Chapter 14: Preset Ambush

The heavy snow that fell more than ten days ago had already melted, and the water of the originally dry small river at the mouth of the valley between Da'an Mountain and Nanhuangling had risen a little, shining in the early morning sun. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

After a male sika deer was drinking water by the river, he looked up and saw a little blue in the valley, snorted and slowly stepped into the valley.

In the forest, a crossbow with an arrow on it quietly stretched out and aimed it at the huge sika deer.

"Smack." Xiao Hong hurriedly pressed the crossbow arrow he was aiming at to the ground, and slapped the person holding the crossbow arrow on the head when he returned his hand, and said lightly: "You kid don't want to live anymore, and you still want to hunt at this time." ā€

"Hehehe." The little soldier who was photographed touched the beaten head and sneered with some embarrassment: "Captain, I used to be a hunter, and I have never seen such a big sika deer in my hometown. ā€

"Poof......" Several soldiers around him lay on the ground and forced a smile, convulsing in a low voice.

"Hmph, Zhang Fan, we are here to fight, not to hunt, if the arrow you just shot out, the army lying in ambush around the valley will all leak, and before the time comes, the general will cut you down on the spot."

When Zhang Fan heard this, his originally smiling face stiffened, and he obediently lay on the ground motionless, thinking that I didn't want to shoot out, but I was used to aiming.

Seeing Zhang Fan's acquaintance, Xiao Hong turned his face and glared angrily at a few sneering subordinates, and several soldiers who covered their mouths and snickered involuntarily stopped their mouths when they saw this.

"Tighten your mouth to so-and-so, don't make a sound at all, and if someone makes a sound, so-and-so will whip him fifty lashes raised by a son of a dog after the war."

Xiao Hong's fierce warning made a group of soldiers around him consciously lie on the ground and not say a word, even the sound of muttering before was gone, and only the occasional squeak of branches and the wind was left in the silence of the forest.

Xiao Hong performed well after the first battle of Anshi, and after Li Yu's army expanded, he was promoted to lieutenant, and his subordinates were in charge of a battalion of 200 men.

A group of recruits, Xiao Hong glanced at his subordinates, and was finally satisfied, expecting that after today's battle, these recruits under his command would become veterans, and it would be easier to charge into battle than now.

Not long after walking into the valley, just gnawed a few green grasses that had pulled out the buds, the sika deer seemed to look at Nanhuangling again, and sniffed in the dry and cold air.

"Your Highness, that deer seems to have spotted us."

Li Yu put down the monocular in his hand and said indifferently: "Tens of thousands of troops are hiding in the South Yellow Mountains, and it's strange that this beast can't find it, but it's a pity that it can't go to report to the Koreans." ā€

"Ugh." Wang Hu glanced at the clairtelescope in His Highness's hand with some hot eyes, and then did not speak again. I relied on my good eyesight to barely see the deer in the valley, His Royal Highness just picked up the clairvoyant mirror and took a look, I was really envious, when can His Highness appreciate me a clairvoyant?

Skimming Wang Hu's envious look, Li Yu picked up the telescope with a shallow smile and continued to observe the valley mouth under the mountain.

Hey, I also want to equip each general with a telescope, but this mirror was only trial-made by craftsmen a few months ago, and there are only two finished products, and the other is in the hands of Li Shangdan, who is ambushed on the slopes of Da'an Mountain.

I just don't know why Wang Hu likes to call telescopes clairvoyants? I call it a telescope.

If someone is in front of this male sika deer, they will definitely see the boss of this deer's eyes suddenly open, the mixed muscles are tense, and the eyes are full of vigilance staring at Nanhuangling. In the blink of an eye, he spread his four legs and ran wildly towards the outside of the valley, and disappeared from Lin Tangjun's sight after a while.

"This beast is really vigilant, and he plans to shoot it first when the Goryeo people enter the valley and our army rushes to kill it, and it will be delicious after the war. The venison will be left to eat, and the dry food will have to be eaten at night. ā€

Zheng Wuxuan squatted under a tree and muttered regretfully, he really missed the food cooked by his mother. The world is impermanent, I never thought that I would be a soldier and come to Liaodong, I don't know what year and month I can return to my hometown in Luoyang.

Pull out the horizontal knife in his hand, this knife is still made by a famous craftsman who was specially found in Tangxi Sword Casting City when the ranger passed by Xiping five years ago.

The blade of the knife shone coldly, and the companions around him looked at it twice.

Taking out the wine jug he brought with him, Zheng Wuyang carefully poured the knife with wine, and then took out a cloth to wipe it. I heard those sword masters say that a good knife must be wiped with good wine to keep the knife sharp.

"It's up to you today, old man." Zheng Wuyang carefully rubbed the blade of the knife, and the whole person was like a dormant beast, ready to break out and hurt people at any time.

Nearly 20,000 troops on both sides of the valley endured the cold wind and lay in the trenches dug out of the forest, silently waiting for the enemy army to arrive in the valley.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

A soldier lay on the ground, listening carefully to the sound of the earth coming from afar, and a slight sound of knots came into his ears.

As a veteran who has fought in Liaodong for several years, he can judge how many people are coming and how many cavalry there are by listening to the sound.

"The general is here."

Beside the soldier who listened to the sound of the ground was a rough young general who was no more than thirty years old, and judging from Li Yu's officer outfit, he was a general.

This general is Xie Qian, who used to be Li Yu's personal guard.

