Three days ago,

"Announce!" the army of Monlin suddenly left the avenue and fled to the nearby hills!" said the herald, who was still about twenty paces away from Hobbes, jumped off his horse, and quickly ran to Hobbes and fell down on one knee.

"How are they holding up their current formation?" Hobbes asked, somewhat puzzled, as he heard Monlin's army change the direction of its retreat.

"They're not in formation at all now, they're in a rout, and their paths are full of weapons and armor they've discarded. ”

"Marshal, let's continue to chase Xiangxia, if we wait a little longer, they will run away!" Sean urged a little anxiously beside him.

These days, Sean has been leading his army to pursue Monlin's defeated army, and his face is full of exhaustion, but his spirit still seems to be high.

"What's the terrain up ahead?"

"In front of Huluyu Island, although it is marked on the map as hilly, the overall terrain is quite gentle. As long as we are careful, it is impossible to be ambushed by them. ”

"Edlaide has been sending people to remind us to pay attention to the other party's ambush, but don't really be fooled by him!" Hobbes said uneasily.

"That kid was influenced by my son Fred, and they were just a bunch of kids who talked on paper, and we couldn't even get a hair out of them if they were advised to fight!" Sean said with some disdain when he heard Hobbes mention Edlaide.

Hobbes hesitated, but could not resist the temptation to destroy Monlin's army, and continued to chase after Monlin's defeated army.

There is a huge difference between the actual topography of Huluyu Island and the map drawn by the Dongyu Empire, although the mountains on both sides of the road are not towering, they are definitely precipitous, and the two sides of the mountains are very steep, making it difficult to climb at all. Meng Lin's defeated army rushed directly into Huluyu and ran towards the bottom of the valley at high speed.

Sean was worried that he would lose the defeated army of Meng Lin, so he didn't even look at the surrounding environment, and chased them and followed Huluyu. Sean watched Meng Lin's army quickly pass through Huluyu, and he was about to speed up and close the distance, when suddenly a pile of boulders rolled down from the mountain beams on both sides, blocking Sean's way forward!

Before Sean could react, a basketball-sized rock rolled down like raindrops from both sides of the beam. Dongyu's army quickly fell into chaos, the soldiers could not find the generals, the generals could not find the soldiers, and everyone was busy dodging the rocks that kept falling.

"Withdraw, retreat!" Sean unleashed his fighting spirit, turned his horse's head under the protection of his fighting spirit, and prepared to command the army to escape from the bottom.

At this moment, a lightning bolt slashed hatefully on the shield formed by Sean's fighting spirit, and Sean didn't have time to react, and was directly shot down by this lightning. Due to the protection of the vindictive spirit, Sean himself was not harmed, but because he never managed to climb on horseback, the Dongyu army became even more chaotic.

When Hobbes arrived at the mouth of Huluyu, he was taken aback by the terrain here, he did not understand that there was such a big difference between the actual terrain and the map, and immediately stopped the group's advance, and prepared to send people to chase Sean in front.

But before Hobbes's heralds could set off, he heard the sound of the Monlin army, and immediately hundreds of thousands of Monlin troops appeared behind them, as if they suddenly appeared from the ground, and semi-surrounded the Dongyu army.

The current state of the Dongyu army is extremely embarrassing, half of it is inside Huluyu and half of it is outside Huluyu, in this case, Hobbes has no way to organize an effective counterattack, and the Menglin army is pressing the Dongyu army into Huluyu little by little.

When Hobbes saw such a scene, he had no choice but to enter Huluyu, hoping that Sean in front of him had opened the way, but not long after entering Huluyu, the two marshals met in embarrassment.

The two of them didn't need to say anything more, they both knew what was going on, they sighed at each other, and rushed to the bottom of the gourd together. The Monlin army was all at the mouth of the gourd, and they hoped to break through the barrier of the boulder in front of them and escape from this terrible place.

But when Hobbes and Sean arrived here, they found that during that time, Monlin's army not only piled up countless boulders at the bottom of the gourd, but also threw a large amount of dry wood contaminated with fire oil at the belly of the gourd, obviously ready to set fire.

Seeing Meng Lin arranged it like this, Hobbes and Sean looked up to the sky and sighed, pitiful of the hundreds of thousands of troops in their hands, I am afraid that they will be buried in the fire!

But at this moment, a voice suddenly came from the mountain beam on one side.

"General Hobbes, I'm Yule, can we have a few words?"

"Yule, it's you! We've all fallen for you! Hobbes said with a sigh.

"General Hobbes, I admire you as a person, and I would love to be your friend. As long as you are willing to lay down your arms and surrender, I will guarantee the safety of you and your soldiers!

"It's my dream to die on the battlefield and to be shrouded in horse-leather! I'm glad I'm one step closer to my dream!" Hobbes said blandly.

