Chapter 1136: I'm sorry for you

Meng Lie sat on a stone on the side of the road, if he didn't have the clothes that could barely see his identity, the lonely appearance from a distance would not be much different from an ordinary person fleeing. It's just that the clothes are already dirty and not presentable, and it is still a little desolate for a dignified royal general to fall to this point.

He could only sit here and wait until the scouts returned.

Yashan has a water source, but as a hunter for many years, Meng Lie knows a truth deeply. The safer the place, the more it may be an illusion. After escaping thousands of miles along the way, he did not encounter a regular Han army to block him, and Meng Lie was never at ease in his heart.

He wasn't an idiot, so he had already guessed how the rumor about Möngke's death had spread. Since the Han people can come up with such a tactic to break the enemy through rumors, it is impossible to use no follow-up tricks. The reason why he has been avoiding other Wang Ting generals is not because he is afraid of those few people, but because he has always been worried that once the Meng Yuan people themselves fight the hot ones they are fighting, the Han people suddenly kill them, it will undoubtedly be a catastrophe.

Meng Lie had actually been waiting, waiting for the Han army to appear.

But it's been almost a year since the first rumors appeared. Even since he fell out with other generals in the royal court, it has been nearly half a year now. The Han army never appeared, and every time a large number of displaced people rushed out to risk their death to grab their grain and grass, Meng Lie would be terrified that it was the Han army that had killed them.

But not every time.

In order to avoid the expected crisis, he also deliberately slowed down the speed of the retreat of the team, allowing the men and horses of the other Wang Ting generals to walk in front of him, and he always kept a distance of almost a hundred miles from the other party. Or because they were about to reach the Wolf Milk Mountain, the mood of the soldiers was a little excited, and the speed of the march in the past few days was a little unbearable, so that the distance with the Mengyuan people in front of them was shortened to sixty or seventy miles.

"Special Service, you seem to have something on your mind?"

His guard asked tentatively, then handed over the last half of the bag of water. Meng Lie subconsciously took it to drink, and happened to see the guard licking his chapped lips with his tongue, Meng Lie hesitated for a moment and then handed the water bladder to the guard: "Drink it, otherwise I will deal with you according to military law." ”

The guard opened his mouth and finally chose to take a small sip.

"I'm just wondering if I should send someone to remind the people in front of me that the Han people are acting a little strangely, and there has been no Han army so far, which is obviously abnormal. It stands to reason that after the chaos, the Han army should take advantage of the situation to attack. But I'm almost there, and I'm worried about the danger when it's the most relaxing. ”

"When is it the most relaxed?"

The guards didn't understand.

"Now we are only one step away from returning to the grassland. More than 300 miles in front is the Wolf Milk Mountain Canyon, and through it is the grassland we are familiar with, and our hometown is familiar. At this time, the mood of the soldiers is the most excited, and the vigilance against danger is also the most lax, and if there is an unusually calm-headed person among the Han people, he will wait until this moment to strike a fatal blow. ”

The guard thought for a while and said, "Maybe you are too worried, I heard that the eastern frontier of the Han people is being invaded by foreign tribes, maybe the reason why they did not come to pursue is because the men and horses are not able to be transferred in the eastern frontier. ”

"If that's the case, it would be good"

The guard persuaded: "Special service, let's ignore those people." Those people in front of you may not appreciate your affection, nor may they think you mean well. If you send someone to warn them that Yashan may be in danger, they may think that you are afraid that they will rob them of the water, or they may be worried that you have controlled the water and will not let them drink it. ”

"Maybe"

It was only at this moment that Meng Lie realized that there seemed to be no trust between him and the other royal court generals anymore. Even if he did send someone to remind him, those people really wouldn't care.

"My subordinates are worried"

The guard said worriedly: "Those people went to Yashan first, and then the water source was destroyed, and when we arrived, we didn't even have water to drink." ”

"After all, they are all Mengyuan people, they are not like this, right?"

Meng Lie muttered to himself, but there was a little confidence in his tone to say this.

"It seems to the subordinates that we will either wait for them to go over first, and then we will go back. Either we don't even bother with the water source of the cliff mountain and rush straight over. If we pass through the Wolf Milk Mountain Canyon first, it will be of great benefit to the special service after you go back. As long as a group of men and horses are left to seal the canyon, it will not be so easy for those people to go back. ”

"Forget it."

Meng Lie shook his head: "I have seen too many warriors of the same clan die in battle, Meng Yuan's position has been greatly injured by now, and the death of one more person is a disaster for our clan." I know you're all looking forward to me going back to fight for the throne of the Great Khan, but I'm really tired of it. Moreover, I always had the feeling that the Great Khan was not dead. ”

"However, some people say that the Black Flag Army's Fang Xie has defeated the Great Khan in the south."

"Rumors, not much credible."

As he was talking, a few horsemen and horses suddenly flew over in the distance, and the scout led by him jumped down from the horse, ran a few steps and knelt down on one knee in front of Meng Lie: "Special service, there is a fight in front of Yashan!" Those who walked ahead of us were ambushed by the Han people and suffered heavy casualties! ”

Meng Lie stood up violently, his face changing drastically.

"I knew I wouldn't go back so easily!"

