Chapter 550: Everyone in the World Calls Me a Poison Osprey
In the twilight of winter, even the clouds in the sky have become heavy, pressing down layer by layer. When you raise your head, you will be close at hand.
The marching cavalry battalion suddenly stopped under the Shuzhou Mountains.
"Military advisor, I saw Xihe."
Stepping out of the carriage, Sima Xiu silently held his hands and looked at the scene ahead. Beside him, several corpses of Shu scouts who had been killed were lying on the cold river bank.
As the accompanying general said, at the foot of the mountain, there is a river that goes around the mountain. It is about five feet wide. The entire river bed is winding like a snake. The gravel washed down from the mountain is piled up on the river bank.
"Commander, the water is about two feet deep." General Pi took back the withered bamboo and mugwort with a determined look on his face.
Sima Mao sat on the ground, drawing something with a dead branch. After a long time, he spoke seriously.
"Can I ride across the river and into the mountains?"
"It can be ridden... but the mountains in Shuzhou are rugged. Beyond ten miles of mountainous terrain, the horses will not be able to run. When the time comes, I'm afraid I will have to lead the horses for a march. Besides, the horses we are waiting for are all hidden in the mountains according to the military advisor's requirements.
The forest twenty miles away."
In addition to the three thousand cavalry camp holding down Yuguan, the other seven thousand people had already hidden Liang Maer twenty miles behind them.
Sima Xiu's face was expressionless. He knew it. After Xia'er's spies brought back the news, Xu Buyi must have hidden a large army in the mountains of Shuzhou to guard the Qidao.
There are three ways to enter Shu. Needless to say, Yu Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack due to natural dangers. As for Bailu County, it has always been the focus of Shu people's defense. Along the way, I don't know how many cities need to be conquered.
Can enter Shuzhou.
The last road is the strange path in the mountains in front of us.
"Is there a river bridge nearby?" Sima Xiu frowned.
"Military advisor, there are several old wooden bridges nearby. There were some retail investors near the old wooden bridge before, but when the war started, they fled to Shuzhou."
Sima Xiu stood up, his voice was calm and steady, as if he was confident. This time, he left Liangzhou City, which was considered a risk. Of course, he also considered whether Xu Buyi was planning something.
But I heard from his disciples that many people died in Shuzhou.
Judging from Xu Buyi's temperament of loving the people as his own son, it should be impossible to make a tactic.
"The army was converted into infantry and camped near the river bank."
Raising his head, Sima Xiu looked at the mountains in front of him. The weather was about to enter winter, and everything looked yellow and desolate.
"Send five hundred people to go into the mountain to investigate first. There is no need to go too deep. The Shu army hiding in the mountain should be the plain barbarian camp in Shuzhou, and they are most familiar with the battle in the mountains and forests."
After a pause, Sima Xiu added, "Please be careful. If something goes wrong, run down the mountain. Our army will be here to meet you."
A subordinate general took the order and hurried into the mountain with 500 people.
Just waiting for the people to go away, Sima Mao suddenly turned his head to the sky and sighed.
…
On the mountains of Shuzhou, for the sake of safety, Meng Huo has already set up a dense spy network. All he has to do is go into the mountains and get closer to Shuzhou, and they will definitely find him.
However, the people who had gone to explore the area at the foot of the mountain had not returned for a long time.
"King, there are enemy troops!"
Meng Huo, who was peeling the animal skin, suddenly stopped, raised his head, and looked at the Pingman scouts who were rushing back.
"What?"
"King, the enemy has sneaked into the mountainside! There are about a few hundred people, and they are getting closer and closer to the camp where we are waiting."
"Could it be a spy outpost?"
After waiting in the mountains for a long time, during these days, Meng Huo was either leading people to hunt for animals, or competing with his subordinates on their arrow skills, which was extremely boring. But he did not dare not listen to his lord's words, and he really kept his guard.
it's here.
Now, hearing that there was a spy outpost, Meng Huo was naturally surprised and angry.
"Pick up your sword and bow and come with me to take a look."
