Five hundred steps away on a hillside that is not high, a person with a halberd standing proudly, two horses behind him, one on the left holding a banner of the Han army, waving in the wind, and one on the right is struggling to beat the war drums.

It was too far away, and the drums couldn't be heard clearly, but Huai Zong clearly felt that the drumsticks were hitting his heart all at once. He couldn't tell who it was, but he could guess who it was.

He was clutched in fear, and his mouth opened wide, but no sound came out.

Several scouts galloped from the valley like frightened rabbits, and the horses were almost all four-hooves, and at any moment they might step on the rolling stones and fall, which was extremely dangerous, but the knights on horseback still jerked their horses without mercy.

"Woo-woo-woo-" The rapid sound of the alarm horn finally reached Huai Zong's ears, and his hearing seemed to have suddenly recovered, and the noisy sound came in at once, with the sound of neighing and screaming close at hand, as well as the sound of horses' hooves and war drums in the distance, and he even heard the sound of the big flag being hunted by the wind.

The shouting of killing came from a distance, crashed into Huai Zong along the valley, overwhelmed the shouting of killing, and reached the ears of Xianbei and Han Jun, and reached the ears of Xia Yu.

Xia Yu was surprised and delighted, he felt that this was like divine help, he had just begged God to let Liu Xiu come to save him, and Liu Xiu really came. He was ecstatic and shouted to the heralds beside him, "Beat the drum and tell everyone that reinforcements are coming." ”

The herald was stunned for a moment, then quickly came to his senses and beat the war drum vigorously.

The sound of the fierce war drums brought the news of the arrival of reinforcements to the ears of every desperate soldier, and the morale was suddenly greatly boosted, and the gradually lost strength suddenly filled their bodies again, and they set off a wave of counterattacks, beating the Xianbei people's offensive down.

The Xianbei people were stupid, especially Huai Zong's subordinates, who were bent on killing Xia Yu, and they suddenly found themselves caught in the middle of the Han people, and they didn't know how many people were killing from behind.

Huai Zong narrowed his eyes, looking at the people who had rushed out of the valley, his teeth were gritted, he recognized these people, they were not Han Jun, they were Wuhuan people in the upper valley, they were the white deer tribe of Lu Pofeng, the person who rushed to the front was Lu Pofeng, the person holding a bow and arrow behind him was Lu Pofeng's younger brother, the archer Lu Huanyang, and the other one waved his arm and shouted to Heng Xi.

No wonder Liu Xiu is so familiar with the terrain here, it turns out that there are these Wuhuan people as guides. Huai Zong hated so much that his eyes were split, he hated not to kill Lu Pofeng and the others with his own hands, if it weren't for them, how could Liu Xiu find this place and destroy the trap he had carefully designed.

In fact, Huai Zong wronged Lu Pofeng, even if there was no Lu Pofeng, Liu Xiu could find here, when he first arrived in Ningcheng, he and Lu Min, accompanied by Wang Chan, traveled all over the nearby mountains and rivers, although he didn't dare to say that he knew everything, but where to ambush the soldiers, he still had a number.

After getting the news that Xia Yu led the cavalry out of the fortress, Liu Xiu thought of this possibility, he was not sure that Huai Zong would ambush Xia Yu here, but he knew that if Huai Zong had such a plan, Liang Qushan was undoubtedly the best choice. He didn't want to rob Xia Yu's work, but he was afraid of Xia Yuzhong's plan of Huai Zong, in line with the psychology of being prepared, he flickered Lou Lu, who was so red that he wanted to rob Xuanjia, at the cost of fifty sets of Xuanjia, Lou Lu was coming, and he didn't dare not come, and Lu Pofeng couldn't help but come, so more than 5,000 Wuhuan people appeared behind Huai Zong.

Huai Zong quickly recovered from the shock, he immediately ordered a part of the people to turn around to meet the enemy, and at the same time stepped up the attack on Xia Yu, although because of the terrain, he did not bring all the troops over, but there are still more than 4,000 people here, and all the people who can fight in the Bailu tribe combined, no more than 5,000, plus the people and horses of the end of the knot, at most 8,000 people and horses.

What's more, even if Lu Pofeng brought all the people here, there were really 8,000 people here, they couldn't use them, and the narrow mountain road determined that they could only slowly consume them until they consumed all the more than 4,000 people. Before that, he should have dealt with Xia Yu, and he and the Split Wind were still superior in numbers, and they could advance or retreat, attack and defend.

