The elder of the Great Pavilion held the eldest prince Su Long hostage, and the collapse of the Dragon Banner Army must be related, but Zhang Xian could not pursue it. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The sudden rainstorm bought Zhang Xian time.

Leaving the tired Dragon Banner Army to guard the camp, Zhang Xian and Wang Ziyu quietly came out of the camp with their more than 50,000 people dressed in robes, such a heavy rain, the bow and arrow could not be used, but the enemy could not use it, this point was leveled, and the rest depended on who planned it, but no matter what, Zhang Xian was at a disadvantage, after all, it was 50,000 against 150,000, and the difference in strength was too great.

Before leaving, Zhang Xian had a long discussion with Li Wenhui and Pu Yuliang, and then recruited a group of generals.

The generals surrounded the animal skin map, Zhang Xian assigned the task, Pu Yuliang pointed out on the map, analyzed and explained to the generals who got the task, and after everyone had no doubts, Zhang Xian waved his hand and ordered the attack.

After leaving the camp in the wind and rain, 50,000 people were divided into three teams according to the agreement to move separately, and the heavy rain was not good for the enemy, but it was not good for themselves, but they should make good use of it, and they would definitely make up for their own shortcomings.

Out of the camp to the west less than twenty miles is a large swamp, a not very wide official road winds through the swamp in a not very high earth mountain, the westernmost end of the earth mountain is a wooden bridge, the wooden bridge is about more than three miles long, if you start from Shitang City, through the Wandian Town in the north of Xilu City to the nearest road to Donglu City is this road.

Zhao Wen sent people to occupy the wooden bridge across the swamp first, if Zhang Xian had already burned this wooden bridge, then Zhao Wen would have to take the road that Pu Yuliang and they had walked, of course, they had to go around a long way, and they could also go to Huowang Town, but they were all far away, after all, there was such a large swamp lying here, if there were boats to take the Zhanghe River waterway, it would be the fastest, but 150,000 horses, Zhao Wen had no place to raise so many boats.

In fact, Zhang Xian originally wanted to burn down this wooden bridge, one is that it is not easy to burn the bridge in a short time with heavy rain and oil, and Zhang Xian is afraid that burning the wooden bridge will also be equivalent to cutting off his way to reinforcements, and the gains outweigh the losses, and burning the bridge will lose the hearts of the local people, and it will provoke powerful people.

Building a bridge over this swamp, known as Crocodile Lake, is no easy task.

It is said that the initiator of the construction of this bridge is Liu Feng, the sect master of the Lingxian Sect, the first sect master, and a god-like figure.

It is said that many people died when the bridge was built, crocodile lake, indicating that there are many crocodiles here, more than three miles long, if you build a bridge on the river, it is very easy, but in this crocodile-infested swamp to build a bridge, the difficulty can be imagined.

The bridge piers are all Tieli wood, harder than steel, and the bridge deck is also a two-foot diameter of big wood, otherwise the fat crocodile will break up the flowers at once, and it is not easy to build, so whether it is the bandits and robbers in the war period or the later period, no one wants to destroy, so Zhang Xian's idea of burning the wooden bridge of the crocodile lake is also fleeting.

The wooden bridge can not be burned, and it is occupied by Zhao Wen, which will be extremely passive for Zhang Xian, Zhang Xian decided to personally bring people to snatch the wooden bridge, snatching the wooden bridge is equivalent to cutting off Zhao Wen's throat to Donglu City, but if you want to snatch the wooden bridge with 3,000 people, it is definitely not an easy task, even if you grab it, you may not be able to hold it, so Zhang Xian has a plan in his heart; snatching the wooden bridge is just a pretense, the purpose is just to force Zhao Wen to worry about the wooden bridge being captured, and he must send a part of the elite to support first, Zhang Xian's purpose is to design and lure this part of the elite, and then gather people to defend the crocodile lake channel。

Zhang Xian led more than a thousand elites to lurk in the willow forest by the crocodile lake, an eagle hovered in the air for a while and then flew down to the willow forest, and then took off in the air, but there was an extra rabbit between the claws, obviously caught the prey, and excitedly chirped back to the nest to enjoy, the leader of the rebel army guarding the bridge, looking at the falcon in the rain, shook his head and frowned.

"Childe, General Ma's reply. March handed the letter brought by the eagle to Zhang Xian, who was dressed in a cloak and was observing the defenders at the bridgehead.

"Ahh Oh. ”

Zhang Xian took the bamboo tube, opened the seal, took out the roll-up letterhead, unfolded it and looked at it, and smiled at Wang Ziyu and Zhang Ge beside him: "It turns out that Ma Huan has become suspicious, he deliberately delayed it, and got in touch with Su Qing. ”

"The internal guard sent me spy reports that a mysterious person had been in contact with March. Wang Ziyu replied.

"Well, it seems that Su Yu still has a set of espionage agencies in his hands. Zhang Xian thought darkly.

