Extremely thick inky clouds covered the entire sky, and not a single ray of light could penetrate through it, as if the nine heavens were about to crush the world, almost touching the top of people's heads.

There is silence between heaven and earth, there is no sound of flowers, grass and insects, and in the silence, there is only the gradually increasing sound of the wind, from gently flicking the corners of the clothes, and gradually people can't even stand steadily.

"Tick tock."

Fingernail-sized raindrops fell, and soon turned into an overwhelming curtain of rain, which fell on the mountain and merged into the mountain spring, and then converged into a small stream to flow down the mountain.

In the sound of the rain, a few people could be faintly heard talking, with an obvious Chu State accent, and there was a little anxiety in the voice.

In the cave, there are four or five people sitting, all dressed in simple clothes, quite like the ink writers of the past.

These people are very young, and there is a flash of light in their eyes from time to time, and they are extremely sharp.

The body looks strong and capable, the muscles on each arm are high and bulging, the skin is tanned by the wind and sun, and the hands are full of calluses.

If you are a person who has been in the military for a long time, you will know at a glance that these people are all marksmen in the army.

The oldest black-faced man in the crowd stroked the strong bow and crossbow beside him and muttered, "I don't know when this rain will stop."

I don't know how far the war between Qin and Zhao has progressed, and I hope we don't show up too late.

I must have a white hand to comfort the yin spirits of my parents and brothers. ”

His family of 17 was left with only three brothers and sisters who stayed in Jiangdong, but all the relatives in Yingdu died, and died in that defeat.

Not only the casualties of loved ones, but all the wealth was also wiped out with a great flood.

If he didn't have a surname to rely on, he would probably be completely reduced to a commoner, and his ancestors would be disgraced after death.

Those who kill Bai Qi will receive fifty li of land, which is a reward issued by the Chu royal family to the entire Zhuxia.

I don't know how many people went to Qin Zhao's battlefield and then were trapped in the mountains by this heavy rain.

If you can't find a good shelter from the rain, in this era where fever is basically equivalent to death, I am afraid that many warriors will die directly in this rain.

Everyone bowed their heads and said, "With King Taiyi Su above, the supreme god will bless us." ”

The tradition of witch sacrifice in Chu is very strong, and the Chu people are good ghosts and gods, and they are even more famous in Zhuxia.

Among the poems of the left disciple Qu Zi who circulated in various countries, the praise and praise of the gods were extremely good, and the Luoguo Office liked it very much, praising it as "the beauty of Chu Song, after the poem, there is no other".

Especially after King Su joined the faith of Chudi.

This is the only ancestral deity that has actually had a large number of miracles ever manifested.

As soon as the Chu royal family preached, the Chu people believed in ghosts and gods.

"King Su will be with us."

A voice with an accent obviously different from that of the Chu people sounded, and he was naturally not a Chu person, but a Luo person.

Qiao Yun is the best of Luomo, and his father is Qiao Cheng, the younger brother of Wu Gong.

His wife, a woman from the Chu State who had come to Luoguo with the mission, died in the seemingly never-ending rain when she returned to visit relatives in the capital of Ying.

He was silent for a long time, and after the public office decided to kill Bai Qi, he took the initiative to apply to his cousin Luo Ze to assassinate Bai Qi, which was a personal vendetta, and he chose to be with his uncle.

His figure is very strong, especially a pair of arms, the lines of the muscles almost hold up the clothes, but they do not look bloated, but full of strength.

There was a distinctly different strong bow at his side, and that bow was obviously a special bow and arrow, not to mention archery, and I am afraid that it would not even be possible to pull it apart a little.

The arrow in the man's hand was also extraordinary, and the position of the arrow was not the color of bronze, but a brighter metal with a slight white light.

This metal is called "sharp gold" in the country of Los Angeles.

It's hard to mine or craft weapons, but this metal is excellent for armor-piercing.

Far more than bronze, which is easy to curl the edge, as long as the arm strength is sufficient, it can shoot through directly, and it is not as brittle as iron and easy to break.

It's really a must-have artifact for killer assassins, but it's a pity that this metal is too little.

Part of Luo's hands is still directly exchanged and copied by whiteboard props.

Everyone looked at the strong bow and arrow with some envy, but they had tried the bow, and with their arm strength, they could only barely pull it away.

If they couldn't pull such a strong bow, it would be a waste for this sharp and unstoppable arrow to reach their hands.

"Boom!"

The gods above the nine heavens were angry, unscrupulously venting their divine might, and the lightning that snaked like a net appeared in an instant, attracting a moment of light between heaven and earth, and then returning to darkness again, and the deafening thunder resounded in everyone's hearts.

This sudden heavy rain not only did not stop, but became heavier, as if it was offering an elegy to the world and mourning the lives of the people who died in battle.

A painful expression appeared on everyone's faces, and the heavy rain that seemed to not stop reminded everyone of the heavy rain that almost destroyed the Chu State.

……

On the battlefields of Qin and Zhao, there were already corpses all over the field.

Lian Po has left the battlefield and was transferred back to Handan by King Zhao, and now on the battlefield is the most outstanding genius of the new generation of Zhao State, Zhao Kuo.

Things have to start with the confrontation between Lian Po and Bai Qi.

As Lian Po had predicted, the state of Zhao, which lacked a place in the shape of mountains and rivers, really could not effectively resist the attack of the Qin state, and he could only use the existing terrain of the state of Zhao to rebuild some cities and fortresses that were difficult to attack.

