And in Jianmen Pass of Tianxiaxiongguan where Jiange County is located: Li Shouzhen, who has been moved to the east of Xingying Dutong, Shanghu Army, Zhu Guo, Special Advancement, and Inspection School War Department, who has been given the title of "Loyalty and Enlightenment of the Holy Land", Also screaming in mouth foam, after the defeat of the ambush of Haru Zijian, the few generals who escaped first from the path in the deep valley of the mountain gorge:
"Waste, all waste! Real waste!"
"I have given you the most elite men, the best equipment, and the advantages of natural and dangerous places; I hope to defeat the enemy in one battle, and set back the thieves! Also give Dongying some face..."
"What's the result? You still fled back after preparing for the ambush! Are those thieves who are all gods, can they fly through your ambush?"
However, Zhang Wan, who was a pioneer in the camp during the period, argued:
"Tong Tong Ming Jian, although those thieves are not gods, they are really sharp and hard to use as firearms!"
Then the others also quickly agreed upon hearing the words:
"Exactly! The firearms of the thief army can be reached from far and near, and everything in it is smashing the flesh!"
"The firearms of the thief radiated very fast, almost without dropping the bow and crossbow, but piercing through dozens of steps of human armor."
"There were fires and cannons like thunder. No matter the large platoons or heavy shields, they couldn't stop them; they were killed and wounded and evaded..."
"Even if the children are desperate to get close to fighting with them, they will be steadfast and courageous, and will not retreat!"
"If it weren't for being familiar with the land, I'm afraid these people under his command would not be able to bring them back!"
Li Shouzhen frowned when she heard the words, but interrupted them with some impatience to talk and complain:
"Can there be discoveries in the formation of Naer, the disadvantages and obstacles to those thieves?"
"But there are some!!"
Seeing that Li Shouzhen's face became more and more ugly, Zhang Wan, as if suddenly blessed to the soul, shouted:
"Those thief army's firearms seem to be very water-phobic, and it seems that the five elements inhibit each other. In addition, after being contaminated with blood and other filthy things, they are also very silent..."
"Yes, yes, that's the case... or because the thief army has evil methods..."
The other generals also echoed the words:
"Unreasonably, how can the enemy say that the power of the ghost is chaotic, and the army is chaotic..."
However, Li Shouzhen reprimanded in a solemn voice, and then confidently said:
"So I have a success in my heart. The thief army has the inherent benefits of firearms, but how much can it stretch and play in the gorge? As long as our army does not give me the opportunity to engage in close combat, it will be more dangerous. Step trapping deer wood, good use of strong bows and hard crossbows, falling rocks and rolling woods, stone cannon carts and crossbows are high to meet the attack, and he will definitely be disciplined to get close.
"It should have been a crime for you and other teachers to lose and escape. Now the enemy situation is fierce, and they are given an opportunity to redeem, and then lead the various ministries of the local group of Honshu to the top of the Jianshan cliff. Duoyunmushi thinks that the standby echoes Guancheng... "
After they took their orders, Li Shouzhen said to Li Changzai, the newly appointed in-house officer of the Eastern Capital Prison:
"Please also supervise, but rest assured, I have divided the people into Shoujiang Youguan and Shimen Trails, and blocked the ramps and bird trails on the cliffs of Jianshan with trenches; never let Zhong Hui and Deng Ai (a strange soldier attack Shu). ) The story repeats itself. If the thief army comes, it can only attack the sword gate one way, and the dislocation of the enemy and us will be the dead place of this generation..."
The vows he said so swearly naturally have evidence. We must know that Jianmen Pass itself is located in the terrain where two mountains are intersected and only one line is left. It is built high on the side of the cliff, and in the gorge road which is named "Mashoe Kip" in front of Jianmen Pass, it is also a hundred zhang. The cliffs stand like a wall, and a U-shaped arc is rounded under Dajian Mountain.
And within this large turning arc, which is several miles long, apart from a footpath excavated by the wall of Dajian Mountain, it is all a deep chaotic stone stream that birds and beasts must avoid; therefore, Within this narrow turn of the valley, there is no room for the army to deploy and deploy.
On the contrary, before they marched to Jianmenguan, they had to be attacked and harassed from the pre-arranged falling rocks, rolling logs, arrows, and torch ash bottles on the cliffs above their heads. Even if you can drive in before the sword gate closes, it will inevitably be damaged, let alone bring those firearms intact.
"I wish so, the miscellaneous family will wait for good news..."
However, he was full of confidence in Li Shouzhen, and he still saw the dangers of thieves’ arms under Nanzheng City. However, Li Changzai, who had escaped from the military prison, was thoughtful and powerless to respond:
When Li Changzai, who was secretly frowning, went to Guancheng to prepare to draft a memorial to Chengdu Xingzai, Li Shouzhen changed her mind and called her soldiers to the heads:
"I want you to go to Jiange City to collect the filthy things from Luo Geban and the blood of pigs and dogs, and sprinkle them between the deer woods and the horses in front of the customs, and then store more buckets and large tanks on the hills in case..."
