"Quick, quick, carry them in!" Huang Quan hurriedly led the two people into the house. He Qizhou glanced along the open door. There were at least six or seven injured people lying on the ground in the outer room. In the middle of the room was
A hospital bed made of two tables. He Qizhou knew that the person who carried the person was the owner of the grocery store at the entrance of the village, and the injured person was the more familiar hotel manager. It turned out that these people were soldiers of his adoptive father Yang Zheng!
He Qizhou no longer hesitated and quickly jumped out of the bamboo forest. As he got further and further away from the waterfall, Shannan's fighting sounds and screams became closer and closer. The formation leading to the waterfall hut was based on the mountain topography and was based on the Five Elements and Bagua, but
It is also unique. Many of the huge rocks in the mountain are magnetic. Once the compass enters the mountain, it becomes ineffective, often making it impossible to distinguish between east, west, north and south. Those ubiquitous huge rocks make the sound bounce back and forth, even if the sound of the waterfall is close to you, you can't distinguish it.
Listen clearly for directions.
There is only one road to the waterfall. As long as the three passes with huge boulders are guarded, the enemy will not be able to pass. Soon after He Qizhou left the bamboo forest, he arrived at the last pass. The sound of fighting came from here. He wanted to go to the two outermost passes.
Already missed!
The pass, which is less than one foot wide, has been built with stones more than three feet high. More than ten familiar "villagers" are standing behind the stone wall, firing bows and arrows. The cliffs on both sides of the pass are about thirty feet high, each with ten
The remaining people guarded it, and the weapons used were mostly large rocks; what really stopped Xu Xuan's army was a huge rock thirty feet south of the pass!
The length, width and height of the boulder are about 20 feet each. Due to the existence of this boulder, Xu Xuan's army can only rush to the pass with a few people in parallel. If they seize this boulder, they can not only directly attack the stone wall of the pass, but also
Suppress the guards on the cliffs on both sides of the pass. So after Xu Xuan dropped more than ten corpses in front of the pass, he stopped rushing through the pass and instead ordered an attack on the boulder. At this time, more than ten ropes had been hooked to the edge of the boulder.
Ten Royal Forest Army masters and Ouchi guards were quickly approaching, and countless crossbows were aiming at the top of the stone, making it impossible for those on top to get close to the edge of the stone to cut the rope!
He Qizhou quickly climbed up a cliff from the pass. When the "sharecroppers" in the village realized that it was He Qizhou, they kept shouting "Master, Master". Some even wanted to stop He Qizhou and ask him to leave from the back mountain quickly.
He Qizhou found that these men in their forties and fifties all had resolute expressions, and there was no hint of peasant look. They looked more like a group of battle-hardened warriors! Many of them even brought their sons into battle, most of whom were their childhood toys.
companion.
"I won't leave! Thank you!" He Qizhou flew past the veterans. Most of those people were of third or fourth level strength and could not stop He Qizhou at all.
He Qizhou rushed directly to the top of the cliff, and then jumped off the huge stone a few feet away without thinking. At this time, the volley of crossbow arrows had stopped, and twenty or thirty people rushed to the top of the stone and began to fight with the guards on the top.
, and more imperial guards are still clinging to them!
The top of the stone is quite flat, and there are the most people guarding it. At a glance, there are sixty or seventy people. During the jump, He Qizhou saw Yang Shan, Lin Yan, Lin Chuan and his son, and Zhang Luyao and his daughter.
, the one-armed Ji Sheng, Zheng Yuan whose pseudonym is Han Song...
Although experts kept rushing up, the people on the top of the boulder did not panic. Zhang Luyao and Lin Yan were the strongest, one with eight meridians and one with seven meridians, followed by Yang Shan and Lin Chuan, two with six meridians and one with six meridians.
One of them has five meridians, and the rest of the guards are about the same age as Lin Yan. Most of them have four meridians and above. Although the individual combat power of these people is not as good as that of the masters who come up, they all form a formation to resist the enemy.
According to reports, they took care of each other and actually forced all the masters who came up to the edge of the boulder. Many forest guards were knocked off the boulder. Most of the screams were made by those people when they fell from high places!
However, the guards on the top of the boulder did not dare to get too close to the edge areas on the east and south sides. The powerful crossbows of the Imperial Forest Army had killed and injured many "villagers" who accidentally approached the edge, so they could only watch as more and more Imperial Army troops were attacked.
Rushed up.
He Qizhou's descent from the sky surprised Lin Chuan and Yang Shan. They had been worried about whether He Qizhou could escape. He Qizhou didn't say much and immediately joined the battle group after coming up. His current martial arts has long surpassed Zhang Luyao.
With his joining, within two or three breaths, everyone defeated all the incoming enemies on the top of the stone. Soldiers continued to fall from around them, making those who were calling for reinforcements too scared to go up any more and fled away one after another.
Get off the rope.
Relying on his armor, He Qizhou ventured to the edge of the boulder to cut ropes. He cut off six or seven ropes connected to the iron claws in one breath. He quickly pulled back before the locust-like crossbow arrows were shot. Several strings of forest guards who had not yet fallen down rushed down.
When he fell from the broken rope, he was more than ten feet above the ground, and for a while there were screams again and again.
"It seems to be He Qizhou!" someone shouted under the boulder.
"I saw it, none of them can run away!" Then Xu Xuan's sharp cry came.
"Old gelded donkey, come up if you have the guts!" He Qizhou retreated into the center of the boulder and cursed without showing any weakness.
