Amid Wu Lianzi's furious screams, the tiger skull mask he was wearing also shattered into pieces and fell off his face.
Under the mask of the shattered tiger skull was a face that was too delicate and handsome for the Wuzhi people.
This is a prince with a very delicate face, even in Changling, he can be regarded as a handsome man.
But the most important thing is that his pupils are light gray.
In the Wuzhi Kingdom, only a man from the Wuzhi Kingdom who marries a Yuezhi woman will have offspring with such lustrous pupils.
The Yuezhi country was conquered by the Qin people early on and became a vassal state of the Qin people. In the eyes of other countries and other tribesmen in this wasteland, the Yuezhi people are a symbol of cowardice and lowliness.
"Shameless!"
Seeing the giant blue wolf howling in pain after losing its hind limbs, the prince of the Wuzhi Kingdom screamed angrily again.
It never occurred to him that after Li Xixing agreed to fight him fairly, he would secretly let Hu Jingjing take the opportunity to unleash his sword.
"Why?"
Hu Jingjing, who was crouching tightly on Li Xixing's back, couldn't understand either.
"Fame is more important than life and death, isn't it?"
"If I do this, all Qin people will be ashamed, right?"
Li Xixing asked her two questions in succession, then took a deep breath, and said indifferently: "I only know that I can save many Qin people from dying, and I only know that when he is extremely angry, he will definitely want to continue If you hunted me down, you probably wouldn’t go back to find the cavalry he commanded right away, so that the remnant you were in before, and some remnants that are the same as that remnant, can survive.”
Hu Jingjing was silent for a long time.
For some reason, she thought of her dead master, and Mo Shoucheng who had also died.
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Seen from a very far distance, there is a blurred black line under the sky at the most northwest part of the territory of the Great Qin Dynasty, but when you get closer, you will know how majestic and forbidding this blurred black line can be seen from a very far away. .
Especially set off by the withered and yellow wasteland in the front and back, this giant mountain shrouded in clouds and snow makes people feel even more majestic and majestic.
Make people feel small.
It makes people feel that there are gods living in it.
This is Yinshan Mountain, a sacred mountain in the hearts of herdsmen who have lived around for generations.
It is an unspeakable experience for most first-timers to pass through such a sacred mountain through the huge canyons formed naturally in the mountains, and to see the unimaginable scenery that can only be described as majestic and spectacular. , can't help but feel like a pilgrimage.
However, for the 3,000-year-old guard who marched through the Yin Mountain in a hurry, they were only exhausted, bewildered, and fearful of the unknown.
Guyuguan is located in one of the seven natural gaps in Yinshan that are suitable for the passage of troops.
Such seven gaps, the Great Qin Dynasty naturally had to firmly grasp it, but the most important thing was that this Guyu Pass was originally one of the seven gaps, the most remote pass from the hinterland behind Yinshan Mountain.
From a strategic point of view, if the Wuzhi or even further Donghu troops pass through here and enter the wasteland behind Yinshan Mountain, the Qin Dynasty's army will have enough time to dispatch, and it is entirely possible to open a hole and set up an encirclement circle to wait.
So this Guancheng is not only the smallest, but also the last to be established.
The Guancheng elsewhere was not only built to completely border the two ends of the canyon, it was like forming an iron gate, and some low places on the mountain ridges on both sides, as long as there were places where the army could pass through, even city walls and turrets were built. Connect with Guancheng.
However, the Guyu Pass has not been fully completed. It is located on the north side, and it has not been connected to the mountain for a long period of time. This makes it a city built on a hillside at best.
At this time, there were tens of thousands of remnants of the Qin army, but they were consciously driven away by most of the Wuzhi Kingdom, and rushed to the worst-defended Guancheng.
Another cavalry army cut their way back, and even the lowest-ranking Qin army sergeant could understand this intention.
Not only to wipe out the tens of thousands of Qin troops in one fell swoop, but also to eat up this Guyu Pass in one bite.
In the future, even if Wuzhi's army doesn't enter Yinshan and counterattack, some of their layout can be biased towards this side as much as possible. If Donghu's reinforcements arrive at that time, it will be easier to form a coalition with Wuzhi.
As for some Daqin troops that have penetrated deep into the border of Wuzhi country, they will completely become isolated islands, and it is only a matter of time before they are wiped out.
There were more than 15,000 defenders at Guyuguan, but most of them had gone deep into the wasteland before, and now there were only less than 2,000 defenders.
So when the three thousand old guards arrived, plus some handymen and craftsmen who didn't fight on weekdays, there were only five or five defenders and old guards here.
And Wu Qiwu, the supreme general who stayed here, was also in the same rank as Guo Feng.
