Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Rolling Stone Ball

Last time, it was mentioned that Liu Houbing was divided into three routes and attacked the three passes of Nanling respectively.

On this day, Liu Hou led the troops to finally come to the Meiguan Ancient Road. Hengpu Pass is located on the Dageng Ridge at the junction of Nanxiong City, Guangdong Province and Dageng County, Jiangxi Province, and is a pass built on the Songshan Mountain.

To reach Hengpu Pass, you must first enter the Meiguan Ancient Road, which is only two or three meters wide in narrow places, and many places have small mountain walls on both sides of the road. It resembles a long natural corridor flanked by towering natural walls.

If the enemy is attacking from the mountain wall on both sides, it will be more terrifying for you than if you were in the urn city. The most terrifying thing is that such terrain adds up to a total of dozens of miles long. If his troops had been attacked from above during these dozens of miles, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

The enemy doesn't even need to use any special weapons, not even an arrow, just pick up a rock at the top of the hill and throw it down, and the lethality of the falling object is enough to take away any life.

If dozens of miles have been subjected to this kind of high-altitude falling, even if Liu Hou's troops are all heavenly soldiers and generals, they will be gameover. Perhaps the only troops that can withstand such an attack are tank troops.

Was Liu Hou's unit a tank brigade? Apparently not, and even if it were, tanks would not be able to drive up such a narrow mountain trail. So what to do? When Liu Hou came to the entrance of this Meiguan Ancient Road, he couldn't help but feel worried. If you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves, if you have been remembered by the people of Dongwu for dozens of miles, you may really return with a feather.

"Third brother, don't worry." Guan Xingdao.

"You are not worried, your whole family is Li Mochou." Liu Hou's first reaction when he heard Guan Xing's words was that he thought he was scolding himself for being Li Mochou, so he secretly scolded back in his heart.

"We still have three hot air balloons, and now we can only work hard for them, let the hot air balloons rise into the air, patrol on the mountain walls on both sides, and if there are people in ambush on the mountain walls, they can be warned in time, and they can also throw thunderbolts on them to attack the enemy who sneaks up." Guan Xing didn't know what Liu Hou was thinking at all, so he said to himself.

"It's good to use hot air balloons, I just hope that the mountain wind is not too strong, otherwise I don't know where they will be blown away." Although hot air balloons have pedal power, after all, manpower is limited, and it is very difficult to fight against the forces of nature.

"It's still the old way, just tie the hot air balloon with a rope." Guan Xingdao.

"Okay, just follow the words of the eldest brother." Liu Hou didn't expect that Guan Xing, who usually doesn't speak out much, turned out to be quite strategic, and it seems that if he cultivates him, he is likely to grow into a general who can take charge of himself in the future.

Due to the narrowness of the Meiguan Ancient Road, many places could not be connected to guò carriages, so they had to tie hot air balloons to two horses, and then send a vanguard team to lead the two horses in front to explore the way.

Not to mention, from time to time, the two hot air balloons can find the Eastern Wu soldiers who are ambushed on the mountain wall, planning to launch a sneak attack at any time. Liu Hou was not polite to them, and ordered the pilot on the hot air balloon to throw a thunderbolt directly down to blow up the ambushed people into flying ashes.

And many of the people in the vine armor army were born in the southern barbarians, and they were good at mountain warfare, and they walked like flying in the mountains. Usually after the hot air balloon bombing, they climb the mountain wall, sweep the battlefield, and kill the fish that slipped through the net.

In this way, there is no danger all the way down, and on this day, I finally arrived in front of Hengpu Pass.

This Hengpu Pass was built in a dangerous place, and it was indeed very difficult to storm it. The façade is a high wall, and in the middle of the wall is a gate. On both sides is still a towering mountain wall, and in the middle is a sheep's intestine path. Moreover, the pass was built at the highest point of the mountain, so whether it was attacked from the north of the ridge or from the direction of the south of the mountains, it was an attack from the back.

The trail is a slope of more than 20 degrees, and in some places even more than 30 degrees. The slope is so big, not to mention carrying heavy siege equipment and weapons to attack, even climbing with bare hands is a very physically exhausting thing. People tend to climb to the top of the mountain, and before they can start attacking, they are already halfway there.

The path was so narrow that it was destined to have only a small number of people attacking each time, and the defenders could block the path with a dense rain of arrows, and even if the dead filled the canyon, it would be impossible to rush through.

It's definitely a defender's paradise and an attacker's nightmare. If the traditional method of siege is adopted, it is really not enough to fill the number of human lives.

However, Liu Hou doesn't care about these at all, these things are for the traditional army, and his own army does not dare to say that it is modernized, at least it can be regarded as modernization, where do you need to worry about these steep terrains.

The fighting of these days had given him a great deal of confidence in the hot air balloon, and he believed that such a so-called natural danger would not be enough to see under the bombardment of the hot air balloon.

Liu Hou was secretly glad in his heart that he did not give up transporting the hot air balloon because of the difficult road. This time to attack the pass, he took out all three hot air balloons, cleared the enemy on the mountain walls on both sides, replenished ammunition and fuel, and continued to bombard the city wall in front of the pass.

