Qingshizhai is located on a hill about twenty miles long. This hill is called Qingshizhai. This kind of hill is rare in the Great Plain area. The hills are not very high, only more than 60 meters long. The valleys are deep and the forests are quiet and the streams are gurgling. It is a beautiful place.

Qingshizhai is located at the southern foot of Qingshigang. The terrain is relatively steep, with only a narrow mountain path. There are hundreds of large tents distributed on the top of the mountain, and nearly 500 gangsters are stationed.

This bandit fled from Fushan at the junction of Xiangzhou and Zhaozhou. Commander Zhang Cen gave them a batch of military supplies and ordered them to station on Qingshigang to guard the southern gate of Daming Prefecture for the Liangshan army.

At the foot of the mountain is the intersection of two official roads. One comes from the southwest, called Weizhou Road, and the other comes from the northwest, called Xiangzhou Road. The two official roads meet here to form a new official road, leading directly to Daming County a hundred miles away.

There was originally a market at the intersection of the two official roads. The merchants had already escaped, and the market turned into ruins. The bandits had been stationed in Qingshi Village for a month and a half, but they never went down the mountain to rob Neihuang County. It was not because they had changed their nature, but because there were more than a thousand township soldiers in Neihuang County. They might not be their opponents if they really fought.

Even so, they still find it difficult to change their animal nature. They often go down the mountain to plunder property and women in the surrounding villages, and even the nearby villagers flee their hometowns. Within 30 miles of Qingshi Village, it is deserted.

In front of the largest camp in Qingshi Village, a soldier hurriedly said: "The spy found out about the situation, please make sure the master of the village will decide quickly!"

The soldiers' report interrupted the enthusiasm of the village leader Tao Jun. Tao Jun is from Daming County and is Lu Junyi's apprentice. He is tall and majestic, with big arms and round waists and very strong martial arts.

At this time, he got up from a woman, walked out of a piece of cloth around his waist, and said very angrily: "What's the fuss about?"

"You report to the village leader, I found an army coming to our village!"

Tao Jun was stunned, "Where did the army come from?"

"It was from Neihuang County, about 1,000 people."

Tao Jun frowned. There were not many people, and he was not very much like the main force of officers and soldiers. He was a bit like the township soldiers of Neihuang County, but I don’t know that they didn’t have the courage to attack the mountain.

Could it be the Xiang army that came from Weizhou? Tao Jun didn't want to think too much, so he immediately ordered: "I ordered all brothers to enter the fortifications immediately and prepare to give the enemy a severe blow!"

After pausing, Tao Jun ordered again: "Light the beacon and report the message to Daming City!"

Although Tao Jun was a little dissatisfied, Zhang Cen, the chief general in Daming City, had strict orders. More than a thousand officers and soldiers appeared, and the war was ignited to report the news.

‘Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!’ Amid the rapid sound of bells, nearly five hundred bandits rushed out of the camp, holding bows and spears, and rushed towards the fortifications. Tao Jun built more than a dozen fortifications on the north and south sides of the top of the mountain, gathered thousands of rolling woods, and they still had tens of thousands of arrows, and were not afraid of officers and soldiers attacking the mountain.

At the same time, the beacon tower built on the top of the mountain also lit the beacon fire. The three pillars of beacon fires were thick and smoke, telling the Liangshan army in Daming City that there were enemy troops coming to the south...

Half an hour later, Li Yanqing led a thousand infantry to come from the southwest, while Wang Gui and Niu Gao's cavalry led a thousand cavalry to attack Shen County, forcing Liangshan troops to evacuate Daming City with the strategy of besieging Wei to save Zhao.

It was dusk at this time, and a thousand soldiers stopped five hundred steps away from the hill. Li Yanqing and more than a dozen cavalry walked around the foothills of the south mountain in Qingshigang, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He returned to the team and waved his hand. Both infantry saluted. One of the two was named Lu Fei and the other was named Wang Ping. Both Li Yanqing was promoted from the team.

"How do you think you can suppress the bandits?" Li Yanqing asked lightly.

