If the weather is clear and the roads are in good condition, it will only take two or three days for a fast horse to arrive from Shule Town to Diazhuan City.
However, it will take about ten days for an army of 10,000 people to travel.
Zhao Ziliang and others only have more than 100 horses. , and we were not in a hurry.
Due to the heavy snow, we could only wait at the inn and wait for the snow to stop before we hit the road.
The heavy snow did not stop until the next morning.
The weather began to clear up and the sun came out.
Only then did Zhao Ziliang order the large group of people to continue on the road.
After advancing for an hour, the team arrived at Jialu Road.
Jialu Road is a long and narrow path, sandwiched between hundreds of meters high mountain walls on both sides.
It is dark and cold in the depths.
Zhao Ziliang looked at the mountain walls on both sides of the trail and frowned.
He reined in his horse and stopped, raised his palms and shouted: "Stop moving forward."
Cen Shen, who followed, asked: "General, why did you stop?"
Zhao Ziliang was looking at the situation on the mountain walls on both sides in front.
Wei Meng, Huo Kan, Wang Can and others also rode forward.
Huo Kan said solemnly: "General, I feel that something is wrong with the situation in front, but I don't know.
Something is wrong” Zhao Ziliang pointed at the mountain walls on both sides with his horsewhip and said: "There are little birds chirping and looking for food everywhere along the way, but it is so quiet here that there is no sound.
Don't you think it's strange?"
Wei Meng patted his head when he heard this: "Yes, I also felt something was wrong, but I couldn't figure out what was wrong.
After hearing what the general said, I remembered that there must be someone on the mountain walls on both sides."
Zhao Ziliang remembered Mrs.
Meng's reminder of the flying pigeon letter, and immediately said: "If there is anyone, just send someone to check, Wang Can."
Wang Can cupped his hands and said: "Yes" "Send two men and horses to climb up the cliff separately to investigate the situation.
If there is an ambush, immediately give a warning."
"promise" Under Wang Can's instructions, the two teams of knights dismounted and climbed up the mountains on both sides.
The remaining people formed a defensive formation under the command of Zhao Ziliang.
At this time, on the mountain wall on the left, Yun Dingtian saw Zhao Ziliang and others stopped in front of the Jia Lu Road.
He also saw two groups of Tang troops dismounting and quickly climbing up the mountain with weapons in hand.
He clenched his fists and beat the stones in front of him unwillingly. : "Hey, I didn't expect that Zhao Ziliang would be so vigilant.
This is the hinterland of Anxi.
He is not going to fight, just to take office, but he is so cautious."
A horse bandit leader next to him laughed and said: "I have often heard how brave Zhao Ziliang is, but today I saw him as timid as a mouse.
He didn't even dare to go through a mountain trail."
Another horse bandit shook his head and said: "This has nothing to do with cowardice.
I guess that Zhao Ziliang must have found something abnormal before he stopped his men and horses.
He knew that something was wrong in front of him and led his men and horses to rush in.
This is not You are bold, but you are stupid.
Boss, look, these two groups of Tang troops are climbing up the mountain quickly.
They will find us as soon as they reach the middle of the mountain."
Yundingtian was silent for a long time, until the two teams of exploring Tang troops were almost halfway up the mountain, he gritted his teeth and said: "It seems that a sneak attack is impossible.
For the current plan, we can only rely on the terrain to rush down from the top of the mountains on both sides." " A horse bandit agreed: "Yes, this will definitely break up the Tang army's formation, and then surround and kill Zhao Ziliang."
Yundingtian said to the people around him: "Hand flags for the brothers on the opposite side and rush down together."
After his horse bandits sent a signal to the people on the opposite side, Yundingtian ordered: "Leave a dozen people to push the stones down to block the road, and the others will rush down with me."
"promise" Yundingtian drew his saber and raised it to the sky, shouting: "Brothers, fight with me!"
"Kill" Although the hillside is not steep, there is no road.
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It is completely impossible to rush down the mountain on horseback.
I am afraid that the horse will fall down due to sprained feet before it reaches the bottom of the mountain.
The horse bandits abandon the horse and hold it up.
The weapons rushed down on foot from the hillsides on both sides, creating a huge momentum.
The two teams of Tang Army soldiers who had just climbed halfway up the mountain suddenly changed their colors when they saw it, and they turned around and ran down the mountain.
Zhao Ziliang snorted coldly when he saw it: "Sure enough, there was an ambush.
Everyone obeyed the order, all dismounted, and lined up in five rows.
The two rows in front squatted and the three rows behind stood."
After receiving the order, the soldiers dismounted and drove their horses to one side.
Some people gathered the horses to the rear, and the soldiers lined up in place.
