The army soon arrived in Lingwu, camped on the bank of the Yellow River, Huo Qubing held a high-level meeting, as a general, I am naturally qualified to attend, the butt is not yet hot, Huo Qubing asked us what is the best way to cross the river, listening to Huo Qubing say this, I immediately scolded in my heart.

Grass, you said that you want to take a detour, and even the route has been formulated, I thought you were confident, and now you actually ask us what is the best way to cross the river?

Lao Tzu has a good plan to kill you!

Captain Dongfang Rui said: "The water here is turbulent, which is not conducive to crossing the river, so I will build a different location." ”

Huo Quzhi smiled: "The battlefield changes rapidly, all kinds of situations will appear, and the so-called favorable time, place and people are just an ideal state. Therefore, the location of the river crossing is here and cannot be changed. ”

Wu Jincao, the big-eyed captain of Tongling, said loudly: "Requisition the nearby civilian boats, and then connect them one by one, and lay wooden planks on them to make a pontoon bridge." ”

Huo Quzhi nodded: "This building is good, but what if there are not so many ships requisitioned around here?" ”

"Cut down trees, tie them up and make pontoons." Tian Wuji said: "Next to this is the forest, and the raw materials should be enough." ”

"Well, the wood is enough, but Dongfang Rui also said just now, the water here is turbulent, and it is very likely that the pontoon bridge tied to the rope will be washed away, as long as one place is disconnected, the entire pontoon bridge will fall apart, and the soldiers on the bridge will fall into the water at that time, which is not very proper." Huo Quzhi smiled: "Think about it again, see if there are other ways, all kinds of ideas can be said, and then we will analyze whether it is feasible or not." ”

I kind of understood, Huo Quzhi was trying to train his subordinates, maybe he already had a solution in his stomach, but he just didn't say it, but guided his subordinates to think.

Some people raised yì and found large stones to throw into the Yellow River and erect bridge piers...... Huo Quzhi said that although this idea was steady, it took too long.

Someone also mentioned yì, rubbing a thick rope and tying it to the trunk of a giant tree on both sides of the Yellow River, and making a large basket on top of the thick rope, which people and horses could put into the basket and then slide over...... Huo Qubing denied that the number of troops transported at one time was too small and unsafe.

In the end, Huo Quzhi asked me with a smile: "Vincy, what can you do?" ”

I have a hairy solution.

However, when it comes to nonsense, no one here should be my opponent, and I have thousands of years of knowledge accumulation more than them.

Coughing lightly, I smiled and said, "Get dozens of large catapults and send people over." ”

Everyone laughed, and Tian Wuji even said: "Vincy, although you can quickly send people over, I'm afraid that you will fall into a meatloaf when you land." ”

I shook my head and said, "I have my own way." ”

Everyone booed, thinking that I was talking nonsense, but Huo Quzhi looked at me with interest: "Oh, let's hear it." ”

I asked the guards to pick up a rock for me from outside, and when I threw it into the air, the stone began to fall at the highest point, and it fell to the ground with a pop.

Immediately, I tore a large piece of fabric from my clothes, tied it into an improvised parachute, tied it to it, and threw it into the air, this time at a much slower rate.

Looking at the puzzled eyes of everyone, I smiled and said: "I think everyone has this feeling, wearing narrow-sleeved clothes is faster than wearing a wide robe, this is because the wide robe guide zhì is subjected to greater air resistance, and in the same way, as long as the soldier is tied to such a parachute, he can use the air resistance to relieve the momentum of the fall, so that he will not be broken into a meatloaf." ”

Everyone was surprised, and then nodded thoughtfully.

Huo Quzhi smiled: "Vinci's method makes sense in principle, but we don't have time to make so many catapults and so many ...... to cushion the force. Parachute, so let's put this on hold for now. Ladies and gentlemen, do you have any other ideas? ”

Everyone shook their heads, saying that there was no other way.

Huo Quzhi coughed lightly: "Actually, my method is also to set up a pontoon bridge." ”

Tian Wuji suddenly complained: "Didn't you say that you were afraid that the rope would be broken by the current?" ”

Huo Quzhi smiled: "Yes, but I can make a remedy for the rope being broken." Let's go and collect a certain number of civilian ships first, Wu Jincao, don't look at me like that, the number of ships I collect doesn't need to be too much. Then, every three boats were tied together, and huge stones were hung down with ropes to hold the boats in a defined position, and pontoons were erected with wood between them. In this way, the ship is equivalent to a floating bridge pier, even if a section of the pontoon bridge is washed away by the water, it will not cause all the people and horses on the entire pontoon bridge to turn into the Yellow River, and at the same time, it can be quickly repaired. ”

After a pause, Huo Quzhi added: "Also, we can connect several ropes between the boats as handrails, even if the pontoon bridge under their feet is broken, the soldiers can still hold on to the handrails and not fall into the water." ”

Everyone nodded convincingly, Huo Quzhi's method really integrates the advantages of many methods here, and at the same time minimizes the probability of various dangers.

