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195 The Return
A bouquet of wolf smoke rises.

Li Xia glanced back, led the horse, and set off on the way back.

The wound on his foot has been wrapped up, tied with branches and fixed, and he walks with a limp.

But just keep going.

Horses cannot be ridden, not to mention that the road conditions are not suitable. On the back of the horse he is leading, there are still corpses of river patrolmen and a few Mongolian heads hanging on them, while the other horses carry the wounded.

In this battle, 49 river patrolmen were killed, more than [-] were seriously injured, and almost everyone was slightly injured.

Beheading level 65, most of them were killed after the Mongolian army fled, and only twenty or thirty Mongolian soldiers were killed in the battle.

73 horses were obtained, as well as armor and weapons.

In fact, there were less than 40 Mongolian soldiers who actually participated in the battle, and the others were squeezed on the trail from the beginning to the end.

If it were the elite Song army, with the right time, place and people, they might be able to win a complete victory without causing such a large number of casualties.

Li Xia's side is mainly new recruits with little experience...

"Li Xianwei, we have to go faster." Xiong Shan, who was walking in front of Li Xia, suddenly turned around and said.

"Will the Mongolian army behind catch up?"

"It's possible." Xiong Shan said, "Generally speaking, exploring horses is about a day faster than the big Mongolian army. We fought for half a day and rested for half a day..."

He watched the cliff getting steeper and steeper, and couldn't help but feel scared.

Each section of this five-foot road is different. In the valley of Yanfanggou, you can still fight with the Mongolian army. A group of people may die in the mountains.

Li Xia asked, "Do you think we can still ambush the Mongolian army?"

Xiong Shan was taken aback, thinking he was crazy.

"No." He resolutely said, "Li Xianwei, I can't say, but it really can't."

After hearing this, Li Xia's eyes fell on a horse in front of him.

It was a Mongolian horse, not tall, with a big head, a short neck, a broad chest and a long mane.

Although this horse does not look like a horse, it has a strong physique, thick skin and rough hair, hard work and good endurance. It can easily carry three corpses and various heavy objects.

Li Xia also saw that they ate everything, including bamboo leaves and bark.

In addition to Mongolian horses, the Mongolian army also brought other horse breeds, one person with two horses, no need to carry luggage, riding in easy areas, leading in difficult areas, and marching extremely fast.

Looking at the leather armor of the Mongolian army, only a small amount of copper and iron is mixed, which is light and strong.

The defensive ability of this kind of leather armor is not much inferior to that of iron armor. It is easy to make and can be disassembled. It is good for long-distance maneuvering and has protective power.

The horses with strong endurance and the light leather armor all show that this Mongolian horse-exploring red army is good at long-distance raids.

This time, some bows from the Mongolian army were also seized, the tenacious sheep horn bow, three feet long, and the bow strings have good toughness, which is far better than the Song bow.

After three years of fighting in southern Yunnan, they also learned how to climb.

The tribes of Dali and Wuman were wiped out, and the high mountain villages before and after Shimen Pass were uprooted one after another by them.

Li Xia has read the information given by Yang Guo, and has some understanding of the tactics of the Mongolian army in the southwest... For example, Ashu, the son of Wuliang Hetai, "jumps under the master" and "goes around" at every turn, often For the pioneer.

In other words, as long as he, Li Xia, can climb up, the Mongolian army can also climb up.

Li Xia was able to take advantage of the terrain to deploy 200 men and defeat thirty or forty Mongolian troops, but in the face of absolute strength, he dared not rely on the terrain to ambush a large group of troops... unless there were five hundred elite soldiers.

If there are [-] elite soldiers, prepare early, prepare wood and stone, and build ditches, then you can ambush again.

Thinking of this, Li Xia nodded and said, "You're right, it's not suitable to fight anymore. Let's speed up and go to the inspector first to rest."

Xiong Shan heaved a sigh of relief, and thought to himself that County Lieutenant Li wasn't that crazy...

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To the northeast of Yanfanggou is a towering cliff called "Fenshui Cliff". There is a Yutou River under the cliff.