"General Hobbes, this is a matter of the lives of hundreds of thousands of troops in the Dongyu Empire, so you should not make such a hasty decision. Well, I'll give you three more days, and I hope you'll think it through. Jule turned and left, and the Monlin army did not attack again.

"What the hell are they trying to do?" asked Sean, somewhat confused.

"Yule is trying to use us as bait to lure our follow-up troops over!" Hobbes said with a sigh.

"So what do we do?"

"According to Edlaide, he should be in Hucaro in three days. Yule will definitely find a way to let Ed know that we are trapped here, the 30,000 people in Ed's hands are our Liliang, as long as Ed can't help but rush over to rescue us, the northern gate of our Dongyu Empire will be completely opened by Yule! Therefore, we must break through the defense line of Monlin's army within three days, prevent Ed from coming to rescue us, and let him quickly shrink the forces of each city to Wimbledon. As long as he can hold Wimbledon, our Dongyu Empire will still have a chance!It's just that Ed has too few troops in his hands, and the baggage and grain and grass may also slow down his marching speed, and I left him too few soldiers at that time!" Hobbes sighed again.

"Marshal, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers! Don't worry too much about it! I'll take the lead with someone first, and I will definitely find a way to let people rush out to report the news!" Sean arched his hand at Hobbes on his horse, and led his men to rush towards the mouth of the gourd.

Hobbes commanded his army to attack Monlin's army for three days, but no one was able to break through the defenses of Monlin's army. Meng Lin was only responsible for not letting anyone from Dongyu rush out, and did not take the initiative to attack.

"Marshal, wouldn't it be easier for us to let them out and tell the news that boy from Edlaide?" asked William, who was in charge of luring the enemy, respectfully beside Yule.

"Hobbs has discovered our intentions, and he is attacking so strongly to prevent Edlaide from coming to the rescue. We must not let anyone escape from Huluyu!"

"Marshal, will Edlaide come to the rescue?"

"I don't know much about this kid, and I can't guess what he's going to do! But there's news from our inside that Edlaide has stopped Hobbs and Sean from pursuing him many times, and on that basis, he shouldn't be very easy to deal with. That's why I only gave Hobbes three days. ”

"More information, Edlaide will be in Hucaro City in three days. At that time, he only had two choices: one was to immediately lead a large army to rescue Hobbs, which was also what we were most happy to see, and we could completely wipe out all the reinforcements of the Dongyu Empire this time and completely open the northern gate of the Dongyu Empire! The other option was to immediately retreat, gather the troops along the way and return to Wimbledon City for defense. Once he makes that choice, our future battles will be extremely difficult! We need to eliminate Hobbes' team at once, and then chase after Edlaide. At least Edlaide can't bring the baggage and food back to Wimbledon, so that our future battles can be easier. Yule turned his gaze away from Huluyu to Hucaro City.

Seeing the performance of Monlin's army, Hobbes became even more anxious, and he prepared to launch multiple waves of desperate attacks on Monlin's army after this break. But at this moment, Yule's voice appeared again.

"General Hobbes, what do you think of it for three days?

Hearing Yule's words, Hobbes was slightly stunned, and then turned to the Yale chief of staff beside him and asked:

"Did Yule persuade him to surrender at this time three days ago?"

"It seems like there's still more than an hour left!" Yale saw that Hobbes's expression was a little nervous, and hurriedly determined the time carefully.

"Haha!" Hobbes exclaimed.

Yale didn't expect Hobbes to have this look on his face after he answered Hobbes' question.

"Marshal, marshal, are you alright?" Yale asked as he hurriedly pulled Hobbes. He was worried that Hobbes was in a hurry and that something was wrong with his body.

"I'm fine! I'm fine! Our Dongyu Empire is fine!" Hobbes said deliberately loudly.

"I haven't seen anyone who is so happy to be abandoned by his comrades!Hobbs, Edlaide has completely abandoned you and chose to flee!" Yule deliberately hit the morale of Dongyu's soldiers, and then without waiting for Hobbes to say anything, he directly gave the order to attack.

Countless rockets shot from the mountain beam to the bottom of the valley, and Huluyu Island soon turned into a sea of fire, and the sound of sorrow and wailing under the mountain was endless!

Yule turned to look at William:

"Immediately you lead five thousand cavalry after Edlaide. Remember, your task is not to destroy him, but to stick to him firmly and not to attack his baggage and forage. In any case, as long as you don't let him return to Wimbledon without any problems, it will be a great achievement!"

"Yes! Marshal!" William turned to mobilize troops to chase after Li Zijun, but his eyes inadvertently showed a little disdain.

