85, the Valley of Demon Mist

After several waves of attack, the walls and plank roads collapsed one after another, and the rebels who had no time to dodge were crushed into the pile of wood one by one, like papier-mâché dummies, their bodies twisted and deformed, and their faces were covered with blood.

Most of the log walls had been destroyed, and the rebels who had survived had crowded into the walled city.

They had never seen such an offensive before, and they were so frightened that they trembled with fear, and fear gradually made them vulnerable.

Destroying and decaying, under the tremendous power of the Moon-Shattering Crossbow, the rebel walled city was beaten to pieces, with heavy casualties.

The remaining rebels gathered inside the walled city, panicked, like a herd of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Some began to climb over the crumbling walls, crawling out of the dangerous ruins, throwing away their weapons and armor as they went.

More than 100 enemy soldiers surrendered, and they raised their hands in their heights, constantly wailing and begging for mercy, and stumbled towards this side.

Some cold arrows were shot out of the middle of nowhere, and several soldiers suddenly fell to the ground, and the surrendered soldiers were like ducks being driven, not caring about the bleeding from their wounds, running and shouting frantically.

"General, spare your life. ”

"Surrender, we surrendered. ”

Yan Zhenqing clenched his fists and motioned for the crossbowman to stop.

At this moment, a black smoke gradually rose from the walled city, and it was the wolf smoke of the news—the battle must be accelerated.

"My lord, is it—" The herald asked as he attached himself to Yan Zhenqing's horse.

"No, wait for those soldiers to come and say, it's too late. ”

Most of those soldiers were injured, coupled with the cold arrows behind them, some of them kept falling, rolling a few steps on the ground, and then quickly supported themselves to get up, and continued to run, a distance of more than a thousand steps, like a lifetime.

The herald didn't speak again, but his nerves tensed, and cold sweat oozed from his cheeks.

Fan Yang is the nest of the rebels, and if the enemy's reinforcements come, his thousand people will not be an opponent at all.

Maybe it's a message to the mountains, but it will be even worse, the enemy is on guard, and I don't know what kind of danger there will be.

"Rain meteors, prepare. Yan Zhenqing showed it and ordered the crossbowman to prepare the rain meteor, and the driver was on standby.

Tianyu Meteor, this name is very special, Dugu Huan thought to himself, and once again stared at the soldier who was in charge of loading **.

Yan Zhenqing is a very creative and creative person, in these years of exploration of the moon crossbow, through the transformation of **, many different uses have been created, and many different tactical skills have also been produced.

The most important feature of the carpenter's precision ** is that the gun is straight, hard and heavy, but it is difficult to find such a wooden pole in the north.

Moreover, although the Moon Attack Crossbow is amazingly powerful and has outstanding advantages, the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, it cannot form a dense range attack like a small crossbow machine, and the gun pierces a line, but once it is dodged by the enemy or deflected by strong winds, it is a valuable opportunity wasted.

"Anyway, those ordinary ** are very light, so it's better to tie some arrow shafts on them to increase the killing range. ”

After several experiments, Yan Zhenqing finally perfected his idea, putting a section of bamboo barrel on the front end of some light gun barrels, drilling dense small holes in the bamboo barrels, and loading some special crossbow nails more than half a foot long into those holes.

The entire Tianyu Meteor Crossbow looks like a mace, but all the "wolf teeth" are concentrated forward.

Each Celestial Rain Meteor Crossbow can be loaded with fifty spikes, and ten Celestial Rain Meteor Crossbows will have a full 500 spikes, and when the big crossbow flies over the enemy, the spikes burst out, which can form a fairly dense range of attacks.

Yan Zhenqing watched closely at the troops running towards him, estimating their safe distance.

Nine hundred steps.

Eight hundred steps.

The last few soldiers who tried to escape from the city were also killed by cold arrows from the shadows.

Seven hundred steps.

Six hundred steps.

The wolf smoke of the enemy has risen to the sky.

The cold sweat on the herald's forehead had gathered like a bean, dripping down his cheeks, and he stared at Yan Zhenqing's face intently.

As soon as the adult has a look, he will immediately give the command to release the arrow.

Five hundred steps.

Four hundred steps.

"Put-"

This word finally squeezed out of the corner of Yan Zhenqing's mouth, and the herald cheered and played the flag.

"Divine crossbow—"

"Divine crossbow—"

"Again—"

The rebels in the walled city once again heard the whistling sound of the ** moon crossbow, just like the frightened bird was in chaos again.

Round shields, wooden pillars, earthen walls, these things are like paper paste in front of the crossbow, useless, useless, useless, nothing can stop the ** crossbow, no.

It's just chaos. Fear.

The scar on the guard's face, from the sideburns to the corners of his lips, looked even more hideous, he clenched his teeth, his eyes twisted into a slit, and looked up—the wolf smoke had risen very high, and a grim smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

** Suddenly burst in the sky above the walled city, and the crossbow nails splashed, intertwined into a dense rain of arrows, overwhelmingly pressed down.

