The Zhuge brothers are in Chaisang City, and they have just sorted out the reception of the people's finances.

At the same time, on the afternoon of the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, the eastern foot of Lushan Mountain, thirty miles south of Chaisang City.

Early in the morning, Chen was ordered to move south to intercept enemy reinforcements that might appear at any time.

He attached great importance to Zhuge Jin's orders, and also believed very much in the speed of the enemy's reinforcements calculated by Zhuge Liang, so he forced the march all the way to go fast.

I am afraid that the enemy from Haidui and Nanchang will appear at any time and threaten Chaisang.

He brought all the 2,000 Danyang soldiers, these were elite soldiers who were good at mountain warfare, and he also brought 300 elite cavalry. Zhuge Jin's stay in Chaisang were all Gan Ning's old troops and new annexed troops.

The troops were out of breath, but fortunately they didn't delay. The army rushed to Lushan before noon and chose some dangerous positions to set up ambushes.

Chen Zhi asked the Danyang soldiers to set up an ambush on the hillside, and the Bai Yu Jing cavalry pulled away a little and hid at the forks of the mountain roads on both sides, preparing to wait for the main force to kill the enemy army, and then rush out of the road to cover or cut off the enemy army.

After deploying all this, Chen Zhi asked the scouts to look at the heights and confirm that there was no enemy shadow within a radius of twenty or thirty miles.

"It seems that I was in too much of a hurry, and the second son said that the enemy would arrive tonight or tomorrow morning, and he was right." Chen Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and allowed the troops to rest and eat dry food.

The time required by Zhuge Liang was not so urgent, but he was afraid that the implementation would not be good, so he increased the weight.

If the enemy army appears at this time, Chen Zhibu will be physically exhausted, and it is really possible to fall into a bitter battle.

Fortunately, the enemy did not come for a long time, Chen Zhi rested for most of the afternoon, and the soldiers generally slept for an hour to recover the fatigue of the previous night's battle.

Because it was a short-distance battle, the troops did not carry baggage, did not even have a marching pot, and could not cook at all, so they only ate the dry food they carried with them.

The soldiers choked in a panic, and the bamboo tube water they brought with them had already been drunk, and it was impossible to boil the water, so the subordinate officers proposed that Chen Zhi allow the soldiers to drink all the mountains and water.

Chen Zhi agreed, and reminded: "Try to pick a cleaner drink upstream." Captain Zhuge has repeatedly emphasized that if you can boil water, you can boil it to avoid gastrointestinal diseases. ”

Since Zhuge Jin led the troops, other details of army management may not be comparable with famous generals, but the sanitary conditions of the army have always been vigorously implemented, and it is not too troublesome.

A great advantage of modern people over the ancients is medical and health knowledge. Why not drink boiled water, eat boiled fish, and reduce digestive tract infections.

However, today's situation is special, although Chen Zhi is the first time to come to Lushan, he sees that the mountains and rivers here are beautiful, there are many mountain springs, and it should be very clean.

With his permission, his subordinates ordered the soldiers to fetch water from the nearby waterfall.

During the Han Dynasty, the famous Sandi Spring had not yet been discovered, but the incense burner waterfall where Li Bai wrote poems had already been discovered.

The mountain springs where Chen Zhishi drew water are not incense burner peaks and sandi springs, but these waterfalls are generally not far from the main road.

Judging from the map of later generations, the incense burner peak and the three stacks of springs are a few miles to the east, which is the surface of Poyang Lake. The steepness and steepness of the eastern foothills of Lushan can be seen.

Setting up an ambush in such a scenic spot and steep and dangerous place, Chen Zhi's confidence in winning the enemy reinforcements was also greatly enhanced.

If before he came today, he already had six or seven points of victory in his heart, but now that he has seen this terrain win, his confidence has also risen to nine points.

While waiting for the enemy, he couldn't help but think in his heart:

"The lord lent me to Zhuge Captain Ping Yuzhang, and now I have been in the country for ten days, and I have won the first credit by Na Ganning for breaking the city twice. My strength is still two or three times his, and if I don't win a big victory, how will I be able to fight for the Lord in the future?

