The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 634
If the rich are better than the poor, one is on the ground and the other is in the sky.

If the poor and the lowly are compared to a carriage and a horse, he has to drive me free.

Others laugh at me for being too crazy, but I laugh at others for not being able to see through.

There is no tomb of Wuling heroes, no flowers and no wine to hoe the fields.

——Excerpt from "Song of Peach Blossom Temple" by Tang Yin (Ming Dynasty)
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Sun Tzu said: "Walk your armor and move forward, stay day and night, double the road, and fight for profit for a hundred miles, then capture three generals. The strong will be the first, and the tired one will be the last. The method will come in eleven; if you fight for profit for fifty miles, you will fall. As a general, half of the method is perfect; if you fight for profit within thirty miles, you will get two-thirds of it."

Just when the rebels launched a general attack at Yanmen Pass, [-] black water cavalry led by general Wan Yanmang Gutai marched south from Bozhou (now Khabarovsk, Russia) and quickly captured Huaiyuan Mansion in Bohai County. At two important places, Tie Li Mansion, the soldiers pointed directly at Longquan Mansion, the capital of Bohai County.

As long as the Heishui Mohe army continues to move south along the Huhan River, with the foot strength of the Heishui Mohe iron cavalry, they can reach Longquan Mansion in Shangjing in one day.

Since Bohai County is far away in the area of ​​Baishan and Heishui, since the founding of the country, there has been almost no war.The city of Longquan Mansion in Shangjing is not even as tall and solid as the cities of Yalu Mansion and Fuyu Mansion in Xijing, which are adjacent to Datang, and Nanhai Mansion in Nanjing, which are adjacent to Silla.

The long-term peace and prosperity have made the more than 2 defenders of Longquan Mansion in Shangjing no longer have the courageous spirit of Moheren forest hunters.

When the army of Heishui Mohe blatantly invaded, one can imagine the panic of Longquan Mansion in Shangjing.

Daqinmao, king of Bohai County, was terrified, and issued ten emergency royal orders to his son Dahonglin, ordering him to withdraw his troops from Yanmen Pass and rush to rescue Longquan Mansion in Shangjing at night.

At this time, Yanmen Pass was full of ruins and corpses. As long as there were one or two more violent attacks, Yanmen Pass would surely fall.

When the tenth royal order of King Da Qinmao of Bohai County arrived, Da Honglin finally couldn't sit still and his heart collapsed.

The father's words are sincere, and the brothers are staring at each other.

If he refuses to return, if the Longquan Mansion in Shangjing really falls, even if he captures Yanmen Pass and takes down the Hedong Road, after returning to the court, the position of the crown prince will be lost at least, and at worst he will die.

Looking at the smoke billowing Yanmenguan Tower, Da Honglin's face was livid, and regardless of the efforts of the rebel generals of Yunzhou, the Xi clan and the remaining Khitan chiefs to keep him, he threw the golden order arrow into the ground and roared: "Pass my general order!" , the three armies rushed out and returned to help Shangjing!"

In a short while, only more than [-] people were left in the Bohai County to guard the flags, ox carts, tents and other supplies, and the remaining [-] cavalry rushed forward lightly.

On the vast wilderness, the iron cavalry of Bohai Commandery marched towards Yingzhou at a starry night.Where the army passed by, smoke and dust billowed.

Along the way, Da Honglin was furious.

Heishui Mohe is so shameless that he usually hides in forests and ice fields to make a living, and if he doesn't pay God's favor, he will just repay it.Today, they took advantage of the fire to loot and invade Bohai County.It's really frustrating to be so young.

This time, once he saves Shangjing, he will ask for the king's order, hold high the black flag, and personally lead a hundred thousand cavalry to conquer Bozhou!
After several days and nights of galloping, 10 horses finally arrived at Bailang Mountain. At this time, they were exhausted and extremely tired.All the officers and men muster their spirits, and in two or three hours, the whole army will be able to enter Liucheng in Yingzhou, supply food and grass, and rest and recuperate.

The road for withdrawing troops and returning to aid is about eight or nine hundred miles. It starts from Yanmenguan, crosses the Luan River, and arrives at Bailang Mountain. There are no mountains on this road, and it is all endless grassland.

For the rest of the distance, in the two hundred miles from Bailang Mountain to Liucheng in Yingzhou, there is only one hill, which is not considered desolate and remote, nor is it the best place to set up an ambush.

