Volume 4 The Twin Dragons Chapter 3 The Canary

When he was about thirty miles away from the fortress of Baozhen, Zhang Bingzhong ordered people to set up camp under the forest. Ordered someone to summon Ouyang Yunfang and said: Yunfang, the front part of the Malay report, the fortress here is easy to defend and difficult to attack. You arranged for the yellow finches to scatter in all directions and send a message, and my eight kings saw that this fortress was strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and bypassed. In addition, after arranging for Xiao Que to infiltrate the fortress and bribe the officials guarding the fortress, we must promise them that we will just take a detour, never attack the fortress, do not panic, etc. After the order is completed, rest for a day and sneak out at night. Bypass the fortress of Baozhen and go straight to the north of Sichuan.

On the way, when passing through the Agate Mountain in Taiping County, the team was jointly attacked by Zheng Chongjian and Qin Liangyu, and suffered heavy casualties. Then it was pursued and intercepted by the Huguang Army, the Sichuan Army and the Shaanxi Army, and the righteous army was hit hard again and again, retreated to the mountains of Xing'an and Guizhou, and was surrounded by Qin Liangyu and other troops, and the righteous army was in a predicament. At this time, Zhang Bingzhong received a spy report, and Yang Sichang and Qin Liangyu had a conflict in military power. took advantage of the contradiction between Yang Sichang and Qin Liangyu, and re-sent someone to bribe Qin Liangyu with a heavy treasure, and said: "Bing is loyal, so the public is respectful." The public office department kills and plunders, while the cabinet department guesses and dedicates. If there is no loyalty, it will not be long before the public is destroyed. Qin Liangyu may have thought of his classmates, and his fighting spirit was relaxed, Zhang Bingzhong took the opportunity to gather the scattered troops, and with the help of the mountain people, he walked out of Xing'an and reunited with Luo Youcai and other troops. Zhang Bingzhong also took advantage of the contradiction between Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, and Yang Sichang, and concentrated his forces to storm Xinning (now Kaijiang, Sichuan), which Shao Jiechun defended. Shao Jiechun didn't expect the righteous army to be so fast, and the official army was about to collapse at the first touch. After breaking through the Xinning defensive line, the rebels smoothly entered the hinterland of Sichuan. The entry of the rebel army into Sichuan broke Yang Sichang's plan of encirclement and suppression, and also shifted from defense to offense militarily. Yang Sichang was stubborn and self-serving, thinking that the official army had already surrounded Zhang Bingzhong, Luo Rucai, and other troops in the border areas of Hubei, Sichuan, and Shaanxi provinces, and the victory was in hand. But in fact, "the order of the governor cannot be carried out by the general, and the order of the commander cannot be carried out by the soldiers". Zhang Bingzhong, on the other hand, tried his best to avoid fighting positional warfare with the officers and troops, and adopted the strategy of "subduing the enemy by walking." He was able to travel more than 300 miles in a day and night, moving rapidly, and often causing the officers and troops to lose sight of one or the other, suffering from the enemy on their backs, and being exhausted from running for their lives. Coupled with the echo and interference of the Luo brothers, they quickly got rid of the shackles.

At the beginning, Zhang Bingzhong did not understand the specific distribution of officers and soldiers, and he suffered one defeat after another, and was very passive. Later, through espionage reports, he found out the details of the officials and soldiers, and involved the interconnected veins in the swimming, Zhang Bingzhong persuaded Luo Youcai that the two armies united and strengthened the strength of the righteous army. The rebel army "used the tactics of "subduing the enemy by walking", "avoiding the real and attacking the weak", and infesting the impermanence against the officers and troops. At the same time, Zhang Bingzhong strengthened his intelligence work, turned his troops into soldiers, and sent many clever sergeants to disguise themselves as businessmen and hawkers to listen for news. The common people also often told the rebels about the movements of the officials and troops, and often served as guides for Zhang Bingzhong's team. Therefore, they were able to grasp the enemy's situation in a timely manner, take military action quickly, and take the officers and soldiers by surprise. He ordered the battalion not to garrison one city or one place, and then quickly moved to make it difficult for the officers and soldiers to find out where the rebels were going, and it was difficult to pursue. The main force of the officers and troops either struck the air or was ambushed and lost their troops. However, it was very disadvantageous for the rebels to be trapped in the encirclement of the official army, and they were in danger of being encircled and annihilated at any time. For this reason, Zhang Bingzhong believed that only by thoroughly smashing the encirclement and suppression plan of the officials and troops and jumping out of the circle to fight can they strike at the officers and troops more effectively and survive.

