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The sky was gloomy and cloudy, and in the snow, a white horse covered in blood stepped through the mud and snow battlefield. A red-robed man crossed the ravine, spears swept through the cold iron armor in the falling snow, and thousands of troops and horses followed, charging farther and darker into the snow.

"General Yuan Xian, General Yuan Xian is here?"

I don't know who shouted Yuan Xian's name on the battlefield where the corpses were strewn everywhere, and Yuan Xian looked around, only the yellow wind and snow and the black and red quagmire-like land. Suddenly, she noticed a pile of corpses moving not far away, and then a soldier in black light armor looked in this direction.

"But General Yuan Xian?"

Yuan Xance immediately took a few steps forward, "Exactly." Who are you? ”

"Back to the general, the humble position is the chief of the scout under the Xuanlong army."

Yuan Xian was stunned when he heard the words of Xuanlong Jun, and then he felt surprised and worried in his heart, and couldn't help but stare at a pair of Danfeng eyes. "But Zhong Li ordered you to come?"

"General Zhong only taught the lowly post to investigate the situation of the Beifeng army, and when the lowly post saw that the general's soldiers and horses had arrived, he ordered his subordinates to return to the camp first to report, and left to inform the general of the situation of our department on his own initiative."

Yuan Xian sighed lightly, "Maybe he didn't think he could find me easily." She thought about it and then said, "I'm chasing after me here, so you can get on your horse and tell me in detail." ”

The scout picked up the horses of the guards behind him, and galloped all the way to explain Zhong Li's situation carefully with Yuan Xian. Yuan Xian was happy a few times, worried a few times, and surprised a few times, she couldn't imagine that Zhong Li was only thirty miles away from her, so she couldn't hold back the excitement in her heart. "How were you when you came?"

"When I came, the Daling River was about to freeze, and the general estimated that Dai Ying would be able to lead the army directly through when the time came, so he was forming a defensive line, and it seemed that he wanted to encircle and destroy Dai Ying with General Yuan in the area of the Daling River."

Yuan Qian thought that if he hadn't been seduced by Dai Ying's suspicious soldiers, he wouldn't have to rely on Zhong Li to solve this mess at this time, and a sense of regret came to his heart again. "Order the whole army, chase harder, and be sure to wipe out the entire army of Beifeng on the west bank of the Daling River."

2

On the tenth day of October, Yuan Xian led the Shuoguo Red Dragon Army and the Canglong Army to conquer the Tuhe River. Dai Ying withdrew from Tuhe in advance, set up an ambush on the road to the east and defeated Yuan Xian's 8,000 vanguard troops, and then turned to the northeast, intending to reach the pre-arranged Fuli camp forty miles away, and delaying Yuan Xian's eastward advance with the Daling River's heavenly punishment.

There were more than 10,000 people when Dai Ying killed the Tuhe, and he selected the dead soldiers and divided them into three groups to set up an ambush on the eastward road, so as to desperately delay Yuan Xian's eastward advance, so as to gain time to cross the river and fortify. By dusk, it had opened a distance of more than ten miles from most of Yuan Xian, and it was only seven or eight miles away from the bank of the Daling River, and there were still eight or nine thousand people under his command.

At this time, the scout who sent out to explore the way turned back, looking frightened.

"Why are you so flustered?"

The scout took a moment to breathe before replying to Dai Ying: "Hey, lord, somehow there is an extra wall of ice on the bank of the Daling River. ”

"Ice walls? Speak carefully. ”

"When I went to the bank of the river, I saw that the Daling River was frozen and the snow on both banks was up to my ankles, so I wanted to try to cross the river to see if the ice was solid. As a result, as soon as I was about to go down the river, I saw a white wall on the opposite bank, and I couldn't look carefully because it was far away, but it seemed to seal the entire east riverbank. ”

"What?" As soon as Dai Ying heard it, she felt that something was wrong, "What ice wall?" Whose Ice Wall? ”

"There are no flags in the city, only that they are made of snow. He watched for a while, mixing the snow with the soil, tamping it, and then pouring water on it to freeze it. ”

"Lord, maybe it was Xiao Ming's kid who built a defense line for us, otherwise who else could build this ice wall on the riverbank?" Yuan Hua saw Dai Ying's hesitation, so he was relieved, although he vaguely felt that it was wrong. "At the moment, it is better for the army to cross the river quickly, if the river is really frozen, we have to consider how to prevent Yuan Xian's army from crossing the river."

Dai Ying seemed to see that Yuan Hua's words were intended to be heard by the people around him, so he said: "Yes, the army is marching quickly, and you can see what the situation is." ”

After a while, Dai Ying led Yuan Hua aside and whispered, "You also feel strange?" ”

With his subordinates' understanding of Xiao Ming, he will not take the initiative to do anything superfluous except for seeing a powerful opponent. An act like building a wall on a riverbank on a snowy day is not like something he can do. ”

"What do you think...... Won't it be? ”

"Maybe it's really Zhong Li who broke the siege, and he took Fuli again."

"One Xing Tao and one Xiao Ming, these martial artists must have half of your brains, and they won't let this Zhong Li do whatever he wants on my territory in western Liaoning."

"It's useless for the lord to say these angry words now, and he needs to be prepared to fight Zhong Li in advance. What's more, there are still Yuan Xian's pursuers at the moment, if they are dragged on the Daling River, they will lose everything. ”

Dai Ying let out a sigh, "According to what you mean, what should I do now?" ”

"If it is really a last resort, it needs to be willing."

3

When the time came, the lights lit on the ice wall, and the originally dead and silent glacier was dyed a warm red by a faint line of firelight. On the ice wall, the soldiers stood in three or five, dressed in black armor and fur cloaks, and the lights spread to the entire long ice city. In the middle of this light, Zhong Li is standing on a high platform, taking in the scenery of the past twenty miles. Looking at the other side of the river, although it was endless darkness, I already felt that something was faintly coming.

