Chapter 203: Green Mountains and Barren Mounds
Bai Zimo knew that there was a barren mound in this mountain, and there was a mountain crack a few miles ahead, so they could enter this barren mound, and when they got there, they could move grain and grass into it to avoid the rain.
It seems that the rain will not stop for a while, and they will have to wait here for a few days.
Bai Zimo held the hilt of the knife, with a murderous aura, which was enough to see that his mood at the moment was extremely bad.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and the rain poured down on the marching troops in a fine line.
Whether it is a slave or a soldier, their eyes are no longer open. But there was a death order to come down, and go three miles further, and go over the hill, where there is shelter from the rain.
At last, some hope rose in the hearts of the people, and the soldiers who drove the cart whipped the horses pulling the cart vigorously, and the horses neighed in pain and walked vigorously towards the mountain.
The shouting and shouting were incessant, and the howls of slaves resounded throughout the mountains. In the end, the soldiers who were watching the slave carts had to join them, and the soldiers of the beast army ran back and forth, and they had already drawn their blades.
If the slaves were to make trouble at this time, they would not necessarily be able to suppress it.
With hundreds of new troops joining, the convoy finally walked up and squeaked towards the mountain.
It took half an hour to finish the short mountain road, but fortunately, these slaves were frightened by the whip, and they did not dare to resist or escape.
The way down the mountain was slightly easier, but it was easier to overturn, and there was no danger along the way, and they finally came to the place where Bai Zimo said they could shelter from the rain.
It was a crack that was wider and wider, hidden among the rocks, and it was difficult for even people to pass through, let alone the carriage?
No one knows what's inside the crack, but it's a good place to take shelter from the rain.
Take a few people and find out what's going on inside the crack. The rest of the people, gather the slaves, and watch them clear the rubble and clear the way.
"Yes!" the soldiers who received the order immediately beckoned a few people to climb down the rocks and into the crack.
"General, there is no way for carriages to walk here, do you want those slaves to unload the grain and grass and move it in?" The soldier who received the order to clear the rocks hesitated, there was no road from here to that crack.
People can touch the past, but that doesn't mean the carriage can too. If these slaves were allowed to directly unload the grain and grass, there would be no need to clean up the rocks.
Those rocks are big and small, the small one can be moved by one person, and the big one cannot be moved by many people without tools.
"Don't worry about this, just do it, I have a way. Bai Zimo didn't look at the soldier, his eyes were on the cypress trees that covered the mountains.
The soldier no longer hesitated after hearing that Bai Zimo had a way, since the general said that he had a way, there must be a way, although Bai Zimo was young, he already had the prestige second only to Bai Yingwu in the left army, and he was a master who said nothing.
Bai Zimo stepped into a "small river", the rain became heavier and heavier, and there were more small rivers in the mountains out of thin air, and it was because of the existence of these small rivers that the soldier would ask.
The river covers most of the terrain, and it is difficult to distinguish whether it is deep or shallow.
Once the carriage overturned here, the cart of grain and grass would be completely destroyed.
They simply didn't have time to deal with the rain and grass. Out of this mountain, they still have four or five days to go to the border, and by that time the grain and grass have long been out of use.
Bai Zimo looked at the cypress trees, selected one of them, and moved his fingers to hold on the hilt of the knife.
Collect the qi into the body, pour the whole body into the force!
With a knife, a cypress tree with the thickness of one person was cut off by Bai Zimo, and then he did the same to remove the crown part. 【... ¥ Aiqi Literature ¥~Better, Newer and Faster】
You hugged a boulder and moved him to the side of the road with difficulty. Through the rain curtain, he saw Bai Zimo jumping between the mountains, and under the knife in his hand, "logs" were scattered under his feet.
After cutting down dozens of trees, Bai Zimo's arm trembled slightly, and the "qi" in his body was almost consumed.
A soldier was directing the slaves to move stones, and a hand tapped him on the shoulder. The soldier turned his head: "Who, looking for death!"
As a result, when he turned his head, he almost didn't scare him half to death, but fortunately, Bai Zimo didn't care about this, and when he encountered such a ghost weather, everyone's heart was on fire.
"Tie up the logs and build the bridges. Bai Zimo said weakly, cutting down those trees and making him tired and half dead is no less than experiencing a medium-sized battle.
The soldier hurriedly beckoned his men to carry the logs to the place where the carriage could not pass and fixed them, and a crooked path appeared in the mountains.
When the road was paved, the soldiers who went to investigate the crack also came back to report the situation to Bai Zimo.
The crack was enough for the carriage to enter, and the space inside was large enough to penetrate deep into the belly of the mountain, which was difficult to explore for a while, and two soldiers were left to slowly clean it inside.
Bai Zimo looked at the crack across the mountain, one year the Bai country reported to the Bai Capital, and there have been people missing in this mountain, and the legend is that it is haunted.
