Dong Chou did not believe that Chen Hai could guard all the key passes along the route watertight. The murderous voice echoed in the valley, causing hundreds of elite soldiers to scatter in the air like frightened birds and fly eastward.
The rock-breaking vehicle quickly retracted into the tunnel hole. Dong Chou knew that there were at least a dozen heavy-bore crossbows and more than a hundred elite guardsmen with swords hiding inside. The entrance to the hole was too narrow, so they could not forcefully attack it, and Long Xiang The forward reinforcements of the army will arrive here soon. Even if they collapse the entrance of the cave, it will only take half a day to hold up the sky.
However, measured by traditional resources, in order to excavate the tunnel car at the western foot of Qintong Mountain, the Longxiang Army consumed a total of six to seven million kilograms of intermediate-grade quenched iron secretly imported from Lucheng, which is also a jaw-dropping figure. If the Longxiang Army had not opened up the northern transportation channel in the past two years, it would not have been able to accomplish such a feat.
The heavy troops on both sides are laying the square logs that have been prepared long ago on the iron chain. They can build the iron chain bridge before the leading troops arrive. In this way, the middle section of the Qintong Mountain Road, which is thousands of miles away, will be completely connected.
Digging a tunnel deep in the western foothills of Qintong Mountain has always been a top-secret plan.
Although there were only a hundred sword guards stationed in the Iron Line Valley, these sword cultivators shamelessly hid behind a shield wall composed of two to three inches of thick quenched gold shields, plus dozens of light vehicles deployed on the periphery. The heavy Tianji chariots and the warbird battalion with low defensive power want to swoop down from the sky, tear open the defense line composed of the sword guards and Tianji chariots, and cut off the iron chain bridge. What a heavy price must be paid.
Among the mountains that stretch for thousands of miles, there are many Lingtian caves with wonderful scenery and surging spiritual springs. Of course, there are also many poor mountains and rivers that are difficult for birds to cross and are covered under the capped glaciers.
At this time, the Longxiang Army, which was ordered to advance eastward for reinforcements, was the Fourth Town Division, with Le Yi as the chief general and Han Jian as the deputy general. The cavalry part was composed of soldiers and horses led by Han Jian and secretly reinforced by the Jingjue Protectorate from the northern front.
The war machine was twice as big as the heavy-duty Tianji chariot, but what was loaded on the front of the vehicle was a short cone-shaped spiral blade with a diameter of six to seven meters that rapidly rotated and cut rocks. At this time, it was visible to the naked eye. Speed, crushing the fallen rocks accumulated at the entrance of the cave into pieces.
At this time, Yu Zonghu replaced Wen Boyuan and officially served as the Lieutenant General of the Suwei Army. He also transferred the 300,000 elite Tiger Roar Battalion from the east of Yanjing City to Dong's Meiwubao line, and returned to normal. Collect ships everywhere and prepare to attack and return to Ningcheng along the Qiuye River after the river thaws...
The plank roads built on both sides were also interrupted by the Iron Line Valley, but this interruption was intentional. It was intended to make the enemy scouts mistakenly believe that the plank roads built by Long Xiang's army deep in Qintong Mountain were all named after their respective mining villages. As the center, it is intermittent. I would never have thought that what Chen Hai has been planning in the past few years is to open a second artery running through Qintong Mountain outside Qintong Pass.
A heavy-bore crossbow is installed at a high elevation angle on the top of the heavy Tianji chariot, waiting for the enemy warbird to suddenly launch a dive attack from nowhere.
Dong Chou could only look gloomily, and followed the imperial soldiers behind him and ordered:
"Everyone should go east along the plank road to find all the tunnel entrances, look for fighter planes, and blow up the tunnels..."
This is a long and narrow rift valley more than a thousand meters deep and two hundred meters wide, called the Iron Line Valley.
