Yishan is the traffic artery between Zou and Teng, and those who go north and south do not pass through Yishan, they have to go around more than twenty or thirty miles to travel between the two counties. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are no mountains near Yishan, it is a small hill that rises alone, and five miles to the east is a southwest-northeast trending Hengshan valley. The Yishui from west to east flows to the southeast after turning along the valley here, and the two avenues converge in the valley northwest of Yishui from the shallow pontoon bridge in the lower reaches of the east bank, and then disperse to the Baima River in the northwest and Tengxian in the north.

It looks very precipitous, but there is a flat terrain with an area of more than 100 acres at the top, and people can take the overall situation at the top of the mountain, and the avenue and river valley under the mountain can be seen at a glance. The valleys in the mountains are criss-crossed, and tens of thousands of troops are stationed, which is more than enough.

The north, west and south sides of the outside of Yishan are very steep and difficult for the army to walk, only the east side is a gentle slope that can be carried down by horses, the gentle slope is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and it is difficult to defend with the platform, and the station of the Weishan battalion is under the gentle slope.

After summarizing the news from all parties, Chang Wei decisively ordered: burn Yishan!

The use of fire attack tactics is based on two reasons: first, the mountain is not big but Zhong Lingyu is beautiful, the mountain is overgrown with grass and trees, the weather is dry in early winter, and the trees must wither at one point, and it is completely equipped with the conditions for fire attack; second, there are 50,000 followers led by Chen Canyu, the right prime minister of the White Lotus Sect, stationed on the mountain, and 30,000 people in the Weishan camp arch upwards from the foot of the mountain to defeat the strong with the weak, which will definitely be a protracted war, so fire attack is an inevitable choice.

At the foot of the eastern slope of Yishan Mountain, Cheng Laohu and He Wenlie commanded the soldiers to dig a trench and set up antlers, the gentle slope was one hundred and fifty steps wide, and thousands of soldiers worked together, and it didn't take long to dig a trench three zhang wide and one zhang deep, enclosing the gentle slope, just when the Weishan camp was about to deepen the trench, the White Lotus Army on the mountain finally found that something was wrong.

Chang Wei immediately ordered the fire, and tens of thousands of soldiers in the Weishan battalion set fire to it on all sides, and immediately dry firewood, rags, and cotton cloths dipped in fire oil were thrown on the mountain, and rockets fell like raindrops into the depths of the forest.

For a while, the fire was monstrous, and at first, the White Lotus Army on the mountain was still watching the situation and discussing countermeasures, because although the fire was fierce, it would take some time to burn up. However, countless soldiers choked on the smoke emitted by the burning of the grass and trees in the mountains, and if they continued like this, they would be choked to death if they were not burned to death, not to mention that in the face of this kind of fire that spread all over the mountains, the soldiers could no longer care about any discipline and orders, and rushed down the mountain from the gentle slope one after another.

Before most of the soldiers could rush down the gentle slope, they were pushed and shoved by their companions, and they fell down the foot of the hill and into the trench, which was densely covered with sharp antlers and spikes, and the popping sound that pierced through the human body and the screams of the White Lotus soldiers continued to sound.

The comrades who swarmed from behind were squeezed down the trench and trampled to death by the soldiers further behind, and finally thousands of rebels filled the trench with corpses. The White Lotus Army braved the fire and smoke to cross the trench and rush towards the soldiers of the Weishan Battalion on the opposite side, but what awaited them was a dense rain of arrows and sharp antlers.

When the two sides were rushing around the trench, a team of embarrassed women in red suddenly rushed down from the mountain.

"Get out of the way!" the women were panicked but kept in basic formation, and they were clearly more than a step above the soldiers, and with a single rush they broke up the chaos running down the hill and reached the trench.

Chang Wei shouted: "It's Yanhuo Guard, remove a way for them to escape!"

Ma Yuan reminded: "But in this way, the White Lotus Sect soldiers will also rush out, and we can't stop it." ”

"It's okay!" Wu Ding said confidently: "The soldiers of the White Lotus Sect have been frightened, and now they only want to escape, this kind of army is not our opponent even if 50,000 is 500,000, even if they are let go!"

"That's right!" Chang Wei added: "It is a dangerous thing to trap beasts and fight, and the tactics of the art of war are to crush the enemy and prevent them from having the courage to fight to the death. ”

Wu Ding echoed: "Indeed, you can win a big victory by covering up the defeated army from behind, and there is no need to block the enemy and fight them to the death!"

Ma Yuan suddenly realized: "I see!"

