Chapter 498: Returning in vain

Hua Mulan looked at the only thirty people in front of her, her face showed firmness, she didn't say anything more, and ordered Hua Hai: "This may be the last food and water we can collect, distribute it uniformly, save some food, we will at least carry it through tomorrow!" โ€

"Yes, General!"

"Let's divide into two shifts and take turns on duty, two hours at a time, everyone must keep their spirits up, tomorrow is the biggest test for us! Huahai, you can arrange a class arrangement, you and I will take a class! โ€

Hua Hai quickly divided everyone into two classes, fifteen people each, Hua Hai took one of the shifts to keep watch for the first half of the night, and Hua Mulan took the other class to watch for the second half of the night.

Before Mulan rested, she climbed to the roof of the building and asked the vigilant soldiers: "How is the situation?" โ€

"General Hui, the Yan army has retreated, but they still have a large number of troops to keep an eye on us nearby, and there are many archers!"

Hua Mulan was a little relieved, and when she returned to rest, she lay on the ground and fell asleep with her eyes closed.

Before she could fall asleep, she and the soldiers in the lounge heard a terrible scream in the distance, which was heard clearly in the night.

Mulan turned over and ran up to the roof of the building and asked loudly, "Where did the sound come from?" โ€

One of the guards replied, "General, the screams just now seem to have come from the mountains and forests!" โ€

Hua Mulan was stunned, "Could it be that there are rescuers in the mountains and forests?" How can this black light blind go up the mountain? It's so adventurous! โ€

After this scream, there was no movement for a full quarter of an hour, and Mulan returned to the lounge with doubts.

At this time in the mountains and forests, the deputy general of the right wing army really took five hundred carefully selected soldiers to slowly climb up, just now a soldier accidentally slipped under his feet, the whole person rolled down, and there was a terrible scream in the process of falling, but it soon stopped abruptly, I am afraid that it is more than auspicious.

"Fortunately, General Hua, when they climbed up, they tied a rope and put it down, we can pull the rope to climb, otherwise this black light blind fire will not be able to go up the mountain at all!" Fuzhen sighed as he climbed.

A vigorous and agile soldier was exploring the way in front, he stopped and turned his head and whispered to Fu Zhen: "General, we have arrived, and then climb ten zhang up to the city wall, under the city wall there are ten wooden ladders left by General Hua and them, but they were all pushed down by the Yan army!" โ€

"It's okay, let's just put the wooden ladder up again!"

After speaking, Fu Zhen got up and whispered to the back: "Up! โ€

There is a slope under the city wall, there are too many stones, the black lights are blinding, the speed of the Wei soldiers is not fast at all, with this kind of terrain, in fact, it is not attacking from here at all, the existence of the slope has too much hindrance to the siege, it is more than twice the difficulty of attacking the city on flat ground, but Fu Zhen and others have no other way.

When about half of the Wei soldiers had climbed under the city wall, and half were climbing up, a little light suddenly appeared on the city wall.

With a "whoosh", a little light from you shoots like a meteor under the city wall.

"Boom", just now it was a rocket, it hit a pile of firewood drenched with fire oil under the city wall, the firewood was instantly ignited, emitting a strong firelight, and nearly half of the Wei soldiers were exposed.

There was a shout from the walls: "Shoot the arrows!" โ€

"Whoosh ยทยทยทยทยทยท" A large number of bowstrings were heard with the sound of bowstrings flicking and archery piercing through the air.

The Wei troops under the city wall were hit by arrows one after another, some fell to the ground and died silently after being shot, and some were shot but did not die on the spot, letting out a terrible scream.

"It's not good, it's a trick, there's an ambush!" A Wei officer shouted.

The servant really shouted: "Archers come up, suppress them!" โ€

A group of archers climbed up and fired arrows at the invisible city wall, not knowing whether they had hit the enemy or not, but they could see these newly transferred Wei archers being shot one by one by arrows from the city wall.

The casualties of the Wei army are getting bigger and bigger, and the Fuzhen and Wei soldiers under the city wall can't see the situation on the city wall at all, and they are completely exposed to the Yan army's attack at this moment.

One of the generals shouted: "General, you can't fight like this, this is to send the brothers to death!" โ€

The servant was so anxious that he wanted to jump to his feet, but he couldn't think of any good way, so he could only grit his teeth and shout: "Withdraw, withdraw!" โ€

The Wei army withdrew in great embarrassment, and waited for the servant to retreat to the bottom of the mountain with the men and horses, and after counting, he found that more than 100 people were killed and injured in such a short time, and this result made him so angry that he almost vomited blood, but he had no choice but to return to the camp with the remaining nearly 400 people in despair, and after returning to the camp, he was ridiculed by Hedoro.

On the cloud tower, Hua Mulan looked at the figure of Fu Zhen withdrawing from the mountains and forests with people and horses in distress, but left more than 100 corpses of her comrades, she knew that Fu Zhen wanted to rescue her and the trapped soldiers, but this method no longer worked, and the Yan army was already prepared.

Just now she wanted to take the remaining thirty people to kill and join up with Fu Zhen and others, but she was surrounded by Chang Kun himself, and after more than ten steps, she was forced to retreat by the other party with superior forces and a large number of bows and arrows, and she also lost six people for this, and now there are only twenty-four people left.

On the east bank of the wet water, the camp of the Youzhou army.

