Time back to seven days ago, June 13, Qingniling in the north of Xingzhou. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wang Jing and Gao Yanyu had equal troops, both of them were 8,000 people, and they faced each other across the ridge for half a month, during which the two sides fought fiercely several times, but Gao Yanyu had strong troops, and defended according to the danger, Wang Jing could not find a defensive loophole, and many attacks were beaten back, and more than 1,500 casualties were killed and wounded before and after.

Moreover, it rains every day in this ghost place, and if the soldiers are stationed in the wetland, Wang Jing even has the mind of retiring. However, at this moment, the news came from Changju County in the rear.

Zhang Jianxiong of the Western Route Army has captured Qin and Chengzhou, and heard that his own marshal was blocked in Qingniling, so he has led 3,000 troops from Chengzhou to the south, and will take the West Hanshui River Valley to the southeast to Qingniling, and agreed to attack Gao Yanyu behind him on the 14th, and asked Wang Jing to lead his troops to attack.

Wang Jing was overjoyed, the day of the whole army battle, the next morning on the valley of the rain stopped, sent the eldest son Wang Tingyi personally led the troops to take the lead, since the main force in the rear to follow, over a small hill into the valley, set up a formation to take turns to attack.

The terrain here is narrow, with steep mountains in front and east, and ten thousand cliffs on the other side, and a slope path less than 100 paces wide in the middle can be passed, so it is of course very disadvantageous to attack with troops. The Shu army probed the crossing, pressed the position with archers in turn, and when the Fengxiang army approached the bottom of the hill, they pushed the rolling wood and stones down the mountain, and the Fengxiang army could not go uphill at all.

However, Wang Jing had no fear, and slowly advanced forward with a shield wall formed by sword and shield hands, and used archers to occupy favorable terrain to shoot, but the slope was steep, and there were more archers and nowhere to stay, so it was useless to increase casualties. As before, the sword and shield men were still the same as before, and as soon as they reached the halfway point of the mountain, they were quickly crushed by the rolling wood and stones, and retreated back in a hurry.

Wang Jing was not discouraged, the front was defeated and immediately replaced with two thousand people to attack in turn, even the lunch time did not stop, in the afternoon, Xu is Zhang Jianxiong led the troops to sneak attack from behind, Gao Yanyu's defense weakened, Wang Jing finally took advantage of the situation to attack the hillside, and led the troops to pursue all the way for several miles, and Zhang Jianxiong rendezvous, the front and back of Gao Yan's department, the battle lasted for more than half an hour, Gao Yanyu was defeated.

Not wanting the Shu people to be familiar with the terrain in this area of Qingniling, Gao Yanyu led nearly a thousand defeated soldiers to escape from the trail and retreated to Shunzheng County, Xingzhou Prefecture, and at the same time sent a fast horse to report to Li Tingqi.

By 17 June, Li Tingqi thought that Gao Yanyu would be able to hold Qingniling, but at this time, the logistics were ready, and he was preparing to march to Nanzheng to join Han Baozheng, and when he heard that Gao Yanyu had been defeated and took Qingniling, he retreated to Shunzheng, and immediately sent Lu Yanke to lead 5,000 troops to rescue Xingzhou. As a result, Lu Yanke walked on the road for four days, and when he arrived at Xingcheng Pass, Wang Jing and Zhang Jianxiong's 10,000 troops had already broken through Shunzheng, and they happened to receive more than 1,000 remnants of Gao Yanyu's soldiers.

Is it to solve the West Road Wang Jingbu first? Or do you want to drive away the East Road Xiangxun and Zhang Yue first? According to the information sent by Han Baozheng, Xiang Xun and Zhang Yuedong Road Army had 16,000 people, and they were in the camp in the Baoshui River Valley, and they had not gone south to attack the city, of course, they were waiting for news from Wang Jing.

And Han Baozheng's troops are still sufficient, with more than 12,000 people, and it is no problem to defend the city. It's just that Pet Fucheng has been restrained, and he has not yet come to Nanzheng for reinforcements. After careful consideration, Li Tingqi led his troops to Xingcheng Pass, intending to fight Wang Jingbu in the valley north of Xingcheng Pass.

