Chapter 772: A Two-Way Choice (Part II)

Ura Todo didn't seem to care, and made a gesture to signal the troops to move on: "Go ahead and see what kind of fame you're doing?"

So, the army continued to march forward, and Meng Yuanbu rode iron hooves side by side, and walked straight into the empty pass camp......

The camp and school field were empty, and under the dark clouds, a trace of weirdness and gloom could not help but ooze. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Uliang Tuoduo rode in the front, constantly looking at the emptiness around him, a few gusts of wind blew, the armor tore and whirred, swept over his shoulders, accompanied by the faint pain of the scar on his shoulder, Uliang Tuoduo's eyes froze, as if he had a premonition of uneasiness......

"Hey, anyone?" the soldiers shouted as they looked at the empty camp and looked around.

"Huh-huh......" However, there was no response from the camp except for the sound of cold wind crossing the mountain stream.

"There is no soldier guarding the door, how can anyone ......" Wuliang Tuoduo's eyes were calm, and he said coldly, "If you have to have it, I'm afraid there is only ...... Dead man-"

"Your Excellency, ...... What do you say?" the soldier asked with a shudder at the sound of Uliang Todo's strange words.

"Look at the ...... under the horse's hooves," Ura Todo didn't bow his head, pointing to the iron hoof prints under the horse.

The soldiers immediately bowed their heads, but the scene in front of them was really shocking-

The horseshoe rubbed together, sweeping a little loess on the ground, and the ground was faintly exposed a little dark red, faintly mottled, making people shudder.

"This ...... What is this?" the soldier asked in alarm.

"Of course it's blood, and it's the blood of the soldiers in the battalion, it seems that our people have been brutally murdered by others......" Wuliang Todo didn't care, and said with a cold-blooded smile, "It should have been some time since it was buried by the loess...... The news of the transfer of troops from Luoyang to Bianliang has only been a few days, and it will take time to really attack here, and I can only know this secret from the beginning, that is, the person I have been eyeing for a long time......"

"My lord, it's hard to ...... Could it be ......?" the soldier asked, becoming more nervous.

"That's right......" Uliang Todo said with a stark look in his eyes, "Dare to blatantly provoke General Ben, and he has fought with General Ben recently, and he has taken the initiative militarily, except for the people in the vanguard army, who else will do it......"

"Yes...... It was the enemy who did it, so wouldn't it be ...... if we came here?" the soldier said nervously as if he realized something.

"To come here is to fall into their hands...... Moreover, it is an excellent place to ambush here......" Uliang Todo said coldly, and then looked up......

As he finished speaking, the ......two sides of the cliff suddenly sounded a strange movement, and on the cliff and high rock, a dull sound followed one after another--more and more intense, like thunder and rock, rolling sound......

"To ...... What the hell is going on?" the cronies were frightened again, and the cliffs on both sides shook like an earthquake, and the shaking became more and more intense.

"There is an ambush in ......" Wuliang Todo's expression tightened, and he said faintly......

Sure enough, the mountains on both sides, where the earthquake sounded, dozens of boulders were overwhelming, galloping and rolling down. "Rumbling—" The sound was incessant, like thunder in a valley, suffocating and pressing, and there was no breath in terror......

"It's not good, it's a trick!-" The Meng Yuan soldiers reacted at this time, but it was too late to shout loudly. The boulder waves rolled down from the cliff, making a loud noise, layer upon layer, shocking......

"Run-" "Ah-ah......" shouts, screams, suddenly resounded through the valley, the boulder attacked under the middle camp, the Mengyuan troops were in chaos, like ants on a hot pot, scattered but chaotic - the two walls of high mountains and boulders attacked, Mengyuan soldiers could not escape, for a time there were countless casualties, and suddenly the camp in the tent was full of blood......

"Damn, is this a trick of Tang Zhan Lu Jing......" Wuliang Tuoduo didn't seem to be ready to retreat, watching the mountain boulder shock his troops to the point that people turned on their backs, Wuliang Tuoduo secretly gritted his teeth and said hatefully.

