Cao Ming, who came back to his senses, immediately ordered to take his subordinates to the high ground to check, and saw that the Song army camp on the top of the mountain was empty, and the camp tents were lined up, but there was not a single Song soldier in sight.

"Commander, the entire mountain top has been searched, and I haven't found a single Song soldier, nor have I found a hole in the ground!" Shi Chang, who led the reconnaissance team, hurried up to report it.

Cao Ming's face was ugly, his eyes swept over the entire Song army camp, and asked in a deep voice: "Follow me, I want to know where the Song army has gone and how long it will take?" ”

The commander replied: "Commander, my subordinates dare not guarantee that they can track it, if they don't leave a trace, even if their subordinates have the ability to go to heaven, they can't track it, as long as they leave a trace, at most within half an hour, the subordinates can track it down with their brothers!" ”

"Okay, let's go!"

"No!"

Cao Ming ordered a few of his subordinates: "Pass the order, let the soldiers pull out the camp and prepare for departure, and after an hour, let's go!" ”

"Commander, where are you going?" A general asked.

"It's up to the scouts to track them down!"

In less than half an hour, a scout rode over and reported: "Commander, I have found traces of the Song army, and my subordinates have found a large number of shoe prints on a dusty dirt road four miles to the northwest!" Our army is all cavalry, because of the war in the past few days, the nearby people have run out, and there can be no pedestrians on the road, so the subordinates and others concluded that those large number of footprints were left by the Song army, and the direction of the extension of that road should be Chengdu City! ”

Cao Ming immediately sent a personal soldier to ride a fast horse to report to Zhao Junsheng's main army, and sent a fast horse to make a detour to Nie Feihu, a left-behind general outside Chengdu, to report the situation.

"Order all buildings to pursue in the direction of Chengdu City!"

Several generals clasped their fists and bowed down and promised: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

However, it is said that Zhao Junsheng led the main cavalry to continue the pursuit in the southeast direction after dawn, and although the marching speed was increased a lot, he did not catch up with Li Dan's Song army for a whole morning.

During the lunch break, Zhao Junsheng called Li Bao and Yang Lie over to discuss: "We have no bottom if we chase after us like this, I thought about it for a while, I should still send a scout horse in front of the main force to track the Song army, and leave marks along the way, if you find the Song army, immediately send someone back to report!" ”

Yang Lie said: "Your Majesty is very worried, it is the minister's negligence, in case the Song army is not going in the direction of Longquan Mountain, won't we chase in vain?" The minister will arrange for the scouts to go! ”

After lunch, the army continued on the road, and after only half an hour, the reconnaissance scout team in front sent someone back to report that they had found the traces left by the Song army, and as long as they followed the traces, they would definitely be able to catch up.

The discovery of the traces of the Song army made Zhao Junsheng and Yang Lie a little relieved, after all, they were fighting in a different place, and they were not familiar with the terrain here, if the Song army suddenly turned around and detoured back to Chengdu City, it would be troublesome, and now the traces of the Song army were found at least to show that the Song army was retreating in the direction of Longquan Mountain, rather than turning around and going to Chengdu City.

At this time, Li Dan came to the foot of Longquan Mountain with 5,000 men and horses.

"Longquan Mountain has arrived, pass the order down, let the soldiers speed up the footsteps, we will rush to Longquan to occupy the dangerous place first, and then wait for work!" Li Dan's voice spread through the ranks.

Finally saw Longquan Mountain, the Song army generals swept away the previous decadence, everyone was in high spirits, and their feet were much faster.

It didn't take long for the Song army to finally arrive at the entrance of the Sand Pass of Longquan Mountain.

Li Dan Lema stopped and turned his head to look, waved his hand and shouted: "The Jiangyang army will control the top of the mountain on the left, the Danqu army will control the top of the mountain on the right, and there will be more rolling stones and trees, and the other troops will hide with me in the woods on the slopes on both sides of the mountain pass!" ”

The two armies were ordered to quickly climb to the top of the mountain on the left and right sides of the pass, and Li Dan and the rest of the soldiers were divided into two parts, left and right, and each found a densely wooded hillside to hide.

When the soldiers were about to hide, Li Dan pulled a herald and ordered: "Go and tell the captains of the Danqu Army and the Jiangyang Army that once the cadres catch up and start to pass through the mountain pass, immediately push down the rolling logs and stones to block their way forward, and we must hold out until the general and his men and horses outflank the rear of the front cadre army!" ”

Before the herald could agree, there was a shout of killing from the mountain not far away, and Li Dan's face changed greatly, "What's the matter?" Check it out! ”

"Yes, General!" One of his own soldiers quickly ran down the hill.

Not long after, the soldiers returned to report: "General, the big thing is not good, the mountain pass on the mountain has long been occupied by the cadre army, and when the Jiangyang army and the Danqu army climbed to the halfway point of the mountain, they were attacked by the cadres on the top of the mountain on both sides, and suffered heavy losses, and the canyon through the mountain pass has been blocked by the cadre army!" ”

"What?" Li Shan was so frightened that his face changed greatly, and he immediately shouted: "Go down the mountain, follow Ben down the mountain!" ”

Hula, thousands of people ran down from the dense forest on the hillside, and these Song soldiers followed Li Danshan and looked up at the Danqu army and the Jiangyang army who were retreating from the middle of the mountain.

