Due to the great loss in capturing Prison Horse Ridge, Hou Mo Chen Xiang did not rush to attack again, but chose to temporarily stop his troops in Prison Horse Ridge and repair the fort that had been damaged in the previous battle.

In this way, it not only consolidated the current results, but also allowed the soldiers to rest for a while, and waited for the breakthrough in the direction of the thousand-mile path to have an effect before cooperating with the attack, but his plan was destined to be disappointed.

Although the distance between the Bird Mouse Valley and the Thousand Miles Trail is not too far, the nearest place is only a few miles apart, but under the barrier of lofty mountains and dense mountain forests, it is difficult to communicate directly with each other, and can only be connected by detouring to the entrance and exit at the rear.

Although Hou Mo and Chen Xiang also arranged personnel along the way to deliver news, the communication efficiency was not high.

In the early afternoon, Hou Mo Chen Xiang was still supervising the soldiers to strengthen the fort defenses, but the Wei army on the south side of the prison horse mountain suddenly attacked. Although the offensive was not violent, it still made Hou Mo Chen Xiang vigilant.

It must be known that in the previous two days of fighting, the Wei army had been in a state of passive defense, fighting and retreating, but now it fought back, trying to recapture the lost mountain pass. This very different approach inevitably means that some unpredictable variables have occurred on the other side.

So Hou Mo Chen Xiang ordered the soldiers to guard the fortress of Prison Maling, and on the other hand, he asked people to go north to inquire about the situation of the people along the Qianli Trail.

The Wei army's attack was mainly through long-range weapons such as bows and arrows, while the Qi army's counterattack was more monotonous.

Because the men and horses who rushed to Heyang before took away too many reserves of bows and arrows, and Jinyang did not replenish them in a short period of time, so the bows and arrows carried by Hou Mo Chenxiang and his men were not much, and the combat methods of the soldiers were also greatly limited, so they could only stick to the camp, avoiding the stray arrows while preventing the enemy from climbing the wall.

Although the Wei army launched a counterattack, it was not in a hurry to enter the battle in hand-to-hand combat, and in the terrain of the Bird Mouse Valley, if the two sides did not engage in hand-to-hand combat, the actual battle damage that could be caused was very limited, and the battle process was also very boring and lackluster.

The Wei army's offensive was wave after wave, although the intensity was not high, but it was not continuous, not so much to launch a counterattack, but more like a drain on the patience and morale of the Qi army.

"Could it be that the Qiang thieves want to feint during the day and attack the camp at night?"

Seeing the enemy's offensive like this, Hou Mo Chen Xiang couldn't help but secretly think, and after a little muttering, he arranged for a team of reserve soldiers to prepare firewood and other night battle materials, so as not to be attacked by the enemy by surprise and recapture the fortress.

In the evening, the Wei army's offensive intensified, no longer just a long-range stray arrow attack, but had begun to invest heavily armored foot soldiers, several people in front and behind formed a battle team, and dozens of squads climbed along the mountain road to the prison horse ridge.

Hou Mo Chen looked at the sky and confirmed the suspicion that the enemy army was going to fight at night, so he ordered the reserve men and horses in the fortress to start preparing meals in advance, and after a full meal, they were ready to deal with the more and more fierce attacks of the enemy army in the future.

But at this moment, the soldiers he sent to the rear to listen to the news rushed into the camp, and said with a hasty face: "King Qiqi, the division and brigade of the Thousand Miles Path were ambushed by the enemy and were defeated and retreated. The enemy and the enemy are still chasing all the way, and they are about to rush out of the thousand-mile path and attack Jiexiu City......

"Is that so?"

After Hou Mo Chen Xiang heard this, his face suddenly changed abruptly, and even his thoughts were a little blocked for a while, and after a while, he was awakened by the noisy and violent sound of gold and iron in the direction of the fortress wall.

When he saw the Wei soldiers who were attacking fiercely, he realized where the enemy was going to launch a night battle, and it was clear that he knew that they were in a difficult situation and strengthened the offensive, just to create a dilemma for them. Originally, he was going to outflank him, but now he was used against him by the enemy.

"Hold on and repel this wave of enemy attacks!"

In the flash of light, many thoughts flashed through Hou Mo Chen Xiang's mind, although he knew that the future was critical, he understood that it was not appropriate to withdraw from this place at the moment. At present, the enemy army is counterattacking from a fierce counterattack, once they retreat here, the enemy army will definitely kill the tail of the army, and when the time comes, it will be difficult for the front and rear teams to be unified in this rugged mountain road, once the front and rear are out of order, they will inevitably collapse!

It is difficult to communicate with each other in Qianli Path and Sparrow Mouse Valley, and the enemy's intelligence transmission must also lack immediacy and serious lag, and the enemy may not know the specific movements of other troops here, so the best way at the moment is to stubbornly and resolutely thwart this round of enemy attack, so that they wonder if there is no other way? When the other side slows down the offensive in order to save morale, it is a good opportunity to withdraw troops and retreat.

So under the command of Hou Mo Chen Xiang, the Qi soldiers in the fortress did not have any other plans, but concentrated on fighting fiercely with the Wei soldiers who came up.

Gao Le, who was also supervising the battle from the south side of the prison horse mountain, saw that the enemy army in the fortress was still stubborn, and there was no sign of defeat, and the casualties of his own attacking soldiers were rising rapidly, so he couldn't help frowning.