When Yutou Creek is in Yanfanggou, the water potential is small and slow, and there are river valleys on both sides.However, at the Fenshui Cliff in the upstream, it is sandwiched by the cliffs on both sides, and the water is very turbulent.

From Yanshuigou to the north, the road gets narrower and higher as you go.Finally walked into the chisel on the cliff.

The chiseled road is different from the plank road. The plank road is to build a road next to the cliff, while the chiseled road is to "gnaw" a road on the edge of the cliff.

The cliff is straight, the abyss is at the foot, and the rock is at the head.Turning around, you can see the hanging coffin of the Bo people on the opposite cliff.

This road is very scary, it is the most dangerous section on Wu Chi Road.

Li Xia and his party came from here when they came, and they will go here when they go back.

……

After walking for another two days, Dong Wa, the last patrolman in the team, looked at the abyss under his feet, and couldn't help asking Bao San in front.

"Bantou Bao, can you see the road clearly with one eye? Don't fall."

"Damn, when you came here, your eyes were facing the outside." Bao San held his stomach, without turning his head, and said, "Going back, I can only see the inside, so it's not easy to go."

Dong Wa asked again: "You said why don't we ambush the Mongolian army here?"

"Do you want to die? If you fight on this chisel, whoever is fiercer than De is. Can you be more fierce than the old men of Monta?"

Dong Wa let out a "hey" and said, "Aren't we fierce? Didn't we scare Meng Da away."

"Silly melon. You can still ambush in Yanfanggou, and you can fight two hundred and thirty. When you get to this crevice in the rocks, people can't get out, and you can only trade one life for another, and how many can be exchanged."

Dong Wa said: "Then when the Mongolian army comes up, we will shoot him."

"Where do you stand to shoot?"

"When we get to the mountain below, we stand on the mountain road and spread out. Block Meng Da in the crevice of the rock."

Bao San said: "Then I won't accompany you, you idiot stay and shoot at them."

"Anyway, the fight is over, so I'll just say it casually." Dong Wa scratched her head and said, "Squad leader, do you really think there is a military reward? I have a fellow from the same township who joined the army and won fourth-class merit. Qian Sanguan. The county lieutenant really wants to give me five Guan?"

"Is it still lying to you?"

"The county lieutenant really wants to distribute the job field to the brothers who died in the war?"

"Yes." Bao San said: "The county lieutenant will be the commander of Shu in the future, and he will build trust in the army."

"Boss, do you think I'm going to save my five pennies to buy a field later, or to give my parents a good year? It would be great if I could chop off a few more heads."

"Save what, when you die in battle, you can also share the job of county lieutenant."

"Squad leader, don't make trouble." Dong Wa said, "Say something auspicious."

"Damn, you can't stop talking, my wound is cracked, come on, give me another piercing."

"Okay."

"Be careful, don't fucking fall."

As Bao San said, he leaned on the cliff and sat down, then scolded: "Mother, this broken road makes my legs go weak."

"There are not many chisels left." Dong Wa said, "Turning around this section, the mountain is in front of you, so you don't have to worry about falling off the cliff."

The two squatted, re-bandaged the wound, and stood up to move forward.

Suddenly, Bao San asked: "Did you hear that?"

"what?"

Dong Wa turned her head and looked back, only to see that the cliff in the distance was dark, and she could vaguely see something moving in the chisel.

"The Mongolian army is coming!"

"Come on!"

"No, team leader... did you hear that? How could...how could it be possible to ride a horse in this ghostly place?!"

Bao San was a little dazed, squinting his one eye, staring at the chisel.

"Impossible... Impossible to charge on horseback on the chisel."

But the hoofbeats got faster and faster.

"Beautiful!"

Bao San shouted suddenly: "Go away! It's a frightened horse, it's a frightened horse rushing over!"

Dong Wa was already stunned there.

He clearly saw a Dali horse rushing madly through the cliff chisel.

There was no one on the horse, and the Mongolian army used this frightened horse to knock them off...

(End of this chapter)