was like yellow paper, and he felt dizzy. The sky is the earth, the earth is the sky, the chest is hot and the lungs are swollen, blood spurts from the mouth with a "wow", the sky spins for a while, and he falls to the ground.

The officers and soldiers of the Western Army immediately swarmed up, and the bandit army also went up, wanting to take back the square house, but here Yang Keshi ordered to increase the reward, and the Western Army rushed forward like crazy, and finally overwhelmed the bandit army Arrived near the square house.

There were so many soldiers in the West, so they all thought about how to capture alive, so they hacked Fangwu to death one after another, and rushed up to snatch Fangwu's body. bounty.

Later, Yang Keshi saw the soldiers twisted into a ball, he was so angry that he slashed forward, and shouted: "Go away! If there are any robbers, behead them immediately!"

After he said this, the robbed Western Army dispersed and stood aside. Yang Keshi took a closer look at the eight kings of the Fang family. They had already changed beyond recognition, but at least they still had a broken body.

So he asked his own soldiers to take off several pairs of cloth armor from the dead body on the battlefield, wrapped the broken body, and picked up the big knife and Qingguang steel knife from the square house, and prepared to send them to Tong Guan to ask for merit and reward.

Afterwards, the soldiers of the western army all pressed up to Menling, chasing and killing Xia Houcheng and others. The bandit army finally fled to the rear because the back slope was too steep, the front army was defeated, and the rear army failed to continue.

At this time, several other battlefields in Jianmen Ridge also benefited one after another. Xin Xingzong, Yang Weizhong, Wang Huan, Liu Guangshi and others led troops to slash and kill.

After a while, the horses of the cavalry on the main road were already covered with the heads of bandits and generals, and the infantry also tied together the heads of the bandits' generals and put them on the tip of their spears. Some Western troops were chasing after them. The female soldier chased into the jungle, and the sound of screams came from time to time.

At this moment, the dead bodies on the ground were strewn all over the place, and a cavity of blood flowed into the ravine, the blood was floating, and the people who were not completely dead were struggling and moaning, screaming, it was so tragic.

After half a day like this, the mountains that had been fought fiercely for several days were finally captured by the Song army. The Song army broke through the Jianmen Ridge Pass like a surging tide. go.

When the cave could be seen from a distance, Tong Guan immediately ordered to organize the army on the spot.

He discussed with Zhao Kai: "Your Highness, Fang La, the bandit chief, lives deep in the cave. The forest is dense and the cliffs are dangerous. Our army should not enter it rashly. I think it is better to burn the mountain according to your highness's plan, so that the forest will be destroyed and the cave will appear. Thieves have no place to hide, and my army can go straight to the thief's den!"

Zhao Kai's expression was a little numb and hasty, it was too brutal to fight all the way, his legs trembled a few times, and he almost fell off the horse and wanted to go back to the camp, but it was really hard to speak in front of these generals, so he barely persisted until now .

But at this moment, he had already reached the Bangyuan Cave, and the leader of the bandit was about to be captured, he unknowingly lifted his spirits, and immediately said: "Okay, okay, burn the mountains and burn the mountains!"

Tong Guan said yes, and then gave an order, and the Song army started to light fires everywhere. It was summer, and the wormwood was not completely rotted. Pine, fir, cypress, and bamboo were all flammable. raging.

In the dense forest, the thatched huts and wormwood fences on the hillside are as dense as mounds. When the mountain wind blows, they are all burned by flames.

In a short period of time, fires broke out in all directions of Bangyuan Cave, and the green pines, cypresses, ancient vines and chaotic trees on various hills, valleys, and stone flats were burned into forests of fire.

The black smoke engulfed the entire area of ​​Bangyuandong, the fire became more and more intense, the mountains and rocks were cracked, the land turned red, and the houses were all in ruins.

The officers and soldiers from all walks of life, watching the fire and guarding against where the bandits would come from, were all ready to intercept, search, surround, and even hunt and kill!

(End of this chapter)