"What else did you carry?"
"Wu Xing, you are responsible for the materials. You ask them to carry all the materials."
"Yes!"
After a while, all the supplies they brought were piled up. Zhuo Xi came forward to check. Sure enough, there were many ropes, some simple climbing tools, torches, flints, all kinds of opening tools, other weapons, some dry food, etc. suddenly, her eyes lit up and there was a small sheepskin tent. It seems to be prepared for his highness, who lives in dignity. Can fly? Her brain hole immediately opened.
She immediately found Ma San, "Uncle Ma, I don''t know who among you can weave a cane basket?"
Ma San replied, "we are all used to working. Many people can make it. I don''t know what kind of basket the girl wants to make?"
She gestured, "about so big and so tall."
"No problem."
She also asked Wu Xing to take some scholars to dig a lot of soil on the ground, and put water on the ground. Wu Xing watched her pour the water from her skin bag into the soil. She was very distressed and couldn''t help reminding her. Zhuo Xi said carelessly, "if life is gone, what''s the use of keeping this water?"
Everyone was full of fog and didn''t know what she was going to do.
A small soldier appeared at the end of the snake pit and shouted, "report, Zhao Tingbu has started climbing."
They must go straight to the target along their new road up the mountain. There is only one road, and there is no time to create another one to confuse their sight. It is estimated that they will arrive soon. Zhuo Xi knows that we have to race against time now. She took down the bottom of the sheepskin tent and tied eight slightly thinner ropes along the four sides. Soon, Ma San and they made up Teng basket and pulled it over. She asked everyone to help remove all the torch heads. She painted the inside of the Teng basket with the wet red soil on the ground, picked four short swords from the weapon pile, placed them in a "well" shape at the bottom of the basket, and poured a layer of water on the soil. Finally, she tied the eight ropes evenly around the Teng basket.
She stood up and looked at the simple hot air balloon with satisfaction. She asked some soldiers to hold the tent with branches, while others put all the torch heads into the basket to light it. The torch flared up. She breathed out and looked around at the people looking at her. These people did not understand what she was doing, but they all gave her a look of trust and hope.
She looked at Jing Yuan and asked, "which of you has the best lightness skill?"
Jianrong stood up and said, "it should have been the marquis. Now he is injured, and his subordinates can do it for him."
"There are more than five feet between the two cliffs. If you have two ropes, I will give you a fulcrum in the middle. Are you sure you can reach the other bank safely?"
Jianrong replied without hesitation, "subordinates can." He had heard Zhuo Xi''s question about Jing Yuan before. He also evaluated it and said with confidence. He already knew Zhuo Xi''s intention to let him take the rope, but he was very curious about how she could provide a fulcrum between the two cliffs.
"Well, would you like to try?" The lives of hundreds of people here are on you.
"My subordinates are willing!"
"OK." Lightness skill or something. Zhuo Xi is really powerless and can only rely on others. She ordered Ziran to tie two long ropes, one end to Jianrong''s waist and wrist, and the other end to a strong trunk. This not only facilitates him to carry the rope, but also prevents him from falling.
The soldier raised the hot-air balloon slowly. Zhuo Xi ran over and saw that the fire was too strong. He quickly picked out two torch heads with branches. The fire was smaller and added a little later until the fire was adjusted. The hot air balloon was successfully suspended in the air. The surrounding crowd made all kinds of exclamations.
"Jianrong, try it. Is it powerful enough?"
Jianrong flew up and stepped on it. He saw that the hot-air balloon just fell and rose again. Jianrong jumped down with great joy, "girl, no problem."
Zhuo Xi saw that she was almost there, so she took the rope and led the hot-air balloon to the edge of the cliff. In order to reduce the height of the hot-air balloon, she deliberately pressed it on the basket. But still didn''t wait to let go, but his arm was pulled into a person''s arms.
Jing Yuan said, "do you know that it was dangerous just now?" Almost fell.
She said, "don''t worry, but can you lower the height of the basket a little?"
As soon as Jing Yuan saw it, he picked up the stones on the ground and threw them out. He hit the basket frame. Sure enough, the height of the basket decreased a little.
"Shoot another one in this direction." Zhuo Xi consciously picked up a stone and pointed to the opposite direction to give it some impetus to move forward.
Jing Yuan shot a stone in the horizontal direction without saying a word.
In the eyes of people who were surprised and almost worshipped, the hot-air balloon slowly floated to the opposite bank with the strength of stones and wind. Almost in the middle, Jing Yuan ordered, "Jianrong is now."
Jianrong was already ready to go. When he heard the command, he jumped up and jumped to the middle. His body was a little slow. His right foot was clicking on the tent. He landed on the other bank smoothly.
All the people here cheered. Finally there is hope for life.
At this time, the soldier reported again, "Zhao Ting''s Department has been halfway up the mountain."
Jianrong found several strong trees on the other bank, untied the rope from her body, and tied the knot one high and one low according to the way Zhuo Xi gave her to save the rope. With a sigh of joy, Yi stepped on the rope and reached the opposite bank, juxtaposing the third and fourth ropes with the first two ropes one high and one low.
A new test has begun.
She had differences with Jing Yuan for the first time.
In her opinion, those slaves were old, weak, sick and disabled, and should go first. Jing Yuan asked the soldiers to go first. To put it bluntly, he discriminated against slaves. The situation was urgent. Ma San watched as they were about to quarrel. He quickly came to round the scene, which meant that more than half of the soldiers performing official duties were allowed to pass. On the one hand, they explored the way and protected the Marquis to leave first. Then the slaves began to fly over the cliff, and some of the remaining soldiers were cut off. Both of them thought it was feasible, so they acted separately.
Those bright and dark guards with excellent martial arts leaped over directly on the rope. Some soldiers and slaves with poor lightness skills were left. Zhuo Xi asked them to tie ropes on their waist and armpits respectively. The ropes were sleeved on the four ropes across the cliffs on both sides to prevent someone from falling and one of the ropes from breaking suddenly. The courageous man pulled the rope barefoot and passed quickly. The timid man was so scared that his legs were soft that he almost got through by lying on the rope.
This kind of ferry takes a lot of time and can only be passed by one person at a time. So when the slaves were half gone, Zhuo Xi heard a fierce fight on the other side of the snake pit. It seems that Zhao Ting led the army to attack, and encountered the elite soldiers of the 300 Baihui army who stopped on the hillside. Bai Hui''s elite soldiers fought and retreated. Many people fell into the snake pit and were immediately swallowed by the snakes. The rest knew the situation in the pit and dared not retreat. They stood on the edge of the snake pit and fought with Zhao Jun, but they were outnumbered, and gradually the whole army was destroyed. Jing Yuan and Zhuo Xi are on the other side of the river, and their eyes are splitting.
When Zhao Bing saw the shadow of people on the other side of the pit in the dark, he excitedly rushed into the pit and wanted to come to the other side, but he didn''t know to step into hell. The snakes wound around each majestic figure and slowly became shorter. After Zhao Bing died, dozens of soldiers took a picture on the ground with torches. They were scared and ran back quickly. Zhao Ting didn''t know who was behind, so he cut down several talents who took the lead to calm the crowd. After understanding the current terrain, he looked at the Guang''an Hou close to the opposite of the snake pit, as if he saw that the future prosperity and wealth were far away from him, and he was very unwilling to look at the pit and sigh.
By this time, the slaves had all flown. Zhuo Xi looked at the white Hui army''s elite soldiers who had died in the war opposite the whole army, and suddenly changed his mind. He called the rear army commander Wu Xing and told them to cancel their mission and fly across immediately. One by one they could escape. Wu Xing objected and immediately asked Hou ye and Zhuo Xi to leave quickly.
Zhuo Xi looked at Jing Yuan and said, "there''s no time. Let them go quickly. If they don''t go, I won''t go. "
Jing Yuan reluctantly said to Wu Xing, "do as Xi''er said."
Wu Xing then ordered the remaining 200 soldiers to fly over the cliff first: "Lord Hou cares about our safety, let me withdraw first."
Time was so urgent that the soldiers had no time to express their gratitude and flew across quickly.
Zi Ran, Jian Rong and Jian Yi were already at the other end of the cliff. Seeing that the Duke and the Duke were delayed, they had to fly back and stand beside them.
Zhao Ting thought of a way in his extreme unwillingness. He asked people to put all the torches in their hands into the pit, and some tung oil used to soak the torches into the pit. The snakes fled everywhere, and the fire gradually covered the whole pit. Zhao Ting waited for the fire in the pit to go out and cool down, urging the soldiers to make a detour. So many soldiers were bitten and poisoned by snakes running around the fire. So the man snake fought fiercely in the fire again. Almost stepping on the bodies of his companions and snakes, Zhao Ting led the remaining troops to Jingyuan.
"Hou ye, I finally saw you." Zhao Ting said with a smile.
Jing Yuan also pretended to be surprised and said, "General Zhao worked hard. General Zhao came all the way to see Ben Hou. I don''t know what''s important?"
Zhao Ting said in a deep voice, "the general is ordered to invite the Marquis to have a chat in the palace!"
Jing Yuan also said in a deep voice, "the Marquis has reported to the king. After he takes back the coffin of his mother''s imperial concubine and is buried with his father, he will immediately return to the palace to reply to the king. Why is general Zhao so anxious?"
At this time, Zhao Ting saw the rope behind them. He knew it was not too late, and he no longer said to him, "in this case, the general offended!"
