Destroy the road, enter the deep mountains, rely on the original villages and cottages, and then build dwellings and defenses, so the Thirteen Mountains were not attacked by the Houjin soldiers along the mountain road at the beginning of the fall of Guangning, but the two mountain passes were not guarded, and the east and west passes were in the hands of the Houjin, and the other party relied on the robbed Han people and Han people to coat them, and began to carry out some repair work on the mountain road, but for a few months, they only advanced up for a few miles, because the more they went up, the stronger the resistance encountered, the more harassment, and it was difficult to continue to move forward. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In Li Mingli's eyes, the situation in front of him almost made him dizzy, the towering mountains stretched into pieces, I couldn't see my heart, there seemed to be countless figures in the mountains and rocks and forests, people felt that the grass and trees were all soldiers, about thousands of people were clearing obstacles on the mountain road, but from time to time there was a shout of killing, rolling out of the forest giant trees or someone playing gongs and arrows, some Eight Banner soldiers also shot, but the following shot upward, Rao is that they still can't take advantage of their excellent archery skills, and some people keep screaming, but they are far away, and they don't really hear it.

Cao Zhenyan sighed: "Since the Great Khan's order last month to clear the mountain roads so that the army can attack, this has been the case every day for ten months. ”

Li Mingli was shocked: "How many people have to die here, is this also the case at the West Pass?" ”

"That's right, it's the same on both sides." Cao Zhenyan snorted and said: "They are mainly the remnants of the Han people collected from Jinzhou and the various tun guards, and they are forced to move forward to repair the mountain road, and dozens or even more than 100 people will die every day, and the banners will also die, but there are not many of them." ”

Li Mingli shook his head and said, "It's difficult, it's really difficult." ”

Li Mingli didn't feel very comfortable with Cao Zhenyan's tone in his heart, he felt that this little brother had really stood on the side of the Jurchens, and even regarded himself as a Jurchen, but he didn't show this emotion, just sighed from the bottom of his heart, the terrain of the Thirteen Mountains is too dangerous, observing from the foot of the mountain, except for the mountain roads represented by the two passes, there are cliffs everywhere, and its terrain is very similar to the cliffs during the First World War of Salhu, but the Thirteen Mountains are bigger, higher, and more precipitous.

"As long as you don't send us." Cao Zhenyan looked at Li Mingli and Lao Ding, and whispered: "Come to my residence at night, I have enough wheat cakes there, and some meat and pickled fish, I see that you all don't eat well, and you have lost a lot of weight." ”

Li Mingli said: "Forget it, it's not enough for you to be afraid." ”

Cao Zhenyan said with a smile: "I'm the fourteenth elder brother's favorite coat, and the main Niu Lu is not bad for me, I can still get some food, and the food team has been collecting food, and the team from Horqin has not been short of food here." I heard from my father that the most expensive grain in Liaoyang last winter was 221 stones, and I regret that I gave you less silver. ”

The situation of the Cao family is good, it can be seen from Cao Zhenyan's ruddy face and strong body, this young man is quite different from when Li Mingli first met, although it has only been more than a year, from the handsome young man with some shy body, to now he has become very strong, the fair complexion on his face has also become a little black and red, and his lower lip has a short beard. The young man who was fluent in the Jurchen dialect of the Jianzhou Department was once a son of a Han military family and a serious Chinese Miao descendant of the Ming Dynasty.

"Thank you." Li Mingli is not polite, the situation of the Cao family is good, Cao Zhenyan is sincerely helping, if he refuses, he is not close to people, and he can't get along with himself, maybe a big war will break out in the next few days, and he can improve some physical strength, which is the foundation for saving his life on the battlefield.

"It's okay, Brother Li." Cao Zhenyan said very sincerely: "We Han people believe in the Han people the most, whether it is the Han army or Baoyi, I also know that Brother Li will be a little dissatisfied with my Cao family's decision and the current situation, but my generation is in the torrent, if I don't want to live a miserable life, what can I do except to comply?" ”

"Ugh." Li Mingli didn't say anything, just sighed heavily, and patted the little brother's shoulder gently, no matter what the overall situation is, it is really the friendship between each other that is the most sincere, just like Li Mingli is now in two camps with Yang Yi and Cheng Fang and others, and in any case, how can the friendship between the robes and the others established when he was a soldier disappear because of the difference in camps?

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When Li Mingli first arrived at the East Pass, it was hard to imagine that there were two pairs of familiar eyes staring at him at the fierce battle on the hillside.

