Gonbu was very annoyed that he was going to his beloved dancer, and was thinking of finding an excuse to go back and rest, to get rid of the disgusting thing in front of him, so as not to be taken advantage of by him again. Just as a general came in from outside, he knelt down and kowtowed to the two of them, and then said: "Two Great Khans, the Erlut people are already near, and they have just gone to guard the outpost on Mount Temur and have been ambushed by thieves!" ”

"Mount Temur is occupied by the Eruts?" Shuo Lei's eyes widened, it turned out that there was iron not far from the foot of the saddle-shaped hill, and in Mongolian, "Temur" means iron, and Temur Mountain means iron mountain.

"Exactly!" The general kowtowed again: "I heard from the people who fled back that the firearms of the Erut people are very powerful, like thunder and lightning, and none of the people who were hit survived, a total of more than 40 people died and more than 100 people were injured!" “

"Useless waste!" Shuo Lei spat fiercely: "What's so great about firearms, you have to reload the medicine after you put it out, and you can rush up this gap, the brave ones can live on the battlefield, and the cowards will die, these cowards deserve to die!" ”

"So, what should we do now?" Gunbu's mood suddenly became even worse, and his gaze instinctively turned to his ally, after all, the other party was much more experienced in war than himself.

"Naturally, I want to take it back as soon as possible!"

"Take it back, but it's almost dark, it's not convenient!"

"It's inconvenient for everyone! Even if you can't take back the mountain, you can still make the enemy disturb each other, and you will be able to take it in one fell swoop tomorrow without sleep! Shuo Lei sneered: "The night is a friend of warriors and an enemy of cowards. Gunbu, my father taught me one thing - if you don't know what to do on the battlefield, fight the enemy and make them as uncomfortable as possible! “

Ridge.

The ground beneath his feet was squirming and squirming, with his footsteps slightly lowering. Fallen leaves, dead vines, shrubs and snow cover the rocky ground, forming a thick carpet. Wang Anshi walked past the smoke-filled campfires, rows of war horses, and mules filled with grain, hay, and gunpowder. At last he reached a large oak tree, under which there was a high, bare rock, and he was relieved to see Ozil and four or five men sitting around a campfire. He turned back to Sancho, who was commanding the race, and walked under the oak tree.

"How's it going?" Wang Anshi tried his best to ask in a relaxed tone, he saw a stout man sitting next to Ozir with a half-bald head, a thick beard and pigtails on his temples, he had already recognized it as the Chechen Taiji's Yuyi Anda, and he was not willing to make trouble with this special subordinate.

"The Tushetu people also want to occupy this mountain, and they cut off dozens of heads!" There was a hint of excitement in Ozir's voice: "I just asked two people, and they said that the Chechen Khan Shuo Fortress also brought troops to help, adding up to 40,000 troops of the enemy!" ”

"There are so many!" Wang Anshi was slightly stunned, if the two captives did not lie, the enemy army almost occupied a double advantage in numbers, and if the advantage in horsepower was considered, the advantage of the Tushetu people would be even greater.

"It shouldn't be a lie, I just counted the campfires, almost!" Borza threw the gnawed lamb bones into the campfire, splashing a cloud of sparks. He rubbed his hands nonchalantly: "But don't care too much about how many of them there are, only the Tushetu people are willing to fight hard, and most of the reinforcements on the Chechen Khan's side want to see the direction of the wind." “

"Hmm!" Wang Anshi sat down by the fire, although it was only autumn, but in this desert north of the land was already cold and biting, the cloak on his body was stained with a lot of snow water, cold and heavy, he took off the cloak and put it next to the fire, and suddenly saw Ah Gui on the opposite side of the fire frowning, not saying a word, just stroking the dog's hair.

"Gui, what do you think?" As Liu Cheng's deputy general, Wang Anshi knows Ah Gui's details very well, and does not treat him as a newcomer, and he has just fought a battle with the Tushetu people, so it is good to listen to his opinions.

Ah Gui's expression was a little stunned, as if he didn't expect to be asked, he hesitated for a while: "My lord, I feel that the enemy is outnumbered, and it is not good for us to hold each other, so we should find a way to solve it quickly." ”

"Quick?" Wang Anshi looked at the other party in surprise, he didn't expect this subordinate who was at best a middle-level officer to think so far, after all, the other party had just won the outpost battle, and under normal circumstances, he should be intoxicated with the joy of the first victory.

