Looking at the majestic pass standing between the two mountains in front of them, Jia Fu and Sun Lingming both exclaimed in surprise.
"This Lulong Pass can be renamed Lulong Pass. In my opinion, the defense of this pass is not inferior to the two passes of Hangu and Hulao." Jia Fu said seriously.
"Although I have never seen Hangu Pass and Hulao Pass, I have seen Hu Pass. The danger of Lulongsai is even worse than Hu Pass." Sun Lingming said.
After hearing what the two people said, Gongsun Xuanyuan looked up at Lulongsai and said with a wry smile: "Although Lulongsai is dangerous, it is far from comparable to Hulao Hangu. Even compared to Huguan, it is still the same."
There is a certain gap.
But after the general's reconstruction, Lulongsai now has a defense that is comparable to Hangu and surpasses Huguan."
Hearing Xuanyuan's words, all the generals present fell silent. What else could they say? Could it be that Xuanyuan was not good at dealing with foreigners, but that he was best at cheating his own people?
"Today's Lulongsai, a forceful attack is not advisable, it must be outmaneuvered."
At this point, a trace of determination flashed in Xuanyuan's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "Send the order, and the whole army will hide. I will personally lead people to climb the mountain tonight and burn the Crescent Tower."
"promise."
Because he was afraid of being discovered by the defenders inside the pass and alerting the enemy, Xuanyuan did not let his army approach Lulongsai, but stayed in a valley five miles outside the pass.
As the moon rose and set, night soon came, and Xuanyuan personally led the elite crossbowmen of Bai Ming. Each of them carried the disassembled eight oxen crossbow parts and took advantage of the night to sneak towards the unknown peak outside Lulong fortress.
The reason why Xuanyuan disassembled the Eight-Niu Crossbow into parts was because the assembled Eight-Niu Crossbow required four people to carry it, and one hundred people could only carry twenty-five.
But if it is broken down into parts and assembled on the mountain, two people can carry all the parts of an eight-niu crossbow, and a hundred people can carry fifty eight-niu crossbows, which can be directly used by those who can carry bed crossbows.
The total is doubled.
In addition, the terrain of the unnamed peak is steep, and it is quite difficult for the soldiers to climb the mountain. It is impossible to climb the assembled Eight Ox Crossbow, and they can only disassemble it into parts to successfully bring it up the mountain.
After arriving at the foot of the unknown mountain peak, Xuanyuan looked at the pitch-black peak in front of him, and then at the soldiers behind him whose faces could not be seen clearly. He said in a deep voice: "Hurry up and distribute the lighting bags."
"promise."
In order to prevent being discovered by patrolling enemy troops? Soldiers climbing mountains are not allowed to hold torches.
Given how difficult it is to climb an unknown mountain peak, climbing the mountain in the dark is tantamount to seeking death? But making a fire would be easily discovered by the Qing army.
This has also become another big problem in outsmarting Lu Longsai? However, this problem was solved by Qin Hao before the troops were divided.
Qin Hao told Xuanyuan that although you can't light a fire while climbing, you can catch more fireflies and put them in a cloth bag, using the light of fireflies instead of firelight.
Qin Hao's plan shocked Xuanyuan? This trick is simply amazing. The light of fireflies is different from the color of fire. Let's not mention whether it is easy to be discovered. Even if it is discovered, it will be thought to be fireflies.
Lulongsai is located in the wilderness? Naturally, there will be no shortage of fireflies.
So? After dark, Xuanyuan immediately asked a thousand soldiers to catch fireflies everywhere and made more than 300 lighting bags.
As soon as Xuanyuan finished speaking, three soldiers carrying big black bags came out.
The bag is very large? But these three people did it without any effort, as if there was nothing in the bag? But the bag is obviously very large in size.
The three soldiers put down the bag and opened it, only to see that the black cloth bag was emitting yellow-green fluorescence? It was a lighting bag made of fireflies.
"Quickly, distribute it? Three bags per person."
Under Xuanyuan's urging, more than three hundred bags of Firefly brand lighting bags were quickly distributed, and then Xuanyuan took the lead in climbing.
At the same time, above Lulongsai, Qing soldiers were patrolling back and forth.
Although the area where Zhou Yu landed was in the central and eastern part of western Liaoning, the defenders in various places in the west were also in panic. In order to prevent the Qin army from raiding, they took strict precautions, and the number of patrols was three times the usual number.
"Brother, it's changing of the guard."
"Okay... hmm? Why is that area so bright? What is that?"
After hearing this, the soldiers changing guard suddenly became nervous, but after taking a closer look, they breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hey, what was I doing at the time? Haven't I seen any fireflies?"
"But are fireflies that bright?"
"It's rare to see many strange things. When fireflies gather together, it's almost as bright as this."
"That's it..."
Compared with the brightness of the torch, the firefly lighting bag was much darker, but it was still not necessarily noticed by the Qing army sentry, but they did not pay attention to it and just regarded it as the light emitted by a large number of fireflies gathering together.
On Xuanyuan's side, after an hour-long climb, Xuanyuan finally led the soldiers to the top of the mountain.
The unknown mountain peak is too difficult to climb. Even if Xuanyuan leads the way and all the soldiers who climb are elite, it is inevitable that some people will fall due to stepping on the air. But even so, the soldiers will still grit their teeth and continue climbing.
After reaching the top of the mountain, Xuanyuan counted the number of people and found that there were eighty-eight people left, which meant that twelve people had fallen on the way. These were all the most elite crossbow archers.
This also reduced the number of Qin's Eight Ox Crossbows to forty-four.
"Quickly, quickly assemble the bed crossbow." Xuanyuan shouted.
It is now Yin hour, and in two hours it will be dawn, and the fire attack plan must be completed before dawn.
The soldiers led by Xuanyuan were all the most elite crossbowmen. They had long become proficient in disassembling and assembling bed crossbows. It only took less than half an hour to assemble all the eight cow crossbows.
Due to the loss of twelve men, the total number of crossbows in the Qin army dropped from fifty to forty-four.
After the forty-four crossbows were assembled, the already narrow top of the mountain instantly became extremely crowded, and some soldiers were almost pushed off the cliff.
"Everyone, be careful. Those who can come back alive will be promoted to one level. It would be a big loss if they fell to their death at this time."
Originally, the soldiers were very nervous. After all, the top of the mountain was too crowded and people arriving at the edge might fall if they were not careful. However, because of Xuanyuan's words, the soldiers relaxed and thought that they must do it.
Go back alive and get promoted to an official position.
After seeing this scene, Xuanyuan nodded secretly in his heart, and then asked the soldiers to aim the crossbows at the Crescent Tower and adjust the angle of the upward firing.
Seeing that Xuanyuan did not give the order to light the fire for a long time, he accompanied the captain of the crossbow army and asked: "General, when are you going to release the arrow?"
Xuanyuan raised his head and felt the wind speed on the top of the mountain, and said lightly: "Wait a little longer until the wind gets stronger."