Tibet

Chapter 228 Winning the Fortress

Huntuoduo City belongs to the Humi Country, about eighty miles away from Dalongchi. It is just at the exit of Dora Valley, and its geographical location is extremely important.

Hunduoduo City was called the Golden Fort by the Sogdian merchants, because the big stones that built the castle contained a large amount of pyrite, which glistened under the sun, especially in the morning and evening, so it was named the Golden Fort.

The Golden Fort is not big. To be precise, it is a military city. It is built on the mountain, and it is built on a high mountain. Behind it is a long canyon. Through this canyon, you can go to the country of Shishi, and you can walk for half a month. almost there.

If you don't take this road, you will go around to Feiniao State like Tianbao did in six years, and you will have to walk thousands of miles, and it will take at least a month longer.

If it's spring, it's okay to prepare more food and supplies, and take a long detour, but it's autumn now, and the mountains will be snowed in more than a month, so they don't have time.

Winning the Golden Fort is an imperative move for the Tang army.

The Golden Fort is located on the south bank of the Bomi River. A long rattan bridge connects the north and the south. The Tubo army occupied the Golden Fort three months ago. There are 300 troops stationed here. Although the number is small, the Golden Fort Condescending, there is a posture that one man is in charge, and ten thousand men are not allowed to open.

The Tubo army occupied the Golden Fort, on the one hand, to open up the road to Anxi, and on the other hand, to collect money. Tubo has launched wars against the Tang Dynasty for years, and its finances have already deteriorated. As long as there is any chance of making money or plundering, Tubo will never Will not let go.

Therefore, in order to make money, the Tubo army set up a checkpoint on the north bank of the Bomi River, forcing all transit caravans to pay, one camel to pay one dinar gold coin.

About twenty miles away from the Golden Fort, Tang Jun stopped moving forward.

In a marching tent, Feng Changqing convened the generals to discuss the countermeasures to seize the Golden Fort.

"Conquering the Golden Fort can't rely on a strong attack with more troops. No amount of troops can fill the canyon of Bomichuan. We can only use a sneak attack strategy to catch the Tubo army by surprise. This is the only way to capture the Golden Fort."

Feng Changqing spread a map on a flat boulder, pointed to the map and said to everyone: "According to the scouts' investigation, there are three nodes in capturing the Golden Fort, each node must not be lost, one is the checkpoint on the north bank of the river, and the other is One of the rattan bridges across the Bomichuan River is the Golden Fort, the most important of which is the rattan bridge, there are defenders on both sides of the rattan bridge, once the rattan bridge is cut off by the Tubo soldiers, we will lose everything."

Li Siye pondered for a while and said: "There happens to be a Sogdian caravan, we can sneak into the Sogdian caravan, attack the checkpoints, and take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to destroy the checkpoints."

Feng Changqing nodded, "Jun Li also proposed this plan, and I agree. It is not difficult to take down the checkpoint. The key is the Fuji bridge. There are Tubo soldiers guarding both ends of the Fuji bridge. If there is an accident at the checkpoint, the defenders of Fuji bridge will definitely find out. , If we clean up the defenders of the rattan bridge on the north bank first, let out screams, or a soldier escapes, he will be discovered by the soldiers guarding the rattan bridge on the south bank, and he will definitely cut off the rattan bridge decisively."

General Li Feiyuan said politely, "Isn't it the easiest way to find dozens of fast-running soldiers and rush over before the rattan bridge is cut off?"

Everyone laughed, and Li Feiyuan said angrily: "What's so funny, I'm afraid it's too late? Run with a crossbow arrow, and you can shoot the arrow halfway through the run, and shoot all the damn Tubo soldiers!"

General Bai Xiaode said with a smile: "It doesn't take too much trouble to cut off the rattan bridge, it can be cut off with one knife, even if General Li Fei grows wings, it's too late."

Li Feiyuan was speechless for a moment.

At this moment, Li Ye raised his hand and said, "I'll take the vine bridge!"

"What's your plan?"

Feng Changqing was unequivocal, he wanted a clear plan.

Li Ye said slowly: "I intend to kill the Tubo soldiers on the south bank of the Fuji Bridge before capturing the checkpoint."