What's more, this area is far away from the Central Plains, and it is the territory of the Yan army and the Khitan people.Da Honglin led his troops from Bohai Commandery to Yanmen Pass, taking this road.

In this hilly area, there are no steep canyons and deep ravines.To the southwest of the hills is a plain, piercing the hills, and to the northwest is a vast grassland, and the intermittent hills add up to only more than [-] miles.This kind of terrain is really not a dangerous place for soldiers on the prairie cavalry who come and go like the wind.

At this time, although the twilight is dim, there is still some time before sunset, and there is still plenty of light in the hills.If you can move fast, by the time it gets dark, the army should have already left the valley.

More than a dozen scouts took turns to report, and there was no abnormality in the valley.

However, as the general of the three armies, there can be no flukes. When marching thousands of miles, any route should be prepared in advance, carefully investigated, and confirmed to be correct before proceeding.

As a brave and skilled general, Da Honglin knew the terrain around the White Wolf Mountain very well, especially when going through the valley at night.However, at this moment, he was so angry that he had lost his mind, completely wrapped up in anger and hatred.

Dahong weighed it a bit, and immediately ordered: "Five riders parallel, gallop through, and enter the valley!"

The military order was issued, and the [-] cavalry rode their horses into the valley in an orderly manner.

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The setting sun is like blood, heralding the imminent war.

A young general, with a lion helmet and silver armor, a sable fur apron with ears hanging down, and a snow-white cloak fluttering in the wind.

Bai Fu stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the smoke and dust entering the valley, he was full of ambition: "One hundred thousand cavalry finally entered my gate."

He turned his head and smiled at the lone wolf: "Old wolf, I remember you taught me a Khitan saying: No matter how many sheep there are, they are still for the wolves!"

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This hill is really not a dangerous place.But what Bai Fu likes is precisely its mediocre appearance.

A disciple of a military strategist, he attaches great importance to the terrain of mountains and rivers.Sun Tzu, the sage of soldiers, specially used two articles on the Art of War, "Terrain" and "Nine Places", to discuss the classification of geographical environments and their influence on marching operations and offensive and defensive decisions.

A section of river, a mountain ridge, and a section of valley, if used properly, can be worth a hundred thousand troops.

The hills selected by Bai Fu seem to be soothing and stretching, but in fact they are slow on the outside and curved on the inside.At the entrance is a round hill like a steamed bun, and the road is wide. After ten miles, the rolling hills gradually rise from the ground.

What is more unique is that this road is like a huge snail shell.From Liucheng in Yingzhou to Yanmenguan, you walk from the bottom of the snail shell to the mouth of the shell. The more you walk, the wider it becomes, without any sense of cramped and steep.Conversely, walking from the shell mouth to the inside of the snail shell, the entrance is wide, and the more you go in, the narrower and more tortuous.

Bai Fu observed the horseshoe prints of the iron cavalry of Bohai Commandery, and expected that Da Honglin and other generals had not noticed this unique terrain.

Retracing the old path does not mean it will be safe.The same road is both a door to life and a dead end!

Bai Fu wanted to take advantage of this terrain difference between north and south to deal a fatal blow to the Bohai iron cavalry.

In order to increase the odds of winning, Bai Fu deliberately interfered with the speed of the postal envoy of Bohai County King Kuaima.By controlling the time when the ten urgent king's orders were delivered to Dahong's tent, the time when the Bohai County iron cavalry entered the hills was squeezed into the evening.

Once a night attack is launched, the Tang army will be able to make full use of this unique terrain and exert extraordinary combat power.

After the scouts from Bohai Commandery completed their investigation, the five thousand cavalry in Anbei Court, which had disappeared for a long time, were all in place.

Hundreds of Tang soldiers moved at the same time, wielding their iron axes, and instantly cut off the giant tree that had been sawed almost to pieces.Dozens of towering giant trees on the hillside crashed down, firmly blocking the northern exit.

The three thousand Tang army cavalry and the one thousand heavy armor Modao army who blocked the mountain pass to the south had already been waiting in the dense forest for a long time.

Bai Fu's careful deployment was an exhaustive strategy, which was to wipe out the hundred thousand Bohai cavalry in this unknown hill.

White Wolf Mountain, on the way of no return, will use the thousands of corpses of Bohai iron cavalry to make a famous altar and become a god in one battle!
(End of this chapter)