"General, we've got the news!"

A fast horse galloped in from the mountain pass, and the scout jumped off his horse, knelt in front of him and gave a military salute, and reported to Cao Hanchen, who had been waiting here for a long time: "This morning, about 30,000 food reinforcements have appeared in the Green Ridge to guard and capture, and it is estimated that they will be able to go down to the Pantuo Ridge this evening." ”

"As expected, the governor did not expect." Cao Hanchen nodded slightly, and he immediately ordered several scouts behind him: "You go and send a letter to the governor immediately, and you must send the letter to the camp within two days without sparing any horsepower." ”

"Yes!" Several scouts bowed, turned over and got on their horses, and a dozen horses stirred up billowing yellow dust and galloped away in the direction of Shule.

At this time, Pei Guangguang, the king of Shule next to him, finally couldn't help but ask: "General Cao, I am already sure that I will take the green ridge to defend and capture, as long as I hold there, the big food army will not be able to enter and exit, I really don't understand, why does Zhang Shangshu want to enlarge the reinforcements of the food to come in?" Add risk. ”

Cao Hanchen patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "My family governor will never only focus on one bureau and one domain, he must have been carefully considered and his long-term considerations when he enlarged the food reinforcements, so you don't have to ask more." ”

Pei Guangguang shook his head, he still couldn't understand Zhang Huan's move, after thinking about it, he asked again, "Then what should we do now?" ”

Cao Hanchen laughed, "Now that the Great Cannibal reinforcements have come in, it's time for us to close the door." ”

After that, he looked back at Pei Guangguang and said, "The capture of the Green Ridge is a matter of the overall situation, and this matter is entrusted to you." ”

Pei Guangguang clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "Please rest assured, the general has someone under me who knows a secret passage that leads directly to the back of the castle, and he will definitely be able to take down the green ridge guard." ”

Two hours later. The 3,000 Tang Army and the 5,000 Shule Army marched in the starry night and galloped away to the Green Ridge Guard, a hundred miles away.

In the Tang army camp, Zhang Huan came to Cheng Lie's camp accompanied by several generals, in yesterday's battle, Cheng Lie's left leg was pierced by a big cannibal marker gun, and injured his bones, at this moment he was lying on the bed and angrily scolded the military doctor who treated him, "What is called not being able to get out of bed for a month, the injury of the old book is so oops!" You tap it. Is the old book's injury that serious? ”

The military doctor smiled bitterly, and he didn't dare to say anything about his scolding, so he changed the medicine for this unreasonable big book officer with his hands and feet, and Cheng Lie was silent when he saw him. Even more indignant, "I don't care!" You're a medic. You have to find a way to get me to the ground in three days, or you will go into battle, not as a military doctor!" ”

"General Cheng is so angry, I haven't enjoyed the battle, right?"

Suddenly, the voice of Governor Zhang Huan came from the door of the tent. Cheng Lie was so startled that he instinctively wanted to jump up, but was stopped by the fast-eyed military doctor. "The general must not act rashly!"

Zhang Huan slowly walked into the big tent, looked at him and sneered: "I heard that you didn't even know that your bones were cracked, and you notified the military doctor this morning because the pain was unbearable, which is good!" You are indeed worthy of a fierce word. Cheng Lie heard the dissatisfaction in Du Du's tone, he didn't dare to speak, Dou Da's head was deeply lowered, and Zhang Huan didn't say anything more. He saw a large cannibal spear standing beside the bed. He reached out and took it, but his hand sank suddenly. Only then did he realize that this throwing gun was actually made of pure iron, which was completely different from the ordinary wooden handle and iron-headed throwing gun, not to mention that it weighed thirty pounds, Zhang Huan smiled with some sudden realization: "I said that how can the big cannibal throwing gun pierce the heavy armor of the Mo Dao Army, it is really not an ordinary throwing gun." ”

"There's still a word on it!" The big book muffled.

