Da Wei Chun

Chapter 509

The mountains and rivers are beautiful, the sky is high and the air is refreshing.

The mountains in the distance are continuous, the fields nearby are green, and there is vitality everywhere.

The sun jumped out of the ground, and the morning fog gradually cleared.A thin layer of dew has condensed on the city walls, forests, and grasslands, exuding crystal light.

Yuan Li didn't feel the cold, she held on to the battlement tightly, stretched her neck and looked north hard.

To the north of Siyuan County is the former army camp of officers and soldiers, but it is a little far away, nearly two miles away, so it is not very clear, only a rough outline.

It was still the same as yesterday, no officers and troops left the camp, nor did they hear the sound of gongs, drums, or bells, but only the smoke from the kitchen rising like clouds from the sky above the camp, it must have just been cooking.

At this time, the sun has already risen, and there is no movement, and the officers and soldiers will not come out of the camp to invite battle today.

It was another day of peace, and the rebel generals in the city couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But the more Yuan Li looked at it, the more she felt that something was wrong. The more she looked at it, the more her lips curved up. She looked up and suddenly laughed: "Haha, Li Chengzhi is gone?"

The generals under his command were at a loss, wondering how the governor could tell that they were so far away?
After laughing for a while, Yuan Li pointed at the army camp: "Look carefully, compared to yesterday, isn't this army camp much narrower and somewhat familiar?"

When the subordinates heard the words, they all widened their eyes and compared them carefully.

Today's enemy camp is indeed much narrower than yesterday, I don't know if it has lengthened the depth.I don't know if it is a psychological effect, but after thinking about it carefully, the generals really feel a little familiar.

"If you look familiar!"

Yuan Li laughed loudly, and clapped her hands again: "It's just because Li Shao set up this formation in the past two days: outer square and inner circle, all directions, between the formations, and between the teams. The front is the back, The future is the front. The enemy rushes into it, and saves both ends...

This is Zhuge Liang's eight-element phalanx, Li Shao is the most proficient in using it nowadays, so someone asserted: Li Chengzhi is definitely not in the camp..."

I see?

The generals suddenly realized.

This formation is in charge, and with such a large-scale change of formation, Li Shao must have been tossing all night.Moreover, it is impossible to say that changing the formation will change the formation, so the officers and soldiers will definitely not be good at fighting in the next few days. At most, the enemy will not move, I will not move, and if the enemy moves, I will move again.

And with Yuan Li's understanding of Li Chengzhi's temperament, she would never be so conservative under the premise of grasping the advantage, so he deduced that Li Chengzhi is gone...

All of a sudden, the words of flattery and flattery flowed in my ears like a tide, and Yuan Li couldn't help it.

But just leaning forward slightly, his expression changed slightly: Well done, where did Li Chengzhi go?
The answer is obvious: it must be the sudden appearance of Tuyuhun cavalry in Qinzhou, which made Li Chengzhi lose his position, and ran to the western front again in surprise.

If you wait for the Nanliang army to protrude from the Qinling Mountains, won't you be even more helpless?
How will you respond when the time comes?
Yuan Li thought about it in her heart, and a sinister smile appeared on her face.

……

In fact, Yuan Li was only half right: Li Chengzhi was indeed leaving, but he was just about to leave.

The three battalions of tiger riders from Yuan Zhi had already taken a step ahead, and they had already left the camp before Dongfang was white. They must have reached the Great Earthquake Pass in Longxian County by this time, and they were about to cross Longshan Mountain.

Tangqi has its own charter, and even if there is no abnormality, it must report at least three times a day, morning, afternoon and evening.And as long as the old team of Qianbaijia is not extinct, Zhang Xinyi will definitely not miss it.

That's why Li Chengzhi deliberately postponed and slowed down.The purpose is to infer whether the southern army and Tuyuhun sent troops at the same time based on Zhang Xinyi's probe.

Sure enough, as soon as the sun came out, several riders came from the east and entered Zhongzhai non-stop, blowing copper whistles.

"My subordinates and others passed Xieyuguan Pass and entered Baoxie Road at dawn yesterday. According to the order of the commander in chief, Zhang Junzhu ordered Tang Qi to disperse one by one. Most of them went south along the valley road, and the rest entered the mountain along the small road, extending east and west. When the evening striker's letter was sent to my rear team, there was no abnormality..."

At this time, the information reported was the information from last night, and everything seemed to be as usual, but Li Chengzhi felt a little uneasy in his intuition.

Too normal is the biggest anomaly...

If Nanliang and Tuyuhun didn't communicate with each other, and they didn't work together, they wouldn't believe Li Chengzhi was killed.

But he didn't have three heads and six arms, and he couldn't do everything, so he could only hope that the Southern Army would come later.

It was not that he was afraid that he would not be able to defeat Tuyuhun this time, nor was he afraid that Li Shao would not be able to withstand the Southern Army in a short time. What Li Chengzhi was most worried about was that the court was panicked when he heard the news that Tuyuhun and the Southern Dynasty were attacking together. It will be messed up.

And Li Chengzhi has no doubt at all that this situation will happen [-]% of the time.

