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Chapter 72, the crisis (1)

In the valley, Lei Dongfeng was merciless in the face of the Western Alliance soldiers who were still fighting with beasts. He only had the intention of resisting in his sight. He either had a crossbow arrow pierced the heart or a halberd immediately. For a moment, Xiao Lei's ruthless appearance made most of the Western Alliance soldiers who were still resisting chill. With the shouts of Rolla and Adelman, most of the Western Alliance began to choose to give up resistance.

"Brother, if you want to escort these prisoners, hurry up and tie them up, otherwise it will be troublesome when Als returns to help." Zhang Ce covered in blood and stepped out of the group of Han soldiers and cavalry who came from the tail of Shitou Ridge.

Although Zhang Ce practiced martial arts freely and was considered both civil and military, he was obsessed with strategy and invention for a long time, so after the battle, he added a lot of wounds to his body. At this moment, he was holding a long sword in his hand, but he had a bit of bloody masculinity.

When Rola saw that Chuck was injured, he immediately went up to him and bandaged him. However, seeing Chuck grinning but looking happy, he obviously enjoyed such service. Rola gave him a blank look and the guy returned to his true colors.

"Sun Desheng, you will immediately lead people to push these prisoners up the mountain. If anyone dares to resist, kill them on the spot!" Lei Dongfeng roared, and Sun Desheng immediately commanded the surrounding Han soldiers to start disarming the remaining nearly two thousand heavy infantry regiments.

Soon, the nearly two thousand heavy infantry weapons were confiscated, and the Han cavalry escorted them to the Shitou Ridge.

After the Shitou Ridge, Zhang Ce had already prepared a large open space where he tied up his captives, which was also considered his preparations for the future.

Fortunately, the mountains were not high, otherwise time would have been difficult to solve. But even so, when the last Teutonic heavy infantry was tied up and thrown into the grass, a thin stream of smoke rose up at the head of the Lion Head Ridge. It was obvious that the Western Allied Forces were racing.

"It is the scout of the Western Alliance, and it should be here to investigate the situation in the valley." Zhang Ce looked.

"Put in and capture them alive for me." Lei Dongfeng ordered.

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"Your Excellency, you have sent two teams of reconnaissance cavalry as you ordered, one mile apart. If there is any situation, I will report it to you in time." Duan Yichen said to Ars. The Xianbei wolf, who was injured by an arrow, insisted on chasing Li Yan with Ars.

"If Lei Dongfeng is congruent and Ming, he will choose to retreat; but if he is smarter, he will choose to eat that delicious cake. Then, wait for me to fight him." Aers looked at the direction of Shitou Ridge. At this moment, it was already ten or eight miles away from Shitou Ridge. More than ten miles ahead, the Xianbei cavalry led by Tuoba Hongchuan was entangled with the Han cavalry led by Li Yan, and he was leading the brigade in that direction.

"It's not possible to be dragged away like this. The Han soldiers and horses, even three cavalry, are always faster than us, and will always drag us down." A Western coalition staff officer frowned.

"Captain Menger Wanfu, Captain Bruceconi Wanfu, Deputy Duan Yichen's Legion, you will be led by you here for the time being. I will take my Mingguang Cavalry to chase Li Yan." Als said.

"No, sir, if the Han soldiers are ambushed, they will definitely be targeted. If you lead the team alone now, it is in line with their thoughts. I will leave a thousand cavalry for you and bring the remaining two thousand Xianbei light cavalry to chase you. I want to see if it is his Han soldiers and cavalry, or if my Xianbei cavalry is better." Duan Yichen said.

"This...well, Duan, you are already injured, so you must be careful." Als pondered for a moment and nodded.

"It's okay, this injury is only on the surface, and it doesn't hurt his muscles and bones." Duan Yichen pulled out a long-handed scimitar more than five feet long with his back hand and played it out. Sure enough, the wound on his shoulder did not have any impact on him.

"Duan, I'll be the queen of your palace!" Ars smiled, and had already made up his mind to eat Li Yan.

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"Bah, what kind of empire kills gods, you will know that they are like the weakest rabbit on the grassland, running around!" Tuoba Hongchuan spitted fiercely in front of the horse's head, and the dust in his mouth made his already anxious heart even more impatient.

Originally, Tuoba Hongchuan didn't take the more than a thousand Han cavalry in front of him seriously. In the eyes of this man who grew up on the grassland, there were no good cavalry in the world except the Xianbei people.

But today, Tuoba Hongchuan discovered that no matter how practical the Han cavalry had, his ability to control horses was no worse than that of his Xianbei light cavalry.

Moreover, no matter how he insulted his subordinates, the Han cavalry, who were no more than fifty meters away from his horse's head, fought forward one by one, but did not look back and responded.

This section of mountain road is mostly curved, and it is normally on the flat ground. With the cavalry of the Xianbei Light Cavalry, it is possible to shoot the enemy at this distance. But at this moment, due to the obstacles of the rocks and trees, the chasing Xianbei cavalry did not even touch a single horsehair of the Han cavalry.

The feather arrows shot out were either blocked by rocks or trees, or were calmly avoided by the Han soldiers.

On the other hand, Li Yan, the last Han cavalry, shot down more than a dozen Xianbei cavalry in succession with his fierce shooting skills.

