Let's say that Li Banghua, who moved to Lingshi from Jiexiu, concluded from the correspondence with Hong Chengchou that Wang Jiayin and others, the main force of the Jin thieves, were in the mountains west of Lingshi, and from the Zhong Dewu report forwarded by Hong Chengchou, he learned that Shikou Town, more than 100 miles west of Lingshi and among the mountains, was stationed in a large number of thieves. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At the same time, because Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates had actively asked for war before, he did not forget to send a messenger to Wang Guoliang, who was sitting in Jinsuoguan, Fenzhou, ordering him to go to war in time to capture Huangluling, and set an approximate time for him.

This made Wang Guoliang unable to sit still.

Ever since the Shaanxi thieves crossed the river into Shanxi, Wang Guoliang has been under tremendous pressure.

After all, it has been five months since the thieves entered Shanxi, and the battalion guards in Shanxi Town have added up to 20,000 or 30,000 troops, and the performance can be described as a shame.

And now, everyone already knows that there is a main force of thieves stationed on the Huanglu Ridge in front, but they can only watch, but they can't attack it.

It has been two or three months since he led the main force of the Shanxi Town Army to Fenzhou in February.

Now that he personally led the army, with a large number of artillery pieces that were finally transported from Taiyuan City, he entered Jinsuo Pass, and after several days, Huanglu Pass was still like an insurmountable barrier, blocking in front of him.

Before Wang Guoliang entered Jinsuo Pass in mid-April, he had asked Liu Guozhen, a general of Jinsuo Pass, to send people to rob Huanglu Pass, but he was defeated and returned, not only the leading soldiers sent to guerrilla were killed by the thief army's random arrows, but also brought more than 1,000 elite soldiers from Shanxi Town, and also lost more than 800 at once, and only about 200 people fled back.

It is precisely for this reason that Wang Guoliang had to wait until the artillery arrived in Fenzhou before he was willing to lead the army into Jinsuoguan.

A few days after entering Jinsuoguan in mid-April, Wang Guoliang successively received good news from the Yansui army forwarded from Jiexiu and Taiyuan, and the pressure suddenly increased greatly.

A few days later, Wang Guoliang received a military order from Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft, to capture Huanglu Pass within a time limit.

Finally, on April 26, Wang Guoliang convened a meeting of the generals under his command, and decided to send Liu Guozhen, a general of Jinsuo Guan, who was familiar with the nearby terrain, to lead an army of 1,000 as the vanguard, and Wang Shixuan, the deputy general of Shanxi Town, a confidant general, to lead an army of 2,000 as a rear team, carrying 20 large and small artillery, to attack Huangluling again.

Huangluling distance from the Jinsuo Pass 20 miles, during which the road is all winding and twisting mountain dangerous road, the widest place is only more than 100 steps, and the narrowest can only accommodate two horses in parallel, especially the Huanglu Pass lies on this road, and the Huanglu Pass is located in the Huanglu Ridge, it is the commanding height of this mountainous area, according to the algorithm of later generations, the average altitude has reached more than 1,800 meters, it is an easy to defend and difficult to attack place.

However, no matter how steep it is, since Wang Guoliang, the chief military officer of Shanxi Town, has taken on the task of capturing Huangluling, no matter how many casualties there are, he can only let it out.

Liu Guozhen, the general of the Golden Lock Pass, has always been under the command of Wang Guoliang, and the deputy general Wang Shixuan is Wang Guoliang's henchman, they all know what Wang Guoliang thinks in his heart, and now he really can't fight anymore, since he has made up his mind, then no matter how difficult it is, he has to try again.

In this way, in the early morning of April 27, just after the ugly hour, there was a tense and busy situation in the golden lock under the hazy moonlight.

Liu Guozhen drank the bowl of wine that Wang Guoliang personally poured for him, smashed the big bowl on the ground, pursed his lips, and nodded heavily in the face of Wang Guoliang, who had promoted and cultivated him for many years, and then turned around and left, shouting in a low voice but sternly that the thousand elite soldiers he had selected should set off first.

The soldiers of the Thousand Golden Lock Pass who followed Liu Guozhen together, all holding swords and shields, carrying bows and arrows, did not speak, and soon disappeared into the quiet night.

At three o'clock, the same scene was staged again in the Golden Lock Pass, Wang Guoliang's henchman Wang Shixuan led 2,000 people under his command, leading horses and cannons, like a dim long dragon, along the winding mountain road, towards the Huanglu Ridge, more than 20 miles away.

Although the distance from Jinsuo Pass to the foot of Huanglu Ridge is not far, the mountain road is rugged and narrow, and even the daytime march is a great risk, let alone leading the army in the faint moonlight.

