Chapter 168 Nuwa Mountain

Of course, Zhang Hu didn't know that Lin Xiaojing had already transferred most of the soldiers of Xing'an (now Ankang, Shaanxi) to defend Hanzhong Mansion. With the lesson of the fiasco of Gongchang Mansion, since entering Hanzhong Mansion, Zhang Hu has broken the county and not taken the state along the way: the towns and counties that have little defensive ability must definitely make a profit, but the state towns and guards with walls can be avoided and avoided, and they will be bypassed if they can't be avoided. Zhang Dawang has already found a way: as long as he does not take the initiative to fight, even if it is under their noses, the officers and soldiers of those guards and the state city will watch their gang swagger past, and even the old baggage camp without many guards will never be attacked—it is obvious that they are afraid of Zhang Hu's retaliation. However, Zhang Hu is also unwilling to be dragged down, although it has been smooth until now, if the dog officers and soldiers are forced to come to the stage, it will be worth the loss to mobilize troops and horses to surround and really have a few field battles.

Therefore, Zhang Hu only captured Pingli*, turning a blind eye to the "threat" from Jinzhou, which was close at hand. Jinzhou is also called Xing'an Prefecture, and it is also the location of Xing'an Thousand Households, which is only fifty miles away from Pingli - at this time, the two sides faintly had a tacit understanding: no one wanted to cause trouble, Shaanxi Sansi and Hanzhong Mansion did not want to, and neither did the fledgling Zhang Hu.

Zhang Hu was excited. After the Nuwa Mountain in front, it is rich and not inferior to the Huguang of Sichuan Province! Zhang Hu has never been to Huguang, but - "Huguang is familiar with the world", who doesn't know?

However, this excitement did not last long before it was extinguished by a scoop of cold water. Pioneer Officer ...... Oh, well, when Zhang Dawang and others were in the camp before, they liked to hear Mr. Storyteller talk about "Saying Yue", and they all felt that the official title of "Pioneer Officer of the Front Seal" was very domineering. Since Zhang Hu has proclaimed himself the generalissimo, plus Niu Gao under Grandpa Yue's account is this position, and now the person in charge of the front army is Niu Youtian, who is also surnamed Niu.

Hearing the report, Zhang Hu was taken aback. He organized a total of more than a dozen battalions, except for four or five who were all recruits, and there were also ten battalions that could really be brought out into battle in the event of a war: Fang Ge had four Sichuan battalions and six of his own. Niu Youtian led the veterans to account for most of the four main battalions and 5,000 auxiliaries to open the way, this kind of force is a county town and can be easily taken down, how can it be blocked by the enemy on this barren mountain? Besides, Niu Youtian is also a master who is not afraid of heaven and earth, Baoning Mansion was red in the first battle and actually went to the city first, if it wasn't for the blacksmith who saved Zongning Ah Long from suddenly having a nervous attack, he would have died there! The one who can scare him and dare not rush must be a fierce opponent he has never seen before - but, this Daming, who else can scare the old cow? Isn't it...... Isn't it Sun Jie running back again?

Zhang Hu, who didn't dare to hold on to him, hurriedly explained a few words to Fang Ge, and then took the guard battalion to Nuwa Mountain to see what was going on. Of course, the illiterate Zhang Hu didn't know who Nuwa was. Stories such as Niangniang mending the sky and praising the father chasing the sun are all told to children by Mr. Private School, and most of the knowledge of the military men comes from Mr. Storyteller, and their knowledge of history is limited to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Yang Jiajiang, etc. So when Zhang Hu arrived at the place, he found that he had misjudged.

Nuwa Mountain is named after the Nuwa Temple, which is the legendary place where Nuwa Niangniang picks five-colored stones to mend the sky! There is a partial head mountain in the south of Nuwa Temple, and it is said that Nuwa Niangniang lifted the stone to make up for the sky with a force, and the mountain was crooked and got its name. There is also a "grinding ditch" in the east, which is where the Fuxi Nuwa brothers and sisters rolled and got married*. There is also a Jade Emperor Temple with a lot of incense nearby, which is a treasure of nature, so it is by no means a barren mountain that Zhang Hu thought.

However, Zhang Hu could neither worship Niangniang nor the Jade Emperor. Under the leadership of Niu Youtian, Zhang Hu and his entourage had just climbed halfway up the mountain along the stone steps, and the series of forest barracks built around the Nuwa Temple came into view.