"Intensify your attack." Huai Zong regained his composure and said loudly: "Inform Split Tempest, there are reinforcements in Gudong, let him hurry up and deal with Xia Yu and join me." ”

The trumpeter did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly blew the horn.

Huai Zong was a little frustrated, he didn't expect that the Split Wind didn't catch Xia Yu and let Xia Yu escape here unharmed, the loss of strength was very limited, and he didn't expect that Liu Xiu would rush here so quickly, and he also brought the Wuhuan people of the White Deer Tribe. He had heard of Lu Pofeng and knew that his ability was no less than that of Ti Tu and Yu Jie, and he had always wanted to fight Lu Pofeng, but it was definitely not now.

"Round them up!" Huai Zong shouted in a bit of anger: "Shoot with arrows, smash with stones." In this case, he didn't have much hope of capturing Xia Yu alive, he just hoped that the battle would be resolved as soon as possible.

On both sides of the hillside, arrows rained down and stones rolled.

Xia Yu knew that the situation had changed as early as when he saw the reinforcements, he immediately ordered to shrink the formation, close to the cliff on one side, the shield was unanimous to the outside, blocking the rain of arrows shot from the hillside, he ordered the soldiers to take turns to rush forward from behind, once they rushed to the front, they squeezed from the inside to the outer layer, becoming the front end of the new shield array, and the last warriors walked forward in turn, and the whole team was like a tumbling worm, squirming forward, although slowly, but very resolutely.

In the face of the well-defended Han army, although the impetuous Xianbei people are very heroic, but the effect is very poor, the war knife in their hands can not cut the shield of the Han army, even if the shield is cut, it is difficult to cut the iron armor on the Han army, on the contrary, the ring head knife in the hands of the Han army can easily cut through the leather armor on their bodies, tear their flesh and tear their flesh, and take their lives.

The Xianbei people are born riders, and they spend more time on horseback than on foot, and they are used to replacing their legs with war horses, and they are very unaccustomed to dismounting and foot fighting, and their cooperation with each other cannot be compared with the Han army. The Han army echoed left and right, the front and back were united, both offensive and defended, the front with a sword and shield, the back with a halberd, spear and bow and crossbow, every Xianbei person seemed to have to face two or three Han attacks at the same time, but also beware of arrows that appeared from time to time, and at the same time to prevent being accidentally injured by the war knives wielded by his companions, for a while, he was in a hurry, it seemed that the attack was very violent, but in fact the progress was very poor, and the casualties were far greater than the capture.

Huai Zong's face became more and more gloomy, he looked at Lu Pofeng and the others who were attacking rapidly, and then looked at Xia Yu who was persistently attacking and advancing, turned over and dismounted, and decided to take the most elite guard battalion to tear apart Xia Yu's defense and solve the battle as soon as possible.

"Your legs ......, my lord" The guard quickly stopped him. Huai Zong was broken by Liu Xiu's legs, although he has basically recovered now, and he is walking without hindrance, but there is still a big gap compared with before, at this time, it is likely to cause old injuries, once the old injuries recur before the battle, who will command the battle?

"Get out of here!" Huai was anxious, and reached out to push the guard, who nailed his feet to the ground, gritting his teeth and refusing to let go. Huai Zong's eyes widened, and he was about to cut him when he drew his knife, and the guard general hurriedly said: "My lord, you can't use your legs hard now, and you can't even push me away, how can you go down to fight?" My lord, you should command here, and you will leave the matter of breaking the formation to me. ”

While slapping his chest loudly, he recruited twenty personal guards, Huai Zong spat out a rough breath, and nodded a little unwillingly: "Go quickly, kill Xia Yu, and I will reward you with twenty Han slaves." ”

"Yes!" The guards were overjoyed, turned around and rushed towards the battle formation that was in the middle of a fierce battle. They are the most elite warriors around Huai Zong, most of them have been instructed by Huai Zong, and their martial arts are comparable to ordinary warriors. Xia Yu didn't dare to slack off, and immediately sent his guards to squeeze them out, and the two sides did not give in to each other, killing each other, and flesh and blood flew sideways.

Seeing that the offensive had been frustrated, Huai Zong gritted his teeth and sent another twenty guards to try to tear through Xia Yu's defense in the shortest possible time.

Xia Yu also sent the last strength to resist desperately, not giving an inch.

The sound of horns and war drums in the valley was mixed together, the shouts and kills of the Wuhuan people, the Xianbei people and the Han people were all in one place, the sound of various weapons colliding was endless, and the screams came one after another, and it became a pot of porridge, and no one could see what the surrounding situation was, only knowing to fight in one direction.

