Chapter 675: The Stone Gate Array
Chapter 675: The Great Stone Gate Array
On the narrow and narrow road like a snake, two brigades starting from Panlong City lined up in a dragon, rolled up a piece of dust and quickly passed through the throat of the Sichuan, and rushed towards the valley of the Sichuan.
The Baron of Xishan is not a blind flattering person, and he is still quite capable. Although he hastened to travel, he still sent a large number of scouts in advance. South Sichuan Road is narrow and straight, with dense forests and mountains on both sides. It is no problem to hide 18,000 people. There are seven or eight places suitable for ambushing.
Fortunately, the Julu cavalry under his command are good at climbing mountains and ridges and walking in the forest. They will not waste too much time, but even so, the speed of the march will not help but slow down.
At the north entrance of South Sichuan Road, the mountains and rivers are opened like a trumpet, and their vision suddenly becomes wider. However, the wider view does not mean that the road ahead will be flat. Most of the nearby stone mountains have been dug up, and the above are also bare, and at the foot of the mountain are even more rugged.
Here is a quarry at the north entrance of South Sichuan Road. It is quite large in scale, but it used to be extremely lively. The sound of chisels and call sounds came from the stonemasons far away. The labor force had long been gone. Most of the strength of the stonemasons was pulled into the noble army, and the stonemasons were also taken away and incorporated into the craftsman camp.
Qin Liangyu led the troops of the three battalions to travel overnight, walking for a long time, and finally arrived at the north entrance of Sichuan on the fourth day. At this moment, this place had changed a lot. In the stone yard, piles of stones piled up about a meter high and stretched out along both sides of the official road, two or three miles.
At this moment, there were also many soldiers and armors pushing the huge rocks onto the official road. Each of these huge rocks was very large, weighing thousands of kilograms, but the height was only more than one meter, which could not stop people's sight, and it was very sparsely arranged. It was just putting one every few meters. Although it was in the way, it would not make people feel any danger.
Qin Liangyu and his team marched urgently. The battalion commander who was responsible for the Great Stone Gate Formation came to the official road early, followed behind Qin Liangyu by horses, and said, "Command, look, the stone gate formation is arranged in the same way as you said!"
Qin Liangyu nodded and said, "The decoration of the stone gate formation is not difficult, but the conditions for use are harsh. However, the existence of several quarries here has solved the problem of busyness. Is there any news in the direction of Panlong City?"
"A few scouts guarding Panlong South Edge have already let the Que back. They have entered South Sichuan Road, but the number is less than 10,000. There are also an elite aristocratic brigade. The people who lead the way are Julu cavalry. Will there be too few people who are ambushing us?"
"Haha, no matter how many people there are, it's useless. As long as they dare to enter the Shimen formation, they don't want to go out safely. The ambush in the mountains will not be discovered by the opponent's scouts!"
"No, I chose old hunters in the mountains. How to hide the smell and hide in the forest, these people have the best skills. Moreover, they have applied fragrant resin to the nearby trees. Even monsters will be confused. Unless the other scouts investigate inch by inch, they will definitely not be able to find the people we ambush!"
"Well, you can watch here, I'll go and rest for a while!"
More than 9,000 noble troops were marching rapidly on South Sichuan Road, and the scouts gave their time and were safe all the way. They saw that they had passed half of South Sichuan Road, but they still found no ambush.
"Sir, according to my opinion, the other party has no spare energy to come here to ambush us. Didn't the messenger in Sichuan City say that the other party's troops were 5,000 or 6,000 troops to attack the city. These should be all their troops. And seeing how urgent they attacked, and with what they did in Sichuan, they probably were hungry in the mountains and couldn't bear it, so they took advantage of the loopholes and planned to turn over!"
"We are most afraid of underestimating the enemy when we march and fight. There is no accurate number of soldiers and horses on the other side. If the other side has more than five or six thousand people, South Sichuan Road is the throat of the southern part of the valley in the middle of Sichuan. Unless the other side is a stupid fool, it is impossible not to send some people here to stop it! In front is Feiyan Ridge, the narrowest part of South Sichuan Road, so that everyone can cheer up and prepare me for battle at all times!"
As the order was passed, the speed of thousands of people suddenly slowed down. The shield soldiers took off their shields to protect them on both sides, dealing with the arrows that might be shot from both sides at any time. The team also opened some distance and the front team moved first.
After a series of response strategies, the imagined ambush did not appear. The brigade of soldiers passed Shuangyanling one after another. After passing here, the remaining distance was less than one-third. Could it be that the other party really had no ambush? The Baron Xishan thought so, but shook his head. The other party must have planned to be careless of them and make them lose their vigilance, but suddenly started!
The Baron Xishan thought so, and suddenly there was a sudden sound of fighting in front of the invisible mountain. The shouts of killing immediately brought the Baron Xishan back to reality and shouted loudly: "All the army is guarded, scouts, hurry up!"
