Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Battle of the Black Ridge Cliff I

The Black Ridge Cliff in Black Ridge Mountain is the same as last time, and there is a rope bridge floating on the cliff. [Ran^Text^Library] [ ] On both sides of the cliff straight down is the main road, the long waterway. It was clean, there were no weeds, and there was not a trace of green on the entire cliff, but there were rocks, and occasionally huge boulders burst out.

Looking at the height of more than 200 meters, the people and horses at the bottom of the cliff look like small insects. Such a high distance is enough to make the bow and arrow shot at the bottom of the cliff lose its strength, not to mention that the wind blows in the cliff all day long, even if there is a person with superior arm strength, the arrow has long been blown by the wind and loses its accuracy, but falls down, hurting his own family and horses.

The sneak attack on the cliff seems to take advantage of the fact that it is not the case, because it is too high, whether it is throwing stones or shooting arrows, it is difficult to accurately hit the target, and when it falls, the enemy at the bottom of the cliff has already dodged. And although this section of the Black Ridge Cliff is a dangerous place, the front and back are not less than 100 meters long, if it is attacked, throw off your legs and run, anyway, the hit rate is not high, in case it is hit, only when the time comes, the king of Hades will accept people.

So whether the defender wants to or not, you have to build a level at the bottom of the cliff. However, it is difficult to build a level, and a level is not as simple as making a wall, and there are many supporting facilities. Women's walls, railings, barracks, beacons, and dock forts are all indispensable.

The cost of stone, wood, and soil is even more huge, and the construction of the pass is in a dangerous place, the wall is good, and the lookout on the Black Ridge Cliff is simply extremely difficult, and because of the rugged road, the transportation required is even more expensive.

Although hundreds of people from Heiling Village are familiar with the nearby environment and roads, they have accelerated their speed, but this pass cannot be built overnight. Wuyun City regards itself as where its interests lie, and the humiliation of the last defeat is still there, so it is natural that it will never sit idly by and watch the construction of the new Changshui Pass complete. Sooner or later, the army of dark clouds will surely rush in! From the east of Changshui Pass is a smooth road, at that time, the Feiyun Iron Army will not be able to resist the iron cavalry army of the Dark Cloud City, and the three cities of Feiyun will be trampled by the iron cavalry!

Li Jing had more than 4,000 people, and before he had fully recruited, he hurriedly mobilized materials to build a pass. Due to the fact that many men in the nearby area had already joined the army, there was a shortage of people, so more than 2,000 soldiers had to be transferred to work as construction workers and transport workers.

At this time, it was already July, the weather was unusually hot, and the heat wave up and down the Black Ridge Cliff was rolling, which made it impossible to stop people and the construction could not be carried out. Li Jing's original intention was to look at the soldiers and people pitiful, and wanted to rest during the day, and then build at night and in the early morning when it was a little cooler. But the time is pressing, no one knows when the dark cloud city will be killed, this proposal was collectively opposed by Wang Gou'er and Chang Haoxue, Shan Daxia and others, in order to show that people will win the day, but also personally go up to take the lead and resist the mud.

I didn't expect that there was no shelter up and down this Black Ridge Cliff, the noon sun was so poisonous that even the mud could not be mixed, the water was poured and dried, and what was even more terrifying was that the wind in the cliff would sometimes blow from top to bottom on the construction site. In the past, everyone felt that the wind was extremely cool, and they were willing to walk a few more miles while they were in the limelight, but the wind at this time was simply a foehn wind, and the grass and trees at the bottom of the cliff were blown away, and the people and horses stood in it, which was simply a prickly prickly heat.

This kind of weather is evidenced by poetry: the heat exposes everything, and everything cannot escape. Those who are dry want to get out of the fire, and those who are liquid want to flow the ointment. The birds hate their feathers, and the beasts hate their feathers. People are also afraid of the shackles, and the situation is to wear crowned robes. Although the vast building is cloudy, the wind does not move. I don't know how to change between the forests and springs. Flies and mosquitoes are more day and night, and the skin is sleepy and crawling. Four prelude iterations, there will be high autumn weather.

At this time, the brothers who had just become the generals of the cavalry were embarrassed to try to take people to the construction site under the sun, and they all stayed honestly in the woods on the Black Ridge Mountain during the day, and at night they led their teams up for a few hours before going to sleep, and in the morning they drove their men up, and they were very hard.

In this way, after a little and a half moon, Li Jing and Yun Changtian were leading the soldiers to drill in the woods everywhere, and other people and workers were watching with a smile on the side. Yun Changtian was born in Wuyunmen, but he was actually not good at military formations, although Li Jing had been in the Central Forbidden Army for several years, he had only served as the captain of the scout battalion, and he was also vague about the army formation. However, fortunately, there are not many soldiers under his command, and the space is limited, and they only teach and train basic troops, recognize various flags and orders, and teach military discipline and various basic weapons.

