Zhao Goutun troops in Muzhou City, but he was not in a hurry to send troops to attack Qingxi, but quietly waited for Lu Junyi's news.

It is said that Lu Junyi led the army, and since the division of troops in Hangzhou, he commanded 30,000 horses, and led the Zhengbian generals to take the mountain road and rush towards Shezhou. After the former capital of King Qian in Lin'an Town, it is not far from Yuling Pass.

The general guarding Yuling Pass is a general under Fang La, nicknamed Xiaoyang Youji Pang Wanchun, and the first person in the southern country of Jiangnan who can shoot bows and arrows, leading two deputy generals: one is called Lei Jiong, and the other is called Ji Ji. These two lieutenants can drive seven or eight hundred catties of crossbows, each of them can make a thistle bone flower, and there are 5,000 men and horses under their command.

The three guards held the Yuling Pass, and heard that the Song army divided its troops to attack, and the deputy vanguard Lu Junyi led the army to arrive, and they were all ready to put down the enemy's equipment, just waiting for the Song army to come.

Lu Junyi led the army to approach Yuling Pass, so he sent Shi Jin, Shi Xiu, Yang Yizhong, Yang Zhi, Wang Gui, and Liu Qi to lead 3,000 infantry troops to find out the news. At that moment, Shi Jin and the other six people, all riding war horses, and the rest were foot soldiers, they quietly came to the sentry and did not meet anyone.

Shi Jin was discussing with everyone on the horse, only to see a colorful white flag on the shut, and the little Yangyouji Pang Wanchun standing under it, seeing Shi Jin and the others laughing, he scolded disdainfully: "You gang of grass thieves, you have to live in Liangshan Boli, and the Song Dynasty recruits An's orders, how dare you come to my land to pretend to be a hero!" Have you ever heard of my little Yoyuki's name? I can hear that among your gang of thieves, there is a little Li Guanghuarong, let him come out and compete with me. Teach you to see my magic arrow first! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Pang Wanchun pulled out the crossbow, mounted the arrow, and the arrow hit Shi Jin, making him fall directly from the horse. In addition, seeing that Shi Jin was shot, the five people hurried forward, immediately rescued him, and rode away. I heard a gong sound from the top of the mountain, and in the pine forests on the left and right, arrows were fired together.

The other five people didn't care about Shi Jin, so they ran for their lives and turned around the mountain; On the opposite side of the hillside, on one side was Lei Jiong, and on the other side was Ji Ji, and the crossbow arrows were shooting like rain, so that the five of them could only continue to hide, not daring to show any figures. Everyone saw that they had been beaten passively, and a brother died before the official confrontation, and they felt a little sad in their hearts.

Yang Zhi and Shi Xiu glanced at each other, and they both nodded, they both knew in their hearts that if they continued like this, they would inevitably die without a place to be buried, and only by breaking through the enemy's attack could they get a glimmer of life. However, there were so many arrows from the enemy that there was no way to escape.

"The three of you are the future pillars of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty will rely on your strength in the future!" Shi Xiu glanced at Yang Yizhong, Wang Gui and the others, and said solemnly.

Yang Zhi's gaze stayed on Yang Yizhong's body, and said with a smile: "If you go back to Beijing to see my brother in the future, say no to him on my behalf!" ”

Yang Yizhong exclaimed: "Uncle! ……”

"Two generals, you are ......"

Yang Zhinai is Yang Yizhong's uncle, and Yang Yi knows the last words his uncle said to him, and he is ready to die. Yang Zhi and Shi Xiu couldn't watch their juniors die with them, as long as the two of them attracted the attention of the enemy, the three of them would have a chance to take advantage of the situation and escape.

"You guys get out of here!"

Yang Zhi and Shi Xiu roared in unison, and then killed them from the mountain range, although their martial arts were high, they did not have the same skills as Zhao Gou. However, in order to protect Yang Yi and the other three, the two of them were stunned and killed, and used the war horse under their crotch as a shield to resist the arrows.

