Xiao Hongtao is still a little scared of the skull on the wooden card, since he was a child, he has only seen such things on TV, such as the skull in Mei Chaofeng's hand, and the skull in the fairy cave in the TV series Liaozhai, now such a real skull appears in front of him, Xiao Hongtao feels completely different from what he saw on TV.

Unlike Xiao Hongtao, Wei Jiang didn't care about this skull, he had seen too many dead people in the past few years of conquest, and he had also personally hung the head of the rebel general on a high pole, he was not afraid of this skull. He said to Xiao Hongtao: "Father-in-law, this must be used by people who don't want others to go up the mountain to scare others. ”

Xiao Hongtao nodded and said, "Yes, maybe which Orion did it." Since the rope is hung on the skull, it means that this brand was made by humans, which made Xiao Hongtao feel a little calmer, and he thought to himself, now with a bunch of people up the mountain, as a leader, he can't be cowardly.

In fact, this is also Xiao Hongtao's worry, most of the people who can follow him to the Broken Tiger Cliff are veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, not only excellent in martial arts, but also courageous, and they will not be afraid of a person who has long dried up.

After the wooden card, there is no mountain road in front, the only thing that can allow the horse team to pass is the continuous barren grassland, which should be the reason why no one has walked for a long time, the barren grass is very long, almost can not pass the horse's legs, the wild grass flutters with the wind, a sense of depression.

Wei Jiang sent two soldiers to open the way in front, let the rest of the people surround Xiao Hongtao, and rode in front of Xiao Hongtao on the left, because the wild grass is very long, the horse's legs are often tripped by the wild grass, and the team moves very slowly.

Suddenly, Wei Jiang found that there was a bush in the grass in front of him that shook violently, judging from the amplitude and speed of the grass shaking, the things in the grass should not be small, and they moved extremely quickly.

Wei Jiang raised his hand to stop the team, turned to Xiao Hongtao and said, "Father-in-law, there is something in the grass!" After that, he turned to the surrounding soldiers and ordered: "Everyone take out their weapons and be careful." ”

Hearing the order, everyone took out their weapons one after another, and the soldiers on the periphery turned their backs to Xiao Hongtao and Wei Jiang, forming a circle, which was the wisest way to protect each other in the case of unclear circumstances.

At this moment, Xiao Hongtao saw that an object in the grass in front of him began to move quickly towards their team, forming a rapid sliding ripple in the grass, the thing moved quickly, and there was no sound, Xiao Hongtao immediately began to get nervous, his face was pale, and he was motionless on his horse, damn, what is this!

Unlike Xiao Hongtao, Wei Jiang saw the abnormal movement in front of him, and immediately picked up the bow and arrow behind his back, aimed at the front of the thing moving, and prepared to attack.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, after Wei Jiang shot three arrows, the thing in front of him did not move, but there was no wail after the arrow.

Seeing that the thing was no longer moving, Xiao Hongtao thought that Wei Jiang's arrow had killed it, and he was anxious to know what was in the grass, so he ordered Wei Jiang: "Wei Jiang, go and see what it is." ”

"Yes," Wei Jiang agreed, urging the horse towards the place where the thing had last appeared.

"Ahh Xiao Hongtao immediately turned around, but only saw a soldier who was dragged into the grass without knowing something, and a ripple quickly retreated towards the nearby woods, and the soldier only let out this shout, and there was no sound after that.

A few soldiers next to him reined in the frightened horse, paused, and were about to chase forward along the ripples.

"Come back, stand in your position! more than one!" Wei Jiang, who was standing at the front of the line, shouted loudly. Saying that, Wei Jiang also quickly returned to the team.

At this time, Xiao Hongtao found that four or five ripples appeared in the grass next to their team, and they were all moving rapidly like the one they saw for the first time.

At this time, Xiao Hongtao had no idea at all, grandma's, what is this, the speed is so fast, and it is silent, it is still attacking in groups, is it a wolf, but I have never seen such a big wolf, what is it?

"Wei Jiang, have you seen what this thing is. Xiao Hongtao asked, at this moment, the four or five ripples in the grass were moving back and forth more than 20 meters away from them, and they were not in a hurry to attack.

"I didn't see it either, but it seemed to be yellowish-black. Wei Jiang didn't turn his head, stared at one of the ripples, and said.

After waiting for a while, those ripples were still just moving back and forth nearby, not attacking, and the mood of Xiao Hongtao and the others slowly eased.

Wei Jiang asked, "Father-in-law, do you want to move on?"

Xiao Hongtao didn't answer immediately, but asked, "How far is it ahead?"

