There is a gentle hill about ten miles away from Le Shou Gu, east and west, about seven miles long, so it is called Qili Slope, between Leshou County and Hejian City, in the vast Jizhong Great Plain, such hills are extremely rare, it abruptly on the Great Plain, forming a natural barrier in the north of Leshou County, and also a commanding height, the strategic location is very important.

The hill is seven miles long, one mile wide, about ten zhang high, the top of the hill is flat, legend has it that this is the mausoleum of the Han Dynasty to offer the king, there are tomb robbers who come here to dig for hundreds of years, so that the hills are covered with robbery holes one by one, and many robbery holes are full of underground springs.

Due to the outbreak of the war, the originally dense trees on the hill have been cut down, making this hill a bare mound, and the felled trees have become a camp fence, Dou Jiande's Xia army stationed 20,000 elite soldiers on this hill, led by the general Wang Fubao, a few miles south of the hill, is the dozens of miles of Dou Jiande's army.

There are clear springs, grain, a large number of bows and arrows in the camp, and there are large battalion reinforcements in the rear, making this hill a tiger blocking the Sui army.

On the morning of this day, the 100,000 troops of the Sui army slowly arrived a few miles north of Qilipo, and the army set up a company camp on the spot, set up a camp fence, buried antlers, and built twelve four-zhang high lookout towers, which were distributed on all sides of the camp.

On a lookout tower, Yang Yuanqing stared at the Qili Slope in the distance, with more than a dozen important generals standing behind him, and the dense camp fence was faintly visible on the slope, he had to take this hill, otherwise the enemy would rush down from a high place, which would make him very passive.

Without Yang Yuanqing to speak, Luo Shixin behind him stepped forward, bowed and said, "The last general is willing to ask Ying to take Qilipo." ”

The reason why Luo Shixin took the initiative to ask for help was because he heard that the enemy on the hillside would be Wang Fubao, and he had already had the intention to fight Wang Fubao again, so as to be ashamed of being a young enemy.

At this time, Pei Xingyan also stepped forward and said: "The last general is also willing to lead the troops to fight, please allow the general manager!" ”

As early as the second year of the Great Cause, Pei Xingyan tried his martial arts with Luo Shixin in Licheng County, Qi County, when Luo Shixin was only a fourteen-year-old boy, at that time, Pei Xingyan had a slight upper hand, but was destroyed by Yang Wei, and the competition did not produce results, and later Luo Shixin showed his might in the Turkic Mongolian Vultures, and killed the first brave general of the Mongol Vultures, since then, Pei Xingyan wanted to try another game with Luo Shi, but there has been no chance.

However, Yang Yuanqing strictly forbade the two of them to compete, so the competition with troops is actually a disguised competition.

Yang Yuanqing glanced at the two of them, and said with a slight smile: "General Luo will lead 10,000 troops to attack Qilipo first, and if General Luo can't attack it, General Pei will go up!" ”

Luo Shixin glanced at Pei Xingyan from the corner of his eyes, and sneered in his heart, Wu Wu's second, with his own presence, he Pei Xingyan didn't want to have any chance!

"The last general obeys!"

The rumbling drums in the Sui army camp were beating, the camp gate was wide open, and an army of 2,000 cavalry and 8,000 infantry under the leadership of Luo Shixin slaughtered Qilipo, a few miles away.

Although the seven-mile slope stretches for seven miles, it is not a complete slope plain, due to the erosion of wind and rain and the influence of the river, it also forms several subsidence zones, the summer army camp is located in the middle of the largest slope plain, about four miles long, almost occupied by the entire camp.

At this time, the top of the camp fence was full of dense soldiers, they held bows and arrows in their hands, nervously watching the Sui army slowly approach, the main general Wang Fubao stood among the soldiers, his burly figure made him obviously taller than the soldiers, like standing out from the crowd.

Wang Fubao is about forty years old, with a square face, a pair of leopard eyes under thick eyebrows like a brush, full of man's perseverance.

Wang Fubao was the first general of Gao Shida, after the Dou Jiande uprising in the seventh year of the great cause, he defected to Dou Jiande, followed him to fight in the north and south, and made a lot of achievements, and was regarded as the right-hand man by Dou Jiande, but in the Youzhou War last month, he was late to rescue Dou Jiande, resulting in the annihilation of the 100,000 army, and all the generals were angry with him, saying that he wanted to die Dou Gong and stand on his own.

Of course, Wang Fubao knew that this was his usual high merit that caused the envy of the generals, but he really had no choice, his own task was to attack Shanggu County, because Luo Shixin blocked the road, so it was changed to Zhuo County in the north, but Dou Jiande was broken by the Sui army overnight, and he couldn't fly with wings.

Although Dou Jiande kept saying that he would not blame him, but ordered him to guard Qilipo, Wang Fubao understood that Dou Jiande was still dissatisfied with himself, or that he was suspicious of himself, otherwise he would not let him, the number one big man, guard Qilipo in the future.

Wang Fubao's heart was full of grief and indignation, and he could only prove his innocence by fighting to the death.

"You useless things, you're shaking?" A young woman's scolding voice came from not far away.

Wang Fubao had a headache, he didn't expect the informant to pretend to be a soldier and blend into his team, if she made a mistake, how could she substitute for the main bus?

In the ranks appeared a young female general, about seventeen or eighteen years old, dressed in fine silver armor, wearing an eagle helmet, holding a phoenix-tailed knife in her hand, and a thrush set carved bow on her back.

