Chapter 123: Total War

"Who is the one who came down from the mountain?"

Hu Chi'er led thousands of soldiers and horses all the way up the mountain, successfully passed the first two levels, and saw that he was under the third level. Suddenly a person on the mountain stood up and asked, Hu Chi'er didn't need to answer, someone answered for him. Sure enough, when this voice came out, the herald who came with Hu Chi'er immediately pulled out the token, raised it in his hand, and shouted: "Bah! You can see it clearly, this is the warrant of the king's chieftain, you wait to open and close it quickly, and there is no delay! ”

As soon as he spoke, he retreated to the back, and Hu Chi'er kept looking at the mountain in front of him. Although it was dark night, it was enough to see the terrain from the torches near and far. This pass is the third pass of Tianwangzhai, which is known as the 'throat' and the last dangerous pass of Tianwangzhai. Come to think of it, as long as you pass this level, then Tianwangzhai will be captured. Only he, at this time, suddenly looked up and saw the situation at this level, but it was like a fierce tiger squatting in front of him, almost wanting to choose people and devour, and the precipitous place was like a sharp sword cutting through the abdomen, which was too precipitous. Come to think of it, if this is guarded according to this, it will be enough to stop all the soldiers and horses. It's just that the pass I saw at this time was silent and silent, and even the soldiers guarding the pass seemed to be asleep, and I couldn't see a few at all, which was completely different from the previous two passes. What's more, the shouts of killing in the distance came one after another, but when they arrived here, they couldn't make any waves, which was really weird.

There must be a demon when things are abnormal, which made Hu Chi'er frown slightly, and he didn't know why he was beating a drum in his heart.

He felt as if he had some kind of feeling, and suddenly he felt the imminent danger, which made his instinctive body tremble, and his heart shivered, and he almost drank and ordered everyone to retreat. However, at this very moment, on the top of the mountain, someone shouted to them: "Since there is a warrant from the king's chief, you can enter the pass!" With a creak, the door closed and opened softly. At the moment when the gate opened, Hu Chi'er's whole body and mind were relieved, and he immediately shouted to the soldiers to follow and continue to move forward in front of the gate.

"Two Hundred Steps......

"One Hundred and Fifty Steps......

"100 steps ......"

"Eighty Steps ......"

At the quiet juncture, a person held the pass, his eyes were tightly pressed at the Xiliang people and horses slowly approaching the pass at the bottom of the mountain, and he muttered and counted. It was none other than Zuo Leng, the second brother of Zuo Xiao, who was standing on the pass. In fact, as early as when Wang Gu suddenly sent messengers down the mountain, he knew that Wang Gu probably went to the bottom of the mountain to fetch rescuers. Wang Gu's herald wanted to go down the mountain, of course he let him go, but he wanted to lead the Xiliang people to go up the mountain immediately, and he naturally refused. Since his eldest brother decided to choose to follow Zhang Baiqi, he had no choice but to follow his eldest brother. Although he still didn't have the accurate orders of his eldest brother at this time, he knew very well that these Xiliang people would definitely not be allowed to go up the mountain, and the only thing he could do now was to try his best to stop this group.

Of course, he knew very well that he only had hundreds of people in his hands, and he couldn't stop the thousands of people in Xiliang at all. It's just that when something has to be done, even if it is dangerous, he can't help but do it. In the face of Xiliang's approaching step by step, he was actually beating drums in his heart, and a cold sweat was also in his palms. To be honest, if he wants to fight this battle rashly, he is not sure at all, he can only count on his eldest brother's side to help Zhang Baiqi break through Wang Gu's defense line earlier, then his side will be relaxed.

Since things have come to this point, and there is no way back, let's fight!

"Seventy steps! Close the door! Shoot the arrows! ”

"Boom! ~~~”

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" ……

Seeing that the door was closing now, he suddenly said that it was closed. And the steep mountain raises its head, saying that the arrow will be released. No, it's not just the arrows, in the rain of arrows, the thieves reacted at the first time, and when they were about to try to snatch the gate, suddenly a big stone one after another, rolling wood, followed by throwing down, facing the head of Xiliang people and horses. Just under Zuo Leng's order, he pulled an arrow with his own hands, and after shooting one person, the thieves who were ambushed at the juncture on both sides also shouted and killed.

