Chapter 84: On the banks of the River
Yang Zhi said with a gloomy face: "Qi Mu, if you lie, you have to think about it well, now that martial law is under strict conditions in Qianzhou City, even if there is food, who dares to swagger in and out from the city gate, you still have to hide your identity, don't tell me, for a little food, you dare to risk revealing your identity." ”
Qi Mu immediately distinguished: "The general doesn't know, we went to the inn in the city, just to get the sign of receiving grain, and the grain is placed in two places outside the city, one is called Qihua Village, there are seven hundred-year-old birch trees at the head of the village, and the other place is a forest farm in the east valley, and there is a grass shed guarding the forest in the woods, which is actually our transit station, and the grain is transported during the day to receive the license, and walk at night, which will not attract people's attention. ”
Yang Zhi smiled and nodded, and asked Xue Libao to see what the situation was on the periphery, Hong Rirong and the others arranged cavalry on the periphery in accordance with the rules of action during the war, and the one who called Yan Liang escaped or not. Hong Rirong came over with the corpse after a while, Wan Yan Liang did not escape, he was shot into a hedgehog by the Liao army, Hong Rirong found a golden man's waist card on Wan Yan Liang's body, and confirmed the identity of these spies.
The guy who was bleeding too much was also bandaged and woke up, Yang Zhi let him see the two corpses and said, "Tell me your name, Qi Mu has already explained everything, if you want to live, just say something that Qi Mu doesn't know." ”
Yang Zhi could see that this guy was more loyal to the Jin Kingdom than Qimu, but once a person has experienced life and death, many things will change in an instant, anyway, there is no time, it is a big deal to kill one more person. The guy looked at Yang Zhi curiously, and then looked at Qi Mu, since Qi Mu had explained everything, didn't he say his name, the guy woke up all of a sudden, it must be that Yang Zhi didn't ask, so Qi Mu didn't say it, indicating that in the eyes of these Liao soldiers, he was almost equivalent to a dead man.
The guy hesitated and said, "My name is Yinhulu, I am from Liaozhou, I am a guy, and I know about it well with Qi Mu." ”
"It's worthless, pull it down and cut it. Hong Rirong stood there, his huge body with an indescribable deterrence
Li, with a bored look, directly gave an order to the Liao soldiers behind him; Yin Hulu hurriedly struggled and said: "Slowly, someone came one night, it happened to be me on duty, I listened to Yan Ye and that person to go to Xianzhou to accept the cattle and sheep grain of the merchant group, and ask General Yan Xiyin to send troops to reinforce." ”
Yang Zhi motioned to Hong Rirong to slow down, stared at Yin Hulu and asked, "What does that person look like, and how many people are Wanyan Xiyin going to send?"
Yin Hulu understood that he had hope of survival, and whispered: "That person is a teenager, and he discussed with Wan Yan and mobilized three hundred horsemen to respond. ”
Yang Zhi and Sha Jing's eyes lit up, this scope greatly narrowed the object of the investigation, Yang Zhi clapped his hands and said: "Then let go of these spies in Qianzhou for the time being, Xue Libao, immediately burn the corpse and this wine shop, make traces of horse thieves and robbery, and then the whole army will turn to the Wuwu River, I want to see which one dares to rob the grain." ”
As soon as Xue Libao heard this, he understood that it was too late for Yang Zhi to stop the storage of the two grains, and that the purpose of burning the liquor shop was to make Wan Yanye's companions think that it was the horse thieves who had looted the liquor store and would not transfer people and grain; for the sake of safety, Xue Libao also went to the valley behind to find two corpses from many days ago, put them together in the liquor store, and set them on fire. The raging fire reflected the sky red, and Yang Zhi and the other two hundred horsemen quietly left King Kong Mountain.
The upper reaches of the Wushu River are the Nansha River, the lower reaches are the Dongsha River, the dividing point is the Cross Mountain, the river water comes out from the Cross Mountain, the terrain is abruptly open, forming a huge bend; just on the edge of the bend, there is a beacon tower built in the Tang Dynasty, under the beacon tower is a fork in the road, five roads lead to Zhongjing, Qianzhou, Bohai, Xianzhou and other places respectively, except for the official road from Zhongjing to Xianzhou, the other roads have been in disrepair for a long time, the potholes are full of potholes, and the miscellaneous woods beside the road are continuous.
Yang Zhi and his entourage were praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches, knowing in advance that there was an ambush by the Jin people, and they were extremely careful when they acted, and the scouts were all in plain clothes, and Sha Jing, Zhang Nu, Xue Libao and others led the team respectively. With mental calculations or not, Sha Jing and the others quickly found the traces of the team, at first they just hung two teams of fifty people, and when they approached the beacon tower twenty miles, Yang Zhi finally got the news that three hundred people had gathered.
Hong Rirong looked at the position marked by Sha Jing, and said with a wry smile: "General, the forest is dense, the number of Jin soldiers is more than ours, and the combat effectiveness is even more than ours, which is difficult; ”
Hong Rirong said very implicitly, but it was the truth, there was a gap in the strength of the two sides, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the escort team was two against one, and it might not be able to defeat the Jin soldiers, let alone the number of people was reduced by half; Yang Zhi said in a deep voice: "It depends on whether God blesses us or not, the northwest wind does not stop at night, Sha Jing takes twenty skilled soldiers to the upper wind outlet and sets fire, you and I each take a team of men and horses to ambush in the distance, not seeking to destroy everything, only to break the enemy." Anyway, we have a lot of bows and arrows. ”
This is a method, the three of them discussed the plan of action, each took people to ambush; in the middle of the night, Sha Jing led people around the northwest to disperse, taking advantage of the northwest wind, in one breath in the wind mouth lit more than 60 places, the fire burned, with the wind rolling bigger and bigger, the smoke came faster than the wind, from the place where Yang Zhi was ambushed, the forest where Jin Bing was hiding was already black smoke. Yang Zhi is not worried about Sha Jing and the others, as long as they are not discovered before setting the fire, now Jin Bing will never dare to rush over in the fire.
The horses were neighing in the woods, it was already a mess, more and more Jin soldiers rushed out of the woods, moving quickly to the east, the quality of the Jin soldiers was still okay, at such a hurried moment, there were still some formations, and those who fled in front could even check the surrounding environment. However, the war is about the right time, place, and people, and since Yang Zhi guessed the direction of the Jin soldiers' escape and ambushed them here in advance, it was impossible to give the opponent a chance; seeing the crowd surrounded by the Jin soldiers entering the firing range, Yang Zhi gave an order, and the bangzi rang out sharply, and the arrows on both sides were like showers.
The Jin soldiers were caught off guard and were immediately shot down, and the Jin soldiers behind did not panic, relying on the moment when their comrades died to gain time, and they fought back with bows. However, the quality of the Liao army is not worse than that of the Jin soldiers, the difference is the bloodiness of face-to-face fighting, and now there are bunkers as shields, and the mortality rate of the Liao army is significantly lower than that of the Jin soldiers, not to mention that the Jin soldiers are gathered on the road, there is no room to dodge, and the arrows are almost not shot down by the weapons, they can shoot at the people and horses, and after half an hour, the Jin soldiers have less than 100 horsemen left.