When Zhang Ju and the others were worried about losing the traces of Zhou Tong and others, Zhou Tong and them seemed much more leisurely at this time. "Hahahaha, General Zhou, you said that Zhang Ju and his gang, if they find that we are gone, I don't know what their faces are now?" The two of them marched forward with a large army, and at this time it was already more than fifty miles away from Yuanwei County, Peng Lin said to Zhou Tong.

"No matter what kind of face it is, it won't look too good after all! He's waiting for us to go and get into the pockets, so let's keep them waiting! However, the enemy will soon find out about our disappearance. When the time comes, the other party will inevitably be scouting and looking for our traces. If the other party's people find out our whereabouts, they will inevitably deduce our purpose from them, which is not good for our actions. Now that we're far away from the enemy, we can speed it up! Zhou Tong said lightly.

"That's right! After walking about ten miles ahead, we can turn around and head southwest. In just one more hour, we'll be able to get to Taniguchi. Zhang Ju couldn't have imagined that we would give up his army, just to join Hu Tian and completely cut off his back road! Peng Lin nodded, feeling a little excited.

After seeing through Zhang Ju's purpose, the two of them began to discuss the method of counterattack. Discussions have come and gone, and there are many proposals proposed, and basically speaking, each plan can cause considerable losses to the enemy.

But later, considering the overall situation, considering that Hu Tian received a notice to act again, I am afraid that it will be too late. Therefore, in order to cut off the enemy's rear route, Zhou Tong decided to give up other plans that might have greater results, and instead chose to attack from a long distance.

Specifically, in fact, their thinking is similar to that of Zhang Ju. Zhang Ju wanted to outflank the Huashan army out of the city, while Zhou Tong and the others wanted to detour back to before Zhang Ju's forward army, and rush to the mountain pass to the west first, and remove the Liangzhou soldiers and horses guarding the mountain pass.

Then, he quickly got in touch with Hu Tian and them in the south of the mountain, and asked Hu Tian to lead his army north to defend this mountain pass. In this way, no matter what tricks Zhang Ju's army wants to play, no matter how it wants to withdraw its troops, unless it breaks the blockade of Hu Tian first. Otherwise, it would be impossible to fly out of this encirclement, which has been reduced to the minimum!

Of course, there is a lot of risk in this, mainly because it is said that before the enemy reacts, it is necessary to make a detour before the opponent's forward army. This is also the reason why Zhou Tong and them will choose to ride out of the city on horseback.

In order to guard against the soldiers and horses of the Huashan Army, Zhang Ju specially placed 2,000 troops stationed at the northern mountain pass, which was to block the cavalry of the Huashan Army in the north of the mountain. On the north side of the mountain range to the south, because there were three mountain passes, he placed a thousand cavalry to patrol back and forth.

And after Niu Ba was defeated and returned, he urgently sent two thousand more men! It was used to prevent Hu Tian from crossing the South Mountain and attacking behind him.

Among them, 500 men and horses were guarded at the mountain pass more than 40 miles west of the county seat, and the other 1,500 men and horses were guarded at the two westernmost mountain passes. The previous cavalry was still responsible for patrolling along the foot of the hill as a mobile support.

Because the valley is relatively narrow, it is almost enough to hold the valley mouth with only these forces. And if Hu Tian wants to call them, it is really not easy. Especially after Zhang Ju gets the news, he will inevitably send more soldiers and horses to support, and it will be even more difficult to get through.

But Zhou Tong and their actions were different, because they were already on the north side of the mountain. To attack the two defenders, you can fight directly from behind the enemy without passing through a treacherous valley.

Because there were more enemies on the south side of the mountain, this time, after they left the city, they first traveled west, and then went directly north. The later course of action is basically the road that Sun Tie and the others walked at the beginning.

The journey south to the enemy's rear was about forty miles. Under such a night, there is basically no difficulty for the operation of the Huashan Army. Although you can't let go of the speed of the war horse to your heart's content, if you trot all the way down, the speed is not slow.

The winter nights were very long, and objectively provided very good conditions for the operation of the Huashan Army. When there was still about half an hour before dawn, Zhou Tong and his party finally came to the outside of the valley.

The two southward passes on the southern mountain range have two entrances on the north side of the mountain, and when they reach the south side, they converge and take one road. And now they arrived at the one on the east side of the two entrances, and the one on the west side was twenty miles away.

The terrain of the place where this mountain pass is located has become rugged, because the two mountain ranges in the north and south of Yuanwei County have begun to run parallel here. Therefore, if you go all the way west from Yuanwei County to Wuwei County, it will start to become narrow from here.

