In order to extinguish the fire in Hangu Pass, it took Li Dao and them a whole day. But there was no way, who didn't let them have the ability to pass through the fire that was about to spread to the entire Hangu Pass?

Recently, there has been no rain in Hangu Pass, and this season belongs to the kind of season where the climate is drier, and the firewood and hay that Zhao Yun got are easy to ignite, and Hangu Pass is also because of the relationship in recent times, there are many things with a living atmosphere, and a fire is inevitable.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a well in Hangu Pass, so that Li Wei could get water on the spot to extinguish the fire, they might even have to withdraw from Hangu Pass first because of the fire.

"Damn, if I knew who came up with such a plan, I would have to strangle him with my own hands." After almost a full night's busyness, it looked like Hangu Pass, which had finally become smaller, but it had also become a ruin, Li Dao almost gritted his teeth.

If the culprit stood in front of her at this time, I was afraid that Li Dao would immediately use a knife to chop that person———— as for whether to split or not, this is another story.

"Let's not talk about these useless things, in one day's time, the person on the other side has already run away, let's hurry up and talk about it, if we don't chase it again, now we can go home..."

This fire really made them a little anxious, and even Guo Yan didn't expect that the generals on the opposite side would dare to set fire to a thousand-year-old pass like Hangu Pass. Of course, the effect of this is also surprisingly good, the defenseless Li Wei and Guo Yan tried their best to extinguish the fire, and more than a dozen people were besieged and burned to death by the fire in the process of extinguishing the fire, so you can imagine how difficult it was last night.

It's not surprising that the so-called fire and water are ruthless.

Generally speaking, the damage caused by floods is much greater than that caused by fires, as can be seen from the devastating damage caused by the concept of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. On the other hand, no matter how severe the fire is, at most it will only burn a city, and it is difficult to reach the extent of affecting half of China, three or four provinces———— sometimes it may be more.

But this is only relative, for ordinary people, floods are almost as devastating as fires, and they are the kind that are difficult for individuals to resist. And if you are not careful, you will be entangled in fire, to be reasonable, it is much more painful to be burned by fire than to be drowned in water.

Moreover, the flood is at most inundation and washing-away, but the fire is completely burned.

If you want to extinguish a fire of this magnitude, it is not a simple matter, and most of the general cities will prepare things to extinguish the fire, after all, there are too many towns where people live, and the probability of fire is definitely not small. In particular, most of the buildings in ancient China were wooden structures, and as long as a fire broke out, the scope of the impact was definitely not small.

However, Hangu Pass is different, this is a military pass, not many people will live here, and the soldiers are far stronger than the people in terms of strict self-discipline. Of course, this is not the most critical reason, that is, soldiers can also get into trouble, and there are fire attacks in this era, not only in ordinary land battles or water battles, fire attacks are a very common way, even when attacking cities.

Each time a city is attacked, the besieging side will build a large number of wells to be used by the archers to suppress the defenders on the city walls. Sometimes these archers use ordinary arrows, sometimes they use rockets that can bring fires—————— and the besiegers don't care if they really set the city on fire or not, it will be better news for them if they can let the defenders of the city divide some soldiers and horses to be responsible for defending the city.

Therefore, there are also some tools used to extinguish fires in the Ehan Valley Pass, and they are generally arranged next to the well. It's a pity that after years of abandonment, these things have either rotted or simply been lost, and the water in the well is clear and cool, but unfortunately there is nothing next to it, and even the buckets in some wells have been lost.

In the end, many soldiers of the Xiliang Army simply used their helmets to scoop water. After a long night, I was finally busy.

However, just when Li Wei and Guo Yan were angry and wanted to lead the soldiers and horses to catch up, Jia Xu, who had been following him, hurriedly stepped forward to stop them.

The narrow road of Hangu Pass is not only not easy to deploy large-scale troops, but also easy to set up ambushes. If the Kwantung soldiers and horses set up an ambush in the ancient road of Hangu Pass, and Li Dao and Guo Yan recklessly broke in, you can imagine how big the loss would be.

