In a valley north of Fushi City, Shitugu also had a face as cold as frost.
As Liu Wei's three groups gradually gathered, the three hundred soldiers who had been pursuing him, separated from Shi Tugu, also joined together.
From the initial thousand men, only seven hundred riders remain.
The three armies that pursued Liu Wei along the way killed more than forty people, but caused Shi Tugu to lose more than three hundred.
They have already found out the situation of Liu Wei's men.
Only seventy or eighty people.
Not far south of Fushi City is Hengshan Pass.
The other side will not enter the city, as there are Qiang people there.
They only had one route: Hengshan Pass.
With 1,700 men attacking from both sides, the enemy's 70 or 80 men were instantly annihilated, leaving them nowhere to hide.
Just as Shi Tu Gu was preparing to deploy his encirclement and kill plan, the sudden arrival of Xiongnu cavalry disrupted their plans.
These dozens of ragged, blood-soaked, and dejected Xiongnu soldiers knelt before him, tears streaming down their faces.
"Chief, our home is gone!"
What?
The Xiongnu soldiers surrounding Shi Tugu glared angrily: "What exactly happened?"
They never expected that in just one night, the Han army in the Hetao region would descend like divine soldiers and wipe out their home in Sheyanze.
"Your eight thousand soldiers didn't even put up a fight, and were just wiped out like that?"
Shi Tu Gu grabbed the collar of the Xiongnu centurion kneeling before him and roared.
"Chief, they...they have at least five thousand cavalry, and they launched a surprise attack in the dead of night; their arrows are too powerful, we have no chance to fight back!"
The centurion cried out in despair.
Last night, it wasn't that they didn't want to resist, but they were ambushed in the shadows and had no time to fight back before the other side attacked them right in the face.
Corpse Bone shoved the centurion hard: "Useless! You're all useless! You can't even protect your home!"
Before he could finish speaking, he kicked the centurion to the ground, drew his sword, and prepared to kill him.
"Chief, please calm down! Chief, please calm down! Let him live, and we'll kill a few more Han Chinese to avenge him!"
The surrounding generals quickly tried to dissuade him.
"Chief, let me die on the battlefield, not by the sword of my own men," the centurion pleaded in grief and indignation.
"Alas!" Shi Tu Gu sighed and slammed his raised sword down into a tree beside him.
"Chief, what do we do now?"
The group of subordinates remained silent for a while, completely lost and bewildered.
"Chief, why don't we go and seek refuge with the old King Guli?" someone suggested.
If Shi Tugu hadn't insisted on surrendering to Bingzhou, he might have joined forces with King Guli and had at least 20,000 soldiers and 50,000 to 60,000 followers.
"If the Han army in the Hetao region could reach Sheyanze, could the cities of Guluo and Dacheng still exist?"
Shi Tugu coldly said, "I guess they were wiped out by the Han army long ago."
His men were filled with anxiety and their morale was low.
My home is gone, my family is gone, and I have no idea where to go or what to do.
Shi Tu Gu suddenly pulled out the waist knife from the tree trunk, staring at his blood-red eyes as he looked around.
The soldiers' eyes were also bloodshot; they were all staring at the corpse's bones.
Now, everyone relies on him for guidance.
"Listen up, everyone! We still have a thousand men lying in ambush at Hengshan Pass, and we have seven hundred men here too!"
"As long as we have a breath left, the Xiongnu will not perish!"
"The only way to revive the Xiongnu is to kill this prince!"
"Only by killing him can we gain wealth and prosperity, and obtain resources and land for survival from Bingzhou."
"Therefore, we are burdened with national and personal grievances, and this time we must fight with all our might to kill this prince."
Shi Tu Gu's words filled these Xiongnu people with hatred.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
They shouted through gritted teeth.
“Even if we surrender to Bingzhou, they will still come and attack our homeland.”
"They want to wipe us out and make us disappear from this land forever."
Shi Tu Gu continued his impassioned speech, "We have no way out but to kill this prince."
"This time, it's either you or me who dies!"
"If anyone retreats even slightly, don't blame me for showing no mercy with my broadsword."
The crowd roared again, "It's either you die or I die!"
Seeing that everyone was filled with overwhelming killing intent fueled by hatred, Corpse Bone gave the order:
"Everyone mount up, let's go!"
More than 700 Xiongnu cavalrymen quickly mounted their horses and charged towards Liu Wei and his group at breakneck speed.
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Liu Wei's side also mounted their horses and headed towards Hengshan Pass.
"My lord, there must be an ambush in Hengshan. Can we choose another route?"
Wang Fangyi advised.
“If we choose another route, we will have to take a long detour.”
"I have arranged to meet General Zhang Liao here. If we take another route, Zhang Liao may not be able to find us."
Wang Fangyi said, "In that case, we have no choice but to fight to the death!"
"We have just discovered that the Xiongnu who were chasing us have now joined forces in one place, numbering as many as seven hundred."
Liu Wei retorted, "Commander Wang, are you afraid of a mere seven or eight hundred men?"
Wang Fangyi was clearly unconvinced by Liu Wei's words:
"My lord, considering the tragic deaths of my forty-odd brothers, how could I possibly fear them?"
"I will make them pay with their lives for my forty-odd brothers."
Shen Lian said, "The brothers from my unit who went to detect people from Hengshan have also returned."
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