Even Tuoba Hongchuan almost caught Li Yan's plot, and a bloody mark was scratched on his face, which made Tuoba Hongchuan want to put on his wings so that he could catch up with Li Yan immediately and tear him to pieces.

This behavior of taking Tuoba Hongchuan around and shooting his subordinates from time to time is simply a provocation to Tuoba Hongchuan and the Xianbei cavalry.

What did he regard the Xianbei cavalry as a fool? Or a wild wolf on the grassland?

However, this distance of less than fifty meters was not enough to get nothing except for the dust that Tuoba Hongchuan and his Xianbei cavalry had eaten. The pursuit time was nearly twenty minutes, but the Han soldiers in front had no intention of stopping.

"They ride three times, and I came out in a hurry. A large number of horses were given to the main force of Duan Dashui. It was barely the first time that one person and two times were so frustrated." Tuoba Hongchuan thought in his heart, becoming more and more depressed.

On the grassland, there have always been only other cavalry chasing the butts of Xianbei cavalry. How could this be the reason why Xianbei cavalry chasing the butts of others eat dust after they are chasing the butts of other people.

"Sir, the speed of the Han soldiers has slowed down." A Xianbei cavalry shouted in surprise.

"Be careful--" Tuoba Hongchuan shouted, dancing with a mace in his hand, knocking a feather arrow that was attacking the door, but the Xianbei cavalry was not so lucky to have just started shouting. Another feather arrow flew directly into his mouth before he could close his mouth. The poor Xianbei cavalry didn't even have time to scream, but he fell off his horse's hooves and were trampled into meat paste by the horse's hooves that he caught up later.

"Damn it, Li Yan, you can take my arrow too." Tuoba Hongchuan was furious. There was no reason why the cavalry on the grassland could not shoot arrows. It was just that the mountain roads here were curved and the terrain was complex, so they couldn't get used to it for a while.

The bows and arrows used by Tuoba Hongchuan and his Xianbei cavalry were different from those used in imperial styles. They were made of good horns and boxwood. Moreover, the bows and arrows of Xianbei cavalry were generally inherited from family traditions, that is, the father's bows and arrows were passed on to his son and then to his grandson.

In the empire, the Xianbei always implemented the people's lent soldiers, dismounted horses and rode by herders, and rode by horses. Although the Xianbei tribe has been constantly assimilated by the Han people for thousands of years, and Taizu also intended to build a large number of towns in grassland areas such as northern Mongolian, Qinghai and Gansu, and migrated a large number of Han people to the northwest, and at the same time attracted the Xianbei tribe to settle down, the Xianbei men still persisted in the tradition of riding and shooting when they spoke out.

This kind of family-born bow and arrow has been carefully conditioned and maintained by generations and has excellent quality, so Xianbei cavalry rarely uses other people's bows and arrows, because once the bow and arrow are replaced, it is difficult to get started. Of course, this kind of bow and arrow is usually only passed to the best children in the family, so the Xianbei cavalry can only use this kind of bow and arrow for about 20,000 people.

Moreover, these bows and arrows are more powerful than the cavalry standard bows used by ordinary Han cavalry. It is said that only the iron-tied bows used by the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Legion of the Imperial Capital can exceed their range.

The bow that Tuoba Hongchuan held in his hand was obtained from his own grandfather, and the light of this bow was much higher than that of ordinary bows and arrows in length.

Moreover, the bow strings of his bow and arrow were twisted with three strands of cow tendons, and they also used the best wolf-toothed iron arrows mass-produced by the high-end ordnance field of Zhongdu Longyang. From then on, it can be seen that Tuoba Hongchuan is very strong and can afford such a hard bow.

Tuoba Hongchuan pulled out a wolf-toothed arrow from the arrow bag, and gently picked the arrow's tail and put it on the bowstring. With a force on his arms, he pulled the bowstring round, and then loosened his fingers. With a buzzing sound, the Han soldiers and cavalry, who were blocked by the shadow of trees in the distance, screamed and shook them a few times and dropped off their horses.

"Sir, the great power!" A group of Xianbei cavalry cheered and their morale was greatly boosted.

"Shut up, wait until I shoot Li Yan to death, it's not too late for you to shout again." Tuoba Hongchuan was not satisfied. He wanted to kill not only these Han soldiers, but Li Yan and Li Jingtao, who regarded their Xianbei cavalry as nothing.

After hearing about Li Yan's achievements in his life, Tuoba Hongchuan felt discomfort and panic in his heart, but his tremendous fighting spirit. On the grassland, the strong have always been the priority, and there is a long tradition of challenging the strong.

If you pick the most powerful people down, you will be the new generation of strong people.

Li Yan's performance of commanding the Han cavalry to escape all the way today and not daring to respond to the challenge further strengthened Tuoba Hongchuan's determination to challenge him.

What's more, being able to entangle Li Yan is even if he completes the task assigned by Als, he will be a credit.

So, no matter from that aspect, Tuoba Hongchuan only thinks about fighting when facing Li Yan.

"Li Yan, if you are a man, don't just run away. Do you dare to fight me?" Tuoba Hongchuan yelled at the tall figure dozens of meters away.

"You guy, you are determined to die. Today I, Li Jingtao, will fulfill your wish!" Li Yan, who had been running, suddenly slowed down, strangled the horse, turned around and said coldly to Tuoba Hongchuan.
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