On the evening of October 12, the Houzhou invited soldiers who had been scolding under the Qingliu Pass for two days in a row shouted hoarsely, and no one went to battle at all, so they had to return in a huff.

Zheng En, the leader of the team, returned to the big tent, picked up half a pot of cold boiled water and drank it all, then put the kettle heavily on the case, and said angrily: "The Xiao Tang soldiers in Qingliu Pass are all a bunch of waste, and none of them even dare to come out to echo, we have all fucking wasted our efforts in the past two days!" ”

"Who says it's been in vain? Let's listen to what General Zhao has to say. Wu Sheng Jie made Hou Zhang slap Zheng En and squeezed his eyes at Zhao Kuangyin. Since participating in this southern expedition and getting acquainted with Zhao Kuangyin, the more Hou Zhang looks at him, the more pleasing he becomes, and he loves this vigorous newborn calf very much.

Zhao Kuangyin smiled and arched his hand to the respectable and lovely old general, before he lowered his voice and said: "The success or failure of the war lies in those seemingly inconspicuous details!" After two days of reconnaissance, I observed that there were at least two irrationalities in this Qingliu Pass. ”

Zhao Kuangyin casually pulled over two chairs for Lao Shuai and his brother to sit down, and said closely: "Zhao asked the surrounding mountain people in many ways, and I heard that the total number of defenders in Qingliuguan and Chuzhou is more than 50,000, the main will be Huang Fuhui, and the supervising army is Yao Feng. That Xiao Tang's marshal Li Jingsui also once came here. However, after many reconnaissances, Zhao found that first, there seem to be a lot of towers around Qingliu Pass, but the scale is too small, and there are only one or two guards in each place, which makes no sense. ”

Zheng En patted his head and interjected: "The second brother is still careful!" If you don't say it, I haven't realized it yet! In the past two days, there have always been those people behind the first stone wall, and it seems that they have never changed, and they are almost mature with them! ”

Zhao Kuangyin laughed and continued: "There is another point, the stone walls and trenches in front of us are very rough and simple, very much like hastily built, and those destroyed roads are not deep enough, not wide enough, like children playing around, not at all like 50,000 elites waiting for the battle. I've been wondering, what is Tang Bing doing? Could it be that there is an internal disagreement over how to defend it? If so, it's a good opportunity to break the deadlock! ”

Zhao Kuangyin squatted down, drew a situation map of Qingliu Pass on the land, pointed to the location of Dingyuan, and then took this as a starting point, drew a curved line, went around Qingliu Pass, and then pointed to the location of Chuzhou, and said: "After asking the villagers, there is a ready-made mountain road from Dingyuan that can go directly to the Shenshan Temple on the mountain, and from here you can go straight to the Qingliu Pass, I have a set of surprise attack plans. ”

All three bowed their heads and discussed in low voices.

On October 13, the sky was full of dark clouds, and the wounded Xiahou Fang led a group of loud soldiers out of the camp to scold and fight, but unfortunately the people behind the stone wall still ignored them, and a large group of people insulted and urinated in public, but there was still no effect, but this large group of people took boredom as fun, and played for a day before collecting troops and returning to the camp.

When the night passed, the night was as dark as ink, and the clear stream was so quiet that only the sound of the small stream in the mountain stream on the right could be heard, Zhao Kuangyin was dressed in black, and Zheng En separated behind the camp, and each led twenty people to choose a route that was optimistic about the day and climbed up the mountain.

The mountain is getting steeper and steeper, and Zhao Kuangyin, who opened the road in front of his head, slowed down his speed and kept whispering to everyone to be careful.

When climbing over a steep and smooth stone wall, one of the raiding soldiers slipped under his feet, and the man fell, his legs were injured, and he couldn't stand up, so Zhao Kuangyin had to send a soldier to escort him back, and climbed more carefully to the mountain.

After a full hour, the group climbed to the top of the mountain, and found Zheng En, who had arrived in advance, under a big tree.

