In Liangzhou in mid-spring and February, the weather is still cold. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info at dusk, the sunset sinks, the wind howls, blowing the bare bare branches of the poplar forest on the side of the mountain, and the dry ground raises bursts of dust.

There was a dense sound of horses' hooves, and more than a dozen scouts of the Zhenyuan army in red robes and black armor rushed out of the sand and dust and fog into the sparse poplar woodland. The speed of the horse gradually slowed down, and a hidden valley mouth appeared in front of him, and the makeshift sentry saw it from a distance and shouted: "Password! Cool! ”

"Shenwu!" The rider in front responded, but the horse did not stop, and the sentry moved away to reject the horse, and more than ten horses just rushed past. Walking more than 100 steps, there is a natural valley inside, and the camps are arranged in a staggered manner, and there are no camps around.

"Guy Wei, go and report! I'll take care of the horses, and I'm going to have to do it later! Seeing that he was almost in front of the camp, the deputy captain shouted from behind.

Wei gang commander Le truce horse jumped down, strode towards the camp, met the patrol soldiers on the road and asked, raised the waist card and continued to stride forward, and soon arrived in front of the big tent in the middle camp, the curtain was opened, and Han Zhiping, the deputy head of the regiment, and Zhang Zhixing, the deputy senator of the main and deputy councilors, Zhang Zhixing and Shang Huaqing, were talking about something.

"The scout battalion Wei Licheng has a military intelligence report!" Gang Commander Wei shouted, and when he saw Han Zhiping beckoning inside, he strode in, raised his hand in salute, and said loudly: "Deputy Commander Feng has led a hundred cavalry to Baishanshu, and after reconnaissance and interrogation, Baishanshu has been garrisoned by two thousand-man teams of soldiers of the Zheqi clan. In addition, according to Huokou, Changzhou, An-Guo-Zhen, and Heshu Military City are also owned by the Zhe Clan, and Shen Nianban of the Liugu Department has led his troops to retreat back to Nanshan in Guzang. ”

"Take a break! Sit down and talk! Han Zhiping sat down at the desk and nodded, took out the map, opened it, looked at it, and asked, "How many troops are there in Anguo Town and Hehe Military City?" What is the situation in Liangzhou? ”

"The specific number is unknown, there are no less than 10,000 troops in the entire Changzhou, and the guard general is the Zhiqi branch, and the department should be the elite cavalry of the Zhiqi clan. Liangzhou Guzang has Zhe Jiashi personally sitting in the town, and it is said that tens of thousands of Tibetan people have been recruited, and they are practicing and actively preparing for war. Wei Licheng stood still, and he didn't dare to sit in front of the group leader.

"Got it! Back to camp and stand by! Han Zhiping replied, sent Wei Licheng away, and turned his head to look at Zhang Zhixing and Shang Huaqing.

"Two! This is the first battle since the restructuring of our Zhenyuan Army, our regiment and the scout battalion are the vanguard, and we must take the White Mountain Garrison to the main army as a logistics base. It was getting late today, and it was dark when we arrived at 25 miles, and there were many inconveniences in the night battle. Tomorrow morning, the fourth watch will pull out the camp, and strive to arrive at the time to launch a surprise attack. Han Zhiping decided immediately.

"Feasible! Although the main force carrying grain and grass is said to be slower, it is only thirty miles away from our camp, and even if it takes Baishanshu and encounters enemy reinforcements, the main force can also respond. Zhang Zhixing agreed.

It was February 17, and although there was a moon on the fourth watch of the night, the visibility was still very poor. The soldiers ate their rations with hot water, packed up their tents, loaded them into wagons, and marched out of the valley entrance woodland, lighting them with torches.

After staying on the flat road, Han Zhiping ordered the whole army to trot and march, and then walk again when the road conditions were poor. The journey was fast and slow, and occasionally found a sheltered place to rest so that the soldiers could maintain sufficient physical strength.

In the middle of the day, the moon sets, the night is dark, and there are only three miles left from the White Mountain. Han Zhiping ordered Wei Licheng, the head of the scout, to find Feng Jianjie, carefully inquired about the location and terrain of the fort, and found the commander of the battalion under his command and the battalion Yu Hou to discuss it for a while, planning to attack from both sides.

