Xia Houxuan, who was a little sad, suddenly woke up after hearing the report from the scout. Long before attacking the mountain, Xia Houxuan had already arranged the garrison locations of various troops. Therefore, Xia Houxian, Xia Houfeng, Le Fang, Li Sheng, Deng Ai, Sima Zhao and others have already firmly guarded the gates of various villages.
After Xia Houxuan thought for a moment, he issued another general order:
"Order each battalion to hold their positions and not go down to the Golden Gorge. If we continue to explore the enemy's movements, we must find out who is leading the troops from the Shu camp!"
The scout received the general's order and hurried down the mountain. While Xia Houxuan was waiting for the formation, he observed the front, and found that smoke and dust were billowing in front, and birds and beasts were flying. Looking at their momentum, it was very scary.
"Those who are humble and broad in the world are just disciples."
Xia Houxuan judged from the low and wide smoke that most of the enemy troops were marching towards Huanghuang Gorge, and their number was probably not less than ten thousand. Not long after, the scout reported again that the number of enemy troops was about ten thousand, mostly infantry, but they were good at running. What was even more strange was that there was no Chinese army among the enemy.
After hearing what the scout reported, Xia Houxuan suddenly felt the pressure in his heart doubled. After he frowned and thought for a while, he said:
"If you read it correctly, the person coming must be General Wang Ping of Shu Zhenbei, who is commanding the 'Wudang Flying Army'!"
After hearing Xia Houxuan's words, the scout and the guards around him felt sore in their knees and suddenly felt dizzy. The "Wudang Feijun" is an extremely powerful mountain army recruited and trained by Zhuge Liang. It is known as "Wu Dang", which means unstoppable. Everyone in its army is extremely brave and unafraid of death. Not only that, these 'Wu Dang Feijun' are all strong men from Nanzhong who have been climbing mountains and ridges all year round, and they have always been good at attacking mountains and building strongholds.
The commander of the "Wudang Feijun" is none other than the fierce general Wang Ping and Wang Zijun who is the leader of the "Little Five Tiger Generals" of the Shu Han Dynasty.
Now that the soldiers of the battalion had just captured the Golden Guard, they had to withstand the fierce offensive of the "Wu Dang Fei Army" before they had time to rest and recuperate. Naturally, some people were panicking.
"How many arrows, rocks and logs are there in our army?"
The soldier beside him replied to Xia Houxuan:
"For the information of the Grand Governor, our army still has more than 1,400 arrows. Stones, rolling wood and the like can sustain it for an hour!"
Xia Houxuan felt a little calmer after hearing the report from his soldiers. But he still felt very nervous and frightened in his heart. It was his first time to take charge of an army, and he already felt a little overwhelmed. Now he had to fight a fierce battle with Shuhan's famous general, and I was afraid that this battle would be more dangerous.
It's not that he doesn't want to withdraw his troops, but once he finally captured the Golden Gorge and the victory of the Southern Expedition is in sight, he is really unwilling to withdraw his troops; moreover, even if he withdraws his troops now, he is afraid that he will not be able to outrun Wang Ping's "Wudang Flying Army" .
In the current situation, we can only defend the mountain to the death and fight with all our strength to have a chance of survival.
I don’t know whether the child Huigu is carrying is a boy or a girl. Xia Houxuan thought of this and suddenly felt sad. After he adjusted his emotions, he immediately issued a general order that he had already said before:
"Send the order, all the soldiers of the army will guard the gates of the various villages in Jinguang. Without my general order, no one is allowed to go down the mountain to fight rashly!"
Xia Houxuan understood that although the Chinese army under his command could be considered a fully armed elite, they had just fought against Bian Zhong and the soldiers had not yet rested and had lost the advantage of waiting for work. Moreover, the "Wu Dang Flying Army" was best at traveling across mountains and rivers and attacking fortresses. Despite the difficulties, the dangerous terrain of Huangjin Gorge may not be able to stop the offensive of the 'Wudang Feijun'. But as long as they rely on bows, arrows and rolling wood to defend, the Shu army will definitely not be able to capture Huangjin Gorge for a while.
