The valley where Su Le and others were located was like a half-section of an Erlenmeyer flask placed horizontally. The area inside the valley was about more than 5,000 square meters, and the mouth of the valley was only two feet wide.
It is about 800 meters long from the mouth of the valley to the bottom of the valley. The valley is surrounded by cliffs with a height of 30 to 40 feet, and there is no possibility of climbing.
More than three hundred soldiers of the Fifth School fled in embarrassment from the mouth of the valley, and behind them were the murderous soldiers of the Shang army as far as the eye could see.
Su Le narrowed his eyes slightly, waved the battle flag, and shouted: "All flags obey the order, prepare to fight!"
Looking at the densely packed merchant army, Su Le looked resolute and motionless, but he couldn't help but secretly feel glad that he was well prepared.
The place where everyone is standing is a platform of about 60 square meters and more than three meters high against the mountain wall. This place was chosen firstly to make it easier to climb up the cliff through ropes, and secondly to take advantage of the danger just in case.
And to defend, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
In front of the platform, Su Le also made preparations early. He ordered his soldiers to dig the entire outside of the platform into a steep long slope, and dug a large ditch nearly two meters deep under the platform, forming a U-shaped terrain.
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In this way, if the enemy wants to attack, they have to rush into the ditch first and then climb up. The actual slope of the platform is nearly six meters long!
"Throw the rope and pull them up." Su Le issued an order to his subordinates, and then said to the soldiers of the Fifth School who climbed onto the platform: "Everyone, you should leave the valley immediately from the rope on the cliff. We will cut off the rear for everyone here!"
"No! Captain Su, we want to fight with you and advance and retreat together!" Seeing that Su Le actually asked them to retreat first, the soldiers of the Fifth School said with great emotion.
Su Le said: "Time is running out, everyone please do what I say immediately. Since everyone has returned to the valley and chosen to believe in Su Le, Su Le will never let everyone down!"
"Okay! Let's go first, Brother Su. We will remember your life-saving kindness in our hearts!" A flag leader said sincerely.
With the help of Su Le and others, more than 300 soldiers of the Fifth School quickly climbed onto the platform, and behind them, the Shang soldiers were less than 200 meters away from the platform.
"The whole army is on alert! Don't let any enemy rush onto the platform!" Su Le shouted loudly, looking forward, the last wave of soldiers from the merchant army also entered the valley, totaling five to six thousand people!
Su Le's eyes showed a fierce light, he raised the battle flag high, and then waved it vigorously.
Boom!
The soldiers in front of the merchant army were preparing to attack the platform, but suddenly they heard a loud booming sound coming from the mouth of the valley.
Looking back, I saw countless huge rocks rolling down the cliffs on both sides of the valley entrance, blocking the valley entrance in an instant.
"No! We fell into a trap!"
The Shang army was suddenly in an uproar, and their retreat was cut off. This made the Shang soldiers feel a deep panic, and chaos began to appear in the ranks.
In the center of the team, Fang Ming was even more horrified. As a horse warrior, he had a demon eagle to tame beasts. He had already ordered the demon eagle to explore the situation inside and outside the valley. There was no abnormality in the demon eagle's investigation just now. How could it suddenly appear?
ambush?
According to intelligence analysis, there are no strong men above the martial arts realm in the enemy's team, but how did the opponent avoid the detection of the demon eagle?
"Master Fang, what should we do?"
Qi Xiao asked eagerly, but before he could finish his words, he saw countless rays of fiery red light suddenly light up in the sky, like thousands of long fire snakes, fiercely swooping down towards the bottom of the valley!
"No! It's a rocket. The enemy wants to set the valley on fire!" A soldier from Shang quickly discovered the intention of Su Le and others, and shouted with despair on his face.
"No!!!"
Then, more Shang soldiers shouted in despair, and the valley was in chaos.
It was autumn, and the valley was full of dry grass and trees. When the rocket fell, a large fire soon ignited, and the raging fire soon engulfed most of the valley!
Su Le stood on the platform. Although he had sent people to cut away the dead grass and trees within three feet of the platform in advance, he could still feel the burning heat of the fire.
"Quick! Attack with the whole army! Only by seizing the platform can we have a way to survive, otherwise we will all die!" Fang Ming shouted eagerly. In the raging fire, no one could calm down.
In fact, without anyone's instructions, when the entire valley was covered by fire, the open space in front of the platform was placed in front of the Shang soldiers like a peerless treasure, and all the soldiers ran towards the platform without their lives.
However, the open space in front of the platform was only a dozen meters long and ten meters wide, which could not accommodate so many soldiers. However, the fire behind him became more and more fierce, and countless soldiers screamed and rushed forward, squeezing forward desperately.
There was chaos and screams in the open space, and all the Shang soldiers were like crazy. At some point, a soldier was squeezed to the ground. Before he could even scream, he was drowned by countless feet.
Then, more and more soldiers were pushed down, while soldiers from the rear were still coming in a steady stream.
The large ditch between the platform and the open space became a hell on earth. Soldiers of the Shang Kingdom were squeezed down one by one. Before they could get up, another wave of soldiers rolled down from behind like dumplings.
Everyone in the Black Water Banner stood guard at the edge of the platform in full formation. The blazing fire light made everyone's faces turn red. Their eyes were wide open as they looked at the miserable state of the enemy below in shock.
