The next day, Tong Guan led his army to Bangyuan. After arriving, he discussed with Zhao Kai and decided to directly enter Jianmen Ridge. However, as soon as the army passed the ridge entrance, they encountered the vanguard of Fang La's army, and a big battle began.
This battle lasted for three days and three nights and was not over yet. On the fourth day, the sky just broke. The fog was thick on Jianmen Ridge. Thousands of cliffs and ravines were puffing up smoke and clouds, billowing like waves on the sea. After the waves of fishy wind and turbid fog, everywhere echoed with the wails of wounded soldiers.
At this time, Liu Zhen and Yang Keshi led the reserve army to the foot of Jianmen Ridge. On the ridge, they saw Yijing's troops fighting with the traitor Xia Houcheng's troops. Halfway up the mountain, the two armies were fighting together. There was the sound of "ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping ping" with swords, the "nurturing" sound of spears piercing people's chests, the crackling sound of wooden sticks hitting the head, all kinds of sounds and the screams of heart-breaking screams were chaotic. Mixed together.
The mountain soil was soaked with blood and became muddy. The piles of corpses were like undulating hills. The flesh and blood splashed on the green grass were like blooming red flowers. The thorn bushes were covered with stumps and broken organs. It was really a fierce fight.
Yi Jing's lieutenants, Zhao Ming, Zhao Xu, Jiang Zhou and Jiang Jun, held spears in hand and personally led the formation to supervise the battle. The Western soldiers who retreated were scolded by them and moved forward again. On the opposite side, Xia Houcheng's rebel army pounced like hungry tigers. There are no rules, but he is brave and not afraid of death.
Liu Zhen and Yang Keshi saw that they had an opportunity, so they each led an army. They temporarily abandoned their horses and robbed them on foot from the left and right paths. By the time the rebel army Xia Houcheng found out, two Song soldiers had already reached Jianmen Ridge. Fighting on the ridge slope.
The Jianmen Ridge has a strange terrain. It is gentle on the outside and steep on the inside. It is extremely easy for the Song army to climb the ridge from the outside. However, the rebel army has no advantage in climbing the ridge from the steep slope. The two Western armies of Liu Zhen and Yang Keshi are extremely powerful, and the rebel troops come one after another. A group fell down, and the entire Menling became a mountain of corpses, which was too horrible to look at.
Xia Houcheng had two wounds on his body at this time, and the steel knife in his hand had already been chopped into a saw, but he still fought to the death and refused to retreat.
At this moment, I heard someone shouting from the road behind the ridge: "Don't worry, General Xiahou, I am here to help you!"
Xia Houcheng looked back and saw that it was Fangwu, the Eighth Prince of the Holy Dynasty, who had arrived with his troops. This Fangwu had natural divine power and occupied the position of Dharma King in the Ming Cult. He was called the Red-eyed Elephant King. After the establishment of the Holy Dynasty, he was conferred the title of Eighth Prince by Fang La. Li Wang.
Xia Houcheng was immediately overjoyed, as if he had been greeted by sweet rain for a long time. At this moment, his strength and spirit doubled, and he shouted "Eight Kings, be careful".
Fangwu led his troops and rushed to the gate ridge, shouting: "General Xiahou, please take a step back and rest to recuperate. I will lead the people to resist here."
Having said that, Fangwu wielded a big sword and swung it like a mad lion into the Song army ahead.
The broadsword in his hand weighed more than sixty kilograms, flying up and down in the air, hitting his head with a "crack" sound, until the blood and flesh of the Western soldiers splattered, and they retreated in defeat as they called for father and mother.
When Liu Zhen saw Fangwu's bravery, he was secretly amazed and asked: "Who is this rude man?"
Anyone who recognized him said, "He is Fang La's eighth brother, Fang Qifu's brother, Fangwu, the Eight-power King of the Bandit Army!"
Liu Zhen's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately issued an order: "Anyone who can catch this square house will be rewarded with a hundred gold coins and thousands of coins!"
When the soldiers heard the reward, they immediately waved their knives and shouted, and rushed towards the square house. At this moment, they saw that the money had the power to channel spirits. Before long, the front of the square house was crowded into a wall of people.
Just hearing a loud roar from Fangwu, it was like a thunderbolt in mid-air. The Western Army was all chilled when they heard it.
The big knife in the square room circled and flashed past, startling the Western soldiers to flee, just like the tide receding and the landslide. The knife fell like chopping melons and vegetables. Although the Western army was large in number, it was difficult to get close.
Zhu Shahu, the deputy general of the Huanqing Army, frowned when he saw this. He was very brave and held two iron maces in his hands. He separated from everyone and came to the front. He shouted: "Traitors, don't show off!" After that, he struck down both maces together.