As long as he persists for two hours, the army along the Guohuai Xie Valley should almost reach Yangping Pass. If the Western Front is victorious, the Southern Expedition can still be won. Thinking of this, Xia Houxuan's eyes gradually became determined.
The 'Unworthy Flying Army', worthy of being called the Flying Army, was already approaching the Grand Canyon of the Golden Gorge less than three moments after Xia Houxuan's last wave of fast horse sentry cavalry reported back.
While Wei Jun was nervous at the moment, his fighting spirit was also aroused, because they knew that there was no way out at this time, and once they defeated Wang Ping and his 'Wudang Feijun', they could at least be promoted to a centurion.
The 'Wudang Feijun' didn't waste any time. As soon as they came up, they started to attack the gate of the village with lightning speed. The Wei army, which had been waiting for a long time, also started to block the first wave of arrows. On the one hand, it was like a rainbow. , the 'Wudang Feijun' who looked like a blazing fire, and on one side was the Wei Zhongjun who was fighting against the odds and as calm as a mountain. The two sides fought extremely fiercely for a while.
Xia Houxuan and Wang Ping stood under their banners, each sweating.
Xia Houxuan's risk-taking venture deep behind enemy lines to defend the pass was a last-ditch battle. Wang Ping, who had insufficient troops and had no choice but to abandon the Xingshi Camp and abandon the defense of Yangping Pass and the western front of Seoul, was not a desperate move.
In this way, the two armies were locked in a stalemate for an entire hour. The anxious Wang Ping finally couldn't hold it in anymore. He picked up the eighteen-pound mountain-opening sword and personally attacked the gate of Xizhai. Xia Houxuan saw Wang Ping With his bravery and momentum, I couldn't help but admire in my heart, this Wang Ping was indeed worthy of being the leader of the five little tigers, and he really had the momentum that no one could stand against him. But Xia Houxuan was not panic at this moment, because he knew that he still had arrows and rolling trees in his army, so guarding the mountain was not a problem.
At this moment, it was Wang Zijun who was anxious, not himself.
But just when Xia Houxuan was confident, the gate of Beizhai was suddenly opened, and a Chinese army of more than a thousand people left the stronghold and rushed in the direction of Wang Ping!
Xia Houxuan was immediately furious. Someone actually ignored his general's orders and went out to fight without authorization. In this way, the extremely brave "Wudang Feijun" no longer had to climb mountains. The thousand soldiers who left the stronghold were the best of the "Wudang Feijun" harvest objects.
When everyone looked attentively, they realized that the thousand men and horses were brought out by Sima Zhao.
Originally, Wang Ping had nothing to do with his own defense, but at this moment, the defenders on the southern stronghold were empty. Sima Zhao, who came out of the stronghold, was obviously no match for Wang Ping. Therefore, the originally good situation suddenly became precarious.
In less than half an hour, more than half of the more than a thousand soldiers under Sima Zhao's command were lost. The Wei army, which was good at cavalry, fought on the mountainous terrain, and was indeed unable to compete with the "Wudang Feijun".
Seeing that Sima Zhao was about to annihilate his entire army, Xia Houxuan felt a trace of murderous intention in his heart.
At this moment, as long as he does not go to the rescue, the Sima family will naturally lose one of its members!
However, Xia Houxuan immediately shook his head. Regardless of whether Sima Zhao, who was always very polite to him, could or should be killed, if Xia Houxuan did not go out of the city to rescue him at this moment, then the remaining few hundred men and the gate of Nanzhai would be killed. It's all dangerous.
Xia Houxuan held the hilt of the 'Quality' knife tightly, gritted his teeth, and finally turned over and flew onto the 'White Bird'. He picked up his long spear, led a hundred Xuanjia guards and a thousand middle troops, and headed towards Beizhai. Then he rushed over.
