People walked a little further away, only Lei Yuan, Guo Jing and Ding Feng were there.

Ding Li said: "The sect leader is probably about to die, or he is unconscious, right?"

Lei Yuan was slightly shocked and then said calmly: "Yes, my father is often unconscious, and he is in a rapid deterioration... he can no longer be a normal director."

"I guess so... Otherwise, you will never be so brave, and you will never act so fiercely." Ding Li sneered, but a strange sound from his throat made.

Ding Feng took the lead and wanted to slap Ding Li on the back. Ding Li shook his head: "Don't move! You retreat!"

He stared at Lei Yuan and continued, "The situation of the sect leader cannot be hidden from me; just like the situation of the young general, it cannot be hidden from some people in the mountains. You should understand that at this extraordinary time, countless people are paying attention to the battle situation of the drum beater... There are too many people in the right corner of Huainan Hao, who have ulterior motives, and they cannot hide it... They will soon know the news that the young general died in battle."

Ding Li gasped and said, "Then they thought of the seriously ill sect leader...and then... within three to five days, the people in the mountain will definitely start to make trouble. At that time, the sect leader cannot come forward. If you are not there, the Lujiang Lei family will be in big trouble!"

"So what?" Lei Yuan nodded slightly and asked simply.

He could see that Ding Li had not had much time and could not delay.

"So you can't waste time here... What about guarding for five or ten days, you are fighting for others, it's meaningless. Young man, if you have ambitions, don't think about defending the drums to the end. You have to beat Zhang Liao! Win Zhang Liao as soon as possible, and go back and clean up the situation in the mountains! Otherwise..."

Speaking of this, Ding Li's face had turned white like chalk, his lips squirmed twice, but he couldn't make a sound. He took a few quick breaths and whispered: "So, you can't block the stone stairs... What's the use of blocking the stone stairs? Confronting both sides, five days, ten days, and then? What's the use of? You have to beat Zhang Liao! You have to win! You have to..."

His voice became lower and lower, and he gradually couldn't hear it clearly.

Ding Feng knelt on the ground, put his ear closer, and wanted to hear him say a few more words.

Ding Li seemed to have suddenly noticed his clan brother who was in a miserable state. He grinned and murmured in a weak voice: "Chengyuan, why did you become like this? Is your face... chewed by a dog?"

Ding Feng laughed dryly, and when he leaned down, Ding Li had already stopped breathing.

Lei Yuan felt unspeakable boredom in his heart.

He stood up and gave the position beside Ding Li to his grieving clan brothers and other personal soldiers.

The battle came to an end, but everyone on the battlefield was busy.

Lei Yuan looked around and saw Chen Xia and a group of people throwing stones and shooting arrows at the opposite mountain road.

In front of the Leigujian Pass, there is a deep valley surrounded by several steep cliffs, like a bottomless well. The mountain road surrounds the deep well and then turns into a rock wall. When the Cao army retreated on the stone stairs and on the zigzag-shaped mountain road below the stone stairs, Chen Xia's troops poured arrows and stones down like raindrops, causing another group of casualties to the already heavy losses to the Cao army.

But the Cao army retreated too quickly, and they almost risked falling off the cliff and ran on the mountain road. So they soon left the Rigujian Pass and walked around the opposite side of the deep valley.

At this distance, arrows and stones are difficult to play. Arrows will be blown away by the strong mountain wind, and not everyone has the strength to throw stones of different sizes five or six feet away. Even with this strength, there is no need to be required to achieve accuracy.

Chen Xia stomped his feet and shouted angrily. He was obviously a little depressed. Perhaps he had thought about using a flying stone to kill Zhang Liao on the mountain road. If he really succeeded, Lei Yuan would not say that he would be regarded as his benefactor, but unfortunately he did not.

He Song was instructing his subordinates to collect the bodies of the dead on his own side scattered on the platform and place them side by side. As for the bodies left by Cao's army or the seriously injured, they would be repaired and stripped off their armor and robes and threw them into the gully.

