Early the next morning, two 10,000-strong troops of Yan Xianhu, each carrying three days' rations, climbed the peaks on both sides of the valley from the Black Neck Pass, and occupied all the commanding heights between the five miles of the valley from the Black Neck Pass to the Mamba Pass by the middle of the day. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the valleys on both sides lit up with smoke to signify safety, the Elephant King ordered the army to begin advancing towards Mamba Pass.

The front of Mamba Pass is as wide as 200 zhang, it is the largest level among the nine passes named after poisonous snakes in the flame barrier, there are three gatehouses on the city wall, as the door face of the flame barrier, the city wall is also nearly two zhang higher than the other eight.

In the dazzling midday sun, hundreds of banners of the Heavenly Court Army filled the city walls.

It took less than half an hour for the artillery battalion of Flame Immortal Margin to be ready for launch.

As the 5,000-pound artillery began to fire, almost at the same time, the Yanxian Hu soldiers who approached Mamba Pass from the ridge immediately erected hundreds of large flags on the top of the mountain, and the momentum was very loud.

The division general of the artillery battalion concentrated more than 50 three-eyed guns and three heavy guns to bombard the middle of the three city gates. After the first round of launches, except for the blasting of the gate tower of the city wall, the city gate did not penetrate. General Si rode close to Mamba Pass to observe, and then came back to report to Mi Zhao:

"Tell the king of elephants, and the rebels have built up the gates of the city with great stones. ”

"General Si, come and see, the city wall on the left is obviously reinforced, and the city wall on the right is old. You see that the big hole is not there, it is leaking mud down, and the old city wall is sandwiched with mud, and you concentrate your artillery fire on that section. ”

The eyes of the elephant king are indeed poisonous enough, the city wall on the left was repaired a hundred years ago, the wind and rain are drenched, and it has already become the same color as the city wall on the right, if you are not a careful person, you really can't see it.

After the adjusted artillery bombarded for more than an hour, the outer layer of the old city wall finally collapsed with more than 20 zhang of stones, and the red soil inside collapsed down, like the city wall was flowing bright red blood.

The five heavy cannons, under the personal control of General Si, kept widening the gap in the city wall.

At sunset, the eaves of the bungalows in Mamba Kannai are vividly visible.

The three-eyed artillery, escorted by 20,000 of the most elite cavalry, was pulled to the best firing position less than a mile from Mamba Pass.

Each small cannon was mounted on a small square platform made of whole logs, one wheel on the front and one on the left and one on the left, and if you wanted to move straight ahead, you only had to shake the winch to raise the two wheels on the left and right. If you want to turn around, you just need to lead the four horses behind and put them on the hooks.

The bulky and inflexible artillery was not only well solved by the inflexibility of the narrow valley, but also the ability to move freely in all directions at any time without stopping firing.

The small square of artillery, which can keep up with the cavalry when attacking and support the infantry with strong firepower when covering, is the masterpiece of an old carpenter of Flame Immortal Margin. With this invention, the Elephant King was no longer afraid of the artillery being easily surrounded and captured by the Heavenly Court Army. For this reason, the elephant king Sankar rewarded the old carpenter with fifty taels of gold last night, and equipped the small cannon with a small square platform overnight.

Mamba Pass was suppressed by the powerful fire of the three-eyed artillery firing together, and the city wall couldn't raise its head at all, but it seemed that the Heavenly Court Army didn't want to give up Mamba Pass, as long as the Flame Immortal Margin army launched an attack, countless heads emerged from the city wall, and countless arrows and crossbows poured down.

Especially the big gap, under the leadership of Mo Bao and a few other dead soldiers defending the city, they fought to the death, and even braved the rain of bullets to carry out no less than five crazy counterattacks.

It wasn't until dusk that the Flame Immortal Margin soldiers who occupied the peaks on both sides of the Mamba Pass began to climb down the cliff and fight into the Mamba Pass, that the Heavenly Court Army began to rout and fled into the mountains in all directions.