The walls of the camp are made of wooden stakes with the thickness of the bowls, which are tightly arranged and the tops have been sharpened to prevent climbing. At a glance at Zhang Hu, he knew that the part of these wooden stakes rammed into the ground had to be more than three feet deep, and such a solid camp wall, not to mention that manpower would never be able to shake it, even if it was used to crash into the car, it was enough to support more than half an hour. Anyway, this is a mountain, how can a crash come up? There was a thick layer of mud and straw on the outside of the wall, and a few unarmored auxiliaries were lazily splashing scoops of water on the outside of the wall—it looked like they had been doing this work for days. Wet mud, ordinary rockets will definitely not be able to help, and most importantly, it seems that there is a spring or well in the temple on the top of the mountain, and the defenders do not worry about the water source!

There was a trench outside the camp wall, dug according to the mountain, and it was not very wide, but no one could jump over it. The trenches were not long, but there were several of them where they could barely pass, and they were scattered across the ground, which greatly slowed the speed and rhythm of the attack, leaving the attackers permanently exposed to the fire of the defenders.

There are two lookouts on the wall, east and west, and the view from the top of the hill is already wide, and with these two lookouts, the situation in front of you must be unobstructed. Zhang Hu estimated that the direction that could not be seen here on the other side of the mountain should be the same. The trees within 30 zhang of the camp wall have been cut down, and the larger ones have now become part of the camp wall, and the others must have been transported back to the camp to make firewood, right? There was a bald stake more than half a foot high on the ground and stumbled. As if to prove Zhang Hu's judgment, a puff of black smoke rose from the camp.

There is also a flag fluttering in the camp, and it looks like the flag of the deputy general of the fifth face, but neither of them can read, and they don't know what is written on the flag.

Zhang Hu and Niu Youtian were observing and discussing, when they suddenly saw that the drawbridge across the trench at the camp gate was lowered, and then the closed camp gate opened, and two officers came out of it. Judging from their steady gait and smooth movements, both of them are good players in the army, and the iron armor between their gestures is as obedient as clothes made of fabric, without any sense of hindrance and stiffness. But looking at their uniforms, Zhang Hu felt that it was a little different from the Ming army he had seen before. What was wrong was unclear for a while. The two of them walked straight to Zhang Hu and the others to stand more than ten feet away, and shouted loudly: "The general opposite, please take a few steps forward to talk." "The accent is so familiar.

shouted a few times, and seeing that there was no movement here, the two talked a few words, and simply took a few steps forward and patted the empty waist without a saber and shouted: "The general opposite, we are friends and not enemies, and this army has no malicious intentions, please rest assured to come out and talk." ”

Zhang Hu and Niu Youtian glanced at each other, then looked at their own soldiers, and saw that there were only two people on the other side, and the distance was far beyond the range of the defenders' crossbow arrows, so he took a few steps forward and shouted: "Who are you?" You are officers and soldiers, and we are thieves, but you are very friends! ”

Unexpectedly, the person on the other side laughed when he heard this: "We are the ancestors of the official army!" As he spoke, he raised his finger and pointed at the iron helmet on his head, "See clearly, are we officers and soldiers?" ”

Only then did Zhang Hu realize that there was something that he felt was a bit of an eyesore just now: their helmets were actually black!

The two people on the opposite side simply walked over directly, stood ten steps in front of Zhang Niu and the others and said with a smile: "Guan Dashuai, Guan Shengyun, have you heard?" We are the soldiers of the senior deputy marshal under the tent of Guan Shuai! ”

The one stationed in Nuwa Mountain is actually Gao Tengdou!

* The Pingli County of the Ming Dynasty was located in the old county town of Pingli County, Shaanxi Province, which was more than twice as far as Ankang (Xing'an).

* The origin of the Chinese, the most widely said is that Nuwa made people out of clay. But there is also a myth: brother and sister get married.

This version is divided into two types, one is Fuxi and Nuwa, and the other is Pangu brother and sister, who are all brothers and sisters anyway. The plot is similar: the brother and sister were ordered by the Jade Emperor to create people and reproduce, and the two refused on the grounds that they were brothers and sisters, and then the Jade Emperor said that it was the mandate of heaven, and in order to verify, let the brother and sister push a stone mill from each of the two mountains, and the two stone mills in the valley were combined into one, so they lived together and their descendants prospered.

In the Tang Dynasty Li Shu's "Duyi Ji", there is also "Tianruo sent my brother and sister as husband and wife, and the smoke is together; If not, let the smoke go. Smoke is closed. ". Two puffs of smoke and two pieces of stone grinding, the meaning is almost the same.

[There was a little glitch in the computer today, and it was so slow that the screen automatically switched at every turn. Let's write these for the first time. 】