Zhao Junsheng took the Youzhou army to cross the water at dusk, originally planned to order the soldiers to rush to Lulongsai in one go, but considering that this place is more than 30 miles away from Lulongsai, and the main army has tens of thousands of horses, if you really want to attack Lulongsai, there is no shortage of his 3,000 Youzhou army, so after crossing the river, he set up camp by the river, planning to camp for another night, and rush to Lulongsai early tomorrow morning to join the main force of the North Route Army.

At this time, it was already late at night, and Zhao Junsheng was patrolling the camp with Cao Jiao, Bai Jinguang, Wei Chi Yandong and a group of generals.

A guard sentry rode into the camp at a rapid pace, and he quickly found Zhao Junsheng and his party.

"Envoy, my subordinates found a man riding a horse to the camp in the wilderness, he said he wanted to see the general, he said his surname was Lu!"

When Zhao Junsheng heard this, he knew that it was Lu Xuanbo, so he ordered the cavalryman: "Take him to the tooth tent and wait for this general!" โ€

"Yes, General!"

Soon, Zhao Junsheng finished patrolling the camp and dismissed his subordinates and returned to the tooth tent.

Lu Xuanbo saw Zhao Junsheng walk in, hugged his fists and said, "Young master!" โ€

Zhao Junsheng was surprised: "Didn't you ask you to protect Mulan according to it?" Why did you come to me late at night? โ€

"Young Master, the young lady is in trouble, big trouble!"

Zhao Junsheng's face changed, "You tell me in detail!" โ€

Lu Xuanbo immediately told Mulan about the current situation.

Zhao Junsheng's face showed a look of worry that he had never seen before, but he still held back and calmed down and asked Lu Xuanbo: "Are you sure that Mulan is only trapped in Lu Longsai's cloud tower now, and there is no worry about her life?" โ€

"The subordinates took advantage of the darkness to sneak under the city wall, and when the servant really led people to sneak attack and was discovered, the subordinates saw the figure of the young lady appear on the cloud tower, and it would definitely not be wrong! The young lady is fine now, but it won't be easy to say tomorrow, she didn't bring dry food and water when she led people to a sneak attack, even if she wasn't injured, just hunger and lack of water could make her lose her combat power! โ€

Zhao Junsheng's face was unprecedentedly solemn, "If you come before dusk, we haven't crossed the river yet, we can turn north and attack Lulongzhai, go north after passing Lulongzhai, and then cross the water to the east, and arrive outside Lulongsai Pass before the time comes, at this time, most of Lulongsai's defenders should be deployed on the wall on the side of the pass to guard against the main force of the North Route Army, we attack under the sneak attack, and attack the city wall before they have time to send reinforcements, we can break Lulongsai and rescue Mulan."

Lu Longsai has never been just a pass, it includes Lu Longzhai and Lin Lancheng two dangerous places, Lu Longzhai in the later generations of the name of Panjiakou, Lin Lancheng pass is the main pass of Lu Longsai, historically, Lu Longzhai and Lin Lancheng of the two levels of war are always connected together, as long as one is broken, the other has not lost its effect.

Lu Xuanbo said anxiously: "Then what now?" โ€

Zhao Junsheng took a deep breath, "At this time, it will take two times to cross the river to turn around and attack Lulongzhai, the black light is blind, the water level of the river is high, the flow speed is fast, and the soldiers and livestock are easily washed away by the river!" โ€

Lu Xuanbo asked: "Why don't we go north by boat directly, why do we need to attack Lulongzhai?" โ€

Zhao Junsheng couldn't cry or laugh, "Do you think this is Jiangnan?" Looking for a boat that can be found at any time of the river by the river? This is Youzhou, big brother! It's good to find one or two small fishing boats once in a while, and I have 3,000 people here, how can I take a boat? Besides, even if there are enough boats, but the river flows south, and the north is against the current, do you think that those of us who don't know how to sail can make the boats swim against the current? โ€

"Now the plan is to lead the army to Lulongsai overnight to join the main force, and then find a way to rescue Mulan and them!"

When Zhao Junsheng led the Youzhou Army to the south of Lulongsai and joined the main force of the Northern Route Army, it was already ugly.

He ordered Cao Jiao, Bai Jinguang, Wei Chi Yandong and others to place soldiers and horses, and did not go to see Changshan Wang Tuoba Su at the first time, but first took Li Bao, Lu Xuanbo and a few personal soldiers to the camp of the Yunzhong Army.

At the camp gate, the camp gate guard who went to report opened the camp gate and said to Zhao Junsheng: "Zhao Envoy, my general is invited!" โ€

Zhao Junsheng nodded, and followed the camp gate guard to the tooth tent quickly.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Xiuzhi was waiting outside the tent, "What kind of wind is this blowing Brother Zhao here?" โ€

Zhao Junsheng went straight to the point, hugged his fists and said: "Brother just arrived with troops, and even King Changshan didn't go to see him, but came directly to Brother Zhu!" โ€

"Oh?" Zhu Xiu was stunned, and hurriedly said, "Please come in and speak!" โ€

Zhao Junsheng instructed Li Bao and the others: "Stay outside, don't come close!" After saying that, he walked into the dental tent.

Zhu Xiu's heart moved, and he also instructed the soldiers under the tent: "All are on guard outside, and no one is allowed to approach the tent!" โ€

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