Chapter 224

Rong Jiu's sentence is nonsense, even if they want to retreat now, there is no way out.

During the time when Rong Jiu explained his experience, everyone had rested enough. This will each pat his ass and get up to find the place where the former Beidi Trench was. The place is not difficult to find, and it is two or three hundred meters to the left. However, I still can't look good when I find everyone's face, because it's completely indistinguishable from having it or not.

In ancient times, the periphery of the city was generally dug with deep trenches to divert water to protect the city, and the methods used to cross the trenches during the siege were nothing more than two, one was to fill in with stones and woods, and the other was to build a moat bridge more simply. Beidi was well prepared for the siege at that time, and in addition to the flying stone cart, there was also a moat bridge. The part of the trench bridge is still there, but the short section of the bridge that extends forward is only a pitch-black frame that was burned by the fire, and the longer part is gone, probably after being broken by the fire and falling directly into the trench.

I don't know if it's because I've been hit too hard in the past two days, and when I saw the burned trench bridge, the crowd didn't even have an angry expression, which could almost be described as insensitive. Rong Jiu was silent for a long time, and finally asked: "The city is broken, and the withdrawal is also withdrawn, there is time to collect the corpses cleanly, and the flying stone cart and the bridge are quite rare things left here, and they have to burn the bridge to close the road - are their brains made of mud?" ”

"Didn't you say it all, their brains are muddy, how can we figure it out?" Lan Zui stared at the darkness in front of him and muttered, his eyes were full of helplessness, and his gaze moved down the darkness, "Come on, we can't pick up the cheap of the Beidi people, no matter how deep the trench is, there is a bottom, it's a big deal that we climb to the bottom of the ditch and climb up again." I don't believe in this evil when I'm drunk, and I can't enter this city! ”

"I'm afraid you want to be beautiful." Rong Thirteen had been clearing the arrow shaft on the ground just now, and finally cleared a way to the edge of the passage trench. He squatted on the edge of the trench and shone a flashlight below, then turned his head and asked a few people behind him abruptly, "Do you want to take a bath?"

"Bath?" If you want to say that after entering the desert, you sweat and get wet, and when you get wet, who doesn't want to take a bath? But Rong Shisan's words were strange, Bai Suhe was stunned for a moment, and before he could understand, Lan Zui had already walked along the path that was less than two feet wide.

"What's down there?" When we reached the edge of the trench, the feeling of dampness and heat was suddenly much more obvious, and a vast white mist shrouded the place where the flashlight could shine, covering the bottom of the trench tightly.

Lan Zui stretched out his hand and waved it twice in the mist, and he felt that his palms were wet, and he had a bad premonition in his heart.

"Don't sue sΓΉ I have a hot spring ...... below"

Rong 13 didn't answer, he casually fished something from the side and threw it down, the mist was quickly punctured and quickly closed, and a dull 'poof' sound sounded below a few seconds later: "Congratulations, you answered correctly, there is no prize." ”

"I ......" Lan Zui was speechless, turned around and took a steel chisel back, tied it to the rope and threw it down, and then lifted it up after a while, and immediately retracted it as soon as his fingers touched it, "Rub!" ”

This is not only a hot spring, but also boiling boiling water! If you want to go down, you have to turn it into boiled meat.

"Are you going to climb down?"

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Lan Zui was silent, stood up, walked back into the crowd, and suddenly fell into Jun Yihuang's arms: "No, I want to be quiet!" ”

The blue drunk in Jun Yihuang's eyes has always been like a tenacious Xiaoqiang who can't be killed, and now seeing Lan Zui's face of 'I'm already a waste cat' deeply shocked expression, if it weren't for the wrong time, Jun Yihuang really wanted to laugh, so he had to pat her back for comfort.

Seeing Lan drunk rubbing on the chest of Helan Fu's body, although Meng Zheng did not express his opinion, his face was so black that he simply couldn't see it, walked to the edge of the trench bridge, and raised his hand to the opposite side of another flare.

The red light flickered again, piercing the darkness.

This time the goal is clear, and under the red light, it can be seen that the trench in front of it is not straight, not like it is dug manually, but like a natural ditch, which has been slightly repaired artificially. The section directly opposite the moat has a protruding section, like an eagle's beak. The city wall is set up next to the moat, and it can be vaguely seen that part of the wall has collapsed, and there are thick black poles inserted horizontally and vertically on the top of the wall. The eagle's beak part is about 250 meters away from this side, which is about 50 meters closer than other places, and Beidi has built a trench bridge here, and it is already the shortest distance between the trenches.

The red light dissipated, Meng Zheng already had a plan in his heart, returned to Lan Zui's back and grabbed her clothes, and pulled the person away from Jun Yihuang's chest: "Sister Lan, I have a way!" ”

Lan Zui looked at Meng Zheng sideways, with a bad taste: "Are you in a hurry?" ”

Meng Zheng pretended not to understand Lan Zui's ridicule, looked back at Lan Zui's expression, and his brows slowly wrinkled together: "You also thought of it?" ”

"How else can I have this idleness? God knows what's going on over there, but now I'll make a few more when I have time. ”

Lan Zui finally straightened his face, walked over to the stone flying machine, held the handle of the hinge and began to shake.

