Chapter 546: Helpless Zhou Chen
Before, they only said that Li Xinchen did not have many soldiers and horses, and everyone could take this opportunity to make contributions, so they kept encouraging He Louzi to move forward, and even directly tore Cao Xiaoda's letter to show their determination.
But now the enemy's deliberate humiliation has made these generals feel that something is wrong, and it is obvious that the enemy cannot carefully arrange such a trap, just to deal with the strikers of the Northern Zhou. Their crossbowmen are lurking here at such a risk, and it shouldn't just be to eliminate the few pathfinders who are walking ahead!
No matter how it seems now, this is all a trap carefully laid by Li Xinchen, so these generals can no longer watch He Louzigan move forward.
"General, why don't we send scouts to investigate first, and the troops should retreat to Willow Gully and observe the situation before moving forward." A close general gritted his teeth and stood up, stretching out his hand to stop He Louzigan who wanted to move forward, "Li Xinchen obviously expected us to come over a long time ago, this is obviously a trap laid for the general, if the general continues to move forwardΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
He Louzi snorted dryly: "You know that you are advancing and retreating at this time, are you afraid of Li Xinchen?" A few small traps can make you cringe so much, so wouldn't you be scared if you saw Li Xinchen himself? Get out of the way of Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu doesn't believe it, this Li Xinchen doesn't have many troops in his hands, what capital does he have to fight with someone! β
After a pause, He Lou Zigan stretched out his hand and pointed to the hill on one side: "What's more, as long as you can take down this hill, you will be able to see the enemy's situation in full view, even if there are ambushes, what can you do, as long as you see the move!" β
He Lou Zigan is a notoriously hot temper under Wei Xiaokuan, and usually only Wei Xiaokuan can really suppress He Lou Zigan, but now that Wei Xiaokuan is not here, where do these generals have the courage to really argue with He Lou Zigan, since He Lou Zigan has said so decisively, everyone is naturally not good to say more.
And He Louzi waved his hand: "Go!" β
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He Louzigan's subordinate Zhou Chen walked on the mountain path with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the top of the mountain was already in sight, but Zhou Chen couldn't fight his spirits.
As a general who He Louzigan didn't pay much attention to, Zhou Chen didn't expect He Louzigan to reuse him, but now this task of attacking the top of the mountain to overlook the entire valley was a really thankless task.
If he takes down the top of the mountain, Zhou Chen can have a full view of the surrounding situation, he must inform He Louzigan of the information as soon as possible, and then He Louzigan will lead the army to attack, in the end, Zhou Chen's subordinates may not even have a result, at most it is a small credit for collecting intelligence, others eat meat, and he is not even qualified to drink soup.
And if something goes wrong, or even provides false information, then naturally let alone him, he Zhou Chen will just wait and walk around without eating.
Therefore, Zhou Chen is very helpless about this task, but he has not yet expressed the courage to express his dissatisfaction, if he can prove himself through this mission, he may be able to get some chance to drink soup in the next war, otherwise he may be a small partial general in his life.
"General, there is a mountain top Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β· ahead" One of the soldiers wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could finish his words, an arrow suddenly burst out from behind a nearby stone and pierced the soldier's chest.
The Northern Zhou soldier lowered his head in disbelief and glanced at the arrow shaft that was still exposed, opened his mouth, and fell on his back.
The next moment, countless arrows roared, and the seemingly chaotic stones on the top of the mountain began to roll down the mountain road!
"Enemy attack!" The hairs on Zhou Chen's body had completely stood up, and he almost subconsciously roared loudly. And the stone had already smashed in front of him, and a Northern Zhou soldier who was in front of Zhou Chen was directly hit in the cheek, and blood flowed.
Although he didn't know why the enemy appeared on the top of this mountain, and he didn't know how many enemies there were, Zhou Chen's heart was already cold. The enemy is now blocking the top of the mountain, and it is also blocking the only way up the mountain, so Zhou Chen knows what this means.
Now there are only two options in front of Zhou Chen, one is to attack the top of the mountain at all costs, and the enemy only needs one or two hundred people to guard the top of the mountain, and the six or seven hundred people under Zhou Chen's command have no way to rush up, so they can only rely entirely on human lives to fill forward little by little.
Zhou Chen had participated in the battle of Tiangongyuan Mountain before, and he knew very well how much price he would have to pay, and in the end, it was even very likely that so many people would have to explain here.
If this is not the case, Zhou Chen can only lead the army to retreat, but this also means that he has not completed the task assigned to him by He Louzigan, and Zhou Chen was completely defeated in this battle.
"General, we can't hesitate any longer, let's retreat quickly!" A battle lord ran over with a shield in his hand, "The enemy is ambushing on the top of the mountain, which means that they have long expected that we will attack the mountain, no one knows how many enemies are in front of us, the top priority is to hurry up and tell General He Lou that there is danger here, we must retreat!" β
Zhou Chen also came back to his senses at this time, and couldn't help but shudder. The enemy even stationed troops on the top of this mountain, indicating that there were indeed ambushes in the valley below, and there must have been quite a few ambushes.
This is a complete trap, waiting for He Louzigan to lead the army to get in!
But if he retreats at this time, will He Louzigan listen to his opinion? What if it's just the enemy's scouts on the top of the hill bluffing?
Zhou Chen gritted his teeth, he knew that he was betting on his future and the lives of the entire army, and this gamble was really full of malice.
"General, withdraw!" Several other generals also rushed over, and everyone could see the situation clearly, the enemy occupied the top of the mountain, and it was difficult to really snatch back control unless he opened up a large attack in formation.
"Withdraw!" Zhou Chen waved his hand, his face full of decadence.
At this time, he had a deep sense of powerlessness, the last time such a retreat was in Tiangong Mountain, or in the face of Li Xinchen, leaving behind the corpses all over the mountains and the flags that could not be seen in color that were trampled on. Zhou Chen didn't know how many times he would have to face such a retreat in his life, but he had a faint premonition that as long as Li Xinchen was still there, it would be endless.
This Li Xinchen always seems to be able to walk in front of them, and this time he has prepared a big surprise for them.
"Immediately send someone to inform General He Lou of the situation here, and the rest will be repaired on the mountainside," Zhou Chen retreated all the way to the back of a big tree, and hurriedly gave the order, and the arrows whistled along the trunk of the big tree, obviously the enemy would not stop firing arrows until they disappeared, "Send scouts to explore the way, be sure to figure out the situation!" β