Chapter 45: The Capture of the Pass

Let's say that Meng Crow took three people along the woods by the river and walked down, and in the evening he saw the fire of the camp when he set off, and his heart suddenly cooled half, and the four of them looked at the fire for a long time, and Meng Crow jumped out of a sentence: "Hundreds of people died like this, it's too wretched, I knew that it was better to rush through the pass with all my strength, even if I died, I wouldn't even see the enemy every time." It's stupid."

The person on the side rubbed his eyes: "Let's go, as long as we walk back to Chang'an City, we can still survive."

Meng Crow waved his only right arm: "No, let's continue along the river to the end, Lao Tzu wants to see what kind of 10,000-year-old turtles are in this 10,000-year-old village?" ”

The other three all smiled bitterly: "You're not stupid, you have to send yourself to the door to beg for death, come on, anyway, we may not be able to walk out of this forest, it's better to follow you to go crazy, man, can't die too much"

The four of them hit it off and decided to continue along the river and enter Wannian Village to take revenge.

Walk to the dawn, come to the edge of a cliff, dozens of zhang of the waterfall vertically down, the houses and fields below the waterfall are like a chessboard, and then look at the other side of the river is a dense peach forest, there is a group of banyan trees near the cliff on the opposite side, the roots and branches are stirred together and look very hideous. The four of them looked back and forth around a few times, and finally sat on the ground and sighed: "No wonder this village is called Wannian Village, and if you guard the pass, even if it is 100,000 years, you can't enter it." We're not going to jump, are we?"

Meng Crow didn't give up, and put his feet to the river to try the depth, but the people next to him hurriedly pulled him down: "This water is so urgent, no matter how good your water nature is, it will be washed away, let's give up."

Meng Crow kicked the ground very unwillingly, kicked a piece of dead wood away, and the dead wood fell into the river and rose up and down a few times, and did not go down the river, but slowly drifted towards the opposite bank. Meng Crow's eyes lit up, and with one hand he picked up a large piece of dead wood on the ground and threw it into the water, and the dead wood floated down more than a kilometer before drifting towards the opposite bank. The other three quickly reacted, so they all went to pick up the scattered branches and logs and threw them into the river, and soon the branches and logs that were thrown in were piled up and swirled in the water on the opposite side.

"It's a whirlpool, and the whirlpool is not big, so the dead wood and branches can't go up and down, and they spin in place," one person said

"Do you dare to gamble, let's go up dozens of feet, jump in and swim desperately to the other side, if we win the bet, the four of us can go to take the pass, so we can also go in." If we lose the bet, we will go into the stockade to feed the fish, which can be regarded as entering."

The three of them glanced at Meng Crow: "You crow's mouth, I don't want to feed the fish, jump, I haven't worked so hard for many years."

The four of them jumped into the river with a bang, and were carried down a few times by the current, and they were suddenly pulled to the opposite side by a force. The four of them floated along with the force, and when they were about to approach the pile of dead wood branches, they grabbed the roots of the banyan tree hanging down from the shore and climbed up.

After going ashore, the four of them looked around, and there was still a cliff to the bottom of the valley below, but a steep slope full of thorns above, and then a tall and dense tree until the pass. The four of them rested for a while and continued to crawl towards the pass.

When it was almost noon, the four of them had reached the back of the pass, lying on their stomachs in the bushes, and saw the situation on the back of the pass: behind the threshold of the pass was a large pit, and on each side of the big pit there were four bed crossbows in the open space, and fifty archers in cloth clothes rested back to back on the ground.

At this time, the sound of fighting came from the fire-burned mountain opposite the pass. Meng Crow They raised their eyes to see that it was Li Xiaofei who led people to fight with the people in the village halfway up the mountain, Meng Crow almost shouted excitedly, and was covered by the people around him and pulled him out quietly.

The four of them looked at the battle situation on the opposite side while retreating, Li Xiaofei and they were driving the enemy down the mountain. After retreating to the flat ground, the enemy's archers reappeared and fired arrows at Li Xiaofei and them, but fortunately, this time Li Xiaofei and they were on guard, and they all hid behind the charred dead wood to dodge, and the enemy retreated to the pass under the cover of the archers.

