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The Yue people are accustomed to using living sacrifices. Anyway, the sacrificial slaves are everywhere in Chudi. Just go around and catch a lot of them.

Rarely do gods manifest themselves. Now is no exception, although Ruan Chen Xiong and his guards pray together, the sun in the sky is getting hotter and hotter, and the light is strong enough to pierce the eyes of blind people.

The Chu army on the top of the mountain was still shooting cold arrows from time to time. I don't know what they want to do, just shoot the Yue people in this piecemeal way. The non-stop landslides blocked the road, and the space became smaller and smaller, and even the position of the main general where Ruan Chen Xiong was located was full of people standing in front of and behind.

The hottest noon passed.

It was dusk, and then night fell again.

The air is not as hot as during the day, and the energy of the person is a little more restored than during the day. It's just that the problem of thirst still can't be solved, and I know what the hell I saw, the Yue warriors dug three feet into the ground, and still didn't dig out the water, not even the slightly damp soil. This damn place is even drier than the desert.

Ruan Chenxiong huddled in the corner, shivering.

He stared at the banner of the Chu army on the opposite cliff. It was a black and red military flag, embroidered with a large "Yang" character in gold silk thread.

Carrying a few shamans on the march will also make it easier to set up camp. Even if there is no river nearby, it is easy for a shaman to dig a well inside the camp with a spell.

Thinking of this, Ruan Chen Xiong couldn't help but turn around and take a look at the several corpses that were thrown not far away.

Shamans are noble, and even if they die, they must not be buried on the spot, and the body must be brought back. It is handed over to the great shaman, and after chanting and praying, he can be buried according to the rules of solemn etiquette.

The climate is hot, and in just one day, the corpses of the shamans have begun to decompose, emitting a disgusting stench.

Of course, it is impossible to be without water in the valley of fish. Ruan Chen Xiong remembered it very clearly. The last time I walked here, there were mountain streams flowing down many places on the cliffs, the water was clear and sweet, and the valley floor was full of plants and green grass.

Without water, plants cannot grow.

It's so strange that as the Yue army is trapped here, the flowers and trees in the valley are also withering at a rate that is visible to the naked eye. It was as if they had been drained of nourishment by some invisible force, and as if their roots had been cut off by Qi Qi. The Vietnamese soldiers did not notice the subtle changes in their panic. As the main general, Nguyen Chen Xiong was terrified of this change.

There were monks in the army of the Chu people.

Otherwise, they would not have been able to create a landslide, and they would not have been able to trap their 70,000 troops here.

As for the question of water...... In fact, it is very simple, since the other party has the ability to block the valley, it will naturally be able to cut off the underground water veins. Similar spells, Ruan Chen Xiong Yi had seen shamans cast by them. They chant incantations and unleash extremely mysterious powers. Ability to divert streams. Of course, spell power is limited. It is ineffective for large rivers, and at most it is to block the streams between the mountains and forests. Rao is like this, and it is also an extremely amazing immortal method.

The great shaman once said in a very fearful tone that the monks of the Chu people, in terms of strength and knowledge, far surpassed the Yue shamans.

Then. Nguyen Tran Xiong thought that this was just a humble remark from His Excellency the Great Shaman. Now, it seems, this is not an exaggeration.

People who are in a desperate situation will become particularly active in their thinking.

Nguyen Chen Xiong Yan began to consider the relationship between the Yue and Chu people. He even came up with the idea that the Yue people should not be enemies of the Chu people. It's really ****** strange, he has never had a similar idea before, and he especially likes to bring back pregnant women who are pregnant with Liujia from Chu. Eat it slowly after raising it. Especially babies who have just been taken out of their mother's womb taste particularly delicious. It is said that further north, in the kingdom of Qi, there was an emperor who also liked this cruel food. There is also an imperial chef named Yi Ya in the Qi Kingdom, who is very good at cooking.