He waved and several generals rushed forward behind him. Zi Ran waited for him to fly and stop him and tangle with them. Zhao Ting had a steady stream of soldiers. Jing Yuan, Zhuo Xi and Wu Xing all joined the battle. Wu Xing saw that there were still more than ten soldiers who could fly across in the future. If they dragged on, I was afraid that the Marquis would be more dangerous, so he urgently ordered, "Sun Hu and Wang Ying listened to the order and tried their best to intercept the enemy and cover the Marquis''s retreat!"
Zi Ran would also come over, fight and retreat to the Marquis, and said loudly, "Marquis, our main elite have successfully flown across, marquis, let''s go."
As soon as the more than ten soldiers joined the battle, the pressure on Zhuo Xi was much less. She looked at the situation and knew that Jing Yuan would be implicated if she didn''t go again. Besides, she didn''t want to sacrifice herself to save everyone, so she had no reason to object. So he leaned close to Jingyuan and said to the others, "if you have good lightness skills, follow immediately." She hugged Jing Yuan''s waist, "Lord, I''ll give you my life."
Jing Yuan smiled, grabbed her and went to the opposite side of the cliff. When Zi Ran saw this, he breathed a sigh of relief. After killing a Zhao soldier in front of him, he found a gap, dragged a soldier on his side and flew over. Then Jianrong took Wu Xing who had been injured earlier. Finally, Jian Yi flew over with a man. As soon as he landed, he immediately went to Wu Xing and asked brother Wu how his injury was. It turned out to be Xiaohu. His full name is sun Hu.
There are also two generals with good lightness skills over Zhao ting. They catch up with Wang Ying when they see it, and the one named Wang Ying is being knocked down in front of the cliff by Zhao Bing and slashes the rope tied to the tree. The two Zhao generals'' breath was not stable, and they wanted to step on the rope. Unexpectedly, the rope was broken, so they had to scream and fall off the cliff.
Zhao Tingxing was so angry that he could only really look at the cliff and sigh. He didn''t understand how his opponent tied the rope to the opposite cliff. Remembering that he captured Jing Yuan with 30000 troops today, who was only 2500 guards, he even let him retreat. Not to mention Jing Yuan himself, he didn''t even touch his core guards. What''s more, I heard that they actually carried nearly 100 old and weak slaves. Since he went to the battlefield with a gun at the age of 12, he has experienced more than 100 battles. Looking back on the resistance encountered in today''s attack, he has almost never heard of or seen some tactics, especially the arrows wrapped in fire oil, and the underwater spears. His men once caught the defeated soldiers guarding the building. After inquiry, they knew that these arrangements were temporary arrangements a few hours ago. It can be seen that his mind is far from his apparent laziness.
Although the Marquis of Guang''an was in charge of the Baihui army tiger amulet given to him by the former king, he always said he was ill. He allowed 100000 troops to live and die in Liangzhou in the northwest, ignored it, and only Yu Po, the general under his account, controlled and stationed to protect the border city. In the first few years, Yu Po made a request for military pay every year, and Jing Yuan handed it all over to the Shangshu Pavilion and the former Emperor. In recent years, I know I''m not valued by the marquis. I''m a little discouraged. In addition to routine work, I don''t even bother to fold. It is said that half of the 100000 troops have become farmers and are self-sufficient. Now the former king has just been ill and has just entered the mausoleum. Now he can''t wait to seize his troops. It seems that there is something unknown behind him. I''ve never heard that this Guang''an Marquis has the ability to manage the army and arrange troops before. Unexpectedly, he was defeated so badly in this short battle for the first time. He sighed and went back down the mountain. Fortunately, this time it was a secret order to make him act. It should not be too difficult for him in the open.
Zhuo Xi and Jing Yuan stood at the top of the new mountain. Hundreds of soldiers and slaves who survived the disaster knelt on the ground, saying "Lord Hou is a thousand years old". The soldiers shouted loudly, "the Marquis is invincible and invincible." Since the news that the first king was seriously ill came out of the palace, they were secretly dispatched to the suburbs of Beijing. They had been hiding in Furong villa for several months and had long been ready to fight with death. When they were about to fight today, they learned that they were going to fight 30000 enemy troops with 2500 people. They not only thought that they had no hope of survival, but even the Marquis was very likely to be unable to protect themselves. Once the Marquis is captured, the 100000 brothers in the northwest do not know what will happen to them. Unexpectedly, the Marquis and the zhuoxi girl around him were so wise that they successfully got out of danger.
As soon as Jing Yuan raised his hand and motioned them to get up, he turned and faced the crater just full of blood and crisis. Looking at the back of Zhao ting and his soldiers coming down the mountain on the opposite cliff, he felt that everything he had just experienced in the opposite hill was gradually gone away like a dream and full of unreality. The struggle between man and man and the struggle between man and nature is all a movable type. Thinking of his rare gaffe today, he couldn''t help but want to hug the beauty again to calm the fear and concern he had never had before. He fished for it with a long hand, but found it empty.
