"There is a pass ahead, be careful." Jiang Li slowed down and said in a deep voice, but before he finished speaking, a loud rumbling sound suddenly came from ahead.
The two of them rode forward quickly. After a turn, the road gradually rose, and the canyon suddenly narrowed from dozens of feet wide to only a dozen feet wide. The river channel on the left accounted for seven to eight feet, and the ice surface was far away from the right side.
The mountain road is three to four feet high, with cliffs on both sides.
Looking up, the mountain walls are uneven. Some of the protruding mountain walls are covered with gravel and snow. The roaring sound is due to the countless gravel and snow falling from above. Under the strong wind, there are fine stones and snow from time to time.
The snow blew towards the two people who were about ten feet away. The falling rocks stopped after half a cup of tea. The road several feet wide for vehicles had been blocked tightly by countless stones and snow. Although there were many people
It is still possible to pass on the ice, but it is obviously impossible for livestock and vehicles to pass.
The two Salt Gang guards who were following them for a hundred steps had also caught up. Jiang Li and Qi Zhou looked at each other and said to the visitor: "Tell my second brother, I wonder if it is the snow that is pressing down on Duan Shiliang or someone."
As a result of this deliberate act, vehicles are no longer allowed to pass here.”
The visitor quickly ran back on horseback. After a while, the second brother and Guo Wen came to check in person, with their brows furrowed.
"Second brother, look... do you want to go on? We just can't move these fallen rocks in a few days." Jiang Li asked in a deep voice.
"We can only take another path." The second brother hesitated for a moment and then said firmly.
"Could it be..." Guo Wen hesitated, because this was probably the work of the Pei family, forcing them to take another detour in the canyon. In that case, they would have to spend the night in the canyon...
"Stop talking and let's go." Sikong Lang said expressionlessly.
The rear team of the motorcade changed to the front team. After walking back for about half a mile, they entered through a fork in the road. Wanyan Gang and Fifth Brother took the lead in exploring the road. Except that the fork in the road was relatively narrow at the beginning, the inside was actually getting farther and farther.
As the road got wider, there were several three-way and four-way intersections along the way. This did not trouble the fifth brother Dou Huai who led the way, and Wan Yangang accompanied him and walked another ten miles in one breath.
Dou Huai suddenly felt a commotion behind him, and then the cry of "Run! Run!" resounded throughout the valley. The slowly moving horse-drawn carriage and camel suddenly accelerated and were coming towards him. Then he saw his second brother and his fourth brother.
Brother, He Qizhou and several others arrived on flying horses.
"Lao Wu, the Pei family has defeated the army and is chasing us here. Let's go quickly and see if there is any ambush at the entrance of the Sifang Valley ahead!" the second brother yelled while galloping.
"Are you going into the valley? Aren't you afraid of being caught in a urn? Let's go back and kill." Dou Huai asked with some doubts.
"Don't ask, just follow me. The Pei bandits have teams of crossbowmen, and even the army can't stop them. If we can hold the mouth of the valley, we might have time to rush out!" Sikong Lang said, waving to Dou Huai.
Wanyan Gang followed, and a group of more than a dozen riders rushed forward quickly.
"What's going on? The officers and soldiers are so useless?" Dou Huai asked as he ran closer to Sikong Lang, who had surpassed him.
"The officers and soldiers fell into Hong Lei's trap and attacked an empty nest where there was an ambush. Only about 40 of the more than 200 people escaped. There seems to be a big shot among the officers and soldiers. He just ran to the end of our team. There may be more
Use our strength to stop the Pei bandits. The remaining officers and soldiers are blocking the Pei family's pursuers. However, it is so wide here that it is difficult to stop them. We must quickly go to the valley entrance to set up defenses!" "What the fuck!" Dou Huai roared angrily.
With a sound, he rode hard and moved forward.
As its name suggests, Sifang Valley is a flat valley surrounded by mountains, about half a mile square, with an exit on the east and west sides. He Qizhou did not see any ambush when he followed Sikong Lang through the west entrance. The entrance on the west side is a gap between two mountains, wide.
About six to seven feet away, Sikong Lang asked He Qizhou and other guards to dismount and climb up the hills on both sides of the gap, holding their bows on guard while directing the camel convoy to quickly enter the valley.
He Qizhou felt a little relieved when he saw that the hay cart that was already at the front was carrying Xu Mu into the valley first. He just looked around the Sifang Valley and couldn't help but frown secretly. He saw that in addition to the high mountains and steep walls on the south side, there were three places in the east, west and north.
A hill dozens of feet high can easily form an ambush. If the east exit is blocked, the convoy will seem to have entered a dead end. Although Sikong Lang has sent four people to guard the east exit, if it really encounters an expert or
The large group ambushed, but the convoy was still unable to break out of the siege.
All the vehicles quickly entered the valley, and the last one looked familiar. It turned out to be the second princess's vehicle. The driver was
The horses rushed forward with all their strength, and the ones guarding the driver were brothers Hu Kun and Hu Lun. Both of them were covered in blood, and they didn't know whether it was other people's blood or their own blood.
The sound of fighting on the way was getting closer and closer. Almost all the guards in the caravan, plus more than 20 drivers from the Salt Gang, were on the hills on both sides of the entrance to the sub-station, and more than 20 bows were pointed at the road into the valley.
Soon, the officers and soldiers who were fighting and retreating came to the mouth of the valley. In the end, eight bloody officers and soldiers retreated into the valley. The hundreds of Pei family members who were chasing them were actually wearing military uniforms and armors because the road into the valley was too narrow.
