In the humid and rainy season of midsummer in June, Zhang Yue, Xiang Xun and Murong Yanzhao led 16,000 troops, stationed at the entrance to the north of the Hanzhong Basin for more than half a month, and the camp was set up in the east of Niutou Mountain on the west bank of Baoshui, five miles away from Baocheng County in the south. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The location here is not bad, in the middle is a river valley beach more than ten miles wide, and there are mountains on both sides, so you don't have to worry about being attacked by the Shu army, and the county blocked the valley mouth from the hundred prisons in Xixian County. But if you go out of this river valley and go south to Baocheng, the terrain is open, and you will have to leave troops to garrison this valley, and Li Tingqi will not sit idly by, and you will face more than 30,000 troops.

What's more, Baocheng is an important gateway to the north of the Hanzhong Basin, the city is strong and tall, not to mention, Han Baozheng led 10,000 troops to personally garrison here, and there is a fortress in the east and west of the city, with 2,000 troops stationed in the horns, so it will be very unfavorable to go south, unless Han Baozheng intends to go out of the city alone to fight.

Every few days is a rain, the weather is not good, there is no news from Xingzhou and Yuanzhou, the battle situation is in a stalemate, Zhang Yue is very troubled, what he can do is to cut wood to build equipment, and widely send scouts to reconnoiter the strength of the Shu army, intending to find a defensive loophole to break the deadlock.

Since Baocheng is not easy to fight, of course Zhang Yue doesn't want to touch it, he has a little less troops and can't afford to be injured. Through a long period of reconnaissance of Li Tingqi's troops, Zhang Yue can finally determine that Wang Jing is not defeated and left, and Li Tingqi will not go to Nanzheng to join Han Baozheng.

So, Zhang Yue decided to change his strategy, and soon set his sights on Chenggu County, seventy miles east of Baocheng, and if he took it, he could block the reinforcements of Pang Fucheng in Yuanzhou, or he could attack Yuanzhou first, so there would be a lot of room for detours.

The soldiers and horses did not move, the sentinel went first, Yang Xuanli and Song Lingguang took two hundred scouts to cross the mountains and mountains for four days, and finally found a path that only hunters in the mountains walked, and rushed to Tongguan Mountain, twenty miles north of Chenggu County.

But after all, the eagle can't speak, it can only transmit information to the ground through the eagle dance at high altitude, or warn at high altitude, etc., detailed and detailed things, or need manpower.

In the afternoon of this day, Fu Zhaoji, second brother Zhang Cheng and other scouts hid in the mountains, Song Lingguang and Du Ximi led ten people down the mountain, pretending to be woodcutters carrying the burden of firewood and slowly arrived in Lixu outside Chenggu County, and several people put down the burden of firewood, sat on the ground at will to rest, and talked quietly about what they saw.

The county seat is located in the west of the confluence of the Qingshui River and the Han River, naturally forms the river on both sides, and has a moat, the city wall is about two zhang high, there are four gates, but now the guard is tight, the soldiers of the Shu army strictly guard the city gate, only see the people who enter the city, do not see the people who come out.

"Look! Xuanxin is dancing the figure-eight dance, what does that mean? Song Lingguang was half-lying on his elbows, looking up at the sky.

"The circle of the eight-figure dance is very small, which means that there are large groups of enemy troops moving back and forth in the city, it should be training!" Du Ximi guessed that when humans communicate with animals, they need brain supplements more often, and of course he has trained Xuanxin to a certain extent through domestication.

"This information is too vague, we have to find out how many defenders there are and who the defenders are? Can you persuade you to surrender? If you attack the city, how should you fight it? It seems that it is safer to go into the city and have a look. Song Lingguang said.

"But we speak with different accents, it's easy to be exposed, it's not easy to pass the city gate, Xuan Ling can stay outside, but how can I take Xuan Ling in? Where do you hide at night? Du Ximi asked with some burden.

"It's okay for Xuan Ling to hide in the firewood, let's go into the city to find an inn, give him a few pieces of gold cakes, and if it doesn't work, we will promise another position as a small official, and I'm afraid that he will betray us." Song Lingguang said angrily.

