On the spring night outside the Saiwai, there is still a trace of cold air, the sky is full of stars, the crooked crescent moon is flashing with a cold clear light, and the earth is silent. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On such a quiet night, an army appeared on the sheep intestine path leading to Niushou Village, and hurried forward.

The Shu army did not use the stealth way, people tied the wood, the horse picked the bell, quietly approached the Niushou Village, but lit the torch, under the light of the torch, the whole Shu army was like a giant dragon, in the winding mountain road coiled forward.

In the dark night, the light of even a torch was enough to expose the Shu army's plan of action, and the dragon connected by hundreds of torches was clearly visible from more than ten miles away.

In this regard, the deputy governor of the right army of the leading army, Wang Qi, is also quite helpless, and the night action is lit with torches, which is tantamount to ventilating the enemy, and the enemy does not need to send scouts, so that the number of people and the direction of the attack of the Shu army can be clearly understood, but the terrain and ravines around the Gushu Mountain are vertical and horizontal, and many places are sheep intestine paths that can only allow one person to ride through, and there are some ravines dozens of zhang deep next to them, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the ravine.

Such a mountain road, even if it is walked during the day, it may not be easy to walk, at night, if you don't light a torch to illuminate, a foot deep and a shallow foot, I'm afraid you didn't go to Niushou Village, and most of the more than 10,000 people of the Shu army fell into the ravine.

For the sake of safety, Wang Qi ordered to light the torches, anyway, it is no secret that the Shu army came to Gushu Mountain, and it is only a matter of time or time to attack Wuzhai, even if it advances quietly, it may not be able to hide from the Minggang and secret posts of the Di people, in this case, Wang Qi simply ordered to light torches, and as many as possible, to illuminate the surroundings as if daylight, so as to facilitate the march of the Shu army.

Now the purpose of the Shu army is to ensure the safety of the march as much as possible, to avoid relying on non-combat attrition because of the difficulty of the road, and at the same time after the lighting conditions are improved, the speed of the Shu army is also guaranteed, otherwise in the dark night, I am afraid that it will be dawn when I attack Niushou Village.

"Qiyu Wang Dudu, in front of you is Niushou Village." The scouts who explored the way reported to Wang Qiyu.

Wang Ji reined in the horse, looked forward, because it was dark, could not see the whole picture of Niushou Mountain at all, can only roughly see an outline, the mountain of Niushou Mountain can not talk about how high and how steep, not only Niushou Village, as far as the entire Gushu Mountain Range is concerned, it can not be compared with the majestic Qinling Mountains at all, most of the mountains here are the kind of loess piled up into the soil mountains. This kind of earth mountain has an advantage, that is, it is convenient for manual repair, and the Di army is to manually excavate in many relatively steep places, creating many artificial cliffs, many places are as straight as knives, showing a cliff of nearly 90 degrees, such a cliff can not be climbed at all.

The Niushou Village created in this way is located in the middle of the mountain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Now Wang Ji is at the bottom of the mountain, and he can't see it very clearly, after all, the light of the torch is obviously dazzling, but the thing doesn't shine near or far, and the fire can't even shine a few feet away, let alone shine on the top of the mountain.

"Pass the order down and prepare to attack the mountain!" Even if you can't see clearly, you have already reached the foot of Niushou Mountain anyway, and you only need to attack the mountain and solve the defenders, and you can take Niushou Mountain.

According to the information previously obtained, Niushou Mountain should have about 3,000 men and horses, although the men and horses brought by Wang Qi are three times higher than the Di army guarding the mountain, but between an attack and a defense, such a gap in strength does not show much advantage, coupled with the Di people's familiarity with the terrain, the situation is not favorable to the Shu army, so Wang Ji is not complacent, but carefully sent a thousand men and horses to carry out a tentative attack on Niushou Village.

The Shu army killed it with great fanfare with torches, and some soldiers had already reported it to the defending general Li Rulong.

Li Rulong already knew the news of the arrival of the Shu army in Wuzhai, but in his opinion, the Shu army should launch an attack after dawn tomorrow, but what he didn't expect was that the Shu army would choose to launch an offensive in the middle of the night, Li Rulong admired the courage of the Shu army general, the road between the five villages was steep, even Li Rulong, who was familiar with geography, might not dare to take this risk, the Shu army would actually launch an attack at night, Li Rulong in addition to admiring the courage of the Shu army, more is happy, so that his chances of winning have greatly increased.

Li Rulong personally rushed to the front of the village, looking down the mountain from here, a bright light, the formation of the Shu army is unobstructed, Li Rulong laughed, and said: "I thought that the Shu general was so good, I didn't think that he was so stupid, fighting at night, raising torches, the enemy is dark and I am bright, do you still need to fight this battle?" The order is to go down, each army must not ignite, each guard its own position, once the Shu army enters the firing range, listen to my order and then attack. ”

The soldiers of the Di army were all ordered, originally in the middle of the night, it was the time to sleep, but the enemy came to attack, naturally the good dreams of the Di soldiers were disturbed, Li Rulong issued an order for first-level combat readiness, and all the Di soldiers in Niushouzhai urgently assembled and entered their respective combat positions.

Each wave of the Shu army's attack is also much more cautious, in addition to the slow advancement, the first attack of this part of the people and horses is completely on alert, shield in hand, arrow on the string, nervously looking at the dark mountaintop, step by step forward.

There have been unstoppable battles, such a battle has never been experienced by the Shu army, and the other side cannot see the existence of the enemy at all, except that the darkness is darkness, and nothing can be seen, but everyone knows very well that there are countless crises and killing intentions hidden in the darkness, and maybe a cold arrow will strike out in the next moment and take away their lives.

The physical enemy, no matter how many there are, the fear brought is always limited, but the current situation is different, the enemy is lurking in the shadows, and there is no way to know their number and distribution, and this unknown fear is infinitely magnified, so that the original strong heart of the Shu army has also become fragile, and every step is uneasy.

The corners of Li Rulong's mouth showed a sneer, his eyes have been watching the pace of the Shu army's advance, calculating when they will enter the range of the archers of the Di army, because the Shu army is very cautious at every step, and the shield array is also very stable, step by step, advancing layer by layer, it can be called turtle speed, and he has not entered the area expected by Li Rulong for a long time.

However, Li Rulong was very patient, and he kept waving his hand up, waiting for the Shu army to enter the land of one stone. Finally, Li Rulong's right hand slipped down, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Release the arrow!" (To be continued.) )