Gushan is a mountain peak on the edge of the northern foot of the Wufeng Mountain Range, across the road canyon and the Jade Emperor Mountain of the northern foot of the Taishan Mountain Range in the east, through the narrow valley mouth between the two mountains, to the south 100 miles can go directly to the foot of Mount Tai, is the throat road leading to Taishan County and Xuzhou in the central and western parts of Qingzhou.

A month ago, Zhang Rao, the commander of the eastern road of the Qingyan Yellow Turban Army, built a pass between Gushan and Yuhuang Mountain, like a huge gate, locking the entrance to the throat of a hundred miles, and the Yellow Turban Army entrenched in the mountains of hundreds of miles south of the pass could enter the plain at any time through the Gushan Pass, and launched attacks on Luxian in the west of Gushan Pass, Zhu'a in the north, Licheng in the northeast, and Xipingling in the north.

In the early days of Qingyan's attack on Jinan and the southwest of Beihai County, Liu Cun did not realize the important strategic value of the entrance to the Baili Throat Road, until the beginning of September, when Zhang Rao, who had been frustrated in the offensive, quickly integrated the Yellow Turbans of all sizes and secretly dispatched nearly 10,000 soldiers to build a pass between Gushan and Yuhuang Mountain.

For this reason, Liu Cun admired Zhang Rao's vision and ability, and privately spoke very highly of Zhang Rao, who had been through a hundred battles, much higher than those so-called famous generals in this dynasty.

What Liu Cun didn't know was that Zhang Rao, who was only 29 years old from Chang County, Beihai State, Qingzhou (now Changyi, Shandong), also spoke highly of him Liu Cun, thinking that Liu Cun, who was named "General Dangkou" by Emperor Liu Hong, was definitely the most proficient general in training and using troops among today's Han generals, and Zhang Rao's intelligence network under the Jinan State was very efficient.

Three days after learning that Liu Cun arrived in Zhu'a, he still did not show up. Zhang Rao, who felt the crisis, couldn't sit still, and immediately summoned the nearly forty-year-old military advisor Cangqi, deputy generals Cheng Yao, and Li Zishui to the Chinese army's tent set up at the gate to discuss together. Let everyone talk about it, Liu Cun, the assassin of Qingzhou, did not deal with Zhang Ju's 140,000 army on the front line of the plain. What did you do secretly running to Zhu Alai?

The military advisor Cangqi had not heard Zhang Rao mention this matter before, and he was taken aback when he heard this, and then he thought nervously.

Cangqi and Zhang Rao are fellow villagers, and they have also been Cao officials in Duchang County for 12 years, with a strange appearance, a huge head, a thin body, slender eyes, and very open. At the same time, his eyebrow bones are high and his jaw is rugged, so he is unlikable from childhood to adulthood, which is also the fundamental reason why he has a full stomach of real talent and real learning, but he does not have any opportunities to become a leader.

It is such a Cangqi, but he has the knowledge of astronomy and geography that is not inferior to that of Dr. Taibu under the emperor's throne, and what is even more commendable is that Cangqi grew up by the Bohai Sea since he was a child, and is very obsessed with the law of the ebb and flow of the tide and the changes of the climate of the four seasons, through more than 20 years of careful observation. He has accumulated a wealth of meteorological experience, and is always able to make accurate predictions of weather changes, and he is also low-key and never takes credit. won the respect of Zhang Rao and the Yellow Turban generals.

Zhang Rao and several lieutenants saw that Cangqi's face was very ugly, and they couldn't help but panic, and they didn't wait for Cangqi to raise his head. The two colonels suddenly rushed to the scene and shouted out loud, panting: "The officers and men of 50,000 horses are coming up in three directions. The officers and soldiers facing our pass are waving the battle flag of the Langya Army. There are also hundreds of two-horse carts in between, most likely the rumored ballista that can shoot five huge arrows in a row! ”

Zhang Rao couldn't take care of Cangqi anymore, grabbed the bronze helmet and rushed out of the big tent, and the deputy generals Cheng Yao, Li Zishui and others followed, and soon ran to the top of the pass, lying on the parapet made of thick logs and watching nervously.

After a while, the faces of the three of them turned pale, and Cheng Yao, the tall and muscular adjutant general, exclaimed: "That must be the banner of Liu Cun, the commander of the Langya Army!" ”

"What's the panic?"