When Xia Houxuan rushed to the gate of Beizhai, a large number of "Wudang Feijun" had already rushed to the gate of Dazhai. Xia Houxuan, surrounded by fierce Xuanjia guards, mobilized the "White Bird" and launched a long The sword flew and killed Kai Le in an instant, and the gate of the village was immediately closed tightly by the soldiers guarding the village.
Although the 'Wudang Flying Army' was extremely brave, as infantry they were naturally unable to compete with Xia Houxuan's powerful cavalry. Therefore, Xia Houxuan fought his way through the 'Wudang Flying Army' as if there was no one in the field. Bloody road.
The soldiers under Sima Zhao had fewer horses, and they were no match for Wang Ping in foot combat. Therefore, a team of a thousand men lost four to five hundred men. Wang Ping, wielding a twenty-pound mountain knife, fought in the Vietnam War. Yue Yong slashed in front of Sima Zhao before his eyes. At this moment, Sima Zhao had mixed feelings in his heart. In addition to regret, there was also a hint of excitement.
He knew that if he won this battle, Cao Shuang's status would rise, and the Sima family's status would also plummet. That's why he just disobeyed Xia Houxuan's general order and went out to fight the "Wudang Feijun" in a bloody battle. Because only in this way, Xiahou's mysterious and airtight defense will break through him, and the Golden Guard will no longer be able to defend it.
Just when Wang Ping's mountain-splitting knife was slashing towards Sima Zhao, Sima Zhao, who had nowhere to hide, tried his best to raise the ring-headed knife frame to block it, and actually showed a proud smile.
After hearing a loud "bang" sound, Sima Zhao's ring knife flew out of his hands in an instant, but his body was not chopped off as he thought.
It turned out that at the critical moment, Xia Houxuan came on horseback and used ten percent of his family's inner strength to block Wang Ping's inevitable blow with the horse spear in his hand.
With just one strike, the tiger's mouth was shattered and Xiahou Xuanchang almost lost his hand. Wang Ping missed the blow and felt a numbness in his arm. He was extremely surprised and thought to himself: This mountain-splitting knife of his has been used in the battlefield for more than ten years. , there have been few opponents in these years, but I didn't expect that this Wei general could actually take his own killing blow. It seems that he has some ability.
Xia Houxuan pretended to ride his horse forward. Wang Ping immediately became alert and took two steps back, ready to take the attack. However, Xia Houxuan threw away his long spear in an instant, and grabbed Sima Zhao with his body. "Quie" the horse was so fast that he fled towards Beizhai under the protection of Xuanjia Guards.
Wang Ping was about to catch up, but it was too late.
In this way, Xia Houxuan failed to hold the Golden Guard after all, and led eight or nine thousand Chinese troops upstream in the direction of the Golden Water in the north.
After Wang Ping snorted coldly, he left three thousand elite soldiers who were good at defending the city to garrison at Golden Guard, while he turned around and went back to Xingshi Mountain.
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Xiahou Xuan, who rushed all the way back to Cao Shuang's camp, never expected that instead of Guo Huai's Xiegu army, he would wait for the troops of Fei Yi, the general of Shu who was stationed in Fucheng.
Before General Cao Shuang had time to issue an order to continue to increase troops to support forward Xiahou Ba, he heard a noise from the soldiers on the right wing of his camp.
"what happened?"
"General, it's not good, look!" Deng Yang pointed at the smoke rising suddenly from the top of the mountain to the west. The smoke did not seem to be heading towards Cao Shuang's army, but had been heading towards the north, which was the middle army of the Wei army. Go to the rear!
Deng Yang hurriedly sent Qingqi to investigate. After a while, two Qingqi scouts returned to the camp.
"General, the enemy on the top of the mountain has a large banner with the word "Fei" erected."
"General, it looks like they should be the troops of General Fei Yi of Shu! Moreover, the enemy troops are heading north and seem to be trying to block the entrance of Luo Valley and block our retreat!" Deng Yang said with a trembling face, his face turned pale.
"General, let's get out of the valley entrance quickly!" Ding Mi said sternly: "If the valley entrance is cut off by Shu captives, we will be in danger!"
