Turbulent Times Chapter 309: Pursuing (5)

"Xue Qiluo is right in front, captured him alive, I have made a great contribution to promotion, you mediots will have a better future if you follow me!" ,

These soldiers are all his confidantes in Feihuzhai. They were originally bandits, but now they are officers and soldiers, so their desire to become officers is even stronger.

"Yeah!"

"Yes!"

"Follow, keep chasing!"

"The boss is right!"

A group of bandits who had not long been officers and soldiers agreed one after another, breathing heavily like windbags in a blacksmith's shop. Up to now, there are only twenty or so of them who can persist in following behind Shangguan Hu. The rest were either exhausted chasing the rout or lost in the snow.

"Where is Xue Qiluo? Come out and die!" Shangguanhu suddenly roared, raised his machete, and chopped the night in front of him. After nightfall, a centurion Xue Yantuo was sent flying, and his body rolled along the hillside to nowhere. Another Xue Yantuo soldier turned his body sideways to parry, the steel knife in his hand whistling. Shangguan Hu dazzled the opponent's eyes with his sword, raised his foot, and kicked the person directly into the deep ravine beside the road.

"Only kill Xue Qiluo, don't seek death for the rest!" All the soldiers were a little scared, because they could no longer see their companions chasing after them. The rout soldiers found were cut down one by one and expelled.

After an unknown amount of time, they felt a sudden silence in their ears, and Shangguan Hu and his party were plunged into darkness, and they could no longer hear any cries or howls. All the routs from the front, back, left, and right directions escaped cleanly, only the cold wind from the north blew through the dead trees on the hillside, making tigers howl and dragons howl.

"Who still has a fire starter in his hand! Quickly shine a light on it!" Shangguan Hu was slightly taken aback by the sudden silence. Turning his head, he ordered more than twenty soldiers.

"No, no!" All the soldiers bent down, supported their bodies with steel knives, and responded in a low voice while panting. "Fire, the fire is on the archer. The archer, the archer is not there, and they are not following."

"Where are the others!" Shangguan Hu was slightly stunned again, and then realized that he had completely lost contact with the brigade before he knew it. Even so, he was still unwilling to give up halfway. Gritting his teeth, he commanded in a deep voice, "Search the corpse, there may be something igniting it. Xue Qiluo's guess is not far from here, as long as the way is illuminated, we can continue to pursue!"

"Chasing, chasing!" The four soldiers gasped and nodded, then squatted down and groped the body with their hands. After a while, someone held up a torch and shouted joyfully, "I found it, I found it. I found it, Captain Captain."

"Give it to me!" Shangguan Hu walked over quickly and took the fire note. Then he squatted down and peeled off a fur from the corpse, and first used the fur to block the wind, and then blew the fire. Immediately afterwards, the fur was lit directly into a big torch.

"Follow me!" He ordered again in a low voice, and immediately, he took off another piece of clothing from the corpse, wrapped it around a stone, lit it, and then swung the clothing in a circle with one hand, "Hey" With a sound, it was thrown towards the mountain road ahead.

"Huh—" The clothes wrapped in rocks flew into the sky like a hammer ball, flew more than thirty steps, and then landed with a roar. It illuminates the mountain road along the way, and illuminates the dozens of bloodless faces hiding on the side of the mountain road.

"Dog thief, where are you going!" Shangguan Hu was overjoyed and roared, picked up the burning fur fur from the ground with his left hand, held a knife in his right, and swooped down along the mountain road. The dozens of faces illuminated by the fire did not dare to fight, spread their legs and fled desperately.

"Stop, stop, don't run away if you have the guts!" More than twenty soldiers picked up steel knives and followed closely behind Shangguanhu. While running, he did not forget to light the clothes that had just been stripped off the corpse, illuminating a short section of nearby snowy field like daylight. Soon everyone slaughtered these dozen or so rout soldiers.

The front was empty again, and the surroundings fell into silence again, except for their panting and the sound of the wind, there was no other sound. And no matter where they threw the fire with the method just now, they couldn't find the Turkic rout again.

The most important thing is that Shangguanhu and his soldiers could no longer tell the difference between east, west, north and south, and they couldn't find the direction in which the enemy was fleeing—they lost their way. This fact made Shangguan Hu very depressed, and he also faintly felt that he might have made a mistake, what he did today was not what a qualified general should do.

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Xue Yantuo's troops fled all night in disintegration, and three thousand Sui troops chased them all night.

About a hundred miles northwest of Shifengzhai, in a vast valley, Xue Qiluo, who was carried by his own soldiers and fled here, cheered up and led more than 400 soldiers to gather troops. All Xue Yantuo soldiers also realized the importance of gathering together. Although they had great opinions on Xue Qiluo, they no longer objected, and spontaneously began to gather into an army. In name, Xue Qiluo was still the commander. The three chiefs, two thousand commanders, and seven centurion commanders here formed the core, and finally gathered more than 7,000 troops.

Xue Qiluo cheered up and was about to say something to restore his authority. Suddenly, there was a panicked noise in his ears, "Enemy attack, enemy attack! Southwest, southwest fork road found The enemy army of the brigade!"

"Ah! Come so fast?" Xue Qiluo was stunned, first surprised and then delighted. The surprise is that the Sui army came as soon as they said it, and the joy is that the number of enemy troops will definitely not be too many. Even if they only have more than 7,000 people, as long as they are commanded properly, they can completely kill this Sui army and just restore their own strength. prestige.

"Enemy attack, little chief, a large group of enemy troops have appeared in the southwest." The shouting became more and more urgent, and a scout sent by Xue Qiluo rushed forward with a tired face. There was no blood in sight.

"What are you panicking about? The Sui army chased us all night. Even if they did catch up, they were exhausted. And I dare to swear in the name of Changshengtian that their number is not as many as ours, or even far less than us." Xue Qiluo He gave the scout a hard look, opened his throat, and tried his best to make his voice heard by as many people around him as possible.

"Little chief, it doesn't look like the Sui army that chased us last night, it's another Sui army, but their number is indeed small, no more than 2,000." The scout quickly added.

Xue Qiluo was startled when he heard that it was a new force, but when he heard that there were no more than 2,000 people, he felt determined again. With the help of two soldiers, he climbed up a huge boulder and built an arbor with his hands , and watched in person in the direction the scout pointed.

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