Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Trumpet Sounds
After two days of rapid travel, Hu Hai's brigade encountered waves of homeless people who went east to escape the war and turmoil, and in order to appease these people, Hu Hai's return to Xianyang was greatly delayed!
He once again successively sent more than 1,000 cavalry to escort the fleeing people eastward to Jimo, so that Hu Hai's army shrank again, and now there are only more than 16,000 soldiers guarding Hu Hai's side!
These more than 16,000 people have 4,000 Xuanwu troops under the command of Weng Zhong, 2,000 heavy-armored foot soldiers, 2,000 heavy-armored cavalry, and the remaining 12,000 people are led by Du Teng, Fan Xu, Xiahou Ying, and Zhou Bo, all of them are light-armored cavalry, and there are more than 200 dragon guards!
Du Teng and the others were all anxious when they saw that the speed of the march had been repeatedly delayed because of the people!
The four red letters to Hu Hai did not hide it, and told Du Teng and others the news of the rebellion against Qin everywhere! Du Teng and the others knew very well that once the news of the emperor's absence in Xianyang was leaked, then the less than 20,000 troops who went deep into the center of the rebels and intended to pass through and return to Xianyang would definitely be the biggest piece of fat in the world!
At that time, I'm afraid that all the anti-Qin armies will look around for traces of their own gang! After all, once Emperor Daqin II was killed, then Daqin, who still seemed to be strong now, was afraid that he would immediately fall into endless chaos!
Even if Great Qin will not be destroyed because of this, but the leaderless Great Qin will definitely fall into internal friction again because of the problem of the throne, it is estimated that when the new emperor ascends the throne, the remnants of the Six Kingdoms will inevitably be a big tail!
Yali Mountain is big, and the four words used to describe the state of mind of Du Teng and others at the moment must be appropriate! However, no one dared to rush the emperor! What's more, the emperor is for the people, not for the mountains!
It's not that Hu Hai doesn't know his situation at the moment, but he can't watch these people who are dragging their families to escape the military disaster starving all over the place! What's more, he thinks that although the less than 20,000 troops around him are not many in number, they are all selected from the Bashang camp! Ordinary people want to eat their own people, but they really have to try to see if there are such good teeth!
But, today, it seems a little unusual!
In other words, this old way of Heze is a little unusual!
It's too quiet!
"Your Majesty, there is a murderous aura! There is an ambush in this mountain! Long Xuan rode his horse to Hu Hai's side and said with a solemn face! As the Dragon Guard, Long Xuan and the others can be said to be the most sensitive to murderous aura!
At this moment, Fan Xu and Xiahou Ying led 6,000 cavalry in front, Du Teng and Zhou Bo led 6,000 cavalry and 200 dragon guard Hu Hai's Chinese army, and Weng Zhong's 4,000 Xuanwu troops were all in the rear army, casually guarding grain and grass, and of course, the armor and weapons of the Xuanwu army were also in the box car!
In fact, without being reminded by Long Xuan, Hu Hai also noticed something unusual! Because the "black electricity" under his crotch has been snorting uneasily! Animals are far more sensitive to danger than people!
Because the old road of Heze is an ancient road that crosses the mountains, although the width of the road is not as good as the Qinyan Qichi Road built by Daqin, but there are nearly 20 zhang! Even so, the army of nearly 20,000 was still stretched into a snake shape that was five miles long!
The front army of Fan Hao and Xiahou Ying has gone deep into the old road, Hu Hai's Chinese army has just stepped into the old road of Heze, but Weng Zhong's rear army has not yet entered the old road! Because hundreds of box trucks are too much space!
Heze Ancient Road is a trunk passage connecting East County, Xue County and Dang County, through which you can directly cross Dangjun County to Chengwu County in the south of East County (eastern Central Plains, southwest of Shandong Province in later generations, southwest of Heze City), so as to save a lot of detours, and in addition to Heze Old Road, there are two westward Han Qi Old Road, but those two roads need to be detoured, Hu Hai simply chose to take Heze Old Road!
Although I don't know why the ambush people haven't launched a sneak attack yet, it is obvious that they can't order Fan Hao to retreat again, once they retreat, they will definitely let the ambush people launch in advance!
Once the 6,000 cavalry in front of them are attacked by a sneak attack, even if they are all Great Qin elites, there will definitely be some chaos, if this ambush has the same strong crossbows or bows and arrows as the Qin army, then the losses will definitely be extremely heavy!
This is not what Hu Hai wants to see!
What's more, if this ambush was accidental, if it was to attack this Qin army, if it was for themselves, then the meaning of this attack would naturally be different!
Someone in Xianyang actually leaked the news of his secret exit!!
More than two hundred dragon guards quietly changed their formation, and quietly surrounded Hu Hai, forming an indestructible human wall!
Seeing that one by one Long Wei calmly and methodically protected all around his body, not even leaving a dead end, Hu Hai suddenly felt a little in a trance! He knew that if an attack really came, then if the two hundred dragon guards around him did not die, he would definitely not be harmed at all!
This is not eating, it is not getting promoted and getting rich! It's for life! Who can face death so calmly?
At this time, the most critical thing is the 6,000 soldiers of the front army, the rear army has not yet entered, and the Chinese army has only entered a little bit, although Hu Hai himself has also entered the ambush area, but he is not worried about his safety, he can withdraw from the old road at any time and return to the wilderness outside the mountains and forests!
