Seeing that the defenders had no intention of letting go, Hu Zongmao urged the horse forward again, and the general next to him with a bandage on his head had already said: "General, let the end come." Before Hu Zongmao, he galloped towards the checkpoint, and the archers behind the fence immediately aimed their arrows at the comer, and the captain had already shouted: "Stop, stop, come forward, Hugh is ruthless." ”

Hu Zongmao also roared loudly: "If anyone dares to touch a single hair of him, Lao Tzu promises to punish him for the nine clans." ”

The soldiers all looked at the captain, no one dared to let go of the arrows easily, in fact, everyone felt that the general in front of them was Hu Zongmao, and everyone also knew that Hu Zongmao was a general on an equal footing with Uncle Zhang.

The captain was obviously also stopped by Hu Zongmao's words, seeing the soldiers looking at him, the soldiers did not dare to shoot arrows, for fear of bearing the consequences, his little captain, that is also unable to bear the consequences of the Jiu clan, seeing the injured general rushing over, he said helplessly: "Wait, there is something to say." ”

The general reined in his horse in front of the wooden fence and said angrily: "Let's fight with the Chu army in blood, knowing that the Chu army is powerful and the road is difficult, General Hu is going to come to discuss the emergency military situation with General Zhang, the Chu army may be killed at any time, you are still delaying time here, do you really think we dare not kill it?" ”

The lieutenant thought to himself, the so-called discussion of the emergency military situation may not be true, the defeat and the rout fled here is not fake, the general in front of him, obviously full of anger after the defeat, to vent here, the captain also understands, this group of defeated soldiers has no way out, if it is really tough, this group of people may not dare to do something to break into the valley, although the other party is a rout, but the two sides can also be regarded as friendly troops, if before the Chu army kills, the friendly army fights and kills, and is known by the above, the consequences are naturally very serious.

He no longer had the angry and stern look he had just now, so he could only say: "Don't be impatient, you have to obey the military order." In this way, I will report to Vice General Cai and ask him to decide! ”

The injured general turned around, Hu Zongmao hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Go quickly, you can't wait here for a long time!" ”

The lieutenant agreed, and ran into the valley in a puff of smoke.

didn't wait too long, a group of people quickly rushed over, stationed in the Wolf's Tooth Valley is Zhang Shuyan's henchman Cai Cheng, the arrow sounded, he knew that something had happened, and he had already rushed over here, wanting to see what was going on, he was bumping into the captain who had reported in the past, and hurried over at the moment, and saw the embarrassed Hu Zongmao from a distance, he had seen Hu Zongmao, and knew that there would be no fake, so he came over immediately and said: "General Hu!" ”

Hu Zongmao obviously knew Cai Cheng as well, and frowned: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and let us go, there will be an emergency military situation to discuss with General Zhang." ”

Cai Cheng looked around Hu Zongmao, and saw a large group of soldiers behind him, not to mention five or six hundred, his face did not change, and said with a smile: "General Hu is coming, naturally he wants to let him go, but ...... General Hu, General Zhang has an order, and the last general will once again strictly guard the Wolf's Tooth Valley, and not even a bird can be released, and there is an order from above, and the last general will not dare to disobey the order, so ......! ”

"So how?" Hu Zongmao stared at Cai Cheng's eyes.

Cai Cheng sighed and said: "The general wants to pass, and the last general will not dare to stop him, but your subordinates, the last general really can't let him go, if he disobeys the order, General Zhang will blame it, and the last general will only take this head to feed the dog." ”

Hu Zongmao sneered: "You mean, let Ben Jiang leave his brothers under his command and cross the valley alone?" ”

Cai Cheng nodded and said, "That's right." The general can enter the valley first, here is less than half a mile away from Lanyi City, and he will see General Zhang in Lanyi City, if General Zhang orders to let go, then the last general will let the brothers cross the valley, I don't know what the general wants? ”

"Wouldn't it be a day before the brethren could go back and forth like this?" Hu Zongmao sneered.

Cai Cheng said helplessly: "This is already something that the last general can do." ”

"Chu Huan's army is right behind, maybe it won't take a long time for them to kill it." Hu Zongmao's face showed anger: "If they stay here, won't they let others slaughter them?" ”

Cai Cheng still did not change his face, and said: "General, don't worry, if the Chu army really kills us, we will not sit idly by, but at this moment, the last general really can't let everyone go." "But in my heart, I thought that this group of Hezhou soldiers had escaped death, and the Chu army really wanted to kill them, and it would not be bad for these people to be on top of the valley for a while, at least they would give the Wolf Tooth Valley more time to prepare.

He already knew in his heart at this time that Hezhou City must have been breached, and he was really a little surprised in his heart, he didn't expect Hezhou City to fall in such a short period of time, and he didn't know if the Chu army was too strong, or Hu Zongmao was too incompetent.

Hu Zongmao hesitated, and there was already a humane next to him: "The general went alone, we are not at ease, even if we can't cross the valley all, we must send guards to follow the general's side to protect the general's safety." ”

"Don't worry, Golden State is very peaceful!" Cai Cheng said with a smile.

