Chapter 10: The first battle in Hanzhong is a crisis of rising power! (III)(1/2)
Hu Lie ordered Hu Yuan to lead hundreds of elite troops into the forest, while he continued to garrison near the stream!
After a few quarters of an hour, the forest where Hu Yuan came out found a village not far away!
Hu Yuan and others quietly lie aside and carefully count the number of people, only to find that there were only a thousand people in the enemy camp!
"No wonder the Shu people have to retreat. It turns out that they are not under enough guards. This is a great opportunity!"
Hu Yuan didn't think much about it and quickly reported the information to Hu Lie, while he himself continued to monitor the surrounding area.
Faced with such a great opportunity, how could Hu Lie miss it? He immediately ordered
"Quickly notify Xun..."
When the words came to his mouth, Hu Lie suddenly stopped. He originally wanted to inform Xun Kai and let his two thousand people go out together to capture the village of Shu people, but then he thought about it, he seemed to need this credit more than Xun Kai!
Now he faces two choices, either to lead three thousand people to capture the village and achieve great achievements alone, or to ask Xun Kai to attack the village together. Hu Lie thought about it, but he chose the latter!
‘Xu Yi is ahead of his reputation, so be cautious!’
So Hu Lie paused and said
"Quickly notify General Xun and ask him to join forces to attack the camp. Our troops will leave five hundred troops to station this high ground to protect the retreat!"
"The rest of the soldiers set out with me!"
Hu Lie ordered, and his two thousand soldiers took action immediately!
At the same time, Xun Kai in the distance was also motivated to send troops together.
However, Hu Lie's troops were quite cautious at the beginning, and Hu Lie himself kept counting the traces suspected to be left of bonfires by the roadside.
But when we walked halfway, everyone became more and more relaxed. It turned out that they had discovered the supplies left by the Shu people, and the soldiers said
"I didn't expect that the Shu people are so afraid of us. This attack on Shu will be very relaxed!"
"Yes, why do you think the Shu people are afraid of me?"
"What else can it be? Less soldiers!"
The soldier's words happened to fall into Hu Lie's ears, and he began to calculate the number of soldiers thoughtfully.
‘There should be more than five to ten people in a bonfire, and now there are at least two hundred bonfires!’
‘Now that it is only halfway through, there are no more than a thousand people in Shu!’
‘Is it because Hu Yuan’s calculations were wrong?’
The more I thought about it, the more something was wrong, and Hu Lie's heart was thrilled.
At this moment, a silent sound of shouting to kill came from the forest
"Kill!"
The shouts of killing shocked Hu Lie and broke out in a cold sweat!
‘The Shu people really have ambush!!!’
At the same time, his subordinates were also frightened by the sudden attack, and screams kept coming from the subordinate.
"ah!"
Hu Lie turned around and saw that there was a bunch of Shu soldiers coming out from somewhere!
Not only that, there are enemies in all directions of the forest!
‘How could Shu people appear quietly!?’
The enemies around caught Hu Lie's army off guard. Some of his subordinates were rushing to retreat. People were constantly dying in front of them. Now, the troops in the headquarters took the lead in escaping, and the situation took a sharp turn!
Hu Lie made a quick decision, lifted up his spear and stabbed the deserter. This time, the deserter was shocked and the soldiers were afraid to move.
Hu Lie immediately shouted angrily
"Those who advance live, those who retreat die, and follow me to kill the enemy!"
With Hu Lie taking the lead in boosting his morale, the morale of the generals was greatly boosted for a moment, and the divisions began to effectively retreat.
"Form a formation, form a formation!"
Under the emergency orders of the generals of each division, the soldiers raised their shields and guarded them.
However, under the strong pursuit of the Shu people, Hu Lie's tribe had to continue to retreat.
At this time, Hu Lie was still thinking.
‘What are the people of Shu doing? They just drove me to somewhere in the forest. Could it be that there is still an ambush?’
Hu Lie just thought of this, but found that there was a circle of traces of artificially cut off in the surrounding woods. Although he didn't know what it was, he felt very bad, so he quickly ordered.
"Don't retreat again!"
"Don't retreat again!"
As he said that, Hu Lie held a spear and said to hundreds of personal soldiers in the headquarters.
"You will follow me to break through the formation!"
The forest is not suitable for cavalry galloping, but fortunately, Hu Lie's personal soldiers are only 100 cavalrymen.
Hu Lie was extremely brave under the escort of his personal soldiers. Under his spear, he was full of the bodies of Shu people. Under such fierce attacks, the siege of Shu troops was finally torn apart!
Hu Lie, who rushed out of the siege of Shu people, immediately saw a group of Shu soldiers holding bows and arrows!
"shoot!"
Hu Lie was shocked when he saw it!
It turned out that the Shu army's bows and arrows were still covered with flammable materials. At this time, Hu Lie remembered that there were a pile of dead trees in the forest!
'Oops!'
He looked back and saw that the opening that had just been opened was filled by the Shu people again. Hu Lie knew it was not good.
‘There must be opened to allow the soldiers to escape!’
However, it was too late. With the orders of the Shu army, the Shu soldiers immediately ignited the arrows and then fired into the forest!
Hu Lie was just about to attack the crossbowman, but was stopped by a general in the Shu army!
"Go away!"
Hu Lie's spear blocked, but the enemy was like a poison attached to the bone. The two fought each other for several matches, but they were invincible!
At this moment, the rockets in Hu Lie's troops had landed on the ground. As soon as Mars touched the dead trees, they quickly ignited the surrounding areas!
‘How could it be ignited so quickly?’
‘Can they buried flammables here?’
With just a few bows and arrows, Hu Lie's subordinates were already ignited by the fire!
"ah!"
"Help!"
"General, save me!"
Hu Lie's troops screamed and rushed outward. The momentum was stronger than before, but the Shu army was prepared for it, and they suddenly changed their shields and held on!
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Hu Lie's troops continued to rush forward, and the Shu army only defended but did not retreat. The fire in the forest was just burning only at the place where Hu Lie's troops were located. Seeing that his subordinates were about to be wiped out, Hu Lie was anxious like the ants on the hot pan!
But the more this happens, the calmer he calms down and asks the soldiers who are on the side.
"You go out quickly to ‘receive’ General Xun, and calculate the time he should be here!"
Hu Lie did not care about the Shu people and deliberately spoke loudly, and at the same time he did not forget to say to the surrounded soldiers.
"They're quick to rush forward, reinforcements are coming!"
As he said that, he left them and fled out quickly!
When the general of Shu saw it, he immediately caught up with him
"The thief will stop leaving!"
But just as the general of Shu was about to catch up with Hu Lie, Hu Lie suddenly turned around and attacked him!
Seeing that the general of Shu was about to be hit, he saw him slid directly to the horse's belly, clamping the horse's body with just his legs!
Hu Lie was stunned and asked in a daze at this moment.
"Who are you?"
"I am under the command of the King of Northern China, Li Gao of Guanghan!"
But at this time, Hu Lie had no intention of entangling with Li Gao, and he would quit when he beat a horse!
But just as he reached halfway through, he lost his hooves in front of the horse and fell into a pit with his men and horses!
Seeing that there were complex passages in the pit, Hu Lie was confused at that time
To be continued...