Mi Han

Chapter 475
The last day of October in the third year of Zhangwu in the Han Dynasty.

Today's moonlight is brighter than in the past.

It is a pity that for the vast majority of people with night blindness in the world, the thin moonlight still cannot meet their requirements for clear vision.

It was late at night, and the wind was bleak in the mountains. To keep out the cold, most of the Jiaozhou soldiers on Ax Mountain had already fallen asleep.

The snoring of tens of thousands of people was especially loud on the steep Ax Mountain in the silent night.

It has been more than a month since tens of thousands of Jiaozhou soldiers moved their camp to Fushan.

Since the past month, the Han army has been "turtle" and there has been no change in the camp. Coupled with their confidence in the terrain of Fushan, tens of thousands of Jiaozhou soldiers slept very peacefully and soundly.

Not to mention the tens of thousands of Jiaozhou soldiers sleeping in the tents, but some Jiaozhou soldiers who were ordered to patrol the mountain roads, under the mental paralysis, they had already forgotten the entrustment of Shi Hui.

Or three or two, or one or two teams, these Jiaozhou soldiers who shouldered the important task of guarding the camp, had already huddled together and hid under the dark trees and fell asleep under the attack of cold and sleepiness.

As the night continued to darken, the main roads that were supposed to be guarded by soldiers had already become useless.

And when the tens of thousands of Jiaozhou soldiers on Fushan were immersed in sleep, they would not have thought that just tonight, an elite Han army was rushing towards Fushan at an extremely fast speed under the cover of night.

The camp of the Han army was not far from Fushan Mountain. After marching for half an hour with three thousand Liangzhou soldiers, Deng Ai finally came to the foot of Fushan Mountain.

After reaching the foot of the mountain, Deng Ai couldn't help but look up at the bright moon hanging high in the sky.

God bless man.

This feeling suddenly appeared in Deng Ai's heart.

The thin moonlight may not allow the Jiaozhou soldiers to see things, but for the three thousand Liangzhou troops behind him, the moonlight and some torches are enough to prevent their nighttime actions from being greatly affected.

After sighing with emotion, Deng Ai shifted his gaze to the mountain in front of him, which was as steep as a knife.

As Zhuge Liang said, if an ordinary force attack is adopted, no matter how many and elite the Han army is, it may be difficult to attack this mountain.

But fortunately, under the steep mountain peak, there is a mountain road for the Han army to win.

Under the leadership of the local guide, Deng Ai quickly led three thousand Liangzhou troops to find the mountain road.

But when he saw the hidden mountain road, Deng Ai frowned.

Under the mutual reflection of firelight and moonlight, Deng Ai could clearly see the mountain road in front of him.

But after Deng Ai saw it clearly, he found that the road in front of him was not so much a mountain road as it was a small crack on a giant axe.

The road is narrow, but the most important thing is that the mountain road is not continuous, and there are faults in many places.

No way, how to climb this?
Not only Deng Ai frowned, but the deputy general Fu Qian who was following him also showed deep sadness after seeing the seemingly impossible mountain path.

"Captain."

A soft call came from Fu Chen's mouth.

Although Fu Qian only called the word Xiaowei, it is not difficult to know from Fu Qian's tone that he has the heart to retreat.

Normal generals will have this idea.

But obviously, Deng Ai's way of thinking is different from ordinary people.

Deng Ai turned his head and gave Fu Qian a hard look, and when he turned around to look at the mountain road, his eyes were already full of determination.

Before coming, Zhuge Liang had told him that this mountain path was hidden and extremely difficult to climb.

Because of this, Shi Hui neglected to guard against this place.

If it is a mountain path that is easy to climb, and Shi Hui is not stupid, how can he not send a large army to garrison?
But precisely because the mountain road is steep and difficult to walk, the enemy army is not prepared here, so once the Liangzhou army climbs up, they can penetrate directly into the heart of the enemy army.

In war, risks are often directly proportional to benefits.

And once Deng Ai took over this task, he would definitely have no reason to back down.

Fortunately, Deng Ai had already made preparations.

Following Deng Ai's wave, hundreds of strong men holding iron spears appeared in the array of three thousand Liangzhou troops behind them.

The basic layout of the Liangzhou Army originated from the Jingchu warriors Mi Yang recruited outside Xiangyang City.

The land of Jingchu is densely covered with mountains and forests, so Jingchu warriors are not only good at bows and crossbows, but also good at climbing rocks.

