46. Mountain Temple (3)
Gongre and Tuoba Ye ordered their riders to dismount and defend the entrance to the mountain road back and forth with a few strong troops, and when everything was set up, the enemy had not yet attacked. At this time, the moon is bright and the stars are scarce, and the sound of insects in the mountains and fields is endless, and sometimes it stops abruptly, as if it has been frightened. In the hazy moonlight, some dark shadows can be seen jumping along the sides of the mountain road, constantly approaching. Tuoba Ye hid behind a mountain rock, listening to the sound of approaching footsteps in all directions, and couldn't help but be secretly frightened. He was able to become a lieutenant in the Hexi Army, his internal strength was naturally good, and his ear voice was also extremely smart, and the number of people who came up on the other side was really quite a lot, about seventy or eighty people, and all of them were agile, obviously good martial arts.
What can afford to raise a hundred and ten masters is not a green forest cottage, even if you add up all the robbers in the entire Ganliang Road, you can't make up so many good hands. Moreover, the people who came were silent, but they quickly seized the key points of the terrain separately, obviously well-trained, which is not something that ordinary green forest heroes can do. Tuoba Ye quickly decided that the opponent was a local tycoon from the northwest secession, and there were not a few people who coveted the position of the envoy of the northwest jiedu, the Hui department of Ganzhou, the Cao family of Guzhou, the Tuguhun Murong family of Suzhou, and the Tibetan nobles of Hezhou and Qingtang all had this ambition, of course, the party Qiang department that had always looked down on the northwest wolf Gu Ying could not be ignored.
In terms of time, the Hui tribe who are now in charge of Ganzhou is fully controlling the Cao family in Shazhou, and they are currently unable to spare energy to fight for control of Hexi. The Tibetan Shang family in Hezhou has always been at ease in the land of Hehuang and Qingtang, which is declining day by day, and has long lost the heart of hegemony in the era of Shang and maid. Moreover, Tibet has been in civil strife for a long time, and the original powerful Tibet has long been torn apart, and the major families have long since given up their ambition to enter the Central Plains. The Panjialuo and Shang families in Hexi belong to the Hehuang Tubo wealthy family, and the two families have been friends for generations, and the Shang family is not willing to be a false name for a Hexi Jiedu envoy, and they have a bad relationship with the Pan family.
Tuoba Ye is very strange that someone will come to snatch the great seal of the Hexi Jiedu envoy. To put it bluntly, who has the final say in Hexi still has to speak by strength, and with only a big seal, those local tribes and wealthy clans will not buy it.
While he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a few clanging bowstrings, and then heard two screams not far away, and two archers were hit by arrows and fell to the ground. Gao Sheng crouched behind a low wall and shouted, "Bow down, watch out for the enemy!" With a few more string sounds, the ambushed warriors on the mountain also returned fire towards the dark shadows between the mountain paths, but the enemy hid behind the rocks, and the arrows they shot hit the stone wall one after another, and they all missed.
A few gray shadows took advantage of the moment when the archers stopped, and took the opportunity to pounce again, and Tuoba Ye pulled out a strong bow, swishing three arrows in succession, and shot at the three people in front. He has experienced a hundred battles, his martial arts are high, and his archery skills are still excellent, only to get close to the opposite side with a muffled voice, someone fell to the ground in response, and the enemy's offensive was stagnant. Then the rain of arrows on the mountain defense came one after another, although the first batch of enemies attacking under the mountain had high martial arts, but the mountain road was narrow, and it was not easy to spread the body, and several people were hit by arrows, so they could only retreat back to the back of the mountain cliff.
"What's the matter? The Liangzhou army is here, and those who are not afraid of death will come up again! Tuoba Ye shouted loudly, and his voice was sent out with internal force, echoing in the valley for a long time, showing extremely profound skill. His roar was terrifying, and the enemy's momentum was immediately suppressed. The defenders on the hill were bold, and some people couldn't help but cheer.
Before the cheers were over, I suddenly heard someone behind the northeast cliff say in a gloomy voice: "General Tuoba, we can fight your ambush here, we must have been planning for a long time." Now the whole mountain is surrounded by our people, and even if you have wings, you will not be able to escape this time. There are forty-three of you, and I'm right. As for what we want, as long as we leave the edict and seal letter of the eunuch and the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, my lord can let you live! This voice was sharp and piercing, but the words were clearly sent into everyone's ears, showing that although the speaker's internal strength was a feminine vein, his internal strength was by no means under Tuobayan.
