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  The princess said on horseback: "Chen Shimei, tell us where we should go tomorrow to shake off the pursuing soldiers?"

  Chen Yuan listened to her and hastily composed himself: "Princess, how many soldiers did you bring with you?"

  The princess slightly opened her red lips: "Five hundred, and there are three thousand people here two hundred miles north waiting for us."

  Yelü Nügu added a sentence: "As long as we merge with those three thousand people, we will be safe."

  Chen Yuan thought for a moment: "We'll go upstream and head back."

  "What?" exclaimed Yelü Niegulu and the princess in unison.

  Chen Yuan said, "Originally I only had over a hundred partners, and we couldn't not leave. But now the princess has brought these 500 elite soldiers, it's better for us to find a suitable place to ambush them rather than thinking of ways to escape. If we continue to run, they will discover our trail and easily notice that there are 500 more people with us. However, if we engage in battle here, these 500 men would be the unexpected reinforcements they never thought of."

  The princess thought for a moment and said: "Right, this way I can still choose the battlefield, choose the war machine, and have time to deploy, which is better than being chased by the opponent and fighting hastily."

  Yelü Niegulu also nodded slightly: "Good! Brother Chen, I think if we want to fight, the terrain here is very good! As long as we block the river, this valley is the only place for the enemy to stay, and there is no way to advance or retreat."

  Chen Yuan listened to them and secretly glanced at Yang Wenguang. At this time, Yang Wenguang had already picked up a wooden sword and was standing beside Pang Xi.

  Chen Yuan's eyes looked over and nodded slightly, indicating that this place was okay.

  Chen Yuan is no good at fighting, he's just in charge of thinking of ways. He thought of a way to shake off the pursuing soldiers earlier, now he needs to think of a way to block the river flow.

  The plan has been finalized, and the specific details will be discussed by Chen Yuan and others. The next morning, everyone began to set up the battlefield.

  Chen Yuan's method of intercepting the river flow was simple, just hammer in wooden stakes. The river water flowed rapidly through the mountain valley, and even if the stakes were driven in clearly, the enemy would still be unable to avoid them.

  The princess divided the 500 soldiers of Liao into two groups, one with 300 people, hiding in the mountains and valleys on the other side, holding strong bows, waiting for the enemy to fall into the water and then shooting from above, driving the fallen enemies into the valley.

  While another two hundred men lay in ambush on the mountains on both sides of the entrance to the valley, holding long guns and short bows, coordinating with Chen Yuan's partners to annihilate the enemy who escaped into the valley.

  The valley was filled with dry firewood and other flammable materials, once those bandits came in, as long as a few torches were thrown down from above, they would have nowhere to hide.

  After everything was ready, Chen Yuan and Pang Xi led the accountants to ambush on the mountain. They also had a few bows and arrows in their hands, which were seized from the horse bandits after winning that battle a few days ago.

  Time passed minute by minute, Chen Yuan was not nervous this time, and he lay down with Hu Jing, even having the mood to secretly flirt and bicker, so he didn't feel like the time was hard to bear. Those buddies were also the same, joking with each other, no longer as tense as they were during their first battle.

  In the hazy sky, a sudden whistle came from the opposite bank, and everyone's nerves were tense in an instant. A group of horse bandits rode on wooden rafts, emerging from a dense forest upstream along the river, with a mighty force of nearly two thousand people.

  On the first raft in front of them, there was a young man standing at the head of the raft, dressed in silk, who looked very out of place among those robbers.

  Yelü Niegulu saw that person and gritted his teeth, saying: "Yelü Shuobao!"

  Chen Yuan looked at him: "Is he Yelü Xianbao?"

  Yelü Niegulu nodded: "That's right, it's him. This time he's unlucky and actually standing on the first wooden raft!"

  Chen Yuan smiled slyly: "That's right, if we can capture him alive, won't we be able to kill him to vent our anger?"

  Yelü Niegulu smiled coldly: "Speak?"

  Two people were talking between them, and then Yelü Xianyu had already discovered the wooden stakes in front of him. On the bamboo raft, there was a commotion, with people crowded together, their faces already filled with panic.

  Neither advance nor retreat is possible.

  The wooden raft soon crashed into the wooden stakes at the bottom of the river, and the horse bandits on it fell into the water one after another. The wooden raft also broke apart. However, Yelü Xianyu reacted quickly and jumped onto another wooden raft, escaping this first disaster.

  Chen Yuan was very excited, and he stole a glance at Yang Wenguang. Seeing that he remained calm and composed in this critical moment, Chen secretly admired him as a worthy descendant of the Yang family.

  More and more bamboo rafts emerged from the river bend. The front ones crashed into the wooden stakes, and the back ones crashed into the front rafts, making the entire river surface look like a dumpling, with the sound of "plop, plop" never-ending.

  With great difficulty, they managed to control the wooden rafts behind them. Just as those bandits were about to catch their breath, a strong bow suddenly appeared from the opponent's cliff wall and shot down at the heads of these bandits.

  At this time, the horse bandits had not yet escaped from the panic of just now. This sudden blow instantly made them no longer have a formation, let alone a chaotic formation.

