Chapter 726: The snake coils and the goose has no white bones
Chapter 726: The snake coils and the goose has no white bones
In Chuzhou in February, although it was still cold and windy, but the noon sun was already quite hot, the cold rain that fell half a month ago had long been sunburned without traces, and the dead leaves that had fallen for a winter were piled up more than a foot high under the shrubs in the forest, plus the dead branches, but it was like a big warm quilt spread on the ground.
Dayan Mountain, is not high, the whole mountain peak is only more than 600 meters, look up to see the top of the mountain, a mountain road directly from more than 100 meters high down the mountainside horizontal axe split, but it is embedded in the mountain half zhang, and the side of the mountain road, the steep mountain, is the famous snake ditch.
This road, in ancient times, there was a snake coiled goose without white bones, and it is said that this mountain road at first only had a mountain path for mountain people to enter the mountain, but later, there were two strong people duel here, an axe cut out a deep mark of more than ten miles on the wild goose mountain, and the other strong one, a knife split out of the snake ditch at the bottom of the mountain.
Although I don't know if this is true or not, but there is a mountain road today, although this passage is not wide, but it can also pass two large cars side by side, if it is a single car, but it is still quite wide.
Departing from Huye Town early in the morning, if you don't delay the time, you can just rush through this hilly mountain road before nightfall.
Fox Hill is just like its name, but it is a low hill like a thin fox, enter the Fox Hill Valley Road, the road is still quite wide, the team of two cars side by side, but it is more than enough, the line is about ten miles, the sun has almost pointed to noon, the convoy is considered to have arrived at the north entrance of Dayan Mountain.
From the fox hill to Dayan Mountain, it is a small slope with a low slope, and here up, the team is to change from two cars to one car, after all, some big cars, there are still some parts of the equipment, but it takes up a lot of space.
The convoy entered the mountain road leisurely, although the north and south of the mountain road have now been controlled, but the general who guarded the baggage was still quite cautious to send scouts to avoid mistakes.
This hilly mountain road, the fox hill is nearly ten miles, the wild goose pan road is more than ten miles, plus the remaining six or seven miles, the total length is almost thirty miles, if the three thousand soldiers of this escort pull the distance, it can almost be pulled from Huye Town to the south crossing.
But obviously, this escort could not be pulled into a long snake, more than two hundred carts were pulled into a line, but there was still room for soldiers and horses to march on the mountain road, so the whole team was only five or six miles long, but it was just crammed into this mountain road.
Xue Rengui took three of his subordinates to take the first step, naturally in front of the baggage team, and rushed to the south of Dayan Mountain Road first, almost a mile away from the exit, Xue Rengui stopped.
"My lord, are you setting up an ambush here?" Sanbao also stopped, and said to Xue Rengui with a little smoke in his throat, at this moment, above his head, but the scorching sun was hanging in the sky, and he was walking on the official road in order to hurry, but there was no shade to block it, and he couldn't stand the sun for a long time.
Xue Rengui shook his head and said, "The three of you continue to move forward, it's best to find a place where you can hide people's streams, and when the fire burns, you won't be able to divide the enemy from me."
"What about the adults?"
"Don't worry, I'll be able to catch up later"
The three of them just hesitated for a moment, then nodded, their own adults' physical strength is extraordinary, and they are walking like flying, and it should be easy to catch up with them: "Then my lord, we are waiting for you in front"
Watching the three of them leave, Xue Rengui turned his head directly and saw a rather eye-catching slanting mountain willow on the slope on his side, the position of this willow tree is above the slope of the mountain road, but the thick old trunk is oblique three or five zhang, and the wicker is like a curtain hanging above the mountain road.
But at this moment, the wicker is yellow and stiff, and even the leaves are falling off jīng light, but there are only some broken branches hanging, far from the imaginary meaning, but Xue Rengui is taking a fancy to this slanted mountain willow tree, this willow tree falls, it can't stop people, but it can stop the carriage, and if you want to move this tree, it will take a little time.
Xue Rengui jumped up at the moment, grabbed a horizontal branch, and exerted his arms, but he turned onto the willow tree, the trunk of this willow tree is difficult for anyone to hug, and the side of this mountain road is even thicker, I am afraid that this area will be closed, and it is not easy to overwhelm this old tree.
Although Xue Rengui had a brute force, he also knew that he wanted to suppress the willow tree, but he couldn't reach it by brute force alone, and when he came to the root of the tree, he checked it for a while, and finally came and jumped under the tree, looking at the part that was recessed into the mountainside, but he lifted the Huwei Fangtian painting halberd in his hand.
Holding Fang Tian's painting halberd with both hands, his arms were around the top of his head, and he quickly swiped Fang Tian's painting halberd, a whistling wind sounded in his ears, and in that wind, there was a faint roaring sound.
The six-winged wind phantom holy beast broke out of the Fang Tian painting halberd, waved its claws that were indistinguishable from reality, and slashed several sharp claw wind blades towards the intricately intertwined willow tree roots, puff, the wind blade was fast on the root, submerged in the soil layer, but what was surprising was that the outer layer of the root did not have any traces of being cut off, and there was only a muffled sound in the ears.
