The sky was slightly bright. A rapid "click" sound of horses' hooves broke the silence in the mountain forest, startling the birds that stayed in the high branches at night and flew quickly, screaming.

The path was covered with vines, thorns, and a two-foot-tall thatch, with crystal dew on the blade-thin green leaves. The horses' hooves galloped by, trampling the weeds everywhere, and the rattans and thorns were broken head-on, taking away the dew and soaking the horses' hooves, leaving a mess behind.

A ray of morning light emerges, dispels the morning mist, illuminates the mountain paths, and points the way to pedestrians in the mountains. They still have a long way to go, and on the other side of the Mangmang Mountains is Huguan, the southeast pass of Bingzhou.

Sigh!

The war horse neighed, Le Ma stopped on the mountain beam, looked into the distance, in front of him is a series of rolling peaks, the mountains are majestic, the trees are dense, lush. This is the end of the mountain road.

"Whew!"

Seeing the scene in front of them, the people who rushed here in a hurry couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, their tense hearts finally relaxed, and their solemn expressions were soothed, and they looked back one after another, and they could vaguely see the outline of the huge city on the plain dozens of miles away.

"It's good to finally rush out, it's good to be alive!" This is the unanimous voice of all the soldiers who survived the catastrophe.

"Cao Jun doesn't seem to have gone out of the city to pursue, we are safe for the time being!" Gongsun Chan was the first to break the silence and said with great joy.

Li Li bowed slightly: "Order the soldiers to get off their horses and rest, and then set off in half an hour." With that, Li Li turned over and dismounted, and sat down on a rock not far from him.

Gongsun Chan happily gave the order and sent scouts to explore the way. Send out the pro-guard guards to take charge of the guard, and count the whole army.

After a short time, Gongsun Zhan, Huan Fei, Li Zhi, Kebineng, Chen Zhi and other generals all sat beside Li Li. Report the casualties of their respective soldiers and horses.

"Last night, when the troops broke through in three directions, 3,000 iron cavalry raided the south gate, 5,000 iron cavalry attacked the north gate, and the remaining 12,000 soldiers were led by us to raid the west gate. At present, there are only more than 4,800 people left behind us, and the remaining 8,000 soldiers have all been killed in battle, and there are heavy casualties! Gongsun Chan sighed in a low voice.

Li Li's expression was gloomy and silent when he heard this. After Huan Fei saw this. He said softly: "The soldiers and horses of the three-way breakthrough have the largest number of troops on our side, and now the casualties of our team are still so large, I think the other two roads must be more auspicious." It is to estimate their ?????? I'm afraid I won't be able to come back. ”

Li Li waved his hand and signaled that the other generals didn't need to say anything more. sighed: "The matter has come to this, it is useless to say more, we can only face it calmly!" Next, the whole army was divided into eight teams. 500 armor soldiers per team. We waited for each team to lead a team, and then broke through from the mountain forest in front of us. Remember, don't see that Cao Jun didn't immediately pursue him, but they will never let us leave Jizhou. Therefore, I suspect that there must be an ambush arranged by Cao Cao in advance lurking in this mountain forest, and there are even a lot of soldiers and horses, in a vain attempt to ambush us in the barren mountains in one fell swoop. So don't be negligent, and you must always be on high alert, as long as we don't enter the gate. Crises will always be with us, and the enemy will deal us a fatal blow at any time. ”

There was a pause. Li Li looked at the generals sitting beside him, his expression was quite complicated, both sentimental and a little gratified. It is gratifying that despite the extremely heavy casualties in this breakout, there are many main generals of each battalion, and they are all still alive; What made him sad was that the more than 20 Zhonglang generals who had been with him before had all left their lives in Yecheng and disappeared forever.

And this kind of result is a scene that Li Li has long expected. When he decided to break out overnight, he already thought that the battle of the breakthrough must be extremely tragic, and the generals under his account could not be preserved, and it was inevitable that there would be some losses. At that time, Huan Fei, Gongsun Zhan, Chen Dao, He Man and others asked for battle, willing to risk their lives to lead the troops to break through, but they were all sternly rejected by Li Li. It is because he did not send Gongsun Zhan, Huan Fei and Kebineng and other capable generals to lead troops to raid other city gates, but he sent more than 20 Zhonglang generals out and asked them to lead 500 war cavalry to raid the south gate and the west gate.

Now, the breakthrough of Ximen has been successful, but the other two breakthrough soldiers and horses have not heard from them. Although Li Li did not believe that the other two lines of soldiers and horses had all failed to break through and the whole army was wiped out, he knew that even if the 8,000 soldiers could break out of the city gate, they would definitely die in nine lives, and there were few survivors.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Li closed his eyes and lay on the rock, and said softly: "Take a break, the next battle is very likely to be more tragic than before, take advantage of the fact that there is still a little time to recuperate your spirits before you can continue to break through." In fact, the reason why he decided to rest in place for half an hour was actually to wait for the soldiers from the south gate and the west gate to break through. If the other two armies were able to break out of the city, half an hour would be enough time for them to get here and join the army.

