On October 29, at the end of the hour, Zhang Hongfan led the advance of the Yuan army and the Chinese army to a canyon. According to the intelligence, after crossing this canyon and entering the jungle, there is a village in the depths of the jungle, which is Hongtong Village. And the remnants of the Song army, including the Great Song Prince Zhao Mengbei, were there.

Looking from the mouth of the valley, you can see that the canyon passage is no more than 100 feet wide, narrow and deep, full of weeds and rocks, and from time to time you can see the gray mist surging, which makes people feel that they will disappear as soon as they enter it. The cliffs on both sides of the canyon stand like a screen, towering into the clouds, and it is difficult for flying apes to climb...... You don't need any clever military vision, even if you are a general soldier, you can see that this is a dangerous place.

"This, this is the battlefield that the marshal presupposed?" Zhang Jue and dozens of heavily armored guards surrounded Zhang Hongfan, who abandoned the car and rode the horse, climbed high and looked into the distance, looked at the terrain in front of him, and gasped.

Zhang Hongfan smiled: "Isn't this terrain good?" Surrounded by mountains and rivers, with a wide field of vision, dense jungles on both sides, you can cut down trees and set up a village, wait for work, and wait for the Song army to come to the door. How is it bad? ”

The terrain before the canyon is indeed as Zhang Hongfan said, a stream that meanders from the depths of the mountains rushes along the mountain road, and the river water is clear enough for the army to drink. The high mountains and low mountains on both sides of the mountain road are lush and green, and you can cut a lot of wood with two axes. In particular, the terrain here is very open enough to accommodate thousands of troops, and when you reach the mouth of the canyon, it suddenly closes into a line - like a bell mouth.

This kind of terrain is indeed an excellent place to ambush. However, as long as the opponent does not faint, no one will drill into such a pocket.

The Yuan army didn't drill, and they still expected the Song army to drill?

The accompanying generals didn't dare to speak, only looked at Zhang Jue, under the marshal Huwei, only this one could speak.

Zhang Jue didn't have many scruples, and said bluntly: "Such a sinister front-line march is a taboo for soldiers. If we don't enter the valley, will the Song army dare to go out of the valley? ”

Zhang Hongfan said idly: "Zhao Mengbei uses his body as bait to fish my 100,000 army, how can I not use my body as bait to fish for his thousands of remnants?" Seriously, he still earned. This deal, do not do it by him. ”

Zhang Jue and other generals were surprised: "Marshal's intention, Zhao Mengbei dares to use thousands of remnants and a group of barbarians to take the initiative to attack my forward, the elite of the Chinese army?" ”

Zhang Hongfan said: "I watched this son fight, he was courageous, he liked to take risks, and he often attacked the crowd with outnumbered, and he won repeatedly. If the strength is similar, they will not let go. I Zhang Hongfan, the first national enemy in the eyes of the Song people, will want to get rid of it quickly, and there are thousands of elite combat power, if he can be destroyed in one battle, he will win this battle. ”

That's right. Zhang Hongfan, the marshal of the Southern Expedition; The vanguard and the Chinese army of the Yuan army were the elite of the 100,000 troops in the southern expedition. Don't say annihilation, even if it is defeated, the battle will basically be won.

Therefore, Zhang Hongfan threw a big problem to Song Jun and Zhao Lie - I won't go in, I'll be waiting for you here, the two generals, fresh and delicious, do you dare to mouth?

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In the canyon, Zhao Lie and a group of generals and the patriarchs and elders of the Eight Barbarians all wore armor and pressed their swords, and waited for the battle.

The news soon came, the Yuan army forward 5,000, the Chinese army 3,000, a total of 8,000 elites, set up a fortress in the valley, and did not intend to enter the valley, but blocked the valley. Then the rear army of 15,000 men and horses was rushing forward, and the two armies were fifty miles away from each other, and they could meet at noon tomorrow at the latest. Once the two armies converge, it will be twice as difficult to defeat the Yuan army, not to mention, Li Heng, who stayed in Qiongguan, will send a large number of reinforcements at any time according to the battle situation.

As soon as the generals saw this frame, they understood what tricks the Yuan army, or Zhang Hongfan, was playing-anti-guest-oriented.

Now the situation in front of Zhao Lie is that Zhang Hongfan also uses his body as bait to provoke the Dragon Bird Army - I will give you a chance, do you dare to eat!

This is also a conspiracy, an unavoidable conspiracy!

Taking the body as bait, everyone is serious.

