Wangwu Mountain Range is one of the nine ancient famous mountains in the Central Plains and is also a holy place for Taoism.

The "Wangwu Faction" and Fugui Villa are both located at the southern foot of the mountain range, and the Thorn Horse Tun where the underworld people and horses gather is in the west, while Zuo Liangyu's horse team came from the east, obviously wanting to form a horn with the "Fugui Alliance" and the underworld, and encircle and attack the Baidao people and horses who attack Fugui Villa.

Hua Bushi's plan was to intercept the official army and horses in the Broken Dragon Gorge outside the eastern foothills.

Wangwu Mountain is not the kind of dangerous and tall mountain range, except for the main peak, Tiantan Peak, which is very steep, most of the terrain is not too high mountains and hills.

Although the name of Broken Dragon Gorge sounds quite imposing, it is actually just a very ordinary canyon. The valley hundreds of zhang long is not deep, and the slopes on both sides are not so steep.

The mountains on the north side of the Broken Dragon Gorge are shaped like curved eyebrows, and they are named Daimei Mountain.

Hua Bushi stood on the top of Daimei Mountain, beside him, in addition to Ximen Tong and Chu Yiyi, there was also Yang Sichang. The big white dog princess was curled up and squatting at the feet of the eldest young master, wagging her tail leisurely.

They were located at the edge of the woods, with a commanding view and shaded by trees, making it difficult to spot from a distance.

At this moment, Hua Bushi was building a pergola with his hand and looking at it, but on the hillsides on the north and south sides, more than 200 heroes of various factions were lying in ambush in the grass over there.

"The terrain here is really not an ideal place for ambushes, Mr. Yang chose to ambush Zuo Liangyu here, I think it took a lot of thought!"

Hua Bushi's words seemed to be quite contradictory, but Yang Sichang smiled when he heard it, and said: "Young Master Chenghua is so trusted, how dare he not do his best not to intercept Zuo Liangyu's plan?"

He paused for a moment and said: "Zuo Liangyu has been in battle for a long time, and he is good at using troops, if we set up an ambush in a dangerous place, he will definitely be vigilant and will not enter the army. ”

Hua Bushi frowned and said: "Zuo Liangyu is good at using soldiers and is very alert, why does Mr. Sichang think that he will be fooled so easily?"

Yang Sichang said: "Zuo Liangyu is extremely brave in the charge, he has a lot of military exploits in Ningyuan, Liaodong in the north, and he has both wisdom and force, he is really a rare general, but unfortunately he is not handsome." This person is arrogant by nature, attaches too much importance to fame and self-interest, acts arrogantly and domineeringly, and is stubborn and self-serving. ”

Hua Bushi has a lot of trust in this Yang Xiaoguan, if it were not for Yang Sichang's self-recommendation, he would not have dared to take over the matter of intercepting Zuo Liangyu's brigade a few days ago.

At this time, after listening to what Yang Sichang said, his heart moved again, but what he thought was that Yang Sichang could talk about Zuo Liangyu's advantages and defects, and he also knew very well about other civil and military generals in the current court, which must have taken a lot of effort and effort to study. This shows that although Mr. Yang was dismissed, he had great ambitions and would never be willing to become a grass farmer all the time.

Hua Bushi said: "It is really rare for Mr. Sichang to know the other, but how did Mr. calculate that Zuo Liangyu lost the grain and grass with the army, and the only way to withdraw his troops was to withdraw his troops?

Yang Sichang smiled slightly and said: "Young Master Hua has learned everything in his chest, he is proficient in the art of war and medicine, and his knowledge is beyond the reach of Sichang, but he is not familiar with the affairs of officialdom. ”

Hua Bushi said: "Mr. is smiling, Xiao Ke really only knows some things in the rivers and lakes, and he doesn't know anything about officialdom. ”

Yang Sichang said: "Zuo Liangyu is a member of the 'Donglin Party', and the vast majority of the civil and military generals in the state capitals and counties in this Yu realm belong to the 'Five Kings Party', and they are all colleagues of Sichang in the past. A few days ago, Sichang had already visited the Mengjin County Order, and sent letters to the chief officials of Jiyuan and Shaanzhou, informing them in detail of this situation, and they would all be prepared, that is, Zuo Liangyu would carry the holy decree out, and it would be difficult to get grain and grass supplies from them!"

Hua Bushi said: "Oh, is it possible that these officials still dare to disobey the holy decree?"

Yang Sichang said with a smile: "I don't dare to openly resist the decree. But Young Master Hua doesn't know that in today's imperial court, as long as they are local officials, the first thing they have to learn is to falsify their performance and confuse the money and grain accounts, even if they really have tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass in their hands, they can also do not even have a grain left in the accounts. ”

"This kind of thing is not surprising in officialdom. The so-called strong dragon is difficult to suppress the head snake, don't say that Zuo Liangyu is just a five-grade general soldier, that is, Zhang Zongheng, the governor of the Ming Xuan, the official residence is the third product, leading nearly 100,000 horses in the Yu realm for several years, and he has not been able to exterminate Li Zicheng and other bandits, also because he is controlled everywhere, and the supply of grain, grass and weapons is difficult to guarantee. ”

Hua Bushi had heard Chu Yiyi talk about the dispute between the three parties in the imperial court earlier, but he didn't know that the role of the party struggle would be so great, and in order to suppress the opposing parties, local officials could also fake and cheat on important military matters. However, thinking that Zhuo Yiwen ordered the Jianghu sect to withdraw from Huaiqing that day, and did not hesitate to give up the entire city to the righteous army, only to suppress Fan Jingwen, the governor of Henan, such things seemed to be taken for granted.

