Li Chuang, the captain of the main attack team of the No. 1 Cave, commanded his thousand-man estimating team, and used all his strength to fight with the Viking pirates guarding the cave, and in the end, the two sides were evenly matched, and no one could help anyone, so it had to turn into a war of attrition.

Mai Ke, who had been closely following the battle situation, saw that the battle situation had entered the direction he was most unwilling to develop, so he immediately made a decision, sent the sharp knife of Da Niu, and led his beggars guards into the battle, only to break the deadlock, force the enemy away from the main cave, and escape into a branch hole.

In fact, this branch hole, in a certain sense, is still the main hole, but it has been greatly reduced, and parallel to this main hole, there are two other branch holes at the same time.

It is said that this cave is the main cave, or because the spirit of the scarlet knows very well that the only way to reach the center of the mountain range is to pass from here to guò.

Because the preparations have been made a long time ago, the defense of this small main cave entrance is very well prepared and rigorous.

First of all, there are defensive facilities in all sides of the cave, and even secret tunnels.

Secondly, a huge stone gate is installed at the door, and if you find it difficult to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, you can also lower the stone gate to keep the enemy out.

This stone gate weighs more than 10,000 pounds, and it is above the entrance of the cave, as long as it is lowered, even heavy artillery will be difficult to blast open.

The Celestial Warriors did not expect such careful preparation from the enemy, and followed the fleeing enemy into the cave, and immediately fell into danger.

The vanguard of about thirty men rushed into the hole, then bit the enemy's tail and gave hot pursuit!

I was about to catch up, suddenly. The walls on the left and right sides of the cave protruded from the wall and pierced directly at the soldiers.

Caught off guard, all 30 soldiers were shot, and each of them was pierced by at least three or four guns!

Seeing the mutation, the Celestial Army behind did not retreat but advanced, and without waiting for the gunmen hiding in the niches on both sides to retract, they brandished their red tassel spears and stabbed them through, piercing all the pirates who showed their figures!

But before they could withdraw their spears, there was a bang above their heads. Ten thousand arrows are fired. From top to bottom, cover these piercing Heavenly Army warriors closely.

Not a single one of them could escape, and all thirty of them became hedgehogs, each with at least a hundred arrows in his body!

Because the rain of arrows is too dense and covers a large area!

Blink an eye. Get into this section of the cave first. The soldiers of the Celestial Army who ran in front were all in ink.

The next thirty or so commandos who had just entered the cave and had just arrived at the entrance of the cave were followed. Unharmed for the time being, they hesitated to witness the tragic situation ahead. I don't know if it's time to advance or retreat.

At this moment of hesitation, a drum sounded, and the ground suddenly collapsed, and more than 30 people fell!

In the long exclamation, a small number of soldiers of the Celestial Army with particularly good eyesight looked down through the afterglow, and suddenly their souls were all gone, what did they see?

Waiting for them below are all Sensen's white blades, and there are even more gloomy dark blue flashes!

Those soldiers who saw it happened to know a little bit of knowledge about using poison, and their hearts couldn't help but chill to the end!

This is too ruthless for his second uncle, not counting the ten thousand blades, but also poisoning!

In the screams of despair, the ground returned to its original state, still straight and easy.

Only the commandos who fell into the trap were killed on the spot.

Li Chuang was furious, and with a wave of his hand, he was about to order more team members to rush in, and his possession took revenge!

However, his anger-inspired action was stopped by Mai Ke reaching out.

Mai Ke knew that this kind of defense in this cave, even if more people filled it, it would not help!

Mai Ke looked at the height and width of the cave, and his heart suddenly moved, isn't this exactly the size that a glacier boat can drive into?

The glacier boat designed and manufactured by Mai Ke is not only a means of transportation, nor is it just a temporary barracks, just like the role it plays now, it is also a bunker, a movable bunker!

If this glacier boat drives in, it will only beat people, and it will never be beaten again!

Not to mention that bows and arrows, knives and guns are powerless against it, even if heavy shells are smashed against it, with the existing defensive strength of the glacier boat, it will be safe and sound.

