Li Yuan issued a rapid-fire order, and the entire team immediately took action, slowly advancing to the vicinity of the ledge and starting to arrange, waiting only for Fu Hong, a strong and powerful military leader, to successfully climb the cliff.
The plan is a bit straightforward. Since it is speculated that the Zhennan Army may go back and search for Huang Daoquan again, what Li Yuan has to do now is to do the opposite and oppose his ambush, which will have an unexpected effect. When the pursuers sent by the Zhennan Army entered the ambush range, the archers fired a volley from above, causing the soldiers and horses to panic.
Li Yuan's move was just to thoroughly understand the psychology of the Zhennan Army. Once the Zhennan Army was attacked, they would naturally think that their opponent was the imperial imperial army. If they still resisted desperately or risked a breakout, it meant that the Zhennan Army was determined. If they resist to the end and surrender obediently, that's another story.
Fu Hong's climb to the west ledge was quite dangerous. The rocks on the mountain wall were severely weathered. During the climb, he was in trouble several times and almost slipped. The soldiers below were so frightened that they were covered in cold sweat. But in the end, this precious swordsman was still young. The heroic army still climbed onto the ledge. The group of generals below were ashamed. Without Fu Tongjun present, none of them would be able to climb the ledge of the cliff, and Li Yuan's plan would be out of the question.
There is no shortage of ropes, and there are more than a dozen long ropes in the accompanying supplies. They are essential items and are used for building bridges, crossing streams, rescue and lashing during the march. After Fu Hong used ropes to drag up several big men one after another, the remaining soldiers were dragged up one by one by these big men. More than half an hour later, more than a dozen ropes were pulled up. Li Yuan led the soldiers to climb up one after another, and soon the rock shelf above was crowded.
The preparation work below was also going on at the same time. The twenty soldiers who were ordered to stay at the bottom of the cliff were responsible for gathering all the horses together and driving them all to the mountains and forests along the way they came to guard them.
"Generalissimo, if the enemy really comes soon, are we going to kill him?" Fu Hongfa asked.
Li Yuan smiled and said: "In this first battle against the rebels, we naturally have to show them how powerful they are, but we cannot kill them all. If they are determined to surrender to the imperial court, there is no need to push them to a dead end. In addition, our military strength is limited. , at best it can only be a bluff but cannot last long.”
Fu Hong puffed up his chest and said: "The general knows what he is doing. Grand Marshal, just wait and see. The mighty army under the general is not much worse than the Shenwu Army. Not only are we skilled in footwork and cavalry, but we are also full of sharpshooters."
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Li Yuan then remembered that most of the more than 300 soldiers accompanying him today were from the powerful army led by Fu Hong, so he smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said: "Then this will open my eyes to this commander..."
At that time, in the Zhennan Army camp, the gloomy-faced general Jiang Kai was leading five hundred cavalrymen to mount their horses at the same time. The commander Song Mojie stood on the ground with his hands behind his hands and looked at Jiang Kai with a smile on his face, concealing the endless anger in his heart. .
Ever since Jiang Kai led his troops back to the camp at dawn and reported to him what Zhang Zi and his party had done last night, Song Mojie's anger had reached the extreme. Originally, the plan he discussed with Zhang Zi was very simple, and Li Zhenggu and others were All the people were killed, and some of the imperial uniforms were left behind for future generations to imagine. Unexpectedly, Zhang Zi actually made his own decision and deliberately left out four people, trying to lead the dirty water to Yan King Li Hongji.
As we all know, the brothers King Yan and King Zheng were real political enemies. Song Mojie and the Duke of Wei behind him, Song Qiqiu, were originally biased towards King Zheng and should have had no objection to Zhang Zi's clever move. However, Song Mojie felt enlightened. Very, at this moment, since Mingzhe intends to surrender to the court to protect himself and wait for his comeback, why should he directly offend Li Hongji, the King of Yan who is about to ascend to the throne and has 200,000 troops at this time?
In this way, how could Li Hongji let the Song family go in the future? Is this still a step down?
