"Bo Miao, hurry up and click a team of soldiers to arrange tinder oil and other fire-induced objects along the plank road behind him." Zhao Yun ordered Deng Zhi firmly.

Deng Zhi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then he came over and hurriedly advised: "General, no, if the plank road is burned, it will be extremely difficult to build in the future. This Baoxi Road will probably not be used within one or two years. In this way, our army will have one less road when it goes north to Guanzhong."

After a pause, he continued: "The old general is like this, Zhi personally led a team of troops to attack. He will never retreat until he destroys the Wei army."

"If I could force myself to attack, I would have been there long ago." Zhao Yun smiled and said, "Bo Miao doesn't have to persuade me anymore. I will take responsibility alone. Let's arrange the manpower as soon as possible, so as not to be too late."

Deng Zhi said: "This is not what Zhi means. Oh, I'll go now." After that, he stomped his feet and went to arrange his own hands.

In the afternoon, the siege provoked thousands of Wei troops who had already chased him, less than twenty miles away from this place. The Han army had already set up fire on the plank road for several miles. If it was burned, it would be enough to cut off Cao Zhen's pursuit.

After hearing this report, Zhao Yun looked up at the sky. Seeing that the sun was getting more and more, he said to Deng Zhi: "Don't wait any longer, Bo Miao, send an order to ignite the fire."

"General, is it really going to be like this?" Deng Zhi wanted to persuade again: "It's better to divide Zhi's two thousand troops and go back to block the Wei army. As long as we can break through the enemy in the valley, our army will have a turning point."

"This is too risky. If we cannot break through the valley in front of us at night, then more and more Wei troops will be. By then, we will be defeated if we are surrounded in the middle." Zhao Yun sighed and continued, "Go and light the fire."

Deng Zhi also sighed and bowed and replied, "No."

On the other hand, the Wei army scout was also reporting to Cao Zhen that the Han army was blocked. Cao Zhen was overjoyed when he heard this: "Haha, Qin Ji and the others did a good job. This is really God helping me."

"But General, we smelled the scent of tinder oil on the front plank road. The Sichuan thieves seemed to have the possibility of burning the plank road." The scout said.

Cao Zhen was shocked and said, "What, this is the case? Damn, Zhao Yun, this old man, wants to set fire to stop our army, is so shameless!"

He quickly ordered: "I ordered the former army to accelerate its light equipment and speed up its progress, and it was necessary to prevent the Shu army from burning the plank road." After that, he urged the troops to speed up their pace.

On the plank road where only three or four people were allowed to walk side by side, Deng Zhi personally brought people to the nearest ignition point. As long as he ignites the place, the fire will spread for several miles.

"Let's fire."

Deng Zhi looked back at the valley ahead. The fighting sounds there were still not stops, and it seemed to have become even louder. At this moment, the army could not advance or retreat, and they could only burn the plank road.

Deng Zhi and others took a few steps back, leaving only a sergeant holding a torch in front. Seeing that the sergeant was about to light the torch on the railings of the plank road covered with tinder oil, he suddenly heard a shout from behind: "Stop lighting, stop lighting..."

Deng Zhi and others looked at the sound and saw a messenger rushing towards Deng Zhi and said, "General Deng, General Zhao has ordered the plank road not to burn."

"Why is this?" Deng Zhi was surprised and happy.

The messenger replied: "There are reinforcements behind the valley. After the raid, the Wei army was attacked and most of it has been annihilated. Our army can withdraw its troops through the valley."

"This is actually happening? It's so great." Deng Zhi said happily.

Then he ordered the soldiers to extinguish the torches and hurried back to the front. He saw Zhao Yunzheng talking to a general with armor from afar. He looked carefully and found that the general was Liu Yin, the general of the Hanzhong County Central Army.

"General Zilong."

"General Liu Zhonglang."

Zhao Yun looked back and smiled and said, "Oh, Bo Miao is back."

"Yin has seen General Deng." Liu Yin bowed his fists and said.

Deng Zhi asked, "General Zilong, what happened? Why is General Liu Zhonglang here?"

"Haha, Bo Miao, fortunately Xiuran came in time, suddenly came out from behind the Wei army, killing hundreds of Wei soldiers in one fell swoop, and only dozens of people ran over mountains and ridges along remote paths.