As for the traps set below, the length and width of the glacier boat are automatically immune to the small traps that can only trap people, but do not have a greater appetite to eat into the behemoth.

Mai Ke said to do it, and after stopping Li Chuang's brute force, he waved his hand, and the glacier boat immediately drove over, and then drove at full speed, heading straight for the mouth of the devouring cave!

The first glacier boat entered the hole, and suddenly, with a loud rumble, a huge stone lock fell, sealing the path of the glacier boat, and almost crushing the glacier boat!

Mai Ke hurriedly braked the brakes, and the glacier boat stopped abruptly, but because the stone gate suddenly fell, its front part still had an intimate kiss with the big stone gate!

Although the glacier boat was very sturdy and not damaged by the violent impact, all the occupants inside were shaken to the ground!

Looking at the big stone that was hit but did not move, Mai Ke knew that this way was impassable, so he gave up and continued to attack.

If there is only one way, this tough attack can be said to be a failure, but Mai Ke is prepared for more than just a tough fight!

Mai Ke looked at his watch, and from the beginning of the attack to now, more than half an hour had passed, and he felt that the other two hands he had prepared should also work.

In order to capture the first cave, Mai Ke also specially transferred two special forces from Niangzishui and Shengshan, one is a miner and the other is a charcoal burner.

The miners led the team was Tan Shen, Tan Guo's uncle and brother, who was extremely calm.

The charcoal burner team leader is Zeng Huo, the grandson of Zeng Yuzhen's eldest brother, with a resolute and resolute personality, and the old patriarch specially sent him out to experience.

At the same time as Li Chuang's frontal attack, Tan Guo had two teams mixed, and then divided into two, with each of them leading a team, one on the left and one on the right, looking for opportunities to fight in a roundabout way.

Soon, Tan Guo on the left reported to Mai Ke that they had found a low cave, and they didn't know where to lead, seeing that direction was in the same direction as Cave No. 1, and asked Mai Ke to further determine, if it could be used as an attack point, please ask Mai Ke to correct their direction at any time. so as not to go astray.

Mai Ke immediately asked for an idea to implement it and see if it could be used.

After three seconds of movement, the spirit rhino told sù Mai Ke, yes, and told sù him, after advancing 100 meters, dig a 10-meter crossing to the right, and you can connect to the No. 1 cave.

Not long after, Zeng Huo, on the right, reported that they had found a bottomless crack that led directly to the belly of the mountain. Please also ask Mai Ke to confirm and instruct.

Maike has also done the same. Let the spirit rhino move to investigate, then instruct them to go one hundred and fifty meters deep into the mountain, and then open a tunnel to the left, five meters long. Then wait for further instructions.

After having direction. The two teams are from the left and right sides. Split up to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy where they can't imagine.

They chose a place where there were already natural caves or crevices. However, the distance could not meet their requirements for our operation, so their top priority was to dig a passage.

However, this task, which is relatively easy for miners and charcoal burners, becomes extremely difficult here!

Because what they encountered here was 10,000-year-old frozen soil and 1,000 tons of boulders!

They didn't have an automatic excavator, they only had hand tools, so they had to dig by hand.

Fortunately, they had the best tools of the time, not to mention cutting iron like clay, cutting stones and frozen soil, which was still unstoppable.

The two teams of men and horses do this kind of work, all have rich experience, they line up in a line, each of them riveting with a sharp digging shovel, aiming at the frozen soil or boulder in front of them, chirping, that is, a few ruthlessly, cutting a piece of earth and stones the size of a bull's head, and then picking up and leaving, leaving the place for the next one.

He himself took the earth and stones in his bosom and sent them out of the cave.

In this way, the whole team of 1,000 people participated in this three-step process of cutting, acquiring and carrying, which was methodical and orderly, and the efficiency was greatly improved.

Just after the enemy fell down the stone gate to close the cave entrance and died, Tan Ping and Zeng Huo reported to Mai Ke at the same time, saying that they had completed the excavation of the passage.

