Qingshizhai is located on a hill about 20 miles long, this hill is called Qingshigang, this kind of hill is relatively rare in the great plain area, the hill is not very high, only more than 60 zhang, the valley is deep and the forest is secluded, the stream is murmuring, it is a beautiful place.

Qingshizhai is located at the southern foot of Qingshigang, the terrain is relatively steep, there is only a narrow mountain path, there are hundreds of big tents distributed on the top of the mountain, and nearly 500 bandits are stationed.

This bandit fled from Fushan on the border between Xiangzhou and Zhaozhou, and the commander Zhang Cen gave them a batch of armor and materials, and ordered them to be stationed on Qingshigang to guard the southern gate of the Daimyo Mansion for the Liangshan army.

At the foot of the mountain is the intersection of two official roads, one is from the southwest and is called Weizhou Road, and the other is from the northwest and is called Xiangzhou Road, where the two official roads converge to form a new official road that leads directly to Daimyo Prefecture 100 miles away.

There was originally a market at the intersection of the two official roads, the merchants had already fled, and the market became a ruin, this bandit had been stationed in Qingshizhai for a month and a half, but they never went down the mountain to loot Neihuang County, but it was not that they had changed their sex, but that there were more than 1,000 township soldiers in Neihuang County, and they may not be opponents when they really fought.

Even so, they still had a hard time changing their animal nature, and often went down the mountain to the surrounding countryside to loot property and rob women, so that the nearby villagers fled their hometowns one after another, and the area around Qingshi Village was deserted for thirty miles.

In front of the largest camp tent in Qingshi Village, a soldier said urgently: "The peripheral spies have found the situation, please make a decision quickly!" ”

The soldier's report interrupted the interest of the owner of the village, Tao Jun, who was a native of Daming County and an apprentice of Lu Junyi, who was tall and majestic, with big shoulders and a round waist, and very strong martial arts.

At this time, he got up from a woman, walked out with a piece of cloth around his waist, and said angrily: "What is the fuss? ”

"Qiqi village master, the outpost found that an army is killing our cottage!"

Tao Jun was stunned, "Where did the army come from?" ”

"It was killed from the direction of Neihuang County, about 1,000 people."

Tao Jun frowned, there were not many people, not quite like the main force of officers and soldiers, a bit like the township soldiers in Neihuang County, but they didn't have the courage to attack the mountain.

Could it be that the Xiang army was killed from Weizhou? Tao Jun didn't want to think about it, he immediately ordered: "Order all the brothers to enter the fortifications at once, and prepare to deal a severe blow to the enemy!" ”

After a pause, Tao Jun ordered again: "Light the beacon fire and report to the direction of the famous city!" ”

Although Tao Jun was a little unimpressed, Zhang Cen, the chief general of the famous city, had a strict order that more than 1,000 officers and soldiers must light a beacon fire to report the news.

'When! While! While! In the hurried sound of the bell, nearly 500 bandits rushed out of the camp, holding bows and arrows and spears to the fortifications, Tao Jun built more than a dozen fortifications on the north and south sides of the mountaintop, gathered thousands of rolling logs, and they also had tens of thousands of arrows, and they were not afraid of the officers and soldiers attacking the mountain.

At the same time, the beacon built on the top of the mountain also lit a beacon fire, and the smoke of the three-pillar beacon fire billowed out, telling the Liangshan army of the daimyo castle that there was an enemy army in the south.........

Half an hour later, Li Yanqing led a thousand infantry to kill from the southwest, while Wang Gui and Niu Gao's cavalry led a thousand cavalry to attack Shen County, forcing the Liangshan army to evacuate the city of Daming with the strategy of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao.

At this time, it was already dusk, and a thousand soldiers stopped five hundred steps away from the hill, and Li Yanqing walked around the southern foothills of Qingshigang with more than a dozen cavalrymen, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a sneer.

He returned to the team and waved, and two infantrymen saluted, one of them was named Lu Fei and the other was Wang Ping, both of whom were promoted by Li Yanqing from the leader.

"What do you think is going to do with the bandits?" Li Yanqing asked lightly.