Zhang Huan found that there was a line of big food text engraved on the barrel of the gun, all of which were words he didn't recognize, and he couldn't help but smile and asked, "How do you know that this is a personal name?" ”

"I have already asked, the name is Abu. Muryali. Cheng Lie raised his head, let out a long sigh and said: "I know who this person is, I have seen him on the battlefield, he should be their commander, riding a dark horse like a demonic beast, and his figure is the same as mine." ”

"So you're afraid that you won't be able to fight him on the battlefield, so you want to hide your injuries, don't you?" Zhang Huan's gaze suddenly sharpened, and he stared at Cheng Lie's eyes and scolded: "What if you are injured on the battlefield? It's just that you are killed by him, what about the brothers! Have you thought about them for them, it took us three years to train this Wanmo Sword Army, and it was because of your whimsy that you ruined them? ”

Cheng Lie's face was swollen red, his head was lowered again, he didn't dare to raise it, and the other dozen or so generals were also trembling and silent, Du Du had such a big temper, it was rare to see it, Zhang Huan was pacing in the big tent with his hands behind his back, his face was extremely gloomy, "How many times have I said that you are no longer small soldiers, everything needs to consider the overall situation, you are at least Lang General, Zhong Lang General, and you have tens of thousands of brothers under your command, and you will be a prince in the future, but do you really have the idea of a prince?" Just because I didn't order the pursuit of the big cannibals yesterday, they were all dissatisfied, and went back to slap the table and scold the soldiers, when I didn't know? ”

Zhang Huan's eyes were as sharp as knives, he swept over the generals one by one, and finally stopped at Wang Siyu's face, "Do you really think that I am afraid of the Great Food Cavalry?" I can't even use a thunderbolt, don't I know the effect of a gunpowder bullet exploding in the Great Food Army? With only 50,000 food troops, they don't even have bows and arrows, and half of them are weak miscellaneous armies, do I really not know that a battle can be decided? ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Huan snorted heavily, he walked to the tent with his hands behind his back, staring at the Shule City in the distance with a gloomy face, there was silence in the tent, no one dared to speak, for a long time, Zhang Huan calmed down his emotions slightly, and said in a relaxed tone as much as possible: "There has been a drastic change in the court, it stands to reason that I should rush back immediately, but I really don't worry about the battle with the big cannibals, there is no one who can make me completely relieved!"

If He Lou Wuji is here, why should I do everything myself? ”

Wang Siyu's face was already flushed, he knew that the governor was actually dissatisfied with his temper when he went back last night, he lowered his head, and didn't dare to say a word, Zhang Huan glanced at him, and saw that he had already admitted his mistake, so he said slowly: "If you want to look at ten years and twenty years later, it may be a little difficult for you, but."

Speaking of the word but, Zhang Huan suddenly turned to look at the crowd: "But everyone should at least think about it for the brothers who are on the expedition to break leaves, the more the Great Food Army we will annihilate here." The less pressure they have there, the less pressure I have, so I'm not in a hurry to annihilate Shule's Great Cannibal Army, using them as bait to attract more reinforcements, and the more enemy forces we annihilate, the more advantageous we will be when negotiating with the Great Cannibal in the future, don't you understand? ”

Everyone was full of shame, Wang Siyu took the lead in half-kneeling and clasping his fists and said: "My subordinates are guilty, please punish them!" ”

Follow Wang Siyu. Everyone knelt down in unison and said, "Please punish all the crimes!" ”

"Give me medicine! If you are all condemned, who will fight? Get up for me! ”

Zhang Huan smiled and shook his head, "If you don't understand anything in the future, just ask in person." Don't complain in the back, it hurt my ears to be hot all night last night. I didn't even sleep well. ”

Everyone laughed, and the atmosphere in the tent eased for a while, and Zhang Huan immediately waved his hand again: "Sit down!" Let's talk about the military situation here today. ”

Everyone sat on the ground, Zhang Huan pondered for a moment and said: "I received an urgent report from Cao Hanchen an hour ago, and the 30,000 reinforcements of Dashi have passed Tuopanling. Tell me, what should we do?"

