Chapter 52: The Way to Live
In order to chase the king of Chu and find out where the Chu army was going, Li Xin ordered the Yiqu cavalry and thousands of guards to go north from Wuli Water to the east of the valley mouth of the Ma Valley. The strange thing is that the Chu army that had been arranged outside the valley mouth disappeared, and the Qin army returned to the horse valley without wasting any effort to block the way of the king of Chu. After tonight, King Jing will inevitably climb the mountain into the Horse Valley and hit the net of the righteous canal people.
As long as he could kill the king of Chu and the iron cavalry he led, Xin Sheng didn't care who made meritorious service and received the knighthood, but the heavens seemed to be moved by his determination to take revenge, and it rained when the words fell. The rain dripped on Xin Sheng's hand, and as soon as he raised his head, it dripped on his face again. The cavalry general next to him also found that it was starting to rain, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "General, the Jingren bow and arrow are wasted!" ”
The bow and crossbow have never been an all-weather weapon, and in addition to the change of temperature and humidity caused by the change of seasons, it is even more ruinous when it rains. This is also the reason why all the cold weapons are hand-to-hand heavy infantry, there are many cases of sudden rain on the battlefield, and even more so in encounters, you can't shout a pause first and wait for the sun to come out before fighting. Bows and crossbows are unreliable, the Qin army does not rely on crossbows, and the nobles of the Chu army themselves attach importance to bows, but now the bow is only a supplement to the spear array of the Chu army, and the number of soldiers has been reduced to thirty-six per pawn.
The raindrops fell, and the Chu army also realized that they could no longer rely on Cheng Kui, who was good at shooting, to stop the Qin people, and they stood up after resting, and the cavalry swords were unsheathed together to meet the last onslaught of the Qin army before dark. At the same time, at the throat of the Jiyi Basin leading to the Nanyang Basin, on the top of Dafu Mountain in the south of Fuyi, the county prince Dou Yu Pheasant was leading hundreds of armor soldiers to pry a mountain cliff with a huge iron.
Dou Yu Pheasant's way to take Fuyi was not to attack the city, but to destroy the city. As long as a cliff on the top of Dafu Mountain is about to fall off, the Qin army in Fuyi City will be buried by the rubble if they are not killed by the rubble. The mountain road is narrow, and there is no problem with having a city or not guarding it for a period of time, and the most important thing is to keep more than 100,000 Qin troops in the Jiyi Basin.
"Report to the county public, the cliff has moved!" The chief came over excitedly to report, in order to pry the cliff rock, the mansion specially created a batch of tools.
"Pry down!" Next to the three sacrifices of the mountain god of Dafu Mountain, Dou Yu Pheasant is looking at the Nanyang Basin in the west, where it was once the territory of the Chu State and also has the tombs of the ancestors.
"Yui!" The pawn commander shouted and ran to the edge of the cliff, waved his hand: "Pry! ”
Hundreds of Tang County soldiers were standing on the edge of the cliff, their huge iron crowbars in their hands deeply inserted into the cracks in the mountain. Hearing the order, he began to pry the cliff violently. At first, the cliff rock only shook slightly, and when the shaking became bigger and bigger, and even the mountain seemed to be shaking, 'click', as if something had broken, and the cracked cliff under the feet of the soldiers fell into the air.
The 'click' sound did not stop there, and as the lower part of the cliff fell, a large additional piece of the mountain was pulled out of the stone wall, so that the cliff above, which had lost its support, also collapsed downward.
"Retreat! Hurry back! "The mountain under their feet shook, and the county guards of Tang County, who were so frightened that they were not possessed, had forgotten to dodge, and the shouts of the fighting pheasants brought them back to their senses, and finally someone knew to retreat, at this time they couldn't even take care of the big iron, and hundreds of people fell and sat down and climbed off the edge of the cliff with a rolling belt." Bang! A few steps away, the cliff suddenly cracked and plunged down.