The Yue people captured the Chu people for hundreds of years. There has never been a robber in the world, and someone has always been a pig and sheep. The victory of Ma Fubo, the general of Zhengnan, may have been a warning from heaven to the Yue people, warning them not to burn, kill, and plunder the Chu people again. However, the thirst for wealth, combined with their own laziness, caused all the Yue people to forget the lesson. King Yue is a pig with no brains, and he actually wants to capture Anzhou and move the capital over. Ruan Chen Xiong has scolded this practice countless times in his mind. If it weren't for the greed of the Yue King and the nobles, how could he have fallen into such a field?

Under the black night, it was not clear to see the movement of the Chu army on the cliff. However, the noisy voices above could not be concealed. This means that the Chu army must have made some kind of move. Or, reinforcements. In short, they will no longer remain as calm as they did in the previous two days, and will soon be on the offensive.

Thinking of this, Ruan Chenxiong's gloomy eyes released a fierce cold light.

The so-called trapped beast is like this. You can't just sit here and wait to die, you have to do something.

Around him, more than two thousand particularly strong Vietnamese warriors had gathered. About a thousand more Yue people were captured by them. As Ruan Chen Xiong issued the order, the Yue warriors brandished their knives and cut off the heads of their fellow clansmen in front of them, and the air was immediately filled with pungent and terrifying blood.

If there is no water, there is no strength.

If you want to live, you can only drink blood.

The horses and baggage were kept out of the valley. The few remaining horses are simply not enough to score. Not everyone in the Yue is a warrior, and there are soft eggs and cowards among them. For those who are dying of exhaustion, Nguyen Tran must make them contribute one last of their strength - cutting off their heads and replenishing the water that elite warriors desperately need with the blood in your body.

By the faint light of the fire from the top of the mountain, the two thousand Yue warriors were covered in blood, and they gulped the blood of their fellow tribe without the slightest scruples. It is said that a long time ago, the Yue people were short of food, and every winter they had to kill some of the old, weak, sick and disabled. It is precisely by relying on this cruel practice of treating one's own people as food that the Yue bloodline has survived to this day.

It is impossible for a waste to be the chief general of an army. Although Ruan Chen Xiong didn't make any moves in the past two days, he was secretly carefully observing the surrounding terrain. He had already chosen a few thick vines that led from the ground to the top of the mountain. Despite the severance of the groundwater veins, the vines are still strong. The Yue people are accustomed to running in the mountains and forests, and with vines, the cliffs dozens of zhang high can also go up and down freely. The only regret. It's just that the number of vines is really small, and up to three people can go up at a time. Therefore, there should be no sound during the climb. Otherwise, all the work done will be wasted.

A burly Yue warrior walked at the forefront. He straddled the steel knife across his waist and spat on his palm, wiping it. He grabbed the vine and pulled it hard, satisfied with the firmness of the vine, and then jumped up, stepping on the rocks with both feet, like a nimble ape.

There was not the slightest light here, and there was no sound coming from the top of the mountain, which should be the weak point of the Chu army's defense.

The cliff dozens of feet high is not an obstacle for the Yue warriors who are good at climbing. Soon. The warrior figure in the night has turned into a black spot. Ruan Chenxiong looked up at it with trepidation, his hands clasped together. For the first time in his life, he was so excited, filled with fear and anticipation for an unknowable future at the same time.

A small pebble fell from the top of the mountain. The guards hurriedly ran over to pick it up and handed it to Ruan Chen. The rocks are flat and smooth, which are the pebbles that Nguyen Chenxiong found in the valley before, and it is also a promise with the Yue warriors: once you climb to the top of the mountain safely, there is no danger around. and threw down the stones and sent a message.

An indescribable ecstasy swelled rapidly in Ruan Chen's body. No need to rush. The long-awaited Yue warriors began to climb in order. Dark shadows soon appeared on the three vines, and they quickly disappeared from the bottom to the top of the mountain.

