Chapter 19: The Middle Bush

Two hours after the procession had marched, a large mountain lay in front of them, as if separating the world they were in from the world opposite.

The pro-soldier carrying the map unfolded the map and reported to Tuoba Feng: "My lord, over the mountain in front of it is Tong'an Yi Town, there is only one trade road on the mountain, and other slopes are not suitable for marching, Tong'an Yi Town is an important town that we must pass through to Weizhou, if you detour, you must take more than 100 miles of mountain roads." ”

Tuoba Feng laughed: "Three years ago, I followed Lord Qi to Qinzhou, and I also passed by here, the so-called Han people's important town has long been dilapidated, and even the garrison has cowered in the city of Weizhou, watching us escort the spoils of war to the north, if it weren't for the Weizhou city wall is too high and too thick, we have already set foot in Weizhou, so why do we need to rob outside the city." ”

Immediately, Tuoba Feng's expression was solemn: "Order, Tuoba Wu and Tuoba Chunran will go forward for a mile to explore the way, and the rest of the people will respond, and if they encounter scattered Han people, they will be killed; If you encounter a large number of Han Chinese, take refuge for the time being. ”

"No!"

The trade road built on the mountain was used for carts, and although the trade route has been closed for many years, this section of the trade road has been damaged, but the roadbed is still largely intact.

Spiral up the mountain road, and when you reach the top of the mountain, there is a raised pinnacle next to the trade road on the top of the mountain, and there is a beacon fort on the pinnacle, and the location of the beacon fort is extremely dangerous.

Standing on the beacon fort, condescending, with a wide field of vision, you can not only clearly see the situation on both sides of the mountain; And as long as you hold the fortress, you can cut off the trade routes under your nose at any time.

However, today's Beacon Fort is in ruins and dilapidated.

Tuoba Feng sneered: "If there are dozens of troops in this fortress, not only can they warn the Tong'an Post at the foot of the mountain, but also supplemented by rolling stones, bows and arrows, it is enough to resist our hundreds of people and not move forward, but it is ridiculous that the Han people give up such an important strategic position so easily, so that we are like no one." ”

Qin Zhen looked at the trade route under his feet and the beacon fort above his head, and sighed in his heart.

Standing on the top of the mountain, you can vaguely see the outline of Tong'an Post Fort.

Tuoba Feng ordered the team to rest at the top of the mountain for a while, and then meandered down the mountain.

When he was about to go down to the bottom of the mountain, a horizontal peak appeared in front of Qin Zhen, about ten meters high, the mountain was overgrown with trees, and a crack was dug in the middle of the horizontal peak for the purpose of the trade road, and from a distance, it seemed as if the horizontal peak had been split in half.

Tuoba Feng pointed to Hengfeng and said with a smile: "If the Han people ambush the archers on both sides of Hengfeng, when we pass through the canyon in the middle of Hengfeng, the bows and arrows will be fired in a volley, and even if we are not completely annihilated, we will suffer heavy casualties." ”

A party sergeant asked for orders: "Your Excellency will rest for the time being, and your subordinates will lead people up the mountain to search to make sure that there is no ambush, and it will not be too late for your lord to lead the team through." ”

Tuoba Feng laughed: "If it was a sergeant of our party, he would definitely set up an ambush here, but the Han people, it is another matter, we have traveled all the way, there are no less than dozens of places that are more precipitous than here, how have you ever seen a Han sergeant?" If you have to search everywhere, wouldn't you miss your trip? Didn't you see that Tuoba Wu and Tuoba Chunran had already passed through Hengfeng, let's move on. ”

Qin Zhen secretly scolded Tuoba Feng in his heart, this fool, marching and fighting was originally at the cost of soldiers' lives, since he knew that Hengfeng in front of him was a good place to ambush, he was so careless, he didn't send someone to investigate, and let Tuoba Feng, an arrogant and unscrupulous guy, lead the team, it was really a misfortune for his soldiers.

But then again, perhaps the war with the Han people has been too smooth in recent years, no matter whether the army is pressing the border, or the small group of people, as long as the party army passes by, the Han army basically flees from the wind and avoids the fight; For a long time, he developed a contempt for the Han people in the party and army.

To put it bluntly, Tuoba Feng's arrogance is half due to his own personality, and the remaining half is due to the incompetence of the Han army.

Qin Zhen has been paying attention to the Hengfeng in front of him, and secretly sighs in his heart that it is a pity, if only the Han people could really ambush on both sides of the Hengfeng, and if he encounters a fool like Tuoba Feng, he can let him get into the encirclement without any temptation.

Suddenly, Qin Zhen felt that something was wrong, the Hengfeng on the opposite side was too quiet, it was said that since this trade route had been abandoned for a long time, there should be birds and gophers on the mountain, so many of them came over, and there should be birds flying in the bushes on the mountain, but now the entire Hengfeng is like a sleeping giant beast, and the silence makes Qin Zhen a little hairy.

Qin Zhen glanced at Yang Xiaoqi and Han Wenzhi, and then slowly tightened the reins of the horse, controlling the speed of the war horse under him; Thanks to the three years of getting along at the racecourse, especially the training together in the last few months, Yang Xiaoqi saw Qin Zhen's eyes, and he already understood Qin Zhen's thoughts, and also slowed down the horse's speed; Although Han Wenzhi didn't understand what Qin Zhen meant, he understood that Qin Zhen must have something going on when he gave him a look, so he intended to move closer to Qin Zhen, and saw that Qin Zhen's speed was gradually slowing down, and he also followed Qin Zhen to slow down his speed.

