Chapter 360: The Battle of Xiqiang 2 (Fourth Update, 16,000 words.) )

PS: #暴君刘璋#感谢孤单月徘徊的打赏. The fourth update, 16,000 words.

"In Xia Wangshuang, I have seen Shu Hou." Wang Shuang took a step forward and bowed, and Liu Zhang felt a fierce aura coming from afar.

"What a general, such a hero, a god-given vanguard general." Liu Zhang praised it and said to Wang Xu and his party: "If you are allowed to join the army, you will be organized into a team of 100 people, Wang Shuang will be the centurion, and the shortage will be absorbed by yourself in the battle, and Wang Xu will follow the Chinese army." ”

"Yes."

At this time, Wang Shuang untied the black package on the war horse, Hu Che'er looked at it, and said enviously: "What a batch of horses." ”

Wang Xu said with a smile: "This is the Great Wan Liang Horse of the Western Regions, traveling thousands of miles a day, it is a group of horse bandits in the previous village, my brother robbed it, and there was a sixty pound knife and two stone iron tire bows, not to mention anything else, my brother is still a little brave, and he will be able to do his best for the great cause of Shuhou." ”

Lu Ma, who was riding so powerfully, was dismissive. But I saw Wang Shuang take out a big knife, the big knife glowed with blue and black light, and at a glance, he killed countless people, very heavy, but Wang Shuang was like holding a fan.

Wang Shuang opened the rest of the package, an iron-tired bow, three meteor hammers, and a saber, all of which were hung on his body, and jumped on the tall war horse with a big sword, as if he had no weight.

When the generals heard Wang Xu say that the big knife weighed sixty catties, they all looked stupid, so powerful that they thought that they could do it easily, but with such a strong force, I am afraid that only Huang Zhong has this ability, and they can't help but admire.

Liu Zhang nodded, this Wang Shuang really made sixty catties of big knives as recorded, rode thousands of miles to conquer horses and horses (the original text of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms records this, traitors don't understand what is called thousands of miles to march horses and horses, and understand them as excellent Dawan horses), open two stone iron tire bows, hide three meteor hammers, and hit a hundred shots. There is the courage of ten thousand people.

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Tianshui Jicheng.

The county order Jiang Xu's mansion.

Jiang Jian came in from outside, with a young man behind him.

"Dude, why are you here, isn't your wife pregnant? Aren't watching at home either? Jiang Xu smiled and said to Jiang Yin, the surname Jiang is a surname of Jicheng, with Qiang blood, but it has long been sinicized. Jiang Xu and Jiang Jian are of the same clan and clan.

"This Xiliang army has made a mess of Tianshui, how can I be in the mood to stay at home, and I came this time to inform my lord of a major military situation."

Tianshui is nominally Cao Cao's territory, but Cao Cao did not have a single soldier here, and the entire northwest of Yongzhou was a place where Yongliang warlords galloped, and all local officials were not supported by warlords. is the son of the local wealthy family, and Jicheng is no exception.

The surname Jiang is the largest surname in Jicheng, and the entire Jicheng is the world of the Jiang family, and the officials surnamed Jiang account for more than half.

Jiang Xu embraced Jicheng and belonged to the Hao clan. The children of the family guard the city, and the warlords generally do not provoke, Jiang Xu and the Xiliang warlords are separate systems, and the Jiang family is against the Xiliang warlords. It can be described as hateful.

To put it bluntly, the warlords of Xiliang are a group of bandits recognized by the imperial court, and Xiliang also has a wealthy family, Han Sui. Ma Teng is from the world, although Ma Teng's family is in the middle of the road, but the Ma family is still famous.

But these clans are different from the Jiang family and other clans, due to the bitter cold in the west and the hardships of life, the Ma family and other clans have all come down from the bloody rain, they don't care about the land, regardless of the property, just the strength, if you have the strength, you will surrender, if you don't have the strength, you will rob it, and you will destroy it.

In order to deal with the Xiliang army, the Jiang family had to recruit soldiers and spend a lot of money to build ordnance, and the family could not be carried forward all the year round.

And this time the Xiliang Army met in Tianshui, Tianshui suffered a big disaster, the surrounding counties were plundered, and also affected the surrounding counties such as Longxi, on the ridges, village paths, everywhere you can see the Xiliang Army's horse team passing by, and the Jiang family's property outside the city is not known how much has been trampled on.

When Jiang Xu heard Jiang Jian complaining about the Xiliang Army, he was also very resentful, his expression twisted, and he asked, "What is the important military situation?" Could it be that the two bandit armies of the Sichuan Army and the Xiliang Army decided to win or lose? ”

In the Jiang family's view, the Xiliang Army and the Sichuan Army are two violent bandit armies, and the Sichuan Army is more violent than the Xiliang Army.

"How can it be so fast." Jiang Jian glanced at the young man.

The young man stepped forward and saluted Jiang Xuha, "Little Liu Shan, meet the county commander." ”

"What's your military report?"

