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Chapter 292 The ambush plan fails!
Xionggou Ridge.

It is a mountain gully on the northern slope of the eastern section of Xueshan Mountain.

The valley is filled with spruce, birch and ancient elm trees.

The trees rise and fall with the terrain, layer upon layer.

Every summer and autumn, the snow on the mountaintop melts.

The stream will then converge in the mountain valley.

It flows down from south to north.

Although the stream is no deeper than knee-deep, wading through it can still easily cause someone to slip and fall flat on their face.

The mountain gully got its name because brown bears were often seen there.

It is still listed as a dangerous restricted area by local herders.

However, if you follow the stream across the gully, you will be only a hundred miles away from Weilumu.

At this time, General Xiong and his men hid their troops in the valleys of Xionggou Ridge.

The shortest route from Hami City to Weilumu is to go west across the desert, pass Huozhou, and then go through the southern foothills of the snow-capped mountains to reach Weilumu.

However, General Xiong led 50,000 cavalrymen to abandon the nearest southern route and instead took the northern mountain road around the northern foothills of the snow-capped mountains.

This is an ancient Silk Road that has been abandoned for hundreds of years, adding one-fifth of the journey and making it even more difficult to travel.

However, it is extremely easy to conceal one's whereabouts!

Otherwise, they wouldn't have almost reached the Hu people's camp before their "aerial scouts" discovered their presence.

General Xiong and his men had arrived a day earlier than the Hu people and had done their homework on the three paths leading from Weilumu to Xionggouling.

Hundreds of miles away.

Horse archers from the Kashgar Khanate are setting up tents on the pasture.

The horses are freed to graze on the southern hills, where they feast to their hearts' content.

General Hasibaren had barely taken a few bites of his mutton when he received intelligence from a Kyrgyz falconer.

He hurriedly summoned the vanguard battalion commander, the third son of the general, Zhebie, and informed him:

"The Falcon has discovered an ambush in Xiong Gou Ridge to the east, the number of which is unknown! Take the vanguard and outflank them to see what the situation is."

If the enemy's ambush force is no more than 10,000, then engage immediately! If it's more than that, hurry back and report; the central army will cooperate to besiege the stronghold and intercept reinforcements.

Hasibaren believed that the Han army in the Seven Guards of Guanzhong was not large to begin with, and the number of ambushes they could spare to deal with them should be very limited.

After receiving his father's military order, Jebe's face, which had been gloomy the whole way, suddenly revealed a frenzied murderous intent.

My inner voice screamed wildly:

Ah, three years!

I've been feeling stifled for three whole years!
My arrows and my beloved knife are almost rusty because they haven't drunk blood in three years!
Hahaha! The Han army didn't know to wash their necks clean and wait for me to chop them off in Hamiwei, but now they've obediently delivered themselves to my door for me to kill!

That's actually quite thoughtful.

Let alone a few thousand or ten thousand ambush troops, even if there are thirty or fifty thousand, what do I have to fear?
Thirty thousand Vanguard troops are more than enough!

The title that was previously stripped away, I will reclaim it on the battlefield!

With a surge of confidence, he patted his chest and made a bold statement in front of Hasibaren:

“Ata (Father), you wait in the camp! The vanguard is always the first to charge, how can you just scout without taking action? Your son will make sure that these Han people will be so terrified when they hear the name of Jebe that they will run away with their tails between their legs.”

Hasbaren: "."

You know your own son's temperament.

He saw nothing wrong with using bloodthirstiness and brutality on the Han army.

A wolf can never change its nature of eating meat!
Jebe, brimming with enthusiasm, went to arrange his men.

Unaware that they had been discovered by the Hu people, General Xiong and his men were still hiding in their secluded spot on the ridge, waiting for nightfall.

In the Western Regions, the sky gets exceptionally dark late.

It was past 8 PM, and dusk was just approaching.

At this time, there was a noticeable coolness in Xiong Gou Ridge.

When the wind blows, my exposed arms get goosebumps.

Compared to the Gobi Desert a dozen miles away at the foot of the mountain, Xiong Gou Ridge is a summer resort that is very comfortable.

Just as Tian Jiu and the others finished eating their dried meat for dinner, they suddenly heard a loud "boom" from ahead.

He was greatly alarmed.

Oh no! Was it a human or a brown bear that just triggered the deafening thunder?
We must be careful not to attract the Hu people.

The scouts in the army have already provided accurate figures on the strength of the Hu people.

Two hundred thousand!
The enemy had a full 200,000 archer cavalry.

More than 100,000 supply troops followed behind the column and would arrive at Weilumu in three to five days.

Should we engage in a direct skirmish with 200,000 Hu (barbarian) archers and cavalry?

It's really hard to say who will win or lose!

As it turned out, what I feared most came to pass.

It only took the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea.

Explosions rang out one after another in the minefield ahead.

Tian Jiu finally gave up.

He waved to the crowd:

"These are definitely Hu people! It seems they've discovered our ambush here. Brothers, don't be afraid. Xiong Gou Ridge won't let the Hu horses in. Now it's time for a firefight!"

Soldiers:
"kill!"

"Kill one to break even, kill two to earn a life!"

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"boom!"

With the final, earth-shattering thunderclap, both sides' surprise attack plans were thwarted.

So far, there have been no casualties among the Bei army.

The Hu people's 30,000 vanguard had already lost more than 800 lives.

Without the firepower support of the apocalyptic crystal core micro-bombs, burying more than two thousand shock bombs would only achieve this effect.

Don't be fooled by the less-than-ideal result.

This completely stunned the vanguard leaders under Jebe's command.

Those at the back of the line, seeing that those in front had been bombed, hastily chose another small path.

My heart was still pounding from fright when I unexpectedly went astray again.

Every path leads to Xiong Gou Ridge.

But they all harbor deadly intentions!
Being blown up is not the same as being shot or stabbed.

People were missing arms, broken legs, or had their heads blown off.

Visually shocking, terrifying!
Such a tragic scene completely awakened the bloodlust in Jebe's blood.

These Han soldiers are even better at killing than he is?!

He didn't even care about his injured left hand, grabbed the crossbow and climbed up a steep slope towards the high ground in the mountains.

He doesn't take the usual paths!
Terrified by the gruesome deaths of their comrades, the mounted archers saw the general leading the way and grabbed their weapons to follow.

Not long after.

With a "bang," the musket fired.

The Battle of Xiong Gou Ling has begun!

Neither side dared to get too close.

It all depended on the accuracy of the shooters.

In terms of firearms and manpower, the Bei army had a clear advantage from the very beginning.

However, the Hu people were also very tenacious in their fighting. After fighting for more than an hour and losing half of their men, they still showed no intention of retreating.

The war of firearms only came to an end when muskets and the enemy's Vulcan rifles began to explode one after another.

General Xiong could see it clearly through his telescope.

Powerful bows and sharp swords were the true weapons of the Hu people.

The toughest battle has only just begun!
Five hundred miles away.

Gan Minglan was leading the vanguard battalion's Chaowei Lumu on their way.

They haven't dismounted in the past few days.

We crossed the Gobi Grand Canyon and ran across the grasslands.

They are crossing mountains and valleys; they are rushing here with all their might.
(End of this chapter)