Zhao Lanjiang and Dong Dayou came to the high place and saw that the Western Chu army had launched the next round of offensive, and a rough calculation showed that there were nearly more than 50,000 people.

This is the largest number of troops sent by the Chu army since the last month, and on the side of the Western Army, there are only 30,000 soldiers and horses and Zhao Lanjiang brought this group of people.

There is a huge disparity between the forces of the enemy and us, and the equipment and passes defending the city have not yet been repaired, Dong Dayou said, "Old Zhao, you come to give orders." ”

Changing commanders on the spot is a taboo for the army.

Zhao Lanjiang understands this truth, and the battle of Hulukou has always been commanded by Dong Dayou, whether it is the terrain or soldiers and horses, he is familiar with the road, if he rashly changes the general, the situation will only be worse, so he said, "You will treat me as a guerrilla general who leads the troops, and everything is under your command." ”

Dong Dayou looked grateful and said, "I'm not welcome." ”

In this battle, Dong Dayou's 80,000 soldiers and horses lost most of them, and at this moment he was holding back a lot of strength in his heart, no matter what, he couldn't give up the gourd mouth, dozens of orders were issued one after another, some ordered people to repair the city wall, control the water source, and some ordered people to prepare bows and crossbows, trebuchets, from the front line to the logistics support, no matter how big or small.

Zhao Lanjiang listened to it next to him and admired it very much. Although he was a guerrilla general, he still lacked fire for the overall dispatch of soldiers and horses, and although the Battle of Yinyang defeated the Northern Zhou, Li Xianzhong played a huge role in logistics and material supply scheduling. A few years ago, Dong Dayou was a guerrilla general with him, and now he has become a leading general who can stand alone. Thinking of this, he collected his mind and listened carefully.

The mouth of the gourd is like a gourd, the three major passes, the westernmost is controlled by the West Chu, the easternmost is the Ming West Eleven Guards, the dispute between the two countries lies in the extremely narrow pass of the gourd waist, here is only more than ten zhang, after several confrontations, this pass has been damaged.

Zhao Lanjiang saw that there were two magic cannons on the broken city wall, and abandoned them, and asked, "Why don't you use them?"

Dong Dayou said, "The Shenji cannon made them suffer a lot, and when they occupied it last time, they had already said that the cannon chamber had been destroyed, and the repaired craftsman had died in battle, and this thing had become two piles of scrap metal." ”

"Is there still gunpowder in the army?"

"It should be possible to get together two boxes, this thing is difficult to control, and it is a drop in the bucket to deal with Xi Chu, it is not very useful, it is better to pick up some bows and arrows. ”

Zhao Lanjiang raised his head, looked at Hulu Mountain, and asked, "Why don't you ambush troops on the top of the mountain?"

Dong Dayou smiled bitterly, "It's not that I haven't thought about it, it's just that this mountain is three hundred zhang high, and there is no road to the top, otherwise, there would be no saying that there are two roads in Hulu Mountain and a line of sky." ”

This is true.

After decades or centuries of war, the borders of the two countries are generally fixed in the mountains and rivers that can be resisted, so as to achieve a kind of balance. For example, in the Central Plains and Shandong, when the 72 countries were in turmoil, because there was no danger to defend, it changed hands ten times within a hundred years.

Zhao Lanjiang looked at the top of the mountain, there were several huge stones of dozens of zhang, extending out of the mountain, like a Wolong lying on the top of the mountain, and a bold idea came out of his heart.

"If you can blow up the top of the mountain and block the mouth of the gourd, I don't know if it's possible?"

Dong Dayou said, "I've thought about it many times, and I'm afraid that Xichu has not thought about it less, and the method is feasible, but it is difficult to reach the top." ”

Zhao Lanjiang looked at it for a moment and said, "I'll figure it out." ”

Bang!

A huge stone roared and smashed into the city wall, smashing the city wall into a pit the size of one zhang, and more than a dozen soldiers who were conscripted to the west could not dodge and were smashed into flesh.

