Chapter 336: Ambush
Li Yuan gave orders like cannons, and the team immediately took full action, slowly advancing to the left side of the ledge and starting to arrange, just waiting for Fu Hong, a strong and agile commander, to successfully climb the cliff.
The plan is a little straightforward, since it is speculated that the Zhennan army may go and return to search for Huang Daoquan again, what Li Yuan has to do now is to do the opposite and ambush him, which will have a surprising effect. When the pursuers sent by the Zhennan army enter the ambush range, the archers will condescendingly fire a volley, and the soldiers and horses will panic.
And Li Yuan's move is only to thoroughly understand the psychology of the Zhennan army, once the Zhennan army is attacked, it will naturally think that the opponent is the imperial forbidden army, if they still desperately resist or risk breaking through, it means that the Zhennan army has decided to resist to the end, if they choose to surrender obediently, that is another story.
Fu Hong's process of climbing the west ledge was quite dangerous, the stones on the mountain wall were seriously weathered, and in the process of climbing, he was in danger several times, almost slipping, and the soldiers below were scared into a cold sweat, but in the end, the heroic commander of the sword still climbed the ledge. The group of generals below were all embarrassed, if there was no Fu Tongjun present, and any of them would not be able to climb the ledge of this cliff, Li Yuan's plan would be impossible to talk about.
There is no shortage of ropes, and there are more than a dozen long ropes in the accompanying materials, which are necessary things, which are used for building bridges and crossing streams during the march, rescue and lashing. After Fu Hong dragged several big men one after another with a rope, the rest of the soldiers were dragged up by these big men one by one. After more than half an hour, more than a dozen ropes were dragged up, and Li Yuan led the soldiers to climb up one after another, and soon the ledge above was full.
Preparations were also being made at the same time, and the twenty soldiers who were ordered to stay at the bottom of the cliff were responsible for gathering all the horses together, and driving them all to the mountains and forests to guard them along the way they came.
"Generalissimo, if the enemy really comes in a while, will we kill us?" Fu Hongfa asked.
Li Yuan smiled and said: "In the first battle against the rebels, we naturally have to give them a little bit of strength, but we can't kill them all." If they have the heart to surrender to the court, there is no need to drive them to a dead end. In addition, our forces are already limited, and at best we can only bluff and cannot hold on for long. ”
Fu Hong puffed up his chest and said, "The last general has a plan in his heart. Generalissimo, just wait and see, the Xiongwu army under the last general is not much worse than the Shenwu army, we are not only superb in foot, but also abound in marksmen. ”
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Li Yuan then remembered that most of the more than 300 soldiers accompanying him today were from the Xiongwu Army led by Fu Hong, so he patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Then it will open the eyes of Ben Shuai......"
At that time, in the camp of the Zhennan Army, the gloomy general Jiang Kai was leading five hundred cavalry to mount at the same time, and the commander Song Majie stood on the ground with his hands and looked at Jiang Kai, with a smile on his face, hiding the endless anger in his heart.
Since Jiang Kai led the men and horses back to the camp at dawn and reported to him what Zhang Zi and his party had done last night, Song Majie's anger had reached the extreme, and the original plan he discussed with Zhang Zi was very simple, to kill Li Zhenggu and others, and then leave some forbidden army clothes and armor for future generations to think about.
As we all know, the brothers King Yan and King Zheng are real political enemies, Song Maha and Song Qiqiu, the Duke of Weiguo behind him, originally favored King Zheng, and should have no objection to Zhang Zi's trick, but Song Mojie was very bright in his heart, at this time and that time, since he intended to surrender to the imperial court Mingzhe to protect himself and wait for the resurgence of Dongshan, why should he directly offend Li Hongji, the king of Yan, who was about to ascend the throne and held 200,000 heavy troops at this time?
In this way, how could Li Hongji let go of the Song family in the future, can this still be lowered?
Song Majie suddenly realized that since Zhang Zi entered the Zhennan Army camp, he had been fooled and lame.
