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As the sun rises, an army arrives in the distance, kicking up dust that obscures the sky, and the sound of rumbling horses' hooves can be heard clearly on the mountain.

"It's the Huns, right?" A Chu soldier asked, really not daring to have a good hope.

"It's the Chu army, the Chu army from the west!" Han Ruzi raised his bow and arrow again, and shot an arrow straight, the arrow crossed the battlefield halfway up the mountain, and flew to the foot of the mountain, the momentum had disappeared, and there was not much lethality, "The rescue is coming, let's rush down, the inside and the outside should be together!" ”

There were not many Chu soldiers left, and when they heard that General Zhenbei was so sure, they all doubled their confidence, threw down their swords and shields, picked up their bows and arrows, and shot down the mountain.

Only Fang Daye was indifferent and turned his head to look at General Zhenbei.

"It's a rescuer." Han Ruzi said with great certainty.

Fang Daye finally pulled the bowstring as well, and the arrows he shot even fell into the Hun cavalry group below the mountain.

Han Ruzi walked down the mountain with twenty or thirty people, stopped in three or four steps, and shot arrows.

The Huns also spotted the rapidly approaching army, and under the shroud of smoke and dust, it seemed that tens of thousands of horses were galloping in it.

The Hun sword and shield soldiers standing halfway up the mountain directly felt the excitement of the Chu soldiers above, turned around, saw the rushing smoke and dust, and were horrified in their hearts, and rushed down the mountain, they had just been sacrificed once, this time, no one could stop them from fleeing.

The Hun cavalry at the foot of the mountain was the most confused, they could not see the smoke and dust in the distance, but they could feel the panic of the cavalry on the periphery, and the infantry who rushed back from the halfway up the mountain made them even more frightened, as for the arrows shot from higher places, although they were not lethal, they showed the irrepressible excitement of the Chu army.

There is only one reason why you can cheer up again when you are in a desperate situation, and that is that the reinforcements of the Chu army really came.

The confusion did not arise all at once, and some of the Hun cavalry tried to stop the fleeing infantry, and even fired a few arrows, which caused an even more frantic collapse, and hundreds of infantry rushed into their camp without their lives, pulled the cavalry off their horses, turned over and ran on their horses.

When Han Ruzi walked halfway up the mountain, the Huns under the mountain were already in chaos, from the generals to the soldiers, from the periphery to the inner layer, everyone was rushing to escape.

Yesterday, when the Chu army rushed to this mountain, the Huns suspected that there would be an ambush, and observed for a while before they stepped forward to attack, and the smoke and dust that suddenly appeared in the distance were the signs of the ambush, but they came relatively late.

Han Ruzi stopped the Chu soldiers and ordered half of them to continue shooting arrows, while the other half looked for the wounded.

Du Chuanyun was dragged out from under the two corpses, and was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, but he didn't die, "Tap, tap, Lao Tzu bleeds." What happened to the Huns? Is that our rescuer? Haha, don't die, don't die! ”

The wounded were all gathered together, and Han Ruzi ordered everyone to stop shooting arrows and find out the dead.

Du Chuanyun still had an arrow on his right shoulder, and he held the sword with his left hand, "Kill again!" ”

Han Ruzi stopped him, "Poor Kou Mo chase, although the Huns retreated, the number is still superior." ”

"There are rescuers, what are you afraid of?" Du Chuanyun was still eager to try, and he didn't seem to feel the injury on his shoulder.

Fang Daye dragged Du Chuanyun to his side, "You can't disobey your life." With that, he pressed one hand on Du Chuanyun's shoulder, grabbed the shaft of the arrow at the same time, and broke the exposed part with the other hand.

Du Chuanyun screamed, so painful that he almost sat on the ground, not to mention chasing and killing the Huns.

The Huns had horses, even those infantrymen, they were just not around, so to snatch other people's mounts, they ran very fast, and the smoke and dust in the distance had just come to the foot of the mountain, and the Huns had fled several miles away.

The excitement of the surviving Chu soldiers quickly decreased, and they saw that there were not many people in the smoke and dust, at most three hundred.

Even that number is too much to overestimate.

"Hey, reinforcements...... Not much. Du Chuanyun expressed everyone's doubts.

There were only about 100 reinforcements, and each horse dragged wine bags, helmets, and other items behind them to create a large amount of smoke and dust.

Chai Yue led the team up the mountain, jumped off the horse, and knelt down to the tired marquis: "The general is frightened, and the death penalty is ......"

Han Ruzi stepped forward to help him up, "Who found you?" ”

"Isn't that me?" Cui Teng appeared on horseback, did not come down, and kept looking to the east, "They sent the gold bracelet back to the city, I suddenly remembered that Chai Yue led the team to the northeast, and it should be on the way back, maybe not far away, so I went to find him." I guessed it right, he didn't believe me at first. Let's go, the Huns may find out when they have been fooled. ”

Cui Teng was right, the Huns were scared away, and once they found that the Chu army was not as much as they imagined, they were likely to be annoyed and angry, and turn around and catch up again.

The Chu army could stay and continue to hold on, waiting for the arrival of the army of Broken Iron City, but that would at least wait until tomorrow morning, or even later. If there is a chance to escape, no one wants to stay, even Du Chuanyun hopes to get on the horse quickly.

Chai Yue's team had more than thirty horses carrying things, just let them out, the soldiers who were not particularly seriously injured all rode their own horses, some seriously injured people rode with others, and there were dozens of Chu army corpses, it would be too troublesome to take them away, so they could only be piled up there and cleaned up in the future.

The Huns were still on the run, and for the Chu army, the situation was completely different from yesterday, and it was an extremely rare opportunity to escape.