"Archer!"

Countless arrows shot like locusts at the Western Chu army.

The siege began.

Zhao Lanjiang said, "Lao Dong, I will deliver three thousand righteous servants and other soldiers and horses to you, please be sure to hold on until noon." ”

"What are you going to do?"

Zhao Lanjiang pointed to the top of the mountain, "I want to try!" He added, "If you see me climbing to the top of the mountain, you will immediately order the withdrawal of the army and withdraw the troops and horses to the east entrance." ”

"You're going to cut them off?"

That's exactly what I mean. When they have crossed the pass, I will intercept them with a boulder, and divide them into two, and when the time comes, we will catch turtles in an urn. ”

Zhao Lanjiang explained, Ye Erlang was originally the general of the Huozi Battalion, and his rank was lower than Dong Dayou, and the other White Horse Servants were all brought by Zhao Lanjiang from Yinyang City, and with his orders, everyone had to obey the order.

An hour later.

Zhao Lanjiang carried a box of gunpowder on his back and climbed to a height of 100 zhang. It's not difficult to get this hundred feet ahead. Those who know a little bit of martial arts can also climb up with the help of ropes, hooks and other tools.

Ten Western Chu scouts watched the battlefield situation here, and constantly reported to the Western Chu side through the flag, Zhao Lanjiang suddenly attacked, and the Western Chu scouts did not react, and they died one after another, leaving only one alive.

"The general spares his life!"

Seeing that he spoke fluent Chinese, Zhao Lanjiang asked, "Why should I spare you?"

The man said, "I am a scout of Western Chu, proficient in the flag language, and if the general spares my life, I can send them the wrong news." ”

Zhao Lanjiang looked down from this side, only to see that under the mountain stream, the black pressure was pressing, the soldiers and horses of Western Chu were less than thirty zhang away from the pass, and Western Chu was still increasing troops, if it went on like this, I am afraid that before it got dark, the middle pass would have been lost.

Zhao Lanjiang said, "Tell the standard-bearer under the mountain that the Ming reinforcements have arrived, and there are ten magic cannons, which are about to be prepared." ”

The Xichu scout stood up, took out two flags, and passed the message down the mountain. After the communication, Zhao Lanjiang saw that instead of retreating, the Western Chu army stepped up its offensive. Not long after, dozens of military experts surrounded this side.

Zhao Lanjiang said angrily, "Dare to lie to me?"

The Western Chu scout said, "I, the Western Chu scout Tang Prophet, only die in battle, not surrender!"

Zhao Yanjiang said that this scout is also a hero. "Don Prophet. Zhao Lanjiang muttered, "If it weren't for the different positions of the two sides, maybe they would still be friends." ”

He looked around and saw that the soldiers and horses of Western Chu had come to him. Seeing the costumes, Zhao Lanjiang had already recognized them, it was the shadow.

The shadow is the most elite force of the Western Chu military, performing tasks such as espionage and assassination, and it is also joined by the people in the rivers and lakes recruited by the Western Chu army from Western Chu.

The leader had a hooked nose, curly hair, and a left eye missing, he looked at Zhao Lanjiang and said, "You killed all of our brothers?"

Zhao Lanjiang smiled, "They accidentally bumped into my knife. ”

The one-eyed dragon said, "Put down the knife, kneel, maybe leave you a whole corpse." ”

Zhao Lanjiang said, "I'm not comfortable with people, if I don't fight, I can't fight, and when I fight, I must kill enough 100 people to stop." ”

The one-eyed dragon said, "How does this sound familiar, no, why do I feel as if I have seen you somewhere?"

Zhao Lanjiang said, "If I remember correctly, five years ago, in Hengduan Mountain, we met once, and your eye seems to have been pierced by me." ”

The one-eyed dragon finally recognized him and said in a trembling voice, "You are the wolf of Hengduan Mountain?"

