Chapter 176: Ambush in the Pit
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After a loud bang, the screams followed, and when Cai Zun looked back, the entire team had been divided into two sections by the big pit that suddenly appeared in the middle. This big pit appeared out of thin air, with a radius of dozens of zhang, and thousands of soldiers were buried alive in a daze. For a time, all the soldiers were in a big mess, and those in the back could not get up, and those in front could not pass, so they could only watch the mud and sand roll in the big pit in the middle, quickly engulfing a thousand companions.
There was a heart-rending scream from the pit, the red blood was faintly mixed between the sand and stones, the flesh and blood were still stirring, and the pit was steaming with bursts of heat, as if it had become a cauldron that cooked human life.
The soldiers who were lucky enough to escape were already trembling with fright, and many of them had begun to bend over and vomit after witnessing this purgatory-like scene on earth.
-- If the ground beneath their feet is no longer reliable, the fear of these soldiers is really an instinctive reaction.
"Calm down! Calm down!" Cai Zun and Yan Tan roared and galloped to the rear, but at this juncture, how could the soldiers be calm?
The two ran to the pit, Cai Zun looked at the pit, and after just one glance, his brows were already deeply furrowed.
At this moment, the pit had calmed down, Yan Tan sighed lightly, and said softly: "My lord, this is demonic art! It seems that Fang La has made a move on us!"
The corners of Cai Zun's mouth twitched, he looked up at the soldiers opposite, and shouted: "Stand in place, don't move!"
Hearing his order, the young generals on the opposite side immediately gathered their ranks, although the soldiers were in their hearts. But they did not dare to disobey the order.
Cai Zun thought to himself: This huge trap was obviously dug in advance, since the surrounding ground did not continue to sink. At the very least, the location of the soldiers should be safe at the moment.
But soon. He regretted his decision.
"My lord, did you hear that?" Yan Tan said with his ears in his ears and in a suppressed voice.
Cai Zun's heart trembled, and there was indeed a strange sound in his ears, as if it was the sound of the wheels rolling over the ground.
At this time, I don't know which soldier suddenly shouted: "Look! What is that!?"
Cai Zun raised his eyes and looked at it, and his face changed greatly in an instant, only to see countless people hugging the thick rolling logs on the hillsides on both sides and flying down. The speed was comparable to the collapse of rocks, and the rolling logs collided with each other, erupting with a thunderous sound.
When the soldiers saw this, they were in an uproar, and they couldn't care about any military orders anymore, they exclaimed all the way, and fled all the way with their heads in their hands. However, this place is narrow, and the rolling logs are whistling. Covering the sky and the sun, there is really nowhere to hide, nowhere to hide.
"Calm down, calm down!" Yan Tan urged the horse to gallop towards the chaotic team, his mouth was still shouting, but it was a pity that he was screaming to the sky. His voice was soon drowned out.
Many soldiers were cornered and were forced to jump into the pit, Cai Zun saw it. My heart ached for a while.
"Run—"
The earth-shattering cry rang out from all sides, and the rolling log finally fell. It is like the soles of the gods stepping through the valley, step by step. The strength is not endless, and none of the soldiers who are hit can survive.
After only a few breaths, the narrow mountain road was already full of stumps and rivers of blood.
"My lord, withdraw!" Yan Tan ran around, and when he returned to Cai Zun again, he was already disheveled and looked like a mad ghost, he saw Cai Zun stunned, so he couldn't help but scream, who knew that before the words fell, a rolling log smashed horizontally, Yan Tan snorted, and was swept off the horse.
"Yan Tan!" Cai Zun finally came to his senses, shouted loudly, and wanted to pull, but was forced to retreat by another flying giant tree, and when he reined in his horse and dodged, when he looked again, Yan Tan's bones were already gone.
Yan Tan's advice was still echoing in his ears, Cai Zun wiped his face, and finally made up his mind to retreat. But when he looked back, he remembered that the way to retreat had been blocked by the big pit, and now there was no other way forward but to move forward.
Fortunately, after a wave of rolling logs, there was no movement on the hillside. Cai Zun looked around, the mountain road was in a mess, and between the huge rolling logs, the soldiers who could still stand could only sigh the blessing of the Bodhisattva.