"Good!"

He immediately ordered: "Tan Ping! Your team immediately implements the first move! Zeng Huo! Your team is ready to implement the second move." ”

Mai Ke gave an order, and Tan Ping and Zeng Huo, who listened, laughed secretly in their hearts, this Mai Ke really would not let go of this opportunity and make the enemy suffer a little.

It turned out that when discussing how to deal with the enemy, Tan Ping proposed a move, if the enemy got into the cave and couldn't come out, he could use the method of smoked badgers to subdue them.

The badger is a wild animal that lives in the north, is about the size of a dog, burrows in the fields and hills, and likes to eat crops such as corn.

In order to protect the crops and eat their meat, farmers hunt them in the fall, and if one is caught and killed, the meat can be used to improve the life of a family of eight.

Badger meat is tender and delicious, similar to pork, especially in the poorer mountain villages, this is a rare delicacy.

These badgers are also very intelligent, and when they find out that someone is hunting them, they will run back into their burrows, hide in the depths, and do not come out until the people who tried to capture them can no longer afford to leave, and then they will run out again and continue to trample on the crops.

Over time, the peasants figured out how to deal with them, and they built a fire at the door of their cave and smoked them!

It is to use the fuel that is easy to smoke, pile it at the door of the badger's hole, and then light it, and the smoke will pour straight into it until it stuns them.

Interestingly, when they finally get dazed, they run to the door of the cave and faint there.

Smoked badger people, reach out and reach for them unconscious.

Mai Ke listened with relish, and desperately hoped that he would have a chance to smoke the badger against the enemy.

The charcoal burners were also very interested in the smoked badgers, and it just so happened that they all knew very well what kind of fuel could smoke the most, so now they all carried a bag of just special fuel, that is, the kind that could smoke the most, that is, the so-called "raw charcoal" contained in their bags.

This charcoal did not become the cooked charcoal that people needed, and once it was ignited, smoke billowed immediately.

So Mai Ke's order, these iron-hearted soldiers, who wanted to see the excitement, immediately took action, lit the charcoal, and threw them into the main hole where the enemy was when they were emitting billowing smoke.

Suddenly, the area where the Vikings were staying was surrounded by black smoke and spread in all directions, gradually surrounding everyone.

They now enjoy the same treatment as badgers, but unfortunately their ability to deal with this situation is much worse than that of badgers!

Badgers when they encounter smoke. They stick their noses in the soil and let the smoke pass through the soil before entering the respiratory system, which greatly reduces the damage caused by the smoke.

But these people not only stand and inhale the smoke directly, but they also move around and run around to speed up the smoke into the respiratory system!

I only heard a violent coughing sound, and it got more and more intense!

It didn't take long. There are people at the peak of coughing. Stop!

They must have suffocated and fainted!

Mai Ke heard the movement inside, and sighed in his heart, judging from the speed of this effect, the smoker is much faster than the smoked badger!

Tan Ping was also very happy. It turns out that this hunt has a lot in common with fighting. This smoked badger tactic worked well. This is the first time I've used it.

Just as the smoked badger was just rising, I heard someone shouting in the cave, beckoning everyone to continue to escape into the depths of the cave!

Mai Ke immediately instructed: "Zeng Huo! It's your turn." Strike!"

Zeng Huo was waiting anxiously, his position was behind the smoked badger place, this was the only way for the enemy to escape, and when he heard Mai Ke's instructions, he waved his hand: "First shift, go in!"

Whoosh! Whoosh!

One by one, figures leaped into the main cave, each wearing a gas mask on their heads.

Of course, it's not really anti-virus, it's just something like a mask that blocks smoke from entering the breath.

And they also have a thousand people here, and there is no need to go in them all, so they are divided into three shifts, which can take turns to go in to carry out tasks, each shift lasts ten minutes, and then the people are replaced.

As a result, the smoke in the cave had little effect on them.

