The next day, Xue Ji, Hu Sanniang was promoted to the tent, and discussed with Lu Junyi and other generals to send troops. Sanniang looked at the military plane map, and got the secret report sent by the lord of Qiongying, saying that Tianhu transferred troops and sent generals, wanting to concentrate troops to resist the soldiers and horses of Liangshan. Therefore, Sanniang planned to divide the troops into two routes, east and west: cross Huguan all the way to the east, take Zhaode, attack Lucheng, Yushe, Dagu to Linxian, and reach the thief's nest; West all the way to take Jinning, out of Huoshan, take Fenyang, attack Fenxiu, Pingyao, Qi County, straight to the northwest of Weisheng, and then the two armies joined forces in Linxian County, take Weisheng, capture Tianhu.

Sanniang divided the generals and military horses under her command into two parts, and the assignment was decided, and then discussed with Lu Junyi: "From here today, divide the troops into the east and west, one is personally commanded by me, and the other is commanded by my senior brother." Lu Junyi said: "Senior sister sends troops, just listen to strict orders." Sanniang smiled and said, "I don't know which way to choose, so it's better for me and my brother to choose." At the moment, Pei Xuan wrote two lots, Sanniang and Lu Junyi, burned incense and prayed, and they all picked up a lot.

When Sanniang picked up a lot to look at, it was the East Road. Lu Junyi got the west road, needless to say, just waiting for the snow to set off. Leaving Hua Rong, Shi En, Du Xing, 5,000 troops, and guarding Gaizhou.

On the sixth day of the first month of the third year of Xuanhe, Sanniang and Lu Junyi were ready to raise troops. Ignoring the report of Yangcheng, a county under Gaizhou, the soldiers and civilians in Qinshui were tired of being brutalized by Tian Hu and had to surrender. Now it is known that the Liangshan military horses are coming, and the army and the people conspire to capture the Yangcheng guard Kou Fu and the Qinshui guard Chen Kai, and go to the front of the army.

The elders of the two counties led the people, led the sheep and wine, and offered the city. Hu Sanniang was overjoyed, rewarded the soldiers and civilians in two places, comforted the list, accepted money and food, and distributed it to the people. Hu Sanniang then tried Kou Fu, Chen Kai and other Tianhu generals, all of whom were people with great resentment, and immediately beheaded the sacrifice flag to calm the hearts of the people. Subsequently, Sanniang taught the two counties to nominate virtuous people to govern the city, and taught Du Xing and Shi En to lead a thousand troops and horses to guard two places.

On the same day, the Liangshan military horses on the two roads went out of the north gate, and Hua Rong and others were sent with wine. Sanniang instructed Hua Rong: "The virtuous brother Wei Zhenbei soldiers can be the guarantee of this city. Now this city is only the north of the enemy, if there are thieves, should set up a surprise attack, in order to lose the courage of the thief, then the thieves dare not peep south. Another thing is that we must also prevent the Song army from copying our back road, so we will also send more sentry agents to the south. "Hua Rong and the others are only ordered.

Sanniang said to Lu Junyi again: "Today, I sent troops, but I got Yangcheng, and Qinshui was happy to offer prisoners." The two places are peaceful, and the senior brother can drive straight to Jinning, capture the thief Shoutian Tiger early, relieve the people's distress, and do the right thing for heaven. ”

Lu Junyi said: "Relying on the prestige of Liangshan, the two places will be subdued without a fight. Both strict orders, dare not do their best! Divide the troops today, and he will hunt Weisheng in the morning! Sanniang also took the drawing of the main military plane of Yiqiongying County the day before yesterday, and wrote it as a shaft, and paid it to Lu Junyi for later use.

At present, Sanniang, the owner of Liangshan, ordered three teams of troops: Dong Ping, Suo Chao, Xu Ning, Zhang Qing, and led 10,000 soldiers as the front team; Sun Li, Zhu Tong, Shan Tingjue, Wei Dingguo, Li Zhong, Zhou Tong, Li Yun, led 10,000 soldiers as the rear team; Sanniang commanded the rest of the generals such as Li Kui, and led 10,000 soldiers to the Chinese army. Three teams of **** soldiers of 30,000 marched to the northeast.

On the other hand, Lu Junyi resigned from Sanniang, Hua Rong and others, and led the generals under his command, with 30,000 soldiers, and looked to the northwest to march.

Hua Rong, Shi En, Du Xing, Farewell Sanniang, and Lu Junyi entered the city. Hua Rong sent an order, five miles north of the city, set up two camps, Shi En, Du Xing each led a thousand soldiers, set up strong bows and crossbows, and all kinds of firearms to be stationed as the enemy's front; and on the east and west roads, setting up strange soldiers to ambush without a problem. Its Gaoping has its own Mu Hong, Lingchuan has its own Li Ying, Weizhou has its own Gongsun Sheng, Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, each guarding the palace, echoing each other from afar.

