Meng Lie was sitting on a stone by the roadside, if he didn't have the clothes that could barely identify his identity, his lonely appearance from a distance would not be much different from that of an ordinary citizen fleeing for refuge. It's just that the clothes are already dirty and unsightly. It's still a bit desolate for a majestic General Wang Ting to be down to this point.
He could only sit here and wait until the scouts he sent out came back.
There is a source of water in Yashan, and Meng Lie, who has been a hunter for many years, knows a truth deeply. The safer the place, the more likely it is an illusion. After fleeing for thousands of miles, he did not meet a regular Han army blocking him halfway, so Meng Lie was still not at ease.
He is not an idiot, so he has long guessed how the rumor about Meng Ge's death spread. Since the Han people can come up with such a tactic to destroy the enemy with rumors, it is impossible not to use follow-up tricks. The reason why he has been avoiding the other Wang Ting generals is not because he is afraid of those people, but because he has always been worried that once the Mongolian people are fighting fiercely, and the Han people suddenly come out, it is undoubtedly It is disaster.
Meng Lie had actually been waiting, waiting for the Han army to appear.
But it has been almost a year since the first rumors appeared. Even from the beginning of his falling out with other Wang Ting generals, it has been nearly half a year now. The Han army never showed up, and every time a large number of refugees rushed out and risked their lives to grab their food and grass, Meng Lie would fearfully think that it was the Han army who came to kill them.
But not every time.
In order to avoid the expected crisis, he also deliberately slowed down the retreating speed of the troops, allowing the other generals of Wang Ting to walk in front of him, and he always kept a distance of about a hundred miles from the opponent. Or because they are approaching Langru Mountain, the soldiers are a little excited, and the speed of the march these days has been a little unstoppable, so that the distance from the Mongolian team in front has been shortened to sixty or seventy miles.
"Secret, you seem to have something on your mind?"
His personal guard asked tentatively, and then handed over the last half bag of water. Meng Lie subconsciously took it to drink, just happened to see the guard licking his chapped lips with his tongue, Meng Lie hesitated for a moment, then handed the water bag to the guard: "Drink it, or I will punish you according to military law .”
The guard opened his mouth, and finally chose to take a small sip.
"I was just thinking, should I send someone to remind the people in front of me that the behavior of the Han people is a bit weird. It is obviously abnormal that no Han army has appeared so far. According to the logic, after the chaos, the Han army should take advantage of the situation to attack. Yes. But we are almost at the Wolf Milk Mountain... What I am worried about now is that the danger is hidden when people are most relaxed."
"When was the most relaxed?"
The guard didn't understand.
"Now we are only one step away from returning to the grassland. More than three hundred miles ahead is the Langrushan Canyon, and passing through it is the grassland we are familiar with and our hometown. At this time, the soldiers are most excited. Dangerous vigilance is also the most lax... If there is a person with an unusually calm mind among the Han people, he will wait until this moment before launching a fatal blow."
The guard thought for a while and said, "Maybe you are worrying too much. I heard that the eastern border of the Han people is being invaded by foreigners. Maybe the reason why they didn't come to pursue it is because they couldn't mobilize troops in the eastern border."
"If so, that's fine..."
The guard persuaded: "Teqin, it's better not to pay attention to those people. Those people in front may not understand your favor, nor may they think that you have good intentions. If you send someone to remind them that Yashan may be dangerous, they may think it is you Is it because they are afraid that they will rob the water source...or maybe, they will also worry that you have controlled the water source to prevent them from drinking it."
"may be… "
It was only at this moment that Meng Lie realized that there seemed to be no trust between him and the other Wang Ting generals. Even if he really sent someone to remind him, those people really wouldn't care.
"The subordinates are worried..."
The personal guard said worriedly: "Those people reached the cliff first, and then destroyed the water source. When we get there, we won't even have water to drink."
"After all, they are all from Mengyuan, so they shouldn't be like this?"
Meng Lie said something to himself, but there was no confidence in saying this in his tone.
"From my subordinate's point of view, either we wait for them to pass first, and then we go back. Or we don't care about the water source of the cliff mountain at all, and just rush over. If we go through the Langrushan Canyon first, what will happen to Teqin after you go back?" Things... are very beneficial. You only need to leave a team to seal the canyon, and it will not be so easy for those people to go back."
"forget it."
Meng Lie shook his head: "I have seen too many warriors of the same clan die in battle. Meng Yuan's strength has been seriously injured up to now. One more death will be a disaster for our tribe. I know you are all looking forward to it." I went back to fight for the Great Khan's throne, but I was really tired of it. Also, I always had a feeling... the Great Khan wasn't dead."
"However, some people say that Fang Xie of the Black Banner Army has already defeated the Great Khan in the south."
"Rumors are not credible."
Just as he was talking, a few horsemen and horses flew over from a distance, and the scout in the lead jumped off the horse, ran a few steps and knelt down in front of Meng Lie: "Teqin, there is a fight in front of the cliff mountain! Those who walked in front of us were ambushed by the Han people, and suffered heavy casualties!"
Meng Lie stood up abruptly, his expression changed drastically.
"I knew I wouldn't go back so easily!"
