[Happy New Year 2016 to everyone]

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Zhang Xuan led the main army to Fangshan in the afternoon, Pei Xingyan was ashamed, dismounted and saluted: "The humble post failed to catch up with Wang Bo, the humble position made a mistake in judgment, please punish the general!" ”

"You mean that if you don't make a mistake in judgment, you can catch up with Wang Bo, is that true?" Zhang Xuan asked with a smile.

"That's right, Wang Bo's army divided its troops at the fork in two ways, all the way to Qufu County, all the way to Fangshan, lowly considering that Wang Bo's nest is in Fangshan, and there are a large number of people, so I thought that Wang Bo was among them, but unexpectedly Wang Bo fled to Qufu County, and the lowly duty wasted this opportunity!"

The more Pei Xingyan spoke, the more remorseful he became, and he couldn't wait to slap himself a few times and scold himself again.

"At that time, the lowly duty should have been divided into two ways to pursue, and the lowly duty was confused for a while."

"You don't have to blame yourself anymore."

Zhang Xuan smiled and comforted him: "This is not necessarily a bad thing!" ”

"What did the general say?" Pei Xingyan was a little stunned, what is called is not necessarily a bad thing.

Zhang Xuan took out the map from his horse bag, spread it out on a big stone, and ordered the soldiers next to him: "Go and find General Liu!" ”

After a while, Liu Chunhao hurried over and bowed, "See the general!" ”

The reason why Zhang Xuan brought Liu Chunhao with him was because he was very familiar with Fangshan, second only to Xu Shunming, and with him, Zhang Xuan could find a way to conquer Fangshan.

"May I ask General Liu, if you can go west from these forks in the road, can you go up to Fangshan again?"

Zhang Xuan pointed to a fork in the map, which was where Wang Bo divided his troops and fled.

Liu Chunhao thought for a while and said: "After arriving in Qufu, you can take a detour to the north, but you can go to the north foot of Fangshan, but it is too far from there to Wang Bo's cottage, and the road is extremely difficult, and it will take at least two days to walk." And there are a lot of trails, so if you don't know the way, you will get lost. ”

"Why don't you say Xilu?"

"General, the west side is full of cliffs, and you can't go up at all."

Zhang Xuan pondered for a while and asked, "You have followed Wang Bo for many years, do you think Wang Bo will go around from the north back to the cottage?" ”

Liu Chunhao shook his head decisively, "General." Wang Bo's biggest characteristic is that he will never put himself in danger, since the general's army has entered Lu County, he will no longer consider Fangshan, he once told me, if Fangshan can't be kept, he will go back to Dongping County, if Dongping County is not smooth, he will go directly to Wagang, and he thinks he should go to Dongping County. ”

But his wife and children are in Fangshan. And so much food and possessions, will he give it up? Pei Xingyan asked puzzled.

The corners of Liu Chunhao's mouth rolled up with a mocking smile, "For Wang Bo, the most precious thing is his life, nothing else matters, besides, his son is not in Fangshan, it should be in the hands of the Bohai Society, Fangshan only has his wife Xu and two daughters." He wouldn't care too much. ”

Zhang Xuan put away the map and asked Pei Xingyan, "Can Wang Bo's personal soldiers catch him alive?" ”

Pei Xingyan hesitated and said, "There are only two soldiers, and the others have been killed." They died because they wanted to ask questions. ”

"Bring them up!"

In a moment, two captured Wang Bo's soldiers were led up, one was injured in the head, the other was not injured, and both were brought to Zhang Xuan, both bowing their heads.

"Do these two generals know each other?" Zhang Xuan asked Liu Chunhao.

Liu Chunhao nodded. "Both of them are Wang Bo's henchmen and soldiers, and I know them."

Zhang Xuan said to the two of them: "You two go up the mountain to send me a message, if the mountain surrenders, I will not kill any of them, and let them return to their hometowns." I will also bring Wang Bo's wife and daughter back to Beihai County, and I will not hurt them, but if I refuse to surrender, then once I kill the mountain, the chickens and dogs will not be left! Give you two hours to go! ”

"Thank you, General!"

The two prisoners of war saluted, turned around and ran towards the mountain, Pei Xingyan asked in a low voice, "Does the general think they will surrender?" ”

Zhang Xuan smiled faintly, "I don't know if you will surrender or not, but they must not have imagined that we would attack the cottage in these two hours." ”

Zhang Xuan immediately said to Pei Xingyan and Wei Chigong: "You each lead 3,000 people to go up the mountain from the east and west, and if they don't surrender within an hour, you will start to attack." ”

"Obey!"

Pei Xingyan and Wei Chigong galloped away on horseback, each leading their troops up the mountain.

Next to him, Qin Yong asked puzzledly: "Second uncle, why did you only give them an hour." ”

"If they really want to surrender, an hour is enough."

At present, the guards of Fangshan are a pair of brothers, one named Jin Long and the other Jin Tai, with 2,000 soldiers under their command.

Their task was not to defend against the attack of the Sui army, but to take care of the huge amount of money and grain in the warehouse of Fangshan, Wang Bo thought very well, after the arrival of his main force, the defenders of Fangshan would reach eight or nine thousand people, enough to build Fangshan like an iron bucket.

