Li Yuanhao can be regarded as suffering all the way down, not only the road is hidden from time to time thorns, and there are some small problems everywhere, just yesterday a road facing the canyon was blocked by a landslide on the mountain, looking at the soil and rocks are not much, that is, a little bit of one or two zhang long, loudly, this landslide is a canyon and a steep slope can not be bypassed, so I had to launch my men to dig it, but this soil and stone are loose, while digging and falling, it took a lot of effort to open, but the time has come to night, I had to choose a place where there were no thorns and barren grass to camp.

Even if you camp at night, you can't live in peace, either the tiger roars and the wolf howls and startles the war horse, or which one of the thousands of knives accidentally walks out of the water, anyway, it is a night of shock, so that people can not even sleep well to relieve fatigue.

Fortunately, there are no people in the depths of this mountain, and there is no need to worry about enemy attacks, so it is somewhat more reassuring.

In this way, it was supposed to be a three-day journey to get out of the ground, but it had been three days before it was halfway through, and just this half, it made the soldiers who were originally fierce and fierce, and their eyes became listless and exhausted, not to mention that everyone was originally a cavalry, where did they walk so many roads? If you don't know that there is an upcoming fight, this armor knife and gun is the basis for killing the enemy with your own life, maybe you would have lost it all over the mountain.

Look at how long the line is, not to mention that it is a war, but it is unstable to stand, and it is very fortunate that you can barely hurry.

On the third day, the yawning soldiers were gathered in the evening, and began the day's tribulation march, and just after a mile or two, they entered a ravine, and at the beginning of the canyon could be two people and two horses in parallel, but later they could only lead the horse alone, and in some places it was difficult to walk with a horse. In this endless deep mountain canyon, and the cold wind whistling through the valley, the brothers can't walk three miles and are already procrastinating and unwilling to go anymore, Li Yuanhao now has no strength to scold and scold again, and the whole person has become listless, found a slightly wider place to sit on a big stone on the side of the road, poured a few mouthfuls of cold water handed by the soldiers, and looked at the soldiers with heavy feet, leading the war horse in front of him to move one foot deep and one foot shallow, and his heart was extremely annoyed.

I knew that this mountain road was so difficult, and I didn't suffer this crime even if I was killed, but now it is difficult to ride a tiger, so I can only grit my teeth and move forward, hoping that after the mountain in front of me, there is a smooth road behind the mountain.

There is a weak call for a personal soldier; "Go to the front and call that guide back."

"It's the general." Although the pro-soldier was also tired and unwilling to move, the general had an order, where did he dare to shirk, handed over the war horse to a brother, pushed away the brothers who were crowded together and blocked the road, and hurried forward close to the cliff.

It took a long time to come to him with the guide. The guide was about fifty years old, and he was originally a medicine man in Yan'an Mansion who had been collecting medicine in this valley for many years, so he was quite familiar with this inaccessible local road, Li Yuanhao needed a guide to send troops, and the local government arrested him for labor. The herb picker has climbed up and down this mountain for many years, trained a pair of iron feet, and his body is extremely tough, but now it seems that he is much stronger than this official army, but even so, it is no longer bearable to run back and forth.

The guide was pushed to Li Yuanhao by his own soldiers, lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Li Yuanhao's face, and whispered: "I've seen the general, the little one is polite here." "As he spoke, he was about to kneel, but the canyon was really narrow, and there was no place to kneel, so Li Yuanhao responded in vain;" Get up, stand and speak. ”

"Thank you, General." The guide trembled and bowed his waist and whispered thanks.

"You have been walking through the valley here for many years to collect medicine, how long do you say it will take to get out of this canyon, and what is the place after you get out? Is the road ahead easy to walk? How far is this place from the Black Tiger Village? The guide who asked the series of questions didn't know which one to answer.

The pro-soldier pushed the medicine picker and rebuked loudly: "Is it dumb? Still not returning to the general's words? Is there still a reward? ”

"Yes, yes, I don't dare to ask for a reward, the little one will return to the general's words." Saying that, he shrunk his neck, swallowed his saliva and thought about it, and said carefully: "General Hui, there are still less than ten miles away from getting out of this canyon, and our medicine pickers covet the inaccessible medicinal materials here and are old and high-quality, so the harvest is very good throughout the year, and the normal foot journey like mine will take about half a day, and you can go out at noon, but look at the speed of the military master now, I am afraid that it will only be completed at night, and after walking out of this canyon, it is a village of dozens of families called Gushantun, and they all rely on collecting medicine and hunting for a living. The small ones used to pick medicine here have to go to the small Tunzi to rest for a night, exchange the medicinal herbs tiger bone bear bile or something, and then return, in front of the mountain tun is a horse Pingchuan road, you can put the horse gallop until the front of the mountain in front of the Black Tiger Village, after the Black Tiger Village in front of the mountain and then there are seventy or eighty miles of appearance, it is the gourd valley, and there is ----"

When the soldier saw that the herb picker was rambling, he pushed the herb picker fiercely and scolded loudly; "You are an old immortal, you can't stop rambling, why don't you tell the general what is here and what is the name?"

The herb picker was even more frightened, and whispered in defense: "However, the general didn't ask me what this place is or what its name is." ”

Li Yuanhao couldn't help but sigh when he heard the defense of the medicine picker, it seems that he is still a small person, he has never seen a big person, he is stupid to think of it, and he is in a much better mood when he is so amused, and he smiled rarely; "Then tell General Ben, what is this place now, and what is its name?"

