Sandwich valley, a total of thirteen miles long, of which there are five miles, is the original rebellion of the nine kings, Qingzhou Wang Yuanzhen ordered tens of thousands of strong men, a knife and an axe to dig up the mountain to open up. Among them, there are a total of ten pipe cards, which are dangerous. It was also because of these levels that Yuan Zhen was the last of the nine rebellious princes to be suppressed.

After the first king ascended the throne, he knew the importance of Qingzhou, so he simply abolished the ten pipe cards one by one, and widened the thirteen-mile long road in the sandwich valley again, so that it was no longer as easy to defend and difficult to attack as before, and also made it more convenient for the merchant convoy to come and go, and set the Yuhu City behind the sandwich valley as the capital of Qingzhou.

Since then, Yuhu City has gradually prospered, and the valley driven by the road has also become an endless stream of post roads for merchants and people from the former place where the military family must fight.

But all this can only be maintained in times of peace.

Now in the Jiadao Valley, there is no longer the grand occasion of ordinary people coming and going, because there are Northern Barbarian cavalry here from time to time, and as time goes by, there are more Northern Barbarian cavalry directly stationed in the Jiadao Valley, and every time there is an army of the Great Zhou to pass, it is inevitable to have a battle.

The night was like water, and at the mouth of the valley, nearly a hundred people appeared, and among these people, only about thirty people had mounts, and the rest were all on foot.

They were covered in dust and blood, and their fatigue was beginning to appear, apparently the result of a night of fighting.

On the first horse, Yan Xiuyu was dressed in silver chain armor and held a halberd, sitting fiercely. The war horse under his crotch was already exhausted and panting, it used to be an excellent war horse, but it was too old and overwhelmed.

But there is no way, the best horses are left in the camp for the prince to break through tomorrow, and they can barely separate these horses, which is already good.

The moonlight was like frost, and it fell coldly on the body of this team.

"The whole team rests for half an hour, and then enters the valley." Yan Xiuyu was the first to dismount, but he didn't rest, but took out beans and water from the side pocket next to the saddle and fed the horse.

He knew that it was best to enter the valley immediately, and take advantage of the fact that he had just led the team to come, and he might be able to capture and kill more Northern Barbarians and horses. However, their purpose is not here, their purpose is to lure out more northern barbarians in the valley.

Le Xuan was impressively in the ranks, he walked to Yan Xiuyu's side, and said, "Little Lord Yan, just now we have brought out thousands of northern barbarian soldiers, is there still one in this valley?" ”

"If I'm not mistaken, there are at least two thousand Northern Barbarian cavalry in the valley." Yan Xiuyu's eyes moved slightly, and he looked at the valley: "Before leaving, I heard a horn sound, in the past six months, we have been fighting with the Northern Barbarians for a long time, and the different tribes of the Northern Barbarians have used different horn sounds to communicate, and this horn sound is continuous, according to this, there are at least six thousand barbarian soldiers in the valley, but the ones who have just gone out are obviously much less." ”

After Yan Xiuyu set out on the expedition, he fought with the Northern Barbarians for nearly three months, and he knew much more about the Northern Barbarian soldiers than Le Xuan.

Le Xuan didn't doubt him, but his brows furrowed slightly, and he patted Yan Xiuyu's shoulder heavily: "For Qingge, you must take care." ”

Yan Xiuyu showed his white teeth, laughed, and put his hands on Le Xuan's shoulders: "Naturally! Brother Xuan, you also have to take care. ”

At this moment, none of them mentioned the upcoming dangerous battle.

After the rest, everyone set off together.

Because there were cavalry, and there were infantry, they did not march fast.

Finally, when they arrived at the place where they had encountered the brutes, they saw the messy marks left by the horses' hooves on the ground, as if no one else had come again since they left.

More than one soldier let out a sigh of relief.

According to Yan Xiuyu's previous estimate, there are still two thousand barbarians in the valley, and there are only a hundred of them, and it is in such a middle road to lure away these barbarian soldiers, it is simply nine deaths and one life can only be done.

Suddenly, Yan Xiuyu's ear was slightly on one side, and he said, "Quick, go back." ”

Hundreds of people were alerted.

On the mountain wall high above their heads, there was a crack, and a gravel fell.

"Back off, back down!" Yan Xiuyu shouted unabashedly.

At this moment, a horn sounded, and everyone's hearts were raised—there were indeed brute soldiers, and there were quite a few.

Not far away, at a side crack in the mountain road, either wearing leather armor or simply fighting shirtless brute soldiers, poured out like a tide.

The hand-to-hand battle is only a matter of a moment. In a flash of light, it became a situation of escape and chase.

Less than three miles away, when Yan Xiuyu looked back, he found that the speed of those brute soldiers was getting slower and slower, and he even turned back. He shouted in his heart.

These barbarians are not brainless, and it seems that eighty percent of them have also seen the purpose of their troops.

It's just that in this way, Yan Xiuyu is even more excited-these brute soldiers will do this, it must be because they are already the last soldiers left behind in the valley.

"Rush, kill me!" Yan Xiuyu turned the horse's body, turned the horse's head, and led hundreds of people to kill the barbarians who were slowly retreating.

Most of these barbarians were walkers, and they didn't have any intention of standing, so they couldn't take precautions, and these soldiers led by Yan Xiuyu were like red-hot sharp knives piercing into cream, chopping vegetables and melons and quickly harvesting the lives of four or five hundred barbarians.

