In desperation, Zhang Niu's team soon set off. After walking for half an hour, Zhang Niu found that the road ahead was getting worse and worse, and the road became crooked. Since no civilians were captured, they did not know much about the place.

Looking at the road in front of me, which is gradually becoming winding, and in addition, there are more mountains on both sides, which is very conducive to the enemy's ambush. Zhang Niu ordered the troops to temporarily stop advancing, and then sent scouts to the front to reconnoiter carefully.

It is strange to say, why Gongsun Yang gave them this kind of route. In fact, it was revised after Zhao Xun seized the letter, of course, this is also the last bit of strength that Gongsun Yang made for the Shunzhou army before his death.

This place is called Qingyan Gang, the mountain road in the Qingyan Gang area has nine bends and eighteen bends, from Zilin Town to Huishan Town, in the road leading to Gaoling County, now it has become a sheep intestine path, the narrowest place is only four or five people can pass, on the mountains on both sides, although the woods are not very dense, but it is not a problem to hide a hundred or dozens of people.

Zhang Niu didn't have the heart to sit down and rest, so he also sent a scout team to reconnoiter the surrounding area to prevent the Shunzhou army from setting up an ambush here.

"How? What's the catch? After a long time, the scout team's first information came back, and Zhang Niu couldn't wait to ask the scout captain.

"Back to my lord, there is nothing abnormal around!"

"Let's go, let the whole army move forward carefully!" Zhang Niu said expressionlessly to the generals beside him. Nearly a thousand soldiers walked neatly through the path, bumping and bumping from time to time, but soon disappeared into the empty mountains.

The surrounding mountains were quiet, and there was not even an echo. On the bare branches, there is a light greenery, and it seems that the buds are soothing.

In fact, when he arrived here yesterday, Zhao Xun summoned the generals to discuss today's actions.

The topography of Qingyan Gang is indeed conducive to ambush, but it is too conducive to ambush, as long as the army comes in from the outside, they will be very careful, when Zhao Xun and the captains arrived at Qingyan Gang to inspect the terrain, they couldn't help but stop and observe the terrain here, because he felt that this was really a good place for ambush. Since he could clearly perceive this, the officers of the Black Snake Army would definitely be aware of this as long as they were not very stupid. Therefore, this cannot be a place for direct ambush.

"My lord! What are we going to do? Zhu asked with tears. The rest of Xin Ming and the others also looked at themselves.

Zhao Xun looked at everyone's faces calmly. Xin Ming, Zhu Tear and others were silent.

In the past, Xin Ming and others were also good at thinking, why do they rely on themselves now? It's not going to go on like this.

Zhao Xun suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was really heavy, not only to improve their combat effectiveness, but also to guide them to think, instead of blindly working hard, personal heroism at some times, can not completely determine the outcome of the battle. Without a commander with a brain, no number of troops can withstand attrition. But how easy is it to turn these officers, who are still in a state of ignorance, into commanders with a level of mental flexibility?

Zhao Xun smiled: "What? It all depends on what I do? I'm not a god, everyone thinks. Also, it is possible for you to lead the side in the future, not always thinking about relying on others, but towards how to rely on yourself to achieve victory. Well, the ambush is just taking advantage of its unpreparedness. One was panicked and didn't pay attention. The second is that it is unexpected, so that the other party does not expect it at all. ”

Xie Tong suddenly said: "Then how about waiting for them to set up an ambush in the estuary after they get rid of Qingyan Gang?" ”

"The Land of the Bayou? The terrain is so wide that you can set up an ambush? Zhu tear scratched his head and said.

Xin Ming stroked his palms and smiled: "Okay, you Xie Tong, this plan is very good!" In addition to the dangerous place, the other party will be careless. When the other party was careless, the ambush soldiers paused, and they would definitely be able to kill them in one fell swoop. ”

Zhao Xun also nodded with a smile, and said slowly: "Yes, after passing Qingyan Gang, the enemy's vigilance will definitely be greatly reduced, because there is an open land in front of you." In other words, after passing Qingyan Gang, the former generals of the Black Snake Army will not worry about encountering an ambush again, and our opportunity has come. ”

"As long as the opponent's front army is ambushed, the opponent's rear army will surely speed up. When the time comes, block the other party's back road, and the east and west will attack, and they will have no other way but to go down the river. ”

The land of the estuary is the confluence of two rivers on the northwest and east sides, and the terrain is flat. After entering the estuary, you can enter Gaoling County in the southeast and the grasslands of the Beihai provinces in the northeast. The confluence of the two rivers forced the flow of both rivers to change and became east-west. If you want to reach Gaoling County, you must cross the water of the Lin River from the river bridge. There are no bridges above and below except for one stone bridge. Although the river is not wide and not turbulent, the river is cold and biting now.

Qingyan Gang for more than ten miles made Zhao Ning scared, for fear that there would be an ambush by the enemy around him. Although he knew that even if there was an ambush around, there would only be room for one or two hundred people, he still didn't dare to be careless. Fortunately, there were no accidents on the way, which also made Zhang Niu puzzled, why the other party evacuated the people, but did not intercept him. Could it be that the other side knew that it was invincible, so it retreated and concentrated its forces? The Shunzhou army has been weak recently, which is a well-known thing in the Shunzhou capital, and for this reason, all the small horse thieves under the jurisdiction of the Black Snake Army have invaded the territory of the Shunzhou army and plundered wantonly. Actually, Zhang Niu didn't know that most of those small horse thieves were later solved by the Shunzhou army. For this reason, the Shunzhou army also captured more than 1,000 war horses.

The Shunzhou army does not have its own source of war horses, but the Black Snake Army, which is backed by the Khitans, also has a sufficient source of war horses, of course, provided that you use money or items to buy and exchange. To this end, the Black Snake Army plundered property, including women, in various places. This is also the reason why Zhao Xun has the intention of exterminating the Black Snake Army, colluding with foreign thieves to catch his comrades as goods, he will be killed!

"My lord, this time, will our third battalion move?"

Luo Yi looked at the front army of the Black Snake Army passing under the mountain road from a distance, crawling among the dead grass and leaves, shook his head and said softly: "This operation is the soldiers of the first battalion and the fire word battalion, and the second and third battalions are not moving. ”

"What a pity! Watching a thousand black snake armies slip away in front of me. A voice came out of the withered yellow grass.

Luo Yi whispered: "Stop muttering, be careful, our opponent is the Chinese army of the Black Snake Army." There are still 3,000 Black Snake Army behind, some of which you killed, don't be soft when the time comes! ”

"Brother Luo, you are underestimating our brother! You wait and see, you will kill the Black Snake Army on their knees and beg for mercy. ”

In the land of the estuary, on the barren ridges on both sides of the Qingyan Gang, under the dead grass and dead leaves, there were three battalions of soldiers of the Tiger Capital in ambush. In addition to the first battalion at the forefront, preparing for the operation of the front army, the second and third battalions were preparing to set up an ambush against the rear army of the Black Snake Army.

Perhaps because there was no Shunzhou army within nearly ten miles ahead, Zhang Niu's scouts were also a lot careless, and they didn't even find the soldiers under the dead grass and leaves. Not only that, but some places just glance at it from afar and turn around in return. For these scouts, there was no ambush by the Shunzhou army in the area of nearly ten miles before, and of course there would be no here.