When Guo Feng led the guards to arrive, this thin general, who was still in his prime, but whose face looked as vicissitudes as a man in his fifties, personally led some generals to greet him, and silently followed Guo Feng and Some lieutenants beside Guo Feng, Ding Ning, Nangong Caishu and others went up to the highest point of the tower of Guyu Pass.
After the Yin Mountains, there are only meadows at most, and there is no mountain range to cover them.
So the line of sight can see very far.
"You arrived in time, there is still half a day at most. Their vanguard will be here."
Wu Qiwu looked at some cooking smoke in the distance with a frosty face, and said: "Even if it is a vanguard force, there are at least five thousand people."
After a pause, the thin general with a vicissitudes of life said simply and directly: "They can arrive half a day earlier, according to our inference, the reason why they don't have full speed is that they are not out of touch with the army, and the reason why the army is slow should be They brought a lot of ordnance... They captured a lot of ordnance in the previous battle with us."
Guo Feng took a deep breath and said coldly, "When will our tens of thousands of remnants arrive?"
"Two and a half days."
Wu Qiwu gritted his teeth, and said: "And there will be the army of Wuzhi Kingdom following immediately, there is a time difference of two days... There are at least tens of thousands of troops copied from the Wuzhi Kingdom, and there are two days to deal with us .”
All these generals of the Qin army looked ugly, except Ding Ning.
"There are more than 5,000 vanguard and fast cavalry, and most of them are armed with equipment, so they must be more than 5,000. Therefore, the total number of the broken Wuzhi army is at least 11,000, and there may even be more. .”
When Guo Feng's eyes turned to Ding Ning, Ding Ning said calmly, "Even if we add up to more than five thousand, we can't be considered an elite army... so is there anything else that can stop us?"
This place is far away from Changling, and the transmission of information is not as smooth as Changling. Many things about Changling are not known to ordinary soldiers and generals who are not particularly high-ranking here. Neither Wu Qiwu nor the generals beside him knew what kind of identity Ding Ning possessed.
But seeing that he was able to follow closely behind Guo Feng, and that he possessed an aura incomparable to ordinary young practitioners, he did not intend to underestimate him. After a moment of silence, he said, "There are still two people in the mine at Guyuguan. More than 1,500 laborers, more than half of them are criminals exiled here."
Ding Ning looked at him with a slight smile and said, "You mean to give these coolies and prisoners freedom and let them take up arms to resist foreign enemies?"
Wu Qiwu frowned, he didn't like Ding Ning's attitude at this time.
"The ones who can be exiled here are usually serious criminals. In order to make them obedient, you may have made them suffer a lot. If you release them now, I am afraid that you will be the first to deal with them, not the Wuzhi army. " Ding Ning continued calmly.
"Five thousand restrains more than two thousand five hundred, and some of the leaders and those who resist fiercely will be killed first." Wu Qiwu said coldly: "Even if there are only one thousand left, it will always be useful."
"I'm afraid I'm tired of killing myself first, and my heart is chilled." Ding Ning said mockingly.
Wu Qiwu took a deep breath, seeing such a junior mocking him without concealment, he naturally became angry, and sneered, "What do you think?"
"If you don't abandon the city."
Ding Ning calmly looked at the general who already had murderous looks in his eyes, turned around and pointed at the hillside on one side, "The whole army is stationed on the hillside...the cavalry has no advantage. Even if they occupy the city, That hillside can at least allow the remnants of our army to retreat from the hillside into the Yin Mountain when they arrive. All we have to do is stick to it for two days, and we can always occupy that hillside during these two days."
All the generals of the Qin Army looked towards the hillside that Ding Ning pointed to.
Wu Qiwu was stunned for a moment, and then sneered angrily, "It's ridiculous. Even though the hillside is higher, it has lost the support of some ordnance closed by the city gate. Abandon the city first, and wait until most of the vanguard cavalry rear When they arrive, especially when some ordnance arrives, they will definitely die. How can you hold on for two days?"
"I don't care about your opinion."
Ding Ning turned around and looked at Guo Feng, and said seriously, "I only care about our own opinions, and I still need Su Weijun to fully listen to my opinions this time."
Guo Feng was stunned.
"If they don't abandon the city, then our guards will be stationed on that hillside." Ding Ning looked at him and added.
Hearing his words, the expressions of Wu Qiwu and the others turned extremely ugly.
Guo Feng still couldn't believe it.
"It's about who will lead this battle." Ding Ning looked at him and said slowly, "Who will lead this battle."
"You must trust me." After a pause, Ding Ning looked at him, and then said softly: "You must obey me, only in this way can we win this battle."
Guo Feng swallowed hard.
He hesitated for a long time, although according to any of his previous experience, this is definitely a mistake of splitting before the battle and not conducive to the war, but he finally took a deep breath and nodded.