Yule looked at William's back for a long time and didn't look away, William has been playing the role of luring the enemy during this time, although he has fought so many defeats in order to lure Dongyu's army to Huluyu, but this also makes William feel very depressed! Yule knows very well that William will never simply carry out his task, but he is actually happy to William to do this, so that no matter whether he succeeds or fails in the future, he can put the responsibility of letting Li Zijun escape on William's shoulders. Generals can stay away from politics as much as possible, but they can't be ignorant of politics! William is still a little more tender than his old fox! Thinking of this, Yule showed a subtle sneer.

When William arrived at Hucaro with 5,000 cavalry, everything in the city was burned to ruins. There was no longer any value of staying here, and William led his troops to chase after Li Zijun.

But what William didn't expect was that Li Zijun would set up a trap every other section on the way to pursue, and he seemed to have guessed that Monlin's army would send cavalry to follow him. Every day, some of the cavalry led by William were wounded by falling into the traps, and although they were not very numerous, they had seriously delayed the pace of the Monlin cavalry.

What surprised William the most was that on the way to pursue, Monlin's cavalry actually encountered a magic trap, and in just an instant, more than 20 Monlin cavalry lost their lives. This discovery further reduced the speed of Meng Lin's cavalry, which was always half a day's distance from Li Zijun's army.

At this time, Li Zijun had already discovered the existence of William's army, and he sent General Bob to lead 20,000 local troops and the defenders of Hucaro City to advance with Trolop and grain and grass, and he himself took 10,000 royal guards to delay behind to ensure the safety of the team.

Whenever Li Zijun passed by, he would set fire to the city, and bury all the wells in the city, so that William could not get any supplies. Along the way, Li Zijun still intermittently set up horse traps and magic traps, so that William could not pursue him at full speed.

According to Li Zijun's original idea, as long as he could hold back William's footsteps and buy time for the defending troops to withdraw to Wimbledon, he would have completed the task.

But gradually, Li Zijun found that William, who was following him, became more and more impatient, and even ordered them to force their way through the trap he had set regardless of the life and death of his soldiers, which also made the army of Monlin closer and closer to him.

No matter what aspect you think about, Li Zijun must teach William a lesson, otherwise once they are glued by William, their army will immediately be in danger.

After repeatedly observing the surrounding terrain, Li Zijun and Catherine finally set the place of 'Eighteen Bends' as an ambush site.

As the name suggests, there are more than a dozen bends in a section of less than five miles long, and the cavalry will definitely slow down as long as they reach here. Another feature of this section of the road is that the two sides of the middle road are two or three meters higher, and if there is something hidden on both sides of the road, the problem can be found from a long distance. Originally, this was not a good place to set up an ambush, but Li Zijun just wanted to take advantage of the moment when William arrived here and was relaxed to attack, which made Catherine, who was initially opposed, reluctantly agree to his plan.

William was about to be tortured by Li Zijun during this time, he really didn't expect Edlaide to be so difficult! He could almost see Edlaide's back, but he just couldn't catch up with this little guy. William secretly swore that if he caught Edlaide, he would have to screw the child's head off with his own hands!

Today, when William arrived at the 'Eighteen Bends', he finally saw the figure of Dongyu's army from a distance, and he became more and more excited, urging his subordinates to quickly pass the 'Eighteen Bends', and he must catch up with Edlaide today.

Originally, William was worried that Li Zijun would continue to use the trap to slow them down, but he didn't expect that they were about to get out of the 'Eighteen Bends' and didn't encounter a trap.

It seems that he has been chasing too closely during this time, and Edlaide doesn't even have time to set up a trap, William secretly rejoiced in his heart.

But at this time, there was a massive collapse of the road ahead, and before William could figure out what was going on, the Dongyu army, which had buried himself in the ground, suddenly crawled out from both sides of the road. Behind the Monlin army, the Dongyu army also appeared, and they kept rushing towards the Monlin cavalry, compressing the range of movement of the Monlin cavalry and shortening their charging distance as much as possible. And the army, which William had been chasing, also turned its horse head at this time.

The snare drum of the Dongyu Empire sounded just right, and countless Dongyu archers and spear throwers on both sides of the 'Eighteen Bends' stood up, and they attacked frantically, venting the depression caused by the defeat during this time!

The Monlin cavalry, which had lost its impact, stood in the middle of the 'Eighteen Bends' and became the target of the Dongyu soldiers to contact the bow and arrow. Under the baptism of arrows again and again, the Monlin cavalry fell in pieces.

The panicked Monlin cavalry jumped directly off the road, but Li Zijun had already set traps on both sides before, and almost none of these cavalrymen could get up from the pit again.

Seeing such a scene, William's eyes were red, he really didn't expect Li Zijun to ambush him in such a place, he ordered the cavalry to charge back along the way they came, which was also their only chance to escape.

