The last day of October in the third year of Han Zhangwu.

Today's moonlight is brighter than usual.

Unfortunately, for the vast majority of people with night blindness in the world, the thin moonlight still can't meet their requirements for clear vision.

It was late at night, the cold wind in the mountains was bleak, and most of the Jiaozhou soldiers on Axe Mountain had fallen asleep in order to keep out the cold.

The snoring of tens of thousands of people was particularly loud in the silent night, on the steep axe mountain.

Tens of thousands of Jiaozhou soldiers moved to Axe Mountain, and it has been more than a month.

Since this month, the Han army has always "retreated" and there has been no movement in the camp, coupled with the confidence in the topography of Axe Mountain, tens of thousands of Jiaozhou soldiers slept very comfortably and sweetly.

Not to mention the tens of thousands of Jiaozhou soldiers who fell asleep in the camp tent, let's just say that some Jiaozhou soldiers who were ordered to patrol various mountain roads, under the paralysis of the spirit, they have long forgotten the entrustment of the Shihui.

or three or two people, or one or two teams, this part of the Jiaozhou soldiers who bear the heavy responsibility of guarding the battalion, under the invasion of cold and sleepiness, have already hid under the dark trees and fallen asleep.

As the night continued to thicken, the main roads that should have been guarded by soldiers had long been in vain.

And when the tens of thousands of Jiaozhou soldiers on Axe Mountain were immersed in sleep, they would not have thought that just tonight, an elite Han army unit was taking advantage of the night to rush towards Axe Mountain at a very fast speed.

The Han army camp was not far from Axe Mountain, and after marching for half an hour with three thousand Liangzhou soldiers, Deng Ai finally came to the foot of Axe Mountain.

After reaching the bottom of the mountain, Deng Ai couldn't help but look up at the bright moon hanging high in the sky.

God bless you.

Deng Ai's heart suddenly appeared with this emotion.

The thin moonlight may not be able to make the Jiaozhou soldiers see, but for the three thousand Liangzhou troops behind him, this moonlight supplemented by the lighting of some torches is enough for their night movements not to be affected too much.

After sighing, Deng Ai shifted his gaze to the axe mountain in front of him, which was as steep as a knife.

As Zhuge Liang said, if the ordinary way of assault is adopted, no matter how many and elite the Han army is, I am afraid it will be difficult to attack this mountain.

But fortunately, under the steep peaks, there is a mountain road for the Han army to win.

Under the leadership of the local guide, Deng Ai quickly led 3,000 Liangzhou troops to find the location of the mountain road.

But when he saw the secret mountain road, Deng Ai's brows furrowed.

Under the mutual reflection of the firelight and the moonlight, Deng Ai could see the mountain road in front of him clearly.

But after Deng Ai saw it clearly, he found that the road in front of him was not so much a mountain road as a tiny crack in a giant axe.

The road is narrow, and the most important thing is that the mountain road is not continuous, and there are faults in many places.

No way, how can this climb?

Not only did Deng Ai frown, but Fu Yan, the deputy general who followed him, also showed a deep sadness on his face after seeing the mountain road that seemed impossible to climb.

"Captain."

A soft call came from Fu Yan's mouth.

Although Fu Tong only called the word captain, it is not difficult to know from Fu Yan's tone that he has the heart to retreat from the army.

Normal generals would have this idea.

But it is clear that Deng Ai's thinking is different from ordinary people.

Deng Ai turned his head and glared at Fu Yan fiercely, and then when he turned to look at the mountain road again, his eyes were already full of determination.

Before coming, Zhuge Liang had told him that this mountain road was hidden and extremely difficult to climb.

Because of this, Shihui will be negligent in guarding here.

If it is a mountain road that is easy to climb, and Shihui is not stupid, how can he not send a large army to garrison it?

But because this mountain road is steep and difficult, the enemy army is not prepared here, so if the Liangzhou army climbs up, it can go straight to the heart of the enemy.

In war, the risk is often proportional to the benefit.

And once Deng Ai takes over this task, then he has no reason to retreat.

Fortunately, Deng Ai had made preparations in advance.

With Deng Ai's wave of his hand, in the array of three thousand Liangzhou troops behind him, hundreds of strong men holding Tiege instantly appeared.

The basic plate of the Liangzhou Army originated from the Jing Chu Jianshi recruited by Mi Yang outside Xiangyang City.

The land of Jingchu is densely forested, so in addition to being good at bows and crossbows, Jingchu Jianshi is also good at climbing mountain rocks.

And these hundreds of strong men with iron ges in their hands are the best among Deng Ai's carefully selected from thousands of Liangzhou troops and are good at climbing mountain rocks.

