Zhao Yuanzuo listened to Liu Min's words of "nine people are divided into three ways", stared at her suspiciously and asked, "Why is the little sister so arranged?" The Tartars are divided into 4 ways, why are we only divided into 3 ways! ”

Liu Min glanced at Zhao Yuanzuo and snorted coldly: "Brother Chong, don't you think it's ridiculous to ask this question?" Tartar 260 people are divided into four roads, and nine of us are divided into four roads, and 2.25 people each way! ”

Zhao Yuanzuo saw that Liu Min had counted the accounts, and he also said 2.25 people, and said with a dumb smile: "Isn't the little sister a little domineering, why can't the nine be divided into 4 groups?" ”

Zhao Yuanzuo said and glanced at Grandpa Huo's seven people a few times and said, "Little sister, listen to me and give you points!" Chen Yiyun and Tu Youmei are the first way, Grandpa Huo, Lai Zhenyue are the first way, Zhao Yuanzuo and Liu Min are the first way, Jiang Mengjun, Guo Yuquan, and Wang Renqing are the first way, isn't it exactly the fourth way? ”

Liu Min couldn't help laughing loudly when she saw Zhao Yuanzuo say this, but she instantly calmed down and said impassionedly: "Brother Chong is worthy of being a royal disciple, you are really a four-way person like this!" ”

Zheng Da saw that Zhao Yuanzuo and Liu Minjiu were divided into four ways and did not count him, so he muttered on the side: "Miss Minzi looks down on the old slave, doesn't she?" The nine of you are divided into four roads, which old slave is counted as which! ”

When Zheng Da asked this, Liu Min remembered that there was another Zheng Da who was not counted; Then he frowned and stared at him and said, "I'm sorry Uncle Zheng, Uncle Zheng is familiar with the terrain of the River?" Liu Min asked coldly.

Zheng Da was stunned, opened his mouth and laughed: "Where did Miss Min say!" Every stone in this river can be said by the old slave who closes his eyes in that direction, and can say that he is not familiar with the terrain! ”

Liu Min pondered for a while and continued: "Since Uncle Zheng is familiar with the topography of the river, let me ask you, is there a gully on both sides of the river!" ”

"Diagonally inserted ravine!" Zheng Da repeated Liu Min's words and couldn't help but be interested, stretched out his palm and wiped a handful of sweat on his forehead and said, "The old slave knows what Aunt Min is going to say!" ”

Zheng Da finished speaking: "The river is a river road in the northwest and southeast, and it is thousands of miles long from east to west; Twenty or thirty miles wide from north to south, the flow of the river is not too fast, but it is not too slow; Because of this, the lush reeds on both sides of the river are formed! ”

Liu Min saw that Zheng Da was verbose, and said with a smile: "Uncle Zheng should highlight the key points concisely!" Toshiko asked if there were any ravines on both sides of the river......"

"There are some and there are, there are many ravines interspersed between the north and the south!" Zheng Da interrupted Liu Min's words, pointed his hand to a place close at hand, and said: "One or two miles ahead, there is a place called the hard ditch, which is a gully that runs diagonally in the north-south direction on the north bank of the Xianghe River!" ”

Liu Min was stunned, stared at Zheng Dadao, and said, "How far is the hard ditch sleeve from Fenghe Cang?" ”

"Two or three miles away!" Zheng Da said yes and no, and said in his throat: "It may also be four or five miles!" ”

"This can't work, it's too close to Fenghe Cang!" Liu Min vetoed the hard ditch set proposed by Zheng Da, which was a ravine that was diagonally inserted from north to south, and said: "What else is there a north-south ravine!" ”

Zheng Daqi squinted his eyes and looked at Liu Minfa and asked, "Miss Minzi is looking for a ditch that can ambush soldiers, just like Zhuge Liang burned Sima Yi's army in Huluyu back then!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! It's a ditch like Zhuge Liang burning Sima Yi! Liu Min said busily, and said thoughtfully: "Uncle Zheng knows about Zhuge Liang's burning of Sima Yi's army during the Three Kingdoms!" ”

The reason why Liu Min asked this is because the story of Zhuge Liang's burning of Sima Yi is recorded in the popular "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by Luo Guanzhong; But Luo Guanzhong was a native of the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty; It was born 400 years after the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, how could Zheng Da know the story of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by him.

