A: "We were skeptical, but we couldn't see anything under that cliff. I don't dare to rush to the bottom of the protruding cliff to investigate, I don't know the situation, once I fly over, it will be light if I hit the stone cliff, and if it is serious, I will be killed by a plot!"

"Yours right! You can't take any chances! I have a good idea, let's go and see if it's possible for the hawksbill crow to hide in the belly of the mountain!"

"Chief, do you suspect that those crows entered the mountainside from a hidden entrance?"

"Yes! First it was doubt, now it's almost certain!

"Report—Chief, look at the ...... on the kiwi tree," suddenly came the voice of the Commander of the Smoke Battalion, loud, high-pitched, manly, but still a beautiful soprano.

Gu Yuan and the others couldn't help but raise their eyes, and it turned out that a group of big crows flew from the direction of the elephant trunk cliff in Caigang, with a pitch-black body, a long and large beak, and a hooked beak. Flying over the orchard, a bird immediately threw itself into the woods and entered the kiwi grove.

Everyone knows this, so Gu Yuan raised his binoculars and took a closer look, only to see those crows scurrying around in the forest, and they were going to catch a grasshopper when they saw it. In the end, he took a few hares and left.

It turns out that this is the reason why there should be a lot of animals in this fruit grove, but there are none. Also directly related to this group of abominable hawksbill crows!

"Labor and management must get rid of this group of hawksbill crows!"

Hearing Gu Yuan's ruthlessness, Qiu Junshi turned around and asked, "Does the leader already have a good plan to destroy the enemy in his heart?"

"Fire is a universal treasure! The key is in one use! Prepare firewood, rockets, and all the crossbowmen!" Nowadays, with the improvement and widespread use of iron-smelting and steel-making technology in the Protoss, machine-spring crossbows have been manufactured, of course, they are still not very delicate and powerful, but they are more dexterous than bows and arrows.

After six or seven miles of road, it took a while, and the movement of the cavalry troops was already quite rapid! When he came to the so-called elephant trunk cliff, Gu Yuan looked up and saw that it was more than 100 meters high, and he really couldn't see anything clearly. So, I raised the telescope, and I could see it very clearly.

Above it is an old long elephant trunk stone pillar sticking forward, an irregular stone pillar, slightly flattened, about 20 meters thick, with a circumference of about 20 meters, and 15 sticking forward, really like an elephant's trunk. But there were no big teeth underneath, and there was an oral hole, and nothing could be seen from above, and it was all blocked by the nose.

It was as if a big tongue was sticking out of the mouth, and in that hole was sticking out a platform-like thing ten meters wide and five meters long, slightly arched on the top, relatively smooth, like a platform, and drooping a little.

Gu Yuan figured out at this time, the eagle-billed crow was spreading its wings and gliding, flying in a circle to the bottom of the elephant trunk cliff, landing on the platform, and then retracting its wings and jumping into the hole. It is estimated that they will not be able to spread their wings and fly in the cave and at the entrance of the cave, so when they go out from the cave, they also jump onto the platform and then slide down to spread their wings and fly.

"Hehehe...... With the help of this platform, this flying technique really needs to be practiced well!"

Gu Yuan really couldn't carry out his plan from here, lighting a fire on the ground, the smoke couldn't smoke so high, and it couldn't be poured into the hole. When the Qiu Junshi and the Mountain Lady looked at it, what should they do with such a high hole under the cliff? Water and smoke could not be poured into it! Throwing earth mines is even more mysterious, who can hit them so accurately?

"Don't worry! Look at me! Bring a lot of thin ropes and climb up the elephant trunk cliff from one side!" According to Gu Yuan's order, twenty people carried thin leather ropes on their backs to the top of the cliff. When they reached the top of the cliff, they tied their waists with ropes, and ten people were connected together, and then several people fell down and lay on the side of the elephant trunk cliff.

"Hang down the rope, pull the firewood up, swing into the platform as much as possible, it's best to go to the entrance of the cave, try not to swing into the hole, that may not work, and scare the snake!" According to Gu Yuan's clear arrangement, the soldiers one by one swung bundles of dry firewood with grease into the platform, and there were really those who got close and fell, and pulled up again when they fell. If there is one who deserves to be far away, and if he enters the hole, it will be difficult to pull outward again, and he will not be able to pull it anymore!

When it was almost piled up, Gu Yuan ordered the archers to get ready, as long as there were crows that rose into the air, all ten thousand arrows would be fired at the same time, one would shoot one, and ten would shoot ten!

"Light the fire!" With Gu Yuan's order, the soldiers cut the thin leather rope in their hands, and then lit the end connected to the firewood, because there was grease on it, the fire was very strong, and the bundles of firewood were lit in an instant. And because the firewood is smeared with herbal powder, when burned, it emits a pungent and choking smell.

This trick was really ruthless and effective, and soon, there was a fluttering and poignant "croak" sound in the cave. The tongue-like platform could not land, and the crows inside could not escape, and some of them forcibly jumped onto the platform, which was simply a sea of fire, and immediately burned the crow's feathers, where could they still fly?

In this case, there was still a forced flight out of the hole, but the smoke was filled, it was difficult to distinguish things, and it hit its head on the stone wall, its brain burst, and it whimpered. It seems that in times of despair, any living being has to make a desperate gamble in order to continue to live!

At this time, the mountain wind blowing into the cave also happened, one by one, although not large, but very effective, the wind helped the fire, and the fire borrowed the power of the wind, and poured the smoke and heat, as well as the pungent smell of medicine into the cave. There is no smoke coming from anywhere else, and it seems that there is only one exit from this hole!

O unsympathetic giant eagle-billed crow! You are innocent of death! This time you meet the Protoss and the leader of the Protoss, it is considered that your time of death has come! After a short time, the cave is very quiet, and not a single escape from the entrance of the cave has been successful, so those archers who are ready to shoot their bows have not fired a single arrow, because they have not seen a crow rise into the air.

"Chief, do you want to wait for the smoke to clear in and take a look at the agents?" asked Qiu.

Gu Yuan glared: "What do you see? If it survives, it is fateful, it is enough to be the crow king or the crow queen!

So he swung into the cave and went into the cave to take a few bundles of dry wood, and then lit them, and in a short time out of the mouth of the cave came billowing smoke, which still had a pungent smell.

After retreating from the Elephant Trunk Cliff and having dinner, the reconnaissance team led by Rou came back! After arranging for Rou and them to rest, Gu Yuan carefully studied the river distribution map that Rou and they had brought. Starting from this Ba River, in the direction of their Protoss Palace, there are eight places along the way where the ditches can be connected. As long as these eight places can be connected, you can come to this Bahe River from Yangming Lake.