On the 15th day of the seventh month of the tenth year of Jian'an, after seven days, Shen Chen arrived at Shiling.

Seven days ago, on July 8, he set out from Lingyang, and after confirming that Sun Quan had escaped, he calmly arranged at the entrance of the Jinghu Lake and Shushui River.

First of all, the fleet docked on the right bank of Shushui, that is, to the east of Shushui, and then sent Qu Dang to lead a thousand soldiers to the north by boat, heading towards Jingshui.

He himself led the remaining 3,000 men and horses along the Shushui River by land and began to move in the direction of Yixian County in the south.

Due to the light rain in the south of the recent southeast hills, that is, in the area of Huangshan City in the later generations, the road is muddy and slippery, which makes the forward speed very slow, coupled with the countless hills on the right bank, the mountains are high and dense, and the road is far away, so that the journey is extremely slow.

On the contrary, Lü Meng and Xu Sheng's troops were relatively fast, because although Yunxi was not connected to Shushui at that time, it could meet with another river called Qingxi in the southeast of Shitai County in later generations.

The upper reaches of this river are Jing Lake, so Lu Meng and Xu Shengbing divided into two routes, all the way by water, took a small boat from Qingxi to Jing Lake, and rushed to the entrance of Jing Lake in advance.

On the other hand, take the land route to reach the upper reaches of Shushui, and start to walk from south to north, from the land route to the entrance of Jinghu Lake and Shushui.

Then the two interacted with each other at the same time, Lu Meng still took a small boat to the south by water, and Xu Sheng went north by land, and the two met at Wuli Pavilion on July 13.

Neither side saw any trace of Shen Chen's boat, so they concluded that Shen Chen did not enter Shushui and returned to the entrance of Shushui and Jinghu Lake.

In fact, Shen Chen was not only there, but also saw Lu Meng's fleet on the hillside in the distance.

It's just that the mountains were high and dense at that time, and Lu Meng had no idea that someone was silently watching them in the direction of his east at this time.

"General!"

Zhang Nan raised his head and looked at the sky, pointed to the mountains hidden in the fog in the distance and said: "I just asked the guide of the Shanyue people, after passing the mountains here, and then walking more than 20 miles of mountain roads, you will arrive at Wuling." ”

Shen Chen looked into the distance and said: "Well, the eldest son is waiting for us in Wuling, it's really not easy to come here this way, trekking through mountains and rivers, and we can only walk thirty miles of mountain roads every day." ”

"yes."

Zhang Nan said with a smile: "But although it is tiring and slow to walk on the mountain road, the general's trick of abandoning the boat and walking can deceive the Jiangdong people miserably, presumably they should have already gone north to Jing County." ”

Shen Chen nodded and said: "This is natural, Qu Dang went to She County by Jushui, it will take a few days for the Jiangdong Army to catch up with us, we will meet in She County, and after meeting with General Liu Pan's men and horses, we will go south from Poshui back to Nanchang." ”

"Just."

Zhang Nan said with some hesitation: "General Huang"

"Don't worry, as long as Zhang Hong is in our hands, Jiangdong can only exchange General Huang."

Shen Chen turned his head and looked at the mighty team behind him, where a soldier was carrying Zhang Hong in a sedan chair and following the team.

Zhang Hong is relatively old, and he must not be able to bear walking dozens of miles of mountain roads every day, so he can only take turns to carry the sedan chair and reluctantly carry him away.

As the team was about to cross the rocky ridge, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded behind them.

"Enemy attack!"

This is a warning that the enemy is coming.

The top of the mountain is densely wooded, and Shushui in the distance is also shaded by the forests on the left and right banks, so it is not clear to see the situation.

Zhang Nan said to Shen Chen: "General, it must be the Jiangdong Army chasing after you." ”

"It's coming so fast."

Shen Chen looked around, looked at a hilly hillside on the bank of the river, pointed at it, and said, "Let the soldiers go to that hillside to defend against the enemy with bows and arrows." ”

"Yui!"

Zhang Nan acted immediately.

More than 3,000 Jiangxia naval forces were in front of Shiling, and there were small groups of scouts behind them.

However, the scouts did not ride horses, and the mountains were high and dense, and they could not report to the commander through flags, wolf smoke, etc., so they could only use whistles and horns.

Although it is quick and easy to transmit information by voice, it will also be transmitted to the pursuers in the rear, so that the pursuers know where the person is.

At this moment, there were hundreds of small boats floating on the water about four or five miles away from the stone ridge in the rear.

Lü Meng was on a brazen ship.

Shushui is not better than Qingshui and Jingshui, its narrowest place is only twenty or thirty meters, and the width of the place is not more than forty or fifty meters, it belongs to a small and medium-sized river, and the lower river will be much wider near the Jinghu port, with a width of two or three hundred meters, and the more upstream it is, the narrower it is.

Therefore, their big ships could not enter, so they could only use small boats such as open, daring, walking, scouting, yachts, and flying boats, of which the first three kinds of boats could only carry twenty or thirty people, and the latter three could carry seven or eight people at most.