"Ahh......h......h

"My lord, let's go-" the cronies said nervously on the side, "the enemy army must have been planning to set up an ambush here for a long time, and in case a large army comes out of it, it will be too late to retreat!"

Uliang Todo's eyes froze, as if he was making a difficult choice...... "The whole army obeys the order and withdraws from the valley!" Finally, Uliang Todo still relented and ordered the troops to withdraw from the "Ghost Gate Cliff......

The huge rock in the "Rumbling ......" mountain rolled down to the bottom of the cliff, and the camp at the pass instantly turned into a ruin, accompanied by the corpses of countless Mengyuan soldiers, buried in a cloud of dust and gloom......

It took a lot of effort for Uliang Todo to leave the "danger zone" with his army. However, looking at the rubble ruins in front of him, Uliang Tuoduo said angrily: "Damn, you actually played a little trick to block the way of General Ben...... I don't care if Tang Zhan, Lu Jing, or whoever it is, General Ben will let you get retribution......"

But resentment is resentment, and now that this side of the pass is blocked by rocks, even if it continues to advance, according to Uliang Todo, the army in ambush at the cliff pass will definitely be ready to move-obviously this approaching path is no longer feasible.

"My lord, now that the road is blocked, what should I do......" The cronies asked the soldier nervously.

"How else can I go? Of course, it's a long detour-" Wuliang Tuoduo said unwillingly, "Hmph, a long detour is a day late, Wang Dasheng of Bianliang is not so useless that he can't even hold the city for a day...... There must be an enemy ambush ahead, and if you go any further, you can only kill yourself; now you can only take a long detour, and this general doesn't want to die for no reason before killing Zhao Zichuan...... "At this end, what Wuliang Tuoduo thought about was the grievance between himself and Zhao Zichuan......

Therefore, Wuliang Todo immediately waved his army and ordered the troops to turn back and march around the long road......

The boulder at the foot of the mountain stopped for a long time, but the movement on the mountain did not subside—among the rocky cliffs, several figures floated faintly, and it seemed that these people had set up an ambush here to block the advance of Urliang Todo......

Looking at the evacuation of the team led by Uliang Todo on the mountain, one of them seemed to be so emotional that he couldn't hold it back, and wanted to draw his sword and get up and go down the mountain to chase.

"Qingxue, come back-" A person behind him held his hand to stop him and stop his uncalm actions - it turned out that the person who was ambushing here was the Emei sect disciple who was "waiting" for Wuliang Tuoduo at the pass.

The emotional person is Qingxue, and the person who pulls her is Hua Ling - Wuliang Tuoduo killed Li Yuru, and Qingxue, who was eager for revenge, saw that the trap could not be put to death, and irrationally, wanted to draw a sword to chase it, but was stopped by Hua Ling.

"Let go of me, I'm going to kill Wuliang Todo and avenge Miss Li-" Qingxue shouted with pain in her eyes and grief and indignation.

"Calm down!" Hua Ling still stopped him in time, and bowed down to stop him, "If you go over now, not only will you die in vain, but you will also disrupt your previous plan...... Don't forget, the purpose of our ambush here is to slow down the speed of Uliang Tuoduo's support for Bianliang -- Uliang Tuoduo thought that the Ming army was setting up an ambush here, so he turned around and left; if you suddenly appeared in front of him now, he would know that the only person who was ambushing here was our Emei faction, and he would definitely turn around and chase after him; if our plan was discovered, we would fall short at that time, and not only would we not help, but would harm General Zhao and them......"

"Uhhh

"It's true that Uliang Todo is our enemy, but the war is current, and we can't miss the overall situation because of the momentary anger...... Hua Ling patted Qingxue's shoulder and said comfortingly, "Slowing down Uliang Todo's reinforcements is already the biggest contribution we can make...... And now all we can do is silently believe in General Zhao and Canglong Daxia, they ......"

