In the mist-shrouded Jiuyi Mountains, Yi Damao, the leader of the investigative team, leaned on a torch that was only half-burnt, and looked at the road not far from the road. The deep mountains were rushing and falling. With the fine water splashes splashed by the broken pieces of soil, I only felt that the slack legs and feet were soft.
Although he is a mountain man accustomed to mountains and forests, he actually does not have much experience in the dangerous and unpredictable night mountain roads; because there are not only wild beasts and snakes and insects foraging, but also all kinds of mountains, rocks and soil that are invulnerable to preventing avalanches. And the new rapids and waterfalls that have appeared because of rain; if it happens before and after the rain, it will be even more dangerous.
This time, he drove the ducks on the shelves to lead the march in the dark, relying on everyone holding torches and ropes and constantly whispering chants, and this was the way to drive the mountain road all night. It's just that at night, the gurgling water and the sound of the wind drum sounded as if you were beside you. It was not until dawn that the drop during this period was at least tens of feet high.
On the seemingly clear and shallow water surface some rugged and protruding stones, there are still some stumbled animals that do not know how long they have been soaked, the pale gray bones left behind, and some rotten wood pieces that are suspected to be fragments of vehicles.
Fortunately, there was a common problem in the camp that was generally unclear at night. After a few months of forced eating of raw fish offal and chicken and duck offal, it became clear; at worst, it can be illuminated by the dim fire. See clearly within a few steps of the circle below your feet, instead of walking on the uneven gravel pavement, you just set your foot down into the cliffs or river ditch.
Despite this, several people still lost the materials that people loaded up with baskets and baskets. They were all tripped and rolled out on the bumpy ground while walking at night, and they were no longer dragged or pulled back.
Yi Damao moved inward again, until he leaned against the slippery and icy mountain wall, he felt a little relieved and proper; and the distance was full of tumbling and dazzling mountains, except for some roads. Outside of the old rut to which direction, there is no longer any city or crowd of people.
And when the booing whistle blew gently, Yi Damao, who had regained some strength, also resisted the desire to lick the dew condensation on the mountain wall, and took out a customized march from the pocket of the back waist. When the food pack comes, carefully and completely peel off the outer seal of the greased paper.
Take out the squashed half-cooked chicken, a small piece of black sugar board, a small handful of coarse tea powder wrapped in paper, a few refreshing pickled prunes or a bit of chewing vinegar ginger and smoked bamboo shoots; In addition, the palm-sized one-day multi-flavor compressed rations, and the soy offal dug in a spoonful of large clay cans; it is the basic ration for heavy labor or long-term work.
Compared to eating dry during wartime among the rebels, eating thins in free time, and eating unrestrainedly whatever you encounter; drinking and eating meat when you are full, you can’t wait to survive, and when you’re tired, you’ll suffer from eating chaff and drinking thin, basically. There are no plans and Zhou Zhang days; now there is still hope and hope.
As for the welfare of the exploratory team, Li was born and died. Now his family is housed in the village of the camp. Although they can't grow the fields and open the mountains, they can eat their food by doing some chores.
Earlier, he had visited several times with the rations he had saved. Although the women and children were still yellow and skinny and wore old patched clothes, they were not covered by the clothes, and they would fall when the wind blows. The appearance of being hungry is much more comforting.
While thinking about it, he first hydrated the slab sugar; then broke the compressed ration into a paper bag, crushed it with a stone a few times to become looser, and then glued the soybean paste into a ball. Eat the paper pad in your hand three times, then pour the tea powder into the mouth and chew all the flavor before swallowing it, and finally hold the salty plum.
At this time, after this rest and eating, this team of soldiers as the pioneers finally recovered some spirit and strength. There began to be a lot of murmurs.
"There are so many thieves in this horrible mountain... just how many roads we have walked, this is the first few mountains..."
"In Fujian, I thought that the mountains of my life have been waded, and I don't want to come here again..."
"There are so many partial rivers, you have to build a bridge again to get there..."
"The whole night's dew has wetted the whole body... Move your body quickly, otherwise it will be cold..."
At a corner of the mountain road, under the faint mist in the early morning, a group of people were dozing in the grass under the rock wall, and only two standing figures were shaking and yawning. .
Seeing this scene, Yi Damao was relieved instead.
"What do you do when you encounter an enemy?..."
He recites the most basic "three steps to the enemy" mantra and mantra, and methodically begins to wind; he puts a half-length studded armour from others on his chest and hangs it on his chest.
"Hold up the card and send out the crossbow and all the arrows, leaning against a knife, chopping and spear..."
In fact, every detail involved in the daily duties and daily life of the military, and even in the wartime state, has been compiled into corresponding songs to sing; such as eight personal hygiene, six local epidemic prevention, ten battlefield cleaning, and walking places. Three notes and eight essentials. . Even as the core of military law, the seventeen prohibitions, fifty-four cuts, and so on.
Mainly in response to the general illiteracy among new students, compile content that is catchy and easy to remember and understand; therefore, in the supplementary camp of the new training, every morning and night to go to bed, you have to read it back and forth. If the spot check fails, it will be fired. The unit was punished for even sitting. Although corporal punishment is not very much advocated, from cleaning the latrine to being hungry is a good taste.