Yang Sichang said: "The two thousand men and horses led by Zuo Liangyu are all heavily armored elite horses, and the consumption of grain and grass is no less than five thousand infantry, as long as his supply of grain and grass is cut off, he is no matter how brave he is, and there is no other way but to withdraw the army." ”

But at this moment, I saw Chu Yiyi stretch out his hand and said, "Look, the horse team of the official army is here!"

Everyone looked in the direction she was pointing to, but saw that a puff of dust and smoke rose from the far distance outside the Broken Dragon Gorge.

The dust and smoke were only a faint wisp at first, but gradually grew larger and larger, and then countless black dots appeared on the horizon, which were the heavy cavalry marching in formation. After a while, I could already see an apricot yellow flag played in front of the team, embroidered with a big "left" character.

Looking at the officers and soldiers who were gradually galloping, a sharp light flashed in Hua Bushi's eyes. It was these people who brutally killed tens of thousands of homeless people on Biluo Mountain that day, and Xiao Ningning's family also died at their hands, thinking of this, Hua Bushi's heart couldn't help but surge with irrepressible anger and hatred!

Yang Sichang was standing beside Hua Bushi, and immediately saw the change in the expression on the face of the eldest young master, and hurriedly said: "Young Master Hua, with our current strength, it is really difficult to fight against his brigade of elite cavalry, today's battle is just to stop Zuo Liangyu from galloping to help Fugui Villa, and we must not fight hard, and I also ask Young Master Hua to focus on the overall situation and act according to the plan." ”

Hearing this, Hua Bushi's face calmed down and said, "Mr. Yang, don't worry, Hua Bushi should understand that he won't be rash." ”

I saw that the official army horse team gradually galloped closer, and drove towards the Broken Dragon Gorge, although it was several miles away, Hua Bushi and the others could also hear the "rumbling" sound of the horses' hooves stepping on the ground.

Yang Sichang said: "As expected, Zuo Liangyu brought a lot of grain and grass with the army, at least five or six thousand stones. ”

At this time, it was clear that the horse team of the official army was opened with 500 cavalry, the Chinese army had as many as 1,000 cavalry, and the rear team also had more than 500 cavalry. Between the Chinese army and the rear army, there were fifty or sixty caravans drawn by mules, which were mostly cloth bags of grain and bales of forage, as well as some military baggage.

The "left" banner was located in the front army, and more than a dozen elite cavalry under it supported a general. It can be seen that this person is seven feet tall, wearing a fiery red robe, wearing black gold armor on his shoulders, riding a tall five-flower war horse, with a bright bridle, and a nine-ring sword hanging on the weapon ring. Although he was too far away to distinguish his appearance, he could see that his face was beardless and he was not very old.

This general is undoubtedly Zuo Liangyu, known as the "No. 1 fierce general in Liaodong".

Generally, as the main general of soldiers and horses, most of them will sit in the Chinese army, but Zuo Liangyu led his own soldiers to gallop in the front army and served as the vanguard, which shows that this person's bravery is different.

The caravan reached the front of the ravine, paused for a moment, and then continued its march toward the valley.

The Broken Dragon Canyon is very wide, and the mountains on both sides are not too steep, which is not suitable for ambushes, and it is clear in the eyes of experienced generals like Zuo Liangyu that they can continue to move forward.

However, in this place that is not suitable for ambushes, there are people in ambush. The front team entered the valley before they traveled twenty zhang, and suddenly heard a "boom", and an arrow flew and stuck in the middle of the road.

Immediately afterwards, there was a sound of gongs, and from behind the rocks and trees on both sides of the road, forty or fifty riders galloped out, blocking the way of the officers and soldiers.

What a joke!

The sound of the arrow to warn and the gong to appear, this is the standard pomp of the underworld horse thief cutting the path to rob, but it appeared here and now, and even Zuo Liangyu couldn't help but be stunned.

This is two thousand regular elite cavalry, not a single gang of dart merchants who only have a few carts to transport goods, where did the horse thieves run out of such an eye-opening position, even the officers and soldiers of the brigade dare to rob!

Forty or fifty horsemen is not a small number of horse thieves who rob the road, but compared with the heavy cavalry of the official army in front of them, it is like a few ants. Although these horse thieves who blocked the way were also masked in black scarves and held weapons in their hands, most of the armor on their bodies was incomplete, some only had an upper body but no lower body, and some simply put on only one arm armor, which looked quite shabby.

At first was a burly man, holding two steel rings, one large and one small, who was obviously the leader of this group of horse thieves. I saw him carrying the reins and shouting, "I opened this mountain, and I planted this tree...... Kill it or bury it!"