"Then how did you get there?"

Feng Changqing was full of doubts and said: "Don't tell me, you want to climb across the bottom of the vine bridge, the moonlight is so good, if you climb on the rock wall, you will definitely be spotted by the Tubo soldiers patrolling on the vine bridge?"

Li Ye said calmly: "I have observed the Bomi River water carefully during the day, and I can directly cross the river to the south bank."

Everyone was in an uproar, the water in the Bomi River was so fast that people could not stand still in the water, not to mention the cliffs on both sides, how to get down and how to get up?

Li Ye smiled lightly: "We can try it first, if it doesn't work, we can think of other ways!"

Seeing Li Ye's eyes full of confidence, Feng Changqing nodded, "Then give it a try first!"

After Li Ye packed up, he carried twelve flying knives, a bow and arrow on his back, and his green dragon knife. There were not too many people on the other side, so he didn't need to carry long weapons.

Li Ye came to the edge of the cliff, and the generals followed. The cliffs on both sides of the Bomi River are not very high, they look like a ten-story building, about ten feet.

Although there are no plants on it, there are too many places to climb, which is not a problem for Li Ye. He first threw a large boulder weighing forty to fifty catties into the river, and then climbed down very easily. Probe to watch him climb, under the moonlight, I saw that Li Ye was as agile as an ape, climbing the straight cliff like walking on the ground, everyone secretly praised, "Good martial arts!"

If it is winter or spring, the riverbed below will be exposed, but now there is no riverbed, and the current is still very fast. The biggest difficulty is crossing the river. The river is [-] feet wide, and it is as deep as one foot. Without the water quality of people, it will definitely be submerged. in the river.

When Li Ye jumped into the river, he immediately felt the unique feeling of water, which was bitingly cold, and the water flow wrapped around him like thousands of silk threads. The huge momentum of the water flow and the force of his falling body formed a combined force, instantly pushing him toward the river. Rolling away from the bottom of the water is also the most critical step, he must seize the momentary opportunity of being drawn into the bottom of the river.

Li Ye's position judgment was extremely accurate, he grabbed the round boulder he had thrown down in advance, slowly hugged the boulder weighing tens of kilograms in his arms, and walked forward step by step under the water, walking about ten feet away, he again Clinging to a black reef, slowly crawling forward, sticking your head out and breathing heavily.

He had carefully observed during the day that there were two black reefs in Hanoi, exactly ten feet apart, and these two reefs were the key to his breathing.

Li Ye panted for a moment, then took a deep breath, climbed up the reef and sank, clamped the round stone at the bottom with his feet, slowly picked it up, and walked to the opposite bank step by step.

It took an incense stick of time and two breaths, Li Ye finally climbed onto the stone wall on the opposite bank, and crossing the river was extremely thrilling, without his hard training in the water for a whole year, he would not have been able to do it. It can be said that apart from Li Ye, No one can do it anymore.

He took a short rest and began to climb up the rock.

On the other side, all the generals' hearts were in their throats. The generals all knew the difficulty of crossing the river. They had never heard of anyone who could cross the Bomi River. However, the generals didn't know how difficult it was?
Feng Changqing regretted secretly, he knew that he should not have been allowed to take risks, if something happened to him, how would he explain to Gao Shuai, this is Li Xiangguo's grandson.

But it was useless to regret, Feng Changqing could only secretly pray that nothing would happen to Li Ye.

At this moment, a bright light suddenly appeared on the opposite side, and everyone shouted excitedly, "There is a fire light, he has passed!"

Feng Changqing was overjoyed, God helped him to succeed!

After repeated consideration, Feng Changqing decided to divide his forces into two groups. On the one side, General Bai Xiaode led three hundred Hu soldiers and a thousand camels to pretend to be a caravan and attack the checkpoints. They must wipe out the checkpoints and the Tubo army on the rattan bridge on the north bank. Ye was in charge of seizing the south bank of the Tengqiao to prevent the Tubo army from cutting off the Tengqiao.

Being discovered by the Tubo army in the Golden City is secondary, and keeping the Fuji Bridge is the most important thing.

(End of this chapter)