But the Jin brothers could never have imagined that after Wang Bo's main force was caught up by the Sui army halfway, the army was scattered, and now the 2,000 people in the cottage will become the pillars guarding the cottage.

In the lobby, the Jin brothers listened to the message of Zhang Xuan conveyed by the two Wang Bo soldiers with different expressions, and the two soldiers expressed very clearly that there was a way to survive if they surrendered, and if they resisted, they would not be left behind, and then, the two soldiers also told them about the situation of Wang Bo and Xu Shunming.

The elder brother Jin Long was terrified when he heard this, and his eyes showed fear, but the second Jin Tai was thoughtful, and his eyes flashed with an elusive brilliance.

After the two pro-soldiers retreated, Jin Tai smiled gloomily: "Don't you think our opportunity has come, big brother?" ”

"What chance?" Jin Long asked puzzled.

"Wang Bo fled, Xu Shunming died, Liu Chunhao surrendered, then this cottage is your brother's, so much food and property, I went to the treasury to see, there are tens of thousands of taels of gold alone, and countless jewels and jade, as for the copper coins, they are piled up, tens of thousands of stone grains, this is Wang Bo's old book, and Wang Bo's two daughters, now all belong to us."

"You're not going to surrender?" Jin Long asked in surprise.

"Surrender?"

Jin Tai snorted disdainfully, "Zhang Hyun is just bluffing, the terrain of the mountain defense is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, he wants to capture the mountain with thousands of men, dream!" ”

"But Zhang Xuan swept Langya County in just one month, killed Sun Xuanya, killed Meng Rang, and frightened Wang Bo to flee in embarrassment, I heard that Zhang Jin said that the seventy or eighty thousand troops were still defeated in his hands, I'm afraid he is not our opponent."

"Why should the eldest brother grow the ambition of others and destroy his own prestige?"

Jin Tai was a little dissatisfied: "At the beginning, we said that we would occupy the mountain together and build our own territory, but now the opportunity has come, but you are timid, if the eldest brother is not willing to do it, I will not be reluctant, the eldest brother can go down the mountain, and I will take over the cottage." ”

Jin Long sighed, "Then I'd better go home and take care of my father!" ”

As soon as his words fell, Jin Tai's face changed, and he drew his sword and slashed at him, Jin Long couldn't dodge, and was slashed on the shoulder by a sword, Jin Long screamed, covered his shoulder, and stumbled out, but only ran out of two steps before being blocked by the couch and fell to the ground.

At this time, more than a dozen soldiers rushed in and knelt down to stop Jin Tai, "Second general, spare the general!" ”

Jin Tai pointed his sword at Jin Long and scolded angrily: "If it weren't for my brother's sake, I would have killed you with a sword, and you wouldn't want to sabotage my plan again." ”

Jin Tai shouted the order, "Drag him down and lock him up, and then clean him up after I defeat the Sui army!" ”

Jin Long covered the wound on his shoulder without saying a word, and the soldiers took Jin Long down.

At this time, a soldier rushed to report in a panic, "General, the Sui army is about to attack the mountain!" ”

Jin Taeyi gritted his teeth, "Sure enough, it's a liar!" ”

He shouted the order: "Order all the soldiers to take position and prepare to fight to the death with the Sui army!" ”

Jin Tai wants to replace Wang Bo and refuses to surrender to the Sui army does have a certain confidence, after nearly two years of building, Fangshan has become a copper wall like a cottage, about two miles away from the peak of the main peak began to build the wall, the debt wall is all built with huge bluestone, extremely solid, up to two zhang, like a city wall, one zhang wide above, there are shooting holes, there are throwing stone holes, a large number of rolling wood and stone stones are stored.

And there is only one gate in the whole wall, which has been sealed by bluestone, the Sui army attacked the cottage, and could only set up a ladder to climb the wall, but the slope below was very steep, and it was impossible to set up a ladder at all, even if the ladder was barely erected, it would be easily overturned.

Two thousand people guarded the wall, enough to resist the attack of 20,000 people, so when Jin Tai heard that the Sui army was only seven or eight thousand people, the fear in his heart subsided, and his ambition was full of ambition.

There was chaos in the cottage, and I only heard Jin Tai shouting: "After defeating the Sui army, each person will be rewarded with fifty taels, and I will go down the mountain to Qufu on a three-day holiday!" ”

Inspired by the heavy money of Jintai, the thieves who had no intention of fighting rekindled their morale and rushed to the city.

At this time, there was still an hour before the time limit given by Zhang Xuan, but the thief army had no sign of surrender, and the two Sui armies had already ascended the mountain from the east and west roads at the same time, and stopped about two hundred steps away from the wall.

Pei Xingyan and Yu Chigong both have experience in attacking Squatting Dog Mountain, but Squaodog Mountain can only be a small thing compared to this defensive mountain, and the high danger of the walled wall makes Pei Xingyan and Wei Chigong frown, this cottage is indeed not ordinarily difficult to fight. (To be continued.) )