The cavalry on the opposite side retreated, and the infantry, frightened by the momentum, also slowly retreated.

"Kill!" Xu Cheng roared angrily from far away and led his troops to kill from the east.

This also became the last straw for them.

The Mi County troops turned around and fled.

Wei Shan shouted: "This opportunity cannot be missed, the secret city must be broken today!"

How could Li Yue let them go? His heart was burning. If he could directly enter Mi County, all problems would be solved.

But after chasing for a while, I felt something was wrong. Even though the opponent was in a mess, he ran extremely fast and specialized in rugged paths. Every time he looked right in front of him, he couldn't catch up.

After entering the mountainous area, perhaps because of his reduced physical strength, he slowed down.

But my own physical strength is also declining quickly.

Looking at the crisscrossing hills and ravines around him, Li Yue suddenly felt a very bad premonition in his heart.

The opponent didn't have the strength to fight, but he turned around and ran away.

Generally speaking, the fleeing party will abandon their armor, but they will keep their weapons firmly in their hands as they flee.

"General, be careful of tricks to lure the enemy!" Xu Cheng came panting from behind.

"Stop!" Li Yue ordered quickly.

The tooth flags around them fell down, and the soldiers shouted loudly: "Stop!"

The soldiers turned around blankly. Although they were confused, they finally stopped.

The people in Mi County have disappeared into the hills and dense forests.

The surroundings were quiet, not even a bird chirping, and it was a bit sultry.

Cold sweat broke out on Li Yue's forehead. Heiyun Mountain has developed so smoothly in the past few months. It has eaten Jijiabao, annexed refugees and bandits, and has expanded three times compared to the Heiyun Mountain in Zhao Guang's time.

But that doesn't mean everyone around is so weak.

If you think about it carefully, Jijiabao's strength is not bad, and it almost wiped out all 800 elite soldiers in Fangtou. If Ji Yong hadn't publicly preached the surrender of Jienu and lost people's hearts, it would have cost more to break Wubao.

"Retreat!" Li Yue made a decisive decision.

A single defeat will bring the defeat of Heiyun Mountain to the sky, and it will be beyond redemption.

The tooth flag stood up and swayed backwards, and the soldiers retreated step by step.

The hills and woods are still quiet.

However, Li Yue still heard a "buzzing" sound, like a swarm of bees flapping their wings.

It was the sound of countless bowstrings pulling.

Then, countless figures appeared in the woods, and they were actually men, women, old and young, joining the battle together, forming a semi-surrounding force.

Fortunately, Li Yue discovered something was wrong in time, and after taking more than thirty steps forward, he was completely trapped in their ambush.

"Listen to the thieves and bandits in Heiyun Mountain. Under the orders of Governor Zhang, we will exterminate you and surrender. We will only kill the chief villains Li Yue and Bo Wu. If you resist, no chickens or dogs will be left in Heiyun Mountain!" A man in the forest shouted.

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The sound came with the autumn wind.

Governor? Li Yue was shocked. Sizhou was the name of the Jin people. Luoyang was the capital of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the Sili Xiaowei Mansion near Luoyang was named Sizhou.

When Shi Le founded the country, Luoyang was not the capital but was changed to Luozhou.

However, the hearts of people south of the river still belong to the Jiangdong court, and they still habitually call the area around Luoyang Sizhou.

There can only be one governor near Xuanyuan Mountain and Mi County—Yuzhou governor Zhang Yu!

The expansion of Heiyun Mountain did not attract the attention of Yecheng, but it aroused the vigilance of Zhang Yu of Xuchang.

If he focuses on Heiyun Mountain, then his southward expansion strategy will go bankrupt.

No matter how arrogant Li Yue is, he cannot fight against a big state.

At least not now.

Thinking about it this way, everything made sense. Why were there four troops besieging him at the same time? Why was Xuanyuan Mountain suddenly hostile to Heiyun Mountain? The driving force behind it was Zhang Yu, the governor of Yuzhou.

Now it seems that Xuanyuanshan brought a ragtag group of people to come up, but it was actually a perfunctory thing.

