Bauhinia Pass belongs to the seventh part of the "Taihang Eight Mountains", and if you enter Shanxi from Hebei without passing through here, you will have to make many more detours, so as long as Li Buqi is stuck here, he will cut off the communication between Shanxi and Hebei Liao Army for a short time. In order to prevent the Liao people from making a detour to Fengshengzhou, that is, Zhuolu to send a letter to the Liao army in Ulzhou, so that the Liao army could occupy the mountain pass out of the mountain, he sent 500 cavalry who had been stationed at Bauhinia Pass for several days to immediately set off to control the mountain pass out of the mountain.

The reason why Li Buqi chose to go to the Flying Fox was because although there were a large number of Liao troops in this generation, because the Liaoxia War had not completely stopped, a lot of troops were mobilized to gather in Datong to put pressure on the Song and Xia countries, so the forces of Ulzhou, Flying Fox, and Lingqiu were greatly weakened. According to Li Buqi's intelligence, the old and weak Liao army of Flying Fox only had 2,000 men to bluff, so as long as the mountain pass was not blocked by the Liao army, then it was completely certain that it would rush through.

Originally, from the flying fox, he could directly go south into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, because the self-righteous Song Taizong had marched from this road in the opposite direction. But now the Great Song Dynasty has planted a large number of trees on the border, and it is difficult for a large number of cavalry and horses to pass. Therefore, Li Buqi could only continue to rush down the next station, Lingqiu. Lingqiu also only has 4,000 Liao troops, and there are very few elites. It was difficult for him to take Lingqiu, but if he wanted to rush over, the Liao people couldn't stop him.

As long as you rush through Lingqiu, there is a big road leading to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty in front of you.

Or use the old plan of the mouth of the Great Wall, send troops to block the side of the valley heading to Shanxi, put the horses in the valley, and feed them with grain and grass plundered from the road.

After a day and a night of bumping on horseback, even if they could take turns to get on the cart and rest, the infantry of the Zhenwu Army were too tired to do anything, and most of them needed help to get off their horses. Some people dismount and find a leeward place to lie down there and fall asleep. Li Buqi estimated that if it were not for the furs snatched from near Zhuozhou, many of his soldiers would have frozen to death.

The cavalry were better because they were taught the ability to sleep on horses by the devil training of the Fanren found from Shaanxi by Li Buqi, but they couldn't straighten their legs, but they still gritted their teeth to feed the horses.

When he was in Zhuozhou and Yuhe County, Li Buqi ordered a lot of cloth bags filled with barley, wheat, sorghum, beans, and hay to camel on horseback, and these cavalrymen only used knives to cut open the cloth bags, and let these things flow out for the horses to eat. As for drinking water, it was too much of a concern for the horses to lick the snow on the surrounding hillsides.

After a while, there was thunderous snoring inside and outside the gate. However, Li Buqi did not dare to sleep, and personally took Yang Shiqing to check the situation of the sentry post, because now the officers and soldiers are tired and anxious, and some people can fall asleep standing on the post.

As a result, just after the afternoon of the next day, the messenger sent by the Liao Emperor was killed by a flurry of arrows on the way in front of the city. In the second half of the night, a Liao army came to the city with torches and was shot back by a rain of arrows.

On the terrain of Bauhinia Pass, which is a single man and a pass, the Liao army, which has no preparations for attacking the city, can only stare dryly.

But Li did not give up and did not dare to be too big, so he called all the soldiers up before dawn, made a fire and cooked with great fanfare, and then the large group of men and horses marched out of the city, and entered the Wuhui Ridge along the winding mountain road, leaving only 400 cavalry at the head of the city to keep the fire unextinguished to bluff. After dawn, the Liao army began to diligently prepare for the siege, and did not yet notice that the Song army had retreated.

