Under the setting sun, a large number of steppe cavalry outside the Great Wall had pressed in.

Looking into the distance from the Great Wall, I saw a dense cavalry company on the grassland in the distance forming a black line with no end in sight.

As the cavalry approached, the original black line began to slowly turn into a piece, giving people a great sense of oppression.

The recruits on the city wall couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and a nervous feeling involuntarily rose in their hearts.

Although they knew that they were still far from the Great Wall, and that they would not be able to capture the Great Wall so easily, they were still very worried in their hearts.

On the Great Wall, General Long looked at the approaching steppe cavalry with a serious face.

"It seems that the plan of my Northern Division and the military department has succeeded, and the grassland barbarians have finally sent troops."

Father-in-law Zhou looked proud.

The grassland tribe was slow to send troops, which made the Beisi and the military department very worried, and they would send troops immediately if they didn't collect the horses tonight, which also made Zhou Gonggong's heart that had been hanging finally let go.

"Although I have successfully forced the grassland tribes to fight, I have pity on my cavalry who will not return for a thousand nights!"

General Long looked north with tears in his eyes, although he had long known that he would not be able to return if he did not return at night, but in the end, he still hoped that some of them would not return at night.

But the cavalry of the steppe tribe had already arrived in the city, and he did not see the shadow of no return.

"One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, how can there be an undead war since ancient times, and now it can force the grassland tribe to send troops, and this thousand nights of not returning can be regarded as a well-deserved death."

Father-in-law Zhou's words made the old general Long beside him look pale, and he squinted at Father-in-law Zhou.

"I'm in a gaffe! I hope the old general will forgive his sins! ”

When Gonggong Zhou saw General Long's eyes that implied murderous intent, he immediately bowed down and recognized it.

"Long Shuai, at this time, we should let the people in the earthen fort outside the city prepare."

Deputy General Song Shilong felt that the atmosphere was not quite right, and immediately stepped forward to divert the topic.

Old General Long glared at Gonggong Zhou for a while before turning back to Song Shilong and saying.

"Let them withdraw to the city as soon as they have the thistles and triphorses ready."

After Song Shilong received the order, he immediately commanded the heralds at the head of the city, waved the order flag, and told the soldiers below.

Then the people in the various earthen bunkers began to move.

They took out all the thistles stored in the earthen fort and put them into wooden barrels on both sides of the horses.

Then they mounted their horses and began to scatter the thistles onto the grass with great speed.

Soon the ground around his earthen fort was sprinkled with thistles.

They seem to be scattering very casually, but in fact, they all arrange these thistles according to certain requirements.

When the thistles were scattered, a group of people in the fort were the first to retreat, because the next tripping rope did not require too many people to set up.

In this earthen fort where Song Yu was, only Song Yu was left alone to prepare to arrange the tripping horses.

"Song Tou, I'm a young man with a lot of strength, I'll stay and help you arrange the tripping rope together."

Li Li saw that everyone in the earth fort was ready to retreat, but he proposed to Song Yu that he wanted to stay and help.

"Are you crazy? Will you lay out this tripline? Don't come with me and go back to the city. ”

Before Song Yu could speak, Li Cheng immediately gave the back of his head.

After all, Li Li and Li Chengnai are from their own family, and when they came out to defend the border, the elders in the village had told him to take good care of Li Li, and if he had an accident, it would be difficult for him to explain to the people in the village when he went back.

"Uncle, I'm not crazy, this is the time for us to serve the country, you go back to the city first, I will help Song Tou here quickly get a trip and go back."

Li Li said immediately.

"Don't give me nonsense, both of you give Lao Tzu a quick back to the city."

Song Yu, who had always been very gentle, roared at the two of them at this time.

When is this, these two guys are still here nonsense, the steppe cavalry is only a dozen miles away from here, if they add full horsepower, a charge will be able to kill in less than half an hour.

As he spoke, he pushed away Li Li, who was in front of him, and then tied a long chain to an iron ring wedged on the ground.

Beneath this ring are huge stones weighing thousands of pounds, all of which were transported from within the Great Wall.

Each bunker has one such ring on its edge.

