Chapter 128: Airborne Dragon Mountain
There is a small hill called 'Dragon Mountain' in the peaks of Wuma Mountain, there are fifty or sixty zhang high, the surrounding is isolated by thousands of ravines, it can be said that a peak protrudes, majestic and beautiful, all around are precipices, the road up the mountain is only on the west side of a mountain road with five or six feet wide chiseled stone as the steps, the peaks on both sides face each other, and the road is in the valley in the middle. There is a peak on the east side of Longshan Mountain, just like a barrier, there is a 'broken mountain moat' in the middle, which separates the two mountains, and it is a risk that one husband should pass ten thousand people.
The top is flat and flat, there are 100 acres of size, there is a Jade Emperor view built on the top of the mountain, the scale is not large, there are steps around the view, there are three halls of the view hall, among them is the main hall of five rooms, the left and right sides are each with partial halls, there are more than two zhang deep into the palace, the palace enshrines the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West.
The artistic conception on the peak is also different, and the grass and trees are flourishing, just like a paradise. Standing on it, you can take in the beautiful scenery around you, and you can see the atmosphere at a glance, and the shock of overlooking the world is enough to make you have an imperial addiction. At this moment, Longshan is worthy of its name, and there is a 'dragon' living in the view, Zhao Ji, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.
At this time, it was late, a bright moon hung in the sky, Zhao Ji who 'lived' in the palace looked up at the window lattice, and sighed in his heart, they were brought here several times under the city of Zhending, and they were locked up for five or six days, and they could only move outside the hall for a while in the early morning every day, and most of the time they lived in the temple with their two sons.
Although Zhao Ji didn't know where he was, he could hear the sound of golden drums, shouts of killing every day, see the soldiers rushing up and retreating, and even sometimes vaguely see the banner of the Song army.
"King, give me some water to drink!" Zhao Zhen, the king of letters, said with a smile to the Jin soldiers guarding the door. The Jurchens were only given two meals a day, regardless of whether they were good or bad. The amount is also very small, and they can only eat their father first. The two brothers could share some leftovers to satisfy their hunger, and at night they were hungry and couldn't sleep, so they could only ask for some water to drink to fool their stomachs.
"Hmph, no!" The Jurchen soldiers guarding the door just snorted coldly and said in stiff Chinese. Zhao Zhen also sat back in his grass nest with a smile, he knew that he would say again, what was waiting for him was a horsewhip, and he couldn't understand it.
"Alas..."Listening to the sound of his son's belly like a drum, Zhao Ji sighed, turned over and knelt down under the statue of the Jade Emperor, silently praying that God would bless him from danger. But two lines of tears can't help but welling up, when will this kind of day be the end!
"Brother Twelve, do you think Brother Nine will save us?" Zhao Zhen said to Zhao Zhi, the king of Xin, that in order to prevent them from colluding with the news, the Jurchens on guard did not understand Chinese, so they had less scruples about talking to each other.
"I don't know what to do, maybe?" Zhao Zhi said uncertainly.
"Twelfth brother, that day under the city of Zhending, I listened to the persuasion of the Jurchens to surrender. It seems that the second brother is in the city, is the second brother not dead, still in the world? Zhao Zhen asked again.
"Didn't you hear them shout that they were the Xijing Army? That was the second brother's old department, and they must have come under the banner of the second brother. The second brother flew away in full view of everyone that day, how could he still be in the world! Zhao Zhi said.
"Maybe the second brother is still there, and he will be persuaded to surrender that night. The Zhending defenders all broke through and left, they must have been afraid that the Jurchens would hurt their father's life. Otherwise, the Jurchens would not be able to take it after fighting for many days, so why did they withdraw their troops as soon as we appeared? Maybe the second brother will fly back to save us! Zhao Zhen looked out the window and said with fascination.
"Then you're looking forward to the second brother... What are those? Zhao Zhi teased. Secretly laughing at the innocence of the eighteenth brother, but he inadvertently looked out the window and was startled, only to see a few big birds swooping towards the top of the mountain in the moonlight!
………
In the past few days, the Jin army attacked fiercely, but they were also stubbornly blocked by the Wuma Mountain Righteous Army, a mountain and a ravine had to be fought for repeatedly, the battle was extremely fierce, the Jin Army had to mobilize heavy troops to go deep into the Wuma Mountain, but the Righteous Army was also desperately blocked, and the Jin Army was blocked in a few miles outside the Iron Wall Pass and was forced to stop.
Zhao Ta had already received a message from Zhao Yan at this time, and the lion general had quietly gone out of the well and arrived at the periphery of the battlefield, and he could send troops to quickly complete the siege and stab the 'pocket' to death to complete the battle deployment. But what made Zhao Ta anxious was that the Emperor Zhao Ji and the two brothers had no news, and they didn't know where the Jin Army hid them.
Since Zhao Ta handed over the command to Zhao Lian a few days ago, he ordered the special combat team and the operation team of the Intelligence Department to form a task force and do everything possible to find Zhao Ji's whereabouts. After hearing many rumors, they suspected that Zhao Ji was placed in Zhending City.