As for why the scouts didn't find an ambush in the mountains and forests, Hu Hai didn't have the heart to think about it! Now that everyone is ready to ambush, it is natural that they will have the means to deal with the scouts!
The top priority at the moment is how to rescue the 6,000 soldiers of the former army and minimize the losses!
A large number of box cars in the rear have blocked the way for the cavalry to retreat, and if you continue to move forward, there will definitely be obstacles in front of you! It seems that I have inadvertently reached a dilemma!
Hu Hai was in a hurry, and the dragon in the mountains and forests was even more anxious.
There are only 20,000 people in the army along the way, and the army that came north from Chen County to ambush Hu Hai has a total of 60,000 people! All of them are elites selected from Xiang Liang's army!
But Xiang Liang didn't know which way Hu Hai would go! That's why Xiang Yu's army, which was originally preparing to march east to Langya and Jiaodong, was called back to make a false impression that the whole army wanted to attack the west to fight Sanchuan and Hangu Pass!
As for Hu Hai's method of transmitting messages with carrier pigeons and eagles, the letter from Xianyang also told Xiang Liang! So his move was to let the people in Xianyang tell Hu Hai that he was going to attack in a big way, and you should come back quickly!
And the shortest distance from Jimo back to Xianyang is obviously from the old road of Han Qi on the line of Dongjun! If Hu Hai really wants to return the same way from Julu, Handan to Xianyang, Xiang Liang also has a way to know the movements of Hu Hai's army, and he is prepared!
But in that case, at least the distance will be tripled, and you won't be able to reach Xianyang in a month! What's more, it will be the post-book ceremony of Li Si's daughter Li Yan soon, and he believes that Hu Hai will definitely choose the nearest road to rush back to Xianyang!
Xiang Yu took advantage of the rainy night from Chen County to avoid the sight of the Black Iron Xuanwu Army, and the army going north had a total of 60,000 people! These 60,000 people go out day and night, it can be said that they have suffered a lot, and of course they are also covered with blood!
So far, it has been three days since Xiang Yu's 60,000 troops arrived at the junction of Dongjun, Xue and Dangjun, Yimeng and Heze!
There are three old roads of Han Qi that can pass through the army, from north to south! Therefore, Xiang Yu divided the 60,000 army into three roads, each with 20,000 troops, and Xiang Yu, Yingbu, and Long He each led the army to ambush at a junction!
Three Han Qi old roads, Long and this road is the southernmost one, to the north two old roads are five miles and twenty miles away from Long and five miles and twenty miles respectively, and the middle passage is Xiang Yu personally led the troops!
Yingbu is in the northernmost Han Qi old road twenty miles away from Longhe!
The guards had already gone to report to Xiang Yu, and Long He had no extravagant hopes for the 20,000 troops of Yingbu who were twenty miles away, and when Yingbu arrived, it was estimated that Hu Hai's brigade of cavalry had already passed through this only section of the mountain road that was not more than ten miles long!
Long Ji now only hopes that Xiang Yu can come sooner! It's not that he doesn't have confidence in his 20,000 people, but he knows very well the combat strength of the Qin army, not to mention that there are nearly 20,000 pro-troops guarding the Great Qin Emperor walking in the forest!
Could it be lower than the combat power of Wang Li's group of soldiers who were said to be miscellaneous guards? The dragon and the death do not believe it! However, he only remembered at this time, and it seemed that he and the others had not considered the issue of the combat strength of the guards around the Great Qin Emperor from the beginning!
Can the 60,000 people who came all the way to kill Emperor Daqin II stop these 20,000 soldiers? The dragon has no bottom in his heart!
Suddenly, the march of Huhai's army walking on the forest road was noticeably faster!
But a large number of box trucks at the rear of the army can enter the old road of Heze! Long He held a small tree in front of him tightly with his big hand, anxiously waiting! He didn't know at all that the emperor of Great Qin was not sitting in the carriage at all!
It was also because of the inconspicuous small mistake of Xiang Liang's intelligence that the 12,000 cavalry of the Huhai Front Army and the Chinese Army escaped the catastrophe!
With the issuance of Hu Hai's order, the entire army is advancing faster and faster! Tens of thousands of war horses trotted through the forest, although there was no overwhelming momentum like a charge, but it was still a thunderous hoof, and the momentum was monstrous!
Just from the fact that these more than 10,000 cavalry marched slowly to riding their horses slowly, Long Ji knew that these tens of thousands of troops were definitely the most elite soldiers in Great Qin today! The momentum of more than 10,000 cavalrymen riding horses at the same time and their exquisite and skillful riding skills all told him that these people were far more elite than the army of Wang Li's guards who had fought in the Huai River!
Hundreds of box cars have finally entered the old road in the forest!
Now is the time!
"Woooooo
The rapid and high-pitched horn suddenly sounded through the mountains and forests! It is especially piercing in the thunderous roar of horses' hooves!
Hearing the sound of this horn, countless excited ghosts and wolves suddenly came out of the originally quiet mountains and forests on both sides of the road, and countless swarthy men with tattoos of various totems and beasts stood in the dense forest!
The moment these big men stood up, they raised their hands and threw the countless triangular fishing forks in their hands that had been ready to go for a long time towards the hundreds of box trucks that were still moving slowly below!
Dense triangular fishing forks covered the entire sky, and swooped down with a sharp whistle!
(To be continued)