At noon, Li Buqi faced the mountain pass in the basin where the Flying Fox was the Laiyuan of the later generations, and Li Fengxiao, the commander of the cavalry, reported to Li Buqi: "There is no movement ahead, in order to prevent the grass from startling the snake, the last general did not dare to go too far." ”

Li Buqi ordered: "It's strange, the post of Liao should climb to Ulzhou, why is the flying fox still not moving?" Something must have gone wrong, and we can't delay it, and we must take down the flying fox immediately. Now all the cavalry change horses and attack the flying fox with me! ”

More than 1,000 cavalrymen immediately changed horses to line up, and Li Buqi drove his horse slowly past the queue, scanning the dusty faces of the cavalry. In order to boost morale, Li Buqi stood on horseback again and asked the cavalry loudly, "Are you tired?" ”

The cavalrymen were stunned, not knowing how to answer. Li Buqi didn't wait for them to answer, and continued to shout: "I know you're tired! But we have a large number of pursuers behind us! As long as we stop, we will be blocked by the enemy forces in front of Flying Fox and Lingqiu, and we will be wiped out by the enemy forces following us! So we can't stop, we have to keep moving forward! Rushing through the Flying Fox and Lingqiu is the territory of my Great Song, and we can go home! ”

"Now I want you to cheer up! To live! To get home! Crush any enemy who dares to stand in our way! Do you have faith?! ”

Immediately a tsunami-like roar erupted in the ranks of the cavalry: "Confidence! ”

Li Buqi shouted, "What? What do you say? Louder! ”

"Have faith! Go home! Go home! Wansheng! Wansheng! ”

Seeing that the atmosphere was completely ignited, Li Buqi sat back on his horse and waved his hand: "Now follow me to crush our enemies!" Warriors, follow me! ”

More than 1,000 cavalry and more than 4,000 war horses lined up in a strict formation and rumbled towards the flying fox.

However, Li Buqi led the cavalry to the Flying Fox City, but saw that the city gate was closed, and there were only sparse defenders in the city, as if there were not many soldiers in the city.

Could it be a fraud? Li Buqi felt a pang in his heart, and ordered the four gates to be blocked, and sent people to the surrounding areas to arrest some people for interrogation. The result of the question made him even more uneasy.

The people in the north of the city confessed that a large number of Flying Fox defenders left the city in the morning and headed north, and there should indeed not be many defenders left in the city.

Gao Zunyu's face turned pale: "Went north?" What do you do to the north? Could it be a fraud? ”

Li Buqi didn't dare to guarantee that there was no fraud in it, but he still comforted Gao Zunyu and said: "Even if there is fraud, it's nothing, we just need to be ready and deal with it carefully." In this way, we will not attack the Flying Fox, but only send a small number of troops to monitor and prevent the enemy troops in the city from rushing out. ”

He then ordered the herald to give the order immediately, allowing the troops behind to pass through the Flying Fox quickly. In order to guard against the surprise attack of the Liao army, he did not dare to send troops to loot on the spot.

Until all the troops passed through the Flying Fox, the Liao army only watched from the city and did not dare to go out of the city at all. Later, Li Buqi learned that the defenders of the Flying Fox had really gone to reinforce Ulju at that time. Because when the guards of Ulzhou got the order directly from Xijin Mansion, they saw that the order was to let them intercept the Song army coming from Xijin Mansion to Ulju Road, and thought that the Song army was here to fight Ulzhou.

And because the Song people planted dense trees on the border to block traffic, the geographical importance of Ulju was greatly reduced, so there were only more than 2,000 troops in the city. After this guard general thought that the Song army could enter the official road leading to Ulzhou in Xijin Mansion, then the Song army must be extremely powerful, and with the two thousand people in his hands, he would not be able to stop these Song troops at all, so he was busy collecting the nobles and powerful private soldiers on the ground in Ulzhou, and at the same time ordered the Flying Fox to send 1,500 reinforcements to Ulzhou to help in the war. This allowed Li Buqi to pass the flying fox without danger.

And as the cavalry controlling the Bauhinia Pass abandoned the pass after dark, the Liao army would soon follow. Now you need to quickly pass through Lingqiu to reach Yanmen Pass to be completely safe.