Defiant!

This is the most direct feeling in Jin Xu and Chu Shang's hearts now, the bow and crossbow team of more than a hundred people dared to come to stop the cavalry force of more than 10,000 people, I am afraid that even the famous generals under the princes would not dare to do so.

But the young commander in front of him, who was about the same age as them, did it.

"Who are you? How dare you block our way with more than 100 people! Jin Xu really couldn't stand being so scorned.

"Yi Shuai Qin Shao's disciple - Qin Zhen."

Where did such a handsome man come from? Jin Xu and Chu Shang were both at a loss.

Of course, they don't know anything about Yi Shuai and the Leech Battalion. Because, this is a secret army hidden by the snow of the Northern Headquarters.

Even Yu Yi Shuai Qin Shao was only the leader of the leech camp before. After the five sages gave up power, he became the night handsome.

Therefore, for the other main halls, the leech camp has disappeared after the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Jin Xu and Chu Shang even thought that this was the newly promoted position of the Northern General Hall.

Looking at the other party's blank face, Qin Zhen was not annoyed, he just shook his head slightly, raised his hand and signaled the crossbow team to start shooting.

Although there were doubts about the identity of the enemy, it was not enough to distract the two. When Chu Shang saw Qin Zhen raise his hand, he already knew what he was going to do.

He immediately made a gesture to the cavalry beside him: all dismount.

And Jin Xu made further instructions: let the horse go, and the person leaned down.

In this way, the horse can be used to test the trap, and at the same time, the arrow can be blocked by this method.

However, they didn't know the structure of the trap here like the people in the Northern Hall, otherwise, Jin Xu would never have given such an order.

The valley path is lined with trees growing on a steep slope on both sides, and the width of the path is large enough for four horses.

When the trap was first set up, the Orion Battalion left a way for its people to enter and exit, but they had to constantly change their positions on the left and right according to certain rules.

And the traps that trigger the trap are also set left and right, and the advance that sweeps the road like Jin Xu's order will inevitably trigger some of them.

In fact, if it was an ordinary trap, then the sacrifice was just a sycophant, but as the Orion Battalion, which had been personally instructed by Yuliu and partially assisted by Han Yuan, had done a lot of things that exceeded ordinary people's expectations when laying traps.

The "Broken Snake Pit" is one of them.

In fact, this kind of trap only increases the distance between the trigger mechanism and the trap. The principle is to bury a hollow iron pipe in the ground, set the trap mechanism in front, and connect it to the far pit through a thin iron chain through the bamboo tube, and tie the iron rod that supports the trap baffle.

In this way, when the soldier in front of the invading team triggers the mechanism, the person in the middle of the team is unlucky.

There are three traps, and when the first one is triggered, the subsequent ones will be triggered one after another. In this way, the long line that was stretched by the valley will be forcibly broken into four sections.

It is precisely because of this effect that it is called the "Broken Snake Pit".

The only drawback to this trap is that the various parts buried in the low level are easily corroded due to rainwater infiltration, so Orion Camp will replace them every once in a while and bury the joints of the baffles that have been exposed by the rain.

Although it is cumbersome, this kind of trap is just a sharp weapon when dealing with the team.

Of course, Jin Xu and Chu Shang would not have thought that there were such complex traps in the world, because of the arrows triggered before, they subconsciously believed that the enemy would only make full use of the surrounding woods, and they didn't care too much about the underground.

"Click!"

"Click!"

Two of the horses running at the front have triggered two traps, one of which is the "Broken Snake Pit".

In the middle of the procession, the ground cracked under the hooves of many cavalry horses, and these cavalrymen only had time to let out a wail before falling into a pit nearly two feet deep. Just as Mo Yue had done at the beginning, the pit was covered with sharp wooden stakes and foul-smelling stagnant water.

Some of the horsemen who were close to the pit instinctively drove their horses backwards, but they did not see it, and there was a similar pit not far behind them.

In this way, due to the crowding of each other, another part of the cavalry fell in.

Those who didn't fall into the pit didn't get much better - one of the two horses triggered the pit, and the other still triggered the arrow.

The arrows fired from the ground down forced the cavalrymen to dismount and use their horses as cover to dodge.

Jin Xu and Chu Shang also hid on the inside of the war horse, but in addition to their anger, their hearts were full of doubts - the number of bows and crossbows in the Northern Hall was too many, and from these two shots, there were at least a thousand bows and crossbows in this forest.

Where did they get so many weapons!

If the two had the chance to climb a steep slope to see, they would realize how superficial their ideas were. In fact, except for the simple hard crossbow that shot them at the beginning, so many arrows just now were not fired by the crossbow.

The Orion Camp did take advantage of the woodland, but instead of using it to set up a crossbow, it used the woods themselves as a crossbow.

They use the hard trunks of trees as bows, which saves a lot of resources. All you have to do is tie the finished string to the fork of the trunk to make use of this natural bow bed.

