In my dream of returning to the Tang Dynasty, I snatched Wu Zetian from my lap.

But the Xueyantuo people continued their relentless pursuit, chasing and killing relentlessly, and constantly flanking from different directions.

Several times, Li Yuanchang's troops were nearly cut off by the Xueyantuo people on the hillside, only managing to escape by desperately diving and changing direction.

Thousands of Xueyantuo soldiers were completely outmaneuvered on the mountain. They failed to capture anyone and lost an envoy and a large group of cavalrymen.

This extreme chase lasted for about half an hour.

The entire Dingyuan Mountain area was turned upside down, with too many people falling off their horses.

At this moment, Li Yuanchang and his group had completely left the slopes of Dingyuan Mountain and arrived at a remote, desolate cliff.

To get to the other side, you have to cross a chasm.

He was about to turn left.

Archers raised their heads from the hillside with a whoosh, and torches lit up everywhere.

"Li Yuanchang, run, keep running!" a burly man in military uniform shouted. It was Qi Lianbajin, who had led his team to intercept them by taking a detour and had been waiting for a long time.

"Whoa!!"

All the guards reined in their horses, and they were instantly in dire straits.

Behind him were pursuers, to his left were hundreds of archers, and to his right was a precipice. Unknowingly, he had entered a dead end.

The guards looked grim and kept urging their horses to the left and right.

"You think you can kill me?" Li Yuanchang scoffed.

"Hmph, stubborn Han Chinese, this day next year will be your death anniversary. This general will use your head to offer sacrifice to Nu Xiba!"

An enraged Chirenbajin shouted, "Fire!!"

shhhhhh!

A dense rain of arrows instantly rose into the air, and the warhorses, sensing the danger, let out anxious neighs.

Li Yuanchang tightened the reins and pulled to the right.

"Rush!!"

He uttered only one word, a single, powerful word.

All the guards of the Prince of Han's mansion gritted their teeth and followed him with a desperate determination.

Rumble!!

Accompanied by the neighing of hooves, they stretched the initial thirty paces to their maximum speed.

Arrows struck at that moment, and more than ten people were hit in the back, but they were not fatally wounded because they were wearing chainmail and leather armor.

The seventy-eight people surged towards the cliff like a torrent!

On the other side of the cliff, it seemed as if the crescent moon was on the horizon.

Even the Xueyantuo people were astonished by this scene.

"Giddy up!" Li Yuanchang roared, his eyes resolute, without a trace of fear.

The more you fear such extreme jumps, the more likely something bad will happen.

"hiss!!"

Red Lightning took the lead, its hooves soaring high, and with its astonishing explosive power, it crossed the seven- or eight-meter chasm before landing steadily.

boom!!

Rumble...

Most of the guards from the Prince of Han's palace successfully jumped over, but eight riders failed to land, falling just short, and then crashed to the ground.

"Draw your crossbow!"

Guo Chao and the others turned around and roared, their eyes bloodshot, but they were powerless to help. They only heard eight muffled thuds in succession.

Li Yuanchang was heartbroken. These were his most elite confidants who had followed him for years, and now nearly half of them had been lost.

He stood on the other side of the cliff, roaring back, "Qilianbajin, you'd better kill me tonight! If I don't die, I'll slaughter your Shatuo army until not a single soldier is left!"

The voice, like that of a god, exploded and echoed.

Seeing the fat meat that was about to be eaten fly away, most of the pursuers hovered at the precipice, not daring to follow suit.

If this thing makes a mistake, you're dead.

Qilian Bajin was so angry he was about to vomit blood; he was furious and smashed his bow and arrow.

"Change routes! They can't leave Dingyuan Mountain. Keep chasing them! We must kill this brat tonight!"

"yes!!"

The Xueyantuo cavalry shouted and chose to descend the mountain from another location, relentlessly pursuing them in a large swarm.

After shaking off their pursuers on the mountain, Li Yuanchang led his team down the mountain at top speed, entering the second phase.

That means breaking out of Dingyuan Mountain. At this moment, the defenses at the foot of the mountain are weak, and the pursuers are not coming. The opportunity is great.

Therefore, Li Yuanchang did not linger and rushed straight through the pass!

Upon hearing the thunderous sound of hooves from the mountainside, the Xueyantuo cavalry, numbering over a hundred and under martial law below, quickly drew their swords.

As the saying goes, enemies are especially hostile when they meet.

The moment they rushed out of Dingyuan Mountain.

"Kill!!" Li Yuanchang roared, his black hair dancing wildly.

"Kill them!"

One by one, Tang swords were drawn, their light piercing the waning moon.

Rumble!

Both cavalrymen charged at full speed, one advancing and the other intercepting, like two speeding steel war chariots.

Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, fifty steps...

A real man never backs down!

boom! !

A terrifying explosion rang out, warhorses were thrown into battle, and cavalrymen crushed each other.

Hissing, wailing, and screaming filled the air, accompanied by the clanging sounds of Tang swords and curved blades clashing against each other, erupting in an instant.

But in just a moment, Li Yuanchang led his troops to crush the Xueyantuo cavalry's formation like grinding tofu, launching a devastating charge.

The Xueyantuo cavalry, men and horses alike, were constantly scattered, some even being swept into the ground and trampled into a bloody pulp.

In a single exchange, the square formation of this ranger was completely broken through!

The guards of the inner palace did not linger in battle or delay; they dragged their wounded bodies away and sped off into the distance.

When Qilianbajin chased them down the mountain, all he saw was a defensive line riddled with corpses.

Qilianbajin trembled with rage: "Keep chasing!"

"We will not rest until this man is killed!!"

He roared, as if swearing a deadly oath.

Rumble!

At least five hundred rangers gave chase immediately, and this was only the first wave.

It can be said that the vast majority of the Shatuo army's main force came to besiege Li Yuanchang.

Without the mountainous terrain, the Xueyantuo cavalry, equipped with superior warhorses, steadily closed the distance and even began to split into several groups to intercept them.

It's like hunting, attempting to encircle and surround the prey.

The two chased and fought from midnight until dawn the next day.

The good news is that after three battles, the soldiers of the Imperial Guard were badly wounded, but they eventually escaped.

The bad news was that, due to being surrounded and encircled, Li Yuanchang's troops were unable to break through to the south and return to Dingxiang, and were instead forced to flee north.

This turned what could have been a safe breakout within a hundred miles into an unpredictable and deadly escape.

Furthermore, the Xueyantuo people had gone mad and had no intention of giving up. They relentlessly pursued Li Yuanchang, determined not to stop until he was killed.

At first, Li Yuanchang managed to create some distance between them.

However, they only had one horse, while the Xueyantuo cavalrymen each had two horses, and the quality of most of the horses varied.

With this shift in power, Qilianbajin's forces completely caught up within just one day.

"Li Yuanchang!"

"You can't escape!!"

Across the vast plains, the hysterical roar of Chilenbajin, now completely out of control, echoed.

Li Yuanchang ignored them and led his team into a more complex and unfamiliar area, getting further and further away from Baidaochuan and the actual control area of ​​the Tang Dynasty.

It's like a cup of poison; if you don't drink it, you'll die instantly; if you do drink it, you won't die of thirst, but you'll die slowly.

Li Yuanchang had no choice but to choose this option.

The guards inside the tent raised billowing dust and disappeared once again into the mountains and valleys.

"..."