"Yes, although we won the first battle and occupied the advantageous position, to be honest, it was just luck, if the wind was not blowing in our direction at that time, I am afraid the consequences would be different. But after all, we are a guest army, and Tushetu is the main army, if we are familiar with the land, it is still inferior to theirs, if we continue to hold on, I am afraid that they will come up with some way to turn the tables. “

"And what do you say you should do?"

"The plan is to run out of food, but the Mongolians rely on cheese meat, and there is no food channel, so they can only work livestock!"

Wang Anshi was noncommittal, Ah Gui's suggestion sounded good, but the two armies were facing each other, and they were changeable, and many things could only be taken step by step, and no matter how good the strategy was, it could only be determined according to the specific situation. He picked up the cloak by the fire and was about to change it, when he suddenly heard a shout of killing from the bottom of the mountain, and hurriedly put on the half-wet and half-dry cloak.

"What's going on?"

"Come so fast, it should be a thief who came to rob the mountain!" Ozil jumped up from the ground: "Lord Wang, you wait here for a while, and I will deal with it!" ”

"No hurry!" Wang Anshi stopped Ozir, and listened to the shouting and killing sound brought by the north wind: "There are not many thieves who listen to the sound, and the enemy and I are unknown at night." Pass the order, each team will defend itself, and those who move will be killed, as long as there is a random conflict, whether it is friend or foe, they will be shot with a bow! No fault for killing! Wait until tomorrow morning and then remember the work! ”

"Yes, sir!" Ozil answered, and in a short time everyone heard the loud sound of the order, and sure enough, after a while the battalions fell silent, except for the sound of firearms firing and screams from time to time. Wang Anshi snorted and said with a smile: "Let one third of the people in each team be on duty at night, and the rest of the people should rest quickly, and raise some strength to fight tomorrow!" So saying, he shook off his dried woolen cloak, laid it on the ground, and lay down, and in a moment he began to snore loudly.

When Wang Anshi opened his eyes again, it was already dark, he got up and walked behind the oak tree, trying to find a place to pee, but saw Ah Gui sitting cross-legged under the tree, beside his horse and dog, cleaning his arquebus, and it seemed that he had not slept all night.

"You didn't sleep last night?" Wang Anshi asked while urinating.

"Take a nap!" Ah Gui put down the arquebus and began to polish his saber with oil stone again: "I used to not collect it that night, but I'm used to it!" “

"Hmm!" Wang Anshi shook off the last few drops of urine, walked to Ah Gui's side, picked up the arquebus, and found that even the barrel of the gun had been carefully brushed clean, and a layer of oil had been applied, and the new ones seemed to have just left the factory. He smiled and asked, "You are very diligent, and you even do this yourself!" ”

Ah Gui had already sharpened the saber, put the knife into the sheath, and said with a smile: "This is something that has a stake in my life, I can't trust others!" ”

Wang Anshi smiled, also pulled out his saber, and polished it with Agui's oil stone, and the two talked a few words, and then heard a few short military trumpets from the bottom of the mountain, like the wail of a dying person, which made people shudder. The two looked at each other, stood up, and looked north, only to see that the sun was rising over the horizon, the snow had long since stopped, the morning mist swimming in the air had been evaporated by the sun, and the originally wet and soft ground was becoming dry and hard.

"It's a great day!" Gui looked at the clear sky.

"Yes, a weather suitable for fighting, the bow will not be damp, the bird will not be silent, the war horse can gallop at will, the blood will dry very quickly, and even the dying will not have to lie in the mud to be tortured!" At this time, there was a rumbling drum sound at the bottom of the mountain, Wang Anshi looked down the mountain, only to see that the formation of his own side under the mountain had been completed, and the Chinese army was leaning forward, which was the signal of the imminent war, he looked back and smiled: "It's going to start, blow the trumpet, let Sancho push out his three treasures, it took us a lot of effort to push them up the mountain yesterday, and the show is about to start!" ”

In the dawn of dawn, Gon Bu and Shuo Lei rode side by side, their banners side by side, no matter how high or low, like a pair of lotus flowers blooming side by side. But the two men were very different in appearance, even though Gon Bu was wearing special armor, but still like a boiled sausage, cowhide gauntlets and leggings were tightly wrapped around his limbs, almost immobilizing, although his mounts were specially selected strong horses, but he was still depressed, and could only walk slowly, unable to gallop. And Shuo Lei is like a fierce eagle, energetic on horseback. With only two legs, he drove the war horse under his crotch to gallop back and forth in front of the battle, and brandished a scimitar above his head with his right hand, showing his superb riding skills, and won the cheers of the Tushetu and Chechen tribesmen.

