The sky was slightly bright. A rapid "click" sound of horse hooves broke the silence in the mountains and forests, and the birds that were sleeping at high branches were flapping their wings and roaring in shock.

The sheep intestine path was covered with vines, and thorns were mixed in between. There were two feet tall thatch green, and crystal dewdrops were on the green leaves as thin as a knife. Horse hooves galloped past and trampled on the wild grass all over the ground. The vines and thorns were broken head-on, taking away the dewdrops, soaking the horse hooves, leaving a mess.

A ray of morning light emerged, driving away the morning mist, illuminating the mountain paths, and pointing the direction for pedestrians in the mountains. The road they were going to take was still long. On the other side of the vast mountains, is the southeast pass of Bingzhou - Huguan.

Xi Yuyu!

The war horse neighed long, stopped at the ridge and looked into the distance. In front of you were rolling peaks, with majestic mountains, dense trees and lush green. This is the end of the mountain road.

"call---!"

Seeing the scene in front of you, everyone who rushed here could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. The tense mind finally relaxed, and his solemn expression soothed. Then they all looked back and could vaguely see the outline of the huge city on the plain dozens of miles away.

"I finally rushed out, it's great to live!" This is the unanimous voice of the soldiers who survived the disaster.

"The Cao army did not seem to have left the city to pursue us, we are temporarily safe!" Gongsun Zan took the lead in breaking the silence and said with gratitude.

Li Li nodded slightly: "I ordered the soldiers to get off the horse and rest, and set off in half an hour." After speaking, Li Li turned over and got off the horse and sat down on the rock not far away.

Gongsun Zan happily sent an order to send a scout to find out the road. He sent his personal guards to be responsible for the alert and counted all the soldiers.

Soon, Gongsun Zan, Huan Fei, Li Zhi, Ke Bineng, Chen Dao and other generals all sat beside Li Li and reported the casualties of their respective troops.

"Last night, when we divided our troops to break through three groups, three thousand iron cavalry raided the south gate, five thousand iron cavalry raided 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 more than 8,000 soldiers were all killed in battle, with heavy casualties!" Gongsun Zan sighed in a low voice.

Li Li looked gloomy and silent after hearing the sound. After seeing this, Huan Fei whispered: "The three groups of soldiers breaking through the siege are the most powerful. Now our casualties are so great. I think the other two groups of people will definitely be in danger. Therefore, they are probably afraid that they will not be able to come back."

Li Li waved his hand to signal the other generals not to say anything. He sighed and said, "It's time to say more, it's useless to face it calmly! Next, the entire army is divided into eight teams. Each team of five hundred soldiers. We lead one team and break through the forest in front of us. Remember, don't see that Cao's army did not pursue immediately, but they will never let us leave Jizhou. Therefore, I suspect that there must be ambushing Cao Cao arranged in advance in this forest, and there are even a lot of soldiers and horses, trying to ambush us in a barren mountain in one fell swoop. Therefore, you must not be careless and must always be highly vigilant. As long as we have not entered Huguan, the crisis will always accompany us, and the enemy will give me a fatal blow at any time."

Li Li looked at the generals sitting beside him, with a complex expression, both sentimental and a little relieved. It was gratifying that although the breakout was extremely heavy, many of the main generals of each battalion were still alive. What made him sad was that the more than 20 generals who had followed him before left their lives in Yecheng and disappeared forever.

This result was a scene that Li Li had already expected. When he decided to break through overnight, he thought that the breakthrough would be extremely tragic. The generals under the tent decided that they could not be safe, and it was inevitable that they would be damaged. At that time, Huan Fei, Gongsun Zan, Chen Dao, He Man and others asked for battle, willing to risk their lives to lead troops to break through, but were all sternly rejected by Li Li. Therefore, he did not send effective generals such as Gongsun Zan, Huan Fei and Ke Bi Neng to lead troops to raid other city gates, but sent more than 20 generals of the Central Army to lead 500 cavalry to raid the South Gate and the West Gate.

Now, Ximen has successfully broken through, but the other two groups of soldiers and horses have no news. Although Li Li does not believe that all the other two groups of soldiers and horses have failed to break through, and the entire army has been wiped out, he knows that even if the eight thousand warriors can break out of the city gate, they will definitely be a life-threatening death, and there are only a few survivors.

After hesitating for a while, Li Li closed his eyes and lay on the rock and whispered: "Let's take a break. The next battle is likely to be more tragic than before. Take advantage of the time now and have a little time to maintain your energy, so as to continue breaking through." In fact, the reason why he decided to rest on the spot for half an hour was actually to wait for the soldiers who broke through the South Gate and West Gate. If the other two groups of troops could break out of the city, half an hour would be enough for them to arrive here and meet the army.