He didn't think that the offensive of Herodun had been frustrated, but he guessed that the enemy's intelligence transmission had been delayed, so that the enemy generals here did not know that the rear road was being attacked, so he still fought according to it?

At this time, the sun had already sunk into the mountains to the west, and seeing that it was getting late, Gao Le also ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops. Unless the enemy army also has new reinforcements in a short period of time, it is only a matter of time before the current battle is recovered, and continuing to fight now will only increase casualties.

With the temporary withdrawal of the Wei army on the battlefield and the temporary end of the battle in Prison Maling, Hou Mo Chen Xiang still seemed to be quite calm, but in fact he was already very anxious.

When he received the news, it was already evening, and the enemy army attacking from the Thousand Miles Path must have entered the north of Taiyue Mountain at this time, and he did not know how much turmoil had been caused in the rear at this time, but he was hindered by the enemy's offensive in front of him and did not dare to move lightly.

After the battle was suspended at this moment, he no longer concealed it, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to hurry up and pack up and evacuate to the rear overnight. In order to prevent the enemy from pursuing too closely, he also left a part of his soldiers to ambush and block the enemy in dangerous places along the way.

Not to mention the fighting and psychological games of the soldiers on both sides of the warring in the Bird Mouse Valley, He Ruodun and his party marched all the way north along the enemy's defeat and escape path, and when they took a short break on the way, they also waited for the news of the increase in the rear roads, and then accelerated their advance after converging before and after.

There is no need to worry about getting lost, in addition to the Qi prisoners in the team as guides, there are also all kinds of traces left by the Qi soldiers who fled before. So He Ruodun and his entourage trekked dozens of miles of mountain roads in one go, and finally rushed out of the thousand-mile path in the evening when it was nearly dark.

Although they were tired by this time, they were very happy to see that their horizons were gradually broadening, and as far as the eye could see, there were flat fields and gentle mounds, and they were no longer the irritating mountains and rocks.

Outside the Qianli Path is a dock wall, the dock wall was originally owned by the soldiers of Nanshuo Prefecture, before the soldiers were sent south, only their families stayed. But probably because the defeated soldiers who had traveled a thousand miles before informed the enemy, the dock wall was now empty.

He Ruodun and his entourage rested here for a while, then put on their armor and mounted their horses, and after leaving the dock wall, they marched all the way north along the military road, and hundreds of horsemen went straight to Jiexiu City to kill. Along the way, there were also many people fleeing the chaos, mainly the families of the elderly and weak women and children and other military personnel in Nanshuo Prefecture.

These people also heard the news of the entry of the thief army, and for fear of being attacked and killed, they dragged their families and their belongings to Jiexiu City to escape the war, but they did not want to encounter the enemy army directly on the road, and there were people in the team who kept crying out in despair.

Although the Western Wei army has never been to women and children, the old and weak for the merit, but the families of these soldiers fled with more goods, and the road is also very coveted after seeing it, although the Wei army has strict military discipline, but not everyone is a moral pacesetter, seeing those Qi people scattered along the way, naturally some people are greedy.

However, He Ruodun knew the importance and had a clear goal, and not only turned a blind eye to the fleeing people, but also shouted to the troops behind him: "Take the city first, and don't fight along the way!"

When all the knights heard this, they all withdrew their gaze, concentrated on beating their horses and galloping, and finally arrived at the foot of Jiexiu Castle before dark.

At this time, the inside and outside of Jiexiu City were also chaotic, there were defenders in the city, but there were many military families in the surrounding fields who poured into the city for refuge, and the chariots and horses were all blocked inside and outside the city gate, and the defenders even if they wanted to close the city gate and strengthen the city defense, they were also obstructed.

When He Ruodun and his party rushed to the city, startling away the crowd outside the city, the open city gate appeared in front of them, although there were still generals and commanders shouting to gather armor soldiers to fight in the city, but many armor soldiers were either coerced by the masses, or abandoned weapons and fled, how could they still organize an effective interception and counterattack.

"The king of Great Wei entered here to beg for thieves, and the people of the city came out quickly, and those who stayed in the city died!"

After he led his troops to rush out of the city, he did not rush into the key points of the city, nor was he in a hurry to kill, but ordered the soldiers to gallop in front of the winding alleys in the city, and drove all the people in the city out of the city.

After galloping back and forth in the city for nearly an hour, and collecting some war horses and war supplies, the next thing was to start arson from all sides from the core area of the city.

When a group of soldiers gathered in the east of the city, the fire in Jiexiu City was also spreading rapidly. This city is located near Fenshui, and there is no fear of this harm, but at this time, the residents of the city have fled to the suburbs, even if there are still some strong gangsters and chaotic people still stay in the city, but it is mainly for the sake of looting storage materials, and there is no time to put out the fire.

"This trip has been fruitful, return to the Qianli Trail for a short rest, and return tomorrow morning!"

He Ruodun also knew the truth of accepting it when he saw it, waved his hand and greeted his subordinates, and then took the lead in the direction of the road. The group of disciples in the rear also rode their horses, and at the same time dragged the horses loaded with the harvest to the rear, all the way to the south.

The same was true of He Ruobi, who was in the ranks, leading two war horses behind him, carrying on the back of several elite armor and other fine ordnance selected from the arsenal of the enemy city.

Because there were too many loot, the war horse was about to drop items as soon as it ran, and he wanted to stop and pick it up, but his father and his party had no intention of stopping, for fear of falling behind, so he could only go all the way.

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