It is different from what ordinary people think of Mount Tai as just a mountain.
The real Mount Tai is bordered by Jishui River on the left and Wenshui River on the other hand. There are valleys in between, and the streams in the valleys all flow through these two rivers.
In a valley two miles southeast of Wangqin Peak from Mount Tai, there is a valley where the valley water flows into Wenshui River. At this time, Wang Kuang and Hu Mubiao's troops were crossing the river one by one.
The valley was no more than waist deep and no more than ten paces wide, so we just lifted our hems and crossed the river.
Wang Kuang and Hu Mubiao were last. They waited until the tribe had crossed the river and set up camp by the river before they crossed the river. This was to be prudent with their troops.
At this moment Hu Mubiao and Wang Kuangzheng were talking:
"On a public holiday, do you want to exchange the land that your family owns in Mouwenshui? When the time comes to capture Wangqinfeng, I will exchange the captured land with you for that piece of land."
Mouwenshui is a tributary of Wenshui. It and the other three Beiwen, Shiwen, Chaiwen, and the mainstream Wenshui are collectively called the "Five Wens".
The entire Taishan County is diverted from the Wuwen River to irrigate farmland. Since the Han Dynasty, water conservancy in this area has been developed, and nearly 10,000 hectares of farmland can be obtained.
Hu Mubiao pointed out that the land owned by Wang Kuang's family was the most fertile farmland near the water conservancy.
How could Wang Kuang be willing to sell it! Money is just floating wealth, and the land is the foundation of the family forever. If Wang Kuang sells that land, wouldn't he become the sinner of the Wang family?
Clinging to Hu’s mother’s family is not like this.
Just when Wang Kuang was looking for a reason to refuse, the troops who had already crossed the river began to become a little commotion.
The two of them were on horseback, holding a pergola with their hands and looking ahead. They saw an army, with flags fluttering, meandering towards them.
Without further delay, the two of them rode across the river and then returned to their respective military positions.
Now they are in trouble. The enemy has come out in force and is blocking them on this tidal flat.
The incoming army belonged to Zhang Chong. They gathered all their forces and even ignored the prison entrances on the mountain. They led the entire army down the mountain to fight the incoming army bloody to the end.
What made Zhang Chong make this determination was Meng Ju who rushed towards him in blood-clothed clothes.
At the last moment, Meng Ju finally came back. He did not cry and complain about how he was attacked by the Shanliao people during the process, but directly told Zhang Chong:
"There are five hundred enemies with sophisticated fighting equipment. The leaders' banners are 'King' and 'Hu Mu'."
When Zhang Chong heard the news, he guessed that they must be powerful soldiers from Fenggao County outside the mountain, because he had heard about it from Fenggao Hu's mother's house.
In the past, Big Beard often introduced him to powerful people in the surrounding area, and this was Hu's mother's family.
Knowing that powerful soldiers were invading, Zhang Chong decisively ordered his entire army to come out of the mountain. To fight against such local powerful soldiers, the only chance was to attack them head-on. If they held on to the stronghold and had constant backup from other people, they would be the ones trapped to death.
In this way, Zhang Chong marched in the direction led by Meng Ju, and finally blocked the soldiers of Wang and Hu Mu at the edge of the stream.
At this time, Zhang rushed to his headquarters, and Tian Jun on horseback looked at the situation and shouted, "It's a pity." If he had come a moment earlier, he could have attacked while the other side was crossing the river.
Now the opportunity has been missed.
Zhang Chong shook his head and tried his best to look at the opposite military formation.
At this moment, the sudden arrival of Zhang Chong's military formation on the opposite side caused a cloud of dust to rise in panic. But soon, with the support of their respective military officials, they reorganized their troops and formed two military formations on the river bank.
The army on the left erected a flag with the character "Mother Hu" in it, with flags of various colors and characters flying under it, and there was a state of order.
Their entire formation was divided into six small military formations, arranged front and back, three formations in a row. Each formation had fifty people, divided into five rows, and the leaders of each formation held flag guns and wore two levels of armor.
Zhang Chong frowned, this soldier was the most elite soldier Zhang Chong had encountered in all his battles.