Zhao Ziliang raised his hands and shouted: "Two hundred and fifty steps with bows and arrows, prepare ten rows on the left, target the enemy in the left front; ten rows on the right, target the enemy in the right front."
During the Tang Dynasty, the development of weapons and bows and arrows made far greater progress than previous dynasties.
Metallurgical technology made the weapons of the Tang army extremely sharp and the range of bows and arrows was greatly improved.
The soldiers took out their bows and stringed them one after another.
The arrows pointed upwards.
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand down fiercely: "Fire the arrow."
"Whoosh whoosh".
The horse bandits who were still on the hillside were suddenly hit by a sparse rain of arrows.
From time to time, some people were hit by arrows and then rolled down the hillside.
After several rounds of arrow rain, the horse bandits suffered a lot of casualties, but they didn't care and continued to rush down the hillside.
Zhao Ziliang and others finally saw the true face of the enemy.
They turned out to be a group of horse bandits, but this group of horse bandits was unusual.
These horse bandits rushed down without any confusion.
They were all extremely brave and unafraid of being shot by bows and arrows.
Although People around them kept falling after being hit by arrows.
The other horse bandits were not afraid, but rushed faster and faster.
After seven or eight rounds of arrows, the horse bandits had suffered more than 100 casualties.
Zhao Ziliang's 120 cavalry followers were all elite.
Whether it was infantry combat, cavalry combat or bow and arrow, they were all experts in bow and arrow shooting.
All of them are extremely precise.
The vanguard of the horse bandits had already rushed to the foot of the mountain.
The horse bandits rushing down from the left and right sides began to join together and continue to rush towards the Tang army.
They were only 150 steps away from the Tang army.
Zhao Ziliang immediately used bow and arrow shooting tactics.
He shouted: "The entire army deployed a circular formation to defend.
The first row changed their spears, the second and third rows changed their swords and shields, and the fourth and fifth rows continued to shoot arrows at the enemy.
Freely shoot non-combatants.
Concentrate in the middle of the formation and put up a shield to protect yourself, and do not move around at will."
After hearing Zhao Ziliang's order, the soldiers in the first row dropped their horn bows and picked up their long spears on the ground.
Then they quickly spread out to form a circle and pointed their spear heads outside the formation.
They kept the others in the circle. in the middle of the shape.
The soldiers in the second and third rows dropped their bows and drew their swords from their waists.
They held shields on their left and right and stood next to the spearmen in the first row and protected their round shields in front of them.
The fourth and fifth rows The soldiers continued to shoot arrows at the charging horse bandits, and almost one person fell down with every arrow.
Among Zhao Ziliang's group were Cen Shen, Chen Mingqian and several of his apprentices, all non-combatants.
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Each of them picked up a shield dropped by the first row of soldiers and placed it over their heads.
At this time, some people from behind the horse bandits also began to shoot arrows at the Tang army, and the Tang army had already been prepared.
The spearmen had sword and shield men around them to help block the arrows, while the archers hid behind the sword and shield men.
In the formation, Zhao Ziliang, Wei Meng, Huo Kan, Wang Can and others were riding on their horses and waving their weapons.
To block the flying arrows, the non-combatants also used shields to protect themselves.
The horse bandits were still charging forward despite paying more than a hundred casualties.
Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but be curious about these people.
It was obvious that the leaders of these horse bandits must be people who knew soldiers, otherwise they would not have been trained.
These brave horse bandits are not afraid of death.
Normal horse bandits will definitely collapse after suffering such heavy casualties, but these horse bandits do not.
If it weren't for the huge disparity in strength, Zhao Ziliang would not have set up this circular formation for defense.
If there were only a hundred more people, he would form an attack formation and kill them, defeating the opponent in one fell swoop.
The horse bandits rushed to the Tang army's formation, only fifty steps away.
Suddenly, Zhao Ziliang saw a person with a somewhat familiar face.
This must be a horse bandit leader.
Why does he look so familiar?
Who is he?
Zhao Ziliang quickly remembered that this person was Yun Dingtian, the leader of the Kuangfeng Bandit whom he met at the North Warehouse in Shule Town.
Unexpectedly, Bian Lingcheng actually found this person.
Zhao Ziliang immediately took out his bow and arrow and pointed it at Yun Dingtian and fired an arrow.
His bow was a three-stone bow, which was the strongest bow in the entire Shule Army.
Only a few people used this kind of attack because others could not pull it at all. open.
With a force of hundreds of kilograms, this arrow was fast, accurate and hard.
Yun Dingtian suddenly felt danger.
He instinctively ducked to avoid it, but it was still too late.
The arrow missed his chest, but it hit him.
On his shoulder, the arrow penetrated the leather armor on his body and hit an iron plate under the leather armor.
The huge impact knocked him upside down and fell to the ground.
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