"The lowly duty led the army to form a shield array to kill, and it can resist arrows and rolling logs, and the lowly duty can capture the Qingshi Village at the smallest cost."

Wang Ping hurriedly said: "The humble duty can lead the army from the north to the mountain, directly to the southern foothills, and the humble duty guarantees to defeat the bandits in one battle!" ”

The two fought for the first battle, but Li Yanqing shook his head, "You don't need to go up the mountain at all, the woods are so dense, just set fire to this mountain." ”

Set fire to the mountain? Both of them were stunned, and after observing for a moment, he had to admit that this was indeed the simplest and most effective way.

Generally speaking, the army will not easily burn the mountain in battle, first, it is easy to destroy the feng shui, and secondly, if the mountain beam is too high and too big, there is no point in burning the mountain.

But Li Yanqing didn't care about any feng shui, he got it by burning the mountain several times, he was deeply impressed by the fire battle of the first battle of Western Xia, when he set off, he let each soldier carry a gourd about three catties of fire oil, even in order to deal with the Liangshan bandits in the Daimyo Mansion, he didn't expect to use it in the first battle.

He immediately said to Lu Fei: "You take the brothers to set fire to the surroundings, don't have any pity, the woods are burned down, after the fire burns, the bandits will inevitably break through from the southern mountain road, you can lead the brothers in the headquarters to intercept in the south, do not accept surrender, and kill them!" ”

"Obey!" Lu Fei hurriedly went.

Li Yanqing said to Wang Ping again: "There is a broken valley in the north, although the terrain is relatively limited, but I feel that you can still rush down from the mountain, you lead the headquarters to intercept the broken valley in the north, and you will not accept surrender and behead on the spot!" ”

"Obey the order!"

The two 500-strong infantry went to act separately, and Li Yanqing ordered the 100 cavalry directly under him: "We are distributed on the periphery and are responsible for hunting down the escaped bandits. ”

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Tao Jun hid in one of the strongest fortifications with an iron gun in his hand and looked down, but there was no trace of officers and soldiers on the mountain road.

"My lord, could it be because it's getting dark?" One of his subordinates said cautiously.

Tao Jun casually slapped him, "How many times have I said it, Lao Tzu is now the leader, not a king, there is only one king, King Song!" ”

The subordinates covered their faces and didn't dare to say anything, Tao Jun looked up at the sky, it was almost dark, did they really plan to attack the village again tomorrow, or did they want to sneak attack at night?

At this moment, a soldier shouted, "King, there is a fire under the mountain!" ”

Tao Jun was taken aback, jumped on the stone wall and looked down, through the trees, and sure enough, he saw the fire under the mountain, "Not good!" Tao Jun shouted, "The officers and soldiers are going to burn the mountain!" ”

All the bandits were frightened and panicked, the officers and soldiers burned the mountain, what should they do? Everyone's eyes looked at Tao Jun, Tao Jun was extremely angry in his heart, who is the person from the mountain, it is so vicious, it is even necessary to burn the entire mountain, no one in Weizhou and Xiangzhou seems to have such great courage!

He gritted his teeth and said, "Tear down all the tents, make room for an open space, and cut down all the big trees on the top of the mountain!" ”

Tao Jun knew that they could only go down the mountain now to a dead end, and the only way he could think of was to open up a clearing first, so that the fire could not burn them, and his soldiers acted one after another, Tao Jun ordered again: "Go to the spring and pick up a dozen buckets of water, tear the strip of cloth to cover your mouth and nose!" ”

In addition to preventing fire, preventing smoke is also a big problem, and he can't think of any other way but to cover his mouth and nose with a damp cloth. ‘

At the foot of the mountain, the soldiers of the Xuanwu battalion continued to spray fire oil, so that the mountain fire burned more and more, at this time, the sky was already dark, only to see the whole Qingshigang south foot flames soaring into the sky, thick smoke rolling, straight to the sky a hundred zhang high, a hundred miles away is also clearly visible.

In the camp of the Liangshan Army under the Daimyo Castle, the deputy general Guan Sheng walked out of the big tent and looked at the sky-high fire in the south, he had already realized that the officers and soldiers must be burning the stone village, and the reinforcements in the Daimyo Castle were killed.

