Chapter 67: The Battle of Heilingzhai II
It is said that Gu Huwei took thousands of soldiers under his command, and after going up the mountain, he searched everywhere in a regular manner, looking for vanguard soldiers and horses, but he couldn't find them left and right, but when he entered the mountain, he vaguely saw some footprints and horseshoe prints, and then there were some traces of fighting, and then there was no trace of it! There are also people who suspect that the entire vanguard of the three hundred cavalry has been wiped out, but who would believe that this gang of bandits can deal with the three hundred elite cavalry, because they don't listen to what they say, they were almost taken away by Gu Guards, and the whole army was wiped out! Of course, some people say that the vanguard army successfully attacked the enemy's grain depot, and is now resisting stubbornly, waiting for reinforcements, although there are many people who oppose this persuasion, and there are many people who question it, but it has been vigorously implemented, not for others, it is Gu Huwei himself who raised this possibility! His brother-in-law is in there!
The road is not long, but there are many roadblocks, and there are countless stones and wooden stakes and firewood blocking the road along the way! The people in the front team were tired to half death, and after moving one batch and another, there were three more batches after moving this batch, endlessly. It's really unbelievable how the vanguard military got in, but in the eyes of Gu Huwei, all this has become the vanguard army being surrounded, and the bandits deliberately set up so many roadblocks to hinder us in order to prevent our rescue!
What can everyone say, this Gu guard is still unstoppable, Mi Daren's soldiers are unstoppable, Mi Daren's will is our highest instruction, and we are Mi Daren's most loyal soldiers! It's almost turned into a song, and it almost brought some of the soldiers to tears of excitement, and if the officers hadn't whipped them in the back, they would have been excited, believe me!
Therefore, in order to show everyone's heartfelt love for Mi Daren and heartfelt concern for their comrades-in-arms, of course, they have to work hard to move things for me! Even if some stakes are stuck in the ground, they have to be out! So the team of thousands of people, the first 100 or so people became porters, constantly moving the barricades blocking the road, and the first 100 people of the second team became woodcutters, widening the road on both sides to see if they could get around. The rest of the people all acted as cheerleaders, sitting in one place and staring at them.
And so an hour passed, and they didn't go far. The herald was about to go up the hill to ask where they had arrived, but they just got on their horses, "Ride!" Drive! After a few clicks, before I accelerated to the fourth gear, I saw a group of people watching the scenery there!
Gu Escort turned around and suddenly saw the herald driving a BMW and running here. He knew that Mi Fangqiu was not satisfied with his progress, so he quickly turned into the best employee, and the leather whip in his hand was "snapped" everywhere, and he shouted in his mouth, "You lazy people, you have been working non-stop, but you have only moved so much, and you don't look like a soldier at all!" ”
The head of the officer, who was a part-time "porter", was suddenly stunned, and almost scolded, when he suddenly saw this Gu guard glaring at him desperately, and saw that there seemed to be a herald running here nearby, he immediately came to his senses, stepped forward and wailed: "Gu Guard, we have been working for an hour, and there is no replacement at all!" You're going to exhaust us to death, don't bring this! ”
Gu Guard's acting skills also began to flutter: "Hmph! Fill me with less garlic, dry quickly! Give you another quarter of an hour, and you can't completely cut off your head! ”
This herald saw that they had only walked such a little way, and his heart was angry, and his group of people waited below for a long time, and they were lazy with you above! Seeing that the officer who took the lead in guarding Gu was pulling out the way, he just extinguished the fire in his heart, but they did their best, it's not good to be too harsh on them, what if Master Mi gets angry and asks his gang to come up and move stones!