Not long after his words fell, he suddenly saw a large group of birds flying up in the distant mountains, and there was still a faint sound of murderous army marching in; then it turned into a sporadic fight from a high place in the distance. And shouting: Li Shouzhen couldn't help but his face tightened, and he saw a general rushing forward and shouting:
"Dutong, the Lingtou trail on the Horseshoe Gorge outside the pass was suddenly attacked by a thief army, please hurry up and send your troops to support!!"
"Damn it, how could the thief army be on the Lingtou Trail? Could it be that they came back with Zhang Wan and the others... Don't these bastards know how to cut the way back..."
Li Shouzhen couldn't help but hammer the wall with a heavy punch and said cruelly:
At the same time as the sound of the attack at Jianmen Pass, the distant mountains also rang out one after another with resounding and resounding roars, and it was shocked that countless birds flew up and wandered for a long time and refused to fall. ; More various beasts rushed out of the mountains in a panic, then crashed into the trees in panic, fell into the rocks, or simply jumped into the stream.
Thus staged scenes of magical scenes in the realistic versions of "Standing on the Tree Waiting for the Rabbit", "Stone Rolling Sheep", and "Pig Floating on the Water". And after the continuous sound and billowing smoke and dust of a large piece of rock falling, it was only after the large and small rocks fell down and overwhelmed the large mountain forest. Then, a temporary ramp was formed at the mountain pass, and a group of dusty faces was climbed with both hands and feet. A man with ragged clothes and scars with his hands and feet scratched.
"Is this the power of Laozi's explosives again? But it's not too much of a landslide..."
And Li Hanzhi who lived in it could not help but spit out his mouthful yellow saliva and hiss: It's just that he can't help frowning again when he looks at the still magnificent mountain with towering ancient trees and dense trees. I just feel that since he decided to work for the Taiping Army, he seems to have forged an indissoluble bond with all kinds of mountains.
From the Xingshi Road between Shanxi and Shandong, to the Jinniu Road south of Bailao Pass, and then to the Guanghan Road in front of Jianmen Pass; he didn’t know how many high mountains he had climbed, or how many times he had been in high mountains. Fight with all kinds of enemies in the cliffs and deep valleys. It can be said that, as a northern army general who was known as a plagiarist, he hadn't climbed the mountains in the first half of his life for more than half a year.
Of course, this time I took the initiative to request orders to be the leader of this path of surprise soldiers, which was somewhat stimulated by the tragic conditions of the Harrier Stream. After losing a full and a half of the first regiment, and then moving step by step to watch his subordinates attack Jianmenguan, this kind of thing can no longer satisfy his growing blood and desire to break the enemy and make achievements.
"Don’t tell me the Lord, just because there is something that can be used to open mountains and cleave rocks, we have taken the shortcut of the old nose... Otherwise, we have to go to the Motianling side and turn a hundred on the sheep’s intestine path of Yinping’s old road. Eighty miles, it's nothing too much!"
Then, another local mountain citizen who was recruited from Yichang Military City in Lizhou, was full of awe and shock and proactively introduced:
"In other words, the front is Xibiling. It is said that Deng Ai traveled here, because he couldn't find a place to climb, and then the first soldiers wrapped in felt and rolled down, breaking through the last obstacle in the Jianmen Mountains. Therefore. Now, in the rocky crevices in the mountains, you can occasionally see broken and broken weapons!"
Soon after, someone yelled again:
"Report!! Deng Temple and Kongming Stele were found ahead..."
Soon after, Li Hanzhi, who had climbed the top of the mountain again, looked down from the Xibi Ridge, and saw that the mountain was sharp and turbulent, and there were also deep stone streams formed by the confluence of many mountain streams and falling waterfalls at the bottom; just look casually. At the first glance, it was natural for people to fight two battles and couldn't help but want to retreat. . However, this is no longer difficult to defeat the Taiping army who drove through the mountains and split the rocks and built bridges to pave the way up to this point.
They just opened a campsite here to fix it for a long time, and then they saw the mule team following up with dry food, canned food, and medicine, as well as bundles of professional equipment. Then Jin State rested and prepared for a night. After the sky was bright the next day, several light rope ladders hanging straight down the cliff were already laid out.
However, they threw down the felled trees from the top of the mountain, one after another with branches and leaves; they fell on the rocky and steep slopes below the cliff; they rolled down on the rocky mountain streams and stirred up. There were fierce echoes after another, and flocks of birds and beasts were once again startled.
Therefore, when the first group of Taiping sergeants climbed down, they used the axes and saws they carried with them to simply open up and organize one or two, and then press the preset wooden rafts, and these trees lying down and down became okay. Temporary aisle to settle down. Then, the bundled pack animals were also hung down amid the constant wailing.
So just at noon that day, the partial division headed by Li Hanzhi took the lead, and they already encountered and saw the first military village and outpost set up under the mountain wall. Then the assistant soldier of local origin could not help but yell out a little excitedly:
"Shimenzhai, that is Shimenzhai... After passing Shimen Mountain, you will be at the Guyinping Pass between (Longzhou) Jiangyou and (Jianzhou) Pu'an..." (End of this chapter)