"Are you sure it's this place!"

A cliff dozens of miles away from the northern mountain range at the mouth of the Three Gorges.

Zhu Gaosui observed the surrounding situation and asked the soldiers who had returned to report the news.

The soldier looked around with wide eyes, groped around for a while, and nodded.

"Back to His Royal Highness King Zhao, this is the position, where the rope is three zhang above! I have left traces here. ”

Zhu Gaosui looked up at the pitch-black cliff above, gritted his teeth and said to the soldiers around him.

"Take the ladder!"

Soldiers who were not wearing armor and only carried their weapons and ropes around them hurriedly began to build human ladders.

After waiting for the ladder to be erected, Zhu Gaosui asked the soldier to climb up and start looking for a rope.

But I groped up four or five feet in a row, but I didn't find the end of the rope.

"Damn, are you mistaken, it's already the middle of the night, and we can only go back if we can't find it."

Zhu Gaosui, who was a little anxious, saw that the soldier had been groping on it for a long time, but he couldn't find the rope, and shouted anxiously.

"The person up there may have been a situation, it's likely that the rope has moved somewhere else, or it's a little higher."

The soldier gritted his teeth, not wanting to give up the captain.

"A few more people, build a few more ladders, and look around!"

Zhu Gaosui, who also didn't want to give up this credit, waved his hand and asked the remaining soldiers to build a few more ladders and go a little more distance to the top.

"Found it!"

Time passed little by little, and seeing that the rope had not been found in the past half an hour, Zhu Gaosui was about to give the order to retreat, when a shout of surprise came from the side.

Hearing this shout, Zhu Gaosui hurriedly ran over, quickly climbed the ladder, and grabbed the rope held in the soldier's hand.

"Good!"

Zhu Gaosui let out a low sigh of joy, and then asked people to hurry up and get ready.

At the same time, he pulled the rope hard, reminding the people guarding above that there was going to be a master here.

On the cliff, lying in the corpse covered in wounds and blood, the captain, who had more air in and less breath, was almost dragged off the cliff by the pull below.

"You're finally here!"

The captain breathed a heavy sigh of relief, struggled to get up, and slowly climbed down a big stone beside him, ignoring the bloody wounds on his body.

Hold on to your last breath and tie the rope.

The captain used the last of his strength to pull the rope below, and then collapsed to the ground, silent.

Having already connected the bottom of the rope, feeling the pull from above, Zhu Gaosui immediately ordered: "Go up with the rope first, and when you get to the top, if you encounter the Warat people, you must protect the rope desperately, you know no!" ”

Several soldiers with large bundles of rope on their backs nodded vigorously, tied their weapons behind their backs, and lined up one by one, climbing up quickly.

At this time, several patrols were sent to the Warat camp, which had not received any reply, and directly sent hundreds of people to investigate.

There is a gap between the two sides.

But one side is walking smoothly on the mountain, and the other side is climbing the cliff.

Whoever arrives first will win.

The soldier who cared about the captain became the leader.

He was also the fastest at the front.

There is a patrol above, and the captain may be fighting now, and even if one accidentally cuts the rope, he and the brothers below will fall directly off the cliff.

Although he was physically and mentally exhausted after a day of running and the life-threatening rush just now, he was still gritting his teeth and climbing up quickly.

At the same time, I kept muttering in my mouth, Captain, you must be okay and so on.

Maybe it's because I grew up in the mountains.

He climbed faster than the other soldiers, pulling the people behind him a distance of tens of meters.

Half an hour later, he finally climbed the cliff with his physical strength almost exhausted.

As soon as I reached the cliff, there were more than a dozen corpses lying on the ground, all of them from Warat.

Seeing this scene, the soldier's heart shook, although he was worried about the safety of the captain, he still took off the rope on his body as quickly as possible, tied it to a stone pillar, and threw the rope off the cliff.

Zhu Gaosui and the others, who were waiting below, saw that there was a rope thrown down, and understood that it was very safe above.

"Quick, 2nd batch!"

Zhu Gaosui, who kept looking up at the sky, heard the sound of the rope falling, and hurriedly ordered the second group of people to climb up quickly.

"Captain, Captain, how are you..."

After throwing the rope, the soldier quickly ran to the place where the rope was tied, and found the captain next to him, who was no longer alive.

Looking at the captain, who was covered in wounds and already stained with blood, tears of sadness flowed from the soldier's eyes.

They were a team of 10 people.

Except for the one who was seriously wounded and left behind, all but him were already dead.

Thinking of the promise of a few people to go to the largest green building in Peking to play together after the war, the man hugged the captain's body in pain and cried in a low voice.

"Brother, don't cry, we still have an unfinished mission, the emperor and His Royal Highness the grandson, will give their families the highest treatment."

The second petty officer who climbed up, he looked at the corpses around him and the soldiers who were holding a corpse of the Ming army and wept in a low voice, sighed, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him.

"Head... There's a fire over there, and there's an enemy coming! ”

Suddenly, a soldier who had just come up and was on guard noticed a string of fires in the distance, and hurriedly whispered a warning in his heart.

The officers and other soldiers who were tying ropes looked into the distance.

Based on the number of torches, the officer quickly judged how many enemies there were.

"At least a hundred!"