For a moment, I saw the torches on the top of the mountain come out, shining like stars, piercing people's eyes from various precipitous places. And the arrows and the rocks, and the rolling logs, followed by crackling and crackling from all over the place. And the Xiliang people and horses who raised their heads up the mountain at the bottom of the mountain, whether they were within a hundred steps of the shooting range or at a longer distance, were almost fettered by the entangled mountains on both sides, and many people suddenly fell into a pool of blood.

Screams, panic, one after another.

At the moment when the city gate suddenly closed, in fact, the alert Hu Chi'er had already run backwards, and was hit by a rolling log on top of his head in just one step. Rao was so, but he still didn't escape a stray arrow in the corner and shot him in the arm. Hu Chi'er was hit by an arrow, and he was very evil in his heart, and he wanted to go to the herald to ask for the guilt, but he didn't want the herald to have already been smashed into pulp by a big stone at the pass. Seeing the panicked people and horses walking down, Hu Chi'er roared, pulled out his knife, and pointed at Zuo Leng, who was guarding the pass, and scolded.

Speaking of which, although Hu Chi'er has a lot of men and horses, he is in a precipitous place after all, and he is attacking from the back, so he can't get cheap. Moreover, although this place was before the pass, the place was very small, and it was impossible to place his thousands of men and horses, and it was impossible to organize firepower. And even if you can put about a thousand people under the pass, after all, this pass is steep in one of them, but because it is a 'sandwich pass', there will be more trouble. Once they entered it, it was like being in an urn city, except for the defenselessness behind them, the other three sides were close to almost all of the enemy's firepower, which made Hu Chi'er's attack even more troublesome.

Although Hu Chi'er was also very clear at this time that it would definitely be difficult to win this level, he did not think about retreating. After all, the two levels have passed, and now if he wants to give up the two levels and go down the mountain, of course Hu Chi'er refuses. What's more, being attacked by these bandits on the mountain for a while, a large area suddenly fell, and dozens of people and horses were lost, how did Hu Chi'er balance in his heart? Besides, it is impossible for him to run down the mountain in such an embarrassment with his injuries, and how will he explain to General Niu Fu when asked in the future?

"Shoot, shoot me hard!"

Hu Chi'er wielded a knife and supervised the battle in the rear, as long as he dared to retreat, he would unceremoniously carry the knife and cut it. He was like crazy at this point, and he completely forgot about the arrow wound on his arm. He only knew that after all, there were few defenders on the mountain, and if one died, there would be one less, and he was not afraid that he would not be able to attack. As for Zuo Leng, who was guarding the pass, he personally used the bow to kill the enemy, and shot many people in a row. Seeing that someone was about to close the gate, he immediately dropped his bow and arrows, picked up the big stone and rolled the log, and smashed it down.

Speaking of which, he closed it and didn't have anything else, but the big stone rolling wood was neatly prepared, and he was not afraid of running out. It's just that, after all, there are only a few hundred people guarding the pass, and under the crazy blows of the enemy's arrows round after round, a large number of them quickly fell. After killing, even Zuo Leng was hit by several arrows, but fortunately, these arrows were not shot anywhere, but they did not kill him immediately. And under the pass, Hu Chi'er saw that he was still unable to take the pass for a while, and he also lost the lives of many soldiers, the death toll of the soldiers on his side was still increasing, and the corpses were piled up into a hill, and he was also in pain.

Hit? Can we get a result if we keep fighting? Although some of them were shot, many of them were still fighting stubbornly, and they had a geographical advantage that they could not match. If you don't fight and give up, can you be willing? Hu Chi'er's eyes were red, he was still thinking about the pros and cons in his heart, and he hadn't spoken yet, but the brothers around him had already muttered in his ear, so that Hu Chi'er could not fight anymore.

When Hu Chi'er arrived at this time, he suddenly thought of the king of the mountain, and his heart was followed by a great evil. Come to think of it, his side is fighting like this, why don't they send a team of men and horses to support, as long as he kills from behind, he will definitely be able to defeat this pass, but why didn't Wang Gu send someone over! In fact, he is complaining about the king, and the king doesn't know who to complain about.

