Traveling through time and space and becoming a deposed prince, he just wants to survive!

Chapter 463: Finally Ambushed

Hu Shanzhong was originally planning to chase after them, but when he saw the team chasing towards Shizhou, he made the same judgment as Xiahou Geri and mistakenly thought that they were a defeated army.

So he cautiously ordered to slow down and follow behind, secretly alert to whether there was any trap.

After Xiahou Geri's cavalry suffered a loss, they would carefully bypass any signs of loose soil on the ground during the pursuit.

After chasing for five or six miles, they found that the fleeing soldiers in front seemed to be running faster and faster. Seeing the distance between them getting larger and larger, everyone began to feel discouraged.

At this time, someone came up breathlessly to report: "General Xiahou, we discovered that they had lost all their artillery while fleeing."

As he spoke, someone laboriously brought a gun barrel and presented it in front of Xiahou Geri.

Xiahou Geri looked at the gun barrel in front of him, and his heart moved, as if he saw the dawn of victory.

He shouted excitedly: "Great! In this case, we must press on to win the victory."

He thought to himself that the enemy was so defeated that they even abandoned their important weapons. If he didn't chase them now, when would he? He might be able to seize more supplies. When he thought of this, his eyes couldn't help but sparkle with excitement.

Seeing the hope of victory that seemed to be within reach, Xiahou Geri was unwilling to give up such a great opportunity.

His eyes were shining, as if he had seen military merit beckoning to him, and his heart was filled with excitement and anticipation.

So he couldn't wait to lead his team to chase after them.

After a while, another soldier came hurriedly to report: "General, we found a gun carriage and some helmets and other objects ahead."

"Looks good! This defeated army has already abandoned all useless things. Let's redouble our efforts and continue the pursuit!"

Xiahou Geri grinned, the corners of his mouth raised almost reaching his ears, and a smug smile was on his face.

Everyone around knew that their general was happy.

But everyone was complaining in their hearts. After such a long chase, everyone was already exhausted. But in order to make the general happy, they had to force themselves to stay strong and reluctantly continue the pursuit with the army.

They came to a valley they had walked through before, and the road ahead became noticeably narrower.

Everyone is quite familiar with this place. Although it has only become a little narrower and the road is not very long, it still makes everyone feel a little uneasy.

Just when some people were worried about being ambushed, a soldier in front ran over in a panic and said, "General, are we ambushed?"

Upon hearing this, Xiahou Geri's expression instantly became nervous, his heart skipping a beat, and he hurriedly asked, "Tell me, how many people are there?"

"There are three thousand people, fighting with our vanguard in front." The soldier answered breathlessly.

"Fuck, three thousand people started a fight with you, and you called it an ambush?"

When Xiahou Geri heard the report from the man, he felt like his brain had short-circuited. He couldn't help but look at the man with a sneer on his face, thinking to himself: "Only 3,000 people can be called an ambush? These men are probably too cowardly."

"Report!..." Another man came and upon seeing Xiahou Geri, he quickly saluted and said, "General, we have won a great victory up ahead, and the defeated soldiers are showing signs of fleeing. Please send troops to encircle and suppress them."

Xiahou Geri knew that there was an open area outside the valley ahead. If he let these people run away, he would not be able to annihilate them as easily as he did in the valley.

Thinking of this, his eyes flashed, and he no longer hesitated. He waved his hand and directed everyone to walk into the valley.

Although the road was a bit crowded, the team was urged by the people behind them and could only squeeze in one by one, like an enema.

But Xiahou Geri was only thinking about catching up with the defeated soldiers as quickly as possible and winning the battle, so he didn't care about these things at all.

In fact, the ones fighting with the enemy's vanguard were not the ones who had just escaped to lure the enemy, but the three thousand ambush troops who had been waiting for a long time.

They are all full of energy and spirit, with determination shining in their eyes.

Looking at the exhausted enemy vanguard, their morale was boosted and they fought more courageously.

This led the first soldier who went back to report the news to mistakenly believe that he had encountered an ambush.

In order to lure all enemies into the ambush circle of artillery fire, these ambush troops could only pretend to be weak and continue to retreat.

The 2,000 Pingyang soldiers who were originally resting here, when they saw the 3,000 ambushed people retreating, joined them without hesitation and fought side by side with them.

The enemy's advance force had only 5,000 people. As the battle went on, they suddenly found that the number of troops on the opposite side seemed to be increasing, and gradually became equal to the number of their own side.

But at this time everyone was immersed in the fierce battle and had no time to think carefully. They could only bite the bullet and fight head-on.

The enema-like reinforcements were proceeding very slowly in the narrow valley. Wang Biqing and Ren Chaohui were observing the battle situation from a high place. Seeing this, they thought the timing was right. They exchanged glances and understood each other.

Then Ren Chaohui waved his hand and decisively ordered: "Fire!"

The sudden sound of artillery exploded in the valley like thunder, making the enemy troops below even more panicked.

Especially when the shells landed in the crowd, blood and flesh flew everywhere in an instant, and the chaotic scene after the casualties was simply terrible.

Ren Chaohui's team had just learned how to fire artillery, and their accuracy was actually very poor. They couldn't even tell whether the shells in their hands were shrapnel or shotgun shells.

As a result, most of the shells they loaded for the second round were shotgun shells.

"Crackling", shotgun shells exploded everywhere in the crowd, and lead bullets splashed like raindrops, which really made Xiahou Ge'ri's team below scream in pain.

Most of the people who were hit by shotgun had the large lead bullets hit their arms and legs, and the piercing pain made them wail incessantly.

When the people blocking the front heard the sound of artillery fire, their morale was boosted and they fought more bravely. From time to time, soldiers from both sides joined the blocking army, making the encirclement even tighter.

Xiahou Geri was completely panicked now. He finally realized that he had really fallen into a trap.

A thought flashed through his mind: Fight out of the valley!

But the reality is very different from what he thought.

The artillery attack caused the people in his team to flee in panic, some fleeing forwards and some fleeing backwards, and no one listened to his command at all.

He watched helplessly as his mount was killed by a cannonball. Helplessly, he could only hide behind a rock, with only a few personal soldiers guarding him at the risk of their lives.

"General, the brothers who rushed forward said that the road ahead was blocked and they had to retreat." A personal soldier reported to him anxiously.

Xiahou Geri, disheartened and completely at a loss of his composure, ordered without hesitation, "Then retreat! Why are you waiting for me?"

In this panic, Xiahou Geri completely forgot his identity. At this moment, he had only one thought in his mind: to leave this damn place as soon as possible.