Although Captain Zhuge comforted me, saying that I was as immobile as a mountain, I had always been good at defending, blocking, and setting up ambushes. And Gan Ning is as fast as the wind, good at surprise attacks and fast attacks, and quickly takes the lead. Today's battle happens to be an ambush and a blockade, and I will definitely prove myself! ”

Chen Zhi thought as he recalled the last bitter battle and big battle he experienced, which was a few months ago, on the battlefield in Huaiyin County.

At that time, the lord also asked General Guan to play the role of storming the camp, saying that General Guan's offensive was quite in line with Sun Tzu's Art of War: "Aggression is like fire, and its speed is like the wind." And he and Tian Yu were arranged to be on the way to Ji Ling's reinforcement of Liu Xun, responsible for ambushing and intercepting. He played well that time, and he fought to the death to force Ji Ling back.

Thinking of this, Chen Zhi clenched the steel gun in his hand and comforted himself: Although the Rong thief army is numerous, can the generals under his command still have Ji Ling's command ability?

Even Ji Ling was dragged and forced back, today's battle, and the danger of Lushan, it is absolutely no problem to be able to throw wood and stones down from the cliff to contain it!

I don't know how long it took, a scout officer next to him finally came over and gently pushed him: "Look, there is a large force of soldiers and horses coming from the south!" ”

Chen Zhi was in good spirits and immediately entered the state.

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At the same time, on the Lushan Mountain Road.

An astonishing army of the Zhijia family, like a long winding dragon, marched from south to north through the narrow valley road by the mountains and lakes, regardless of fatigue.

A fairly knowledgeable county soldier Sima looked at the situation of the team, and couldn't help but worry in his heart, and couldn't help but ride his horse and run back, asking the main general to slow down or consider camping.

"General, even if you have crossed Lushan, there are still more than 30 miles to reach Chaisang, and now it is the end of the hour, and it will get dark early in the middle of winter.

It is better to let the front army retreat, and the Chinese army camp on the spot, rest for the night, and rush to Chaisan tomorrow. It's better to send scouts to find out about Chaisang's current situation. ”

The lord's name is Zhentong, and he is a cousin of Zhenrong, and he is the fourth in the clan. He rode on a tall horse, and brought seven or eight thousand troops, all of whom had brought reinforcements from Haiyang County, to try to go to Chaisan to reinforce his second cousin.

After listening to the advice of this military Sima, Zhentong immediately said angrily with a straight face:

"You're a waste of manpower! It's said that there are still more than 30 miles to Chaisang, so why don't you hurry up? As long as you can enter the city, what kind of camp will you set up, and it is not good to sleep directly in the city? You still say that you want to cherish your soldiers, that's how you cherish them? ”

Zhen Rong himself betrayed the master three times, and he was afraid that his subordinates would do the same, so he was extremely cronyistic in governing the army, and the commanders of each army were his own brothers or cousins.

In his eyes, the loyalty of the generals is the most important thing, and the former county soldiers and officers who are really a bit of a general have to be managed by the Zhen family and cannot be fully reused.

The military Sima was robbed of Bai by Zhentong, and his face was ashamed, but he still couldn't help but defend:

"But now it has been four days since the last defeat of the reinforcements by waterway, Lushan is steep, the north and south are not connected, and I don't know whether the recent situation of Chaisang and the number of soldiers besieging the city have increased.

If you climb over the hill and you can't break into the city, and then you have to camp all night, won't you be in a hurry? ”

Zhentong scolded: "Nonsense! The last time the waterway reinforcements were defeated, it was just that you were incompetent and did not practice water warfare! I asked the defeated soldiers, and the officers and soldiers were only three or five thousand at most! How can this person completely besiege Chaisang? As long as we get to the city, we will definitely be picked up by the second brother! ”

These words were finalized, and finally the mouths of the heavy-handed faction were completely blocked.

Because what Ji Tong said is also true, the scale of the officers and troops encountered by the waterway reinforcements a few days ago is indeed very small, and the water army is less than a thousand people-

The problem is that the 1,000 people were led by Gan Ning, so that the Zhu family's naval army was beaten down with several times the scale advantage.

