Chapter Seventy-Two: A Fortress That Never Falls
Dark clouds rolled overhead, and the sky was frighteningly gloomy.
Yu Lie looked up, the big firebird was interspersed in the black oppressive clouds, it was chasing a flock of vultures, where there were vultures, most of the people exploded in the wilderness, and the dead were about twenty miles behind Yu Lie, on the cliff called Tiger Roaring Ridge, lying on the ground, some were Shanrong people, some were Di people. Now that the cannibals were being eaten, the great firebird had seized the strongest of them all, the vulture, and whistled forward, eating not only poisonous snakes, but also all kinds of running and flying animals, not caring in the slightest that it was its own kind that had wings.
As for the Shanjung and Di people who occupied the mountains and bandits, they were all road bandits and robbers, who survived from the chariots and iron hooves of the princes, and survived by relying on the mountains and forests, like rats hiding in the gutters. Yu Lie doesn't pity them, the land of Zhongzhou has always been the law of the jungle, since they dare to fight Yu Lie's idea, they have the consciousness of the wilderness.
Riding on his horse and looking back, the long army of slaves dragged behind him, like a silent dragon. There were 1,500 men, 800 horses, and 8 chariots, of which 800 were from Luoyi, 500 were from the territory of Yu Lie's Jiaozi Cheyu, and 200 were retainers and warriors under the command of a third-class baron named Xingluo. However, now they are all slaves, and Yu Lie is a slave trader.
Indeed, since leaving Zhongli City, the border city of Yan Kingdom, the second-class baron of Yan Kingdom has become a slave trader, horse dealer, and weapon dealer, otherwise, those mountain bandits and road tyrants would not dare to fight him. Now, with two hundred knights, escorting these horses, slaves, and weapons, he walked through the narrow and crooked corridor of Hengshan, through which he would enter the border of the rest of the kingdom through this corridor of five hundred miles, and then these filthy slaves would find a secluded place, take off their torn linen cloth, change into iron armor, put on the brightly colored wind, ride on the sturdy war horse, and arrive at the fortress in the name of Chaogeqing. In this way, you can do the so-called people who don't know and don't know the ghosts. As for what happened after arriving at the fortress, the right doctor had already made arrangements, so there was no need to worry about it.
However, although the road is not far, the narrow five-hundred-mile Hengshan corridor has not been peaceful, and there are thirteen small princes on both sides of the corridor, of which twelve princes are enemies of each other, divided into two camps, and one prince is vacillating on both sides. Along the way, some people treated Yu Lie, a slave trader, like a guest, a good wine, meat and a beautiful lady, and some people had bad intentions, looking at those war horses and weapons, their eyes were almost green. Of course, those ill-intentioned princes did not dare to openly oppose the merchants of the Yan Kingdom, but in their territory, some inexplicable robbers would pop up from time to time, and these robbers all had only one end, that is, to feed the group of vultures in the sky. If not, this group of vultures has already changed five leaders, why are they still reluctant to leave? No, there should be six leaders now, and their fifth leader is now mourning under the paws of the great firebird.
It's going to rain, and ahead is the Snow Peak Fortress.
The corridor is humid, there are cliffs on both sides, there is a jungle next to the road, the road is covered with rotten leaves that have been accumulated for an unknown number of years, and the horse's hooves will even squeeze out a cloud of smelly and sour sludge when they fall up, generally speaking, merchants and travelers will not take this road, most of them will choose the flat and safe Yanyong Avenue, but Yu Lie has no choice, because this road is the most convenient, and it is extremely secret. And these two points are exactly what the slave traders need.
The middle-aged lord complained while wiping his face with the stains on his face, unable to distinguish whether it was fog or sweat: "This damn rainy season, I bet with you that in half an hour at most, the great god of Haotian will not hesitate to pluck out his tears and drench me into a soup chicken." ”
A new scar was added to his face, and at the brow bone, the red flesh scar jumped and jumped as he spoke. Maybe he was too unaccustomed to this kind of humid weather, shrouded his face like a fog, so the middle-aged lord actually made a joke about the Great God of Haotian, fortunately there was no witch official in Yu Lie's team, otherwise, he would inevitably be reprimanded. However, Yu Lie was very happy with such jokes, and in the army, if the repression of killing and being killed was not resolved in this way, then it would be a disaster.
So, the slave trader also wiped his face, shook off the sticky things, and said with a smile: "Bet on what? ”
"Wine! If you lose, pour me wine!" They often fight like this, after the battle, after the victory, the loser pours the wine for the winner, but the drinker has to kneel on one knee.
Yu Lie smiled: "I don't have good wine to treat you, if you really want to drink, when you get to the Snow Peak Fortress, I will sell you and replace it with a jar, you can drink as much as you want." ”
"Stinky boy, you actually want to sell your future father-in-law! When you return to Yan Kingdom, don't let Fanzi make wine for you! ”
Zi Cheyu said seriously, and looked straight at Yu Lie, to this day, he still has not given up the plan to marry his daughter to Yu Lie, in his eyes, his daughter Fanzi is the most beautiful, and the slave lord is the most matched.