, being shot down by the caravan guards several times, they did not dare to rush into the valley again, and fired several rounds of crossbow arrows from a distance. Seeing that there was no effect, they all stopped dozens of feet away, as if waiting for something.
Sure enough, an earth-shattering sound once again shocked the shocked caravan members who retreated into Sifang Valley. The two salt gang guards guarding Pegasus at the east exit rushed to the west exit and shouted to Sikong Lang: "Second brother, the exit is blocked.
, someone pried loose the rocks on the high mountain in the south, and they fell together with the rolling logs and snow. The two brothers were buried underneath, and they must be dead."
Upon hearing the news, everyone who was guarding the entrance of the valley on the west side changed their expressions.
"Can the horse get out?" Sikong Lang still remained calm and asked in a deep voice.
"Definitely not possible. The pile is more than ten feet high. It would be difficult for people to climb out!"
"Secure the valley entrance first!" Sikong Lang walked quickly towards the second princess's carriage, while Guo Wen had already quickly arrived at the carriage and asked through the curtain: "Your Highness, what should we do now?"
"What are you afraid of? Wait!" The second princess shouted gloomily from inside the car.
"Whoosh -" A flying arrow suddenly pierced the sky and headed straight for the carriage. However, there was a "ding" sound, the arrow pierced the felt as if it had touched steel, and then fell weakly to the ground.
"Pei Zhenglun, you are a coward, why don't you dare to show up now?" The second princess asked sternly from inside the carriage.
"Helian Changying, aren't you huddled in the car like a turtle? You didn't expect that we would catch a turtle in the urn, did you?" The voice came from the mountain dozens of feet high in the north, but there was no one in sight, but east, north, and west
The back of the mountain ahead is filled with the sound of dense climbing footsteps.
"Be careful! Everyone, come down quickly, lean against Nanshan Mountain, and set up a shield formation!" The tall Sikong Lang shouted to the people guarding the valley entrance, and at the same time, he grabbed the second princess's horse and pulled the cart to all directions.
The place directly south of the valley and backed by Nanshan Mountain.
Sikong Lang continued to make arrangements loudly to the people who had already taken action: "Everyone forms a semicircle against the mountain wall. The driver is holding a shield on the outside. The guards stand behind the driver with bows. If they rush over, shoot arrows!"
Before Sikong Lang finished speaking, crossbowmen from the Pei family rushed up Beishan and shot arrows at the guards who were originally guarding the west valley entrance from the side and behind. Fortunately, Sikong Lang warned them early, and most of them were prepared.
Most of them ran to the south mountain to form an array. A few slower runners also used shields to protect themselves and retreated to the edge of the cliff. Only two weak guards from the Lotus Gang were shot and wounded first, and then were hit by more and more crossbows.
When he was hit by an arrow from his hand, his whole body turned into a ball of arrows like a hedgehog.
In the chaos, He Qizhou still discovered that the shooter who had been assassinating these days shot at Gu Ting three times in a row, but Gu Ting dodged or blocked them all. Judging from Gu Ting's calm response, he was at least at the level of the peak of the Eight Meridians.
, even much stronger than Gongsun Yi!
Among the people who evacuated from the west valley entrance, only one person neither retreated to the south mountain wall nor was hit by a crossbow. This person was He Qizhou, because when Sikong Lang asked everyone to retreat, everyone rushed to the south.
The mountain wall, but Xu Muxue could not move or dare to run, because most of the time she had to be carried up by He Qizhou on his back. At this time, staying in the car was the best choice.
So as soon as Sikong Lang said to retreat, He Qizhou blocked the crossbow arrows fired from Beishan with his shield, while running desperately towards the camel-horse convoy parked in the middle of Sifang Valley, and got directly into Xu Mu's hay cart.
Although the middle of the valley is about a hundred steps away from the surrounding mountains, it is still within the range of the crossbow. However, the area under the cliff of Nanshan is just beyond the range of the crossbow. If you want to hit it, you must climb over the mountain and enter the valley, which will also lead to entering the Shang Dynasty.
The shooting range of the team and the remaining soldiers of the Second Princess.
He Qizhou originally wanted to carry Xiaoxue and Guo Wen on his back to join them, but when he got into the car, he found that the caravan had formed a semicircular shield formation. At this time, he rushed out of the carriage and would either expose his skills or be shot.
Being a hedgehog, he simply stayed in the car. With the shield in his hand and the armor on his body, he was not afraid of how much damage the crossbow arrows could cause.
After a few crossbow arrows shot through the carriage and were blocked by He Qizhou's shield, there was no movement. Only a few tragic horse neighs came from outside the carriage. He Qizhou thought that maybe he didn't care about his minions, or thought that he had already shot him.
Of course, in a dead car, there is also the possibility of hurting these valuable livestock.
He Qizhou looked at the situation on three sides through the arrow holes. There were forty or fifty crossbowmen on each hilltop, standing ready. The crossbows in their hands were exactly the same as those of the mustache horse bandits. The pursuers outside the West Valley Pass did not rush in directly.
, but were mobilizing the shield bearers to form a formation and making preparations for the charge.
"Hahahahaha" A burst of loud laughter broke through the newly silent valley from the mountain in the north: "Helian Changying, it's okay for you to send so many things, why did you send yourself too?"
The second princess in black fur opened the car door, slowly got out of the carriage, and said calmly: "Pei Xianyi, I will personally come to take your life! Listen to all of you, what your Majesty wants to deal with is the culprits Pei Xianyong and Pei Zhenglun, the others only need to
Put down your weapons and let the past be forgotten." Although the second princess's voice was silent, it spread very clearly throughout the valley and fell into everyone's ears. She actually had superior internal power!