After Song Yu had tied this end of the chain, he tied the other section of the chain to his horse, then turned over and ran towards another bunker.

He was to attach another section of the chain to the ring of another earthen fort.

As the horses ran, there was a clattering sound from the chains, and the chains that had been coiled together began to pull until they straightened.

At this point, the chain was only about an arm's height above the ground, just enough to trip over the horse's calf.

"Li Li, let's go quickly, don't be stupid here, if we can't reach the city gate on time after a while, we can only wait for death if we are locked out of the city gate."

Li Cheng pulled Li Li and began to run in the direction of the Great Wall.

Before they had gone far, the vanguard of the steppe cavalry in the distance saw someone coming out of the earthen bunker and immediately began to accelerate their charge.

"Speed up from the past and kill all these damn ground rats."

The steppe cavalry at the forefront brandished their long knives and roared.

Every year they fought in the grassy valley, and many of the sturdy horses and brave soldiers were wounded by the damned thistles and tripping horses.

And it's extremely hard to get rid of.

At one point, they also thought about getting rid of these thistles and tripwires before retreating after the war.

But before they could actually do it, they gave up completely.

When they were about to pull out the hoops and remove the triphorses, they found that the rings were buried in the ground and could not be pulled out anyway.

The unbelieving steppe cavalry dug directly into the earth, wanting to see what kind of magic the Great Yu Dynasty had cast under this ring.

But after they dug for a long time, they found a huge stone underneath.

This made the people of the grassland tribe completely dumbfounded, so they could only let the soldiers cut the chains to vent their anger

And those scattered thistles also gave the people of the steppe tribe a headache.

Although this thing is easier to deal with than the tripping horse, but the number of this thing is too much, and the soldiers of the grassland tribe are completely defeated after two hours of picking it up.

Eventually, they had to give up the idea of getting rid of these thistles.

Looking at the grassland cavalry that was rapidly approaching this side, Li Li's heart was extremely anxious.

At this time, Song Yu was still pulling the chain of another bunker to his side, but he didn't know what was going on, he suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, and then he lost consciousness and fell off the horse.

Seeing this scene, Li Li immediately pulled out his legs and rushed in the direction of Song Yu, no matter how Li Cheng shouted behind him, he didn't hesitate at all.

In desperation, Li Cheng had no choice but to run towards the Great Wall alone.

It is said that Wangshan runs a dead horse, and at this moment Li Li seems to be very close to Song Yu, but when he really ran up, he found that the distance was much farther than he thought.

However, this did not affect Li Li at all, and I saw him running quickly with his legs.

Soon he came to Song Yu's side, and he squatted down to briefly check Song Yu.

At this moment, Song Yu's face turned pale, his eyes were closed, and his lips were still twitching.

Li Li immediately squatted down and helped Song Yu to sit up.

"Song Tou, what's wrong with you?"

Li Li hugged Song Yu's head and shouted anxiously.

It took a while for Song Yu to slowly wake up, but even if he had woken up, his improvement was still very poor.

"Why are you here?"

When Song Yu saw Li Li squatting beside him, he couldn't help but be surprised.

"Song Tou, I saw you planted from the back of the horse just now, and I was worried about what you had to do, so I ran over to take a look."

Song Yu was moved and worried when she heard his words.

At this time, Song Yu had already seen the speed of the cavalry vanguard in the distance getting faster and faster, and it seemed that they would soon arrive here.

Once Song Yu and Li Li can't leave here in time, then they will be the first to die in this battle against Grass Valley.

"Boy, run to the Great Wall, and I will ride back after I have secured this tripwire, and I can give you a ride, so that we should both be able to reach the city gate on time."

Song Yu stood up leisurely and wanted to turn over the horse, but tried several times in a row without success.

Song Yu held the body of the war horse, panting and trying to control his body.

This is Song Yu's old illness, and from time to time, he will be weak all over his body and even faint in severe cases.

It takes a long time to adjust each time.

"Song Tou, you walk slowly to the gate of the front city, and I'll help you get this stumbling horse rope right."

