The soldiers climbed up one after another from the mossy boulders, the light was half bright and half dark, and the smell was damp and gloomy, and more than a dozen snakes were alarmed, ready to move in the cracks of the stones, and after the soldiers killed two large snakes, the rest of the snakes fled. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The army climbed to the top of the mountain from a crack overgrown with vines and shrubs, in front of them is a huge mountain rock, a mile long, nearly 100 zhang wide, a big crack in the middle, the stone walls on both sides are smooth and straight, it looks like it was cut by a knife, here is the famous Dao Gorge, in fact it is not a canyon, at most it can only be regarded as a landscape, at the top of the Dao Gorge stands a big stone like a longevity peach, which is blown by the wind and is crumbling, so the Dao Gorge is also called Shou Tao Gorge.

Standing on the edge of the mountain rock, through a few strong pine trees, Li Yanqing saw the Tiger Roaring Gorge Dam from a distance, the entire Hengshan Grand Canyon is about 100 miles long, it was originally the river channel of the Wuding River, the widest part of the canyon is two miles, the narrowest point is only 30 zhang, the Tiger Roaring Gorge is the narrowest place, this is a canyon only two miles long, since this spring, the Xixia army has built a dam here to hold back the water, built a dam as high as 10 zhang, cut off the Wuding River, and the Tiger Roaring Gorge and its north have formed a dammed lake more than ten miles long.

But the Hengshan Grand Canyon is not only a river of Wuding River, there is also an ancient original road in the east, a small river gourd water flows from the north, and flows into the Wuding River in the Grand Canyon, but now the Wuding River is intercepted, and only shallow gourd water flows out of the canyon in the river, and the experienced seed master Dao is based on this judgment that the Wuding River has been intercepted by the Xixia people.

Due to the formation of a dammed lake, the original river valley passage has been submerged, the soldiers can only pass from the mountain road on both sides, the baggage vehicles can not go north, can only look at the lake and sigh, or take the ancient original road, but the end of the ancient original road is the famous Yinchuan dangerous city, which is a great test for the Song army on the eastern front.

The three hundred soldiers have all come out of the cave tunnel, Li Yanqing nodded to Wang Ping, waved his hand to everyone, the three hundred soldiers followed the main general towards the huge mountain crevice, from the foot of the mountain, the canyon cut by the knife is like a thin line, but in fact this is not the case, the bottom is about five feet wide, filled with fine stones, and the army can pass quickly.

After walking about a few hundred steps, Wang Ping, who was leading the way in front, waved his hand, everyone stopped, and Li Yanqing stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?" ”

"The front is relatively open, you can see it below, and if there are too many people, you will be discovered by the soldiers below."

Li Yanqing immediately said to Wang Gui: "Let the brothers rest in place, and I will take a look." ”

Li Yanqing led a few soldiers to follow Wang Ping to the front, out of the canyon, in front of him was a vacant land with a radius of dozens of zhang, and the empty ground was conveniently the Huxiao Gorge Dam.

There were also two soldiers of the intelligence battalion left here, they were very excited when they saw the arrival of the Lord, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Li Yanqing stopped them from saluting, comforted them a few words, and asked, "How is the situation?" ”

"The Western Xia army was still relatively quiet, and they were stationed in the woods on both sides, about eight hundred people."

Li Yanqing stepped forward and looked down for a moment, there was a winding path leading to the woods below, and he asked, "Have the Xixia people ever come up?" ”

"More than a dozen people came up yesterday afternoon, argued for a while, and then went down again, looking at their actions, it seems that they want to build a sentry here."

Li Yanqing turned his head and looked south, and indeed he could clearly see the southern canyon from here, but he did not build a sentry post before, and now he suddenly had the consciousness of building a sentry post, which only explained one thing, the Western Xia army also discovered the arrival of the Song army.

He put this matter aside for a while, and looked at the dam, the bottom of the dam is based on countless boulders, and then filled with sacks of mud and stones, which is two zhang wide and relatively strong, as long as the mud bags are pulled off when needed, the lake will surge south, and the Song army can be swallowed up in an instant, which is why they refuse to release water to wash away the road, they want to flood the Song army.

Li Yanqing looked at the sky again, it was already afternoon, and he had to wait for dark before attacking, he was not worried that he would not be able to defeat the soldiers of the Western Xia Army now, with the elite of the three hundred intelligence battalions, there should be no problem in dealing with the eight hundred Western Xia soldiers, not to mention that there were still a thousand elites behind, he was actually worried that the Western Xia soldiers would resist desperately, and the other part would destroy the dam, and they would really be busy in vain.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "Look, the enemy is coming!" ”

Li Yanqing also saw that a group of Western Xia soldiers were walking along the winding path to the top of the mountain, and Li Yanqing hurriedly ordered: "Quickly retreat!" ”

Everyone turned around and ran towards the Shanyan rift, and the soldiers who were resting in the rift valley also retreated, and soon withdrew to the other side of the rift, at this time, I saw more than 100 Xixia soldiers come up, and began to cut wood around them, preparing to build a sentry post, and a few of them went into the rift valley to hide and rest, but did not find the Song soldiers hidden at the other end.

As night fell, a soldier ran back to report, "The Tanguts have gone down, and the flat ground is full of wood, leaving three people to guard it." ”

Li Yanqing turned back to Wang Gui and said, "Take a few brothers to kill these three people, act quickly, don't shout." ”

Wang Guiyi waved his hand, "Follow me!" ”

He took ten brothers and quickly touched the other side of the rift, and in a moment, a terrible muffled cry came from the distance, 'Ah-' suddenly lifted everyone's hearts, and Li Yanqing was also shocked into a cold sweat, fortunately, this scream did not alarm the below, making them breathe a little relieved.

