Chapter 39: The Battle of Hulukou

Entering the mountains, because the terrain is complicated, and it is at night, Li Jiyuan has a little trouble chasing after him.

Fortunately, the other party doesn't seem to be very familiar with the terrain here, going around left and right, but in general, he has not left Li Jiyuan's sight.

In this way, one team runs in front and one team chases behind, and those who escape can't get rid of the pursuers behind, and those who chase have never been able to catch up with the deserters in front, and they always go to the depths of the mountains at a similar distance.

After chasing for almost an hour, Li Jiyuan instinctively felt that there was fraud in this, he could feel that the other party was deliberately hanging himself, but he couldn't think of what plan the other party had, now there is obviously only this lone army that just ran out of the city, and the other party only has about fifty people, what can such a few people do? Ambush yourself? Don't be kidding, if they really dare to ambush themselves, then they will use their strength to tell them what it means to be smart but be mistaken by cleverness.

Guo Wei seemed to be very familiar with the road in the mountains, one to the east, the other to the west, obviously with the pursuers behind him in circles, even the Weizhou cavalry behind him was a little dizzy, they couldn't tell the direction of the mountain; At this time, they began to wonder why Lord Duwei, who had been in Weizhou for less than half a year, was so familiar with the situation in the mountains.

Li Jiyuan has long been unable to distinguish the direction, their cavalry's favorite is the gentle slope of the prairie and the unobstructed plain, this kind of mountains crisscrossed, ravines and ravines greatly limit the advantage of the cavalry, but also make him feel that the development of things seems to let him gradually lose control, this feeling of loss of control makes him feel depressed and panicked, he can only try his best to follow the enemy in front, and then go ahead may be able to meet the army that went out to find the Han people during the day, as long as an army appears, stop them, He was confident that he would keep this Han cavalry here.

Yin Shi is the darkest hour of the sky.

Guo Wei led people through a canyon, Li Jiyuan didn't think much about it, and followed in, because along the way, they had passed through several similar canyons, and the most important thing in this mountain was the canyon.

Soon after entering the canyon, Li Jiyuan found that this canyon was a little different from the canyon he had walked through before, this canyon seemed to be a little too long, although he walked for a short time, the canyon suddenly widened, but both sides were all cliffs, looking at such terrain, Li Jiyuan was a little frightened, if the other party set up an ambush on both sides of the canyon, Li Jiyuan did not dare to continue to think, he was now a little hesitant to withdraw from this canyon.

If he withdrew, he would lose the traces of the Han people in front of him, and there would be no way to explain to Tuoba Yewang at that time.

Just when Li Jiyuan hesitated, the darkest hour before dawn had passed, and the sky had become hazy, and by the hazy light, Li Jiyuan suddenly found that there was a steep and abnormal mountain standing not far in front of him, directly blocking the exit of the canyon.

It turned out to be a dead place.

Li Jiyuan was relieved, it turned out that it was not the other party who deliberately led him here, it was very likely that the other party strayed into such a dead place because he couldn't tell the direction because it was dark.

Li Jiyuan's speculation has his basis, his basis is himself, in such a complex mountain, even if he marches during the day, he Li Jiyuan can't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, let alone march at night, there are too many similar canyons, and it is normal to strayed into a dead place.

Seeing that the Weizhou cavalry in front of him stopped, Li Jiyuan smiled, there is a way in heaven that you don't go, and there is no way to go to hell; Since they had chosen such an excellent burial place for themselves, then he kindly gave them a ride and let them go to Lord Yama to reflect on the price of taking the wrong path.

"Rush!" Li Jiyuan drew the knife on his body and took the lead in the charge.

Guo Wei took a deep breath with a solemn expression, he didn't know if Dong Cheng and Wang Zhu successfully shook off the pursuers and ambushed them on both sides of the cliff on time.

Guo Wei raised the horizontal knife in his hand: "We have no way out, we can only fight to the death, rush with me!" Kill! ”

"Kill!" The fifty soldiers behind Guo Wei were already ready to die, and the shouts of killing at this time were particularly strong.

"Kill!" There were neat shouts and kills from both sides of the cliff, echoing the shouts and killings on Guo Wei's side just now.

Before the sound fell, figures suddenly appeared on the cliffs on both sides, stretching their bows and arrows, facing the canyon below.

Seeing the figures on both sides of the cliff, Guo Wei suddenly relaxed.

Because of the relationship between the canyons, these "kills" have an echo, and the voices of more than 100 people have the effect of tens of thousands of people under the effect of the echo, and the real canyon seems to be surrounded by the word "kill", and it has not dispersed for a long time.

The sudden ambush on both sides of the canyon made Li Jiyuan frightened, looking at the Weizhou army rushing not far away, he shouted without hesitation: "Withdraw!" ”

Li Jiyuan didn't understand at this time, the other party had used himself as bait to lure himself into this place of death, and the other party was completely ready to die, if he rushed over at this time, the fifty Han soldiers on the opposite side would be wiped out in the end.