The canyon below the platform is very deep. After the body falls, it will make a muffled sound only after one breath. Lei Yuan can imagine the tragic nature of flesh and blood flying. This kind of operation is a provocation and shock to Cao's army.

The battle was short and the scale was small: even if the time Cao's army forced to pass through the mountain road under the cover of arrows, it was less than half an hour; due to the terrain restrictions, it was difficult for the number of people fighting at the same time to exceed one hundred.

However, nearly half of the soldiers in Ding Li's song have been lost, and the battle is so fierce that it can be seen from this.

The Cao army abandoned its corpse on the platform only dozens; after all, the Cao army had strong armor and sharp blades, and Ding Li's troops could not take advantage of the battle face to face. But if the Cao army was violently attacked by arrows and flying stones on the stone stairs in order to reinforce Zhang Liao, the dead might have exceeded 200, or even more.

Lei Yuan can confirm that those are the elite forces in the Cao army who defeated the enemy. They are the real core forces under Zhang Liao's command and the basis for this general to gain a foothold under Cao Cao's command. The casualties and injuries of these people must be so painful that Zhang Liao cannot express his words.

Lei Yuan asked himself how many times he could not bear such a loss, but how many times could Zhang Liao bear? How many times would he be willing to bear it?

Lei Yuan walked forward again until he stood at the edge of the platform and looked out.

During the process of advancing and retreating, Cao's army covered every step of the stone staircase with blood. There were broken limbs, broken flesh, and twisted and deformed armor on the edge of the blood pond. The scene was bloody and scary. In contrast, when the archers on their side were splashing arrows and flying stones downwards, they were inevitably shot by Cao's powerful crossbows, so many lodging corpses were left on the edge of the platform.

However, the shooting between the two sides has ended.

At this moment, the Cao army had completely left the coverage of the arrows, so they were finally able to slow down slightly. After all, they were tenacious soldiers who had been through the battlefield for a long time. Their queues were no longer panic. They even packed up the weapons, armor and other items of the dead along the way, and brought the injured back together.

Cao's first attack failed, and their second attack should be slightly apart. Even if Zhang Liao intends to launch an offensive immediately, it is not easy to alternate between the two troops in the front and rear positions of the mountain road.

Lei Yuan thought maliciously that since there were no forks or branches on the mountain road, the wounded and dead of the previous unit would pass by the next unit in a row. It is an interesting question to see how much morale the latter unit could retain. And how much morale to Zhang Liao should boost their morale is another interesting question.

After a while, Cao's army completely retreated to the back of the cliff opposite the deep valley. The mountain road within its sight returned to its empty state. Only when the wild birds that had been frightened before were hovering, the mountains were silent and still vast. Floating autumn winds whistled past, slowly dissipating the strong bloody smell.

I stared into the distance for a long time, and it took a while before I turned around.

"Little Langjun?" Guo actually quickly stepped forward half a step.

Lei Yuan shook his head: "Wait a little longer, let me think about it."

Lei Yuan did not expect that Ding Lihui would give such a suggestion.

But when you think about it carefully, it makes sense.

Lei Yuan's previous plan was based on the fact that his father Lei Xu was seriously ill and the death of the young general Lei Xiu was never leaked. As long as these two news was always under strict blockade, there would be no change in the Huainan Qunhao team deep in the mountains. Under the intimidation of the Lujiang Lei family's strength, everyone would retreat honestly, and hope that the blocking battle with the drum beat was successful.

But what if these two news is leaked? Or, even if it is not leaked, someone who is interested finds clues from clues? Is there any possibility?

It is very likely that Lei Yuan told him.

Ding Li is not a strange person with the wisdom of ghosts and gods. He can think of it, and others can think of it.

The Huainan Haoyou Alliance has never been an unbreakable alliance. It is an alliance of losers, a group of ambitious thieves, and a group of wild beasts that can bite each other at any time. The Lujiang Lei family just suppressed them, but did not combine them into a whole.

