Zhao Kuangyin took the lead, kicked open the temple gate in the south, and while he was on guard to meet the enemy, he was surprised to find that there was no one in the courtyard, and immediately ordered to disperse and search.

"There's a little door here!" One of the elites searching the east wall shouted loudly and jumped out first, followed by his terrible screams.

Zhao Kuangyin shouted to everyone not to move, galloped over, looked carefully, and found that the steps under the small door had been stepped through by Fang Cai's brother, and his screams stopped at this time. Zhao Kuangyin leaned down and touched it, and found that the steps seemed to be stone, but in fact it was just a thin wooden board with black ash painted on it.

Zhao Kuangyin threw out a torch, and found that the torch had fallen for more than a dozen minutes before it reached the end, and the brother who knew that the road had just fallen must be hopeless, so he immediately grabbed the wall stone with his hand, and carefully moved to the stone on the south side of the wall, and found that the tree extended south from a hidden path behind.

"One team with me, one team with General Zheng, and search south at the same time!" Zhao Kuangyin immediately commanded loudly and took the lead in leaning forward along the path.

The team searched for a few steps forward, Zhao Kuangyin heard a scream from a few steps on the right, and hurriedly ran over to watch, and found that Zheng En's pathfinder brother in front of them stepped into the air and fell into a wide stone crevice, his knees were smashed, and he rolled on the ground in pain.

Zhao Kuangyin watched the dozen or so fire points gradually disappear in the distance in the south, shook his head angrily, turned his head and shouted: "If the secret attack fails, let's attack openly!" General Zheng, you go back to the camp immediately, take 5,000 brothers to detour to Shenshan Temple, and I will wait for you in front! ”

Zheng En had just answered, and was about to turn away, when a group of people at the same time heard an urgent gong sound suddenly sounded in various parts of the southern mountains, and the gong soon rang out, and fires were lit in many places, as if they were burning something.

Zhao Kuangyin sighed lightly: "I can't imagine that the enemy has withdrawn so resolutely!" It is estimated that all the small Tang soldiers on this mountain will quickly withdraw into the pass, and we can only attack Qingliu Pass! ”

Zheng En shouted angrily: "I haven't heard of Xiao Tang Bing so powerful before? Why is this broken place as difficult to do as Shouzhou? ”

Li Cheng leaned over and interjected in a low voice: "Could it be that there are also Lin Feng's special soldiers here?" ”

Zhao Kuangyin nodded: "Very likely!" In the past, it was reported that Lin Feng had concentrated on training a small number of elites in various armies, and there should be such elites among the enemies we are facing now, using Liao Liao's hands to block our army for two days, and successfully preventing our sneak attack, he is a talent! ”

Seeing that the sky in the east was already slightly glowing, Zhao Kuangyin straightened his clothes, sat down on a clean stone, waved his hand and said, "Don't chase!" I'm afraid that there are a lot of traps ahead, so let's set off again at dawn! ”

Except for Zheng En, who left in a hurry, a group of people returned to the temple, released the monk who was under house arrest in a side room, found grain and water, and began to clean up the scene and start cooking.

However, what Zhao Kuangyin didn't know was that Wu Qing, the special soldier they mentioned, quarreled with Huang Fuhui, the envoy of the northern camp and the envoy of Fenghua Festival, in Qingliu Pass.

The reason for the quarrel was because Huang Fuhui saw that Wu Qing led his men to retreat to the gate safely without injury, and couldn't help but sneer: "The old man thought there would be a bloody battle, and he was about to send someone up to support!" ”

Wu Qing was really angry, anyway, he had already torn his face with Huang Fuhui, and immediately straightened his neck and roared back: "Fighters, the main purpose is to protect yourself and kill and injure the enemy, not to be brave and strong, and send them to death in vain!" ”

Huang Fuhui's beard immediately cocked, and he said angrily: "Fear of death is fear of death, nonsense!" ”

Wu Qing immediately pointed in the direction of Shenshan Temple, and then pointed to the outside of the pass, and retorted loudly: "If you follow Wu's advice early and arrange one to two thousand elite men and horses in front of Shenshan Temple and the pass in advance, you will definitely be able to inflict heavy damage on the sneak attackers tonight, and you can even counterattack the enemy camp!" ”

Huang Fuhui became angry all of a sudden, this was accusing himself of making a mistake in command, and immediately slapped the table, and the halberd pointed at Wu Qing and was about to scold.

