Chapter 269: The Secret Ladder

Lai Qiang thought about it, suddenly patted Song Qi's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Song Qi, didn't you say that you also want to surrender to General Quan." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info If you can keep your subordinates from chasing us, I will believe you! Otherwise, I'll have to tell them that you're going to surrender!" ”

"That's fine, at least now I'm still a vanguard general, and they still listen to me." Song Qi's footsteps froze, and when he looked back, he saw that Diandian led hundreds of soldiers to chase after him in a hurry.

Song Qi shook his hand at Diandian and said in a loud voice: "Deputy General Dian, General Lai and I are inspecting the defense situation on the city wall. Do not come with you. ”

Diandian didn't stop, and continued to run, saying as he ran: "General Song, Lai Qu and the others killed General Miao, they are going to rebel, don't fall for him." ”

Song Qi frowned and glared at Lai Qiang, but in the next moment, he took his eyes off Lai Qiang's face, and said coldly: "You killed General Miao?" Now they're afraid they won't listen to me! ”

Qu Yi suddenly asked, "What should I do now?" ”

"What to do? Cold! Lai Qiang's eyes showed a hint of murderous aura, he showed the sword that had been hidden in the cloak, brushed the ground and rested on Song Qi's neck, and shouted to Diandian: "Stop!" Otherwise, I'll kill him! ”

"Yes, stop. One more step forward, and I'll kill Song Qi! Qu Yimao also drew a gourd in the same way, and rested the sword on Song Qi's neck.

Diandian's footsteps stopped suddenly, he waved his hand to this side, and said loudly: "Lai Qiang, Qu Yimao, what can you say well, there is no need to use a knife and a gun!" ”

Lai Qiang sneered: "I don't have anything to tell you. Don't chase us! ”

Diandian pointed his sword at Lai Qiang, his voice was a little hoarse, "If you put General Song down, we won't chase you!" ”

Song Qi Diandian waved his hand and said loudly: "Vice General, I'm very good, they won't do anything to me!" You don't have to come along. ”

Qu Yimao said in a loud voice: "Yes, we won't do anything to Song Qi." Because he also votes ... ”

Lai Qiang covered Qu Yimao's mouth and reproached in a low voice: "If this matter is said, Song Qi will not be able to be a hostage!" If he can't be a hostage, we won't be able to get out of here! ”

Qu Yimao nodded hurriedly and blamed himself: "Yes, yes, how did I forget about this stubble." ”

Song Qi pursed his lips and smiled, and praised Lai Qiang: "It's better for General Lai to be smarter." If they knew that I was going to defect to the general, we wouldn't be able to get out! ”

Lai Qiang glared at Song Qi, "Don't think I believe your words. I just think that you can't let the lieutenant general know about your surrender, whether it is fake or not, otherwise you won't be our hostage. I won't be able to take your word for it until we're safe here!" ”

Song Qi nodded.

Lai Qiang and Qu Yimao, one left and one right, carried Song Qi with their swords and walked towards the side of the mountain.

Diandian and the others in the back also began to move, and followed without hurry.

Lai Qiang shook his sword back and shouted, "You come with me and try it again!" ”

The people behind stopped abruptly again.

When the person in front moves, the one behind also moves, and the one in front stops, and the one behind stops. Anyway, it is like a shadow, and the distance between the front and back is always about a hundred steps.

A moment later, the people in front had already walked halfway up the mountain. The walls ended here, and a tall, straight cliff blocked their way.

The cliff is as high as a hundred feet, as smooth as if it had been cut out with a ghost axe. At the top of the cliff, the gray wall stood again, echoing this side in the distance, as if it had not been interrupted, but was only covered by the cliff like a blanket in the middle.

In front of such a steep cliff, no one would have thought that there was a hidden way up the mountain.