Its soldiers are also configured in a small pure formation and a large flower formation.
The three small military formations at the front are all spear and spear formations. The rear military formations cannot be clearly seen, but according to the military tactics, they should be the bow and crossbow formations in the middle, and the two formations on the left and right are sword and spear formations.
Looking to the right, the army raised a flag with the word "王". Zhang Chong thought for a while and couldn't figure out where the powerful people in Fenggao were named Wang.
Although Zhang Chong didn't know who he was fighting for, he didn't dare to take it lightly, so his soldiers were sharper than the left formation.
Zhang Chong glanced around and saw a cavalry team in the right corner of his formation, which looked to include twenty people.
Then its formation was also divided into four small formations, with two in front and two in back, but this army was weird. The first two formations were full of swordsmen, and there was only one leader with four or five, and the last two formations were all
Crossbowman!
This army has quite a lot of armor and archers.
After viewing the enemy's formation, Zhang Chongcai sighed, Taishan County's powerful troops are famous all over the world, and their soldiers are much better than those of Chengyang's powerful troops that he fought a year ago!
But this was not the time to lament. When the army was forming on the opposite side, Zhang Chong's troops were also forming formation.
After seeing the situation of the enemy troops, Zhang Chong thought for a while. He took Ding Sheng's Daocheng Tun as the front line, followed by Zhang Dan's Gemao Tun on the left, Chen Huan's Shesheng Tun on the right, and behind Ding Sheng's army.
Li Damou also placed swords and spears to thicken Ding Sheng's military formation.
In the end, his own collision team and assault cavalry were hidden on the right side of Li Da's formation.
In this way, Zhang Chong led the entire army to move to the right and aimed the main attack direction at Wang's soldiers on the right.
Hu Mubiao and Wang Kuang on the opposite side were also observing the formation in front of the formation. They saw Zhang Chong's army moving to the right and knew that the main attack direction of the opponent's army should be Wang Kuang.
So Hu Mubiao immediately dispatched two groups of spearmen and spears to Wang Kuang's right formation to cover him.
A moment later, the two armies were in formation, and the whole place was silent for a moment. Everyone knew that a fierce and bloody battle was about to break out on this river beach.
Xie Bi, who was beside Zhang Chong, thought for a while and offered some advice to Zhang Chong:
"Qu, those who formed with their backs to the river, although it was a taboo for military strategists, it also became a desperate fight. Our army fought fiercely with them head-on. The enemy had no way to retreat, and everyone fought to the death. This morale was different. They were already fighting to the death.
With a large number of people, good armor and weapons, and everyone fighting to the death, this battle will be difficult! Bi has a strategy that can defeat his army."
So Xie Bi said to Zhang Chong like this.
After hearing this military plan, Zhang Chong was overjoyed. He immediately asked the messengers around him to pass on his orders, so that all military generals would carry out the orders according to the orders. He also strictly enforced military discipline. Anyone who did not obey the military orders would be killed!
This was the first time that Zhang Chong issued a beheading order to the entire army. All the generals who received the military report were horrified and shouted solemnly. Only Ding Sheng, who was at the head of the formation, received the military report and cursed her!
After another half moment, Zhang Chong saw that the opponent had not yet made any move, and secretly cursed him for being cunning!
It turns out that Zhang Chong wanted to wait for the opponent to attack first. When the opponent makes a move, the morale bonus of fighting against the enemy will be automatically broken. But who knows that the opponent also knows how to use defense instead of attack, and he is a good person!
Okay, since you won't come, Nai Gong will attack!
After thinking about it, Zhang Chong ordered the commander to blow the conch on the trumpet. As the conch sounded, all the soldiers under Zhang Chong's command stood up with their swords and swords in hand, preparing to listen to the sound of the drum and attack.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Three shirtless warriors behind Zhang Chong received the order and waved their drum spines to beat the three large drums! The strong sound of the drums spread throughout the valley, causing the birds in the forest to startle.
Ding Sheng, who had been at the head of the formation, heard the sound of the drums, waved his right arm, and shouted to all the swordsmen in the camp: