Chapter Ninety-Five: Trapped in the Yellow Dragon Cave by Mistake (1)
"But is there any other way to go?" Luo Shiyin asked Li Ruzhu.
"Nope. There is only one way to go. Li Ruzhu replied.
"When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. Rush over! Luo Shiyin thought for a moment and gave an order.
The reason is simple, going backwards is definitely not going to work. Don't look at the shadow of the pursuers behind you, but they must still be chasing after them. Going backwards is a recipe for self-defeat.
"Everybody sit tight. Watch me give them a cupola! As he spoke, Shi Tianji took out an underwater dragon king cannon from his arms with one free hand, and then placed it on the wooden board in front of the car and fixed it with the rope used to tie the rice bags on the car.
"Lao Shi, where did you get this thing?" Shi Lang couldn't help but ask.
"Hehe, when I was in Wang Jingcheng, I saw that this thing was very good, so I took two more pieces in my arms while the square handle was not paying attention. I didn't think it would come in handy today. Don't blame me, adults. Shi Tianji answered Shi Lang's question, but his eyes looked at Luo Shiyin.
"You old Shi, you really have yours." Luo Shiyin looked at Shi Tianji's deliberately pretended expression of begging for mercy, and he couldn't laugh or cry.
Shi Tianji broke off the rosin attached to the underwater dragon king cannon and used it as a fuse, and then took out the fire sickle from his bosom and lit it.
"Everyone, hold on to the car and listen to my orders!" After Shi Tianji ignited the rosin, he shouted loudly, and then stabbed the cow in the ass with his iron shovel.
The bull frantically pulled everyone, and ran on the descending mountain road to the Japanese cavalry in front.
"Jump out of the car, lie down!" Just as the galloping ox cart was about to approach the Wa cavalry, Shi Tianji shouted.
"Oo, Oo, Woo......" Luo Shiyin and the other six people jumped off the galloping ox cart almost at the same time, landed in the grass on the side of the road, and fell to the ground.
"Boom-" With a loud bang, the underwater dragon king cannon ignited on the ox cart that rushed into the enemy team was detonated.
The huge shock wave sent by the explosion blew up the Japanese people on their horses, and more than half of the nearly 50 people were killed or wounded.
"Kill it!" Luo Shiyin gave an order, and the team members stepped forward to fight into the enemy formation. A single knife slashed and smashed, killing and wounding several enemy soldiers.
The Japanese cavalry, which was a little dizzy by the bombing, adjusted slightly, immediately adjusted their formation, and rode their horses to fight.
The two sides fought each other on the not wide mountain road.
At this moment, the Japanese soldiers who were chasing behind had also crossed the high slope and rushed towards this side.
"Everybody, get on the horse!" Luo Shiyin slashed an enemy soldier off his horse with one palm, dragged Xie Yuan behind him, pushed him onto the horse's back, and then slapped the horse's ass hard. Xie Yuan took the lead in riding his horse out of the enemy formation and rushed towards the fork in the road in front.
A Japanese cavalryman took advantage of Luo Shiyin to help Xie Yuan get on his horse, and stabbed him in the back with a spear. Seeing this, Shi Lang flew into the air and crossed a Japanese cavalryman, swinging his knife from the air and slashing at the Japanese national. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Japanese had no choice but to withdraw his spear and shrink back on his horse to give way to Shi Lang's blade. Shi Lang retracted the blade, tightened his abdomen and raised his buttocks in the air, and with the inertia of his body, his feet slammed into the neck of the Japanese and hooked him off the horse.
Luo Shiyin flew up and kicked the Japanese cavalryman who had been hooked off his horse by Shi Lang and had not yet stood firmly, and the head of the Japanese soldier hit a rock on the side of the road, his brain burst out, and he died of exhaustion.
"My lord, get on the horse!" Shi Lang grabbed the horse of the dead Wa cavalry and shouted at Luo Shiyin.