The name of a man, the shadow of a tree.

In the Central Plains, if you want to talk about the wolf of Hengduan Mountain, I'm afraid few people can know about this person, but in Western Chu, especially in the shadows, the wolf of Hengduan Mountain is almost a nightmare. With the power of one person, he killed nearly 100 shadows in the jungle, captured the prince alive, and let the shadows go

Zi became a joke in Xichu.

Zhao Lanjiang said, "Your memory is not bad." ”

The one-eyed dragon said, "Is it too late?"

"What's in time?"

"I'm running now, is it too late?"

Zhao Lanjiang thought for a while and said, "Do your best." ”

Crash!

Everyone threw away their blades, turned around and ran, Zhao Lanjiang picked up a stone, smashed the stone, and threw it at the group of people, poof, puff, dozens of sounds, these Xichu elites died tragically on the spot, and only the one-eyed dragon was left.

"Come back!"

The one-eyed dragon was also obedient and obediently came to Zhao Lanjiang's side.

"Do you want to die, or do you want to live?"

"I want to live!"

Zhao Lanjiang said, "If you want to live, you can also do it." He didn't want to plan to be exposed, so he said to the one-eyed dragon, "I didn't kill these shadows." ”

The one-eyed dragon said, "Understood! They accidentally stepped on the air and fell to their deaths." ”

"Yes, that's what it means. Zhao Baojiang said, "You shadows are not allowed to seek revenge with me!"

The one-eyed dragon said: "Understand! Not only will I not seek revenge with you today, but I will not seek revenge with you in the future!"

"Yes, that's what it means. Also, you haven't seen me today. ”

The one-eyed dragon said, "I understand, not only did I not see you today, but I won't see you in the future." So saying, he stretched out his hand and blinded his other eye.

Zhao Lanjiang said, "That's not what I meant. ”

The one-eyed dragon scolded, "Didn't you fucking make it clear sooner?"

Zhao Lanjiang shook his head, "You can do it yourself." With that, he took the powder box and went to the bottom of the cliff.

"Ahh

There was a terrible scream behind him, and the sound faded away, and it was the blind man who stepped into the air and fell off the cliff.

The remaining two hundred zhang peaks, like a knife, towered into the clouds. If you want to blow up the Wolloon Stone, you must climb the cliff to the top.

"Only Belli gave it a try!"

Zhao Lanjiang tied the box to his waist, condensed his strength, and suddenly jumped up more than three zhang high, when he reached the highest point, Zhao Lanjiang's feet were on a stone, taking the opportunity to ventilate, and he jumped upwards again, and then rose three or four zhang, and the golden knife was swung out, and a knife was inserted into the cliff.

These two leaps, seemingly simple, are actually a test of Zhao Lanjiang's eyesight, internal strength and judgment, without the blessing of the Hidden Yang Array, Zhao Lanjiang still has the realm of Tongxiang, if it is only dozens of zhang high, Zhao Lanjiang can rely on brute force to climb, but here more than two hundred zhang, he still has a hundred catties of gunpowder on his back, Zhao Lanjiang must allocate physical strength and internal force.

The real air turned, and Zhao Lanjiang jumped more than a dozen times in a row, and finally exhausted all his strength. He clinged to a raised stone and breathed heavily. The higher you go, the thinner the air becomes, and the true qi between heaven and earth is not as good as the ground.

From a distance, on the cliff that hangs like a knife, there is a black figure, like an ape, jumping upwards and climbing.

The mountain wind of late autumn blew on his face like a knife.

Zhao Lanjiang suddenly didn't realize it, gritted his teeth, at first jumped three or four times a time, to rest for a while, to more than half of the time, Zhao Lanjiang was exhausted, a few times, he almost got out of his hands, fell into the mountain stream, the higher he went up, the slower the speed, the distance was only more than half a zhang, he completely relied on a willpower, step by step upward.

