The fog shrouded the field, and the Tartar soldiers really didn't see the traces of Song Nan and the others, but Song Nan himself was also like headless flies, but they vaguely remembered the direction to the east, and at this moment, only going east and going against the path of the Tartar soldiers was the best route, as for whether another team of Tartar soldiers would suddenly appear in front, there was no way to know.

couldn't do the tea effort, and suddenly Ye Fanggu, who was exploring the road ahead, let out a low voice, and her vague back stopped in front. Song Nan hurriedly asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”

Ye Fanggu turned her head and said in a low voice: "Husband, there is no way here." ”

Everyone helped each other to step forward, and although the visibility was extremely poor, they could still see that there was a cliff in front of them, and the black hole was bottomless. Although this mountain is not high, it is about 200 meters above sea level, and even if the cliff at the top of the mountain has a drop of more than ten meters, it is enough to block the way.

Song Nan understood that such a terrain was the result of the Tartars' deliberate choice, the Condor cannon was erected with its back against the cliff, and there was only one road leading to the top of the mountain in front, and it was guarded by thousands of soldiers and horses, so he could sit back and relax; If the Tartars really think so, I'm afraid this cliff will not be easy to climb.

Song Nan's worries were verified, and after dropping a few large stones, he knew that the cliff was unfathomable after listening to the sound of the stones rolling down quickly and crashing and shattering for a long time. Ye Fanggu checked back and forth more than a hundred steps left and right, and found that this cliff stretched to the north and south, and she didn't know where the end was. At this moment, there is no time to go north and south, bypassing this cliff. Because the Tartar soldiers and horses knew that the Ming army was alive, they had already searched slowly in a fan shape, and after a short time, they could net everyone into it like a net.

Wang Yong hung on Song Nan's shoulder, his broken legs and feet were completely useless, and the many wounds on his body were bleeding out before they had time to be bandaged, he gasped and said, "My lord...... You and the lightly injured brothers go first, you can walk one by one, although the cliff is high, but it is no problem to climb down, with a few of us seriously injured, it is impossible to escape no matter what. ”

"Yes, my lord, you go first, we still have the fire gun in hand, and we will kill hundreds of Tartar soldiers if we say anything, and then we will jump off the cliff and die for the country, and after the adults get out, defeat the Tartars, remember to come and wait for me to collect the bones and bury them." I've entrusted the adults to take care of my family......" The guards also said, although they didn't want to die here, they knew that this qiē was unavoidable.

Song Nan gritted his teeth and reprimanded: "What did you say, how could I leave you behind, Wang Yong, if you say such things again, the relationship between us will be cut in two, and you will be what kind of person I am." ”

Wang Yong knelt on the ground and shouted: "My lord, now is not the time to be emotional, I can die, you can't die, let alone be captured by the Tartars." This is also for the sake of the overall situation, after dawn, a fierce battle is about to begin, this may be the last battle that will affect the entire war situation, please don't be swayed by personal feelings. ”

"Yes, my lord, please take my brothers and go quickly." A group of immobile guards lay on the ground and pleaded.

Song Nan scolded angrily: "Shut up, let me be quiet and think of a way." ”

Wang Yong said: "Adults don't have to think about it, the shape is like this, we will accept our fate......"

Song Nan ignored him, leaned out and looked under the cliff, the smoke and dust dispersed a lot, although he couldn't see the situation below clearly in the glimmer of the morning light, he could vaguely see the trees growing between the cliffs.

Song Nan immediately ordered: "Untie all your belts." ”

Everyone was stunned, Song Nan had already untied the belt around his waist first, and then started to cut the belts of the guards who were lying on the ground and couldn't move with knives one by one, and several guards saw this and rushed up to help, and after a while, all eighteen belts fell into Song Nan's hands. Song Nan quickly connected all the belts together into an eight. The nine-zhang long rope said: "There are trees growing halfway up the mountainside, indicating that there is soil silt for the trees to take root." But wherever the earth is silted, there will be a ridge of mountains, and I will not see it clearly, and I will go down myself. I only need to shake the rope three times, and you will pull the rope up and tie the wounded brothers down one by one, as fast as you can. ”

Everyone nodded nervously, and Song Nan said to Ye Fanggu: "You are the last to go down, and you have to untie the rope to prevent the Tartars from discovering the traces of our descent down, so you can only climb down by yourself, remember to tie one end of the rope around your waist, in case you fall......"

Ye Fanggu interrupted him and said, "How can I fall, let's tell your brothers." ”

Everyone acted immediately, carefully lowering Song Nan off the cliff, and when the rope was about to end, it finally lost its tense strength, indicating that Song Nan already had a place to stay. Listening to the voices of the surrounding Tartar soldiers getting closer and closer, everyone was so anxious that they all lay on the ground and did not dare to move.

Suddenly, the rope shook violently three times, and all the guards were overjoyed. Several guards pulled up the rope and dragged one of the injured guards to tie the rope, Wang Yong said in a low voice: "Two together, otherwise it will be too late." ”

So the other person was also tied up, strung into two grasshoppers and slowly lowered down the cliff, and soon the rope loosened and shook again, pulled up the rope to hang two more down, and after a few trips, more than a dozen guards had been hung down the cliff.

