The southwest of Shizhou Health Station is a mountainous area with lush forests and rugged terrain. Climb over two mountain ranges here, and you can reach a small plain dam at the northern foot of Qiyao Mountain.

These two ridges are not high, and they stretch diagonally from southwest to northeast, almost parallel. There is a narrow strip of water, not wide, but fortunately the terrain is gentle, and there is a small river slightly to the east, flowing in the same direction as the two mountains.

The position of the Zhao camp was arranged here.

Facing the mountains in the north, from the southwest to the north along the foothills, Hou Dagui's 500 people in front of the camp bore the brunt of the camp and stationed in Yunwu Mountain. Later, Wu Mingfeng's right division of the middle camp was divided into two branches, one with 300 people and the other with 200 people.

In the mountains to the south, Hao Shaoqi, the right division of the front battalion, and Bai Jiaolong, the left division of the middle battalion, each led five hundred, stationed in the two places of Hanpo Pass and Jiujiaozi, which were closely connected, and their positions were slightly outward compared to Hou Dagui.

Then four miles to the north, the slope of the mountain ridge in the south gradually decreased, came to the flat land, the front camp and the rear division Liu Weiming division was divided into two, 300 people in Yangliuchi, 200 people in Suma. Not far from Yangliuchi, Xu Hui, the former secretary of the former camp, had 500 people to defend against crows, and Liu Weiming's 300 people were horns and guarded the crossing. Among them, there is a hill between Yangliuchi and Sumaban, the hill is also northeastward, and there is a small river meandering out at the end of its north, and the small river comes to one place, which is the mouth of the small river.

Xiaohekou has 500 people from the former camp Zuo Si Guo Hutou, and there are 500 people from the middle camp Hou Si Wang Laixing in the vicinity of Shanmu Cave, and the distance between these two places and Yangliuchi and Yaqiu Ping is four or five miles. A few miles to the northeast, we arrived at Liangshuijing, where Zhao Dangshi's command post was located, and Yang Chengfu, the commander of the Horse Army Division of the Central Battalion, led 200 horse troops to guard Zhou Wenhe at night.

Qin Jinxiao's loyal soldiers were not here, in fact, an hour ago, he led 1,500 people south to resist Rong Mei's soldiers. He does not belong to the Zhao camp yet, Zhao Dangshi is not easy to command, coupled with the ability to trust him, let the loyal soldiers take on the task of dealing with Rong Meibing alone, Zhao Dangshi is still relieved.

In the temporary small shed of Liangshuijing, Zhao Dangshi and Qin Qigong were sitting in danger, and Yang Chengfu and Zhou Wenhe were running back and forth outside the house, commanding the soldiers to arrange everywhere. The bloody battle is coming, no one can calm down, Qin Qigong peeked at Zhao Dangshi, and also found that his hand holding the handle of the knife was so tight that even the green tendons were clearly visible.

Today is a sunny day, this kind of day, make an appointment with three or five friends, visit the ancients, and chant poetry is the best, but unfortunately, everything has to make way for the choice of life and death. Only when he is in the whirlpool can Qin Qigong realize how tenacious and tenacious Zhao Dangshi is.

Several cannon sounds rumbled from the clouds, Zhao Dangshi's eyes flashed, and he jumped up, and in an instant, a Tang soldier rushed into the house and knelt on one knee, and said loudly: "The enemy soldiers have arrived, and the mountain pass has begun!" ”

Zhao Dangshi bowed slightly, raised his hand to ask him to step back, and a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth. Then he turned around and sat back down, but his expression was much more relaxed.

Qin Qigong said: "All the envoys, the strong enemy is coming, why don't you tighten up and loosen?" ”

I only heard Zhao say slowly: "If the enemy doesn't come, I will be shocked and hesitated; Now that the enemy has entered the army, our personnel have been exhausted, and whether we win or not is not ours, but the soldiers on the front line, if they are repeatedly afraid, they are only afraid of themselves. ”

Qin Qigong was surprised, stared at Zhao Dangshi, and was speechless.

