Volume 1 The Wind Rises Chapter 25 A Trap in a Trap
Guo Yi led the team all the way to the west, and the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom behind him were in hot pursuit, and several times Shuhumu led people back to stop a wave, and the team was not caught up. The cavalry of the Jin State is worthy of its name.
Fifty or sixty miles out of the village, and then go so far, you can reach Yinzhou City. Xia Yuan, the chief soldier of Yinzhou, has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and if they enter the city to hold on, it should be enough to wait for reinforcements.
Guo Yi and Humu were in the front, and the two occasionally said a few words.
"Mr. Guo, I don't feel right." Shuhumu spoke, and along the way, he turned back several times to fight the Jin army. He could feel that the Jin army was not killing them, but just trying to drain their physical strength and drive them west.
"I'm afraid we're still stuck in it." Guo Yi's words were amazing, but his voice was so small that even Xu An didn't hear it, "I thought the west was the exit, but I didn't expect it to be the entrance." ”
The moonlight is clear tonight, and it is easy to know the way on the march. Although there is no snow, the climate is cold. Several of the soldiers' mounts were already a little out of strength.
"Keep going straight, improvise, it's too late to turn." Guo Yi said in a low voice, if he changes the route of the march now, he may not be able to reach half of the team in the end.
The crow's voice was eerie in the vast wilderness, and the thunderous hooves of horses were much quieter than they had been when they first broke through.
"Is General Shuhu familiar with the road ahead?" Guo Yi asked.
"More than ten miles ahead is the Guitou Gorge, which is a dry ancient river channel."
"There must be an ambush there, is there any other way?"
"Yes, go to the north of Fujin Mountain for five miles, detour through the territory of Jinguo, and then turn back from the front, and enter Yinzhou from the west gate."
"How far will it be?"
"Thirty miles."
The voices of the two were flat, and they did not panic, after all, panic at this moment is self-chaos.
"How many do you think will make it this far?" Guo Yi asked, the question was cruel.
"Less than forty percent." Shuhumu thought for a moment and said this answer.
"What about from the Ghost Head Gorge?"
"Annihilation."
When Guo Yi heard this, he no longer hesitated, and said to Xu An behind him: "Xu An! ”
"The end will be." Xu An's voice was interesting and tired, such a desperate march was a huge burden for both the mount and the people.
"Pass the order to go down, and after you reach Fujin Mountain, you will detour through the territory of Jinguo."
"Yes." Xu An heard the sound and prepared to give the order.
"Slow, you give another order, the upper fourth battalion and the middle fourth battalion of the Black Wolf Army will exchange mounts, and the upper fourth battalion will stop here to intercept the pursuing soldiers of the Jin Kingdom."
Xu An's eyes lit up, his mouth opened slightly, this order, the remaining four battalions were destined to die in the wasteland today.
"You go and give orders." Guo Yi saw that Xu An was stunned and reminded him loudly.
Xu An gritted his teeth, took the reins of the horse, slowed down his mount, and went to the rear.
"Forty percent?" Guo Yi asked.
"In order to keep forty percent, the four battalions can only be sent out. We can't let the cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin follow us. ”
Guo Yi stopped talking, he originally wanted the Anxi army to leave four hundred people, but Shuhumu gave the order before him.
"I won't count today's account on your head, this account belongs to Yuhuzi." Shuhumu's voice was indifferent, sending his brother who was born and died into a Jedi, and he was by no means as calm as he seemed.
In the rear army, the upper fourth battalion and the middle fourth battalion immediately stopped after listening to Xu An's order, leaving the mounts that were still good physical strength to the middle four battalions, and the mounts that were about to lose their strength were left to the upper four battalions. When exchanging mounts, there were still people who wanted to say goodbye without hugging, no one cried, no one made a sound.
Xu An pulled the reins, returned to the front of the line, and said, "My lord, it's okay." ”
Shuhumu saw Xu An's somewhat sad eyes and said, "It is better to die in the hands of the people of the Jin Kingdom than in the hands of your own people." ”
Xu An was shocked when he heard this, and looked at Guo Yi. Guo Yi's beard flew up, without any expression.
If no one in the Han Dynasty had dealings with the Jin Kingdom, this killing game tonight would not have been doomed.
Seeing that he had arrived at Fujin Mountain, Guo Yi pulled the reins of his horse and went to the north, and the team immediately followed and went to the north one after another.
It took about half an hour for the pursuers behind him to come here. They went out of the village to chase and kill Guo Yishi, and there were 6,000 people, and in the fight with the four battalions just now, a quarter of them were brutally killed.
The general of the Jin Kingdom, who led the team, looked at the horseshoe prints heading north from the road of Fujin Mountain, pointed to the deputy general behind him, and said, "You take two thousand people to chase north." Although there were ambushes on this road, he did not dare to make mistakes, and in order to be safe, he still chose to divide his troops.
"Yes!" The lieutenant waved his whip, and the ranks of the Jin Kingdom were like a diverted flood, one continuing to the west and the other to the north.
On the other side, Guo Yi and the others have already left the border of the Han Dynasty at this moment, and the place where they are running now is the land of the Jin Kingdom. A few years ago, Jin Guo also followed the arrangement of Beiyan Province and learned to patrol the border, but Guo Yi and the more than 2,000 cavalry behind him were not too afraid.