"Look at it like this, you really have the posture of a general." Because he knew that it was a decisive battle, Gu Yu and Zhong Li went to the high platform together.

The bitter northwest wind blew Zhong Li's cheeks painfully, but the more domineering the wind, the more he felt that he was worthy of this battlefield. "I was originally one of Shuoguo's Quartet generals, do you know now?"

Gu Yu shook her head and smiled, the wind made her already slightly pale face even more bloodless, only two faint blush appeared on her cheeks. "It's only today that I saw that you had a kind of duel in the battlefield."

"It's the last battle, isn't it?" Zhong Li glanced at the chain mail inside Gu Yu's white cloak, "Didn't you bring all the guys today?" ”

Gu Yu not only wore chain mail, but also brought a short knife and a short crossbow, and leggings were tied to his shins, as long as he took off this cloak with dark flowers, it would be no different from the attack on Zhong Li that day. "Didn't I think that if something went wrong with you, I would still have a chance to kill your sweetheart? Seeing her soon, it is equivalent to being able to see Yuan Qizhi? Now she is gossiping, but she already wants to do a part in this fight. Although the two had not met for a long time, after more than ten days, Gu Yu had already recognized the general in his heart, and he also wanted to understand the war in Liaoxi beautifully.

While the two were chatting, Qin Lang hurriedly climbed the tower. "General, do you see that?"

Zhong Li and Gu Yu looked at Qin Lang's gaze, and saw a point of light appearing in a position that seemed to be far away in the sky, and then the point of light became more and more obvious, gradually becoming a band of light.

"It's finally here."

Zhong Li watched as the light strip gradually turned into patches of light, illuminating the entire west bank of the Daling River in a fiery red, and then the muffled sound of bull horns and rumbling war drums faintly came from afar.

"Beat the drum and light a beacon fire." Zhong Li Lingdao.

The drums beat in bursts, passing through the twenty-mile-long position, and every third watchtower, a watchtower is lit with a red beacon fire. Because the Red Dragon Army was fully defeated, there were only 4,000 men here, and the strength was not enough to spread evenly across the twenty-mile-long defensive line. Zhong Li divided it into a team of 100 people, led by a centurion, and the two teams held a one-mile-long defensive line.

There are four guard towers with beacon towers in the one-mile defense line, and lighting a bunch of beacon fires means that the personnel are in place, and in case of attack, they need to burn another bunch, which is two beacon fires. After the two beacons, two adjacent places on the left and right need to each send a team of troops to the beacon to help, and the remaining team guards the position. If the two beacon fires are not enough to resist, the third beacon fire will be lit, and the two beacon fires on both sides will need to be fully reinforced and the second beacon fire will be lit. If the fourth beacon fire is ignited, it will either find the enemy general, or it will not be able to resist at all, and at this time Zhong Li will need to choose whether to withdraw from the defense line or personally lead the guards to reinforcements.

The soldiers of the Northern Front soon gathered on the west bank of the Daling River and lined up a well-organized military formation. Because it was already dark, Zhong Li could only judge the formation of Beifeng by the light of the fire on the opposite side. The firelight is roughly divided into three groups, one group is lined up, and the depth is not long, and it seems that it is a tentative to cross the river; The second group is a phalanx of 4,000 people, which should be the main offensive force, and the third group is a square of three squares arranged in the shape of finished characters, and the middle position is probably where Dai Ying is. In the past, the entire army formation was more than two or three miles wide and one mile deep, and it was a relatively decent formation.

The drums beat in the distance, and the soldiers of the first formation slowly stepped into the ice, and when they reached the center of the river, the front row of the second formation also began to advance. Zhong Li ordered two beacon fires to be lit in several places directly opposite the enemy formation, and fired a row of rockets at the marked position in the center of the river.

The rocket arced through the darkness of the night, fading its light in the middle of the river. The moment the rocket flew by, the armor of the soldiers in the front row of the North Forward reflected a red light. Seeing this, Zhong Li ordered the crossbow to wind up, and when the enemy got closer, he could release the arrow. Suddenly, the soldiers in the front line began to accelerate with all their might, and gradually turned the long snake formation into a wedge, and attacked straight towards the middle of the defense line. The soldiers of the second formation remained in the river, supported and covered with bows and crossbows, waiting for the opportunity to move.

There was a crackling sound on the ice wall, but the bow couldn't hurt the thick ice shell of the ice wall. Taking advantage of the short break in the bow and crossbow, the Xuanlong Army used the city wall and shield as a basis to open their bows and fire back. However, due to the difference in numbers, and the head of the northern front is all heavily armoured, the effect of the bow and crossbow to return fire is minimal.

In the firelight, these soldiers could be seen holding spears or hammers, wearing cold-forged armor, helmets to protect their foreheads, collar armor to the bridge of their noses, and only their eyes were exposed all over their bodies. When the spear-wielding soldiers reached the city, they stabbed the city with their long spears, which did not pose much of a threat, but it was enough to affect the crossbow shooting in the city. The hammer-wielding man took the opportunity to attack the wall with a hammer in an attempt to carve a breach in the ice wall.

Three beacon fires were lit in the middle of the defense line, and when they saw this, they sent their soldiers to support one after another, and for a while there was a crowd of people under the ice wall.

"Three beacons are on fire." Gu Yu looked at the beacon tower not far away and sighed. For some reason, all of her performances today slightly revealed a sense of unease.

Zhong Li noticed this slightly, so he turned around and smiled: "Don't worry, it's the beginning, aren't good things useless?" ”