Seeing that the team arrived in Zitong County, they could enter Tibet in another day or two. But Qin Liangyu's ash pole soldiers accompanied him like a shadow, and his tail was too big to fall. Zhang Bingzhong was very annoyed, thinking that the favor had been recounted, the money had been sent, and the battle had been fought, so why did he have to keep up? This made Bingzhong puzzled. finally came to Zitong, and did not enter the city directly into the mountains and forests. Recuperate and reorganize, and release the exploration horse twenty miles away. Bingzhong ordered people to set up camp as soon as possible, and he had to think about him vividly and how to deal with this "reluctant" pursuer.

Walking into the tent, Bingzhong ordered someone to hang out the map. Ouyang Yunfang handed over a pot of wine and said: General, we have reached the edge of northern Sichuan, and we can enter Tibet with more efforts, but how can we be good if there are chasing soldiers behind? Bingzhong nodded and said: Well, this is exactly what I thought. Now that we are encamped, we have to think about what strategy we can use to retreat from the enemy.

Bingzhong walked back and forth around the map in the tent alone, drinking and pacing to think about how to retreat from the enemy next. Before he knew where to go, the phoenix-crested lark flew in, chattering around Bingzhong. As soon as Bingzhong stretched out his hand, the little finch obediently perched on Bingzhong's wrist. When Bingzhong teased it with the brush on the table, he didn't know that it was still chirping. Thinking that some secret letter had arrived, Bingzhong carefully looked at its feet and found nothing. When he stroked it with his hand, it flew into the sky with a thud and hovered above Bingzhong's head. After spending a lot of time and getting nothing, Bingzhong was a little annoyed. I was disgusted that it disturbed the time of my thoughts, and at this moment, I saw the phoenix-crowned lark fly to the map stand and peck at the map vigorously, only listening to the rattling of the map. Bingzhong took a closer look, and the place where the birds pecked hard was actually called Qiqu Mountain. Take a closer look, it turns out that Qiqu Mountain is not far from Zitong County, looking at the mountain shape, it is a natural mountain formation. Thinking of the formation, Bingzhong suddenly slapped his head and said: Oh, how did I forget this stubble?

It turns out that according to the terrain, he can put up a terrain formation like Kong Ming, and if it works well, even if he comes to the Qiqu Mountain Formation of millions of troops, he will not be afraid of him, let alone stop Qin Liangyu's team. If it is properly arranged, and the teams cooperate in an orderly manner, there is no problem in capturing Qin Liangyu alive.

Originally, Zitong is the hometown of Wenchang, named after "leaning on Zilin in the east, pillowing Tongshui in the west", there are many mountains in the county, the most famous Qiqu Mountain, the ancient cypress in the mountainous area is verdant, covering the sky and covering the sun, a group of gloomy meaning. Qiqu Mountain is located in the north nine kilometers of Zitong County, Mianyang, Sichuan, is located at the south end of Jianmen Shu Road, Jinniu Ancient Shu Road runs through the north and south, the whole mountainous area is distributed along the ridge into a belt, covering an area of more than 30 hectares. Qiqu Mountain District is famous at home and abroad for the birthplace of Wenchang culture and the country's largest pure Gübelin, and there are many cultural landscapes with ancient Shu Road, ancient imperial cypress, ancient architecture and ancient culture as the main body, and the cultural heritage is extremely profound, such as Kuixing Tower. Qiqu Mountain is located in the north of Zitong County, and was called "Nichen Mountain" in ancient times. In the fifteenth year of Tianbao, when Tang Xuanzong Xingshu passed through this mountain, some of the courtiers left the poem of "drizzle and seven twists, Lang dang has a sound of mourning jade ring", since then the name of "seven songs" has become famous all over the world, and it is praised as "the ninth famous mountain in the world" by Taoism. Qiqu Mountain is located at the south end of Jianmen Shu Road, the Jinniu Ancient Shu Road runs through the north and south, the whole tourist area is distributed in a belt along the ridge, the transportation is convenient and fast, it is a rare place of terrain formation.

I think that Zhuge Kongming was in the southeast of Fengjie City, from the direction of Wolong Mountain, towards the center of the Yangtze River, stretched out a narrow moraine dam with a width of more than 200 zhang and a length of more than 50 zhang, and a tributary passed through the dam, which formed a natural barrier to block the eastward army, which is the place where the legend Zhuge Liang put down the water eight formations back then. The so-called eight formations are the battle queues with the names of "heaven, earth, wind, clouds, dragons, tigers, birds, and snakes". Performances come and go, the formation is endless, and there are 24 cavalry formations behind the formation, which are changing back and forth, and the mobile and flexible combat with the large phalanx. For thousands of years, the Eight Array Diagram has added a lot of mystery to Zhuge Liang's clever calculations.

