The general and I form a pair

In order to give some hope to the soldiers who came to Mulan Mountain with him, Xue Qing and Xue Gui kept silent in a very tacit understanding, and did not tell everyone that there was no reinforcements in Tucheng.

Even Gu Zhong didn't know.

At dawn the next day, the scouts came to report that Daqi had left camp.

Xue Qing looked at the map in his hand, and circled a point on the map.

"This Calabash Valley is the only way to go south. The valley is narrow and only allows two horses to walk side by side. There are dense forests on the left and right, suitable for ambush." ​​Gu Zhong said.

Ah Qing nodded: "The Calabash Valley is indeed a good place to ambush. But you can think of it, and so can Da Qi's sergeant. After Da Qi Jing's granary was destroyed last night, he is bound to be more cautious. If my prediction is right, Da Qi We will definitely send an advance army to explore the way first, and only after there is no problem, the large army will continue to move forward."

"We don't have many people, our arrows are limited, and the Gourd Valley is large, so an ambush won't cause any losses." Ah Qing pursed his lips and continued to search on the map. Finally, his finger landed on an inconspicuous corner of the map.

"We set up an ambush on the Lion Cliff. The enemy will relax after passing the Gourd Valley without encountering an ambush. If they want to take a shortcut, they will take the Lion Cliff. There are many huge rocks on the Lion Cliff. We can take advantage of the terrain to throw huge rocks to block them. They're going."

"But what if they are too careful and would rather take a detour than take the Lion Cliff?" Gu Zhong asked a question.

"No, they will definitely go this way." Xue Qing knew it in her heart, because they had agreed long ago.

If he hadn't accidentally overheard their conversation last night, he would naturally hesitate.But just because he heard it, he knew that Da Qi was going to break out of the camp last night, but because of the fire in the granary, the departure time was delayed.The prince of Da Qi counted his troops and sent people to search for the arsonists, and he tossed and tossed all night until dawn.At this time, they must be rushing to Calabash Valley without stopping.

In this way, they will not encounter an ambush in Calabash Valley, and they will speed up while relaxing...

"Gu Zhong, you take 100 people, cross the mountain road, and set up a trap on both sides of the Lion Cliff to ambush. Agui, take 200 people up the mountain, and carry stones for me, as many as you want, and put them on the edge of the cliff. People were turned on their backs, and stones were thrown at them immediately."

"The rest, come with me to fill sandbags and cut off the water flow in the upper reaches of the Lan River, but I saw an enemy army rushing over the Lion Cliff and withdrew the sandbags, flooding the enemy army with the force of the water."

"Everyone, after completing their respective tasks, don't fight, retreat back the same way, and we will meet at the upper reaches of the Lan River."

"Yes, General Xue!"

"Master, Agui is with you..."

Xue Qing shook his head: "Don't worry, Agui, I'll be fine, this is just the beginning. The more difficult ones are yet to come."

As he said that, he smiled, and said in a low voice: "We are all going to die. When we reach Huangquan Road, Agui can continue to accompany me, so it's not a broken promise."

"it is good!"

Sure enough, everything was within Xue Qing's expectations.When the Daqi army passed through the Calabash Valley, they sent a small group of people to explore the road in advance. The valley was empty, and crisp birdsong could be heard in the dense forests on both sides, but there was no sign of an ambush.

The main force of Da Qi passed through Calabash Valley without stopping for a moment, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Immediately assemble the army and advance at full speed!"

After passing the Gourd Valley, there is a plain, enough for the cavalry to spread out, and the road ahead gradually narrows.The cavalry changed from five ranks to three ranks and crossed Lion Cliff.But the speed didn't slow down much, therefore, when he saw the tripping rope ahead, it was too late to stop.

The horse roared, and the cavalry fell off the horse one by one, and the cavalry after that couldn't hold back, and fell off the horse.The front army had an unexpected situation, and the rear army didn't know why, so they kept rushing forward, accumulating more and more, and the scene was once chaotic.

