Chapter 264: Entering the State of Chu
"Let's think about it, can we build a simple bridge and reach the opposite cliff." Yang Yun looked at the width between the two cliffs, and the distance between them was about sixty or seventy meters, and he turned to everyone and said.
"We won't be able to do it the way we did before, we can't find a tree that long." Liu Yuan, who was behind Yang Yun, was also full of helplessness in his tone.
"If there was a rope, maybe we could come up with something." Chen Shan looked at the top of the cliff opposite and said softly.
"If it's just a rope, I might have a way." At this time, a voice suddenly came from beside everyone, and everyone looked in the direction of the voice, and it was Zhu Chen'an, who had just joined Yang Yun's forces, who spoke.
"Do you have a way?" Hearing Zhu Chen'an's words, Chen Shan immediately came to his senses.
"I'll give it a try!" Seeing that everyone's eyes fell on him, Zhu Chenan looked at the only big tree on the opposite cliff unhurriedly, then took off the longbow on his back, took out a long arrow, and tied a long rope to the tail of the long arrow.
"Does he want to send the rope with a bow and arrow?"
"Impossible! At such a distance, those sharpshooters in the army can't do it! ”
"But at present, I can't think of any other way than this."
Seeing Zhu Chenan's movements, the people next to him immediately talked about it and looked at him with disbelief.
After Zhu Chenan came to the fiefdom, he showed his strong ability in military command, and in terms of martial arts, there were not many opportunities to show it, which made everyone in the fiefdom mistakenly think that his martial arts were very ordinary.
The tree was blocked by stones, and only a short section of its trunk was exposed.
With such a long distance, to shoot at the opposite tree, it requires both exquisite archery skills and extremely strong arm strength. In addition, the wind in this mountain is quite strong, and the tail of the arrow is still tied with a rope, so the possibility of hitting it is too slim.
Zhu Chen'an didn't seem to see everyone's gaze, he put the arrow tied with a rope on the longbow, and with a sudden force of his arms, he pulled the extremely laborious compound bow full. Then he looked at the big tree on the other side of the mountain stream, and as soon as he let go of his hand, the long arrow flew out with a "whoosh".
Everyone's eyes immediately followed the arrow, and soon the arrow flew to the other side of the mountain stream, and at once it hit the trunk of the large tree opposite, and plunged deep into the pole, leaving only the tail of the arrow tied with a rope exposed.
"Good!" Such exquisite archery skills immediately won the applause of the audience.
After shooting an arrow, Zhu Chenan picked up another long arrow and shot an arrow in the same way, but the position where this sword shot was about a person higher than before.
"It's our turn!" Seeing that Zhu Chenchengan really shot the big tree, Chen Shan only said softly, picked up a bundle of ropes, and came to the rope attached to the tail of the arrow.
At this time, someone had already pulled the two long ropes tightly and tied the end of the rope tightly to the big tree on the edge of the cliff.
Chen Shan came to the long rope, pulled the two ropes vigorously, felt that they were already very strong, and then gently stood on the rope below, and his hands just held the rope above.
Everyone's eyes were immediately attracted by Chen Shan's movements, only to see Chen Shan's feet stepping on the rope below, while holding the rope above with both hands, staggering towards the opposite side.
This scene made everyone watching hold their breath, and it was not easy to walk to the other side of the cliff like this.
The two ropes kept shaking, making Chen Shan's body sway on the cliff continuously, making everyone present pinch a cold sweat for Chen Shan.
There were tens of thousands of people at the scene, but at this time, it was so quiet that even the sound of the people around them could be heard, and everyone quietly looked at the figure like a leaf swinging on the cliff.
The rope kept shaking, making it more difficult for Chen Shan to walk, but there was a determined look in his eyes. His feet were firmly on the rope below, and his hands were tightly gripping the rope above, moving towards the opposite side step by step.
The distance is only more than 20 zhang, but now in the eyes of everyone, it seems to be thousands of miles away.
Chen Shan walked forward step by step, and soon came to the middle of the cliff, where the rope fell the most, so the swaying was the strongest. Chen Shan had no choice but to stop moving forward, trying to control his body and reduce the swing of the rope.
After a long while, the swing of the rope finally became much smaller, and Chen Shan moved forward step by step.
Seeing that Chen Shan's figure was getting closer and closer to the opposite side, everyone's nervous mood was slowly relieved. But at this time, Chen Shan encountered a new test.
The rope shook so badly that Chen Shan slipped under his feet and fell off the rope as he stepped forward.
Seeing this scene, the people watching from the cliff let out an exclamation.
Fortunately, at this time, Chen Shan's hands grabbed the rope above, and after shaking it a few times, his feet finally reached the rope below and stepped on the rope again.
Chen Shan walked forward step by step, the closer he got to the top of the opposite cliff, the smaller the shaking amplitude, and the easier it was to walk, seeing Chen Shan's feet, he finally stepped on the rock on the opposite cliff, and everyone finally breathed a long sigh of relief, and everyone in the audience invariably burst into cheers.
After Chen Shan reached the top of the opposite cliff, he tightly tied the rope he was carrying to some large stones, and the other end of the rope was tightly tied to several big trees on the opposite cliff.
Immediately afterwards, another soldier walked to the other side of the cliff with ropes on his back. But this time, the number of cliff ropes increased, and the difficulty of walking was much lower, and the second soldier also reached the top of the cliff on the opposite side without danger.