But he chose to retreat, if he rushed over, even if he killed all the fifty Han troops on the opposite side, the other party fought back knowing that he would die, and he would suffer a lot of damage, and more importantly, the front was a dead place, and he had to withdraw from the canyon behind in the end, so that the ambushes on both sides of the canyon had more time and longer space to shoot themselves, and the hundred troops he brought were very likely to be wiped out, and fifty Han people for one hundred party members were obviously not cost-effective. So Li Jiyuan planned to rush out as quickly as possible and make plans again.

It's just that Li Jiyuan doesn't understand where the ambushes on both sides of the canyon come from, and there is only one explanation after thinking about it, that is, the men and horses who divided his troops twice during the pursuit, they threw off the pursuers they sent over, and instead ran here to ambush themselves.

"It's all rice buckets!" Li Jiyuan scolded in his heart.

At the same time, Li Jiyuan was horrified by the delicate cooperation and courage shown by these Han troops, which was extremely difficult for even their party army to achieve, let alone the Han army, which had always been cowardly and incompetent in their eyes, which made Li Jiyuan feel a kind of fear; If you make it back alive this time, be sure to bring this message to the commander.

The party army hurriedly reined in the reins of the horse, stopped the footsteps that had just rushed up, turned the horse's head, and the rear team changed to the front team, and passed towards the mouth of the canyon.

At this time, the party and the army inevitably had some chaos.

"Put!" Dong Cheng and Wang Zhu saw this God-given opportunity, how could they miss it.

It was because of Li Jiyuan's pause that the Weizhou cavalry had caught up, Guo Wei held a spear, stabbed left and right, and harvested the lives of the slightly chaotic party cavalry;

Seeing that Lord Du Lieutenant was so fierce, the morale of the cavalry behind him was also greatly increased, and it seemed that the strength of his body was a little more plain, and the knife in his hand slashed at the party members without dying.

There were imposing pursuers behind him, and sharp arrows were constantly being shot on both sides, Li Jiyuan could almost clearly hear the sound of people falling off their horses and screaming, at this time he had no intention of fighting, and just wanted to rush out quickly.

Finally, in the midst of running and fighting all the way, the front team has arrived at the mouth of the canyon, as long as they get out of the canyon, they can be regarded as escaping, Li Jiyuan saw hope; But at this moment, Li Jiyuan discovered something even more terrifying, only to see a large stone suddenly fall above the mouth of the canyon, and dozens of party sergeants who entered the mouth of the valley just now turned into meat mud in an instant, the mouth of the valley was relatively narrow, and the fall of these big stones blocked his hope of escaping.

Li Jiyuan looked around and found that less than half of the hundred centaurs he brought when he came were still on the horse at this time, which made his teeth crack, Li Jiyuan roared: "Kill me!" "Turn the horse's head and try to find Guo Wei desperately.

Li Jiyuan wanted to fight back at this time, but Guo Wei didn't want to fight with him, now Li Jiyuan is like a tiger trapped in a cage, at this time he launched a madness, the combat effectiveness is quite amazing, the Weizhou army is only one hundred and fifty people, everyone is very precious, Guo Wei does not want the Weizhou army to have some unnecessary losses.

So when Guo Wei saw the big stone falling from Taniguchi, he stopped the pursuit and retreated with the Weizhou army.

The scene just now appeared in the canyon again, but this time it was the other way around, Guo Wei ran in front, Li Jiyuan chased behind, and the rain of arrows on both sides chased Li Jiyuan's party army and shot continuously.

Guo Wei chose a very particular distance, it happened to be outside the range of the bow and arrow of the party army, he wanted to fight but couldn't reach the enemy, but there were people on his side who kept being hit by arrows and falling off their horses, looking at the Weizhou army running in front, Li Jiyuan's lungs were about to explode, he had never met such a shameless person.

However, there is still an end to the canyon, and Guo Wei and the others soon reached the bottom of the canyon again, and there was no road ahead.

Guo Wei turned his horse's head and looked at the party cavalry rushing madly in the distance, this time there was no room for trickery, only frontal fighting, either you die or I live.

"Kill!" Guo Wei straddled his horse and rushed over.

When Dong Cheng and Wang Zhu saw the two teams that were about to fight together, they stopped firing arrows to prevent accidental injuries; At this time, there were only about 20 people left in the party army next to Li Jiyuan who were still on horseback.

Both sides were red-eyed, and as soon as they looked at each other, they beckoned each other with their knives and guns in their hands, completely ignoring their own defense.

Guo Wei's gun is like a dragon, and the gun drinks blood.

The two sides only have one hedge, and it is extremely tragic; There are less than ten people left next to Li Jiyuansheng, and there are about forty people left behind Guo Wei.

Although it seems that the losses of the Dangxiang Army are greater this time, the original strength of the Weizhou Army is twice that of the Dangxiang Army, which is a very huge advantage; Moreover, the Dangxiang army has been threatened by bows and arrows from above in this canyon, and I don't know how much effort it took to survive, but the Weizhou army did not have such worries; There is also Guo Wei's big killer, you must know that among the dozen or so people who died in the party army this time, six or seven died in Guo Wei's hands alone, accounting for almost half.

If the two sides are under the same conditions, the Weizhou Army has no way to compete with the Party Army, this is not only a gap between weapons and equipment and the Party Army, but also the comprehensive quality of personnel is not the same level as the Party Army, Guo Wei sighed in his heart.