And because of the relationship of going upstream, the ship must rely on manual oars to sail.

But even then, the speed is much faster than walking.

From Lingyang to Shiling for more than 200 miles, Shen Chen and they walked for seven days, but Lu Meng and they walked by waterway for twelve hours, day and night, constantly changing people and rowing boats, and in just one and a half days, they caught up with them from Jinghu Lake and Shushuikou.

Almost as soon as he heard the continuous whistles and horns, Lu Meng perked up and immediately shouted: "The enemy is in front, chase quickly!" ”

"Woooooooooooo

The sound of horns sounded continuously, and many of the soldiers who rowed on hundreds of small boats last night, and who were still resting during the day, were quickly woken up in their sleep, and many of them slept with their clothes together, and hurried out of the cabins of the open, daring, and walking boats.

At the same time, Shen Chen had also led the Jiangxia naval army to ambush on the right bank, on the hills, about twenty or thirty zhang away from the river, the soldiers were lurking one after another, drawing arrows.

The main combat weapon of water warfare is the bow and arrow, so many sailors of the navy are often excellent archers as well.

At this moment, hundreds of warships were rushing towards the front, and the soldiers of the countless Jiangxia Naval Division were waiting solemnly, almost after the enemy entered their range, a sharp whistle sounded.

"Whew!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

Clusters of arrows rained down and covered almost the entire surface of the river.

With a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, Lu Meng stood on the bow of the ship and watched the rain of arrows, and shouted angrily: "Dodge the arrows!" ”

The same trumpet sounded.

The Jiangdong sailors took refuge in the cabins or erected planks to defend themselves.

For the navy, dodging and resisting the arrows is almost the instinctive reaction of many people, and countless soldiers have been arranged in advance before the horn sounds.

I heard the sound of "Dang Dang Dang Dang" coming continuously, and most of the thousands of arrows were shot at the planks, roofs, and planks of the ship.

Only a very small number of lucky people were shot and fell into the water, which did not cause much trouble to the Jiangdong Naval Division.

At the same time, Xu Sheng in the rear had also ordered the fleet to start docking, and they planned to land from the right bank, that is, the direction Shen Chen came from, and launch an attack on the rear of Shen Chen's army.

"Two bread copies!"

Shen Chen was amazed that the Jiangdong Army's military literacy was really excellent, even if it was in the middle of the ambush, it was not afraid of danger, and it also launched a counteroffensive.

However, he was not a vegetarian either, and immediately ordered his soldiers to begin to retreat above the top of the Stone Ridge Mountain.

At the same time, send people to collect stones and prepare for a defensive battle.

The rain of arrows was still falling, and Lü Meng ordered to move closer to the shore against the rain of arrows, and at this time, the dense Jiangdong army disembarked with shields and seized the beachhead, preparing to storm the hilly defense line occupied by the Jiangxia army on the right bank of Shushui on their left hand.

The hill was very high above the ground, twenty or thirty feet, that is, four to sixty meters, and it was densely forested, which was not good for the attackers, but it was also bad for the defenders.

Therefore, Shen Chen began to quickly transfer with his soldiers, evacuating towards the higher stone ridge.

The higher the stone ridge climbs, the fewer trees there are, because from the halfway point of the mountain, this mountain is a huge rock, from the foot of the mountain you can see the exposed white rock wall, and the top of the mountain is a forest of huge rocks, there are many rocks, so it is called the stone ridge by the local Shanyue people.

However, although the climb up the mountain was full of stones, it was not a cliff, there was a slope above, and the local Shanyue people had a road to pass, so after half an hour, the army reached the top of the mountain without any problems.

The top of the mountain was more than 100 zhang above the ground, and it was vaguely seen that the Jiangdong Army at the foot of the mountain in the rear had occupied the hill they had defended just now, and was chasing them to climb to the top of the mountain.

And if you look to the south, you can still see the blue mountain shadow in the faint mist, which is Wuling, less than twenty miles away from the stone ridge.

"Heap all the stones."

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"Over here, they're coming soon."

"Ready!"

Under the command of officers at all levels, the soldiers built a large number of stones near the top of the mountain.

There are almost no trees around the top of the mountain, and at least twenty zhang below can be said to be unobstructed, although it is a slope, but the view is very good, and you can already see dense figures from the dense forest, chasing up along the mountain road.

Shen Chen hung the ring head knife on his waist and joined the troops who were laying stones, almost after the pursuers came out of the dense forest, with an order, the rolling stones began to smash down.

"Boom!"

Lu Meng raised his head, only to see countless boulders weighing twenty or thirty pounds rolling down from the top of the mountain with a thunderous sound, carrying countless dust and stones on the stones, like a flood that drowned them.

At this time, it was almost too late to give any orders, because all that was left in everyone's ears was the sound of rumbling stones, and a huge boulder was coming towards Lu Meng, and he almost instinctively threw himself to the side.

As soon as he dodged the unlucky one was a guard behind him, and the guard only felt that a black shadow flashed in front of him, and the whole person was instantly hit hard, flew up, and lost consciousness.