The crossbow that had been soaked with the special medicine fell down at the first shot, leaving no sound at all; it was an understatement like shooting a pheasant. Only the one who fell down immediately overturned the fire and splashed out a few sticks of charcoal with embers, and the nearby person who was sleeping soundly snorted in pain.
However, at this time, Yi Damao and the other crept people had already bypassed their camp and formed a close outpost in the mountain road; they were slashing with a loud noise and a roaring stabbing with a sword and a sword; Flesh and blood flew together to kill the quake-stricken mountains, birds and beasts flew away.
There was also a soldier with sturdy arms who took the chaos and lit a can of kerosene with a campfire, and slammed it on the rock wall above the heads of these stunned enemies; in an instant it cracked into a big canopy. The pouring fire and the flowing flames; although only a small part of the enemy's momentum was covered, the effect of frightening and moving the forehead was more than that of the previous attack.
I saw these enemy soldiers who jumped up from their sleep like frightened birds. Under the scorching fire behind them and the killing of swordsmen, most of them did not hesitate to choose a looser direction of escape, and then walked along the side of the road. The steep slope that was deliberately set aside, went forward and then rolled down into the riverbed tens of feet high.
Even if the person who fell on the spot didn't die immediately, it was inevitable that he would paralyze on the river beach with broken hands and broken heads, groaning and groaning among the crimson washed out by the river.
After another half an hour, there were no more movable objects in the riverbed under the road; and the spacious corner at this corner became a new forward camp and temporary food store for the rebels. ,
However, Yi Damao looked at the temporary camp with some dissatisfaction at the working figures who were obviously cringing.
He didn't quite understand why the Rebels had to recruit a few new soldiers from the local people every time they fought, even if they didn't know anything, they could only do some chores; this time was no exception. After a public trial of the Chen clan members who could not escape, thousands of Ding Zhuang were recruited on the spot; then they were assigned to the teams to listen to the results.
You know, this is not the time when the old rebels lacked everything and were not enough, and needed to "add trenches" and "city attached"; relying on the equipment carried on the rebel carts, there would be basically no stockades or cities. Yap can resist. Why don't you use these things that can't be played directly to make up the numbers and fill the scene.
The enemies who rushed out from the turning point of the mountain road on the opposite side soon fell to the ground under the rain of arrows collected behind the group card. In this narrow valley, they didn’t even have the opportunity to escape, so they were stubborn. The few survivors who were lucky enough to block with their hands and bucklers were quickly slashed by the knives and guns that rushed up to them, and they were killed or injured or fled without being able to hold them for a few rounds.
"These thieves really left behind many volleys and severed troops..."
It's just that the steep and rocky mountains are getting more and more, and most places are not suitable for ambush; therefore, although the physical and material consumption is a bit large, and the frequency of rotation needs to be accelerated, they don't have to worry about it suddenly appearing. , Such as falling rocks and rolling, or a thousand arrows, arrows are like rain.
In this way, they defeated many enemy forces with less cost and casualties, and advanced step by step to Xie Mu Pass where Qitian and Zhucheng two ridge roads converge.
I saw the intersection of Xie and Mu waters flowing between the mountains and gorges, and the end of the ridge narrowly sandwiched between the two sides. It was originally buried on the old site of Guancheng in a rocky ruin, but a new one was built with earth and wood. Xiaozhai during the horizontal period;
In the fifth year of the Yuan Ding of the Han Dynasty (112 BC), Guiyi Hou Tianjia led his army to take this ancient road from Fuchuan to Cangwu. One of them was in a fierce battle with the local South Vietnamese army at Xie Muguan;
In the fourth year of Wude of Tang Gaozu (621 AD), Li Jing sent troops from Sichuan to Lianghu to defeat Liang Di Xiaoxian, "from Yiling (now Wuchang, Hubei) to Fuchuan to Guizhou (Guilin), stationed in Huangshaling", and battled with Liang Jun. Yu Xie Muguan;
"It's time to be a big guy..."
As the advancing cart was assembled, the ejected poisonous fireballs and kerosene jars were spattered and burned on the city wall; the originally quiet stockade was like an ant colony soaked in smoke; all of a sudden; There were many figures rushing and calling for fire fighting and defense.
Then, under the cover of the arrows of the crossbow team spreading out like rain, with the baffle and group cards that have been fortunately carried up, the Muzhu slowly crashed toward the Zaimen. There were also fire-throwing soldiers carrying a basket of small fire oil tanks on their backs, slowly opening the distance and following them.
And Chen Yanqian, who was shocked by the merchant woman in the post house in the city walled with gray sideburns, could not help cursing these enemies who couldn't wait to chase them.
These grass thieves are really mad dogs, so they are chasing them without stopping; you must know that you have to take people from Guiyang City to rush all the way to here, up and down are also very tired, and you can't Don't follow the wishes of the people and stay and rest on the spot for a while.
It's just that these subordinates were a little unable to move their legs when they rested, and they waited until after dark and still did not prepare the defense and the follow-up food for repairing the city; instead, they were fighting for food and food. There were a lot of conflicts and disturbances in the residence; he had been making trouble for most of the night before being reconciled by him.
But he still stayed on guard, and sent out all those who had spare capacity in the stockade as a step-by-step warning and post-breaking post in the mountain road; but he did not expect that the soldiers left by him would be too unhelpful, and they would encounter the enemy. Before the news came back, they were attacked.
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