"There must be an ambush on this road." Shuhumu said.
Just now, Guo Yi divided 300 people from the Anxi army and went straight to the west, he was afraid that the pursuers would see all the horseshoe prints in the north and chase them to the north.
"Now we're just going to have to break through." Guo Yi paused, "This is already the boundary of the Jin Kingdom, there shouldn't be many ambush soldiers, we can escape by going south from Chishan Pass before dawn." ”
Shuhumu took off his armor, took out a pot of wine from the small bag on horseback, raised his neck and poured a few sips. Then he said, "Next!" He threw the flask to Guo Yi.
Guo Yi actually frowned and said, "You also bring wine with you when you march to fight?" "The Han Dynasty has not allowed alcohol in the army since the time of Emperor Wu, and the soldiers of the first Northern Expedition were more or less drunk and misbehaved.
"The army in the north drank alcohol to strengthen their courage and warm their bodies, and if they were wounded, they washed their wounds with wine to prevent them from festering."
Guo Yi still understands the first two items, and he doesn't know that wine can replace gold sore medicine to stop wounds from festering.
"Drink, it's the coldest time in the north before dawn." Shuhumu said again.
Guo Yi was no longer entangled, raised his neck and poured a few sips, then handed the wine jug to Xu An, and said, "Drink two sips!" ”
"My lord, I don't delete drinking." Xu An said it tactfully.
"Drink it quickly, I've drunk it all, I don't need you to take the blame."
Xu An reluctantly took the wine jug and took a big sip like the two of them, but this wine was much stronger than the wine in the Central Plains, and Xu An, who didn't drink much, took a big sip and was choked and coughed.
Xu An wanted to stop the wine jug and handed it back to Guo Yi, but Guo Yi said: "Pass it to the brothers, let's take a sip of it." ”
When Xu An heard this, he turned around and found that almost every one of the Black Wolf Army cavalry behind him was holding a wine jug in his hand, and some handed the wine jug to the soldiers of the Anxi Army beside him. Originally, the four battalions were left behind, and they were particularly dissatisfied, but in Fujin Mountain, seeing that Guo Yi left 300 Anxi troops of more than 400 people to send them to death, it was difficult to say anything. vaguely regarded the group of Anxi troops around him as the upper fourth battalion that could not come back.
Guo Yi's side is safe for the time being, and in the Guitou Gorge, the cavalry of the three hundred Anxi Army who charged fell to the ground in the rain of arrows on the high slopes on both sides. The last person was shot off the horse, he lay on the ground, looked up, there were still hundreds of steps to the exit of the Ghost Head Gorge, he smiled, I don't know what I remembered, then tilted his head, lifeless.
The ambush soldiers on the hillside immediately descended the hillside and came to the Guitou Gorge, and the leader did not wear armor, but wore a silver-white fox fur.
He kicked the soldier's lifeless corpse and said, "Is it really seen through?" "The sound was small, but it clearly reached the ears of the people around me.
There is no other reason, just because he is the thirteenth prince of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Ke, the king of Shouhai.
About a stick of incense, the pursuers of the Jin Kingdom also arrived, and the generals who divided the troops at the beginning looked at the few hundred corpses in the Guitou Gorge, and secretly rejoiced in their hearts: they were fortunate to divide the troops with 2,000 on their backs.
After he dismounted, he ran to Wan Yanke's side, knelt down and saluted, and said, "The minister returns to Twen to join the prince." ”
"You went to the pursuers?" Wan Yanke's expression was cold.
"The minister sent 2,000 pursuers at the foot of Fujin Mountain." When he said this, there was even a hint of pride on Hui Twin's face.
"Two thousand?" Wan Yan Ke sneered, pulled out the horsewhip from the waist of the guard behind him, and pointed it at Hui Twin's face, and the crisp voice came out far in the Ghost Head Gorge: "What is the use of two thousand?" You shit! ”
The horsewhip in Wan Yanke's hand kept waving, and Hui Twen squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, not daring to move. Wan Yanke first whipped him in the face, and blood ran down his neck and into his clothes.
After Yan Ke hit him dozens of times, he finally lost his breath, threw the horsewhip on the ground, and said, "Go back to Twen, you go after it, if you can't kill that Guo Yi, you will die in his place." ”
"Yes." Hui Twen covered his bleeding cheeks, turned to the door, and led the soldiers back.
"Why did the prince have such a big anger, didn't he still plant an ambush in the north?" It was a white-faced guard who spoke, and his face looked like a woman, if he was placed in Tianjing City, he would be a good rabbit master.
When Wan Yanke heard this, a smile appeared on his face, but he directly reached into the guard's clothes. The surrounding Jin soldiers bowed their heads one after another, not daring to look.
"What are you doing, prince?" The guard snorted, but the next moment, his face changed, and Wan Yanke's hand pinched his waist fiercely, as if he wanted to tear a piece of flesh off him. The guards didn't dare to make a sound, and their faces turned blue with pain.
"If you really enter the north, what use can I have a thousand ambush soldiers?" Although Wan Yanke exerted force in his hands, his complexion was still gentle. He withdrew his hand, gently stroked the guard's white and tender face, and ordered aloud: "Everyone, pack up your things and attack Yinzhou City." ”
With that, he withdrew his hand and walked towards the outside of Guitou Gorge, his car waiting for him.