It was the first time she had seen a real siege machine, and she had seen the structure of the stone cart and the bed crossbow in general when she came before. These things are made of solid wooden zuΓ², wrapped in copper skin to prevent corrosion, and in this underground without sun and rain, the whole is still firm. The bed crossbow is long for one person, and the back is double-layered with large strings, and there is a handle next to each other for two people to pull at the same time to open the strings, and then shoot arrows. It's just that the time is too long, and the strings have no outer layer of protection, and they are all rotten and lose their elasticity. Unlike the delicate bed crossbow, the bulky stone cart is heavy and solid even if the parts are heavy, so it can be used as long as the bottom bracket is continuous.

Jun Yihuang and Bai Suhe saw Lan drunk and dial the flying stone car, and their faces changed at the same time. Jun Yihuang stopped Lan Zui's movements, and said in a deep voice: "What do you want to do?" ”

"Yihuang, you're thinking too much, I just want to tie the stone to a rope and throw it over the city wall." Lan Zui patted Jun Yihuang amusefully and motioned for her to let go. It would have been best if the bed crossbow could have been used, and the thing would have been much more accurate, just shoot it with a grappling hook and snap it out of the battlement. It's just that now the bed crossbow can't be used, so I can only settle for the next best.

Jun Yihuang and Bai Suhe breathed a sigh of relief, the two of them just thought that Lan Zui was planning to be a trapeze artist himself.

It's not a risky idea, but it's worth a try. The flying stone machine uses the principle of leverage, and there are many people holding thick boulders next to it. A few men first filled the basket with boulders, then shook the crankshaft to tighten the rope under the basket, lowered the basket, and loaded it into a slightly smaller stone. As the other axis rotated, the hook under the basket came loose, and the large basket sank, and the stone in the basket flew out with a long rope tail.

The effective distance of large flying stone vehicles is about 300 meters, and the distance is enough, but the accuracy is not enough. Either it bounced on the city wall or it didn't get stuck, until the ninth stone, which was pulled several times from several angles and didn't let go, and finally got stuck.

Fortunately, there is a strong man like Xiri Ahong, and even so, the thirteen brothers and Reyimu are sweating from moving stones, and they can't breathe when they sit on the ground.

Lan Zui tied the rope tightly on the trebuchet, and moved his hands and feet to prepare to climb the climbing rope.

Jun Yihuang looked at the rope as thin as a little finger dangling between the two shores, and always felt bad in his heart, so he stopped Lan Zui again and said, "Either I'll go over first, even if I fall, I'll ...... It doesn't matter. ”

Although Bai Suhe didn't hear it very well, it was the truth.

Lan Zui was slightly stunned, his eyes glanced at Bai Suhe and Meng Zheng, and saw that the corners of Bai Suhe's mouth twitched, and Meng Zheng's face turned black again.

"Yihuang, although you don't have to do it, but-well, this rope is actually not very easy to climb......" Lan Zui explained in the most euphemistic words, hoping that it didn't hit Jun Yihuang. The opposite city wall is slightly higher than this side, and with such a rope to climb low and high, except for her and Rong Thirteen, the others in this group are estimated to be really successful.

Jun Yihuang was stunned, speechless, and couldn't help but feel annoyed at his uselessness.

"Don't worry, it's all stuck, it's just a little effort. I'll go find a low place to re-tie the rope, and you'll be over as soon as you slip. Lan Zui is quite enjoying Jun Yihuang's care, how can he make Jun Yihuang worried, and whispered to reassure.

"Then be careful." Lan Zui told the truth, and Jun Yihuang couldn't refute it, so she had to leave it to her.

Seeing Lan Zui climbing on the rope with his hands and feet, shaking and moving forward, his figure gradually blurred, Jun Yihuang became more and more uneasy, and his heart was inexplicably panicked.

After the middle section, there was no trace of Lan Drunken at all, and the rope shook more and more, almost as if it was about to break.

Lan drunk hung on the rope, she was confident just now, but she was not very sure. The force of the horizontal pull is different from the force of a person actually hanging down on the rope, if the stone is slightly loose, her frequent shaking and falling will easily pull the stone out of the bayonet.

It's just that they didn't have wings, and this was the only way to cross the wide trench. Lan Zui temporarily stopped moving forward, rested for a few seconds, and twisted his back and waist that had begun to stiffen due to exertion and tension, causing the rope to shake again. The steaming heat from below the trench kept burning on her back, making her clothes almost soaked, and she didn't know if it was sweat or moisture.

Lan Zui looked up and glanced backwards ahead, he could already vaguely see the outline of the city wall, and he could reach it with a little more effort.

The stiffer the hands and feet are at the back of the road, the slower the speed of movement. Sweat mixed with mist seeped into Lan Zui's eyes, making her right eye very uncomfortable, but she couldn't spare her hand to wipe it. She could already clearly see the city wall from this position, and it was roughly estimated that there were still more than ten meters. But because of the proximity, she could hear the sound of the rope shaking and the stones above clicking and rubbing, which made her feel a little hairy, and she just wanted to speed up and end this hellish torture as soon as possible.

The faster the speed, the more the rope will naturally shake.

A sudden sound different from the stone rubbing against the city wall sounded, Lan Zui's heart sank, and before he had time to have other thoughts, he felt that the rope attached to his hand was suddenly empty, and he was no longer powerless to borrow, and the wind in his ears hunted, and the whole person fell down the cliff wall quickly.