These people were really born with divine power, and it didn't take much effort to shut a heavy city gate. Meng Hong was still afraid that the city gate would not be closed tightly enough, so when he raised his eyes and saw a few more stones on the side of the road, he hurriedly ran up a few steps and picked up one of them, and blocked the door. Seeing this, the rest of the people also hurriedly drew a gourd in the same way, and pressed the remaining seven or eight boulders at the door.

When the city gate was designed and built, it was afraid that the strong enemy outside the city would push the door in, so the city gate was always open to the outside. But I didn't expect that it was the people outside the city who didn't want to let the people in the city come out today - this pile of boulders blocked the door, so that the Lingnan soldiers in the city knocked on the door and pushed the door vigorously, but they couldn't move a little for a while.

Seeing this, Qiu Yizhi was quite proud, and suddenly saw a group of soldiers emerging from the stone city wall, hurriedly stretching their bows and arrows to aim at themselves.

Qiu Yizhi was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered everyone to get on the horse and chase after the team.

Everyone got the order, and they got on their horses and galloped forward, only Meng Hong was a foot soldier and had no mount, but his legs and feet were not slow, he hurried and hurried, and in just a few steps, he was not a few steps slower than a fast horse, and finally caught up with the team.

At this time, the news of the incident in Shicheng had spread, and the soldiers who were training, recuperating, and cultivating in the basin heard the order, and gathered one after another, rushing towards Zheng Miao and Qiu Yizhi from all directions.

Qiu Yizhi saw that the soldiers and horses of Lingnan Road around him were like turbulent waves, and the mountains were surging towards him like a tsunami, and his team of about 200 people was like a flat boat in the wind and waves, as if it was about to be swallowed up by the raging waves in the blink of an eye.

The situation is becoming more and more urgent, seeing that the mountain pass is still more than a thousand steps in front of him when he first enters, Qiu Yizhi shouted on the horse: "Don't relax, everyone, hold this breath, cross the mountain pass in front of you, and you will live most of your life!" ”

But Zheng Miao, who was also galloping on the horse, asked: "Brother Xian, these cars in the back are too cumbersome, why don't you throw them away?" ”

Qiu Yizhi turned around and looked at a few taels of heavy carts, and replied: "Things here are urgent, and they can't be easily abandoned unless they have to!" ”

Although Zheng Miao's status is high, he is not the one who commands the actions of the whole army at the moment, and Qiu Yizhi, who is responsible for this heavy responsibility, is a person he has always trusted very much, so he didn't say anything more, nodded, and continued to concentrate on running forward.

When Qiu Yizhi was running hard, he heard a shout from behind him: "It's not good, the cavalry is catching up!" ”

Qiu Yizhi heard the rough voice of the "black gold toad", and listened to his tone full of anxiety and panic, and hurriedly looked back - sure enough, he saw a group of cavalry, wearing the clothes of the Lingnan Army, chasing and killing on his side!

If it was only a cavalry confrontation, then with the sweaty horse under Qiu Yi's crotch and the Bohai horse ridden by Zhao Chengxiao and others, the variegated horses used by the Lingnan Provincial cavalry could be unreachable.

However, now it is a combined operation of infantry and cavalry, and the speed of infantry running cannot match the speed of cavalry.

Seeing that the cavalry of Lingnan Dao was about to catch up with his own township brave regiment, Qiu Yizhi was extremely anxious, and hurriedly ordered: "Zhao Chengxiao, you lead all the cavalry to stop the opponent's attack, and you can't let them catch up with us from behind!" ”

Zhao Chengxiao listened to the order, and looked back to see that the number of Lingnan Road cavalry was always more than 200 people, and the number was gradually increasing, knowing that there were less than 20 people under his command, and he could only retreat with one blow when he was facing the opposite large number of men and horses, otherwise he would be killing himself, thinking that he already had an idea in his heart, so he shouted loudly: "Brothers, follow me to test the blade and see what means the Lingnan cavalry has!" As he spoke, he reined in the horses.

