Chapter 58 Returning to the Dragon and Locking Water

Liu Hougang's rising hope was quickly extinguished, and things went round and round and returned to the old way of detour. In the end, the route discussed by everyone was to enter Padang from Zigui, and then find a way to go to Chengdu. It is inevitable that the road is difficult to walk and the distance is long, and this is the price of not being able to capture the fortified city.

Before leaving, Liu Hou expected that this expedition would be easy, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult. That's why plans never keep up with change.

Without further ado, the army had been delayed here for three days, and after everyone had decided on the plan, they went their separate ways, and the large army pulled out the camp and turned around and made a detour to Zigui, and Huang Xu took three regiments and two thousand rattan armor soldiers to hide.

Liu Hou led the large army to progress very smoothly along the way, and the county seats, villages, and passes encountered along the way were as Guo Youzhi expected, not to mention that there were no firearms, and there were not even a few soldiers. In the larger county towns, there were only four or five hundred old, weak, sick and disabled defenders, and there were one or two hundred people in the smaller ones.

As soon as the Hong army arrived, as long as he sent someone to the city gate to shout, the county magistrate obediently opened the city gate and went out of the city to greet the holy driver. These sesame mung bean-like petty officials, they can manage such a big thing as the two princes fighting for the throne, and it doesn't matter who becomes the emperor to them, the key is that their official position can sit firmly.

As soon as they heard that there was a majesty, they were immediately frightened, and then they went to the top of the city to see, there were swords and guns outside the city, and the flags covered the sky, my good boy, they may have never seen so many troops in their lives.

Think about it again, there are only a few hundred old, weak, sick and disabled people in the city, so what are you hesitating about, hurry up and open the city gate, if it's too late, people will come in, and everything will be over.

Not only the county seat, but also the county seat of Badong County, Badong County Zhiyufu (now Fengjiedong, Sichuan), Taishou Fu Kuang, was appointed by Liu Bei two years ago, he was cautious and cautious, and he was loyal to Liu Bei.

The troops in all parts of the country have been drained, and this Patong County will be an exception, and the remaining hundreds of people are still crooked melons and cracked dates picked by the regular army. Fu Kuang was loyal to Liu Bei, and he was also inclined to Liu Hou, the crown prince canonized by Liu Bei.

When he heard that Liu Hou led a large army to Badong, he immediately went out of the city 10 miles to greet him, which was the most friendly local official since Liu Hou set out on the expedition.

Liu Hou led the soldiers and horses into Badong to rest for three days, when Liu Hou led the troops to set off again, he received an urgent report from Huang Xu, which said that Liu Feng sent troops to follow the army, and was successfully ambushed by him, Liu Feng was awarded the head, and now Huang Xu killed a horse gun and prepared to attack the White Emperor City again.

When Liu Hou heard the news, he was taken aback, before the White Emperor City made him helpless, he didn't expect such a dramatic change to happen in less than a few days.

So he asked the messenger in detail what had happened. It turned out that Liu Feng was holding back his breath and wanted to fight with Liu Hou, but after the Hong army came, he only launched a short attack on the first day, and then it has been silent.

Liu Feng gritted his teeth and scolded Liu Hou for three days for being cowards and guts bandits, and on the fourth day, not only did he not see Liu Hou leading the army to attack, but he saw that the Hong army retreated completely in the tide.

Liu Feng has followed Liu Bei for many years and has rich experience in battle formations, but he is not the kind of stunned young man who doesn't know anything. In his mind, this Liu Chan led the troops to kill him violently, and there was absolutely no reason to retreat as soon as the siege was frustrated, and there must be a conspiracy to do this now.

For the sake of prudence, he did not dare to go out of the city immediately to pursue, but sent a large number of scouts to search for and finally the whereabouts of Liu Chan's army. However, he was surprised by the results of the scout's reply. He, a righteous brother who is often praised by his father and ministers to the point that there is nothing in the sky and no earth, seems to really choose to take a detour because the city he guards is too strong.

At first, Liu Feng suspected that this was Liu Chan's plan to lure the enemy, but the scouts had been following the large forces of the Hong army, seeing them occupy one county town after another, and finally entered the county town of Badong, Liu Feng believed that his righteous brother had really taken a detour.

Liu Feng was willing to let Liu Hou go like this, and after he determined that Liu Hou had made a detour into Shu, he immediately ordered most of the soldiers and horses in the city, and almost poured out of the nest to follow the Hong army, waiting for the opportunity to attack its rear road at a critical moment, so that it could not care about each other.

He never thought that he wanted to sneak attack people, people had already wanted to sneak attack him, the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches were behind, he was the praying mantis at most, and Huang Xu was the yellow finch.

Huang Xu had already sent scouts to disguise themselves as all kinds of people, scattered outside the city, and monitored the various gates of the White Emperor City.

Liu Hou attaches great importance to intelligence work, not only has a special intelligence agency such as the "CIA", but even the scouts in the army are very elite and professional. There is a strict mechanism for selecting, cultivating, and promoting scouts in the military. All scouts are one out of a hundred, and they are trained by a special training organization after being selected.

They can learn various skills as scouts, such as stealth, survival in the wild, fighting, equestrianism, shooting, the use of various weapons, code language, makeup, role-playing, psychological, how to deal with different people, extract information from them, train observation, and so on. Such scouts have been out of the category of scouts in this era and have developed in the direction of 007.