"Bizhi leads his army to form a shield formation and fights up, which can withstand arrows and rolling wood. Beizhi can seize Qingshizhai at the lowest cost."

Wang Ping said anxiously: "Weizhi can lead our army up the mountain from the north and fight directly to the southern foothills. Weizhi guarantees to defeat the rioters in one battle!"

The two were competing for the first battle, but Li Yanqing shook his head, "There is no need to go up the mountain at all. The woods are so dense that it will burn this mountain with fire."

Setting fire to the mountain? Both of them were stunned. After observing for a while, he had to admit that this was indeed the easiest and most effective method.

Generally speaking, the army will not easily burn mountains when fighting. First, it is easy to destroy Feng Shui, and second, if the ridges are too high and too large, burning mountains is meaningless.

But Li Yanqing didn't care about Feng Shui. He made several great achievements through burning mountains. He was impressed by the fire battle in the Western Xia. When he set out, he asked each soldier to carry about three kilograms of tinder oil. Even in order to deal with the Liangshan bandits in Daming Prefecture, he did not expect to use it in the first battle.

He immediately said to Lu Fei: "Take your brothers to set fires around you, don't be a pity. The woods are burned out. After the fire starts, the bandits will inevitably break through the southern mountain road. You can lead the brothers of our army to intercept the south and do not accept surrender. No matter how hard they are!"

"Abide by the order!" Lu Fei hurried away.

Li Yanqing said to Wang Ping again: "There is a broken valley to the north. Although the terrain is relatively limited, I feel that I can still rush down from the mountain. You lead the headquarters to the broken valley to intercept it, and you will not accept surrender and behead it on the spot!"

"Abide by the orders!"

Two infantrymen with 500 men went to operate separately, and Li Yanqing ordered the hundred direct cavalry behind him: "We are distributed on the periphery and are responsible for hunting and killing the escaped bandits."

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Tao Jun hid in the strongest fortification in his hand, leaning downward, and there was no trace of officers and soldiers on the mountain road.

"Master, is it because it's going to get dark?" one of his subordinates said carefully.

Tao Jun slapped him casually, "I've said it many times. I'm the commander now, not a king. There is only one king, King Song!"

His subordinates covered their faces and did not dare to say anything. Tao Jun looked up at the sky. It was almost dark. Do they really plan to attack the village again tomorrow, or do they want to sneak attack at night?

At this moment, a soldier shouted, "King, there is a fire at the foot of the mountain!"

Tao Jun was shocked and jumped onto the stone wall and looked down. Through the woods, he saw the blazing fire at the foot of the mountain. "Not good!" Tao Jun shouted, "The officers and soldiers are about to burn the mountain!"

All the bandits were frightened and panicked. The officers and soldiers burned the mountain. What should they do? Everyone looked at Tao Jun, and Tao Jun was extremely angry. Who was coming from the foot of the mountain? It was so cruel that they wanted to burn the entire mountain. It seemed that Weizhou and Xiangzhou did not have such great courage!

He gritted his teeth and said, "Demolish all the tents, free up a piece of open space, and then cut off all the big trees on the top of the mountain!"

Tao Jun knew that they could only die when they went down the mountain. The only way he thought of was to set aside a clearing space first so that the fire could not burn them. The soldiers under his command took action. Tao Jun ordered again: "Go to the spring to pick up more than a dozen buckets of water, tear the cloth strips to cover his mouth and nose!"

In addition to preventing fire and preventing smoke, he was also a big problem. He could not think of any other way, so he could only use a wet cloth to cover his mouth and nose.'

At the foot of the mountain, soldiers from Xuanwu Camp kept spraying tinder oil, making the wildfire burn more and more vigorously. At this time, it was already dark, and the entire Qingshigang's southern foot of the brilliance soared into the sky, thick smoke rolled, and it soared to the sky a hundred feet high, and it was clearly visible a hundred miles away.

In the Liangshan Army camp under Daming City, deputy general Guan Sheng walked out of the tent and stared at the sky-storming fire in the south. He had realized that it must be the officers and soldiers who were burning down the stone village, and reinforcements from Daming City were coming.

