It turned out that Fei Yao knew that it was extremely difficult to break through the Han army's defense head-on. Even if he was lucky enough to succeed, the three thousand soldiers and horses in his hands would definitely suffer heavy casualties, so he decided to adopt a strategy of feinting from the front and roundabout from the side.

Try to seize a hilltop, and then use this base to attack the entire Han army's defenses from the flank.

To realize this strategy, the key lies in how to sneak back behind the Han army without anyone noticing.

The terrain of Taiping Ferry is very simple. Except for the road between two mountains in front, the rest of the land is an endless plain. The only place where the army can be hidden is the small forest under the hill.

The dense woods extend to the mountainside, and then turn into sparse bushes, which can no longer hide people. However, the two hills are not high, and the army's attack from the mountainside is enough to serve as a surprise attack.

Therefore, Wei Jun's only problem now is whether there is a road in the woods that can lead to the mountainside.

When Fei Yao asked this question to Chen Gai, he was quite uneasy, fearing that Chen Gai's answer would not be satisfactory.

Fortunately, Chen Gai lived up to his expectations and revealed that there was a trail in the woods at the foot of Youshan Mountain that could go up to the middle of the mountain. The Wei army could use this to bypass the Han army.

Fei Yao was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately asked Chen Gaichong to be his guide, and ordered Yang De to lead a thousand troops to follow him and sneak into the woods on the right, and then use the mountain path to get behind the Han army.

Of course, in order to confuse the Han army, Fei Yao made the soldiers who were charging head-on act like they were fighting desperately. As expected, Qi Hu fell into the trap with his own heavy casualties, thinking that the Wei army was going to break through from the front without fear of casualties, so he didn't notice.

Coming danger on the flanks.

The battle on the top of Youshan Mountain has now entered a fierce stage. The Wei army took the lead and occupied most of the hilltop, while the Han army only had more than 200 people gathered in the northwest corner. Under the leadership of Zhu Zhao, they formed a formation to resist desperately.

, vowing not to let the Wei army take away the entire mountain.

As for the other Han armies, they either retreated to the ferry at the foot of the mountain to rest early, or they were overwhelmed by the sudden attack of the Wei army at the very beginning, and retreated to the mountainside in twos and threes, forming a chaotic mess.

Fortunately, Captain Fang Jing was among the last group to retreat. When the Wei army suddenly attacked, he was still halfway up the mountain, so he quickly called his subordinates and gathered the soldiers. After a lot of hard work, more than 200 people finally stopped the rout and attacked him.

Get closer.

Fang Jing immediately reorganized his formation and led the two hundred or so men to rush towards the top of the mountain. He planned to join forces with Zhu Zhao first, and then repel the Wei soldiers and recapture the top of Youshan Mountain.

However, Yang De, the Wei general who led the team, was well prepared for this. While commanding the sergeants to besiege Zhu Zhao's tribe, he sent 300 men and horses to the back of the mountain to intercept Fang Jing and the others.

The Wei army was condescending, taking advantage of the terrain, and had a panoramic view of the Han army's movements on the mountainside. They immediately aimed at the enemy group and fired waves of arrows. The Han army could not evade, and immediately more than ten people were hit by arrows. They could not stand still and rolled down the mountain.

Screaming, either dead or injured.

"Fire the arrows, fire the arrows quickly! Sons, although we are below, we still have to shoot more accurately than the Wei thieves above. Let these dogs see how powerful we are as a flying army." Fang Jing shouted loudly,

He called on the soldiers to fight back.

After that, he half-knelt on the ground, hid behind a short tree, drew his bow and arrow, and aimed at the face of a Wei army officer on the mountain. But with a hiss, the sharp arrow shot out, as fast as lightning, and went straight to the enemy's face.

go.

After a few breaths, a scream was heard from the mountain, followed by the screams and curses of several Wei soldiers.

Fang Jing was secretly happy after hearing this. He slowly stretched out half his head from behind the tree and looked up. Sure enough, he saw the Wei army officer with his own spine and two-winged arrow stuck in his head, and his body collapsed on the ground. Obviously

Already killed.

When all the sergeants saw that Fang Jingfu had made gains as soon as he made a move, they all applauded in their hearts. They all followed his example and found shelters such as rocks and trees. They hid behind them and bent their bows and arrows to confront the Wei soldiers on the mountain.

Shoot up.