In addition, Li Li, who had fled Yecheng at this moment, was not afraid of the pursuit of Cao Cao's army, and after leaving the city, the Xiliang army was like a tiger escaping from the cage. In this lush jungle, the 5,000 soldiers and horses led by Li Li were tigers into the mountains and forests, and Cao manipulated hundreds of thousands of troops to trap the Xiliang army, let alone besiege him Li Li again.

What's more, to the west of this mountain is Bingzhou, where there is a dangerous pass that guards the southeast gateway - Huguan. After Huguan, there were 80,000 county soldiers stationed in Bingzhou under Li Li, and its main general was Teng Xiao, the general of Zhenbei, who was under Li Li.

Therefore, Li Li was not worried about Cao Jun's follow-up, what really worried him at this moment was the unknown enemy hidden in the reckless mountains in front of him.

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Half an hour later, Li Li did not wait for the other two breakout troops and horses, and there was no one. Disillusioned, he had to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses into the jungle and march all the way west.

The sun in the sky appeared and disappeared, making the jungle under the towering trees flickering and bright, faintly revealing a solemn atmosphere, which made Li Li and his party feel depressed, and their minds were always tense, and they did not dare to relax for a moment.

However, for a whole day, Li Li and the others did not encounter any attacks, and walked the mountain road safely for a day, but they did not even see the shadow of the enemy, and there was not even a trace of lurking.

At noon the next day, Li Li and his entourage finally got out of the mountains and forests and embarked on a relatively flat road, which was the only way to Huguan in Wei County, Jizhou, also known as the official road.

"Lord, this place is only thirty miles away from Huguan, and I can enter the customs in an hour!" Huan Fei rode his horse and followed Li Li's side, his face full of joy.

After Li Li heard this, a smile finally appeared on his face, which had been cold and gloomy, and his brows relaxed. Then he looked around, and saw that the jungle on the north side of the official road was the jungle that the army had just walked through, and on the south side of the official road was a steep mountain cliff, and they were now on the official road near the top of the mountain.

The scouts had just found out that nothing unusual had been found in the jungle at the top of the mountain, so there was no longer an ambush for the mountain path carved out of the cliff.

At this point, Li Li was finally relieved, and his tense mind eased up. After he heard Huan Fei's words, he smiled and said, "Yes, after entering the customs, I will be completely safe." The herald ordered the army to speed up and rush to Huguan City within half an hour! ”

Before the words fell, Li Li rode his horse and galloped, as if he was returning to his heart like an arrow, and he was in a very good mood.

At this moment, a sentry galloped from the front, and the moment he saw Li Li, he hurriedly said: "Report -- there is a caravan of more than 300 people two miles ahead!" ”

"Caravans?" When Li Li heard this, his brows that had just stretched out instantly frowned, and his face became gloomy again. Just as he opened his mouth to inquire about the sentry horsemen, an urgent report came from behind him: "Report -- My lord, there is a caravan behind our army, with many carriages and horses, more than 100 carriages, and no less than 500 followers!" ”

"There's a caravan in the back too?" Li Li was stunned, his expression changed greatly, and he exclaimed: "It's not good, the caravan is an ambush!" The army stopped, and ?????? quickly"

"Boom, boom, kill!"

Before Li Li could finish speaking, he heard a loud rumbling sound at the bend of the mountain road ahead, and then he saw a number of horse-drawn carriages full of goods covered with black cloth galloping towards the army he led. Immediately, a rocket wrapped in oilcloth suddenly landed on the carriage, but when he saw that the black cloth was on fire, a raging fire ignited in an instant, and it was not until this moment that Li Lifang saw clearly that the stacks of goods piled up on these carriages were all thatch and dry firewood.

Suddenly, Li Li didn't think about it, and immediately retreated. The moment he turned around and retreated, he saw the same scene in the rear of the army. I saw the carriages galloping rapidly, and the horses pulling the carts were forced to run wildly by the raging fire behind them, and their speed was not inferior to those carriages that swooped down in front of the army.

Facing the front and rear attacks of hundreds of fire carriages, Li Li and his 5,000 soldiers were in a dilemma, with no way to escape, so they could only resist, gritted their teeth and rushed to the oncoming startled horses and the raging fire behind them.

"Bang bang bang!"

In the midst of the brazen attack, dozens of Xiliang cavalry collided violently with the oncoming fire carriage. With a loud bang, these cavalrymen were hit by the carriage and flew up, and the carriage was also overturned by the cavalry, and then dozens of war horses flew out of the mountain road with the tumbling fire carriage and fell off the cliff. Suddenly, there were terrible screams at both ends of the mountain road, the mournful neighing of the war horse when it fell off the cliff, and the loud bang after falling off the cliff.

In this way, the scene of the death of the war horse and the fire carriage was staged one after another from the first carriage, as if it was out of control, one after another, and the battle became more and more intense, and the battle situation was unprecedentedly tragic.

But seeing the Xiliang cavalry riding their horses head-on and attacking the burning carriage that was completely out of control, the bravery and fearlessness at that moment was truly heroic, and it could be called a rare iron-blooded army in the world. They didn't seem to be afraid of death, and they forgot their flesh and blood, and collided with the frenzied frightened horses like steel and iron bones.

"Li Thief is killed, return my third brother's life!"

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