There is a step up and down the city wall. Lai Qiang and Qu Yi pushed Song Qi to step down, turned a corner, and a two-foot-wide road composed of artificial stone steps and natural steps suddenly erected in front of them, disappearing in the middle of the cliff.

The road is hidden between the creases of two cliffs, and it is impossible to find it until you get closer.

Qu Yi suddenly saw the look of surprise in Song Qi's eyes, laughed dryly, and explained: "This is the passage for our mountaintop garrison to go up and down the mountain, which is called the Secret Ladder. Outsiders can't find out. ”

Song Qi nodded silently.

"General Qu, you go first!" Lai Qiang glanced at Qu Yimao like a dead fish, and then glared at Song Qi and said, "You are in the middle." Don't make any small moves with us on the way, or I'll grab you by the foot and bring you down!" Smashed you to pieces at that time! ”

Song Qi nodded and climbed the ladder behind Qu Yimao. The steepness of this ladder is almost eighty degrees, and when you stand on the stone steps, your nose almost touches the stone wall, and when you raise your head, you can only see the soles of the feet of the people in front of you. Luckily, there are ropes on both sides as handrails, so it's not dangerous.

Lai Qiang and several soldiers followed, and the top of his head and the soles of Song Qi's feet always maintained a step distance.

For the average person, the ladder is steep and narrow, making it difficult to walk. But for Song Qilai, who climbed the cliff with his bare hands, it is equivalent to going up and down the stairs at home, which is quite easy. If Qu Yi hadn't climbed above his head, he could have climbed to the top of the mountain in one bite.

At this moment, if Song Qi grabbed Qu Yimao's ankle and pulled him down, then he could easily climb to the front. Lai Qiang in the back couldn't catch up with him at all. And he can also kick Lai Qiang down.

On this narrow and steep mountain road, Lai Qiang's sword could not be unleashed at all.

But he didn't. With his head down, he was sandwiched between Qu Yimao and Lai Qiang, and continued to climb upward.

When they climbed to a height of more than ten zhang, Diandian and his soldiers had already chased to the foot of the mountain.

"Block me!" Lai Qiang shouted to the soldiers below.

"Yes!" The soldiers agreed, pulled out their weapons, and stopped in the middle.

Because in this steep and narrow crevice, the sword in their hands could not be used at all. They can only stand in the way with their bodies.

At this point, if you shoot arrows from below, you can easily shoot down people attached to the cliff. It's just that they came in too much hurry and didn't bring arrows. So they can only climb the stone steps and attack upwards.

Dou Qing climbed the first, maybe he wanted to make meritorious contributions. He knew in his heart that if he couldn't catch Lai Qiang and rescue General Song, what was waiting for him would be severe military law, and maybe even beheading.

War year crawled in the second, he was out of anger and hatred. Although he was dissatisfied with Miao Feng's surrender in his heart, Miao Feng was his general after all, and he had the grace to promote him in the past, but he didn't expect to die in the hands of a rebel like Lai Qiang, and he wanted to find Lai Qiang to avenge this revenge.

The two people scrambled to climb up, their bodies were very light, and the speed of climbing was quite fast, and it didn't take long for them to catch up with the rebels behind them, and pulled several rebels who were crawling behind them from the cliff down the mountain, making a terrifying sound of ghosts crying wolves.

Lai Qiangqu heard the terrifying screams coming from below, panicked, and hurriedly accelerated the speed of climbing. As long as he climbed to the top of the mountain, he was safe. There are piles of rolling logs on the top of the mountain, just roll a few of the rolling stones down the stone steps, and these people attached to the stone steps will finish playing.

In just one meal, Qu Yimao climbed to the top of the mountain first, and then, Song Qi's feet also disappeared from Lai Qiang's sight.

Lai Qiang climbed a few steps, reached out and grabbed a wooden stake on the top of the mountain, his face just emerged from the flat ground on the top of the mountain, he saw a black sole plate dangling in front of his eyes, so frightened that he almost fell off the cliff... (To be continued.) )