99. a suspended plank road

That gorge is the same gorge that Ma Xiangru looked at last night. Everyone has already noticed there, although this basin is vast and pleasant, it does not seem to be where the dragon veins of Yanshan are located, and if you want to go deeper, you will have to pass through that narrow valley nine times out of ten. From a military point of view, it is a natural danger, very dangerous.

The two of them continued to probe further, and in the middle of the clearing, there were probably hundreds of such crypts, and the whole land was honeycomb.

Guo Wei looked at the dense crypt on the ground, frowning.

"Brother Guo, what did you think of?"

"Digging so many deep holes in the ground overnight doesn't really look like a human effort. ”

"Well, I think it's also an evil force, you were lurking in Luoyang at the beginning, didn't you hear that Li Zhu'er mention it here?"

He only mentioned the matter of the Night Wolf Guard and the Barbarian Pig Iron Guard, and he himself was a Barbarian Pig Iron Guard, which was concocted by the High Priest, that is, An Lushan's mother. ”

"Ah—then, the high priest has some means. Dugu Huan exclaimed.

"Well, I suspect that the reason why these corpses were stolen is probably because they were also used for refining. ”

"I've thought of this too, but I don't know how to talk to Lord Yan. ”

"There is no need to tell everyone about refining corpses for the time being, lest they be suspicious and afraid, but at the moment, I am afraid that these crypts will not be able to tell the truth. ”

"How?"

"This crypt was dug out with both hands, I am afraid that it was done by manipulating those corpses with evil magic, and I can't tell them directly, just say that the enemy has been prepared for a long time, and has dug tunnels underground to plan for all changes, and the enemy stole the corpses from these tunnels last night. ”

Yan Zhenqing, Ma Xiangru, and Li Hu listened to what they said, and their doubts couldn't help but be relieved.

In fact, Guo Hua's statement is not without flaws, but people always tend to believe what they think is right.

Yan Zhenqing and the others also took the opportunity of the two of them to explore and asked Orion about the situation in the valley - he had climbed the cliff with his uncle and overlooked the situation in the valley.

This Taoyuan Valley is generally gourd-shaped, the canyon is the waist of the gourd, about two miles long, and the canyon is another basin, which is more open. He was young at the time, and he was standing on the top of the mountain, and what he saw and remembered was roughly the same.

On the other side of the canyon, it should be the enemy's base camp.

The situation in the dense forest, the blue wolf king has already mastered a lot through the wolves, and it is full of dangerous traps, and the slightest carelessness will wipe out the entire army.

Now, with the Blue Wolf King leading the pack of wolves in front, these dangers can be avoided.

Orion remained with the wounded soldiers, and thirty soldiers were deployed to protect and care for the wounded, while the rest, together with pack horses and baggage, marched in the direction of the gorge.

The scene in the dense forest was astonishing, the towering trees were as thick as four or five people hugging, the old trunks were covered with vines and mosses, and the bottom was thick shrubs and grasses that could barely see the ground, and were overgrown with exotic flowers and plants.

On the trunk of a tree, a cluster of morning glories is coiled, and the flowers are the size of a large suona; several small ponds are scattered scattered in the forest, which is covered with lotus leaves, and a few lotus flowers are really like lotus platforms, which are very special and beautiful.

There were also some vines, shaped like snakes, probably sensing the movement of the intruder, and more than a dozen branches dancing wildly in the air.

Even the butterflies and dragonflies here are much larger than those outside, fluttering in the woods and ponds, and it is a paradise.

Yan Zhenqing, as a generation of famous poets and calligraphers, was naturally amazed by this magnificent scene, and his mood changed, and his face was full of pride. Even those soldiers who were rough and arrogant, in the face of such a fairyland beauty, couldn't help but let out a sigh of amazement again and again.

However, Ma Xiangru and Li Hu have always maintained their calmness and sensitivity as soldiers, pointing and pointing from time to time, where there may be a trap, where there is a wolf tooth paddle, and which tree has a yaksha on it, and they have all found out one by one.

"This blue wolf king is really magically ruthless, I don't know what it is?" Ma Xiangru turned his head and said to Li Hu.

"Yes, if it weren't for it, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to walk through this forest, maybe Guo Gongzi caught it as a pet. Of course Li Hu didn't know, and guessed at random.

"Well, too, Guo Gongzi is worthy of being a famous prodigal son in Chang'an, and his pets are different from others, look at the size of that wolf, how much meat does he have to eat a day. ”

"Well, hahahaha, we can't afford those taels of silver anyway, hey- look, there's a row of crossbows over there. ”

"See, there are more than 30 of them, and this guy can fire hundreds of crossbow arrows at a time, it's so dangerous. ”

Just as the two were talking and laughing, they suddenly looked up and found a behemoth in front of them blocking the way—at some point, the Blue Wolf King stopped and blocked the two of them.

From a distance, the wolf was too big, and when they got closer, they could really feel its strength and oppression—they could only see its chin when they looked up, and a mouth with a big head could easily swallow a donkey alive.

The Blue Wolf King let out a very threatening roar, and the wolf guards around him immediately followed suit, and Bai Sensen's fangs were more terrifying than the sharp sharp knives.