Under Deng Ai's order, the hundreds of strong men who had ordered the prohibition did not hesitate for a moment, and under the lighting of the torches of their comrades in the rear, they immediately strode forward towards the steep mountain road in front of them.

The mountain road is narrow, and there is no way to accommodate too many strong men at once.

But this is not difficult to overcome the hundreds of strong men who are good at climbing mountain rocks.

I saw that these hundreds of strong men immediately changed their formation, turned into a slender formation in a fishy way, and continued to advance towards the mountain road in front of them.

As they continued to advance, hundreds of strong men soon encountered the place that caused Deng Ai to frown just now.

A natural fault line blocked in front of these hundreds of strong men.

However, in the face of this natural barrier, these hundreds of strong men did not hesitate, and the strong men in front waved the iron Ge in their hands and began to dig the mountain to open the way.

With the continuous swing of Tie Ge in his hand, there were constantly mountain rocks that were smashed open and fell to the feet of the strong man in front of him.

Or a mountain rock fell and you can't see anything, but when a certain number of mountain stones are cut down, soon hundreds of strong men will appear out of thin air, and a long ladder turned into stone will appear.

This is the way Deng Ai developed a way to open up the road according to the characteristics of the Liangzhou army's good at mountain warfare - cutting mountains into ladders!

Historically, he used a similar method to open up a 700-mile mountain road to Chengdu for his army!

When the stone staircase appeared under their feet, the hundreds of strong men in front of them did not delay, or the stone staircase made in this haste was not strong, but they did not fear or panic.

As the first strong man stepped on the stone ladder and climbed up, the strong men behind him continued to climb one after another, like a carp rushing to the Dragon Gate, and climbed up the stone ladder one after another.

With the help of the moonlight, Fu Yi stared blankly at the scene that happened in his eyes.

It was the first time he knew that he could march like this!

But before Fu Yi was in a daze, Deng Ai saw that the road ahead had been opened, so he immediately commanded the remaining Liangzhou army to follow the hundreds of pioneers in front in an orderly manner.

Because of the need to cut the mountain into a ladder, and because it is not easy to climb the steep mountain road at night, the speed of the 3,000 Liangzhou army is not fast.

It's just that although the speed is not fast, the pace of the advance of the 3,000 Liangzhou army has never stopped!

These 3,000 Liangzhou troops didn't even know what Deng Ai had brought them here for tonight, but they were strong troops trained by Mi Yang with strict military methods, so they just needed to know how to keep up with the resolute figure in front.

The mountain trails are complex, and not all places can be used as ladders.

There will always be places where you can't use a stone as a complete staircase.

For those places, Deng Ai also has preparations in advance.

He came tonight not only to let the soldiers hold the tiege, but also to have them bring a lot of wooden pegs.

In those places where the stones could not be completely covered, Deng Ai ordered the soldiers to insert wooden pegs into the stones or the earth to form a simple trestle bridge.

When the simple trestle was formed, the soldiers in front of them quickly stepped on the trestle and continued to climb towards the mountain.

Of course, both the stone ladder and the trestle bridge are made of temporary simplicity, even if there are many Liangzhou soldiers below who are fixed with their bodies to prevent the stone ladders and trestle from loosening, but in the case of not very good light, there are still some Liangzhou soldiers who accidentally fall and are injured.

In the not-so-bright light, as more and more people were injured, the blood on the stone staircase and the trestle shone in the moonlight.

But even after seeing the blood spilled by those comrades, most of the Liangzhou army was still indifferent and continued to climb upward under the difficult environment.

Finally, under the unremitting climbing, hundreds of brave men at the forefront successfully climbed the mountainside.

When the hundreds of strong men successfully reached the mountainside, except for some of the strong men who scattered in all directions to investigate the surrounding situation, the rest of the strong men all ripped off the cloth belt they carried, and then hung the cloth belt on the cliff.

With the help of hundreds of cloth belts, the Liangzhou army, which had not yet climbed the mountainside, arrived at the mountainside one after another under the pull of those strong men.

After this part of the Liangzhou army reached the mountainside, they took over the work of the hundreds of brave men, and carried more comrades up the mountainside with cloth belts.

This cycle continued, and soon after, more than 2,000 Liangzhou troops successfully reached the mountainside.

When Deng Ai saw that the Liangzhou army under the mountain had already come up, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Even if his left hand was in sharp pain at this time.

Deng Ai was moved to the Central Plains by Cao Cao when he was young, and climbing mountain rocks was not his strong point, but he was also the main general, and he had to take the lead as an example, so in the process of climbing just now, he inevitably suffered some injuries.