The narrow mountain road has become a harvest ground for life, splashing fresh blood flying, dyed silver by the moonlight, Yan Xiuyu is in front of him, with Le Xuan and a personal soldier on his side, just the three of them, there are hundreds of souls under the weapon.

When the remaining brute soldiers reacted and quickly organized a counterattack, Yan Xiuyu waved the halberd in his hand and said loudly: "Go!" ”

The hundreds of soldiers who came with him did not dare to fight, and quickly ran out.

Because of killing more than 500 barbarian soldiers, Yan Xiuyu's team has successfully aroused the hatred of the barbarians in the valley.

They poured out of the nest, no longer retaining as before, and even used hundreds of cavalry.

Yan Xiuyu and the others only had thirty horsemen, and they had to worry about the lives of the remaining fifty or so soldiers - in the valley, dozens of people were too dead and wounded to catch up.

Seeing that there was still a mile away from the valley, Yan Xiuyu said loudly: "Cavalry, form an iron chain array!" ”

I saw dozens of horsemen take out iron chains from the blankets on their horses and skillfully throw them at their companions. After Ding Ling's loud bang, Yan Xiuyu's thirty horses were connected together by iron chains to form a square iron chain array, holding all the horses in it, and at the same time guarding the infantry comrades in front of them.

The warrior on horseback also relied on his superb horsemanship to switch positions on the horse's back and sit with his back to the horse's head. The horses continued to move forward, and they faced the enemy behind them. There were not so many soldiers with such superb riding skills in Yan Xiuyu's army, but the arrival of the students of the White Deer Academy this time added new blood to their army, and more than half of the cavalry this time were students of the White Deer Academy.

The five horses closest to the enemy, the two on the second and fourth horses, each holding two shields, helped their comrades to form a shield with themselves. On the first, third, and fifth horses, Yan Xiuyu and the other two warriors with long weapons.

Needless to say, Yan Xiuyu's halberd, the red tasseled spears of the remaining two people were shining with silver light, and they were like poisonous snakes, as long as there were enemies close to them, they would inevitably be picked off.

On the horses behind them, all men drew their strong bows, and arrows rained down on the enemy who were following them. The brutes who kept coming were shot off their horses and screamed loudly.

This valley is a typical retreat that is easier than defending, and attacking is more difficult than defending.

The Northern Barbarians who had occupied them for a long time tasted the power of this road for the first time.

The valley exit was in sight, and the moonlight was like an open silver door, beckoning everyone. Yan Xiuyu laughed.

Taniguchi has other arrangements, as long as they go out, this mission is almost complete.

The enemy also knew that the Great Zhou army was cunning, and if they were allowed to go out, with the help of the mountainous terrain of Qingzhou, and then disperse, they were afraid that they would really be chased and lost.

Not long after, there was a loud shout of annoyance from the enemy army.

I saw a brave cavalryman slam his horse's belly and rush out.

The cavalryman was in his early twenties, with thick hair and beard, and was braided into pigtails with beads of various colors. His eyes are blue blue, which is not very common among the Northern Barbarians, and his upper body is completely **, only on the back of his chest and arms, and even on his face, with all kinds of weird tattoos.

He spat out a long series of barbarian words, drew out a snowy broadsword, sped up the speed of his horse, and left the large army of barbarians in a few clicks, slashing towards Yan Xiuyu, who was holding the halberd in his hand, and the most conspicuous Yan Xiuyu was on the head.

The Northern Barbarian soldiers behind them suddenly erupted into a neat call like a mountain, obviously cheering for the Northern Barbarian cavalry.

Yan Xiuyu and their horses did not stop, the infantry at the front had already left the valley, and if they held on for a little longer, everyone could go out.

If they had followed the previous plan, they would have to remove the chain of horses by now, or they themselves would have fallen into the trap of the valley mouth.

"Dang!" A loud crisp sound of weapons coming together rang out in the valley.

Yan Xiuyu's strength was already not small, but when the halberd and the person's big knife touched, not only did he not pick up the big knife in the person's hand as he imagined, but his arm was numb, and he almost took the long halberd out of his hand.

This man has a lot of strength!

The young cavalryman smiled at the sky and spat out a contemptuous barbarian sentence at Yan Xiuyu, although no one could understand the meaning of his words, but everyone could hear the insult.

Yan Xiuyu knew in his heart that it would be too late if he didn't withdraw the horse formation, and there was no one in their formation who was the opponent of this young cavalryman.

Rather than being caught up by him and killed one by one, it is better to make a decision early.

Yan Xiuyu grabbed the shield in the hand of one person next to him, stood up on the horse, and shouted: "Withdraw the horse formation, act according to the original plan!" Then he jumped and fell to the ground.

The Great Zhou team behind him, the infantry had all left the valley, and the horse formation was also taking the first step out of the valley.

"General!"

"Little Lord Yan!"

A painful call sounded from the throats of many people.

"Withdraw the horses!" Yan Xiu Yu didn't look back, and said loudly!

"Yes! Withdraw the horses! The rest of the soldiers were only choked up and unwilling in their hearts, and they replied in unison, responding to Yan Xiuyu's last command.

This is war.

The chains that bound the horses were quickly removed, and the horses were controlled by the skilled knights, who parted and headed out.

And Yan Xiuyu stood alone at the mouth of the valley, holding a halberd in his hand, facing thousands of troops.

The moonlight fell on his back, making his silver chain armor sparkle and cast a long, long back, but it did not illuminate his blood-like face......

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(Tianjin)