Chapter 33: The Valley of Canaan
Li Yunfei walked slowly through the camp that had just been ravaged by war.
People are silently collecting the corpses of their relatives and companions, and the humans of the last days have long been accustomed to death, and even crying no longer makes a sound.
People stopped what they were doing and silently watched Li Yunfei who walked by, and their sad eyes were still full of hope.
When Li Yunfei led the vanguard group to attack the Shun'an Commercial Bank to intercept the defensive line, another unit of the Commercial Bank came up from behind. Successively breaking through the resistance of the rearguard regiment and the escort regiment, they entered the large army, and only withdrew after encountering strong resistance from the population.
The attack killed and wounded more than 2,000 civilians who were with the main force.
Li Yunfei walked into the truck compartment with a heavy heart, and after entering the door, he bowed deeply to the leaders of the various forces waiting in the conference room, "It was because we didn't take care of everyone that we killed and injured so many people." ”
Several leaders who were close to Yun Fei hurriedly came over to help him, "Yun Fei, you don't have to take responsibility for it, I don't blame you for this." When we decided to go with you, we thought about this day. ”
"Yunfei, we have already discussed it just now, you can decide how to go next, all of our camps will follow you!" Li Yunpeng first expressed his support for his brother.
Yun Fei clenched his fists at everyone, "Since you still believe me, I will fight hard to break my bones and lead everyone to fight a way to live." ”
Li Yunfei stretched out his hand to unfold the map on the desktop, pointed to a point on the map and said: "We ran more than 350 kilometers in the past two days, and now in this position, there are still more than 500 kilometers away from the border of Phoenix City. But we are now in a situation where there are pursuers and interceptions in front of us, and Shun An Trading Company has made it clear that it wants to kill all of us. ”
"We now have two paths to choose from, and it is up to the leaders to decide which one to choose. According to the news brought by Lu Peng before, the regular strength of the merchant house to besiege us was only 10,000, which has been basically confirmed from the previous battle. The first way, we are now unable to deal with the front and rear attacks at the same time, but there is still a great hope of concentrating all our forces to break through the interception, and after rushing through, we will not stop until we enter the border of the Phoenix forces. ”
After Li Yunfei finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at the leaders of the various forces.
Li Yunfei's first path is actually only half of it. Concentrating all of your forces to rush forward would mean completely exposing your back to Thuan An's pursuers, who could only be left to slaughter ordinary people at will. Even after rushing over, before entering the forces of Phoenix City, they have to face the pursuit of Shun'an Commercial Bank all the way, and those who run slowly can't escape the fate of being killed.
To put it bluntly, this path is to abandon all ordinary people and ensure that the Evolvers and the armed personnel of various forces successfully break through.
All the leaders of the forces are shaking their heads, if there is a choice, no one wants to abandon their people to run away alone, and among those who are left behind are their own families and companions and the soldiers.
"Yunfei, you just say the second way. We'd rather die in battle than live alone. Li Yunpeng said with a frown.
Li Yunfei smiled lightly, he was very satisfied with the choices made by the leaders of various forces, these people still maintained their humanity in the last days of life and death, and it was not in vain that they desperately brought them out.
Yun Fei's finger slid lightly across the map, "35 kilometers away from here, this place is called Canaan Valley. I have followed the caravan here before, the space in the valley is huge, the terrain is steep, the biggest feature is that there is only one entrance here, and the width of the valley mouth is only more than 30 meters at the narrowest point, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If we concentrate all our forces and break off, it will only take more than half a day for the people to rush through, and we can hold on here and wait for reinforcements. ”
"Okay, this road is good. We have 40,000 people here who can hold guns, and as long as we hold the valley mouth, the other side will not try to rush in. Luo Yao rubbed his hands and said excitedly, and the faces of several other force leaders also showed excitement.
Yun Fei raised his head at everyone and smiled bitterly, "I want to remind you that although the enemy can't rush in, we can't rush out either." If we don't wait for Phoenix reinforcements before we run out of food, we'll all be trapped inside. ”
A smile that had just climbed onto everyone's faces instantly froze.
Everyone here has heard too many legends about Chi Hua, but no one has ever seen him, can he bring people to save his people? Will they fight for these unrelated people?
Although the first path was hugely damaged, fate was still in his own hands, and the second path was to hand over the fate of everyone to the Phoenix City Lord who had never met, or to heaven's will.
With the lives of nearly 50,000 people at stake, who can make such a decision lightly? Everyone's eyes looked at Li Yunfei.
Yun Fei smiled bitterly again, "If you want to leave the decision to me, I believe that City Lord Chi will bring someone to save us." I haven't met him either, but I believe that my master will not be wrong, and I am willing to gamble once for the sake of my master! Those who are willing to gamble with me can follow me on the second path, and I will not stop me if I don't want to go. ”
"Everyone in Golden Horn Village will follow you!" Li Yunpeng did not hesitate.
Yun Fei glanced at his brother with grateful eyes, and he had to say that he was a brother in battle, and his brother had been firmly supporting him along the way.
