Yaling Gorge is not a canyon that connects directly from the west side of Yaling to the east side of Yaling Ridge.

Like most canyons, the Gorge is winding and rugged, sometimes only a mile or two in a straight line, but those who walk in it have to walk three to five miles, or even longer.

To make matters worse, Yaling Gorge is a typical living water canyon, and the cliffs on both sides are very high, which makes the canyon extremely humid and the ground muddy and difficult to walk.

Even, according to the siblings Wuwu and Una, Yaling Gorge will be filled with fog when it is cloudy, and it is difficult to see the road inside, so even the locals will not accidentally fall into the next river stream in the fog.

It is a place where local shepherds will never drive their flocks to graze.

Walking in such a dark canyon is honestly a very challenging thing.

First, the soil under your feet is soft and muddy, and secondly, when the night wind blows through this canyon, it will sound like a ghost crying, which is very scary.

No, at this moment, Una buried her head in Zhao Hongrun's arms, and she didn't dare to let go of her hands covering her ears.

In this regard, Zhao Hongrun said that it is understandable, after all, this is still a girl, in comparison......

He turned his head to look at the expressionless Mi Jiang who was riding his mount beside him, and sighed wistfully.

"You...... Aren't you afraid? ”

Zhao Hongrun asked.

"Afraid of what?" Qi Jiang said calmly: "Aren't you sure to annihilate that cavalry of the Qian tribe?" ”

"I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about ...... This one. When Zhao Hongrun spoke, it happened that another burst of scraping into the canyon made the whole canyon sound of "woo woo".

Mi Jiang looked at Zhao Hongrun speechlessly, and said with some displeasure: "It's just a rumor." …… Are you kidding me? ”

『……』

Zhao Hongrun shook his head and gave up.

He once again affirmed that this kind of woman would definitely not be the gentle partner he longed for.

After a while, the general Sima An leaned over with his mount and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, that cavalry of the Qian tribe should have led our army and entered the valley. ”

"Oh?" Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this, and asked in surprise: "Is it the news from His Royal Highness's army?" ”

Sima An shook his head, and Zhengse said, "It's a certain judgment." ”

"You're too godly, aren't you?"

Zhao Hongrun looked at Sima An in astonishment.

As if noticing Zhao Hongrun's gaze, Sima An showed a rare smile and said: "This is a feeling, I have experienced more such things, so I will naturally have this feeling...... Sometimes, this feeling is even more accurate than the information that is known, because the information that is known may be deliberately released by the enemy...... I think at the beginning, this feeling made a certain luck survive. ”

"Anything else like this has happened?" Zhao Hongrun said in surprise, after all, in his opinion, it is definitely not easy to force Sima An to the brink of life and death.

"Meng Ben, King Jing...... No, Zong Wei beside King Nanliang. Sima An unnaturally stretched out his hand to cover his right abdomen, and muttered, "It was really an unforgettable battle......

"Under the command of the third uncle, there are still opponents who can make Sima An unforgettable for the rest of his life? Oh, by the way, each of them is from the best of the sect, and their skills should be about the same. But ......

Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun said in wonder: "By the way, this king has never heard of a sect guard named Meng Ben by the side of the third uncle, but there is a ...... named Meng Ben."

"Because he's dead!" Interrupting Zhao Hongrun's words, Sima An licked his lips and said with some excitement: "He tried to sneak attack me, but he was ambushed by me......"

Zhao Hongrun opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

In fact, he knew that whether it was his father Emperor Zhao Yuanxi or his third uncle Zhao Yuanzuo, there were five general-level Zongwei who died in that civil war.

"Can you tell this king, that ...... the battle between the 'Shunshui Army' and the 'Yushui Army' killing each other. ”

"Your Highness has actually heard of the 'Shunshui Army' and the 'Yushui Army'?" Sima An glanced at Zhao Hongrun with some surprise.

"It was the sixth uncle who told the king, but he only talked about some fur." Zhao Hongrun explained.

Hearing this, Sima An suddenly realized: "It turned out to be Lord Yi." ”

After that, he touched his right abdomen again, and said with emotion: "The Shunshui Army and the Yushui Army were really strong at that time, no less than the 'Six Battalion Army', and they were ...... at that time."

As soon as he said this, a light horse at the rear of the team suddenly caught up with him on the muddy ground, clasped his fists and said: "Your Highness, General, the cavalry of the Qiang tribe has entered the canyon and is trying to shoot the soldiers behind our palace!" ”

"Next time I have a chance, I'll tell His Royal Highness King Su." Sima An said a word to Zhao Hongrun, and immediately issued an order: the whole army should speed up the march and pass through the canyon as soon as possible.

"Don't you fight back?" From the side, Feng Shu, the general of Chenggao Pass, interjected: "If you don't fight back, the cavalry of the Qiang tribe will continue to shoot the soldiers of the Dangshan Army." ”

"......" Sima An was silent, just a pair of tiger eyes gloomy and endless anger that seemed to be born, to prove how angry he was at this moment.

Yes, a counterattack at this time will make the advance cavalry of the Qiang tribe aware of it, which is not conducive to the ambush of the merchant army against them.

Fortunately, at this moment, the night was dark, and the advance cavalry of the Qiang tribe only tentatively shot a few waves of arrows at the Dangshan army in front, and did not really order to shoot.

After all, for the nomadic cavalry, arrows are very valuable but scarce, especially for cavalry on the go.

