An Ping is a rough man, although he can't figure out who did what kind of tricks, but the instinct on the battlefield tells him that if he delays here, it will undoubtedly be more than lucky. However, the waist-deep river can barely pass through the people, but the wooden carts loaded with countless weapons and grain cannot, and even if they barely pass, the transported things will be flooded and scrapped.

Anping had no choice but to order the brigade to guard the vehicle baggage, and ordered two reliable soldiers to be sent along the river to explore upstream and downstream to see where there could be a place to cross the river.

The soldiers of these two roads came back after two hours, and the soldiers who went downstream found nothing, but the soldiers who looked for them upstream, said: An hour away from here, there is a shallow, the water is only ankle-deep, and the current is not turbulent, just enough for the party to cross the river, but after crossing the river, there is only one mountain path to walk.

Anping listened, but hesitated.

The army escorted grain, grass and military supplies, one was afraid of taking an unfamiliar road, and the other was afraid of taking a small road. According to the report, the path on the other side of the river is occupied by both, which can be described as a danger in the middle of a danger, and it is absolutely impossible to walk until there is no way out. And in the current situation, instead of hurrying to take the small road to join the army, it seems that it is better to rest and garrison in place, and then send reliable people to contact the camp in Shanyin County, and ask it to send a large team of men and horses to meet him.

Anping had just made up his mind, but he didn't know from which mountain a person rushed down, holding a tattered piece of paper in his hand, and handed it to Anping with both hands.

Anping Yijie Wufu, I can't recognize a few words, but fortunately, this piece of paper is not complicated, just a few words: go upstream and shallow, turn back to the main road through the small road, and quickly send the military grain and grass to Shanyin County.

The payment is just two simple words: Zheng Yu.

An Ping read the warrant over and over again, as if he wanted to see through and see through the paper on which the warrant was written, and suddenly stretched out his hand as big as a bowl, grabbed the soldier who delivered the letter, and shouted: "Honestly, are you a lackey of the imperial court, sent to lead me into a trap?" ”

An Ping's hand movement was fast and violent, which made the soldiers who gave the order defenseless, and he immediately pinched his collar and almost lifted it, and hurriedly explained: "General...... Checkmate...... The little one really came over on the order of the second prince...... You...... Where does this begin? ”

An Ping smiled angrily, and said angrily: "You don't want me to drive such a large group of people and horses into the deep mountain path, do you want to surround and annihilate us?" ”

The soldier had an innocent expression on his face: "General, I am a herald, and I can't even recognize the words on this piece of paper, how can I know these truths you are talking about?" If the general has any questions, the second prince is on the mountain, so it would be better to go up the mountain and ask in person......" As he spoke, the soldier reluctantly raised his right hand and pointed to a mountain behind him.

An Ping followed the direction of his finger and looked towards the top of the mountain, and sure enough, he saw a team of people and horses in the woods, and the leader of them was fat and fat, and his face was indeed the second prince Zheng Yu.

Seeing this, cold sweat suddenly flowed from his forehead, and he hurriedly put the herald who had been carried off the ground by him, and carefully put it back to the ground, and respectfully saluted in the direction of Zheng Yu on the mountain.

Since it was indeed Zheng Yu's warrant, Anping had no reason to resist, so he had to order his soldiers and move up the river.

An Ping's previous opinion was not wrong, that path was indeed an excellent location for enemy ambushes.

And that Zheng Yu gave the warrant just now, and there is indeed his reason - now the grain and grass in the Lingnan army are very tight, and Anping has safely transported the food and military supplies to a place that is only a day's journey away from the camp; In such a situation, it is certainly a pleasure to lure Qiu Yizhi to capture or kill him again, but it is also an excellent choice to be able to get food supplies from Anping's large convoy.

Therefore, Zheng Yu suddenly changed his mind, and asked Anping under the mountain to rush to the camp outside Shanyin City from the front road with grain and grass and military supplies, and then talk about the handover of military needs first.

Anping came from the Jinling camp, and he didn't know to what extent the soldiers besieging Shanyin County were short of food, but he only felt that Zheng Yu's order was too risky. However, his qualifications are not as profound as Sun Hao's, and compared to that veteran, he has no courage and courage to disobey Zheng Yu's orders.

So Anping urged his soldiers to set off to the upper reaches of the river.

This small river was originally a small stream, after a night of swelling, a lot of silt, gravel and rotten branches have accumulated on both banks, this team of men and horses, escorting dozens of carts, to move on the mountain without a path, can be described as miserable - from time to time the wheels are trapped and difficult to extricate themselves, can only be pushed by horses, can barely move forward.

In this way, in the original short journey of one hour, Anping drove the convoy and walked for half a day before he reached the intersection of the path.

Zheng Yu, who gave the order, did not dare to be the shopkeeper, and went back to the camp first, but he did not want to advance and retreat with them, but acted on the mountains on both sides. There is no path on this mountain to walk with, and the more than 1,000 elite soldiers under Zheng Yu are also very difficult to walk through the dense jungle, and they have to make a detour - even if they are traveling lightly, they have not exceeded the convoy led by Anping under the mountain.

When Zheng Yu came to the "path" in the mouth of the horse, he immediately regretted that he had given the order too hastily - he saw that although the path was flat, it was extremely narrow, and could only allow two large carts to pass side by side at most, and if the enemy deliberately ambushed here, it would not take much effort to completely block both ends of the path.