In the last thirty zhang, the true qi in Zhao Lanjiang's body had been exhausted, and his physical strength was close to the limit, and he didn't even have the strength to lift his arms.

It's a one-man battle.

Zhao Lanjiang looked down the mountain, and the Western Chu army had attacked the city of Guankou, and the armies of both sides, like ants fighting, appeared in his eyes.

An eagle, flying in front of him, let out a high-pitched chirp. The eagle spread its wings and looked down at the earth, as if seeing the battle below the mountain, it circled for a moment, flapped its wings and flew away into the distance.

How can the eagle in the sky pay attention to the battle of the ants on the ground?

Zhao Lanjiang secretly thought in his heart, the supreme heavenly dao on Shujian Mountain, looking at the world for hundreds of years, probably would have this kind of emotion.

But he's not an eagle, he's an ant.

And under the mountain, there are countless ants, and he wants to rescue them. However, he couldn't muster any strength, and the top of the mountain was thirty zhang away, which seemed to be within reach, but it was like a moat.

He was cold and hungry.

He forcibly endured and climbed two or three feet upward.

Suddenly, he touched something in his hand, Zhao Lanjiang looked at it, but it was a red sè Ganoderma lucidum grass, Zhao Lanjiang had seen Ganoderma lucidum, but he had never seen a red sè Ganoderma lucidum, which looked delicate. He heard that among the cliffs, there are often heavenly and earthly treasures, but he didn't expect to encounter them here.

He didn't want to think about it, so he grabbed the Ganoderma lucidum grass, swallowed it like a date, and swallowed it into his stomach.

Zhao Lanjiang also didn't expect that this Ganoderma lucidum-like herb, whose real name is Zhuzhu Grass, is one of the three major elixirs in the world. If a dying person eats it, it can prolong his life for a year, while ordinary warriors eat it, which has the effect of widening the meridians. If Zhao Lanjiang picks the Zhuzhu grass and takes it into pills, it will be of great benefit to martial arts, and this Jiangzhu grass has the effect of detoxification, but after eating, it almost killed him.

A stream of heat rises from the lower abdomen.

Zhao Lanjiang felt unbearable abdominal pain, and at this moment his whole body was collapsed, almost fainted, and fell into the cliff.

"No, you must not die!"

Zhao Lanjiang opened his eyes suddenly, waved the knife in his right hand, grasped the stone crack with his left hand, and climbed up step by step, finally, the last trace of strength was exhausted, and Zhao Lanjiang climbed to the top of the mountain.

As soon as I climbed the mountain, I was busy unbuttoning my belt.

It was only after he had excreted that he regained some strength.

He was afraid in his heart, and secretly said that he could no longer eat things from unknown sources.

Wolong Stone is more than ten zhang long and two zhang wide, and the gunpowder brought with him can blow him up, and he is not sure in his heart.

It was noon.

At the bottom of the mountain, the two armies were like sesame dots, and the shouts and roars came up the valley.

Zhao Lanjiang sat down and exercised, this luck, he felt that within the dantian, the true qi seemed to become full, and the Zhuzhu grass was born on the cliff, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon all year round, and gathered countless true yuan.

Now that the luck is working, the effect of the medicine has worked, Zhao Lanjiang only feels that the heaven and the earth have become staggered, and the perception is abnormal, and the divine consciousness is scattered, although he can move his mind.

Zhao Lanjiang is familiar with this feeling in his heart, and this is a perception that only exists in the middle realm. In Hidden Sun City, he could only do this with the blessing of the Great Array.

But he understands that he is still in the primordial realm.

Zhao Lanjiang already understood that it was the function of the Zhuzhu grass that he had just taken. Many martial arts families will exchange all kinds of elixirs from the rivers and lakes, and some people's martial arts cultivation has reached a bottleneck, so they rely on these elixirs to break through the realm.

There are also some people who have limited comprehension and can't touch the higher realm of martial arts, so they will finally use some pills to further improve the realm. This phenomenon is even more common among the masters of the Upper Realm of Knowledge.