Song Mojie suddenly realized that Zhang Zi had been deceived into lameness since he entered the Zhennan Army camp.
What Zhang Zi wanted was Li Zhenggu's death, and he fabricated the so-called Xu Xuan's letter to completely offload King Zheng's guilt, and even disgusted King Yan, but Zhang Zi was doing it in the dark after all. Song Mojie, however, had to bear the consequences of all Zhang Zi's actions. The Zhennan Army was like a chess piece that was used repeatedly from beginning to end. Now it wants to win the battle and dare not surrender even if it wants to surrender.
At this time, Song Mojie wanted to cut Zhang Zi into pieces, but after waiting all night, even Jiang Kai and others returned to the camp, but Zhang Zi and his party were nowhere to be seen. He also understood that Zhang Zi would not come back, nor would he. Dare to come back and even leave a mess for Song Mojie to clean up, a mess that only benefits King Zheng but can completely cut off Song Mojie's escape route...
General Jiang Kai also felt bad, or maybe he was ashamed, because he didn't expect that even though he was going to kill the last person, he was still a weak follower. He led hundreds of elite soldiers to search for a whole night and came back empty-handed. .
At this time, Jiang Kai was wearing the Mingguang Armor that Song Mojie had specially ordered for him when he was in Hongzhou Mansion. He had a long sword hanging on his waist and was riding a white horse in front of the team. Although he was not big, he was also majestic. . The white horse below has been following Jiang Kai for many years, but today for some unknown reason, he keeps blowing heavily from his nose. Although the person on his back is still the same, he seems to have a lot more on his mind.
"Young Marshal, I have gone. If I don't find that person, I will die to apologize!" Jiang Kai lowered his head and cupped his hands. The armor scales on his arms rubbed against the armor between the chest and ribs, making a harsh friction sound. Cold and calm.
"Go." Song Mojie's face was expressionless, but he solemnly handed over to Jiang Kai for the first time, but he still couldn't say the words "I must return."
Jiang Kai understood in his heart, with a sad smile on his face, he immediately turned around, raised his arms high, waved forward and shouted: "Let's go!"
More than 500 Zhennan Army cavalry began to walk slowly into the valley to the north. After a while, they entered the narrow mountain road. The howling cold wind caused the branches on both sides of the cliff to sway, as if they were using unknowable signals from nature to convey secret messages. After a while, the Forbidden Army archers who were ambushing in the narrow valley two miles ahead and on the cliff on the west side were already ready with their bows and arrows.
Jiang Kai had been in battle for a long time, and everyone was naturally wary when they arrived at such a dangerous place, so the Zhennan Army cavalry began to accelerate a little outside the range of the Forbidden Army's bows and arrows. With an order, all the horses carrying the cavalry were on their butts. After being severely whipped, these horses suddenly went crazy, rushing forward in the narrow and crowded mountain road, and quickly rushed into the range of the Forbidden Army archers...
A long horn sound slowly sounded from the cliff, and the echoes in the entire valley were breathtaking. At the same time, the arrows above the cliff fell from the sky like locusts all over the sky, and a puff of arrow rain enveloped the area for a long time. A large area of dozens of steps.
The dozens of war horses at the forefront of the Zhennan Army turned into hedgehogs almost at the same time. They neighed and fell to the ground with huge inertia, bringing smoke and dust billowing up along the way. Almost in an instant, the originally calm valley turned into a land of billowing yellow dust, almost blocking everyone's sight.
The Forbidden Army archers on the cliff can't see the situation at the bottom of the valley, but they don't need to see clearly what's going on below. They just need to keep shooting arrows at the bottom of the valley. The whines and screams of the dying war horses came straight up from the valley bottom. As long as such sounds came up, it meant that the attack was very effective.
The first hundred or so horses carrying Zhennan Army soldiers were reduced to less than half after just fifty steps. The dense rain of arrows had almost no blind spots, giving them no chance of survival. At the same time, at the highest point of the cliff, a banner with the character "李" embroidered on the edge of a tiger pattern and a python rose up to the sky, whistling in the wind, which seemed to be the indifferent sound of judging life and death...
