It was night, and the Qinzhou City Hotel in the northwest was still singing and dancing, and Zhao Jizha was full of interest.

Zhao Jizha was appointed by the Emperor of Shu as a military envoy to Qin Feng to inspect the military situation. I just inspected Fengzhou a few days ago, and it was not long after I arrived in Qinzhou, and the local festival envoys and assassins were not bad at hospitality, which made Zhao Jiza a little fluttery.

However, although the local generals were very polite in eating and drinking, they were stuffy wood, and there were no fun arrangements. Fortunately, Zhao Jizha brought his own concubines and courtesans, otherwise in this desolate place in the northwest, he would not have suffocated people to death?

More than a dozen courtesans were singing and dancing in the middle, and Zhao Jiza was completely sleepy and in good spirits. The glamorous concubine next to her gently opened a loquat with her jade hand and sent it to Zhao Jiza's mouth, and Zhao Jiza opened her mouth and gently bit it together with the concubine's fingers. The concubine gently swung her powder fist and hit him on the shoulder, and said coquettishly: "Ah Lang is not honest when he eats loquat!" ”

Zhao Jizha laughed.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a middle-aged man wearing a hat walked in in a hurry, without saying hello. Zhao Jiza frowned.

The middle-aged scribe walked straight to Zhao Jiza and said in a deep voice: "The Zhou army pulled out eight of my military villages in a row, and the soldiers came to the mighty city. ”

"What? What eight military villages! Zhao Jiza sat up straight, "Where is the mighty city?" ”

The scribe said: "North of Fengzhou, on Chencang Road." ”

Zhao Jizha was in a hurry: "We are from Fengzhou, Fengzhou is gone, how can we go back?" ”

The scribe said: "The mighty festival makes Wang Huanzheng send reinforcements and gallop mighty reinforcements. It may be fine for a while. ”

Zhao Jiza stood up: "When did it happen?" ”

"Three days ago."

Zhao Jizha was even more anxious and said, "Go and ask Han Jixun to open the city gate, let's leave overnight!" ”

The concubine on the side heard them talking, and quickly grabbed Zhao Jiza's robe and followed closely. The singing and dancing of the actors also stopped, and they gathered around in a panic, and said nonsense: "Ah Lang, are we going to hurry tonight?" ”

Zhao Jizha was furious: "It's Lao Tzu who wants to hurry...... Hold me to something, will you ride a horse? How do you go fast with you? ”

The concubine immediately cried, and the actors cried together. Zhao Jizha was also upset, and when the mother went back, she had to spend money to buy it, and she didn't catch anything in the north, and she lost so many lovely little girls. But life matters, stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood.

That night, Zhao Jizha ignored the dissuasion of the generals and officials of Qinzhou, insisted on asking them to send troops to escort them, and fled from Qinzhou overnight. Han Jixun, the envoy of the Xiongwu Festival stationed in Qinzhou, hurriedly asked him: "Does Qinzhou want to send troops to reinforce the response?" ”

Zhao Jizha said: "You ask me, who do I ask?" ”

Han Jixun said: "Prime Minister Wang Cheng is still in Shannan West Road, and it just so happens that you are the military envoy appointed by the emperor. There is no one in Qinfeng Prefecture, and Zhao Gong can order the two towns to dispatch troops and horses for emergency. ”

Zhao Jizha said: "I don't know! ”

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In the camp of the Zhou army in the north of the mighty city, the sun has already set, and the light of the fire is connected together, and the stars in the sky are set against each other. There is also a long string of fire dragons in the back, like a shining milky way.

The fading light did not make the camp peaceful, and the mountains were filled with noise by the passing of soldiers and galloping horses. Luo Yanhuan was practicing outside the big tent, riding a horse and rushing in front of a pair of targets, quickly pulling a bow and shooting arrows, "Smack!" "An arrow floated off the galloping horse and hit the bull's-eye.

Yang Biao in the back squatted on the horse, a long iron knife was inserted by his side, and he suddenly stared at the tiger's eyes, lifted the long knife and waved it.

Guo Shao, who was in the big tent, looked at the scene outside for a while, then buried his head and stroked his fingers thoughtfully on the drawings.

Guo Shao didn't untie his armor that night, and he didn't sleep well, and he couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, not because he was wearing armor. I was a little nervous, and I thought about everything, but God knows what was going on when it really started, after all, this was the first time he commanded a battle of thousands of people. In a daze, he felt as if he had returned to the eve of the college entrance examination, anxious and waiting for his personal fate to be revealed.

The temperature difference between day and night in the mountains is large, and the next day the day is just bright, Guo Shao washes his face with river water, which is cold and biting.

The guards reported that Luo Yanhuan had begun to deploy troops in front of the formation. Guo Shao pretended to be calm, first put his face in cold water and held his breath for a long time before wiping his face. Then he went out of the tent, rubbed his teeth with green salt, and brushed his teeth with the forked branches. The generals saw that he was not in a hurry, and everyone passing by was smiling.