"Transfer my order, the army quickly assembled and retreated to Shen County!"

"General, it's better to attack the city overnight and directly capture Daming City!" A general suggested.

Guan Sheng shook his head, "We cannot conquer Daming City within a few days, because we are afraid that the enemy cavalry will attack Shen County. If we lose the important logistics location, we will definitely lose!"

Guan Sheng was originally an imperial guard, and he knew military tactics better than the generals of Liangshan. At this time, the chief general Zhang Cen walked over quickly and ordered: "General Guan is right. At this time, the attack on Daming Mansion is not at this time. It is not too late to attack after defeating the reinforcements. The army immediately gathered and retreated to Shen County."

Just then, a soldier rushed over and shouted, "General, Shen County has ignited the beacon for help!"

Zhang Cen was shocked. Sure enough, an enemy army had killed him in Shen County. He immediately said to Guan Sheng: "General Guan can immediately lead the army to rescue him, and I will lead the army to come!"

"Abide by the order!"

Guan Sheng turned over and shouted, "Tell me the order, and the brothers of the Second Army will follow me immediately!"

The order was passed, and thousands of soldiers from the Second Battalion followed Guan Sheng and rushed towards Shen County. Zhang Cen also began to clean up the camp and prepared to retreat eastward.

At this time, Liang Zhongshu also rushed to the city wall after hearing the news. He looked at the chaotic Liangshan army in the camp beneath the city. An army lit a torch and had retreated eastward. He looked at the raging fire in the distance, and couldn't help but shouted excitedly, "The sky opens its eyes, our reinforcements have arrived!"

The city wall suddenly became full of joy.

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In Qingshi Village, the fire had swept across the mountainside less than a hundred steps away from the village. The flames were scorching everyone on the mountain. The choking smoke filled the entire mountain. More than 20 women who stolen could not withstand the smoke and fainted. The soldiers began to breathe and were choked and cried.

Tao Jun also realized that he had thought the problem too simply. Even if they were not burned to death by the fire, they would be choked to death by the thick smoke. Now they have no choice but to break through.

Helplessly, Tao Jun had to shout: "Everyone breaks through the mountain...Ahem! Everyone breaks through!"

He was choked by the thick smoke and couldn't shout anymore. The soldiers wet their bodies with water, rushed to the mountain roads on both sides of the north and south, and ran towards the bottom of the mountain.

The two armies were already on high alert at the foot of the mountain. When the soldiers rushed down the hills to the death, what was waiting for them was that arrows were shot at them. The bandits were shot by arrows and fell into the fire. More than a dozen soldiers rushed down the mountain and raised their hands and cried: "Let's surrender! Surrender!"

Surrender was useless. The soldiers rushed forward with spears in their hands and ruthlessly assassinated all the bandits who escaped from the sea of ​​fire. They had no choice but to die, either burned to death on the hill or were shot and stabbed by officers and soldiers.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "Someone is rushing down on a horse!"

Li Yanqing also saw that a very majestic general rode a horse and rushed down from the mountain, called arrows, and rushed out of the sea of ​​fire in an instant. Li Yanqing did not dare to underestimate him. He immediately rushed forward with his gun, "The enemy general was killed!"

Tao Jun was about to break through with his gun when he suddenly heard someone shouting on the left side. His eyes slanted and saw a general coming towards him. He was furious and left the soldiers behind and rushed towards Li Yanqing.

There were more than twenty steps away from Li Yanqing, and suddenly his eyes were blurred. A stone suddenly appeared in front of him. He was shocked and shook his head and hurriedly avoided. It was too late. The flying stone was too fast and hit the bridge of his nose.

Li Yanqing beat Tao Jun's nose so hard that he immediately smashed Tao Jun's nose. Tao Jun screamed and turned over and fell off the horse. He was about to turn over and get up, but he felt a chill in his chest and a long spear had pierced his chest.

Tao Jun screamed and died immediately under Li Yanqing's spear. Li Yanqing waved his spear and said coldly: "No one left, kill all!"

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