Liu Min was thinking in his heart, but Zheng Da said with a heart: "Zhuge Liang's burning of Sima Yi is known to women and children in the Xianghe River, and that is because Huluyu and the Xianghe River are only separated by a southern plain!" ”

Liu Min was stunned, and couldn't help but suddenly realize: it turned out that the story of the Three Kingdoms had been circulated among the people as early as before, and it was already known to women and children in the Song Dynasty; According to folklore, Luo Guanzhong compiled the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with reference to historical records before it was passed down to future generations, and it was a medical doctor like Liu Min who obtained a lot of historical knowledge from it.

Liu Min thought about it in his heart, raised his arm and said to Zheng Da: "Uncle Zheng has a lot of knowledge, you can continue the previous words!" ”

"Aunt Min said that she wanted to find a gourd like Zhuge Liang who burned Sima Yi, didn't you?" Zheng Da said solemnly.

"Yes! We just need a ravine like Huluyu to kill these invincible Khitan Tartars! Liu Min said very solemnly.

"There are valleys like Huluyu, but it's a pity that they are not nearby!" Zheng Da said a little worriedly, cleared his throat and raised his voice: "Such a ravine is more than ten miles away from the place where we stand!" ”

Liu Min grabbed his arm and asked, "Uncle quickly tell me what is the name of the ravine like a gourd valley!" ”

"Piercing the ditch!" Zheng Da said bluntly: "The ditch through the hall is a passage, which leads from the river to the south plain; It's a pity that the ends are open and it's a flaw! ”

"We're in need of a ditch with both ends open!" Liu Min said happily that he was humane to Zhao Yuanzuo, Grandpa Huo, Chen Yiyun, Tu Youmei, Lai Zhenyue, Jiang Mengjun, Guo Yuquan, and Wang Renqing around him: "When we set off from Bianjing, Xiaonu specially went to the armory workshop and brought a lot of firearms and gunpowder, which seems to come in handy in this place!" ”

Zhao Yuanzuo saw Liu Min elated, and laughed a few times with her: "Little sister really has Jiang Ziya's talent, and she wants to imitate Zhuge Wuhou to burn the Khitan Tartar soldiers with a fire!" ”

"Zhao Yuanzuo, who knows me!" Liu Min said in a generous manner: "This group of Tartar soldiers killed 33 Jingzhao Mansion soldiers in the Tianzhu Ridge Horse Farm, it can really be said that people are doing evil; We must let them die without a place to be buried! ”

Grandpa Huo praised Liu Min's fire attack plan in unison, and Liu Min groaned for a while and said: "Uncle Zheng just said that Xiao Tzuyong, the chief of the Tartar soldiers, changed his plan to burn Fenghe Cang, and planned to capture Chong's brother Zhao Yuanzuo; Then we'll have a plan! ”

"Little sister, don't be verbose!" Zhao Yuanzuo couldn't wait to say: "Tell me about your fire attack plan!" ”

Liu Min looked at Zheng Da and said, "Uncle Zheng, tell me about the direction where the ditch is standing in the hall, the north bank of the Miao River or the south bank of the Xiang River; How far is the journey! ”

"Chuantanggou is on the south bank of the Xianghe River, and it is more than ten miles away from our place!" Zheng Da said excitedly: "We are now on the north bank of the Xiang River, from the front of the Parrot Island to cross a wooden bridge to reach the south bank, to the south bank after walking a reed-wrapped path to the southwest is through the hall ditch!" ”

Seeing that Zheng Da was serious, Liu Min looked at Grandpa Huo and said, "Grandpa Huo, you and Chen Yiyu, Tu Youmei, and Lai Zhenyue will immediately go to chase the Hongyun girl, if you see Lu Chengyu, you will say that the plan to encircle and annihilate the Tartar soldiers has changed; It turned out that the 800 Tianxiang army was outflanked from the north to an ambush on both sides of the ditch to carry out a fire attack! ”