This is a test of life and death, both sides are competing here for their endurance! And in this competition, Monlin's cavalry was at an absolute disadvantage, and in the end, none of Monlin's 5,000 cavalry escaped, and all fell in the place of 'Eighteen Bends'.

Of the 3,000 pikemen who were responsible for stopping the Monlin cavalry, 1,000 fell forever.

Resolving the pursuers who followed, Li Zijun took all the soldiers who were killed and wounded and continued to rush towards Wimbledon.

A day later, Yule led Monlin's army to the 'Eighteen Bends'. Seeing that all the cavalry led by William had been put down in this place, Yule rushed to a sense of unspeakable bitterness.

Yule didn't find a single corpse here, and he didn't believe that the Dongyu army had suffered no casualties after the battle. The reason why he didn't see the corpse of Dongyu soldiers here was very simple, that is, Edlaide was using this opportunity to buy people's hearts! In addition, Yule also found that there was not a single weapon or arrow left here, which showed that Li Zijun had enough time to clean up the battlefield before he arrived.

Although Yule was still reluctant to admit it, he had confirmed in his heart that it was too late for him to prevent Li Zijun from returning to Wimbleton! What made Yule even more helpless was that the originally low morale of the Dongyu Empire had regained its confidence again because of the victory in this battle.

For the first time, Yule felt that after so many years of planning, he was afraid that he would return in vain again!

Li Zijun finally succeeded in bringing the 30,000 troops he led and the 20,000 defenders of the cities in front of him back to Wimbledon, plus the original 35,000 defenders of Wimbledon, he had nearly 100,000 troops on his hands.

And because of Li Zijun's arrangement some time ago, most of the baggage and grain have been preserved, and he is full of confidence in holding Wimbledon.

But confidence is confidence, there is such a big thing ahead, Li Zijun still has to report to the imperial court, and at the same time make a request to the imperial court to send a new commander. It's a superficial job, but it's a must. If he takes himself as a commander for granted, it will definitely arouse the suspicion of the imperial court, maybe there will be no problem at present, but as long as the war is over, the big hat of intending to 'support the army and respect itself' will be immediately buckled on his head, and he really doesn't need to make such a big trouble for himself!

And as long as Li Zijun takes the initiative to apply, the position of commander will be before the new generals arrive here, and the imperial court can only appoint him as the temporary commander!

Just when Li Zijun was busy researching and arranging the city to defend Jihua every day, the 'monkey' suddenly rushed to Wimbledon.

"'Monkey', why are you here?, does my eldest sister already know about the possible surprise attack of the Troductrian Empire on the city of Salat? Have the Tiger bandits been transferred back to the Seine Peninsula?" asked Li Zijun as he pulled the 'monkey' closer to the room.

"Miss, let me inform you that the city of Sarat is ready for battle, even if the Brucy-Hungarian Empire sends an army of 100,000 to attack, she can keep the city safe and sound, please rest assured in this regard!

"What's the matter? Don't hesitate, say it quickly!" Li Zijun asked anxiously as he looked at the 'monkey'.

The eldest lady began to think that it was not appropriate for the Tigers to return to the Seine, so she never ordered them to return to the city. It wasn't until Miss Second and Miss Anna returned to the city of Salat that they explained the key to it to the eldest lady that the eldest lady sent me to lead people to the Tiger Bandits to give the order. ”

"When I arrived at the location of the Tiger Bandits, it was already full of Wolf Bandits people, and I didn't dare to approach it easily. I left a few of my men to inquire about the situation of the Tiger Bandits, and I hurried back to the city of Salat to report to the eldest lady! As I was about to set out, Master Sherrill had already found him, and he was leading more than 1,000 members of the Tiger Bandits back to the city. ”

"According to his letter to the eldest lady, the Tiger Bandit Group was attacked by the Evil Wolf Bandit Group at night. Not knowing Weishenme, the Wolf Bandit Group has become extremely powerful. After resisting for a while, they could not retreat from the back mountain path. Later, it was besieged by the Turk-Hungarian Empire. Lord Sheryl, Lord Boswell, and Big Brother Stuta each broke through with a team of people, except for Lord Sheryl, Lord Boswell and Big Brother Stutta's whereabouts are still unknown!"

'Monkey' said with some trepidation.

Hearing the words of 'monkey', Li Zijun was so angry that his face turned pale and angry, and he slapped a handprint on the table in front of him with one palm.

"Young master, it's because I didn't explain clearly to the eldest lady that I had the loss of the Tiger Bandit Group, please punish me!"

Looking at the 'monkey', Li Zijun took a deep breath and calmed down.

"I don't have anything to do here, you return to Sarat City immediately, you must continue to look for Boswell and Stutta, I want to see people alive and corpses dead!"