Yu Lie stared at him for a moment, and the two of them blew their beards and glared, and then cracked their mouths at the same time and laughed.
Hearty laughter drove away some of the gloom.
At this time, the third-class baron Xing Luo came up, this is a new soldier, about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a young face, he has just inherited the title of his ancestors, eager to prove his bravery to the world, however, his father Xing Tu is indeed a hero, at the source of the glacier, Yan Qixiao led the army of 100,000 Yan to surround the 150,000 horses of the king of Beidi in the Icewind Valley, the galloping chariot and iron hooves are like the iron plough of the god Haotian to punish the evil thoughts of the world, it is in the 150,000 generals, Ploughed the invincible king of Beidi bloody, and the king of Beidi ran wildly, trying to escape from the encirclement of Yan Qixi, and Icewind Valley was surrounded on three sides, and there was only one gap, that was the mouth of the wolf's tooth in the north, and the torture slaughter led 3,000 people to be stationed here.
That battle, Yu Lie still thinks back to it, and at the same time is full of silent sadness. Three thousand soldiers stationed at the mouth of the wolf's tooth did not survive, but they successfully prevented the impact of the 80,000 Di people's death, the blood stained the glacier red, the corpses piled up into mountains, most of the three thousand Yan soldiers were incomplete, as if they were tortured, when he was found, his hair was open, his eyes were round, his thighs were broken at the root, there was a broken sword in his stomach, and his blood intestines flowed all over the ground, the cold weather had condensed his blood and intestines, and the wind and snow also covered his dead face, but his two hands were holding the flagpole tightly, Hold it against it with your own body, and let it flutter over the mouth of the wolf's teeth. The ruthless Yan sighed evilly, and the three armies were silent.
Yu Lie has no friendship with Xing Tu, but he respects heroes very much, the ancient and fertile land of Zhongzhou is watered with the blood of heroes, and Xing Luo's face still has rare traces of that hero, if he grows a beard, it will be more like. Going to the fortress of the tenth day, the good luck is unknown, it is likely to be the second wolf's tooth mouth, originally Yu Lie did not plan to bring such an immature recruit, however, after knowing that he is the son of torture, the slave lord agreed. Besides, of the eight chariots that were extremely precious, three of them were brought by this recruit, and the other five were the property of Ziche Yu, and Yu Lie was too poor to have one.
"The Tiger of Yanjing, is it cold to be cold in front of Xuefeng? It is rumored to be covered with snow all year round and unbreakable. Xing Luo had a flattering smile on his face, and the younger generation of Yan people admired the Tiger of Yanjing and took the Tiger of Yanjing as an example.
Yu Lie raised his head and looked into the distance, the thick clouds rolled layer by layer, and there was a mountain peak in the place of the extreme eye, the mountain was half green and half snow-white, the snow peak fortress was built on the mountainside, it was the border fortress of the Yu country, the first generation of monarchs of the Yu country was building a fortress all his life, and a total of four heavenly moat fortresses were built, guarding the southeast and northwest respectively, these four fortresses were like powerful shields on all sides to protect the Yu country, however, Yu Lie felt that perhaps this was the reason why the Yu country was weak, and the powerful princes would not rely on the fortress to survive, For example, Dayong's Biluo Fortress is also built on a mountain cliff, but it is only a post city, and its gates are not closed all year round, and anyone can come and go freely.
Yu Lie turned his head, looked at Xing Luo fixedly, and said in a deep voice: "In the world, there will never be an unbreakable fortress, including the legendary fortress of the Ten Days that will never fall. ”
"Yes, Never Fall is a thing of the past, the fortress of Xunri was broken by Qiang Qi and given to the Xun Kingdom, and then it was broken by Dayong and returned to the Yu Kingdom. However, I think that the Snow Peak Fortress must be impregnable, you see its dangerous position, it is difficult for birds to cross, and it is difficult for chariots to reach, and it has never fallen so far. The young recruit looked into the distance, and the look on his face was eager to try.
Yu Lie ignored him, this young recruit still needs to be sharpened, sharpened by blood and fire.
"Hoof it, hoof it ......"
The sound of hurried horses' hooves sounded from the front, but no one could be seen as far as the eye could see, Yu Lie raised his hand, and the long dragon stopped, and after a while, he turned the bend in front of him and passed through the gap in the cliff. The person who came was Luo Ying, the head of Yu Lie's retainers, and when he saw him beating his horse and approaching, he said in a loud voice: "Master of the family, there are bandits blocking the road in front of you and robbing a group of scholars who have traveled around the world!" ”
"Robbing a scholar?"
Yu Lie frowned, as a qualified commander, he needed to be highly vigilant at all times when crossing such a gorge, and he sent a total of thirty light cavalry scouts, all the way forward, all the way backward, each exploring twenty miles. At this moment, Luo Ying's face was covered with sweat, the scabbard on the sword pouch was stained with blood, and even the horse under his seat was missing half of its ears, obviously encountering the enemy in front.
"Don't worry, the head of the family is only a small group of bandits, less than fifty people, and now they are all ambushed." Luo Ying spun around the horse in place, and the bloody sword bag slapped the skirt armor on his waist, making a loud noise.
Yu Lie's face sank.