"Good!" Luo Shiyin flew on the horse. However, instead of riding his horse out of the enemy line, he bent down and drew a spear with a diagonal stick from a dead Japanese man, and together with Shi Lang, went to support Ye Ruliu, Shi Tianji, and Li Ruzhu.
Ye Ruliu was surrounded by three Japanese cavalrymen in the middle, and the deadly rose thorn in his hand blocked the left and right thorns, without fear.
Shi Lang swung his sword from behind his horse and beheaded a Japanese cavalryman besieging Ye Ruliu. Then, the body jumped on the horse's back.
However, Shi Lang was not riding on a horse, but at the moment when he jumped on the horse, his feet hit the saddle hard, and his body took advantage of the momentum to fly over Ye Ruliu's head in the fierce battle, and stabbed the Japanese cavalry in front of Ye Ruliu in the air. Hearing only a "poof", the embroidered spring knife in Shi Lang's hand pierced the throat of the Japanese people on the horse.
Shi Lang retracted his sword momentum in the air, and while pulling the embroidered spring knife out of the throat of the enemy soldier, he used his feet to kick the enemy soldier off his horse.
"Get on board!" Shi Lang jumped to Ye Ruliu's side and said.
A Japanese cavalryman rushed over. Shi Lang swung his knife to meet the battle, covering Ye Ruliu on his horse.
Ye Ruliu flew up and jumped onto the war horse of the Japanese who Shi Lang had just stabbed to death, only she grabbed the reins with one hand and raised the deadly rose thorn in her hand with the other. Between raising his hand, the cold light flashed, and a rose poison needle shot out from Ye Ruliu's hand, hitting the throat of the Japanese soldier who was fighting with Shi Lang. The Japanese soldier who was shot screamed and fell off his horse.
Shi Langfei got on his horse and rushed out of the enemy formation with Ye Ruliu.
Shi Tianji and Li Ruzhu also snatched a war horse with the help of Luo Shiyin. The three of them worked together to fight their way out of the encirclement and ran to the fork in the road not far ahead.
The enemy soldiers behind them regrouped, howling and in hot pursuit.
"Driving, driving, driving...... Luo Shiyin, Shi Lang and others desperately drove the war horses under their crotches, turned into the southeast fork in the road like a gallop, and ran along the winding mountain road with a gentle slope to the outside of the mountain.
After running for nearly a kilometer, Luo Shiyin, Shi Lang, Ye Ruliu, Shi Tianji, and Li Ruzhu, who were running forward in one place, saw Xie Yuan coming on horseback.
Xie Yuan came to the front, pulled the reins sharply, stopped stepping off the war horse, and reported to Luo Shiyin breathlessly: "My lord, this road is not passable. ”
The five pulled their horses to a halt and looked up. Sure enough, the narrow valley in front of him was cut off by a rocky mountain.
"My lord, it seems that there has been a landslide here, and the earth and rocks that have collapsed and fallen have blocked the valley. It turns out that this place is open. When I was younger, I used to play here. Li Ruzhu looked at the mountain in front of her, and said to Luo Shiyin helplessly.
The enemy soldiers behind him were about to catch up. Several people anxiously looked around, looking for a way.
"General Li, is there no other way to go?" Luo Shiyin asked.
"yes, I remember. There is a way to go. Everyone dismounted. Follow me up the mountain! After Li Ruzhu finished speaking, she jumped off the horse and ran towards the hillside on the right.
Luo Shiyin and the other five didn't have time to ask more, so they immediately dismounted and followed Li Ruzhu to the hillside.
Fortunately, the slope of the hill is not very steep, and the climb is not very strenuous. Using their hands and feet, the six of them followed a dry riverbed on the hillside, and soon reached the halfway point of the mountain.
At the foot of the hill, the pursuing enemy soldiers had also arrived, and they also turned over and dismounted, and pursued the small detachment that had reached the halfway point of the mountain.
In front of me came a bamboo forest, and clusters of tall bamboos stood on a depression between earth and stone halfway up the mountainside.