It is precisely because of this that if these two entrances are occupied, it will not only block the entrance of Jincheng County to the north of Wuwei County, but also block the entrance of Yuanwei County to the west of Wuwei. All in all, as long as this place is defended, Zhang Ju will have to stay outside the county seat of Yuanwei for the New Year.

Beyond the pass, there is a small flat land, which used to be farmland because of the water source. It's just that because of the frequent wars, they have all been abandoned. The closer you get to the pass, the narrower the terrain becomes, flanked by cliffs and dense woods.

Because they wanted to guard against Hu Tian and them in Shannan, the enemy army used trees and stones to build a simple barrier on the position of the valley mouth, and blocked the entire valley mouth. As for the Liangzhou soldiers stationed here, their camps were set up on the flat ground outside the valley mouth.

Zhou Tong and the others stopped six miles away from the enemy camp and observed the place from a distance. Due to the relatively flat terrain, in the middle of the night, you can just see the flickering fire from miles away!

"General, my subordinates have just inquired, and the enemy troops in the camp are now asleep! There were about 200 people left to guard at the mouth of the valley, but because of the cold weather, these people were basically crowded around the fire in groups of three or five, just to check the situation in the valley from time to time! They don't have any defenses against us! The scouts who had been sent out soon came back to report.

Hearing the news, Zhou Tong and Peng Lin couldn't help but feel a lot more relieved. In fact, if you think about it, there are still more than 10,000 troops outside the county of Yuanwei, who would have thought that the Huashan army would cross the army and kill here directly!

They all thought that the danger came from the south, but they didn't think that this time they would be pitted by their own commander. If you want to say this, you can't blame Zhang Ju, after all, he didn't really retreat this time, so naturally he wouldn't send someone to notify the soldiers and horses here.

Otherwise, even if the defenders here are not prepared for the possibility of an enemy attack from the north, they will at least cheer up to prevent being troubled by their superiors!

The most advantageous point is that Zhang Ju actually transferred all the cavalry who were originally patrolling back in order to succeed in this ambush.

"We can't miss this opportunity! The order went down, and everyone dismounted and quietly moved forward. Surround the enemy first, then kill them together, and don't let any of them go! After observing for a while, Zhou Tong officially ordered.

Hearing the order, everyone immediately took action, the distance of five or six miles was not too far, and it didn't take much time for everyone to come to the enemy camp. At this time, the enemy sentry is squinting and dozing off by the fire!

"Do it!" As soon as Zhou Tong waved his hand, the people behind him divided into several teams and surrounded the enemy camp.

It didn't take long for the entire encirclement to form, and this time, Zhou Tong and they did not shout and kill the past as usual. Instead, the encirclement was constantly narrowed, and there was hardly any sound in the early stages.

It was not until several enemy soldiers had died that their movements were discovered by the enemy troops, and at this point, the entire enemy camp was suddenly in chaos. The panicked enemy rushed out of the tent, and just as he tried to resist, he was already a ghost under the knife.

The battle ended quite quickly, from the time the attack was launched until all the enemies were eliminated, it took less than two pillars of incense in total.

"General, the enemy has been solved, and none of them have run away!" After cleaning the battlefield, the generals came to report!

"Very good, immediately send someone to the south to inform General Hu, and let him immediately lead the army to come over to take over the defense! At the same time, he ordered his troops to attack the western mountain pass, and General Ben will lead his men to attack behind enemy lines and take the western mountain pass with him! Zhou Tong nodded, and then ordered.

The distance across the valley from the north to the south of the mountain is not long, so if you send someone to inform you, you should be able to arrive just in time for dawn. The whole operation continued, and it should be able to end before Zhang Ju's side reacted.

After leaving Peng Lin and 500 soldiers and horses to garrison this place and waiting for the arrival of Hu Tian's army, Zhou Tong led the remaining 500 men to the west first, and first rushed to the mountain pass to the west to lurk.

At that time, as long as Hu Tian in the south led his people to kill in the valley and attracted all the attention of the defenders, Zhou Tong would lead his people to kill them again, and he would definitely be able to annihilate the enemy army in one fell swoop.

As long as these two mountain passes are firmly controlled, the next thing will be much easier for the Huashan army. At that time, the initiative will already be firmly in the hands of the Huashan Army, and whether it is peace or war, it can be done according to Li Xin's ideas.

And Zhang Ju, if they saw this scene, they were afraid that the entire army would inevitably lose their morale and completely lose hope. What kind of combat effectiveness can we talk about with such an army!