Liu Shan said with a smile: "The small one passed through Beiyuan Road and found the cavalry of Zhang Ren, the general of the Sichuan Army, saying that he was going to attack Tianshui. ”

"What?" Jiang Xu was shocked and asked anxiously, "Is this true?" ”

Jiang Xu carefully confirmed to Liu Shan, Liu Shan told him in detail what he had seen and heard in Beiyuan Dao, Jiang Xu patted his palms and said in horror: "Oh my God, Tianshui is the transit point of the grain and grass of the 200,000 army in Xiliang, if it is captured by the Sichuan army, it only needs to be held for half a month, and the Xiliang army will collapse. ”

"Nope." Jiang Xu shook his head and said: "Although Tianshui has 5,000 defenders, but that group of bandits only knows how to loot, who will defend the city, Zhang Ren is the first general of the Sichuan army, and he has a good command of the army, when the Sichuan army arrives, Tianshui will definitely fall, and this matter must be told to the Xiliang army as soon as possible." ”

Jiang Jian was puzzled and said: "My lord, this Sichuan Barbarian and Xiliang Horse Bandit are fighting each other, what are we involved in, let them bite each other." ”

"Oh, my brother." Jiang Xu said to Jiang Yin: "Brother, you still don't know what kind of people Sichuan Barbarians are, right?" Six or seven massacres before and after, the Jingyi clan was almost slaughtered, if we go to Tianshui, unless we are like those foot merchants, lowly selling goods, seeking immoral profits, otherwise we will be punished.

Compared with the Sichuan army, the Xiliang army grabbed some property at most, and the Xiliang army was in a mess, which was not a big threat to us. ”

When Jiang Jian heard this, he was also solemn, Jiang Jian said: "Beiyuan Road is less than 100 miles away from Jicheng, even if the road is dangerous, it will not take more than two days, the Sichuan army can reach Tianshui City, is it too late for the Xiliang army to return to help?" ”

"Of course it's too late, but I don't believe that if you are prepared, the five thousand Xiliang troops can't hold it for even a few days...... But not necessarily, will those horse bandits throw thunder stones and rolling logs? "Jiang Xu is more anxious than Xiliangjun.

Jiang Xu immediately sent someone to inform the Tianshui guards to prevent the Sichuan army from sneaking attack two days later, but that night, Tianshui was attacked by a large number of infantry.

Jiang Xu was shocked when he heard the news. Finally understood that more than one group of Sichuan troops had sneaked from Beiyuan Province, maybe a large number of Sichuan troops were coming one after another, and the Jiang family was so anxious that Jiang Jian said: "My lord, are we sending private soldiers to help Tianshui?" ”

"After aiding Tianshui, what should we do in Jicheng? If it is broken through by the Sichuan barbarians, you, my parents, wife and children are all here. Moreover, what can our private soldiers do in front of the Sichuan army that is not afraid of death? ”

Jiang Xu nervously thought about countermeasures, and suddenly came to his senses: "It's too late for the Xiliang Army to come back to help, aren't Ma Teng and Han Sui friendly with Xian Lingqiang?" Our Jiang family also has some friendship with the leader of Xian Lingqiang, and now the closest to Tianshui is the Xian Lingqiang cavalry besieging Tsing Yi Qiang, and within a day, they will be able to help. ”

Jiang Xu, Jiang Jian and Tianshui Xiliang will be co-branded. Starry Night asks for help from Xian Lingqiang.

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In the southern vein of Xiqiang, Xiao Furong and a group of barbarians are worrying about whether to go down the mountain and make a new detour.

"Hey, look at that bamboo forest." Bao'er suddenly exclaimed.

Everyone looked over and saw a small piece of flat land a few feet below the top of the mountain. There is a cage of cold bamboo on the flat ground.

"What do you mean?" Xiao Furong asked, Bao'er told Xiao Furong her thoughts, Xiao Furong was surprised: "Is this okay?" ”

"Let's give it a try."

Xiao Furong hesitated and nodded. The order was given: "Gather all the strings together and send the soldiers down to cut the bamboo." ”

Bao'er's plan is simple, which is to make a bamboo bridge out of bamboo - fly over the cliff.

Soldiers busily fastened the bamboo with string. To make a bamboo bridge, the cliff is ten zhang wide, dozens of meters away, and the bamboo pole that can be cut down to make the bridge is only three zhang long, and a bamboo bridge is impossible to cross anyway.

Only a few bamboo bridges can be used to overlap, but many bamboo bridges are connected together, each three zhang, adding up is enough, and you have to consider the bearing capacity of the end and the end, the cliff mouth wind is so big, the bearing capacity is not good, the two bamboo bridges will break immediately.

To get there, two points must be overcome, the first is to make a bamboo bridge with sufficient carrying capacity, and the second is to be able to catch the opposite bank.

Either way, it's a difficult task. The soldiers braved the cold wind and falling snow to make a bamboo bridge, which was connected to each other end to end, fixed with ropes, and finally made a bamboo bridge more than ten zhang long, and the ropes at the joints were connected, and they were all reinforced with wooden piles.