As he was talking, he saw Wei Chi Jiming coming over and said, "Don't be so troublesome, look at me!" ”

As she spoke, she took out a handful of copper coins from her coat pocket, and without aiming, she threw them in front of the Lingnan cavalry in hot pursuit.

These cavalrymen were so bent on catching up with their opponents that they were not prepared for anything, and the damage dealt by the coin dart was not fatal, but it was enough to throw it off balance and slow it down. There are also a lot of copper coins that hit the sensitive parts of the horses' noses, eyes, and ears, and the pain made these war horses jump around on all fours, and keep making circles in the same place, but they refuse to continue to sprint forward.

After such a surprise attack, the Lingnan cavalry pursuit formation was suddenly chaotic, and the road was also blocked by frightened war horses.

Seeing this, Qiu Yizhi did not dare to hesitate at all, and hurriedly ordered his soldiers and horses to continue to flee to the mountain pass.

The Lingnan Provincial Army was also considered to be an elite soldier, and the chaos did not last long, so some officers reorganized the ranks, and sent people to move the dead people and dead horses blocking the road to the side of the road, and then set off again, and pounced in the direction of Zheng Miao and Qiu Yi.

At this time, Qiu Yizhi had taken advantage of the opponent's temporary confusion and led his army to break through the mountain pass and come outside the basin.

Zheng Miao saw that he had broken through from the dangerous situation, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Qiu Yizhi: "Brother Xian, thanks to your timely response and proper handling, we were able to slip out of the fingers of King Lingnan. ”

Qiu Yizhi said with a tense face: "Third brother, don't be too happy, Lingnan Dao is still the world of the king of Lingnan, we just escaped from a small net, but we came to a big net." ”

Zheng Miao nodded hurriedly and said, "Reasonable!" Then I'll wait for this to go north as soon as possible and leave Lingnan Road the same way! ”

Qiu Yizhi waved his hand: "The mountain road of Lingnan Road is tortuous and complicated, and we outsiders, no matter how fast we run, I am afraid it will be difficult to run out of the palm of the Lingnan King." The third brother should not panic, this matter is on me, to ensure that the third brother can return to Beijing safely. ”

After that, he sent an order, and even asked his soldiers to stop retreating, take off the giant shield and crossbow from a few taels of heavy carts, and line up in formation more than 30 steps outside the mountain pass.

The Lingnan army that pursued Zheng Miao and Qiu Yizhi saw such a situation, and they were all stunned in their hearts: "What's going on with this group of people on the other side, they worked hard to escape, and they actually stopped again." No matter how powerful these soldiers and horses are, the number of them is only more than two hundred, and they dare to face the elite of the Ten Thousand Lingnan Palaces head-on in their own main land, isn't this too much to look down on us? ”

Thinking of this, these arrogant soldiers of Lingnan Dao finally decided: These court officials and soldiers are just bluffing, they are many and strong, and they can trample their opponents into meatloaf even if they step on them.

So a leading general in the Lingnan army raised the sword in his hand: "Brothers, kill me, capture the three highnesses of the court alive, and the king of Lingnan will be rewarded!" With that, he rushed out first.

The soldiers and horses behind him were afraid that he would rob them of their first merits, and they were all eager to try and whip up, as if they were competing for ready-made wealth and fame, and galloped forward.

However, they were so dazed that they forgot that the opponent on the other side was also an elite division that had been in battle for a long time, and they were not frightened in the face of an attack like a huge wave like this, and calmly lined up their formation, stretched out their crossbows and arrows, and aimed slightly at their side, and fired countless short and sharp crossbow arrows.

The Lingnan cavalry galloping at the forefront knew that the situation was not good, and wanted to stop the horses, but the horses behind them pushed people and people drove the horses, so you couldn't stop at all; If you want to scatter and dodge, the mountain pass here is extremely narrow, and there is no place to hide; I wanted to get off the horse and hide, but the horse behind me rushed over like crazy, and if I wasn't killed by the crossbow arrow, I would inevitably be trampled to death by the war horse.