The purpose of Qin Zhen's appearance was nothing more than to lure the enemy forward and rely on the enemy's panic to trigger the trap. Now that his goal had been achieved, he symbolically let his men release a few arrows and retreated.

This is also what Duan Xuan means - when the number is not superior, it is better not to fight a war of attrition with the enemy.

……

Not long after Qin Zhen withdrew, the shooting of arrows also stopped. Due to the timely order, not many people who did not fall into the pit were injured. It's just that at least half of the cavalry became infantry from this moment on - the war horses have been shot into hedgehogs.

Jin Xu struggled to push the dead horse he was supporting away, and spat on the ground, "Phew! When Lao Tzu catches you, he has to knead you off with a knife! ”

Chu Shang patted the dust on his body and looked at the equally miserable team behind him, "You still have to think of a way to get the brothers in the back to come over." ”

Yes, most of the centaurs were trapped in the trap and left behind.

Jin Xu and Chu Shang looked at each other, and a wry smile appeared on their faces at the same time.

"Tell the brethren to be careful, and come around the steep slope beside it. Don't step on the trap anymore for his grandmother! Jin Xu yelled.

In fact, all the traps here have been triggered by them, and they don't need to worry so much anymore. However, when they were walking around the forest, a few people accidentally slipped under their feet and unfortunately fell into the pit.

In this way, everyone crossed the "broken snake pit" in horror.

Then, a new problem was put in front of the two of them - a fork in the road, two roads to the left and right. The most terrible thing is that there are traces of people walking on both roads, which must be Qin Zhen's ghost.

Jin Xu and Chu Shang knew that although it would be safer to act together, if they chose the wrong path, they might run in vain.

Once the master is "angry", the consequences are not something ordinary people can bear.

In fact, initially, their master was not like this. In their minds, the master they first saw was a sturdy man. But one day, Meng Xin, a night marshal under the seat of the Ten Sages and Old Yu Ji, appeared.

At that time, the three virtuous elders had not yet made a fuss, and the ten virtuous elders also agreed with the ideas of the other two virtuous elders, so he also accepted three more night marshals.

And this Meng Xin is one of them.

No one knew her background, her life, and by the time the two apprentices found out, their master had already had a skin-to-skin relationship with the woman. Soon after, they noticed that the master's body began to become thinner.

After secretly investigating, they learned that the master had been taking a hallucinatory medicine given to him by this woman.

"It's just a pastime, you don't have to worry about it." This is the reply given by the master after hearing the persuasion of the two of them.

Although worried, the master was already in good spirits at that time. Therefore, the two of them only regarded the master's poor health.

Until one day, they saw a horrific scene......

It was after returning from a mission that they went to report back to their master as usual.

But as soon as they entered the house, their master rushed up and grabbed them by the necks and pressed them against the door, and kept screaming:

"Go find Meng Xin!" "Give me medicine!"

Fortunately, Chang Ao regained his senses in the end, so he didn't cause a tragedy. But after this incident, Jin Xu and Chu Shang also determined that there was something wrong with the medicine.

In the days that followed, Chang Ao became weaker and weaker, and the interval between episodes became shorter and shorter. Later, almost every time he had an attack, it took two apprentices and four people to work together to subdue him.

Seeing this scene, the two finally couldn't bear it and told the ten virtuous elders about it.

But the Ten Sages told them that Meng Xin had defected a few days ago.

It seems that her appearance is just to destroy Chang Ao. So, who is she?

Afterwards, the Ten Sages personally apologized to everyone in the hall for this incident, after all, it was the person he chose himself, and if something happened, of course he had to take responsibility.

At this point, the matter should have come to an end. But what puzzled Jin Xu and Chu Shang was that their master could always get that kind of strange medicine for some reason.

Even if he tracked them many times, Chang Ao was able to shake them off every time. By the time they saw Chang Ao again, he was like no one else—because of the newfound medicine, of course.

And now Chang Ao, who has strange powers, is all supported by this drug.

Before the split of the Southeast Hall, the Ten Sages had seen Chang Ao's illness, but the result surprised everyone - due to the poisoning of the drug, Chang Ao only had more than a year to live.

The matter has come to this, and Jin Xu and Chu Shang don't want to stop Chang Ao anymore. They didn't bother with the source of the strange medicine anymore.

Instead of going crazy and dying a tragic death, it is better to die on the battlefield like a hero.

Therefore, both of them made up their minds this time - the master's last battle is to fight hard and help him win.

When the number of people was counted, Jin Xu and Chu Shang found that the rest of the divisions were pressing in the back and there were no casualties, but Liang Ji ...... has become a dead soul in the pit. And in this ambush, at least a thousand people were left here forever.

Suppressing the anger in their chests, the two of them discussed with several commanders, and decided to divide their troops into two ways and go straight to the enemy's lair.