"He came up before, but was beaten down!" Zhang Luyao said with a bitter smile, a mouthful of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
"Sigh! In order to knock down that castrated dog, seven of us died and many others were injured." The one-armed Ji Sheng spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm. The right hand holding the knife was trembling uncontrollably. He didn't know how much he had fought hard.
time.
"Brother Ji, your arm..." He Qizhou couldn't help feeling palpitated when he saw Ji Sheng's broken left arm at the shoulder level.
"Sit down and talk, they won't dare to attack for a while!" Zhang Luyao said.
Ji Sheng took He Qizhou and sat down and said: "After returning to Jiangling, I thought about going to Chen Yan to take revenge all day long. Unexpectedly, I was ambushed by the traitor. He also expected that I would go to take revenge. There are masters and other experts hidden in my house.
If Master hadn't saved me, I would have lost more than just this arm."
"Isn't Chen Yan dismissed from office? Why did he lead troops to attack again?" He Qizhou asked.
"Humph, after Jiang Shan compromised with the Chen family, a member of the Chen family became the prefect, and Chen Yan turned around and became the chief prosecutor in charge of a state's criminal arrests. Fortunately, the evil thief was killed by me three days ago.
, which can be considered as dispelling the hatred in my heart!" Ji Sheng said.
"Brother Zheng, why are you here? Why did you bring so many people here?" He Qizhou looked up and saw that many of the bloodstained guards were from the Qimen Mountains' dense valley.
"I caused them trouble." Ji Sheng said apologetically.
"Brother Ji, don't say that, he will be discovered sooner or later." Zheng Yuan continued: "A year ago, we learned that Brother Ji was seriously injured. We knew that it was not convenient for him to recuperate in Zhangzhi County, so we took him there.
Qimen Mountain. Unexpectedly, they were discovered by spies hiding in the mountains of Nanzhili. Then Jinling sent troops to attack. After repeated attacks failed, they sent people to block the exit of Xishan. This time because they wanted to attack the Yang family, Chen Yan
The five hundred officers and soldiers in the mountains were mobilized nearby. Our people accidentally heard what the officers and soldiers said, so they took a shortcut to inform the Yang family, but unexpectedly they were trapped here. Now that they had just defeated Chen Yan, the old man came again.
An army of eunuchs.”
He Qizhou asked Zhang Luyao again: "Have the first two passes been lost?"
Zhang Luyao said: "Yes, we only defended for half a day before we decided to abandon the defense. The combat power of the Royal Forest Army far exceeded those of the imperial soldiers. Although we could trade one for three in terms of casualties, we still couldn't afford it, so we took the initiative to retreat.
Here, at least you can exchange one for ten!"
"But it will be broken sooner or later, Uncle Zhang, we still have to find a way to get out from the back mountain!" He Qizhou said.
"We have also thought about it. The boundary between the back mountain and Suizhou is a plain. With the distance of the official cavalry, we will be overtaken in half a day. Zheng Yuan also advised us to retreat to the dense valley of Qimen Mountain, but you also know that through the
The side towards Nanmen County is covered with thorns and there is no way to go, how can those women and children get out?" Lin Yan sighed.
"I have already tried to find a way for someone to open a path, just follow me. Without further ado, Brother Zheng, you take your people and follow me first. We will let women, children, old and weak, and the sick and wounded go first. Could you please help me?"
Uncles who are capable of fighting can hold on for another half day." He Qizhou said hurriedly.
"That's the best. You can go down to the northwest corner of the rock. He Qizhou, you take Zheng Yuan and a few seriously injured brothers to go down first!" Zhang Luyao said.
He Qizhou took Zhang Luyao's pulse and was startled, saying: "Uncle, you have to go down too. If the seriously injured person doesn't leave, it will only become a burden for everyone! But before going down, let me shoot two arrows."
, who can lend me a stiff bow?"
"Here, this one-stone bow was snatched from the Southern Zhili soldiers." Yang Shan took off the long bow and quiver he was carrying and handed them to He Qizhou.
He Qizhou took the bow and arrow, crawled to the edge of the boulder, then stood up and fired three arrows in succession, killing three Royal Forest Army crossbowmen under the boulder. The group of crossbowmen were shocked, retreated and fired arrows, and He Qizhou retreated invisibly.
Then he changed places and shot two more people with arrows.
Now the crossbowmen began to panic. He Qizhou specialized in shooting at the throat and head and face areas that were not protected by armor. The group of imperial soldiers went out on light cavalry without even carrying shields. No one wanted to become He Qizhou's living target. The crossbowmen of hundreds of people were in chaos for a while, and they all
After retreating, He Qizhou seized the opportunity and pulled up all the remaining rope hooks hanging on the rock wall before returning to the center of the boulder.
There were more than 20 people including Zhang Luyao, Ji Sheng, Zheng Yuan and others who slipped down the boulder from the northwest corner. In addition to the wounded soldiers, He Qizhou also specially selected a few strong people. In order to speed up the retreat, He Qizhou needed to
Pull a few more ropes by the waterfall, and the long ropes sent by the Imperial Guard also come in handy.
After He Qizhou returned to the waterfall, he first climbed up the nearly vertical 40-foot-high cliff, then pulled four strong men up one after another, and then used five extended ropes to pull up five people at a time. All the people in the hut were sleeping soundly.
The children were all woken up. More than an hour later, more than a hundred old, weak, sick and disabled people were pulled to the top of the waterfall. Following the route pointed by He Qizhou, Zhang Luyao led the team to set off to Nanmen County overnight, preparing to return from Nanmen County.