Chapter 175: A Thousand Miles of Escape

Li Yong reached a new agreement with the women, and the days finally returned to calm, Li Yong no longer had to eat those messy supplements, and the small life was very comfortable, and in the southwest, Tuyuhun and Tubo battlefields, the two countries fought for more than a year, and they have not yet decided the winner, the more Tubo fought, the more they didn't want to fight, and Tuyuhun was more and more difficult to fight, mainly because Li Yong wanted them to continue fighting, so that he would have time to develop and grow, and when they were both defeated, he would go back and clean them up, Then now they don't want Li Yong to be comfortable, the news of the truce in the southwest soon spread back to Datang, and the soldiers at the border immediately began to be on guard when they heard the news, and they all complained in their hearts, why don't they continue to fight? As soon as you stop like this, we should be busy, the soldiers at the border pass are right, Tuyuhun and Tubo truce, then they are likely to invade the border of the Tang Dynasty again, the nomads who are used to plundering this are their nature, they have fought a war for more than a year, and the Tang Dynasty has cultivated for more than a year, so it is just fattened and slaughtered and eaten. Zheng Liwan gave Li Yong the emergency situation in the southwest, because it involved the army, Zheng Liwan was not interested and didn't want to touch it, so this matter still had to be solved by Li Yong, Li Yong rubbed his slightly swollen temples, he found that this matter was very strange, according to his expectations, this battle would have to be fought for at least a year, why suddenly stop it, it revealed the smell of this conspiracy, but now that things have happened, the most important thing for him now is to withdraw to the Longwei camp and the black army, He hurriedly asked the Intelligence Bureau to send a message to Xue Rengui and Li Tiezhu as quickly as possible.

"Liwan, let the peace messenger stare at Tubo and Tuyuhun to see what happened to them, I always feel that this matter is not simple, I suspect that other forces have infiltrated it, if so, we must find out."

Zheng Liwan also frowned slightly, she is such a smart person, she naturally knows what Li Yong means, in addition to helping Li Yong manage a large business empire, she is also in charge of the Intelligence Bureau, since Li Yong was assassinated, she has always paid attention to the news of the mysterious organization, but that organization is too mysterious, and every action does not leave any information, which makes the Intelligence Bureau hardly make any progress, even in the pirate sneak attack half a year ago, the Intelligence Bureau also found that Boss Lin of the Hell Devil Pirate Group is one of the members of the mysterious organization, It's a pity that he was sniped by the ghost special combat team, and the clues were broken, and he didn't search for useful information in his lair, so he could only say that this organization acted very cautiously and didn't let the other party have any chance at all, Li Yong vaguely felt that the southwest truce was related to them, but he just guessed, and he still needed to check it specifically. The intelligence bureau left Huating County with Li Yong's military order and conveyed it to Xishan and Tuyuhun.

"Lang Jun, you don't have to worry too much, I will ask the Intelligence Bureau to step up the investigation of this matter, I believe there will be a result soon."

Li Yong patted Zheng Liwan's somewhat cold little hand and said.

"Don't worry, look at how cold your hands are, the person who wants to kill me Li Yong hasn't been born yet, I really don't understand, why there are always villains."

Zheng Liwan didn't know what Li Yong meant by the villain, but she felt the heat of his concern from Li Yong's hot palm, she was really scared, because this organization has been investigated for more than two years, and there is no news at all, from what they did, intercepting the Songzhou military report, assassination, interception of smallpox vaccine, pirate sneak attack have their figures, and now they appear in the southwest again, this is a bad phenomenon, now Li Yong is her sky, if something happens to Li Yong, then her sky will fall, she leans on Li Yong's arms, At this moment, she wanted to insert herself into Li Yong's body, Li Yong held her soft and boneless body, Zheng Liwan's body exuded a faint body fragrance, which almost made him unable to hold it, and the two of them warmed up for a while.

"Lang Jun, I want Wu Cao and Wu Shun to retreat to Xishan or Laihuating, now the enemy is in the dark, and we are not in Chang'an, I don't worry."

Li Yong also thought about this problem, although there are guards to protect the two sisters, but there will always be times of negligence, and family is his weakness, so Zheng Liwan's suggestion, Li Yong also agreed, and he nodded.

"Okay, you can arrange this matter, if they don't want to come to Huating, let them go to Xishan."

"Well, I'll let someone arrange it now."

