"You are sure this is the place!"

A cliff edge dozens of miles away from the northern mountains of the Three Gorges mouth.

Zhu Gaosui observed the surrounding situation and asked the soldiers who returned to report the news.

The soldier looked around carefully with wide eyes, groped on the cliff for a while, and nodded.

"Go back to His Royal Highness King Zhao. It's at this location. The rope is three feet above! I left traces here."

Zhu Gaosui raised his head and looked at the dark cliff above, gritted his teeth and said to the soldiers around him.

"Take a human ladder!"

The soldiers who were not wearing armor and carrying only sidearms and ropes quickly began to set up a ladder.

After the ladder was set up, Zhu Gaosui asked the soldier to climb up and start looking for the rope.

But after groping for four or five feet, I still couldn't find the end of the rope.

"Mom, did you remember it wrong? It's already late at night. If we can't find it again, we have to go back."

Zhu Gaosui, who was a little anxious, shouted anxiously when he saw that the soldier had been groping for a long time but could not find the rope.

"The people above may have encountered a situation. It is possible that the rope was moved to another place, or maybe it was a little higher."

The soldier gritted his teeth and did not want to give up on the captain.

"Get a few more people on board, build a few more people's ladders, and look around!"

Zhu Gaosui, who also didn't want to give up the credit for this achievement, waved his hand to the remaining soldiers to build a few more human ladders to go a little further up.

"found it!"

Time passed little by little. Seeing that the rope had not been found for half an hour, Zhu Gaosui was about to give the order to retreat when a shout of surprise came from beside him.

Hearing this shout, Zhu Gaosui ran over quickly, quickly climbed up the ladder, and grabbed the rope in the soldier's hand.

"good!"

Zhu Gaosui shouted happily, and then asked people to get ready quickly.

At the same time, he pulled the rope hard to remind the person guarding above that someone was about to attack here.

On the cliff, the captain, covered in blood from wounds and lying among the corpses, was almost pulled off the cliff by the force below.

"You are finally here!"

The captain breathed a heavy sigh of relief and climbed up with difficulty. Regardless of the bleeding wound on his body, he slowly climbed down a big rock next to him.

He used his last breath to tie the rope.

The captain used his last strength to pull the rope below, and then fell limply to the ground without making any sound.

After the rope had been connected, Zhu Gaosui felt the pull from above. He immediately ordered: "Those with the rope will go up first. If we meet the Wala people when we get to the top, we will fight to the death to protect the rope. Do you know!"

Several soldiers carrying large bundles of ropes nodded vigorously, tied their weapons behind their backs, lined up one by one, and quickly climbed up.

At this moment, the Wala camp, which sent out several patrol teams but received no reply, directly sent hundreds of people to investigate.

Although there is a gap between the two parties.

But one party is walking steadily on the mountain, while the other party is climbing the cliff.

Whoever gets there first will win.

The soldiers who care about the captain act as leaders.

He is also the fastest at the front.

There is a patrol above, and the captain may not be sure that there is a battle going on right now. Even if the rope is cut accidentally, he and the brothers below will fall directly off the cliff.

Although he was physically and mentally exhausted after a day of running around and the life-threatening rush just now, he was still gritting his teeth and climbing up quickly.

At the same time, he kept mumbling something like, Captain, you must be fine and wait.

Maybe it’s because I grew up in the mountains.

He climbed faster than other soldiers, dragging the people behind him tens of meters away.

Less than half an hour later, almost exhausted, he finally climbed up the cliff.

As soon as we reached the cliff and looked around, there were more than a dozen corpses lying on the ground, all of them belonging to the Oara people.

Seeing this scene, the soldier's heart trembled. Although he was worried about the captain's safety, he still took off the rope from his body as quickly as possible, tied it to a stone pillar, and threw the rope off the cliff.

Zhu Gaosui and others waiting below saw a rope dropped and understood that it was very safe up there.

"Quick, the second batch is coming!"

Zhu Gaosui, who kept looking up at the sky, heard the sound of the rope coming down and quickly ordered the second group of people to climb up.

"Captain, captain, how are you..."

After throwing away the rope, the soldier quickly ran to the place where the rope was tied and found the lifeless captain next to him.

Looking at the captain who was covered in wounds and covered in blood, tears of sadness flowed from the soldier's eyes.

There are 10 people in their team.

Except for the one who was seriously injured and left behind, all the others were killed in the battle except him.

Thinking of the promise that they had made to go to the largest brothel in Peiping after the war, the man hugged the captain's body in pain and cried softly.

"Brother, don't cry. We still have unfinished missions. The Emperor and His Highness the Grand Sun will give their families the highest treatment."

The second officer to climb up looked at the corpses around him and the soldiers who were holding a Ming army corpse and crying softly. He sighed and walked forward, patted his shoulder and comforted him.

"Head... there is fire over there, and an enemy is coming!"

Suddenly, a soldier who had just come up and was on guard duty noticed a string of firelights in the distance, and his heart tightened and he quickly whispered a warning.

The officers and other soldiers who were tying the rope looked away.

Based on the number of torches, the officer quickly judged how many enemies there were.

"Damn, at least a hundred people!"

"Gouzi, you and this brother are watching the rope here, waiting for His Royal Highness King Zhao and the other brothers. The others follow me, and we must stop these guys at our death!"

The others didn't say much, except for a slightly younger soldier named Gouzi who stayed behind.

Others drew their weapons and quickly followed.

Soon, the sound of fighting sounded in the distance.

Gouzi and the soldier who reported the news clenched the knives in their hands one by one, staring into the distance.

They understand that they are the last line of defense.

Once the officer and several soldiers are all killed, they will use their lives to block these people and buy time for the brothers behind them.

But until another group of people came up from behind, the sounds of fighting over there did not stop.

The soldiers who can be sent to carry out side raids are all fierce men in each army.

Not to mention playing 1 against 10, but using the surrounding terrain to play 1 against 2 against 3 is no problem.

The new group of soldiers who climbed up heard the sound of fighting over there as they were about to come up.

Know the situation is urgent.

They didn't bother to rest, so they left two people, Gouzi and the soldier who reported the news behind. After guarding the rope, the rest of them killed one after another.

More and more people came up, and the sound of fighting over there became weaker and weaker, and finally stopped completely.

After a while, a man covered in blood came back limping.

The person who came was the officer who was the first to rush up.

"Head, where are the second brother and the others!"

The dog, who had always remembered his mission to guard the rope, saw his head coming back and quickly ran up to help him while asking about the safety of his other comrades.

The officer glanced at him and shook his head under his expectant eyes.

The dog was stunned for a moment.

He understood what Tou meant, those brothers were all gone.

The officer did not speak or comfort his subordinates. He limped to the rope and sat down, staring at the dark sky in the distance in a daze.

"How is it going!"

About half an hour later, Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui climbed up.

Not caring about resting, he quickly asked the waiting officers.

The officer, whose body was covered in blood, whispered: "We just encountered a patrol of 100 people, and they have all been taken care of. No one has escaped, but I guess it won't be hidden for long."

"If they see no one has returned, they will definitely send people over to continue the investigation."

"Lao Liu led a small team to explore forward. I haven't replied yet. I don't know if something went wrong or if I didn't find out the situation."

Zhu Gaosui glanced at the direction of the Wala camp in the distance, gritted his teeth and said to the officer who was covered in blood: "I can't care about that much anymore. I'll take people there first. You can take a few people to stay here and protect the brothers behind.
To be continued...