In this alliance, paying attention to companions is even more important than focusing on the enemy, because companions are closer and more dangerous. Of course, if they eat their companions' bodies, it will be more delicious. During the previous military discussion in the mountains, Chen Lan had already clearly shown the intention to fight for dominance just because Lei Xu was seriously ill. Will such a person not pay attention to the battle situation of the drum beat? Will he do nothing loyally and simply until Lei Yuan leads his troops back?

Not only Chen Lan, these two news leaked to the ears of any Huainan leader, this person will definitely cause storms in the mountains. There is no need to expect these people to have any morals, nor do we expect them to give up their past grudges in the crisis and work together to fight the enemy.

Jiang Huaihao stood tall for many years, relying on constant deception, betrayal and annexation. All the leaders, including Lei Xu, were not moral. When the power of the Lei clan weakened, the former allies would never give up on this opportunity to weaken or even divide. Perhaps at this time, someone had already sharpened his sword and was about to have bloody storms?

At the same time... if I refuse to stay at the Beating Gujian Pass for five or ten days, as Ding Li said, is useless? If there is indeed a change in the Mount Camp in the past few days, once a new leader appears, the young man from the Lei clan of Lujiang and his subordinates will become "remnants of the previous dynasty". The remnants of the previous dynasty will definitely die miserably.

Since Lei Xiu died in battle, Lei Yuan has been in an extremely dangerous situation. He once warned himself that the old enemy is still the enemy; and the original comrades and partners may become new enemies at any time.

He did think of this aspect, but when he was concentrating on dealing with strong enemies on the battlefield, he neglected this aspect again. Until Ding Li thought of this, Ding Li was really a rare smart person.

pity.

Lei Yuan murmured and cursed.

Two soldiers carried a body of a dead man and passed by Lei Yuan. The body was not stiff yet, and his arms were drooping, shaking and shaking, hit Lei Yuan's waist, causing him to stagger.

The two soldiers showed apologetic eyes and wanted to apologize, but they all carried the body with four hands and could not move. Lei Yuan glanced inadvertently, but found that the deceased had seen him had taken his own jam last night to repay the young soldier with a string of purple berries. He hit an arrow on his forehead, probably dead on the spot, and his expression was still peaceful.

"It's okay, it's okay." Lei Yuan waved to the two soldiers and said, "Oh...you guys go busy!"

He called the Fan brothers.

"Did you see that the soldiers were cleaning up the bodies there?" He raised his hand and pointed to Fan Hong.

Fan Hong nodded.

"You immediately bring a few smart and sensible companions over, recognize them one by one, carefully record the names and hometowns of the people who died in battle, and then ask where the family is now? Are there any relatives in the family? Whose name is the relative? I will write down the information I asked for, tell all the soldiers that I will be responsible for pension or sacrifice to the dead in the future, and will also take good care of their families and relatives. Well... First, check the situation of Ding Li's death in battle. Then, yesterday, the day before yesterday, all the brothers who died in battle will do this accordingly, and they must not be ignored."

Fan Hong took the order and left. Lei Yuan also called Fan Feng: "Summon He Song, Deng Tong, Chen Xia, and Ding Feng... Let these four people come here to discuss matters immediately."

Fan Feng took the order and ran.

Lei Yuan turned around and lowered his eyes to the mountain road below the cliff.

After a while, Cao's army will attack again. To defeat them, it is much more difficult than to stop them. The intensity of the battle will continue to increase and the blood will be required to shed. After all, the enemy general on the opposite side is Zhang Liao!

This is completely different from my previous arrangement. The situation finally broke away from my own control and slipped in an increasingly cruel direction.

Should we try it? Or should we pin our hopes on those two news that will not be revealed, and the tyrants who are in the mountains will be safe and stable?

Lei Yuan sighed: "Old Guo, you said... can we win?"

Guo Jing's expression remained unchanged. At Ding Li's request, Lei Yuan terminated the order to transport wood and stones to block the stone stairs, and has not ordered to continue transporting. Guo Jing already knew Lei Yuan's choice.
Chapter completed!