The eldest brother immediately stood up and bowed to the eldest brother and said, "Please rest assured, the eldest brother will definitely complete the task." ”

The younger brother also stood up and said, "Big brother, I also want to go with the second brother." ”

"Your sister's safety is equally important, you have to personally send your sister to Liangzhou City, and stay in Liangzhou for a few days, and then come back slowly when the war is over."

"Big Brother ......"

"You shut up for me, it's none of your business to attack Changsong County this time, you can send your sister down the mountain tomorrow with peace of mind."

In fact, several people knew very well in their hearts, and the eldest brother had already felt that the situation was different from the past, he wanted to send the younger brother to a safe place as soon as possible, but no one said anything.

When the younger brother sat down dejectedly, the eldest brother said to the woman again, "Alas, I have just said that the team has developed to this extent, and it can only continue to be maintained hard, you may not know, the daily use of these nearly two thousand people is unimaginable to ordinary people, and I know very well the thoughts of the two younger brothers, nothing more than to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." If we can take Changsong County, we can take supplies and travel to Lenglongling in time to avoid the edge of the officers and soldiers, and we will be able to hold out until next autumn, and when the officers and soldiers will have to take care of the Khitans, we will also be able to breathe a sigh of relief in the cracks and discuss the next things. ”

It was a deep, quiet valley, with two peaks to the west and east arching like giants over a majestic mountain in the middle, and the cliffs below the mountain rose from the ground, and from a distance, the steep rock walls stood like a canopy in the deep night.

It was the night of the last day of October, a team of nearly 2,000 people was quietly lurking in the canyon, since it was dark, Geng Dawei and the lieutenant of the sub-battalion had been standing under the rock wall for nearly half an hour, looking from the bottom of the cliff, they could not see the whole picture of the rock wall, they could only see the rock above which was as black as the fangs of monsters, and it was really difficult to climb up with their bare hands.

But Geng Dawei knew that his own way was the most critical point of the encirclement and suppression of Qiu Mazi's team, and before leaving, Fanzi quietly recalled his instructions to himself, "Listening to the memories of the soldiers who attacked Hongchiling a few years ago, Qiu Mazi's base camp is in the west of the main peak of Hongchiling, surrounded by peaks, and Qiu Mazi has set up outposts on each of the surrounding peaks. The only place where there is no outpost is a mountain ridge to the south, because there are thousands of cliffs below it. ”

"As long as our army manages to climb this cliff and give Qiu Mazi a blow by surprise, it will be difficult for the bandits to escape calmly, and it is possible to leave all Qiu Mazi's main forces behind under the encirclement of brother troops......"

"Brigade commander, a few brothers only climbed up three or two zhang, and then fell down, mainly because the seven or eight zhang from the ground is too dangerous, almost straight up, because there is no place to borrow, the iron claws, iron hooks, and chisel nails that the brothers brought with them are not strong, and one brother accidentally broke his arm." Said the lieutenant in charge of directing the cliff climbing.

Geng Dawei was about to soothe them and let them continue to try, but he saw a few people running over from a distance, but the one in front of him went out with the guards to find the captain of the ugly camp of the nearby villagers, and bowed to Geng Dawei closely, "Brigade commander, there is a way." ”

"Oh, have you found a nearby villager who can climb this cliff?"

"Brigade commander, the villagers haven't found it, there is only a small village in this valley, it looks like it has been abandoned for many years, and there is not even a ghost shadow in it, but there is a deputy post in the camp and several soldiers in its post happen to be the Xin family on the other side of the river, they used to come here when they were children, and they said that there may be a way to get up to this cliff."

A small sergeant next to him immediately stepped forward and saluted, "Xin Gatai, the deputy outpost of the three outposts of the ugly battalion, has seen the brigade commander. ”

Geng Dawei returned the salute and immediately asked, "Do you have a way to climb this cliff?" ”

"Brigade commander, I have come here with a few of them to catch jackals before I became a soldier, and I know that there is a place where you can go up more than ten zhang from under the cliff, and then the slope is not as steep as here, maybe the brothers can go up with tools." As he spoke, he glanced at the soldiers behind him.

