Wang Kui didn't say anything, he jumped over with his sword, and surrounded the black shadow along with a group of soldiers who were awakened around him.

"Check around and see if any other Tartars are climbing up!" Wang Kui shouted: "Why didn't the frontal night patrol warn? ”

There were already torches on the top of the mountain, but someone raised them and circled them, and immediately replied, "My lord, no one is crawling on all sides!" ”

After a short break, the people guarding the gentle slope in front also rushed over to pray: "There is no movement on the slope to resist the horses and trap the pit, and the burning trees in the distance have not gone, and there is no sign of the Tartars attacking." ”

"So, that's all there is to it?" Wang Kui's beard shook in the firelight, obviously funny: "It's quite bold!" ”

"It's all said, I'm from Song." The black shadow sat cross-legged under the threat of dozens of knives, like a monk who had meditated, and he was not afraid: "On the order of the deputy envoy of the defense of Xuzhou, I came to rescue you." ”

"Xuzhou? Rescue? Wang Kui sneered: "Are you so good at deceiving me?" How do you prove it? ”

The man was stunned for a moment, obviously at a loss for how to prove that he was himself, but he also had to be anxious, and said aloud in a hurry: "I am a barbarian soldier of Shimen in Xuzhou, and I climbed up from the bottom of the mountain with my bare hands, which is my proof!" ”

Climb up with bare hands?

This time, Wang Kui was stunned for a moment, this stone mountain is not low!

Seeing the suspicions on everyone's faces, the man couldn't help but be proud, twisted his sturdy body around, and made a demonstration of climbing: "In our Shimenfan, this is a trick that children will do, we can find a mountain there a hundred times higher than here, we are not the same up and down as if walking on the ground, not I brag, I can come up on a steeper mountain wall than this!" ”

Wang Kui made a look, and immediately someone ran over, looked down at the place where the man climbed up, looked at it for a long time, and then came back and said: "There is no rope, there is no iron hook and flying claw, and there are some stepping marks on the stone, which seem to have really climbed up." ”

Wang Kui frowned, half-awake and half-skeptical, the element of doubt was far greater than believing, because it was too incredible.

In the middle of the night, surrounded by strong enemies, an inexplicable person came over in the dark, made some rivers and lakes to climb up the mountain, claimed to be a friendly army, and came to the rescue.

No one can believe this.

"Don't delay, pack your things quickly, and come with me later!" The man stood up and looked sideways down the mountain: "When I came, I figured it out, there are only a hundred men under the cliff here who are guarding the bottom of the tent, all of them are asleep, only a few soldiers are watching by the fire, we walk quietly from the side, the rain is dense, they can't hear the footsteps, as long as they are careful, they can go to the river smoothly." ”

Wang Kui didn't move, and neither did the others.

The man was anxious, and his voice was a little louder: "Speaking of you, why don't you move?" ”

The knives of the Hanzhou soldiers approached a little.

Wang Kui threw the big knife into the ground and said in a deep voice: "Brother, how do you let us believe you?" ”

"Still not convinced? Still don't believe it! The man was anxious and jumped up: "I said it, I am Wang Chao, a subordinate of Sun Hong, the governor of Xuzhou, and I was ordered to save you from trouble, why don't you believe it?" ”

It didn't matter if he jumped, something jumped out of his arms, flicked it round on the ground, and bounced to Wang Kui's feet.

Wang Chao was stunned, touched the inside of the leather armor, and shouted: "Oops, my last cake!" ”

Wang Kui frowned, bent down, and picked up the pot helmet cake, which had a hole in the middle of the round cake.

"If you're not hungry, can you give it back to me?" Wang Chao swallowed his saliva and said, "I have this one left." ”

Wang Kui blew the mud sticky on the cake, laughed comfortably, exhaled a long breath, shook his beard and said, "Of course, brother, your name is Wang Chao, right?" Wait a minute, we don't have your skills, so we'll tie the rope and go with you! ”

This kind of cake, except for the last time Shimen Fan gave away grain, Wang Kuihuo has not seen it elsewhere, and ordinary cakes may be made by others, but the one who wears a circle in the middle of the cake is the only one.

Wang Chao didn't understand why the other party's attitude changed greatly after seeing the cake, but it was a good thing after all, so he urged him to hurry up.

There are very few trees on the stone mountain, and there are no vines, but it is difficult for Wang Kui, who was born as a scholar, to untie the leather straps on all the armor, the sturdy belts are used to tie armor around the waist, one is three feet long, and hundreds of them are connected one by one, enough to hang down from the edge of the cliff on the top of the mountain to the ground.

The Hanzhou soldiers were told one by one that it was strictly forbidden to speak out, and even if they accidentally fell to their deaths, they couldn't snort, so as not to expose their intention to break through and kill everyone.

Before leaving, Wang Kui also asked the question of how to cross the river after going down the mountain, Wang Chao didn't quite understand, Na Tuozhi didn't elaborate, he could only say: "Don't worry, rest assured, there are people by the river to answer, and you won't miss something." ”

Hundreds of people crossed the river, relying on rafts, at least hundreds, otherwise it could not be crossed in a short time, the river was wide, in case the Mongols found that the rest of the people had to flee along the river bank, the risk was very great.

Wang Chao said this, and Wang Kui was not easy to ask, after all, people risked their lives to come, can they still be suspicious.

The rain became heavier and heavier, gradually changing from light rain to moderate rain, and by the occasional flash of electric light on the horizon, it was possible to find that the clouds of the sky were as thick as black jade, and it seemed that the rain would become heavier and heavier.

As the saying goes, autumn rain is like a torrent, and this rain seems to not only come continuously, but also as majestic.

The sound of the rain is dripping, the sound is in the ears, the Hanzhou soldiers who slide down along the belt rope are in danger, the belt is sticky with some light, and it is very unreliable to grasp in the hand, but fortunately, everyone is a veteran, and there is no chaos in the encounter, more than calm, even though there is danger, but finally all of them came down smoothly.

Standing at the bottom of the cliff, Wang Kui, who went down first, kept his heart in his throat, and the cliff as high as dozens of zhang looked extremely steep in the dark, until the last Hanzhou soldier slipped down safely, and he put his heart back in his chest.

"That's it!" Wang Chao turned back from the forest in front of him and wiped the rain on his face: "Follow me!" ”

Under the cliff was a dense wood, and the Mongol tents were set up in several clearings in the woods, and the night guards shuttled back and forth between the camps, probably thinking that it was unlikely that the Song soldiers would jump off the cliffs to break through, and they had no special precautions except for regular back and forth.

Since there is a rule, it is easy to do.

Wang Chao took hundreds of Hanzhou soldiers, like ghosts in the rain shuttle, looking at the hole silently drilled out, the night was confused, the Hanzhou soldiers followed one by one, braving the rain across the jungle.

The sound of rushing water by the river is already close at hand.

Drilling out of the forest and seeing the scene almost made Wang Kui scream.

A row of bamboo rafts across the river, with the undulations of the waves, the bamboo is hollow, the buoyancy is sufficient, the water flow is rapid but stable as Mount Tai, take a closer look, you can see that on each bamboo raft, there are two or three Shimen Fan barbarians standing on it.

Several thick tree vine ropes as thick as children's arms cross the river in the air, just like the iron cables used by the sailors to cross the river, it is made up of several long tree vines connected and pieced together, the two ends are firmly tied to the big stones on the shore, each bamboo raft is tied to the vines with ropes, and a simple bamboo pontoon bridge is built, in order to be safe, each bamboo raft has two or three Shimen Fan barbarians with their bodies to press, the barbarians grasp the vines with both hands, step on the bamboo raft under their feet, and do their best to make the bamboo raft stable.

Wang Kui's face was raining, and he didn't care about wiping it, so he turned around and bowed to Wang Chao, and said: "General Wang's great grace, Wang Kui is unforgettable, but there is ......."

"Don't, don't, don't, this general, let's stop doing this, hurry up and cross the river, after crossing the river, it's easy to say anything!"

Wang Kui nodded, waved his hand back, and said resolutely: "Cross the river!" ”

(End of chapter)