"150,000 people want to pass through this wooden bridge, it is not a short time, it is noon, we will raid the defenders of the wooden bridge in a quarter of an hour, in three stages, one brave, two declining and three exhausted, and hold on to an hour and then withdraw in a state of invulnerability, do you understand?" Zhang Xian pondered for a while and ordered.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhang Xian led more than 1,000 people to brave the rain and roared, and the sudden appearance of the army made the rebel leader who guarded the bridge startled, but he was relieved after seeing the number of people, he was not a big official, and he didn't know what the purpose of this expedition to Donglu City was, and his boss asked him to lead people to guard the wooden bridge, only to fulfill his duties, although he didn't know where the soldiers were on the other side, just looking at the posture knew that it must be hostile.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, there was a rain of blood, the rebels guarding the bridge had already made full preparations, although the field was narrow, the difference in numbers did not show advantages and disadvantages, but after all, it was advantageous to defend and attack, Zhang Xian rushed in front, a group of generals followed him, a collision almost chiseled through the enemy formation, but it was difficult to break through the place less than a foot deep, and the dense rebels built a fortress of flesh and blood, so that Zhang Xian and others who did not attack with all their strength stopped.

Although Zhang Xian and the others were blocked, the offensive that Zhang Xian and the others broke out also made the rebel leader frightened: "Hurry up and report to Lord Zhao to send someone to support, quickly..."

The official system of the vassal states of the mainland of the moon is special, the city lord is civilian, and the military is not only the local officials, but also has 20,000 standing troops, and tens of thousands of military power of the tuntian army, this system originates from the helplessness of the princes of the mainland of the moon and the war, the inconvenience of communication and transportation, and the kings of the vassal states have to delegate power, which also causes a lot of drawbacks.

Zhang Xian saw that the bridgehead and the bridge, lined up with dense enemy formations holding wooden shields and spears, also felt a headache, measuring how high your personal strength is, in the face of such a dense meat shield, it is also quite powerless.

"Attack with all your might, you have to compress them to the bridge. "If you don't put heavy pressure, you won't be able to achieve your goal, Zhang Xian is heavy-handed.

More than half an hour later, the rebels lost nearly half of the people, Zhang Xian's people also lost nearly a third, this is still Zhang Xian with a cadre of guards and generals rushed in front, otherwise the loss will be heavy, but finally drove the rebels to the bridge, this time the rebel commander is really frightened, according to this The wooden bridge will be lost, he sent several groups of people to ask for help, but the reinforcements have not arrived.

"Hold on, give me a ,.........."

He stood on the railing of the bridge, shouting hysterically, brandishing his long knife to drive the soldiers forward.

"Childe, it's almost, I feel that the reinforcements of the rebels are coming. ”

Uncle Tai didn't dare to leave Zhang Xian's side, he remembered the words of the strange elder, even if you die, Huzi can't lose a single hair.

"Well, they've reached the woods, and there are quite a few of them, and cavalry. ”

Zhang Xian groaned slightly, his divine sense probed a few miles west of the bridge, there was a forest less than a mile away from the bridge, more than a thousand cavalry entered the woods, the foot soldiers followed, and glanced sideways at Wang Ziyu, who was covered in blood, exchanged glances with Yan Wenhuan, knew that he was fine, nodded, and gestured to Liu Bai again, and he withdrew and retreated, Yan Wenhuan also kept Wang Ziyu back.

Zhang Xian withdrew, the offensive was stunned, the pressure of the rebels was light, the whole formation slowly advanced forward, Zhang Xian's people seemed to be declining, and the oppressed retreated, so in less than a quarter of an hour, the situation reversed, and the rebels drove Zhang Xian's people to the dirt mountain, at this moment, there was a sudden sound of people shouting horses in the west of the bridge, and the arrival of reinforcements made the rebels feel vigorous, and Zhang Xian's people turned around and ran, but Zhang Xian, who was behind the formation, accidentally found that the crocodiles in the crocodile lake were in a commotion, and many crocodiles went ashore.

"Hmm... ？？？？？？？？？？”

The cavalry walked for a quarter of an hour, and the ghostly weather and muddy mountain roads made them depressed, and the cavalry's advantage was lost, and even the lightly armed foot soldiers behind them were not far behind.

This ghost weather, with the news received before, made Zhao Wen feel extremely bad and annoyed, his brothers were defeated and disappeared, and later learned that he went to Donglu City, but he was almost killed by the poisonous plan of the first warrior Zhang Xian on the road, thanks to his father's old friend Yin Sha Sect Master, he picked up a life by chance, but the 200,000 elite soldiers who were carefully trained in secret were almost lost, and even the nephew, who was known as the little genius of the family, did not escape the catastrophe, he had a sword to end the brother's heart;

A few days ago, he received a letter from his old uncle of the Yin Sha Sect, asking him to implement the rebellion against the Dragon Banner Army, and lead the troops to Donglu City to support his plan to change the sky, he acted on behalf of the old Xu Ruo of the Great Pavilion, and after the matter was completed, the three southern cities were merged into one state, and he was recommended as the state pastor, which was in line with the intention of the king of the Southern Barbarian State, the patriarch of his Zhao family, and the Southern Barbarian State was unable to go north to annex the territory of the Southern Suli State, and it was naturally the best way to expand the family territory in this subtle and gradual devouring way.

