This disaster was originally thought to be caused by an earthly dragon turning over, but it turned out not to be the case, but by hell spewing fire. The attack left General Niu at a loss.
After the military camp was burned, all the soldiers could only sit on the grass and prepare to spend the night before making plans.
At this time, something weird happened again. Suddenly the sky started to fall with "snow". When the "snow" fell, I saw that it was all volcanic ash.
These volcanic ash covered the sky and soon dyed people and the ground gray-white, as if there was an endless heavy snow.
Once such dust is inhaled into the nose, it will make people breathless and difficult to breathe.
"General, what should we do?" Deputy General Zheng looked gray and gray, with dust hanging from his eyebrows.
"What should I do? Does Vice General Zheng have any good ideas?" The subordinate held an oil-paper umbrella for Niu Zhi, with a look of despair on his face.
"There is no good way, I'm afraid we can only leave it to fate." Vice General Zheng shook his head helplessly, "Someone must have offended the gods, and God will 'send disaster'~~'
For such a disaster that we know nothing about, we can only attribute it to God.
Niu Zhi's face darkened after hearing this, thinking who had offended the gods? The Night King?
But why did the Night King stay in Tongzhou for so long, and this disaster never broke out? But as soon as the Night King left and came on his own, the disaster came as promised.
How to explain this?
Is it possible that the one God wants to punish is Wei Yuande, who is too lonely?
Prince Wei Yuande "directed and acted himself" and "deliberately provoked the war and plunged the Zhou Kingdom into war. Perhaps he is the person God wants to punish? Niu Zhi guessed this, but he did not dare to say it out, he only dared to think about it.
That night, all the soldiers could only lie on the grass to rest, and only a few felt bags belonged to the generals.
I thought that the flying ashes would stop after one night, but I never thought that when I woke up the next morning, they would still be flying.
The ground was already covered with a thick layer that covered the ankles once a foot was pushed down. Where could the soldiers sleep last night? They had to keep their eyes open all night.
"How can we fight like this?" Vice General Zheng glanced at the listless soldiers.
Niu Zhi had several big blisters at the corners of his mouth last night. Looking at the gray volcanic ash covering the sky and the red magma flowing in the distance, he was at a loss to do anything.
The attack may not necessarily win. If he retreats, he is afraid of insufficient food and grass, is afraid of the Night King's pursuit, and is afraid of the Crown Prince's punishment. Niu Zhi feels that he is in a dilemma.
After summoning Vice Generals Wu and Wang for discussion, they decided to attack in one go.
After all, with nearly a million soldiers and horses in hand, Niu Zhi was still somewhat confident.
However, we decided to send someone to Kirigakure Mountain to investigate the situation.
"General, the road to Kirigakure Mountain has been blocked."
A subordinate reported, "What a coincidence, when the "Hellfire" was sprayed out last night, many flints hit the road. At this moment, there is burning lava flowing everywhere, making it impossible to pass."
"What about taking the water route?" Vice General Wang suggested.
"Where did the warships come from by taking the water route?" Niu Zhi asked. Firstly, he did not plan to fight on the water. Secondly, Wei Yuande lost nearly a hundred warships. How could there be so many warships now?
"What should we do?" Vice General Zheng asked.
"We have no choice but to retreat," Niu Zhidao said.
"Okay, let's retreat first." Vice General Wang and others nodded in agreement.
Since we decided to retreat, the sooner the better, so the generals led their troops to retreat to the rear that day.
Niu Zhi held the rope with one hand and an oil-paper umbrella with the other, riding on horseback, heading north against the "wind, frost, snow and rain" of volcanic ash.
The tall volcano in the distance kept emitting terrifying red lava, and the volcanic ash seemed to fall all over the sky. The soldiers were disgraced, and the volcanic ash sank to their calves as soon as they stepped down. It was more difficult than walking in heavy snow.
"General, it's too late to pass." After walking for an hour, a subordinate came over to report.
"Can't you pass? Why can't you pass?" Niu Zhi said with a surprised look on his face.
The subordinate replied helplessly, "The way is blocked by a river~~"
"River? There was no river when we came here." Before he could finish his words, Niu Zhi interrupted angrily, "How could a river appear overnight?"
"That's a river of fire." The subordinate brushed off the dust on his eyebrows and muttered, "I can't tell clearly. General, just go and take a look."
"Drive." Niu Zhi folded up his umbrella, held the horse under its belly and moved forward.
The marching soldiers had stopped and looked forward strangely.
After Niu Zhi rode for a certain distance, he saw a winding fire dragon stretching between the sky and the earth from a distance, blocking the earth from west to east. Before he got close, he felt the burning heat blowing on his face, which made people feel...
Asphyxiation.
When I got closer, I realized that this river of fire was made up of hot red magma. It was two feet wide and could not be crossed by humans or horses.
Niu Zhi's face was shocked, and he looked at the crater in the distance in astonishment.
"It seems that this river of fire flows from that place. I didn't expect it to be so fast."
After saying that, he looked back and turned his head to the east, "Let's go around that way." As he said this, he hit his horse and ran towards the east.
However, after following the insurmountable fire dragon in a circle, they discovered that they were completely surrounded by the fire dragon, and they were surrounded at the foot of Hidden Mist Mountain.
"Fell into a trap." Only then did Niu Zhi realize that something was wrong, and blurted out with an ashen face.
"What's going on?" Vice General Wang also chased after him at this moment. "Could it be said that these 'rivers of fire' were dug out by humans early in the morning? Someone had known for a long time that such weird fire lava would erupt, and they were sure that we would be stationed there.
Here, use lava to trap us here?'
Vice General Wang indeed guessed correctly.
In order to set up this situation, Shen Yuyu bought thousands of hoes in his pocket, and thousands of people spent more than ten days digging out such a 'river', which was a kind of 'debris flow' that flows very fast during volcanic eruptions.
'Drawing water from the river' created this river of fire, trapping Niu Zhi here.
"Is there any other explanation other than this?" Niu Zhi crouched on his horse as if wilted, letting the volcanic ash fall on his head, "If this continues, if we don't starve to death here, we will also be buried alive by the volcanic ash.
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Even the horse seemed to feel threatened and was pacing back and forth uneasily.
"Then it's over." Vice General Wang looked at the falling volcanic ash with a look of despair.
At this moment in Lingzhou, volcanic ash is also flying all over the sky, and the air is filled with a thick smell mixed with sulfur, which is pungent.
On the ship bound for Tongzhou, Li Ran and Wang Chang stood on the deck holding umbrellas.
Wang Chang looked at the river covered in volcanic ash and couldn't help but marvel.
"The princess is so amazing! She has such an extraordinary ability to predict things like a god."
"The volcano erupted, and the volcanic ash covered the sky~~This disaster was exactly the same as what she said."
As he spoke, he turned to look at Li Ran, "Your Highness, if it is true as the princess said, this battle has ended with the occurrence of this disaster, right? Prince Wei Yuande~~has been defeated?"