After Xie Qian's subordinates reported to him, his face was overjoyed, and he instructed beside him: "Go and report to Your Highness, the people of Goryeo and Silla have arrived." ā€

"No." The ordered guards quickly crossed the forest and touched the top of the mountain in the south of the Yellow Ridge.

In Li Yu's telescope, an army gradually walked out of the valley under the mountains in the east, and the bright banner of the Koreans slowly came.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the Goryeo army, which had only exposed its head, was a stout long snake, and its forward was approaching the valley mouth with the warp, walking behind the line, and the tens of thousands of troops with banners and armor different from those of the Goryeo people were confirmed by the officers who went to Baekje under the command of Li Yu to fight in Baekje, and there was no doubt that it was the Silla army.

It is worthy of 20,000 elite soldiers, and through the Goryeo spies captured by scouts in the forest yesterday, Li Yu learned about the leading generals of the Goryeo Silla coalition army and why they came to attack Anshi.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Yu sent scouts to spy on the cities of Liaodong after capturing Anshi, he didn't know that the main road to Pyongyang, Uggu City, was occupied by the Goryeo rebels. However, the scouts did not find out that there were 10,000 Silla troops among them, and it was not until the day before yesterday that the scouts sent to the Black Bone reported urgently that there were actually Silla troops in the Black Bone City.

The Goryeo army began to enter the valley with the scriptures, and Li Yu immediately ordered the whole army to prepare.

The six thousand Yanyun iron horsemen who were repaired in the small valley in the South Yellow Mountains quietly untied the reins of the war horses, and the soldiers checked their equipment, and when they waited for His Highness's order, they got on their horses and rushed out of the valley to tear them apart.

"Knock knock." The footsteps of nearly 30,000 people and the sound of the hooves of thousands of war horses made the originally silent valley instantly noisy, especially the thousands of people and horses walking in front of the army.

After the Goryeo army in front approached the valley, the Silla army followed.

As the general sent to Liaodong by the king of Silla, Sha Lu rode in the center of the Silla army, and the command of the entire army was not in Gao Yeonmoo's hands but in his hands.

According to the king's order, the Silla army only needed to occupy the black bones, and did not need to go deep into the interior of Liaodong. Under the persuasion of Gao Yanwu and other Goguryeo generals, he personally led 6,000 Silla troops, Gao Yanwu's 10,000 elite soldiers, and 7,000 people, plus 7,000 rebels from all over Goguryeo in the Xinfu Black Bone City, forming a 20,000 army of 20,000 people in Chao'an City.

The Gogur people, who kept coming to defect along the way, made the army quickly approach 30,000 men.

Sha Lu organized these newly attached Goguryeo people into an army to take the lead, allowing them to attack the Tang army when the war began, and also using them to hold back the Tang army when the war was unfavorable, so that he could lead the army to retreat.

Regardless of whether the city is won or lost, it will not affect the safety of the Silla soldiers and horses led by him.

Shalu looks at the mountains on both sides of the valley, with a continuous high mountain to the north and several small mountains to the south. Although it is winter, the leaves of the trees have already fallen, but the dense trees still cover the mountains and forests, and it is difficult to see the situation in the mountains.

The valley is long and narrow, and the army is like a long snake moving forward, if at this time the Tang army is rushed out of the mountains on both sides......

Sha Lu was shocked, he had always listened to Gao Yanwu and the spring water that had fled from Anshi about the situation of the Tang Army in Anshi, if the Tang Army was not as the two said, a large group of people had already come to meet him, would it be good?

"You immediately go and ask Gao Yanwu, the spring water went to investigate the situation of the Tang army in Anshi City three days ago, have you come back now?"

"Command."

Watching his subordinates riding towards the front army, Sha Yu became more and more uneasy in his heart, looking at this valley with no end in sight, it was really suitable for the enemy to set up an ambush here. When the whole army enters the valley, if it is blocked by the enemy's front and back, it is really difficult to fly, and it is caught by the man.

Sha Yan's expression became more and more nervous, and he stopped in place with the reins, looking at the South Yellow Ridge from afar.

The sand did not move, and the troops behind were blocked and the road stopped, and several generals asked puzzledly: "What happened to the general?" ā€

"The whole army slowed down and distanced itself from the Koreans." After some ideological struggle, Sha Yan thought of such a safe way, and then ordered the generals.

"General, could it be that there is an ambush of the Tang army in the valley?"

"There is an ambush?"

When the generals heard this, they immediately became nervous, they are also people who have fought with Goguryeo and Baekje for many years, and they know the danger of the terrain of this valley, and now the whole army has entered the valley.

"Does the general want to exit this valley and find another way to Anshi?"

"Isn't there a Goryeo spring water sutra in the army who fled from Anshi some time ago? Bring him here and ask if there is any other way to Tong'an City? ā€

"General, our army should immediately withdraw from the valley, and after the Goryeo people pass, our army will enter the valley."

For a time, the generals were full of plans, some demanded to stop the advance immediately, some wanted to withdraw from the valley immediately, and immediately sent troops to search the mountains or simply retreat the whole army to the black bones, and the king did not order them to enter the interior of Liaodong, so there was no need to take risks, etc.

The generals were noisy and made suggestions, but they only ordered the whole army to slow down and advance, and after the generals made a fuss, the soldiers also listened to it. There may be an ambush in the valley, so the whole army stopped and did not move, talking to each other, watching the Goryeo army go deeper into the valley.