One hundred and forty or fifty people marched eastward, Han Ruzi led the team in the front, and Chai Yue led the troops behind the palace.

No one spoke on the way.

After noon, the horses had to stop to rest, some of the horses were already foaming at the mouth, Chai Yue mobilized ten of the strongest horses, designated eight soldiers, and ordered them to protect the Zhenbei general to retreat first, "Even if the Chu army is defeated, the general cannot fall into the hands of the Huns." ”

"No, I have to ......" Before Han Ruzi finished speaking, Du Chuanyun and the others had already put him on horseback.

Chai Yue said to Du Chuanyun: "I'm sorry, the injured should not follow the general." ”

Du Chuanyun didn't care, "Ha, I haven't played enough." It's okay for me to stay, but there's one person who has to go with the Tired Hou. ”

"Who?" Chai Yue looked at the noble children in the team, half of the eight people he had just appointed were from the family, and he couldn't see who else was qualified to accompany him.

Han Ruzi no longer shirked, and pointed to a person: "General Fang has to go with me." ”

Chai Yue was slightly stunned, thinking that the tired marquis was going to bring the general's flag, so he said: "The general's banner is better to stay, it can confuse the Huns." ”

"Leave the flag, and the people will follow me."

To Chai Yue's surprise, those surviving soldiers seemed to have the same idea as the tired marquis, and they all got out of the way, looking respectful, and there was no dispute about the entourage of the old standard-bearer, even the few surviving sons of the nobles.

Chai Yue divided another horse, ten people and eleven horses, and the extra one was prepared for General Zhenbei.

After resting for a while, Han Ruzi and the others set off, almost non-stop along the way, constantly calculating in their hearts when the Huns would catch up with Chai Yue.

Soon after nightfall, Han Ruzi met with reinforcements from the Broken Iron City, a total of more than 2,000 people, and almost all the horses in the Broken Iron City were brought out.

Han Ruzi and the others changed horses and were escorted back to the city by a hundred people, and the remaining reinforcements continued to move forward to meet Chai Yue.

It was late at night when he returned to the city, Han Ruzi was tired and hungry, but he couldn't eat or sleep, and under Zhang Youcai's hard persuasion, he barely ate a little bit and ordered someone to settle the house well.

Fang Daye is too old, and he needs several people to support him at the same time even when he gets off the horse, and he falls asleep as soon as he gets into bed.

"Bring Jin Chunbao." Han Ruzi didn't want to wait.

Zhang Youcai couldn't persuade his master to rest, so he had to let the loach call people, and it didn't take long for the loach to run back, "Boss Jin was taken away." ”

"Take away? Taken by whom? Where to take it? Han Ruzi asked a series of questions.

The loach scratched his head, turned around and ran out, he was tired of serving Hou so far, he didn't know much about the rules, his legs and feet were neat, he said he would go wherever he wanted, and he would come back quickly, "He was taken to Shenxiong Pass by the envoy of the army." ”

There were 30,000 Chu troops stationed in the valley outside Shenxiong Pass, waiting to encircle and annihilate the Huns, and their generals stayed in Shenxiong Pass, sending messengers to Broken Iron City every day to report information, just in time for Jin Chunbao to be sent back, so the messengers took him away.

Han Ruzi paused, he was still inexperienced, and forgot to give a strict order to keep Jin Chun in the city, so he hurriedly asked Zhang Youcai to prepare a pen and paper, wrote a letter, and ordered someone to set off immediately and send him to Shenxiong Pass.

In the letter, he reminded the general of the Chu army: Jin Chunbao's escape was obviously arranged by the Huns, and the division of the Huns could not be trusted, and it was likely to be a trick to lure troops, and there may be more than 10,000 Huns left in the border area.

The messenger set off, but Han Ruzi was not sure in his heart, Jin Chunbao's words were well-founded, but his rebuttal was all speculation, and there was only one most powerful reason, but he couldn't elaborate.

If the Huns only want to seduce the tired marquis, they should be like Chai Yue, and use Jin Chuiduo as an excuse, but Jin Cunbao said that it was all about the Huns splitting again, and the people who wanted to be lured by these words were not only the general of Zhenbei and the broken iron city, but the generals with higher positions and more Chu troops.

Jin Chunbao was used unconsciously, thinking that what he was saying was the truth, which was even more demagogic.

"The settled Huns became more and more similar to the Chu people, not only learned the tactics of the Chu army, but also learned the same tactics." Han Ruzi muttered to himself, becoming more and more worried, and even regretted that he didn't kill Jin Chunbao in the first place, but at that time, he wanted to use Jin Chunbao to move the rescuers, and he didn't have much choice.

The Huns really did not hunt down Jin Chunbao, which proved that he was deliberately released.

Han Ruzi wrote another letter and asked the loach to find Lin Kunshan, a qi watcher.

"Trouble Mr. Lin to go to Shenxiong Pass." Han Ruzi told all his guesses.

Lin Kunshan couldn't help nodding, and finally said, "I'll set off now." ”

Han Ruzi only breathed a sigh of relief until this time, and it was more effective for Lin Kunshan to persuade General Chu than him.

Soon after dawn, a team of Chu troops returned to the city, bringing the latest news, the reinforcements had been picked up Chai Yue and others, and the Huns were far away, the Huns immediately retreated, this time it was a real retreat, did not come back, and there was no battle between the two sides.

Han Ruzi breathed a sigh of relief again, but he still couldn't let go of his heart, and when the army entered the city one after another, he finally understood what his suspense was.

He and the Chai family still have an account that has not been settled. (To be continued.) )