Her skin is slightly dark, the bridge of her nose is high, her lips are angular, her eyebrows are like thin swords, and her apricot eyes are unusually bright.

Her name is Dou Xianniang, she is Dou Jiande's niece, her father Dou Jianhong is Dou Jiande's younger brother, and she has been in the cause for seven years, because Dou Jiande rebelled and was hunted and killed by the government, Dou Jiande adopted her, regarded her as his own, and loved her very much.

Dou Xianniang grew up in the bandits, her personality is extremely resolute, she has practiced a good martial arts, especially the archery skills, 100 shots and 100 hits, this time with the Sui army, Dou Jiande sent her and his wife Cao to Zhangnan County's hometown, but Dou Xianniang sneaked back, she didn't dare to go back to the camp, so she mixed into the Qilipo military camp, was discovered by Wang Fubao, she simply changed her clothes and armor, and became a female general.

Seeing that several soldiers were extremely frightened and trembling, Dou Xianniang was dissatisfied, and pulled them off the barracks platform.

"Since you are a soldier, don't be afraid of death, if you are afraid of death, get out of the way!"

Several soldiers crawled away, and Dou Xianniang jumped from her horse, jumped onto the two-foot-wide platform, and watched the Sui army approach, she paid special attention to the other party's main general.

She saw that a mile away, under the banner of a red eagle, there was a tall Sui army general, who seemed to be quite young.

"Second Uncle Wang, what is the name of the commander of the Sui army?" She asked Wang Fubao in a loud voice.

Wang Fubao stared at it for a moment and said: "There is a 'Luo, the word 'Luo' on the other party's banner, it should be Luo Shixin." ”

"Is that the one who is known as the unparalleled marksmanship, the first tiger Luo Shixin of the new five tiger generals of the binding army?"

Wang Fubao nodded, "That's the person!" ”

The prestige of the new five tiger generals of the Sui army has spread all over the world, Luo Shixin, Pei Xingyan, Qin Qiong, Su Dingfang, Wang Junkuo, this is the ranking of the Sui army itself, and it also makes the world's martial artists talk about it, in addition, there are four treasure generals in the Sui army, Xie Yingdeng's arrow, Yang Sien's knife, Yang Wei's hammer and Cheng Jin's axe, but the fame is not as big as the five tiger generals.

Dou Xianniang's silver teeth clenched, and her nose snorted lightly, "What is the first general of the five tigers, under the arrows of my aunt and grandmother, I want him to become a sick cat." ”……

The Sui army has been arrayed under the hills, 10,000 troops are lined up in three phalanxes, each with 1,000 cavalry on the left and right to suppress the formation, to prevent the enemy from rushing down from the heights, in front is the Sanfeng crossbowmen, used to suppress the opponent's bows and arrows, and in the middle is 5,000 sword and shield soldiers, who are the main force of the charge.

Luo Shixin stared coldly at the hill a mile away, the slope of the hill is not steep, the soldiers can rush up, but even if they attack the hills, once the large camp on the hills is opened, the enemy army is condescending, and the Sui army is extremely disadvantaged, but the war depends on courage, if you can't win, it is Pei Xingyan to attack, and this situation must not be allowed to happen.

"Beat the drums, press the crossbow army!"

With Luo Shixin's order, the drums in front of the Sui army made a loud "Knock!" Boom! Boom! The giant shield of the crossbowmen is different from that of ordinary soldiers, four feet five feet high, two feet wide, made of wooden fine board, covered with a layer of iron sheet, slightly heavy, but very strong, its biggest feature is that there are two one-foot-long wedges under the shield, which can be inserted in the soil.

The crossbowmen approached the mound step by step, stopped a hundred paces away, stuck their shields in the dirt, and three thousand men crouched down in unison, hiding behind their shields.

At this time, Wang Fubao on the camp fence gave an order, "Crossbowmen release arrows!" ”

The Xia army also has 3,000 crossbowmen, the crossbow is captured from the hands of the Sui soldiers, there are arm crossbows, there are waist crossbows, there are also crossbows, the styles are different, the range is also different, but they are more than 100 steps, the arrows on the mountain are fired together, and the black pressure forms a rain of arrows, which is thrown to the Sui army at the foot of the mountain.

The dense rain of arrows clanged on the shield, but there were still Sui soldiers who were shot by the dense rain of arrows and fell behind the shield screaming.

Woo one by one, the low horn sound in the Sui army camp sounded.

The Sui crossbowmen also counterattacked, they all used crossbows, the range was one hundred and fifty steps, the killing distance was one hundred steps, the Sui soldiers put the crossbow on the shield, the shield had a special crossbow ditch, which was convenient for setting up bows and crossbows, the Sui army aimed and fired at the top of the mountain, the first row of a thousand crossbow arrows roared and pounced on the enemy barracks, a scream sounded on the barracks, more than 100 people were shot, and rolled down from the barracks platform.

Immediately after the second row fired, then the third row fired, and then the first row was wound, and the crossbow was put on the shield crossbow ditch,

A fierce crossbow battle broke out on both sides, arrows came and went, and the dense arrow rain intertwined into a dark cloud in the air, as if the sky was also obscured, the casualties on both sides were increasing, the Sui crossbowmen were killed and wounded more than 400 people, but the other side suffered more casualties, and gradually, the well-trained Sui army gained the upper hand and began to suppress the enemy army.

Seeing that the crossbowmen had successfully suppressed the enemy, Luo Shixin resolutely ordered: "Beat the drums, the infantry attack the camp!" ”