If you finish shooting the arrows in the baggage, the situation of the cavalry will become very embarrassing.

Therefore, unless they can ensure that they can shoot the enemy's soldiers, the nomadic cavalry will not shoot arrows easily, unlike the Wei State and other Central Plains countries, where the arrows of a battle can easily consume more than 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands, and the baptism of a wave of arrows will rain on the enemy army at every turn.

After walking for about ten miles in this winding and rugged Yaling Gorge, Zhao Hongrun suddenly saw a little torch in the distance.

The torches are not fixed in one place, as if someone is holding them and waving them, drawing circles.

After a few moments, the torches were gone, probably artificially extinguished.

"It's time for the ambush of the merchant army......

Zhao Hongrun knew it in his heart, turned his head to Sima An and said, "General." ”

In fact, Sima An had already seen the torches that suddenly appeared and disappeared in the distance, nodded and said, "I understand!" With that, he again ordered the whole army to march hastily.

Hearing this order, the soldiers of the Dangshan Army gathered their remaining physical strength, and the whole army ran forward, and the speed of the march suddenly increased by more than a point.

Even, in order to confuse the advance cavalry of the Dangshan tribe in the rear, Sima An also ordered the Dangshan soldiers to abandon a lot of dried meat made of mutton along the way, and even the banners of the Dangshan army were reluctantly discarded a few pieces.

In this way, they advanced forward for about two miles, and it suddenly became clear that they had left the Raven Ridge Gorge and came to the east side of the Raven Ridge.

At this moment, looking into the distance, I saw that it was pitch black in the distance, and there seemed to be something, but I couldn't really see it.

But despite this, Sima An could still feel that there was an army in ambush ahead, and this army made him feel a great deterrent.

Of course, he didn't think that the merchant army could bring him such a strong deterrent, and he thought that it should be those repeating crossbows hidden under the dark night sky.

Suddenly, in the dark distance, a torch appeared again, waving it back and forth a few times.

Sima An immediately understood, and ordered the whole body to retreat towards the position of the torch.

Sure enough, when the Dangshan army withdrew towards the position of the torch, they saw a lot of hidden Shangshui soldiers along the way, and at the same time, they also saw those hideous war weapons neatly arranged in front of the formation.

Triple Repeater!

"His Royal Highness King Su!"

Wu Ji, the general in charge of the Shang Water Army, came here at some point and saluted Zhao Hongrun and Sima An.

He Una turned over and dismounted, handed the reins to Zongwei Shen Yu, Zhao Hongrun asked in a low voice: "The cavalry of the Qian tribe will arrive immediately...... Repeater, will it be used? ”

Wu Ji nodded and said, "Our army has tested it yesterday, and it is really powerful...... Your Highness, rest assured. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun bowed his head and said: "As soon as the king gives the order, he will shoot a volley of crossbow arrows." ”

"Yes."

The Dangshan Army quietly withdrew from the ambush point set up by the Shang Shui Army and withdrew to a farther place, only the generals of the Dangshan Army such as Sima An, Wen Xu, and Bai Fangming left them, and they were also like the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army, lurking in the ambush position.

They also wanted to see with their own eyes what kind of power these repeaters newly developed by the Smelting Bureau had.

At the exit of Yaling Gorge, the silence is very quiet, and you can vaguely hear the sound of "popping and clicking", which is the strange sound of horses' hooves stepping on the muddy ground.

The advance cavalry of the Qiang tribe is coming!

"It doesn't feel right, it's so quiet here......"

In the distance, the muttering of a commander of the cavalry of the Qiang tribe was heard.

"What's wrong with it, those cowardly Wei people, they don't dare to fight back in the face of us, they only know how to flee with their tails between their legs...... By the way, where did those Wei people flee to? ”

"There is a sound in that direction, so I should have fled in that direction."

"Then let's catch up with them and see if there's a chance to sneak up on them."

After a slight conversation, the advance cavalry of the Qiang tribe rode their horses and slowly approached the outside of the valley mouth.

Suddenly, one of the commanders looked around at the darkness and said in the Rang language, "No, it's ...... here."

So saying, he took a special arrow from the quiver on either side of the back of one of the other two horses, and immediately snapped it with a flint and steel in his hand.

"Whew." The arrows of that arrow burst into flames.

It turned out to be a rocket that burned arrows with wool and mutton fat.

"Whoosh-"

In the rest of the Qiang advance cavalry, it was like, "What are you doing?" In the words of "why make such a fuss", the commander of the thousand used his longbow to shoot the rocket at the place he thought was wrong.

The rocket swooped over the Shangshui soldiers, imprinting the figures of several Shangshui soldiers, as well as one of the hideous repeaters.

"There's an ambush!"

The captain shouted.

"Whoa!"

Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun pouted with regret, he originally wanted the other party to get closer.

"Shoot the arrows!"

He shouted.

As soon as the words fell, three hundred repeaters that had long been ready to fire immediately launched a salvo.

Suddenly, I heard a strange sound of "poof" in front of me, as if something strong had pierced through the flesh.

During this period, it was accompanied by the miserable howl of the cavalry and the desolate neighing of the war horses.

“……”

The generals of the Dangshan Army were speechless, although they could not see it really, but they could imagine what kind of situation those Qiang cavalry were facing at this moment, surrounded by three hundred crossbows in a semicircular formation. (To be continued.) )