Some people say that the army knows that there is only one way, and it is easy to be ambushed, so why don't they come over the mountains and mountains? This question is rather naïve. The army has all kinds of baggage, how long do you have to climb over the mountains and mountains? In general, when you march and fight, you don't have a lot of rations, if you have to walk for 20 days on a two-day journey, where will you get the rations for tens of thousands of people? Furthermore, will the soldiers get tired after crossing the mountains and mountains? How long will it take to rest before they recover? Also, not every mountain you can find a way, how to walk through the primeval forest? Will you get lost? Are there any miasma beasts?

So why didn't the two Demon Cultists go together? There could be two reasons. The first is that they set off from different places, and if they meet first and then set off, it will inevitably delay time, and they can arrive faster by taking different routes. Second, from a tactical point of view, it is possible to attack from both sides by going in two ways. And for the Demon Cult, it is more likely to be the first type. Because there are only twenty or thirty thousand demon sect soldiers in Lanzhou City, the soldiers of Guchuan in the west may have come from there. Then the soldiers of Huixian County in the south naturally came from other places.

Straight to the point.

Since there was only one way for the Demon Sect to go in the south, Qin Shuhuai naturally wanted to set up an ambush on this road.

The road carved out between the mountains and mountains must have a few narrow mountain paths, which is easy to find. After Qin Shuhuai took everyone to study the map for a while, he found that sixty miles south of Baoji, Nan'angou, which is located in the Qinling Mountains, happened to have a long and narrow path about seven or eight miles long, and the terrain was excellent.

The ambush site was set here.

In this kind of terrain, it doesn't matter if the Demon Cult can see through the ambush. If they are careless, it is naturally better to fall into an ambush. But what if an ambush is discovered?

It's okay, just ask you if you can get by?

If you think about it, you will definitely send troops up the mountain to attack, and then the martial arts coalition army will occupy a dangerous terrain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Some terrain is known as a one-man pass, if there is really that kind of dangerous terrain there, it is really possible to achieve this effect - because there are many masters in the martial arts alliance!

Even if you don't have that kind of terrain, you'll have to pay a heavy price if you want to attack it. The Demon Sect has a five-element flag, and now Qin Shuhuai also has a five-element flag in the copycat, although the power of the battle array is not as good as the Demon Sect, but it is not too difficult to use thunderbolts, fire oil, and green gong oil.

Besides, after the Demon Sect attacked, in the rugged mountain roads and dense woods, in addition to the Five Elements Banner, they could barely open a few battle formations, and ordinary Demon Sect soldiers could not use the formation at all.

The so-called natural danger is difficult to overcome, and this is the truth.

Therefore, Qin Shuhuai planned to send 20,000 martial arts coalition troops and 10,000 Gansu soldiers to Nan'angou immediately, and he must occupy this place before the Demon Sect arrives in Nan'angou.

So who to send?

Qin Shuhuai looked around and found that there were indeed not many good generals to send. Meng Hu has experience, but he is not steady enough to lead the army. Chang Wuji and others are steady and witty, but they have no experience in commanding troops, and the officers and soldiers may also be unconvinced. If you pick a general from the Gansu soldiers, I am afraid that he will not be able to shake the martial arts coalition army.

Finally, his eyes stopped on Cao Huachun.

Cao Huachun was a military supervisor in his early years, and he was quite familiar with marching and fighting, and he was thoughtful and scheming, so he was able to take on this great responsibility.

When Cao Huachun saw Qin Shuhuai looking at him, he knew his intentions, so he got up and said lightly, "Is Master Hou the general of our family?" Hehe, as long as the heads and elders can rest assured that the disciples will be handed over to our family, our family will be ordered to go on the expedition, and there will be no two words!"

Cao Hua Chungui was the governor of Dongchang, and naturally no one was dissatisfied with the 10,000 officers and soldiers. However, Dongchang and Wulin factions have some grievances, so they have this to say.

But these are just polite words. Now that Wulin wants to help the imperial court, he naturally won't settle accounts with Cao Huachun at this stall. What do people in martial arts pay attention to? Righteousness comes first! Even if some people don't think so, they must do so.

