Chapter 311: Cliffs
Then, every time they walked, they would find a lone flag standing on top of the snowfield. Under every banner, there is almost a frozen corpse. Their vitality has disappeared, their consciousness has died, but their hands are still so strong, and the flag they hold tightly, no matter how the wind and snow blow on the snowfield, they have never wavered for half a minute!
The soldiers of the Rakshasa Army were walking on the corpses of their companions, and with each step, they had the feeling that they had killed their companions with their own hands. Despite knowing, there are countless corpses waiting for them ahead, and despite knowing, these are not their fault.
However, the Rakshasas did not stop there, their eyes were bloodshot, but not a single tear was shed. They buried all their anger and sorrow deep in their hearts, waiting for the moment when they would explode in front of the royal court.
The Central Plains had been threatened by the iron cavalry of the Fan State for thousands of years, and they knew that if they could not succeed this time, the threat would continue. And in order to permanently pull out this threat, there will inevitably be countless martyrs sacrificed. One moment it was those people, the next moment it could be yourself!
Finally, the group braved the cold wind and snow to come to the halfway up the mountain.
"This is the 'shortcut' on the map?" With the calmness of Miss San, she couldn't help but exclaim.
Where is this road, it is clearly a vertical mountain wall! No, the third lady did see a "path" winding on the mountain wall, but it couldn't be called a "road" at all, it was just a crack in the mountain wall! Even the widest point can only accommodate half a foot to step on. The mountain walls are so smooth that they can't be climbed with both hands because the snow melts into ice all year round.
In such a place and in such an environment, even a strong man with high martial arts does not dare to guarantee that he will be able to survive safely, let alone these ordinary soldiers.
Hu Erhu glanced at the dragon flag hunting in the cold wind in front of him and the corpse frozen under the dragon flag, and suddenly shouted: "Everyone obeys the order and blindfolds them with strips of cloth, this cliff is our last difficulty!" ”
This idea was not thought up by Hu Erhu, but told to him by Helian Jun. At such a moment, blindfolding, on the contrary, can overcome the fear in the heart, and open the eyes to look downward, is the most dangerous behavior.
The Rakshasas didn't say a word, and the last place they looked at was not the dangerous cliff in front of them, but the frozen corpses under the flag. Then, without any hesitation, they tore off a strand of their clothes and tied them to their eyes. Then, without hesitation, he stepped on that rugged and dangerous foothold.
The third lady suddenly had a feeling that at this moment, she was incompatible with the soldiers of the Rakshasa Army. Even though they've been living together for so long, she still can't fit herself in. And the Rakshasa Army, although polite to her, but when they walk together, they will unconsciously reject all outsiders.
Just like now, the third lady didn't understand their behavior at all, and there was no moment of hesitation in their eyes, and there was no half point of fear in their eyes. Their military spirits seem to be howling in the air, and this kind of spiritual power can even make them walk on the ground in such a dangerous environment.
The third lady doesn't need to cover her eyes, with her martial arts, even if she accidentally falls, she can use her hands to plunge into the ice wall and climb up.
The current third lady finally knows why Helian Jun insisted on letting him follow Hu Erhu and his party. Because the environment here is so dangerous, even though they are completely prepared, if they are not careful, they will lose their balance. And in this case, the price is death!
Whenever this happens, the third lady will immediately fly down. Her arm, like steel, could easily pierce the mountain wall, and at this moment, the other hand would grab the man's collar and pull him back on. In less than a meal, the third lady had at least pulled back more than a dozen people from the brink of death.
However, there are many more people that she cannot help. These people, maybe too far away from her, maybe because of her judgment error did not catch. All in all, they fell off the mountain wall one after another, and quickly lost their figure in the cold wind.
Keep moving forward, keep people falling, all this, after the third lady witnessed all the process, even Hu Erhu had to blindfold and pay all his energy so as not to let himself fall. The third lady found that although someone fell every moment, no one let out even a single shout! They desperately covered their mouths, enduring the horror of imminent death in a moment, but refused to make a sound. Because they knew that as long as they shouted, their comrades above would be frightened, and more people would fall.
Time passed minute by minute, and the soldiers at the front were already about to climb over this cliff and reach a safe place. During this period, people kept falling, and the third lady tried her best to save her, but in the end it was just a drop in the bucket. A figure stepped on the air and fell from a 10,000-meter cliff, without even remembering the echo, on this cliff, in their ears, they could only hear the whirring wind.
On the other side, a small group of men and horses led by Helian Army, driving the horses of the whole army, was trying to climb over the muddy mountains. They have passed the top of the mountain, the temperature is getting lower and lower, compared to them, the low temperature experienced by Hu Erhu and his party is like a greenhouse.
Not to mention people, even the horses on the grassland can't stand such low temperatures. Fortunately, the Helian army had already prepared and prepared warm "clothes" for the horses, otherwise, even if the Rakshasa army was fine, their war horses would all freeze to death on the top of the mountain.
This road does not need a flag to guide the way, because there is only one road to the top of the mountain, as long as they keep going forward, there is no major mistake in the direction, and they can reach the bottom of the mountain. However, they have a more serious problem than Hu Erhu.
The bone-chilling cold is hardly something that humans can resist. The cold does not come from the outside, but directly from the inside of the body. As soon as the cold wind blew, their internal organs seemed to be frozen, and no matter how much they were wrapped in clothes, their hands and feet could not help but tremble.
With Helian Jun's martial arts, he used his internal strength to protect his body, and after walking for a few days, he developed chilblains. Not to mention the ordinary people. The most serious people have frozen their hands and feet and can barely move.
Fortunately, Helian Jun had been well prepared, and if they didn't have enough warm clothes, they were afraid that they would freeze to death after waiting halfway up the mountain.
Even with such complete preparations, Helian Jun found that they still ignored something. That was food - not food for hunger, of course, and each of them carried enough dry food to last three months or more.
Helian Jun was worried that there was obviously not enough meat in the food. In such a cold situation, only meat and wine can bring enough energy and warmth to people, which is not comparable to no amount of dry food. Of course, it was impossible to make them drink alcohol during the march, so meat became the key.
In such weather, a mouthful of hot broth can definitely save the life of a dying person!
However, Helian Jun found that the meat he was carrying was still too little.