Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 372 366. False Report
Meng Huo ordered his soldiers to speed up and cross the Lao River. More than 20,000 to 30,000 people, led by scouts sent by Dong Tu, marched towards the previously mentioned narrow gap.

Meng Huo saw from afar a lot of noise and commotion over at Yixiantiantian and knew at a glance that a fierce battle was definitely going on. Meng Huo also ordered his men to speed up and not delay and to rescue Wutugu as soon as possible.

When they were getting closer to the ten-mile range of the Thin Line Sky, Meng Huo saw Dong Tu's tribe who had arrived earlier. However, they were hesitating to move forward, which made Meng Huo extremely annoyed. Why was Dong Tu so timid?

"Where is Dong Tuna?! Tell him to come and see me immediately!"

Meng Huo shouted loudly, and the soldiers under Dong Tuna looked at each other, and soon someone went to inform Dong Tuna.

"Your Majesty."

When Dong Tuna saw Meng Huo coming in person, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, as if a heavy burden had been lifted off his shoulders.

Meng Huo did not notice Dong Tuna's little tricks. Instead, he kept a straight face and pointed at the extremely lively Yixiantian not far away and asked Dong Tuna in a harsh voice.

"What happened? Why didn't you go to rescue King Wutugu?"

Meng Huo was still a little anxious, of course not for Wutugu's life. In Meng Huo's opinion, he didn't care whether Wutugu, a rough man, lived or died, but the rattan armor army of Wuguo was really a good knife, and it felt great to use them to deal with the Han army.

If they all died, Meng Huo would probably have to flee on the spot.

"Your Majesty, our army is too small, and the Han army has blocked the entrance to the valley with rolling logs and rocks. We are really powerless in such a hurry."

Seeing Meng Huo blaming him, Dong Tuna hurriedly began to explain, and at the same time pointed his finger at the entrance of Yitiantian Valley not far away. It was indeed as Dong Tuna said, blocked tightly by countless huge rocks and battering rams, and there were also Han troops active on the cliffs on both sides.

Meng Huo observed for a while and found that only a small number of Han soldiers were on guard against them. The rest seemed to be busy attacking the Wuguo army in the valley. The shouts of both sides resounded throughout the entire Yitiantian. Even though Meng Huo was several miles outside the valley, he could clearly hear the sounds inside the valley.

"Then don't just stand there, all your troops should charge forward, clear the obstacles at the entrance of the valley, and rescue the King Wutugu!"

Therefore, Meng Huo planned to clear the valley entrance before the Han army expected his arrival, so that Wutugu could withdraw. After all, Meng Huo knew the power of rattan armor, and the threat that the Han army's bows and arrows could pose to Wutugu was indeed limited.

"The king has ordered us to clear the obstacles blocking the valley entrance!"

Dong Tuna saw Meng Huo's order and shouted loudly, and ordered some of his soldiers to charge forward as well. Of course, if Meng Huo looked closely, he would have found that Dong Tuna's own soldiers from the second cave did not move, and only those soldiers assigned to Dong Tuna rushed out.

However, Meng Huo did not have the leisure to pay attention to these things at the moment. He just anxiously watched the Nanzhong Army swarming forward, carrying people on their shoulders and backs under the sparse rain of arrows from the Han Army, clearing away the obstacles blocking the valley entrance step by step.

The bad news was that the Han army seemed to have noticed the unusual movements at the entrance of the valley, and more and more people arrived one after another. The firepower from above had obviously become much stronger, and the Nanzhong Army suffered considerable casualties, with about two thousand people shot dead or wounded.

Corpses and wounded people were constantly carried away along with stones and battering rams under the rain of arrows, and the scene was once very chaotic.

However, the good news is that after suffering these casualties, the Nanzhong Army successfully achieved its goal and removed most of the boulders and battering rams that blocked the valley entrance, so at least they can leave.

"Quick, go and get King Wutugu to come out!"

Meng Huo shouted anxiously, and his soldiers rushed into the valley like a swarm of bees. At one time, nearly 3,000 people poured into the southwest exit of the narrow passage, instantly blocking the road.

However, the soldiers who entered did not see any rattan armor soldiers or Wutugu. In front of them was a large camp of Han soldiers, and many of them were ready for battle, with arrows from their crossbows still flashing coldly.

"Not good! Retreat! Retreat!"

The leading soldiers naturally saw this scene. There were no friendly troops being besieged. All they saw were the Han army's swords and bows and crossbows, so the people in front tried their best to run back.

However, anyone with a little common sense knows that this kind of crowded situation in a narrow place is the most difficult to control.

Even in later times, in places with dense human populations, some disturbances could lead to serious stampedes.

But now, the people in front are trying desperately to go back, while the people behind keep pushing forward, creating a catastrophic scene.

"Whoosh whoosh—"

The rain of arrows from the Han army came first, and there was no way to dodge in the narrow and crowded valley. It could even be said that as long as the Han army shot an arrow in this direction, they would always hit an unlucky guy.

Under Feng Xi's arrangement, the Han army in the valley used the Shenji Camp of the Kedi Crossbow and the Shenbi Crossbow, and its firepower was unimaginably high. However, the Kedi Crossbow had only one weakness, which was that because of the pursuit of explosive fire suppression, the crossbow arrows had insufficient kinetic energy, and the range was slower than that of the reloaded Shenbi Crossbow, but the powerful Shenbi Crossbow was only one-third of the level.

Therefore, in addition to carrying out organized large-scale fire suppression, Feng Xi also often arranged the enemy crossbow in medium-range combat to play the role of fire support, so as to create firepower advantages in medium and short distances.

But in this situation, the range is not a big problem. The soldiers of the Shenji Camp who use the enemy-killing crossbows also received Feng Xi's orders early on, letting them shoot freely today.

The black arrow curtain shot the Nanzhong Army soldiers who had recklessly rushed into the valley, making them cry for their parents. The people behind them also woke up as if from a dream and began to retreat.

In the end, only more than a thousand of the three thousand men escaped, and more than half of them died in the narrow mountain road, shot like hedgehogs by the Han army.

The soldiers who managed to escape quickly informed Meng Huo of the situation. Meng Huo then realized that he had been deceived. There was no Wutugu in the valley, only Han troops.

"Where is Dong Dana? Where is Dong Dana?"

Meng Huo was so angry that his face turned red. Dong Dana was responsible for such a mistake. However, before Meng Huo could call Dong Dana over and give him a good scolding, the situation continued to deteriorate.

“Swoosh—pop.”

There was a sound in the air, followed by a burst of colorful fire. And this fire was like a signal, causing the earth to tremble.

"kill!"

From all directions, the Han army kept coming. As for Meng Huo, at this moment, the entire north was a narrow strip of sky, the south was the road they came from, and the other two directions were full of Han troops that could not be seen.

(End of this chapter)