Therefore, the scouts sent by Liu Feng were not able to discover Huang Xu's scouts, and Huang Xu's scouts already knew their identities as soon as they left White Emperor City.

In this case, what the Hong army wants these White Emperor City scouts to see, they can see, and what they don't want them to see, they naturally can't see anything. Liu Feng's scouts detected the situation of the large army of the Hong army, and the large army of the Hong army had indeed made a detour to Badong.

However, what they didn't know was that the Hong army also left Huang Xuyi to lie in ambush nearby, quietly waiting for Liu Feng's arrival.

Huang Xu and his third regiment were good at lurking, and they hid around the mountain road that Liu Feng had to pass through early in the morning. There were four gates in White Emperor City, how did they know which route Liu Feng would take? In fact, it was very simple, because Huang Xu knew that Liu Feng would definitely track the whereabouts of the Hong army, so they found a dangerous place to set up an ambush on the way into Badong.

Liu Feng really followed the route of the Hong army all the way as expected, in Liu Feng's opinion, there was no problem at all in doing so, because his scouts reported that now the main force of the Hong army was in Padang County, and the road ahead was smooth all the way, and no soldiers and horses were found to be ambushed.

Soon, Liu Feng led a large army to Zigui. Zigui is classified as the Daba Mountain, Wushan Yumai and Bamian Mountain Col area. The terrain in the territory is undulating, the peaks are stacked on top of each other, the terrain is high on all sides, low in the middle, and it is a basin terrain.

That is, here is good terrain for ambush warfare everywhere. Ordinary generals will be cautious when marching in such terrain, and according to Liu Feng's usual character, entering such terrain should attract him enough attention.

However, Liu Feng had already been carried away by hatred, and he trusted the scout too much, so he did not slowly pass the troops in batches, but desperately urged the troops to speed up their pace, and the whole army rashly entered the mountains and forests without any precautions.

Liu Feng took the lead and rode a tall horse along the bank of the Xiangxi River all the way to Lepingli1, which is a very famous place and is the birthplace of a generation of patriotic poets Qu Yuan, where many legends circulate. One of the legends is called "Huilong Locks Water", and this legend goes like this:

Legend has it that Qu Yuan was alienated (alienated and neglected) and returned to his hometown Leping to plough the corn fields. Soon, the state of Qin attacked the state of Chu. The king of Chu was anxious and hurriedly sent someone to summon Qu Yuan. Just when Qu Yuan returned to the court, the sky suddenly thundered and flashed, the heavy rain poured, and there was a loud bang, and the rock wall at the exit of Lepingli was ten thousand feet high, and the sky collapsed and the earth cracked down from the sky, and a flying stone dragon with a length of 800 meters and a width of 500 meters lay across the center of the river, blocking Lepingli.

When the villagers witnessed this scene, they all said that this was because the sky had eyes to prevent Qu Yuan from being persecuted by traitors again. But Qu Yuan was patriotic and determined to return. At this time, several loud thunders sounded in the sky, splitting a hole in the blocking river, and Qu Yuan said goodbye to the people of his hometown with tears and marched towards Yingdu. Later, Huilong Suoshui became a historical site and one of the eight major landscapes in Lepingli.

The reason why this legend is said is not to miss Qu Yuan, nor to let everyone enjoy the scenery, but to show how dangerous the terrain of Huilong Suoshui is. To put it simply, this place is a small river sandwiched between two high mountains. There is a path by the creek. Liu Feng and his troops were walking on this path.

He brought a total of 7,000 men, of which 2,000 were fire# spearmen and 5,000 were traditional cold weapon troops. The path was narrow, only enough for two people to walk side by side, and the entire army formed a long snake formation several miles long and meandered forward.

And what about Huang Xu? He and his troops were lying in ambush on the hill on the side of the path. Didn't you say that there are mountains on both sides? Why are they only lying in ambush on one side? Because there is a fragrant stream on the other side to reach the mountain.

Although Xiangxi is called a stream, it is actually a small river, and the mountain on that side is a little far away from the path, and on the mountain on that side, if you can barely attack the people on this side of the path with a bow and arrow, you can only throw the sassal wood and rolling stones into the river.

Therefore, Huang Xu's people were only ambushed on one side of the mountain. The first to attack was Huang Xu, who personally shot an arrow to attack Liu Feng. Although Liu Feng has 2,000 fire # spearmen, he has not received the formal training of the Hong Army, and his way of thinking is still stuck in the era of cold weapon troops.

So he wore Mingguang armor, rode a tall horse, walked in front of the troops, and there were two standard-bearers behind him, following him under his banner.

He looks majestic, and he is a very handsome and stylish young general. However, in Huang Xu's eyes, he is like a beacon in the dark night, a lighthouse in the harbor, pointing the way in the dark night, the path of the arrows he shoots.

As mentioned earlier, Huang Xu is a sharpshooter, a sharpshooter who has received special training in the Cobra special forces. In this era, there are many people who don't like to hurt people with secret arrows, don't like sneak attacks and plots, but like to defeat people in a dignified manner.

However, this kind of person definitely does not include Huang Xu, what Huang Xu learned in the special forces is how to hurt people with secret arrows, that is, how to sneak attack and plot, and in the confrontation with Lu Xun in the sneak attack troops sent by Hengyang, he got a lot of practical experience.

Now that he has such a good opportunity, how can he not take advantage of it? Hearing only the sound of "whoosh", Huang Xu bent his bow and arrows, and a feather arrow went straight to Liu Feng's throat.