However, these soldiers are basically new recruits, and the only 700-odd veterans are themselves undertrained. Most of the old soldiers in the Eighth Capital are selling vegetables all day long, and they have not been trained for many years, and the soldiers from Heiling Village are basically more than brave individuals, but they are loosely organized, do not listen to orders, and do not know how to cooperate. And the recruits are even more unbearable, and even the guns are reversed.

That Meng Ersil is also a fiery temper, although the quality of the soldiers is extremely low, basically equal to nothing, but it can be forgiven, but many soldiers are lazy, after practicing twice, they feel that it is just so, and they want to go back to sleep. provoked Meng Er to beat the butts of more than 20 people in the morning.

Chang Haoxue had just become a military judge in charge of military discipline, and he wanted to be a strict law enforcer, but there were too many people who had broken the law, and even a few of his soldiers had violated military law.

In the past, the army and new recruits had a few months of adaptation, but now is an extraordinary time, and they have to do things urgently. And Chang Haoxue had no choice but to follow the power in a hurry, often saying that you are a first offender, and you will be punished lightly, or you will not be an example, but he remembers that he has said to the three soldiers no less than four times that he is a first offense, and he has said no less than eight times to the six soldiers that he is not an example. Even if you really can't escape, it's just a cane sentence, and it's often the soldiers of the military justice department who have also broken the law. And confinement, punishment and non-food, although the effect is better, but it can't be used at all, the reasons of the officers everywhere are very clear, the matter is urgent, and they have to be pulled to training, how to train after confinement? How can you run without food?

But it seems that the weather is so hot today that even the woods don't seem to be able to stay still. Li Jing and Yun Changtian trained for a while, and felt that they couldn't bear it, so they simply disbanded and went to escape the summer except for the necessary scouts and heralds. As if they had been pardoned, the soldiers scattered shoulder to shoulder, and went to sleep in groups from east to west.

However, when there is an abnormality, often he has something abnormal!

Li Jing and Yun Changtian were discussing the matter of building a pass in the military tent, and suddenly saw Wang Gou'er running over with a small soldier, and as soon as he ran into the tent, the small soldier could no longer support it and fainted.

Wang Gou'er's face turned pale, and he panted and said, "Oh no, no, Dark Cloud City has attacked!" ”

The lookout platform on the Black Ridge Cliff was only built more than two meters, and Li Jing climbed up cautiously, and when he looked at it, he saw a yellow crowd faintly visible on the long water road in the distance.

Chang Haoxue: "We haven't skimmed the eight characters at the pass yet, how can we resist it now!" ”

Meng Erdu: "There are still a lot of things to care about now?" I had to bring people to block the mouth, and kill one by one! ”

Wang Gou'er: "Second fool, you are stupid again, there are more than 10,000 people from this dark cloud army, and our brothers are all recruits, where is the opponent!" ”

Meng Ersil: "Then what should I do?" Do you want to let the Dark Cloud Army in? At that time, you will wait to be killed all the way to the old pass, and the more than 4,000 brothers under your command do not know how many will survive! ”

Yun Changtian waved his sleeves and wiped his sweat hard, but as soon as he finished wiping it, he had to wipe another layer of sweat, so he had to wipe it again, but where to wipe it clean, he had to ignore it, and while trying to look forward, he said: "Don't quarrel first, this pass is not something that can be given up casually, of course, fighting here is almost like sending it to death!" ”

On the one hand, the mountain hero, who had been bored for a long time and didn't speak, stood under the lookout to enjoy the cool, looked at the few people above who were not afraid of the heat, admired, and heard them arguing about the strategy of the war, and it seemed that there was nothing to do, and it seemed that he would not come down immediately, but he couldn't stand the heat, so he muttered: "In my opinion, they shouldn't be able to stand it on such a hot day!" ”

Li Jing heard the words of the mountain hero, seemed to think of something, untied the soft armor on his body a little, took a battle robe and wiped the sweat on his head back and forth a few times before he breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned around and asked, "Old Shan, what did you just say?" ”

The mountain hero also said casually, where will he remember, and when he heard Li Jingyi ask, he paused for a moment and returned: "What?" What did I say? ”

Li Jing didn't hear the answer, he was so hot that he rushed, "Think about it, what did you just say?" ”

The mountain hero lowered his head, stared at the sand on the ground, looked at it, and said, "Oh, I said, they can't stand it either." ”

"What about the previous sentence?"

"Oh my god it's so hot!"

Li Jing smiled slightly when he heard this, as if he thought of something, he couldn't care about sweating, and said with a smile: "I have a trick!" ”

The pass site below the Black Ridge Cliff was originally full of stones, wood, dirt, and scaffolding. Now I see that most of the timber has been moved, or put on both sides or directly out of the gate. There is a fence at the current pass, and from here on, there are several fences every few dozen steps, and there are not many guards at each fence, only a hundred, each looking at the thousands of dark cloud troops.