Let's say that Hu Sanniang's three teams of people and horses, the front and back are miles apart, and they go in a matchmaking array, and the left and right are lined up to explore the rangers, and they are more than 30 miles away from Gaizhou. Sanniang was on the horse, and she saw a mountain in front of her. When it is diverse, it is gradually approaching the bottom of the mountain, but it is on the right side of the horse's head. Sanniang looked at the situation of the mountain, which was different from his mountain, but saw: Ten thousand stacks of Liulan are densely scaled, and several peaks and geese are in a row. The ridge cliff stone is like a city, and the sky is full of clouds and water.

Sanniang was watching the mountain scenery, and suddenly saw Li Kui step forward and said with his finger: "Sister-in-law, the scenery of this mountain is no different from the scene seen in the dream of Tie Niu the day before yesterday." Sanniang immediately called Geng Gong and asked: "You have been here for a long time, you must know the origin of this mountain." If according to Xu Guanzhong's map, Fangshan is in the east of the state city, and it should be called Tianchi Ridge. ”

Li Kui said: "The Xiushi in the Iron Bull Dream is talking about Tianchi Ridge, but I forgot. Geng Gong said: "This mountain fruit is Tianchi Ridge, its rocky cliffs are like a city, and the people used to avoid the army. Recently, the natives say that there are spirits in this ridge, and there is often red light in the stone cliff at night. There are also woodcutters to the cliffside, and there is a strange fragrance. After hearing this, Sanniang said: "This is in line with the dream of the iron bull, and it can be seen that the sky is going to die." This rumor spread in the army, and the morale of the Liangshan army was even better. It was a Japanese soldier who marched sixty miles to set up camp, and there was nothing to say on the road. Not a day, come to the south of Huguan, five miles away from the village.

However, it is said that Huguan was originally at the east foot of the mountain, and the mountain shape resembles a pot, and the Han Dynasty began to place it about this, so it is called Huguan. To the east of the mountain, there is the Baoqian Mountain, which is connected with the foot of Huguan Mountain. Huguan is in the middle of the two mountains, eighty miles away from the south of Zhaode City, which is the dangerous pass of Zhaode. There are eight fierce generals under Shangtian Hu, and 30,000 elite soldiers are guarded. Who are the eight fierce generals: Shan Shiqi, Lu Hui, Shi Ding, Wu Cheng, Zhong Liang, Yun Zongwu, Wu Su, Zhu Jing.

However, it was said that Shan Shiqi was originally a child of a wealthy family in Qinzhou, and he was very strong and good at making a stick; Because of the fear of murder, he joined Tian Hu's subordinates, resisted the enemy, and pretended to be the prisoner of soldiers and horses. Accustomed to a forty-pound muddy iron rod, skilled in martial arts. Tian Hu heard that the Liangshan army and horses were coming to conquer, so he sent him to Zhaode, selected 10,000 elite soldiers, and cooperated with Lu Hui and others to guard Huguan. Wherever they should be dispatched, they all have to act cheaply, and there is no need to hear about it.

Shan Shiqi arrived at Huguan, knowing that Gaizhou was lost, and the Liangshan army and horses would come to take the pass, and they would fight hard day and night, ready to meet the enemy. Suddenly, it was reported that the Liangshan army and horses had camped five miles away from Guannan, and Shiqi ordered 10,000 horse troops on the hour, and Shi Ding, Zhu Jing, and Zhongliang each put on their horses, and they wanted to lead the army to fight in the pass.

After hearing the news, he hurriedly came to persuade him: "The Liangshan military horses, the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, and there are many elite soldiers and fierce generals. Shan Shiqi said: "He came with troops in winter, and the people were sleepy and tired, so he could use the soldiers." ”

At the moment, he did not listen to Lu Hui's persuasion, and led his troops out of the pass to meet the enemy and fight against the Liangshan military horses. The two sides formed a formation, and with a strong bow and a crossbow, they shot at the position. In the two arrays, the flower cavity vibrated and the drums were beaten, and the variegated embroidered flags were shaken. At the opening of the North Formation Gate Flag, a general immediately took the lead. Look at how his life ends: the phoenix-winged helmet is worn steadily, and the fish-scale armor is heavily draped. Flower branches are woven on the brocade red robe, the lion is densely built with Qiong Yao, the pure steel rod is tight, and the green-haired horse neighs frequently. Huguan is a new general, and Shandu Supervisor Shiqi is.

Shan Shiqi shouted: "Shuibo Caokou, dare to invade my frontier? Dong Ping, the two-spear general over there, suddenly came out of the battle and shouted: "Help the horseman, the righteous army is coming, and the Wu is resisting!" "Riding a horse with two guns, robbing Shiqi directly. The two generals grabbed the heart, the two armies shouted, the two horses intersected, the four arms were vertical and horizontal, the eight horses were crying chaotically, and they had more than 50 battles, regardless of victory or defeat, Dong Ping secretly cheered.