And these hundreds of strong men with iron spears were carefully selected by Deng Ai from thousands of Liangzhou troops, and they were the best among the rock climbers.

Under Deng Ai's order, the hundreds of armed men who ordered and prohibited them did not hesitate at all. Under the illumination of the torches of their fellow robes behind them, they immediately strode forward towards the steep mountain road in front of them.

The mountain road is narrow, and there is no way to accommodate too many strong men at once.

But this is not a problem for the hundreds of warriors who are good at climbing rocks.

I saw that these hundreds of armed men immediately changed their formation, forming a slender formation in a single file, and kept moving towards the mountain road ahead.

As they continued to advance, hundreds of strong men soon encountered the place that caused Deng Ai to frown just now.

A natural fault blocked in front of these hundreds of armed men.

However, in the face of this natural barrier, these hundreds of warriors with spears did not hesitate. The warriors in front waved their iron spears and began to dig the mountain to open the way.

With the continuous waving of the iron dagger in his hand, rocks were continuously smashed and fell to the feet of the strong man in front.

Or if a rock falls, nothing can be seen, but when a certain number of rocks are cut off, a long ladder made of stones will appear out of thin air in front of hundreds of strong men.

This is the way Deng Ai researched to open up the road based on Liangzhou Army's characteristics of being good at mountain warfare-cutting mountains as ladders!
In history, he used similar methods to forcibly open up a [-]-mile mountain road leading to Chengdu for his army!

When the stone ladder appeared under their feet, the hundreds of armed men at the front did not delay, or the stone ladder made in a hurry was not strong, but they did not fear or panic.

As the first strong man stepped on the stone ladder with heavy steps to climb up, the strong men behind followed one after another, like carp rushing to jump over the dragon gate, stepping on the stone ladder to climb up one after another.

With the help of the moonlight, Fu Qian stared blankly at the scene in his eyes.

This is the first time he knows that he can still march like this!

But before Fu Qian was in a daze for a long time, Deng Ai saw that the road ahead had been opened, so he immediately commanded the remaining Liangzhou Army to follow up with the hundreds of mountain warriors ahead in an orderly manner.

Because of the need to cut the mountain into a ladder, and because it is not easy to climb the steep mountain road at night, the three thousand Liangzhou troops did not move fast.

It's just that although the speed is not fast, the march of the three thousand Liangzhou Army has never stopped!
The three thousand Liangzhou troops didn't even know what Deng Ai's purpose was for bringing them here tonight, but they were a strong army trained by Mi Yang with strict military methods, so they only needed to know how to keep up with the resolute figure in front of them. Can.

The mountain roads are complicated, and not all places can cut mountains into ladders.

There will always be some places where it is impossible to use stones as ladders.

For those places, Deng Ai also made preparations in advance.

He came here tonight not only to let the soldiers hold iron spears, but also let them bring a lot of wooden prongs.

In those places where the stones could not be completely covered, Deng Ai ordered the soldiers to insert wooden pegs into the stones or the ground to form a simple trestle bridge.

When the simple trestle bridge was formed, the soldiers in front quickly stepped on the trestle bridge and continued to climb towards the mountain.

Of course, both the stone ladder and the trestle are made temporarily and simply. Even though there are many Liangzhou soldiers below with their bodies fixed to prevent the stone ladder and trestle from loosening, some Liangzhou soldiers accidentally fell when the light is not very good. Injuried.

In that less bright light, as more and more people were injured, the blood on the stone steps and trestle bridges also glistened in the moonlight.

But even seeing the blood spilled by those comrades, most of the Liangzhou army continued to climb upwards under the difficult environment indifferently.

Finally, after unremitting climbing, hundreds of strong men at the front successfully climbed the mountainside.

When the hundreds of warriors successfully reached the mountainside, except for some warriors, they scattered around to check the surrounding situation, and the rest of the warriors all tore off the cloth belts they carried with them, and then hung the cloth belts on the cliff .

With the help of hundreds of cloth belts, the Liangzhou Army, who had not climbed the mountainside, reached the mountainside one after another under the pull of those strong men.

After this part of the Liangzhou army reached the mountainside, they took over the work of the hundreds of strong men and dragged more comrades up the mountainside with cloth belts.

Repeatedly, not long after, more than [-] Liangzhou troops successfully reached the mountainside.

When Deng Ai saw that the Liangzhou Army from the foot of the mountain had come up, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Even at this moment, his left hand was in severe pain.