This time, Wu Liu'er, the general of the Dark Cloud Army, is a member of the Dark Cloud City Lord's family, because after the last Battle of Changshui Pass, the veteran forces of the Dark Cloud City were suppressed a little, and it happened that he was the nephew of the city lord, and as the star of the junior of the Dark Cloud City, he became the general of the former army.

Since he led the army, he has looked down on this Li Rijing at all, and when he heard that Li Rijing changed his name to Li Jing, he also disagreed, and kept saying to his henchmen that people have changed their names and become powerful, and hitting luck is hitting luck! Wu Liu'er is comparable to those timid old things!

Therefore, this time, I heard that Li Jing actually led people out of Changshui Pass to prepare for the construction of the pass in Heiling Cliff, and I was very happy in my heart. On the field, flat and unobstructed, there is a pass built in a hurry! Therefore, he hurriedly applied to the general of the unified army to urgently march to avoid this Black Ridge Cliff, first, to seize the dangerous land, annihilate this new military general of Feiyun City, so as to open the way for the rear team, and secondly, to compare which is more powerful than the rising star of Wuyun City and the new military general of Feiyun City, Sanma is purely selfish, and he wants to use this military exploit to slap the faces of those veterans of Wuyun City, and prove in front of the city lord's uncle that those old people are old, and young people are the backbone of the army!

In fact, there are only more than 5,000 people in his hands, and I heard that Li Jing has more than 4,000 people, but in order to be safe, so as not to make mistakes and lose face, he will play more banners, extend the team, and send more people to investigate around, so as to pretend that he has tens of thousands of people under his command to intimidate Li Jing, hoping to scare the other party away. As long as Li Jing is unstable and retreats a few miles, he will move straight forward, and along the way, the field battle is not the opponent of this dark cloud elite under his command! This trick did succeed in evading Wang Gou'er's scouts. However, they were pressured by Li Jing and Yun Changtian! This made Wu Liuer not expect.

However, seeing these obviously hastily built fences and panicked soldiers, Wu Liu'er felt that this Li Jing was really a child's play. If he concentrates all the troops in his hands to defend the pass, he may have to take so many twists and turns, but he actually arranges his troops like this, it seems that even if this Li Jing does have some kung fu, but when it comes to being the general of an army, he is still a little tender!

Wu Liu'er laughed and made a move with his left hand. The herald next to him comprehended, took out the flag and beckoned to the wind, today the wind is a headwind, blowing the flag swinging left and right, so that the archers behind can see very clearly. Then the commander of the archers was heard shouting: "Archers forward, stop, first row ready, shoot, second row, shoot ————"

Then I saw that the archers, dressed in simple sleeveless soft armor, bent their bows and arrows according to the order, and shot them in rows. The soldiers who stayed in the fence were so hot that they didn't cover it at all, but suddenly they saw that the enemy soldiers on the opposite side were about to shoot arrows, and before they could send out the arrows, they ran backwards, and the guards who were several fences in front of them saw that they were running in front of them.

The scene of more than 600 people fleeing collectively made the dark cloud army collectively laugh. Even Li Jing and the others couldn't help but shake their heads, this was also too fast, they ran away before they could get their support, and they didn't know how to block it with the wooden shield in their hands, obviously the officers had taught it several times, and they forgot it all when they were frightened by the enemy.

Wu Liu'er laughed, the henchmen around him had wanted to laugh for a long time, but when he saw the main general laughing, he let go of his throat and laughed. Indeed, the Feiyun Army on the opposite side is really running faster than a rabbit, this kind of person is actually a soldier, it is really a shame for a soldier, then, this shame will be eradicated by the proud Wuyun Army in the military world!

I saw that many dark cloud troops did not wait for orders, and took the initiative to tear down the fence and kill them. Officers at all levels wanted to stop it, but it was so hot, if they could end the battle early, they would have a rest, and there was really no danger in looking at it, and the chief general didn't seem to have any opinions.

Wu Liu'er's face was slightly happy, and he watched lightly as his soldiers ran in to chase and kill the Feiyun soldiers. A general next to him said: "General, the enemy army broke up so easily, could it be a trick to lure the enemy?" And the soldiers rushed into the assault, and there was no team at all, I am afraid that there would be danger! ”

Wu Liu'er looked back at this general, this person is a veteran sent by the city lord's uncle to assist him, however, this person likes to ramble the most, Wu Liu'er replied: "Uncle Wang don't worry, you see where those Feiyun Army have fighting spirit, maybe that Li Rijing Xiao'er has already taken the lead in escaping." Uncle Wang, don't say more, I will immediately send troops to expand the results of the battle, and strive to capture the Black Ridge Cliff as soon as possible, so that the soldiers can have a good rest. The rapid march on such a hot day also made them suffer! ”(.)