What Zhang Zi wants is just Li Zhenggu's death, fabricating the so-called Xu Xuan's letter, unloading King Zheng's guilt cleanly, and even disgusting King Yan, but Zhang Zi is in the dark after all, but Song Mojie on the bright side has to bear the bitter consequences of all Zhang Zi's actions, and the Zhennan Army is like a chess piece that has been used repeatedly from beginning to end.
At this time, Song Majie was eager to break Zhang Zi's body into ten thousand pieces, but after waiting all night, even Jiang Kai and others returned to the camp, but Zhang Zijie and his party were nowhere to be seen, and he also understood that Zhang Zi estimated that he would not come back, and he did not dare to come back, and even left a mess for Song Mojie to clean up, a mess that was only beneficial to King Zheng, but could completely cut off Song Majie's back road......
General Jiang Kai was also uncomfortable, or ashamed, because he didn't expect to kill the last person left, and he was still a slackening entourage, and he led hundreds of elite soldiers to search for a night and returned empty-handed.
At this time, Jiang Kai was wearing the Mingguang armor specially ordered by Song Majie to be tailored for him when he was in Hongzhou Mansion, with a long sword hanging from his waist, riding a white horse in front of the team, although his body was not large, but he was also majestic. The white horse under the seat has been following Jiang Kai for many years, but today for some reason, his nose is constantly blowing his breath, and although the person on his back is still the same, he is estimated to have a heavy heart.
"Young marshal, the last general is gone, if you don't find that person, the last will die and apologize!" Jiang Kai bowed his head and arched his hand, the armor scales on his arms rubbed against the armor between his chest and ribs, making a piercing grinding sound, cold and calm.
"Go ahead." Song Mojie was expressionless, but for the first time, he solemnly bowed his hand to Jiang Kai, but he still couldn't say the sentence "I must return".
Jiang Kai knew it in his heart, with a sad smile on his face, he immediately turned around, raised his arm and waved it forward, glaring and shouting: "Go!" ”
More than 500 cavalry of the southern army began to slowly march towards the valley to the north, and after a moment they entered the narrow mountain road, and the howling cold wind led the branches on both sides of the cliff to shake, as if they were transmitting a secret message with the unknowable signals of nature. A moment later, in the narrow valley two miles ahead, the archers of the Forbidden Army on the cliff wall on the west side had already bent their bows and arrows and entered a state of preparation.
Jiang Kai has been in battle for a long time, and everyone has arrived in such a dangerous place, so the cavalry of the Zhennan Army began to speed up a few miles outside the range of the bow and arrow of the forbidden army, and at the sound of an order, all the war horses carrying the cavalry received a heavy whip on their buttocks, and these horses suddenly went crazy, rushed forward in the cramped and crowded mountain road, and quickly rushed into the range of the archers of the forbidden army......
A long horn sounded slowly on the cliff wall, and the echoing birds were breathtaking throughout the valley, while at the same time, the feathered arrows above the cliff fell from the sky like locusts, and a rain of arrows covered a large area that was dozens of paces long.
The dozens of horses that rushed to the front of the Zhennan army became hedgehogs almost at the same time, and they neighed and fell to the ground with a huge inertia, and the smoke and dust they brought up along the way billowed up. Almost instantly, the valley that had been calm and calm became a land of billowing yellow dust, almost obscuring everyone's view.
The Praetorian archers on the cliff couldn't see the bottom of the valley, but they didn't need to see the situation below, they just kept shooting arrows at the bottom. The wails and neighings of the horses before they died came straight from the valley floor, and as long as such a sound came up, it was a sign that the attack was effective.
At the front, less than half of the more than 100 horses carrying the soldiers of the Zhennan Army were left after only fifty paces, and the dense rain of arrows almost had no dead ends, so that they had no chance of surviving. At the same time, at the highest point of the cliff, an embroidered tiger striped python with the word "Li" was erected in the sky, and the hunting sound was shouted in the wind, which seemed to be the indifferent sound of life and death......