Chapter 962: The cold night, the lonely mountain is set on fire
Chapter 962: Dark night and cold weather, solitary mountain set on fire
"Er Hu, you take two hundred people, one person and two horses, and rush to Jiangyang Mountain first! After arriving, find out the enemy's location, remove the enemy's spies, and then stand by!"
"Subordinates take orders!"
A strong man shouted and then galloped away with two hundred cavalry!
"All baggage, armor, and ordnance are carried by horses! We are all traveling lightly! It is now the third quarter of Shenshi, and we will march through the night. I ask you to arrive at Jiangyang Mountain before Choushi. Can you do it?"
"able!"
Running seventy miles in more than four hours, and marching at night, is a challenge for any infantry! Fortunately, horses carry the load, and the soldiers of the Xin family army are also elite, so this can be done...
On Jiangyang Mountain, among the dense woods, a team of three thousand people was lying on the mountainside, quietly staring at the road below!
"What the hell is this? We promised to get here at noon, but now it's sunset and we haven't even seen anyone! They should have arrived even if they had to crawl!"
A man on the lookout complained.
A person next to him frowned, "Da Cai, do you think they will take a detour?"
The man shook his head and said, "Probably not. This road is the shortest way into Chengdu Prefecture! Moreover, news came in the morning that the team has already come west."
"Brothers, there is news!"
A lean man emerged from the dense forest, "Dawu came just now and said that those people had temporarily stopped at the inn about twenty miles away! It is said that the female family members in the team were not feeling well, so they had to rest temporarily for the night.
I guess we won’t move on until tomorrow!”
After the words fell, the two looked at each other, their eyes were a little strange!
"Hey, we brothers are enjoying the wind and earth here, while others are comfortable in the inn!"
"Forget it, let the brothers rest first! We are already suffering in this poor place. If we stay up one more night, which brother will have no end?
Let the spies on the left and right cheer up and don't let anything happen.
Others ate and slept on the spot all night..."
In the dark night, there is silence! Outside this remote mountain field, even the chirping of insects is much lower!
To the west of Jiangyang Mountain, five miles away! A neat team suddenly appeared from the darkness! These were the troops led by Xin Qiji!
"Let all brothers eat dry food immediately and rest on the spot for half an hour!"
Xin Qiji looked at the barren mountains in front of him and issued an order!
"General, our spies are here to report..."
Not long after, a man dressed in black came to Xin Qiji and said, "I've seen the general! The two tigers are watching from the front. Let the villain report to the general on the situation on the mountain!"
After briefly sketching on the ground, the man said to Xin Qiji, "We have discovered the opponent's location, which is about two miles behind Rushan, about fifty feet halfway up the mountain! There are three thousand people in total.
We captured several of the other side's spies, but have yet to find out their origins.
It seems like a team that was put together temporarily, and we don’t even know who the target is! We’re not familiar with the general either!”
"The trees where they are located are extremely dense, which is not conducive to attack! According to estimates, we will definitely be discovered by them if we reach a position of about a hundred feet near them at most! In addition, although these people are messy, they are all brave and their combat power is obviously not weak.
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On the side of a low hill about six or seven miles east of Jiangyang Mountain, Shen Tang looked at Jiangyang Mountain with a bit of a smile, which looked like a beast so close at hand! Hundreds of horses were blocking the surroundings, and Shen Tang Tang and Zhao Ling stand in the middle!
"Master Shen, can you light up a fire?"
Qingqiu asked softly.
Although everyone was wearing thick furs, there was still a sense of coldness and a lack of sense of security in this cold dark night.
Shen Tang looked at Zhao Ling who was huddled in fur clothes next to him, "Princess, please be patient for a moment! Although our place is several miles away from Jiangyang Mountain, in this dark night, the firelight is too conspicuous! It's easy. be noticed.
But, look at the time, it won’t be long!”
As he said that, he took off the big cloak he was wearing and put it directly on Zhao Ling!
Zhao Ling blushed and nodded. Shen Tang's cloak almost covered her entire body. Smelling Shen Tang's smell and the warmth coming from her body made her moist eyes feel like they were dripping with water...
"Brother Shen, are our troops here?"
Zhao Ling approached Shen Tang and asked, "The mountains are high and the forests are dense. If we fight, it might be inconvenient!"
Shen Tang looked at the barren mountain in front of him, "Don't worry, Princess, I am dispatching the Xin Family Army! The Xin Family Army is only a few dozen miles away from here, so they must have arrived! There are no connections around this barren mountain, and they are condescending and want to It’s really difficult to attack!”
"so what should I do now?"
Zhao Ling asked anxiously!
"Princess, don't worry, Brother Xin is not just a brave man! I think back when Brother Xin was in the North, a lone army under his command made the Jin soldiers unable to do anything, and his strategy was also extremely powerful! If you want to capture this lonely mountain, It is difficult to say, but just one word of fire is enough to make the opponent unable to go to heaven and unable to enter the earth!"
"This is an isolated mountain. Setting fire will not cause wildfires in other places! In this way, you only need to garrison the surrounding arteries and wait for the enemy to come to your door, and then you can change the offensive and defensive positions! In fact, if you set up camp, it does not would choose such a location.
However, they ambushed us, and they didn’t know that we would get the news in advance, so it would be fine.”
If it were before, Zhao Ling might feel pity! After all, thousands of lives will be buried after a fire.
However, since she experienced that fight, she has learned a lot! The relationship between herself and others and the enemy is between life and death! To pity the enemy is to be irresponsible to yourself and the people who protect you!
The human lives, the blood and ferocity on the ground often appeared in her mind! It also made her know what cruelty is! And those people who wanted to ambush them in front of her might be innocent people.
However, if you have mercy on them, then the soldiers themselves and Shen Tang will die, and the soldiers who protect you will die.
Therefore, if she had a choice, she would rather choose to let the other person die!
After looking at the terrain around Jiangyang Mountain and the location of the enemy troops, after thinking for a while, Xin Qiji made the same decision as Shen Tang!
"Chen Qian, you lead a thousand soldiers and horses and set up an ambush at the key road going down the mountain south of Jiangyang Mountain! If anyone comes, intercept and kill them all!"
"Hu Wu, I will give you a thousand men to ambush at the foot of the barren mountain north of Jiangyang Mountain. If these people come down from the mountain, show up to intercept and kill them!"
"Wu Xin, you lead a thousand people to block the main road to the west, and you must not let one person escape!"