The cold of the late night in the early spring in the north gave Zhao Junsheng a feeling of coldness to the bone marrow. He put his hands to his lips and sighed, rubbed them a hundred times in a row, rubbed them warmly, put on sheepskin gloves, drew his waist knife, waved his hand to the two soldiers on his side, signaling that one of them was in front, and the other one was on his left, and the three of them touched the hillside in a triangle.

After the snow melts, the weather is not clear, the ground is wet, and the feet step on it to bring up a layer of mud, and the more you walk, the more mud on the soles of your feet, you can feel the heavier and heavier your feet.

The three of them carefully climbed to the top of the hillside, Zhao Junsheng saw a clearing next to him with his eyesight beyond ordinary people, he slowly walked into the clearing with two soldiers, and saw through the faint light that the clearing was a ruin, scattered with stones and burnt wood.

Zhao Junsheng understood that this should be the location of the original Tunqi Mountain Fort, which was broken by the Rouran army and destroyed into ruins.

After searching the ruins and surroundings for a while, and finding nothing unusual, Zhao Junsheng asked the two accompanying soldiers to light torches and climb the cliffs on both sides to check it out.

Zhao Junsheng stood on the ruins and waited for a quarter of an hour, and there were torches shaking on the cliffs on both sides, and the two soldiers shouted one after another: "Captain, everything is normal!" ”

"Okay, come down!" Zhao Junsheng responded loudly.

When the two soldiers came down, Zhao Junsheng took one of the torches, walked to the top of the hillside, and shone the torches on the ground.

There is no doubt that the Rouran army led by Shelun has already passed through here and headed for the Jinling camp!

Zhao Junsheng took off his longbow from his back, drew a rocket, lit it with a torch, and shot it diagonally into the sky.

Hua Mulan was picking up the water bag, opening the stopper, drinking water, and saw a rocket shooting into the sky on the top of the mountain, so she put away the water bag and immediately ordered the army to continue to advance.

After walking for a quarter of an hour, Mulan climbed to the top of the mountain with her soldiers and horses, and Zhao Junsheng greeted her: "Mulan, my two brothers and I have already checked, and the cliffs on both sides are safe, and next to this is the location of the original fortress, which is now in ruins!" ”

It was the first time for Mulan to lead troops to ambush outside, and she didn't understand anything, so she had to ask Zhao Junsheng for advice: "Brother Junsheng, what should we do now?" Should the brethren rest on the spot or should they start arranging the ambush now? ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a moment and said: "Based on the time when Shelun led the army from Shengle City, if they did not stop in the middle at the normal marching speed, they would inevitably launch an attack on the Jinling camp at dusk, we don't know how the battle would be, if the Rouran people win, maybe they will return tomorrow with a large amount of captured baggage; If they are defeated, the remnants of the army will be defeated, at this time, I am afraid that it is not far from here, of course, the possibility of their defeat is not very likely, after all, it is a sudden attack, and at dusk, the Jinling camp can gather troops and horses in time to meet the enemy, in case we still arrange the ambush related matters first! ”

Hua Mulan promised: "Brother Junsheng, what are you going to do, you say it, I'll arrange for them to do it!" ”

Zhao Junsheng immediately said a few: "First of all, we have a high ground here, if you light a torch, you can see it from a long distance, so from now on, only two torches will be left, and everyone else will extinguish the torch!" ”

Hua Mulan turned her head and immediately ordered: "Leave two torches to light the others and extinguish the torches!" ”

One by one, the torches were extinguished, and only two remained.

Zhao Junsheng continued: "We have 1,200 people here, divide everyone into two teams, one team follows me to ambush on the cliff on the left, and the other team follows you to ambush on the cliff on the right, all ready with stones, bows and arrows!" I will send someone to the highest place to observe and look, once I find that the Rouran cavalry has returned, I will send someone to inform you that my side will start to attack, and you can only start on your side, and you can't take the lead without authorization, once you do it, you will first hit it with a stone, and then shoot it with a bow and arrow, until the Rouran people have suffered heavy casualties and chaos, and if you see me leading the team to rush down, you will immediately lead the team to rush down and kill with us! ”

"Rushing and killing is also to be particular, we must first cut off the team of the Rouran people and divide them into two, so that they can't take care of the end of the tail, and then you lead people to rush down the left hillside, I lead people to rush down the right hillside, we must not let them organize soldiers and horses to counterattack, once we find that there is a situation where the Rouran people are gathered, immediately bring people to rush over and disperse them!"

As soon as Hua Mulan heard it, she understood the role and purpose of Zhao Junsheng's arrangement, and she drew inferences: "That is to say, we can only start attacking when the middle of the Rouran people's team arrives here; To fight so that the people of Rouran have no resistance and fighting spirit; The speed of the attack must be fast, so that they don't have the time and opportunity to gather troops and horses to fight back, is that right? ”

Zhao Junsheng smiled: "You're right! One more thing to remember is that the poor Kou Mo chases! After all, we have few soldiers, if we bite those fleeing Rouran cavalry and force them to jump over the wall in a hurry, and then fight to the death with us, it will be more than worth the loss! ”

"Got it!"

