Chivalrous Song Dynasty

Don't say that Bai Sheng's idea is that more things are worse than less things, even Tong Guan also considered this when announcing the marching route.

Originally, this time Tong Guan followed the previous strategy of the Song Dynasty and arranged for five armies to attack Xia. Two of the armies were in the northernmost Yanzhou (now Yan'an) and the second northern Huanzhou (now Qingyang City Huan County). assemble.

If you go to Yanzhou and Huanzhou from Bianjing, you only need to go straight to the northwest, but because of the existence of Tianhu forces, you can only go west to Jingzhao Mansion of Yongxing Army (now Xi'an), and then Then divide the troops from Xi'an and go northward to the two states of Huanyan.

For an unreasonable rebel like Tian Hu, attacking Guo with a fake way is an unworkable strategy, unless he crushes all the way, destroying Tian Hu first and then Xixia, but Tong Guan has no such confidence at all, so he can only take The task of cutting Xia assigned by the emperor is over.

The same is true of the marching route discussed by Bai Sheng and Di Lie. Not only is he currently walking this way, but also his subordinates Xu Ning, Ling Zhen, Fan Rui, Xiang Chong, Li Yan, Jiang Jing, Ou Peng, Wang Dingliu, and Huangfu Including Duan, Guo Sheng and others, they all proceeded in this way.

According to the plan he and Di Lie made, these people under him also need to divide into two groups in Jingzhao Mansion, one way to Weizhou and the other way to Yanzhou.And he himself will go to Weizhou, and then to Yanzhou.

Yanzhou used to be the border town where Di Qing and Di Yong were stationed. Now he shoulders Di Lie's hope and is about to launch his first campaign in Yanzhou to conquer the west!

But the world will not always be diverted by personal will. He and his subordinates deliberately avoid Tian Hu, but Tian Hu's subordinates do not seem to cooperate so much.

When a group of seven people traveled to the Hangu Ancient Road in Shanzhou (now Sanmenxia City), they encountered a large wave of soldiers from Tian Hu.

Chapter 386

As soon as he entered the Hangu Ancient Road, Zhao Kai was still wondering where Lao Tzu went after leaving Hangu Pass, but Bai Sheng had already reined in, and at the same time called out to Sun Erniang who opened the way ahead.

Sun Erniang strictly followed Bai Sheng's orders, even when riding a horse, she kept a distance of five feet away from Bai Sheng, so she simply became the vanguard among the seven.

The reason why Bai Sheng stopped was because he saw dust covering the sun on the ancient road ahead. Although he couldn't see people under the dust and mist, Bai Sheng still had excellent hearing. He could hear at least the sound of thousands of marching footsteps.

Infantry, lots of infantry!

Then he heard a faint shout of encouragement coming from the front: "Brothers, work harder, those merchants are not moving fast with heavy loads, we will definitely be able to catch up with them before Tongguan! Grab this batch of goods and come to Jin Wangding There is a big reward!"

Just hearing the word Jin Wang, one can be sure that this is Tian Hu's army.Looking at the deep ruts on the road, I already knew that this group of people was chasing Ling Zhen's artillery unit, and they probably mistook the camouflaged artillery cart for a gold and silver cart.

It's just that he couldn't figure out how this insignificant Tianhu army entered the Hangu Ancient Road.

The ancient road is the valley road.According to the map provided by Di Lie, the Hangu Ancient Road is a long and narrow valley road with a length of more than [-] miles, with steep mountain walls or slopes on both sides of the road.

This valley road starts from Hangu Pass in the east and connects to Tongguan in the west. It stands to reason that there are only two ways to enter this valley road, either from the east gate of Hangu Pass or from the east of Tongguan Pass. So how did this army get in?

Their seven horses came in from Hangu Pass. Although Hangu Pass has lost its strategic significance during the Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, after all, this pass is under the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty. How can Tian Hu's soldiers and horses be allowed to enter?

It is not right to say that Hangu Pass has been captured by Tian Hu, because there is no sign of fighting on Hangu Pass.

Moreover, when Tian Hu's soldiers and horses come here, they must first cross the Yellow River and come to Henan. How did they do it?

It can't be flying in, can it?

Then it can only be considered that there is a secret way to enter the valley from the mountain.

Thinking of this, he regretted a little, maybe it was better for Ling Zhen and the others to bypass Hangu Pass and go west?But that would really not be able to achieve the speed of soldiers.

Although the Hangu Ancient Road has not been the only way to connect east and west since Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, Chu and Han fought for hegemony, but it is not only for Ling Zhen's artillery vehicles, but also for the supply troops that provide supplies for the border. Valley roads are the best and safest routes to take.

What he needs to consider now is whether to attack Tian Hu's army from behind.

The question is whether Ling Zhen and the others know that someone is chasing after them. If they don't know, then they can't form a pincer attack.

And under the premise that Ling Zhen and the others didn't know that there was an enemy army behind them, seven of them rushed to kill them rashly. It would be fine if the number of the enemy army was no more than a thousand, but what if there were more than one or two thousand?That gets a little tricky.