Some people who know the Xuan Upper Realm, with the help of pills, can obtain some abilities of the Transcendent Realm, but they are not really Transcendent Realms, so they are called pseudo-Transcendent Realms.

Zhao Lanjiang didn't care about the gains and losses, after a few weeks, the true yuan in his body was far better than before, but he didn't expect that this time, because of the blessing of misfortune, Zhao Lanjiang didn't care about celebrating, took out the golden knife, and transported the true qi

, and slashed down on the Wolong Stone.

Dangdang!

After more than a dozen knives, the Wolong Stone cut out a number of holes, and what made him strange was that every time the true yuan was exhausted, the heat flow generated by the Zhuzhu grass in his body could fill the true yuan in just a few thoughts.

However, this situation did not last long, after four or five times, the effect of the Zhuzhu herb had passed, and Zhao Lanjiang returned to the same state.

"It turned out to be a disposable!"

Zhao Lanjiang felt a little pity, but the Wolong Stone had cut out a big gap, Zhao Lanjiang took the gunpowder, stuffed them into the crack of the stone, and used gunpowder powder to draw out a fuse of more than ten zhang.

Everything is ready.

Zhao Lanjiang took out a huge red cloth from his bosom and hung it on the Wolong Stone. This is the signal that he agreed with Dong Dayou, once he sees this red cloth, Dong Dayou will withdraw his troops.

Half an hour later, Dong Dayou had led the western army to withdraw to the eastern pass. The Western Chu army occupied the waist and planted the Western Chu banner on the city wall.

All at once.

The Western Chu army made a slight adjustment, waved the handsome flag, and continued to march eastward, and after another half an hour, nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses passed through the waist and marched to the east to conquer the western army.

Zhao Lanjiang regained his strength, looked at the Western Chu army under the mountain, and said, "Today, the overall situation of Western Xinjiang will be decided!"

He touched his waist, and his face turned pale.

Forgot to bring fire.

......

Hulukou East Pass.

When Dong Dayou saw the red cloth on the top of the mountain, he already knew that Zhao Lanjiang had completed the deployment, and hurriedly led the army to withdraw, and the soldiers and horses of Western Chu did not stop at all, and continued to advance eastward, and had already attacked under the city wall of the East Pass.

On the urn city, ten thousand arrows were fired.

30,000 soldiers and horses against 50,000, there is a steady stream of Chu soldiers coming back, Dong Dayou has a feeling of powerlessness, if he doesn't take action, I'm afraid that once the pass falls, the entire northern front of the western Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty will be beaten out of the gap, from here to Yinyang City, one horse Pingchuan, I'm afraid that the situation of this war can no longer be reversed.

He had already ordered the people here to evacuate, and lit a beacon fire to call for help from the other guards. The nearest West Ten Guards is thirty miles away. In the battle of Hidden Sun, they suffered heavy losses, and now they are resting, even if they ask for help now, if they want to arrive, it will be nearly more than an hour.

Dong Dayou said in his heart, "Zhao Lanjiang, Zhao Lanjiang, don't let me down!"

......

Mountaintop.

Zhao Lanjiang tried all means to light the fuse, drill wood to get water, the temperature was low, he used a knife to split the stone, and after the spark was ignited, it was blown out by the wind.

If it is too far away, the lead will not detonate the gunpowder.

If he gets too close, he can't escape in time.

Zhao Lanjiang fell into a dilemma, he turned around the top of the mountain for a while, and suddenly found a few Zhuzhu grasses, he already knew the wonderful use of this grass, at the moment he couldn't care about a lot, ate a few grasses, after the true qi recovered, he came to the Wolong Stone, used all his strength, and slashed out hard.

Mars ignited.

Bang!

There was a loud bang.

Half of the Wolong stone has already been hollowed out, filled with gunpowder, at this moment the gunpowder ignited, the landslide cracked, the whole stone, as if cut in half by the mountain axe, fell down with a bang.