"Pass my order, the army quickly assembles and retreats to Shen County!"

"General, it's better to attack the city overnight and directly capture the Daimyo City!" A senior general suggested.

Guan Sheng shook his head, "We won't be able to capture the Daimyo City in a few days, I'm afraid that the enemy's cavalry will attack Shen County, and we will lose our logistics powerhouse, and we will definitely lose!" ”

Guan Sheng was originally from the forbidden army, he knew the art of war better than the Liangshan generals, at this time, the main general Zhang Cen walked quickly and ordered: "General Guan is right, it is not at this time to attack the Daimyo's Mansion, and it is not too late to attack after defeating the reinforcements, and the army will immediately assemble and retreat to Shen County." ”

At this moment, a soldier rushed to shout: "General, Shen County has lit a beacon for help!" ”

Zhang Cen was taken aback, sure enough, there was an enemy army killed in Shen County, and he immediately said to Guan Sheng: "General Guan can immediately lead his army to the rescue, and I will lead the army to come later!" ”

"Obey!"

Guan Sheng turned on his horse and shouted, "Pass my order, and the brothers of the Second Army will follow me immediately!" ”

The order was handed down, and thousands of soldiers of the second battalion followed Guan Sheng and rushed in the direction of Shen County, and Zhang Cen also began to pack up the camp and prepare to retreat eastward.

At this time, Liang Zhongshu also heard the news and ran up the city wall, he looked at the chaos of the Liangshan army in the camp under the city, an army had retreated east with torches, he looked at the raging fire in the distance, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and shouted excitedly, "The sky opens its eyes, our reinforcements have arrived!" ”、

The city was filled with jubilation.

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Qingshi Village, the fire has swept to the mountainside less than 100 steps away from the cottage, the flames are scorching everyone on the mountain, the choking smoke fills the entire mountain, more than 20 women who snatched it can not withstand the smoke of the smoke, they have fainted to death, the soldiers began to breathe, and they were choked and cried for a long time.

Tao Jun also realized that he had thought about the problem too simply, even if they were not burned to death by the fire, they would be choked to death by the smoke, and now they had no choice but to break through.

Helpless, Tao Jun had no choice but to shout: "Everyone break through and go down the mountain..... Ahem! Everybody break through! ”

He was so choked by the smoke that he couldn't stop shouting, and the soldiers drenched themselves with water, and rushed to the north and south of the mountain road, and rushed down the mountain.

The two armies were already waiting at the foot of the mountain, when the soldiers rushed down the hill desperately, what was waiting for them was a flurry of arrows, the bandits were shot by the arrows, and plunged into the flames, more than a dozen soldiers rushed down the mountain, raised their hands and cried: "We surrender!" Surrender! ”

It was useless to surrender, the soldiers rushed forward with spears in their hands and mercilessly assassinated all the bandits who escaped from the fire, and they had only one way to die, either burned to death on the hill or shot and stabbed to death by officers and soldiers.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "Someone has rushed down on horseback!" ”

Li Yanqing also saw it, a very majestic-looking general rushed down from the mountain on horseback, fired an arrow, and instantly rushed out of the sea of fire, Li Yanqing didn't dare to despise it, he immediately rushed up with a gun, "The enemy will die!" ”

Tao Jun was about to wave his gun to break through, when he suddenly heard someone shouting on the left, his eyes slanted, and he saw a general killing him, he was furious in his heart, and left his soldiers and rushed towards Li Yanqing.

There were still more than 20 steps away from Li Yanqing, and suddenly his eyes were dazzled, only to see a stone suddenly appear in front of him, he was taken aback, shook his head and dodged quickly, it was too late, the flying stone was too fast, 'Bang! It hit him on the bridge of the nose.

Li Yanqing hit this stone extremely hard, and immediately smashed the bridge of Tao Jun's nose, Tao Jun screamed, turned over and fell off the horse, he was just about to turn over and get up, only to feel a cold in his chest, and a spear had pierced his chest.

Tao Jun screamed, and immediately died under Li Yanqing's gun, Li Yanqing waved his spear, and coldly ordered: "Don't leave one, kill them all!" ”

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