Zhao Chongyang and the others hurried all the way, and after walking for four or five miles, Zhu Wu, Li Kui, Qiu Kui and others waited for two hundred people and hundreds of war horses to come out of the roadside woods, beckoned everyone to get on the horses, and continued to move forward.

Zhu Wu heard that Shi Qian and more than 100 others would not return until late tonight, so he asked Qiu Kui, who was familiar with the path, to wait for Shi Qian here with ten people and more than 100 horses, and Zhao Chongyang asked Wu Song to stay with him.

Time was pressing, Zhu Wu ordered everyone to use dry food and water on horseback, they were now going to rush to a small mountain range a hundred miles away, and then set up camp on the mountain tonight, attracting all the main forces of the Jin people nearby, and then Jing Hou would find a way to escape.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Zhao Chongyang and others finally arrived at Wildcat Ridge, which was 100 miles away from Shenyang City. The elevation of Wildcat Ridge is only more than 300 meters, and on this vast plain, it is a unique mountain range, no more than 1,000 meters long and no more than 5 or 600 meters wide. In the flat land where there is no danger to defend, this is the only place in this area that can be defended against danger. Before coming, Zhao Chongyang, Zhu Wu, Chai Jin and others set this place as the first stop for evacuating from Shenyang Mansion according to the introduction of Zhang Hu and Qiu Kui.

Because, Zhao Chongyang knew that after several battles with Jin Wushu and Wanyan Xiyin, the two of them had already hated him to the bone, and they wanted to get rid of him quickly, not to mention that the two of them were still thinking about the princess's peerless appearance. Therefore, in order to escape back to Dalian Province smoothly, they formulated a well-thought-out plan of action:

First, after Zhao Chongyang and the others sprinkled out, they asked Shi Qian and Qiu Qionghu to sneak into the place where the Jin people fed the war horses in Shenyang City at night, and fed the Jin people's war horses a special potion made by the two brothers Huangfu Duan and Huangfu Shen called cartilage water. After eating a small amount of these potions, the war horse did not see anything unusual on the surface, but within ten days, he was sore, weak and weak, and could not go to the battlefield at all. Ten days later, the medicinal power gradually wore off, and the war horse recovered as before.

The second is to use Wildcat Ridge as bait, pretending to hold on and waiting for reinforcements, to induce the enemy to transfer all the mobile forces along the way and nearby to surround Wildcat Ridge, and trap Zhao Chongyang and them on the mountain. And they took the opportunity to break out of the encirclement, and by the time the enemy found them, they had already fled more than a hundred miles away. At this time, although the enemy army was numerous, there were only a few war horses, and the mobility was greatly reduced. Even if they were to be rediscovered and bitten, it would be almost impossible to keep them.

In the end, with the assistance and capture of the navy, they will take Dalian Mansion and return safely from the sea on a ship.

Of course, this is the general plan, but there are certainly some variables in the process of implementation and implementation.

That night, Zhao Chongyang, Emperor Mao De, Fang Baihua, Chai Jin, Zhu Wu, Lu Junyi, Fang Tianjie and others repeatedly revised and supplemented the action plan.

According to Fang Baihua's proposal, those who were originally scheduled to hold on to Wildcat Ridge for two days and two nights decided to stay one more day, and do enough work to hold on to the reinforcements, so that they could transfer as many men and horses from the south as possible to reduce the resistance on the way forward.

At the same time, Zhu Wu offered a plan, and after jumping out of the encirclement, the soldiers divided into two roads, all the way along the avenue, and rode at full speed. After copying the trail on the left all the way and crossing more than 20 miles of mountain roads, according to Zhang Hu and Qiu Kui, there was a small horse farm of the Jin people under the mountain range, with more than 30,000 war horses, only more than 1,000 old and weak soldiers guarded by them.

These veterans secretly buy some horses every year to increase their income, and Zhang Hu and they came here to buy horses twice.

