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After a short period had passed, an to calculate how to respond to the present situation Four hundred versus three thousand Although both sides were elite troops, our side had the inconvenient nuisance that wasto Lu Can was better left to the future At present, the priet that I was presently in the darkness within the jolting carriage, carefully thinking about how I could save myself After a while, I suddenly caer General had issued the order to capture me alive and kill the Prince of Qi It seemed that to him the importance of the Prince of Qi andoffered, I was of greater importance However, in my view, this was not the case For any military commander, the death of the Prince of Qi was more important In comparison, those soldiers probably could not comprehend my importance To them, I was merely an objective that they needed to accomplish Perhaps because of this reason, the bounty placed upon h This was to avoid all those soldiers fro the Prince of Qi Even if my calculations were incorrect and they treated me as reat effect uponof this, the door to the carriage was forcibly pushed open by soown, yell at ht, Great minds truly think alike</e my head out, I saw that we had reached a fork in the road On both sides of the road was mountainous terrain The Prince of Qi had ordered troops to block the road, terabbed that speciallyit around my shoulders

Afterwards, I co me a horse The Prince of Qi and we ive me fifty ratified look flashed appeared Prince of Qi’s face, as he stated, “However, Suiyun, you have to be careful If their target is you, I’m worried that it will be difficult for you to escape”

S, I replied, “Mayhap … However, in the minds of the Northern Han troops, you are likely the prihness will be the one bearing the brunt of the pressure”

Afterwards, the Prince of Qi and I quickly studied the particulars about our fighting escape After a while, the troops stationed at the crossing had exhausted themselves Xiaoshunzi had already fully prepared for this eventuality He untied the two steeds froe These two horses had been carefully selected and were fully capable of serving as warhorses Xiaoshunzi handed the reins of one of the horses to one of the cavalryed into an exquisite set of white are’s seats, he took out two pikes, tying theth² Xiaoshunzi then walked over and helpedrope, he carefully tied er Guard and fifty of the Prince of Qi’s troops had forlanced at the Prince of Qi, and coolly stated, “Your Io ahead”

When I finished speaking, under Xiaoshunzi’s coer Guard and fifty of the Prince of Qi’s troops charged into the wilderness After galloping for several li, I turned and looked I saw the Prince of Qi lead the ree off in another direction The carriage that I had specially designed was overturned at the crossing, blocking our pursuers Because of its design, e was extremely heavy It seeet past it

The decision to split the troops was so that I had made after careful deliberations The Prince of Qi to also reaching this conclusion left me with admiration After all, while I had the tiets Even if the two of us were together, our strength wouldn’t be that significant, allowing the enereatly reduced our strength, the enemy would also hesitate over the decision of how to split troops When all was said and done, ould not suffer Moreover, fleeing and unable to strike back would only lead to our defeat At present, it could be said that the Prince of Qi had nothing to worry about and he could think of ways to counterattack

At thisafter us What should we do?”

I was delighted As expected, to those unruly soldiers and their commander, the Prince of Qi, as the co’s northern aret However, a thousand pursuers wasn’t a small number If we could not destroy theo help the Prince of Qi Exa terrain, I instructed, “Have Huyan Shou move towards the wilderness I have twenty Divine Heavens-Soaring Fla my intentions immediately, Xiaoshunzi nodded his head “I understand Water and flaood plan, indeed!”

Finished speaking, he began to discuss this matter with Huyan Shou, co within the Prince of Yong’s household, Huyan Shou was originally an ined to me On this occasion, the emperor had dispatched him over because of this reason Otherwise, ould a Vice Supervisor of the Stalwart Tiger Guard deign to serve as my escort? I listened as he and Xiaoshunzi discussed how to lure the enemy to take the bait As expected, Huyan Shou was a skilled military commander I silently prayed that ould succeed at the first attempt, otherwise my life would be left behind here

At this radually closed There was nothing that could be done… Although Xiaoshunzi’s horse, when compared to those troops who spentFortunately, Huyan Shou’s leadershi+p was fairly good As we ran around in circles, we had not been caught and surrounded by the enemy After a while more, our pursuers had been lured to a brush-filled wilderness At the end of autumn, the dried up yellow brush would be so parched that they could be easily ignited Seeing that the wind direction was suitable, Xiaoshunzi let out a shout Everyone spurred their horses faster, while our pursuers maintained their speed This ithin our expectations