The only thing that can really be seen clearly is Huai Zong, who is still standing on the hillside, after sending forty guards, there are only ten guards in iron armor left around him and looking around vigilantly, although they are all surrounded by their own people, whether it is Han people, Wuhuan people, or the nearest one is more than a dozen steps away, but they still dare not take it lightly. Huai Zong's martial arts skills are amazing, but his leg injury has not healed, and his current combat strength is only half of the usual at most, and the fifty guards who are usually responsible for protecting him are now only 20% left, and these guards can't help but deal with it carelessly.

What's more, most of the remaining ten guards are newcomers, the last time they were ambushed in Mingji Mountain, at least more than 20 guards were killed or captured, and the captured ones later fled back with Huai Zong, but the killed ones could no longer survive, and after Huai Zong returned to the grassland, he made up for fifty people.

Being able to become Huai Zong's personal guard, that is second only to the honor of becoming a personal guard of Tanshi Huai, is a symbol of warriors, but when they think of an invincible warrior like Huai Zong who was captured by life and broke their legs, these newcomers have more of a sense of mystery about the Han man named Liu Xiu, last time outside Ningcheng, although they didn't see it with their own eyes, they experienced the thrilling drama of the man's surprise attack in front of more than 2,000 Xianbei knights at close range, which made their fear of Liu Xiu even more to the point of hearing Xiu's color.

Now although Liu Xiu is a hundred steps away, he still makes them nervous, for fear that the god-like Han man will suddenly appear next to Huai Zong. They put up their shields, clenched the weapons in their hands, and carefully watched every suspicious person within the distance, but most of them didn't see Liu Xiu with their own eyes, and there were crowds in front of them, and they could barely see whether the Wuhuan people were Han people from their clothes and armor, but it was an impossible task to recognize which one was Liu Xiu, which made them even more nervous.

Huai Zong saw the nervousness of the guards, but he was helpless, to be honest, he was not at ease in his heart. Liu Xiu showed his almost ghostly methods several times, which really made people nervous. Huai Zong looked at the battle situation under the hillside anxiously, and on the other hand, he was careful for twelve points, especially the Wuhuan people who were killed from the east, for fear that Liu Xiu would suddenly emerge from inside. He instinctively let ten guards stand in three rows in front of him, five in the outermost, three in the middle, and two in the innermost, and he also drew his sword and was on guard.

Cracking Wind encountered the same problem, in the face of the Han army with three spears and fighting in formation, he was like a fierce leopard facing a small but thorny hedgehog who had no way to speak, the narrow mountain road made his strength advantage impossible to exert at all, the knights could not charge, and were forced to dismount and fight on foot, attacking and advancing, which was already short to attack the enemy's length, and the fight was very hot, and now he heard Huai Zong say that reinforcements came from the opposite side, his cold sweat immediately fell, and his black face became pale.

He and Huai Zong surrounded Xia Yu, Xia Yu also surrounded Huai Zong with the reinforcements who had just arrived, and killed Xia Yu, at most he could only pay for his life, but if Huai Zong died, he would definitely not be able to eat and walk around.

The Rifty Wind jumped to its feet in a hurry, but there was no other way but to order an intensified attack. When the Han army heard that the reinforcements had arrived, they kindled their hope again, and they were full of energy, more and more calm, and cooperated with each other seamlessly, killing the Xianbei people with heavy losses, and the corpses fell down one by one, blocking the path of the Xianbei people, while the Han army gradually retreated in an orderly manner, leading the situation step by step to their advantage.

The sound of trumpets and war drums echoed back and forth in the valley, and the sound of the trumpets became more and more urgent, but the sound of war drums became more and more intense. Xia Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and commanded his subordinates to use the few war horses to form a blocking formation, and did everything possible to cause trouble for the Xianbei people. The Xianbei people abandoned their strengths and used their weaknesses to fight with the Han army, which made him feel very ridiculous. At this moment, not only was he not worried, but he had a new hope.

Take down Huaizong!

Xia Yu called a few guards who were good at archery and told them to hide behind, ready to shoot Huai Zong at any time. Huai Zong was not far from them, on the hillside about twenty paces away, standing tall, seeing clearly, and within range, but unfortunately there were ten vigilant Xianbei people standing in front of him, and several cold arrows were blocked by them in time.

Xia Yu was not discouraged, and ordered to adjust the formation and press in the direction of Huai Zong, preparing to raid Huai Zong.