According to legend, there are four eight arrays set up by Zhuge Liang: in Mianxian County, Shaanxi, in Xindu, Sichuan, on the east river side of Fengjie City, and in the northeast of Baidi City, near the grass hall in the northeast of the White Emperor City. And the most famous of these is the eight formations of water in Fengjie. The eighty-fourth round of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" wrote: Lu Xun, the general of Eastern Wu, burned the Shu army company camp for 700 miles, and the longitudinal horse approached Yubeipu, "seeing the mountains and rivers in front of him, a bad breath rose to the sky", and sent people to visit several times, but "there was no army here". Lu Xun led dozens of horsemen to inspect it, not wanting to get into the eight formations of Zhuge Liang's "every hour of the day, the changes are unprovoked, comparable to 100,000 elite soldiers". As soon as he entered, the gate of the formation suddenly closed, "Fang was about to go out of the formation, and suddenly the wind blew fiercely, and in an instant, the sand and rocks flew away, covering the sky and the earth...... The strange rocks are like arrows, the sand and soil are overlapping like mountains, and the sound of the river is surging, like the sound of swords and drums. Lu Xun was shocked and said: "Zhuge Liang's plan in my ......" The people of Fengjie admired Zhuge Liang, who had done his best and died, and went out to the city on the seventh day of the first month every year to travel to eight formations, which was called "stepping on the moraine". The "Eight Arrays" created by Zhuge Liang absorbed the permutations and combinations of the Jingtian method and the Taoist Bagua, which was compatible with astronomy and geography, and was a rare combat formation in ancient times. The "Genealogy of the Zhuge Family" of the Prudent Hall contains the poems and hymns of "Eight Arrays of Skillful Use of Treasures and Fame into Eight Arrays". Heavenly Array Praise: Heavenly Array Sixteen, Outer and Inner Circle, Four for the Wind, Its Image Heaven, for the Lord of the Array, for the First of the Soldiers. Make good use of the three armed forces, and their shape is not biased.

This Qiqu Mountain, using the topography, can be placed on the seven-star Beidou array, and secretly coincide with the Qimen gossip. According to the direction of the Big Dipper, enter Qiqu Mountain, and the four battalions of Huben, Hongshan, Huoshan, and Big Sparrow are divided into two and divided into two flags, red and blue. This is the eight-star, leaving out the blue flag of the big bird camp as the hidden auxiliary star. Seven stars into the Qiqu Mountain Pan camp camp, in turn, the red and blue flags of the Huben camp are Tianshu and Tianxuan, the red and blue flags of the Hongshan camp are Tianji and Tianquan respectively, forming the shape of Doukui; the red and blue flags of the Huoshan camp are Yuheng and Kaiyang respectively, and the red flag of the Daqi camp is Yaoguang, and the three battalions form the bucket handle. Among the seven stars of the Big Dipper, the brightness of Tianquan is the darkest, but it is the place where the top handle meets, and it is the most important, so it is undertaken by the Red Flag of the Tiger Camp, which has the strongest combat power in the Seven Stars, and the Jade Heng in the handle is the main, and the Blue Banner of the Tiger Camp, which is the second strongest in combat power. When the Tiangang Beidou Array is attacked by the enemy, the frontal bearer does not need to parry, but the three battalions around him can be side-attacked, but if he falls into the Tiangang Beidou Array, unless he knocks down a team of the seven battalions, he will definitely not be able to escape. The seven battalions in the formation brake with static, the head and tail should respond, the tail should be the first, and the waist should be both the beginning and the tail, firmly trapping the enemy in the formation, but if you are well versed in the mystery of this array and seize the position of the North Star, you can drive slaves with the master, and the Beidou Array can be tied hands and feet, and it cannot be freely used. Later, this array of methods became the magic weapon of Bing Loyal to their enemies, which can be arranged by seven battalions alone, or can be divided into seven seven and forty-nine flag arrays, every group of seven people, arranged into fourteen Tiangang Beidou arrays, and every seven Beidou arrays are arranged into a big Beidou array. This is only in terms of combat power, in addition, the Blue Banner of the Big Sparrow Battalion is reduced to zero, and each star is surrounded by two teams of fireworks and flint and thistle terrestris to disrupt those attacking and trapping teams, so as to disrupt the audience.