Although the Han army attacked from the bottom of the mountain, their archery skills were almost better than those of the Wei army, so they were not inferior at all in the confrontation, and even defeated them.

In this short time of burning incense, screams were heard on the mountain. Dozens of Wei soldiers were killed by arrows. The momentum of the Wei army's attack on the mountain was stopped. Fang Jing took the opportunity to lead the army to charge forward, and continued to attack

Shorten the distance between the two armies.

"Kill!"

Seeing that he was only about ten steps away from the top of the mountain, Fang Jing immediately shouted loudly, took the lead, quickly climbed to the top of the mountain with a long sword, rushed into the crowd, chopped and hacked, and killed three Wei soldiers in an instant.

Seeing how brave he was, all the Han troops regained their morale and rushed to the top of the mountain with the same strength. Soon they were fighting with the Wei army. The two armies exchanged fire from a distance into close combat, and the fighting was extremely fierce.

"What? I didn't expect that the Shu thieves' arrow skills are so exquisite. The Wudang Feijun is truly worthy of its reputation."

When Yang De learned that the enemy had suffered more casualties than the enemy, he was shocked. He immediately ordered Li Chang, the commander next to him: "Quickly, you can bring another group. No, bring another one."

When the two villages pass by, they must block the counterattack of the Shu bandits at the foot of the mountain."

"promise."

Li Chang agreed, and immediately ordered two groups of men and horses to go to the back mountain for reinforcements.

At this time, the Han army had the upper hand in the back mountain. Fang Jing was an expert in swordsmanship and extremely brave. The Han army used him as an arrow to charge and hit, killing the Wei army and retreating. The Wei army saw that the Han army broke through the defense line and climbed back to the top of the mountain.

, morale was already low, and seeing that the enemy troops were not afraid of death, they decided to retreat.

Fortunately, Li Chang led the reinforcements in time to contain the fierce offensive of the Han army, otherwise the top of Houshan Mountain would have fallen into the hands of the Han army again.

However, despite this, the Han army still established a firm foothold in the back mountain. The Han army at the foot of the mountain rushed up continuously, gathering more and more, and the area controlled by the Han army gradually expanded.

However, the Wei army was numerically large after all. Although the Han army, led by Fang Jing, attacked fiercely, they were unable to retreat from the Wei army blocking the road and were unable to rendezvous with Zhu Zhao's troops on the other side.

Yang De did not expect that the Han army would be so difficult to deal with. Not only did they not retreat despite losing most of the top of the mountain, they even gathered their troops and rushed back from the bottom of the mountain. Their fighting power was so strong that people had to admire it.

"Sigh, I thought that with the thousand soldiers and horses in hand, I could monopolize this achievement, but I didn't expect that reinforcements from the rear would be needed. In this way, the credit would have to be divided a lot."

Seeing how tenacious the Han army was, Yang De felt depressed. He shook his head with a wry smile, and asked to his left and right: "Why haven't the reinforcements from the bottom of the mountain come up yet?"

"Young man, let's go and find out."

Before the bodyguard left, a scout suddenly ran over from behind the crowd and reported: "Report, General. Hundreds of Shu troops came out from behind the mountainside, blocking the way for reinforcements to go up the mountain. General Duan Kuan, who was leading the team, asked General

Send troops, horses and reinforcements to attack up and down and open the way up the mountain."

"What? The Shu thieves also came from behind the mountainside?"

The scout replied: "Exactly."

"Damn it, damn it."

Yang De almost wanted to vomit blood when he heard this. He originally thought that the sneak attack led by his team was an easy feat, but he never expected that the Han army was so resilient and had so many changes. It was really tiring.

Especially the thought of dividing the troops again made him feel dizzy. Currently, Yang De was using 300 troops to besiege Zhu Zhao's tribe, and 500 troops to block the enemy in the back mountain, so he only had 200 troops left as a reserve.

Such a small number of troops have to be divided again. If something unexpected happens again, there will be no spare strength.

It's just that the reinforcements were blocked and had to go to meet them. If there were no reinforcements going up the mountain, there would be more and more enemy troops coming from the back mountain, and he would still be unable to resist them with the force he had.

"Captain Hou, please quickly bring your own troops and reinforcements to attack the Shu bandits up and down the mountainside."

"promise."

Yang De finally squeezed out a hundred people to receive the reinforcements. At this moment, he only had more than a hundred people left in his hands.
Chapter completed!