"Dog, you and this brother are here to watch the rope, waiting for His Royal Highness King Zhao and the other brothers, and the others will follow me, and I will stop these guys when I die!"

The others didn't say much, except for a slightly younger soldier named Dogzi.

The others drew their weapons one after another and quickly followed.

Soon, the sound of battle sounded in the distance.

The dog and the soldier who reported the news clenched the knives in their hands one by one, and their eyes were fixed on the distance.

They understand that they are the last line of defense.

Once the officer and the soldiers were all killed, they had to use their lives to stop the Varat men and buy time for the brothers behind.

But until another group of people came up from behind, the sound of fighting over there did not stop.

The soldiers who can be sent over for flank raids are all Mengren in each army.

Not to mention 1 to 10, with the help of the surrounding terrain to play 1 to 2 to 3 is still no problem.

The new group of soldiers who climbed up, and when they were about to come up, they heard the sound of battle over there.

Know that the situation is urgent.

They also did not care to rest, leaving two men and the dog and the soldier who told the news, and after defending the rope, the rest of the men were killed.

More and more people came up, and the sound of fighting over there became weaker and weaker, and finally it stopped completely.

After a while, a man covered in blood limped back.

The person who came was the first officer to rush forward just now.

"Head, where are the second brothers!"

The dog, who always remembered his mission to guard the rope, saw that his head was back, and hurriedly ran up to help, and at the same time asked about the safety of other comrades.

The officer glanced at him, shaking his head in his expectant eyes.

The dog was stunned for a moment.

He understood the meaning of the head, and the brothers were all gone.

The officer did not say a word or comfort his subordinates, limped over to the rope and sat down, staring at the dark sky in the distance.

"How's it going?"

About half a time later, Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui climbed up.

He didn't care about resting, and hurriedly asked the waiting officers.

The officer covered in blood said in a low voice: "I met a hundred-person patrol just now, and they have all been packed up, and none of them have escaped, but it is estimated that it will not be hidden for long." ”

"When they see that no one has returned, they will definitely send someone over to continue the investigation."

"Lao Liu led a team to explore, but he hasn't replied to the letter yet, I don't know if there was a problem or I didn't find the situation."

Zhu Gaosui glanced at the direction of the Warat camp in the distance, gritted his teeth and said to the officer covered in blood: "I can't care so much, I'll bring people over first, and here you take a few people to stay behind and protect the brothers behind." ”

After speaking, Zhu Gaosui patted the other party's shoulder, and led people to carry knives and quickly went to the Warat camp.

Just when the Ming army was preparing for tomorrow's decisive battle.

Outside the Warat camp, a man who was staggering in the dust rushed to the warning range.

"What people!"

The Warat sentinel, who was in charge of the guard, immediately became vigilant, drew his bow and arrows, and shouted at the figure.

"I'm from the big camp, take me to see the Great Khan, something happened."

The reason why this man didn't come here until now is because he ran all the way.

When the camp was attacked in the morning, some men grabbed their horses and rushed out of the camp.

As a result, he was discovered by the Ming cavalry patrolling outside and was shot directly on the spot.

After all, the goal of the war horse is too big, and it is very difficult to avoid the eyes of thousands of Ming soldiers.

And the only team that ran out on horseback also bumped into the team that reported the news, and it was directly cold.

Therefore, most of the Warats who escaped ran on their legs.

Hearing that it was from the large camp, the soldiers on guard sent two people down to check it out.

But as soon as they got closer, the two of them panicked.

The man was covered in blood and had a stab wound on his back, apparently from a battle before coming.

"What's going on, what's going on at the camp."

Thinking of his family in the camp, the two soldiers helped him up and asked quickly as he walked out.

The Warat man who reported the news did not say anything in a panic, but shook his head and asked the two of them to take him to the Great Khan quickly.

Seeing that the man would not speak, the two men asked no more questions, but helped him on his horse and galloped to the big camp.

Covered with sheepskin, without the slightest sleep, Mahamu, who was thinking about his next plan, heard someone from the base camp rushing over, as if something had happened, and hurriedly summoned the other party.

As soon as the man saw Mahamu, he fell to the ground crying bitterly and cried out: "Something happened to the Great Khan, and the big camp was attacked by the Ming army." ”

"What!"

Mahamu and the two soldiers who accompanied the man in exclaimed.

Hurriedly stepping forward, Mahamu grabbed the messenger.

"Tell me, when is it? How many enemies there are. ”

"Today's dawn, it was too dark, and it was too chaotic at that time, I didn't see how many enemies there were, but a conservative estimate is that there are 10,000 horsemen!"

"It's broken!"

Mahamu pushed the messenger away and ran out quickly, shouting as he ran.

"Tell everyone to assemble!"

"Filth, filth..."

And just as Mahamu ran out of the tent, shouting for the soldiers to gather, a hint of fish belly white appeared in the eastern sky.

At the same time, the humming sound of the shells piercing the air came from the side of the Ming army.

Ma Hamu looked back in the direction of the Ming army in a daze.

I saw dozens of small black dots in the sky, which were smashing rapidly.

At the same time, he also faintly heard the war drums of the Ming army's march and the shouts of the soldiers rushing to the sky.

"In this battle, I'm probably going to lose!"