However, the dawn was exceptionally fast, in the morning breeze, the smoke on the battlefield was quickly blown away, when Ye Fanggu and a strong guard struggled to send the last two guards down the cliff, the figure of the Tartar soldiers had appeared around them, dozens of steps away, dozens of Tartar soldiers were surrounding, someone saw Ye Fanggu and the figure of the guard shouted loudly: "What are you doing?" Speak. ”

Ye Fanggu immediately made a decision, picked her toes, kicked the rope head into the cliff, did not let the Tartar know the secret under the cliff, and whispered to the guard: "The two of us can't get out, let's have a destiny, and death can't let the Tartar know that there is someone under the cliff." ”

The guard nodded and said, "Don't worry, madam, the villain knows." ”

Ye Fanggu grinned and said, "I know that there are no subordinates brought out by your family, what is your name?" ”

"The villain's name is Wang Dachun, and he is the general flag of the adult's personal guard battalion."

"Very good, Brother Wang, I'm going to kill the Tartars, are you coming?"

"Of course." Wang Dachun stretched out his hand and held the double fire gun on his waist in his hand, took a breath and took a few steps forward, and the fire gun in his hand burst fire towards the surrounding Tartar soldiers, at the same time, Ye Fanggu flew out from the flank, and the short sword in his hand emitted a dazzling cold light in the morning light, rushing into the crowd of Tartars.

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On a mountain beam halfway up the cliff, the roots of several large pine trees that grew out horizontally were indeed a foothold mountain beam, and Song Nan and more than a dozen guards were crowded in the recess of the roots of the trunks of the big trees, and they couldn't see the situation above at all. But when the rope on it suddenly fell, Song Nan was startled, he should have pulled up the rope and put another person down, but when the rope fell, he could no longer hand it to the top of the cliff. Song Nan anxiously looked up, and suddenly the roar of the fire gun made him and everyone under the cliff understand: the Tartar soldiers had arrived.

The fire gun rang four times, and the sound of the Tartar waw wow roared angrily filled the ear drums, and after four sounds, it was the time when the ammunition of the double-barreled Song Lady Fire Gun was to be replaced, and this was the time when the fire gun guards were the most vulnerable, and after waiting for a while, they didn't hear the sound of the fire gun bombardment sounding again, which indicated that there was no chance to load the ammunition.

A moment later, a long roar came, and an object on the top of the cliff fell violently, Song Nan hurriedly shrank to dodge, but saw that an object fell on the crown of the big tree, and was firmly held by the crown of the big tree. Song Nan didn't dare to check at all, he knew that it was a person who fell, but he was afraid that it was Ye Fanggu, he was afraid that he would see the flesh and blood of Ye Fanggu's body when he opened the branches and leaves, so he stood there and didn't move.

The sound of fighting on the cliff gradually subsided, the Tartar soldiers on the top of the cliff could be heard clearly, several boulders rolled down the cliff from the top of the cliff, smashed above the mountain beam where they were hiding and shattered into a rain of stones, and fell on the crown of the pine tree, and smashed on the corpse in the canopy, just like smashing into Song Nan's heart, painful.

Song Nan held back the grief in his heart and whispered to order everyone to be silent, even if he was hit on the head by a stone, smashed on a broken hand or foot, he couldn't make any sound, it was a stone deliberately dropped by the Tartars, and he was going to be tempted.

Soon after, the sound at the top of the cliff disappeared, the Tartar soldiers had retreated, and Song Nan stood at the rock wall and looked at the corpse looming in the canopy, but did not step forward to check. Wang Yong's eyes motioned for a guard to come forward to check, and the guard slowly climbed up the horizontal canopy along the trunk of the tree, brushed aside the thick branches of the pine needles, and slowly dragged out a person.

The man was lying face down on the canopy of the tree, with more than a dozen arrows stuck in his body, covered in blood, and he had been killed for a long time, and the guard slowly turned him over and shouted: "My lord, it is Wang Dachun Wang Zongqi." ”

The dead guard was none other than Wang Dachun, who shot eight with four fiery guns. After nine Tartars, the Tartars quickly gathered around, and someone in the rear began to shoot arrows, and the dense rain of arrows shot him like a hedgehog, and his body fell off the cliff, not wanting to be caught by the pine tree.

Song Nan's mood was not much better, it was Wang Dachun who died, it didn't mean that Ye Fanggu would be unlucky, in that case, there would be more and more Tartar soldiers, and it was unlikely that Ye Fanggu would escape, either she died on the top of the cliff, or she was captured alive by the Tartar soldiers. Compared with the first possibility, the second possibility is even more terrifying, if Ye Fanggu is captured alive, if the Tartar doesn't know her identity, she will suffer inhuman humiliation, if she knows her identity, maybe she won't be unreasonable to her, but if she is used to coerce herself, how should she choose?

No matter which possibility it was, Song Nan was difficult to accept, and for a while, his heart was like numbness and his heart was boiling.