Then, the two of them walked forward step by step. Sure enough, the enemy's eyes were all attracted by them. Then, Yang Yizhong, Wang Gui, Liu Qi and the other three took advantage of the situation and rode away directly, not caring about anything else at all. However, the generals of the Southern Army were all well-known archery masters, and they also did it on purpose, and they set up arrows one after another, and the three of them shot three arrows each.

Yang Yi and the others were taken aback, but they couldn't avoid it, Pang Wanchun and the other three's arrows were too strong, and they pierced the bodies of the three of them. Yang Yi Zhong vomited a mouthful of blood, endured the severe pain in his body, and still galloped away, Pang Wanchun and the others confidently believed that Yang Yi Zhong and others would definitely die, so they let the three of them escape.

Pang Wanchun ordered to continue shooting, Yang Zhi and Shi Xiu looked at each other and smiled, and they were shot into a hornet's nest one after another, and they were killed. Of the 3,000 infantry led by the six of them, only a hundred or so fled back. When Lu Junyi saw them, he knew that there was an ambush ahead, and immediately led the army to the rescue, but saw Yang Yizhong, Wang Gui, and Liu Qi with arrows stuck in their bodies, blood flowing down, and they rushed to the rescue with blood in their mouths.

Lu Junyi was taken aback, and hurriedly led the army forward, the three of them had already passed out and were dying, but they had no worries about their lives. If you don't treat it in time, I'm afraid your life will not be guaranteed. Lu Junyi immediately asked the military doctor to come to treat him, and he was sad alone, knowing that Shi Jin, Yang Zhi, and Shi Xiu had died in battle, and Shi Jin was still his junior brother, and he actually fell for the enemy's tricks and died blindly.

Lu Junyi's eyes were red, and he whimpered: "The marshal's strength is not as much as mine compared to me, I didn't expect that before the victory, he actually folded the Sanyuan general, and even the three thousand infantry only had more than 100 people left, how can this explain to the marshal, and what face does he have to face his brother!" ”

Sun Li also felt a pain in his heart, and comforted: "The ancients had a saying: 'The time is not as good as the place, and the place is not as good as the people.'" If we want to occupy the geographical advantage, we can only use the help of local villagers to guide the path to know how the mountain road twists and turns. ”

Lu Junyi said: "This statement is reasonable, so who is more appropriate to send to find out the way?" ”

At the same time, Yan Qing stood up and said, "Pioneer, the last general is willing to go!" ”

Sun Li pondered for a moment and said: "Brother Yanqing is more suitable to go, he is proficient in the words of a hundred schools, and he knows strange things, and he is already familiar with the road, and his martial arts are also good, I think the enemy army has never seen it, I think it is feasible." ”

Immediately, Lu Junyi asked Yan Qing to go on the road to explore the road, and Yan Qing took some dry food with him, crossed his waist knife, and left the camp.

Yan Qing went to the mountains alone, only caring about finding the way, and didn't care about the time, when he walked half a day later, it was getting late, so he found a place with some lights, and muttered: "There must be someone in the place of light!" ”

Taking advantage of the dark night, I followed the lights all the way, only to see a small nunnery in front of me, and the lights were shining inside. Yan Qing came to the front of the nunnery, and when she went in to see, she saw an old monk inside, sitting on the ground and chanting. Yan Qing knocked on the door of his room, and the old monk called a small walker to open the door.

Yan Qing entered the inside and worshiped the old monk.

