In the humid air of the Yuhou, on the half slope at the foot of Chiling Mountain, Li Mingda, who had already called himself the General Manager of the Hehuang Zhaoxingtai and the governor of Longyou, was also wearing all over his body watching the battlefield below the mountain in full swing, but his eyebrows were heavily locked without any pleasure, and instead became more and more uneasy.

Because in the battlefield at the foot of the mountain, the troops of Wen Mo, Tubo, Western Qiang, etc. gathered by all parties were able to fight back and forth with the Taiping vanguards who came to invade, and had been in stalemate for so long; there had not been much decline or disadvantage.

Therefore, seeing this, many vassal leaders had already pushed into the battlefield one after another regardless of his orders and suggestions to retain their strength. However, what they received was still a stalemate that seemed to be going on forever and continuing.

In other words, as these Taiping Army attacked the vanguards, most of them were recruited from the camps along the way. Therefore, except for the front battlefield on the center line, the battle was still hard because of the firearm arrays, and the other two wings were almost in the midst of the rolling smoke and dust that were screaming and shaking, and there was almost no progress.

But the same problem did not appear in Li Mingda's command from time to time? Even with the thousands of remnants he brought back, he successfully integrated the troops and soldiers of the Han army left behind in Hezhou, Langzhou and Shanzhou, and the rural soldiers; but he could not effectively restrain and order these soldiers and horses of all races summoned with various interests and promises.

Therefore, he could only take advantage of the opportunity to wait for his work and take the initiative to choose a relatively favorable battlefield near Chiling as a position to ambush and counterattack the Taiping Army; however, he only had time to successfully ambush a small part of the ambush, and the remaining situation was messed up by these vassal divisions who could not wait to break out.

Therefore, under the on-site battle between this small part of the Taiping Army, these vassal troops who had only gained more than ten times the advantage failed to take the opponent down. Instead, in waves of impact, they were defeated and defeated by the hollow square formation formed by the opponent with guns and bombs.

As a result, Master Liming couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he asked him to retreat and shoot it with his bow and arrow. However, most of the Taiping Army's rear corps had already come forward, and rushed these vassal divisions that had no time to change their formation.

If he hadn't arranged a horse team as the ambush backer on the side hills and instead attacked from the side to restrain a large part of the enemy's power, these vassal troops were smashed by the firearms quickly deployed by the Taiping Army on the spot as soon as they first met.

But the current stalemate situation was not what he expected. How could these vassal troops be ashamed and brave as soon as possible, and generally reborn, be able to stabilize their position under the attack of the Taiping Army; then what was the result of his previous followers of the Western Army and the Wolf-Running Rat Crash that was beaten in the pass?

Did these Taiping Army not do their best or had other means and plans? Thinking of this, Li Mingda became more disagreeable and uneasy; just like before he was raided by Taiwei Zhang many years ago, he was with Taiwei Zhang and was raided by the Tubo cavalry.

According to his original subordinates, after ambushing and besieging the leader of the Taiping thief, he then used this to anger the other party and lure him into the deep, and relying on the stone fort to carry out the subsequent decisive battle; therefore, he sent his confidants to make sufficient preparations in the stone fort early.

Although the battle was a result of the fact that these assisted the vassal divisions had become the current half-baked result, at least the main force he held was still basically intact, and was enough to deal with subsequent changes in the situation. Even if the situation turned into a disadvantage, he could still rely on the condescending cover of Shibao and continue to maintain his strength while fighting and retreating.

Could it be that some details and keys have been ignored by him, or is there any unthinkable aspects? Li Mingda couldn't help but try to recall all the things he had arranged before, but he still couldn't figure it out and shook his head with some worries.

But no matter what, the current battlefield is the loss of the vassal troops from all sides to assist in the battle; and the food and equipment that the Taiping thieves come from afar are not endless after all; as long as they consume more here, the next duel against the home team will be less advantageous and pressure.

Thinking of this, Li Mingda suppressed his intention to mobilize his formation again, and even if he asked for battle and begged again and again, he was unmoved; because in this battlefield where the Taiping thieves had never appeared, and the bombardment of the artillery array they were best at was sparse, and there was no such overwhelming dense rain when they were inside the pass.