Meng Huo lowered his voice and led more than a thousand people to chase out through the mountains and forests. Relying on his familiarity with fighting in the mountains and forests, the hundreds of enemy spies who had entered the mountains and forests were chased up in an instant.
The light of swords and flying arrows kept popping up in the mountains and forests. The sounds of fighting and screaming resounded throughout the mountains for a while.
Even in the stream at the foot of the mountain, Sima Xiu could vaguely hear it.
"Military advisor, the sentinel who entered the mountainous area startled the ambush troops."
There was no surprise on Sima Xiu's face. He just paused and then gave an order coldly.
"Liangzhou infantry, pick up your guns and shields, prepare to fight in the mountains!"
On the other side, until he saw the figures of Liang soldiers at the foot of the mountain, Meng Huo suddenly understood why the Pingman scouts who went out to investigate had not come back.
"King, these Liang people are going into the mountains!"
"Call the people here and shoot them to death with your war bow!"
…
Lucheng two days later.
"Xiao Menghuo fell into the trap." Jia Zhou sat on the chair in the governor's mansion and spoke in a deep voice.
Xu Mu also frowned.
Just after the capture of Lucheng, before many things could be dealt with, we got the information that Meng Huo was being set up.
"Sima Xiu pretended to be defeated and lured Meng Huo to press forward step by step and cross the river to attack. But... Sima Xiu did not fight. Instead, he led his men and retreated."
"This doesn't make sense."
"Of course. After retreating for nearly twenty miles, the Liang troops led by Sima Xiu picked up their horses from nowhere. After several rounds of killing, they only waited for the Pingman camp to suffer heavy losses, then hurriedly drove their horses and rushed off again.
The mountains of Shuzhou.”
"Nice plan." Xu Mu sighed. The war horse that suddenly appeared must have been hidden by Sima Xiu in advance. If it were Yu Wen or Chai Zong, he would definitely not be greedy for merit. But Xiao Meng Huo had just become the barbarian king.
Thinking of gaining merit and establishing prestige, you suddenly fell into the trap of evil.
Otherwise, if the plain barbarian camp of more than 10,000 people fights steadily and uses the mountains and forests to block Sima Xiu's thousands of cavalry, it will not be a big problem.
"Besides, Chengdu is in turmoil." Jia Zhou's tone was still calm, as if he had expected it.
Xu Mu also knew about this news before. He didn't understand...Whether it was Meng Huo or Han Jiusunxun, in fact, these people were the candidates proposed by Jia Zhou to stay and guard Shuzhou.
"Wenlong, why is this?"
However, these people, more or less, fell into the tricks of Sima Xiu and his disciples. For this reason, he specially left Wang Shenzhi behind.
Jia Zhou stood up, then knelt down and bowed several times to Xu Mu.
"If I had told my lord before that he cares about people's livelihood, he would definitely not agree. There is no other way. I can only kill him first and then report him. If my lord wants to accuse him, I can only wait for Sima Xiu to die in Shuzhou, and then I will die to apologize."
"My lord needs to understand that the biggest enemy of Shuzhou is not Dong Wen, but Dong Wen's Lianghu military advisor. With him here, even if the lord takes the second city, it will only be a temporary solution. If you want to swallow Lianghu,
There is only one way for the state, and that is to kill Simiao."
"But Sima Xiu has been in Liangzhou for a long time and rarely shows his face. As a last resort, I used the hands of Liangzhou's internal officers to expose Shuzhou's flaws. People like Han Jiu Sunxun and Meng Huo are all reckless people. I guess,
Whether it is rescuing the siege or taking risks into Shuzhou, Sima Xiu is likely to take charge of the troops himself this time."
"He should have guessed that I am still alive."
Jia Zhou raised his head, his face full of pain.
"I know that many people will die this time, not only Shuzhou soldiers, but even Han Jiuxunxun. But if this plan is successful, once Sima Xiu dies, my lord's strategy of dominating the west will be half successful."
"I also know that I may lose my life... but just like my name, people all over the world call me the 'Poisonous Owl'."