After three days of rapid marching, Li Tingqi arrived at Xingcheng Pass, and learned that Wang Jingbu had less than 10,000 troops, and the logistics and grain roads were dragging on for a long time, so he decided to send Lu Yanke to make a detour north to attack Shimen Town on Wang Jinghou Road, and then fight a decisive battle after cutting off Wang Jing's return road. And this will take two days, and when Wang Jing runs out of food, the army's morale will be chaotic, and it will be twice the result with half the effort.

At the same time, on the morning of 23 June, in a vacant house in Chenggu County, the doors and windows of the room were closed and pitch black, and Song Lingguang and another scout were arrested and kidnapped for nearly four days.

With a squeak, the door was slowly pushed open, and an old man wearing a black hat and a cyan robe walked in, waved his hand to let the entourage close the door, and asked a slightly chubby middle-aged man next to him to open the curtains, and then looked at Song Lingguang and the others.

"Go! Untie them! The old man in the green robe commanded the middle-aged man, and then continued: "Eight days ago, Xingzhou fell, so you can see the old man alive!" Go ahead...... What do you want the old man to do? ”

"So to speak! Did the county order agree to our conditions? Feel relieved...... Even if you can't be promoted to Tokyo as an official, at least you will be guaranteed a Xiazhou Sima from the five grades. Song Lingguang was ecstatic in his heart, glanced at the middle-aged man beside him, and then promised: "Feng Dongzhu also has it, I will protect you as the head bookkeeper, you are a businessman who can write and calculate, you should be competent, and being a county order for a few years is right?" ”

"Of course, a master book is not a problem!" The chubby middle-aged man is the nephew of this Wang County Commander's wife, the proprietor of the Hanshui Inn, he brought Song Lingguang and the others here a few days ago, and then he was arrested and imprisoned until now.

In fact, Song Lingguang didn't run away, but he didn't resist with a glimmer of hope, and he was bound obediently, but he didn't expect that no one would pay attention to him afterwards, and he was tied up for three or four days.

"That's good! Song didn't speak randomly, and said that it was quasi-countable. My father-in-law is a general under General Zhang, and I won't lie to you if you have this relationship. Song Lingguang was stunned, and then said: "What you have to do is very simple, that is, at the beginning of tonight, when the sky has just been darkened, look for the guard Han Congyi, and say that there are relatives who have taken refuge from Xingzhou and come to defect, please open the city gate." ”

"Then the relative is your Zhou Jun, right? No more than two hundred! If there is more suspicion, you and I will be in danger. Wang Xianling said coldly that he had been worried and undecided these days, and now he had to make this decision for the sake of his future.

"Good! Those who know the times are Junjie, and Wang Xianling will not regret today's decision. Song Lingguang laughed.

Subsequently, Wang Xianling took Song Lingguang and the two to his home by car, and then went to the military camp to see Han Congyi, the commander of the guards, who was Han Baozheng's cousin and nephew, who was brave and martial, but his mind was average and he was not shrewd.

As soon as Wang Xianling told him, Han Congyi thought that Xingzhou had indeed fallen, and agreed without too much doubt. Wang Xianling went home at noon, told Song Lingguang the results, and returned the eagle cage to him.

Song Lingguang no longer shied away, and immediately came to thin silk to write down the military information, put it in a small bamboo tube and tied it to Xuan Ling's legs, and carried the eagle cage to the uninhabited courtyard and flew out.

Not long after, in the wheat field four or five miles north of the city, Du Ximi had been waiting for news, heard Xuan Ling's cry, pursed his lips and blew a few sharp whistles, Xuan Ling heard the familiar voice of his master, and quickly found it and swooped down from the air.

These screams alarmed the scout soldiers hiding around, several gathered to discuss a little, Du Ximi continued to stay, and the others quickly left the wheat field with information, found an empty grove and led out two horses, saddled their horses and headed towards Tongguan Mountain to the north. (To be continued.) )