The stone soldiers scouted everywhere, and Qin Liangyu inquired about the deployment of the Zhao camp very early. I heard that the opponent's main formation is in the rear, and the two wings occupy the north and south mountains, and every move seems to be the same.

"This thief is a bit tricky." Ye Heng raised his head and looked at the banner of Zhao Ying waving in the wind on the opposite hill, "He clearly wants to clamp down on our army with a flanking attack." ”

Qin Liangyu didn't answer, the other party's strategic intentions were obvious, but she wouldn't be self-defeating because of this, she knew that if she retreated, Zhao Ying would probably go away. Shi Yan was favored by the emperor, and the foundation of her life as a person was to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, so she was unwilling to sit back and watch Zhao Ying flee and continue to cause trouble in other places.

As soon as the cannon rang out, the ambush army was exhausted, and the enemy army lost its armor and suffered a great defeat. Words like this kind of romance are really harmful. In the early years, the Liukou was still in its embryonic form, and most of them had never fought a war, and at most they had heard of the Three Kingdoms, Shuo Yue, Yang Jiajiang and other commentaries, and many of them thought that what they said in the book was true, but after practice, they gradually understood that this kind of war was really as far away as a myth. At the beginning of Jinlingchuan, the reason why Zhao Dangshi and others collapsed was also due to the superstitious romance and advocating the establishment of an army ambush. The thousand households thought that if they suddenly killed, the officers and soldiers would obediently beg to surrender, but they didn't know that the officials and troops were not in chaos, and his troops were in chaos first, and those officers and soldiers took out some troops to block the melee, and then most of them calmly changed the battle sequence, and then easily turned defeat into victory with well-trained and sophisticated equipment.

To put it more broadly, among the rogues now, those who can have some weather and become bigger and stronger are all originally from the border officials and soldiers. In the early days, north of Yansui, there were many rogues who were born as deserters, such as Gao Yingxiang, who was the border cavalry and Wang Jiayin at the beginning, who were originally border soldiers; In the south of Yansui, most of the Liukou elements are mainly farmers and handicraftsmen, such as Wang Daliang and Wang Zuogui, all of whom came from the hungry people.

Zhao was lucky in the world, he died for the rest of his life, and some things were most deeply touched after experiencing them personally. One of the truths he summed up from the continuous conquest is that in all battles, strength is the supreme thing, and strange schemes can be encountered after all. Therefore, his battle against Shi Yan soldiers today is to meet the real chapter in an upright and upright manner, that is, to compare the quality of the sergeants and the deployment of the battle.

With his past experience, Qin Liangyu understood that he couldn't spend too much energy on the defenders of the northern and southern mountains. There are 3,500 of his own people, and if he drags a few hundred people, it will be too much to lose.

Under her command, the stone soldiers recognized the flags in all directions, each of them waved, and the teams, the sentinel commanders, and the Tang soldiers rushed forward and backward, and all kinds of whistles, trumpets, and gongs came and went.

Hou Dagui stood on the top of the mountain, looked down, and his soldiers pointed to the chaotic stone soldiers and said: "Mr. Qian, they are in chaos, why don't you go down the mountain to fight?" ”

"No." Hou Dagui stood with his right palm and locked his eyebrows, "The stone soldiers seem to be messy, but they are actually orderly. You see the hundreds of pikemen on his side, facing outward, and a row of guns and crossbows in the back, clearly to prevent us from fishing in troubled waters. There are few people in us, and it is especially good to harass them, so we should not take action lightly until the other ministries have moved. ”

Qin Liangyu divided the 3,500 people into three parts, the front, middle and back, and Hu Mingcheng led the order to lead the forward 1,000 people first, he only walked a few steps, and was immediately blocked by the two divisions of Hao Shaoqi and Bai Jiaolong in the south. Hu Mingcheng's flank was threatened and could not advance smoothly, and then Qin Liangyu personally led 1,500 people to reinforce from behind, detoured from the south, and forced Hao Shaoqi and Bai Jiaolong back a little. Hu Mingcheng then took advantage of the cover and broke away.

