Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 88 Strategic Anticipation

About forty miles south of Fengzhou, the Jialing River has a big inverted "ji" turn.

If the road followed the river, it would take more than ten miles to walk, so here, tourists, businessmen, and local people choose to climb over the lower mountains.

Slowly walk out of a road, because it is the main road to communicate with Guanzhong, Hanzhong, and Shudi, so there are a lot of people coming and going.

Over time, a settlement was formed, and it became a stockade where many people lived, called Malingzhai.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos, many bandits ran rampant, some robbers occupied the cottage to do evil, and then they were surrounded and suppressed by the official army.

Li Yangui once again assembled his troops here, gathered the Shu army who had retreated from the north, and many reinforcements from the south, and prepared to attack Fengzhou northward.

Standing on the top of Malingzhai Peak overlooking, the meandering Jialing River is like a long silver dragon, passing through the mountains and mountains.

"Commander, Gao Yanchou's reinforcements are coming soon, should we wait for a few more days?" asked the general next to Li Yangui, who was accompanied by more than 20 generals at all levels.

"No need, there are enough people." Li Yangui pressed the hilt of the sword and directly rejected it.

The generals did not speak, but their faces were not good-looking.

The expressions of a few of them changed, and they were so anxious that they almost opened their mouths. After a moment of hesitation, they said in a low voice, "But handsome, then Shi Congyun is still outside Fengzhou City."

Li Yangui turned back, and the generals quickly lowered their heads, not daring to look at him or speak aloud.

He didn't say anything in the end, just looked down at the dense forest below.

Soldiers of the Shu army are building camps and sentry towers with felled pine wood on the river bank, setting up firewood to resist red deer, and many tents stand under the trees in the mountains, turning the entire mountain into a huge military camp.

With the support from all walks of life and the gathered skirmishers, at this time the entire mountain top of the Shu army had seven or eight thousand, with camps all over the place, cutting down half of the trees on the top of the mountain, and having the strength to fight the Zhou army again.

His Majesty, who is far away in Chengdu, is in a hurry. In addition to contacting the Northern Han and Southern Tang attacks to contain Dazhou, he is also sending more troops to the north. He ordered the surrounding towns to quickly move closer to Qingniling and Guzhen to support Maling. Village.

Among them, the most numerous one is the Jiedu envoy of Wuding Army. The army of holding the holy and controlling the crane led by Gao Yanchuan is going to the north. It is the elite of the central army of the state of Shu.

According to the report, even Guzhen has not been reached, and it is still near Qingniling. It will take time to go north to Malingzhai.

Li Yangui had already made great preparations to compete with Shi Congyun again.

The previous fiasco outside Wuwei City left the battlefield veteran still fresh in his memory, and every time he thinks about it, it feels like yesterday.

In his opinion, Shi Congyun's military use has five points of wisdom, three points of battlefield experience, and two points of courage not to fear death.

In his whole life, he killed from Shanxi to Shuzhong, fought all his life, and had seen too many people, but young people like Shi Congyun still amazed him.

Being able to do this is already shocking. If the other party is only sixteen years old, it will be another shock.

After hesitating for a long time, he sighed slowly: "Shi Congyun's army is in the north, and the Zhou Dynasty's control of the He army is worthy of being the elite of the forbidden army, and the son of the Zhou State's first fierce general is not vain.

Let's wait for Gao Yanyu."

As soon as these words came out, many of the generals around him breathed a sigh of relief.

In the past two months, Shi Congyun has cast a psychological shadow over them.

At first, they didn't pay much attention to Shi Congyun, who held the title of the son of the No. [-] general of the Zhou Dynasty, and they didn't even know that there was such a person among the generals of Zhou Jun.

After all, who cares about a 16-year-old.

It was not until they were defeated all the way to the north of Wuwei City, they were pulled out of eight camps in a row, and they were beaten up again in the east of the city. They suffered heavy losses and lost Wuwei.

Now it's time to talk about discoloration.

Outside Wuwei City that day, everyone saw Shi Congyun's flamboyant banner rushing directly into the formation, unstoppable by the river on the right wing, tearing a big hole, and his bravery was irresistible.

(It was hard to see people in the army. When they saw the flag, they thought that Shi Congyun was leading the charge. In fact, he fell behind halfway, and the soldiers who carried the flag were advancing.)
After more than two months of consecutive defeats, no one was willing to face Shi Congyun's soldiers directly.

How could he not know their timidity and fear, but there was nothing he could do for a while, and they lost their hearts.

However, Li Yangui felt that there was still a chance. He was far more familiar with the geographical situation in this area than Shi Congyun.

Since the head-to-head confrontation is not Zhou Jun's opponent, then another way can be found, food!

Food is the lifeblood of an army. If you cannot defeat your opponent head-on, you will cut off your food and cut off your food. As long as people don’t eat, no matter how many troops they have, they will collapse without a fight.

He already had an idea in his mind and made a plan for the battle.

Li Yangui originally wanted to carry out the counterattack plan by himself, but he was ashamed, but he was reminded by his subordinates. He also thought of the pressure on him from the Zhou army outside Wuwei City, and the sense of oppression caused by Shi Congyun, and finally decided to wait.

When the elite soldiers of the military governor of Wuding, Gao Yanjue, came to join and act, before that, we can only hope that the military governor of Wuwei can still defend Fengzhou City.

This time, the time unknowingly came to the beginning of August.

In the autumn, the Jialing River in the morning has already begun to frost, the fog fills the valley, the two sides of the river are hard to see each other, only faint shouts can be heard, the birds are sparse in the mountains and rivers, and many plants and trees are turning yellow.

Gao Yanzhu's army finally reached the river bank west of Malingzhai.

The flags standing in the forest are particularly conspicuous, fluttering all over the mountains and fields, the drums and trumpets of the army spread all over the east and west sides of the Jialing River, and the echoes are endless.

Gao Yanchou's army holding the holy crane was well-groomed and well-armored. The spears and great swords flickered coldly. The neat team walked in the sun-dappled forest, the light spots swaying and sparkling patrols.

On that day, Gao Yanyu did not order to cross the river, but only brought some people to see Li Yangui.

Li Yangui lived with him on the top of the mountain at the highest point of Maling Village, and gave everyone a drink to relieve the dust.

Li Yangui was the commander of the northern line of command, Gao Yankui's superior, and he was accompanied by Wang Luan, the envoy of the Dyeing Institute, and Lu Yanke, the envoy of recruiting.

Li Yangui backed away his personal soldiers, overlooking the mountains and rivers to the north.

On the top of the mountain, there were only Gao Yankui, the recruiting envoy, Lu Yanke, the recruiting envoy, Wang Luan, the envoy of the dyeing house, and Li Jin, the commander of the pioneers.

Gao Yancuo has a serious face with Chinese characters, long beard, drooping down his chin, neatly arranged, and looks unsmiling. Even when climbing a mountain, he wears heavy armor and carries a sword around his waist.

Gao Yan's concubine was also from Bingzhou, Taiyuan, and later entered Shu with Meng Zhixiang.

After the two people saluted, Li Yangui didn't buy Guanzi, and said directly: "The old man wants to fight a counterattack. Using our army's understanding of the mountains and rivers, after leaving the Zhou army's side, cut off his food route and trap him in Fengzhou. Down the city."

(End of this chapter)