Taking advantage of the air raid that pressed the Eastern Wu army on the city wall to the point that it could not raise its head, a group of vine armor troops rushed forward with a long ladder. Such a narrow path can only be charged by a group of people. I can't do it if I want to walk with two ladders side by side.

When the vine armor soldiers who rushed to the front were about to rush to the city gate, Liu Hou thought that victory was in sight, and the corners of his mouth were already upturned, revealing a standard eight-toothed smile expression.

But at this time, Liu Hou saw through the telescope that the gate of the pass suddenly opened, and it was not the Eastern Wu soldiers who rushed out of it, but a round boulder. Liu Hou's eyes almost bulged out, Nima, what's the situation?

Is this a cartoon or some brain-dead game plot? Can you do this kind of thing? But at this time, Liu Hou couldn't think about it, and the huge stone ball rolled down with a bang, and under the action of gravitational acceleration, it rolled faster and faster.

Everything that passed along the way, whether it was people, siege equipment, weapons and armor, they were all crushed. Although the rattan armor is known as invulnerable, under the action of this terrifying weight and momentum, it is not much different from a cardboard box, and after the stone ball, it is all flattened.

Some rattan armor soldiers couldn't dodge, so they had to tie up their horses, stretched out their hands and pushed forward, looking like a master of internal strength, and posed in the starting pose of eighteen palms of dragon descending. They tried to hold the ball with both hands to stop it from rolling down.

It's a pity that they just explained what it means to use the mantis arm as a car, and with a click, the stone ball rolled without even pausing, and these skilled vine armor soldiers also turned into a puddle of meat sauce.

In the blink of an eye, a small group of rattan armor soldiers was crushed into meat sauce, and another small group of vine armor soldiers who followed behind shouted, threw down weapons and ladders, and fled down like a desperate person.

However, the stone ball rolled faster and faster, and soon caught up with them, with the "Ah! Yes! Yes! The team of rattan armor soldiers was also crushed to death one by one.

Although Liu Hou was still far away, he looked at the wrong way, so he also turned around and followed the vine armor soldiers down the mountain. Looking at the majesty of this stone ball, it refuses to stop if it doesn't roll, and maybe you will be caught up by it.

Liu Hou was wrapped in the crowd, running for his life, at this time everyone rushed to flee for their lives, no one cared about his identity as the prince anymore, they were all rushing to run down, some had bad luck and fell, and were trampled by the people behind without hesitation, even if they were not crushed to death by the stone ball, they believed to have been trampled to death.

Liu Hou realized at this time that the enemy troops who had been defeated by him before would be helpless to run back in the rout. It was the second time he felt that death was so close to him.

The last time was during the Battle of Jingzhou, when Sima Yi made a plan, and Wang Qiu executed the execution of setting fire to himself. That time, I was chased by the fire and ran away, almost thinking that I couldn't escape.

After that time, I once swore that I must pay attention to safety and never put myself in danger again, but I didn't expect to be so far away from the city gate that the bed crossbow couldn't be shot, so there should be no danger, and I would encounter such a strange scene of the stone ball rolling slope.

And this time it was more dangerous than the last time, the last time I escaped in the open land, this time there were mountain walls on both sides, there was only a narrow path, and there were so many people crowded that I couldn't run fast if I wanted to. I watched as the stone ball caught up with one soldier after another, crushing them into meat sauce, but there was nothing he could do.

Martial arts is a joke at this time, not to mention that Liu Hou is not a person with strong martial arts. Maybe only a superman can stop such a huge stone ball with his own strength, at least not for earthlings.

Wisdom or knowledge Liu Houyou, if he is given time, he has a hundred ways to stop this stone ball, but in this race against time, he has no tools, and he has no time to implement any measures, so what can he do?

He finally tried the kind of grievance that he couldn't fight and was crushed in front of the other party's powerful force, yes, he was crushed, this time he was really crushed, if he ran slower, he would definitely be crushed.

As there were fewer and fewer people behind him, Liu Hou knew that the stone ball was getting closer and closer, and his forehead was already covered with cold sweat, and he was very unwilling to die like this, or die in such a tragic way.

It's not easy for me to go through, I'm still a prince, how can I do an earth-shattering career, not to mention unifying the world, at least to unify China, now I die before I get out of school, who is willing?

Shi Qiu saw that he was about to catch up with Liu Hou, and Liu Hou still had a few loyal soldiers around him, but he saw that they stopped without hesitation and turned around to face the big stone ball, in order to use their flesh and blood to make the stone ball even slow down a little, so as to buy an extra second of survival time for the prince.

It's a pity that they are still the same as the paper piercing people who burned to their ancestors, and they died heroically when they heard the sound of a beep and a crack of broken bones.

The stone ball rolled past where the prince had just been. It's a pity that no one has time to pay attention to the whereabouts of the prince at this time, and the few loyal people who are the only ones have already died in their posts, and the others only care about their own lives, and still run down the mountain desperately.

The stone ball passed by Liu Hou and his pro-soldier team, and rolled down for dozens of meters. After all, these mountain paths are very rugged and tortuous, and finally, in a relatively large turning position, the stone ball hit the turning mountain wall headlong, blocked by the solid mountain wall, exhausted all the kinetic energy, and stopped.

The Shu army in front finally escaped, and everyone lay on the ground panting for breath after escaping death.

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