Two thousand is a huge number. If there were more vines, everyone could climb them at night. However, Ruan Chen Xiong was very sober. He knew that the only time he could use was the darkest part of the sky before dawn. Strictly calculated, it's nice to have hundreds of people going up. They are all their own hand-picked warriors, who can be ten with one. As long as you sneak into the Chu military camp and burn the baggage. It can also create opportunities for the Yue people in the valley. Once the Chu army was in civil strife, the archers on the top of the mountain would also take care of themselves. When the time came, tens of thousands of Yue warriors attacked together, climbed the rocks that sealed the mouth of the valley, and escaped smoothly.

Perhaps, he can take advantage of the chaos to reverse the situation, kill the general of the Chu army, and counterattack Anzhou.

The previous repentance is actually an accidental thought in the heart. The Yue people are wolves, and the Chu people are sheep. After all, wolves want to eat sheep. As for whether the sheep are in pain...... The wolf doesn't have time to think about this kind of thing at all, and even if he thinks about it, he just sighs casually, which has no practical meaning.

It's dawn.

Ruan Chenxiong stayed up all night, and the deep hope in his heart gradually loosened and turned into fear and despair.

From beginning to end, the Chu army did not show the slightest sign of confusion. There was no neighing, no lights flickering. The sun came out, the military flag tied to the top of the mountain still did not change, it was still "hunting" in the morning breeze, and the cold arrows of the archers were still looking for targets.

In total, six hundred and nine Yue warriors climbed to the top of the mountain along the vines. It was as if they had disappeared into thin air, as if they had gone to another world. There was no news about them, and no fireworks rose from the top of the mountain.

Ruan Chenxiong became more and more irritable. Even if the people sent out are caught, or killed, it is better than waiting without moving. He didn't know what was wrong with his men. Or did they not obey the orders at all, and turned and fled after leaving the valley? After all, it was more cost-effective to abscond and survive than to fight desperately to save the tens of thousands of troops in the valley.

It's still hot, even a few minutes hotter than yesterday.

The sun at noon is bright and dazzling. The belief in Ruan Chenxiong's heart was also evaporated like water, becoming empty and without any remains.

Drinking human blood can only be done occasionally. Even the warriors of the Yue tribe are very resistant to drinking the blood of their own people. People are huddled in the shadows of the rocks, and those who lie motionless under the sun have either lost their ability to move due to heat stroke and lack of water, or have been dying of thirst and sunburn.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise at the top of the mountain.

Ruan Chen Xiong ran out desperately, holding his right hand in front of his forehead to block the sun, squinting his eyes, trying to see what was going on.

The moment his gaze made contact with the source of the sound, Ruan Chenxiong's pupils suddenly constricted, and an incomparably strong fear and despair also rose from the bottom of his heart. Throughout the body.

A spherical rattan basket with a diameter of about five meters was pushed down from the top of the mountain. This thing is very easy to make, rattan is everywhere in southern Xinjiang, and a simple circular frame can be built by holding it with a wood or iron bar in the middle. The inside of the vine ball is supposed to be stuffed with hay and fire, and it is ignited at the top of the hill with an unstoppable and strong force. It fell like a fireball from the sky.

Hundreds of these vine balls appeared on the mile-long cliffs. The air was soon filled with the smell of fire oil and smoke. God knows how many of these things the Chu people have made, Ruan Chen Xiongzhi stared at his bloodshot eyes and saw one fireball after another thrown from the cliff, which seemed to have no end.

A lot of dry trees were thrown down from the top of the hill. It doesn't take much effort to do this, just push the wood to the edge of the cliff and squeeze it forward. Canisters filled with fire oil smashed down in the air and exploded on rocks and wood, spilling greasy liquid everywhere.

A personal guard ran to Ruan Chen's side. His voice trembled, and his distorted face was full of despair: "General, they ...... Those Chu people...... They, they're going to burn us alive!"

Yes, they are going to burn us, and every Yue people trapped in this valley of fish.

