Zhang Xuan stood on the high mausoleum, condescending, he could see the situation outside clearly, under the bright moonlight, groups of black-clothed people outflanked from three directions.

With boulders blocking all four entrances, they had no choice but to climb up and jump through the gaps around the mausoleum, which, though seven feet at the bottom, was nothing for a trained man.

In the open space inside the mausoleum, groups of merchants were extremely nervous, holding spears and war knives, and many people's legs were shaking involuntarily, but everyone knew in their hearts that they had no way out, either fighting to the death, or being killed here, never seeing their wives and children.

At this time, the first batch of black horse thieves appeared above their heads, and Zhang Xuan shouted, "Bow and arrow, shoot!" ”

More than two dozen archers released their arrows together, dozens of arrows were fired, and several black horse thieves could not dodge, were shot by arrows, and fell down screaming, but the merchants were obviously inexperienced, and after the first round of archery, there was a brief vacancy to rewind.

The black horse thieves, who were obviously more experienced, seized the brief gap, and immediately a large crowd of people poured out from behind the boulders, thirty or forty of them, and they poured in like cockroaches, and jumped into the field.

Cheng Biting Jin yelled, "Kill!" ”

He swung his axe and rushed first, slashing a man with one axe, and the fifty spearmen behind him followed him, and a fierce battle broke out in the southwest corner.

But the black horse thieves did not only pour in from the southwest corner, in the north and west, there were also many black horse thieves who jumped down from the high rocks and pounced on them with their knives, and the merchants also roared loudly.

Jang Hyun rushed to the two dozen archers and shouted, "Drop your bow and arrows and go to the north!" ”

At this time, the archers were useless, and shooting arrows indiscriminately would hurt their own people, and more than two dozen archers woke up, dropped their bows and arrows, picked up their spears and swords, and rushed to the north.

Zhang Xuan's eyes flashed, he found the leader of the black horse thieves, a horse thief wearing a silver helmet, holding an iron gun and fighting fiercely with Li Shentong's five guards, he was strong in martial arts, killing the five guards and retreating, Chai Shao was next to protect Li Shentong, and several other horse thieves who pounced on him fought together.

Jang Hyun was extremely fast, as agile as a black panther, and pounced silently from the other side, he was not in a hurry to make a move, but hid behind a boulder, waiting for the opportunity to kill, as long as they could kill the leader of the horse thieves, they could escape today's catastrophe.

Li Shentong brought twelve guards, in addition to two to send a letter for help, there were ten people, but in the afternoon battle, three people were unfortunately killed, two were seriously injured, unable to participate in the battle, the remaining five people are quite strong in martial arts, each can fight five with one, but they met the more powerful Liang Shidu, although five against one, but still killed by Liang Shidu defeated and retreated.

Liang Shidu was brave and fierce, an iron spear danced like a pear blossom, he caught a loophole in a guard, and stabbed with a shot, and the guard was pierced through the chest by him, and fell to the ground screaming.

Liang Shi laughed proudly, and the other four saw the tragic death of their companions, their eyes were red, they roared, and swung their knives at Liang Shidu from four directions at the same time.

"Good time!"

Liang Shidu took two steps back, dodging the simultaneous attack of the four people, but his attention was on the four guards, but the gap in his back was exposed, Zhang Xuan seized this fleeting opportunity, flashed out from behind the boulder, he jumped forward, and the war knife slashed towards the back of Liang Shidu's neck, without hesitation, let alone shouting, the cold and shining war knife slashed like lightning.

Liang Shidu suddenly felt a wind hitting the back of his head, and was suddenly taken aback, it was too late to dodge, in a hurry, he bowed forward and let go of the back of his neck, but his back couldn't dodge, just begging the chain mail on his body to save his life.

'Click! ’

The flames splashed, the sharp war knife split the chain mail chain, the blade went straight into the body, deep into the bones, Liang Shi screamed in pain, staggered, ran a few steps diagonally, shot backhand, and stabbed the sneak attacker behind him with a spear, Zhang Xuan rolled on the spot, dodging this ferocious return pistol.

Liang Shidu leaned his back against the stone wall, staring fiercely at Zhang Xuan, who attacked him, Zhang Xuan's knife cut his muscles and bones, and the pain in his left shoulder was unbearable, so he could only use the gun with one hand, and his combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

Zhang Xuan hated it in his heart, he didn't expect that under Liang Shidu's wide robe, there was chain mail, if it was leather armor or even scale armor, he could kill the other party, but the chain mail saved the other party's life, making him fall short in the end.

"Let's go up and kill him!"

He shouted to the four guards, and the five of them swung their knives together to kill Liang Shidu, Liang Shidu saw that the situation was critical, he flicked his spear, forced back the two guards on the right, opened a gap, he grabbed this line of life, and his body rolled out more than a zhang away.

"Come and save me!"

Liang Shidu shouted for help, and several horse thieves who were besieging Chai Shao saw that the leader was in a critical situation, turned around and killed them back, withstanding Zhang Xuan and several guards.

Liang Shidu felt that his left shoulder blade had been broken, he was powerless to fight again, took advantage of the opportunity of his subordinates to desperately protect himself, threw away the spear, endured the severe pain and struggled to climb towards the stone wall, jumped on the wall, felt that his whole body was collapsed, he was afraid that Zhang Xuan would chase him, and endured the pain and burrowed into the dark stone forest.

Seeing that the leader of the horse thieves had escaped, Zhang Xuan no longer loved fighting, leaving the fight to Chai Shao and a few guards, while he picked up a shield and ran north.