After listening to Jia Xu's words, Li Dao and Guo Yan, who were still angry, were also shocked into a cold sweat. Standing at the city gate, looking out, looking at the narrow ancient road, thinking that if there were hundreds or thousands of people ambushed on both sides of the ancient road, maybe it would really be possible for them to suffer a big loss.

Especially the marksman on the opposite side...

To be reasonable, it is very annoying to be blocked in the ancient road by the Dare First Army and the Tiger and Leopard Ride. But what really made Li Dao, Guo Yan and others disgusting were the sharpshooters on the other side. Li Wei didn't know where to find so many marksmen on the other side, in the process of breaking off, with his amazing archery skills, he shot and killed many people in the Xiliang Army, which made everyone tremble, even when he rushed up to fight, he was also suspicious, for fear that he would shoot a cold arrow from a position that he hadn't noticed and take his own life.

With such a mood in the fight, you can imagine how much strength can be exerted.

Originally, the first army and the tiger and leopard riding were quite powerful, and they had to divide their energy and take care of the surrounding situation. It is impossible to use all the skills at all, which makes it difficult to occupy Hangu Pass.

What's more, the sharpshooters on the opposite side are also quite clever, staring at some officers. Over the course of three days, dozens of officers were shot, which made those officers equally cautious when fighting, and some simply changed into non-commissioned clothes, for fear of being detected by the marksman on the opposite side.

Li Dao and Guo Yan also know this, but they can only do this before there is no solution.

Now, if these marksmen were ambushed on both sides of the ancient road, just one photo would be enough to cause heavy losses to the Xiliang army, and even Li Dao and Guo Yan, the two leaders of the Xiliang army, might be shot to death if one of them was not careful.

—————— Dividing Line——————

With Jia Xu's dissuasion, Li Wei and Guo Yan suddenly became much more cautious, and first arranged some soldiers to explore the way. I was afraid that I would really fall into the trap as Jia Xu said, and it wasn't until the real people who explored the path determined that there were indeed no soldiers in ambush on both sides of the ancient road, and Li Dao and Guo Yan were completely relieved.

But since then, it has been delayed a lot, and by the time they are completely sure that there is no ambush, half a day has passed, although it is only half a day, it is not important at all in normal times, but it is difficult to say at such a sensitive moment...

At least Jia Xu felt that with this extra half a day, it was enough for the Son of Heaven to go farther...

On the other hand, after walking cautiously for a long time, Li Wei and Guo Yan, who found that there was no ambush on the ancient road, were also furious, but they had no way to blame Dao Jia Xu anyway, after all, Jia Xu's proposal was also for their good. Wu Naiyi was really ambushed, wouldn't it be a heavy loss.

In the end, they could only vent their anger on the Kanto Terracotta, but at this time, the Kanto Terracotta had run away, even if they wanted to, it was impossible, it was worth sending as quickly as possible.

"Speaking of which, Zilong, why didn't you set up an ambush on both sides of Hangu Pass?"

Because of the relationship between Xia Houdun and Zhao Yun during this time, the relationship between Xiahoudun and Zhao Yun is relatively good, so it is natural to ask his own questions.

When leaving Hangu Pass, Xiahou Tang once proposed to set up an ambush on both sides, so that as long as Li Dao and Guo Yan ran out, they would definitely be able to make them suffer some hardship, but Zhao Yun stopped him at that time, but resolutely left Hangu Pass with all the soldiers and horses.

Xiahoudun had no choice but to leave.

This is not surprising, the tiger and leopard rider is indeed a very brave elite, but the formation time of the tiger and leopard rider is too short. Moreover, Cao Cao actually had no clue what kind of soldiers and horses the tiger and leopard cavalry should be, so he could only imitate the model of daring to be the first army.

For example, in terms of selecting elites, he selects the kind of brave ones from the army, but unfortunately he only pays attention to this, resulting in the tiger and leopard riders are all martial artists with amazing force value.

As for the rest...