When cavalry was chasing fleeing cavalry, their greatest taboo was forcing their horses to run at the fastest possible speed If this were to happen, it would consu behind As a result, generally speaking, they would only spur their horses forhen they had already surrounded the enemy or when the enemy had no road to escape As a result, they would usually control the speed of their horses, unhurriedly and cal for the ene, attaining victory in one go Of course, this was applicable only when the quality of the horses on both sides was equal If the enemy was too weak, they would naturally exhaust all methods As a result, e spurred our horses forward, increasing our speed, our pursuers had fallen behind a bit, not increasing speed in order to prevent their horses fro exhausted by the chase

Unfortunately, that was their mistake this time When the distance between us and our pursuers had reached approximately two li, Huyan Shou whistled Our unit split into a dozen orin all directions I heard the chasing Northern Han troops break out into laughter It was clear that with us splitting up in our escape they would definitely win Fro able to successfully hunt their prey

At this very moment, Xiaoshunzi suddenly turned our horse around Afterwards, a small, silver cylinder appeared in his hands He repeatedly activated the mechanism on the cylinder Several fla the dry grassland If using normal arson methods, the Northern Han pursuers would have likely already broken through the fires by the tinited However, the Divine Heavens-Soaring Fla was not ordinary In only an instant, a conflagration had already spread greatly At the sa troops had set nurations The flames swiftly combined into one The crescent-shaped fire swept towards our pursuers The entire area was covered in dry brush By the time the Northern Han cavalry took a detour to continue their pursuit, it would be too late Right now, their only option was to retreat However, they were located doind The flames and black sht ly discovered that the fires blocked their retreat

I could hear the miserable screams within the sea of fire I could feel myself shi+ver inside At the same time, I could not help but be proud of n and enorht twenty cylinders on the carriage At present, although we had practically used the unit of a thousand elite cavalry, truly cost-effective Although I knew that it would be impossible to kill all of our pursuers, I believed that ould be able to at least kill retted that the four individuals I had left behind were unlikely to have escaped In order to achieve our goal of defeating our pursuers, I had Huyan Shou dispatch four men to leave our formation mid-journey and hidden off to the side When they saw the fires blaze before them and the Northern Han pursuers retreat, they were to create two ether and cut off the ene Flame was too formidable With the current force of the wind, it was impossible for the four of thereatly aders of staying behind, each and every one of them had competed for a place I could not help but blush with shame

Alas, there was no time to worry about this Huyan Shou had reforht noere too close to the conflagration If the ere to change, ould likely also be buried here

Leaving behind our pursuers e did not have news about, we rushed towards the planned rendezvous point Great Yong had nuholds and bases scattered across the frontier The Prince of Qi and I had arranged one of the point When the tihold’s defenses to stoutly defend, while we could launch a surprise attack from behind on the Northern Han army This was a plan that we cooked up because we had no other choice It would be i Flame cylinders to deal with three thousand cavalry troops before crushi+ng one of the two divisions Fortunately, there weren’t thatme Otherwise, ould likely have been forced to experience a bitter battle

As I listened to the wind rushi+ng past hness, the Prince of Qi, would be able to safely arrive at our decided rendezvous point Otherwise, I had no contingencies

At this very moment, I obviously did not know that over an hour later, once the fires had gradually di behind blackened ash, a number of burned horse corpses would be pushed apart and a rave, terrible voice, he shouted, “Jiang Zhe! You and I cannot exist together in this world!”

ThisThat day, he had abided by Lu Can’s orders With Lin Bi’s token, he had arrived in the Northern Han army encampment Under orders to provide support to Lin Bi, when the Flying Tiger General, shi+ Ying, received Lin Bi’s orders, he led three thousand cavalrymen and set an a, who hated Great Yong to the bone, volunteered to take part in this operation And what caused his spirit to be aroused was the fact that Jiang Zhe, as expected, was traveling with the Prince of Qi Afterwards, when shi+ Ying had split up his force, Wei Ying had chosen to pursue Jiang Zhe However, instead of success, he had been trapped by the fire Wei Ying was quite astute He knew that his horsemanshi+p was poor and it would be ie of the chaos, he had killed several Northern Han cavalry their horses, Wei Ying had hidden himself under the horses Covered with blood, he was barely able to escape the fate of being buried in this sea of fire After angrily cursing, he began his journey back to Southern Chu He was not so stupid as to continue to pursue Jiang Zhe He did not have the courage to deal with over a hundred horsemen by himself

When we finally arrived at the Gu⁴ Mountain Stronghold, although I was brought along by Xiaoshunzi, I was already extrehs had been rubbed raw by the saddle This year, I was to be thirty years old, but I had never experienced this kind of suffering Only when I akened by the deafening battle cries did I discover that this unit of horsemen had stopped on a slope Not far from our position was theon the mountain