The snow-capped mountains and ridges, the only thoroughfare leading to Beiliang, were stained with bright red blood.
A spear was thrust diagonally into the only plum tree on the mountain ridge. A corpse dripping with hot blood was nailed under the tree, looking in the direction of Beiliang.
Scarface's eyes were still open, and he was holding on to Ning Wu's spear with both hands, causing Ning Wu to temporarily abandon the spear and pursue him with only his knife, bow and arrows.
"..." When the scouts from Lizhou Camp who were chasing after him saw the dead look of Scarface, they all fell silent and continued to chase.
There is no doubt that Scarface is a man and a hero.
But that's for Beiliang.
His hero is my enemy.
"stop!"
The road ahead was cut off, but it was a slope. Two people and four horses rushed down diagonally, as if they were desperate for their lives.
Ning Wu shouted, but no one stopped. The two people and the four horses who were going down the mountain couldn't stop, and of course they didn't want to stop either.
"call out--"
He bent his bow and nocked an arrow, and shot the arrow through the air, piercing the head of a horse.
The war horse falls down and dies without a cry of mourning.
Perhaps it will never understand why it is caught in the struggle between humans.
"call out--"
Another arrow hit, and one person fell down clutching his chest.
The other man didn't even look at his fallen comrade, but grabbed the horse's reins in his hand and dragged the three horses down the mountain.
Ning Wu gritted his teeth, but did not dare to jump down. The slope was too steep. If he couldn't stop and fell straight down the mountain, he would be unlucky and fall into the abyss of the snow.
He had no choice but to shoot the arrow again.
But it hurt the wound, gritted his teeth several times and endured it, and kept shooting arrows.
The scouts from Lizhou also came and shot at the men and horses rolling down the mountain.
The arrow clusters were denser and they hit, but it was of no use. They were like snowballs and couldn't stop.
If they hadn't been chased here, they would have had a safer way, not far away, but walking like this was destined to be impossible to escape.
So they decided to die.
But the goods must also be rolled to the foot of the mountain.
"After such a fall, I'm afraid everything will be broken." The scout corps commander bared his teeth. He received more knives than Ning Wu because his martial arts skills were slightly lacking.
Ning Wu was a little worried: "If it really rolls down the mountain..."
"General, what do you think?"
"What are you looking at?"
The captain pointed to the north of the mountain and said in surprise: "There are people, many people!"
"What?" Ning Wu looked intently and saw the flag of the Beiliang Army in the distance. He was immediately horrified, "Why is there the Beiliang Army here? Where did they come from?"
When the army was dispatched, the scouts outside the pass would warn them, but with such a large number of Beiliang troops appearing in the north of Beimang Snow Mountain, the scouts did not hear any news.
There is only one explanation: these Northern Liang troops did not come directly from the north.
"Is it the Northern Liang Army from Liangzhou?" Ning Wu asked in surprise.
The Wu leader was surprised: "How is that possible?"
"If they appear here, then they must have passed the Snow Valley Pass. Is it so easy to lose the Snow Valley Pass?" A scout found it difficult to accept.
Ning Wu understood something.
"Xuegu Pass is invincible from the north, but facing the enemies coming from the south, I'm afraid I may not have the strength to do so."
There are no natural dangers to the south of Xuegu Pass. It is a flat plain and there is no Nancheng Pass gate.
"General, are they here to support this group of Beiliang horse bandits?" the corps commander thought.
Ning Wu nodded: "It should be."
"Fortunately, they didn't make it down the mountain alive. The slope of the vast snow-capped mountains is extremely steep, and people from Beiliang can't get up."
"I hope..."
Ning Wudao: "Let's go back."
There was no way to go up the mountain on the northern slope. This operation was considered a success. Even if it did not intercept most of the grain, it did not allow the Beiliang people to successfully respond.
…
To the north of Beimang Snow Mountain.
More than ten thousand Qingqi rode out from Xuegu Pass diagonally. By now, two hours had passed.
"Brother, why didn't you wait earlier and deliberately slowed down the march?" Luo Hao rode over and asked in a low voice.
"If there are any scouts from Lizhou on the snowy mountain and we arrive early, they will be alert, and it will be difficult for our people to come back over the mountain." Luo Yang looked longingly at the north of the mountain.
But not even a moving target was found.
"That's it." Luo Hao nodded slightly and looked at the mountain with expectation.
For a long time, no one showed up.
"Luo Shuai, are we here early?" the general asked.