In addition, Li Li, who had fled Yecheng at this moment, was not afraid of the pursuit of Cao Cao's army. After leaving the city, the Xiliang army was like a tiger escaping from a cage. In this lush jungle, the five thousand soldiers led by Li Li were tigers entering the mountains and forests. Cao Cao had hundreds of thousands of troops unable to trap the Xiliang army, and it was even more impossible to 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 government soldiers stationed under Li Li's command, and their chief general was Teng Xiao, the general of Zhenbei under Li Li.

Therefore, Li Li was not worried about Cao's army chasing him later. What really worried him at this moment was the unknown enemy hiding in the vast mountains in front of him without any traces.

Half an hour later, Li Li did not wait for the other two troops to break through, nor did he have a single figure. In disappointment, he had to lead five thousand troops into the jungle and headed west.

The sun in the sky appeared and disappeared, making the jungle under the towering trees light and light, and a faint sense of murderous aura, 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 others did not encounter any attacks. They 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 party finally got out of the forest and embarked on a relatively flat road. This road is the only way to lead to Huguan in Weijun, Jizhou, and is also known as the official road.

"Lord, this place is only thirty miles away from Huguan. We can enter the pass in an hour!" Huan Fei rode his horse next to Li Li, and said with joy.

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

The scout had just discovered that no abnormalities were found in the jungle on the top of the mountain. Since then, there is no longer any conditions for ambushing the mountain road chiseled on this cliff.

At this point, Li Li finally felt relieved, and his tense mind relaxed. So after hearing Huan Fei's words, he smiled and nodded and said, "Yes, after entering the pass, we will be completely safe. He ordered the army to speed up and arrive at the city of Huguan within half an hour!"

Before he finished speaking, Li Li rode his horse and ran away, as if he was homecoming, and was in a very good mood.

Just at this moment, a whistle cavalry rushed from the front. When he saw Li Li, he said anxiously: "Report———There is a caravan with more than 300 people two miles ahead!"

"Cargoyle?" Li Li stopped his horse when he heard the sound. His brows had just been stretched and his face became gloomy again. Just as he asked about the whistle and cavalry, another urgent report came from behind him: "Report———Report to lord, a caravan appeared behind our army, with many carriages, more than a hundred carriages, and there were no less than five hundred entourages accompanying him!"

"There is also a caravan behind?" Li Li was stunned, and then his expression changed drastically, exclaiming: "No, the caravan is an ambush! The army stopped, and it was fast."

"Boom boom boom boom---kill!"

Before Li Li could finish his words, he heard a loud rumbling sound from the turn of the mountain road ahead. Immediately, carriages covered with black cloth were running high and rushed straight towards the army led by him. Immediately, rockets wrapped in oil cloth suddenly landed on the carriage, but when the black cloth was pitch black, a raging fire was instantly ignited. It was not until this moment that Li Li saw clearly that the piles of goods piled on these carriages were actually all thatched and dry firewood.

In an instant, Li Li didn't think about it and immediately pulled back. When he turned around and retreated, he suddenly saw the same scene appearing behind the army. Carriages ran quickly, and the horses that were pulling the carriage were forced to run wildly by the burning fire behind him, and their speed was no less than those carriages that were diving straight down in front of the army.

Faced with the attacks of hundreds of fire carriages, Li Li and the five thousand soldiers under his command were in a dilemma and had no way to escape. They could only resist, gritted their teeth and rushed towards the oncoming horse and the raging fire behind them.

"Bang bang bang——————————”

During the fierce attack, dozens of Xiliang cavalry collided violently with the oncoming fire carriage. With loud bangs, these cavalry were hit by the carriage, and the carriage was also overturned by the cavalry. Then dozens of war cavalry and rolling fire carriage flew out of the mountain road together and fell off the cliff. Suddenly, there were tragic screams at both ends of the mountain road, the long neighing of the war horses when they fell off the cliff, and the loud banging sounds after falling off the cliff.

Such a scene of fighting cavalry and fire carriage dying together was staged one after another since the first carriage, and it seemed uncontrollable, one after another, becoming more and more intense, and the battle situation was unprecedentedly tragic.

But when they saw the Xiliang cavalry riding their horses head-on and attacking the carriage that was burning and completely out of control, the bravery and fearlessness at that moment were truly extremely heroic and a rare iron-blooded army. They seemed to be neither afraid of death nor forgot their flesh and blood, and collided with the crazy shocked horse like steel bars and iron bones.

"Li Zhe died and I will return my third brother's life to you!"

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