While they were talking, the Weishan battalion changed its formation according to the order, and the army responsible for encircling and intercepting moved to the north of Yishan in turn, cutting off the connection between Yishan and Zoucheng.

The soldiers of the White Lotus Sect, who rushed down the mountain, swarmed to the east along the pre-set route of the Weishan battalion, and after advancing for a few miles, the defeated soldiers prepared to go around the east gate and enter Zou City.

Suddenly, Cheng Laohu led six or seven thousand people to surge, and the rout was so frightened that they could only plunge into the only passage in front of them - Hengshan Valley.

The rout soldiers who entered the valley had just taken a breath, and there was a shout of killing on both sides of the valley, and before they could see the situation clearly, a dense rain of arrows knocked down the front team of the rout, and the rear team was in a mess, and after several rounds of arrow rain in a row, thousands of soldiers of the Weishan battalion were killed.

He Wenlie, who was the leader, took the lead and killed the middle of the rout. I saw that the steel spears were routed everywhere, and the army behind him saw that he was so fierce and the morale was greatly boosted, and under the hard fighting, the rout soldiers were squeezed and fled indiscriminately without the slightest resistance, and in a moment He Wenlie killed through the enemy formation, and cut the rout into two sections.

The rout fled forward without a life in the front formation, and there was no way to escape in the rear, and they knelt down and surrendered, and the first instance of the rout only kneeled to know: when the day was just dawn, the commander of the Yishan camp was Chen Canyu, the right prime minister of the White Lotus Sect, and the three protectors of Qinglong, Baihu and Xuanwu were called by Xu Hongru into Zou Cheng to discuss the military.

"No wonder this easily broke the 50,000 army of the White Lotus Sect, it turned out that none of the enemy's main generals were there!"

Chang Wei immediately decided to lead the army to chase after him, and ordered the army to abandon the heavy baggage and camp and pursue lightly.

Not long after, people and horses shouted and fought for days in Yishan, only the sound of burning plants and trees was left, and in a large-scale Taoist temple in the depths of Yishan, dozens of Taoist priests were both angry and regretful to escape from the mountain fire.

The first few Taoists with dusty temperament and divine light in their eyes jumped into the spring and scolded hatefully: "The thieves of the Weishan camp dare to destroy my Dongshan faction, this revenge is not a man!"

"Senior brother, this mountain is destroyed, let's go to Laoshan Mountain to settle down first, and then find the person who ordered the mountain to be set on fire today to settle accounts!"

"Senior brother is right, the enemy is in the array of ten thousand armies, we can't find it, we can't kill it, settle down first and then settle down and settle accounts with the person who ordered it!"

"Okay, let's go......"

At this time, Chang Wei and Cheng Laohu and He Wenlie formed three arrows to intercept the rout, and in the afternoon, in the east of the valley, intercepted 5,000 rout soldiers who fled in a hurry, Chang Wei ordered: outflank left and right!

Immediately the horse was far away on the right, Cheng Shiyu went in a roundabout way on the left, Chang Wei was in the center and the horse took the lead in killing the rout, and the rout soldiers avoided like waves splitting between the waves when the steel spear was waved, and the three fierce generals in the rout roared angrily and stepped forward to meet the battle.

Chang Wei did not dodge the steel gun to the left, a person fell off the horse in response, the middle thief will scream and swing the knife to cut, Chang Wei put a gun, the tail of the gun to the right to send a sharp gun into his throat, when the rush passed, Chang Wei turned over and stabbed the last person under the horse.

The leader of the rout saw that Chang Wei stabbed his three generals off his horse in just one round, and was so frightened that he beat the horse and left. Chang Wei hung up his gun and picked up his bow, and shot an arrow to the back of his heart, and the rout saw that he was so brave and turned around and fled. The rout army was scattered, and they rushed wildly.

The deeper you go into the valley, the more the routs will be, and Chang Wei will become more and more brave the more he fights, slashing with his left hand and stabbing with his right hand, which is really invincible. The soldiers of the Weishan battalion never expected this young general to be so brave, and for a moment there was a thunderous roar of joy and a desperate fight, while the rout soldiers were scurrying around, slashing and trampling each other, and countless people died, and this chase did not end until nightfall.

Cheng Shiyu came to report: "My lord, there is Nishan Lake ahead, and the leader of the thief army will be Gao Yangcheng, the general of Zhengdong who is quite knowledgeable in the White Lotus Sect!"

"Gaoyang City?" Chang Weiden thought of the man on the 'White Lotus Court'.

"Order: Take advantage of the great victory to attack overnight, I will take Nishan Lake in one go!" (To be continued.) )