Zhu Jing saw that Shiqi couldn't win, so he slapped his horse and flew a knife to help fight, and there was no feather arrow Zhang Qing Pegasus to catch it. Four horsemen killed two pairs in front of the battle. Zhang Qing and Zhu Jingleng were more than 20 together, Zhang Qingli was timid, and he patted the horse and left. Zhu Jing rushed to the horse, Zhang Qing took the flower, took a stone from the brocade bag, turned his body, looked at Zhu Jing's face door, a stone flew away, and shouted: "Go!" In the middle of Zhu Jing's nose was concave, he turned over and fell off the horse, and blood flowed. Zhang Qing returned to the horse and twisted the gun to stab, Shi Ding in the northern formation, Zhong Liang came out, and he was saved from death.

Suo Chao and Xu Ning saw the two in the Liangshan array, waved the army and rushed forward to kill, the dragoons on the left and right sides of the chain armor and horses galloped over, the bows and arrows rained down in the distance, and when they came in and out, they were greeted by spears and sabers, and the northern soldiers could not stop them, and they retreated in defeat.

When he saw it, he hurriedly rained down arrows and arrows like rain, blocking the Liangshan dragoons and covering the retreat of Shan Shiqi and others into the pass. Dong Ping, Zhang Qing, Suo Chao, and Xu Ning saw that Guan Shang had already prepared, and his subordinates were all cavalry, and it was not easy to seize the city gate, so they immediately retreated to the village.

When the Sanniang army and the rear army arrived, they went down to the village fifteen miles before the pass. In the Chinese military tent, Sanniang convened the generals to discuss: "Today, I will defeat him for a while, and I will be less frustrated." I saw that the mountain is steep, the shape of the pass is strong, and what good strategy can be used to break this pass. ”

Xu Ning said: "In the coming day, you must kill the thief general, and the brothers will rush to kill it." Sanniang said: "I'm afraid that he will be killed, so I don't dare to come out to take over the battle, I only stick to the danger, and I am eager to break it." ”

Dong Ping said: "If you don't come to Japan, you will fight first, and if he doesn't come to fight, he will pay attention to it." Sanniang said: "Prepare for the battle tomorrow, and then pay attention to it after I see the terrain on the left." ”

The next day, Dong Ping and Zhang Qing came to Sanniang to lead the troops to fight. Sanniang agreed, and she also went out with the army, just to see the situation of the pot.

At the moment, Dong Ping and Zhang Qing led 5,000 military horses, waving flags and drums under the pass, insulting and fighting, and Sanniang watched the terrain in the formation. From dawn to noon, there was no movement when it was closed. Dong Ping and Zhang Qing were about to return to the village, and they heard a cannon sound in the pass, and when the door was closed, Shan Shiqi and Wu Su, Shi Ding, Wu Cheng, Zhong Liang, led 20,000 soldiers, and rushed down.

When Sanniang saw it, she was slightly shocked and said: "There are still a few of these northern generals who can fight, and I waited here for half a day to fight, just to take advantage of the lack of our army and horses, so he gathered 20,000 military horses to rush into battle." ”

Dong Ping and Zhang Qing both smiled and said: "The thief's art of war strategy is there, but I don't know how the master trained us and other military horses, since I came, don't let it go!" At that moment, the whistle sounded, and the Liangshan army and horses were immediately fully arrayed, and they did not show any fatigue. The generals of all armies ordered the leaders to step forward together, lined up on both sides, and did not speak, and fought in an instant.

There is too much difference between the military horses on both sides, the Liangshan army takes a thousand heavy armored infantry soldiers as the backbone, only cares about slashing and killing the past, the cavalry on both wings rushes back and forth, and the northern soldiers rely on the large number of people and struggle to support. Just as he was in the middle of the night, Dong Ping met Wu Su in the formation, shouted loudly, and killed Wu Su with only one shot. Wu Cheng, Shi Ding's two battles are super, Wu is cowardly, seeing that Wu Su fell off the horse over there, Shi Ding hurriedly sold a flaw, patted the horse and looked at the formation and ran away. Wu Cheng saw that Shi Ding was defeated, separated the axe to leave, and was cut into two sections by Suo Chao with an axe.

Shan Shiqi saw that the two generals were broken, and the left and right Liangshan soldiers and horses became more and more courageous, and they did not show any fatigue, and the northern soldiers could not stop them, so they turned their horses back to the battle. Zhang Qing caught up, picked up a stone in his hand, hit the back of his head, the helmet sounded, and the startled Shiqi saddled away. Zhong Liang hurriedly led his troops into the pass, but was driven by Dong Ping and rushed over, and the northern army was defeated.

Shan Shiqi led the troops into the customs in a disorderly manner, and closed the door. Dong Ping killed directly to the pass, and was shot down by the arrow stone on the close, so he couldn't get in. Dong Ping's left arm hit an arrow in the morning, and he collected his troops and returned to the village. Sanniang personally treated arrow sores with Dong Ping, but fortunately, the nails were thick and not seriously injured, so it was not a problem. (To be continued.) )