The two discussed the details of the ambush again, most of them were Zhao Junsheng talking about Hua Mulan listening, in fact, Zhao Junsheng was also talking on paper, he had read a lot of military books, but it was the first time that it was really used in practice, but he also knew that even if he took everything into account in advance, there would definitely be various unexpected situations when he really fought, so he finally explained that the most important thing for Mulan was to improvise.

After the discussion, the two of them each took half of the people to climb the cliffs on the left and right sides respectively, and let the two soldiers who had explored the road before lead the way in front with torches, and the people behind followed them.

After climbing the cliff, the soldiers looked for stones under the command of Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan, and piled up the stones on the edge of the cliff for attack, and let the soldiers cut down a lot of trees and pile them on the edge of the cliff.

It took more than an hour to get ready, and the soldiers began to rest under the orders of Zhao Junsheng and Mulan, and everyone was wrapped in a thick woolen blanket and lay on the edge of the cliff, with stones and piles of wood to block the wind, and it was still warm, and they could get up at any time to fight.

The cold of the night was nothing to Shelun and his Rouran cavalry, and they had all experienced it, and now it was early spring, and the temperature was much higher than last winter.

The march was a little slow on the road, and after marching all day in the morning, there was another battle at dusk, and now in the middle of the night they were marching with heavy loads, not only tired horses, but also tired men.

She Lun's heart is actually very worried, he knows his own family affairs, and his Rouran Army is very tired, very tired! He just grasped the psychology of the Wei army not daring to pursue at night, so he withdrew with the army overnight, if the Wei army took the risk of pursuit, he could really only fight with the Wei army again, and it would be difficult to say who would win and who would lose at that time.

If he doesn't leave tonight, he will be in a dilemma tomorrow! With a lot of baggage, how can you withdraw under the nose of the Wei army? If you want to safely carry a large number of captures and withdraw, you must first completely defeat the Wei army in the Jinling camp, but the Wei army occupies Jinling Mountain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he can't leave his baggage and withdraw his troops, right? Isn't this time in vain?

He was glad that he had made the right bet, and at least until now, there had been no news that the Wei army was chasing after him.

"Pedal ······" A fast horse galloped from behind.

The person who came was Shelun's general Nabi "handsome and handsome······"

Shelun Zema stepped aside and stopped, asking, "Are there any pursuers behind Nabi?" ”

Na Bi stroked his chest and said with admiration: "The handsome and wise Wei army really didn't dare to pursue them, and the sons and daughters were all chased and killed!" But ······"

Shelun waved his hand: "If you have something to say, say it!" ”

"Yes! After a whole day of marching and fierce battles with the Wei army, they hurriedly looted the Wei army's camp and withdrew the troops, and the sons and horses were very tired, and the marching speed was getting slower and slower, and some people were even so tired that they fell off their horses! Since the Wei army has not caught up now, it means that it will not catch up tonight, do you think you should let the sons and daughters camp and rest, and then set off tomorrow morning? ”

She Lun pondered for a while and asked a person, "Where are you now?" ”

"Go back to Dashuai and walk five miles to Tunqi Mountain!"

Shelun immediately decided: "Send the order down, let them speed up their footsteps, camp at the foot of Tunqi Mountain to rest, and set off early tomorrow morning!"

"It's handsome!"

After the order was transmitted, the marching speed of the Rouran army was much faster, and the mood of the Rouran cavalry was much better, and they all hoped to camp and rest in Tunqi Mountain as soon as possible, they were too tired.

Fortunately, they can even march on horseback for a few days and nights without fighting, but once they fight, the consumption of both their own physical strength and the physical strength of the war horse is very huge.

On the cliff of Tunqi Mountain.

A soldier quickly walked over and reported to Zhao Junsheng: "Captain Du has found an abnormality!" A few miles to the southwest, a large number of torches appeared, at least four miles away! ”

When Zhao Junsheng heard this, he immediately got up: "Go and have a look!" ”

He took Xue Andu and Gao Xiu and others to the top of the mountain, looked to the southwest, and sure enough, he saw a long dragon appearing five miles away, this team had a large number of torches, and the team was crowded with figures.

Although he couldn't see the banner clearly, Zhao Junsheng believed that this was definitely the Rouran cavalry led by Shelun, and seeing the situation of this formation, the Rouran army at least was not defeated, and a large amount of materials and equipment were captured, and even livestock and war horses were captured.

"Go and signal to Mulan, the Rouran army has returned, and let her get ready!"

"It's the Captain!"

Zhao Junsheng observed for a while and couldn't help but scold: "Are these Rouran soldiers dead?" I am anxious for them all when they are slow and weak! ”

The distance of less than five miles was that it took the Rouran army an hour to walk at the foot of Tunqi Mountain, and this speed was really turtle speed.

"Oh no, why did they stop?" Zhao Junsheng almost dropped his jaw when he saw those Rouran people stop in front of Tunqi Mountain and start camping.