"Great Khan, Chechen Khan seems to be a little too showy!" Gro whispered to Gunbu, his elongated eyes almost submerged in the fat eyelids, revealing a sinister and suspicious light.

"Nasty guy!" Qiu Bu snorted coldly, and the obvious show-off of his allies added to his sense of crisis, and at this time, the Chechen Khan had already beaten his horse and ran back, and shouted in a rough voice: "Get me some horse ****, I'm dying of thirst!" “

"Dear Chechen Khan, don't you think this is a bit too undignified?" Gro looked at Shuo Lei, who was swallowing sour mare's milk: "After all, you are the Great Khan of the Chechen Ministry, what if there is a mistake?" “

"Miss, what can be missing!" Shuo Lei said with a smile: "Master Geluo, the formation will be a long time coming, the soldiers are very bored, I gallop back and forth like this, it can be regarded as relieving the boredom of the soldiers and passing the time!" ”

"Relieve boredom? Shuo Lei, you're not a funny clown! You're a descendant of the Golden Family—" Job exclaimed, shocked and angry.

"I know, I know! I am a descendant of Dayan Khan, the blood of Genghis Khan! Shuo Lei took another sip of mare's milk: "But so what? Whether it is Dayan Khan or Temujin, the blood left behind is like a pebble by the Hannan River, how many or as many as I want, I can stand here not because of anything else, but because of them! Shuo Lei stretched out his finger and pointed to the military formation behind him: "We can be here because of them, not because of the bloodline, if we lose, the bloodline can't save your life, just like we can't save Lin Dan Khan and Bu Lost Rabbit Khan!" ”

Jubu was about to refute when a cannon rang out from the top of Mount Temur, but the words came to his lips and became: "The Erruts have opened fire!" ”

"It's fired, but it's too far away!" A mocking smile appeared on Shuo Lei's face, and his own left flank, which was closest to Mount Temur, was almost three miles, a distance sufficient for the Mongols at the time to disable all known long-range weapons.

"Presumably it was used to boost your morale!" Gro smiled, "Just ignore it!" ”

"Exactly, how can there be a reason to fire so far away, it must be to give yourself courage, it seems that this Chechen Taiji has no ability." Qiu Bu laughed heartily, his fat body trembled, and he almost broke the armor on his body.

While the three of them were talking and laughing, there was a slight confusion in the left flank formation of the Tushetu people, and they even began to retreat, Shuo Lei's eyes widened, and he scolded: "Damn, can you really fight that far?" He gritted his teeth and galloped away to the left flank.

The dying horse fell to the ground with a dying wail, the poor beast's hind legs were gone, turned into pieces of blood and flesh, splattered into a half-moon shape, one of its owner's legs was covered by stirrups, and the right hand used to cushion the impact of the landing was twisted at a strange angle, apparently broken, and he groaned loudly and begged his companions for help: "Help me, pull me out, my right leg is crushed underneath!" He groaned as he pushed the horse pressed against him with his other intact hand, trying to push it away. This is what Shuo Lei saw when he arrived.

"Bastard, why don't you go over and help!" Shuo Lei angrily scolded his onlookers, and jumped off his horse to help the unlucky guy, but was stopped by an officer who heard the news, he pointed to the ground not far away and said: "Great Khan, look there, this person was hit by a cannonball shot down from the mountain, and it was too dangerous in the past!" ”

Shuo Lei looked carefully in the direction of the officer's finger, it was a fist-sized iron ball, covered with flesh and blood, almost unable to see its original color, he looked back at the wounded horse, and sure enough, there were several traces between the wounded man and the current position of the iron ball, obviously after the cannonball hit the war horse, it bounced on the ground a few times before consuming the huge kinetic energy and stopped.

"This is from the mountains?" Shuo Lei pointed to Mount Temur in surprise. (To be continued.) )