That very night, a search party sent out the day before came back, and ten people went out, only six came back, and all four of them fell to their deaths. But these people did not die in vain, and they really brought back important news. It was in a very steep place in the valley, and it was possible to climb up.

Several of the palmers immediately came to their senses, and ordered the six men to go and rest at once, and go together the next morning to have a look.

The next day, Gao Yingxiang and the others didn't even eat breakfast, so they followed the six people with their own soldiers to the middle of the canyon, where they saw blood stains on the stones on the ground, which was where the four people fell to their deaths.

The people dismounted, and the six men led them to the foot of the mountain, pointed upward, and said, "King Chuang, this is the place we have our eye." ”

When everyone looked up, they saw that the mountain peak here was not one, but like a huge stone standing on the top of the sky and the earth was split by the gods with an axe, leaving a stone crack. The crack went straight to the peak.

There are many pine branches growing in the cracks in the rocks, and if you don't look closely, you won't be able to see that there is a gap that runs through the top and bottom.

Gao Yingxiang asked, "Can you climb up here?" ”

A soldier who used to be a medicine farmer replied, "Very likely." We can grab these pine branches with rope hooks, and if the pine branches are not strong, we can also tie the stones to the rope and throw them up, so that the stones get stuck in the cracks and climb up. ”

Li Zicheng said: "How did those four brothers fall to their deaths?" ”

The medicine farmer sighed: "It's not that I'm holding on to the pine branches, but some of the pine branches are not strong." ”

Gao Yingxiang shook his head lightly: "It's too difficult, out of 10,000 people, there may not be one person who can climb up." If you fall to death in vain, it is better to fight with the officials and soldiers and die happily. ”

Li Zicheng carefully looked at the stone crack, thinking in his heart, he felt that there were only two most dangerous places, as long as he could pass through these two places, it might be possible to climb up.

He said to Gao Yingxiang: "King Chuang, I think you can try." ”

Gao Yingxiang looked at the other palms and sighed: "Zicheng, it's not that I think the chance of success is small, but it's too dangerous here, too high from the ground, even if someone climbs up and hangs down the rope, we tens of thousands of horses, can we get out of danger with only a few ropes?" I calculated that it would take at least half an hour for a person to climb the rope, and such a long time would make the person lose his energy before he could climb up. I had to fall to my death. Even if they can climb to the top, it will take at least three months for tens of thousands of horses to get there. For so long, most people would have starved to death. Besides, this peak is much higher than other mountains, and it is not connected, it is difficult to go up and down, and there are not many people standing on the peak, only a few people can go up at a time, which really doesn't work. ”

When Zhang Xianzhong and the others heard the reason, they couldn't help but sigh.

Li Zicheng didn't think so: "King Chuang, we only need a few people, or even one person to climb up." ”

Gao Yingxiang was stunned: "How do you say this?" ”

Li Zicheng said: "As long as one climbs up, you can go out of the mountain to move the rescuers." As long as the rescuers arrive, we will attack back and forth, and we will still be sure to defeat Chen Qiyu. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was happy. Zhang Xianzhong punched Li Zicheng in the back: "Zicheng, you still think far." Why didn't I think of it? ”

Gao Yingxiang frowned slightly: "This idea is good, but ...... Where to move the rescuers? The people we know are all in Huguang, Henan. ”

Luo Rucai said: "Aren't there a few Qin soldiers in our camp?" ”

Li Zicheng was also about to say this, when he heard Cao Cao say it, he added: "Exactly, let them go out of the valley and go to Xi'an with our people to move troops, I think it won't take ten days, and the rescue troops will arrive." ”

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head lightly: "These Qin soldiers always like to take advantage of the torch robbery and stab them in the back, now that we are in trouble, can they come to save us?" ”

Li Zicheng was confident: "They asked us to enter Shaanxi because they were alone, and if we were destroyed by the official army, they would have no hope." They won't be ignorant of this reason. ”

Gao Yingxiang nodded slowly: "That's it." But you'll have to climb up first. ”

At that moment, he ordered that the soldiers of the whole army should be rewarded with a heavy reward for those who are good at climbing, and whoever can climb to the top of the peak will be rewarded with one hundred taels of gold.