Luo Yang shook his head: "The agreed time is now, they should have arrived at the foot of the mountain...Did something delay it?"
"It's not bad luck that you ran into Lizhou's scouts, right?" Luo Hao murmured.
Boye and Luo Yang looked at each other, both worried.
Suddenly, someone pointed to the steepest part of the north slope: "Luo Shuai, there seems to be an avalanche there?"
Everyone looked around and found that there was indeed a lot of snow sliding down the mountain.
But the speed was not fast. Compared with an avalanche, it was more like the snow was hit by something and slid down the snow slope.
"It's not an avalanche. The avalanche is terrifying. There will be a huge noise, and the snow will collapse in a large area, and the speed will be too fast to dodge." Boye is worthy of being a military strategist, with extensive knowledge and a strong memory, and has seen a lot of things in the world.
Luo Hao said: "Could it be that the person we are trying to rescue fell from the mountain?"
"Um?"
Luo Yang frowned and immediately signaled: "Go and have a look."
"Yes." Luo Hao rode off, taking a hundred cavalry with him, and rushed towards the snowy slope that was sliding down.
After a while, a cavalryman waved a semaphore from a distance.
The first officer general was overjoyed: "Luo Shuai, we have made a discovery!"
"Go and dig through the snow. You want to see people alive, and you want to see corpses dead...especially the goods, they must be found!"
Not long after, Luo Hao came back.
"Brother, a horse corpse was found, but all the goods have been scattered. The brothers are digging for it."
"We must find it!" Luo Yang gritted his teeth and said.
"What went wrong when they fell to the ground? This team set off so early, and it was impossible for anyone in the direction of Lizhou to notice it. How could they fall down instead of taking the northern path?"
Luo Yang was puzzled. He thought he could strategize and win a thousand miles.
Even when facing that prodigy, he was still confident.
But what he didn't expect was that luck is also very mysterious. This group of Beiliang troops disguised as horse bandits were not lucky.
"Hurry up and send more people to dig!" Luo Yang ordered.
"yes."
Thousands of people were ordered to move forward.
This digging took half a day.
When the soldiers brought back the few scattered objects they had worked so hard to dig out and showed them to Luo Yang, his expression softened a little.
"These are the things. In the news sent back by our people, there are pictures and descriptions, which are very consistent." Luo Yang breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he can get grain seeds, it is not considered a failure.
The soldier delivering the items said helplessly: "But General, these are all damaged to varying degrees, can they still be useful?"
Several potatoes and sweet potatoes were all torn, and some were frozen.
Luo Yang was no longer confident, so he had to say: "Let's treat the dead horse as a living horse doctor... We will look for it again."
"Send people up the mountain to search in the direction where our men fell to see if they can find more."
So, thousands of people looked for paths to get to higher places.
Until late at night, the soldiers digging in the snow had frostbite on their hands, so they had to change a group of people to continue digging.
"Commander, I found some seeds."
A man who came back from the mountain found a packet of seeds, but he didn't seem to know what they were.
"Take it with you."
"Except for these seeds, I'm afraid they won't be useful for anything else because they'll get frostbite." Boye said helplessly.
Luo Hao came to report: "Brother, there has been no other harvest for an hour, do you still want to dig?"
Luo Yang took a look, collected the grains and put them aside. They were lying like crooked melons and cracked jujubes, weighing less than twenty kilograms in total.
Then he looked worriedly in the direction of Xuegu Pass.
Just in time, several scouts came back.
"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, a large number of Xia troops have appeared outside the Snow Valley Pass, and some of them are suspected of being Black Dragon Riders."
"Black Dragon Rider?" Everyone's hearts were in doubt.
Boye said quickly: "Commander, the soldiers are tired after digging for half a day. It is definitely not the best idea to fight the Black Dragon Riders late at night. I suggest you return to Beiliang."
"..." Luo Yang sighed, "It will take at least five years to plant this small amount of grain..."
"This can be considered a good harvest. We can't force it. We are already gratified to have such a victory this time." Boye advised.
"Luo Hao is reorganizing the entire army... Military advisor, would you like to accompany me to meet with the world's greatest genius?" Luo Yang said with a smile.
Boye: "The commander-in-chief wants to attack?"
"No, it's just a meeting in front of the formation. The army retreated to the north. They don't dare to pursue too far without the emperor's orders." Luo Yang said confidently.
"Then I will go with the commander..." Boye smiled, "How can we not meet the most prodigy in the world?"