After the meeting was announced, three pontoon bridges were quickly built according to Huo Quai's method, and the army walked over steadily, and there was no broken pontoon bridge, because the soldiers thought about their own safety, and the rope that cut the bark and rubbed it was almost as thick as a calf......

After crossing the Yellow River, they began to cross Helan Mountain, for climbing the mountain, everyone felt that there was no danger, pay attention not to fall into the cliff, as for the beast or something, just slaughtered to make dry food.

Just as we were approaching a narrow mountain road, the team stopped, and the forward officer came to report that the road ahead was blocked.

Hearing this, Huo Quzhi frowned slightly, and the army walked on the mountain road, although it would not be divided into five parts like on the plains, but would advance in a long dragon, but there was also a difference between the forward army and the rearguard. The role of the striker is to open the road and build bridges when the mountains meet. Now a road is blocked to report to Huo Quai, which is too trivial to make a big fuss, can you imagine an employee asking the group boss how to use WORD documents?

Immediately, the forward officer was also a little helpless: "Sir, the situation ahead is a little weird, I really don't know how to deal with it, and I don't even know how to tell you." ”

Huo Quzhi nodded and called many officers to step forward together.

Ahead was a hillside with a gentle slope, and a path about three meters wide had been carved out of the hillside by the forwards, and even simple steps had been dug under their feet to facilitate the walking of the army. But the road stops in the middle of the slope, which is a narrow strip of black soil about 10 meters wide, which stretches along the mountain to the distance, I don't know how long.

Obviously, the forward force was blocked by this black ground belt.

The officer walked up to the black earth, picked up a palm-sized stone beside him, threw it on the black earth, and with a grunt, the stone sank from the black earth.

, it's a swamp.

Huo Quzhi looked at the forward officer in surprise: "He Wei, don't you know how to cut down trees and build bridges?" ”

The forward officer He Wei smiled bitterly: "Sir, I have been under you for so long, how can I not have this flexibility?" Immediately, the soldiers found a tree about 20 meters high at the edge of the swamp, cut it for a while, and the soldiers pushed it hard, and the tree fell down with a bang, and the trunk was erected on top of the black swamp.

Isn't that great?

Immediately, I saw the black swamp under the trunk of the tree tumbling as if the water was boiling, and then countless black animals appeared in it, some like dogs, but without tails, and their whole bodies were black and slimy, and they looked disgusting.

The monsters rushed up to the trunk of the tree one after another, opened their bloody mouths and began to bite, while the more black monsters in the swamp were squeaking and screaming, looking like they couldn't wait.

In less than a minute, the trunk of the tree was gnawed into several pieces by them, and the black monsters that did not gnaw suddenly swarmed up, dragging the trunks and canopies of both ends into the swamp, and in the cooing sound, the big tree actually sank slowly, and in this way, a giant tree with a height of more than 20 meters disappeared from in front of us.

He Wei smiled bitterly: "These monsters seem to feed on trees, originally I thought that these monsters would be full after eating two trees, but after cutting down more than a dozen trees in a row, they were all dragged into this swamp by them, and they didn't seem to be able to feed anything, so I reported to you, sir." ”

Huo Quzhi groaned for a while, mobilized a thousand archers, stood densely in front of the swamp, and then asked He Wei to cut down a huge tree.

With a bang, the giant tree fell above the swamp again, and the archer commander shouted angrily: "Ready! ”

In the buzz, a thousand archers were all bent and arrowed.

The black swamp rolled again, and the group of black monsters jumped out one after another, crawling on the trunks of the trees and gnawing on them.

"Put!" The commander shouted.

Whoosh whoosh.

A rain of arrows poured down on these black monsters.

Puff puff puff.

Arrows plunged into the bodies of the black monsters, and the black monsters squeaked.

Seeing this, we were all relieved, as long as we could be hurt by arrows, then this monster was nothing to fear.

Once again, we were unexpected, these black monsters pulled out the arrows from their bodies, and only a small amount of black liquid flowed out of their bodies, and they threw the arrows aside and continued to gnaw at the trunks, as if they didn't care about the arrows, not even for us enemies who attacked them.

"Ready! Put! The commander shouted.

Whizzing and swishing, the arrows poured down again.

As before, the black monster just pulled out the arrows on its body and discarded them.

After two more rounds of shooting, Huo Quzhi frowned and stopped the archers from continuing to fire.

The black monsters squeaked and dragged the giant tree into the swamp, leaving only us in the face of the ten-meter-wide black swamp. I1387