But Deng Ai simply bandaged the wound on his left hand, and then he stood up and conveyed his next instructions.

At this point, Deng Ai finally said what their mission was tonight.

And when the more than 2,000 Liangzhou troops knew that they were shouldering a major task tonight, their faces showed excitement.

The Liangzhou army not only has strict military laws, but also has rich rewards, which are a serious burden on Liangzhou's national strength, but Mi Yang has never thought of cutting corners on this point.

Because he knew that the abundant rewards could greatly motivate the warlike spirit of the soldiers.

Just like the more than 2,000 Liangzhou troops at the moment, they know that tonight's mission is dangerous, but people are chasing profits, and as long as the benefits obtained after the war can satisfy them, they don't mind putting themselves in danger.

After informing him of the mission, Deng Ai immediately divided his troops into two ways, and he assigned a thousand soldiers to Fu Yan, asking him to go down the mountain from the mountainside, and remove those checkpoints on the mountain road along the way.

This is very important, if you don't pull out the checkpoints on the mountain road first, in case the Jiaozhou soldiers react and send heavy troops to those checkpoints, then not only Zhuge Liang's army will not be able to successfully rush up, but even his more than 2,000 Liangzhou troops may be in a desperate situation.

Later, when Fu Yan led a thousand Liangzhou troops to quickly go down the mountain, Deng Ai led the remaining soldiers and took advantage of the darkness to touch the mountain.

If you want to succeed in taking Axe Mountain tonight, you can't just pull out the level.

Fu Yan led a thousand Liangzhou troops, and quickly walked towards the various checkpoints arranged by the Jiaozhou soldiers on the mountain by the moonlight.

Because it was defended by danger, the Jiaozhou soldiers did not have many troops at the checkpoint.

After all, once an enemy attacks, then with the checkpoint, as long as there are hundreds of Jiaozhou soldiers, they can block the attack of the Han army within a certain period of time.

And during this time, there was enough for the army on the mountains to come to the rescue.

Shihui and Yu Fu are both people who know the soldiers, but they ignore one point, what if the Han army appears at the back of the checkpoint?

After Fu Yan led his troops to the rear of a checkpoint, he found that maybe Shihui and Yu Fu had never thought that a Han army would suddenly appear from halfway up the mountain, so all the defensive measures of the checkpoint were arranged in front.

The most surprising thing for Fu Tong was that most of the Jiaozhou soldiers guarding the checkpoint were now in a state of deep sleep.

After perceiving this scene, Fu Yi immediately led the thousands of soldiers behind him to keep approaching the level in front of him.

As Fu Tong got closer and closer to the level, there were still some Jiaozhou soldiers who keenly discovered the abnormality.

In the eyes of those Jiaozhou soldiers, they saw that there seemed to be the movement of soldiers marching in the mountains and forests behind them.

However, because this movement came from the rear, these Jiaozhou soldiers thought that the soldiers who were advancing here were their comrades who came down from the mountain.

Several Jiaozhou soldiers walked towards the place where the strange movement was coming from with torches, and at the same time the shouts and inquiries from their mouths rang out.

"Who's coming?"

But just when the inquiries of those Jiaozhou soldiers fell, Fu Yan happened to rush out of the road in the mountains and forests with thousands of Liangzhou troops.

Seeing the soldiers holding sharp blades suddenly appear in the black press, a huge look of horror appeared in the eyes of those Jiaozhou soldiers.

Before the Jiaozhou soldiers could react, Fu Yan, who was holding a horizontal knife, rushed to them first, and when the horizontal knife in his hand slashed past, a response from Fu Yan also fell into the ears of those Jiaozhou soldiers:

"I'm your father-in-law!"

When Deng Ai led thousands of Liangzhou troops all the way up, he also encountered some checkpoints on the way.

But the closer you get to the checkpoints on the mountain, the more negligent the defense is, and Deng Ai successfully cleared out the Jiaozhou soldiers in those checkpoints.

Soon after, the large camp on the hill was already in sight.

At this moment, Deng Ai did not order the soldiers behind him to continue to move forward.

He ordered the soldiers behind him to disperse.

Deng Ai knew that it would not be easy for thousands of Liangzhou troops to rush into the enemy's camp.

But what if it was the other way around?

Deng Ai asked the thousands of Liangzhou troops who had scattered around to take out the horns that they carried.

What are the generals most afraid of?

It's nothing more than the word Yingxiao.

Just a moment later, outside the quiet Jiaozhou military camp, the earth-shattering war drums of the Han army sounded!

This is yesterday's second chapter.

There are 2 more chapters left today.

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