Chapter 1258

To Liu Shang's disappointment, when they spent three days trying to get around the back of the mountain ridge, they found that the garrison of Shangjun had already destroyed the main road to the north of the mountain ridge. You know, these roads are the paths they found in a small village by accident when they were walking in the mountains these days, and then they found them through the hunters inside.

After putting the army in a mountain depression to rest, under the guidance of the hunter, Liu Shang personally went to a path to see the situation. However, after observing for nearly a quarter of an hour, he didn't think of a way to go up the mountain.

Looking through the crevices of the canopy, Liu Shang found that it was indeed a path up the mountain, but it was obviously destroyed. The whole path had been broken into a cliff about several feet high. Several large stones on the path had been pried off and fell into the valley in front of his eyes.

Not only that, on the ridge of the mountain, there was a guard post at the original position of the path. From the bottom of the mountain, it was a stone wall built by huge stones, which blocked the path directly.

From Liu Shang's position, the military array on the ridge is just a military array built on a high platform suspended in the middle of the air, and it is almost impossible to go up from other positions.

This is the case with a humble path in front of us. Liu can still imagine it. The situation in other places is almost the same.

As expected, when he saw that he was coming back, the other generals surrounded him and looked forward to him.

Liu Shang looked at several people and shook his head slightly. The others were disappointed. Liu Shang winked at several people, then turned his head and walked towards a vacant lot. A few people knew each other and quickly followed up.

After several people arrived, Liu Shang motioned to his soldiers to retreat to a distance of more than ten steps, and then urged them to say, "you guys, I have just seen it. It's impossible to go up the mountain. What about the rest of you? "

According to the captives and hunters, there were three paths to the north of the mountain ridge. Apart from the one Liu Shang looked at, there was another one Ren Fang and Yuan Quan looked at respectively.

Seeing Liu Shangchao, they both shook their heads. Seeing this, everyone was depressed.

After a little pause, Liu Shang said: "it seems that it is not feasible for you to help the army capture dingyang by seizing the ridge array. If I am not wrong, the dingyang army has destroyed all the other roads up the ridge, so now we have to take the second road - continue westward and go around to the west of dingyang city."

When they heard this, they all raised their spirits. Seizing the military array on the ridge was one of the alternatives. If not, there was a second way to go.

Seeing that everyone had recovered, Liu Shang said: "on the way back, I had made a clear inquiry with the hunter. He knew that another path to the west only took two days, less than three days. We have brought grain for ten days. Now three days have passed. If we can save one day's time, we will have a better chance of success. Therefore, I decided to set out immediately and go to the west of dingyang city. "

"No!" The other four responded together;

"well, this place is too close to the army on the ridge. We'll set out at once and camp a little further away from here. Moreover, I've already agreed with the hunters that when we get to their village, we will buy all the prey in their village and take them away, and try to buy some more grain, if we can let the army carry more Take as much food as you can. "

Several people discussed and decided to immediately assemble their own troops and set out.

Among the 5000 troops, Iron Eagle sharp was the leader, and Liu Shang was led by a 20-year-old young man named stone to observe the army formation on the mountain ridge.

The young man was very talkative and kept talking with Liu Shang all the way. After returning to the small village, Liu Shang ordered the army to stop outside the village, and then led a hundred soldiers and stones into their village. When the villagers in the village heard that the Tang army was going to pay a high price for all their prey and most of their food, they were on the last alert for the Tang army It's all gone.

Under the guidance of several old hunters in the village, every family took out all their prey, but there were few staple foods such as rice. After all, they all needed to buy some food from the county outside the mountain to meet their needs for a year.

This is a small village with more than ten households. It is located on the hillside. There are about a hundred people. Except for about twenty young and strong people, the rest are old and weak women and children. When Liu Shang put a large amount of money in front of them, everyone was very happy. The money was worth twice the price they paid to sell their prey in the county.

After a good meal outside the village and a good night's rest, the next day, led by Shitou and another middle-aged hunter of Uncle Qian, they headed for the western side of the mountain.

Two days later, they finally went around to a ridge in the west of dingyang. Stone and uncle Qian led Liu Shang behind a huge stone on the ridge of the mountain, pointed to the official road hundreds of steps away and said, "general, you see, the official road from dingyang to Fushi is in front. At the foot of the mountain beside the official road, there is a small castle. All the people who live are surnamed Fu, and their name is Fu family castle. It is said that they have been in Shangjun for more than 100 years.""Uncle Qian, how far is it from dingyang city?" Liu Shang asked;

"about seven or eight miles away!" Uncle Qian thought for a while and said with uncertainty;

"is there any other village around here?"

"To the east of fujiabao, along the official road, there is caojia village on the other side of the river. In addition, there is a Shijia village four Li to the west of dingyang city. In addition, it's going west along the fujiabao road. "

After listening to Uncle Qian's words, Liu Shang remembered that all the villages were empty from Hukou all the way west to dingyang City, and there were obviously people in the Fujia fort in front of him. Now it was evening, and there was smoke rising in the fort.

It seems that dingyang city has moved all the people in the villages to the east of dingyang to the county. It's afraid that its army can get intelligence and even support from the residents outside the city. But it's just that there's no way to take into account all the people in the small villages like Uncle Qian and others in the mountains.

Thinking of this, Liu Shang carefully observed the fortress in front of him. It was a stone fortress built on the mountain, less than 400 steps in length and width. The situation inside should be about 50 families, that is, only 200 or 300 people. However, the castle wall looked very solid, about one foot high, and some people could be seen walking on it.

For example, it's going to be dark today. It seems that our army can arrive at the fortress just after dark. It's time to attack the fortress at night and let the army have a good night's rest. Tomorrow, we will start to coordinate the siege army in the East.

Thinking of this, Liu Shang led a few people to retreat from the mountain ridge, and then gathered the other generals to share his ideas with a few people. Everyone thought this arrangement was feasible, so the army began to prepare.