Qin Zhen, Yang Xiaoqi, and Han Wenzhi unknowingly fell to the end, and opened a distance of more than ten meters from the team in front, Qin Zhen said to the two: "There may be an ambush ahead, let's be careful." ”

Yang Xiaoqi was already convinced of Qin Zhen's words, and when he heard Qin Zhen's words, he was secretly on guard.

Han Wenzhi didn't know much about Qin Zhen, so he was skeptical of Qin Zhen's words: "How can you be sure that there is an ambush ahead?" ”

Qin Zhen replied casually: "Guess, whether there is an ambush or not, it is always right to be careful." ”

Han Wenzhi nodded, this is true.

As he spoke, Tuoba Feng had already led the team into the mouth of Hengfeng Gorge, and Tuoba Liang found that the three Qin Zhen people who were behind also slowed down their horses, and turned around and shouted: "You three hurry up, if you delay the speed of the adult's march, see if I don't kill you alive." ”

In the canyon of Hengfeng, more than 20 people including Tuoba Feng were in the front, Tuoba Liang was in the middle, and Qin Zhen and other three people were at the end, forming three waves of people.

When the three of Qin Zhen had just entered the canyon and Tuoba Feng and the others had already passed through most of the canyon, they only heard a whistle, and a group of soldiers suddenly appeared on the horizontal peaks on both sides of the canyon, roughly estimated to be fifty or sixty people, with bows and arrows, and crossbows in their hands, aimed at them.

Tuoba Feng was full of excitement, and shouted: "There is an ambush, rush!" ”

Because of the preparation, Qin Zhen discovered the ambush on Hengfeng earlier than Tuoba Feng, and when Han soldiers appeared on both sides of Hengfeng, Qin Zhen was surprised and delighted; The good news is that since there is an ambush near Tong'an Yi Town, it means that Weizhou City has already known that the party members are going south, and they have taken the initiative to attack, so this time Tuoba Feng's team will definitely be wiped out; What is surprising is that in this case, will he and Yang Xiaoqi, Han Wenzhi and others also be shot as hedgehogs as party members.

This kind of thought just flashed in Qin Zhen's mind, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he only shouted: "Hide!" ”

Qin Zhen suddenly tightened the reins of the horse, and turned over, hiding his entire body in the horse's belly.

Yang Xiaoqi's riding skills are not worse than Qin Zhen's, and even better, after all, Yang Xiaoqi's physical fitness is much better than Qin Zhen's, when he heard Qin Zhen shouting "hide", Yang Xiaoqi did not hesitate at all, and Qin Zhen's movements were the same, hiding his whole body in the horse's belly.

Han Wenzhi was half a step behind Qin Zhen and Yang Xiaoqi, he only heard Qin Zhen shouting, and before he could understand what was going on, he saw the two horses in front of him suddenly stop, and they were immediately empty.

Before Han Wenzhi could let the horse under him stop, he heard Yang Xiaoqi shouting, "Let go!" Han Wenzhi didn't have time to think about it, so he let go of the reins in his hand, and then felt that his body was light, and the war horse under his crotch ran out, and he was carried by Yang Xiaoqi to the bottom of the horse's belly.

After discovering that they were ambushed, some directly leaned their whole bodies on the horse's back, and some were the same as Qin Zhen, using the horse's belly hiding skills, but they did not stop, but accelerated the horse's speed and prepared to rush out.

In stark contrast to the agility of the party sergeants, the Han slaves who accompanied the army seemed a little sluggish at the moment, and they were a little overwhelmed on their horses.

Not all the Han slaves were at a loss, one of them was no less agile than the party members at this time, but he did not choose to rush out like the party members, but turned off the war horse, rolled to a corner on the side of the road, and curled up together, Qin Zhen knew that the Han slave's name was Meng Xuan.

Meng Xuan's series of actions were clearly seen by Qin Zhen behind him, Qin Zhen couldn't help but praise secretly in his heart, this set of actions was done in one go, it was really smooth, just this set of dismount actions, Qin Zhen felt that he was no worse than Xue.

The movements of everyone in the canyon were completed at the moment when Tuoba Feng shouted his words, but before Tuoba Feng's words fell, he only heard a voice from the mountain: "Release!" ”

Dozens of arrows were shot densely, but in the first wave of arrow rain, more than 20 party sergeants and Hannu who accompanied the army fell.

Fifty or sixty people against more than twenty people, and it occupies an absolute geographical advantage, although the party sergeants under Tuoba Feng are all cavalry, but the cavalry can only look at the cliff and sigh in the face of a cliff of more than ten meters.

When fifty or sixty Han soldiers were ambushed in Hengfeng and Tuoba Feng did not send anyone to search because of arrogance, the result was already doomed.

After the first wave of arrows, only Tuoba Feng and two party sergeants were left rushing forward on the horse, one of whom was hit by an arrow, but he failed to hurt the vital point, so he did not fall off the horse.

Because Qin Zhen was still a certain distance away from the ambush point, and there were only three of them, there was not much of a threat, so the arrows shot at them were much sparser, and because they dodged in time, all the arrows floated over the horses, and the three of Qin Zhen were unharmed.