Once there are warlocks like Qiao Daoqing accompanying the army to help in the battle, wouldn't it be a problem to even escape?

After hesitating for a long time, he decided to follow behind for the time being, neither getting too close nor too far away, and waited for the soldiers and horses in front to catch up with the artillery team, and waited for an opportunity after the battle started.

Zhao Kai and the others couldn't hear the shouting in front of them, and they didn't know why Bai Sheng reined in. Zhao Kai asked naively, "Which prefecture's Xiang army is rushing to Tongguan?"

Bai Sheng said angrily, "It's Tian Hu's army."

"Ah?" Zhao Kai was taken aback, "Why did Tian Hu's troops appear here?"

Seeing that Bai Sheng didn't answer, he asked in a strange way: "How do you know that Tian Hu's soldiers are in front of you?"

Bai Sheng didn't reply.The meaning is that I just know, so don’t ask too many questions, okay?

This attitude is normal in the eyes of five people other than Zhao Kai, especially Zhang Qing and his wife firmly believe that there is nothing in this world that Bai Sheng doesn't know about.

"Let's go, let's keep this distance and follow behind. From now on, everything will follow my orders, and you all don't talk."

Everyone stopped talking and urged their mounts to move forward slowly, only Zhao Kai felt a little displeased, there is a mile away, why are you afraid of saying something?

As soon as he thought of this, he heard someone shouting on the side of the road: "What are you doing? Stop!"

The seven people followed the sound and saw more than a dozen men coming out of the forest on the hillside by the roadside, all wearing farm clothes, but holding simple knives and spears and other weapons in their hands, surrounding Bai Sheng and others.

Bai Sheng didn't rush, cupped his hands and said: "Several brothers have invited me. I am a friend of General Lilai. I have been entrusted by General Lilai to report an important event to the King of Jin."

"You're talking nonsense!" The leader didn't believe Bai Sheng's lies at all, "General Li hasn't heard from you for almost half a year, how could he entrust you to summon you? Besides, since you want to summon him, why don't you go to the Weisheng Mansion where King Jin is located?" (now Qin County, Shanxi), but came to this Hangu Pass?"

Bai Sheng was indeed telling a temporary lie, of course he knew that there was such a problem, but in an emergency, if he hesitated, he would make people even more suspicious, so when he uttered the first lie, he thought about how to get it back .

Said: "My brother, what you said is very reasonable, but you have to listen to me."

The man said impatiently: "Say it quickly, but there is a word that is not true, don't blame the simple knife in my hand for not recognizing people!"

Bai Sheng scowled, and said angrily, "You are really unreasonable! Do you know that 40 Imperial Guards of the Song Dynasty have assembled in Weizhou, and they will cross the Yellow River tonight and go straight to Huguan?"

Huguan is a pass under Tian Hu's administration that faces Weizhou in the Song Dynasty across the river. It is of great strategic significance. Once it is lost, it will be tantamount to losing the natural danger of the Yellow River, and the battle will immediately fall into a passive position.

These are all what Di Lie told Bai Sheng when Bai Sheng and Di Lie were discussing the plan to march to the west. It is precisely because of this that Di Lie reminded Bai Sheng not to travel from Hebei Jindi to the two states of Huanyan.

Since that man was the little leader of Tian Hu's subordinates, of course he also knew the importance of Huguan to their armed forces, his expression changed drastically, and he didn't care about Bai Sheng's reprimand, he asked in a startled voice: "Is this true?"

Bai Sheng said: "It's absolutely true! I was going to cross the river to report the news, but I heard a boatman by the Shanzhou River say that you have already crossed the river and came to Henan, so you rushed over here. I don't know who is in charge of your team. Army? Quickly take me to report."

The man had believed more than half of it so far, thinking that if these seven people were deceitful, wouldn't they have come to die in vain?Immediately replied: "It's Princess Qiongying and General Ma Ling, brother, I'll take you there right now."

Bai Sheng was secretly startled when he heard the words, he thought it was dangerous, the enemy army indeed had warlocks in it, but the matter has come to this point, he had no choice but to go deep into the tiger's den and try to capture the thief and the king.

Chapter 387 Qiongyingjiang and Xiao Huaguang

Who is Ma Ling?This person is a magical character in "Water Margin", nicknamed "Shenjuzi", and he is the second warlock who possesses divine movement besides Dai Zong.

His divine movement is even more advanced than that of Dai Zong, and he claims to travel thousands of miles a day.

Dai Zong's four Shenxing armored horses are all tied to their legs and can only travel [-] miles a day at full power.But he was [-] li longer than Dai Zong, because he didn't use Shenxing Jiama, but Fenghuo Erlun!

Another mystery of his two rounds of wind and fire is that he can use fire attack to burn enemy troops and even enemy camps anytime and anywhere.

Just imagine, if seven people from one's own side are against him, and he sacrifices this hot wheel from a long distance, wouldn't it be possible to turn seven people and seven horses into seven fire gourds?

Bai Sheng once wondered if the original "Water Margin" was wrongly written. Isn't this hot wheel a standard feature of Nezha?Could it be that there is a relationship between Ma Ling and Nezha?There is no mention of this in the original book.