The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 408 Many divergent roads, easy to ambush

There are high mountains on both sides of the official road, and some places have been dug straight out. In this era, how much manpower and material resources will be spent to build such a mountain road, and how many lives will be taken, Xuan Shijing dare not imagine. .

"Lord Hou, look at this road. Although the road leading to Shangzhou City is the most advanced, but in the early years when the Central Plains were in chaos and most troops wanted to attack Shangzhou from Guanzhong, no one dared to take this road. .” Shi Hu said.

"Indeed, this road is narrower than the official road outside, with cliffs and high mountains on both sides. If you march from here, you only need a few troops to lie in ambush on the hillsides on both sides of the road, and attack them with rolling stones and giant trees. The person who is the leader of the army will become the turtle in the urn." Xuan Shijing smiled and said: "As long as he is a leader with some common sense, he will not lead his army to this kind of path."

"Master Hou, this is not necessarily the case, what if it is a surprise attack?" Shi Hu said: "The situation that Lord Hou said just now is only because the enemy army knows their whereabouts, so they design an ambush. Shangzhou, is the situation the same?"

"Shihu, do you know about Xia Houyuan? If you are a leader who is as good at attacking people from thousands of miles away as Xia Houyuan, then nothing is absolute. Of course, everything in this world is absolute, but if you are a general If you are not [-]% or [-]% sure, how dare you joke about the lives of thousands of brothers under your command? Although it is inevitable that there will be casualties in marching and fighting, as a general, what you have to do is to reduce the losses of your own camp to as little as possible while achieving victory. At the very least, as a general, it is common for a general to be stable, and occasionally have strange strategies and dangerous moves. However, in charge of the sages of history, it seems that no general has ever led troops to fight by relying on dangerous moves all day long. Of course, he loves to make dangerous moves There are quite a few good men." Xuan Shijing said.

Shi Hu and Xuan Shijing discussed marching and fighting, and Xuan Shijing suddenly remembered that when drinking tea in a teahouse years ago, Shi Hu intended to join the army. This is an opportunity to find a way for Shi Hu. My family members can't go against their wishes and follow Xuan Shijing to be a groom all the time.

Although Xuan Shijing wanted Shihu to stay in the Shenhou Mansion as a commander before, but looking at the situation now, it is not suitable.

"Shihu, it's the new year now. When we come back from Jingzhou, Lord Hou, I will find a chance to send you to the military camp in Longxi. It's up to you." Xuan Shijing said.

"Well, don't worry, Lord Hou, Shi Hu will definitely not lose the prestige of our Marquis Mansion." Shi Hu was so happy when he heard Xuan Shijing said that he would be sent to the military camp in Longxi.

Fighting on the battlefield is a dream that I have longed for since I was a child. Now, this dream is about to come true.

"Brother Chumo Zhang was transferred back to Chang'an this year. He still has a team in Longxi, and it has now been merged into the Longxi Zuowuwei camp. Now I don't know who the guard of Shicheng will be. The mountains are too high and the roads are too far away to help you, but the position of a small lieutenant, Lord Hou, I still have this little face." Xuan Shijing said.

"That's not necessary, Lord Hou. According to my Shihu's ability, the little lieutenant is still easy to catch. I have never been to the army once, and everything is unfamiliar. So, it is better to start from a small sergeant. Get up, keep your feet on the ground."

"The idea is very good. In the army, it's simple and simple, and it's complicated and complicated. It's easy to deal with straight men, but there will be no shortage of people who just go to Linglongxin. You have to be more careful in secret, Longxi. It is a good place for the military, and it is also a good place for the imperial court, so naturally there will be many people staring at Longxi." Xuan Shijing said: "Be careful in everything."

Suddenly, the leading guard in front reined in his horse quickly, stopped in place, rode on the horse, and pulled out the long knife hanging on the side of the horse.

Gao Jun, the leader, shouted loudly: "Everyone is on alert! There is an ambush!"

Long'er quickly turned the horse's head, rode to the side of the carriage, drew out the long knife she carried with her, and guarded the side of the carriage.

"What's going on?" Xuan Shijing looked at Long'er, then looked forward, but there was no movement at all.

"Master Hou, there are people ambushing on both sides of the mountain road ahead. I don't know how many people there are. If one of them didn't make a movement, it would be a disaster once we get to the front." Long'er said: "The front line There was a guard with extraordinary hearing ability, and when he heard the movement, he told Gao Jun."

"That's it." Xuan Shijing murmured in a low voice: "Let's stop here, they will also play drums in their hearts."

"That's true." Long'er thought for a while, nodded and said.

"So, hum, wait and see what happens, pass the order down, the team rests in place, drinks some water, eats something, and secretly guards." Xuan Shijing said.

"It's Lord Hou." Long'er replied in a low voice, and then steered her horse forward to the front of the team, with her back turned to the road in front, facing Gao Jun's face, and shouted loudly towards the team: "Your Lord has an order. Take a rest, drink some water, and eat something!" While talking, he winked at Gao Jun.

Gao Jun nodded, indicating clearly, and then whispered something to the guard next to him.

After receiving the order, everyone took their knives, got off their horses, sat next to the horses, took out steamed buns and jerky from the pockets on the horse's back, and ate them earnestly, occasionally whispering to each other Something, like an ordinary chat.

Seeing this, the group of people who had already ambushed on the mountain not far ahead were a little confused. Why did they stop and start eating after walking well?

"Boss, what should we do? Wait a while, or rush down now." A man in gray linen with a cloth scarf on his head said to a middle-aged man in his 30s who was carefully observing the situation below.

"Leopard, what do you think they are going to do? They walked well, and stopped as soon as they said they would stop." The leader said a little puzzled.

"Just now I heard the woman below shouting that their Lord Marquis ordered the team to rest, eat and drink, and rest for a while before going on the road. It's normal to stop like this." Leopard also followed the leading middle-aged man down Look, while observing, while talking.

"You are so stupid, who would dismount and rest in such a place?" After hearing Leopard's explanation, the leader looked at Leopard like an idiot and said, "This is not far from the exit in front. After leaving this mountain road, there is an even section of official road, with no cliffs on both sides, and a wide view, wouldn't it be safer to rectify in that kind of place?"

(End of this chapter)