On the evening of October 14, Zhao Kuangyin and Zheng En led dozens of vanguard troops to appear in front of Xiaoluling covered in ashes and with black faces.

Zhao Kuangyin carefully washed the black stains on his face, neck and hands in a small stream, threw away the handkerchief that had turned black, and turned to look back at Xiaoluling in front of him.

Xiaoluling is more than 200 meters high, connected with the main peak by a narrow passage, and the surrounding area is full of steep cliffs; Xiaoluling, which had been on fire, had now become a black "Hedgehog Mountain", and the trunks of the trees that looked strange after the fire were cut down, and the branches were uniformly facing north, and they were placed in a messy manner at the southern end of the middle passage and the slower places on both sides, and behind the branches were the Southern Tang soldiers who were engrossed in staring at this side.

Zhao Kuangyin looked into the distance, and could vaguely see Qingliuguan in the northwest and Chuzhou City in the southeast, snorted coldly, called Zheng Enhe Li Cheng, who was burned out of a big bubble on his face, and commanded a few words in a low voice, and the two left with some soldiers respectively.

Zhao Kuangyin called out to the remaining brothers, and everyone rested on the spot and ate something temporarily.

Before it was dark, several soldiers dressed in Southern Tang military uniforms rushed to the city of Chuzhou, shouting that there was an urgent military situation, and asked to enter the city to meet Lord Assassin. Where did the soldiers defending the city dare to open the city gate easily, shouting and shouting without shouting clearly, they hung paper and pen to the city and let the people come to explain their intentions.

Come to ** pen wave, wrote, they are sniping soldiers on the mountain road, through the implementation of the magic trick of setting fire to the mountain, has successfully damaged most of the enemy army, and now the remaining enemy troops are trapped in Xiaoluling, please don't worry, beware of a stream of enemies sneaking into the city.

Immediately after, the soldiers who reported the news shouted that they were going to the front line to kill the enemy and earn merit, and hurried away.

This news was quickly passed to Wang Shaoyan, the assassin of Chuzhou, and Lord Wang, who had been hesitating about whether to send troops all afternoon, was relieved and immediately ordered the rescue soldiers and horses that had been gathered with great difficulty to disband on the spot.

In the original history, when the Later Zhou Emperor Chai Rong led the army south four years later, the Qinghuai Festival made Liu Renzhen trapped in Shouzhou, and the two departments of Huangfu Hui and Yao Feng were forced to retire to Qingliuguan, Chuzhou Assassin Wang Shaoyan's approach at that time was very shameful: directly abandon the city and escape! It can be seen from this that such an adult now has 13,000 elite guards of the Tang Dynasty, but he has been unable to decide whether to send reinforcements or not, and how many reinforcements to send!

Seeing that the soldiers who had finally gathered began to dismount, disarm, and release their weapons, Xin Fangge, who had been stamping his feet back and forth anxiously waiting for reinforcements, was about to go crazy, rushed up and grabbed the reins of the horse of the leading lieutenant, knelt on the ground and begged them to go to the front line to see it anyway. When he left at noon, Captain Wu was determined to defend Xiaoluling, why did he become an enemy again and be trapped in Xiaoluling after a while?

Seeing that his pants were stained with a small piece by Xin Fangge's tears, the leading lieutenant immediately became angry, impatiently kicked the childlike soldier aside, and ordered to disband and return to the battalion immediately.

Xin Fangge rushed up again and asked to see Lord Thorn Shi, but naturally Lord Thorn Shi and his subordinates were unceremoniously forked outside the Thorn Shi Mansion.

Xin Fangge stood in front of the spacious Thorn Shi Mansion and cried loudly, making many people in Chuzhou very strange to watch this young baby soldier.

After crying for a while, Xin Fangge thought of something, wiped his tears, ran to the north city gate, begged the soldiers who defended the city for a while, and went down the city with a rope and disappeared into the night in the north.

Just when Xin Fangge was running in a hurry, the gate on the south side of Qingliu Pass was wide open, and Du Wei Cheng Kai lined up with five hundred soldiers to leave the city and went straight to Xiaoluling.

As early as the afternoon, Qingliuguan received Wu Qing's urgent request for help, but due to the hostile attitude of the coach Huang Fuhui towards Wu Qing, his cronies and subordinates naturally did not like Wu Qing very much, and everyone agreed that Wu Qing was a big bastard who was happy and ignored his superiors. It was precisely this kind of psychology that caused the general guarding the pass to interrogate the young soldiers who came to report for a long time before they were released into the gate, and then there were several rounds of interrogation, delaying for more than half an hour, before the message was transmitted to the gate tower in front.

