Dozens of miles to the south is the Tianshan Mountains, Guo Song they are not familiar with this area, no one has ever been here, fortunately they have done enough homework before setting off, understand the terrain in detail in advance, and walk west along the foothills, all the way is a smooth road, although there are many forests and rivers in the middle, but it will not affect the Tang army's advance.

It's just that the Shatuo army behind is chasing very quickly, the Tang army has not been able to get rid of, and rushed out of more than 70 miles in one breath, a narrow valley mouth appeared in front, the canyon is less than a mile long, the right is an abrupt rock, the left is a steep hill, the canyon is very narrow, only a few people can walk side by side.

This is a good place to retreat from the enemy, Guo Song shouted to Li Ji: "You take the brothers and leave quickly, and stop them here for a while." ”

Guo Chongqing reined in the war horse and said, "I'll accompany you!" ”

Li Ji hesitated, and Guo Song said sharply: "This is an order, do you want to disobey the military order?" ”

Li Ji was helpless, so he had to shout: "Hurry up!" ”

He led the cavalry at a gallop.

Guo Song saw that there was still a boulder standing at the mouth of the valley, so he said to Guo Chongqing: "I will stop and kill the enemy, and you will release arrows behind the boulder!" ”

Guo Chongqing's martial arts and archery skills cannot be compared with Guo Song, but after all, he is an external warrior of the Guo family, his martial arts and archery skills are not bad, and he also uses a hard bow with five buckets with one stone, he immediately dodged behind the big stone and pulled out an arrow.

Guo Song stood at the mouth of the valley, with a halberd on his shoulder, and looked coldly at the Shatuo cavalry team that was chasing in the distance.

The Shatuo cavalry, who was running at the front, suddenly discovered Guo Song, and they all restrained their horses, not daring to step forward.

Immediately a thousand commanders chased after him, this thousand commanders were the people who had been plotted before, and were scolded by Zhu Xie Jinhai, which made him lose face, at this time the commander saw that there was only one Tang army cavalry general blocking the way at the mouth of the valley, and he made meritorious contributions and waved a long-handled hammer to kill Guo Song.

Guo Song sneered: "This person left it to me, don't let the arrows go!" ”

The nomadic generals were far inferior to the Central Plains generals in terms of marksmanship and knife skills, but they were generally more powerful, had a strong ability to control horses, and most of the weapons they used belonged to the strength type, such as maces, long-handled iron hammers, one-legged bronze men, iron rods, and so on.

This commander used a fifty-pound long-handled iron hammer, which was fierce, and the war horse galloped, and he raised the hammer high, and a Taishan overwhelmed the momentum to smash it towards Guo Song.

Guo Song snorted coldly, ignoring his sledgehammer at all, the halberd stood up, and the tip of the halberd instantly reached the chest of the commander,

The commander never dreamed that the other party's halberd would be so fast, he was taken aback, and instinctively wanted to withdraw the hammer, but it was too late, 'Poof! The halberd pierced his chest, and the commander screamed and killed him instantly, and the hammer fell from mid-air and slammed into his own shoulder.

Guo Song picked up the corpse of the commander of a thousand feet, threw it several feet away, and shouted in the grassland Tiele language: "Who else wants to come and send him to death?" ”

At this time, the brigade of Shatuo cavalry arrived, and Zhu Xie Jinhai saw the commander who fell to the ground at a glance, and he was immediately furious, and shouted: "Shoot him with arrows!" ”

The Shatuo cavalry released arrows together, and the arrows were fired in unison, Guo Song brandished his halberd and fired arrows, retreating step by step, and he shouted to Guo Chongqing: "Do you see the enemy general wearing a golden helmet?" That's the main general, shoot him! ”

"I know!"

Guo Chongqing calmly drew an arrow and waited patiently for the opportunity, at this time, Guo Song had retreated to the valley mouth, the Shatuo cavalry stopped firing arrows, and nearly a hundred cavalry killed them.

Guo Song slaughtered from the mouth of the valley again, and the halberd flew over, knocking over more than 20 people in a row.

Guo Chongqing also waited for the opportunity, he pulled the bow and shot an arrow, the wolf tooth arrow shot straight into the opponent's left chest like lightning, but his arrow was not as fast as Guo Song's arrow, Zhu Xie Jinhai found the arrow in front of him, he hurriedly dodged to the right, this arrow evaded the vital point, but hit his left shoulder, Zhu Xie Jinhai screamed in pain, turned over and fell off the horse.

At this time, Guo Song had killed more than 50 people, and the cavalry killed by him all died extremely miserably, their limbs were scattered, their heads rolled around, and the rest of the soldiers were so frightened that they turned their horses and fled back.

Guo Song laughed and said to Guo Chongqing: "Let's go!" ”

The two turned their horses' heads, one after the other, and galloped along the canyon........

The Shatuo cavalry no longer pursued, Guo Song and Guo Chongqing joined Li Ji and his party thirty miles away, Li Ji had to stop, and the two wounded soldiers still died of their injuries.