After Grandpa Huo's four left, Liu Min said to Zheng Da again: "Is the old general Huyan mentioned earlier by Uncle Zheng on the Southern Plains?" ”

"yes!" Zheng Da was flattered and said: "The old general Huyan and Huyan Jin'er are both in Huhuyan Village in Nanyuan!" ”

Liu Min groaned and said: "Uncle Zheng immediately rushed back to Huyan Village to report to the old general Huyan and Huyan Jin'er, and said that the imperial army was encircling and annihilating the Tartar soldiers of the Liao State in the ditch; Let the old general Huyan rush to the Tianzhuling Horse Farm to rescue the 33 soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion, and if they die in battle, they will be buried thickly; Those who did not die in battle must try their best to rescue them! ”

Zheng Da replied and went. Liu Min looked at Zhao Yuanzuo, Jiang Mengjun, Guo Yuquan, and Wang Renqing and said, "Now the five of us can go to Xiao Tzu Yong to fight and lure him to the side of the ditch to ......."

However, it is said that Xiao Tzuyong divided the 260 Liao soldiers into four teams, and one team was surrounded by 65 people led by Tart Mahe Gulu to the north; One team was surrounded from the east by 65 people led by the Sapporo Imeng, and the other team was surrounded from the west by 65 people led by Arika Koichi; Xiao Tzuyong himself personally led a team of 65 people to surround from the south, and the four teams agreed that the three horns were the signal for the encirclement; Tie Linjun heard three horns and marched forward bravely to capture Zhao Yuanzuo alive!

After listening to Xiao Tzuyong's instructions, the three of them went to the east, west, and north, and Xiao Tzuyong led 65 people to rush to the direction of Zhao Yuanzuo and Liu Min on horseback under the cover of the reeds.

Xiao Tzuyong 65 people walked through the reeds to the river, but saw that the river was flowing unhurriedly, but the river was very wide; You can't cross without ferries and walking bridges.

Xiao Tzuyong frowned, and then remembered Zheng Dalai who led the way; Ask any of the soldiers around you who have seen the guide leading the way.

The soldiers said that they hadn't seen it, and Xiao Tzuyong thought that Zheng Da had gone with the three teams of Tart Mahe Gollum, Sapporo Yimeng, and Gu Yili Card, so he was anxious.

Xiao Tzuyong stood by the river and stared for a long time, and immediately ordered to go down, and let the 65 soldiers split up to find a bridge or boat to cross the river.

It turned out that there were only two bridges over the river that could be crossed, one was a small wooden bridge over Parrot Island; One is a stone arch bridge in front of the ditch.

The small wooden bridge over Parrot Island was not very far from where Xiao Tzuyong's 65 people stood, but the small bridge was hidden by tall, lush reeds; Strangers who are not familiar with the geographical terrain are difficult to find.

As a result, 65 people from Gu Yili who went west, 65 people from Tart Mahe Gulu who went north, and 65 people from Xiao Tart Yong who were stranded on the south bank of the river did not find a bridge over the river.

The two teams of Gu Yili Card and Tart Mahe Gollum did not find a bridge over the river and returned to join Xiao Tartyong's team, but the 65 people of the Sapporo League to the east found a small wooden bridge on Parrot Island from above to the north bank.

65 members of the Sapporo League came to the north bank of the Miao River and drove rapidly to the east for a while; Unexpectedly, he encountered two or three hundred officers and soldiers in Fenghe Cang.

Fenghe had two or three hundred officers and soldiers in the warehouse, who were summoned by Liang Ding, Huo Buffalo, Wang Yang, and Zhao Ji; The leader is a conductor, surnamed Wang, and his name is Qianfan.

Wang Qianfan was originally a capital of the forbidden army, and fought with the Khitans of Liao State on the Hebei front line for several years, and was promoted to the commander of Fenghecang with military merits. Liang Ding and the four of them conveyed Liu Min's order, that is, to recruit Lu Chengyu, and Wang Qianfan immediately led more than 200 officers and soldiers from Fenghecang to come over in full armor......