Chapter 87: The Shadow of the Cliff
As the red sun sets to the west, the shadows of the trees in the high places become longer and longer, and the low valleys are hidden in darkness.
Above a narrow mountain road, the dense grass suddenly moved, and a man came out to look into the distance, and then turned his head and shouted softly:
"Colonel, they're coming!"
"What did you say?"
"Uh, I'm sorry, I forgot, it's time to call you Leader!" the man smiled.
"Lie down and don't move! I can see you down the mountain!"
The Colonel, who was in another bush, looked stern, and looked around again:
"Let's pretend to be bandits to carry out the mission, but don't forget that we are soldiers, no one is allowed to move without my orders, and violators will be dealt with by military law!"
A large number of "grasses" rose and fell at the same time, and apparently many people were nodding silently.
In the valley in the distance, two men in rags staggered and ran, pushing down boulders as they climbed with difficulty, to slow down the pursuers.
Chasing behind was a large group of cadets who looked like officers, with silver cuirass and helmets, lined with sky-blue Guards uniforms, because the helmets had "nose guards" that ran through the face, it was difficult to identify faces, and it was impossible to distinguish between men and women and ages.
"Very good! Fifty-one, all here!" the colonel got up and observed for a moment, then lowered his body again, "Remember, our task is to block and surround it, and it is the business of the cultivators of the Blood Soul Valley to go down the mountain and kill people, don't rush forward in a daze!"
"What if ......" A timid voice came from the grass next to it.
"What are you afraid of?" the Colonel asked coldly.
"If they rush out of the canyon and fight us, I'm afraid the casualties will be ......."
"The marquis's order, this mission, must be completely annihilated, at all costs! What's more, the stone will be smashed down, set on fire again, and then cut down by the people of the Blood Soul Valley, and there will be few people who rush out!"
The edge of the cliff was piled with pre-prepared boulders and firewood, and the colonel glanced at it, and then looked at the cadets who were swarming below, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Chang Le was in the crowd, and like others, he struggled to walk because he was wearing heavy armor, so he couldn't catch up with the two bandits in front of him.
The skinny monkey was so tired that he couldn't breathe, not only did he wheezing strangely loud and loud like an ape, but he also slipped under his feet, tumbling down a steep slope, and almost hit Chang Le's leg.
Chang Le grabbed him and pulled him up, looking at the appearance of this guy rolling his eyes and breathing heavily, he was angry and funny:
"Hey, the acting is too pompous!"
Skinny Monkey smiled:
"Hehe, other people's acting skills are too poor, so I have to work harder. ”
After saying this sentence smoothly, he began to gasp again.
Chang Le slapped on his helmet:
"I don't have to act, it's time to get to the place. ”
"What? The enemy's ambush circle has arrived, where is it?" exclaimed many people, including the skinny monkey.
"Stop the pursuit! Rest in place, don't look around!"
Chang Le ordered the class to stop, his eyes swept over the top of the cliff very casually, and he smiled coldly:
"It's good to find the enemy, and you don't have to really get into the trap, and it still hurts to be hit on the head by a stone. ”
Hearing this, the thin monkey immediately woke up, raised his head and tiptoed to look at the top of the cliff, but was held down by Chang Le.
The others were still at a loss, not understanding what it meant to "hit their heads with stones".
The two "bandits" who were in charge of luring the enemy were still very dedicated, keeping out of breath and exhausted, and plunged headlong into the narrow alley between the cliffs.
However, the fifth class did not rush in, but stopped outside the pass, so a few minutes later, the two men came out to look again.
Chang Le motioned for everyone to step back a little further and walk alone to the narrow road of the "first line of sky".
"Beware!"
Fanny couldn't help shouting, wanting to follow Chang Le, but was dragged by Lola:
"Don't make trouble for him! The boss has always been sure of things!"
Chang Le's "invincible" image has long been unbreakable in Class 5, Fanny is really out of special care, with her shout, Chang Le will also feel special warmth.
Seeing Chang Le coming alone, the two "bandits" probably felt that they had not completed the task, so they raised their middle fingers at him to provoke:
"You came alone, are you impatient? Aren't there many of you?