The generals of the Danqu Army and the Jiangyang Army were all extremely embarrassed at this time, many of them were wounded, and many of them were smashed beyond recognition and died miserably by the stones and timbers that rolled down.

The captain of the Jiangyang army was out of breath and led the remnants of the defeated army into defeat, "General, the last general is ashamed!" ”

It was the fault of Li Dan, the commander, that he knew that this matter was his responsibility, and he could not blame the captains of the two armies, so he waved his hand and said: "Don't blame you for this matter, let's talk about the situation on the mountain, how many cadres are there?" ”

Hong Guangtong, the commander of the Jiangyang Army, said: "The specific number is not very clear, but it is definitely not less than three hundred, and the situation on the top of the opposite mountain should be similar!" General, the last general suspects that the cadres should have made a detour to Longquan Mountain to cut off the return route of our army, otherwise it would be impossible for our army not to bump into them, which shows that the cadres have planned for a long time, and this time our army is only afraid of danger! ”

Tang Yuanhui, the captain of the Danqu Army, hugged his fists and said: "General, the last general thinks that what General Hong said is very true, now we have an enemy army blocking the way back in front of us, and an enemy army is chasing after us, if you don't want to do it, I am afraid that there is a danger of annihilation of the whole army!" ”

Li Dan's brows were deeply locked, "Do you have any clever plans?" ”

Tang Yuanhui hugged his fists and said: "The last general can't think of any clever plan, if our army can't pass through Longquan Mountain, we can only bypass Longquan Mountain and return to Ba County, but it takes a lot of time to bypass Longquan Mountain, and this time is enough for the cavalry to catch up and kill our army!" The last general thinks that instead of being caught up by the cavalry of the cadre army and killing a piece of armor, it is better to risk death to attack the mountain pass, there are only six or seven hundred people on both sides, even if our army pays some price, as long as it can capture the mountain pass and hold it for another day or two, the cavalry of the cadre army cannot attack the mountain, and it should retreat soon, and then our army will be safe! ”

Li Shan comprehensively considered the current situation and Tang Yuanhui's proposal, and finally agreed: "Okay, just do as you say!" Come on, pass the order, let the soldiers eat and drink enough, and listen to the general's command to attack the mountain later! ”

The commanders of several armies agreed: "Obey!" ”

Two moments later, the Song army soldiers had eaten and drunk enough, and their fatigue had disappeared a lot, and Li Dan gave an order and sent 500 men to attack the top of the mountain on the left and right.

There is no road up the mountain at all, the slopes on both sides are sometimes steep, sometimes they are rocky, it is extremely difficult to crawl, and there are no rolling stones rolling down on the mountain, and the soldiers of the Song army who could not dodge fell down and vomited blood on the spot and died.

The arrows on the top of the mountains on both sides have not been shot down, the arrows are shot accurately and ruthlessly, and many people have never gotten up after falling down from the arrows while climbing the mountain.

The first round of attack had just climbed only halfway up the mountain, and the attacking Song army was driven down again, losing hundreds of men.

Li Dan calmed his face, gritted his teeth and said, "Change, attack again!" ”

Another thousand were sent out.

At this moment, from the north and south directions of the western foot of Longquan Mountain, one cavalry of the cadre army approached the direction of the mountain pass.

All the knights rode on horseback, their muzzles were covered with hoods to prevent them from neighing, and all the knights of the dry army also had sticks in their mouths.

These two cavalry were a thousand cavalry led by Yang Dayan, with five hundred cavalry in the north and south.

Li Dan left behind the army to the scout cavalry behind the palace, once he found out that the cavalry of the Qianjun army was chasing and killing, he could get the news as soon as possible, and after arriving here, he just forgot to send the scout cavalry to search in the north and south directions along the foot of Longquan Mountain, of course, he never thought that the Qianjun would come back to block his return route, let alone that the cavalry of the Qianjun army would attack him from the north and south.

It wasn't until Yang Dayan appeared two miles away from Li Dan's Song army with this cavalry that Li Dan's subordinate Song Army discovered them, but by this time it was already too late.

Yang Dayan held a big knife and slapped his horse and shouted: "Soldiers, rush with me and kill all these Song troops!" ”

"Kill—"

Yang Dayan rode a red horse, holding a big knife in his hand, broken like Guan Gong, he led the cavalry to rush up and kill unstoppable, five hundred cavalry in the north and south rushed to kill, and cut the thousands of Song troops who could not cope with it into three sections, the Song army was in chaos, not a system, the general could not control the soldiers, and the soldiers did not listen to the general's command because of fear, and made a mess.

Yang Dayan slashed left and right with a big knife in his hand, killing one Song army after another, until he was covered in blood, and he didn't know how many heads he had cut off.

Thousands of Song troops were rushed by Yang Dayan's troops, and they were completely chaotic, and they scattered and fled, Yang Dayan immediately led his troops to chase and kill, and they did not collect their troops until dusk.

More than 2,000 people were captured by Li Dan, a general of the Song army, and more than 2,000 of them were killed, and many of them fled into Longquan Mountain without a trace.

At sunset, Zhao Junsheng arrived at Longquan Pass with the main cavalry army, but found that the battle had long been over, and Yang Dayan was commanding the generals to guard the prisoners.

Yang Dayan heard the report of his subordinates that the emperor was coming with a large army, and immediately ordered his generals to be responsible for guarding the prisoners and cleaning up this time, and he led people to meet him.