It's dangerous!

Lu Meng hid under the upturned reverse slope on a mountain wall, and when he saw that the guard had already burst out of his brain and was too dead to die, his heart suddenly sank.

The rolling stones were still being smashed, and with the continuous rain of arrows, the Jiangdong army that went up the mountain was smashed into a stream of urine and fled.

Seeing this situation, Lü Meng also had to choose to retreat, and at the same time sent people to bypass the side of the mountain.

Time passed minute by minute, and seeing that the Jiangdong Navy was no longer coming to send them to death, Shen Chen also knew what they were thinking, so he hurried up to prepare to descend the mountain from the south.

After there was no movement on the top of the mountain, Lu Meng gave the order to pursue again, but Shen Chen had already gone down to the southern mountain forest.

Although the stone ridge was not big, it would take more time for Xu Sheng to get around from the left and right, so Shen Chen would not waste time with them on the stone ridge and wait for Xu Sheng and Lu Meng to surround the entire mountain.

Seeing Shen Chen so cunning, Lu Meng had no choice but to continue the pursuit.

The two sides pursued one after the other in the jungle and in the mountains.

Fortunately, Shen Chen had the help of the local Shanyue people and was able to find the road accurately, so he had been shuttling through the forest relatively smoothly, but Lu Meng and Xu Sheng were almost lost in the jungle.

The sound of horns, whistles, drums and gongs are all heard in the ears, and the direction is completely provided by sound.

"Huh?"

At this time, at a scout point about twelve miles away from Wuling, a soldier suddenly pricked up his ears and said, "There seems to be a voice." ”

"What sound?"

Another scout said lazily: "There are more mountains in this place than in Youxian, and there are countless jackals, tigers and leopards, even if there is a sound, it may only be the sound of wild beasts in the mountains." ”

"No, it's the sound of a trumpet, listen carefully."

The soldier with the sharpest hearing immediately climbed to a large tree, stood on the top of the tree and looked into the distance, and after a moment he lowered his head and said to the people: "There is really a sound of a trumpet, it seems to be our people." ”

"Can you tell what it means?"

One of the scout team leaders asked, and he did hear the faint sound of a horn.

"It seems to be"

The scout listened carefully for a while, then his eyes widened and said, "Enemy attack!" ”

"Enemy attack?"

"Enemy attack!"

There were five scouts in total, and the other four suddenly shook as if they had woken up, and they began to pick up the horn in their hands and play it.

In a few moments, the sound of trumpets in the entire forest continued like the sea, flooding all around.

"Report!"

Wuling Liu Qi station.

At this time, he placed the camp on the Wuling Mountainside, which stretched for several miles from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain, and was filled with Liu Biaojun's banner and a large number of camps.

Liu Pan had more than 20,000 horses in Nanchang, and when he heard that Liu Qi was also there, he immediately personally led 15,000 men to the north along the Poshui River, deep into the hinterland of the southeast hills, conquered Shixin, and repelled Huang Gai's troops.

He also sent his general Huang Zhong to lead 8,000 people north to Yixian County to meet Liu Qi.

The current situation is that Liu Pan has defeated Huang Gai, and a few men and horses are stationed along the Zhejiang line, pretending to attack Qiantang, but in fact he is leading the main force on the way north to Yixian.

So at present, the movement of the Jiangxia army is very clear, Shen Chen led 3,000 soldiers and horses deep behind the enemy and is withdrawing to Wuling, where there are 8,000 Liu Pan's army led by Huang Zhong.

At the same time, Liu Pan himself is still along the line of Zhejiang and is rushing to Yixian.

In the Wuling camp, hearing the sound of this continuous horn, Liu Qi immediately said to a veteran general who was eight feet tall and had a gray beard beside him: "Old General Huang, this must be General Shen." ”

This veteran is Huang Zhong, who is just sixty years old this year, squinted his eyes and listened carefully for a moment and said, "No, this horn sound seems to be an enemy attack. ”

"Could it be that General Shen has not yet arrived, and the enemy has already pursued?"

Liu Qi frowned.

Huang Zhong lifted the sword and bow and said, "Let me go out and have a look." ”

With that, he had already walked out of the tent.

At the sound of an order, he ordered 3,000 men and horses to go in the direction of the forest to the north.

Brothers, a good news and a bad news, the good news is that the 4th and 5th explode more than 20,000 per day, the bad news is that each chapter is 4000 words in the past few days, because you have to code words crazy in advance, there is no way, the sky has changed, and my health is not very good now. In addition, according to the plot, it's already on the high speed.,Everyone should be able to guess the plot later.,There's no Three Kingdoms.,Only the Northern and Southern Dynasties.,So it's expected that about 2 million words will end.,I'll finish it as soon as possible.,After I finish writing, I also want to go to the hospital for a formal physical examination.,As soon as I feel like I'm going to have all kinds of problems in winter.,It may have something to do with my two or three packs of cigarettes a day.,The mental state is not very good.,I hope you can tolerate it.。

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