Before the sun came out, the horizon was already slightly lit.
In the middle of the night last night, the fleet entered the Yellow River from Hulu River, but the water flow of the Yellow River was much faster than Hulu River.
Chao Yong punched the bow of the boat, stretching his muscles and bones.
The cabin space is limited, and the soldiers can only sit and sleep. Chao Yong is no exception. After getting off overnight, he will inevitably feel a little sore in his back.
On the left side of the river is the majestic Helan Mountains, and on the right is the desert of the sea.
The undulating sand dunes in the distance looked a little black at this time, and the surroundings were very quiet, with only the sound of running water.
The sun slowly jumps out from behind the east dunes, and the blackened dunes slowly begin to shine until the sun rises to the sky and turns completely into a golden dunes.
The soldiers woke up slowly and took turns to move on the deck.
Chao Yong walked to the bow of the boat and said to the person who guided the way: "Where are you now?"
Mr. Zhong sent three people who were familiar with the Xixia road. Although there was no fork in this section, the three were still divided into three shifts to ensure that there was always someone to guide the bow of the boat to avoid making mistakes.
"After ten miles, we will reach the entrance of Qingtongxia Gorge. There is a stone fort at the entrance of the gorge. If we knock down that stone fort, we can enter Tanglai Canal. If Shunzhou does not intercept it, we will be able to reach Xingqing Prefecture in the evening."
Chao Yong nodded and said, "Okay, then go to the gorge to rest."
This section of the Yellow River goes north, and the desert on the right suddenly turns into a mountain range.
There are cliffs more than ten feet high on both sides of the river, and the river flows through the middle without any need to smash it. A stone falls from the river bank. The speed of a height of about ten feet is enough to smash a big hole in the wooden boat.
Li Jun looked at the mountains in front of him and said in surprise: "I have walked many waterways, but I have never seen such a dangerous gorge."
Han Shizhong also said: "The mountains on both sides seem to be one. They are split apart, otherwise how could the place where the river passes is so steep."
The person who led the way said: "The locals said that the mountains on both sides of the river are Helan Mountains, which were originally one and could not flow through the river. The nearby places were often flooded. When Dayu was controlling the flood, he used his magic axe to chop out Qingtong Gorge and the river water
Only then can the fields downstream be irrigated."
Li Jun smiled and said, "I wonder if this magic axe is the same as the axe of the Li Kui brothers?"
"Ha ha"
Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard Li Jun's joke.
The person who led the way smiled and said, "Mythical story. Let's make everyone laugh. After passing Qingtong Gorge, it will be the plain. The Qin, Han and Tang dynasties built many water diversion canals to irrigate hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland on both sides, and there were blockages.
It is known as the south of the Yangtze River. In autumn, it is also rich in rice and fish, and the fruits and melons and fruits are fragrant. A poet of the Tang Dynasty once wrote a poem about the orchard at the foot of Helan Mountain and the famous poems in the north and south of the Yangtze River."
Li Junqi said: "Can rice be grown here?"
"I don't know when it first started. Rice was planted widely during the Tang Dynasty. The rice eaten by the Xixia people all came from the Yinchuan Plain."
Chao Yong paid different attention to it, and asked, "The Qin and Han dynasties worked here, so there should be many Han people here?"
"Emperor Wu of Han once immigrated to the villages here when he opened the border, and there were indeed many descendants of the Han people."
However, the stone fort at the entrance of the gorge is built on the Helan Mountains on the north bank.
The fleet landed more than two miles from the entrance of Qingtongxia Gorge, and it was impossible to get ashore further.
After everyone got ashore, they moved around the river for a while. Chao Yong left Zhang Qing with four thousand-person teams to rest on the spot, and only brought a thousand players under Li Kui to the steep cliff at the entrance of the gorge.
The stones in this section of the mountain range are all blue, and a blue stone fort can be vaguely seen on the top of the peak.
Going north along the river, the mountains gradually become steeper. This section is already the remnant of Helan Mountain. Looking north, you can also see the mountains towering into the clouds behind you. However, everyone does not have to climb those mountains, just solve the hanging above the river bank.
The stone fort is.
The cliff at the stone fort is only more than ten feet above the river surface, which is not high, but it is more than a mile to climb up along the slow hillside from the flank.
There were dozens of feet away from the stone fort, and dozens of Western Xia soldiers appeared on the stone fort.
The Xixia soldiers in the stone fortress did not know where these black-clad soldiers came from, and shouted and asked questions on the city wall.
Han Shizhong smiled and said, "They asked where we were?"
Chao Yong smiled and said, "It seems that these soldiers and horses have been stationed in Shibao for a long time, but they still don't know my Daliang."
The Xixia soldiers in the stone fort looked at the soldiers below and did not answer, but spread out and continued to climb up. They also knew that their intention was not good, so they hurriedly asked the soldiers in the stone fort to set off a wolf smoke to warn. At the same time, the soldiers on the top of the city began to carry stones.
Seeing that the stone fortress had entered the range of most people's divine arm crossbows, Chao Yong was afraid of attacking the Xixia soldiers on the top of the city, so he shouted: "Shoot all arrows."
Before leaving, Chao Yong had already transferred all five thousand divine arm crossbows to these five thousand-person teams. Just at the foot of the mountain, everyone had put the divine arm crossbows on the strings, and what they were preparing was to attack the enemy.
Although the soldiers under Li Kui were a little confused, they still raised their divine arm crossbow and shot them upwards. The people behind could only shoot in the sky.