Instead of returning to the edge of the cliff, they found a place halfway through and jumped down, and were washed away by the water for several miles before they climbed ashore.

The four of them finally returned to the camp at night, Li Xiaofei didn't expect Meng Crow, an unreliable fat man, to come back, but now the four of them came back unscathed, and he was overjoyed and hurriedly asked about the four of them exploring the way.

Meng Crow ran directly to the edge of the earthen stove: "Is there anything else to eat?" The old men were hungry for a day, so they ate some azaleas on the way, and the was red."

Everyone laughed, Murong Ling threw a piece of Hu cake to Meng Crow, and Meng Crow stretched out his hand to catch it: "I said dumb Murong, you still brought this cake back in Chang'an, it's been almost ten days, can you still eat it?" “

Murong Ling stretched out his hand to signal Meng Crow to come back, and Meng Crow hurriedly stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed it in a big gulp.

After the four of them had eaten and drunk enough, they told everyone about the experience of crossing the river and touching the pass. Li Xiaofei immediately decided that Murong Ling Meng Crow would lead a hundred people to cross the river downstream with ropes and all the arrows under the cover of night, and sneak to the back of the pass. According to everyone's analysis of the distance, Li Xiaofei's team would arrive at the pass for an hour first, so it was agreed that Li Xiaofei would stop and wait for an hour when it was only three miles away from the pass before attacking.

When the appointed time came, Li Xiaofei led people to rush to the pass with a long shield, and there was a salvo of arrows on the pass, Li Xiaofei's team hid behind ten long shields, and everyone put the equipped small shields on their heads and squeezed together. At this time, there was still no sound of fighting on the back of the pass, and Murong Ling and the others were late.

Qin Shun panicked: "Could it be that the crow-mouthed fat man is lying, we are all fighting, they haven't arrived yet"

Li Xiaofei smiled: "Things on the battlefield will never go according to plan, there may be new situations at any time, what are you afraid of, our long shield is wrapped in a century-old tree vine, and they can't shoot through it at all." We're just going to hold them back."

The second and third rounds of arrow rain were shot down on the pass, and the long shield was already full of arrows, Li Xiaofei immediately decided: "Retreat slowly, even if we can't attack this time, we have picked up a lot of arrows, enough for us to put arrows on the pass."

After the fourth round of arrows, someone shouted at the pass: "Stop shooting, they are here to deceive our arrows, don't shoot any more!" “

Just when the people on the pass regretted that they had cheated others with hundreds of arrows, a round of arrows flew out of the bushes on the cliff at the back of the pass, and immediately shot over half of the archers guarding the pass, and when the remaining archers wanted to open their bows and arrows again, Murong Ling led dozens of people to jump off the cliff with a rope in one hand and a knife in the other. Meng Crow shouted outside: "Fool general, come on, climb the wall, come in, don't fall into the pit!" ”

Li Xiaofei raised his sword and pointed upward: "Follow me, stand the shield under the wall, climb up, quickly"

Several veterans pulled Li Xiaofei to the back: "You kid just have this heart, it's our business to go to the city and break the pass, you stay in the back honestly, don't die, otherwise who will we ask for money?" ”

Qin Shun grabbed Li Xiaofei from behind: "They, they have all fought for many years, and they haven't seen anything, so don't learn from those famous generals, just give them benefits."

The pass was taken, but not a single prisoner was caught, and all the enemy were killed, and their leader committed suicide by jumping into a pit full of sharpened stakes and bamboo.

Everyone sighed and felt a chill, such an opponent, if they were defeated, there would be no hope of survival.

Li Xiaofei led everyone to drag the corpses of these enemies into the big pit, dug up some soil and buried them.

After the pass, you can go down to the stockade at the bottom of the valley from a path behind the pass. The soldiers were very fast, and Li Xiaofei immediately decided to go straight down the mountain, so as not to be trapped in the pass and not be trapped alive.