After a blink of an eye of hesitation, the crossbow bolts swooped down on them like flying locusts.

Although these village warrior regiments under Qiu Yizhi were recruited from Shanyin County, the capital of Yuezhou, Jiangnan Province, they inherited the old military system of Lao Youyan Dao, in which the method of crossbow was specially used to restrain the cavalry, and they did not fall behind at all when fighting with the Turkic light cavalry.

The Lingnan Provincial cavalry was far inferior to the Turkic elite cavalry, and they came in a hurry when they heard the news, most of them did not wear heavy armor and equipment thick shields, and under the blows of crossbow arrows that rained like raindrops, they were swept down thirty or forty people in an instant.

As a result, the already not very wide road to the mountain pass was blocked again, and the Lingnan soldiers and horses were afraid of the attack of crossbow arrows from the opposite side, so they did not dare to risk their lives to clear the path.

Seeing that the battle situation was under control by himself for a while, Qiu Yizhi hurriedly pointed to the last cart of the team and ordered: "Quick, quickly push this car to the mountain pass!" ”

Zhao Chengxiao looked in the direction of Qiu Yizhi's finger, had guessed his idea, and personally pulled the horses on the cart away, and beckoned a few strong people to push the cart to the middle of the mountain pass.

The soldiers of Lingnan Dao had never seen such a move by an opponent who fled for their lives, and they just felt that they could not let the opponent succeed, and even if they were a few bold, they would kill Zhao Chengxiao and the others when they dismounted.

Unexpectedly, another burst of crossbow bolts struck like a storm, shooting all these soldiers who came out rashly.

Zhao Chengxiao and others also took this opportunity to withdraw from the team.

Suddenly, I heard Qiu Yizhi shouting: "All the troops listen to the order: hurry forward, hurry forward!" He took a freshly lit torch in each of his left and right hands, and threw the torch into the cart, and whipped his horse's buttocks with all his might, and galloped out like an arrow.

After walking a few steps, I heard a loud explosion of a landslide behind me, and the people and horses who were desperately running forward were stunned by the shock wave from the explosion, and several people with slightly weak physiques couldn't breathe, and then fainted. Many more seemed to have been pushed from behind, unable to stand on their feet, and fell to the ground. Even the battle-hardened horses under the crotches of Qiu Yizhi's eighteen pro-soldiers were so frightened that their hooves kicked in the air, and they finally calmed down.

When everyone came back to their senses, they saw that the place where the sound of explosion came from behind them was shrouded in a burst of black smoke, and a gust of mountain wind blew through, blowing away the black smoke.

Among the more than 200 people brought by Qiu Yizhi, Zhao Chengxiao and eighteen personal soldiers had seen such a scene, and when they saw such a thrilling situation again today, they couldn't help but sigh secretly on the horse. And the newly recruited two hundred township warrior group training had never seen such an explosion, and they were all stunned, not knowing whether it was the heavenly god descending to earth or the demon god being born.

Zheng Miao drove to Qiu Yizhi's side and said, "No wonder Brother Xian must keep this big car by his side, it turns out that the car is loaded with explosives!" ”

Qiu Yizhi nodded and said, "What the third brother said is true." These explosives were originally intended to be used to take the life of the King of Lingnan, but I didn't expect them to be used in such a place......"

When Zheng Miao heard this, he thought to himself: If this explosive is really used to assassinate the King of Lingnan, then Zheng Gui, the King of Lingnan, will not be able to say that he will die without a place to be buried, even the bones and muscles on his body may not be able to find a piece by piece.

was sighing with emotion, but listened to Qiu Yizhi and said: "Now that the mountain road has been blocked by us, if the king of Lingnan wants to pursue us, he must bypass countless long and wrong paths, and it will take four or five days for the army to move, and by then we will already fly away." ”