Deng Ai was moved to the Central Plains by Cao Cao when he was young. Climbing rocks is not his strong point, but he is also the leader and must lead by example as an example, so he inevitably suffered some injuries during the climbing process just now.

But Deng Ai simply bandaged the wound on his left hand, and then he stood up to convey his next instruction.

At this time, Deng Ai finally said what their task was tonight.

And when the more than two thousand Liangzhou troops knew that they were shouldering a major mission tonight, their faces showed excitement.

The Liangzhou army not only has strict military laws, but also has generous reward measures. This generous reward measure is a serious burden on Liangzhou's national strength, but Mi Yang never thought of cutting corners on this point.

Because he knows that generous rewards can greatly motivate soldiers to fight.

Just like the two thousand or so Liangzhou troops at the moment, they know that the mission tonight is dangerous, but people are after profit. As long as the benefits obtained after the war can satisfy them, they don't mind putting themselves in danger.

After telling the mission, Deng Ai immediately divided his troops into two groups. He assigned [-] soldiers to Fu Qian and asked him to go down the mountain from the mountainside, removing the checkpoints on the mountain road along the way.

This is very important. If the checkpoints on the mountain road are not pulled out first, if Jiaozhou soldiers react and send heavy troops to those checkpoints, then not only Zhuge Liang's army will not be able to successfully rush up, even his two thousand Liangzhou troops may will fall into despair.

Then when Fu Qian led a thousand Liangzhou troops to quickly go down the mountain, Deng Ai led the remaining soldiers and went up the mountain in the dark.

In order to successfully capture Ax Mountain tonight, it is not enough to simply remove the level.

Fu Qian led a thousand Liangzhou troops, and took advantage of the moonlight to quickly move towards the various checkpoints set up by the Jiaozhou soldiers on the mountain.

Because of the danger, the Jiaozhou soldiers did not deploy many troops at the checkpoint.

After all, once an enemy attacks, with the checkpoints, as long as there are hundreds of Jiaozhou soldiers, they can block the Han army's attack for a certain period of time.

And during this period of time, enough of the army on the mountain came to help.

Shi Hui and Yu Fan are both people who know soldiers, but they have overlooked one point. What if the Han army appears behind the checkpoint?
After Fu Qian led his troops to the back of a checkpoint, he realized that maybe Shi Hui and Yu Fan never thought that there would be a Han army suddenly appearing from the mountainside, so all the defensive measures of the checkpoint were arranged in front.

What surprised Fu Qian most was that most of the Jiaozhou soldiers guarding the checkpoint were now in a state of sound sleep.

After realizing this scene, Fu Qian immediately approached the checkpoint in front of him with thousands of soldiers behind him.

As Fu Qian got closer and closer to the checkpoint, some Jiaozhou soldiers keenly noticed the abnormality.

In the eyes of those Jiaozhou soldiers, they saw the movement of soldiers marching in the forest behind them.

But because the movement came from the rear, these Jiaozhou soldiers thought that the soldiers who were advancing here were fellow soldiers who came down from the mountain.

Several Jiaozhou soldiers held torches and walked towards the place where the change came, and at the same time, shouts and inquiries sounded from their mouths.

"Who is coming?"

But just when those Jiaozhou soldiers asked questions, Fu Qian happened to lead thousands of Liangzhou troops out of the mountain road.

Seeing the soldiers holding sharp knives suddenly appeared in the blackness, the eyes of those Jiaozhou soldiers suddenly showed great panic.

Before the Jiaozhou soldiers could react, Fu Qian, who was holding a horizontal knife, rushed to them first. In the ears of state soldiers:

"I am your father!"

When Deng Ai led thousands of Liangzhou troops all the way up, he also encountered some obstacles on the way.

However, the closer the checkpoints are to the mountains, the more negligent the defense. Deng Ai smoothly cleared out the Jiaozhou soldiers in those checkpoints.

Soon after, the camp on the mountain was looming in sight.

At this moment, Deng Ai did not order the soldiers behind him to move forward.

He ordered the soldiers behind him to disperse.

Deng Ai knew that it would not be easy to rush into the enemy's camp with thousands of Liangzhou troops.

But what about another way?

Deng Ai let the thousands of Liangzhou troops scattered in all directions take out the horns they carried with them.

What are generals most afraid of?
It's nothing more than the word Yingxiao.

Just a moment later, outside the quiet Jiaozhou military camp, the thunderous drums of the Han army sounded!

　This is yesterday's Chapter 2.

　　There are 2 more chapters today.

　　
　
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