By a small river, soldiers are resting by the river, and the military doctor and several soldiers are busy treating the wounded.

Guo Song listened to Li Ji's casualty report while inspecting the wounded soldiers, and his face was gloomy like water.

"We suffered more than 30 casualties, of which 18 were killed and 13 wounded, and five of the soldiers killed died of their wounds."

After a pause, Li Ji said again: "I want the wounded soldiers to go to Jinman County to recuperate, if this continues, they will not survive." ”

Guo Song nodded, "Yes, you can discuss this matter with Chongqing and arrange it!" ”

Guo Song immediately convened the generals to discuss, and now there are only five people left in the six teams, but there are also more than 240 soldiers left.

Guo Song said to everyone: "It can be seen that the enemy's determination to annihilate us is very firm, this is still Tingzhou, to Yizhou, then we have to face tens of thousands of Shatuo troops, now there are two ways, one is to go north to the desert, the other is to return to Anxi, from the original way to Dunhuang, bypassing Yizhou, what is everyone's opinion?" ”

Li Ji groaned and said: "Walking north is the old nest of the Shatuo people, even if you break through the past, it is also the territory of the Xue Yantuo people, where it is completely nine deaths and one life, I advocate going south, and take advantage of the opportunity of Tuguhun being hit hard by us to return from the original road." ”

Everyone expressed their willingness to go south, after all, the south was more familiar, and the Tuyuhun soldiers were far less powerful than the Shatuo cavalry.

Guo Song nodded, "Since everyone agrees, let's go south!" ”

The Tang army rested for a long time, and Li Ji sent two soldiers to send the wounded soldiers to Jinman County for treatment, and the team set off again and headed west.

Guo Chongqing said in a low voice: "I'm afraid that this time the Hui people will not let us pass through the Wusun Ancient Road again." ”

Guo Song smiled bitterly and said, "Let's try it first!" If it really doesn't work, I'll go back to Jinman County first, and then wait for the opportunity. ”

Three days later, the cavalry of the Tang Army arrived at the Wusun Ancient Road again, and was guessed by Guo Chongqing, and the Hui people stationed heavy troops at the entrance of the Wusun Ancient Road, with tens of thousands of people, blocking all the inside and outside of the Wusun Ancient Road.

Even if the Tang army abandoned its horse and climbed the mountain, it would be difficult to cross the snow-capped Tianshan Mountain.

They were still two miles from the mountain pass when they were spotted by the Hui sentry, and several chirping arrows shot into the sky, and in a short time, a patrol cavalry rushed from the main camp and stopped at a distance of several hundred paces.

Li Ji asked: "Let the lowly position go and negotiate with them!" ”

Guo Song shook his head, "You don't understand the language with them, how can you negotiate, except for me and Chongqing, no one here understands their language anymore, so I'll negotiate in person!" ”

As soon as he urged the war horse to rush up, Guo Chongqing hurriedly followed, he had followed Guo Ziyi for many years, and he would also reply to the language a little.

There were still dozens of steps away from the cavalry, and Guo Song shouted loudly in Tiele language: "We are the envoys of the Tang Dynasty from Chang'an, take the road to Anxi, please let us pass!" ”

The centurion said, "You wait! ”

He turned his horse and went back to the camp.

Less than a quarter of an hour later, a Hui civil official followed, and he immediately saluted Guo Song, "I'm sorry, it's our Khan's order that no one is allowed to pass through the Wusun Ancient Road again, including you!" ”

"But we are not hostile, we just want to borrow the way!"

The civil official shook his head and said: "You have already gone through it once before, and it is because you have not hurt anyone, so I will talk to you now, otherwise we would have surrounded you and annihilated you a long time ago, you go back!" No one dares to disobey the order given by the Khan, if you want to forcibly break through and become the enemy of the Hui, then we will not tolerate the Tang army in Tingzhou anymore, please think twice. ”

Guo Chongqing asked in a low voice, "How did he know that it was us before?" ”

"They should have interrogated the herders in the valley, forget it, go back first."

Guo Song saluted with his fists, turned his horse's head and returned to the temporary station, where a patrol cavalry followed them, monitoring from a distance.

Back at the station, Li Ji greeted him and asked, "How?" ”

Guo Song shook his head, "The Hui people have clearly rejected our request for borrowing, or if it is an order from their Khan himself, there should be no room for negotiation." ”

"Why don't we force our way through at night?"

Guo Chongqing next to him objected: "They have tens of thousands of people, they are heavily guarded, we can't rush over, even if we rush over, there will be heavy casualties, and it will also affect the Tang army in Tingzhou, a strong attack is not the best policy!" ”

"What then?" Li Ji was a little anxious, and the road to the south was also blocked, could they only make a detour to the north?

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said, "Let's go back to Tingzhou first!" ”

Everyone turned their horses' heads and ran in the direction of Tingzhou........

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