Everyone's spirits lifted at the same time. Besieging the city and sending reinforcements is a definite strategy, but the governor mentioned this matter here, in fact, he was asking who was willing to lead the troops to ambush the reinforcements, Zhang Huan's words just fell, and immediately three people stood up to ask for battle, one was the deputy general Wang Siyu, and the other was the tooth general Li Dingfang. There is also Liang Tingyu, the spearman commander. Zhang Huan saw that everyone had guessed his intentions, so he stopped explaining. He immediately said to Wang Siyu and Liang Tingyu: "This battle is very critical, I will sit here in the big camp, General Wang is the main one, General Liang is the deputy, the two of you take 20,000 cavalry to ambush the Great Food Army, you must pay attention to the outpost of the Great Cannibal, don't be discovered by them." ”

"Yes!" The two of them bowed and walked quickly to the outside of the big tent.

"Du Du," Cheng Lie's thick lips moved, and he said, "What should my subordinates do?" ”

"You?" Zhang Huan glanced at him and said coldly: "If you just want to be a small soldier, then I will allow you to go to the battlefield." ”

In the thick of the night, with no end in sight of the rolling hills, an army of about 3,000 men made their way along a slippery and narrow mountain path, and after climbing to the top of a ridge, they descended from the other side of the mountain to a deep valley shrouded in darkness, and for two days they repeated the same path, not knowing when it would be the end.

Cao Hanchen stood up straight and wiped a handful of dense beads of sweat on his forehead, they had been walking on the mountain for two days, their legs were exhausted, tired or secondary, the most important thing was that this secret road was too difficult, this sheep intestine trail was embedded in the cliff, no more than two feet wide, and the mountain was sloping, everyone could only walk sideways, and on their left was the abyss, plus the mountain had been covered with thin ice, extremely slippery, and there was nothing to support, a little careless will fall into the abyss, In fact, more than two dozen brothers have fallen off a cliff and died.

They had walked for three hours on the most difficult part of the mountain, and no one dared to speak, and everyone was silent, paying full attention to their feet, lest they would be distracted if they spoke.

After walking for about half an hour, the most difficult part of the mountain road was finally over, and the mountains in front of them began to become gentle, and the ground was covered with a layer of white snow, which had frozen into ice, and the feet became wide, and the threat of death was far away, and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, and many people sat on the ground exhausted, gasping for breath.

Cao Hanchen looked down the mountain, in the bright moonlight, he saw at a glance the city of Thirsty Pantuo built on a steep high hill, Thirsty Pantuo City is the capital of Thirsty Pantuo country, surrounded by lush forests, there is a large food army stationed in it, choking the road of this ancient silk road, there are many sentry posts and watchtowers arranged around the city, and it is impossible to come from the front at all, but at this moment, they have gone around through the secret passage to the back of Thirsty Pantuo City.

However, the city of thirsty pantuo is not their goal today, their goal is to build another castle on the mountain road, and if they take this castle, the city will become an ornament.

"General Cao, this is there!" The guide pointed into the distance.

Cao Hanchen looked along his fingers, only to see an abrupt cliff in front of him, and under the cliff was a gray hillside, at the end of the hillside, a castle could be faintly seen The shadow book, which looked dark and hazy in the middle of the night.

All the soldiers stood up. Looking at the castle blankly, there is the Green Ridge Guarding Castle, which is the end of their trip, the guide is one of Pei Guangguang's subordinates, about thirty years old, with a simple face, he is the native of the thirsty Pantuo country, his ancestors hunted in the mountains for a living, and he is very familiar with every grass and tree in this place. He saw that Cao Hanchen was looking at the distance, so he smiled and said: "It is about three miles in a straight line, but there is a huge cliff ahead, and you can only detour from the top of the cliff." Although it is not possible to reach the city gates, it is possible to fall down the castle by rope. ”

Cao Hanchen nodded. Turning back to Pei Guangguang behind him, he said: "You lead two thousand people to wait here, I will bring one thousand people up first, and you will rush to meet after the battle." ”

He waved his hand again, "Hold on, brothers, we must take the castle before dawn." ”

A thousand Don troops stood up one after another. Follow the guide to the north again, this time with a relatively easy journey. Although it was just as difficult, there was no threat of death from the cliff, and the speed of the march gradually increased, and an hour later, a thousand Tang troops came to the cliff.