Turning around, she saw that Zhuo Xi was surrounded by Ma San and others. She was accepting their gratitude like a tide. Her little face flickered bright and dark in the flicker of the torch, filled with the most sincere smile.
Suddenly, Jing Yuan coughed coldly when he saw Xiao Meng holding her hand.
The voice didn''t disturb Zhuo Xi in the crowd, but it reached the ears of the serviceman Zi Ran. Zi Ran immediately shook his tail and ran over, "Lord, now we are safe for the time being. Please show me how to settle now."
He looked at the starry sky and said, "at this time, let''s have a rest on the spot. You arrange several people to check the surrounding environment, and then arrange several people to find some food and water, and then find the way down the mountain when it''s dawn tomorrow."
"Yes." Zi Ran took orders to give orders.
Wu Xing dragged the sick body to plead guilty. "Damn my subordinates, all the materials he had carried before......" there was nothing else except portable torches, flints and weapons.
Jing Yuan raised his hand to stop him from saying, "Ben Hou understands that you don''t have to worry. Speaking of it, your department has made great contributions to the materials prepared today. Go and find Yu Liang to register the list, and I will reward you in the future. " That tent rope or something really saved everyone''s lives.
Wu Xing was very happy, "thank you, marquis. It''s just that I''m afraid of wronging the Marquis tonight. "
"No harm, you go."
"Yes."
Jing Yuan glanced at Zhuo Xi not far away, and his eyes stuck on her and couldn''t come back.
Wu Xing also looked back at him, looked at her again, and sighed.
After taking a few steps, he saw Shu Yue coming up, "young master, are you okay?"
Wu Xing frowned, "you are Miss Liu''s personal servant girl." Shouldn''t we be with her?
Shu Yue was also wronged, "but what did the young lady say? They have military aircraft to discuss important matters. I''m not allowed to come near." The young lady is with the Marquis all day. She doesn''t know when she can serve her. She can only approach Zhuo Xi when she thinks of her.
"It doesn''t matter now. Go and ask her what she needs." What do girls always do in a pile of men? Always have a girl with you. In case of any inconvenience, you can cover one or two.
"Yes." Shu Yue reluctantly leaves Wu Xing and walks to Zhuo Xi.
The Xiang Ma three and others got the instruction to rest in place and gradually dispersed to look for a flat place. Some people spontaneously went together to look for wild fruits and water. Xiao Meng took Zhuo Xi''s hand and said, "sister, you promised me to follow you. I will follow you from today on."
Zhuo Xi thought of what had happened before, scraped his nose and said, "no problem. But when adults have something to discuss, you can''t stay with me. "
Xiao Meng said, "OK! However, Xiao Meng is a little hungry now. "
Zhuo Xi took Xiaobai out of her sleeve, "come on, have you seen it? Its name is Xiaobai. You can let it take you to find food. Are you afraid? "
Xiao Meng happily stroked it with his hand, shook his head and said he was not afraid.
Xiaobai raised her eyes to see Xiaomeng and Zhuo Xi.
Zhuo Xi nodded Xiaobai''s head, "Xiaobai, look, I found you a new friend. He will play with you in the future. You won''t be bored."
I''ll play with him, okay? Xiaobai turned her head proudly, but saw Shu Yue hiding behind Zhuo Xi with the sound of "ah". These humans are the most annoying. Every time I see it, I have to catch it. This little Meng looks different from them. Well, let him play with me. Thinking of this, Xiaobai nodded.
Zhuo Xi smiled. Sure enough, the little boy is different. Xiaobai also hopes that more humans will be friendly to it. She put Xiaobai into Meng''s hand and said solemnly, "Xiaomeng, Xiaobai always hides in my sleeve pocket. From today on, you help me take good care of it and can''t let others bully it." Xiaobai rolled his eyes. I''ve always been the only one who bullies others. When is it their turn to bully me? Er, except the marquis.
Xiao Meng happily held it and gently stroked its head, "Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai, I like you so much."
Zhuo Xi felt cold for a while. The child confessed his rhythm as soon as he came up. It''s too warm.
Qumeng stood up and said to Zhuo Xi, "sister, let''s find something to eat."
Zhuo Xi was about to nod when a man ran over and said to Zhuo Xi, "girl, we found a lot of wild fruits, but we didn''t dare to eat them, hehe," he touched his head, "can you trouble your little white snake to distinguish between poisonous and non-toxic for us?"
Zhuo Xi nodded to Meng, "go with him."
That''s nice. Xiaobai even saves her strength to walk.