This is also an important reason why Huangluling is easy to defend and difficult to attack, no matter how many troops you have, you can't play it on this narrow and tortuous mountain road at all, although the terrain in front of Huangluling suddenly becomes open, but the section in front of Huangluling is several miles long, winding up the zigzag uphill road, but another ghost gate.

In the early morning of 27 April, Liu Guozhen and Wang Shixuan set off one after another, and by the time Liu Guozhen's men and horses arrived at the open land under the Huanglu Ridge, the sky in the east was already faint.

In front of this open field is a small river that has long since dried up, and the stone pier and wooden bridge that was built at some point has long since rotted on the dry riverbed.

Although the river has been dry and silted up for a long time, a ravine has formed where the river once meandered.

This dry valley is neither deep nor wide, but it was fully utilized by Wu Yangui, the "king of the whole world" under Wang Jiayin, on the side of the Huangluling in the valley, the thief army built an earthen wall fence, set up countless deer and horses and watchtowers, and sent the leader of the command "a lamp" Zhang Youyi to set up camp here, which is regarded as the only way to capture Huangluling to cut off the waist.

Liu Guozhen waited for the front team led by him to 1,000 people, and after all of them arrived, he saw that the rear team led by Wang Shixuan was coming, and knew that it was not appropriate to wait, so he took advantage of the fact that the sky was slightly bright but there was no bright light, and immediately launched a strong attack.

Hundreds of people in front rushed towards the dry riverbed under the leadership of their respective commanders, team leaders, and chiefs, while hundreds of people in the back were ready to cover with bows and arrows.

Although the vanguard team sent by Liu Guozhen did not shout, hundreds of people rushed to the riverbed two hundred steps away, and the footsteps could not be covered, and soon alarmed the vigilant thief sentries above the watchtower, and for a while, the sound of golden drums in the thief camp on the opposite side was loud!

Zhang Youyi, the leader of the thief army stationed here, quickly reacted, knowing that the official army was coming to attack again, and immediately drove a large number of thief soldiers to come to defend.

Soon, the advance of the officers and troops rushed across the riverbed, rushed to the other side of the ravine, approached the earthen fence, and engaged the thieves inside the fence.

Since the suddenness of the surprise attack has been lost, then the next step is to attack hard.

As soon as some of the officers and soldiers put the noose on the fence of the thief barracks, they were shot and killed by the archers who rushed up from the thief army.

The officers and soldiers who were lucky enough not to be killed by the bows and arrows of the thieves continued to throw lassoes and put on the fence while holding shields to cover them.

On the other side of the riverbed, there was a sudden chaos on a gentle slope up to the bandits' camp.

Seeing this, Liu Guozhen immediately ordered the hundreds of archers under his command to draw bows and arrows, and immediately strode forward, advanced dozens of steps, calculated the range, and began to throw a rain of arrows into the thief camp.

In an instant, the officers and soldiers rained arrows into the thief camp, and the thieves behind the fence suddenly fell, causing a wave of retreat and riots.

The officers and soldiers holding shields against the fence took advantage of the fact that the thieves' bows and crossbows were suppressed, put the ropes in their hands on the fence, and then retreated one after another, retreating to the riverbed covered with rocks and sand, and pulled the lasso with all their might, trying to pull down the fence.

In the thief barracks, Zhang Youyi, a "lamp" who went upstairs to watch the battle and command, was a fugitive from Lintao Town, and when he saw the way the officials and soldiers played, he knew what they were going to do, and immediately gave orders to the left and right, and gathered a group of elite thieves in the camp.

Sure enough, in a quarter of an hour, under the cover of the rain of arrows thrown by hundreds of archers of the official army, the vanguard team of the official army retreating to the riverbed quickly divided into several units, dozens of people each, and struggled to drag the ropes on the fence.

As they struggled to drag, rope after rope was cut by the thieves, but two adjacent lassos eventually came into play, and a section of fence was dragged down from the earthen wall and fell to the side of the riverbed.

Liu Guozhen was excited for a while, and when he looked back and saw that the rear of his army was already in sight, he was about to order his subordinates to rush forward and occupy the gap in this camp.

However, he had just drawn his waist knife and was about to shout for his men to attack, when he saw a large stream of thieves suddenly pouring out from behind the fence that had been pulled down with great difficulty.

At that moment, the charging order that had rushed to Liu Guozhen's mouth temporarily became "resist".

"Hold on! Brothers, give me a stand! Our workhorse is coming soon! ”

Liu Guozhen shouted these words, and while continuing to cheer loudly for the front army, he waved his sword in the back to suppress the formation, and commanded the archers to continue to shoot a round of arrows at the thief army that rushed out of the camp!