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"Report~~Report to the Military Supervisor, urgent reports came from Snapdragon Road~~"

"Say~~"

"General Xiahou's troops were ambushed by enemy troops in the Snapdragon Road. Now he is leading the front troops to cut off the rear, and about 3,000 soldiers are retreating to their own formation!"

After learning the news, Liu Ce stared at the map like a knife. Seeing this, Brother Shu Han, Zhang Yichao and others didn't even dare to breathe.

The thing I was most worried about was still happening. Since there were ambushes in the Chidao, it means that the territory of Zhizhou had already been prepared, and the plan to cross the heart of Yongzhou from the Snapdragon Road was then failed.

Liu Ce was in a very complicated mood at this moment. He had not taken down his peace and had his way out blocked. Where should he go?

After a long time, he ordered in a deep voice: "Jiao Luo, Wei Dian, immediately summon three thousand guards, and first follow the military commander to enter the Snapdragon Road to respond to Xiahou Qiong's retreat~"

Jiao Luo, Wei Ding roared: "Abide by the order!"

But at this moment, there was another Malai newspaper outside the tent: "Mr. Military Governor, I found a large group of cavalry twenty miles away from the direction of stability, approaching our army's camp!"

Liu Ce's pupils shrank and he asked, "How many people are there to explore?"

The siege replied loudly: "No less than three thousand!"

Geshu hurriedly said, "Mr. Military Governor, let General Xiahou go to retreat. Are you going to hold the first formation together with General Zhang?"

Liu Ce said nothing because he knew that he had jumped into a trap carefully arranged by the enemy. Xiahou Qiong's headquarters was attacked. If he went to rescue himself, he would definitely fight with the ambush in the Snapdragon Road and would be cut off by the subsequent enemy troops.

Then what about sending troops to meet the enemy with the approaching cavalry? I am afraid that there will be a fierce battle. Once the enemy cavalry only deals with them, there will be a risk of being surrounded by the Yongzhou army rushing out of the road.

In other words, no matter how Liu Ce chooses, he is in a dilemma. Rescuing Xiahou Qiong will be at risk of being surrounded. Even if he rushes through the road and enters Zhizhou, he will probably find it difficult to achieve something when facing the troops of Yongzhou who have already been prepared for...

"Where is this?" Suddenly, Liu Ce pointed to the mountain south of the Snapdragon Road and asked.

Zhang Yichao said: "This mountain is called Qinling Mountains, with a depth of more than 800 miles. It can connect to Sichuan and Shu in the south and Qinzhou in the north..."

"Qinling Mountains..." Liu Ce murmured to himself for a while, and then ordered: "Transfer our military orders and the entire army will quickly move to the Qinling Mountains!"

Geshu said with regret: "Mr. Military Governor, what should we do with General Xiahou?"

Liu Ce frowned when he heard this, and the pain in his eyes flashed a moment. He said to Brother Shu regret: "Xiahou Qiong is using his life to save the entire army and win time.

Don’t let down his good intentions. If he wanted to withdraw from the Snapdragon Road, he would have been able to evacuate calmly. Follow the orders of this military governor…”

Geshu's cheeks twitched slightly a few times, and he could only sigh inwardly, and went to mobilize his troops to move to the Qinling Mountains.

...

"Kill~~"

In the Snapdragon Road, the intense fighting sounds still echoed in the empty mountains.

The 10,000 soldiers from Dong Hu's troops and the 6,000 ambush troops gathered by Tian Yan's troops, and the most fierce battle with more than 900 soldiers led by Xiahou Qiong.

"Shoot the arrow~~"

"Huh~~"

"Puff puff puff puff puff..."

At the command of Xiahou Qiong, two hundred crossbow arrows roared at the Yongzhou soldiers who were surrounded from all directions, but they saw that all the bodies caught in the arrow burst out with bloody haze, which drifted across the entire battlefield.

"Puchi, puchi, puchi..."

A team of Yongzhou soldiers were planning to sneak attack Xiahou Qiong's headquarters from the flank, trying to tear a gap from here to disrupt the tight defensive formation.

But unfortunately, as soon as they rushed to the sword and shield hands, they still waved the steel knife in their hands on the shield surface in the future, and were directly stabbed by the spear protruding from behind the shield wall.

"Damn it, are these people all devils? Don't surrender? Keep rushing for me and kill them all!"

Faced with such a tenacious Far East Army, Dong Hu was furious and kept urging his soldiers to press towards Xiahou Qiong.

"Shit..."

"Ding Ding Ding..."

Tian Yan's troops were condescending and ordered the archers to shoot arrows at the Far East Army below.

However, the arrow fell into the Far East Army formation, and only bursts of crisp metal impacts came. The defense ability of this army was really beyond the expectations of the Yongzhou Army.

“Hey~”

"Bang~"

The steel gun in Xiahou Qiong's hand fell fiercely on the shoulders of a Zhizhou army, but when a loud roar was heard, the shoulder armor of the Zhizhou army soldier was immediately shattered by the heavy blow, and his shoulder blades turned into a stream of powder, shaking his heart.

"Ding~"

As Xiahou Qiong just pulled away his gun, a long spear suddenly poked out from the opposite side and rushed straight into his cheek.

"Drink~"

"Puff~"

He blocked the gun and then tapped the iron spear and instantly pierced the throat of the spearman opposite, causing a spear to splatter of blood.

“Shrink the defense line!”

Seeing that there were more and more enemies around him, the soldiers under his command fell down one by one, Xiahou Qiong immediately ordered to break into pieces, and forced the enemy to retreat with a crossbow, forming several circular small formations and continuing to deal with the enemy.