The public part of the bamboo bridge is full of feet, Xiao Furong and Shamoke and others tried it, the bridge was not deformed, and even the crunching sound was very little, which showed that it was very firm, but Xiao Furong and Shamoke were still not sure that they would be able to carry it.

A group of soldiers worked together to push out the bamboo bridge, and when it was suspended for twenty meters in the air, the bamboo bridge had already made a "click" and "click" sound, Xiao Furong, Bao'er, Shamoke and other barbarians watched nervously as the soldiers sent the bamboo bridge out.

If there is a sudden break, the Wuxi barbarians can only choose to take a detour.

Carefully pushed out another ten meters, the front end of the bamboo bridge is about to touch the opposite bank, at this time the bamboo bridge has reached thirty meters in the air, shaking in the violent cold wind, dozens of soldiers together, the bamboo bridge is barely fixed, and due to the deviation, it is impossible to send the bamboo bridge over, but against the opposite cliff four or five meters down.

The bamboo bridge shook in the air, and the sound of friction at the junction was even louder, tugging at the hearts of the barbarians.

Bao'er looked at Xiao Furong and said, "Sister, there are only two ways now, one is to go along the bamboo bridge alone, find a way to use a hook rope to go up to the other side and pull the bridge up, but this is extremely dangerous." ”

Shamoko said loudly: "I'll go, I have great strength." ”

"Are you going to die?" Xiao Furong glanced at Shamoke, and said in a deep voice: "This is not a danger, it is simply a death, this cliff is so strong that it can blow people away, let alone go to the other side along the shaking bamboo bridge, and say the next way." ”

"I want a fulcrum to pry up the bamboo bridge." Boa said.

"But there's nothing here but frozen ground, how can you pry it?" Flower Boy said.

"Employing people." Xiao Furong said in a deep voice.

A barbarian soldier got into the gap between the bamboo bridge and the ground, and the barbarian soldier immediately pressed the bamboo bridge down, holding it up a little, and the gap was even bigger.

The soldiers needed to fix the bamboo bridge vigorously so that it would not be blown away by the cold wind, and the barbarian soldier only felt that his back was pressed by a huge force, and his back was so hot that it seemed that his bones had been shattered.

Another soldier got in, the bamboo bridge pressed down, the brute was supported in pain, his face was distorted, and the bamboo bridge was cocked a little.

The barbarians went in one after another, and by the seventeenth, the bamboo bridge was finally pried up and put on the opposite bank, the bamboo bridge was put to the ground, and the barbarians below climbed out, only to feel that the torso was misplaced, especially the bottom one, completely paralyzed.

Xiao Furong frowned.

"Now you need a person to go over and fix the bridge on the opposite side on the shore, and you have to bring the stringed white guns over to make a guardrail for the soldiers behind." Bao'er said.

"I'll go."

Shamoke stepped out in one step, Xiao Furong didn't stop it, just nervously watched Shamoke walk onto the bamboo bridge.

"Get down." Xiao Furong shouted loudly.

Shamoke, who was shaking on the bamboo bridge, didn't expect the wind to be so strong, and the two-hundred-pound body was almost blown away like leaves, so he hurriedly lay on the bamboo bridge, holding one end of the stringed white pole gun, and crawled forward cautiously little by little, and dozens of soldiers behind tried to suppress the bamboo bridge to prevent the bamboo bridge from shaking.

Shamoke lay on the bamboo bridge, as if he was in the clouds, and there were bottomless cliffs in his eyes, dizziness, the cold wind was biting, Shamoke clung to the bamboo bridge, the green tendons on the back of his hands burst out, his eyes were closed, his teeth were clenched, and he tried to maintain the balance of his body.

The bamboo bridge is made of more than a dozen bamboos spliced side by side, which is about the same width as a general country road, but being on top of a cliff is a different feeling.

Especially when Shamoko walked to the center of the bamboo bridge, the strong wind of the mountain stream was blowing, and the front and back did not land on the ground, and it was more and more difficult for the body to maintain balance, just like walking a tightrope, and it was a tightrope walking on a cliff.

Xiao Furong, along with all the barbarian soldiers, nervously watched as Shamoko moved towards the bridge, and the heartbeats of all the soldiers trembled with Shamoke's movements.

I don't know how long it took, as if centuries, Shamoko, who had his eyes closed, finally felt that he had touched the soil, opened his eyes, and the cold wind blew into his eyes, and with his empty eyes, he finally saw his eyes, and the bamboo bridge was surrounded by solid land.

Shamoko moved his body, and finally reached the opposite bank, and the barbarians on the other side breathed a sigh of relief, and the tense nerves were slightly soothed.

Shamoko used a rope to fix the bamboo bridge in a bush, the rope wrapped around the roots of the bush, the soldiers on the opposite bank let go of their hands, the bamboo bridge was not blown away by the mountain wind, the bamboo bridge was finally fixed on the cliff, and the faces of the soldiers showed joy.

Shamoko wound the white-pole gun again, fixed it on both sides, and made a "good" gesture to the opposite side, although the distance was only thirty meters, but the shouting was difficult to hear from the opposite side. (To be continued.) )