When the elephant king saw that the Mamba Pass was captured, he immediately ordered the gong to be sounded, and he did not dare to easily enter the flame barrier before the situation in the pass was clarified.

The Flame Immortal Margin captives stationed in Snake Fruit Village saw that Mamba Pass was lost so quickly, and their heads were bigger more than three times, and Snake Fruit Village, which was originally thought to be relatively safe, has now become the forefront of resisting the Flame Immortal Margin army. If it falls back into the hands of the elephant king, I am afraid that there will be no place to bury it.

Just when they were without a master, Tang Linkun and Mo Bao also retreated to Snake Fruit Village with more than 10,000 "Eight Circle Soldiers".

"Are you scared, regretting surrendering to us?" asked Mo Bao with a tiger face as soon as they met.

"With General Tang sitting here, what are we afraid of?" said the red-nosed guard, straightening his chest.

"There are hundreds of thousands of our main forces in the mines of Yanxian Hu, we are luring the enemy to go deeper, you dare to be half-hearted, and we will never let you go. ”

Mo Bao heard the words of these captives with a hint of emptiness, and warned sharply.

"Don't dare, even if I'm the only one left this time, I'll fight the Elephant King to the end. When the red nose heard that there were still so many main forces left on the mountain, there was obviously some confidence in his voice.

After a difficult night, because the moon was covered by the big golden dragon, the elephant king did not dare to attack rashly. As the sky dawned, the Elephant King sent more than a thousand cavalry into the flame fortress.

After a circle on the scum square, the cavalry searched all the way along the main road towards Snake Fruit Village.

"General Tang, let me bring people up and eliminate all this waste. If we show too much weakness, I'm afraid the elephant king will not dare to come in. "The tiger head came to ask for battle, and the reason he said was also very convincing.

Although the evacuation from Mamba Pass was part of the battle plan, the Flame Immortal Margin Army's attack on Mamba Pass was so arrogant that it still completely angered the tiger heads.

Seeing that Mo Bao did not disagree, the tiger head quietly retreated......

When the soldiers of Flame Immortal Hu saw several mammoths at the entrance of the village, they immediately stopped vigilantly and sent a sentry cavalry to the road.

"Mamba Pass has been captured by us, don't you surrender?" There were still thirty or forty zhang from the entrance of the village, and the sentry cavalry did not dare to take a step forward.

Tiger Head led the second battalion of cavalry, left the village from the northwest corner of Snake Fruit Village, and quietly copied the back of that battalion of cavalry with the help of the cover of a large fruit forest......

When they rushed out of the fruit forest, the vigilant Flame Immortal Cavalry immediately discovered that they did not run in one direction in a group, but scattered in all directions.

Tiger heads, they slashed and slew no more than a hundred horses.

"Stop chasing, hold their retreat, and the brother forces will pick them up. They'll come back later. ”

The tiger head restrained the mount, and more than 2,000 cavalry divided into three layers and stuck the retreat.

The five or six hundred horsemen who ran to the village of Snake Fruit suddenly saw hundreds of thousands of heavily armed Flame Immortal Margin soldiers rushing out from both sides of the street, and they were so frightened that they rolled off their saddles and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy. These captives were even more ferocious than the Heavenly Court Army, rushing up and slashing and killing indiscriminately, and the five or six hundred cavalry were all cut into meat sauce in the blink of an eye.

The Flame Immortal Margin soldiers who ran to the mountains and the fruit forest were no better, and the Heavenly Court Army, who had been ambushed there for a long time, shot more than 200 horsemen with an arrow crossbow, and the remaining dozens of Flame Immortal Margin soldiers had no choice but to run back, and were captured by the tiger head and them one by one.

Half an hour later, the sound of the gong of the retreating troops was heard at Mamba Pass. Seeing that none of the cavalry had returned, the Flame Immortal Margin artillery began to bombard fiercely......