At this time, some kind of wishes came true. Li Mingda seemed to hear a faint roar, thinking to himself that the thieves started bombarding the shooter team with guns again? Then he heard someone behind him who was shocked, and then turned into a fierce wave of sounds spreading.

"Mountain. Mountain. Mountain."

"The mountain collapsed..."

"Stone Castle...Stone Castle City is gone..."

"It's over...it's over..."

Amid the messy sound, Li Mingda, who suddenly turned around, looked at the stone castle city that was thousands of feet high above, and with the violent roars sounded on the side mountains, it began to obscur and enveloped the large swaths of earth and rocks rolling down.

During this process, the defenders in the stone fort were like flooded and flooded rats and ant holes, rushing out in shock. After trampling on each other, they trampled over each other, and then crossed the wall, like dumplings, and jumped down one after another.

When the direction of the city wall collapsed with the rolling collapse and the rapid piles of soil and rocks became nowhere to escape, the fearful defenders actually took the way out from the cliff on the other side, and then screamed desperately and fell into the deep valley.

When this mountain collapse that lasted for several moments finally stopped completely, the original mountain was missing, and there was only a large area of ​​earth and rocks that stretched like a dam wall, and only the two parts facing the cliff outside the ridge.

And just like this, the soil and rocks were piled up, Li Mingda was buried. More than a thousand elite children selected from the troops stationed in Langzhou, as well as food, fodder and equipment that they had been able to hold on for more than half a year and fortifications arranged carefully. In this way, they were lost.

However, what is worse is that the pile of earth and rocks formed by the landslide also blocked and cut off the retreat to the West Sea in disguise. Therefore, this incident was obviously just the beginning; the vassal troops who were originally fighting on the battlefield obviously noticed the movement here, and a more intense roar erupted on the spot:

"The mountain god is angry..."

"I've been punished by God..."

"Heaven will die..."

Then, the stalemate situation that was originally capable of attacking and killing was not surprisingly defeated by turning around and abandoning weapons and fleeing various troops. At this time, in the valley at the foot of the mountain, several cavalry barons were only broken into the Taiping Army formation at the other end.

As for those who obviously did not do their best on both wings, but were more indifferent to dealing with the various subordinates; they also easily suppressed the enemy as if they were injected with chicken blood, and shouted and roared, slashing and turning around, cutting down all the people and things they saw one after another and trampling under their feet.

Therefore, for a moment, the entire battlefield was like a rolled bead curtain, and a sharply shrinking trumpet. The troops of the vassals who were pressed up by the Taiping Army who were fully pressed up directly attacked Li Mingda, who was also very frustrated and frustrated in the army.

Then, because of the limited ammunition carrying Taiping Army, the long-dormant artillery was pushed forward; it began to bombard the fire and vision, and Li Mingda, who was lined up above the hillside, was at the front of the formation. Therefore, these local regiments and soldiers who were born in the local area were unable to last long and fell into chaos and collapse.

Then above the hillside, the Central Army Celestial, which represents the bright silver peregrine falcon where Li Mingda was, began to slowly move backwards and climb up towards the top of the silted mountain. However, when they fought and retreated according to the mountain and were about to approach the top of the mountain, they suddenly changed and regenerated.

Suddenly, people stood up from above and shot firearms to knock down the Longyou Army who were climbing hard, and rolled in between the mountain roads and the slopes, falling into a ball. Then, something like raindrops was condescending and was thrown into the formation that was trying to move up the mountain.

In an instant, amid the roars that suddenly suffered a blow, the Longyou Army's main formation was almost unavoidable. Amid the screams and screams, even the Central Army's flag of the bright silver peregrine falcon was knocked down by the waves of air.

Li Mingda, who was under the protection of her body, was helped up again by dust and dust, and then she realized that at the original pile of soil and stones in the stone castle city of Shanding Stone Castle, she was occupied by a group of "mud monkeys" covered in mud and only had two whites on her eyes.

In the muddy area of ​​freshly baked ground, I stepped on the corpse or some other soft thing, and I didn't know if it was a corpse or something else. However, I spit out several mouthfuls of mud in succession, and then mysed at Li Hanzhi:

"No matter what, I will appeal to you, and I will ignore the risk of risk and forced work."

"I will listen to you... but don't hinder me from taking over the enemy in the future... Maybe I can catch a few more enemy generals?"
Chapter completed!