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At this time, Song Jingang immediately got up and said, "Your Majesty, it is precisely because of the need to climb mountains and mountains here, the road is steep and the terrain is rugged. Bi·Qi Medium·· Net·· That's why the Tang army couldn't imagine that our army would be able to pass from there. Song had also climbed Lingxiao Mountain once before, and he knew that it was not difficult for people with martial arts to cross that mountain. As long as my army is broken into pieces, with more rope soft ladders, climb cliffs, and build pontoon bridges when encountering ravines, I must always be able to pass and reach the giant deer smoothly! ”

Looking at Song Jingang's confident and eager look, Yuming couldn't help but waver.

After thinking for a while, he finally nodded and agreed to the plan proposed by Xu Shiji.

So, he asked Song Jingang to select 5,000 elite soldiers from 40,000 soldiers to circumnavigate from the northwest. However, he personally led the main army and attacked the main force of the Tang Army led by Li Jiancheng from the front.

Julu County, south of Hejian County, is a hilly area, the terrain is somewhat rugged, and only a small stream flows slowly through Julu County.

It is a strategic place to hold from Handan County to Hejian County. After Yu Ming arrived here with his army, he ordered the army to camp along the creek and divide it into left, center, and right formations.

At the same time, he also ordered the construction of a dozen temporary pontoon bridges over the creek for the passage of cavalry.

After all the troops had passed, he ordered the pontoon bridge to be dismantled, and the creek was used as a natural barrier to camp along the stream for defense.

After nightfall, Yuming sent dozens of small units of the Zhou army to harass the Tang army's military camp.

He did not force victory, but ordered his harassed troops to behead the enemy's living forces and set fire to their tents if they found that they were negligent in their defenses. And as soon as the main forces of the Tang Army were alarmed and the situation became unfavorable, they immediately retreated to the camp.

If the Tang army chased after them, the Zhou army repelled them with a flurry of arrows.

And during the day, when Li Jiancheng led the main force of the Tang Army to challenge and fight to the death with the Zhou army, Yuming refused to fight, no matter how he shouted and scolded.

Anyway, the Zhou army had already dug the ditch overnight and set up a fence, as long as the camp was held, it would be difficult for the Tang army to break through.

Seeing this, Li Jiancheng was so angry that he was like thunder, and he still wanted to fight a quick battle, and after solving Yuming's army, he would attack Wei Chi Jingde's left army. But in this way, he is completely consumed here, not only can he not annihilate Yuming, but there will be danger in the rear.

So, after finally not being able to bear it anymore, Li Jiancheng led 20,000 horses to carry out a tentative attack. It's just that when the soldiers of the Tang Army spread all over the mountains and roared like a surging tide, they were greeted by boulders the size of watermelons.

In the ejection sound of "Peng, Peng, Peng", the soldiers of the Tang Army were smashed by these boulders and their brains burst out, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere.

However, after all, they are also elite soldiers, and they have a tenacious will to fight. Although they fell in batches, they came up in batches, and the screams and cries in the battlefield continued. After paying heavy casualties, the Tang army's troops finally approached the gate of the Zhou army's camp.

At this time, Yu Ming looked at the Tang soldiers who were swarming towards the camp gate, waved his hand down violently, and shouted, "Release the arrow!" ”

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! Sou! ”

I only heard the sound of a bowstring, and rows of sharp arrows flew towards the Tang army like raindrops.

Now that the Zhou army has all been issued with new longbows, the shooting speed has increased by more than twice as much as in the past, and they are divided into platoons and carry out uninterrupted continuous fire, so that the Tang army has fallen in rows like cutting wheat.

Soldiers and horses fell in rows and poured up in rows, and those Tang soldiers who were lucky enough to rush through the rain of arrows and try to rush to the fence of the Zhou army camp were desperate to find that there was still a row of barbed wire in front of them.

They slammed into the barbed wire, and the momentum of the attack slowed down instantly.

It's just that the soldiers in front stopped, but the soldiers in the back did not stop, and they kept crashing into the soldiers in front, and everyone was huddled.

At this time, the corners of Yu Ming's mouth showed a sly smile, and he shouted to a row of soldiers at the back of the camp: "On the infantry behind!" Throw firebombs! ”

At this time, I saw a large group of infantry running up from the rear of the camp with clay pots in their hands. They were holding black, round crockpots with a lead sticking out of them.

They quickly followed Yuming's instructions, lit the lead, and then threw it violently into the crowd of Tang troops outside the barbed wire.

I only heard the sound of the crockpot shattering "whew, swoop, swoop", and on the other section of the barbed wire, a cloud of fire and smoke immediately rose up, and the ground was full of Tang soldiers on fire, their screams, cries, and shouts were endless, and they looked miserable.

But Yu Ming had no pity in his heart, he knew that being soft on the enemy was cruel to his own people.

