It's about two hundred and sixty miles east of Ya'er City.
Tang Yue led 20,000 Qin cavalry, galloping freely, and caught up with the Ghost King yesterday afternoon, and started a fight with his guards.
This group of guards is called the Royal Guard by the ghost tribe. Their status is much higher than that of the ordinary ghost army. Their number is about five thousand, and their equipment is also the best, so their combat power is not low.
But when they encountered the turbulent cavalry, they could only be eaten. In the end, when the guards suffered heavy losses, the Ghost King had no choice but to throw away countless baggage and fled with the rest of the people. A place called Qifeng Mountain.
You know, his behavior this time was equivalent to moving the capital. The carts of property contained an unknown amount, but in order to survive at that time, these obviously became a burden.
At this time, apart from the officials and ministers who fled eastward, the Ghost King only had more than a thousand guards, not counting his family members. This was the result of a desperate and bloody battle, and none of the people in charge of the rear palace came back.
Qifeng Mountain is not very big, but there is only one road leading to the mountain. It is rugged and steep, but after going up the mountain, it is like flat ground, hence the name.
The Ghost King is now in the open space on the mountain, and the guards are guarding the dangerous area up the mountain. He looks miserable, looking at the people around him, and screams sadly: "Isn't Bawei negotiating with Emperor Qin? Why are there still chasing soldiers to kill him? Come!"
Everyone looked similar to him. They were all disgraced. Many people had narrowly escaped death. The feeling of fear lingered, and their hearts were still pounding to this day.
A ghost civil servant kept breathing heavily and tried to calm down after a while. However, he still had a trembling voice when he spoke and trembled: "In this case, it means that Bawei did not succeed in the negotiation. It has been poisoned by the Qin army."
"Then, what should we do now!" The Ghost King had already run out of ideas. This was the first time since he was born that he was so close to death, and how could he not panic.
"Everyone is talking!" He looked around, urging, and jumping anxiously.
But everyone was silent. Some people had not yet recovered from the fear. Their faces were pale and their foreheads were covered with cold sweat. Some were looking around, some were silent, and some were sighing.
However, the Ghost King immediately grasped this and looked at him and said, "Why are you sighing? Is there any way you can do it?"
"Your Majesty the King." The man saluted and smiled bitterly and said: "This place is called Qifeng Mountain. I just observed this place and found that the top of the mountain is flat. Although we can stay temporarily, there seems to be no water source here. Moreover, and All our baggage and food were forced to be thrown away during the encounter."
When the Ghost King heard these words, his heart skipped a beat and he subconsciously blurted out: "What do you mean, what do you mean!"
The man said: "Your Majesty, we no longer have any reinforcements. Although these guards can temporarily hold the mountain pass, the Qin army is at the bottom of the mountain and has surrounded Qifeng Mountain without food and water."
When he said this, he paused, but the meaning was already clear, this was a place of death.
It's not that they wanted to come here, but they had no choice. The cavalry were chasing them. If they had escaped on the road at that time, needless to say, the result would have been corpses.
The Ghost King's eyes widened even more as he listened, and in the end he grabbed the man's collar: "This is impossible! How could we end up in this situation! There must be a way! There must be a way!"
He almost went crazy and kept repeating.
The man was grabbed by the collar and said in a nervous tone: "Your Majesty, please calm down. Maybe Bawei has not completely failed and is trying to negotiate with Emperor Qin. Maybe things will turn around, but there is no news yet. Just pass it over."
He could only comfort himself in this way.
After hearing this, the ghost king's eyes really flashed with hope of survival. He released his hands and said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, you are right. We have lost the war. We can surrender. We can surrender."
He walked back and forth as he spoke.
Suddenly he turned around again, hoping to look at the man: "Then, what do we need to do now?"
The man thought for a while: "Let the guards guard the mountain pass. There is no water source nearby, but we can go to other places to look for more. At the same time, let everyone look around to see if there are any wild vegetables that can satisfy our hunger."
"Okay, okay, I'll do as you say. I'll listen to you."
When the Ghost King was sitting on the throne of Ya'er City, he looked pretty much the same, but when faced with such a situation of life and death on the battlefield, he looked like an incompetent person with no master.
The ghost army was trapped in Qifeng Mountain and began to look for water sources and wild vegetables. However, after the Qin army surrounded the place, they urgently discussed the situation.
Frontline command office.
Standing here, you can see the foot of Qifeng Mountain. Tang Yue holds a map in his hand and is studying and discussing it with two generals and military civilian officer Pang Si'an.
General Yi Qin said: "According to the investigation of the military aircraft camp, there is only one small road in this mountain, which is winding upward and rugged and dangerous. It is difficult to walk under normal circumstances. If we attack by force, the ghost army will be condescending and only need to guard the key points. When it’s a hundred.”
"The terrain here is such that one man can guard the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it." Another general said: "General, I'm afraid it's not advisable to attack by force."
"Yes." Tang Yue nodded, put away the map and looked at Pang Sian: "What's the plan for Panda?"
The latter pondered for a moment: "The ghost army fled into Qifeng Mountain in a hurry. In other words, they actually did not know the specific situation here. Yesterday, the official was thinking that if the water source could be cut off, what would happen if the water source could be cut off? We won without fighting, so we ordered our soldiers to capture a local ghost tribe member from nearby, and happened to learn from his mouth that there is no water source in this mountain."
"And on the mountain, the only place to get water is a creek outside the foot of the northwest mountain."
"Pang Daren means to use this creek as bait to lay an ambush?" Tang Yue said.
"Yes, General." Pang Si'an said: "The Ghost King is trapped there, and he will definitely search everywhere, and sooner or later he will find the ravine. And this Qifeng Mountain is really impossible to attack, and will only be trapped to death."
Tang Yue was happy when he heard the words, nodded and said: "Yes, having Panda here will save a lot of trouble."
Then he looked at the general and said, "Give me the order. The second, fourth, fifth, and third teams of soldiers will ambush at the foot of the northwest mountain."
"No!" The latter took the order and left.
Another partial general said: "But general, we didn't bring much dry food with us when we left. Although the water source of the ghost army was cut off, it will probably take seven or eight days to completely trap them to death. Do you want to write to your majesty? Please ask for food and fodder allocation.”
"What are you allocating? This is far away from Ya'er City. The transportation of food and grass takes manpower and time." Tang Yue said directly: "Aren't there some ghost towns and settlements nearby? Send a few teams of cavalry out!"
(End of chapter)