The root cause is that the mess left by Yuan Ke is too big.

In the past ten years since Yuan Ke succeeded to the throne, what he has done can be summed up in one word: Urgent!
So the holes left are not only big, but also many, not inferior to Emperor Taiwu at all.

Now that the new emperor is young, there is no such good tinkerer as Tuoba Jun and Empress Dowager Feng after Emperor Taiwu, and the backbone of the wise and martial arts, so when there is chaos that has not been seen in decades, it will definitely be chaos A pot of porridge.

Next, nine times out of ten it is a headache to treat the head, a foot to treat the foot, or even tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall.

That's why Li Chengzhi said, now is the time when the Great Wei has never been in a dangerous situation...

After dismissing the leader of the scout team, Li Chengzhi confessed to Li Shao: "There is an abnormality here, please send a messenger to report to me as soon as possible, but if there is no major change, I will definitely not act rashly. Everything can be done by Uncle Shi."

This was agreed last night, and Li Chengzhi just mentioned a few words before ordering Li Liang to go.Li Shao and Yang Jun didn't dare to neglect, they sent him out of the gate together.

The two sides bid farewell at this point, and the two battalions of Jingzhou armored cavalry protected Li Chengzhi, and headed west in a mighty way.

It was only a mile away, and Li Shixian appeared out of nowhere.

His current status is really embarrassing, so he doesn't show his face easily.Moreover, even Li Chengzhi didn't know how to arrange it, so he could only let him.As time goes by, it becomes like an invisible person, and generally you can't remember it.

Because there were vehicles carrying rockets and trebuchets with him, the journey was not very fast.Li Chengzhi simply abandoned his horse and changed to a carriage, and invited Li Shixian and Li Song to ride with him.

The four-passenger official car is extremely spacious, and it is more than enough for three people to lie down and sleep.Moreover, all the necessary things and utensils are very complete. As soon as he got into the car, Li Song lit the charcoal stove and warmed the sweet wine.

In fact, it is wine. During the later Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, Hexi, Guanzhong, and the Central Plains had been brewed in large quantities, but the taste was too bland, roughly equivalent to the degree of beer in later generations, so it was not liked by scholars.There are always some in the palace and the aristocratic family for the concubines and women to have a banquet.

But Li Chengzhi liked it very much.Sweet but not intoxicating, and has a refreshing effect.

Handing a cup to the father and son, Li Song accompanied him to sip a few sips, suddenly remembered something, and said a little suspiciously: "When I left the camp, I saw that the army's camp today has changed a lot. It seems to be a square formation. But it's round inside?
And the armored soldiers and armored cavalry are all shown outside, and the new army, state army and other weak brigades are all inside... This is the first time I have seen it, and I can't remember mentioning it in the military book, so I don't know what formation it is? "

Seeing Li Chengzhi's response, Li Shixian said complacently: "Who said there is no record in the military book? This is Zhuge Wuhou's famous eight formations..."

Li Song's eyes popped suddenly: Why did the eight formations he heard about be eight formations.And according to what the Patriarch said at this time, the so-called eight formations are only one formation?
Furthermore, the Li family had only abandoned literature and pursued military affairs since he was the prince. The previous dynasties had at most dabbled in military affairs, so most of the military books in the family were ordinary.Li Song couldn't remember it in his head, but there were some books in the mansion related to Zhuge Wuhou's biography.

Regardless of Li Song's surprise, Li Shixian tried his best to recall what his son said when chatting with Li Chengzhi:

"I don't know when, there have been rumors in the world that Zhuge's eight formations are called heaven, earth, wind, cloud, dragon, tiger, bird, snake, etc. In fact, there is only one formation. The ancients kept this method secretly and called it eight formations. .”

The more Li Song heard it, the more amazed he became: He and Li Shixian grew up together, except for the back house, there was no place that Li Shixian could go to but Li Song could not, including the study.Where did the Patriarch see it from?
Seeing Li Shixian's erratic eyes, Li Song's heart moved, and he immediately knew the origin: it must be taught by the lord to the Patriarch.

As for Mr. Lang, where did he come from?
Thinking of last year, it was also the same time when the weather was generally warm, in mid-spring.The monks and thieves rebelled, and the prince and his family moved to Kongtong Mountain.But when he has free time, Lang Jun will pull himself to teach him the art of war.

Li Song was sure that Li Chengzhi at that time really didn't understand anything.

Was it taught by Li Shao?
Less likely.

Looking at the criminal laws of various dynasties, the crime of privately teaching the art of war is more serious than privately forging armor, so you can see the preciousness of military books.

Don't say that this kind of strange formation is rare in the world, such as "Sun Tzu" and "Qi Sun Tzu" and other military books, all of them are regarded as the foundation of their lives by various powerful families, how can they be lightly awarded to outsiders?
Seeing his flickering eyes, Li Chengzhi didn't need to guess to know that Li Song was thinking wrong again.

He didn't bother to explain, but said in a solemn voice: "If you want to learn, my father will teach you. But soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. Since ancient times, I have never heard of a formation that is invincible, so I still have to live." Learn and use, don't stick to the form..."

