Chapter 600: It’s hard to fight

Early the next morning, Ashina still had a headache after being hungover.

But in order to perform meritorious service, Ashina endured the headache and set off early.

Some time after Ashina and the others set off, Yunzheng and the others also set off.

Yunzheng still let the Eighteen Ghost Cavalry explore the way, and they could just follow Ashina and others.

In this way, even if the enemy has an ambush ahead, they will look for Ashina and the others first.

In the afternoon, You Wu from the front came back in a hurry to report.

"Your Highness, there is an ambush ahead!"

You Wu looked at Yunzheng with admiration.

Unexpectedly, Yun Zheng actually guessed it.

The enemy indeed had an ambush.

"Oh?"

Yun Zheng's eyes lit up and he immediately asked about the specific situation.

The report of Youwu 1510.

Several of them have been quietly following Ashina and his party.

Ashina and the others were surrounded by enemy troops hiding in the dark more than ten miles away from Tianqiong Pass.

Looking through the telescope, it can be determined that those people are Qiu Chi's soldiers.

They didn't know what the enemy army was talking to Ashina and his group. Anyway, the ambushing enemy army didn't embarrass Ashina and others too much. They just sent a few people to take Ashina and others to Tianqiong Pass. , the rest continued to lurk.

"Let's go and have a look!"

Yun Zheng was secretly happy and immediately asked You Wu to lead the way.

After quietly advancing for seven or eight miles, Yun Zheng pointed to the higher ground ahead and asked, "Is the enemy setting up an ambush there?"

"Correct!"

You Wu nodded.

When Qin Qihu heard this, he suddenly asked with surprise: "Brother Xian, how did you know where they were setting up an ambush?"

Miaoyin was equally curious.

You Wu just led them this way, but he didn't say that the enemy's ambush was hiding there.

How did Yunzheng know?

"Isn't this simple?"

Yunzheng pointed into the distance, "Look around here, the terrain is the highest over there! If anyone wants to explore the terrain around Tianqiong Pass, the best place to go is there! Standing there, the terrain around Tianqiong Pass will be all over. Close your eyes."

If it were him guarding Tianqiong Pass, he would also send people to ambush there.

In this way, if the enemy's spies want to explore the terrain around Tianqiong Pass, they can just sit back and wait.

"So that's it! I thought you were good at pinching and calculating!"

Qin Qihu suddenly realized and smiled, and asked again: "According to your opinion, did Tie Xiong guess that we wanted to attack Tianqiong Pass, so he sent people to hide here to set up an ambush?"

"No need to guess."

Yun Zheng shook his head and smiled, "Who wouldn't want to make plans for such an important pass? As long as the generals guarding the pass are a little more cautious, they will set up secret sentries here or send people to ambush..."

There is nothing to guess at all.

Not to mention the leading general, anyone who is not stupid knows the importance of Tianqiong Pass.

Preventing it before it happens is just a basic operation.

Of course, this also shows that Tiexiong, who guards Tianqiong Pass, is a qualified general who defends the city.

It was still relatively early now, so Yun Zheng ordered people to hide and rest on the spot.

After the sky darkened, all eighteen ghost cavalry were dispatched. Using the starlight in the sky, they quietly moved over there to find out how many ambushes there were.

At midnight, Youliu returned.

They have found out clearly that there should be only about two hundred people in the ambush there.

The purpose of those people hiding there was probably what Yun Zheng thought, which was to ambush the scouts who came to explore the terrain.

Currently, the rest of the Eighteen Ghost Riders are lurking, planning to wait until those people fall asleep and then quietly kill them all.

"Leave a few alive! After completing the mission, report back immediately!"

Yunzheng ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

You Liu accepted the order and immediately turned back quietly.

"Should we go help?"

Qin Qihu asked in a low voice.

"Need not."

Yun Zheng shook his head and said: "What they are good at is sneaking in and killing. If we send others to help, it will be easier to make noise and make the enemy wary."

Yun Zheng is still very confident about the Eighteen Ghost Riders.

Don't look at the fact that the number of enemy troops is many times theirs.

Even in a head-on fight, none of the enemy forces could be a match for the Eighteen Ghost Riders.

What's more, the Eighteen Ghost Cavalry still want to launch a sneak attack while the enemy is sleeping.

The enemy troops don't need their help at this point.

"All right!"

Since Yunzheng has said so, Qin Qihu won't say any more.

After arranging a small number of people to keep vigil, everyone fell asleep one after another.

When the sky was dark, Youliu returned again and brought back the news that Yunzheng wanted.

All the enemy ambush hidden there have been eliminated by them.

They also followed Yun Zheng's order and left a few people alive.

"Do you have any casualties?"

Yunzheng asked.

"No."

Youliu: "The enemy didn't even respond, and we all eliminated them!"

Although Youliu was wearing a mask on his face, it can be guessed that his face covered by the mask at this moment must be full of pride and confidence.

"That's good!"

Yun Zheng felt relieved and ordered everyone to start approaching that way.

Soon, they came to the place where the enemy's ambush was hiding.

The place where these people were hiding was in a small valley on the mountainside. Although it was not blocked by tall trees, there were still many shrubs.

Hiding here, it is difficult to be discovered, and you can also monitor the surrounding situation.

As soon as they arrived, Yuichi came to report.

The Eighteen Ghost Riders killed a total of 183 enemies and captured eight.

They have learned from the prisoners that there were two hundred and one people here before.

Ten more people were sent to lead the way for Ashina and his party.

"Not bad!"

Yun Zheng glanced at You Yi with satisfaction and ordered: "You guys go down and rest first, and leave the rest to us."

After Youyi took the order and handed over the seven prisoners to Yunzheng and the others, he immediately took a group of brothers to rest.

Although they are powerful, they are not robots and they still need to rest, eat and drink.

Yunzheng ordered people to collect all the armors and weapons of the dead enemies, and asked his personal guards to interrogate the seven people separately. He took a few people to the top of the mountain, then took out his clairvoyance and carefully looked around. terrain.

Standing at this position, you can already see the Tianqiong Pass in the distance.

But only a vague outline can be seen.

Tianqiong Pass looks like the character "eight".

And Tianqiong Pass is at the narrow end of the "eight" character.

There are rolling mountains on both sides, forming a natural barrier.

If the large army wants to enter Qiuchi territory from here, it must capture Tianqiong Pass.

Yun Zheng looked at it for a while and then handed Qin Qihu his clairvoyance.

Qin Qihu glanced back and forth with his clairvoyance. The longer he looked, the tighter his brows became.

Thanks to their clairvoyance, they can clearly observe the surrounding terrain.

Such terrain is by no means good news for them as the attackers.

"Brother Xian, this is not easy to fight!"

Qin Qihu looked at Yun Zheng with his clairvoyant eyes and frowned.

"It's really hard to fight."

Yunzheng nodded lightly, "In this kind of terrain, it is basically impossible to send troops to attack Tianqiong Pass by surprise! If we want to capture Tianqiong Pass, I'm afraid we have to start with their own people!"