"Great, if you can find a way to lead the troops up to the top of this cliff, and I will report to you alone when you turn around, where do you go up exactly?"

"It's not far ahead." Xin Gatai looked around for a moment and then pointed with his hand to the cliff to the east.

"Alright, let's go with Captain Xin." Geng Dawei said to the two lieutenants and lieutenants beside him.

A few people followed Xin Gatai all the way to the east, and stopped at a cliff without going far, and waited for Xin Gatai and a few people to carefully confirm it before turning back to Geng Dawei and the others and saying, "Brigade commander, this is it." ”

Several people immediately looked forward, only to see that the cliff was as steep as other places, and they couldn't see anything special at all. ”

Only then did everyone see a dark cave at the bottom of the cliff, because there was no moon tonight, the light was already very dim, and if you didn't look carefully, you really couldn't notice that there was a cave here.

The captain of the ugly camp took a closer look, and saw that the cave was not big, so he could barely allow one to get in, and turned back to Xin Gatai and said, "Gatai, can this dog cave be successful?" ”

"It can definitely be done, get into it from here, you can go up to more than ten zhang above, and my lord, this is not a dog hole, this is a hole made by a jackal!"

"Isn't the hole made by the jackal a dog a dog hole?"

"Oh, yes...... It's a mistake at the job, and it's also a dog hole. ”

"You two don't get into trouble, Sentry Commander Xin hurry up and prepare, and light a candle at the front of the other one to prevent the beast from secretly breaking out and hurting people, I don't think the faint light at the bottom of this cliff will not be noticed from other places."

"Obey the order, please rest assured, a few of us may not be good at fighting, but there is a way to catch this jackal from a young age." As he spoke, several people pulled out their waist knives together, lit candles and got in.

After a while, after a few wails of wild beasts, someone whispered down on the cliff wall more than ten feet above, "Brigade commander, we have gone up." With the sound, several ropes had already hung down from above.

After that, things went smoothly, with Xin Gatai and others as the guide, the sergeants used iron claws, iron hooks and other things to slowly climb up from the cliff, and finally reached the top of the cliff smoothly, and transported the soldiers up through the fixed ropes, and when Geng Dawei and the others finally went up, the eastern horizon had slightly exposed the white belly of the fish.

What catches your eye is almost a world of ice and snow, look around, as far as the eye can see, all are covered with snow, Lei Gong Mountain and Niutou Mountain in the north stand tall, and the main peak of Hongchi Ridge in the east is far away, the surrounding is a group of peaks, the extreme eye to the west, Leng Long Ridge towering straight into the sky.

A few miles to the northeast from the ridge where they stood, hundreds of houses had been built in a valley surrounded by peaks, and the early rising bandits were already shuttling to and fro like ants.

The soldiers of the two battalions had already bent down in a low place above the mountain, and were hurrying to eat and rest, and many of them were taking a mouthful of dry food and a mouthful of snow water.

Geng Dawei knew that the task given to him by Liu Fan could be said to have been basically completed so far, and then, he just chose his own action plan according to the specific actions of the bandits, and if the main force of the bandits left before the time of Hai this afternoon, he only had to wait until the fire broke out in Changsong County, and he immediately led the two battalions of soldiers to surround the bandit base camp in front and annihilate the remaining enemy, and the soldiers of the other two brigades also took immediate action after seeing the firelight, pulling out the inn set up by the bandits at the foot of the mountain and the various outposts on the mountain. Narrow the encirclement and completely annihilate the remaining bandits in Hongchiling.

If the bandits have not moved until the beginning of the Yin Dynasty tomorrow, he will immediately dispatch two battalions of soldiers to attack Qiu Mazi's team, and the soldiers of the other two brigades will also act together around the beginning of the night if they do not hear the drums of their own attack before the middle of the night, pull out the inn at the foot of the mountain and the outpost on the mountain, narrow the encirclement, and cooperate with themselves to completely annihilate the main force of the bandits in Hongchiling.