Because the slope is located on the back side of the mountain, the towering mountain will block the sun's rays, forming a shade on the slope here, coupled with the abundant rainfall in the summer, the fertile soil accumulated on the surface of the mountain for many years is washed down by the rain from top to bottom, and a fertile soil is silted up in this depression, which provides unique geological conditions for the growth of bamboo. The bamboos in the bamboo forest are tall and stout.
The six of them meet in front and back, walking through the labyrinthine bamboo forest. There is a feeling of wetness to the ground beneath your feet.
Passing through the bamboo forest, a winding stone path appears in front of you. The stone path was lined with unknown flowers and plants, which drooped from the rocks on both sides and spread among the rubble on the side of the stone path, and their shapes were as soft as dragon's whiskers.
"Let's pick more dragon's beard grass for later use." Li Ruzhu quickly leaned down as he spoke, uprooting the fine soft flowers and plants he called dragon beard grass spread on both sides of the road, and soon collected a small bundle of dragon beard grass. Li Ruzhu quickly tied the collected dragon whisker grass bundle firmly as she ran, and carried it diagonally on her back.
Everyone else also followed Li Ruzhu's example, and each of them collected a bundle of dragon beard grass, and then followed Li Ruzhu up the stone road.
The enemy soldiers behind them were in hot pursuit, and the spears in their hands appeared and disappeared in the bamboo forest behind them.
At the bottom of the valley, the enemy soldiers on the checkpoint had also chased after them, chasing them upward.
"General Li, where are we going?" Ye Ruliu asked as she ran.
"There is a cave not far ahead, which leads to the other side of the mountain. All we have to do is pass through the cave and we can go down. Li Ruzhu said breathlessly.
"How far is it?" Xie Yuan asked breathlessly. After setting off from Asan Town, his physical strength was a little overwhelmed by the rush along the way.
"It's not far away, it's here." Li Ruzhu said.
As they spoke, the six of them had already run to the end of the stone road. Sure enough, in the hidden place of the vines on the rocks, a huge hole flashed in front of him.
The entrance to the cave is filled with smoke, adding a touch of mystery to the cave. Through the smoke, you can clearly see the three big characters of "Yellow Dragon Cave" above the entrance of the cave.
A cool wind blew out of the cave and blew on the team members, bringing a little coolness to everyone's body that was a little hot from running hard.
"Everyone is ready to enter the cave,......," Li Ruzhu said.
"Don't panic first, I'll let the Japanese people in the back taste the thunder first!" Shi Tianji interrupted Li Ruzhu's words, and then, he came to a boulder on the side of the road, clasped the boulder tightly with both hands, and wanted to move the boulder to the middle of the mountain road, but he couldn't.
"Here, help me!" Shi Tianji said to everyone.
Shi Lang hurried over, and the two of them used force at the same time to move the boulder to the middle of the mountain road.
"Wa country devil, look at grandpa's rolling thunder!" Shi Tianji shouted, and with Shi Lang's help, he pushed the boulder down the mountain.
The rumbling boulder rolled down the mountain road and smashed into the Japanese soldiers who were climbing up the mountain road behind them.
The Japanese soldiers who had no time to dodge were smashed and cried wolf.
"Alright, Lao Shi, wrap your dragon's beard grass around your iron shovel. Let's go into the hole. Li Ruzhu said.
Shi Tianji followed Li Ruzhu's words and tightly wrapped the dragon beard grass he had just collected around the head of one of the iron shovels, wrapping them into an oval-shaped circle.
"It's like a torch." Ye Ruliu watched Shi Tianji hold the iron shovel tied with dragon beard grass in his hand, and said.
"Yes, it's for torches. This dragon's beard grass is rich in oil and is a good natural fuel. Li Ruzhu said, waving her hand. Everyone immediately walked towards the cave.
"Do you want to light the torch?" Shi Tianji looked at the cave of the black hole and asked.