Guo Shao ignored the generals and took Zuo You, Jing Niang and a group of personal soldiers to climb the hillside on the west side. Yesterday, there was a place on the western mountainside that was relatively flat like steps, and the line of sight was relatively open.

When everyone climbed up the hill with their hands and feet, they looked down and saw that the people and horses were dense, and the flags were like clouds. The Shu army was arrayed outside the land of five arrows, and the banner was blown by the north wind, and it was impossible to see what was written on it.

The sun rises in the mountains, and the light gradually dispels the mist in the mountains, and the wind blowing from the mouth of the valley makes the wind turbulent outside the mighty city. The cornices of the castle tower are like a Taoist palace hidden deep in the mountains.

The shouts and noises of the generals at the foot of the hill, and the uproar was reorganizing the formation. The regular glaive array placed by the Zhou army, although the area around the mighty city is relatively open, the width is also limited, and only eight commanders can be placed on the front, so the two wings of the glaive array are relatively thick. Guo Shao waited for a while, the mist was almost blown away by the wind, and he saw a crowd of people looming around a general on the city tower; I couldn't see clearly, but Guo Shao had an intuition, and the man was also standing on a high place to observe the battle formation.

The two looked at each other from a distance, and neither could see each other clearly.

Guo Shao remembered the situation of the military generals in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and just wanted to send someone to test it to see which soldiers and horses of the Shu army were the banners. Then he said to the soldiers behind him: "Go and call Li Chuyun." ”

After a while, Li Chuyun rode his horse from the gap in the middle of the military formation and returned to the hillside. Guo Shao said loudly: "You take a few people to ride over to provoke the other general, if the Shu army should not fight, see the banner clearly, and come back to report." ”

Li Chuyun hugged his fists and said: "Order!" ”

At this time, more than a dozen generals gathered at the bottom of the hillside one after another, and they were supposed to go to the battle formation, but Guo Shao wanted to watch from a high place, so everyone had to gather at the bottom of the slope. Before the battle, the main general had to say a few words and give orders before the battle. But Guo Shao didn't say anything to boost morale, only said: "When I hear the continuous blowing of the horn, I am ready to fight; The drums beat rapidly, and the commanders in front attacked together. For other military orders, I sent soldiers to carry orders with order flags. ”

The generals answered. Guo Shao waved his hand: "Let's disperse." Yang Biao stayed. ”

Then Guo Shao pointed to the position in front and said: "The Shu army is relatively chaotic in the place where the right wing is against the mountain, and you take 300 guards to the right flank to deploy." As soon as he heard the trumpet, he took the lead and hit the right flank in an attempt to break the formation. ”

Yang Biao raised the long knife and hugged his fists and said: "Get an order!" ”

At this moment, Li Chuyun led several horsemen to carry the banner out of the battle and ran out of 200 steps. The Shu army released arrows sporadically in the front, and Li Chuyun and others strangled the war horses. After a while, I heard him shout: "Shu State does not sympathize with Qin and Feng Shimin, and we will be ordered by the Great Zhou Emperor to recover Erzhou." Those who put down their weapons and serve are also 'Chinese' children; those who stand in the way of the king's master will never be spared! I am the commander of Guo Shaodu, the vanguard of the Western Expeditionary Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Li Chuyun under his command. Who is the messenger who blocks my forward, report your name! ”

There was a commotion on the Shu army's side, and it seemed to be scolding.

After a while, sure enough, a general of the Shu army rushed out with two horses. Seeing this, Guo Shao understood that at this time, the battle could still be fought alone, and winning the battle could boost morale, and both sides had equal opportunities.

The person on the other side drank violently, Guo Shao vaguely heard some words, but the whole sentence was inaudible. Among them, the words of Wang Huan, the mighty military festival, have probably been heard.

Then I saw Li Chuyun stretching out his finger and pointing at the military general on the opposite side and scolding, both sides scolded and scolded, and then each raised his weapon to hedge. The war horse fought back and forth for two rounds, and he couldn't see how he fought, and then he saw the generals of the Shu army pat their horses and run back.

Li Chuyun took the bow and released the arrow, and an arrow feather flew over, and the Shu general fell off his horse and rolled on the ground a few times.

Suddenly there was a shout in the army, and Li Chuyun shot the people off his horse, turned around and left. The shouts grew louder and louder, echoing in the mountains on both sides, and for a moment it was like a dragon roaring in the mountains, and the earth shook the mountains.

Guo Shao shouted: "Blow the trumpet! ”

A platoon of soldiers on the hillside puffed out their cheeks and blew the big horns with all their might, and the vigorous sound of the horns fluttered in the wind. Countless spears in front were flattened, and the army was surging. Immediately after the sound of drums, the army that seemed to be densely packed pushed forward, like a sword light pushing steadily and flatly, and like a black huge wave rushing forward.

Yang Biao's division on the right flank walked the fastest, and the flank became the most forward, making the Zhou army's glaive array mutate, and the shape was no longer decent.