"Ahh At this time, the pale faces of the pawns let out a few exclamations, and they climbed to the front of the three animals that sacrificed to the mountain god, and paused again and again, in order to ask the Dafu Mountain God for forgiveness.
The Chu pawn on the mountain gave the head of the mountain god of Dafu Mountain, and the Fuyi under the mountain was the moment when the Qin army made a fire to make food. I don't want a strange disaster to fall from the sky, the falling cliff stone is like a dark cloud covering the city, after a few loud bangs, it seems that half of the city wall has been erased by an earthquake, all the houses in the city have collapsed, and the smoke and dust cover the entire city, and it took a long time to hear the screams of Qin soldiers.
"Kill!" The county magistrate of Tang County, who had climbed to the bottom of the mountain to witness this scene, suddenly shouted, not knowing at all that their comrades on the top of the mountain were flowing with feces and urine at this time, and they nodded at the mountain god countless times.
"Kill!" Ruo Ao was the first to rush out of the mountains and forests in the shouting, and thousands of county guards chased after him, and before the last rays of sunlight disappeared, these people rushed towards Fuyi, where the smoke and dust had not dispersed and the rubble was still falling.
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The rain kept falling, and after barely shooting a few arrows, Cheng Kui had to put down his longbow, untie the bowstring around his neck, and dry the already damp hemp rope with his own body heat. The battle was not over, and after packing up his bowstring, he also drew his cavalry knife and rushed forward to slash at the Qin pawn.
When the sun sets, the temperature in the mountains drops sharply, and the birds in the sky are densely packed back to the forest, only the two armies on the top of the hill are fighting to the death, and the blood is sprinkled one by one, splashing on the yellow and green grass. Xiong Jing also drew his sword, his strength was still too small at more than five feet, but he had already formed a kind of cooperation with the armor soldiers who were protecting him on his side: whenever Qin pawn rushed up and swung his hand out of breath, the armorers on both sides would draw their swords to block the short ge, and he quickly stepped forward and stabbed.
Rapier is not heavy, sacrificing a chop for the sake of length, but can be stabbed. Each of his stabs was aimed at the enemy's heart, and the stabbing retreated quickly, and then blood spurted out, and Qin Shu fell down with his heart. The feeling of killing, especially killing enemies, was exciting, and after stabbing several Qin pawns to death one after another, he couldn't help but howl, but at this time, the Qin people had already retreated down the mountain.
"The king killed four Qin soldiers in a row, Yongye!" Right Historical Chronicle. After writing this old thing, he took the opportunity to make a big fuss, Xiong Jing couldn't laugh if he wanted to, and he didn't regard this kind of assassination as his own military exploits. He sat on the ground, and finally lay on his back on the grass and gasped for breath. The sun had set, and a faint, semicircular moon had risen over the light blue sky. He suddenly missed his mother very much, and he missed Mi Xuan very much.
"King!" In the darkness, Fei Jing, who led the troops back to help, saw Xiong Jing fall to the ground, and his eyes were cracked. He hurried over and knelt in front of Xiongjing.
"No, nothing." Xiong Jing got up and looked at him with a smile. "How's that ahead?"
"Huh." Fei Jing sighed. "Your Majesty, there is Ma Gu ahead."
"Horse Valley?!" Xiongjing in Magu has been there before, and a few months ago there were Chu troops stationed in Magu. Of course, this is all in the past, who would have thought that after the withdrawal of the army, he would flee to the Valley of the Horse for his life?
Taking advantage of the last rays of light, he quickly took out the map of the horse valley, as well as the compass—three days ago, the river was going north, and the compass was jumping around. What he didn't know was that there was a large amount of magnetite buried in this area, especially in the Western Han Dynasty, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty. If it weren't for that, the group would have arrived in the Valley of the Horses.
"How far is Taniguchi?" Xiong Jing pointed to the valley on the map and asked Xiang Yujing. Fei Jing was actually not familiar with Ma Gu, but fortunately, there were two county guards who were familiar with Ma Gu among the people who accompanied him, and they were the path to explore with Fu Jing.
