A Hanzhou soldier hurriedly came out of the dense forest, wiped the sweat on his face, widened his eyes to identify the direction, identified a direction, and went into the forest again.

When he came out of the forest again and entered a glade, Wang Kui was holding a water bladder, squatting on the ground with a sad bladder and placing stones.

There were several people around him, all of whom were officers in the army, and like him, they wrote their sorrows on their faces, and the stones on the ground were one in the east and one in the west, representing the cities, but the stone representing the Hanzhou soldiers themselves was moved around in the middle of it, and there was nowhere to place it, and they didn't know where they were.

So when the sweaty spies appeared, several people raised their heads and looked hopeful.

"How? Found your way? Wang Kui's beard was covered with dust, and his face was also very haggard, obviously the past two days had been very bad: "Have you found a guide?" ”

The spy shook his head and said guiltily: "The villain is incompetent, in the past, it was all deep mountains and old forests, the forests were deep, and there was no way out, there was a village on the other side of the mountain, but the mountain people all ran away, and no one could find it." ”

An officer sighed: "I probably saw us coming from afar, and I was afraid of being arrested, so I fled away." ”

The spy licked his lips, looked at everyone, and said nervously: "My lord, there is another matter, which is very critical. ”

The gloom on Wang Kui's face was a little more, and he spit out a word when he heard the words: "Speak!" ”

"Walking through this mountain, there is a river, cutting off the way, and there are many mountains on the other side of the river, I don't know where it is." The spy said: "The river is very wide, the villain measured it with stones and branches, the water is so deep that it is impossible to cross it on foot, and there are no bridges and crossings for miles upstream and downstream, so it is impossible to detour." ”

"What?!"

This news immediately stunned everyone, and even Wang Kui's eyes widened.

The big river is in the way, there are no boats and no bridges, and the chasing soldiers behind are in a hurry, this is a dead end!

"How can there be a river?" Someone is anxious, how is it good.

"Turn around and go back!" Wang Kui said decisively and stood up: "Find another way." ”

"No! My lord, the Mongolian army is four or five miles away, and it turns around and goes back just to meet them face to face, and you can't turn back! He was immediately reminded.

"So what to do?"

"It's better to set up a formation on the spot and fight with the north!" In the mood of tragedy and despair, someone angrily said decisive words.

The crowd fell silent, and even the man who said this bowed his head after he had spoken.

Behind is the Mongolian brigade, do you really want to fight with them to break the net?

No one wants to die, has it really come to that point?

The bright sunshine in the sky has also become bleak today, thick clouds drifted from afar, covering a dense layer above people's heads, like white cotton wool, making the sky look a little dim, a rain brewing in the air, the atmosphere is a little breathless, just like the emotions in the hearts of the Hanzhou soldiers at this moment, depressed and dull.

How did it get to this point?

Wang Kui was a little helpless, the bloody past in Hanzhou City is still vivid, and today he is in the Jedi again. I didn't expect to come out as a helper, but I didn't help and put myself in.

That's it, when you are a soldier and fight, there will always be this day.

He looked up at the sky, exhaled, and when he looked at the crowd again, he was resolute.

"How far away is that river?" He asked.

The spy immediately said: "Just a few miles away, turn out of this forest and out of the mountain." ”

"You take two hundred people first, cut down trees, and build a batch of rafts as fast as possible, not strong, as long as you can use them once." Wang Kui pointed to a deputy general and said: "What you want is fast, ask for fast!" ”

The adjutant general understood, clenched his fists and promised, turned around and nodded at the heads of the people and left first.

"The rest of you, follow me to the mountain." Wang Kui pointed to a small mountain road not far away, the hill is a stone mountain, not very high, nearly fifty zhang only, but it happens that the stone mountain goes straight up and down, except for a gentle slope in the front, it is a cliff, it is not easy to climb, and there is nothing on the mountain except for some low trees growing in the cracks of the stones.