"You are too conspicuous, you stay outside and wait, remember to go farther." Song Lingguang admonished, and then said to a soldier: "You are also small, like a person from Shuzhong, come with me." ”

Du Ximi nodded, and took the two of them to get up and carry the burden of Chai He. Song Lingguang also greeted a scout, and the two of them carried Chai He towards the city gate.

"Stop! Where are you from? The officer guarding the gate asked in a Shu voice.

Song Lingguang lowered his head, smiled cowardly and flatteringly, and imitated the Shu accent he had learned during this time and said, "Come from Chengguan Town in the north ......"

"People come to sell firewood in the morning, why do you come here in the afternoon?" The officer asked again, and circled around the two of them to observe carefully, and saw that the firewood was actually fresh, and the cut fit was very messy and not neat, and he immediately doubted in his heart.

"The villain picks wood in the morning and sells it in the afternoon, and is in a hurry to use the money!" Song Lingguang could only say simply, if the sentence was elongated, he was about to leak the stuffing.

"Now that the Zhou army is coming, you can't leave the city if you go in, come back another day!" The officer probed.

"The villain went into the city to sell firewood to pay off his gambling debts, and it doesn't matter if he leaves the city late." Song Lingguang said with a ruffian smile.

"You damn gambler! Sell firewood to gamble, get out! The officer suddenly kicked Song Lingguang in the back arm, and Song Lingguang strode towards the city. When the soldiers behind him saw it, they also quickly followed and ran into the city.

Du Ximi watched from a distance outside the city, and when he saw that the two of them had really entered the city, he walked away with some trepidation, and returned the way he came, he had to find a place where no one was to hide, so that he could summon Xuan Xin down and wait for Xuan Ling to bring back the letter.

Song Lingguang walked a while into the city, found an alley and threw down Chai He, took off his coarse cloth clothes, and changed into a green cloth robe. Another soldier didn't need it, he directly pretended to be an entourage, he took the eagle cage from the woodpile, and the outside was covered with a black cloth, so he was not afraid of being seen, and asked passers-by to inquire. There is a Hanshui inn in the city, and the proprietor is the nephew of Wang Xianling.

The relatives of the county order, Song Lingguang was afraid of being exposed, so he decided to find another one, but there were too many people who entered the city in the past few days, and they couldn't get out of the city, and the small inn was overcrowded, so he had to go to the Hanshui Inn to live for a long time.

For the next two days, Song Lingguang went out every day to wander around the military camp and the city wall in the city, but he did not dare to approach, and only observed that there were about 2,000 troops, and found nothing. But I couldn't get out of it, and I couldn't wait for a long time outside, so I took out the thin silk in the guest room that night, wrote a military newspaper and sealed it with a bamboo tube, released Xuan Ling out of the cage and fed it, and then tied the military newspaper to Xuan Ling's legs and feet, and took advantage of the night when no one paid attention to it, and Xuan Ling went out of the window.

"It's hard to break down the moat for a day, so you have to find another way!" Song Lingguang was a little worried, since he went south as a scout, he had not received really useful information, Master Xuan Chongwen would definitely be disappointed, as for his own general, it would be even more disappointed.

"Why don't you try the innkeeper? If we can say that the county order is sent to receive our army into the city, wouldn't it be a great achievement? The attendant scout said.

"Your mother's death? You think I didn't think of it? Song Lingguang said angrily, when he heard from passers-by that the innkeeper was the nephew of the county order, he had this idea in his heart, but it was risky to really do so.

"What then? The letter has been sent, and the army will arrive in three days, so it's useless for us to enter the city! The little soldier said helplessly.

Song Lingguang's big eyes were rolling slightly, and after hesitating for a long time, he finally slapped the table and said, "Damn!" Try! If it doesn't work, let's be prisoners together, and then we will be tortured and beaten half to death, you will suffer! ”

"Huh? That can't be! If you fight for this life, you can't be a prisoner! Xiao Bing was frightened when he thought of the torture instrument, and there was a look of regret on his face. (To be continued.) )