Dong Chou felt a sense of sadness in his heart. The hole they had destroyed with so much effort was cleared out overnight by this weird rock-breaking weapon
If we don't build a bridge and want to bypass the Iron Line Valley, we have to walk an extra two to three hundred miles of rugged and dangerous roads deep in the mountains and old forests.
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Soon, Le Yi's lieutenant Han Jian also emerged from the mine, exhaled a long breath, slapped his thigh and sighed: "If I were the heir of the Dong family, I would never have imagined that my lord has done so much in the past few years. I took advantage of the opportunity of mining copper and iron ore to secretly dig through the Shentuo Ridge, Black Rock Peak and other natural obstacles that are difficult for birds to cross... "
They drove all the way and arrived at the Iron Chain Valley at noon. They saw the Iron Chain Bridge emerging from the sky. From a distance, they saw Le Yi and Han Jian personally leading the troops to cross the Iron Chain Bridge. Dong Chou was so angry that He wanted to look up to the sky and scream, but the defenses here in Iron Wire Valley were too tight.
There are four long tunnels heading east from the Iron Line Valley, with plank roads on both sides of the tunnels. At this time, it is no longer possible to hide the secrets from interested people.
No one believed that Longxiang's army could quietly break through Qintong Mountain. Miao Zijin and others believed that Chen Hai was bluffing and wanted to use deception to force the Nine Domains to withdraw their troops from Liquan.
The Shentuoling Tunnel is more than twenty miles deep and is the deepest of the tunnels at the western foot of Qintong Mountain. Passing through such a deep narrow cave felt quite depressing for Le Yi even though the time was short.
Not to mention that Han Jian and other generals who were leading troops outside did not know the details beforehand. Even the directors of the mining villages in the mountains of the western foothills did not know the details of their respective affairs a month ago, before Chen Hai decided to show his fangs to the inner court. The mines we are responsible for excavating have been accurately surveyed and positioned, and they can be opened at the last minute.
The water of the Tong River made a big bend around Shentuo Ridge, and the waterway stretched out for more than two hundred miles. However, most people did not expect that at the foot of the West Valley River Beach and the foot of the East Valley River Beach in Shentuo Ridge, the two Longxiang Army Each year, a remote iron mine was opened to mine iron ore. The two mines were directly connected at the last moment, shortening the distance between the two points to only one-tenth of the previous one.
At this moment, dozens of winches embedded deep in the stone walls on both sides of Iron Mountain Cliff are firmly locking dozens of fine iron chains that are thicker than an adult's arm and each weighing hundreds of thousands of kilograms. Over the cliff.
Qintong Mountain stretches thousands of layers and rises ten thousand feet high. In addition to a few alpine basins and flat grasslands outside the core areas of Tongzhong, Tongnan, and Tongbei, there are more vast and barren mountains and jagged ridges.
Dong Chou was disheartened and could only lead his troops back to Liquan City first. He could only watch helplessly as Long Xiang's army reinforced its troops and took a step closer to Juquan Ridge every moment. When Le Yi and Han Jian led the first troops With more than 10,000 vanguard soldiers, only the palace, this means that Dong Chou's plan to form a coalition of nine feudal lords to blockade Juquan Ridge was completely bankrupt within half a month of implementation.
At this moment, Dong Chou deeply realized that Tianji Academy had quietly absorbed too many children from poor families over the years. Once these children from poor families were organized in the name of the new emperor, the power gathered would be frighteningly powerful.
The War Bird Battalion led by Dong Chou, as the most elite combat force in Hexi, even prioritized dozens of Hexi's latest imitation heavy-bore crossbows. Their attack power would never be weak, and once they were determined to destroy Qintong's troops deep in the mountains, There are holes in the tunnel. Without the cooperation of a large number of soldiers and horses, it is extremely difficult to defend the tunnel entrance from the outside without the cooperation of a hundred-man sword guard battalion.
This is mainly caused by the immaturity and excessive consumption of the rolled-blade mining vehicles built in the early stage.