Coincidentally, at that time, the Houzhou soldiers were attacking fiercely, and Huang Fuhui was fighting in person, and this message for help was delayed for half an hour. When it was late in the evening, when the Houzhou soldiers no longer tackled the fortifications, this information was remembered by an adjutant general and reported to the north camp to support the envoy and Fenghua Jiedu Huang Fuhui Huang Fuhui.

Huang Fuhui was really unlucky in the afternoon, and he was not injured in the chaotic battle, but in the last stage of the war, a sharp arrow that changed direction flew through his left forearm, biting off a large piece of skin, and he was bleeding nonstop, and the pain was extremely uncomfortable. Five hundred people can't hold a small mountain road, it's really fucking useless! What kind of special fighters do you call yourself! Phew! ”

Metropolitan Supervisor Yao Feng hurriedly came over, comforted the old general in a low voice, and hurriedly said a few more fair words: "General Huangfu, that Wuqing has been forced to set fire to the mountain, which shows that there should be a lot of enemy troops killed along the mountain road, there is no water and no food on the mountain, and it is unlikely that they will hold on, so it is better to send reinforcements as soon as possible, otherwise Qingliuguan will inevitably be attacked by the enemy before and after and become a lonely pass." ”

Huang Fuhui finished eating a bowl of rice with his head stuffy, suddenly exploded, slammed the bowl in his hand to the ground, and said angrily: "Okay, just send Cheng Kai to bring five hundred people over, so that you can't hold Xiaoluling anymore, see if I don't cut off this bastard's head!" ”

Cheng Kai, the commander who received the order, also led his men to participate in the battle in the afternoon, and suffered a lot of losses under the onslaught of the Zhou army.

More than a mile away from the city, Cheng Kaiyuan saw a few torches appear in the direction of the mountain range, immediately stopped the infantry, took three personal guards, and drove the horse to catch up.

"General, we are here to help! Xiaoluling will not be able to stand it immediately, please ask the general to rush to rescue the brothers! At present, a black-faced soldier dressed in a Southern Tang military uniform saw the reinforcements and immediately rushed over and shouted loudly.

"Whose subordinate are you, and what is your name? How come I haven't seen you? Cheng Kai stared at the black-faced soldier a little puzzled.

The black-faced man wiped his hands on his face twice, and the black ash on his face was even more messy, and he couldn't tell who it was, so he bent down and said with a smile: "General Hui, the little one was originally a small soldier in Qingliu Pass, and we were all smoked by fire in the afternoon, and we didn't have time to clean it up." General, saving soldiers is like fighting fire, please save your brothers! There are not too many enemies, and once the general leads the army, he will definitely be able to turn defeat into victory! ”

Cheng Kai was overjoyed by the black-faced man's "general" one by one, nodded slightly, pointed at the black-faced man with a horsewhip, and said in a lengthened tone: "Okay, General Ben will set off and lead the way!" ”

The black-faced man jumped up happily, fell to the ground and kowtowed, turned around and ran in the direction of Xiaoluling.

Cheng Kai waved his hand and led the army to quickly follow.

The one-mile journey was quickly completed, and the shadow of Xiaoluling was in front of him, but except for a few sporadic fires on the mountain, there was no sound of fighting.

The black-faced man approached Cheng Kai with a look of undoubtedness, and muttered, "Why don't you fight?" Did we win, or did Zhou Jun win? ”

Cheng Kai listened attentively, but there was no sound coming from the mountain, and doubts arose in his heart.

"General, look there! Isn't it our people? The black-faced man suddenly jumped up in surprise, grabbed the reins of Cheng Kai's horse, and pointed to a black shadow in front of him and said loudly.

Cheng Kai stared at it and found that the black shadow seemed to be moving, but it didn't seem to be moving. Just as he turned his head to ask the black-faced man, he noticed a chill in his ribs, and a steel knife stabbed into his body.

"General, what's wrong with you?" The black-faced man smiled wickedly, pulled Cheng Kai down with his left hand, and shouted loudly: "Do it!" ”

As soon as these two words came out, many figures jumped on the ground around the ground and in the low recesses near the front and back, sharp arrows, stones, and javelins, and at the same time attacked the helpless Southern Tang reinforcements in the middle.

The black-faced man played by Zheng En stabbed Cheng Kai and several guards in a row, and the man fell under the horse and shouted: "Hurry up, end the battle quickly!" ”

Nearly a thousand ambush Zhou soldiers swarmed up, cut down the more than 300 Southern Tang soldiers who could still stand to the ground one by one, stripped them of their clothes, quickly cleaned up the battlefield, and disappeared into the darkness again.