Zhuge Liang's later bluff tricks of "quietly driving the boat away at night and driving back during the day" were played for the defenders in Chaisang City, and the reinforcements from the sea dusk did not have time to know.

It is only natural that they underestimate their enemies.

Lushan is steep, and the news from the north and south is blocked, until this moment, they haven't even gotten the news that Chaisang has been lost early this morning.

Relying on the whipping of the horsewhip and the strict military order, the troops continued to march forcibly towards the depths of the Lushan Road, wanting to go to Chaisang City at night to sleep well.

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"Don't worry, don't make a sound! Let this group go! ”

"See those horseback riders in the distance? There are almost no cavalry in the thief army, and that handful must be generals, and only when they are in range are they allowed to release crossbow arrows! ”

On the cliff of Lushan Mountain, Chen Zhi ordered the troops not to be exposed in advance, and they must wait for the enemy's small group of horses to approach before they can be killed.

Although there was a slight movement between the troop orders, it was also the Heaven blessed Han army, and the sound of the Lushan Waterfall next to it sounded one after another, covering up the sound of the ambush.

"Shoot the arrows!" With Chen Zhi's order, three hundred crossbows were shot at the bottom of the slope almost simultaneously.

The other Danyang soldiers who were in ambush in the distance, after seeing the crossbows around Chen Dao shoot with all their might, also shot out, with enough firepower of seven or eight hundred bows.

There was a buzzing sound, and hundreds of crossbow arrows directly shot the Chinese army of the Zheng family army in a daze.

"Ahh

At the same time, on the high slopes and cliffs on the west side, countless small stones weighing a few catties each were also thrown down by the Danyang soldiers, smashing the heads of the Zhanjia soldiers below and bursting their brains.

"Kill-" After throwing stones, the Danyang soldiers who were good at mountain warfare danced with swords and shields, or hammers with shields, and jumped down like flying like a tiger, stabbing fiercely on the flanks of the Zhenjia army.

The enemy army, which was already dragged into a long snake formation because of the mountainous terrain, could not take care of each other.

What's even worse is that these Danyang soldiers were ordered by Chen Zhi before the battle, and at this moment, while rushing to kill, they shouted slogans: "Chaisang has been broken!" Tsunabe is dead! Those who descend will not be killed! ”

"What? Chaisan has already been breached? Hearing this bad news, the morale of the Zheng family army suddenly plummeted. The targets they want to rescue have all fallen, and they are still!

The number of the Zheng family's army was obviously three or four times that of Chen Zhi's army, but it was quickly defeated.

"The white soldiers will rush with me to kill!" Chen saw that the overall situation had been decided, and finally ordered the Bai Yu soldiers to kill from the forked valley on the flank.

He was very bold, and when the enemy army collapsed in confusion, he directly cut off the enemy army.

This move is actually very risky, if the enemy army wants to take the road and escape, the combat power that bursts out from the dog jumping over the wall will be very exaggerated.

But Chen Zhi's gamble is that the enemy army no longer has the courage to jump over the wall in a hurry, and maybe when he sees that he can't break through, he will surrender on his knees in a systematic manner!

Sure enough, seeing that Chen Zhi's cavalry came out and blocked the retreat. A group of monks and soldiers in the Zheng family army who jumped over the wall in a hurry launched a counterattack on Chen Zhi like a tide, just wanting to tear a hole and break through.

They rely on the blind obedience fanaticism of faith, and they are completely unafraid of death.

On the contrary, those county soldiers with relatively better military quality were not so determined.

Under the siege, some county soldiers formed a circle in a circle and defended themselves in a group.

Some fled to the east, ignoring the fact that Poyang Lake was already in the east, and threw away their armor and threw themselves directly into the lake, trying to swim to escape the battlefield.

Chen Zhi looked at those monks and soldiers with fanatical flashes in his eyes, and for no reason there was a wave of jealousy and hatred in his heart, and he struggled to wave his weapons and rush back and forth to kill, and in a moment, he personally slashed dozens of monks and soldiers.

The white cavalry behind him was also merciless, killing the monks and soldiers with a river of blood.