Chang Le was silent, came to a dozen meters in front of the pass, and stopped. This narrow road is hundreds of meters long, and there is almost no light in the distance, if the fifth class rushes into it rashly, the pass is thrown by a boulder, and then a pile of firewood and grass is lit, and they are all trapped in it and become roast suckling pigs.
It seems that in order to get rid of them, the provost has made a bloody investment, mobilized an unknown amount of manpower, and swept the soul vision roughly, and there were no less than hundreds of ambushes on the top of the cliff alone, obviously from the Fifth Guards Division of the "support" exercise, the provost's descendant.
The outnumbered enemy aroused Chang Le's fighting spirit, and he smiled and asked loudly:
"Do you come out, or do I go in?"
"If we don't go out, there are a lot of you! Lao Tzu is not afraid of being surrounded inside! Do you dare to come in?"
"Okay. ”
Chang Le did not move his feet, but stretched out his hand behind him, palm facing up, and his fingers moved.
This obviously means "take what I want", everyone in Class 5 looked at each other, but the thin monkey was the first to react, snatched a longbow and a few arrows from his classmates, and trotted to Chang Le and handed them to him.
Chang Le smiled and patted the thin monkey on the shoulder, this time it meant "you know me".
The two people in the pass obviously understood, and after glancing at each other, they ran into the darkness in the depths.
Chang Le stretched his bow like a full moon, his fingers gently released the strings, and the shadow of the arrow flew out with a sharp sound of breaking the wind, and instantly flew into the pass, followed by a terrible scream.
The other exclaimed, and the white fighting qi appeared out of thin air, clearly reflecting the outline of his entire body, and at the same time, he jumped up like an ape, climbing the steep rock wall and quickly rising upward.
"Fighting spirit, he is really a warrior, he hid his strength just now!" Lola shouted in a lost voice.
Chang Le smiled slightly, the longbow in his hand was full again, the arrow slowly moved up, and then released the second arrow with a "snort".
The white light figure that had climbed dozens of meters high stopped instantly, let out a hoarse snort, and then fell softly, and before his body hit the ground, the light of his fighting spirit had dissipated.
The fifth class burst into cheers.
The thin monkey came to pat the ass again:
"The boss is unfathomable! Two arrows, kill two war masters in seconds! You are the strength of the war spirit!"
"Don't shoot the sycophants, I'm just a monk. ”
Chang Le smiled and returned the bow and arrow to the thin monkey, and gave an order to the fifth class:
"The bandits are dead, out of respect for the masters, don't cut their ears, let's retreat!"
Fifty-one people resumed their alert and search formation, and all of them turned backwards and retreated on the way to and fro.
The ambush soldier on the outside of the cliff top couldn't help but shout:
"Colonel, they're withdrawing!"
"Shut up!" The colonel was also very annoyed when he saw that the trap had failed, "Wait for the people from Blood Soul Valley to move first!"
There were more than a dozen warriors in the Blood Soul Valley, and they were actually killed by Chang Le's two arrows to kill two of their companions, and they were all stunned in the grass.
Until a distant mysterious voice came, sounding directly in everyone's hearts:
"What are you afraid of? Catch up, kill!"
Only then did the warriors leap up, deftly galloping between the rocks and trees, quickly pressing down from the cliffs on both sides, slowing down until they approached the mountain road, and then disappeared one by one.
This is "stealth", the assassination is a third-order class skill, even if the pre-arranged ambush fails, with their professional advantage, they can still achieve the effect of the surprise attack.
The fifty cadets didn't know anything about it, and even if they looked around vigilantly during the march, they couldn't detect the Assassins, including Lola, who had broken through to the junior division.
But even fifty people didn't find them, and one did, it was enough.
Under Chang Le's soul vision, and the positioning of the cunning rabbit's hearing, these sneaky stalkers have nowhere to hide.
Xu Si approached Chang Le with some confusion and asked softly:
"Where is the enemy ambush? Do you have any plan? Let's just leave?"
Chang Le smiled and said nothing, as a commander, it is not appropriate to explain the cause and effect too clearly.
As for how he knows the location of the enemy, he can't mention his strange sight or hearing, and it is best to keep it unfathomable, so that everyone thinks that "the boss is like a god".
How to establish the prestige and charm of the commander-in-chief, even the military school teacher has not taught it, except for a few words that the marshal mentioned to him, in fact, it all comes from nature, and it seems that what memories he carries in his blood naturally understands.