Without waiting for Song Yu to agree, Li Li immediately turned over and got on the horse, and then dragged the long tripwire in the direction of his earthen fort with a knock on the horse's belly.

Song Yu straightened his waist tiredly, watched Li Li ride towards the earthen fort and couldn't help but sigh: It's good to be young!

Then he walked in the direction of the Great Wall with heavy steps.

At this time, Song Yu felt as if a flame was burning in his lungs, and his body was as heavy as lead, and his head felt as if something was chirping all the time.

Still, he made his way to the south with all his might.

On Li Li's side, he rode a war horse and quickly came to the edge of the earthen fort, and before the war horse could stop, he turned over and jumped off the horse.

Then he immediately began to quickly untie the chains that were attached to the horse's back, and quickly fasten them to the ring.

By this time, the vanguard of the steppe cavalry had advanced very far from him, and he could even hear the shouts and hooves of the horses.

Li Li's heart also beat faster with the sound of the other party's horses' hooves.

After finishing the last stumbling rope, the opposing cavalry had already entered the perimeter of the thistles they had arranged.

Li Li didn't dare to stop at all, he immediately got on his horse and ran quickly towards the southern city gate.

At this time, he looked back nervously, and saw that the opposing cavalry had begun to bend their bows and arrows in his direction.

However, due to the distance between the two sides, his arrows were unable to land after flying for a while.

But Li Li didn't dare to stay at all, because the distance between the two sides was still shortening.

He was afraid that the next wave of arrows would kill him.

After confirming that this wave of arrow rain could not hurt him, he immediately began to look south and began to look for Song Yu's figure.

But he searched around, but still didn't find Song Yu's figure.

"It seems that Song Tou may have fainted again."

Li Li controlled Zhang's direction while carefully searching for Song Yu's voice.

But he still didn't see Song Yu's figure.

Li Li had no choice but to turn his horse's head and gallop towards the place where he and Song Yu had just separated.

And the vanguard of those steppe cavalry saw that this kid of the Dayu Dynasty didn't want to escape, and actually ran in the direction of the west, which was simply unbelievable.

So these steppe cavalry shot at Li Li again with arrows, but because Li Li's horse speed was too fast, all the arrows shot at him missed by neutralization.

After a short time, Li Li quickly came to the place where he and Song Yu were separated just now.

Then she turned her horse's head again and ran in that direction.

Before he had walked a few steps, he found Song Yu lying on his back on the grass.

At this time, Song Yu was in the same state as just now, he lost consciousness again and fainted on the grass.

Li Li immediately reined in the horse's reins and made the horse stop.

Then he jumped off the horse and carried Song Yu on the back of the horse.

Seeing the unconscious Song Yu lying on the horse's back like a dilapidated sack, Li Li couldn't help but worry that he would fall off the horse's back while the war horse was galloping.

So after he straightened Song Yu, he untied his belt and tied Song Yu to his back from behind.

In this way, Song Yu could be prevented from falling off his warhorse.

But this delayed Li Li a lot of time.

The vanguard army of the steppe tribe had already crossed the area of thistle terrestris at this time.

The hooves of many steppe cavalry horses were blurred by the flesh and blood of the thistle terrestris, and the cavalry on their backs also suffered from the cultivators.

Many of the cavalrymen fell from their horses and were also scarred by thistles on the ground.

But most of the cavalry still did not slow down, and they still rushed in the direction of the Great Wall.

The next tripping rope actually forced the steppe cavalry to slow down the speed of their horses.

And Li Li also took this opportunity to carry Song Yu on his back and rode a war horse to rush towards the city gate.

However, the steppe cavalry behind him didn't want Li Li to escape from here so smoothly.

So a burly man from the steppe tribe took off the bow and arrow that was on his body.

Then he pulled an arrow out of the quiver, and then he bent his bow and arrow, quickly filling the collinear and aiming at Li Li, who was still fleeing.

I heard a "whoosh", and the sharp arrow on the bowstring flew out.

And the strong man lowered his bow after shooting the arrow.

He didn't need to shoot another arrow, and the moment the feathered arrow struck, he knew he would be able to shoot it.

This is his self-confidence as a top scorer in the grasslands.