Xue Hai and the sand pile went to reconnoiter and found that compared with usual, the security measures in the Zhending Mansion and the vicinity were very tight, and a thousand guards of Han Li's guards were stationed there, patrolling non-stop, and only those with the token of the Shuaifu could approach. The ensuing reconnaissance convinced Xue Hai that the Jin army had imprisoned Zhao Ji in the government and began to plan a course of action.
After the Jin army occupied Zhending, it was built into a supply base, and the Jin army besieging Wuma Mountain often transported baggage back and forth, so Xue Haiji planned to use a part of the people to disguise themselves as a team to transport grain and grass into the city. He led people to disguise themselves as messengers from the front, infiltrated the government in the name of heralds, and then led the commando team to kidnap the guards, coerce him to rescue the emperor directly, and then went out of the city with the cooperation of other team members, and went to Zhongshan after meeting with the receiving troops.
Zhao was very satisfied with this plan, and the operation was launched, and all the detachments were ready, and the receiving troops were dispatched. But just as Xue Hai went into the city to conduct reconnaissance before the last operation, he met a Jurchen officer guarding the palace, and when the two were chatting, Xue Hai learned that the Emperor Taishang had been transferred from the city two days ago. This information was later confirmed by an insider. Xue Hai quickly canceled the action plan and returned to Wuma Cottage.
In the next few days, all kinds of information came in, and according to the analysis, Zhao Ta confirmed that his father was secretly transferred to the army around the mountain, and someone saw that he was sent to the Chinese army where Han Li was located. At this time, the lion general has arrived, and after a long time, he may be detected by the Jin army, and the situation in Bianjing City is becoming tense, Zhao Tazhi said that Zhao Gou's patience is almost over, and he must take action as soon as possible.
Moreover, there is news that Han is inseparable from Zhaozhou after the first battle, his health has deteriorated, and it is difficult to support, and their reserves of grain and grass are not much, it is difficult to support the long-term siege of the mountain, and the increasingly hot weather is their great enemy, and the Jin army has the intention of returning to the army, and is no longer entangled with them. If you want to rescue Zhao Ji, you have to start earlier.
In the reckless mountains, it is not easy to find a person among thousands of troops, scouts and spies of the cottage are all dispatched to find out the news, and at the same time give the Jin army a feeling of wanting to give up in terms of tactics, so that they feel that as long as they work hard, the Wuma cottage can be captured, and the things that were robbed are lost and recovered, and they are glued to the mountain.
In this situation of fierce attack and defense between the two armies, Zhao Ta, Xue Hai and others analyzed that it was most reassuring and appropriate for Han Li not to place Zhao Ji and others around the Chinese army, so the reconnaissance was mainly carried out around the Chinese army's camp, but nothing was found. There was no way, Zhao Ta could only make the last effort, and he also went to the doctor when he was sick, and ordered the lookout posts and observation posts in front to pay attention to whether there were any special and abnormal conditions in the Jin army camp.
In this seemingly impossible way, the lookout post set up at the highest peak, Tiebi Pass, discovered an anomaly on Longshan on a clear morning. It was a lonely place, with little strategic and tactical value, but the Jin army had arranged heavy troops at the foot of the mountain, and there were also layers of cards on the road to the top of the mountain, and a team of 100 people was also arranged on the top of the mountain to guard the Jade Emperor Temple.
Zhao Ta personally went up the mountain to monitor Longshan uninterruptedly, and finally saw three people who came out of the view one morning, although they could not see their faces clearly, but from their demeanor and form, they could be identified as the target of their own hard work, it turned out that the Jurchens imprisoned them at the top of that lonely mountain, which was unexpected and untouchable.
In the next two days, Xue Hai and Erwa not only revised their battle plan. The operational plan of launching an upward attack from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain is obviously not feasible. Because during this period, it is very likely that Zhao Ji will be secretly transferred or executed. But in this era, there were no planes, not even a glider, and it was impossible to parachute, but both of them thought of the way for the prince to escape from the tower back then, and he could use a delta wing to infiltrate.
Since Wang Ye demonstrated the strange way of human beings flying in the sky, delta wing gliding has become a secret training subject for the special combat team and the intelligence department's action team, and after two years of study and training, they have been able to skillfully control the delta wing flight. But Ji Lu was sent to the prince, but Zhao Tan hesitated.
The difficulty of this operation is too great, the area of the peak of Dragon Mountain is limited, and the slightest mistake will hit the mountain or rush to the bottom of the cliff. And in order to improve the success rate, Xue Hai and Erwa's plan is to use the cover of darkness to infiltrate, in complex mountain conditions, even during the day, it is easy to lose direction, not to mention the night without navigation, the danger and unpredictability are multiplied.
Even if the infiltration is successful and the landing is safe at the summit, the commandos will face three main challenges. First, the assault team must quickly subdue the Jin soldiers guarding Zhao Ji on the top of the mountain, leaving them without time and opportunity to execute him; secondly, the number of commandos who can be sent to land on the summit cannot be too much, according to the calculation, it is twenty people, compared with the defending Jin army, the number is very different, and it is at a disadvantage; In addition, the Jin army built Longshan as impregnable, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you want to defeat the defenders and successfully withdraw, you need to make further planning...
There are a lot of things at the end of the year, and the update may not be normal, so forgive me! (To be continued......)