This was a great reward, and in the afternoon of the same day, more than a dozen people volunteered to come, and a few palms took them to the front of the peak, and these people looked at the terrain, and five or six of them had changed their faces at that time, and shook their heads again and again, thinking that they could not climb up.

There were seven people left, and these seven people were a little eager to try. Gao Yingxiang asked, some of these people are collecting medicine in the mountains, some are chopping wood, and some have actually run the circus in the troupe and are good at climbing ropes.

So without much to say, these seven people each prepared their own guys and prepared to climb the peak.

Li Zicheng instructed them to bring a long enough rope, because it was not enough to climb up, and they had to pull up a few Qin troops from below.

Seven people brought enough tools, and after drawing lots, the order was decided, and the first place was caught and began to climb.

This man climbed more than ten zhang high, and after grasping a pine branch with a rope hook, he felt firm, but when his body went up, the pine branch broke, and the man fell straight down and died immediately.

The second person continued to climb, and only after climbing seven or eight feet, he didn't grasp one of them, and he fell down and died.

It wasn't until the sixth person climbed up, this person's name was Kuroko, he was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and he had followed his father to collect medicine in the mountains since he was a child, and he had climbed over any kind of cliff, and his body was light, less than a hundred catties, so it was easy to climb.

Kurozizi climbed through a dangerous place, which was already more than 20 zhang high from the ground, and then climbed up more than 10 zhang to reach the top of the mountain. The people below looked at it from afar, and their hearts rose to their throats.

In ancient times, climbing the cliff was not like now, all kinds of auxiliary tools could protect people's lives, at that time it was all about limbs, and the auxiliary tools were ropes and poles, this young man climbed to a place where he could stay, stuffed his body into the stone crevice, and took a little breath, so that his hands and feet could slow down.

Then he looked upwards and found that the distance above his head was the most dangerous.

The place was bare, there was only a gap, there was no scratching on either side, not even a place to stay, the only way was to tie the stone to the rope, throw it into the gap, and the stone should be stuck in it, and then climb up with the rope. As long as you climb through here, there are dead vines and thicker pine branches further up, and it is not difficult to climb to the top.

Kuroko felt that his hands and feet were almost slow, and then he found a stone in the crack of the stone, about the size of two palms, and he tied one end of the rope to the middle of the stone, and the other end to his waist, and then leaned out and threw the stone into the crack in the stone on his head.

The sound of the stone hitting the stone wall crackled, and it was not until the eleventh time that the stone was thrown into the gap and stuck.

Kuroko tugged on the rope hard, feeling that he was having enough to eat, so he gently got out of the crack in the stone, grabbed the rope with both hands, and climbed up.

One-step, two-step, five-step......

He climbed higher and higher, and finally climbed through the most dangerous place, and the few palms at the bottom looked at it, and their necks were already sore, but when they saw Kuroko climbing closer and closer to the top of the mountain, they couldn't help but smile.

Kuroko finally climbed to the place where the stone was stuck, but at this moment, he was still one step away, and he could grasp the crack of the stone with both hands, and suddenly the stone stuck in the gap clicked and shattered a small piece. Now the crack in the stone couldn't get stuck in the stone, and the stone fell down with the rope.

At this time, Kuroko's hands grasped the rope, and the weight of his whole body was suspended in the air, if he reacted slowly, he would definitely fall to pieces, fortunately, he was experienced, and when the stone was just broken, he knew that it was not good, and immediately freed up one hand, struggled upward, and grabbed the crack in the stone. Then the other hand grabbed it.

Between the lightning and the fire, the stone rolled down with a rope. Since the stone is not light, when Kuroko tied the rope around his waist, he did not tie the knot, so the entire rope was dropped by the stone.

The people below screamed in surprise, but fortunately they found that only the ropes and stones had fallen, and that the Kuroko had not fallen.

Kuroko hung from the crack in the stone, and after grasping it, he tried to climb upward, and finally caught a dead vine hanging from the top of his head.

This vine is about the thickness of a forearm, enough to hang the weight of a person. Moreover, the vine is very long, most of which are wrapped around shrubs and pine branches, and it is very strong, and Kuroko uses it as a rope, and climbs up step by step, and finally climbs up a few feet high. Approaching the summit.