"It's really Xiao Li." Cheng Fang put down the binoculars and said with emotion: "His appearance is almost no different from Zhenyi." ”

Yang Yi snorted and said, "I still can't figure out why he didn't come to our side." ”

Cheng Fang said: "Xiao Li was originally a hip-hop character, and later changed, but he is still a warm-hearted person, when he opened the plain, if it wasn't for him, Da Niu and I would have died a long time ago, and we will miss him for a lifetime." With such a personality, he is easy to be appreciated and helped by others, but it is also easy to trap himself, human affection is a net, so as the old saying goes, I would rather owe people money than human favors. We owe Xiao Li a favor, I really don't know when we will be able to pay it back. ”

Yang Yi listened quietly, and said after half a sound: "No matter what, you can't use human favors to do bad business, you are really my boss now, but I still have to remind you of this sentence, even if you don't like to hear it." ”

Cheng Fang smiled bitterly: "If it is possible, of course I want to call Xiao Li over, in the future, we can make contributions together and make a career together, and when we return to Shenyang City in the future, we can also have one more partner...... But no matter what, if we really meet on the battlefield, no matter what Xiao Li does, I will never show mercy. ”

Yang Yi was speechless for a while, and the two began to focus on this part of the battlefield.

Here is more than three miles away from the east pass, this is a half-mountain cliff-like slope, was officially named by the joint meeting to kill Hupo, here is only two miles apart and there is a village, can accommodate more than 1,000 people, guarding the intersection from the slope to a higher place, that is Lijiazhai, opposite is a smaller village, is the thirteen mountains of the military and civilian after the repair of the killing Hu village, and then climb into the mountain, along the mountain road up, there are cottages and a large number of tents on the left and right, accommodating nearly 30,000 people, on the 20 miles of mountain road to the west pass, There are five or six villages and two villages along the way, tens of thousands of people live along the way, to the west pass is along the mountain road and guard, and finally a winding and steep mountain road can lead to the highest cliff, where a huge guard village was built to guard, Yang Er led the troops to guard.

100,000 soldiers and civilians, living in the 150 miles of the mountain between the two passes, there is a temple of more than ten courtyards on the top of the peak, this Taoist temple called Xuanmiaoguan was built in the Chenghua period, and later added one after another, and many Taoist temples at that time like to build in the deep mountains and the top of the mountain, this Taoist temple is the same, there are only 20 Taoist priests living in the temple, and later a large number of refugees went up the mountain. The Taoist temple also lived a lot of people from top to bottom, and later Yang Er and Bi Mazi and Yusheng's people discussed this as a place for command and training, after all, the place where the Taoist temple was located was originally a fairly gentle place, there were two villages, and a lot of wheat fields were opened up, everyone moved the village out, supplied the mountain people with food, leveled the wheat fields and open land, and built some houses, which was regarded as a military camp for military training.

It is not far from the main village of Yusheng and the Taoist temple, only one mountain is missing, and the place is also very large, not only there are military camps, but also the grain depot that is very concerned about up and down the mountain.

He Yusheng's grain is not placed in one place, several villages here in the East Pass are controlled by He Yusheng, and there is also a lot of grain hidden inside.

There are also some at Yang Er at the west pass, so as not to need to transport them often.

After entering the late spring, the wild vegetables on the mountain increased, and the wild beasts also began to grow fat, but due to the surge in the number of people in the mountains, the original mountain villages were up to three or four thousand people, they usually relied on farming, hunting birds and picking wild fruits and vegetables as a supplement, and the prey they hit was to go down the mountain to sell for money, used to buy cloth for salt and groceries and other necessities of life, the number of people in the mountains increased by more than 20 times at once, and the beasts that were good to fight had long been emptied, and the meat was not eaten up all at once, but pickled, mainly for the soldiers to eat, but fortunately, the number of wild vegetables was still very muchIn the past month, the main food of the mountain people and the common people has changed from pure grain to wild vegetables and grain, and in the winter of last year, they could only supply grain, and the amount of grain supplied per person per day could only keep the people from starving to death, and the food was mainly supplied to the regimental training soldiers, who had to train every day, and the food supply was insufficient, and they could not even pick up weapons, so the training was meaningless.

The main garrison force in the east pass is Heyusheng and Bi Mazi, and the terrain in the west pass is more dangerous, there are not many garrisons, and there is no need for too many elites, Yang Er's own direct troops are enough.

In the mountains, there are only three big forces, and there are some small forces that form a village to protect themselves, mainly the original big families in the mountains and some official gentry plus the clans to which they belong, they will also train troops, and also learn the method of training from He Yusheng, and also participate in the joint meeting, which can be regarded as a supplement to the big forces in the mountains.

The sturdy men among the people, even if they are not selected by various forces to train, are to practice archery skills every day, assist in defense when the Houjin soldiers attack, and usually patrol in sections to prevent the fine work and small groups of Houjin soldiers from climbing and infiltrating from dangerous places, and the defense of the entire mountain is well organized, and there are almost no flaws and loopholes in the Houjin side.

The sound of gongs and shouts finally stopped, Cheng Fang and Yang Yi saw that the people and horses on the Houjin side retreated like a tide, and the black and gray tide looked fierce, but it failed to endanger the defense of the mountain at all, and a few trenches dug along the mountain beam firmly choked the Houjin offensive, not to mention that there was also the Li Jiazhai that controlled the pass behind the mountain beam, even if the village was captured, there was a further defense.

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