When passing a small tree, Chang Le bent down to break it, held a thick branch in his right hand and gently tapped it in the palm of his left hand, and whispered to the people around him:
"Look at where my branches fall, the archers cover twenty meters and shoot, and the infantry line up at the same time, passing down. ”
So the people kept whispering in their ears and passing on the command to their companions.
At this time, the fourteen assassination divisions had sneaked down the mountain from the high slopes on both sides, and accelerated their speed after the mountain road converged, although this would trample over some stones or plants, but in order to catch up with the fifth class, they couldn't care about it, not to mention that the students were wearing heavy armor and walked loudly, enough to cover up the tracks of the pursuers.
The distance was reduced to a hundred meters, and just as he was within the range of the longbow, Chang Le suddenly turned around and threw the thick branch at the center of the enemy group.
The sneaking assassins all stopped, staring at the branch in a daze, unaware of its meaning.
And a dense rain of arrows covered it at this moment.
The so-called "20-meter covered shooting" is to take the falling point of the tree branch as the center of the circle, and release arrows at will within a radius of 20 meters, and the throwing landing point is estimated by the archers themselves, according to their position in the formation, to ensure that the arrow rain of the whole team is relatively evenly dispersed.
This is a game that has been practiced many times during the camping and hunting of the whole class, and now it is finally coming in handy.
After one round, it is immediately the second round.
At the same time, twenty shields with swords in front of them formed two lines, formed a tight formation, served as a cover for the archers, and struck the shields to make a neat shout.
The enemy was all a master of the battle division level, and it was not so easy to be hit by arrows, but such a sudden and dense attack still injured many of them, and one of them was even killed by an arrow in the neck on the spot.
The rest of the people hurriedly used their short swords and daggers to shoot a rain of arrows, and one by one they appeared, and pounced on them in a shocked roar.
A hand-to-hand battle broke out immediately.
On one side, all of them are war masters, and on the other side are beginners who are generally at the monk level, although there are more than ten to fifty people, it is obviously the former who has the advantage, this is the common knowledge of the mainland cultivation world.
But common sense isn't always right.
The assassination division is not good at frontal combat, and the weapons they hold are more suitable for sudden attacks in narrow places, but now they are fighting in a bright and bright way, the enemy is heavily armored and holding a shield, and no matter how strong the strength of the warrior is, it is difficult to split the iron shield with a light dagger.
What's more, the weapons of the fifth class are all enchanted, and the lethality is amazing, even if the sword cut by the monk can't break through the armor and fighting qi defense of the warrior, the power of the "frost" enchantment will still penetrate deeply, making the attack part paralyzed by frostbite.
The Assassins shouted and shouted, the queue was chaotic, and they all retreated in front of the neat infantry phalanx, and they couldn't retreat too far, and there were arrows shooting from the inside of the infantry phalanx!
Others try to avoid the sparkling swords of the frosty glow, and pick on opponents who appear to have no weapon enchantment.
It's a pity that they were wrong, more than a dozen swords without blue light are also enchanted, and they are "blitzkrieg" drawn by Chang Le himself, and the blade can trigger spatial folding, and the move is instantaneous, completely irresistible!
What's even more terrifying is that there is a female soldier with a beautiful face, the only student in the entire team who has reached the battle master, that strength is like an ancient monster, stronger than the third or fourth level war master, and a sword is a human life.
Lola, known as the "Tyrannosaurus", has a perfect combination of natural divine power and fighting spirit, and steadily overwhelms all the assassins present.
Chang Le did not participate in the battle at all, but watched the wonderful performance of his classmates with a smile, and saw that the frontal formation was quite firm and could withstand the impact of the opponent, he gave an order at the right time:
"Spread your wings!
The horizontal row changed from two rows to one row, and the students on both sides overcame the steep slope and shrubs to outflank the dozen Assassins.
The battle situation seemed irreversible, and the Blood Soul Valley lost more than a dozen battle master-level masters in one fell swoop, the more Chang Le thought about it, the happier he became, and he almost laughed.
But at this moment, a chill flashed through him, and it seemed that a great crisis was coming.
Chang Le looked up almost completely instinctively, and saw the shadow high above the cliff.