In the misty Jiuzhi Mountain, Yi Damao, who was the vanguard of the exploration team, was holding a torch that was only half burned, and his eyes were wandering at the deep mountain not far from the roadside, the deep mountain was bubbling with water, and the fine splashes of water splashed by the falling fragments and clods of soil, and he only felt that his legs and feet were softened for a while.

Although he was a mountain man accustomed to the mountains and forests, he actually did not have much experience in walking mountain roads at night that were full of dangers and unpredictables. Because there are not only foraging beasts and snakes and insects, but also all kinds of rocks and earthworks that cannot be prevented from falling, as well as new rapids and waterfalls due to rain; It's even more dangerous if it's around the time of the rain.

This time, he led the march in the dark by driving the ducks to the shelves, relying on everyone holding torches and holding ropes to constantly whisper the trumpet, and the mountain road that had been driven all night was actually like this. It's just that at night, I can hear the murmuring of the water and the sound of the wind as if I was around, and I didn't find until dawn that the drop during this period was at least a few dozen feet high.

On the seemingly clear and shallow water, there are still some stumbling livestock that have been soaked for an unknown amount of time, the miserable gray bones left behind, and some rotten wooden blocks that are suspected to be vehicle fragments.

Fortunately, there was a general problem of not being able to see clearly at night in the original camp, and after forcibly eating raw fish offal and chicken and duck offal for several months, they all became clear; Even the least can see within a few steps in the dim light of the fire, without walking on the uneven gravel pavement and stepping down into the cliff or the ravine.

Despite this, several people were still losing the supplies that were loaded with baskets and baskets, all of which were tripped and rolled out of the potholed ground while walking at night, and were never able to be dragged or pulled back.

Yi Damao moved back inside, until he leaned against the somewhat slippery and cold mountain wall, and then he felt a little relieved and proper; In the distance, there are mountains of dark colors, and there are no towns or people to be seen, except for some old ruts on the road that I don't know where to go.

And when the whistle blew gently, Yi Damao, who had recovered a little strength, also resisted the desire to lick the condensation dew on the mountain wall, and took out a customized marching food bag from the bag on his waist, and carefully peeled off the outer seal of the oil paper.

Take out the flattened half of the cooked chicken, a small piece of black sugar board, a small handful of coarse tea in a paper package, a few pickled prunes for refreshing consumption, or a piece of chewed vinegar, ginger, and tobacco shoots; Plus palm-sized multi-flavored compressed rations a day, and a spoonful of soybean offal minced in a large clay pot; It is the basic ration when there is heavy work or long hours of work.

Compared with the previous war in the rebel army, he ate dry during the war, ate thin in his spare time, and ate whatever he encountered without restraint; When there is plenty of wine, I can't wait to die, and I eat bran and drink dilution when I am sleepy, and there is basically no planning and weekly life; Now there is hope and hope.

And as a benefit for the exploration team Li was born and died. Now his family is placed in the tunzhuang of the camp, although they can't plant the fields and open the mountains, they can be satisfied by helping to do some chores;

Earlier, he had also visited a few times with the rations he had saved, and although the women and children were still yellow-skinned and wearing patched old clothes, it was much more gratifying than the starving appearance of the original face with vegetables and clothes that were not covered and were about to fall when the wind blew.

While his thoughts were wandering, he first melted the syrup with water; Then break the compressed ration into a paper bag, crush it with a stone a few times to become looser, then stick it to the soybean minced into a ball, eat it clean with the paper pad in your hand, and then pour the tea powder into your mouth and chew out all the flavor before swallowing, and finally swallow the salty dried plums.

At this time, after all this rest and eating, this team of soldiers as pioneers finally recovered some spirit and strength. Talkative whispers began to appear.

"There are a lot of thieves in this hellish mountain. We've only walked a few miles, and this is already the first few mountains. ”

"In Fujian, I thought that I had traveled through the mountains of my life, and I didn't want to come here again."

"There are still a lot of partial rivers, and you have to rebuild bridges to cross them at every turn."

"The dew that drove away all night soaked my whole body. Hurry up and move your body, otherwise you will fall into the cold. ”

At a corner of the mountain road, under the faint mist of the early morning, a group of people nestled in the grass under the stone wall and snoozed, only two standing figures were swaying and yawning.

Seeing this scene, Yi Damao was relieved.

"What should I do when I encounter ?。。 enemy?"

He recited the most basic "three steps to face the enemy" exercise and mantra, and began to wind it in an orderly manner; And he led the half of the body with nail armor that others carried, and hung it on his chest.

"Raise the card and send the crossbow arrows, and lean against a knife and slash the gun."

In fact, every detail related to the daily service and daily life in the army, and even the wartime state, has been compiled into corresponding songs to be sung; For example, there are eight personal hygiene, six local epidemic prevention, ten battlefield cleaning, and three notes and eight points in the walking place. and even the 17 prohibitions, the 54 beheadings, and so on, which are the core of military law.

It is mainly aimed at the general illiteracy situation of new strokes, and compiles catchy content that is easy to remember and understand; Therefore, in the supplementary camp of the new training, every day when they get up early and go to bed at night, they have to recite and recite, and once they fail to pass the random inspection, they will be punished by fire. Although corporal punishment is not much advocated, it is a pleasant feeling from cleaning the latrine to starving.