After speaking, he ran away from Li Yong's arms, Li Yong smelled the fragrance left by the beauty, and then recited the Great Compassion Mantra a hundred times before calming down. Li Yong's military order is closest to Xue Rengui also received it in seven days, he read Li Yong's military order and the information provided by the Intelligence Bureau, he was also shocked, as the commander of the army, he sensitively found the problems inside, if he did not withdraw the black army in time, it was very likely to be betrayed by Tuyuhun, and finally surrounded and suppressed by them, there were only a hundred black troops in Tuyuhun, no matter how powerful it was, it was impossible to resist the armies of the two countries, so he did not dare to hesitate, and found a ghost inside.

"Immediately rush to Tuyuhun and let them withdraw quickly, the sky is about to change over there, and let the armies of Xue Yantuo, the Western Regions, and Goguryeo also withdraw as quickly as possible."

"Yes."

The commander of the ghost special forces saluted Xue Rengui and left his office, the fastest communication that Xue Rengui can use now is the ghost, although the intelligence bureau can also do it, but Xue Rengui still chooses the ghost to do this, the ghost special combat team took Xue Rengui's withdrawal order and rushed to Tuyuhun, Xue Yantuo, the Western Regions, and Goguryeo, and the other side of the intelligence bureau sent the general order desperately to Tuyuhun, hoping to send the order to Li Tiezhu in the Longwei camp before the accident, and in the mercenary camp of the Longwei camp in Tuyuhun, Li Tiezhu also received the news of the truce between the two sides, he is no longer only the captain of the guard behind Li Yong's ass, after more than a year of training, he has become an excellent commander, Longwei Battalion has also changed from a recruit who regrets killing people and blames himself to a real soldier, Cheng Zhihe's three brothers and Qin Huairen, Fang Jun and Du He have also become team leaders, and the original gentleman is already an iron-blooded veteran of a hundred battles, especially Du He, who is white and pure Sven, now wipes it with a black knife when he has nothing to do, as if this is his baby.

"Lao Xi, you see that something is wrong."

Xi Junmai looked at Tuyuhun's map, and he also found that something was wrong recently, Tuyuhun and Tubo suddenly ceased fighting, and some unknown armies approached their camp, which was a dangerous signal.

"Well, I've found out too, and I suspect these wildlings want to attack us."

"Yes, this is also what I'm worried about, the Black Army and my Longwei Battalion together are only a few hundred people, plus the last battle, the rest of the troops has not been completed, if they attack us at this time, we will be in danger."

Xi Junmai and Li Tiezhu both smelled danger and couldn't help but worry.

"The boss has explained that when something is unavoidable, we will withdraw to Datang, and we must be ready to retreat."

Li Tiezhu nodded, although it was a violation of the regulations to retreat without a military order, but now that they did not make a decisive decision as the commander-in-chief, hundreds of people under them died in this vast grassland and desert, and while they were discussing the next decision, a scout in charge of reconnaissance brought news that they did not want to hear.

"We report that we have noticed that unidentified troops are constantly surrounding us in four directions of the camp."

Li Tiezhu and Xi Junmai hurriedly asked the scout to mark on the map, and after reading it, both of them frowned.

"It seems that the worst we thought had happened."

"Now that they have made a move on us, judging by their speed and movement, it will only take one day to complete the closure, and then we will face an encirclement of more than 100,000 troops."

"They really look up to us, they use 100,000 troops against our hundreds of people, it seems that we are going to break through tonight."

Xi Jun bought a salute to Li Tiezhu and left his tent, now there is no need to say anything, Li Tiezhu also asked the communication soldiers to gather the team, and then, the camp of the Longwei battalion and the black army began to assemble rapidly, although they were all tired, but the military order was already engraved in their bones, and the assembled team stood on the empty camp, Li Tiezhu looked at these young soldiers, and was in a very bad mood, because the next thing was that he took these young soldiers to flee thousands of miles, and the pressure on his shoulders was extremely huge.

"I know you are very tired now, but now the situation is urgent, the Tuyuhun and Tubo people have ceased fighting, and they are now united to deal with us, so we retreat immediately now, so you all cheer me up, I will definitely bring all of you back to Datang, believe me."

When the Longwei battalion heard that their employer, who had fought for the Tuyuhun people, was now going to unite with their former enemies against themselves, everyone was angry, but they were all veterans, and it was impossible to affect their judgment for a momentary anger, they only had to believe in their commander unconditionally, and the black army camp on the other side was also the same as the Longwei battalion, gathering and then reporting the situation, and then packing up things, some of the things that could not be taken away were all burned, and after more than an hour of cleaning, the black army and the Longwei camp converged in one place, Although the Longwei battalion knew that there were other mercenaries, they had never seen and fought together, and it was the first time they had seen this mysterious black army, their equipment was different from their own, but now was not the time to be curious about these things, Xi Junmai glanced at Li Tiezhu, Li Tiezhu just nodded slightly and did not speak, according to what they discussed, the two sides merged in one place, and Li Tiezhu was under the unified command of Li Tiezhu, after all, Li Tiezhu is a dual identity, and he is also an old man of the black army, so it is more appropriate for him to command.