The whole sky darkened, and the people shot behind were at a high angle, and many arrows fell outside the stone castle. However, many sharp arrows fell on the walls of the stone castle, and some sharp arrows even shot into the stone castle.
Dozens of soldiers on the fort wall were shot into hedgehogs without a single arrow.
Seeing that there were no standing people on the wall of the fort, Chao Yong hurriedly climbed up quickly.
Han Shizhong and others followed closely behind.
I found that the wall of the fort was meter tall when I arrived at the stone fortress.
Chao Yong jumped, climbed the fort wall, and jumped up.
The dozens of people on the fort wall have all fallen into a pool of blood, and the non-dead people have no ability to move. There are only dozens of people on the top of the city in such a large stone fort.
Chao Yong jumped into the stone fort, opened the fort gate, and asked the group players to search the rooms of the stone fort.
"Bang"
"Bang"
The soldiers kicked open the door of the stone fort and carefully covered the ball signs to search inside.
"Who?"
Suddenly a loud shout came from one direction.
When Li Kui heard someone, he immediately rushed over with a blowjob.
Chao Yong looked over, but it was a room with obvious fireworks. There was also a chimney on the roof, which seemed to be the kitchen of a stone fort.
"General, please spare your life. We were captured by the Xixia people."
"We are also Han people."
As soon as Li Kui rushed to the front, he heard two more Chinese words with a Guanxi accent coming from it.
Li Kui heard that it was a Han man and shouted, "Take it out."
"yes"
Soon, the soldiers inside came out with three thin men.
Seeing that there were many soldiers standing outside with swords standing outside, the three men were so scared that they knelt on the ground.
Li Kui raised his face and saw that the man's face was full of long scars, and there was a relatively new scar that looked like a whip.
Although the other two men lowered their heads, they could also see scars on their faces.
Li Kui gritted his teeth and said, "What's the matter with the scars on his face?"
Seeing Li Kuisheng's viciousness, the thin man looked even more scared and said tremblingly: "I'm late to cook or have too much water from the bottom of the mountain, and the Xixia people whipped it with a horse whip."
"I'll go and chop them up."
Li Kui cursed and turned around and headed towards the fort wall.
Chao Yong walked up to him and said, "Everyone can get up and talk."
"General Xie."
"Thank you, General."
The three of them kowtowed before getting up.
Chao Yong looked at the three of them timidly and said, "How long have you been caught?"
"I've been five years."
"I've been three years."
The last person didn't say anything and raised three fingers.
The man with new scars on his face was afraid that his companion would be misunderstood and explained: "His tongue was cut by the Xixia people."
Chao Yong frowned and said, "Why?"
"The Xixia people whipped him with a horse whip, saying that he was so loud that he cried. Then they cut his tongue."
Chao Yong heard this and couldn't help but curse: "Bastard."
Han Shizhong even shouted at Li Kui who had just climbed up the wall: "General Li left two alive, and the Sa family killed him."
Yao Pingzhong also angrily said, "Go up to the wall and go and suck them."
Sun Li, who had always been steady, couldn't help but go to the city wall.
Li Kui originally wanted to kill the Xixia soldiers, but when he heard Han Shizhong's shouting, he also reacted. He took the axe in his hand and smashed the injured soldiers hard, all of which were not fatal.
"I'm a bitch. I'll let you suck it. I'll let you suck it. It depends on whether you dare to suck it."
The Xixia soldiers who were not dead on the city wall suddenly fell into a dilemma of life and death and made waves of crying.
The three of them heard the screams on the city wall, but they seemed to hear the fairy music, with an expression of enjoyment on their faces.
A man fell to the ground and cried, "Thank you for avenging us, General."
The other two hurriedly fell to their knees.
Chao Yong helped the three of them up and said, "You're welcome, we are all Han people, and soon the Han people in Xixia will no longer suffer."
The three of them also felt the firmness in Chao Yong's words, and a man said excitedly: "We are waiting day and night, and finally we are waiting for the arrival of the imperial court."
Chao Yong also knew that most of them did not know that Daliang had replaced the Song Dynasty, so he nodded and said, "The Central Plains have changed, the Song Dynasty has perished, and we are the soldiers of Daliang."
The man suddenly realized, "So that's the case. I thought the court's armor had changed its color. When I go back, I will definitely set up a tablet of immortality for Emperor Daliang."
However, the conversation between Chao Yong and them was always in the screams on the city wall. After listening for a while, Chao Yong felt enough and shouted, "Don't torture them anymore, kill them all."
The few people on the city wall also vented a lot of hatred in their hearts. After hearing the prince's order, they sent the Xixia soldiers to the road.
Chao Yong said: "Are there only a few dozen soldiers in this stone fort?"
"There were originally five hundred people, but they were transferred a few days ago. I heard that they went to Shaanxi again to rob, and the people who were left were still very envious."
Chao Yong sneered: "Those who go to the Central Plains may have died almost the same. Is there a stone fort on Qingtong Gorge?"
"No more, there is one at the entrance of the gorge."
"Then you come with us. I'm afraid that Xixia soldiers will be invited to stay here."
Standing on the stone fort wall, looking down, you can see the rolling river water more than ten meters below. If you look a little longer, you will feel a little dizzy. Looking northeastward, you will see steep canyons and uneven cliffs.
If you want to pass through the cliff, I don’t know how many ways you have to go.
Chao Yong looked into the distance and did not see the stone fort again, so he also stopped his troops and went down the mountain. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (.) to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my biggest
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