He paced back and forth, the look in his eyes extremely complicated.

"Come on, blow the horn and go!"

Meng Lie said: "Let's help!" ”

"But the secret service, those people once thought of killing you!"

The guards advised: "Why risk it for them? ”

"I just said that after all, they are all Mengyuan people, after all, they are all descendants of the wolf god, after all, they are all uncles and brothers of my Koktaimeng family."

He tidied up his iron helmet and turned on his horse: "You can't see death without help!" ”

Cliff Mountain

The Mengyuan people who were ambushed, in fact, no one thought that it was really the regular army of the Han people who came this time. When the first wave of Han people rushed out, looking at the tattered clothes on their bodies, and the size of only a few thousand people, all the Mengyuan people hardly cared.

From the beginning of their return to the west, they encountered too many Han Chinese outcasts, who had turned into wild beasts for a bite of food, and dared to launch a suicidal attack in the face of wolf riders armed to the teeth. But no matter how much they don't want to die, their combat effectiveness really doesn't dare to be complimented.

Although they were embarrassed, the well-trained wolf cavalry had little trouble dealing with these outcasts in the past. The outcasts who seemed to be screaming and rushing forward unstoppably could be routed with just a counter-charge. A few thousand homeless people did not pose a threat at all to the number of this wolf cavalry.

However, when the Han Chinese infantry shouted out of the woods, the situation seemed to become more and more wrong.

About seven or eight thousand Han Chinese men came out of the dense forest and then launched an attack on the marching wolf cavalry. Because the woods were very close to the official road, the wolf cavalry's feathered arrow blocking was much less powerful than before. And the most shocking thing is that what these seven or eight thousand Han people are holding in their hands is not a wooden stick, but a bright horizontal knife.

Seeing that the anti-charge cavalry array composed of wolf cavalry was about to take shape, dozens of cannonballs erupted from the woods and fell into the wolf cavalry team, and the moment the huge fire ball exploded, the wolf cavalry reacted, and those homeless people wearing tattered clothes were not homeless at all, but the elite soldiers of the Han people.

The sudden attack of the artillery greatly disrupted the anti-charge formation of the wolf riders.

Then the seven or eight thousand Han people rushed in like wolves and went straight to the baggage camp of the Chinese army. They carried a strange-looking package, tied with a long rope tied to it, and when they were about to get closer, the Han people threw the package round, although the success rate of the explosion of the thing was very low, and there may not be four or five out of ten that could explode, but it really frightened the wolf's horses.

The war horse was most afraid of this violent and abrupt explosion, and soon the formation of the team was greatly disrupted.

And those Han soldiers who looked yellow and thin-skinned were able to bear the hunger and began to set fire to the wagons of the baggage camp.

General Wang Ting of the Chinese army immediately ordered the first and last ranks to shrink towards the Chinese army, trying to rely on the cavalry at both ends to charge the speed and then crush the Han Chinese. However, the vanguard turned around and prepared to come back to the rescue, and a field of feathered arrows was lowered from the hillside, dense as if it were a torrential rain.

I don't know how many Han people rushed down from the mountain, and the team at the front of the wolf cavalry had to retreat while fighting.

The rear team also saw a large number of Han soldiers appearing on the hillside.

Especially the rear team, because the distance from the Chinese army is too long, so that it is not known what happened to the Chinese army. When they saw that the Han people who appeared were not carrying flags, they thought that they were just refugees, and they didn't care at first.

When the news of the Chinese army's urgency came, the wolf cavalry in the rear was in a hurry.

"Half an hour!"

The fierce general Chu Feiyun muttered four words and wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth.

Song regretted telling him that he would hold on for at least half an hour!

Although he didn't know why Song Ziregret arranged it this way, he knew that the success or defeat of this battle was up to him. General Song said that as long as he can hold out for half an hour, reinforcements will arrive!

He had succeeded in raiding the enemy's baggage battalion with six battalions, and now they were holding on to this section of the road. The soldiers of these six folding battalions had to hold back the wolf cavalry that rushed from all directions and tried to encircle them.

"General!"

On the hillside, a general saw that Chu Feiyun's troops were surrounded by groups, and his eyes were red: "Quickly order the troops, if you don't send troops, Chu Feiyun's people won't be able to save them!" ”

"Wait!"

Song regretted biting his split lip until the blood seeped out.

"Wait!"

He resisted the counsel of others.

"I know that you feel sorry for the brothers below, I am their general, and I feel even more sorry than you! But now that the wolf cavalry has not all been concentrated there, and the enemy at the head and tail has not been completely pinned, I will have to wait a little longer! Only when the wolf cavalry of the Chinese army is concentrated and their forces are all huddled together, will the speed of the cavalry be truly contained! Yes, many brothers will die now, but I am waiting so that more brothers will not have to die in battle! ”

His eyes were already reddening, and his voice felt like they were tearing.

"It's all born to my mother, it's all flesh and blood, it's all my Song regretted brother, how can I not feel distressed? They held on a little longer, so that more brothers could survive. ”

He slowly knelt down and bowed deeply to the place where Chu Feiyun was fighting.

"In order to win this battle, I am sorry for you!"

In his eyes, cloudy tears appeared.

And the generals who stood beside him also knelt down after a moment.