Zhiren first said, "Cao Huachun, the poor monk believes in you. Baoji also has 200 Shaolin disciples and 700 lay disciples, if you want it, you can take it away. ”

Chang Wuji said, "Wudang has 1,300 disciples this time, among which 360 disciples are proficient in the True Martial Seven Interception Formation, if Cao Dugong needs it, he can take it away!"

The other sects did not disagree.

Cao Huachun saw that the people in the martial arts were so supportive of the imperial court, and he couldn't help but clasp his fists at the heads and elders of the various factions, and said with indignation, "Heroes, if this demon sect can be eliminated, our family will play to the emperor the martial arts heroes Kuang Fu Sheji, and bravely eliminate thieves and demons." My emperor's generation of holy masters, will be able to understand the martial arts to my Ming Dynasty, from now on martial arts and the imperial court will be one family! As the Marquis of Qin said, as long as we work together in the same boat and work together, the Ming Dynasty or the martial arts will be able to return to the prosperous era. As for our family, I have only one word of thanks to you!"

Qin Shuhuai said, "Duke Cao, then in the battle of Nan'angou, I will bother you to go out in person!"

Cao Huachun laughed, and then solemnly hugged his fist at Qin Shuhuai, "Cao Huachun, lead the marquis and the alliance leader!"

Subsequently, Cao Huachun took 4,500 Dongchang fans, 5,500 Gansu soldiers, half of the Jianghe Gang Agni Banner, half of the Jianghe Gang Qingshui Banner, and another 20,000 martial arts coalition troops out of the city and rushed to Nan'angou!

Walking with Cao Huachun, there are also three masters: Shangshui, Sun Bai, and Meng Hu.

The Demon Cult in the south has been arranged, and there is the Demon Cult in the west. There was no particularly good ambush to the west, so he decided not to leave the city and wait for them to come to the door.

Baoji is a big city, the city is high and the walls are thick, and now he still has more than 30,000 horses left, if the Demon Sect 20,000 people come to attack, he thinks he should be able to defend it.

Why is he afraid of 40,000 Demon Sects attacking the city and 60,000 officers and troops defending the city, but he is not afraid of 20,000 Demon Sects attacking the city and 30,000 officers and troops defending the city?

The principle is very simple, because he can only send more than 8,000 soldiers to stand on the city wall at the same time, that is to say, he has 60,000 soldiers and 30,000 soldiers, and when attacking the city, the counterattack firepower at the head of the city is about the same, but the number of troops that can be substituted when there are casualties is different.

However, the results of previous sieges show that it is rare for all the soldiers in the city to die at the head of the city before the city is captured. Generally, twenty or thirty thousand soldiers died, and the city wall had already been breached. And once the Demon Sect enters the city, no matter whether he has 10,000 or 40,000 soldiers left, he is not an opponent of the Demon Sect, so because of the particularity of the Demon Sect, he has 30,000 soldiers and 60,000 soldiers in his hands, which has little impact on whether he can hold Baoji City.

But if the Demon Sect is reduced from 40,000 to 20,000, it will have a big impact. These 40,000 troops could have been deployed in full force and attacked the city in echelons. But after it was reduced to 20,000, the number of times they attacked the city would be halved, and the pressure on the Ming army at the head of the city would also be halved.

Therefore, he is not afraid of the Demon Sect attacking the city on the Western Road. Of course, with only 20,000 Demon Sects besieging the city, he was even less afraid.

However, for the sake of prudence, he sent someone to ask Hong Chengchou from Pingliang City, three hundred miles away, for help, and asked him to send 20,000 troops to reinforce Baoji. Hong Chengchou of Pingliang brought 30,000 soldiers by himself, plus there were already 12,000 soldiers and horses in the city, so it should be no problem to send 20,000. Of course, it wouldn't hurt if the remaining Demon Sect and Ma Shouying's troops jointly broke through Pingliang, because there was Qingyang behind Pingliang, and they could resist for a while. It's a big deal to defeat the demon sect of Baoji, and then send troops north to help.

The general battle plan has been decided, just waiting for the Demon Sect to come to the door.

But at this moment, Tang Sanniang, the master of the Tang Sect, who had not spoken, said, "Alliance leader, there is a plan below, or the Demon Sect on the West Road can be severely damaged." ”

Qin Shuhuai's eyes lit up suddenly, and he asked, "Sanniang, what is the best plan, quickly talk to this seat!"