Xue Gui estimated the time and found that the front cavalry had almost fallen into the foot of the cliff, so he immediately ordered the stones to be pushed down the cliff.

The boulder was wrapped in broken sand and rolled down from a high place quickly. Before he had time to react, he was smashed to death by the boulder head-on.One after another, mournful wailing resounded throughout Lion Cliff.

"Third Highness, there is an ambush ahead!" Da Qi soldiers quickly replied.

The third prince has been in a state of irritability since last night: "Ambush? Gu Donghai was trapped in Tucheng by our army. The reinforcements from all sides failed to get close to Tucheng. Where did the ambush come from here? ?”

"Small, little people don't know."

The third prince lashed down with a whip, and a bloodstain suddenly appeared on the soldier's body: "You don't know anything, what are you doing! Go check it out!"

The military advisor of the third prince beside him stroked his beard and said: "Ordinary people would set up an ambush in Gourd Valley, but this person gave up Gourd Valley and chose Lion Cliff where we might not pass by. This person either knows our battle plan, or He is a general who has a very subtle control over the situation on the battlefield. And this person must be very familiar with the terrain of Mulan Mountain."

"Looking at this style of play, it's somewhat similar to the one a year ago. Perhaps, Gu Donghai had sent that person over to contain us long ago."

"Who?" The Third Prince asked irritably.

"Xue Qing."

The third prince's eyes narrowed slightly: "Is that the upstart in the military who went deep into Mulan Mountain alone and slaughtered nearly ten thousand soldiers in our army, and the beautiful young general who is inseparable from Gu Yan, the major general of the Gu family army?"

"It's this person. Our intelligence will not be wrong. Tucheng is short of food and Gu Donghai's troops are insufficient, so there won't be too many ambushes in Lion Cliff. We just wait for them to finish laying down the stones and clean up the piled corpses ahead. You can pass safely."

"If that man had enough troops in his hands, we would have lost our troops as early as in Calabash Valley. Moreover, we have already come here, and we must not go back the same way and take the Zinin Road. We will not be in time for the time agreed with Daliang. "

The third prince was angry in his heart: "Military Master, since this man is a general, he can't keep him. He slaughtered so many soldiers of our Daqi, and he needs to be crushed to vent his hatred!"

"Third Highness, don't worry, the main force of our Great Qi is here. No matter how many tricks he has, he will not be able to fight against our 5 people."

When the boulders were used up, Sergeant Da Qi began to clear the Lion Cliff passage.At this time, Xue Gui had already led his army to the upper reaches of the Lan River.

When the Da Qi sergeant rushed to Lanhe in a bit of a panic, he was afraid that there would be an ambush here, so he didn't care about resting and went straight to the wooden bridge.

Only halfway through, the wooden bridge collapsed in a shattering manner.People on the bridge fell into the water and struggled to climb up.At this moment, there was only a bang, and the earth seemed to tremble.Before everyone could react, they saw that the water was surging, like a giant dragon, with its bloody mouth wide open, rushing towards it with coolness.

Along the way, the third prince has become extremely irritable.If you want to repair the bridge at this time, you don't know how much time you will have to delay.When the water receded and the river returned to calm, the third prince gave an order to ask the soldiers in front to pile up and build a "human bridge", while the soldiers and horses behind stepped on the "human bridge" and crossed the river without mercy. .

Going forward, it is a fairly smooth road.After passing this section of the road, there is another open flat land.When Xue Gui arrived, Xue Qing sent him to the bamboo forest on both sides of the road to chop bamboo.

Cut the bamboo into sections, and sharpen one end of each section.Before the water subsided, Xue Qing led people to join Xue Gui, took the sharpened bamboo, dug a hole on the ground, buried the bamboo in it, and only exposed the sharp head.

When the Qi army arrived, the horse's hoof was pierced by the sharp bamboo point, and the soles of the infantrymen afterward were pierced by the bamboo point, and another group of people turned their backs on their backs.