Because the scouts arrived half a day in advance, the commander Gao Hongxuan and Feng Jianjie sent their own soldiers to the arrows, and they had entered the fort with Zhang Yue, and they also had a better understanding of the layout inside, so they were ordered to lead the scout battalion to climb the sandstone from three or four feet high in the east to sneak attack.

Han Zhiping led two battalions to the fort, first seized the outposts of the fort and the utility rooms on both sides of the road, and then went up the slope to attack. This is a bit of a disadvantage, and pulling out the sentry is also a dangerous job, and you must wait for the scout battalion to attack from the east first.

After a while, the night gradually faded, and the sky showed a hint of dark blue. Gao Hongxuan quickly gathered the forces of the scout battalion, detoured two or three miles to meet Feng Jianjie, first sent a team of fifty people to stand in a row under the sandstone, took out the flying fox and grabbed Qi Qi and threw it up, but unfortunately there was nowhere to borrow from it, and the iron hooks fell down one after another.

"I'll go up first! It might be better to put a soft ladder! "Feng Jianjie went here yesterday afternoon to observe, but he didn't go up to see it, and he was waiting outside the fort to wait for the rabbit, and did not alarm the defenders.

"Be careful!" Gao Hongxuan nodded, saw Feng Jianjie leave the team, went to the sandstone more than a hundred steps away, took out two cowhide gloves with iron hooks and put them on, climbed up from the sandstone with his hands and feet from the depression in the sandstone, and soon climbed to the top, and a soft ladder was put down.

Two or three soldiers quickly went up, and more soft ladders were lowered, and in a moment the whole battalion climbed to the top of the rock. But the fort was still in the depression on the other side of the rock, separated by the distance between the upper and the li, and the rock was full of fine grains of sand, which would slide down if you were not careful, alarming the defenders on the fort.

"Go over one person first, connect the flying fox and fix it at both ends, and everyone walks with the rope." Gao Hongxuan looked at the terrain and gave an order.

The veterans of the scout battalion did so tacitly, and divided into several groups and gradually approached the front of the fort, where there was a drainage ditch that was not very wide, and they stood on the edge of the ditch and were only a little more than a foot high from the top of the fort wall. Fifty veterans arrived first, and immediately avoided the sentries and patrols on the wall, half of them were on guard, and half of them took out the flying fox and threw them in turn, and the iron hook hit the wall bricks and made a slight porphyry sound.

Although the sound was not loud, there was something wrong with the connection, and the sentry with the fur hat on the wall was immediately alert, and two people came to inspect it. This movement made the scouts nervous, and a team waved their hands, and more than a dozen soldiers raised their wooden crossbows, and a crashing sound came, and the neck of the wall sentry instantly seemed to have a circle of thorns, and before he could make a sound, he covered his neck and slowly fell softly.

The scouts skillfully climbed up with slender ropes, turned over the battlements at the top of the wall, and occupied them. At this time, the two sentries who had been hit by the arrows fell to the ground, and more sentries were alarmed, and they immediately shouted in surprise, and then someone blew the horn.

At this time, the sky is getting brighter, and it is clearly visible from a hundred paces away. As soon as Han Zhiping heard the sound of the horn, he knew that the scout battalion had launched an attack, and immediately led the two battalions under his command to run forward for a mile, first shooting at the watchtower of the checkpoint with crossbowmen, and at the same time rushing over with a small team of troops to seize the utility rooms on both sides of the checkpoint.

Since leading two battalions of soldiers through the sentry post, after a little formation, from the slope to the fort wall to advance, at this time there have been bursts of messy footsteps and shouts of killing in the military fort, the defenders at the head of the wall are mobilizing to the east, suddenly saw that there are also many Zhou troops here, suddenly a little flustered, let out bursts of exclamation.

Fifty ladder men of the first battalion quickly carried the big ladder forward and set up the wall, holding swords and shields to climb up in an orderly manner. At the same time, the crossbowmen lined up on both sides to shoot arrows to cover, and as more and more soldiers went up the wall, the south and east walls were quickly occupied, and the enemy forces had not yet completed their assembly, and the military fort was in chaos.

Soon, the main gate of the military fort was opened from the inside, Han Zhiping led his troops to rush in, and let the first battalion divide into two teams at the head of the wall to advance and occupy from the left and right, and the second battalion followed himself into the fort, and the scout battalion under the wall was one east and one west, seizing important facilities such as military offices, warehouses, and barracks. (To be continued.) )