Just before, he still thought that he was guarding here, so he would try his best to resist it, and he would wait until his people invited Hu Chi'er's Xiliang men and horses up the mountain, so that they could jointly suppress Zhang Baiqi. However, after losing many horses and horses on his side, not only did he not wait for Hu Chi'er, but the news came that Hu Chi'er was stuck in the third level. He sounded furious at the time, and soon understood that he was negligent. Come to think of it, this third pass is guarded by Zuo Leng, the younger brother of Zuo Colonel, and Zuo Xiao is holding a big banner to support him Zhang Baiqi, how can he rest assured that he will continue to let Zuo Leng guard the third pass? It's strange that he doesn't rebel at this time.

When Wang heard this, he was ready to send men and horses to clean up Zuo Leng, and help Hu Chi'er kill Zuo Leng first, so that Hu Chi'er could lead the troops in. However, at this moment, the subordinates next to him suddenly reminded Wang Gu, saying that the Xiliang people were arrogant after all, and they wanted to let them all go up the mountain, even if they repelled Zhang Baiqi and others, they were afraid that the front would reject the wolf and the tiger behind, and persuade Wang Gu to simply let Zuo Leng suppress and suppress the arrogance of the Xiliang people first, and lose some of his men and horses, which may not be beneficial to him. Wang Gu believed it, so he naturally pretended not to see it, and let Hu Chi'er fight with Zuo Leng.

However, once the time passed, Hu Chi'er's side still failed to break through the third level, and his side gradually became nervous, and he was also afraid, so he had to reconsider dividing his troops to go to the enemy's left cold. However, I don't know what's going on, once he has this idea on his side, the attacking side seems to sense something, and the momentum of the attack is even more ferocious, so he can't transfer another person at all, so he has to give up this idea.

In fact, after a series of previous battles, Chen Nuo's side has gradually gained some clues. Those scattered men and horses, at this time, under the call of Zhang Baiqi, were also quickly rearranged. When the combination of men and horses of each department was completed, Zhang Baiqi immediately handed over these horses to Chen Nuo's unified command for the time being. And Chen Nuo divided these horses into three or five shares, and took turns to kill them one by one. In this way, those who are tired can go down to rest, and those who are well rested can accumulate strength and fight again. And after such a round, Chen Nuo's side is full of strength to fight with Wang Gu's tired soldiers, although the other party occupies a geographical advantage, but it can't withstand Chen Nuo's side of the bombardment, no wonder Wang Gu feels more and more difficult later.

Chen Nuo's side beat Wang so that he couldn't pull out his hand to help Hu Chi'er, but Hu Chi'er's side, because he still couldn't break through this small pass despite heavy losses, a breath of death immediately enveloped everyone's heads. Dead people, piles and piles of falling, arrows saw that this dense shot out a lot, but it still had no effect, still did not break this level, which made these Xiliang people feel frightened. If we continue to fight, I don't know how many people will have to be sacrificed!

Hu Chi'er didn't pay attention to this, he just desperately commanded everyone to rush and kill. However, his men and horses suddenly stopped walking halfway up the mountain, and they still fought at the third level, which made the guards who had already passed the first and second levels seem very puzzled. The defenders of the two passes under the mountain also immediately fell into chaos because the Xiliang people attacked their own village passes for no reason. In the second pass, those Xiliang soldiers who were not allowed to move forward did not continue to rush forward to kill, but did the business of taking advantage of the fire to rob, and hundreds of people rushed down directly from the mountain to surround the pass.

It is difficult to attack the pass from the bottom of the mountain, but from the mountain, it is simply a flat push. The advantage of guarding the pass is gone, and the other party is a vicious Xiliang person, those thieves guarding the pass fell into chaos for a while, and many people died, and the pass was directly taken away by this group of Xiliang soldiers. Of course, this is not enough, the second level is won and the first level is still there. The first level is their retreat, and of course they don't want to be controlled by others. So, these people immediately waved their troops and attacked the first level.