Immediately afterwards, several small, athletic soldiers carried ropes to the opposite side of the cliff.
These soldiers are all soldiers specially trained by Yang Yun for special tasks in the past few years, and they skillfully tie ropes to the big trees and boulders on the opposite cliff.
The soldiers on this side of the cliff also cooperated with the soldiers on the opposite side, and soon after, a net-like "rope" bridge was formed between the two cliffs.
There were many trees in the mountains, and the soldiers quickly cut down several large trees, sawed down many planks on the large trees, and finally, a rope bridge was formed in the eyes of everyone.
With this rope bridge, it was much easier to move, and more than 30,000 soldiers took turns to follow this rope bridge to the opposite cliff.
Yao Xia was not mistaken, there is indeed a way down the mountain on this cliff, and there are traces of people walking through it. It seems that hunters or woodcutters often come here, which means that the rest of the journey is much easier.
Successfully getting out of the danger zone, Yang Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief, this time the road was indeed difficult, fortunately he and the others were from Wu County to Chu State. If it is from Chu State to Wu County, the cliff that is dozens of zhang high alone cannot be broken through.
There is no danger in the future, but Yang Yun did not let everyone get out of the mountains as soon as possible, but asked everyone to be stationed here first. Then let Zhu Chen'an arrange for some soldiers who were more familiar with the terrain to turn into civilians and go to find out the news first.
This time, the army of Chu was sent by surprise, so during the period of waiting for news. Yang Yun asked everyone to do their best to hide their bodies and prevent the locals from discovering the team
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At the same time, he also asked Liu Haini to send a small force to scatter all over the mountains, and once there were Chu people who entered the mountains, they would immediately control them and prevent them from bringing the news out of the mountains.
Two days later, Zhu Chenan and others brought back the news, and the location where everyone is now is located in the territory of Haizhou Mansion, the hinterland of Chu State. It is still two hundred miles away from Haizhou City, the largest city in Haizhou Prefecture.
About thirty miles from here, there is a small city called Guyang, and the defense ability of this small city is extremely poor. There were only about a thousand soldiers in this city, and they were all old and weak soldiers who had never been on the battlefield, because they were in the hinterland of the Chu State, and they never thought that anyone would attack here, so there were no defensive facilities at all.
After understanding this situation, Yang Yun summoned the generals who led the troops this time, opened the topographic map of Chu brought back by Zhu Chenan, and discussed the plan to send troops together.
This Haizhou Mansion is a state in the hinterland of Chu State, because it is close to the mountainous area, there are many mountains and few lands, and the road is not easy to walk, so it is the poorest state capital of Chu State, and there is no strategic position here, so it has little attention from the people and officials of Chu State.
But Qingzhou Mansion, which is close to Haizhou Mansion, is a military location. Qingzhou Mansion is located in the northwest of Chu State, close to the small country of Zheng Guo and Yu Yue in the northwest of Chu State, there is a Xiongguan Qingzhou Pass standing on the national border, and there are 50,000 troops stationed on it, so there is no need to worry about Zheng Guo and Yu Yue being disadvantaged by themselves.
The Luzhou Mansion in the southeast of Qingzhou Mansion is the most important military point of the Chu State, which is close to Yunzhou in Dafu, and the 400,000 troops led by Yu Xian arrived in Yunzhou from Luzhou Mansion.
And the 400,000 army led by Yu Xian, all their supplies were also sent from Yunzhou.
"Great, let's go out from here, first occupy Haizhou City as quickly as possible, control Haizhou Mansion in our hands, and then send troops to Luzhou Mansion, and give him a hard blow from behind, so that this guy will have to shed his skin even if he doesn't die." After listening to Zhu Chen'an's narration, Liu Yuan patted his thigh and said happily.
Liu Yuan's suggestion was obviously in line with many people's ideas, so it quickly got everyone's agreement.
"I have a different opinion, so let's share it for everyone's reference!" Zhu Chenan suddenly said on the side.
Zhu Chen'an's words made everyone interested, and everyone turned their heads to look at him, wanting to hear what he was going to say?
"We only have 30,000 men, which is not enough in the first place, and if we want to occupy this Haizhou and use it as a place to provide us with supplies, then we will inevitably leave some troops to guard here. Then our troops to attack Luzhou will be seriously insufficient, and it will still be difficult to mess up their rear. After saying this, Zhu Chenan deliberately stopped and took a sip of water, leaving everyone plenty of space to think.
"Then according to General Zhu's meaning, what should we do?" Zhu Chen'an's words made Ju Yuanguang interested, and he asked with a smile.
"Take this place first!" Listening to Ju Yuanguang's words, Zhu Chenan did not hesitate, and the thin stick in his hand pointed firmly at a place.
"Qingzhou Pass!" Looking at the position pointed by Zhu Chenan, everyone was taken aback, and some even shouted out in surprise.
"Yes, it is Qingzhou Pass, this Qingzhou Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, plus most of the people of Chu believe that Zheng Guo and Yu Yue are two small countries, and they dare not fight their pass, so their precautions are very lax. If we have a good contact with Zheng Guo and Yu Yue, and cooperate with them inside and outside, it will not be difficult to win this level. Zhu Chen'an was full of confidence in his words.
Yang Yun looked at Zhu Chen'an with a confident face, and was very happy in his heart, this Zhu Chen'an has superb martial arts skills, and he also has a big picture, it seems that this time he has really picked up a treasure!