"Your Majesty, over this mountain is the Horse Valley, about fourteen miles away from the mouth of the valley." The county magistrate said.
"Oh, then you can return to the Chu realm at noon tomorrow." Xiong Jing was overjoyed when he heard this, and after drilling the ravine for a few days, he finally got out.
"The king doesn't know." Yu Jing smiled bitterly, "The horse valley is full of Qin soldiers, in addition to Qin soldiers, there are also cavalry of the Yiqu people. ”
"Are they ......" Xiong Jing asked urgently, only to wake up after half a sound. Before he went to the Qin border, he ordered the Great Sima Mansion to start evacuating the people and shrink all the garrison forces on the Chu-Qin and Chu-Wei borders.
"Tell the king, it's not that there is no way to live." Another county official who used to be stationed in the horse valley said. "After entering the valley, if you go northeast for more than ten miles, there is a valley road that can lead to the Wei realm."
"Wei Jing?" After entering the Horse Valley, there is indeed a valley on its north side. If this valley can go all the way north, it will naturally be able to reach the Wei realm. Located on the eastern edge of the Nanyang Basin, from Biyang County to Chengyang, many people are reluctant to go to the Horse Valley, generally go to the east to the Wei realm first, and then go south out of the Wei realm, and go to Chengyang through Yiyi.
"The Wei realm is the Qin realm, and the Qin and Wei armies are converging in Shangcai at this time, and we are waiting to enter Wei, and we are not far from Shangcai." Xiong Jing thought back to Chu Qin Wei's cities in this area, and slowly shook his head.
Hundreds of years ago, the state of Chu once stationed Fangcheng in the Nanyang Basin, and a section on the east side of Fangcheng passed through the valley mouth west of the Ma Valley. The west of Fangcheng is the Qin realm, the east of Fangcheng is the Wei realm, and the national boundary of Chu and Wei is the big mountain on the north side of the east valley mouth of Magu (the eastern foot of Baiyun Mountain), this mountain is the source of water, and it enters the Wei realm through the valley road, and it is only more than 100 miles away from Shangcai, where the Qin and Chu armies gathered.
"I don't think I'm worried." Fei Jing said, "The army of Qin and Wei is assembled in Shangcai, and the city is empty. Our army still has more than 480 horses, if we go to the flat ground, the Qin and Wei armies will not know our traces, even if they meet, our army can avoid their edge......"
"How are the wounded? There are not enough medicines. Xiong Jing's words made Concubine Jing speechless. Today, there are more than 100 wounded, the exact number is 113, of which more than 40 are seriously injured.
The sky had already darkened, and the rest of the knights unconsciously leaned over after the concubine came over. Hearing that the king was concerned about the injured, Xiang Chao said excitedly: "Your lord, the minister has a plan to ......"
"I don't listen." In the dark, Xiong Jing glared at Xiang Chao, his so-called strategy was to hold the banner and pretend to be himself to lead away the Qin army. The knights are all children of the Gong clan, and Xiong Jing doesn't want to lose anyone for no reason.
"The minister asks the king to do a super strategy." Fei Jing immediately said. After him, the rest of the knights followed.
"The king," You Shi also said, "Tomorrow Xin Sheng should have a new pawn to help, if Ma Gu Qin knows that I am here, the front and back will be in danger." ”
"You can't stay here for long, but," Xiong Jing simply listened to everyone's words, and he thought about whether he could break out of the mouth of the Magu Valley. It's just that the Qin army in the valley also knows that they will rush towards the valley with all their might, and they can set a trap at the valley mouth and wait for themselves to catch the net; If it is to the west, it is the Qin realm, and it will not work.
"What are the cities in Wei Realm?" Xiong Jing had to put his way out to the north. If you can capture a city, many of the wounded will survive.
"King Yu, since the first king of Ping, after the relocation of the road, Fang, Shen and other countries, there is only a town in the Sang Tunnel here, which is the closest to here." Right Shi Dao.
"Then take the Mulberry Tunnel!" Xiong Jing no longer hesitated.