  Those three hundred Liao soldiers were the princess's guards, and they were the elite of the Liao country. More than three hundred people occupied the high ground from top to bottom, almost every arrow could kill an enemy, and in an instant, they shot the other side into chaos, with casualties exceeding half.

  Nalai Ruchibao was beaten until his soul flew away, and he hastily retreated to shoot arrows in return. Unfortunately, they couldn't reach the princess's guards above.

  Bandits could no longer avoid it and were shot one after another. Fresh blood stained the wooden rafts and river water.

  Yelü Shu's heart was filled with anxiety, retreating was not an option. He saw a nearby empty mountain valley, although he knew the enemy would set up an ambush there, but he had no choice but to think of a way to enter first and then figure it out.

  At the same time, the arrows shot from the cliff became even more fierce, as if urging Yelü Xiezhuo to enter the valley. Moreover, the archers discovered Yelü Xiezhuo's identity and more and more arrows began to pay special attention to him. Although the horse thieves held up their wooden shields, they could not withstand the powerful arrows shot by the hundred crossbows, and one after another fell down.

  Yelü Niegulu saw his guards falling one by one, the situation was unfavorable, he let out a loud shout and flipped over to jump into the water, hiding under the wooden raft. In this way, bows and arrows could not harm him, the bandits looked at each other and followed suit, jumping into the water one after another.

  The arrow shot straight into the water, and fresh blood gushed out of the water, followed by the floating corpse of the thief, a scene of extreme cruelty.

  It's either death or defeat; this has always been the iron law of the battlefield.

  Those surviving bandits propped up the wooden raft and charged into the valley. They thought that as long as they escaped from the river, they would find a chance to survive, but they didn't know that their current footsteps were stepping from the edge of hell into hell itself.

  The bandits had just let out a long sigh of relief when they suddenly saw many torches flashing out on the mountains on both sides of the valley. Chen Yuan was heroic this time, standing up first and rushing down with a loud laugh: "Yelü Chubao! You've been chasing us for several days, blowing wind at our backs. Today I'll let you warm up!"

  After finishing speaking, he threw the torch in his hand fiercely downwards. The buddies also followed suit and threw down the torches, and the dry firewood that had been laid out in the valley was ignited instantly.

  Those horses instantly fell into a sea of flames.

  Some of the bandits at the entrance still wanted to escape, but were shot and killed by those 200 Liao soldiers.

  The cries of despair were endless, and more than 2,000 horse bandits had been routed. The remaining ones in the river, seeing that things were not going well, immediately turned around and fled, without regard for their companions' lives or deaths.

  Those who walked slowly were immediately locked in the valley by the Liao soldiers at the mountain pass, struggling to survive in a sea of flames.

  Chen Yuan was on the mountain at this time, and he could even smell the aroma of roasted human flesh. He suddenly felt that this smell was a bit similar to the smell of his own roasted meat earlier.

  Just thinking of this, I felt a surge in my stomach, wanting to hold back but couldn't, and a torrent burst out from my throat.

  Hu Jing busily gently stroked his back: "What's wrong? Not feeling well?"

  Yelü Nieruha sneered, "I'm sure that last time Chen brother didn't go to battle. If he had killed someone before, it would be nothing now."

  Chen Yuantu felt a bit uncomfortable and spat it out, then lightly waved his hand: "No, it's just that the flavor is similar to the meat I roasted earlier."

  Just as the voice had finished speaking, she suddenly felt Hu Jing's hand tighten behind her back, followed by a loud "Wow!"

  Naye Lü Nu'er suddenly felt a lump in her throat, and after a moment, she sat up abruptly, tilting her head to one side: "Wow!"

  When the fire had subsided a bit, there were still bandits alive below. This situation once again illustrates a truth: human will to survive can often overcome some seemingly insurmountable natural disasters, which is also why humans are able to dominate the earth.

  But these people are not worth congratulating, because humanity's greatest enemy is not the various disasters of nature, but humanity itself.

  At the entrance of the valley, the princess had been waiting for a long time with 300 Liao soldiers who came down from the opposite mountain. As soon as the fire subsided, they rushed in and killed those horse bandits who survived the big fire.

  Chen Yuan also brought his men to join in this massacre.

  To be honest, Chen Yuan did not want to use force on these people who had already lost their ability to resist, but the fact is that he did.

  When those three hundred Liao soldiers charged in with a loud shout, the two hundred Liao soldiers on the mountain also rushed down with a loud shout.

  Chen Yuan and the guys around him never thought about whether they should take it upon themselves to kill these poor people who are now only thinking of seeking a way out.

  It was just that kind of shouting and killing that stirred up a kind of impulse in their hearts, and then they went down.

  Chen Yuan also shouted loudly, as if shouting out could relieve the repression, fear, excitement and a little guilt that the other's corpse brought to him.

  In fact, most of them just shouted and the Liao soldiers' killing methods were much more professional than their companions. By the time they went down, people had almost been killed off.

  The cessation of the mournful cries brought Chen Yuan's rational mind back to some extent. Looking at the corpses of the bandits in the valley who were killed because of his decision, he felt a faint sense of unease in his heart. However, if it happened again, he would still do the same thing. Nothing was more important than being alive himself.

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