It is a huge cliff, covered with snow, in an arc. The Tang army came from the north of the cliff. Under the cliff is a canyon road about dozens of zhang wide, which extends along the high canyon road to the foot of the mountain more than ten miles away. Although the slope is relatively steep, but the road is very flat, horses and camels can be walked, at the highest end of the canyon with huge stones to build a majestic castle, pedestrians to cross the canyon must pass through the castle, the original intention of building this castle is to collect taxes, but at this time, it has become the Tang army to strangle the Great Food Army to return to the west of the Wangxiang City.

The canyon before dawn was silent and cold, the moon had already descended the mountain, the black fog shrouded the valley, the first light had not yet emerged from behind the dark mountain beams, and from the top of the mountain, the castle was pitch black, at least thirty zhang of vertical distance.

At this time, the Tang army had already put down more than a dozen ropes, and Cao Hanchen was carrying a horizontal knife and a bow and arrow, ready to go down first, and the guide was on another rope next to him, and told him: "There are many huge dead vines and branches on the cliff, which can completely hide your body." ”

Cao Hanchen nodded, he leaned in, whoosh! With a soft sound, he had already glided down more than three zhang deep, and more than a dozen Tang soldiers went down side by side, and when the first row of Tang soldiers went down to about ten zhang, the second row of Tang soldiers also slid down, followed by the third row and the fourth row

The descent went very smoothly, as if to compensate them for two days of hard marching, Cao Hanchen was the first to touch the city wall, and there was a gap about a foot wide between the city wall and the stone wall, he listened intently for a moment, there was no movement, and with a slight leap, he silently jumped onto the battlements, and then jumped into the city again

He drew his sword and hid in a corner to look around, if there were any patrols, it seemed that it was because of the presence of the city of Thirsty Pantuo in front of him that the defenders in the city were paralyzed, how could the enemy come from behind?

With a wave of his hand, the Tang army quickly jumped into the city from the cliff, and immediately split up to guard the passage that came over, and suddenly, there was an uproar! With a bang, a Tang soldier slid and dropped a loose rock page into a gap, and the rock page bumped again and again, and finally made a dull sound of landing, which was particularly harsh in the silent night.

All the people tensed their nerves as soon as they read the book, and they held their breath and listened to the movement around them, until at last, the sound of footsteps and a muttering curse came from the corridors below the city.

Cao Hanchen clenched the hilt of the knife, clinging to the wall behind the turn of the aisle, the footsteps became louder and louder, and heavy breathing was heard, and a black shadow finally appeared in front of him.

Cao Hanchen pounced like a cheetah, covered his mouth from behind with his left hand, and cut his throat with a knife with his right hand, the movement was clean and neat, and the black shadow immediately fell softly without making a sound.

He listened to the stairs for a few more moments, but there was no movement, and with a wave of his hand, the Tang army once again slid down the cliff like apes, and in only a quarter of an hour, more than 300 people came down.

At this time, the eastern sky turned up the white of the fish's belly, the sky was already numb, it was time to start, Cao Hanchen beckoned, "Follow me!" ”

Hundreds of Tang troops rushed into the city from the east and west stone steps.

Only a moment, the city suddenly erupted in a shouting and killing, pleading, crying, screaming all around, more than 200 soldiers of the Great Food Army were raided by the Tang Army in their sleep, this was a one-sided massacre without suspense, less than a quarter of an hour, the castle returned to calm, more than 200 people were killed cleanly, none of them lived, there was no alarm bell ringing, more than ten miles away from the thirsty Pantuo City did not know, the Green Ridge Guard Fort had changed its owner.

(Yesterday Lao Gao updated 10,000 words, and today it is 8,000 words, very hard, and now Lao Gao is behind you, his eyes are red, and he is carrying a knife.)