Judging from the reports of the scouts, the narrow section between the two mountains is not long, more than ten miles, Qin Liangyu is not too worried about the loss of contact with several parts because of the chaotic battle, so he deliberately left a thousand people in the rear, led by the capital Qin Seal, and made a special trip to resist Hou Dagui in the north and Hao Shaoqi and Baijiaolong in the south.

Hu Mingcheng advanced rapidly, advancing for several miles in a row, and was obstructed by Liu Weiming's 300 men at Yangliuchi, he did not panic, and stabilized the middle line with 500 men, the right flank was firmly defended, and the 300 men on the left flank outflanked the left rear.

Liu Weiming saw Hu Mingcheng's movements, and he was anxious to wave the flag, the flag of the Chinese army swayed, and seven or eight Zhangyu recognized the flag followed by the vigorous shaking, and soon, Xu Hui nearby led the troops to arrive. His unit is one of the backbones of the Zhao battalion, and his firearms are extremely elite. Yesterday at the Daejeon Thousand Households, most of the gunpowder was consumed, and now the rest is basically distributed to Xu Hui and Guo Hutou.

At that moment, Hu Mingcheng's soldiers and horses, who wanted to be side-wrapped, suddenly felt deaf in their ears, and then the earth shook and the mountains shook, and the sky and the earth seemed to be dark. The first three Franc planes in front of Xu Hui's department roared, white smoke rose from the muzzle of the cannon, and the flanks of the three hundred stone soldiers eroded in an instant.

The prototype of the Franc machine was a Portuguese-made eagle gun, which was used as a naval gun. The caliber is small, the gun body is light, and it belongs to the small gun type. Speaking of small, there are also about 300 catties, and it is not very convenient to be forcibly moved by people. At the beginning, Zhao Dangshi got these Franc machines from Gao Jie, but they were just themselves, and it was quite difficult to carry. Later, when he entered the Sichuan Dynasty, Xu Hui gathered some carpenters according to what he had seen in the Ming army before, made the corresponding gun carriage, and placed the Franc machine on it, which made it much easier to move, and even sometimes hauled by horses, with the prototype of a horse-drawn cannon.

The maximum firing range of this kind of cannon is about half a mile horizontally, nearly one mile from the back, and the effective firing range is within one or two hundred meters. It is a rear-loading gun, the mother gun is separated from the sub-gun, after the gunpowder and the shell are loaded, the sub-gun is loaded into the gun chamber, and finally the iron brick with a chain is inserted into the tail of the gun to fix. The replacement of the pre-installed guns effectively avoids the explosion of the bore, and at the same time shortens the time for cooling the barrel and clearing the breech, and accelerates the speed of reloading, and the skilled gunner can fire three times a minute, which is several times faster than the medium and large artillery such as the general cannon and the redcoat cannon.

Although the Franc machine could not fire high-powered shells such as flowering shells due to the thin walls and guns, even with iron bullets and lead, its effectiveness at close ranges was amazing.

Shi Yan's soldiers mainly have cold weapons, there are not many guns, and Hu Mingcheng's troops have nothing. The three-door Franc machine was placed within 100 meters by Xu Hui, roaring two rounds, the original 300 stone soldiers were already in a mess, more than 10 people were killed on the spot, and the rest were injured.

Xu Hui took the lead by surprise, and made persistent efforts, instructing part of the troops to move to the flank and back, intending to surround Hu Mingcheng's troops. After all, Hu Mingcheng was a veteran on the battlefield, and he was still calm, first recalled the soldiers and horses on the left flank, shrank to the center, and at the same time drew troops to replenish and organize crossbowmen to counterattack.