The crossbow bolts dipped in special medicine fell with a single shot, leaving little sound at all; It's like shooting a pheasant. But the man who fell immediately knocked over the fire, splashed a few sticks of charcoal with embers, and snorted in pain at the nearest man who was sleeping soundly.

However, at this time, Yi Damao and the other tiptoeers had bypassed their camp, and formed a close-quarters outflanking trend in the mountain road; Swinging swords and swords, loud and roaring, stabbing and slashing; In an instant, the flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the mountains and birds and beasts that were fighting and shaking were scattered.

There was also a soldier with thick arms, who took advantage of the chaos to light a canister of fire oil with a campfire, and smashed it into the rock wall above the heads of these startled enemies; In an instant, it cracked into a large canopy of upside-down fire and flowing flames; Although it only covers a small part of the enemy's position, the effect of scaring and deactivating the amount is even worse than the previous rush.

I saw these enemy soldiers jumping up from their sleep like frightened birds, and under the pressure of the flames and swords behind them, most of them did not hesitate to choose a relatively loose direction to leave, and then along the steep slope deliberately set aside by the roadside, they rolled down into the riverbed dozens of feet high.

Even if he didn't die immediately after falling on the spot, he would inevitably collapse on the river beach with broken hands and feet, broken head and blood, wailing and moaning in the red washed out of the river.

After another half an hour, there was no moving object in the riverbed under the road; And the spacious place around this corner became the new advance camp and temporary food station set up by the rebels. ，

However, Yi Damao looked at the working figures in the temporary camp with some dissatisfaction, who were obviously a little cowering.

He didn't quite understand why the rebels had to recruit a number of new soldiers from the local people every time they went to war, even if they didn't know anything, they could only do some chores; This time was no exception. After the members of the Chen clan who failed to run away were tried, thousands of Ding Zhuang were recruited on the spot; Then send them to the teams to listen.

You must know that now is not the time when the old rebels lacked everything and did not have enough to "add trenches" and "attach to the city"; Relying only on the equipment carried by the rebel army's carts, there are basically no villages and cities that can withstand it. Why do you need to take these goods that can't go into battle directly to make up the numbers and fill the scene.

The enemy, who had once again rushed out of the opposite mountain road, soon fell to the ground under the rain of arrows fired behind the regimental cards, and in this narrow valley road they did not even have a chance to scatter and dodge, and were put down by stubble; The few survivors who were lucky enough to block it with their hand cards and round shields were also quickly stabbed and slashed by the knives and guns that quickly rushed up, and they were killed and injured or fled in the desert after a few rounds.

"These bandits have indeed left behind multiple volleys and broken horses."

It's just that the steeper and more rocky mountains make most places unsuitable for ambushes; Therefore, although the physical and material consumption is a bit large, and the frequency of rotation needs to be accelerated, they do not need to worry about sudden appearances, such as falling rocks or thousands of arrows in unison, arrows raining down.

In this way, they defeated and destroyed many enemy forces with less cost and casualties, and advanced step by step to Xie Muguan, where the two ridges of Qitian and Zhucheng converged.

I saw the intersection of Xie and Mu flowing between the mountains and gorges, and at the end of the ridge that was narrowly sandwiched between the two sides, it was originally buried in a mess of stone ruins on the site of the old Guancheng, but it was newly built with civil engineering to build a small village across the period;

In the fifth year of the Han Yuan Dynasty (112 B.C.), Guiyi Hou Tianjia led the army from Fuchuan to take this ancient road south to Cangwu, and one of them had a fierce battle with the local South Vietnamese army at Xie Mu Pass;

In the fourth year of Tang Gaozu Wude (621 AD), Li Jing sent troops from Sichuan to Lianghu to defeat Emperor Xiao Milling of Liang, "from Yiling (now Wuchang, Hubei) to Fuchuandu to Guizhou (Guilin), stationed in Huangshaling", and fought a bloody battle with the Liang army at Xie Muguan;

"It's time to get the big guys."

As the advancing carts assemble the ejected poisonous fireballs and canisters of kerosene, they sputter and burn on the city walls; The village, which had been relatively silent, was like an anthill soaked in smoky water; Suddenly, there were many figures running and shouting for fire fighting and arming.

Then, under the cover of the crossbow team that spread out the horizontal column of arrows like rain, with the baffles and regimental cards that had been transported with great difficulty, they slowly crashed towards the wooden beads that were heading for the chaimen. There were also fire-throwing soldiers carrying baskets of small cans of fire oil on their backs, slowly widening the distance and following closely behind.

And the merchant woman in the post house in the walled city was shocked, and Chen Yanqian, who was gray and pale with sideburns, couldn't help cursing these enemies who couldn't wait to chase after him.

These grass thieves are really mad dogs, so they keep chasing after them; You must know that you have been busy all the way from Guiyang City to Guiyang City, and you are very tired up and down, and you have to follow the will of the people to stay and rest on the spot for a while.

It's just that these subordinates can't move their legs as soon as they rest, and they have not yet prepared the defense and the follow-up food for repairing the walled city until after dark; On the contrary, there were many conflicts and disorders in the struggle for food and shelter for the gangs; It took a lot of the night for him to regain his restraint.

But he still kept a hand on guard, and sent out all the people who had the most spare strength in the stockade as a guard and a break in the mountain road; It's just that I didn't expect that these soldiers I left behind were too useless, and they were attacked by someone before they could even send the news back when they encountered the enemy.

(End of chapter)