The herald hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the whip that Gu Escort was about to draw down, and he didn't even notice the problem that Gu Guard's martial arts could actually make a small soldier grab the whip, and then said with a smile: "Escort Gu must not do anything, no one can do anything wrong if he is not a sage, don't be so harsh on others!" ”
Gu Huwei smiled: "Oh, it turned out that the herald is coming, please don't stop it, I have to kill this person, I can't move a few stones, what's the use of it!" ”
The herald's mind was thinking faster than ever at this time, and it really paid off, and he finally thought of a reason: "Gu Guard, you can't say that, you see that there are still so many roadblocks on this mountain, if you don't rotate, who can hold on, in fact, I don't blame this one!" I also hope that the guards will understand the hardships of the lower-level soldiers! ”
Gu Huwei was really considerate of the country at this time, and said with a frown: "Don't talk nonsense, Master Mi asked me to find the vanguard as quickly as possible, according to this, it is slower than a turtle crawling, and when I find them, I can only collect their corpses!" ”
This herald was born to be a peacemaker, and replied: "Gu Guard, don't worry, no one can do anything about this kind of thing, I believe that Master Mi will not blame!" It's just that I hope that the guards will speed up, don't let Master Mi wait! ”
Gu Huwei naturally smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll do things for the elderly, don't you feel at ease!" ”
"That's great!"
Watching the pure herald ride away on a pony "Da Da", the officer who was almost smoked smiled: "Gu Guard, you can go to be an actor, my team just changed and was said to have been doing it for an hour, if I hadn't quickly rubbed two lines of ash on my face, he would have seen through it!" ”
Gu Guard: "Okay, okay, I can't help it!" After walking such a little way for so long, Mi-sama's side will definitely blame! Wipe the ashes off your face, it's fucking ugly! ”
Officer: "Good, good! And say that I, you are not much better! ”
When I finally cleared a section of the road, I suddenly found that there was a fork in the road, one side of the road and the other side of the road, the road was still neatly placed with a large area of firewood, and the path should be a place with thick smoke. Gu Huwei encountered a problem that his predecessor also encountered: Which way to go? And there's a lot of wood in the way on both sides!
However, Li Rijing gave him a benefit that his predecessor did not have. Two rockets suddenly shot out of the vicinity, nailed to the wooden barricades of the main road and the small road!
This time I also chose a fart, and a raging fire suddenly ignited on the road, and somehow on the lower road, maybe the firewood was too wet, but it didn't burn! Just a little flame! Suddenly, the soldiers panicked, somehow! Gu Guard's eyes lit up, and he saw a few more rockets shooting towards the path in the distance, so he hurriedly picked up a stone and threw it over, Gu Guard's martial arts skills were superb, and he really knocked off several arrows, but there were still two rockets hitting the firewood, and he suddenly became anxious, and ordered: "Quickly put out the fire for me, there must be our people on the path!" ”
The soldiers next to him hurriedly rushed forward, and finally extinguished these small flames that were so hard to cause! Gu Escort stepped forward at this time, stepped forward and kicked the barricade, and shouted to the soldiers who were still stunned behind: "Don't move away quickly, wait for the burning!" ”
The group of soldiers were scolded by the head and face before they reacted, and a group of shield soldiers next to them stepped forward to form a shield formation in the direction where the rockets came, and the other soldiers moved stones and pulled firewood! When it was almost over, Gu Escort Fang led the team to continue walking towards the path! Before leaving, I didn't forget to call a few soldiers back to reply, and then pulled dozens of archers to shoot arrows in the direction of the rocket, and then walked in triumphantly!
This path has been cleaned by He Li, Liu He and others with a group of people, and it can be seen that there was a fire here from the black ruins everywhere and the two piles of firewood.
Gu Guard carefully lowered his head and looked around, the ground was full of charred debris, half-burned branches, one side cyan and one carbon-colored, lying horizontally and vertically all over the road; The grass on both sides still had some thick rhizomes against the ground, and the surface was full of shadows, all black grass, and a few pieces of the ground were so badly burned that they became white ground; Actually, these are nothing, especially the occasional scorched flesh and splinter pieces of armor on the ground, which is worrying.
When we got to the end of the fire, there was a large remnant, more than ten square meters in size, and it was full of blackened stones and sparkling branches! There was a place nearby that caught the attention of the guards, this place was different from the large black charcoal-like land nearby, it was probably in the form of a more coherent line stretching outward, the ground was whiter, many places were narrower, and some places were wider, and from a distance, it seemed to look like a human body!
Gu Escort hurriedly squatted down and touched the place that looked like a human form, very carefully, completely different from the way he was joking with his subordinate officers just now, just a bit of that kind of serious and single-minded expression, concentrating on studying. His fingers, which were groping on the ground, reached under his nostrils and sniffed after touching for a while, and picked up something to smell after touching for a while.
