It's already the third day.

Yesterday, Jing Sili led the department up. The main force of the Jingyuan army also arrived at Didao. According to Wang Shao's assignment, Yao Lin will go to Lintao Fort in the north of Di Dao and be responsible for resisting the task of the Yu Zang family. And the remaining Qin Feng army, part of which guards Kenuo Fort, and the rest will join the 3,000 Jingyuan army led by Yao Ji to join the main force under the city of Hezhou.

But the Xihe army led by Wang Shao has not yet attacked the city of Hezhou.

Below them is the valley where the tributaries of the water are located. The confluence of this tributary and Lishui is where the city of Hezhou is located.

Under the city of Hezhou, tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers who obeyed the summons of Mu Zheng occupied the entire Lishui River Valley, and saw the direction of the Song army's attack, and constantly sent cavalry in and out of the tributary valley.

The Mu Zheng army attacked day by day, and as soon as the Song army moved into the valley, it immediately launched an attack. The Song army that went down the mountain was never able to smoothly launch the formation, and it was also difficult to set up a camp under the attack of the Fan army. Always catch up quickly.

The Tibetans galloped through the valley with cavalry, much faster than the Song army. No matter where Wang Sunsin and Miao chose to descend the mountain—even through the woods on the hillside, deliberately choosing unexpected places—as soon as they showed their heads, thousands of horsemen would soon come at them.

The tributary valleys became battlefields. Due to the limitation of the scope of the battlefield, only a small part of the tens of thousands of troops under Hezhou City could be invested, but there were also about 10,000 people. Therefore, even though the Song army was able to put its combat power into the battlefield at the same time, the disadvantage in strength still existed, and it was unable to advance forward by all means.

For a time, Wang Shao was forced to be on the upper part of the hillside, and ordered the whole army to be stationed.

On the slopes of the mountains with deep vegetation, there was no way to settle down at all, plus Jing Sili's Qin Fengjun, a total of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. The open space created by cutting down trees and cutting down trees was only arranged for 3,000 people. I had no choice but to set up a few small villages on the dangerous slopes in the south of the mountain. At the end, there were still 2,000 cavalry, and they had to return to Xiangzi City.

In two days, the rest of Qin Feng's army, plus the three thousand Jingyuan army, will come over. If we can't open up the situation before they come up, this face will be lost to the whole of Kansai.

Wang Sunsin came back kicking his feet, and these days he got on and off his horse, walking back and forth on the mountain road, and his mouth was open in front of his boots sewn from cowhide. He thought about going back to the tent to change his boots, but he still walked to Wang Shao's main tent.

Wang Sunsin tried again today. Zhao Long's 300 selectors, as well as the 400 shooters he selected in his headquarters, rushed down the hill before the morning light rose.

The formation of seven hundred elites was very fast, and in a few moments before the Tibetan cavalry arrived, the formation had already been formed. With a strong bow and a hard crossbow, he easily contained the assault of the cavalry of the Tibetan army, which numbered as many as 1,000 people.

Then Miao Zhu also looked for a plan to go out with him, but the speed at which they came down could not catch up with the speed of the cavalry, and they were blocked in the mountains and forests by another army of thousands of cavalry. Although the infantry of the Western Army was worthy of battle, if they could not form an array, they still had little chance of winning against the cavalry.

Seeing that Miao Zhu's side could not support, he found that the third Tubo cavalry had rushed into the valley, and there was a plan to copy the back road. Wang Sunsin immediately made a decision and immediately withdrew the people. After the break, he was so powerful that a longbow shot down dozens of horsemen who were chasing after him with their tails. It's like a thin embankment that holds back the monstrous flood.

It's just that no matter how brave the individual is, he can't change the frustration of the plan.

'Do you really have to wait for the Jingyuan army to come?' ’

With the Jingyuan army, plus the rest of Qin Feng's army, a total of 20,000 soldiers and horses, it is indeed possible to fight into the valley and build a camp to confront Hezhou City. However, Wang Sunchen understood that what Wang Shao needed was absolute control over the combat power of his subordinates, and if in an embarrassing situation, he had to rely on Yao and Yao Lin to get out of the predicament, and his command as a strategic envoy would definitely be discounted.

In the battle this morning, Miao Zhi and he did not use the Qin Feng army that arrived yesterday, but only the Xihe army came out of battle, and it was also because they understood Wang Shao's thoughts that they acted like this, but they still failed after the worst battle. The only thing to be thankful for is that there were not many casualties.

"What should I do?" After entering the camp, Wang Sunsin heard someone asking.

Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu were there, Jing Sili and several of his right-hand men in Qin Feng's army were also there, and Miao Zhu and Zhao Long pacified the soldiers one step earlier than Wang Shunchen, and they also arrived in the main tent one step earlier.

"It's still night." It was Wang Cun who made the proposal, and the generals under Jing Sili also arrived yesterday.

With Wang Shao's approval, Wang Cun talked about his plan. In half a day, a square wooden raft was put down from the mountain stream full of snow, and then fished up in the gentle valley. With one night's work, it was easy to erect the fence of the camp.

"When we haven't thought about it? I did it on the first day. Wang Sunchen immediately rolled his eyes, "Don't take Mu Zheng for fools, they dare to fight at night!" ”

"It only takes two or three hours to erect the barracks."

"Mu Zheng will not leave a gap for an hour." Zhao Long shook his head, "In the past two days, at night, the mountain is full of firelight. Mu Zheng sent an unknown number of teams of rangers to patrol the sentry day and night, which was really desperate. ”

"Really?" Before Wang Sunchen came in, Wang Shao, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke, "What about you?" ”

Everyone's eyes were focused on Wang Shao's body.

