Chapter 390: Yaling Gorge Night Fu 'Replenishment 11/14'
Yaling Gorge is not a canyon that connects directly from the west side of Yaling to the east side of Yaling.
Similar to most canyons, Yaling Gorge is winding and rugged. Sometimes the straight-line distance is only one or two miles, but people walking in it have to walk three to five miles, or even longer.
To make matters worse, Yaling Gorge is a typical living water canyon, and the cliffs on both sides are very high, making the canyon extremely humid and the ground muddy and difficult to walk on.
According to Wu Wu and Wu Na, the Yaling Gorge is filled with heavy fog on cloudy days, making it difficult to see the roads in it. Therefore, even locals will not accidentally fall into the fog sometimes.
Go to the nearby Sichuan stream.
It is a place where local shepherds will never drive their sheep to graze.
To be honest, walking in such a dark canyon is a very challenging thing.
Firstly, the soil underfoot is soft and muddy, and secondly, when the night wind blows through the canyon, a "wuwuwu" sound will sound like a ghost crying, which is very scary.
No, at this moment Oona was burying her head in Zhao Hongrun's arms, not daring to let go of her hands covering her ears.
In this regard, Zhao Hongrun said that it was understandable. After all, she was still a girl. In comparison...
He turned his head and glanced at Mi Jiang, who was riding a horse beside him with an expressionless face, and sighed melancholy.
"Aren't you... afraid?"
Zhao Hongrun asked.
"What are you afraid of?" Mi Jiang said calmly: "Aren't you sure of annihilating that Jie tribe cavalry?"
"I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about... this." As Zhao Hongrun was speaking, another blast happened to blow into the canyon, causing the entire canyon to make a strange "woo-woo" sound.
Mi Jiang looked at Zhao Hongrun speechlessly and said with some displeasure: "It's just a rumor...Are you kidding me?"
"..."
Zhao Hongrun shook his head and gave up.
He once again affirmed that this kind of woman would never be the gentle companion he longed for.
After a while, General Sima An drove his horse closer and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, the Jie tribe's cavalry should have followed our army and entered the valley."
"Oh?" Zhao Hongrun couldn't help being a little surprised when he heard this, and asked in surprise: "Did the army from the rear of the palace send the news?"
Sima An shook his head and said seriously: "It's someone's judgment."
"Aren't you so awesome?"
Zhao Hongrun looked at Sima An in shock.
Seemingly noticing Zhao Hongrun's gaze, Sima An showed a rare smile and said: "This is a feeling. After experiencing many such things, you will naturally feel this way... Sometimes, this feeling even
It is more accurate than the known information, because the known information may be false news deliberately released by the enemy... I think at the beginning, this feeling made someone lucky enough to survive."
"Has this kind of thing ever happened before?" Zhao Hongrun said in surprise. After all, in his opinion, it was definitely not something that could be done easily to push Sima An to the edge of life and death.
"Meng Bi, King Jing... no, Zong Wei beside King Nan Liang." Sima An unnaturally stretched his hand to cover his right abdomen and murmured: "That was really an unforgettable battle..."
"Under the command of Third Uncle, is there an opponent that Sima An will never forget? Oh, by the way, they are both the best in the Zongwei, so their abilities should be similar. But..."
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun said in confusion: "By the way, I have never heard that there is a Zongwei named Meng Ben beside Sanbo, but there is a Zongwei named Meng..."
"Because he is dead!" Interrupting Zhao Hongrun's words, Sima An licked his lips and said excitedly: "He tried to sneak attack me, but I was ambushed and killed..."
Zhao Hongrun opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.
In fact, he knew that both his father Zhao Yuanxi and his third uncle Zhao Yuanzuo, five general-level Zongwei died in that civil war.
"Can you tell me about the battle between the "Shun Shui Army" and the "Yu Shui Army"?
"Your Highness has actually heard of the 'Shun Shui Army' and the 'Yu Shui Army'?" Sima An looked at Zhao Hongrun in surprise.
"Uncle Liu told me, but we only touched on the surface." Zhao Hongrun explained.
After hearing this, Sima An suddenly realized: "It turns out to be Prince Yi."
After that, he touched the right side of his abdomen again and said with emotion: "Shunshui Army and Yushui Army were really strong at that time, no less than the Sixth Battalion Army. At that time..."
Just as he said this, a light cavalry from the rear of the team suddenly caught up with him barely stepping on the muddy ground. He clasped his fists and said, "Your Highness, General, the Jie tribe's cavalry has entered the canyon and is trying to shoot the soldiers at the rear of our army!"
"Let me tell it to His Highness Prince Su next time I have the opportunity." Sima An said to Zhao Hongrun, and immediately issued an order: the whole army should speed up their march and cross the canyon as soon as possible.
"Aren't you going to fight back?" From the side, General Feng Su from Chenggao Pass interjected: "If you don't fight back, the Jie cavalry will continue to shoot the soldiers of the Dangshan Army."
"..." Sima An remained silent. Only the gloomy look in his tiger eyes and the endless anger that seemed to be gestating could prove how angry he was in his heart at this moment.
Yes, a counterattack at this time will make the Jie tribe's advance cavalry aware, which will not be conducive to the merchant navy's ambush on them later.
Fortunately, the night was dark at the moment, so the advance cavalry of the Jie tribe only fired a few waves of arrows tentatively at the Dangshan army in front, without actually giving an order to kill them.
