PS: For book lovers who are urging me to update, the old book "Qing Song" is equally wonderful, so you can taste it first.
"What, we met a barbarian sentinel ahead?!" Xiao Shilian's expression changed drastically.
The surrounding soldiers put their hands on the blades at the same time, and their eyes fell on Li Xinchen and Li Qiu. At this time, they suddenly discovered the Northern Zhou army, so it was most likely that Li Xinchen and the others deliberately brought everyone here.
In the ambush circle of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the deep mountains and old forests.
Especially the few veterans who originally felt that Li Xingchen and the others were not good people could not help but glare at them angrily. As long as Xiao Shilian gave the order, they would not hesitate to pounce on Li Xingchen and the others.
"Why are there barbarian sentries here? Didn't you say before that there were only bandits?" Xiao Shilian turned around and looked at Li Xingchen. Even though he was well-educated, there was already some anger on his face at this time, and the clay figure still had three points.
Angry, not to mention Xiao Shilian also felt that he had been fooled.
"Could General Xiao doubt us?!" Li Qiu said angrily, leaning forward slightly and facing Xiao Shilian directly.
Xiao Shilian could still hold his own, but the faces of the old soldiers around him turned cold, and they all wanted to draw out their sabers. Suddenly, the half-unsheathed blade flashed with cold light.
Li Xingchen couldn't help but chuckle, and while glaring at Li Qiu, he shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands to look at Xiao Shilian: "If the two of us want to bring you all into danger, then why stay here and wait to die?
When we entered the mountains before, we were deep in the mountains and old forests. With our familiarity with the surrounding terrain, we could escape at any time. Do you think you can catch me?"
Several old soldiers looked at each other and nodded. If Li Xingchen and Li Qiu were not leading the way in the surrounding mountains and forests, they might not know where they were until they touched the monkey. And if the two of them wanted to escape, they could run away at any time.
, there is really no need to enter this encirclement with them.
"Then..." Xiao Shilian frowned slightly. Subconsciously, he was willing to believe Li Xingchen, but no matter what, he was facing the unexpected Northern Zhou army sentry today, and he had to have an explanation.
You must know that the army that can arrange sentinels in the front must be hundreds of people at least. It is definitely not something Xiao Shilian and the others can compete with with just a hundred people.
Li Xingchen gritted his teeth and cast his gaze into the dense forest. The Northern Zhou army sentries mentioned by the sentry soldiers earlier had revealed their true colors. These soldiers were indeed very different from the bandits Li Xingchen and the others had dealt with before, although they were not the same.
They were not wearing armor, but whether it was the murderous look on these people's faces or the blades in their hands, it was undoubtedly proven that they were veterans of long battles just like the soldiers around Xiao Shilian.
However, these sentinels were a little disoriented in the deep mountains. After circling a few trees, they reluctantly found an open space and stopped, not knowing what they were waiting for. They did not continue to move forward.
It also made Xiao Shilian and Li Xingchen and the others breathe a sigh of relief, otherwise they really wouldn't know how to deal with it.
If you scare the snake, you don't know what kind of snake will be attracted; and if you turn around and leave at this time, your whereabouts will be easily exposed, and the gain will outweigh the loss.
"Map!" Xiao Shilian whispered, and an old soldier hurriedly took out the map from his arms and handed it to Xiao Shilian.
This map is definitely not accurate. In Li Xingchen's opinion, it is not as good as the map Li Cheng and the others drew after carefully exploring the surroundings of the village.
The positions of the Northern Zhou and Southern Chen armies facing each other were marked in detail. However, when he saw that the map only had a rough outline of the mountains, Xiao Shilian couldn't help but frown.
Li Xingchen patted him on the shoulder lightly: "If Brother Xiao doesn't mind, I would like to do more detailed research for Brother Xiao."
This time, Xiao Shilian did not hesitate at all, and directly unfolded the map completely. At this time, perhaps only Li Xingchen, who was familiar with the surrounding terrain, could help him. After all, suddenly encountering the Northern Zhou army's sentry in this deep mountain and old forest was enough.
Let Xiao Shilian worry and try to find out the truth.
Frowning, Li Xingchen looked at it for a moment, then reached out and pointed on the map: "According to the shape of the mountains drawn on the map, we should be at this location now. Brother Xiao, you see this is a mountain we have walked through before, and we have passed it.
Continuing outward from this mountain is the deserted village where you and I met, and Brother Xiao also marked it here."
Xiao Shilian looked in the direction of Li Xingchen's finger and couldn't help but take a breath: "Here... if we continue forward from here, we can just go to the lower reaches of the Luliang River, and then we can cut off our army's retreat!"
After being startled for a moment, Li Xingchen's expression changed drastically.
Outflank Lu Liangshui and cut off Chen Jun's retreat. Why does this sentence sound so familiar?
It seems... Li Xingchen tried his best to recall the "Chen Shu" he had read, and his heart sank... It seemed that this was how Nan Chen lost the Battle of Luliangshui!
Historically, because the two generals Wu Mingche and Xiao Mohe managed the defense line watertight, and Chen Jun's morale was high because of his previous victory over Yu Wenxin, Wang Gui began to seek to win with surprise troops after many offensive trials without success.
Due to their negligence in the previous victory, neither Wu Mingche nor Xiao Mohe expected that Wang Gui would use his main force to sneak in and outflank Chen Jun's retreat, cutting off the Luliang River in one fell swoop, causing Chen Jun to fall into a tight siege.
Xiao Mohe, who reacted in time, suggested that he should cut off the rear and let Wu Mingche lead the cavalry to break through before the encirclement was closed. However, the old general refused to comply and forcibly ordered Xiao Mohe to lead the elite cavalry to break out, while he led the troops to break out.
The infantry battalion moved to the rear to cover,
In the end, Xiao Mohe led the vanguard to escape from the encirclement in time and retreated to Huainan. However, Wu Mingche was trapped in the encirclement of the Northern Zhou army that followed, was defeated and captured, and finally died of depression in Chang'an.
It can be said that the Battle of Luliang was a watershed battle in the late Northern and Southern Dynasties. After this battle, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, which had been in domestic chaos due to the previous annexation of the Northern Qi Dynasty and had a complicated military system, took this opportunity to regain its strength and once again took the initiative against the Southern Dynasties.
Nanchen, on the other hand, completely destroyed the family fortune accumulated by Chen Baxian during the founding of the country, and lost all the strategic advantages of his troops on the Huaihe River. He retreated to Huainan or even Jiangnan, and no longer had the strength to fight for hegemony northward until he was eliminated by the Sui Dynasty many years later.
The most important point of such a war, which had an impact and even ultimately determined the hegemony of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, was that Wang Gui used a gamble to send troops to outflank Chen Jun's retreat. This was an extremely dangerous move, but it hit the center of Chen's key points in the south.
At this moment, what Li Xingchen and Xiao Shilian encountered in this chaotic mountain by chance was probably the main force of the advancing Northern Zhou army!