At that time, Bai Zimo was much younger than now, and Xu Dingbang was still the chief general of the Right Army. If the local government can't handle it, the army has to go out, and Bai Boxian asked Bai Yingwu's left army to deal with it, because it was close to his station.
So Bai Zimo was sent here, but after so many days of searching, they found that this place was not haunted, but a bandit.
A gang of rogues has taken over the place, robbing passers-by. This mountain road is difficult to walk, but it is also one of the main roads to other countries.
Bai Zimo found the gang of rogues and brought them to justice. The missing people have also been found, killed by them and hidden in the mountains.
At that time, Bai Zimo found this crack, the locals said that there was a tomb in this mountain, I don't know who was buried, the crack seemed to be able to lead to the tomb, but no one dared to go deep there.
Bai Zimo once went inside to investigate because he was looking for that gang of rogues, but he didn't go deeper, no one has entered it for a long time, unless it is a real ghost, otherwise there will always be traces, but at that time, Bai Zimo had already determined that those missing things were all done by people.
After all these years, Bai Zimo came here again.
The road has been paved,
The soldiers cautiously drove the wagons past it, and more than a hundred wagons finally entered the crack before dark.
There is a section of the mountain hollow in this crevasse, forming a huge hole, where most people rest.
You helped the cripple and sat down in a clearing. The cracks are also full of rocks, black holes, as if they have entered the mouth of some monster.
You is not afraid at all, his courage is nightmarish, he has never seen anything. It's the lame god who is babbling, and don't blame him for what is indecent.
At the end of this day, he was tired enough, and he had to push a cart to carry stones, and he had to take care of the lame, and the iron man could not stand it.
However, he has internal strength, and he is a little better than the other slaves. The lame man was blessed by this lame leg, and the soldiers only knew that no matter how much they whipped the lame, he would not have much strength, and would only beat him to death.
Bai Zimo secretly instructed the soldiers guarding the cripple and You to let them work, but don't beat the cripple to death, as for why, Bai Zimo didn't tell the soldiers.
But just let him be lazy himself, and when he walked down this road, he also lost half of his life.
The carriages lined up in a row and went deep into the crack, no matter how spacious it was, a thousand people and a hundred and ten carts could not fit in suddenly, but fortunately, this crack was deep enough.
"Get up!" the soldiers kicked the slaves, who lay on their backs on the ground, they had no strength left, and these soldiers were no better than them.
But they didn't dare to relax, although just now they were all good brothers who pushed carts together and worked together, but when they had the opportunity, these slaves would break the necks of these soldiers and flee to neighboring countries.
No one dared to be careless, they gathered these slaves, put on ropes, and drove them to a corner, and sent a group of soldiers to guard them outside.
You and the cripple sat down next to a pile of stinky slaves, and the slaves took out the black nest they brought with them and gnawed on them, and at the end of the day, these people who were not slaves also knew that slaves were not people.
Biting into the coarse grain cake, he watched as the guards watched, the torches had been raised, and a section of the deep crack had been illuminated, revealing his true face.
From time to time, sparse things flew by, bats that lived in the dark, and those soldiers were also people, and in such an environment, beyond the firelight, it was like hell, and no one would be afraid.
You looked at the trend of the leylines here and found something unusual. This crack was not a natural formation, but something came out of the depths of the earth and stretched the mountain open!
But that was a long, long time ago, and those traces seemed to have been washed away over a thousand years, and the clues could only be seen from the fractures of some stones.
The broken stones were once a whole, but they seemed to have been torn apart by some great force. If it is one or two places, it can be said to be a coincidence, but especially what you can see, there are traces of this everywhere.
There was once a behemoth that walked out of this mountain and entered the world, what is this place?
Bai Zimo didn't find any of this, because
Because he was now haunted by a lot of things, and the only thing he wanted to do after making sure there was no threat here, was to find a place to rest.
However, something happened.
After making sure that there was no problem with the food and grass, a soldier came to him to tell him. The two soldiers who first explored the rift are missing.
Suddenly, the word of the ghost came out of the soldiers' mouths, and some of the soldiers knew what this place was, and they all knew that this crack was connected to a barren mound.
Rumors such as the ghost that disturbed the dormancy here came out and took the two soldiers away quickly spread, and Bai Zimo ordered that no more talk about these things disturbed the morale of the army.
But he could silence the soldiers, but he couldn't sway their thoughts.
The superstitions of the ancients were very serious, and even Bai Zimo himself believed in the existence of ghosts and gods.
At that time, there was no science, no atheism, and all the incomprehensible things could be pushed to ghosts.
What's more, in this dark and deep place, and connected to the tomb?
The crowd didn't notice that above their heads, four eyes, glowing with a ghostly light, were staring at the group of uninvited guests.
(End of chapter)