"Lang Jun taught me a lesson!"

Li Song responded repeatedly, overjoyed.

Such things can be regarded as family heirlooms...

During such chats, before they knew it, it was three quarters in the afternoon, and the army had already marched to the territory of Long County, Longxi County, and about two quarters later, they arrived at Dazhen Pass.

It is about sixty miles away from Siyuan County, and less than eighty miles away from Qizhou Camp in Siyin.If you go further west for about [-] li, you will arrive at the tricky Xidaying, Bailitan.

Although Dazhenguan belongs to the boundary of Qinzhou, Cui Zujia was only the governor of Longxi County, and he didn't have so many soldiers in his hands, so he abandoned it at the beginning of the uprising.When he reacted and wanted to garrison troops at Dazhenguan, the governor of Qizhou had already taken the lead.

Once you pass the Great Earthquake Pass, you will see the Guanshan Grassland as flat as a mountain, without any terrain to rely on.Cui Zuzhi simply returned to Qingshui County without doing anything.

It saved Li Chengzhi a lot of setbacks, otherwise he would have to detour from Xiaoguan, which is about 300 miles to the north...

Dazhenguan, also known as Longguan, has reached the southern end of Longshan Mountain, so it got its name.Further south is the Qinling Mountains.In the pre-Qin period, it was an important town to defend against the Xirong. Later, when Emperor Wu of the Han subdued Hexi, the Great Zhenguan was gradually abandoned. In the period of the Three Kingdoms, it was once prosperous because it was located at the junction of Shu and Wei, and it was the main route that both sides must pass through to attack each other. , has become a battleground for both sides.

The famous "Battle of Jieting" and "Empty City Strategy" all happened when Zhuge Liang first attacked Cao Wei and the two sides competed for Longguan.

But now, both Hexi and Longdong are in Wei territory, so Dazhen Pass has long been abandoned by the imperial court, and even the walls of the pass tower have collapsed on both sides.

Li Chengzhi stood on the dilapidated city tower and looked east, recalling carefully in his mind.

I remember that it was recorded in the annals of the Three Kingdoms that Zhuge Liang took advantage of the time at least twice in his five expeditions to Cao Wei.One of them, if it hadn't been for the heavy rain in the Qinling Mountains for days, blocking the four roads into Shu and stopping Cao Zhen's [-] pursuers, Zhuge Liang would have almost lost Hanzhong.

If the weather is good, there will be a few days of heavy rain.It doesn't take much, as long as he can block the Southern Army in Lingnan for about ten days, he will be able to free up his hands.

It's a pity that there was only a spring rain five days ago, and the military commander said at that time that it was estimated that within ten days, it should be sunny.

At that time Li Chengzhi was still secretly happy...

Just feeling emotional, Li Liang quickly climbed up the city wall: "Mr. Lang, the man from Yuan County sent an urgent report, saying that the tiger rider was passing the Qingshi cliff, and then encountered enemy scouts. They were all dressed up as Hu people. They should be Tuyuhunyou." Cavalry... The enemy cavalry roared away when they saw most of my cavalry, but Yuanxian men were cautious and did not pursue..."

Bluestone Cliff?
"Map!"

Li Liang quickly unfolded the map and spread it on the crenel.

With just one glance, Li Chengzhi's face darkened.

After leaving the Great Earthquake Pass, Qingshiya is about [-] li further ahead.And about [-] miles further, it is the tricky Xidaying.

Didn't it mean that Tuyuhun's cavalry found Diao Zheng's heart?

If the tiger doesn't show its power, you think I'm a sick cat?

Tuyuhun is really deceiving people.

Li Chengzhi is about to order Yuan Zhi to replace the iron armor with leather armor, and teach him a lesson.With his hands raised in the air, he suddenly calmed down again.

In just two more days, Li Chengxue will be able to arrive at Bailitan with all kinds of firearms, why should he be in a hurry?
He looked at the map, thought for a while, and then said in a deep voice: "Order Yuan Zhi, don't act rashly, so as not to fall into the enemy's trick to lure the enemy to go deep. In addition, make urgent orders, and don't get up before I arrive at the camp." The end of the battle. If the enemy is pressing hard, it doesn't matter if you retreat!"

He was afraid that he would suspect that he, the handsome man, came to the western front to hold him accountable.What if you can't breathe and scare the enemy away?
"I haven't even fought this fight, why do I have to retreat?"

Li Shixian was puzzled, "Aren't you afraid of breaking the spirit of the whole army?"

This is not Li Chengzhi, it's like a different person!
"Father taught me that!"

Li Chengzhi responded casually, and then pointed to the map, "Between Qinzhou, Qizhou, and Yongzhou, there is only one place in Bailitan that is conducive to cavalry formation, and the rest are mostly valleys, hills and forests. Whether it is the enemy or setting up artillery vehicles, there are many inconveniences. Therefore, if you want to break the Huqi, this is the best place..."

It turned out that he wanted to give up Baili Beach, lure Hu Qi into the depths, and then fight to the death?

Li Sixian's eyes were fixed...

(End of this chapter)