The Shibao City is divided by the hills where the grass does not grow red and purple like blood. To the east is a lowland valley with open mountains and fertile fields, and to the west, which is higher, is an endless pastureland.
In the mountains near the stone castle, there was also a voice panting intermittently introducing;
"The mountains and rocks here are all red, and the more you go up the ridge, the darker the color is nearer to purple. It is rumored that the ancient heavenly emperor killed the gods and demons and was made of blood. One place alone;"
"In the center is the Shibao Military City. Although the place is not large and can only accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, it is the key to the throat of the'Qiangzhong Road' that controls the entry and exit of Xihai (Qinghai Lake); regardless of business travel or brigade troops entering and exiting. It is a place that must pass through, so it is also a place where Tang and Tibet must contend for victory in the past."
"So in the past dynasties, Tang De's army looked up to Huangyuan and attacked the West Sea, while Tubo was able to look down at Longyou's belly and ride horses lightly. Therefore, the past dynasties have changed hands several times, and the army, civilians and civilians have been killed and wounded countless..."
"The fiercest battle was when Wang Zhongsi was ordered to forcefully attack Tubo during the Kaiyuan years of the Four Realms, and it was only after the death and injury that thousands of people won the victory here. However, along with the Anshi chaos, these frontier keys were abandoned one after another. "
"But I don't want to, now after several changes, it has become..."
However, listening to these intermittently disappearing words in the mountain breeze, Taiping Qin Long, the pioneer of the Taiping Qin Long attacking army, Li Hanzhi, who has been climbing up to this point, is looking at the cliffs towering into the clouds, and once again feels like himself. It was shrouded by a certain fate of malice.
Since joining the Taiping Army, most of his military career has been similar to the dangers of various mountainous areas. From Shannan East Road, Shannanxi Road, and then from Shannanxi Road into the East and West Sichuan; and then from Shudi to Zhongguan, I thought it would stop, but I didn’t expect to encounter so many mountains during the pursuit of Qin Long.
It can be said that during this period of time, he at least climbed/attacked dozens of large and small mountains. From fences on low mounds, to villages on the slopes of the hills, to deer villages on the back of the cliff and facing the mountains, even stone towers with pillars on the tops of the hills, and the square and Zhengtucheng surrounding the ridge, They have attacked all over again.
He was born as a cavalry officer with thousands of horsemen to charge into the battlefield. How could he become such a struggling business? But now that he has come here, he didn't complain about himself. Turning around, he looked at the thousands of ditches and gullies that had been struggling all the way, and all that was left was under his feet, and only the last cloud of the mountain wall was cut away in front of him.
After a while, when this team of people climbed up the mountain, they all ate dry cakes and fried noodles with strong tea soup, and dozens of sergeants who had been refurbished again stood up. This is the top player who is selected from the middle ranks of the tens of thousands of mountain soldiers (mountain troops) of the Taiping Army, who is best at climbing over.
I saw that they had removed most of their burdens, and only left a pair of waistcoats and tight-fitting shorts; the stubby and muscled hands and feet were exposed, and the palms of the hands and feet looked like sandstone polished. Like, all rough and thick calluses;
And on their waists were thin and tough rope loops, and rows of steel wedges with hooks inserted in the holster; they only heard a short whistle, and they asked to take a trot like an ape. He rushed up to the cliff with his help, grabbed the cracks and protrusions with quick eyes and hands, and climbed up step by step.
Therefore, after just a few dozen breaths, their silhouettes gradually become farther and farther and smaller with the rope that hangs in the air and trembles constantly. Then after climbing over the small half of the mountain wall, their speed slowed down visible to the naked eye.
Because as the height rises, there are fewer and fewer places on the cliff that can be used for climbing. At the same time, they continue to take out the stainless steel wedges from their bodies and embed them in the cracks of the rocks. Therefore, as the sand and gravel fell continuously, the first person who stumbled and fell quickly appeared.
But at this time, the wedges that had been embedded in the cliff wall were pulled at a critical juncture, and the tendency to fall into the muffled sound turned into a series of painful cries of crashing on the cliff wall; although it is inevitable The blood dripping from scratching his hands and feet still left obvious internal injuries, but at least his life was temporarily saved.
Li Hanzhi also took a rough breath, but it didn't take long for the sky to slowly darken, and as the damp and biting coolness of the mountain breeze that gradually became bitter, Li Hanzhi couldn't help but raise his head, but saw The boss on the horizon is getting thicker and thicker; and slowly drifting with the wind.
However, the changeable climate of this generation of mountains is starting to make trouble again; at this time, the life-catching team standing next to Li Hanzhi is Yi Da Mao, but can't help but make some urgent and worried suggestions:
"Li Xianjiang, should I blow the whistle to make them retreat? Try again later..."
Although the frowned Li Hanzhi couldn't deny that he didn't say anything, it didn't take long for the cumulonimbus clouds in the distance to hear a faint dull roar again, which also made the people waiting under the cliff involuntary. The worry on his face became heavier.
"First, let people take it down first, otherwise it will be too late..."
At this time, someone once again suggested: But it is Yu Hou Bei Tashi, who is a leader of the camp and a morale booster;
"At the moment when the military situation is urgent, Chiling has already had a series of battles and the outcome is uncertain. Can we delay it here?"