"Let's go."

The army of four hundred people left quietly in the night, and when the Tuyuhun army and the Tubo army arrived at the quiet camp, the building was empty early, and Fu Yun and Lu Dongzan asked people to search the camp of the Longwei camp and the black army, hoping to find their weapons and equipment or something, because as long as these things are obtained from them, they will have the opportunity to imitate, and it is also the mystery that they said, as long as there are such weapons and the training of the Longwei camp and the black army, it will not be a dream to occupy Datang at that time, but now the people they want to arrest have run away, They could only search the camp first to see if they could find what they wanted, just as they searched around, a long lead was ignited, and the ghost special forces hiding in the dark looked at the greedy Tuyuhun soldiers and Tubo soldiers in the camp, showing a cruel smile, as the lead burned out, the powder keg buried in the camp exploded violently, and the bones of those soldiers who were close to the explosion were gone, and one by one the tents exploded, Fu Yun and Lu Dongzan were held by the soldiers around them and lay down when they exploded for the first time, Protect their safety with their bodies, those soldiers who were not protected were either directly killed or shocked to death by the shock wave generated by the explosion, and if they were lucky, they were stunned, the explosion lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour, and after the explosion stopped, Fu Yun and Lu Dongzan saw the corpses all over the ground and the soldiers with bloody faces, they were also made to ashes, and they shouted angrily.

"Everybody get on your horse, get those damn mercenaries, I'm going to skin them and hang them on the flagpole."

The Longwei battalion and the black army camp were all blown up by explosives, plus the explosion caused a fire, it was impossible for them to find anything valuable, even if they found it, they couldn't imitate it according to their technology, there was no gunpowder, the musket was a useless burning stick, the explosion and the sky-high fire made the Longwei battalion and the black army who had already left clearly from the night, Li Tiezhu glanced at it and said.

"This is our farewell for you in addition, I hope you like it, go, speed up."

The soldiers of the Longwei battalion and the black army can imagine what their camp is like now, Li Tiezhu They walked all night, and opened a certain distance from the pursuers, but he knew that this distance was not safe, because the Tuyuhun and Tubo people were cavalry, how could people run over the horse, so he had to think of another way, run like this, even if he ran to death, it was impossible to run away, the army of four hundred people hid in a valley, and after a night of rapid marching, everyone was tired. Li Tiezhu looked at Tuyuhun's map and thought about the marching route, and Xi Junmai handed him a pack of compressed biscuits.

"Eat something, you can't run without physical strength."

"These wild men are really like wild dogs, they are now two days away from us, we can't run away like this, we have to find another way."

Xi Junmai took a bite of the compressed biscuit and looked at the map, he completely agreed with Li Tiezhu's opinion.

"And what do you want to do?"

"How much ammunition do we have now?"

"It's not much, there is only one base of ammunition left, which is enough for a battle."

In order to retreat quickly, Xi Junmai threw away all the excess gunpowder and everything, and blew it up together with the explosives last night, Li Tiezhu understood his approach, because this approach was right.

"I want to fight them in an ambush here, this time you use up all your ammunition, and we will replace it with cavalry, so that we can have a chance to leave."

Li Tiezhu told Xi Junmai his combat ideas, that is, the way of playing, Xi Junmai is also a little embarrassed, he is not distressed about the musket ammunition in his hand, but he feels that this style of play is very risky, if it does not go well, then they will lose the cover of firearms, 100 people will kill them 400 people against 100,000 people, and they will be buried with a charge, but he has no other way now, just like Li Tiezhu said, how can he run past other people's four-legged horses, it is a matter of time before he is caught up, At that time, even if there is a firearm cover, they may not be able to withdraw safely, they only have so much ammunition, can they block it once, can they still block it a second time?

"I agree, you are now the commander, and I obey orders unconditionally."

Xi Junmai finally agreed to Li Tiezhu's battle plan, after a short rest between the Longwei battalion and the black army, they began to march towards the destination according to Li Tiezhu's order, Li Tiezhu led the army to move south, and then an unknown valley near Jishi Mountain was ambushed, Xi Junmai asked the black army to bury all the remaining explosives, and those soldiers of the black army were reluctant to bury the last explosives in their hands.

"What's the reluctance, my life is gone, what do you want these things for, after you go back, how many things will you need."

"Commander, really?"

"Well, this time give those bitches a taste of our Black Army's explosives gift pack."