Zhang Rao snorted, observed intently again, and kept spitting out an angry voice in his mouth: "Damn Liu Zijian, it's too bullying!" Dare to force within two miles of the front where our troops are the thickest, it seems that the brothers are frightened by the reputation of the Langya army, and they don't even dare to go out to test it, and all of them shrink into the fence. ”

"You can't blame the brothers, you see, hundreds of carriages of the Langya army have turned their butts against us...... It's a crossbow bolt! No...... It's a bed crossbow, it's handsome! Look, at least 300 of them are on display! ”

Adjutant General Li Zishui couldn't help but tremble slightly, the messenger sent by Zhang Ju half a month ago privately told him that the huge lethality of the Langya Army's bed crossbow, when the crossbow arrow like a spear flew out like lightning, it would emit a seeping scream, as long as it was shot by this kind of giant arrow five feet long, whether it was a horse or a person, it was like a grass, no matter how thick and heavy the shield was, it was not a matter of being shot by a giant arrow, and the messenger finally said with palpitations that he had seen an arrow string up four soldiers.

Zhang Rao's cheeks were clenched, and he ordered all departments to hold on and not to fight, and looked at the Langya army that was quickly arranging in front of him again: "There are twelve gun formations and knife formations lined up, and there must be Langya rangers behind the car formation, it seems that there are no less than 3,000 people and horses, all armor, really fucking rich!" If Lao Tzu also had such weapons, armor and high-headed horses, he would have entered the royal city of Dongpingling, the Langya army of the dog day! Looks like this battle is in trouble. ”

"Dashuai, what should I do? The brothers in the array seemed to be panicking. The deputy general Cheng Yao, who calmed down, reminded loudly.

Zhang Rao put on a bronze helmet, leaned out and yelled at the pass: "Prepare a horse for Lao Tzu!" Lao Tzu wants to go out of the camp to meet Liu Zijian! ”

"Don't go out! Liu Cun's martial arts are strong, Zhang Chun's fierce general Zhang Shu touched him, and let him pick off his head with just one face! Li Zishui grabbed Zhang Rao, grinning in a hurry, but he didn't dare to say anything unlucky.

Zhang Rao laughed, raised his hand and patted Li Zishui's pale face very unceremoniously: "Third brother, third brother, in the past six years, no matter who we fight with, you kid is carrying the nine-ring knife and rushing to the front, I have never seen you cowardly like today, what are you afraid of?" He Liu Cun was not raised by his father? Don't worry, although Liu Cun led the army to fight with us, he is more benevolent and righteous than any officer and army general, and he never kills prisoners, let alone fights when the two armies say hello to each other before the war, what about me, big brother, I have been wanting to see what Liu Cun looks like for many years, and I want to dream about it! If it is really because of this incident to die in his hands, it is also my honor Zhang Rao, just like Guan Dashuai said, it is ten thousand times stronger than dying in the hands of a nobody, maybe he can still leave a name in history, haha! ”

The 15,000 soldiers of the Langya Army, who were the first to force the camp in front of the pass, suppressed more than 30,000 Yellow Turban soldiers with incomparable courage and sophisticated equipment, and the officers and soldiers of Jinan and Qi County saw the rapid contraction of the Yellow Turban Army on both flanks in front of the Pass, and they hid in the fence that stretched for several miles, and immediately seized the opportunity to march quickly, and quickly leaned towards the left and right flanks of the Langya Army to set up formations.

For a time, the area eight miles long and three miles wide was filled with dust and smoke, people roared and neighed, and a kind of panic and anxiety that had never been felt before soon spread silently on the Yellow Turban Army's position.

In front of the spear array between the two crossbow formations of the Langya Army, Liu Cun and Qi Jun Taishou Jiao and the horses in full armor stood under the fiery red handsome flag, talking while observing the reaction of the enemy formation on the front line, and behind them were the majestic Langya Army Lieutenant Qin Yi, Xu Yan and six lieutenants, who were now in front of the 50,000 soldiers of the three armies, less than 500 steps away from the Yellow Turban Army, which was already full of antlers and rejected horses, and every move of the Yellow Turban Army could be seen clearly.

It was the first time for Jiao He to fight side by side with Liu Cun, and it was also the first time in his life that he was so close to the enemy formation on the eve of a great battle, only to feel his heart beating wildly, his brain buzzing, his blood boiling, and a strong sense of pride that he had never felt before, roaring with the blood flowing in his body.

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