Poof-

Poof-

Poof-

Poof-

......

After the sound of sharp arrows piercing through flesh, the restless rebels finally calmed down, and one by one they were covered with crossbow nails, nailed to pillars, nailed to walls, planted on stairs, and nailed to the ground.

The stubborn defender seemed to be the last to fall, only to be hit by more arrows.

There was silence in the walled city.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Yan Zhenqing ordered five more Tianyu meteors to be released. This valley mouth is only the first step, and there is no definite information on how far it is from the real destination and how many obstacles there are on the way. You can't afford to lose anything here.

Yan Zhenqing looked out of the valley behind him, as if he was worried about the enemy's reinforcements.

Ma Xiangru found a fire commander in the surrender and brought it to Yan Zhenqing, who said that there would be no reinforcements from outside here, and the wolf smoke was just a warning to the people in the mountains.

"Are you sure?" Yan Zhenqing emphasized.

The soldier thought for a while and nodded vigorously: "The villain is sure that our team is originally the emperor-ah, no, no, phew, it is the secret guard of An Lushan's mother and son, and for so many years, they have been following the dispatch of the high priest, that is, An Lushan's mother, and the other teams don't seem to know about our existence." ”

Yan Zhenqing was overjoyed when she heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Then have you been in the mountains?"

"No, no, no, I don't dare to lie to the adults, the villain's team has never been in the mountains. The surrendered fire captain quickly shook his head in denial.

Yan Zhenqing's face was full of surprise, and he looked a little disappointed: "Have you been here before, or have you never been there?"

"I've never been there, it's the rule. The fire chief didn't know what to say in order to convince the chief, so he just looked at Yan Zhenqing with blank eyes.

Yan Zhenqing naturally didn't want to give up this hope - if there was intelligence in the mountains, things would naturally go much smoother, and it would greatly reduce his own casualties - so he asked people to ask if anyone had followed the high priest into the mountains, and they all shook their heads and denied it.

Huo Chang grinned and squinted at it, and then turned his face to look at Yan Zhenqing: "Don't bother, what the villain says is the truth, there seems to be a big secret in this mountain, the villain has been in this team for five years, listening to the veteran, An Lushan formed this army more than ten years ago, and it was secretly stationed in a valley in Yanshan."

In the past, it was only to escort the high priest into the mountain, and even when escorting, there were rules for which team could enter, and our team could only be sent to this valley mouth. Two years ago, we started to stay here for a long time, and we are responsible for guarding this valley mouth. ”

"What's so secret?"

"The villain doesn't know that it is strictly forbidden to discuss things in the mountains in the army, and the various detachments do not interact with each other. ”

"Do you know anything about the situation in this valley, for example, what's so weird?"

"Well—my lord, you mean to go further inside, the demon mist there, right?"

Huo Chang stared at Yan Zhenqing in surprise, and when he mentioned the demon mist, a wave of unconcealable fear crept up on his face.

Matching Shi Siming's information, Yan Zhenqing smiled and asked again: "Demon fog, hahaha, what the hell is it? If there are really monsters in there, how can you still be stationed here?"

"What it is, the small, the small is not clear, and the rules were laid at the beginning, and it was absolutely not allowed to enter unless it was ordered by the high priest and led by an oracle. ”

"You've never been in?"

"Last year, last year, a few brave people went in and never came back. ”

Yan Zhenqing interrogated, and felt that he couldn't ask anything anymore, so he led everyone into the walled city.

There was only one corpse lying on the ground in the walled city, and there was hardly a convenient place to stay, so the vanguard had to temporarily pile up the corpses aside and clear the road.

** More than a dozen rebels were found in the cellar, their weapons were seized, and they were tied to the surrendered soldiers, and a total of more than 150 people were captured.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the brothers of the Haoran Battalion and the Zhengqi Battalion carefully searched the enemy's camp, and the weapons, baggage, grain and grass were all counted in the book.

Yan Zhenqing ordered Li Hu to lead 200 soldiers to stay and garrison, in addition to guarding the prisoners, but also to guard against reinforcements outside the mountain, and at the same time to deal with the troops in depth.

Except for pack horses, who were good at climbing and used to transport grain and grass, the rest of the horses were left in the walled city, and everyone had to go into the mountains on foot. The Moon Attack crossbow left eight and only two into the mountain.

It took about a stick of incense to complete the rest and recuperation of the troops entering the mountain, and they tried their best to be as foolproof as possible.

Less than a quarter of an hour away. From getting up in the morning to occupying the enemy's military fortress, it was less than an hour. The battle went smoothly, and the morale of the soldiers was high and they were full of confidence.

After the military village leads to the valley, there is a walled gate, through the walled gate at a glance to see a deep valley, the visual view has to be more than ten miles away.

"The Valley of Demon Mist you are talking about, this is it?"

Entering the valley, Yan Zhenqing couldn't help but ask the fire chief who was the new guide around him when he saw that the grass and trees were flourishing and the fragrant flowers were everywhere in the depths of the valley.