As soon as Zeng Huo's men entered, the enemy turned around and ran towards him, and many of them fell to the ground in the middle of the run, unable to stand up again.

At this time, there was no one to support them, because everyone was too busy to take care of themselves.

Although they saw that the Heavenly Army was waiting for them, the courage to fight against them was no longer left, and there was only one thought left in their minds, and they hurried to escape from the thick smoke, even if it fell into the hands of the Heavenly Army, it was like choking to death by the smoke!

So, he ran to the feet of Zeng Huo and the others, and exhausted their last bit of strength, and then fell down in front of them.

Even if some people are still reluctant to post a station, they will be easily subdued by the soldiers of the Heavenly Army.

For those who fell to the ground, the Zeng Huoren who waited for the rabbit was unceremonious!

One catches one when it comes up, two catches a pair when it comes up, and no one will slip through the net.

While everyone was arresting people, they were happy in their hearts, and secretly said, this work is more interesting than a smoked badger!

At this moment, a group of people rushed out of the smoke fiercely, and the one who took the lead was none other than Snake Da!

This kind of smoke doesn't seem to have much effect on him, unlike others, who have no combat power, but he wields the soft whip in his hand.

Although the other Celestial Army bravely intercepted and left all the people who followed Serpent, the Serpent escaped and burrowed into an even narrower hole, which was pitch black and unclear, so the Celestial Army had to abandon the pursuit.

Subsequently, these special forces who were miners and charcoal burners entered the main cave, and smashed the large stone that used the blue at the entrance of the cave as a gate to disperse the smoke in the cave, and then the battlefield was cleaned.

The results of the battle in Cave No. 1, the Heavenly Army lost 200 people, and the Viking team lost 1,000 people, except for the snake escape, the rest were either killed or captured, although the losses were larger, it was considered to have completed the task.

It is a pity that the head of the international column, one of the industry, was caught again, and it is not known when and in what way he escaped.

Looking at the captured Norse warlords, seven or eight hundred men were lined up in a neat row, most of them had not yet woken up from their smoky coma;

Until now, many people still think it is incredible, a local method smoked badger, I didn't expect Xiao Li to be so big, and from this link, the comparison of casualties between the enemy and us is zero to hundred.

I knew that the smoked badger was so effective, and if I used this method more, wouldn't everyone be happy?

Needless to say, the enemy side also benefits!

It's better to be smoked and captured than to die on the battlefield.

Mai Ke celebrated the victory with this side, and Zuo Zongtang and Sheyi Primal were sulking!

I didn't expect the first cave to be defeated by the Heavenly Army in this way!

That way? Smoked badger way!

If it weren't for the back-to-back position they were in, I am afraid that they would not be able to escape!

That smoke is so wicked!

It was originally a close situation, but in the end, they were defeated and lost, and if there was no way back, several of them would have stayed there.

In the end, only Zuo Zongtang, Zhang Zhidong, Sanyou, Sheyi Ling, and a snake were the same.

Now they are in Cave No. 2, which they have escaped from the core route of the mountainside, from Cave No. 1.

This and the core route are only known to Sheqiling, although he led a few people to get through guò, if others look for it again, there is still no clue.

She's half satisfied, half dissatisfied, this encounter.

The only thing that satisfies me is that the snake lord obeyed his orders and really consumed all those human members, and there was not a single one left!

As for those who were captured, they seemed to him to be no different from those who had died.

The dissatisfaction is that the casualties on his own side are heavy, but the casualties of his opponent are much smaller.

He glanced at the dull crowd and said coldly: "Now is not the time to sigh! It is a critical moment to discuss how to resist the enemy, it is estimated that Mai Ke will definitely strike while the iron is hot, and soon come to fight the No. 2 cave, let's make up our minds and resist the enemy's attack." ”

Suddenly, through the internal communication system of Guò, the snake of the third cave said hurriedly: "The Heavenly Army has attacked the third cave, ask for support!"

Zuo Zongtang and Zhang Zhidong were taken aback, why didn't they attack the second hole and ran to the third hole? .

(To be continued......)