Zheng Yu was panicked when he saw it, lest Qiu Yizhi, who was full of intrigue and trickery, set up an ambush here, and wanted to tell Anping under the mountain to turn around and go back immediately, but they were one step faster and had already walked into the mountain path. There was no way, Zheng Yu could only drink the elite soldiers who were already very tired under his command, and then work harder to rush to the front of Anping, and then ordered him to stop and turn back immediately.

The Lingnan army has always been good at mountain warfare, these few steps of rapid mountain road are not a big deal in their eyes, and after walking for half an hour, they can already see Anping at the bottom of the mountain and they are driving the vehicles and horses forward.

Zheng Yu was about to assign soldiers to go down the mountain to give orders, but saw that his feet were not gentle slopes, but a cliff. Although this cliff is not steep or very high, it is still an insurmountable barrier for ordinary people - even if the people who are good at climbing in the army reluctantly go down to give orders, I am afraid that they will not be able to climb down the cliff in a moment.

So Zheng Yu had an idea, and hurriedly wrote a new warrant, ordered someone to tie it to the tip of a sharp arrow, and ordered the sharpshooter in the army to fire it at Anping at the bottom of the mountain.

This archer is really exquisite, and the sharp arrow shot by a carved bow is shot in front of Anping's horse who is leading the way impartially.

An Ping saw that he was walking well, and suddenly shot a bow and arrow in front of him, thinking that it was an enemy attack, and hurriedly waved his sergeants to prepare for the enemy. However, the rain of arrows he expected did not come as expected, and he saw that the lonely arrow stuck in the mud ground had a circle of cloth wrapped around its head, which seemed to be a little strange.

So Anping didn't instruct others, plucked up the courage to take a few steps forward, pulled out the arrow, tore off the strip of cloth wrapped in the arrow, and unfolded it to take a look—it was the second prince Zheng Yu's warrant, but it was to ask him to immediately turn the team around and return to the original way.

Generally speaking, the generals who lead the army do not feel resentment when they encounter such orders from their superiors. An Ping's impatience is even more so.

But now that he had received such an order, he was not angry at all, but a little glad that with this warrant, he could finally lead his men back to the same place and leave this trap-like path.

However, the path at Anping's feet is too narrow and cramped, and the vehicles he escorts are long and big, so how easy is it to turn around on the spot? Anping's military order was urgent, and his soldiers did not dare to slack off, but they did not expect to be fast but could not reach it, and several large cars fell into each other in the process of turning, forming a dead knot, completely blocking the already very narrow road.

When An Ping saw such a scene, he immediately burst into a rage, but after all, he was a rough man, and although he was angry, he couldn't come up with a way to organize the team.

Or one of the veterans of his team had experience, and offered a clever plan - there was no need to move the cart, only the oxen, horses, donkeys and mules that pulled the cart were pulled down, tied to the back of the cart with ropes, and the rear team was changed to the front team, and the first evacuation of this dangerous place, and then the adjustment of the team to the spacious territory.

Anping didn't have a better idea, so after listening to such a suggestion, he immediately made a decision to ask his soldiers to act according to the old army's wishes.

However, Anping's movements were still slow.

Just as the transport team of the Lingnan Army in the col was busy and clumsily changing directions, they suddenly heard a strange cry coming from the halfway up the mountain on the side of the path: "Yo roar! The Lingnan Dao soldiers and brothers under the mountain have all listened, you have been surrounded by groups, hurry up and abandon the carriage and horses and leave this place, and you can spare your life! ”

The strange screams and shouts were very melodious, echoing repeatedly in the mountains, and finally reached the ears of the soldiers of the Lingnan Army at the bottom of the mountain.

These sergeants were still paying all their attention to moving the cart, and when they heard such a sound in their ears, they were still a little ignorant, and they stopped what they were doing, raised their heads blankly, and followed the sound to observe the situation on the mountain.

Anping, who led the army, was only responsible for directing the team's actions, and he heard the voice from the mountains clearly. After all, he is also a battle-hardened general, and he knows that the more times like this, the more he can't hesitate, and scolds: "What are you doing? A few little thieves who cut the path, let's transport the grain and grass to the camp first, and then trouble them when we come to our senses! ”

Seeing that the main general was still calm, the army was a little calm, and hurriedly lowered their heads and led the horses and chariots.

At this moment, I suddenly saw countless wooden and stubborn stones tumbling down from the mountainside, and happened to hit the last few carts of the team - the wreckage of the carts, together with countless broken stones and woods, finally completely blocked the retreat of the Lingnan army.

An Ping secretly screamed "not good", and the little composure that Fang had barely taken out could not be maintained for a long time, and scolded sharply: "Don't panic, don't mess up, don't retreat, hurry forward, as long as you rush out of this trail, you will have life!" ”

But the more he shouted, "Don't panic, don't mess up," the more panicked the sergeants became, and the more honest they were, remembering to take care of the vehicles and horses under their orders; Those who have active brains have already thrown away the baggage supplies they want to take care of, and fled in front of them.

But they hadn't gone far, and on the side of the mountain road in front of them, countless gravel and rotten trees rolled down like hailstones, blocking the way forward.

In this way, Anping's army was like a long snake with its head and tail cut off, and had to huddle in a ball on the rugged and narrow mountain road, waiting for the opponent's next move.