In just a moment, the entire army of more than 100,000 Black Jie people was thrown to the ground, with ghosts crying and wolves howling in chaos. The Black Jie people below could never have imagined that there was a murderous intention hidden beneath the ground of the seemingly peaceful valley. The ground under their feet looked flat, but at this moment, it was no less than an erupting crater.
Those strange liquids kept bursting out from the ground. Wherever they flew to, they would stick to the place and start burning. Even if you slapped or rolled around, you couldn't put out the burning fire.
The entire valley was like a scorching oven. The burning strange liquid was not only difficult to extinguish, but it also emitted a large amount of pungent black smoke, which stung people's eyes. When inhaled into the mouth and nose, the pungent smell mixed with a strange burnt smell made people feel suffocated.
At this time, no orders were of any use. The frightened rhinoceros horses began to neigh, charge, and stand up, throwing the riders off their backs and causing the team to be in chaos. Many Black Jie soldiers fell off their rhinoceros horses, were kicked and knocked away, and screamed in agony. The soldiers and officers in the Black Jie army did not care about anything at this time. They all instinctively wanted to rush out of the sea of fire under their feet, especially the officers and generals who were fleeing for their lives. They did not care about the lives of ordinary soldiers at all. They rushed forward shouting, and when they met ordinary soldiers blocking their way, they raised their swords and weapons and chopped them down to clear the way. The whole valley was in chaos, and the thick smoke in the valley was rising into the sky at this time, and it could be seen even from a hundred miles away.
"These Black Jie people are indeed barbarians. They don't care about anything else when they run for their lives..." Situ Feixing looked at the chaotic situation in the valley below and shook his head.
"It's not that easy for them to escape..." Fu Changde smiled coldly and waved his hand, and the situation on the hillsides on both sides of the valley changed again.
I saw huge burning grass balls with a diameter of about one meter being pushed down from both sides of the hillside. The burning grass balls were accelerated by the hillside, carrying burning flames and huge impact force, rolling down the hillside that was several hundred meters long, and rushed directly into the valley, knocking a path through the crowd, and then burning in piles, with thick smoke and blazing fire. Many soldiers and officers of the Black Jie people riding on rhinoceros horses were directly knocked off their horses by the rolling fireballs and fell into the fire. They screamed in pain and could never get out again...
Those grass balls were made by the people brought by Fu Changde in the past two days using local materials, such as dry grass and branches from the Qiyun Mountain. At this time, thousands of large grass balls rolled down, not only almost blocking the road in front of the valley, but also the fire in the entire valley became even more intense, as if adding some firewood to a burning stove.
The rolling heat waves brought by the burning formed a huge updraft in the valley. The airflow turned into a cyclone, which carried a high-temperature flame and raged throughout the valley. Even those who were watching on the top of the mountain could feel the waves of oppressive heat coming from below the valley.
"Burn, burn these bastards to death. These Black Jie people have committed many sins over the years. Every year they rush to the Gulang grassland and our northwest to rob the grasslands, burn, kill and loot. This is retribution. It is best to burn all these bastards to death..." Wu Daquan, the leader of Huoyun Village, said loudly.
Of course, it is impossible for all the more than 100,000 Black Jie people below to be burned to death. Not to mention people, even if there are more than 100,000 pigs, some of them can rush out in a desperate moment.
At the front of the Black Jie team, there were about six or seven thousand Black Jie people who rushed out in the chaos just as the fire started and the burning grass ball rolled down.
The terrain of the valley behind the Black Jie army was more open, and the burning grass balls that rolled down were mainly concentrated in the front and middle of the Black Jie army. The ones behind were not affected much. Seeing that the ones in front could not rush out and would only be burned to death if they stayed where they were, many of the Black Jie army's troops behind, about 20,000 people, also turned around and rushed out of the flame array in the valley...
After the Black Jie troops on both sides rushed out, they looked at the tragic scene in the fire formation behind them and were frightened. They dared not stay in the valley any longer. Those who rushed out from the front of the army rushed directly to the west of the valley, while those who rushed out from the back of the army could not care about much at this time and could only return the same way they came.
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Let’s first talk about the six or seven thousand Black Jie horses that rushed out from the front of the army. They had just rushed out of the flame formation for two or three miles. Many of them had just taken a breath, thinking that they had escaped with their lives. In an instant, thousands of people holding metal crossbows or bows and arrows, with all kinds of weeds and branches stuck all over their bodies, appeared from behind the rocks on both sides of the valley and in the grass. A rain of arrows fell on their team, and five or six hundred people were shot down from their horses on the spot.
The archer holding the metal crossbow stood up and ran towards the Black Jie people, firing continuously with the crossbow in his hand, fully exerting the close combat power of the metal crossbow. Amid the whistling sound of the crossbow breaking through the air, large numbers of Black Jie people were shot down with screams.
Seeing those people gathering and rushing towards them, the remaining Black Jie people didn't even have the courage to fight. They screamed and lay low on their horses, and could only rush forward. Many of them who had no horses had just rushed out of the fire formation on foot, but before they could run far, they were caught up by the ambushers behind and shot to death. Some of them wanted to turn around and fight, but the pursuers were still dozens of meters away, and a shower of crossbow arrows flew over and turned them into hedgehogs. As for those riding on rhinoceros horses, as soon as their horses were shot down, they were also waiting for a shower of arrows.
Under the baptism of this rain of arrows, of the six or seven thousand Black Jie soldiers who came here, only four or five thousand were left when they fled, and many of them were injured.
The fleeing Black Jie soldiers were still in shock and rushed out desperately on their horses. Half an hour later, they finally reached the western entrance of the Crescent Valley. Just when they thought they had escaped, what was waiting for them were more than 10,000 eager northwestern heroes led by Feng Liancheng and the two big bosses of Qianqigang.
“Damn it, it’s finally our turn, brothers, kill them…” The leader of Qianqigang roared, waving the big knife in his hand and rushed towards these defeated soldiers.
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According to the agreement between Situ Feixing and several big bosses, because it was taken into consideration in advance that there might be more Black Jie people who escaped from the east side of the valley, the Black Jie people who escaped from this side would be taken care of by several big bosses from Yipianyun, Huoyun Village, Dadushan and the Thirty-six Black Eagle Riders with their respective troops.
What Situ Feixing and his men did not expect was that when the 20,000-plus Black Jie people had just rushed out of the valley, and before the troops led by them could reach those Black Jie people, a team of more than 10,000 troops, with the sound of thundering hooves, rushed from the direction of the Gulang grassland and directly killed the 20,000-plus Black Jie people.
The two teams were several miles apart. Bows roared, thousands of arrows flew into the sky, and a black cloud rose and fell. The more than 20,000 Black Jie who escaped were reduced by almost one-fifth in the blink of an eye...
A flag of the Inspectorate with the word "Yan" written on it was fluttering among the more than 10,000 people rushing towards them, shocking everyone.
Seeing the flag from afar, Situ Feixing couldn't help but shout, "The governor is here..."
Farther away, a black line on the grassland was approaching like rolling thunder, and the whole earth was shaking. Looking around, countless cavalry and horses were rushing towards here, covering the sky and the earth...
(End of this chapter)