However, Li Hanzhi, who had been unmoved, glanced at him, and then slowly spoke:
"Blowing the whistle on the cliff, let them decide to advance and retreat by themselves..."
Only after the elongated whistle was blown three times in succession, the moist rain and mist that came with the wind finally came to the queue waiting under the cliff. Then, in the dense rain water between the sky and the earth, it became a cloud and the vision was difficult and far away.
Under the protruding mountain wall, the Taiping Army, which quickly set up a large rain tarp, also began to work dizzyingly and intensively, preparing to respond to and rescue those colleagues who retreated from the cliff or fell down. Despite this, they will inevitably lose at least half of their robes, and it is too difficult for them to retreat all over the wet cliff.
I don't know how long after that, the rush of wind and rain finally laughed to death, and a bright golden light came out from the cracked clouds. After burying the dead and wounded colleagues, this time the team also re-elected dozens of relatively well-equipped soldiers.
It's just that this time, the cliffs that are wet by rain and dripping are not climbing up so much; even if they still have a few wedges and lanyards left in mid-air as a relay, they are constantly climbing up. Going up, people continue to slide down again with disgraced faces.
Seeing that the team was getting more and more anxious and nervous, and even frustration began to spread; Li Hanzhi was also a little helpless and sighed, could it be that his journey was about to be frustrated. Following the attack, he ordered without changing his face:
"The whole army stopped operations and transferred to rest and reorganization on the spot. If you can't catch up, you won't be able to keep up. This is beyond the human capacity, so don't force it; after the war, I will present the corresponding relationship to the governor's house..."
"After the corrections are made in situ, we will switch to the implementation of the third Class C plan to see if we can find a shortcut to the half slope of Shibao."
"Could it be that so many distances have come over, and just this mere blockade will leave you destitute? That is too unbearable."
But in any case, with Li Hanzhi's unskilled excitement and encouragement, the dull atmosphere in the team finally cheered up again; and began to clean up the venue and prepare to transfer to the sequence of retreat. However, at the next moment, a sergeant shouted loudly from under the cliff:
"Moved, moved..."
Later, Li Hanzhi also led people to a rope under the cliff, and saw that the rope was trembling gently up and down with a very obvious pattern and rhythm, as if it were transmitting some kind of thought signal; Li Rarely saw that he couldn't help but cheered and shouted:
"It's done. Someone climbed up in the rain. Get more ropes..."
Subsequently, more ropes were connected to the lower end of this long rope, and after waiting for a moment for the transmission of the reverse shaking, amidst a trance of joy, it was slowly dragged upwards. After another half an hour, more long ropes shook off in the air.
Therefore, when Li Hanzhi also climbed the rope ladder dragged up and fixed by the long rope, and tremblingly arrived at the top of the moist and muddy cliff, he felt that his vision was suddenly wide and unobstructed, and couldn't help but want to. Only by looking up to the sky with a long smile can I vent the excitement accumulated in my heart.
At this time, the guide responsible for leading the way was also the former Xiaoqian school of the former Western Army who was born in the local Jishi Army (town) in Langzhou. He used the caravan escort to travel to and from the meter stick on the Qiangzhong Road many times. He also stood on the other end of the mountain On the pile of rocks, he cried a little excitedly:
"We... We have reached the rear of the Shibao Military City..."
After that, Li Hanzhi, who came to him after hearing the words, could not help but feel refreshed, because just a few hundred feet below, it was a gray-brown mottled fortress; it was roughly less than half the circumference but it was like an island, on three sides. They are all exposed to steep and straight cliffs and deep valleys, but only the simplest fence.
The only eastward facing the road is the wall made of stone walls (the crushed stone and ash are glued together) into a sufficiently high wall, facing a winding road across the mountain, forming an advantage gap that is high enough to overlook and suppress. ; And it is difficult for the offensive side to have much force in the end, and only a small amount of fuel can be used to attack it.
It was just because the stone castle city had already gathered a large amount of horses and cows, coupled with the far beyond the scale of the defenders, and it seemed a bit cramped. And it is just the scene of the smoky smoke; there are people running from it on the mountain road leading down to the mountain and the distant battlefield.
"First, what shall we do..."
At this time, on the top of the mountain a line higher than Shibao City, someone once again asked for instructions:
"Why don't you just take advantage of it and go down..."
"No, no, don't worry..."
However, Li Hanzhi shook his head slightly after roughly assessing this distance and the possible impact effect:
"Ask the people in the rear team, how many firearm medicines did they bring this time?"
"For such a long distance, I am afraid that firearms can barely reach it, but there are shocks, and the killing effect is hard to say..."
Some people also raised objections, but Yu Hou Bei Tashi said:
At this time, there were several exclamations in the distance, and some people were yelling and cursing:
"They all said to be careful. After the rain, the soil and rocks were soaked and loosened, and it was easy to step on the air and slip off when you walked to the side..."
"You don't want to kill you, if you start the enemy, it will be a big deal..."
However, Li Hanzhi couldn't help but feel a move in his heart when he heard the words. His tight expression suddenly loosened, and he turned to Yu Houbei again to step on the stone and said:
"How many special equipment have been brought by the combat engineers this time... I need their job evaluation..." (End of this chapter)