Walking on such a mountain road, the narrow place can only be three people in parallel, and you have to stick close to the mountain and be careful of falling into the river.

After walking a few miles, it was a pass, and Liu Bei noticed that there were hundreds of Jingzhou troops waiting here.

Pang Tong stepped forward, "What I asked you to do, are you all ready?" ”

"Back to the military division, everything is ready according to your wishes, just waiting for your military order."

"Okay, you guys continue to stay here, and when the pursuers come after you, you can do it according to the original plan and pay attention to your own safety!"

"Yes!"

Liu Bei was very curious about what kind of arrangements Pang Tong had made, but Pang Tong didn't explain it to him, so he had to keep it in his heart.

Just when Liu Bei's army was still running on the mountain road, Ma Chao's army had already caught up with the broken Jingzhou army.

It was Wei Yan who was in charge of stopping him, and Wei Yan chose a narrow hillside and built a simple stone wall with stones on the top of the slope.

It was originally a trail, although there were mountains on both sides, it was not as dangerous as the section of the road that Liu Bei walked, but it was also very narrow.

This road can only be crossed by four horses in parallel, and it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Ma Chao immediately gave up the idea of charging on horseback, but the cavalry dismounted and turned into infantry, holding horizontal knives and crossbows, and charging upward.

Fortunately, there were few attackers and just as few defenders, and the two sides were evenly matched.

It's just that in this way, the time for offense and defense is greatly extended.

Ma Chao attacked several times, after all, they were all cavalry-converted infantry, with neither a big shield nor heavy armor, and only flesh and blood to challenge the crossbows of the Jingzhou army, which made it difficult for the soldiers of the Central Army to rush to a distance where they could throw grenades.

Ma Chao moved the mortars to the front and used shells to open the way, but here are narrow mountain roads, and the mortars can only be lined up for shelling.

However, there are steep cliffs on both sides, and it is easy to fall down the rocks, and the falling rocks block the mountain road, but it is the fulfillment of Wei Yan.

Time passed minute by minute, and Wei Yan took advantage of the favorable terrain to survive two hours effortlessly.

As soon as the time came, he immediately led his men to move to Wulong, and met Yan Yan on the way, but Yan Yan's team was much worse than him, half of the three thousand people were left, and many of them were injured.

After all, Yan Yan is blocking special operations divisions equipped with muskets, especially with a large number of snipers.

It has been able to hold out until now, but it has only lasted two hours with the favorable terrain and the large shield of the heavy infantry.

Until now, there were still hundreds of brothers who were fighting the special operations division in the back, and Yan Yan took the injured brother to take the first step.

The two joined forces together, and soon arrived at the pass guarded by the soldiers left by Pang Tong, and they asked where Liu Bei's army went, so they chased after them.

And the hundreds of Jingzhou troops remained in place, waiting for the arrival of the pursuers.

About half an hour later, noisy voices and horses' hooves were heard in the distance, but it was Ma Chao's 11th Cavalry Division that caught up first.

However, this narrow mountain road can only be ridden in parallel, and it is not too fast to run, and the road is narrow and bent.

Soon the Central Army discovered the Jingzhou Army on the hillside pass, but this hillside was much wider than the mountain road, and five or six horses could go side by side.

The Central Army pounced without hesitation, but these Jingzhou troops were all equipped with crossbows, and for a while, more than ten cavalry cavalry of the Central Army who rushed to the front were hit by arrows.

More of the Central Army, which rushed out of the mountain road, crowded down the hillside and rushed to the hillside one after another.

These Jingzhou troops saw that another general in the Central Army under the hillside was directing the cavalry to line up in a row of six horsemen, and then charge upward.

Their leading colonel, hehe, sneered, "Okay, there is a general of the Central Army here, but you can do it." ”

Immediately, more than a dozen Jingzhou soldiers took out the things that ignited the fire and lit some things on the ground, which turned out to be fuses one by one.

These fuses were lit and quickly spread in the direction of the way they came.

The cavalry of the Central Army, who was about to rush to the top of the slope, suddenly felt a violent vibration from the ground under their feet, followed by an earth-shattering loud noise, and at the same time, a large crater exploded on the ground, and rocks flew everywhere.

Gunpowder smoke emerged, and more than a dozen cavalry of the Central Army were either directly blown to pieces or flew in shock.

Then, the sound of huge explosions came one after another, from the hillside all the way to the mountain road, and pillars of smoke and dust continued to rise.

Violent explosions echoed through the valley, and many rocks were shaken down from the cliffs on the side of the mountain road, and many cavalry of the Central Army were smashed to the ground.

The most important thing is that the narrow mountain road was completely blown up, and the rocks piled up like a mountain, completely blocking the access.

The hundreds of Jingzhou soldiers who witnessed this scene were very excited, this thing called explosives, they used it for the first time in actual combat.

Luck was on their side, they successfully completed the task, the explosion effect was very ideal, and they themselves were unharmed, and in excitement, they immediately turned around and left, chasing Liu Bei's army.

At the time of the explosion, Ma Chao was commanding his subordinates in the Chinese army to pass carefully, and suddenly the familiar sound of explosives explosion echoed in the valley, and Ma Chao immediately shouted, "Oh no, something happened!" ”

Because it is impossible for the Central Army to use explosives in this narrow valley by itself, it must have been done by Liu Bei.

Ma Chao didn't care about where Liu Bei's explosives came from, he was worried about his brother Ma Dai, who was leading his brigade to open the way at the front!

Ma Chao pushed everyone away, stopped riding horses, and ran to the front army.

When he finally squeezed to the front of the line, he saw a scene like the end of hell, with rocks piling up and blocking the mountain road ahead.

Everywhere there were the corpses of people who had been blown apart, and the torsos of war horses, rivers of blood, and some people were wounded but not dead, howling in pain under the rocks!

"Quick, save people, move them by hand, and throw the stones into the river."

After that, Ma Chao took the lead and rushed to the pile of rocks, he didn't see Ma Dai at the scene, the biggest possibility is that Ma Dai was also buried underneath, and there was more than luck.

Although Ma Dai is his cousin, they grew up together, practiced martial arts together, joined the army together, and were admitted to military schools together.

After graduation, Ma Dai has also been serving under him, born and died, and the relationship between the two is no different from that of his own brother.

So Ma Dai's accident made it difficult for Ma Chao to calm down, and as the stones were cleaned up, a broken corpse was found, and Ma Chao worked hard to identify it.

Finally, the soldiers who were digging heard the sound of crying, Ma Chao squeezed over, and sure enough, Ma Dai's body was found.

It's quite complete, but the helmet was deformed by the stone, which also gave Ma Dai a fatal blow to the head.

Ma Chao hugged Ma Dai's corpse and cried, this is the third time that Ma Chao has lost his loved ones after losing his mother and father, how can he not be sad?

(End of chapter)