Nguyen Tran Xiong has always been dismissive of the legendary method of fire attack, believing that it is just an imaginary scenario concocted by storytellers to attract readers. Isn't it? There are many ways to deal with fire, even if there is no water. Soldiers could also be ordered to take soil on the spot and cover the flames with sand and gravel. Which general does not have a few thousand soldiers under his command? Isn't it easy to deal with a mere flame?

The tragedy in front of us. What really made Ruan Chen Xiong know what wisdom is, and what is the art of war?

The Yue people, who had been tormented by the sun and thirst for two days, had long lost their physical strength and energy. They had no interest in putting out fires, but howled from the fireballs falling from the sky, running back and forth in the valley, looking for any safe place to shelter them. How could the sinister and cunning Chu people give up such an opportunity? They threw down a large amount of dry wood and fodder, and the rockets they threw ignited the fire oil. Create a larger flame on the ground.

Not only that, but a large amount of black gravel was also pushed down from the cliff.

Many Yue people didn't know what it was, and Ruan Chen Xiong had only seen it from books. It is said that this black stone is found in the north of Anju Castle. This thing is capable of being ignited by fire, releasing powerful heat.

Ruan Chen Xiong once scoffed at this. Stones that can burn? That's a lie, isn't it? If even stones can burn. So why bother with firewood?

That's how things are in the world. Just because you don't believe it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Luo Fang is no longer a county order. In the first battle of Cai County, many officials, including county officials, were killed in the war, and even ancient civil servants such as government officials were not left. Yang Tianhong had a great plan in Hanyu Valley, except for the seriously injured and the old and weak, the rest of the people of Cai County became temporary logistics personnel of the Xuanhuo Army.

Luo Fang was given a set of armor and a pair of bows and arrows. He liked the idea of standing on a cliff and shooting arrows downward. It feels very cool, like shooting pheasants and hares in the mountains in autumn.

As the county commander of Cai County, Luo Fang can barely be regarded as half a martial artist. Although his archery skills are average, because of the advantages of height and terrain, although the accuracy is only fifty percent, it is enough.

The temperature in the valley was getting higher and higher, and the waves of steaming air cast a shaky transparent barrier in front of the eyes. All the scenery was distorted when it looked like it was over, and even the sound of the Yue people's wailing and screaming had lost its original sound.

Luo Fang did not waste arrows. He didn't have much confidence in his archery skills, and he kept aiming very accurately until he was at least 90% sure of each target, and then he would release the bowstring. This cautious approach has doubled Luo Fang's hit rate. Although only seven arrows were fired in front of and behind, six of them hit the target. One of the arrows also accidentally hit the target's left eye. Luo Fang stood on the cliff and could see clearly, the sharp arrow pierced through the back of the Yue people's head, and the part where the eye was located turned into a blood hole. The Yue man threw away the steel knife, covered his injured eyes, his legs weakened, and he fell to the ground crying for his life. His movements lasted only a few seconds, and then never continued. The fatal wound made his body uncoordinated, and his right hand instinctively tried to reach for the back of his neck to touch the arrow, but his fingers could not touch the metal substance with the flesh and blood. In the end, the dying Yue people could only lie on the ground and roll back and forth, their bodies covered with fuel, and they were soon engulfed in flames.

There were cliffs on both sides of the valley, and the crazy Yue people could only rush towards the two ends of the blockage valley. Although it is filled with rocks and sand, it is not as steep as a cliff. At the very least, there is a little bit of a gentle slope to climb.

People are forced out. If there were no torches thrown from the cliff and all kinds of fire-igniting objects, the Yue people trapped in the valley would not have thought of fighting back frantically at this time. In the past two days, thousands of corpses of Yue people were left at both ends of the valley. The mudslide caused by Yang Tianhong's Taoist technique was very large, completely changing the topography of the Fish Valley. The Xuanhuo army set up on the top of the mountain is condescending, and the Yue people are counterattacking along the steep slope, which is actually suicide under the premise of death.

Either way, it looks like a way to live. (To be continued.) )