Zhu Wu took out a simple map he had drawn based on Zhang Hu's narrative and said, "As long as we quietly take this horse farm unknowingly, and then ride one person and two horses, we can reach Dalian Mansion in three days, which is a full day faster than taking the main road." ”

Now, after the two groups of men and horses converged, plus Chai Jin and Zhang Hu's old brothers, a total of more than 2,000 people, all of them live in the mountain The target is too big, according to Zhao Chongyang's opinion, divide the troops now, and let Chai Jin, Lu Junyi, and Zhu Wu take more than 1,000 people to leave before the enemy surrounds the mountain, and hide in the forest in the distance, and they can quietly drill out of the forest on the afternoon of the third day, and go south along the main road. After Shi Qian, Wu Song, and Qiu Qionghu returned to the team, they followed Zhu Wu and them.

Zhao Chongyang and their side, the soldiers who stayed on the mountain plus the male and female generals, just 1,100 people, this time Zhang Hu and several of his old brothers who are familiar with the terrain acted with Zhao Chongyang to lead the way for everyone.

Zhao Chongyang The reason why they chose Wildcat Ridge to hold on is because it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, only three roads can barely lead to the mountain, and there is a fence made of log piling every ten meters in these three places, a total of ten before and after, under the cover of ten fences, only fifty people are needed to guard each place, and it can be guaranteed.

Because of the condescending position, it is very convenient to use both bows and arrows, crossbows and throwing guns, and the lethality is also very strong......

In the second half of the night, the scouts sent by Wanyan Gao and them returned to Shenyang Mansion and reported Zhao Chongyang's location to Jin Wushu and others, and said that the Song people had built a fence on the mountain, and there were signs of guarding the danger there, waiting for the Central Plains to send troops to rescue.

Jin Wushu laughed and said: "I'm afraid that they will run south day and night, and when they arrive in Dalian, the sailors will grab the dock in advance, and there is a great possibility that they will escape by boat." Although we had strictly ordered everywhere before, once we found the traces of the Song delegation, we would stop them at all costs, or at least delay their journey south. But Zhao Chongyang's subordinates are all outlaws, some fierce dead soldiers who are not afraid of death, plus they have swords that sharpen iron like clay, so they are really desperate, and few people can leave them.

Now they are giving up the precious time to escape, and they are actually waiting for help in the area of Wildcat Ridge, which is really stupid. ”

So Jin Wushu and Wanyan Xiyin asked for an order in front of Wanyan Gao at the same time, willing to lead people to besiege Zhao Chongyang and others in Wildcat Ridge, and wait for them to eat up their food, and after the limited few horses were killed and eaten, see how they can escape from the encirclement of my tens of thousands of troops when they are exhausted.

Wan Yan Gao told the two: "The plan to encircle and annihilate Zhao Chongyang and others this time was formulated by the two of you, and all your requirements are met by my wolf lord eldest brother, if something goes wrong again, you also know everyone's anger, and then my eldest brother and I will not be in your position." ”

Wanyan Gao is the younger brother of the gold lord Aguta, and his status in the Jin country is respected, and he is the marshal in charge of the soldiers and horses, and his power in the Jin country is second only to Wanyan Aguta.

Seeing that his uncle said this, Jin Wushu immediately made a military order in front of Wanyan Gao with Wanyan Xiyin, and then immediately made arrangements for the people and horses in various places and Shenyang.

First of all, he sent someone to inform the tart lazy, and asked him to lead his 12,000 men and horses to defend the Dalian Mansion, not to let a single soldier of the Great Song Dynasty go ashore, and not to let a single soldier of the Song people go to the sea. Completely blocked Zhao Chongyang's sea retreat. In a word, the 12,000 men and horses in Dalian will never move until they catch Zhao Chongyang.

Secondly, more than 30,000 people in the city were notified to go south to Wildcat Ridge overnight and encircle Wildcat Ridge.

Finally, send fast horses to inform the nearby states and counties and the states and counties on the way south, and try to transfer the mobile men and horses to the area of Wildcat Ridge to participate in the siege of the Song Dynasty.