But what is built by man is not as good as what is made by heaven.

Just as the Kunshan Mountains leading to the Qin State and the mountains of the Bashu Land are rugged and difficult to navigate, building a city can withstand a million armies, where can people compare?

But the reason why Zhao was able to hold on was because Bai Qi wanted to lure the enemy deep and lead Zhao's army into the pocket array.

Then the Qin State only needs to hold a few key passes, and the army of the Zhao State will be trapped and killed in them, which is Bai Qi's consistent practice.

But Lian Po is a famous general in the world, so he is not fooled at all.

He knew very well that most of the passes in Jinzhong were in the hands of the Qin State.

Once he rashly attacks, there is a high probability that he will be defeated by the Qin army and cut off the back road.

The Qin army even only needed to control a few cities to complete the siege of the Zhao army, which was not very difficult to say.

Once trapped, the only thing the Zhao army could do was to attack the defense line composed of mountains and dangerous passes.

I felt stupid when I heard this, the Zhao army, which was cut off from water and food, to attack the defense line composed of elite Qin troops, it was simply a dream.

Therefore, in the face of the defeat of the Qin army several times, Lian Po concluded that there must be fraud in it.

Even if he is at war with the Qin State now, the defense line is always shaky.

But Lian Po is by no means greedy for advantages, and he is here to spend with the Qin State, and he must not take risks.

Although he was very anxious in his heart, because the grain and grass of Zhao State was indeed not enough to supply the needs of the army as he expected.

And it's not enough.

Because of the repeated natural disasters in Zhao over the years, a large number of grain production has been reduced.

In the past, Bang Zhou was so powerful and was defeated by natural disasters, how could Zhao avoid it?

For a moment, the generals on both sides of the confrontation on the battlefield were in a hurry.

Bai Qi's strategic goal could not be achieved, and he didn't know that Zhao Guo was going to run out of food, so he had to rack his brains to think about countermeasures.

Lian Po couldn't find a way to win the battle at all, and he had to watch the situation of the war step by step towards a situation of superiority over the Qin State.

And once the food ran out, Lian Po's only choice was to lead the army to withdraw from these cities and give them to the Qin state.

Bai Qi learned that Zhao had already complained about Lian's conservative war strategy, and immediately decided to sacrifice the classic tactics of Qin and let Zhao change generals.

The letter of reprimand from the court of Zhao had come many times before this, in which he rebuked Lian Po: "You are the general of Zhao State, and the king appointed you as the commander because he trusted you.

But he has been cowering in the city and not daring to fight, is it because of fear?

On the battle report, Zhao Guoerlang was brave and defeated the Qin army several times, but you didn't let the pursuit, causing the fighter to be delayed, isn't it your fault?

As a commander but afraid of the Qin people, can he lead the Zhao State to victory? ”

Bai Qi's plan to lure the enemy deeper, coupled with Lian Po's fact that he is really good at using troops.

On the surface, Zhao did achieve a big victory.

This made the king of Zhao and the ministers who did not understand military affairs contempt for Qin and Bai Qi, and coupled with the exhaustion of grain and grass, Zhao urgently needed a decisive battle.

When the order to change the general arrived, Lian Po was not angry, but had a complicated expression, he knew that this was his doomed end.

He said to the left and right: "Manpower is sometimes exhausted, and I can't solve the current situation.

If there are generals like King Wu, the soldier master Xiong Dun, and Luo Wugong in the world, taking the lead, with 30,000 elite soldiers, driving the wind and snow, maybe they can face the Qin State and win, so that Bai Qi's plans will fail. ”

Lian Po is also a general in the military power and planning system, although there is a gap between him and Bai Qi in terms of personal ability, it is not big, mainly because of the different directions he is good at.

But because of the gap in national strength between Qin and Zhao, Lian Po could only withdraw gloomily.

……

Blood.

There were corpses all over the mountains, and countless Zhao people were swarming towards the pass, like a plague of locusts.

But everything was in vain, without carrying a large number of siege equipment, trying to attack the city was simply a dream, countless corpses fell to the ground, but the city was like a towering mountain, unshakable.

Go down in flames.

Surrender.

Surrender does not die.

Zhao Ren laid down his weapon.

And then came the slaughter.

The morning dawned, and Bai Qi finally appeared in front of everyone.

This is the closest city to Handan City, and he looked at it from afar, and his heart was stirring.

Within a few dozen paces of him, a team of fully armored warriors protected him, and within three hundred steps, the elite of the Qin army could arrive at any time.

This was already the time when the defense was at its weakest, and the Qin army was searching the whole city.

The surrounding houses have been demolished and no one can hide.

In fact, as long as they controlled the distance within a hundred paces, the Assassins were basically useless.

He gently unfastened his armor, and his face was old and pale.

All the Zhao people who were kneeling on the side of the road looked at him with hatred on their faces, but Bai Qi didn't care.

From the time he appeared, he had to encounter assassinations almost every day, and in the land of Zhao, he could not travel on his own at all.

That's simply looking for death.

"Your Majesty, there is only Luo Guo left, and you will be the new Son of Heaven."

Bai Qi gently stroked the sword, and then his face froze.

"Poof!"

Six hundred steps away, Qiao Yun's arm was covered with blood, his arm was useless, but his face was cold.

"People will eventually die!"

(End of chapter)