Although the first pass is steep, it can't stand this group of Xiliang soldiers throwing stones from the mountain and smashing them on their heads, far away, the Xiliang people did not come, and these bandits guarding the pass also abandoned the pass and left, without any intention of hindering. Although these two passes were easily taken by the Xiliang people, these people did not have the consciousness of guarding the pass at all, and they actually took the pass, but they were still like bandits, wandering around, setting fire to the inside and outside of the pass, and fighting to do the war, so it was not chaotic.

There was chaos on the mountain, but it happened to give a cheap price to the hundreds of people and horses from the Hutou Village led by Zhang Si and Wang Wu under the mountain.

After receiving Zhang Sheng's fireworks signal, they hurried all the way and ran slowly, and they were surprised by the treacherous nature of the mountain, but they were afraid that they would not be able to go up, so how easy was it to participate in the war? However, it was precisely when they were wandering and didn't know where to stay, that suddenly because of the killing of the Xiliang people, the abandonment of the Tianwangzhai bandits made them pick up a bargain. Zhang Si and Wang Wu looked at the current situation, and without saying a word, they rushed to the pass with their men and horses, and the shouts of killing followed.

The thieves who ran down from the mountain, they were panicked and didn't know why, and they were suddenly killed by these hundreds of Hutouzhai people on the mountain, and they were even more confused. They couldn't figure out which horse came at all, they just thought it was Xiliang, and they hurriedly ran to both sides with their lives. And those Xiliang people who chased the thieves in Tianwangzhai went down the mountain with the mentality of taking advantage of the fire to rob, and were suddenly met by Zhang Si and Wang Wu, and without saying a word, they fought in a daze.

Xiliang people are very powerful, but after all, they are a group of scattered soldiers who flow down from the mountain, and they are not systematic at all, although hundreds of people came before and after, but they were washed away by a group of people and horses in Hutou Village, and how many people died in the night.

In this chaos under the mountain, naturally someone reported to Hu Chi'er under the third pass. Hu Chi'er was anxious to be unable to win the pass for a while, but when he heard that a group of people and horses had been killed at the foot of the mountain and chopped over other horses, he was terrified that he didn't know how much, and he was also shocked in his heart. Hu Chi'er naturally couldn't guess that there was still a team of people from Hutouzhai under the mountain, and he didn't know how many people he came, but he knew that if he worked hard, the pass in front of him might be broken, so he naturally wouldn't give up the pass and leave.

At this time, he held the arrow on his shoulder in one hand, broke the pole of the arrow, and threw it on the ground, so that he ordered one person to send out five or six hundred men to deal with the men and horses at the bottom of the mountain. Not to mention, with a special person in command, it is naturally much better than the previous loose combat effectiveness of soldiers and horses. With this team of men and horses to kill, Zhang Si and Wang Wu were also immediately nervous.

Seeing that, Zhang Si and Wang Wu swept all the way with their men and horses, and they didn't encounter any hindrance at all, so they soon broke through the first pass and marched towards the second pass. However, at the second pass, Zhang Si was in a hurry and didn't notice that a stray arrow flew in his head, shooting directly into his chest, and he collapsed with one arrow. As soon as Zhang Si fell, a group of people rushed down the mountain, which caught Wang Wu off guard, and hurriedly withdrew with his brothers down the mountain.

Not to mention, the group of Xiliang people who were named were all withdrawn from the third level, and they couldn't attack the third concern, and they already had a nameless anger in their heads, and they had nowhere to vent. And the sudden killing of this group of heroes in Hutou Village immediately gave them a target to vent to. They only roared wildly, and looked at the group of people and horses in Hutouzhai with the sharp arrows in their hands, but soon many brothers died in Hutouzhai.

In the melee, Wang Wu was wounded by an arrow in his arm, but he was still a ninja and led everyone to resist step by step. A few of them held the first pass, allowing the rest of the men to calmly retreat down the mountain. And those who stayed at the pass naturally failed to escape the trampling of the Xiliang people, and the position was soon lost. Fortunately, these people were sacrificed, and most of the rest of the men took this opportunity to flee for their lives down the mountain. Even if it was Wang Wu, although he knew that the purpose of his trip was not to flee for his life, however, when the army was defeated like a mountain, no matter how great his ability was, he could not reverse the decline of the decline.

Wang Wu, in front of the collapsed people and horses, and under Xiliang's horse, he could only choose to escape.