Huai Zong stood behind the guard, looking at Xia Yu who glanced at him from time to time not far away, and sneered, Xia Yu wanted to catch him, why didn't he want to catch Xia Yu? He ordered his subordinates to quietly relax Xia Yu's frontal defense, leading him deep alone, hoping to lure Xia Yu in front of him. But Xia Yu is not stupid, he maintains an overall attack formation, and he just refuses to blindly break through.

When the two chess meet opponents, no one can find anyone's flaws, and in the end, they can only be patient and decide the winner by strength.

The setting sun was like blood, and the valley gradually darkened, and twenty or thirty thousand people fought bloodily in the valley for several miles, never to the death.

The Han army showed superhuman combat effectiveness in foot combat, nearly 20,000 Xianbei people flanked more than 1,000 Han troops, but they were unable to make a breakthrough in deciding the surname, the Han army even used the terrain to rotate, and when the soldiers on the periphery fought about a meal, they retreated to the back to rest, drank water, ate dry food, and went up from the companions who had rested behind, and when they were almost rested, they went up to replace their companions, and the seriously injured were bandaged in the innermost circle, and the lightly injured were dealt with indiscriminately, and they fought again at any time, and the more they fought, the more brave they became. In the face of the cracking wind, the side is mainly defensive, and retreats at the right time, but the side facing Huaizong is attacking fiercely, pressing step by step.

In contrast, the combat power of the Xianbei and Wuhuan people is dwarfed, the split wind has not advanced for a long time, and the progress of the Wuhuan people is not satisfactory, but with the Han army attacking inside, Huaizong is under the greatest pressure and the greatest loss, the Han army and the Wuhuan people are getting closer and closer, and gradually they can hear each other's voices, and their morale is even higher.

Huai was so anxious, he began to regret a little, he despised Liu Xiu too much, and as a result, he put himself in a very disadvantageous situation, and now he can't implement it even if he has a thousand clever plans, except for hard fighting, he can't retreat if he wants to.

Once again, it is difficult to ride a tiger.

It's all Liu Xiu, Huai hates Liu Xiu to the core, if it weren't for Liu Xiu bringing the Wuhuan people, he might have eaten Xia Yu and ended the battle, and he wouldn't have fallen to this point at all. He looked up into the distance, where the three men were still standing in the twilight.

It's just that...... Something seems wrong.

A trace of doubt flashed in Huai Zong's heart, and then he was attracted by the battle situation in front of him. The Wuhuan people couldn't attack for a long time, and they were already a little impatient, and then the Wuhuan people behind suddenly shouted loudly, and then a looming undercurrent surged forward. It was too dark for Huai Zong to see who it was, but he heard the word "Hei Ling" from the shouts of the Wuhuan people.

The Black Feather Guards of the Upper Valley Wuhuan Lord Difficult Building were elite enough to be compared to Huai Zong's personal guards, and they joined the battle array. Huai Zong knew that Lou Lu had followed Liu Xiu into Ningcheng as a hostage, and there were twenty Black Feather Guards by his side, which was what Split Wind and Dou Gui had seen with their own eyes, and it was also what Feng Xue had told him personally.

Just, is this twenty people? Huai Zong looked at the Black Feather Guards who were killing in front of the battle, his suspicion rose, he looked closely, but he still couldn't see clearly, the sunset had already set on the mountain, the valley was getting darker and darker, and it was already difficult to see the faces of people ten steps away, not to mention that the faces of those Black Feather Guards were all covered under the face armor.

Resting in the back, the black feather guard with full physical strength immediately showed super combat effectiveness as soon as he arrived in front of the battle, and the attack speed of the Wuhuan people suddenly accelerated, and the black feather guard wearing iron armor was like an invulnerable iron man, rampage in front of the formation, killing the Xianbei people could not resist, and retreated step by step.

Several halberds that cooperated with each other caught Huai Zong's attention, and he suddenly realized that among these people were Han Chinese! He then thought that Liu Xiu might also be among them. He looked up at the hillside in the distance, and the three figures were still there, only more blurred, almost dissolving into the night.

Huai Zong was held by fear, he pulled out his knife, pointed at the Black Feather Guard, whose voice was already faintly recognizable, and hissed, "Shoot them with arrows!" ”

His voice was full of indescribable fear, Xianbei people were startled, subconsciously raised the bow and crossbow in his hand, and shot in that direction, without considering that the lethality of the bow and crossbow to his own people was far greater than the lethality of the enemy.

As soon as the pressure in front of Hei Lingwei was relaxed, he took advantage of the gap to enter and rushed to Huai Zong thirty steps in front of him.

(To be continued)