Wei Jiang replied: "It's very close, and there are about 1,000 big steps or so to go." ”

After stabilizing his mind, Xiao Hongtao said: "1000 big steps, that is, about 1000 meters, it's very close, we can't give up halfway, let's continue walking." ”

"Yes, Father. With that, Wei Jiang shouted to everyone: "Keep the formation and keep moving." ”

So, the crowd began to move slowly again, strange to say, as the team advanced, the things that were originally in front of the team seemed to have disappeared, without a trace, and the things behind the team were still trailing, making a few ripples in the grass from time to time.

Finally on the edge of the Broken Tiger Cliff!

This distance of more than 1,000 meters is like purgatory for Xiao Hongtao and others, and the ripples that appear in the back of the team from time to time make them palpitate, and the short distance of 1,000 meters is about two pillars of incense.

When he arrived at the edge of the cliff, Xiao Hongtao found that the Broken Tiger Cliff was not too high, only about 50 meters, but even if it was viewed from the cliff, all the buildings in Yizhou City could be seen in full view. The Yizhou city wall is full of soldiers, and from the cliff you can clearly see that the city wall is also full of logs, stones and cylinders of fire oil.

After looking at it carefully for a while, Xiao Hongtao asked Wei Jiang next to him: "Who in our army has the best archery skills?"

Wei Jiang replied: "Father-in-law, if you talk about archery, it should be Niu Er, Nuo, the black-faced man next to him."

Following Wei Jiang's gestures, Xiao Hongtao saw a black-faced man with a full beard, this person's beard was extremely messy, and he could barely see his true face.

"You asked him to come over. Xiao Hongtao commanded.

When Niu Er came to him, Xiao Hongtao found that this person was tall and had long arms, and his upper body muscles were extremely developed, so he should be a person who was good at archery.

"Niu Er, how far can you shoot?" After seeing the ceremony, Xiao Hongtao asked Niu Er.

"Master Xiao, I can shoot at most 300 steps, I don't dare to say anything else, if there is no one in the archery army who can compare with me. Niu Er was not modest, and directly said that he was the first in archery in the army.

"Oh, what if you shoot from above?" Xiao Hongtao asked again.

"Well, I can shoot 350 steps. After thinking about it, Niu Er replied.

"Okay, I got it. After thinking about it again and asking some questions about accuracy and strength, Xiao Hongtao asked Niu Er to go back.

Through observation, Xiao Hongtao found that there was a flat land outside the northern city wall of Yizhou City that should be located outside the range of archers, in addition, there should be a place near the river beach that could be used for assembly, but the number of people that could accommodate it was not much, and it was initially estimated that it could accommodate about 2,000 people in total.

When Xiao Hongtao was standing on the edge of the cliff to estimate the number of people and attack strategy, he suddenly remembered the huge animal scream behind him, turned around and looked, only to see several black and gray monsters suddenly appear behind him, this monster stood up a full two meters, the monster's exposed teeth in the sunlight flashed white light, looking vicious and abnormal, they roared towards Xiao Hongtao's horse team, jumping quickly * closer.

The frightened horses began to be restless, and as the monster approached, the horses began to scatter and gallop wildly, and in the confusion, most of the soldiers were overturned by the horses, trampled by the horses' hooves, and some were carried by the horses and fell off the cliff with the horses.

"Everyone dismount!" Wei Jiang shouted loudly and ordered the soldiers to dismount. After all the soldiers dismounted, the remaining soldiers gathered around Xiao Hongtao and Wei Jiang.

"The archers are behind, and those with short weapons are in front, line up" Wei Jiang ordered again, and the rest of the people quickly lined up in two teams in front of Xiao Hongtao and Wei Jiang according to the type of troops, and waited for the battle. Xiao Hongtao also drew his sword and prepared to fight.

"Shoot!" As a dark shadow leaped out of the grass, Wei Jiang ordered the archers to attack.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, five arrows flew towards the black shadow that jumped out of the grass almost at the same time, and with a "poof" sound, one of the arrows hit the black shadow, and the black shadow fell down in response, at this time, the other monsters that were originally howling in the grass were silent, and the ripples in the grass disappeared, and the cliff was quiet again.

"The archers were on alert, and the rest were treating the wounded. Seeing that the monster was no longer attacking, Wei Jiang ordered the soldiers to treat the wounded who had just been trampled by the horses.

It is said that it is a treatment, but in fact, it can only carry the wounded behind the archers and simply bandage them.

"Wei Jiang, how many people do we have now?" Xiao Hongtao asked after confirming that he was temporarily safe, he was anxious to know how many people had been lost this time.

"Father-in-law, at the beginning, one person was dragged away, 3 people fell to the bottom of the cliff, and 5 people were injured, and now there are still people who can fight, and," Speaking of this, Wei Jiang suddenly stopped, his face was difficult to look at.

"Wei Jiang, what's wrong?" Seeing that Wei Jiang's face was wrong, Xiao Hongtao asked.

"Father-in-law, no, the number is wrong, one more!"