Swinging this halberd, Xue Rengui came to the middle of the willow trunk, and kept one of the main trunks of the willow tree with both hands, and the six-winged wind illusion holy beast that was internalized from Fang Tian's painting halberd also landed on the willow trunk, but said to Xue Rengui: "It's really a superfluous move, it's just some ants that have not been killed, why bother so much."
Xue Rengui glanced at the six-winged wind illusion holy beast, but he didn't say anything, it was undeniable that the Tiger Fang Heaven Painting Halberd was very powerful, and the beast soul he possessed was also extremely powerful, if he really stopped on the road and killed all the way, he might not be able to kill all the three thousand enemy troops.
But Xue Rengui didn't want to rely too much on this holy soldier, and this Wind Illusion Holy Beast was very cunning, even more cunning than some people, the other party was able to absorb jīng blood to improve its strength, who knows if this Wind Illusion Holy Beast absorbed enough power, would it retaliate against him.
Ah, Xue Rengui's arms suddenly exerted force, and the huge willow tree couldn't help shaking, and the roots made a creaking sound, before Xue Rengui's halberd cut off a lot of the rhizomes of the willow tree, but they were all in the soil, so it was difficult to be discovered, but this old tree was not so knocked down.
However, having lost a large number of rhizomes, Xue Rengui's strength still pulled the willow tree drooping downward, but this was far from enough.
The six-winged wind phantom holy beast suddenly raised its head, its ears turned smartly twice, but it lowered its head, and said, "There is a scout rider coming, or help you" The six-winged wind phantom holy beast suddenly jumped up and landed on the top of the tree trunk, still a few inches away from the trunk, but it was not falling.
A wall of air blocked the claws of the holy beast, or rather, it was the qi wall shot out by the six-winged wind phantom holy beast, this air wall was covered on the trunk of the tree, and the power of the holy beast was suddenly blessed on the trunk, and suddenly, the roots of the tree that were deep under the ground were lifted out, and the willow tree also lowered its head and pressed against the ground.
It didn't take long for the seven or eight horse scouts to gallop over, but they were blocked by the hanging willow tree: "This?"
The leader of the scout squad also frowned slightly, and looked at it for a moment: "There is no trace of the sword, look at the place where this root is broken, it is broken, and it cannot be reached without tens of thousands of catties of strength."
"Captain, could it be an ambush?
"No, if there is an ambush, there is no need to be so troublesome, just cut down the tree and it will be over, why bother, there is such a thick tree, who has so much strength to fall"
"And this?"
"Don't forget, manpower can't do it, but it doesn't mean that the monster can't do it, know where this is, Dayan Mountain, the snake disc falls wild goose without white bones, it is said that this snake ditch has a powerful python, the body is more than 20 zhang long, enough to have a grinding disc thick, it is not good that this giant python does a good thing"
"No, isn't it?" The other scouts shuddered when they heard the captain talk about the python, and their faces turned earthy.
"Hehe, don't worry, pythons don't like the sun, it's noon, when the sun is scorching, pythons are hiding in the dark dòng, they won't come out, if it's night, maybe it's night" The scout captain said, turned his head, and said to a person: "You go and report, the rest of the people help me cut down this willow tree, don't delay the time"
The branches of this old willow tree were unusually strong, and the sword cut on it, only some debris could be chopped, and several scouts cut most of the time, but they did not cut this old willow tree, until half an hour later, when the baggage front team arrived, and still did not move the old willow tree.
"What's going on, a broken tree, why hasn't the order been moved for so long, the convoy is suspended. The general looked at the willow tree blocking the way and said to his subordinates.
"My lord, this tree is connected to the roots, and the trunk can only be removed by cutting it first, but our sword cutting this tree is a bit laborious, and the knife is rolled up, so we can cut off a small half."
"Oh" The general couldn't help frowning and stepped forward to look, the willow trunk was as thick as a millstone, the trunk was tough, and the guy who didn't take advantage of it was really a little difficult to cut: "Get out of the way, look at me" The knife in the general's hand was a spiritual weapon, and when he pulled out the scabbard, a red fire flashed.
The general raised the knife, the spiritual power in his body gushed out, attached to the blade, and slashed downward, obviously compared to the scout who cut for nearly an hour, but not even half of it, this knife went down, but the fire splashed, and the blade directly sank into the willow trunk more than a foot.
In this way, the trunk of the tree can be completely split without four or five knives, although it has been delayed for a while, but it cannot be delayed for too long, but this large group of chariots and horses has stopped, and it is not so easy to march, and I am afraid that it will have to delay some efforts before and after.
"My lord, this carriage and horses have stopped, it is better to let the brothers rest for a while, after walking for most of the day, but they have not yet taken a breath, and this day is too poisonous, it is better to stay cooler and move forward, even if it will be a little late, it will not be much an hour or two late."
"Yes, my lord, people really can't stand it if they go on like this" and someone also stepped forward to persuade them, these auxiliaries themselves are mostly inadequate local soldiers, where can they suffer.
The general who led the army also wiped his forehead, he belonged to the fire attribute, but he was even more intolerant to heat, looked at the sun, and said: "Okay, just rest for half an hour and wait for the weather to be cooler, and walk"