Hula, with the baron of Xishan roaring, the soldiers on the entire official road suddenly became chaotic. The soldiers and horses in front and behind were fine. These were all noble private troops. They had been trained for a long time and participated in the war, so they were quite calm. However, the newly recruited young and strong people in the middle were all rookies. This tension suddenly became panicked, making the middle road chaotic.
When the Baron Xishan saw the team's virtue, he almost turned his nose apart. Fortunately, the chaos lasted for only a moment, and then formed a defensive circle amid the shouts of officers at all levels.
"Report!..., report to the commander. The two battalions of soldiers and horses who were moving forward were ambushed by enemy soldiers. The enemy planted flags on the mountains and bluffed, but they were seen through by Commander Zhang of the Front Battalion. Now the ambushed enemy soldiers have retreated and retreated from the official road. Commander Zhang of the Front Battalion has brought people to chase him!"
The Baron Xishan just pondered for a moment and said loudly: "The whole army accelerated its march! Chase it." The previous ambush not only did not make him afraid, but instead made him feel more at ease. However, when the other party retreated and the pursuit of the front camp made him worry. If the other party deliberately led the king into the trap, wouldn't it be a trap? However, the front camp was in danger and the brigade of troops were relatively safe.
The pursuit was not smooth. The brigade of soldiers chased after two or three miles and caught up with some of the soldiers in the front camp. The Baron of Xishan stepped forward and asked, and found out that the other party was actually filled with trees and rocks on the official road, blocking the road. These obstacles were naturally not an obstacle to the Julu cavalry who was good at jumping, but they had to stop cleaning up the infantry.
"Clear these obstacles immediately! Send someone to send me a dispatch to contact the cavalry of the former battalion so that they don't chase them and be careful of ambushing!" Although the Baron Xishan said this, he felt much more at ease in his heart. He was not afraid of the enemy's move, but afraid that the enemy would not move.
"Yes, sir!" Several cavalrymen of Julu quickly crossed the obstacle ahead and disappeared into the mountains.
Zhang Song is a lord and one of the confidants of the Baron of Xishan. Zhang Song is not old, less than thirty years old, but he is a genius of not too young. He is less than thirty years old and is already at the middle level of the earth spirit. With this strength, and being good at ease, it is difficult to be underdeveloped, especially the aristocratic rebellion. This person is quite active in it. Now he is the deputy brigade leader of the brigade, the left and right hand of the Baron of Xishan, leading the elite Giant Deer Warcraft Knight of the Baron of Xishan.
Therefore, Zhang Song was very angry because he suffered few setbacks. During this year, the Panshi Legion was first defeated in Xiangyang, and then split up. Such troops were difficult to connect with the imperial elite standing legion. Moreover, these two brigades were newly built brigades, which was nothing great. Even if the other party had an ambush, what could it do? As soon as his giant-horned deer cavalry stepped forward, the other party should stop him.
In this way, no scruples were left. After more than ten miles of journey, the giant horned deer cavalry chased the cavalry sent by the other side and rushed to the north entrance of Nanchuan Road. The dozens of cavalry on the opponent turned left and right on the official road and then drilled into the pile of stones on both sides, losing their shadow.
Zhang Song stopped the team. Although Zhang Song looked down on the other side's vulnerable soldiers, there was a little strange in front of him. The piles of stones on both sides were like tombs, making people unable to see through the reality of the body at first sight. Could it be that the other party planned to use these piles of stones as ambush?
It's so whimsical!
Zhang Song glanced left and right, finally turned his eyes to the left, waved his sword, and said, "Catch in with me!" As he said that, the giant horned deer beast under the driver's crotch jumped into the pile of stones a few times.
Among the piles of rocks, stones more than one meter high were distributed in a staggered manner, which suddenly became less than ten meters in view, and the full view of the stone formation was impossible. When the three hundred giant deer cavalry entered the stone formation, it was like a stone thrown into a lake and disappeared in an instant.
The distance between each pile of stone is only one to two meters wide, so it is impossible to gather together. The three hundred Julu cavalry can only be dispersed. Originally, a group of cavalry was naturally divided by these piles of stones, and the view of the pile of rocks was blocked, which was equivalent to directly dispersing a whole into countless parts.
The giant horned deer cavalry continued to advance, and after more than 200 meters of progress, no shadow was seen. At this moment, a figure flashed from behind a pile of stones. The giant horned deer cavalry who found this shadow immediately chased after him. However, they did not know that because of their vision, not everyone found the shadow, and their actions were not seen by others. In this way, several giant horned deer cavalrymen on the periphery were led out.
Before he could run out more than twenty meters, a spear suddenly threw out from the dark place of the stone pile. The giant-horned deer cavalry that rushed over was directly pierced by the spear from the side ribs. Before the remaining cavalry could react, several hunters who suddenly flashed raised their bows and arrows from other directions, smiled at the corners of their mouths, and let go of their thumbs.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! The arrow struck a cold light and flew towards these cavalry who had not yet come back to their senses.
Chapter completed!