Tuoba Ye was stunned in his heart, the enemy really came prepared, and the estimated number of people was about ten times his own, what the yin voice and yin qi said was true, at this moment, I was afraid that the enemy had sealed the entire mountain road. But the matter has come to this, surrender is absolutely impossible, the Liangzhou army has been able to occupy the land of Liangzhou between the attacks of the Tibetan, Hui, Khitan and other tribes, and survived for nearly a hundred years after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, relying only on this momentum of never admitting defeat.
"It's useless to talk too much, if you have the ability, you can attack it!" Tuoba Ye held the knife in his hand, and he was proud.
"Very good, then you're welcome!" The gloomy voice sounded again, and as soon as the words fell, suddenly a man flew out from behind the cliff, and fell straight to the ground, not moving. The flesh and blood on this man's face were blurred, his throat had been severed, and he had been out of breath for a long time. Everyone on the mountain could still tell from the vague moonlight that this was a scout that Tuoba Ye had just sent to the bottom of the mountain to explore the way.
The mountain temple on Yehu Ridge is located halfway up the mountain, and the enemy has already quietly occupied the top of the mountain, and the team led by Gongre is attacked from both sides, and the situation is very bad. Fortunately, this mountain temple is located on a small slope on the mountainside, and everyone can still support it.
The enemy's attack first came down from the top of the mountain, and Gonge and his men fought the enemy first. Gongre held a large scimitar from the Western Regions, blocking the enemy's uphill intersection, only to hear the hidden weapon sneering at him, and he was blown out by swinging the scimitar. Gongre's martial arts were instructed by the Laqin Living Buddha of Dandou Temple, who had assassinated the Tibetan king Dama, when he was young, and he was quite exquisite, and he wore a thick cowhide armor, and the enemy's hidden weapon was helpless for a while.
Gongre was concentrating on dealing with the enemy in front of him, when he felt a strong wind behind his head, and a steel pestle smashed from behind. But listening to the sound of the splitting wind, he knew that the blade was very heavy, Gongre did not dare to take it hard, and staggered, and the steel pestle fell beside him, falling on the mountain rock, only to hear a loud bang, which shook people's ears and numb, and stirred up a ball of sparks on the ground.
"Plus (livestock)!" Gongre shouted, and the scimitar in his hand made an arc and slashed at the right shoulder of the sneak attacker, but saw two spears stabbed at his waist at the same time, so he had to swing the spear away with a horizontal knife. The steel pestle swept at him again, and Gongre rushed forward, and the scimitar took the shaft of the pestle and slashed it, but a spear had already pierced him in the left neck, and Gongre had to spare the enemy and retreat sharply to the right. At this time, seven enemies dressed in black had already attacked the crossing, and these people were covered with black scarves on their faces, so they couldn't see their faces clearly, and Gong Yuan's men fought with these black-clothed men.
Seeing that the mountain pass above was in a hurry, Tuoba Ye immediately rushed up and rushed to reinforcements, seeing that two black-clothed warriors with long swords were forcing the two Tibetan horsemen to retreat, and the Tibetan cavalry under Gongre was far away from the opponent's martial arts, but with a fierce spirit, they were fighting hard. Tuoba Ye screamed, the long knife in his hand stabbed straight up, only to hear the sound of the whirring wind, and a meteor hammer dragging a long chain hit him directly.
Tuoba Ye was holding a standard Tang knife, not daring to touch it, and swam sideways, the meteor hammer in the enemy's hand couldn't help swinging, like a big iron ball, rolling towards him. I saw Tuoba Ye retreat sharply, and when the meteor hammer danced slowly, his body suddenly rose, and the long knife stabbed straight in. These few rabbit ups and downs, which caught the strong man in black of the meteor hammer off guard, and it was too late to fight back, only to hear a snort, and the long knife went straight under him. The black-clothed masked strong man shouted, waved the iron chain in his hand, and broke the Tang knife that pierced into his body in two, Rao was extremely brave.