Chapter 320: A stalemate

Wei Jing sighed: "Alas! Fortunately, the enemy did not know the reality of our Pingyang Pass and gave up the move of encircling and annihilating our defenders of Pingyang Pass, thus giving us a chance to breathe. Otherwise, with the thousands of soldiers and horses that the enemy has already entered the pass, we will encircle and annihilate us in turn, and our Pingyang Pass will have been lost for a long time. ”

"Seeing this critical situation, I sent a fast horse to take the trail to Ningzhou to warn, and on the other hand, I arranged for all the defenders to block the official road with boulders, which were all rehearsed in advance, and the boulders that blocked the gate had already been prepared, so when countless boulders fell, the entire official road into Yunnan had been blocked tightly, making the enemy's follow-up team unable to pass, which formed a stalemate situation that is currently stalemate."

"It's just that we're trapped in Pingyang Pass now, and those trails haven't been blocked yet, and the enemy will still continue to cross in. Although the number of enemies entering Yunnan will not be too large due to the narrow trail and the rugged mountain road, if we continue to do so, when the number of enemies entering the pass is superior, our Pingyang Pass will definitely not be able to hold it. ”

Hearing this, Li Yi couldn't help but nod gloomily, and hurriedly frowned and asked, "Are those trails just for the enemy to enter?" After a long time, the pressure on us in Pingyang Pass will be even greater. The enemy is attacking inside and outside, what danger is there in Pingyang Pass? ”

Wei Jing said embarrassedly: "The threat of the enemy's dozen catapults is too great, and the siege of the city has hardly stopped using the ladder, the pressure on our closure is too great, and the loss of personnel is increasing with the times, so we really can't spare enough manpower to defend on the trail." After General Jian rushed over just now, he left us half of the soldiers, and he took the rest of the men and horses to rush towards the path of Songyang Mountain.

Li Yi nodded, Jian Zheng's arrangement is still very reasonable, the pass must be strengthened and the few trails must not be abandoned, otherwise, the enemy will swarm in, and the situation of Pingyang Pass will be even more difficult. But now a few hours have passed, and there should be many enemies gathered through the trail, relying on Jian Zheng's hundreds of soldiers alone, I'm afraid the situation is not optimistic.

Li Yi climbed to the pass and observed the enemy's offensive with a telescope, although the enemy's personnel under the pass were densely packed, and there were tens of thousands of people. The siege of the city was also urgent, but with the steep and favorable terrain in front of Pingyang Pass, more than 1,000 people could barely resist it.

It's just that Jian Zheng's subordinates who are now on Songyang Mountain are all elite cavalry, and if they are in close contact with the enemy there, they will undoubtedly suffer a lot. And the personal soldiers of the Shuaifu are all extraordinary, and their independent combat ability is definitely better than them, and now only by immediately sending reinforcements to Jian Zheng can the situation be stabilized to the greatest extent.

Thinking of this, Li Yi turned around and arranged for Yue Wei, asking him to lead more than 100 capable soldiers to assist Wei Jing and strengthen the defense here, while he took the remaining nearly 200 personal soldiers, and Zhuang Qian, Yue Chang, Lian Jun and other martial arts experts who can fight habitually, and immediately rushed to the trails of Songyang Mountain, while quickly supporting Jian Zheng, he tried to plug the loopholes and curb the enemy's continued infiltration.

Without further ado, Li Yi arranged the defense of the pass, and immediately took Zhuang Qian and them out, now time is everything, if Jian Zheng and they are unable to stop the enemy, and the reinforcements from Baiwu Pass are delayed, the whole of Yunnan will be gone, and if he does not charge forward, how can he boost morale.

Although Songyang Mountain is not very tall, the mountain road is rugged and densely wooded, and it is time-consuming and laborious to walk through it. Li Yi's team, abandoning their horses, under the leadership of the guide sent by Wei Jing, climbed through several ditches and hurdles, and passed through a large dense forest, and the sound of intensive shouting and fighting was already heard in their ears.

Everyone hurriedly hurried over, and immediately saw that at the bottom of a ravine and on the nearby ditch, hundreds of people were fighting to the death there, among which the personnel were dressed in different costumes, including the enemy soldiers of the Dayi Ningguo side, as well as the officers and soldiers of our Han Yunnan side.

However, the situation on the field is not optimistic, those soldiers on the Yunnan side and those people dressed as ordinary people, because the number of people is several times less than that of the other party, has been falling behind, and it seems that they are gradually unable to resist. Seeing this scene, Li Yi waved his hand, a simple knife, and led everyone into the battle group.

With Li Yi's keen gaze and infinite divine power, where the Pu knife flew over, the enemy was unlucky, and he quickly fought his way out of the bloody path and gradually approached the center of the battle group.

But Li Yi searched around, but did not find Jian Zheng's figure, and in an anxious place, a bloodied lieutenant staggered in front of Li Yi, and shouted: "Marshal, Wan Hong, the military captain of the Ningzhou battalion under him, our General Jian and the intellectual master are fighting with the enemy on the trail on the other side of the mountain." These people are all young and strong people in Fengmingzhai and Dujiazhuang and Qiujiazhuang, and they rushed to help when they heard the news, so let's not hurt them by mistake. ”

Li Yi nodded, and couldn't help but feel relieved, it turned out that the people nearby had rushed to help, Dujiazhuang and Qiujiazhuang Li Yi knew it, but he didn't know what the Fengming Village was about.

Now that there is so much foreign aid, the situation on the field has improved greatly. It's just that I didn't expect that the intellectual master was also here, and with the help of him, a person with strong martial arts, the situation here would not be so bad.

As soon as Li Yi's more than 200 people joined the battle group, the situation on the field was immediately reversed. After a hard fight, most of the enemies were already dead on the spot, although some of the enemies with high martial arts and cunning minds immediately fled when they saw that the situation was not good, but under the close pursuit of everyone, only a few enemies escaped from the path they came from. Under the inspection, there were only more than 100 soldiers left who had been working here before.

When everyone's respite was settled, Li Yi soon met Qiuhe, the owner of Qiujiazhuang, Du Qingchuan, the owner of Dujiazhuang, and Du Chuanxiu, the third son of Dujiazhuang, and others.

Li Yi expressed his heartfelt thanks to Qiuhe and Du Qingchuan, and praised them for standing up and helping the government to repel the enemy's attack.

Qiuhe and Du Qingchuan thanked them again and again, and said that this is the unshirkable responsibility of their Han people, as long as the safety of their family and country is threatened, they will stand up and never take half a step back. As for the rewards of the imperial court, they all said that they were ashamed of them and did not dare to accept them.