Although Liang Shi was seriously injured and fled, the situation in the mausoleum was extremely unfavorable to the caravan, the merchants fought to the death, but the strength was very different from the other party, and the casualties were heavy, especially in the north, more than 60 merchants were killed, and only 20 people were left to support them, and they were about to be killed by all the fierce wolf-like horse thieves.

Zhang Xuan roared, rushed over, swung his knife into the enemy group, he held a shield in his left hand to block, the right hand of the war knife slashed sharply, two horse thieves were cut over, at this time, a horse thief sneaked up from the side, fierce, the knife has pierced into his leather armor, Zhang Xuan quickly tightened his abdominal muscles, the sharp long knife against his abdominal skin passed, he felt the cold blade.

Jang Hyun roared like a beast, blocked the two spears with his shield, turned around like a whirlwind, and kicked the attacker in the neck, 'Click! With a bang, the opponent's cervical vertebrae were kicked and broken by him, and he fell out screaming.

He took another step back, dodging the spear stabbed behind him, and the sword in his hand slashed horizontally, and a human head was slashed by him, and blood splattered all over him.

Encouraged by Zhang Xuan, more than two dozen businessmen rushed up with a roar and fought desperately with the black horse thieves.

The situation on the battlefield became more and more unfavorable for the merchants, and some of the mules and horses in the east were frightened and rushed out, and hundreds of mules galloped wildly in the narrow clearing, and the situation became a mess.

At this moment, the low horn of the antlers suddenly came from the distance, 'Woo-'

Several horse thieves shouted on the stone wall: "The Sui army is coming, retreat!" ”

The horse thieves in the mausoleum no longer had the intention of fighting, they climbed the stone wall one after another, ran out, the morale of the merchants was greatly boosted, and they fought back violently, killing all the more than 20 horse thieves who had no time to escape, and the mausoleum suddenly broke out into cheers.

Zhang Xuan sat down weakly, he was exhausted, and at this moment he felt that he couldn't hold the knife in his hand, 'Dangchang! The sword fell to the ground.

But Zhang Xuan never imagined that the person who came to save them turned out to be Liu Wuzhou's cavalry.

This is Liu Wuzhou's cunning, he betrayed several caravans that followed him to beg for an anchorage, but he wanted to go back to give an explanation, so he hurried to rescue the caravan attacked by the black horse thief, and launched a fierce attack while the black horse thief was at his weakest.

Liang Shi suffered a big loss, the black horse thieves were attacked by the caravan and the Sui army inside and outside, and finally Liang Shi only escaped from Xuansha Mausoleum with only about 40 people, and the remaining 150 people all died in this nearly 200 acres of stone forest.

The mausoleum is full of corpses and severed limbs, blood mist is everywhere, the air is still filled with the pungent smell of blood, more than 350 merchants and men, and only less than 100 people survived in the end, most of them were injured, but the black horse thieves were also killed by them More than 100 people, even the leader of the horse thieves, Liang Shi, was seriously injured and fled in a hurry.

Chai Shao sat beside Zhang Xuan tiredly, and said with a wry smile: "I didn't expect to survive, it's really a blessing in misfortune." ”

Zhang Xuan smiled, "Thanks to Liu Wuzhou's timely arrival, otherwise none of us would have survived today." ”

Chai Shao snorted coldly, "He would be a good man, betrayed a group of people from the north, and came to save a group of people from the south, we died so many people and killed most of the horse thieves, he came belatedly, and in the end the credit was all his, it was simply shameless." ”

"Actually, it doesn't matter about the credit, as long as you survive, you are lucky."

Zhang Xuan sighed softly, "Once born and died, many things are looked down upon, no matter what Liu Wuzhou's purpose is, as long as he is willing to come, I am still very grateful to him." ”

"General Liu is here!"

Someone shouted in the distance, in the morning light, I saw Liu Wuzhou striding over, Chai Shao scolded in a low voice, turned around and left angrily, Zhang Xuan stood up and smiled: "It's really providential to see General Liu again!" ”

Liu Wuzhou stepped forward with a sincere face and gave a deep salute, "Thank you Gongzi for saving Liu Wuzhou." ”

"General Liu, what do you mean by this, where did I save you?" Zhang Xuan asked with a puzzled smile.

Liu Wuzhou sighed, and he didn't know whether he was really ashamed or falsely ashamed, he said apologetically: "Wu Zhou regretted not listening to the advice of Gongzi, and insisted on going to beg for ambush, but he was attacked by a large group of Turkic cavalry, and none of the more than 200 merchants escaped, Wu Zhou couldn't save it, and he was guilty, and he heard that there were black horse thieves in the south, Wu Zhou desperately rushed to the rescue, if it wasn't for Gongzi's efforts to save the situation, the caravan was wiped out, Wu Zhou really couldn't go back to hand over the order, so how could Wu Zhou not blame himself, how could he not be very grateful to Gongzi." ”

Zhang Xuan was speechless for a long time, he had to admire Liu Wuzhou for being able to speak, speaking beautifully and sincerely, so that he knew that Liu Wuzhou's hypocrisy could not be blamed, no wonder this person could later become a hero, and he did have something extraordinary.

Zhang Xuan smiled faintly, "Although General Liu's 'sincerity' is touching, I advise the general not to rush to cut off the head of the horse thief for the time being, but to rescue the wounded first!" If you can save one, you will have one less iniquity. ”

Liu Wuzhou knew that Zhang Xuan had seen through him, his face was a little hot, and he said, "Childe is right, I'll go and save people." ”

He walked quickly to the soldier who was busy cutting off the head of the horse thief and shouted, "Go and heal the wounded, and no one will die." ”