The Gu family army did not lose a single soldier so far, they only cared about watching the excitement of the Qi army.

One of the soldiers laughed and said, "General Xue, you have come up with endless strategies. It's really eye-opening to be able to use this hand in such a place where there is no way to set up an ambush. If it were me, I would definitely be numb."

"General Xue and Major General are the war gods of our Gu family army. Of course they are different from us. If you can think of it, you will have been promoted a long time ago, and you still need to be a soldier."

"Fuck you, I'm happy to be a soldier, who made us the soldiers of Gu's army."

"These words are reasonable. As long as I am in the Gu family army, I am willing to be a fire leader. Of course, if I can follow General Xue, then I will be more happy, hehe."

"..."

The soldiers still had the strength to laugh and joke, but Xue Qing knew that the real battle was coming.

As dusk fell, Xue Qing had been dealing with the Daqi Sergeant for nearly a day with these remaining troops.They are currently hiding in the dense forest, gnawing on the taro they dug out of the forest.Xue Gui and a few soldiers who went out to look for food managed to find a few wild fruits after a lot of effort.

Leave it to Xue Qing.

Xue Qing didn't refuse, but took it with a smile.Because he knew that this was the intention of the soldiers, and they would be happy only if they ate it themselves.

Even gnawing raw taro is very cheerful.

After counting the number of people, after Da Qi passed the bamboo tip formation, Xue Qing led people to fight a few small ambushes.It was the first time to meet the main force of Daqi.

After several rounds, they had nothing on them except their sabers.There were less than 500 of the original 300 people after the fight.

They were all covered in blood, the mud was mixed with blood, and there was no good place on their bodies.But none of them complained.

In such an emergency, if you lose your comrades in arms, you don't even have time to collect the corpses afterwards, and you don't have the opportunity.They could only silently look at the people who came back, thinking about those who didn't come back.I found bamboo pieces, engraved their names on them, and hung them on my chest.

In this way, we will be together forever.

Later, someone suggested that everyone's name be engraved on the bamboo, so that the last person who died would not be remembered.

Xue Qing also picked up the bamboo piece and carved his name neatly on it.

At dawn, the last ambush circle set up by Xue Qing was broken by Da Qi.

Further on, there is the mouth of the Mulan Valley.

His arms, ribs, and calves were stabbed by sharp arrows in several places. The wound medicine was used up, so he could only simply wrap it with a cloth bag. The blood has dried up now, and a thin layer of scab formed on the wound, and it would crack if he moved a little. opened.

After losing his eyes and regaining his eyesight, Xue Qing's body has not been as good as before because he has not had good conditions to support him.Not to mention, after arriving in northern Xinjiang, the nerves are tense every day, and wars are frequent.

In the past two days on Mulan Mountain, his spirit has been exhausted, and he is trying his best not to let himself fall down at this moment.

But Xue Gui knew that he had a high fever again.It's just that I couldn't bear it.Just like when something happened in the palace, he never cried in front of himself.

He always smiled and said to himself: "Ah Gui, I only have you as a family member, you have to stay with me all the time."

Several times when Xue Gui saw the young master alone, looking at the sky full of stars, he smiled very brightly.He said to Xing Xing: "I know that my parents are watching me there. My mother said that I look very beautiful when I smile, and I am very happy. She likes to see me smile. So Ah Qing will not cry, and will never cry. Ah Qing will live Very happy, very happy. Parents will be very relieved when they see Qing is happy, right?"

Why did such a good young master make him suffer so much?

Soon they were going to go to the Mulan Pass to intercept the enemy. Gu Zhong was reorganizing the army, and a dozen people went to explore the way.

Xue Gui pretended to have something to say, and led Xue Qing to a cave at the back.Just as he was about to ask, he suddenly felt weakness in his limbs and he couldn't move.

"Gui, what did you do..."