But the rebellion against the Dragon Banner Army did not have smooth sailing, galloping to aid Donglu City and encountered this ghost weather, really everything is not going well, this is not the end, originally found out that Donglu City did not have the soldiers and horses to resist him, how to want to be in the crocodile lake wooden bridge but the sky fell a surprise soldier, he stationed in the wooden bridge of the Chifeng battalion several times urgently asked for help, and made his heart beat, if the wooden bridge is lost, he and the suzerain's agreed time, is no matter what, can not reach Donglu City, that is really a mistake, in fact, Zhao Wen ignored the thing that should not be ignored, that is, the number of enemy troops, this is not all to blame Zhao Wen, it is that Chen Feng deliberately exaggerated the number of enemy troops in order to get more reinforcements, and as a result, it disturbed Zhao Wen's thinking。

Zhao Wen urgently arranged for his henchmen Zhao Kui and Yu Yang to take the only more than 1,000 cavalry of the original Dragon Banner Army and 20,000 standing troops of Shitang City, plus 10,000 elites of the Dragon Banner Army who rebelled, to rush to the aid of Muqiao.

"Chen Feng, you bastard, don't let your people get out of the way. On the wooden bridge, Zhao Kui's cavalry finally got rid of the dilemma of the horse trapping in the quagmire, but the front was blocked by the people of the Chifeng battalion, and he couldn't help but scold Captain Chen angrily, Zhao Kui is a general, and he is Zhao Wen's henchman, Chen Feng is only the captain of one of the five departments under him, not to mention scolding him, it is not an exaggeration to cut him with a knife.

"Get out of the way, get the out of the way..."

There was no need for Chen Feng to shout again, the sound of horses' hooves behind him made these Chifeng battalion soldiers so frightened that they rushed to both sides, and the southern army naturally had a sense of fear of cavalry.

When Zhao Kui led people to rush up the mountain, Zhang Xian and his people had already run away, looked back at the corpses of the southern army on the bridge, and Zhao Kui and his subordinates were dazzled with anger, and with a roar of urging the horse, they chased after the enemy army who were small in number and fled in a panic.

Yu Yang, who followed later, saw Zhao Kui chasing after him, he had always been cautious and stomped his feet angrily, his 30,000 foot soldiers took a long time to cross the narrow wooden bridge, and the order they got was to hold the wooden bridge, no need to be in danger, that is, to pursue the enemy, and to wait for all his people to cross the bridge and set up camp on the east bank, and take action after doing a good job of defense and finding out the enemy's situation.

"Crocodile!, Chen Feng, lead people to drive those ugly things away. ”

Yu Yang found that Chen Feng's people were trembling and didn't dare to clean up the corpses, and looked at those soldiers, and found that many crocodiles were grabbing the corpses, which made him stunned, so he said coldly to Chen Feng.

............

Zhang Xian led people to fish in an unhurried but chaotic formation, but after running for a while, he looked back and saw that only more than a thousand cavalry were following behind.

"The big fish didn't take the bait. Wang Ziyu said disappointedly.

"Hehe... The small fish is not bad, inform Lin Jun and Wei Dong not to move, we will lead this small fish to the big meadow in front, trap them, and besiege the city for reinforcements. Zhang Xian chuckled.

There are many rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, the mountains are not high and the forests are sparse, the Lishan Mountain in the northwest of Donglu City is the highest, and the rest are considered small hills, but in the undulating hills, there are many mud ponds, after years of war, it can be said that the land is vast and sparsely populated.

Like the crocodile lake around the vast and fertile land but no one has reclaimed, the quagmire is full of a dun dun of grass, but don't look at the green grass, if you don't understand the terrain, mistakenly into it, it is a natural trap that eats people and does not spit out bones, that is to say, this is a small swamp covered with green grass, Zhang Xian dares to go inside, it is prepared, a dozen people a small bamboo raft, in the rainy weather, far away from it can not be seen that they are sitting on a bamboo raft into the meadow.

Zhao Kui led people to chase here, seeing that the enemy army got into the barley more than one person high, how could they let them escape, and urged the horses to chase in, this was miserable, although because of the rain the road was muddy and the horse speed was not fast, but it was also faster than people to run, and when they found out that the abnormality was not collected, about half of the more than 1,000 horses strayed into the mud.

The clever ones who entered later could abandon their horses, and they called for their companions to help pull them out, while Zhao Kui, who took the lead, was not so lucky, and they fell into the quagmire between people and horses for a few breaths.

The remaining 500 or so lucky men sat on their horses in a daze, and when they came back to their senses, they found that they were surrounded, and one of the captains was very clever, turned his horse's head and rushed out before the enemy could complete the encirclement.

Zhang Xian asked people to form a spear formation, and did not attack these panicked cavalry, nor persuaded them to surrender, the two armies were so deadlocked, in this small area, and in the field where half of the horse's legs could be trapped, the cavalry completely lost its advantage, and there was no possibility of breaking through.

After explaining a few words to Zhang Ge and Liu Bai, Zhang Xian, Wang Ziyu and others left.