The annexation of Jijiabao by Heiyun Mountain may not attract the attention of Yecheng even if it is small, but it will certainly arouse the vigilance of Yuzhou if it is large or large.

All kinds of thoughts were running around in Li Yue's mind, but the soldiers were emotionally stable and retreated step by step without any disorder in their formation.

In an instant, there was a "buzz" in the forest, and countless sharp arrows flew out of the forest like locusts, tearing through the blue sky with a black mass.

Then they fell densely.

Clinking, the shields and iron armor blocked most of them, but the people wearing leather armor and those without armor in the center suffered a disaster. They screamed and screamed. More than 20 people were shot to death on the spot, and more people were injured.

, said nothing.

Fortunately, the range of the bow and arrow is only enough for this one time.

On the hill, enemies poured out in dense numbers, including men, women, children, old and weak, no less than ten thousand people, carrying forks, hoes, and some even had kitchen knives in their hands.

There were also soldiers among the crowd.

It was obvious that these civilians were treated as consumables in the war.

"Kill the thief!" Everyone had a sworn expression on their faces.

Li Yue's heart sank, not because he was afraid of their momentum, but because the "kill the thieves" one after another was quite harsh...

Perhaps whether it is Jie Zhao or Jiangdong, in their eyes, Heiyun Mountain is just a group of thieves.

"Unless Zhang Yu comes in person, we can fight!" Wei Shan raised his long sword with murderous intent in his eyes.

The man who persuaded us to surrender said, "On the order of Governor Zhang", which means that Zhang Yu did not come. If he came, it would not be these old and weak women and children who would go into battle.

"Zhang Yu is still on the way even if he didn't come. You can't stay here for a long time. Please retreat."

We cannot fight this kind of bitter battle without any benefit.

Mi County is the northwest gateway to Xuchang, and Zhang Yu cannot let it fall into the hands of others.

Once caught in the tug of war with Zhang Yu, how could a small Heiyun Mountain consume the entire Yuzhou?

The opponent had a strong momentum, but they did not dare to attack. They sent the Black Cloud Mountain tribe back to Mishui and retreated.

You and I have been going back and forth for so long, and there are not many casualties on both sides.

It was as if they were just cooperating with each other and acting out a show.

The people in Xuanyuan Mountain are acting, but the people in Mi County don't seem to have the determination to fight bloody battles.

But this is good, as long as everyone knows it.

We are born from the same roots, so why rush to fight against each other? We are all Han people, why should we fight for the Jie people?

Li Yue looked at the rushing water and laughed, leaving the guards around him baffled. "Build a water fortress here with deep trenches and high fortresses."

Expansion southward is impossible in the short term.

Li Yue now only hopes that Zhang Yu will not attack him. The deep ditch and high base are just to tell him that he just wants to defend the territory of Sishui Fort in Heiyun Mountain.

What happened today also made Li Yue sober up a lot and he knew what he was missing.

In addition to the Jie people, the enemies also include various large and small forces nearby.

There is also a Xingyang prefect above his head.

If the name is not correct, the words will not be correct. Caught between the two major forces, with only slogans and no status, it is difficult to mix. Even if they have a certain strength, they are just "thieves and bandits" in the eyes of the people of the Central Plains.

This is reality and the rule of this era.

Zu Ti and Li Ju created such a huge momentum, weren't they also controlled by Jiangdong?

"Wei Liao Zi" says: A soldier takes military force as his plant and literature as his seed. Military force is the exterior, and literature is the interior. If you can judge these two, you will know victory or defeat.

War is a continuation of politics, and reckless actions will definitely not work. Even if the blood of Black Cloud Mountain is drained, it will be difficult to open up the situation.

Li Yue was thinking about whether to send someone to Jiangdong to get an appointment from the Sima family.

But then I thought about it, what is my identity?

Will the Jiangdong court think highly of me?

Even if I get the appointment from Jiangdong, I'm afraid the Jie people from Yecheng will come in no time.
Chapter completed!