Metropolitan Supervisor Yao Feng hurriedly came over and hugged the old general, whispered two words in his ear, the old general snorted angrily twice, and went to the side to sulk.

Yao Feng walked to Wu Qing's side and offered to allocate 500 men and horses for him to guard the mountain road behind the Guan, so as to prevent the enemy from making a detour and sneak attack.

Wu Qing's face was embarrassed, he took a long breath, walked to the map, pointed to a peak in the eastern part of the country, and said: "The last general has surveyed this area before, south of Shenshan Temple, only here can be relied on, we have left ten people to guard temporarily, and I will bring my brothers over now." I only hope that Lord Yao will see the safety of Qingliuguan and Chuzhou, hear our drums for help, and be sure to send elite soldiers to rescue! ”

Wu Qing was also ruined, although the army sent hundreds of people to himself some time ago, but the overall quality was not high, and there was a lot of crooked melons and inferior dates among the generals. If it weren't for this reason, he wouldn't have given up the dangerous place of Shenshan Temple easily.

Yao Feng agreed without stopping.

Wu Qing hugged his fist to Yao Feng, lowered his voice and pleaded: "General Yao, please forgive General Mo for talking too much again, the opponents with our army are all the elite of the Great Zhou, and the leader is not simple, so you must not take it lightly." Please also ask the general to advise General Huangfu that you must not be rash and stick to Qingliu Pass, as long as Qingliu Pass, Chuzhou and Shouzhou are not lost, we will not lose the battle of Huainan! ”

Yao Feng nodded cautiously, his face solemn. There are no less than 50,000 defenders in Qingliu Pass and Chuzhou, and the enemy army is only 30,000 people under the pass. However, will the hot-tempered and conceited old general of the emperor obey him?

Thinking of this, Yao Feng immediately made up his mind to urgently report the current battle situation in Qingliu Pass to King Qi.

The sky was soon bright, and the Zhou army pushed forward out of the camp, lined up in front of the formation, and the rear made every effort to level the trench and stone wall, and transported the large and small stones to 200 meters away from the Qingliu Pass, and before noon, the Zhou army had piled up a high and thick stone wall in front of the pass, leaving a door-shaped passage in the middle.

Huang Fuhui and Yao Feng stood on the Guan Tower, watching Zhou Jun's actions suspiciously.

However, what they didn't know was that on the top of the mountain in the eastern part of the Kanto, Wu Qing and the others were already in a bitter battle at the moment.

The place where Wuqing is guarded is a protruding place on the top of the mountain, from a distance, the shape looks like a person holding an empty basket in his arms, the locals call it the basket village, it is the necessary place to pass through the top of the mountain to the Shenshan Temple. Wu Qing and their main guard is the basket position at the north end of the basket village, and there is only a stone road that can accommodate two people to pass at the same time to climb up, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

From the dawn of the morning, Zhao Kuangyin had already led the elite of the raid to the front of the basket village, and did not attack, sending Li Cheng and others to explore the way, and he led a group of people to start cutting wood to make javelins, Changyu and wooden shields.

Near noon, Li Cheng, who was exploring the way, reported that there was a sheep intestine trail halfway up the mountain on the west side that could accommodate one person to pass.

Zhao Kuangyin did not hesitate and immediately ordered an attack.

More than 500 raid soldiers had a clear division of labor, and the three rows of soldiers took turns to step forward, throwing simple javelins and spears without interruption, and successfully suppressed Wu Qing and others so that they couldn't raise their heads.

Wu Qing successfully hacked Zhao Kuangyin's companion to death, but was chopped back by Zhao Kuangyin's steel knife, and immediately fought back with his body and fought with Zhao Kuangyin.

But Zhao Kuangyin was too brave, and while fighting against Wu Qing, he often dragged the knife forward, carrying the Southern Tang soldiers around him, and one person was more than ten enemies, and quickly covered the other brothers and rushed to the basket.

Wu Qing had no choice but to rely on the simple stone formation that had been built before, and retreated step by step. At the same time, an urgent order was given to beat the drum for help.

The sound of the drum was rapid, and it seemed to set off a wave of pine waves among the pine forests, and quickly spread to Qingliuguan.

As soon as Wu Qing came to meet Zhao Kuangyin again, a soldier ran over from behind, grabbed him, and shouted anxiously: "Captain Wudu, the news tree below has fallen!" ”

Wu Qing was frightened and rushed to the edge of the stone cliff.