The old monk said, "Don't be polite! How did you get here? ”

Yan Qing replied: "I really don't dare to hide from the master that the villain is Yan Qing, a partial general under Marshal Zhao of the Song Army." Today, I came to the holy decree to recruit Fang La, who wanted to come at night to be guarded by Yuling, and the arrows shot to death of my three leaders, and there was no way to pass it, so Yan Qing was sent to find the way to find out what small way to pass the pass. Today, from the deep mountains and wilderness, I found this place, and I hope that the master will guide me to the maze, what is the path, and I should be rewarded with a good reward. ”

The old monk said: "The people here were all brutalized by Fang La, and none of them did not resent him. The old monk also relied on the benefactor of the people here to feed his mouth. Now that the people in the village have fled, the old monk has nowhere to go, so he has to die here. Fortunately, the general is here today, and all the people are blessed. The general came to collect this thief and eliminate the harm with the people, but the old monk just didn't dare to say more, for fear that the thieves would know. Since it is a general sent by the imperial court, it is okay. But I have no way to pass here, until I reach the west mountain ridge, but there is a small road that can be passed. I'm afraid that it has been cut off by thieves recently, and I can't go over. ”

Yan Qing asked, "Master, since there is this path, it can be closed, but I don't know if I can get to the thief's village?" ”

The old monk replied: "This private road, as soon as it goes to the back of Depangwanchun Village, down the ridge, it is the way to pass the customs." But I am afraid that the thieves have broken the big stones, and it is difficult to pass. ”

Shi Qian said: "Might as well! There is a path, I am not afraid that he will be broken, I have my own way. In this case, the villain went back to report to the master, but came to reward him. ”

The old monk shook his head and said, "The general has seen the outside, and Hugh said that the poor monks are more eloquent." ”

Yan Qing nodded, and replied with understanding: "The villain is a delicate person, and he doesn't dare to say the master." ”

Immediately, Yan Qing said goodbye to the old monk and went straight back to the village, saw Lu Junyi, and said that he knew about it.

Lu Junyi was overjoyed when he heard this, so he was anxious and the generals discussed the strategy of taking the customs together.

Sun Li said: "If there is such a path, if you want to break through Yuling Pass, it will be an easy thing. Send another person to go with Yan Qing to do this big thing. ”

Yan Qing asked puzzledly, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Sun Li said with a smile: "The most important thing is to set fire and set fires. When you wait around, you will bring artillery, fire knives, and flint, and you will go to the back of the village and set off the cannon fire, which is what you do. ”

Yan Qing was puzzled: "Since you just want to set fire and set fire, there is nothing else to do, you don't need to use others to go with you, just brothers go to their own devices." If you send one to go with you, you may not be able to give more help, but there are many people who talk and make noises. ”

Sun Li nodded, pondered for a moment, and said, "That's right, it's better to let you go alone." Regardless of whether there is an ambush or not, as long as you see trees or dense weeds, you will set them on fire, and you don't have to worry about letting him ambush. ”

Yan Qing nodded with a smile and said, "It's exactly what I want!" ”

Yan Qing immediately packed up the fire knife, flint, and ignited the coal cylinder, carried the cannon with a burden on his back, and then said goodbye to Lu Junyi and went first; In addition, Lu Junyi also asked Yan Qing to bring twenty taels of silver, grain and rice and one stone to give to the old monk, and knew that Yan Qing couldn't move so much alone, so he sent another person to go with him.

In the afternoon of the same day, Yan Qing led this military academy rice, and then found the old way to the nunnery, met the old monk, and said: "The main general vanguard, bow a lot, and give a little gift." ”

So, Yan Qing gave the silver taels and rice grains to the monk. The old monk also accepted it, and Yan Qing ordered the man to go back by himself, and after seeing the man leave, he asked again: "I hope that the master will guide the path, but the walker will lead the villain." ”

The old monk replied: "The general does not need to be anxious, if you go during the day, you will expect that the thieves will find out, so it is better to go again in the middle of the night." ”

Yan Qing thought about it and felt that what she said was right, so she stayed to eat some fasting food. It wasn't until late at night that the old monk asked the little novice to lead the way, and when he arrived at the path, the little novice said respectfully: "General, there is that path ahead, and the little monk has taken his leave!" ”

After the little novice left, Yan Qing continued to walk alone, through the forest and through the mountains, and climbed the vines. After several miles of mountain trails and wild slopes, the moonlight is faint, only to a mountain ridge, the stone wall is steep, and a small intersection is seen in the distance, and the big stones are stacked and broken on the top rock, and the wall is high.

