He felt unfamiliar with these mechanical weapons and did not dare to touch them without permission, so he had to stand up carefully.
"Retreat!" Tuoba Chen climbed up and said, "It's an ambush!"
But the army would never let them retreat. The Du Yuhou, who had been waiting in the sand for a long time, drew his sword and attacked. More than a thousand soldiers crawled out of the sand and fought with the iron golem after it landed.
"Bang" the big swords of the two armies collided with each other. In the gap between the blades, the tragic scene after Fangcheng's defeat was vividly seen. Du Yuhou roared and forced the iron puppet to retreat again and again.
Tuoba Chen's iron golem lost its horse and was unable to cope with the swords, which were shorter than its own machetes. The iron golem's terrifying weight disappeared, and it stood on the ground, its sword-drawing speed was even slower than that of the army.
However, Tuoba Chen soon realized that Yuwen Ran's troops were very sparse, unable to even form a perimeter around him. While Nadu Yuhou's fighting style was ferocious, it was based solely on pure passion, and the number of his troops was very small. There were no reinforcements in this vast desert, and the only single-wheeled trap was the horse pit at the city gate.
Tuoba Chen was furious. He knocked down one of the soldiers and rushed forward, shouting, "This is all a plot by the Central Plains army! Kill them all!"
Du Yuhou was injured. He kicked Tuoba Chen in front of him away and wiped his sweat. The harder Du Yuhou and his men fought, the more Tuoba Chen was convinced that they had no reinforcements for this siege.
The two sides fought fiercely for nearly half an hour. In the end, Du Yuhou led his men to retreat. They had no horses and could only run hurriedly in the desert.
Tuoba Chen was already in high spirits at this point, so how could he let Du Yuhou and his men get away? He immediately regrouped his warhorse and led his men in pursuit.
Du Yuhou held his injured arm and desperately led his men to run forward, but in the end he was no match for the Iron Golem's crooked horse. In less than a moment, Du Yuhou was caught up by Tuoba Chen and the Iron Golem.
Suddenly, at the edge of the desert, war drums roared, shaking the earth and making everyone's ears ache. Tuoba Chen, realizing something was amiss, reined in his horse and glanced around with his iron golem. From the surrounding desert piles came the clacking sounds of mechanical devices turning.
The horse under Tuoba Chen was shaking its hooves restlessly. He looked forward and saw the mechanism turning and gradually erecting four walls of mechanism on the desert. Torches were also lit one after another, extending from the direction where Du Yuhou was running all the way to a place that Tuoba Chen could not see, like an invisible long dragon. The dense beating of drums made Tuoba Chen feel a sense of crisis.
He immediately realized that he had fallen into a trap and that the Central Plains army had reinforcements!
"Retreat," Tuoba Chen pulled the horse's head over and said urgently, "Retreat!"
But the mechanical wall was almost erected, blocking the retreat of Tuoba Chen's iron puppet. He was facing the main army of the Central Plains in front, and there was no way to retreat behind him.
As Tuoba Chen hesitated, the road ahead was blocked by the mechanical wall. The moment the wall rose, he heard the sound of galloping horses. He looked over and saw Yuwen Ran and his men riding horses coming from the other side.
Tuoba Chen hammered the mechanical wall beside him fiercely and silently cursed in a Western style.
Yuwen Ran designed to surround them here without food and water. This was clearly an attempt to trap them to death so that he could take the opportunity to recapture Fangcheng.
Tuoba Chen got off his horse and took several Iron Golem leaders to carefully study the door locks of the mechanism wall. Every mechanism has a way to crack it.
This mechanism wall is a new type of mechanism wall developed by Gu Yanyue and Bai Youjin. It is not the kind of mechanism that Gu Yanyue solved in Bai Youjin's forest last time.
Gu Yanyue also added many elements from later generations. She dared to guarantee that no one could solve it except her and Bai Youjin, who was responsible for the research and development, unless there were other time travelers here.
As Gu Yanyue expected, within two days, Tuoba Chen's iron puppet ran out of food and water and no way to unlock it could be found. Tuoba Chen had no choice but to surrender.
Yuwen Ran agreed and had a simple tent set up between the two armies, and agreed to meet Tuoba Chen there.
For safety reasons, Yuwen Ran and Tuoba Chen did not bring anyone else with them, only bringing a deputy general each. Unlike Tuoba Chen, Yuwen Ran also brought Gu Yanyue with him.
When Tuoba Chen entered the tent, Yuwen Ran was holding Gu Yanyue's waist and whispering to her. When he heard the soldiers outside the door announce that Tuoba Chen was coming, Yuwen Ran loosened his hand around Gu Yanyue's waist and held Gu Yanyue's hand instead.
Tuoba Chen's eyes were stung by this scene. When he returned to Fangcheng, he received a letter from King Xiang's men, saying that the mechanism that suppressed the iron puppet was all made by Gu Yanyue. His hatred for Yuwen Ran intensified. If it weren't for him, Gu Yanyue would have been his.
After Tuoba Chen entered the tent, he first respectfully performed the Central Plains salute to Yuwen Ran, "Your Majesty."
Seeing that Tuoba Chen was very polite and the Central Plains had always been a country of etiquette, Yuwen Ran thought about personally helping Tuoba Chen to stand up.
Gu Yanyue didn't know why her eyes were drawn to Tuoba Chen. Tuoba Chen was not wearing armor today, but only a wide robe from the Central Plains. From her angle, she could just see a flash of silver under Tuoba Chen's sleeves.
Gu Yanyue was stunned for a long time. The thing on Tuoba Chen's sleeve didn't match what she imagined in her mind. When she came to her senses, she saw Tuoba Chen took out a dagger from his sleeve and was about to stab Yuwen Ran. She immediately turned over from the table and stood in front of Yuwen Ran.
Tuoba Chen's dagger had already rushed in front of Yuwen Ran. Seeing Gu Yanyue rushing towards him regardless of everything, his pupils shrank and he instantly stopped the dagger in his hand.
The dagger stopped in front of Gu Yanyue's forehead. Tuoba Chen quickly caught the dagger and swept it to the side, cutting off a strand of Gu Yanyue's hair.
Before one crisis was over, another one arose. Tuoba Chen put away his dagger, and a deputy general brought in by Yuwen Ran drew out his sword and rushed straight towards Gu Yanyue.
Yuwen Ran didn't have time to escape with Gu Yanyue, so he could only switch her and himself. When the big knife pierced Yuwen Ran's abdomen, Yuwen Ran groaned, "Um..."
Facing Gu Yanyue's worried eyes, Yu Wenran raised his hand to block Gu Yanyue's eyes, and said with difficulty in a hoarse voice: "Be good, don't look."
Gu Yanyue helped Yuwen Ran up, but before she could say anything, Yuwen Ran suddenly felt dizzy, his throat felt sweet, his vision went dark, and he fell down.
As his consciousness was about to fade, Yuwen Ran heard the deputy general he brought in shout, "There's an ambush! We've fallen into a trap!"
And Gu Yanyue's words, "Quickly call the military doctor."
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