Of the 5,000 people, less than 500 are now left, and 9 out of 10 have been lost. First the weird pit, and then the rolling wood falling from the sky, Cai Zun gasped, and his heart over fifty years old could no longer withstand more accidents.
There have been too many things that he can't understand today, Cai Zunwang looked around, and then looked at the opposite side of the big pit, and there were only miserable corpses in his eyes.
Thinking that not long ago, these soldiers were full of ambition and wanted to follow him to recapture Wannian Town occupied by the rebels in one fell swoop, but now, ...... Cai Zunchang sighed, disheartened for a while, and was about to order everyone to evacuate, but on the road ahead, there was a faint sound of shouting and killing.
Cai Zun's heart skipped another beat, and he hurriedly turned his head to look, but this time, he breathed a long sigh of relief, because there were only two people running ahead.
It's just that these two people are a little strange, one is a monk with a Zen staff, burly, and the other is a man with an unsheathed knife, dressed in black.
The monk's voice was like a bell, and a long word "kill" could shout out the momentum of thousands of troops, and the swordsman didn't say a word, but drew the long knife in the sheath fifty steps away, which was an extremely ordinary machete, but it bloomed with a dazzling cold light in the sun.
Cai Zun took a sip, and finally found a place to vent his grief and anger, and immediately danced a big knife and shouted: "Brothers, kill me!!"
Who knew that the soldiers listened to the order, but they were still at a loss, and the people who should be with him were scattered, and there was no one who took a step.
Seeing this situation, Cai Zun's heart sank suddenly, but in a blink of an eye, he figured it out: Hey...... No wonder they, they are young, and they have been too peaceful all these years, and they have never really experienced the battlefield of life and death. If such a change occurs today, it would be strange if it was not affected......
He figured out the joints, immediately raised his long knife, pointed at the two people who were getting closer and closer on the road ahead, and shouted: "Brothers, there are only two roads in front of us now! The first is to stay here and wait for death! The second is to kill the old man and cut down the two of them, and then we will escape together - out - here - place - !" He knew that the soldiers at this time would no longer fight for victory, but would only fight again for survival, and he deliberately dragged out the last four words, and when the soldiers heard it, their morale was really boosted.
But seeing Cai Zun's long knife swinging back, it happened to be slapped on the horse's buttocks, and the mount was in pain, neighed, and rushed forward like crazy.
"Kill, !!" Cai Zun roared loudly, startling the soldiers to raise their heads one after another, seeing the back of the leader waving a long knife and rushing away alone, a fire suddenly ignited in his heart.
"Brothers, the general has gone, what are we waiting for!?" a young general raised his arms and shouted, and the reins of his horse fluttered, and he followed Cai Zun.
Everyone glanced at each other and suddenly clenched the weapons in their hands.
"Kill!" one shouted, chasing after him.
"Kill!" shouted a few more people and chased after them.
"Kill, kill, kill!" The cries of the soldiers finally converged, either on horseback or galloping, chasing Cai Zun's horses' hooves, launching the first and only charge since the beginning of the war.
At this moment, although there are only hundreds of people shouting in unison, it can also be earth-shattering!
Cai Zun took the lead, heard the movement behind him, and felt his blood boiling, and the long knife danced several times, accumulating a strong force, and slashed towards the monk in the lead.
The monk is naturally Baoguang Rulai Deng Yuanjue, and when he saw the situation, he laughed and said: "Happy and happy, old man, the Buddha will be merciful and give you a ride!"
With a clang, the swords and staff struck each other, splashing a string of sparks.
Cai Zun only felt a strong surge, and the front hooves of the horse under the seat trembled, and he was instantly crushed!
"Haha!" Deng Yuanjue laughed and waved his Zen staff, the second blow followed, Cai Zun waved the knife with one hand, and wanted to pull the horse up with the other hand, but the horse's front hooves were broken, and he couldn't afford to struggle. Seeing that the Zen staff was coming, Cai Zun's courage suddenly decreased, and his bones rolled off the horse's back, looking embarrassed.
When the hundreds of soldiers who originally followed him saw this scene, it was as if someone had poured a basin of cold water on their heads, and their steps couldn't help but slow down a little, but they didn't expect that the cold light in front of them rose sharply, and a silver machete appeared in the crowd like a ghost! (To be continued......)