Shentuo Ridge is an extremely inconspicuous difficulty deep in the western foothills of Qintong Mountain. The ridge is more than a thousand feet high and stretches for more than two hundred miles. It is like a recumbent sharp sword, blocking the way from Hengshan City to Liquan. on the way forward.
Regardless of whether Ge Xuanqiao was willing or not, Dong Chou asked him to accompany him and sneak into the depths of the western foot of Qintong Mountain. They would meet up with Zhanqiao Camp who had sneaked in first, and planned to find an opportunity to forcibly cut off Long Xiang's army's eastward reinforcement channel from the air.
News came from Juquan Ridge that before nightfall, hundreds of war birds from the Nine Feud Allied Forces left Liquan City and entered the mountains at the west foot from the north of Juquan Lake. They must not have gone to the west foot of Qintong Mountain to enjoy the mountains. water.
Dong Chou himself had some illusions and waited restlessly for two days in Liquan City. However, after learning that Long Xiang's army was reinforcing the vanguard, he quickly advanced to Shentuo Ridge and Iron Line in just three days. Between the valleys, he could no longer sit still in Liquan City.
You must know that the most elite Dao Ya soldiers in Hexi only have more than a thousand generals above the spiritual realm.
It didn't even take three days for the first batch of soldiers and horses to be reinforced to Juquan Ridge. By that time, the Nine Feud Allied Forces in Liquan City were not even ready to attack Juquan Ridge.
In addition to the tens of thousands of elite vanguards who were crossing the bridge, in addition to the hundreds of ferocious war birds and dozens of heavy tanks guarding the Iron Line Bridge, Chen Hai also sent out the hastily made sword guard battalion from Juquan Ridge. , guarding these key passes deep in Qintong Mountain.
In addition to the thousands of grassroots military officers needed by the Guining Army, the size of the Imperial Concubine Palace Sword Guard Battalion, recruited from the poor disciples of the Tianji Academy, was as high as a thousand people.
Le Yi looked back at the entrance of the cave where the vanguard generals were filing out of the cave, and thought to himself, using conventional means, if you want to dig a pass several feet square and twenty miles deep deep in the hard rock house, no matter what, Tens of thousands of people worked for more than ten years to achieve this, but who could have imagined that the Longxiang Army only used hundreds of curling blade locomotives in this mine tunnel.
After waves of strong attacks, the Longxiang Army's defensive forces guarding the pass were forced to abandon the entrance and retreat into the tunnels.
At almost midnight, the scouts who were monitoring a collapsed pit to the east came over and reported a new situation in the collapsed pit. Dong Chou, Ge Xuanqiao, and Dong Pan led their troops to rush over, and they heard the news deep in the collapsed pit. , there were waves of roaring and vibrating sounds, and soon I saw a giant chariot-like Tianji war machine emerging from the collapsed pit, pushing away the rubble...
Under the attack of countless sword lights, earth-shaking talismans, and many impactful magical powers, Dong Chou confirmed that the collapse of the three cave entrances was hundreds of meters deep, and even used flame talismans to burn the rubble into magma and rebuild it. After cooling down into a solid rock formation, he led his troops to continue flying west to monitor the movement of reinforcements from the Longxiang Army.
What's more, if the Iron Chain Bridge is cut off, it will be reconnected soon - Dong Chou believes that the Longxiang Army should reserve a large number of iron chains here - it will only delay the Longxiang Army's reinforcements for a day or two at most.
Before all the forward soldiers could emerge from the pass, Le Yi and Han Jian rushed to the next gathering point surrounded by more than a hundred guards.
The mine village on the river bank in the east valley of Shentuo Ridge was brightly lit. Le Yi, who was the first to emerge from the tunnel with his cavalry, looked up at the moonlit night sky with sparse stars. The War Bird Battalion had already rushed to the river bank mine village one step ahead to guard against the enemy. The army may make a surprise attack and attack the vanguard of the troops marching eastward.