The Longwei battalion and the black army were ambushed on both sides of the valley, Li Tiezhu checked the armor on each soldier, because he didn't know how many people would stay in this valley in this ambush, he seriously tightened the armor on their soldiers under him, and then he saw a familiar figure, Cheng Chuliang came to Tuyuhun this time by drawing lots, Li Tiezhu walked to him, Cheng Shiliang saw Li Tiezhu and immediately saluted him, Li Tiezhu returned the salute and said.

"Are you scared?"

Cheng Chuliang shook his head and said.

"Don't be afraid, since joining the Longwei Camp, you have long put life and death out of the way."

"That's good, but remember, don't give up until the last minute, you know?"

Cheng nodded brightly, Li Tiezhu patted him on the shoulder, and then helped him tighten the armor on his hand, and continued to check the other soldiers, after completing everything, Li Tiezhu sat alone in a corner, took out a silk scarf from his arms, embroidered with a pair of mandarin ducks, this is a promise token given to him by Pei Qing, they said that they would get married when they went back this time, Li Tiezhu looked in the direction of Chang'an, carefully stroked the silk scarf in his hand, and then put it back in his arms again, and began to wear his Xishan armor, When Li Tiezhu appeared in front of everyone with his whole body armed, their eyes were all looking at him, he didn't say anything, he wouldn't say anything impassioned, he just wanted to protect these people, when he pulled down the mask of his helmet, it meant that the battle was ready to begin, Fu Yun and Lu Dongzan's forward cavalry chased Li Tiezhu's army like the wind, and soon chased Li Tiezhu's ambush place, although they were afraid of being ambushed, but they had an army of 30,000 people, and it was cavalry, They are not afraid of Li Tiezhu's army of hundreds of people at all, even if they have any weapons that can breathe fire and kill, as well as invulnerable armor, they can't stand their large numbers, the speed of the cavalry is fast, even if they ambush them, it will not have any effect, a charge rushes over, you want to rush down and chase no chance, just when they walked into the valley, the scout in charge of reconnaissance in front searched the entire valley, and found no suspicious places, when they thought that Li Tiezhu was not here to ambush them, A loud bang sounded on the road they walked, and then the explosion overturned those cavalrymen and horses directly, this was just the beginning, one by one the explosives began to explode, and the cavalry who entered the valley immediately made a mess, followed by what Tugu Hun and Tubo shouted to retreat, but with the explosion of the valley that came in, if the whole was blocked by rocks, the cavalry who had not yet entered the valley could not go in to support, and the cavalry who were chaotic inside were at a loss.

"Fire~"

With Li Tiezhu giving the order to fire, the black army's musket fired at the cavalry below, and the Longwei battalion also saw the power of firearms, the sound of fried beans, the barrel of the gun emitted fire and white smoke, and the cavalry below was shot and fell directly, the Longwei battalion did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly shot arrows below, they were issued with a divine arm bow, and the cavalry in the valley fell from their horses one after another.

"Rush, rush out of the valley."

All the cavalry immediately rushed to the exit of the valley, but a group of black army and Longwei battalion blocked in front of them, muskets and bows and arrows constantly suppressed them, not allowing them to rush over, Tuyuhun and Tubo cavalry were completely surrounded, and they couldn't break through if they wanted to, plus the valley was not conducive to the deployment of cavalry, so they were completely suppressed, the black army's musket ammunition was almost gone, and the bow and arrow of the Longwei battalion were almost finished, which meant that the white-knuckle battle was over, the black army and the Longwei battalion threw away the musket and the divine arm bow, and then pulled out the long knife and horse lance at the waist, Rushing towards those chaotic cavalry, the long horse lance knocked down the riders who were riding on the horses, the sharp black knife easily cut off the enemy's weapons and armor, Li Tiezhu was like a killing god, holding the horse lance in one hand and the black knife in the other, stabbing one to death with one shot, and hacking to death a cavalry who wanted to sneak attack him with his backhand, the whole valley fell into a big melee, but the result appeared with the passage of time, the valley was full of corpses of Tuyuhun and Tubo cavalry, the wounded horses fell to the ground and wailed, and the cavalry who was blocked outside was in a hurry, Because they also heard the sound of fighting inside slowly stopped, Li Tiezhu and they were victorious, but they also paid a heavy price, almost all of the Longwei battalion were injured, more than 20 people were killed, more than 10 people were injured in the black army, all the firearms were scrapped, there was no time to grieve, Li Tiezhu asked everyone to clean up the battlefield, collect materials, and then take away the nameplates of the more than 20 soldiers who died, and their bodies could only stay in this nameless valley.

"Brothers, when I come back, I will definitely take you home."

Li Tiezhu put on his helmet and rode out of the valley with the rest of the soldiers on horseback, and began their thousand-mile escape, escaping home.