After all, arrows are very precious but scarce for nomadic cavalry, especially for cavalry who are on an expedition.
If all the arrows in the baggage are shot, the situation of the Jie cavalry will become very embarrassing.
Therefore, unless they can ensure that they can kill enemy soldiers, the nomadic cavalry will not shoot arrows easily. Unlike Wei and other Central Plains countries, a battle often consumes more than 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of arrows.
A hail of arrows rained down on the enemy.
After walking for about ten miles in this winding and rugged Yaling Gorge without making a sound, Zhao Hongrun suddenly saw a few torches appearing in the distance.
Those torches were not fixed in one place, as if someone was holding them and waving them in circles.
After a while, those torches disappeared, probably extinguished artificially.
"We have arrived at the ambush site of the Shang Shui Army..."
Zhao Hongrun understood clearly, turned to Sima An and said: "General."
In fact, Sima An had already seen the sudden appearance and disappearance of torches in the distance. He nodded and said, "I understand!" After that, he once again ordered the entire army to march urgently.
After hearing this order, the soldiers of the Dangshan Army gathered their remaining strength and the whole army ran forward, and the marching speed suddenly accelerated by more than 10%.
Even, in order to confuse the advance cavalry of the Jie tribe in the rear, Sima An even ordered the Dangshan soldiers to throw away a lot of dried meat made of mutton along the way. Even the flags of the Dangshan army reluctantly discarded a few.
In this way, they moved forward for about two miles, and suddenly it became clear that they had left Yaling Gorge and arrived at the east side of Yaling.
At this moment, I looked into the distance and saw nothing but darkness. There seemed to be something there, but I couldn't see it clearly.
But despite this, Sima An could still feel that there was an army ambushing ahead, and this army made him feel a great deterrent.
Of course, he didn't think that the merchant navy could bring him such a strong deterrent. Thinking about it, it should be those repeating crossbows hidden under the dark night sky.
Suddenly, in the dark distance, a torch appeared again, waving it back and forth several times.
Sima An suddenly understood and ordered his whole body to retreat towards the position of the torch.
Sure enough, when the Dangshan army evacuated towards the torch, they saw many Shangshui soldiers with hidden traces along the way. At the same time, they also saw those ferocious war weapons neatly arranged in front of the formation.
Three-shot repeating crossbow!
"His Royal Highness King Su!"
Wu Ji, the general in charge of the Shang Shui Army, arrived here at some point and saluted Zhao Hongrun and Sima An.
He and Oona dismounted and handed the reins to Zongwei Shen Yu. Zhao Hongrun lowered his voice and asked: "The Jie tribe's cavalry will be here immediately... Do you know how to use the crossbow?"
Wu Ji nodded and said: "Our army tested it yesterday, and it is indeed extremely powerful... Don't worry, Your Highness."
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun nodded and said: "As soon as I give the order, I will fire a volley of crossbow bolts."
"yes."
The Dangshan Army quietly withdrew from the ambush point set by the Shang Shui Army and retreated further away. Only Sima An, Wen Xu, Bai Fangming and other generals of the Dangshan Army stayed behind, as did the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army. He crouched like a cat, lurking in an ambush position.
Presumably, they also want to see with their own eyes what kind of power these serial crossbows newly developed by the Manufacturing Bureau have.
The exit of Yaling Gorge is very quiet, and you can vaguely hear the sound of "pat-pat-pat-pat", which is the strange sound of horse hooves stepping on the muddy ground.
The Jie Clan's advance cavalry is here!
"(In the language of the Yi people) something doesn't feel right. It's too quiet here..."
In the distance, the muttering of a Jie cavalry captain came.
"(In the language of the Yi people) What's wrong? Those cowardly Wei people didn't dare to fight back when facing us. They just ran away with their tails between their legs... By the way, where did those Wei people escape to?"
"(In Shen language) There was a sound in that direction. He must have fled in that direction."
"(In the language of the Yi people) Then let's catch up and see if there is any chance of sneak attack on them."
After a slight conversation, the advance cavalry of the Jie tribe rode their war horses and slowly came towards the entrance of the valley.
Suddenly, one of the thousand captains looked at the dark surroundings and said in the Yi language: "No, here..."
After that, he took out a special arrow from the quiver on both sides of the back of one of the other two horses, and immediately hit it with a flint in his hand.
"Huh." The arrowhead burned.
It turned out that this was a rocket with burning arrowheads made of wool and suet.
"Whoosh——"
While the rest of the Jie tribe's advance cavalry were saying things like "What are you doing?" and "Why are you making such a fuss?", the captain used his longbow to shoot the rocket at the location he thought was wrong.
The rocket whizzed past the Shangshui soldiers, and the figures of several Shangshui soldiers were printed, as well as a ferocious repeating crossbow among them.
"(In Shen language) there is an ambush!"
The captain shouted loudly.
"whispering sound!"
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun curled his lips with regret. He originally wanted the other party to get closer.
"Fire the arrow!"
he shouted sharply.
As soon as he finished speaking, three hundred repeating crossbows that had been ready to fire immediately launched a volley of fire.
For a moment, I heard a strange "puff-puff" sound coming from the front, as if something strong had penetrated the body.
During this period, it was accompanied by the miserable howls of the Jie cavalry and the miserable neighing of the war horses.
"..."
The generals of the Dangshan Army said nothing. Although they couldn't see clearly, they could imagine what kind of situation the Jie cavalry, surrounded by three hundred crossbows in a semicircular formation, were facing at this moment.