"this……"

Seeing the battle situation getting more and more intense, and with his troops taking such an advantage, he still could not conquer the Far East Army, which had only a few hundred people, a chill ignited in Tian Yan's heart...

What exactly supports them to fight to the death? They are still indomitable under such a disadvantage and have to hold on to the end? How terrible is the Far East Army? How did Liu Ce train them to look like this? Even the Qiang and Hu of Xia Kingdom do not have such combat power.

"They are not humans, please retreat, I can't stand it..."

When he watched his companions rush towards the iron defense lines one after another, and then turned into cold corpses, some soldiers in Dong Hu's army collapsed.

In their eyes, the army opposite was not human at all, but a group of devils born for war, and they could not break through their defense.

Yes, the Yongzhou soldiers on the Snapdragon Road did not dare to enter the spear area for half a step, and they all avoided far away with fear. The formation of the Far East Army was covered with bloody corpses, which could almost accumulate into a half-man-high wall.

Seeing that the offensive stopped, Dong Hu immediately stepped forward and picked up a soldier's collar and shouted: "Kill, why don't you kill? Was it a waste! Who told you to stop! What are you doing?"

"Kill... can't kill..." the soldier said in a trembling voice, "If you rush over again, you will be... you will die..."

"waste!"

Dong Hu was furious when he heard this, overturned the soldier to the ground, then drew out a sharp sword and cut through the soldier's throat with one stroke, ending his life!

"If you are afraid of fighting, you will not be the former, this is the end!" Dong Hu raised the blood-stained sword edge and said loudly, "Listen to our military orders, this army must be destroyed within half an hour, otherwise you will all die!"

When Tian Yan heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him: "General Dong, although the enemy's number is small, his military skills are excellent. Such a tough move will only make more people die in vain. Why not think about how he can defeat it?"

Tian Yan is Xu Zhao's capable general. Dong Hu couldn't ignore his opinions. After thinking about it carefully, he immediately waved his hand and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Please carry the prepared things up!"

After a while, a group of soldiers came to the front of the formation carrying four huge octagonal crossbows.

Dong Hu showed a cruel smile on his face, patted one of the octagonal crossbows and said, "These octagonal crossbows were originally intended to be used later.

I don’t want it to come in handy so soon. It’s okay, I just happened to try the waters with these Far East troops to see if they have their tight defenses or their sharp crossbow spears!”

...

At the intersection of Xiaolong Road, Liu Ce's army had just evacuated, and the three thousand Yongzhou cavalry led by Xu Zhao rushed to the camp where Liu Ce's army was originally stationed.

"Um?"

Xu Zhao looked at the yellow smoke ignited in the distance of Chidao, and then the traces left by Liu Ce's army when he evacuated, and his expression condensed again.

The general asked, "What's wrong with General Xu? Liu Ce's army should have entered the road and was ambushed by Tian Yan and Dong Hu's troops. We should take the opportunity to attack from behind and annihilate them in one fell swoop..."

"Has Liu Ce really entered the Snapdragon Road?" Xu Zhao pointed to the footprints on the south and said, "Look at this side, the marks of the people and horses are messy, and Liu Ce's army must have retreated towards the Qinling Mountains..."

"What explanation should the wolf smoke in the road be given..." the general asked in confusion, "If Liu Ce really moved to the Qinling area, the beacon tower should not have been ignited. At this moment, a fierce battle would have broken out."

Xu Zhao looked back at Snapdragon, and soon turned his eyes to the direction of Qinling Mountains, and said confidently: "It is Liu Ce's small troops in Chidao that are restraining our main force, and Liu Ce's troops must have retreated towards Qinling Mountains.

Awesome, Liu Ce is really decisive in his work and does not drag it out. Unfortunately, such a person cannot be used by the Great Zhou, otherwise this general would not have been deliberately trying to kill him..."

The general smacked his lips and said, "But let Liu Ce be as treacherous as a fox, General Xu has already set up a net of heaven and earth. The Qinling Mountains are Liu Ce's burial place."

"Um……"

Xu Zhao nodded, not thinking there was any problem. Not to mention Xia Yu's five thousand elite soldiers, there were also many alien tribes entrenched in the Qinling Mountains.

The most fierce one was the remnants of the Western Qiang tribes that Yuan Min had annihilated that fled to Yongzhou for refuge. Because they were unwilling to accept the Li family's imperial edict, in order to prevent them from causing trouble, they had to settle in the Qinling Mountains.

In addition, there was a bandit who even Xu Zhao had a headache. The bandit leader caused the Yongzhou official army to suffer a lot and could not annihilate it several times.

Especially their leader Gan Ziba was like a dying Xiaoqiang. He had already killed him and was wiped out. Not long after, he came out of the Qinling Mountains and plundered all over Qinzhou. The people everywhere were disgusted by the people of various places, and the Li family members were forced to pay high salaries and ignored them.

So let Liu Ce's men fight against the Qiang and the thief, so that the 5,000 Xia Yu headquarters have enough time to arrange fortifications, and perhaps they can kill three birds with one stone, annihilation of the two disasters of the Qinling Mountains and Liu Ce.

After his thoughts returned to reality, Xu Zhao ordered loudly: "The whole army obeyed the order and continued to pursue, but kept a certain distance from Liu Ce's headquarters to prevent him from counterattacking and causing unnecessary casualties. Let's set off!"

Under the leadership of Xu Zhao, the three thousand cavalry rushed towards the Qinling Mountains like wind and clouds, leaving only traces of horse hooves trampling on mud, grass and cracking soil, and the neighing sound of war horses echoing in place...
Chapter completed!