Chapter 31: Ambush in the Canyon

The people of Juyanhai have always respected Helian Yu'er very much, and they are also very angry that Helian Han's forced Helian Yu'er, the pearl of the grassland that he respects, to be the little Yan'er. It's just that when Helian Yu'er announced that she had recruited a Han as her husband, most of the people on the grassland were puzzled, and even a little angry. It wasn't until everyone knew that this Han man had rescued Helian Yu'er from the royal court twice that he calmed down a little.

Helian Yu'er naturally knew that her choice would definitely bring a lot of dissatisfaction, and to eliminate these dissatisfactions, now it seems that there is only one way, that is, to let Xuanqi make a great contribution in resisting Helian Han's attack on Ju Yanhai, as for what Xuan Qi can do for the people of Ju Yanhai in the future, that is a matter for the future.

As the first line of defense in Juyanhai, Bogdo has naturally become an important place for Xuanqi to win the trust of the people of Juyanhai. If you win, you win, if you lose, I'm afraid it won't be so easy for Xuan Qi to turn over.

Xuanqi took Eligo and 50,000 troops to Bogdor in the starry night, and Bogdo's guard Mo Housheng personally came to greet him, and took the two to check the terrain of Bogdo. Backed by the Altai Mountains, Bogdor stands in the valley between the two mountains, through Bogdo, with the Gobi Plateau in the background and the Juyanhai steppe not far to the south. Therefore, Bogdor is so important to Ju Yanhai that it cannot be missed.

On the one hand, Xuan Qi ordered the reinforcement of the pass, but on the other hand, he took Yiligo and Mo Housheng and continued to the north to check the terrain. The three of them went straight north and stopped at the Grand Canyon where Guqin Wusu was. This Grand Canyon is the only way for the Helenhan army, and after the three of them discussed it for a long time, they decided to set up an ambush here and give the Helenhan army a dismount first.

The melting snow and ice trickle down the narrow canyon into the lakes in the grassland, nourishing the beautiful prairie. The 150,000-strong army marched along the mountain road by the small river, completely unaware of the crisis ahead. The canyon begins to narrow, and the mountain path is bordered by icy river water on one side and a thousand blades cliffs on the other.

The cavalry was stretched out by a narrow mountain road for a full dozen miles, and when the first cavalry reached the exit of the narrow mountain road, more than half of the cavalry had not yet set foot on the mountain road. When a loud rumbling noise came from the cliff, the cavalry began to disorganize, and boulders were pushed off the cliff and landed on the narrow mountain path.

As the screams and neighing of horses echoed through the gorge, the five thousand cavalry who had already walked out of the narrow mountain pass were confronted with thousands of sharp arrows. Dense sharp arrows shot down from the hillside, the panicked war horses couldn't help but gallop wildly, and countless Hun cavalry were collided and fell off their horses, either killed under the horses' hooves, or squeezed into the icy river.

The rocks that fell from the mountains completely blocked the way of the five thousand cavalry, and the ruthless arrows and horses' hooves continued to harvest life. After a period of panic, the Hun cavalry, who could still sit on their horses, was almost half, and they were bending their bows and arrows and shooting towards the slopes on both sides, and the Huns who had dismounted also began to climb the slopes on both sides.

The soldiers of Juyanhai, relying on the mountain, condescending, and the long arrows shot up from the canyon would hardly pose a threat to them. In addition to sharp arrows, there are also rolling rocks, and the Hun cavalry in the canyon is becoming less and less. Yiligo only took two thousand Juyanhai soldiers, completely according to the strategy set by Xuan Qi, and constantly harvested the lives of the Hun soldiers.

And Mo Housheng took 10,000 cavalry, gave up his mount, and densely spread on the high mountains on both sides of the canyon. After the first round of the mountain and rock offensive, all the soldiers followed Xuan Qi's requirements, almost one arrow at a time, and harvested the lives of tens of thousands of Hun cavalry trapped on more than ten miles of mountain roads.

Helian Han, who was far behind the Hun army, was furious and began to order the cavalry to dismount and climb up the slopes on both sides. Sharp arrows began to fall from the sky, and the soldiers around Helian Han had no choice but to ask Helian Han to hide behind a boulder, and the shields that were densely raised to block the incoming arrows. Most of the Hun cavalry were crowded in the canyon, but there was nowhere to hide, and a random sharp arrow would easily hit people or horses.

The slopes on both sides of this section of the canyon were gentle, and the Hun mutiny soon relied on the superiority of numbers to rush to the slopes. After shooting the long arrows he brought, Xuan Qi ordered the army to begin to retreat, and he took 3,000 carefully selected men to hunt and kill the Hun soldiers who rushed up the hillside.

With the same clothing, the Hun soldiers couldn't distinguish between friend and foe at all, and often didn't know who their enemy was until the saber was inserted into their bodies. After rushing through the bare mountains halfway up the mountainside, the woods began to thicken, and the speed of the Huns' advance slowed down, because they didn't know when, a spear or a sharp saber would suddenly appear behind them.

The sky finally gradually darkened, and the Huns occupied the mountain beams on both sides and began to clear the rocks on the road overnight. Within this day, the 150,000 Hun army, more than 30,000 died, and more than 40,000 were wounded, and the entire casualty situation was more than half.

It's just that at this time, Helian Han could only step forward hard, because as the Great Khan of the Huns who had just ascended the throne, he really couldn't afford to lose this face. Once this attack on Juyanhai fails, I am afraid that those brothers and wealthy nobles who have just surrendered to them will renew their dissent and bring even more trouble.

In the middle of the night, in the Xiongnu camp tent that stretched for more than ten miles, a fire suddenly broke out, and hundreds of fire points made the Hun soldiers take care of one or the other, often just extinguishing one place, and the other was on fire. The smoke from the fire filled the valley and began to ignite some thorns on the slopes on both sides, and everywhere there were Huns coughing loudly with tears in their eyes.

Xuanqi, who covered his mouth and nose with a soaked white cloth, was taking about 2,000 surviving Juyanhai soldiers at this time, setting fires everywhere, and also harvesting the lives of the Hun soldiers at any time. Under the thick smoke in the sky, the Hun soldiers couldn't see where the enemy appeared from at all, and they were already in a different place.

The fire was finally extinguished at dawn, but at this time, Xuan Qi had already taken Juyanhai's soldiers out of the canyon and was on his way back to Bogdo.

When the angry Helian Han rushed out of the gorge and arrived at Guqin Wusu, there were only more than 90,000 left of the 150,000 army, and among them, there were more than 40,000 wounded Hun cavalry, and the number of both sides was sharply closer.