It wasn't until a stick of incense had passed that Fang stood up confidently, ready to say it to the other soldiers! But just as he was about to speak, a soldier next to him suddenly pointed ahead and shouted, "Look, vanguard! ”
All the soldiers were attracted by this voice, and looked at the fingers of the soldier who had found the anomaly, and it seemed that just outside the woods, there were many people wearing cavalry uniforms dangling around, and the sound of shouting and killing was faintly heard! Although Gu Guard's thoughts were interrupted by this shout, he was slightly irritated in his heart, but because he also wanted to see the missing group of vanguards, he also looked up, and it seemed that there were indeed some people dangling outside the woods.
Many of those soldiers knew the people of the vanguard army, so as soon as they saw the traces of the vanguard army, they walked over there without obeying the order, Gu Guards wanted to stop them, but it was too late, a large number of soldiers had already walked over, and they felt that something was wrong in their minds, but they couldn't remember it at all!
Originally, he was the one who also wanted to find the vanguard army, since he saw that there was no reason not to go, anyway, there were thousands of soldiers around him, and his strength was far above the enemy, in case of danger, there was a large army not far behind, what were you afraid of! Thinking of this, with a wave of his hand, he rushed over with other hesitant people!
At this moment, a noise suddenly came to mind, and people from all directions were shouting, "Shoot the arrows!" Shoot the arrows! Don't let them pass! Don't let them pass! As soon as the voice fell, a large number of arrows were shot from both sides, especially many arrows blocking the intersection, clearly preventing these soldiers from passing!
In this way, those who are still suspecting that it is not a trap must be stupid! Gu Guard's long sword was drawn, and he shouted: "The shield soldiers are guarding the left and right, the archers are covering, and the others are rushing over with me!" ”
The large group of soldiers each drew their weapons and followed the guards to shout loudly, "Woo! "Rushed over! The archers, under the cover of the shield men, began to return fire, but the effect did not seem to be great.
Many soldiers around were shot down in an instant because of the sudden attack, and many soldiers were shot and fell to the ground during the charge! Finally rushed out of the woods to hear a "bang", a big trap suddenly appeared on the mouth of the woods, more than ten people fell in it at once, there were not dead screams and moans, hands stained with their own or comrades' blood, desperately climbed up, until half of the climb, and planted again, so miserable!
The people who were one step away from being planted in the back were all frightened into a cold sweat, thinking in their hearts, secretly saying that it was so dangerous, and one of them had to pretend to be forced on his lips, and said: "Brothers, the bandits are so hateful, I really can't wait to go down to accompany you!" As soon as he finished speaking, he was hit by a person who couldn't stop behind! Really accompanied them......
At this time, there were arrows shooting all around, except for the shield soldiers who were desperately defending on both sides, there was no cover at all. A large group of soldiers were stuck at the exit of the woods, and the rest of the soldiers who had no cover were all exposed to the rain of arrows, without any cover, and all the nearby soldiers who could be used as cover were burned to the ground, if the bodies of their comrades counted!
Gu Huwei's hands were bruised at this time, the situation was very urgent, this was already obviously a trap, okay, do you want to run back? It's not that he didn't even see anyone, and the casualties were very large, and when the time came, Master Mi let him go, and he couldn't even raise his head to be a man! Since this is the case, there is no way, with a wave of his big hand, the soldiers on the left and right listened to the order, and hurriedly ran to the left and right, in a vain attempt to bypass the woods out of the deep pit!
Although the enemy archers had already killed their own soldiers, there were still some scattered soldiers who escaped occasionally, and Gu Guard's face was iron-colored, and with a turn of the long sword in his hand, a big tree fell down! The tree was about to fall down slowly, Gu Guard jumped over, grabbed the trunk with both hands, and dragged it to the trap before it fell, and several soldiers next to him hurriedly stepped forward and dragged it with several other places!
When he was still a few steps away from the trap, Gu Guard pushed away several other soldiers and kicked on the trunk of the tree, I don't know how much strength, but the tree was kicked on the trap at once, spanning both sides, and it happened to become a tree bridge!