Someone behind Hu Zongmao sneered: "There are bandits everywhere in the northwest, there is no peace, the general treats us like brothers and sisters, we must follow the general to protect." ”

Hu Zongmao finally said: "Yes, I was going to bring the guards over." ”

"I wonder how many people General Hu is going to bring?" Cai Cheng hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "If there are too many people, the last general still can't let him go, and he can only bring five guards at most!" ”

"Nope." Immediately, there was a humanitarian: "There have never been less than twenty people with the general's side. ”

Cai Cheng was originally advancing and retreating, and pretended to hesitate when he heard the words, in fact, he knew very well that twenty guards were all right, and it was impossible for Hu Zongmao to make any trouble in Jinzhou, Hu Zongmao also said: "Ben will take twenty guards across the valley, and the others will stay here temporarily, but Ben will say ugly things ahead, if the Chu army kills, you must let them enter the valley!" ”

Cai Cheng sighed and said: "Although it is very difficult, since General Hu is so persistent, the last general cannot be unfavorable, I just hope that when the time comes, General Zhang will blame, and General Hu will be able to say a few good words for the last general...... General Hu, you can take twenty guards across the valley! ”

Hu Zongmao turned around and said loudly: "Brothers, you wait here, Ben will be able to go to Lanyi City, at most one ri, you can cross the valley, Ben will wait for you there, and prepare wine and meat for you." ”

All the soldiers are complaining, but the matter has come to this, there is nothing to do, among the soldiers accompanying at the moment, twenty guards followed Hu Zongmao on horseback, Cai Cheng ordered to open the wooden fence, let Hu Zongmao and others pass, the group of people gathered around Hu Zongmao, under the leadership of Cai Cheng personally, along the wolf's tooth valley road forward.

The road of the wolf's tooth valley is narrow and tortuous, the sense of oppression on both sides of the mountain wall is very strong, when everyone looks up, they only see the valley tops on both sides, the guards are heavily guarded, the top is already prepared for rolling stones, a large number of archers overlook the bottom from above, but the group is secretly frightened in their hearts, this wolf's tooth valley is really dangerous, even if it is really desperate to kill the wolf's tooth valley, it must pay a heavy price.

The Wolf's Tooth Valley Road is actually not very long, and after walking less than a stick of incense, he has already seen the exit, Cai Cheng wants to guard the Wolf's Tooth Valley, calls a subordinate, and orders him to take a dozen soldiers to lead Hu Zongmao to Lanyi City.

After coming out of the valley from the wolf's tooth valley, a group of people galloped, and at dusk they had seen Lanyi City in the distance, Lanyi City did not have the style of Hezhou City, and it looked much smaller than the city in Guannei, but this is the heart of Jinzhou.

Approaching Lanyi City, everyone has seen the flag fluttering at the head of Lanyi City, the armor of the soldiers at the head of the city is distinct, and they vaguely see a group of people standing directly above the city gate, one of whom is wearing silver gray armor, which is very conspicuous.

"General Hu, Zhang has been waiting for a long time." As soon as I arrived at the city, a hearty voice sounded at the head of the city, "The wine and food have been prepared, if General Hu is late, I am afraid that the wine and food will be cold." ”

The person who spoke was the general in the silver-gray battle armor, who was over half a hundred years old, but he was old and strong, and he looked healthy, Hu Zongmao looked up at the man, his face showed embarrassment, knowing that Cai Cheng must have sent someone to Lanyi City to report first, and said loudly: "General Zhang is polite, I haven't seen you for a long time, you look very good." ”

"The old man's temperament is good, but General Hu's temperament doesn't look very good." Uncle Zhang Yan sighed at the head of the city: "Although I miss General Hu very much, the old man really doesn't want to see General Hu so soon." ”

Of course, Hu Zongmao understood that Zhang Shuyan was talking with words, and there was a cold look in his eyes, but his expression was still very embarrassed, so he could only say: "General Zhang, didn't he just let Hu talk to you under the city?" ”

Uncle Zhang Yan laughed, and muttered to Zhang Han, who was also wearing armor beside him, Zhang Han bowed his hand, but after a while, the sound of rattling sounded, and the gate of Lanyi City slowly opened.

Zhang Han rode a horse and arched his hand inside the city gate: "Welcome General Hu into the city!" ”

Hu Zongmao's face is even more embarrassed, if he is changed to ri, it must be Zhang Shuyan who is greeted at the city gate at this time, and now that he is defeated, Zhang Shuyan does not personally greet him at the city gate, but sends his own son, although it is only a matter on the scene, but Zhang Shuyan has obviously put Hu Zongmao under himself.

A group of guards surrounded Hu Zongmao into the city, but saw Zhang Shuyan was slowly coming down from the wall ladder under the support of a group of generals, Hu Zongmao turned over and dismounted, Zhang Shuyan slowly went down the wall ladder, stroked his beard as he walked, looked at Hu Zongmao condescendingly, and asked: "General Hu, is Chu Huan chasing after you?" ”

Zhang Shuyan and Hu Zongmao were already at odds with each other, both of them looked at each other and didn't look at each other, but now that Hu Zongmao was down, Zhang Shuyan naturally had to laugh at each other.

Hu Zongmao sighed: "Yes, the Chu army has captured Hezhou City, and blocked the road to Tianshan, Hu really has no choice but to break through and come to Jinzhou, although defeated, but Chu Huan's ghost tricks I already know very well, you and I join forces, Chu Huan will definitely not be able to defeat Jinzhou." ”

"The city wall of Hezhou is thick and the city is high, how could it be broken by Chu Huan?" Zhang Shuyan pretended to be puzzled and said, "How many people are there in Chu Huan?" General Hu, you are the first famous general to defend the city in the northwest, and Chu Huan is a yellow-haired son who can also break your city? It's incredible. ”

Between speaking, Zhang Shuyan had already walked down the wall ladder, surrounded by a group of generals, and walked towards Hu Zongmao, he and Hu Zongmao had a long-standing grudge, and now Ri found an opportunity, that is to taunt Hu Zongmao, the more people around him, the more people who ridicule Hu Zongmao in public, then let him vent more happily and comfortably.