On the other hand, the Dare to go first, Tai Shici is responsible for infantry combat, Zhao Yun is responsible for cavalry combat, Gan Ning is responsible for water warfare, and Huang Zhong is responsible for archery, which can almost be said to be strengthened in all aspects. This directly led to the elite in the Dare to First Army, perhaps not much stronger than Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry in one-on-one martial arts, but in addition to martial arts, the advantages in other aspects are overwhelming.

Even ordinary Pioneer soldiers have archery skills beyond the ordinary level, not to mention those real marksmen, those who have been passed down by Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun.

Now among the two soldiers and horses, most of the marksmen are the ones who dare to go first, so if Zhao Yun is unwilling to ambush, Xiahoudun is useless no matter how good it is. can only obediently obey.

"In fact, the answer is very simple, if there are any wise people in the Xiliang army, they will definitely be cautious, so even if we ambush the soldiers and horses, we may not deal a heavy blow to these two thieves. On the contrary, if it is detected, there may be entanglement of the other party, which is bad, and our task is not to fight hard with them, just to delay some time, now that we have completed the task, there is no need to make extraneous branches, after all, it is not easy for the lord of our two families to build such a strong army, I don't know what the situation is on the side of Yuan You, but when my lord is building the Dare to Pioneer Army, it has taken countless efforts. If you really waste a lot of troops just to buy a little time, that's the real thing that you might be blamed for. ”

Yes, the Dare First Army and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry are both the hearts and minds of Yan Shao and Cao Cao, if it is really just to stop the enemy, and make their own casualties too heavy, then it is really a big crime. No matter how much credit you have made before, you may be punished.

After all, whether it is the Dare First Army or the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, the cost of formation is enough to set up another 10,000 soldiers and horses, and it is also cavalry.

Of course, Yan Shao and Cao Cao would also hope that such soldiers and horses could play the role of nearly 10,000 people. However, neither Yan Shao nor Cao Cao will let such soldiers and horses go to fight with people in the spring, so even if they win in the end, it will be quite miserable. That would be more than worth the cost, and both of these soldiers were used under special circumstances.

Just when Zhao Yun was talking to Xiahou Dun, Yan Shao and Cao Cao were also talking.

Looking at the gradually extinguishing fire in the distance, Cao Cao hesitated. "Fuxian, what do you think should happen next?"

"I don't know what Mende means?" Tugging on the reins of the horse, Yan Shao said with a smile.

In the process of speaking, Yan Shao also stroked the neck of the war horse under his crotch with his hand, and scratched it by the way, making the war horse snort comfortably.

This war horse was carefully selected by Yan Shao from among the war horses he owned, and it can be said to be a divine horse in the true sense, even if it is compared with Lu Bu's red rabbit horse, there will definitely be no inferiority.

But to be honest, this war horse actually didn't have much effect on Yan Shao, after all, it was unlikely that he would charge into battle like when he first started his army. The so-called gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, and this is the case with Yan Shao today. This war horse is more of a symbolic sense for Yan Shao, although many generals feel a little regretful, and feel that such a divine horse should gallop on the battlefield, so as to live up to this life.

But Yan Shao didn't think that after all, according to the thinking of his later generations, for a war horse, the war of human beings actually had little to do with them.

It can even be said that it would be better off if there were no humans in this world, and there are many people who support this even in later generations.

"Do you think we're going to retreat directly to Yanzhou, or are we?"

"Me?" Yan Shao shook his head. "Although I've been hiding far away, I don't think this time is really enough time for the Son of Heaven to retreat to a safe distance..."

Cao Cao also nodded in agreement.

"Yes, but the distance of two or three days is not enough for the Son of Heaven to be completely safe. Not to mention the Son of Heaven, even we are afraid that it is difficult to guarantee this, the Xiliang Army is an elite cavalry, and it is not a problem to travel thousands of miles a day, in comparison, although we are also cavalry, we can't compare to the Xiliang Army in any way. ”

What's more, except for Yan Shao who came out with all the cavalry, most of Cao Cao's infantry troops were infantry. The cavalry may still be able to run away, but the infantry can...

"So, let's just wait here..."

Looking at Hangu Pass in the distance, faintly, Yan Shao could hear bursts of thunder.