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The snow has long been trampled into chaos, with broken swords, spears, arrows and broken shields everywhere.

Dozens of foreign soldiers fell across the muddy hillside, and many foreign soldiers with broken limbs and arms were unable to escape, sitting in the snow and groaning in pain, or staring at the still lead-gray sky, waiting for the final judgment to come.

Xu Huaile stopped his war horse and retreated to a ridge on the southern edge of Wuzhou Mountain. From defending the city wall in the early morning, to retreating northward in Yuecheng before noon, to resisting the enemy in front of Wuzhou Mountain, he felt exhausted for a whole day, and he felt exhausted by repeated exhaustion. At this time, he felt it was difficult to hold the iron spear in his hand.

Two soldiers took the iron spear over, and Xu Huaicai freed up his hand, broke dozens of feather arrows stuck in the gaps in the armor, threw the shaft into the snow, and then sat straight on the horse's back, allowing the doctor to bandage the arrow wounds on both legs.

"This warrior armor is really good. Unfortunately, after a few battles, many of the armor pieces were incomplete!" Niu Er stared at the warrior armor on Xu Huai's body, which was somewhat incomplete by the sword, spear, arrows.

Xu Huai was extremely strong. In addition to the wart armor, he also wore a close-fitting leather armor. Except for the armor that could not be covered by the armor, or was hit by seven or eight arrows on the calves that were only covered by the leather armor, his whole body was almost traumatized, and all showed the role of the strong armor on the battlefield of fighting.

Of course, the more important thing is that from the early morning to this time, in dozens of battles and confrontations outside the northern city wall, they were not defeated or dispersed by the foreign soldiers.

Otherwise, no matter how brave he is, how could Ren Jiangzijia be lucky?

"Damn it, come back to me!" Xu Huai saw several soldiers from Jie Zhong lifting the ring-headed sword and trying to run over to cut off the injured foreign soldiers' heads. He shouted at the other side with great anger, "You grandsons, have you treated my orders as nonsense again? Come back to me, and don't kill and injure prisoners indiscriminately!"

Xie Zhong scolded and called back several generals who were holding a knife to cut off the heads of foreign soldiers, and drove his horse to Xu Huai to explain:

"The massacre in the city has not stopped yet, and the brothers below are also angry and hateful! If they put these wounded soldiers back, they will not accept our affection. Maybe they will recover from the wounds after a while and come to fight with us again!"

The southernmost edge of Wuzhou Mountain is only one to two thousand steps away from the North City Wall of Datong. They stopped on the ridge and could still see that there were still defeated soldiers of Tianxiong Army trying to climb over the city wall to escape.

However, the foreign soldiers had completely controlled Datong City at this time. Not to mention that the defeated soldiers who had not escaped from Datong City at this time, the defeated soldiers who had crossed the western walls and fled westward along the Huihe River barn were just the prey of the Khitan cavalry like iron streams.

Seeing the Khitan cavalry holding up long swords in the valley again and again, chasing them to chop over the unresisting defeated soldiers to the ground, Jie Zhong did not understand why Xu Huai forbidden them to clean up the top ten injured foreign soldiers on the hillside.

Xu Huai had a stern face, and had no intention of giving Jie Zhong a good look, and scolded him sternly:

"Don't let these words go to me! I don't have time to explain nonsense to you. From Kelan City to Shuozhou City, and then to Datong City, those soldiers who raised their butcher knives without hesitation towards the people, how many of them dare to raise their sword bows on the battlefield to fight bravely with the foreign soldiers? What did those dogs do on the battlefield just now? Don't think I don't see them! They didn't dare to go forward to kill the enemy before, and they all hurried behind. Now they saw that there were only a dozen wounded soldiers lying on the battlefield and could not resist, so they thought of cutting off their heads and going back to exchange for military achievements. When I was blind, you immediately cut off the armor of these people, whip thirty each, and then drive them out! Keeping these pieces of money is a great unfairness to those generals who obey orders and fight bravely!"

"They are a little bit cunning, but it's better to ask them to commit crimes and make meritorious..." Xie Zhong said.

"... Commander Jie, follow the order!" Xu Huai took out the tiger talisman from his arms and ordered that Jie Zhong would not be questioned.

"Old Jie," Seeing that Jie Zhong's old face turned red, Zheng Tu hurried over and pulled him aside and advised him softly, "You may think that Xu Huai is too unkind, but you have to think that we are far from being out of danger now. What's more, tens of thousands of defeated soldiers are still in a mess. How can we bring so many people back to Lanzhou?"

Xie Zhong turned to look at the messy and messy soldiers in the valley to the north, and suddenly felt his scalp numb.

There are two hundred miles from Datong to Shuozhou, and there are also enemy cities and villages such as Huairen, Jincheng and other enemies. At this time, the snow in the mountains was already thick, and it was difficult to walk.

He could hardly imagine how these more than 10,000 defeated soldiers could escape safely in the Huihe Valley where the foreign soldiers had almost completely controlled it.

Thinking of this, the anger of being scolded by Xu Huai for being ruthlessly turned into a weak sigh. He rode his horse back to the formation and ordered the arrest of the soldiers who were unmoved. Two of them were his tribe members. He snatched their soldiers and whipped them thirty whips, and then drove them down the ridge and position, watching them being shot and killed by the scouts of the foreign soldiers who were still cruising on the edge of the battlefield.