Now, the enemy in the valley has been cleared, and a certain brigade has ordered the brigade to set out first." Zhao Yun explained happily.

Deng Zhi nodded and said with a smile: "So that's it. Fortunately, the messenger ran very fast, so Zhi almost lit the plank road." He turned his head and looked at Liu Yin and asked: "How did General Zhonglang know that we were trapped here?"

Liu Yin replied, "It's great that General Bo Miao knew that Prime Minister Zhuge had sent envoys to ask the two generals to retreat to Hanzhong at the right time. My family's lord also sent a letter to him, and ordered the last general to lead his troops to come out of Baoxi Road to respond.

Last night, the general led the 3,000 troops to the Dige Pavilion for a while. After traveling for twenty or thirty miles this morning, he met the 3,000 Right Army escorted a large number of military funds back. Only then did he realize that the two generals had ordered the withdrawal of troops. So the general asked the 3,000 Right Army to withdraw back to Chiya by themselves, and he led the soldiers to come to pick them up.

When approaching this valley, the scouts reported that the Wei army was fighting with our army here, so they led their troops from behind to attack and successfully eliminated the Wei army."

"So that's the case. Fortunately, the General of the Central Army was prepared and led his troops to support him. Otherwise, our army would have the only way to burn the plank road." Deng Zhi said with a glee.

Zhao Yun nodded and said, "Yes, if Yang Mingzhi had foresight, my Right Army would be in danger."

"Yang Fujun is extremely smart, and he is indeed well-known!" Deng Zhi also admired.

Liu Yin said: "It's not too early, so please ask the two generals to retreat first and stay here to block the Wei army."

"Well, this valley is indeed an excellent dangerous pass." Zhao Yun said: "In this way, Bo Miao, you lead the army to retreat, and a certain group of 1,000 troops will be left to block the enemy with Xiu Ran."

"yes."

Soon, Deng Zhi led a large group of troops to evacuate. Nearly 4,000 troops under Zhao Yun and Liu Yin were deployed to ambush the mountain peaks on both sides, waiting for the arrival of the Wei army.

"Hmph, the Sichuan thieves really want to burn the plank road, they are so crazy." Cao Zhen couldn't help but curse when he saw the fire-burning object hidden around the plank road.

The side general Yan He leaned closer and said, "General, it's not right. Since the thief of Shu has prepared the fire-driven object, why didn't he burn the plank road? There must be something strange about it."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Well, this matter is indeed a bit strange. Could it be that Qin Ji and the others have changed?" Cao Zhenxin said with doubts: "There is no sound of fighting in front of you, and it is impossible for Qin Ji and the others to be defeated."

"I ordered the scouts to go forward and pay special attention to whether there are ambushers of Shu thieves in the valley ahead."

The captain responsible for deploying the scouts quickly responded: "No."

Half an hour later, Cao Zhen led his troops to the front of the valley. At this time, it was dark, and the valley hundreds of steps away was quiet. The vague mouth of the valley was like a bloody mouth waiting for a stranger to enter, revealing a creeping breath.

"Where did Qin Ji and the others go? Where are the Shu army?" Cao Zhen was shocked when he saw that there was no one fighting in front of the valley.

Yan He said: "General, it seems that General Qin and the others have been defeated by the Shu army, and the Shu army has retreated far through this valley."

"Oh, it must be so. Qin Ji was really incompetent and let the Shu army run away. After he went back, he wanted to punish him." Cao Zhen nodded and said angrily.

"Report, General, there is an ambush in the valley ahead." Suddenly, three scouts came out of the valley and shouted.

Cao Zhen was shocked and said, "The army is on guard." He asked the scout leader who came in front of him, "How many people are there in the Shu army? What is the situation in the valley?"

"When I returned to the general, I waited to see the valley, and there were corpses all over the ground, including our army and Shu army. Although I found traces of a large number of Shu army moving forward, I still looked up the mountains on both sides.

But before we reached the hillside, dozens of arrows shot up on the mountain, and the four brothers were shot to death immediately. Three of us and we were at the end and escaped by chance. We were unable to find out how many ambushers were, but we estimated that there were no less than hundreds."

"So that's it, I understand." Cao Zhen nodded and waved his hand to let the scout retreat.
Chapter completed!