This boulder, which is hundreds of thousands of catties, fell from under the top of the mountain, with a thunderous roar, smashed on the cliff, and smashed countless smaller stones.

In an instant, the sound of thunder resounded in the sky.

Thousands of stones, under the impact of the Wolong Stone, fell towards the middle waist of Hulu Mountain, like a flood beast, about to swallow the entire valley.

Disaster from the sky!

The Western Chu army suddenly became disorganized, throwing away its blades in front and running to the rear, while the rear was piled up.

Man-made disasters are easy to block, and natural disasters are prevented.

The sound of wailing, screaming, and the sound of falling rocks filled the valley, and the whole gourd mouth became a hell on earth.

The roar continued for nearly an hour.

When the sound gradually stopped, the entire waist of the gourd mouth was intercepted by tens of thousands of stones, and the Western Chu army suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, while the remaining 30,000 people were trapped in the valley!

The Western Army was at the end of its rope at the moment, and suddenly saw a vision from the sky, and suddenly came to the spirit, and shouted one after another, "God bless Daming!"

"God bless the Ming!"

At the moment of smashing, Zhao Lanjiang returned to the top of the mountain with the help of the power of the rebound. His mission was completed, but it was easy to go up the mountain, but it was difficult to go down, and how to go down became a big problem!

The eagle from before went and returned, hovering over his head. His eyes were full of hostility, and he seemed to be very dissatisfied with Zhao Lanjiang.

Zhao Lanjiang went to pick a bead grass again.

The eagle hissed and pounced on him.

Zhao Lanjiang realized that it was taking care of these bead grasses! Zhao Lanjiang laughed and said, "Brother Eagle, these grasses have helped me a lot, thank you!"

The eagle came down with one claw, stuck to Zhao Lanjiang's head, and pounced, its claws grabbed on the stone, and the stone was shattered.

One person and one eagle, fought for more than a dozen rounds, regardless of victory or defeat.

Zhao Lanjiang said, "Don't be so stingy, it's just eating your grass, it's better to wait for me to go down, give you a sheep, and make amends, how about it?"

The eagle seemed to understand the human speech and stopped attacking. flapped his wings and expressed his dissatisfaction. Zhao Lanjiang said again, "How about giving you another cow?"

The Eagles are still dissatisfied.

Zhao Lanjiang thought for a while and said, "I'll let it go, spare you another pig!"

The eagle nodded.

Zhao Lanjiang smiled bitterly, "You are quite good at picking expensive places." However, although the deal is set, I can't go down the mountain!"

The eagle staggered two steps, came to a red bead grass, swallowed one, and suddenly, its size doubled, and the entire eagle's body was glowing with a faint golden light.

The eagle is prostrate on the ground.

Zhao Lanjiang almost didn't believe his eyes.

He had seen countless animals and birds of prey, except for Xiao Jinyan's leprosy donkey, this eagle could also be counted as the number one, "What do you mean, let me ride you down?"

The eagle nodded.

Zhao Lanjiang laughed and said, "Just because of your friendship, I will smash the pot and sell iron, and then give you a pig!"

Yamashita.

The momentum of the Western Army increased greatly, blocking the Chu army's attacks again and again, and the Western Chu army attacked again and again, and the victory in front of them was ruined by a natural disaster for no reason.

The two sides are at a stalemate.

At this moment, in the sky, there was the sound of an eagle chirping. The sound was shrill and piercing through the valley, and everyone looked up.

They saw a scene in their lives that will never be erased.

Zhao barrage, riding an eagle from the sky!

The eagle is the totem on the grassland of Dachu, representing the grand cause and freedom, this giant eagle carries the Zhao River and descends slowly, like a god descending to earth.

"Asagi!"

Someone in Chu Bing shouted. In the Prairie language, this means the advent of the gods. The Western Chu soldiers knelt on the ground one after another and bowed to Zhao Lanjiang.

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