Fangwu greeted the big knife, and with a "clang" sound, he opened his mace, circled and raised the knife high, and roared: "Song Gou takes the move!"
With one force, the Huashan cover was chopped down. The Zhu Shahu wanted to fight with his mace, but only heard a "click" sound, and he was knocked down to the ground with his mace.
The soldiers of Song Dynasty and General Song saw that the Zhushahu looked like a watermelon split in half, with two iron maces bent into a bow shape. They were all dumbfounded in shock.
Fangwu swung his sword and it swept across like a black dragon. Wherever it went, the Western Army soldiers retreated one after another. Those who touched it were injured and those who were touched died.
When Liu Zhen saw that the officers and soldiers were defeated, he couldn't help but use his guns to suppress it. Then he saw that the square house's strength was increasing. He became furious, shouted away the soldiers, walked up to the square house, stamped his feet, and the point steel The spear nodded like a lion and stabbed him.
Fang Wu gently raised the sword upwards, held it out of the circle, and turned back to point a dragonfly directly at Liu Zhen's facade. Liu Zhen hurriedly got out of the way.
The two fought for more than ten rounds, and Liu Zhen thought to himself: Why don't I use a trick to defeat you?
He twisted the head of the steel gun, took a big step back and drew the gun body, then rushed forward and went straight to the square room to fire the gun.
Fang Wu hurriedly struck with a big knife, but unexpectedly the gun was pulled back with a "swish" sound, and then Liu Zhen returned his hand with a jade belt wrapped around his body and crashed down, as fast as the wind and lightning.
The square room's broadsword went a little deeper into the ground, and a Feihong leaped into the sky, and the spear flew away with a "clatter", without anything collapsing.
At this time, Liu Zhen was panicking. He didn't expect that even such a trick could not be used against Fang Wu, and he was defeated by his light body kung fu.
While he was thinking, the square house fell from above, and the broadsword danced wildly like a rotating lotus, mysterious and empty, and went straight to Liu Zhen to twist it.
Liu Zhen had never seen this move since he was born in his mother's womb. Its power was like that of a divine man Luoyun, so he was so frightened that he dragged his gun away.
There was a "pop" sound as the square house fell to the ground, and Liu Zhen's spear was cut into two pieces with one knife, causing Liu Zhen's mouth to bleed.
Then Fangwu hooked his lower body with his toes, kicked Liu Zhenping up in the air with a reverse kick, and shouted: "Slave of the Zhao family, how can you defeat the evil spirits? I will knock you into the eighteenth floor today." Dark place!”
After that, the big knife flew down from the sky, aimed at Liu Zhen's head and chopped it off.
At this moment, an arrow flew from the Song army and hit Fangwu on his left shoulder. Fangwu shuddered immediately, stretched out his right hand and pulled it out suddenly. Unexpectedly, the arrow was inserted very deep, and it turned out to be a wolf tooth. Fang Wu used too much force to hook the arrow, and the arrow shaft was pulled out, but the arrowhead remained in the flesh. Bright red blood gushes out from the wound, and the pain is unbearable.
He cursed: "Dog officer, you hurt people with hidden arrows, you are not a good man!" After that, he gritted his teeth, put down the long knife, and pulled out a bright green six-ring steel knife from his armpit with his right hand, waved it in the wind and said, "Crack" noise.
He waved his sword with one arm and retreated back. The Western Army immediately rushed forward. The green steel sword in his hand was blown by the cold wind and kept "chachacha". Beheading the Western Army was like chopping melons and vegetables. There, Song soldiers and Song generals were running around, not daring to fight.
Just now Yang Keshi fired an arrow to save Liu Zhen, but now he saw that the square house was still so brave, and he couldn't help being stunned in the crowd.
Yi Jing shouted at this time: "Fang Wu, if you surrender now, I can spare your life!"
I heard Fang Wu burst out laughing, then he glared with a pair of blazing eyes and said, "Don't try to trick me like a dog. I wish I could capture you, peel off your skin and cramps, boil your bones and eat your flesh!"
When Yi Jing heard this, he became furious. Regardless of the obstruction of the people behind him, he raised his horse and rushed to the front, "Fangwu, your death has come, look at the horse!"
He ran straight to the square house's neck and swept towards it. A Qingyun Pianma came from the square house, passed the horse's head, turned sideways, made a white crane spread its wings, and slashed down diagonally with a steel knife. Yi Jing hurriedly pulled out the shelf. The two soldiers collided and sparks flew.
The two fought for more than twenty rounds, and Fang Wu gradually felt that he was unable to do what he wanted. Blood flowed from his left arm, soaking through his armor and filling his boots.