Qing Xue withdrew her tears, clenched her fists to cheer herself up, looking at the corpses of Meng Yuan soldiers who were in countless pools of blood under the cliff, Qing Xue secretly said in her heart: "In this way, it is worthy of the dead Miss Li...... General Zhao, there's only so much we can do for your wife......"

The cliff of the Ghost Gate Mountain, foggy, blood red and dust blended, with the sunset and sunset, gradually disappeared into the darkness under the mountain......

Evening dusk, the vanguard barracks ......

Because of the news of Wuliang Tuoduo's reinforcements from the "Ghost Gate Cliff", the battle has changed, so the strategy that was originally planned to attack Bianliang today has also been delayed. There are as many as 20,000 reinforcements in Luoyang, if you don't do a good job of dealing with it in time, only rely on the current men and horses of the vanguard army, rashly raise troops to attack the city, once you can't take it in a short time, the enemy reinforcements arrive, and you will be in a dilemma at that time...... For this reason, Tang Zhan and Lu Jing gathered all the generals in one place to discuss countermeasures......

And today, Nangong Jun and Murong Fei, who were eager to take revenge, were also in a chaotic mood and restless. In order to prevent them from being hot-headed and irrational before the war, Lu Jing issued a "death order" to prohibit talking about the sensitive topic of "crusade for revenge", otherwise he would be imprisoned in the camp with a hundred military rods, and deprived of a military affair, and not allowed to participate in the Battle of Bianliang. It is precisely because of this that when discussing the military tonight, the Nangong Murong brothers were no longer emotional......

However, the content of tonight's discussion is no longer a crusade strategy against Bianliang City, but instead how to deal with and delay the support of Uliang Todo......

"There's news from the Emei faction-" Su Jia returned from the reconnaissance near the "Ghost Gate Cliff" in the evening, and hurriedly entered the camp and said, "Qingxue's strategy has succeeded, and they have set up an ambush at the cliff pass to block the way of the Wuliang Todo army...... Now Uliang Todo is leading the team to take a long detour, which will slow down the ...... for at least a day or two."

"One or two days, the time is still ......urgent," Xiao Tian listened, and couldn't help but propose, "The soldiers are fast, and they will raise troops to attack Bianliang tonight, anyway, the military affairs that should be prepared have been prepared during the day......"

"I agree-" Tang Zhan also nodded on the side, "We move a lot during the day, and the enemy's eyes may notice it, thinking that we are attacking the city during the day...... As a result, our army did not move during the day, and the Mengyuan defenders wasted a day's energy in vain, and at night they were a little slack, and it was the best time for us to attack the city-"

However, Lu Jing closed her eyes and thought about it, shook her head and objected: "No, things can't be so simple...... Now that reinforcements from Uliangtodo are coming, not only us, but of course the enemy knows the movements of Uliangtodo's reinforcements earlier than we do...... Since we can change our plans because of Uliangtodo, the enemy army will naturally do not think calmly about the countermeasures against Uliangtodo, and we cannot act rashly without being completely sure of attacking the city......"

"According to your meaning, if you want to crusade against Bianliang, you have to deal with the level of Wuliang Tuoduo first, right?" Qin Yu pondered on the side and followed the way.

Lu Jing nodded and analyzed: "Almost...... The arrival of reinforcements from Wuliang Todo is an unexpected situation, and only by grasping the rhythm of this sudden accident can we have the confidence to mobilize the overall situation...... In other words, if you want to crusade against Bianliang, you must first find a countermeasure to deal with Uliang Todo-"

"Our army only has 20,000 men, and if we want to attack the city and deal with Wuliang Tuoduo, there is only one way we can think of......" Zhao Zichuan's eyes moved, as if he had thought of something, and responded in a low voice.

"What's the solution?" Xiao Tian asked, turning his head.