A few soldiers around did not wait for the order, the tree bridge had just been built, and they each ran up "rubbing", but they knew that there were bows and arrows that kept shooting, and they panicked when they stood on it, and their feet were unstable, and as a result, they swung left and right, and the tree was also round and unstable, and it shook up again and again, and suddenly shook left and right, and suddenly several soldiers did not hold on to it and fell!
No one dared to talk to him next to Gu Guard's blue face, and he took out a few swords in a row, leveled the tree bridge, and he took the lead, stepped on the tree bridge, and walked a few steps quickly, where could the bow and arrow be stopped, and the soldiers saw that the Gu guard was already standing on the side of the trap before they could see it clearly!
Now the soldiers did not hesitate anymore, and no one could stop them! The soldiers who crossed the bridge with Gu Escort divided into two ways to chase and kill the group of archers, and he took a few small soldiers to go straight forward, looking for the traces of the vanguard army, although he could guess in his heart that the three hundred cavalry of the vanguard were probably more than lucky, although he didn't know how this group of bandits with weak combat effectiveness could do it!
Less than a hundred steps ahead, the front suddenly opened up, it was an open field, and I saw a stockade in front, only a layer of wooden fence, there seemed to be some people defending inside, and hundreds of people outside were besieging this stockade! The sound of constant shouting and killing came from there, and the people inside seemed to be unable to resist, so they kept shouting "Shoot the arrow!" Shoot the arrows! The people outside were more interesting, and they kept shouting "Set fire!" Set! "Arrows are fired from the inside to the outside, and fire is thrown from the outside to the inside! Although the fighting was fierce, there were no casualties!
The few soldiers around Gu Huwei were really excited, and they hugged each other, and they almost cried excitedly, "Vanguard!" Vanguard! We've finally found them! ”
Gu Huwei didn't think so, he felt that the battle in front of him was likely to be fake, there must be people in the opposing army who were good at fighting, and they were quite scheming, how could they make it so easy for him to succeed! Then what the vanguard army is likely to have been wiped out, what should be done now is to gather troops to attack directly, and it is only right to hold on and wait for reinforcements!
At this moment, the men who had pursued the local archers on both sides had returned, saying that they had not seen anyone, except for a few trenches and a few traces of blood from the archers on them, apparently from their own archers.
At this time, because there was no attack from the archers, most of the soldiers in the back had already passed the trap and gathered together. Roughly counting the number of people, I didn't expect that there would be nearly 100 dead and injured at such a time!
Gu Huwei's calmness does not mean that the soldiers around him are calm, and before he has time to speak, those soldiers will say it for him. The vanguard army is not far away, we should go to the rescue immediately, and we will definitely be able to defeat the main force of the bandits.
Gu Escort didn't say a word when the soldiers spoke, just glared at them, and the soldiers immediately didn't dare to speak, almost the words that popped out between their teeth, "Say it again, I'll cut you!" ”
Then he slowly said to the soldiers: "The vanguard army has been completely annihilated!" Don't think about anything more to defeat the enemy's main force! Enemy ......"
Before he finished speaking, he saw that the nearby high ground was full of bandits and Captain Li's soldiers, and several nearby hills were full of human figures, the number was difficult to calculate, as if there were people everywhere, there were ambushes everywhere, and large groups of people were shouting "Surrender, spare you from dying, surrender, spare you from dying!" ”
The soldiers who had just assembled by the Gu guards suddenly fell into chaos, no matter how much they maintained, what are you kidding, they are all surrounded, who will listen to you! As if in order to make them more chaotic, the group of thieves pressed up a group of people in cavalry uniforms on several hills, and then a large group of minions shouted to this side, "See, your people have been arrested by me!" ”
Gu Guard's secret path was as I expected, and he was about to lead the troops to the rescue, but his soldiers no longer listened to him, and they were all talking about what to do! At this time, I don't know where a burst of arrows was shot, and few people were injured, but it was already the last straw, and the whole team immediately collapsed, and they ran back, no longer caring about any traps, just fill them up, Gu Escort Yang Tianchang shouted, these soldiers were not brought out by themselves, and it is completely normal not to listen to their orders, but once the opportunity is lost, I don't know how many people will be lost to kill here!