The two of them stayed there, too frightened to move.

The blue wolf king stared at the two of them tightly, and suddenly stretched out his tongue and swept it over their faces, then turned around and ran forward with a small wagging tail.

Although this kind of action will not cause any harm to Ma Xiangru and Li Hu, the barb of a tongue makes people very uncomfortable, especially the big pool of saliva, which makes the two of them seem to have washed their faces.

The saliva, the wolf's saliva, naturally doesn't smell good.

It wasn't until the wolf guards of the Blue Wolf King had run away that the two dared to move, and quickly took out the water bladder to scrub the saliva off their faces.

"Oh, they all say that you can't talk about right and wrong behind your back, and it seems that it's very risky to say that the wolf is right and wrong. Ma Xiangru wiped his face several times before he said.

"Don't say it, it must have been what we said just now, and it heard it. ”

"Yes, yes, yes, let's see where the traps have been arranged, these thieves have really made this place like a net. ”

The march lasted for more than half an hour, and the men and horses came to the mouth of the gorge.

There is an open field in front of the gorge, but it should have been a woodland before the situation, probably because the gorge is too narrow, and the rebels have leveled a clearing here in order to facilitate the entry and exit, so that the blocked men and horses can rest here.

Yan Zhenqing motioned for the soldiers and horses to stop, and brought Ma Xiangru, Guo Hua and others to the back of a bush to carefully investigate the enemy's defensive deployment.

The open space is only made of earth and stone, and there are no special buildings on it.

On the cliff wall up the open space, a plank road and an arrow tower are erected suspended in the air, and soldiers holding crossbows stand on the plank road and arrow tower at three steps and five steps.

Looking down, a checkpoint was built at the mouth of the gorge, with more than a dozen soldiers lined up on both sides of the checkpoint.

However, what is really dangerous is the plank road and fortifications erected in the middle of the canyon, which seem to run through the entire valley. There are a lot of troops deployed on it, mainly crossbowmen, rolling logs, thunder stones, bamboo nail fences, etc., which are clearly visible.

The plank road and arrow tower on the outer cliff wall can be defeated with the Moon Attack Crossbow, but the fortifications in the middle of the canyon cannot be broken at all, this canyon is very narrow, and it can only allow two or three people to walk side by side, and the entire valley is full of fortifications in the air, and the Moon Attack Crossbow cannot play its due power at all.

Yan Zhenqing's face was sad.

"My lord, why don't you attack with fire?" Ma Xiangru suggested.

"That's right, I used the moon crossbow to hit the fire crossbow, and Guan Bao burned his company camp. Li Hu seconded.

"If you look closely, although the arrow towers hanging on the rock wall are connected by wooden plank roads, there is a gap between each section of the plank road, which is made into a soft ladder, if an arrow tower catches fire, the enemy can cut the soft ladder, and the fire can be stopped, and those plank roads in the valley must be the same. Of course, the most important thing is that it is densely wooded, and if there is a fire, not to mention the rebels, even we may have to be wiped out. ”

"If that's the case, then we can't get through this canyon?" said Ma Xiangru Geng.

Yan Zhenqing looked at Ma Xiangru and silently answered.

What Ma Xiangru said is the truth, and at present, it is impossible to cross this natural risk. Although Yan Zhenqing is a civil official, he also understands the truth of life and death with the soldiers, and he must not joke with the lives of his brothers. However, the military order is difficult to disobey, how to get over?

Guo Yu gave Dugu Huan a look - although Yan Zhenqing and his soldiers practiced Confucianism and did not like strange forces, but only for them to see the power of strange forces and gods, the two decided not to keep it anymore.

Guo Yu and Dugu Huan immediately asked Yan Zhenqing to go to war and broke the suspended plank road.

Yan Zhenqing and the three of them were immediately stunned, and before they could react, the two of them had already swept away and floated out for several feet, rushing to the plank road on both sides.

"Good kung fu!" the three of them lowered their voices.

The rebels had already taken precautions, and as soon as Guo Yu and the others appeared, they heard the horn blowing on the hanging arrow tower, and then a rain of arrows swooped down.

I can't imagine that the rebels stationed here are so well-trained.

The rain of arrows was as fast as a wind, but the speed of the two was faster, and the people in the dense forest almost couldn't believe their eyes, watching the black arrows flying all over the sky and smashing into the two, Guo Hua and Dugu Huan just flashed, and they had already fallen below the cliff.

Before the defenders on the arrow tower could react, they had already turned over and landed on the plank road, breaking the necks of the two defenders and throwing off the cliff.

Dugu Huan couldn't bear the blood of the Liangyi knife, so he took another steel knife, and saw the two of them jumping through the plank road arrow tower like a snake, but in the blink of an eye, they killed more than 100 defenders.

The rebels in the valley knew that someone had gone up the plank road, and they rushed over in a steady stream.

Guo Hua and Dugu Huan found that the enemy's reinforcements were constantly chasing and killing, so they simply cut off the iron cable connecting the plank road, and the plank road arrow tower on the outer cliff wall suddenly lost its support and fell down one after another.