And the archers who were responsible for the cover of the Song army also launched a counterattack from the bottom up, but for them, such a counterattack was really a little difficult for them, speaking of covering the attacking infantry in front, but in essence, they were also within the range of the enemy, in addition to the strong crossbow in their hands can shoot up the cliff, it is difficult for ordinary Jiudou bows to shoot to such a high place. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

As a result, the archers suffered more casualties than the shield-tapped infantry in front of them, and the Song army fell to the ground under the rain of bows and arrows.

The Song army in front of the head at this time with a shield on their heads, rushed up the steep mountain road, but did not get close to the pass, the rebels on the pass put down a huge log, these logs have a hug thick, weighing hundreds of catties or even thousands of catties, first by the enemy rope on the straight and steep mountain road, after getting the order of Liang Tietou, the rebels have cut off the ropes that hang the logs, so the logs close to their own gravity, then rumbling down, Like a giant crush, it pressed down towards the Song army that was attacking from the back.

Such a narrow mountain road, with steep cliffs on one side and a valley dozens of zhang deep on the other, the attacking Song army had almost no place to dodge, and after these giant trees rolled down, even those who were no longer afraid of death immediately trembled, and turned around and fled down the mountain.

The people behind were a little better, they had time to escape down the mountain road, but the people who rushed in front had no chance to escape, under the high-speed rolling down of several giant trees, when dozens of people were hit by the giant trees, they were either knocked off the spot, or they were directly crushed by the giant trees below, and for a time the blood of the Song army on the mountain road was splashed on the spot, and the flesh and blood were blurred under the blow of the giant trees, and they were either killed or injured.

Zheng Bingjie saw that the team was effortlessly repelled by the rebels, and as a last resort, he had no choice but to withdraw his troops and let the attacking Song army withdraw from the mountain pass and retreat for rest.

This contact battle took only half an hour to declare the end, the Song army suffered more than 100 casualties at once, and the rebels can almost be said to have insufficient losses, only two archers in the Song army's crossbow shooting, the arrow fell off the cliff, the exchange ratio of the two armies exceeded 50 points, it can be said that the official army lost a lot this time.

The unfavorable first battle made Gao Huaiyuan very angry, but looking at the pass ahead, he also knew that if he continued to attack, he would not be able to achieve any results at all except for wasting the lives of the soldiers in vain.

So he had to order the temporary annexation of Sanxikou, and no longer let the soldiers make senseless sacrifices.

Looking at the officers and soldiers who retreated in embarrassment like the tide, Liang Tietou came to his senses again, stood on the pass and shouted: Haha! Did the big guy see it? The officers and soldiers are not enough, as long as we sit here, the officers and soldiers have nothing to do with us, we will spend it on them here, see how they pass through Sanxikou, I will make Sanxikou a nightmare for the officers and soldiers from now on, so that as long as they hear the name of my Liang Tietou, they will tremble with fear! Ha ha!

So the soldiers of the rebels were no longer afraid at this time, and they saw that the Song army really had nothing to do with them, so they also laughed with Liang Tietou, and some of the thieves even stood arrogantly on the cliff, unbuttoned their pants and escaped to pee in the direction of the Song army, and shouted loudly: Please drink urine from the officers and soldiers!

Listening to and looking at the arrogant shouts of those rebels in the mountain pass, the Song army was all angry, Zheng Bingjie was angry, came to Gao Huaiyuan, and loudly asked for an order: My lord, I am willing to lead five hundred soldiers to attack the mountain pass in person, if I can't attack the mountain pass, I would rather die on the mountain road!

Gao Huaiyuan looked at Zheng Bingjie, but he liked this young general very much, shook his head and said: General Zheng's courage is commendable, but remember not to fall for the enemy's tricks, they are agitating generals, that is, to provoke us to attack at the risk of death, and then kill and injure a large number of our army's living forces! If you lead your troops to attack now, you will fall for their tricks and waste your life! Ignore them for the time being, and send an order for our soldiers to camp on the spot and rest, rest with good food and drink, and then plan to attack Sanxikou!

Zheng Bingjie looked angry, pointed at the rebels in the mountain pass and said urgently: But my lord, look at those thieves, they are too arrogant! I can't bear this breath!

If you can't swallow it, you have to swallow it, as a general in the army, if you can't stand this bit of anger, you are not a qualified general, you must judge the situation as a general, and you can't act rashly, what you are shouldering is not only your own life, but also the lives of countless officers and soldiers under your command, knowing that the front is dead, and you still use their lives to fill in, then you are not a qualified general! The order went down, and the three armies buried the pot to cook, and took turns to sleep after they were full! Ignore them! Gao Huaiyuan glared, and his body immediately exuded a domineering aura (commonly known as the aura of Wang Ba!). Hey hey).

Looking at Gao Huaiyuan, he reprimanded Zheng Bingjie with some anger.

Zheng Bingjie saw that Gao Huaiyuan was angry, and suddenly didn't dare to say anything more, so he quickly took the order to turn around and go down, arrange to set up camp, and think about it carefully, feeling that Gao Huaiyuan's words made a lot of sense, he was indeed too excited, otherwise, he might have already embarked on the road to Huangquan with hundreds of his subordinates at this time, and after calming down, Zheng Bingjie couldn't help but begin to admire Gao Huaiyuan.