"Delay-" Zhao Zichuan cut the railway, "Our main goal is to take Bianliang, as for Wuliang Tuoduo, it is not to fight him to the death - after Zuo Junbi surrenders, there are only a few thousand defenders left in Bianliang, and it is only a matter of time before the main force of our army attacks and takes it; but to buy time for it, and to prevent the reinforcements from Wuliang Tuoduo from arrieving, we can only send a small number of elite soldiers to deal with it at the 'Ghost Gate Cliff' to avoid its edge and attract Wuliang Tuoduo ......away."

"Brother Zichuan......" Tang Zhan watched Zhao Zichuan face his fateful enemy, still calm and calm, not caused by personal feelings, and always remained calm under the overall situation, and his eyes couldn't help but admire for a while.

"Brother Zichuan is right-" Qin Yu answered on the side, "At present, this is the most direct and easiest way to use a small number of troops to take advantage of the terrain of the 'Ghost Gate Cliff', negotiate with Wuliang Tuoduo to delay time, and the main force will raise troops to attack the city......"

"The question is, how many troops are ......," Xiao Tian couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

"One thousand is enough!" At the critical moment, Zhao Zichuan said with a firm gaze, "If it were me, I would lead the elite cavalry to deal with the enemy, and one thousand would be enough...... Anyway, in the siege battle, the cavalry can't be used, and it is not difficult to transfer thousands of elite cavalry troops from the army......"

"The method is good, but haven't you thought about it......" Lu Jing's eyes suddenly became melancholy, and her expression was confused, "This is the easiest way, but it is also the most dangerous way-"

"Jing'er......" Tang Zhan knew Lu Jing's mood best, and hearing Lu Jing's heavy tone, Tang Zhan seemed to have guessed something.

"On the Luoyang side, Wuliang Tuoduo brought 20,000 reinforcements, and we only sent a thousand cavalry to deal around, or at the 'Ghost Gate Cliff' where there is no way out, this is almost a mortal situation......" Lu Jing's tone was mixed with grief and said, "This thousand men and horses are death squads, no matter which of you goes, you will definitely die......

At this time, there was a dead silence in the camp, because if the strategy was established, there would be at least one person killed in this war - and that was the man who fought against Urryo Todo......

"So let me go!" At the critical moment, Zhao Zichuan stepped forward and said, "The person Wuliang Tuoduo wants to kill is me, and if I go in a high-profile manner, his attention will definitely be on me, so as to delay the speed of the enemy's reinforcements to the greatest extent——"

"No, let me go!-" Xiao Tian immediately rushed to speak, "Brother Zichuan, you go, Wuliang Tuoduo will do whatever it takes to kill you, and you have no chance of survival...... My martial arts are strong, it's a big deal that I can still fight for a little bit of life if the fish dies and the net is broken, at least from the ten thousand armies, I will try my best to take the head of Wuliang Todo!"

"Ah Tian ......" watched Xiao Tian brave the danger and go forward bravely, Su Jia's heart was inexplicably mixed with emotion and sourness.

"No matter how high your martial arts are, there are 20,000 enemy troops, the terrain of the 'Ghost Gate Cliff' is dangerous, there is no way out, and it is a dead end for you to go!" Nangong Jun, who was silent on the side, got up and said bravely at this time, "Let me go!" Brother Xiao, you still have Miss Su to take care of, my family is now ruined and I am alone, and it is worth dying on the battlefield with this life-"

"Me too!" Murong Fei also got up and said, "Let me go too, my family is gone, and it's not a pity that my life is dead-Sister Jing, haven't you been worried that our brothers will miss the fighter plane because of their hatred for Wang Dasheng? It just so happens that we turn our heads to deal with Wuliang Tuoduo, without the interference of personal vendettas, you can concentrate on crusading against the siege!" Murong Fei turned his head to look at Lu Jing again, trying to get her consent.

Lu Jing, on the other hand, was silent, but her expression was anxious, as if she was determined in her heart...... (To be continued.) )