Zhao Lie tightened his brows: It is worthy of Zhang Hongfan, he will return the favor to the other in his way, throw back the problem of "not entering the valley" to himself, and turn it into "not being able to get out of the valley", and seize the initiative in the battle back in one fell swoop.

Fortunately, this situation was also deduced by the command during the war situation, which is not too unexpected. It's just that you have to make up your mind, the determination to fight to the death!

The total number of troops that can be put into battle at the moment is more than 5,800 people, plus 3,500 Baban warriors led by Hong Fan, the strength of the army is nearly 10,000. There are still more than 3,000 auxiliaries, which are an indispensable logistical force for a large army, but they cannot be pulled into the battlefield.

In terms of troops, it was similar to the Yuan army at Taniguchi, but according to the report of the sentry battalion, the forward and middle troops of the Yuan army were elite, with more than seventy percent of the soldiers, including many Tanma Red Army and Mongol soldiers. Even the Han army and the newly attached army are all in armor, strong and strong, and the whole army exudes a murderous aura, which is completely different from ordinary soldiers.

"This is a strong army in a hundred battles, and its combat power is far higher than the 8,000 troops of the Hague who surrounded the Wan'an Army at the beginning, and it is even better than the elite Beiting Army of Ali The Hague." Ouyang Guanhou, who went to reconnoiter together, added with a solemn expression.

Ali The Hague's Beiting Army, all the generals present have seen it, and they have even competed, and they have a deep understanding of the strength of that army. At the beginning, Ali Hague's Beiting army was only 1,000 people, and it had brought heavy losses to the Song army, but now the Yuan army, which has the same combat power on the opposite side, has more than 6,000 people (excluding non-combatants such as conscripts).

The generals were silent for a while, especially the patriarchs and elders of the Baban Barbarians, who looked at each other with trepidation in their eyes.

Zhao Lie looked at Jiang Fenglie, who smiled indifferently: "Gentlemen, don't forget, it was the Yacheng Song Army that was heavily injured by Ali Hague at the beginning, not my Dragon Bird Army. On the contrary, Ali Hague and his Beiting army were eventually killed by our Dragon Sparrow Army. ”

Jiang Fenglie's words immediately made everyone feel relieved. Isn't it? From the founding of the army to the present, the Dragon Bird Army has repeatedly fought against strong enemies, which time it is not to attack the strong with weakness, to outnumbered the enemy, and has not tasted defeat.

Zhao Lie looked around and said: "The opponent is a famous general, and we are picking a famous general!" The opponent is a strong army in a hundred battles, and we are fighting a strong army in a hundred battles! Zhang Hongfan's bait, Lao Tzu swallowed it! ”

Zhao Lie made a decision, and the tone was set.

Zhao Lie motioned to the generals and the elders of the Eight Barbarians to step forward and form a circle, drawing their swords and drawing on the hard rock: "If you want to win this battle, you don't need any advanced military techniques, you only need to achieve two battle intentions." The first is to remove the obstacles in front of Taniguchi's army barracks, so that our army can build artillery positions and directly hit his Chinese army. The second is to seize the peak behind the Yuan army's camp, establish a solid position here, block the retreat of the Yuan army, and at the same time intercept the rear army of the Yuan army, preventing the convergence of the two armies and the reinforcements of Qiongguan. As long as these two campaign goals are achieved, Zhang Hongfan will be dead! ”

Zhao Lie's explanation was very simple, so simple that even the old people of the Baban Barbarian tribes who had little military knowledge could understand it when they heard it, but what they didn't understand was why they were fighting to take a huge risk to sweep away the obstacles in front of the Yuan army camp, but instead of taking advantage of the victory to break through the camp, they built some "artillery position...... Also, if before that, it is no problem to ambush a force on that mountain peak to stop the enemy, it is also very necessary. But at this time, if we send troops and horses, because we cannot march from the mouth of the valley and can only take a detour, then we can only send a small number of troops, and if there are many men and horses, not only will the march be slow, but also the mountain peak may not be able to place so many soldiers and horses. And if there are fewer soldiers and horses, how can they stop thousands of troops?

The clan elders said that they were confused, and Zhao Lie and all the generals under his command laughed. Hong Siniang glanced at Zhao Lie, and when the words came to her mouth, she still couldn't help but say nothing.

For the first question, Zhao Lie skipped and didn't answer, anyway, they would naturally see and feel it when the time came. To the second question, Zhao Lie also did not answer and asked: "Does that mountain have a name?" ”

Hong Siniang and the elders of the clan shook their heads: "No." ”

"Then let's call it Nameless Peak for the time being." Zhao Lie's eyes were deep, "After this battle, it will definitely have a name that will be remembered by history." ”