"Attract the Mongols over and give them time to pitch their rafts!" Wang Kui sorted out the armor on his body and picked up the knife resting on the ground: "You have to work hard, otherwise there will be no way to live!" ”

Everyone stood up together, murderous, death is not terrible, what they are afraid of is the desperate situation of death, as long as there is a glimmer of life, these people who survived from the lonely city of Hanzhou will burst out with infinite strength.

The soldiers in the dense forest divided into two routes, and continued to move forward all the way, running to the bank of the big river in front. The other way, under the leadership of Wang Kui, went up the stone mountain.

Hundreds of people went up and filled the stone mountain, but the terrain with a gentle slope on three sides of the cliff is an excellent place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the gentle slope is only two or three zhang wide, and no one can get up under the big shield gun array.

"Cut down all the trees, make some simple rejection of horses, and bring up some rough stones and logs, and use them as rolling logs." Wang Kui commanded in an orderly manner, and ordered them one by one according to the rules of defending the city, and the soldiers and officers below were also familiar with the way, and it was not for nothing that Hanzhou City could be defended for so long.

"Cut up more vines and tie them into ropes, and when the raft is ready, we will have to go down on it." In his busy schedule, Wang Kui did not forget the back road, if the Mongols were attracted over, how to get out was a problem, the gentle slope was a battlefield, it was impossible to go from there, the only way was to hang the rope and fall down from the other three cliffs.

Hundreds of people were busy, cutting down trees and trees, and rushing to make all kinds of equipment, and it took more than an hour before it was roughly completed.

Calculating the distance and estimating the time, the pursuers are almost on their heels. In the dense forest not far away, a burst of birds and finches flew away, and the noise was faintly audible.

Wang Kui understood that this was the arrival of the pursuers.

"Pull it out, everyone pull it out!" He categorically ordered: "Light a fire at the bottom of the slope and attract them to come, and don't let them go to the river." ”

The firewood had already been prepared, and it was piled up in the distance of the gentle slope, and the wind was just westerly, and the smoke and dust of the flames would not float up the stone mountain, so some soldiers went to light the fire, and the flames rose, and a large puff of black smoke came out.

The fire was very large, the wind helped the fire, almost a forest was ignited, but a fire ditch had been dug between it and the stone mountain, and the fire would not spread, and the smoke pillar swayed upward, and after being raised for a while, it was blown away by the wind, and suddenly the sky was full of smoke and dust, even if it was very far away, it could be clearly seen.

is like a firefly in the dark, in a space of dozens of miles, it suddenly attracted the attention of many people.

Zhang Rongzu and the other Han soldiers saw it first, and chased after them without hesitation.

Zormahan also saw it, and rushed over the mountains and mountains towards the pillar of smoke.

Even a group of people on another hill saw it.

"There's a fire on the hill over there." Na Tuozhi put his hand on his eyebrows and looked into the distance: "The fire is so big, the smoke is so big." ”

"Which village did the Tartars set on fire again?" Jiulonglang sharpened his knife on a stone, the dragon pattern knife was already very sharp, and he was still sharpening, as if he wanted to sharpen the knife out of flowers: "These people will become ghosts under my knife sooner or later." ”

"I don't know, there are always some mountain people living in the twists and turns in the mountains, but they have been sinned, what are the Mongols going to the mountains to do?" Na Tuo Zhi jumped off the stone on which he stood and went to see Jiulong Lang Ruo sharpening his knife.

"Probably can't find us, just burn the mountain to vent your anger." Jiulong Lang raised his knife with a smile: "How is it?" Pretty sharp, right? ”

Natozhi picked up a branch and waved it with his hand, and the branch broke off on the blade, and the cut was neat.

"Yes, but Kowloon, you said that the Mongols behind you haven't kept up for two days, are they lost?" Na Tuozhi picked up another branch, put it in his mouth and chewed it boringly: "Is it necessary to go back and introduce it?" ”

(End of chapter)