Yan Qing muttered, "It seems that this is the place!" ”

Then, Yan Qing immediately used the ability to fly the eaves and walk the wall, jump the fence and cheat the horse. These stone walls climbed over with a finger, and when I looked east, I saw that between the trees, half the sky was full of red. It turned out that it was Lu Junyi who led the army all the way here, and they were all set on fire, and they didn't care about 3721.

Lu Junyi sent three or five hundred people to take the lead in attacking, killing many enemy soldiers along the way, and setting fire to them, the enemy had no choice but to obediently come out to fight with them, and they were wiped out by the Song army.

Yuling closed the small Yang Youji Pang Wanchun heard that the Song soldiers set fire to the forest to open the way, and said in a deep voice: "This is his method of entering the army, so that my ambush soldiers cannot be used." We only stick to this pass, how can you get through it? ”

Seeing that the army led by Lu Junyi was getting closer and closer to Yuling Pass, Pang Wanchun brought Lei Jiong and Ji Ji to guard the pass.

Yan Qing touched the pass step by step, climbed on the top of a big tree, crouched in the dense branches and leaves, and looked at Pang Wanchun, Lei Jiong, and Ji Ji, all of whom put on their bows and arrows, and waited in front of the pass, and when they saw Song Jun, they also lit a fire, and they were so angry that they scolded: "It's really damn, you still dare to resist, and you are angry with me!" ”

When Pang Wanchun and the others were about to shoot arrows, they didn't know that Yan Qing had already closed the gate, he quietly slipped down the tree, and secretly came to the back of the pass, and happened to see two piles of firewood and grass, and immediately took out the fire knife and flint, sent out the fire, put the cannon on the firewood, first put some sulfur and flame nitrate to burn the grass pile over there, and then lit the firewood pile here.

Then, Yan Qing lit the cannon again, took the fire, and climbed up to the roof of Guan to light it. In the firewood and grass piles on both sides, they were on fire together, and the artillery shook the sky. When he closed the generals and saw that the fire was burning, he thought that the Song army had attacked, and before the battle, he was in a chaotic position, and fled directly with shouts, where to care about what to meet the enemy.

When Pang Wanchun and the two lieutenants rushed to the back of the gate to put out the fire, Yan Qing put artillery on the roof ridge again. The artillery shook the house and moved, so frightened that the southern soldiers abandoned their swords, bows and arrows, robes, and armor, and ran after the pass.

Seeing this situation, Yan Qing shouted: "Ten thousand Song soldiers have already passed the pass first, you and others surrender as soon as possible to avoid your death!" ”

When Pang Wanchun heard this, he was so frightened that his soul was not possessed; Lei Jiong and Ji Ji were also so frightened that they couldn't move. In fact, Yan Qing was just bluffing, if they found out in time, they would still be able to escape. was shocked by Yan Qing's words, so much so that Hu Yanzhuo and others led a large army to come and directly kill Yuling Pass.

Sun Lisheng captured Lei Jiong, Hu Yanzhuo took Ji Ji alive, and only Pang Wanchun left, and most of his soldiers were captured. Lu Junyi also led the army to Yuling Pass, directly stationed the army here, and then rewarded Yan Qing heavily, and directly broke the stomach of Lei Jiong and Ji Ji to pay tribute to the three generals who died in battle, and then ordered someone to bury the bodies of Shi Jin, Shi Xiu, and Yang Zhi on the pass, and the other corpses were all fired.

Since then, Lu Junyi has won Yuling Pass, and then he is approaching Shezhou City, and finally Qingxi Town.