Dynasty Conquest

Chapter 331 Seize the Highlands
The clouds were thick, the sky was gloomy, and the pattering winter rain fell from the lake in the sky with an icy chill, soaking the withered vegetation, making the road muddy, the air damp and cold, and the cold mist covering the earth. The room was gray, a scene of chilling.

The [-] soldiers of the Pioneer Battalion led by Mu Xue traveled non-stop day and night, and finally arrived at the Gran Heights in the early morning of December [-] before the rebels. In the mist, there were indistinct corpses lying around the sentry tower, and the coagulated dark red blood was faintly visible, and it looked particularly dilapidated and depressed in the light rain.

Panting, Mu Xue rode his horse to the base of the sentry tower, looking at the hazy mist in the west, there was silence, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally arrived at Gran Heights before the rebels.

"First, the Second Banner Battalion went to the left to build fortifications, the Third and Fourth Banners Battalions went to build fortifications on the hillside on the right, and the Fifth and Sixth Banners Battalion built fortifications centered on the sentry tower. Act quickly!"

After a continuous day and night of marching, the soldiers were already exhausted and paralyzed when they arrived at the Gran Heights. Before they could wait for the order from Muxue, they had already lay down in a large area, panting heavily on the wet and cold ground. Furious, hearing Mu Xue's order at this moment, he suddenly cried out in pain.

Although the soldiers complained endlessly, they also knew that what they were about to face was a huge army of 20 rolling in. Now all they could rely on was the drop of several meters in the Gran Heights and the fortifications. , wishing to sleep for three or five days, but they still walked to their defensive position under the urging of the officer, raised their shovels and began to build fortifications.

Building fortifications is one of the daily training subjects of the Linchuan Army, so the soldiers are familiar with it. The front is assumed to be barbed wire, deep trenches, and caves for hiding soldiers. Civil work started.

The land of Gran Heights was originally hard and rocky, but with the light rain, the soldiers who cursed the rain just now began to thank the cold winter rain, which made it easier for the soldiers to build fortifications .

Lines of ditch parapets were built, and stones were moved to the front. Along the west side of the Grand Heights, more than 1 Nanchuan soldiers were busy like hardworking ants in the light rain.

"Dig a little deeper here, and dig a little wider. If you are so narrow, the rebels will come over all at once." As a veteran soldier, Zhou Zi, the thousand-man leader, kept patrolling in front of his thousand-man team's defense line, supervising the soldiers' civil engineering work. For homework, he strictly pointed out any work that did not meet the standards and asked the soldiers to dig again.

As a veteran, Liuzizi has participated in countless battles, fighting against the Dynasty Army and various rebel forces. The scars all over his body are his best glory. He knows the cruelty of the battlefield. Either you die or I live. The fortifications created by Lin Chuan protected the soldiers very well, and Zhou Zi admired them endlessly. Therefore, in every defensive battle, his troops would give full play to the role of the fortifications.

"General Mu, there was a fierce battle three miles ahead—" Mu Xue was directing the establishment of fortifications, and was sent out to search for them. Murong Ke's cavalry scouts rushed back to report.

"Let's go, let's take a look." Found traces of fighting around the sentry tower, Mu Xue was very worried about the safety of the cavalry led by Murong Ke. Adjutant, under the protection of the guards, he ran down the Gran Heights and ran three miles away.

The Grand Heights are commanding, and if the weather is clear, you can see places ten miles away, but now it's light raining, and the air is filled with cold mist, and the vision is not clear, only about one mile away, so you can't see anything from a mile away not see.

After a while, Mu Xue led his people to the battlefield where they discovered the battle. This was the place where Murong Ke led the cavalry to defeat the vanguard of the rebel army. The battle flag is a chilling scene. Carnivorous vultures and wolves with green eyes are biting delicious food on this battlefield. When they see someone coming, they hide from the edge of the battlefield and watch this group of newcomers. Those who are full of vigilance.

"It's the Eighth and Ninth Banner Regiment of the rebel army. They originally belonged to the Fourth Army." The scouts quickly judged the origin of the dead soldiers' bodies based on the military tags hanging on the chests of the dead soldiers.

"General Murong's cavalry engaged them. Judging from the horseshoes, General Murong and the others chased west." The scout pointed to the fog-shrouded west.

Seeing the tragic battlefield, Mu Xue had mixed feelings in his heart. He originally thought that the soldiers of the Vanguard Battalion he led had rushed to seize the Gran Heights before the rebels, but now it seemed that the enemy was one step ahead. If it hadn't been for meeting Murong Ke's cavalry, perhaps now that the Gran Heights have changed hands, Muxue broke out in a cold sweat thinking of this place. If the rebels really seized the Gera Heights, the consequences would be disastrous. At this moment, Mu Xue is full of gratitude to Murong Ke.

Now that Murong Ke has defeated the two vanguard regiments of the rebel army, and has already chased towards the west, then the main force of the rebel army must not be too far away from the Gran Heights, and we must hurry up to build fortifications——

Just as Mu Xue led his people to return to the Gran Heights, there was a sound of horseshoes in the mist. Mu Xue's guards hurriedly drew out their sabers, full of vigilance, and prepared to cover Mu Xue's retreat.

"It's one of our own." Mu Xue's eyes kept staring at the mist, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the two black-clothed cavalry scouts rushing out of the mist.

Two black-clothed cavalry scouts were obviously very happy to meet Mu Xue here, and they galloped over: "General, there are a large number of refugees coming towards us. Pay a military salute and report loudly.

"Refugees? Are you sure you're not a rebel?" Mu Xue asked, full of doubts.

"General, we are absolutely right. There are indeed a large number of refugees coming this way, tens of thousands."

Another scout cavalry also nodded in agreement: "I can testify."

Mu Xue believed the words of the two scouts with a skeptical attitude. After all, there were no rebels but a large number of refugees. As a clear-headed commander, he felt that the situation was extremely suspicious.

"Continue to investigate, I suspect that the rebels are pretending to be refugees." Mu Xue ordered.

More scout cavalry rushed into the cold mist. New news came that there were indeed thousands of refugees flocking to the Gran Heights along the provincial road. The scouts brought back a new According to the news, there is a cavalry unit fighting the rebels dozens of miles away to cover the retreat of the refugees.

On the provincial highway, tens of thousands of refugees with their families are fleeing eastward along the provincial highway. The provincial highway is full of people, and there is a lot of noise. There are babies crying and someone falling and cursing. The crowd is panicked. Uneasy, they scrambled to escape to the east, carriages, crowds, and baggage filled the entire provincial road. Seeing so many refugees pouring in, Mu Xue, who was in charge of setting up a defensive position in the Gran Heights, felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

After the army led by Zhao Feng rebelled against the Nanchuan Army, they abandoned the strict military discipline and evolved into a group of vicious rogues. They killed, burned, and looted all the way east, causing all kinds of evil, causing great losses and panic to the people along the way. The rebel army was coming, and people from all over the country began to flee one after another, and emerged in Nanchuan Province.

(End of this chapter)