He felt severe pain in his chest, big beads of sweat rolled down his face, his whole body felt like it was on fire, and he was feeling weak and weak, but even so, Yi Jing could not defeat him.
At this time, Yang Keshi issued an order, and all the soldiers from the Western Army gathered around him to fight in a melee. Poor Fangwu, who was known as the King of Eight Powers with infinite strength, ended up being seriously wounded by the arrow, bleeding excessively, his face was as yellow as paper, and he felt dizzy. The sky is the earth, the earth is the sky, the chest is hot and the lungs are swollen, blood spurts out from the mouth with a "wow" sound, the sky and the earth spin for a while, and he falls to the ground.
The Western army officers and soldiers immediately swarmed forward, and the rebel army also came over, wanting to take back the square house. However, Yang Keshi ordered to increase the reward. The Western army rushed forward like crazy, and finally overwhelmed the rebel army. Arriving near the square house.
There were many Western soldiers, so they thought carefully about whether they could capture Fangwu alive so that they could be counted as war merits. They hacked Fangwu to death with knives, and then swarmed up to snatch Fangwu's body. Even if they took a piece of Fangwu's meat, they could exchange it for a piece of meat. bounty.
Later, when Yang Keshi saw the soldiers huddled together, he was so angry that he thrust his sword forward and shouted: "Get away! If anyone robs you, behead him immediately!"
After he finished speaking, the plundering Western Army dispersed and stood aside. Yang Keshi took a closer look at the eight kings of the Fang family. They had long been unrecognizable, but at least there was still a fragment of his body.
He asked his soldiers to peel off some pieces of cloth armor from the dead body on the battlefield and wrapped the broken body. He also picked up the broadsword and green-light steel knife from the square room and prepared to send them to Tong Guan to claim his merits and receive his reward.
Later, the soldiers of the Western Army rushed to Menling and chased Xia Houcheng and others. The rebel army finally fled to the rear because the slope at the back was too steep, the front army lost, and the rear army failed to continue.
At this time, several other battlefields in Jianmen Ridge were also gaining ground. Xin Xingzong, Yang Weizhong, Wang Huan, Liu Guangshi and others led their troops to kill heavily, and people all over the mountains and plains were just killing people.
After a while, the cavalrymen walking on the main road were already covered with the heads of thieves and generals. The infantrymen also picked up the heads of thieves who looked like generals and put them on the tip of their spears. There were even some Western troops chasing them. The female soldier chased her into the jungle, and screams could be heard from time to time.
At this moment, the dead bodies were scattered on the ground, and the blood flowed together into the ravine, and the blood was scattered. The people who were not dead were struggling and moaning, screaming to the heaven and the earth, it was so miserable.
After half a day like this, the mountain ridge that had been fought for for several days was finally captured by the Song army. The Song army broke through the Jianmen Ridge Pass like a surging wave. They rushed into the North Pass like a group of wild horses and fought towards Bangyuan Cave. go.
When the cave could be seen from a distance, Tong Guan immediately ordered the army to assemble on the spot.
He discussed with Zhao Kai: "Your Highness, the bandit chief Fangla lives deep in the cave and cannot come out. This place is densely forested and the cliffs are dangerous. It is not suitable for our army to enter rashly. I think it is better to follow your Highness's plan to burn the mountain to destroy the forest and reveal the cave. The thief has no place to hide, so our army can attack the thief's lair!"
Zhao Kai looked a little numb and hasty. The fighting was too brutal. His legs trembled several times. He almost fell off his horse and wanted to go back to camp. However, it was difficult to speak in front of these generals, so he managed to hold on until now. .
But now that he had reached Bangyuan Cave and was about to capture the leader of the thief, he suddenly became energetic and said immediately: "Okay, okay, burn the mountain, burn the mountain!"
Tong Guan said yes, and then ordered the Song army to start lighting fires everywhere. It was summer, the wormwood had not yet rotted away, and pine, fir, cypress, and bamboo were all flammable. In an instant, the mountains and fields were filled with thick smoke and fierce flames. raging.
In that dense forest, the thatched huts and sage fences on the hillside were as dense as mound tombs. When the mountain wind blew, they were all burned by the flames. The mountains around Bangyuan Cave were set on fire and pushed forward. After a while, there was a sea of fire.
In a short period of time, fires broke out in all directions of Bangyuan Cave, and the green pines, cypresses, ancient vines and trees on the hills, valleys, and stone flats were burned into a forest of fire.
Black smoke covered the entire Bangyuan Cave area. The fire burned more and more fiercely. The rocks cracked, the land turned red, and all the houses were in ruins.
The officers and soldiers from all walks of life were watching the fire and guarding against where the bandits would come from. They were all ready to intercept, search, surround, and hunt!
(End of chapter)