With Li Yunpeng taking the lead, all the leaders of the forces agreed to follow Yunfei on the second path. Individual leaders hesitated for a moment, but still made the same choice, if they broke away from the large army at this time under the siege of Shun An Merchant Bank, it would definitely be a dead end.
Immediately after the meeting, the whole camp moved, and the large army changed direction and went headlong north.
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An Jiayong sat casually on a stone around the bonfire, sipping a bowl of broth in his hand, thinking about things.
It seemed that he deliberately kept a distance from An Jiayong, and the other bonfires were some distance away from An Jiayong, and the officers and soldiers around the bonfire did not dare to speak loudly.
Over the years, some of the shady things of Shun'an Commercial Bank have been done by An Jiayong, and An Jiayong's personality has become more and more cold and ruthless, and even the people around him are cautious, and the slightest mistake will be severely punished.
"Newspaper. General, an hour ago the rebel forces suddenly diverted and fled north. A man in black suddenly appeared behind An Jiayong.
Shun'an Commercial Bank has a special intelligence reconnaissance unit, which is controlled by Ye Xijun in peacetime, and provides intelligence support for the commanders of various units in wartime.
"Huh?" An Jiayong sighed softly, "Take the map." ”
"Want to run into the mountains?" An Jiayong's eyes quickly fixed on the point of the Canaan Valley.
"Order, the whole army will chase and kill, and they must not be allowed to escape."
The calm barracks instantly became noisy, the soup pot on the bonfire was still boiling, and the battalion of soldiers had already rushed out of the barracks.
In the darkness, rustling footsteps rang out, and thousands of merchant soldiers pounced on the sheep in front of them like wolves looking for taste.
If you want to eat sheep, you have to be careful with the shepherd's shotgun.
The muzzle fire tore through the darkness of the night, and a series of gunfire rang out in the trenches and woods at the same time, and countless blood splashes from the flying bullets, and the pursuing merchant soldiers fell to the ground one after another.
The darkness concealed the number of ambushers, and the attacks seemed to be coming from all sides.
The unknown is the greatest fear, the pursuing soldiers lie on the ground and dare not move again, and some soldiers instinctively want to run back.
The heavy machine guns at the back of the comptoir's ranks began to roar, sweeping towards the soldiers who were trying to retreat, and towards the fires in the trenches and woods.
Flares rose into the air, illuminating the roadside, woods, and grass as bright as day, allowing the sparse figures hiding in them to exist.
It turned out that many guns were tied to trees, and a soldier was operating several guns at once.
The deceived merchant soldiers screamed and pounced to tear the ambushers apart.
A rumbling explosion rang out, throwing a body into the air, leaving the stumps all over the ground as it fell.
There was a burial in the ground*! The soldiers of the merchant house stopped their charge.
The flares fell, and the gunshots on the side of the road and in the forest rang out again in succession, as if mocking and provoking, blocking the pace of Shun'an Commercial Bank's pursuit.
At the rear of the team, An Jiayong, who saw all this in his eyes, gritted his teeth, "Machine gun supervision, all charge, I don't believe how many they can have*!" ”
The horn of the charge sounded, and the soldiers of the merchant house rushed forward, and at this time they could only pray for the favor of fate.
The explosions fell silent after a dozen or so sounds, but the ambushers did not flee, and the gunfire from the woods, roadsides, and grass intensified, and they had to shoot all the bullets in their guns.
The charging soldiers quickly overwhelmed the ambushers, and more than 300 people were killed, not a single one of them escaped.
Except for their relatives, perhaps no one knew their names, and they sniped the troops of the Shun An Trading Company for nearly forty minutes at the cost of all their deaths.
Forty minutes! It can make the camp people fleeing for their lives run for eight kilometers!
But that's just the beginning!
There are always huge pits on the road from time to time, and the gravel on the hillside always slips when the troops happen to pass by, and the soldiers who shoot cold guns and the evolutionaries who suddenly burst out accompany the pursuing team all the way, making the pursuing soldiers tremble all the way, and the speed of the pursuit slows down unconsciously.
Along the way, Li Yunfei also arranged wave after wave of snipers, set up one interception defense line after another, and even led the forward regiment with only 3,000 people left to fight a surprise counterattack by Shun'an Commercial Bank.
All of this was just to slow down the pursuit of the Shun An Trading Company as much as possible and leave enough time for the people in the camps to escape.
An Jiayong had red eyes and a machine gun to supervise the desperate pursuit of the soldiers of the trading house, but he was inevitably stopped again and again. He may have forgotten that it was Li Yunfei, who was still evaluated by him yesterday as "just like this, a brave man" who commanded all this.
The entangled pursuit and ambush continued all night, and when the light of day dawned, this painful entanglement finally ended.
What appeared in front of An Jiayong was three heavy trucks of the commercial bank side by side at the mouth of the valley, the three trucks blocked the mouth of the valley tightly, and the heavy carriage became a natural line of defense to cut off the passage.
"Rush in and kill me alone!" An Jiayong gave the order for an all-out attack.