"Don't you dare to fight hard?" Xihe Jingluo's eyes were like knives, and he asked softly.

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It's getting late.

Suddenly, the drums of war began to beat heavily.

First, one drum sounded, then several, dozens of sides, and at the end of the day, together with the echoes of the valleys, echoed in the world.

Even if it is nearly ten miles away, the thunderous drum still shakes people's hearts. It sounded like it was coming down from the sky, like the thunder of summer, one after the other, and it didn't stop for a moment.

Qingyi Ghost Zhang walked out of the camp tent and looked in the direction where the drums came from.

The Song army, which was camped on the hillside, made the young patriarch of the Ghost Chapter Department disdainful. Seeing that the situation is not good, they dare not gamble on bravery, and the Song people are indeed not courageous. Now that there is such a sudden big noise, it can be imagined that seven or eight points are harassing, and only a small part is preparing for the battle.

In fact, he hoped that the Song people could come down the mountain directly, so that he could play the role of tens of thousands of troops. Unlike now, it was only a brief confrontation between 1,2001 cavalry and the Song army, and at most 10,000 people filled the valley, and more of the main force was just watching the excitement in the back.

However, Mu Zheng wanted to put more pressure on the Song people to compensate for the negative impact of abandoning a series of walled cities on his prestige, and also to pave the way for the Song army to go deeper.

Looking back at the banner shaking in front of the main tent of Wangmu Zheng, Qingyi turned over and returned to the tent, the horn of gathering troops is none of his business, it is not his turn to play now, it is better to go to sleep.

With the sound of drums, Wang Sunchen followed the soldiers under his command and walked down the hill step by step.

Rather than riding on a horse, Wang Sunsin prefers stability when he is down-to-earth. As long as his feet were firmly nailed to the ground, he was confident that he would shoot down the thousands of troops and horses in front of him one by one with the longbow in his palm.

Wang Shao ordered his army to be divided into several teams and come down from the mountain at the same time. In the past few days, in order to be able to enter the valley, the Song army has also opened up several roads in the woods, and it is not a waste of time.

The sound of hooves overpowered the sound of drums, and the two teams of Tibetan troops patrolling the valley rushed over. In the face of the Song army, which was divided into several units and attacked the valley at the same time, they did not disperse, but nailed the most marginal team together.

The scattered Song army is equivalent to giving them a chance to break through, as long as they disperse this team, they can follow closely to solve the next few Song armies.

They bumped into Wang Sunsin's troops.

Half of the soldiers had just walked out of the mountains and forests, and they only had time to clear two thin rows of queues, and half of them had not yet come out. In the face of thousands of cavalry soldiers, Wang Sunchen did not have the slightest intention of retreating.

Early in the morning, he returned to nothing, and a cloud of anger was condensing in his chest. Now as long as he delayed for a moment, reinforcements could arrive, and he stood firmly in the front of the queue, stretched out his bow, took arrows, and shouted:

"Shoot with me!"

Arrows rained down.

Because Wang Sunsin was good at bows and arrows, he had the highest requirements for the archery training of his soldiers. And since he was a child, he had heard the story of how Chong Shiheng lured the people to practice archery, and rewarded him with hanging silver, and whoever could shoot would reward him with silver. Drawing on the old tricks of Chong Shiheng, it only took half a year for the archery skills of the soldiers under Wang Sunchen's command to improve a lot.

The rate of fire of the bow and arrow was far higher than that of the crossbow, and the rapid fire of one round, two or three rounds, the Tibetan cavalry had just advanced twenty paces. Front row. Shoot through, and the back row follows. Don't shoot people, shoot horses, after a few rounds, the vanguard of the Fan cavalry is already full of war horses jumping wildly in pain.

There were still people who rushed to the front, but even though they rushed to the side, even if the brothers around them were swept down by the war horses, as long as Wang Sunchen was still in front of the battle, this team remained stable.

The blood of the robe splashed in front of his feet, Wang Sunchen shouted again, the longbow in his palm scattered streamers, and one sharp arrow after another pierced the throats of more than a dozen enemies in front of him almost at the same moment.

The Song army was so tenacious that the Tubo people suddenly felt a completely different pressure from the previous days. Originally, they only needed one charge, so that the Song people saw that there was no room for a village, so they retreated to the mountain. In the past few days, more than a dozen repeated confrontations, the Tibetan people have also become accustomed to it. But today, as soon as the Song people were desperate, it was their turn to retreat one after another.

Wang Sunsin's persistence gave several other Song armies a chance to form a formation. When the reinforcements sent by Mu Zheng from the city of Hezhou finally arrived, they were already facing four complete Great Song Arrow Formations.

"I can't hold it anymore! They were all about to overwhelm Taniguchi. Within half an hour, there was already more than one patriarch of the Fan tribe under Mu Zheng's jurisdiction complaining in front of him, "The wooden platoon of the Song people has been lowered from the mountain again, they really want to set up camp!" ”

Mu Zheng's voice was unwavering: "Go again!" Otherwise, you will not be spared! ”

He looked around at the terrified generals, "Victory is too easy, and it will arouse suspicion." If you retreat before, you can't retreat now. After fighting a game, Wang Shao can know my determination to stick to Hezhou. Looking up at the dark blue of the eastern night sky: "Hold on until the moon comes up!" ”