Xu Hui came prepared, two hundred gunners rushed to release the guns, the distance between the two was only fifty meters, when the first twenty or so stone soldiers heard the sound and fell, the crossbowmen in the back row hurriedly released the crossbow arrows. The crossbow arrow burst out of the air, and the Qi brush penetrated into Xu Hui's department, and more than ten people were killed on the spot.

After the crossbow arrows were released, Hu Mingcheng wanted to fight in close combat and give full play to his own advantages, and dozens of white-pole soldiers rushed up with guns, but Xu Hui had already prepared, he had fought with Hu Mingcheng many times, and he also had some understanding of his methods, after the two hundred guns, there were nearly 100 guns waiting for him, and at this moment, seeing that the other party really repeated his old tricks, the 100 guns drilled out of the gaps in the front row of palladium and spearmen, and fired a volley.

This time, the stone soldiers were defenseless, they rushed again, their feet were less than 30 meters away, and the sound of the bell was crisp in an instant, and the wind was blowing in front of the stone soldiers who were still rushing to blow the wheat, and dozens of corpses were ambushed.

"Your ancestors!" Hu Mingcheng was deflated and jumped to his feet in anger. The top of the Shi Yan soldiers are all the best warriors in the army, and they are particularly fierce in every battle, and his original intention was to use this as a spearhead, first rushing Xu Hui to gain an unstable foothold and regain the initiative, but it backfired, but he folded these many elites in vain.

But fortunately, there are still more than ten white pole soldiers who have grabbed the front of Xu Hui's department, and they have fought together with the guns and shields who have been blocked, and the opportunity cannot be lost, Hu Mingcheng endured his anger, and successively increased his troops in the past, relying on strong combat effectiveness, the left side was re-stabilized.

The soldiers of the Zhao battalion also fought desperately, and after fighting for a long time, the two sides were inseparable. Hu Mingcheng has experience, he knows the battle situation at a glance, and he knows that Zhao Ying may not be his opponent if he goes on, but he is the vanguard and is not determined to fight, but at the moment all the troops are entangled by Zhao Ying, and it is not realistic to break through from Yangliuchi and Yaqiuping in a short period of time.

Qin Liangyu soon received Hu Mingcheng's request for help, she was still thinking about herself, and Ye Heng next to her took the initiative to ask for help: "Uncle Shi, in the scout report, there is a path on the right side of Yangliuchi, which can go around the mountain, and the disciple is willing to take the temple soldiers around his belly and back." "There is a hill on the right side of Yangliu Pond, and from there, you can go around and go behind Xu Hui and Liu Weiming.

Previously, because of indecisiveness, he had lost some good fighters, Qin Liangyu had no doubts at this time, and said to Ye Heng: "Then there is a nephew." You lead someone to explore the road first, and if anything goes wrong, return to the army immediately. "The combat effectiveness of the monk soldiers is not below that of the white pole soldiers, and she believes that Ye Heng can deal with emergencies.

Ye Heng received the order and left immediately, and the five hundred monks and soldiers broke away from Qin Liangyu's department under his command and rushed to Yangliuchi.

Hu Mingcheng fought hard for a long time, and when he saw him coming, he was overjoyed: "The host comes to help, and the thief will be broken!" ”

Ye Heng explained to him the intention: "The mountain road here is narrow, and the oil on the front is not very effective. I have communicated with my uncle, around the right side of the hill, behind the thieves, and flanked with the capital in front and back. ”

Hu Mingcheng is also quite knowledgeable about military affairs, considering Si Xu, he nodded and said: "Then preside over yourself carefully, if there is something wrong, you can retreat here, and the soldiers and horses on my right side will support you at all times." ”

The war was urgent, and the two had no time to talk more, Ye Heng raised his arms and shouted, and the five hundred monks echoed in unison, and the momentum was extraordinary.