Zhao Kuangyin gathered the men and horses, ordered everyone to take out strips of cloth and tie them to their mouths, and then pulled up a long line, bending down one by one and slowly diving in the direction of the north peak.

Approaching the highest north peak, Zhao Kuangyin ordered everyone to stop, and he grabbed the trees alone and carefully walked around to the bottom of the cliff at the north gate of Shenshan Temple.

Rushing to a small fork in the north of the temple, Zhao Kuangyin pouted and made two gentle birdsongs, hid his body behind a big tree, and stared intently at the north.

Since he was hated by Lin Feng's special forces when he led the tiger guards to cross the Huai River at night, and then was eaten by Lin Feng's envoys, Zhao Kuangyin, who had eaten a trench, did not dare to act rashly in any way.

After a long while, a stone-like object moved, making a almost inaudible cricket sound, and Zhao Kuangyin replied with a birdsong, and the stone moved and moved towards Zhao Kuangyin.

The one lurking there in a cloak is none other than Li Cheng, the former tiger guard.

Li Cheng pointed to the Shenshan Temple on the top of the mountain and said in a low voice: "General Zhao, we arrived in the afternoon, and the rest of the thousand brothers are waiting in a hidden place a mile away. I've been staring here for a few hours, and it's a bit strange to find that there is no figure in the Shenshan Temple, which has always been crowded with people, today! ”

"No matter, go back and inform your brothers, attack from the north and west at the same time!" Zhao Kuangyin stared at the shadow of the Shenshan Temple, which could only go up through a narrow stone path, and commanded in a low voice.

Li Cheng nodded, turned around and went back. Zhao Kuangyin also turned around and walked back along the road just now.

The two had just left ten meters away when they heard a terrible shrill whistle coming from the place where the two were talking. As soon as the whistle sounded, torches lit up above the temple, and the number was still increasing rapidly.

Zhao Kuangyin's expression changed greatly, he pouted and roared twice, and issued an urgent order to attack immediately, and the people at the same time grabbed the trees and rushed straight towards the Shenshan Temple.

At the same time, the mournful whistle sounded one after another, like a relay, to the south, and at such a speed, it could be transmitted to the Qingliu Pass in an instant!

Zhao Kuangyin was so angry that his eyes were red, and the person accelerated again, rushing towards the mountain like a cannonball, and he had already rushed to the edge of the cliff by the temple in a few ups and downs.

At this time, several fires have been lit outside the temple wall, which just illuminates the temple wall all around, and a human head faintly flashes above the wall.

Wu Qing stood at the corner pillar in the southeast corner of Shenshan Temple, looking at the black-clothed people who appeared on the outside of the temple wall one after another with chagrin and anger.

Because of the defense of Qingliu Pass, after Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, left, Wu Qing argued with Huang Fuhui, the envoy of the camp in the north of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the envoy of Fenghua Jiedu, and quarreled twice. It was precisely because of the anger of the old general who was getting older and more temperamental that Wu Qing's overall defensive plan of fortifying under the Qingliu Pass and setting up lookouts all over the top of the mountain was not approved by Huang Fuhui.

Later, the capital eunuch Yao Feng mediated and allocated 300 people to Wu Qing's disposal, so that Wu Qing was able to make defensive arrangements according to his own ideas. But it is conceivable that the defensive facilities and effects everywhere are naturally greatly reduced. However, as Lin Feng's short-term special operations disciple, Wu Qing still implemented Lin Feng's rule on the combination of light and dark sentinels in key points very resolutely, which ensured that the secret sentry under the Shenshan Temple could lurk under Li Cheng's nose for several hours without revealing flaws, and issued an attack warning at the first time.

After Zhao Kuangyin and the other two groups of men and horses in the south and the north were in place, more than ten people immediately roared and commanded loudly, and the two sides forcibly attacked from the north and south temple gates at the same time.