After a while, Wang Gui ran back with a red face, "I am incompetent, and I almost had an accident!" ”

"Already killed?"

"Killed!"

Li Yanqing waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”

Three hundred soldiers jumped up the rift and ran to the other end.

Li Yanqing said to Wang Gui at this time: "There will be another chance later, don't go wrong again!" ”

Wang Gui nodded silently, he didn't be able to shoot an arrow into the throat of the enemy soldier at the critical moment just now, but only shot the back of the neck, almost causing a catastrophe, which really made him feel ashamed in his heart.

Li Yanqing patted him on the shoulder, and the two of them also got into the rift and ran to the other end.

Seventy or eighty large logs were piled up on the flat ground, and the three Western Xia soldiers guarding the wood had been killed, and Li Yanqing summoned Wang Gui and the six team leaders to discuss the next step.

Li Yanqing said: "When we go down the mountain, our troops will be divided into two ways, I will take the first team to the third team to be responsible for the Western Xia soldiers on the western slope, Wang Dutou will lead the fourth, fifth and sixth teams through the dam to ambush the enemy troops who come to destroy the dam, our task is not to kill the enemy, but to keep the dam, do you hear?" ”

Everyone agreed, and Li Yanqing immediately ordered Wang Ping to inform Liu Jian that the army came to respond, and after the deployment was completed, he said to everyone: "Set off in formation, the team is not allowed to be chaotic!" ”

He took the lead, running down the hill with a bow and arrows in hand, followed by a long procession, he couldn't hesitate at this critical moment, he didn't know the deployment of the enemy forces below, and he didn't know if it would hit the patrolling enemy troops, the important thing was to seize the time to hold both ends of the dam, and wait for Liu Ji's reinforcements to arrive.

When they were just halfway down the mountain, a soldier suddenly shouted on the opposite side, speaking in Western Xia language, although Li Yanqing couldn't understand, he didn't hesitate to open his bow and arrow, the sentry hiding in the dark was shot through the throat by an arrow, and fell on his back, and suddenly a soldier shouted behind him, and then the bell rang, Li Yanqing shot three arrows in a row, and the bell suddenly became dumb.

But the rapid sound of the bell still startled some of the defenders, and there were enemy soldiers shouting from far and near, and Li Yanqing shouted: "Leave them alone, follow me!" ”

He led the soldiers along the trail to the dam a hundred steps away, dozens of steps away from the dam, and faced a large group of black shadows to kill him, Li Yanqing shouted: "The first team follow me, no stop behind, take the dam for me!" ”

The first team of fifty soldiers came forward with shields and swords in their hands, Li Yanqing used a long sword, he was very fast, and he assassinated three people in a row, but the other party was spears and heavy armor, they suffered losses, and the screams of the soldiers of the intelligence battalion were constantly heard.

Li Yanqing's heart was in a hurry, he had already realized that he was inexperienced, and he had made a big mistake, they were carrying swords and shields, and the knife did not hurt much to the opponent's heavy armor, if he used a sword or whip, the lethality would be greater.

Li Yanqing was in a hurry, he simply collected the sword, carried two pots of arrows, and retreated more than a dozen steps, he used bows and arrows to assist his subordinates, this decision was undoubtedly wise, the Western Xia army was also prepared, they gathered a hundred heavy armored soldiers at each end of the dam, and the reason why only a hundred heavy armored soldiers were deployed was because the place was too small to accommodate more people.

The heavily armored soldier is wearing more than 70 catties of iron scale armor, holding a spear, wearing an iron helmet, with an iron mask on his face, only two eyes are exposed, the scale armor is thick, the knife is constantly chopping, the arrow cannot be penetrated, and the sword can be pierced through the gap in the armor, which has a certain lethality, but the most effective way is to use arrows to shoot the opponent's weakness, that is, the eyes, of course, this requires exquisite archery.

Li Yanqing's arrows were not missing, each arrow must hit the eye of an enemy soldier, shooting more than a dozen people in a row, and suddenly fell down, the morale of the Song soldiers was greatly boosted, they picked up the spears on the ground, and stabbed back at each other, the heavy armored soldiers were killed and retreated, and there were soldiers who rolled over and fell into the lake.

At this time, the black shadow flickered, hundreds of Western Xia soldiers gathered to kill, they fired arrows in unison, and the soldiers of the intelligence battalion were caught off guard, and the Song soldiers on the periphery screamed, seven or eight people fell down with arrows, and the heavily armored soldiers took the opportunity to counterattack, causing heavy casualties to the soldiers of the intelligence battalion.

Li Yanqing saw that the situation was critical, and when he turned around and saw that his men had occupied the west dam, he shouted: "Retreat!" ”

The remaining thirty soldiers followed Li Yanqing to raise their shields and retreat towards the dam, which was also a mistake made by the heavily armored soldiers guarding the dam, they all met up, leaving a gap in the dam behind them, which created an opportunity for the Song army to occupy the dam.

At this time, Wang Gui had already led 150 people to run along the dam to the opposite bank, and Li Yanqing led the remaining more than 100 soldiers to defend the west side of the dam, withstanding the crazy counterattacks of the heavy armored soldiers of Western Xia again and again.