Even they were shocked by the enemy's cruelty to their own people!
Only Su Le remained calm, urging the soldiers of the Fifth School to speed up the climb from time to time, and at the same time, everyone in the Black Water Banner covered their faces with wet cloths.
The fire had turned the entire valley into a sea of flames. In addition to being burned alive, the suffocation from the smoke even made the Shang soldiers go crazy.
In order to find a way to survive, many soldiers were impatient and swung their swords fiercely to chop down their companions in front.
Before the merchant army could launch an attack, their own people were already killing each other.
"Attack! Attack! Attack the platform!"
Fang Ming, Qi Xiao and several other minors fought hard to kill dozens of rioting soldiers, barely suppressing the chaos. However, the Shang soldiers in the sea of fire had their eyes reddened by the fire, and they stared at each one.
The backs of the companions in front of me are chosen to devour them!
Finally, the merchant army filled up the ditch with the lives of countless soldiers. The soldiers who were pushed to the front had no choice but to climb up the steep hillside and launch an attack on the platform.
"Prepare the spear, kill!" Seeing the enemy attacking, Su Le looked cold and gave the order sternly.
The nearly vertical long slope made the Shang soldiers climb as slowly as a snail. The Black Water Banners were condescending and could assassinate the enemy at the top with almost no effort.
But Su Le did not relax at all. The appearance of the fifth school soldiers completely disrupted his plan. Without them, he would have taken the Black Water Flag and the others and retreated from the rope at the moment of the rocket attack.
But now, they have to cut off the rear for the soldiers of the Fifth School. Although they have an absolute geographical advantage, under the threat of death, the attacks of the Shang soldiers will definitely become more and more crazy. The steep slope more than three meters high,
It won't be long before it will be filled with enemy corpses.
The real fierce battle has not yet begun.
The fire became more and more intense, turning the valley into a purgatory. Of the more than 5,000 merchant soldiers, less than 2,000 were left.
Fang Ming, Qi Xiao and others, covered in black and extremely embarrassed, rushed out of the sea of fire and came to the open space in front of the platform. They stared at Su Le and others on the stage. Braving their raging anger, they wished they could kill everyone in the Black Water Flag.
Eaten alive!
"attack!"
Qi Xiao spurted out a cloud of black gas from his black nostrils, opened his mouth, exposed his big black teeth, and roared loudly.
Under the lifeless impact of the Shang soldiers, the corpses of the Shang soldiers formed a gentle slope in front of the platform, and the Shang army attacked faster and faster.
However, the people of Blackwater Banner, under the leadership of Su Le, stood like an iron wall on the edge of the platform, which could never be crossed.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
The Shang soldiers were unable to attack for a long time. Suddenly, a rocket shot out from under the platform, and everyone in the Black Water Banner could not avoid it.
"Change defense!" Su Le shouted, the flag gun in his hand suddenly unfolded, the flag waved, blocking all the arrows.
"Master Fang, the enemy army is fierce. If this continues, we may be burned to death before we can attack the platform. Sir, please think of a way!" Seeing that the bow and arrow attack was ineffective, Qi Xiao looked at Fang Ming anxiously.
Fang Ming frowned. The front was heavily blocked by soldiers, and he could not step over to attack. The raging fire also made his demon eagle unwilling to come down.
After thinking for a while, Fang Ming blew a loud whistle, and after a while the demon eagle circled in the sky and pounced hard on Su Le on the platform.
"Flag leader, be careful!"
Seeing the demon eagle pounce, countless soldiers shouted eagerly.
Su Le pulled out the flag gun from the body of the Shang soldiers in front. When he saw the demon eagle attacking, he flicked his wrist and unfolded the flag again. The huge flag flew in the air and knocked the demon eagle away.
Fang Ming frowned. The opponent's flag commander's martial arts skills were very high. In addition, the demon eagle was afraid of flames and its attack power was greatly reduced. For a while, he was unable to do anything to the opponent.
He took out the bow and arrow from his waist, drew the bow full moon, and secretly aimed at Su Le.
Su Le was resisting the attack of the demon eagle when suddenly his heart trembled as a powerful crisis came from below.
Whoosh!
At the moment when the demon eagle roared and swooped down, a sound broke through the air from below.
Under the platform, Fang Ming showed a proud smile. Although due to the influence of the fire and thick smoke, his combat power was only 30% of the usual, but he had timed this arrow just right, and the opponent could not avoid it.
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But just when Fang Ming was waiting for the opponent to fall to the ground after being hit by an arrow, suddenly, his eyes widened and his mouth suddenly opened. He saw Su Le's dancing battle flag on the platform suddenly sped up by three minutes, and a ball of black flames appeared.
He soared from the battle flag and swept up the demon eagle fiercely.
The sharp arrow hit, and a scream suddenly sounded, but the sound came from the demon eagle in the battle flag!
Fang Ming's face was full of disbelief, and he rubbed his eyes fiercely. The black flame was like the god of death from hell. It was the flame of Yuanli, an Yuanli attack that only high-level warriors could unleash!
How could it appear in the hands of a low-level soldier?!
The battle flag was unfolded, and the huge demon eagle had turned into a pile of bones, ruthlessly falling from the mid-air. The morale of everyone in the Blackwater Flag was greatly boosted, but Fang Ming's heart was about to bleed!