At the same time as the infantry of the Zhou army threw fire bullets, the archers in front also changed to new quivers and began a new round of salvo......

In the dense rain of arrows, the Tang soldiers fell in rows. Although they also had bows and arrows to fight back, they used the standard longbows and short bows of the former Sui army. Whether it is in terms of range, rate of fire, or arrow penetration, it is far inferior to the Zhou archers in front of him.

Although some of the Zhou army were also hit by bows and arrows fired by the enemy, the casualty rate was far less than that of the Tang army.

Moreover, the Zhou army can be said to have done the best job of all armies in terms of medical treatment of wounded soldiers. After the soldier was wounded, he was quickly carried down by the female medical staff and then received medical treatment.

The reserve archers in the back immediately stepped forward to fill his vacancy. The queue of archers lined up in a continuous firing phalanx is still a neat lineup.

Although the Tang Army is also an elite unit, several attacks have been fruitless, and its morale has also plummeted.

Li Jiancheng saw that the Zhou army's defense was too tight and the strong attack was ineffective, so he had to temporarily retreat, and he camped by another stream more than ten miles away from the Zhou army. Prepare to attack tomorrow.

After the two armies confronted each other for five or six days, Li Jiancheng was a little shocked when he saw that the Zhou army obviously had the spare strength to attack him, but it was still unable to hold out.

At this time, the strange soldiers led by Song Jingang were advancing towards the rear of Li Jiancheng's camp.

The 5,000 elite soldiers he selected were almost all soldiers who had lived in the mountains before. They were either hunters in the mountains or woodcutters who often went into the mountains to cut wood. They are all strong and strong, agile, and they are like walking on flat ground over mountains and mountains.

After this group of people entered Lingxiao Mountain, they followed the small mountain and moved forward rapidly.

However, the further you go, the more rugged the mountain becomes. They had only walked forward for four days, and the winding little ones that had been stepped out of the hunters had come to an end, and there was nothing left in front of them.

Song Jingang led his soldiers to start climbing mountains and mountains, climbing cliffs and cliffs. As soon as he overcame the thorns and thorns, he felt the path that he could barely pass and continued to move forward.

After another day's walk, Zhou's army entered a gloomy mountain swamp. The soldiers of the Zhou army marched cautiously, and under their feet were slippery grass and moss that could easily fall when they stepped on it.

Poisonous snakes with red tongues can be seen everywhere, swimming in the swamps and mountain pools, and from time to time facing the soldiers of the Zhou army, raising their horned heads and posing as if they would bite at any time. Grey owls and some unnamed birds will also suddenly fly up from the forest, and some bright and dazzling reptiles will walk in the swamp, and they will not know whether they are poisonous or not, which makes people feel creepy.

The soldiers of the Zhou army waved the machetes in their hands, cut off the branches and vines and thorns that hindered their progress, and were always vigilant for the attack of poisonous snakes and beasts in the swamp, and then bent their waists and tried to advance.

Many of them had blood marks on their faces and arms from thorns, but they were gritting their teeth and enduring it.

About two days later, they. Finally out of this dark swamp.

The soldiers of the Zhou army also let out a long breath. Then Song Jingang continued to advance with five thousand warriors.

The next road was relatively flat, but after walking for less than half a day, they were stopped by a mountain wall that was not marked on the map.

This is a steep mountain wall at 90 right angles, and the white rocks are as smooth as jade.

And the mountain ridge where this mountain wall is located is also smooth, there is no grass, there are no trees, no birds, beasts and mountain springs, and naturally no one comes.

Therefore, there is naturally no going up and down the mountain here, and even if someone wants to pass through the mountain, they are all far away.

It's just that Song Jingang's time is very tight. In order to rush to the convergence with the main forces, attack the camp of the Don army from behind. In the absence of these conditions, they created the conditions to pass through this mountain as well.

So, after Song Jingang's order, the soldiers of the Zhou army made small holes in the mountain wall, and then inserted iron rods. Relying on ropes and soft ladders, I finally stepped on the iron rod and climbed the mountain wall

However, when they had reached the top of the mountain and were about to descend from the other side, they were stunned, and in front of them was a real cliff.

It is like a knife and axe, and the walls stand thousands of feet, towering into the sky. From the top of the mountain, it seems to be bottomless.

Song Jingang frowned, and together with a few lieutenant generals, he took a few scouts separately and looked around, looking for where to go down the mountain.

But what they didn't expect was that there was no way down the mountain safely.

After looking for a long time, I found that there was only one hillside in the east, the slope was relatively gentle, but the mountain wall here was still smooth as jade, and as soon as I stepped on it, I would slip and fall down after a few more steps, and I would fall on my back to the sky. And a fall can be terrible, the light one has a broken leg and a broken waist, and the heavy one even dies.

However, the army has already come here, and it is impossible to go back and find it again. And it's too late, they have no other choice!

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