After the Song army arrived at Sanxikou, for three consecutive days, it did not advance an inch, every day the Song army would go to the mountain pass to wave the flag and shout, and then launch several feints, until the rebels let go of the rolling wood or rolling down the fireball, they immediately and quickly withdrew from the mountain pass, so in the past three days, the two sides have not fought a decent battle, so the losses on both sides are not very large.

Liang Tietou watched the Song army pretend to launch several feints every day, and there was nothing they could do, so he became arrogant, and when he was full, he stood on the cliff and jumped and shouted at the Song army outside the mountain pass, and the arrogance almost broke through the sky, and the rebels under him also began to relax, and felt that the Song officers and soldiers were actually just like that, so no one took the Song army in their eyes anymore.

Gao Huaiyuan in the past three days, every day with a few personal soldiers and a few local Jinzhou soldiers who are familiar with the terrain around the vicinity, looking east and west, it is like playing in the mountains and rivers, from time to time also pointing at the mountains and issuing some feelings, so that the Song officers and soldiers can't help frowning, in their eyes, Gao Huaiyuan's image is very tall, and Gao Huaiyuan is also a famous general, worthy of their respect, but this time after following Gao Huaiyuan here, They felt that Gao Huaiyuan was a little unworthy of his name, and he was not allowed to have family members in the army, but he was carrying a woman, and now the official army was blocked by the rebels at this Sanxikou and could not advance or retreat, but he, the commander of the army, took his women to play in the mountains and rivers every day, and did not think about how to break the enemy at all, so many people in the army began to complain, and some people muttered behind their backs and began to curse.

And gradually, the Song officers and soldiers were also accustomed to the clamor of those rebels, and they didn't care about them jumping to their feet and scolding, they should eat and drink every day, and they slept when they were full, and the two sides were fine, but Zheng Bingjie became more and more anxious, and couldn't help but ask Gao Huaiyuan for advice several times to launch a fierce attack, but they were all dissuaded by Gao Huaiyuan.

It wasn't until the evening of the fourth day that Gao Huaiyuan suddenly recruited Zheng Bingjie and several generals into his big tent, and as soon as everyone arrived, he immediately said solemnly: I'm afraid you can't continue to sleep tonight, and the enemy is broken tonight, I'm afraid you have to prepare!

As soon as the generals heard this, they immediately came to the spirit, and they immediately bowed their hands and said: Listen to the orders of the commander!

Gao Huaiyuan immediately instructed Zheng Bingjie: General Zheng, I will give you a general order, ordering you to immediately secretly select fifty capable soldiers in the army who are flexible and good at climbing, preferably because they were born in the mountains before, and there must be no mistakes!

Zheng Bingjie was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked: What is the marshal looking for these soldiers to do?

Gao Huaiyuan shook his head and said: Don't ask about this for the time being, I'll wait for you here, and after you find these people, come back and return to me immediately!

Zheng Bingjie vaguely felt that Gao Huaiyuan was afraid that he was going to make a surprise move this time, so he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately took people down to start the selection in the army.

Chuzhou also has a lot of mountains, there are indeed a lot of people who have lived in the mountains since childhood, most of these people are good at climbing mountains and rocks, not long after Zheng Bingjie selected fifty very elite mountain people in the army, and took them to the big tent of Gao Huaiyuan's Chinese army.

Gao Huaiyuan personally went out to check on these soldiers, nodded his head to express his satisfaction, and then ordered to go down and let these soldiers all take off their armor and wear only a set of light and untied black power suits, each of whom only carried a sharp single knife and carried it on his back.

Then Gao Huaiyuan ordered to hand over some sturdy leather cords that had been prepared to these soldiers, and made them carry them on their backs, and each of them was given three horsetail earth-shaking thunders, and one exquisite (so to speak at the time!) On the spot, Li Ruohu was asked to show these soldiers how to use them, teach them how to operate these things, and some tools for climbing, such as short and delicate flying hooks.

Ladies and gentlemen! Today will be the time for you to make contributions, and whether we can break through Sanxikou tomorrow morning depends on your actions tonight! I'm afraid you still don't understand what I'm asking you to prepare these things for! These days, in your opinion, I travel every day, it seems that I am not doing my job, and I am still with my wife with the army, I am afraid that there are many people who scold me behind my back!

Hehe! I won't blame you! But today I tell you, I'm not like some people who eat the country's money, but don't think about doing things for the country, these days, the reason why I linger among the mountains and rivers is actually looking for a way to break the enemy!

Now that the emperor has finally lived up to his wishes, this road has been found by the official, and you will go with the official's wife tonight to climb the mountain pass from this road overnight!

However, I would like to inform you in advance that this road is very difficult, and you will have to climb up at night, and if you are not careful, you may fall into a mountain stream, and there is no reason to survive!

Therefore, I think that if you are not willing to take this risk, you can quit now, and this official will not blame you and others, but as long as you stay, this official will ask you to wait, no matter what happens, you must not make a sound, even if you fall off the cliff, you must give me a tight tooth, and do not scream!

Although the official can't go to the danger with you, but the official's wife will take you and the others up, now I give you half a stick of incense to think about it, and those who don't want to go will leave on their own, but they can't make a noise! Otherwise, it will be punished as a collaborator! Let's go! Gao Huaiyuan stood in front of the tent and said to these soldiers.