In the wilderness, one after another, four-wheeled large trucks burned. Several even experienced violent explosions, which were loading vehicles carrying explosive bombs. More than 300 Liang army infantry fled to the north in panic.

A moment later, a figure of a cavalry appeared next to these baggage trucks that had been burned into balls of fire.

This is a Sassanian cavalry with nearly two thousand cavalry. They boarded the ship at Guadal Harbor, and after reaching the southeast and approaching the coast of the Indus River Estuary, they abandoned the ship and landed, and raided the Liang army. Strangely, this cavalry team was mixed with a large number of camels. The number of these camels was comparable to the number of warriors. The camels were obviously carrying heavy objects, which were the food and grass of these Sassanian cavalry. A camel corresponds to a cavalry, and these food and grass were enough for them to need more than a month. Because these camels that were much heavier than war horses existed, the leader of the Liang army thought that there were five or six thousand warriors on the other side.

The Sassanian general raised his eyes to the scene that was burned into a sea of ​​fire, waved his hand and said, "Chase! Kill one of them without leaving any!"

Immediately, the Sassanian cavalry whipped the horse again, and drove the camels to chase the fleeing Liang army. After less than half an hour of pursuit, they had already seen each other's figure. More than a hundred cavalry ignored the camels and chased them straight. Before the war cavalry arrived, they opened their bows and shot arrows. The slow-running Liang soldiers were occasionally caught and fell to the ground.

One of the Liang soldiers ran and suddenly felt that someone was pushing his back, almost losing the center of gravity, and staggered forward several steps before he stood firm. It turned out that an arrow hit his vest, but the arrow shot at the thickest part of the ring armor, causing the arrow cluster to fail to completely pass through the bronze armor, and only pierced a little skin on the other party's back, causing some stinging pain. However, a rapid horse hoof body came from the Liang soldiers' ears, and then a spear blade stabbed into his back neck...

Sassanian's cavalry killed the Liang army soldiers like a knife cutting tofu. Fortunately, a fort appeared in front of the Liang army soldiers running in the front. It was the fort built by the Liang army between Suguan and Xihekou City called Heihu Fort.

The general led by Liang Jun was the only one with a mount, so he ran in the front. When he was twenty battles away from the fort that had opened the gate to welcome them, he suddenly thought of something and stopped the mount quickly. Then he shouted to the soldiers: "You go to the fort quickly, remember to hold on, at least eight hours. When the time comes, reinforcements will naturally come to rescue the siege!"

After he finished his order, he urged his horse to gallop again. However, he did not enter the fort, but passed around the fort and rushed directly towards Suguan. It turned out that because Suguan had just seized it, the pigeons in Suguan's pigeon chamber did not recognize their nests and could not use flying pigeons to pass the letter. So he had to go to Suguan in person to report to Guan Yu. Shortly after he left, nearly two thousand Sasanian cavalry followed him surrounded the fort.

A moment later, a carrier pigeon flew into the air from the fort, which was the carrier pigeon that reported the news to Xihekou City. But as soon as it reached the height of seven or eight battles, more than a dozen arrows flew towards it, and the carrier pigeon fell straight down instantly. The general in the fort looked ashen and ordered: "Go and let all the remaining carrier pigeons fly with letter paper. Be careful, let them fly from different locations!"

After a while, three more carrier pigeons soared into the sky from three positions far apart from the fort at the same time. But then two more pigeons were shot down by arrows. Fortunately, the last carrier pigeon had already flew to the altitude of twenty or thirty battles, and the bows and arrows of the Sassanian cavalry were no longer accessible. Just as General Liang felt relieved, the screams of eagles and falcons suddenly came from the sky. It turned out that the Sassanian army had released the falcon.

General Liang saw that the enemy falcon rushed towards the carrier pigeon that had turned into a small black dot, and his eyes were about to spit out fire. He hurriedly ordered: "Hurry up, release our golden eagle!"

Then several golden eagles soared vertically from the fort, but two of them were also shot dead by the arrows of the Sassanian warriors. The remaining several golden eagles flew into the distance. A quarter of an hour later, they flew back, with blood on their claws. Obviously they had hunted the other party's hawk, but they didn't know whether the pigeon had been killed in the end.

...

Guan Yu held up his book "Spring and Autumn" again, and while stroking his beard, he read it with relish until a mess of footsteps interrupted his reading. Guan Yu looked up and saw that his personal guards were running towards his study as if flying, and quickly shouted: "Why are you so panicked?"

The soldiers stopped their footsteps quickly: "Report to General, our army's baggage team was attacked. The Black Tiger Fort was also attacked by the enemy."

Guan Yu was surprised. Since occupying the Suguan Pass, he had never found Sassanian enemy troops in the southeast of the Suleiman Mountains. This was the first time he encountered this situation. Guan Yu thought for a moment and realized that it must be the enemy coming from the sea. When he thought of this, he felt relieved.

Sasanthesanite may come from the sea to infiltration and harassment, which he and Yan Huai had already expected. However, the enemy troops attacking at the sea must be small units. If a large number of troops are facing the risk of going deep into the army and not being able to replenish supplies. Unless they first establish a turnover base for food and grass at the landing point.

Guan Yu closed his eyes slightly and said calmly: "Isn't it just a small group of enemy troops infiltrating from the sea? What's the point of making a fuss? Don't worry, they can't capture the Black Tiger Fort. If you pass the order, we will send more patrol cavalry teams in the future."

The commander responded quickly: "Report to the general, according to the captain who reported the news, the enemy army had four or five thousand cavalry. They had been chasing them and chasing them to the Black Tiger Fort. Now they may be attacking the Black Tiger Fort."

Guan Yu was shocked and said, "What? Four or five thousand cavalry! This is impossible. Where did their supplies come from? How sure is their solitary army to escape? You can quickly call the captain, and you must ask him in detail. In addition, call all the generals and officers above the battalion commander and above, and say that there are urgent matters to be discussed."

After a while, generals and school corpses of the baggage team all came to Guan Yu. After the latter asked, he confirmed that the captain was right. Guan Yu said with fear: "They must have built camps and temporary docks at the landing site to support these enemy cavalry to fight for a long time in my hinterland. No, they must not be allowed to capture the Black Tiger Fort!"

Guan Yu turned around and said to the order, "Transfer a certain military order, immediately click on the second step battalion, the third and fourth cavalry battalions, and go to reinforce the Black Tiger Fort."

As soon as he finished speaking, a deputy general reminded him: "General, there are only four battalions in this Suguan to defend our army. We will draw three battalions away. If the enemy attacks in large numbers, this Suguan will be in danger."

Guan Yu sighed and said, "Of course I know this, but if the enemy really wants to gain a firm foothold on the coast and seize the Black Tiger Fort, then we must also give up Suguan."

"But General Yan Huai from Heihu Fort can also be rescued."

"Heihu Fort is more accessible from Suguan than from Xihekou. When the reinforcements from Xihekou arrive at Heihu Fort, Heihu Fort may have been lost. What's more, Yan Huai may not be able to receive news of the enemy landing in time and attacking our Heihu Fort. So we can only rush to rescue."
Chapter completed!