"Don't order yet." Luo Shiyin said.
There is a small puddle on the ground at the entrance to the cave. The six of them carefully entered the cave along the edge of the depression under the cave wall.
Stepping on the gravel everywhere in the cave, groping along the wall of the cave more than one person high for a distance of about five or six meters, the front suddenly opened up. By this time, everyone had gradually adapted to the light in the cave. In front of everyone's eyes, there is an empty and tall cave hall. The walls of the cave hall are covered with stone curtains. Countless thick stalagmites hang down from the roof of the cave, decorating the space on the roof of the cave with a bizarre and magnificent atmosphere.
"Everyone, stop and hide, get ready for the Victory Franc machine!" Luo Shiyin's deep voice echoed through the cave.
Shi Lang, Ye Ruliu and the other five immediately understood Luo Shiyin's intentions, and they all clinged to the cave wall, hiding behind the big stones with interlaced teeth on the cave wall, holding a musket in their hands, and looking at the direction of the cave entrance alertly.
After a while, several sneaky figures flashed at the entrance of the cave, and it was obvious that the Japanese people who were chasing behind them had also discovered this deep hole and were peeking in.
The Chinese language came into the cave clearly, and immediately afterward, four or five Japanese soldiers armed with spears bent over and cautiously walked towards the cave.
"Hit!" Luo Shiyin gave an order.
"Bang, bang, bang......" With a few gunshots, several Japanese soldiers who had just touched the hole fell to the ground.
Outside the cave, there was a rush and panic of the shouts of the Japanese people, followed by silence.
Luo Shiyin motioned to everyone to be silent and wait patiently.
After a while, the deep voice of the Japanese came from outside the cave. Then, a few more Japanese soldiers groped their way into the cave.
"Hit!" Luo Shiyin gave another order.
After a few gunshots, the second group of Japanese people who entered the cave were also thrown down at the entrance of the cave.
Luo Shiyin waved at everyone and motioned for everyone to get up and leave.
The six of them groped their way to the inside of the cave hall, and two forks in front of them appeared. Under the leadership of Li Ruzhu, the six of them carefully walked into the low-height fork hole on the right, and then, after a few turns along the winding tunnel, Luo Shiyin allowed Shi Tianji to light the torch in his hand.
Under the light of the torches, the path forward in the cave was much clearer. The black-brown stones on the walls of the cave can be clearly seen in the form of dogs' teeth.
"Be careful, everyone, don't touch your head." Li Ruzhu reminded.
"General Li, how long does it take to walk out of this cave?" Ye Ruliu asked.
"It takes about half an hour. There is a narrow hole in front of you, and after this opening, the space in front of you is relatively large. You don't have to bend over to walk. Li Ruzhu said.
"Ouch, my mother. I'm about to bend my old Shi's waist! Because Shi Tianji is tall and big, he can only walk in this low cave with his head bowed and struggling to move forward.
"Hey, why is there no way?" Li Ruzhu, who had been leading the way in front, suddenly stopped. Puzzled, he looked at the tunnel in front of him that was blocked by a pile of rubble.
Everyone went with the prestige, and sure enough, a pile of rubble piled up on the stone wall blocked everyone's way forward.
"Did you choose the wrong path?" Luo Shiyin asked.
"Absolutely impossible. When I was a child, I used to follow Uncle Yi Sun-sin to this cave to hide and seek. Another large fork in the road is a dead end. Only this smaller fork in the cave leads to the other side of the mountain. Li Ruzhu said with certainty.
"Look, my lord. The cave is littered with rubble underneath. The stones on the walls of the cave on both sides are also in the shape of canine teeth. This indicates that there should be too much shaking here. It is very likely that the tunnel in front of it was blocked by a mountain collapse caused by an earthquake or other tremor. Xie Yuan analyzed.
"Well, that's possible." Li Ruzhu said.
At this moment, there was a noisy sound of footsteps in the cave not far behind him. The Japanese have already chased in.