He paced back and forth, with a particularly complicated look in his eyes.
"Come on, blow the horn and set off!"
Meng Lie said: "Let's rush to help!"
"But Secret Service, those people once thought of killing you!"
The personal guard persuaded: "Why take risks for them?"
"I just said... After all, they are all from Mengyuan, after all, they are all descendants of the wolf god, after all... they are all uncles and brothers of my Quoke Taimeng family."
He tidied up his iron helmet, got on his horse and said, "You can't just ignore death!"
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cliff mountain
The Mongolian Yuan people who were ambushed, in fact, no one thought that it was really a regular army of the Han people who came this time. When the first wave of Han people rushed out, seeing their tattered clothes and the size of only a few thousand people, almost all the Mongolian people didn't care.
From Yishui back to the west, they encountered too many Han refugees. These people have turned into beasts for a bite of food, and they dared to launch a suicide attack in the face of wolf riders armed to the teeth. But no matter how desperate they are, their combat effectiveness is really not flattering.
Although they were in distress, the well-trained wolf cavalry had almost no effort to deal with these refugees in the past. Those refugees who seemed to be screaming and charging forward were unstoppable, and they only needed a counter charge to defeat them. Thousands of refugees did not pose a threat at all to the number of wolf cavalry.
However, when the Han infantry came out of the woods shouting, the situation seemed to be getting more and more wrong.
About seven or eight thousand Han Chinese rushed out of the dense forest, and then launched an attack on the marching wolf cavalry. Because the forest is very close to the official road, the power of the wolf cavalry's feathered arrows to block them is greatly reduced compared to before. The most shocking thing is that these seven or eight thousand Han people are not holding wooden sticks, but shining horizontal knives.
Seeing that the anti-charge cavalry array composed of wolf cavalry was about to take shape, dozens of shells spewed out from the woods and fell into the wolf cavalry team. The moment the huge fireball exploded, the wolf cavalrymen reacted However, those refugees wearing tattered clothes are not refugees at all, but elite soldiers of the Han people.
The sudden attack of the artillery disrupted the wolf cavalry's counterattack formation.
Then the seven or eight thousand Han people rushed in like a pack of wolves and went straight to the Chinese army's heavy camp. They were carrying a strange-looking package tied with a long rope. When they were about to rush forward, the Han people swung the package around. Although the success rate of the explosion was very low, ten There may not be four or five of them that can explode, but it really frightens the wolf horses.
The horses were most afraid of the violent and sudden explosion, and soon the formation of the team was disrupted.
And those Han soldiers who looked sallow and emaciated were able to bear the hunger forcefully, and began to light the carriages of the supply camp.
General Wang Ting of the central army immediately ordered that the first and last teams shrink towards the central army, trying to rely on the cavalry at both ends to increase their speed and defeat the Han people. However, the vanguard team just turned around and prepared to come back to rescue, and let down a feather arrow from the hillside, as dense as a rainstorm.
I don't know how many Han people rushed down from the mountain, and the front team of wolf cavalry had to retreat while fighting.
The rear team also saw a large number of Han soldiers appearing on the hillside.
Especially the rear team, because the distance from the Chinese army is too long, so that they don't know what happened to the Chinese army. When they saw the Han people who appeared without flags, they thought they were just refugees from bandits, so they didn't care at first.
When the news of the emergency of the Chinese army came, the wolf cavalry in the rear team became anxious.
"Half an hour!"
The titan Chu Feiyun muttered four words, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth.
Song Zihui told him to hold on for at least half an hour!
Although he didn't know why Song Zihui arranged it like this, he knew that the victory or defeat of this battle was all up to him. General Song said that as long as he can persist for half an hour, reinforcements will arrive!
He has succeeded in raiding the enemy's central army's supply battalion with six Zhechong battalions, and now they are sticking to this section of official road. The soldiers of the six Zhechong Battalion had to hold back the wolf cavalry who rushed from all directions and tried to encircle them.
"General!"
On the hillside, a general saw that Chu Feiyun's troops were surrounded by groups, and his eyes were red: "Hurry up and order to send troops, if you don't send troops, Chu Feiyun's people will not be rescued!"
"hold on!"
Song Zihui bit his split lip until the blood oozes out.
"hold on!"
He blocks the advice of others.
"I know that you feel sorry for the brothers below. I am their general, and I love you more than you! But now the wolf cavalry has not been concentrated there, and the enemies at the beginning and the end have not been completely restrained, so I have to wait. Wait! Only when the wolf cavalry of the Chinese army are all concentrated and their forces are crowded together, can the speed of the cavalry be truly restrained! Yes, many brothers will indeed die now, but I am waiting like this for the sake of After that, more brothers don’t have to die in battle!”
His eyes had gradually turned red, and his voice seemed to be tearing.
"They were all born by mothers, they were all made of flesh and blood, and they were all brothers of my Song Zihui... How could I not feel sorry for them? They persisted a little longer, so that more brothers could survive."
He knelt down slowly, and bowed deeply towards the place where Chu Feiyun was fighting fiercely.
"In order to win this battle, I am sorry for you!"
There were muddy tears in his eyes.
The generals standing beside him also knelt down after a while.