"So that the general knows that this boundary is already under the jurisdiction of Fu County, and this canyon is called Sleepy Dragon Valley."

"Trapped Dragon Valley? How is it called such a name? Li Yuanhao subconsciously muttered.

"General Hui, according to the gentlemen of Gukou----- "The herb picker was going to be verbose again, Li Yuanhao waved his hand to stop his words, and frowned; "Herb picker, now you take a few of my brothers to find a way to climb up the canyon, carefully search for ambushes everywhere, and call me on the canyon after seeing the situation." Seeing that the face of the medicine picker was embarrassed, he immediately said: "Come back, General Ben will reward you with ten good money." Looking at the eyes of his own patrol horses who were no longer in good spirits, he said, "You are treated the same as him, go quickly." ”

Hearing that there were ten good money to take, the patrolmen who were already tired and were about to vomit blood reined a little, and promised to follow the herb picker to the mountain.

Watching those patrols walk away, Li Yuanhao stood up and looked up at the swarthy steep cliff, couldn't help frowning, thought for a while, and said: "Zhongjun, inform the brothers to work harder, and be on guard to get out of this trapped Dragon Valley as soon as possible." ”

"But general, look at the brothers like this-----" the Chinese army hesitated.

"Don't talk nonsense, you immediately give the order to go down, arrange the overseer, and use whips and sticks to raise the speed of the march." Li Yuanhao said impatiently and loudly, and when he spoke, he kept observing the top of the cliff of the unattainable Sleepy Dragon Valley. that

Seeing that his general had already moved his liver, the Chinese army did not dare to argue, and hurriedly shouted loudly to the soldiers to speed up their pace, and they were not polite to those who were deaf to them.

A general with the rank of guerrilla next to Li Yuanhao came up and asked puzzledly: "Why is the general suddenly so urgent?" “

"The name of the place in the Sleepy Dragon Valley is unknown, and it is a two-day journey from the Black Tiger Village, and there may be an ambush." The ancients were superstitious, and the soldiers were very bad, and they were taboo by the names of the battlefields.

The guerrilla also had a chill on his back when he heard this, and he observed the quiet cliffs on both sides with a weak heart, which was really negligent for a while, because he was really tired in the past few days, and he didn't find any traces of the enemy, and he wanted to be far away from the Black Tiger Village, and he didn't even bother to send out the patrol post, and then he had to wait for the patrol post to return and then set the stop, which was quite troublesome and delayed time, and he just wanted to hurry, but he unconsciously walked to this sleepy dragon valley.

Luckily, he whispered: "No, I haven't seen a single figure for many days, I think the thief didn't expect us to take this desperate road, so there is no defense at all, besides, that Zhang Yuan received the general's order to march on the road with great fanfare, and it should also attract the attention of the thieves and the grass robbers, and should be concentrating on dealing with that Zhang Yuancai, according to common sense, we shouldn't think that we would come to the light cavalry to sneak attack." ”

"Well, it should be so, our sneak attack was originally improvised, even if the thieves detected it, it should be too late to arrange it when the spies report back."

This is the truth, the transmission of information in ancient times basically relied on the relay of manpower, and if it set off at the same time, it would not be faster than the time of the army's action. Even if we got the news, it will take time to arrange and adjust the deployment, and then march here to get here, but Li Yuanhao deduced it according to the efficiency of the officers and soldiers, but not according to the efficiency of the army, in fact, he didn't know what the efficiency of the army was.

"But I always feel that this trapped dragon valley is an ominous place, this name is not auspicious, let's get out of the valley as soon as possible." Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered something, and immediately instructed the guerrilla: "By the way, you immediately rush to the front, take a hundred and ten capable brothers, and do your best to rush to the backer before the brigade leaves the valley, and immediately surround him, and cut down all the men and women there to prevent the news from leaking, you know?" ”

As soon as the guerrilla heard that he had been assigned this errand, he came to his senses, and he had done a lot of things to slaughter villages and towns, not only happily but also a lot of oil and water, and he forgot to be afraid of fatigue at the moment, and said loudly: "The last general will obey the order, and keep it so that no half of the people will leak." ”

"Okay, let's go." Li Yuanhao waved his hand, but after a little thought, he said: "There is only a village that is allowed to be slaughtered and not set on fire." The guerrilla was stunned for a moment, but immediately understood the point, nodded and said: "The last general understands, I will do things, you can rest assured." Then he turned around and wanted to leave.

At this moment, I heard a loud sound like the sky cracking in the direction of the canyon at that time, followed by the rumbling sound of a mountain rock rolling, and the screams of people and horses.

Li Yuanhao and the others were so shocked by this loud noise that their souls were all gone, and before they could recover from this loud noise, they heard another earth-shattering loud noise far ahead, and the screams of people and horses and the sound of rolling rocks came, and the rolling bloody smoke and dust rushed from both sides filled the entire valley in an instant, drowning the army that was still stunned for some reason.

Li Yuanhao was the first to react, shouted that it was not good, and quickly hid under the mountain wall with his own soldiers.

"The trapped dragon valley is really unknown, now the two sides must have been blocked by the enemy army, this trapped dragon valley really trapped my dragon."