At this time, Zhu Han, Zhu Zhi and others were on the ridge on the north side.

The two sides were only more than 300 steps apart. They saw Jie Zhong drive several soldiers out of order under Xu Huai's strict orders to shoot and kill them for the enemy cavalry, but they just sighed in their hearts and did not think about persuading Xu Huai's subordinates to show mercy.

The two east-west ridges in front and back are not high, and less than three thousand steps south, it is the northern wall of Datong City.

The east slopes of the two ridges are relatively gentle, facing a high cliff facing north and south. At the foot of the cliff there is a stream flowing out from the depths of Wuzhou Mountain. It bypasses from the northwest of Datong City and flows south into the Hui River.

This seasonal river has been cut off after autumn, and the rocky stream has become a passage for tens of thousands of defeated soldiers to escape from the northwest corner of Datong City into the deep hinterland of Wuzhou Mountain.

Including the soldiers of the military supervisor, Jie Zhong and other troops, a total of 14,500 people rushed out of the northern city wall before noon. However, not everyone was willing to obey Xu Huai and the others' guidance, and temporarily fled to Wuzhou Mountain before seeking a way to escape.

The situation was in chaos at that time, and Xu Huai had to arrange his limited combat power on the two wings of the north retreat passage to resist the impact of the foreign soldiers. Some commanders would gather their troops to escape to Shuozhou when they fled south of Wuzhou Mountain. Zhu Han had no way to restrain himself.

In the end, there were almost 9,000 soldiers including the military commander's envoy, Jie Zhong and other troops, as well as a large number of Tongbai Mountain soldiers, and fled along this stream to the valley to the north.

The foreign people Jianrui had no intention of letting them go, so they gathered troops in the afternoon to try to attack them. Xu Huai and his friends intercepted the valley and streams between the two ridges and the high cliffs.

Fan Min Jianrui was repelled several times of attack, leaving hundreds of corpses, but Fan Min Jianrui had no intention of retreating. At this time, they were organizing hundreds of people to dig trenches outside the valley, burying pine trees into frozen soil to build walls, but they wanted to block them in Wuzhou Mountain.

Wuzhou Mountain does not have too many walls, and it is difficult for apes and birds to cross. The mountains are not as high as the peaks and hills. They are connected by mountain gorges and valleys. There is even a small path on the north side of the ridge where they are located, which can directly pass through Wuzhou Mountain and enter the desert grassland to the north.

However, a team of ten people can cross mountains and ridges in Wuzhou Mountain, or even ride horses into the southern desert grasslands first, then find a gap from the Qianli Yin Mountain to withdraw back to Lanzhou. The question is how to escape back to Lanzhou under the surroundings of the enemy?

Xu Huai and his team's most optimistic idea was to gather two or three thousand people to escape back to Lanzhou while the chaos.

Therefore, when Su Laochang and his friends were engaged in the mule and horse business in Zhufengtang, they followed the Tianxiong Army and sneaked into Wuzhou Mountain. In addition to some necessary weapons, armor, arrow clusters as supplements, as well as caltrops, ropes, wound medicine and other items, the dry food, meat jerky and the cattle, horse and cattle, horse and animal purchased along the way were only enough for 3,000 people to eat for six or seven days.

Considering that two or three thousand people can be organized well, they can lie down during the day and go out at night, they should be able to escape back to Lanzhou in six or seven days.

Who would have thought that Xu Huai had a big game and gathered more than 9,000 people into the valley?

Most of the defeated soldiers fled in panic from Datong City, wishing they had to grow two legs, not to mention preparing dry food, most of them even threw their weapons and armor into the city.

After a day of battle, the soldiers of the Military Academy and Jie Zhong and other troops suffered heavy casualties. Currently, there are only a thousand soldiers who can fight. Zhu Feng frowned and looked at the foreign soldiers outside the valley with concern. He really couldn't imagine any good strategy that would allow more than 9,000 troops to fly back to Lanzhou.

Seeing that the foreign soldiers had no sign of launching another strong attack, Han Qi and Xu Xin also led the Gongluo camp to urgently cut wood to build horse-resistance and antlers at the valley pass between the two ridges, forming a barrier to delay the attack of the foreign soldiers. Only then did Xu Huai struggled to take off his blood-stained armor and walked into the valley between the two ridges with Xu Wuli and others.

After Su Laochang and his friends entered Wuzhou Mountain, they set up a temporary camp in this wooded valley.

To ensure suddenness, Xiao Linshi could not conduct a detailed search of the Wuzhou Mountain line before raiding Shengdemen; and after successfully raiding Shengdemen, they would not have thought that Xu Huai would make such a deployment in Wuzhou Mountain, which was close to each other.

Therefore, although the temporary camp here is very close to the mountain, it has been extremely hidden in the past few days and has not been discovered. Even if one or two herdsmen pass by, they are detained by Su Laochang and the others.

Now hundreds of pine trees are cut down in the woods and built walls in the valleys, and the camps are much wider.

Seeing Xu Huai, Xu Wuli and others returning to the camp, Zhu Han and others ran over from the mountain ridge behind and asked worriedly: "This place is close to Datong City. The barbarians can mobilize more troops and horses at any time to block the exit from the mountain. How can they safely return to Lanzhou?"
Chapter completed!