Chapter 57 Exploration of the Song Barbarian War

Late night, in the dark woods, more than 30 people were moving forward carefully. They were the scouts led by the Song army led by Wang Junqing to explore the situation of the barbarians on the Black Mountain Cliff. Because the purpose of this time is to check the arrangement of the barbarians around the Black Mountain Cliff, not many people went there together, but these more than 30 people are the best in the scouts, among which Xu Jinghong and his two brothers Xiong Geng and the old dog are also prominently listed.

Because they are only dozens of miles away from the Black Mountain Cliff and don't know what the barbarians have put there, Wang Junqing did not dare to take risks during the day, but changed it to this half of the night for everyone to touch. In this way, the risk perceived by the barbarians can at least be minimized, and even if something goes wrong, it will be easier for everyone to leave.

In terms of the whole, night warfare is the weakness of the Song army, but now these personnel carefully selected from the elite scout camp are far more capable of night warfare than the barbarians. Not only do they all have excellent martial arts skills, but they can also quickly adapt to the surrounding environment. As long as they are given a chance to breathe, even if they encounter a large siege of barbarians, they can retreat calmly. This is the reason why soldiers are expensive but not expensive. Wang Junqing took these people to touch the Black Mountain Cliff, but after careful consideration.

Although there are still fetters of tree roots and weeds and other debris under their feet from time to time, and they have to be careful of the surrounding situation, the actions of more than 30 people are still fast, but only two hours. They have traveled nearly 20 miles, only ten miles away from the Black Mountain Cliff, and the height can be faintly seen. It's so dangerous.

Seeing the cliff standing not far away, everyone still gasped, and everyone sighed from their hearts: "It's really a dangerous place!"

The black cliff is sixty or seventy feet high, but it is not very prominent in the southwest. But its location is really good, just blocking the way to continue to the barbarians. If you want to go around here, you have to take the wrong road for at least seven or eight days. This is because the Black Mountain Cliff is not an isolated peak, but a group of mountains that stretches for several miles, the highest of which is the main cliff of the Black Mountain Cliff. Soldiers are very fast. If you really take a detour like this, the loss of soldiers is huge, and the consumption of grain and grass is even more serious, so this detour can only be used under unavoidable circumstances.

This is not the most shocking. The most shocking thing is the steepness of the Black Mountain Cliff, which is almost 90 degrees from the ground. If you want to climb up from the ground, you can only wind up along the small stone path that I don't know which era it was. And this small stone path is very narrow, which can only allow one person to pass normally. If you go to two people, you have to squeeze sideways. In this way, the defenders on the mountain can calmly attack the enemy attacking the mountain.

Of course, the situation of this small stone path can't be seen in the dark, but Wang Junqing and others can think of it just by guessing. Such a dangerous place is indeed a headache. If the Song army wants to attack this mountain, I'm afraid it will throw 100,000 troops in. As long as there are thousands of barbarians on the cliff with sufficient logistical support and strength, they can withstand it all the time.

Looking at the distant Black Mountain Cliff, the faces of many scouts have changed a little. They are warriors who are not afraid of many times their enemies, but they are still afraid when they see the danger of nature.

Xu Jinghong, who was beside Wang Junqing, also felt this desperate atmosphere and looked at the other party and said, "Dong, can we choose to bypass the Black Mountain Cliff and pass from both sides? In this way, this natural danger is useless.

"This predecessor tried, but failed." Wang Junqing sighed and said, "The barbarians have been standing in the southwest for thousands of years, and the former dynasty Wu has also used troops against them because of some interests. At the beginning, there were also 100,000 soldiers of Dawu who had conquered this place, but they returned with feathers. It is said that they were folded here on the Black Mountain Cliff.

"At the beginning, Wu Jun first attacked here, but it turned out that he was still unable to advance after losing 5,000 people. In desperation, they had to give up attacking the Black Mountain Cliff for the time being and take a detour into the deeper part of the wild land. But because this Black Mountain Cliff is a necessary place to advance to the west, and there are thousands of barbarians on the mountain, it has brought a disaster to the Wu army.

"It all refers to the grain road, right?" Xu Jinghong immediately thought of the key point of the problem.

"Yes, the army moved forward and gave up its back road to the barbarians on the cliff. As a result, the subsequent grain and fodder would not be transported in. What surprised the Wu army was that when the barbarians behind their attack were worried and exhausted, the enemy who had been defending the Black Mountain Cliff was killed from behind. As a result, all the 100,000 troops were buried there. In the end, less than 100 people survived from the barbarians, and the State of Wu did not dare to say anything about the southern expedition.

"Moreover, because the teams of the Southern Expedition have been folded in these two dangerous places, until now, we in the Central Plains still can't really understand how many difficulties there are and what kind of insurmountable danger the immortal sorrow is. This is also an important mission for us to venture here. Wang Junqing said and glanced at everyone around him: "Do you have the confidence to create something that my predecessors have never done, so that you can also leave a mark in the history of youth?"

The eyes of the sergeants have begun to flash with excitement, and the existing fear slowly dissipated. Many people answered in a low voice: "We are willing to follow Dutong to open up this road that our predecessors can't walk!"

Wang Junqing smiled with satisfaction: "Okay, let's continue on the road!" I don't believe that a small mountain bag can block the progress of our Song men, and we are still the most elite of the 100,000 army!"

Although that's what they said, when they continued to touch and really came to the bottom of the Black Mountain Cliff and looked up at the steep cliff, everyone still had no idea. Although you can't see the situation above in the dark, you can still imagine that once the battle begins, there must be many barbarians waiting with stones and trees on it. No matter how brave the soldiers are, they can't kill them from these dense attacks.

At that time, the cliffs would be full of the bodies of the Song army who died in the battle. Thinking of this floor, even Wang Junqing's face turned a little pale. It seems that the heroic words just now are just a joke-like material power.

The only comforting thing for everyone is that there are no barbarian people under the cliff, so that they can stay here and continue to observe the situation, and then think about any way to defeat the enemy. However, until the sky lit, everyone still had no clue. In order not to be found by the barbarians on the cliff, they had to retreat back to the forest and wait for the night to come back.

Because there is no clue about this, everyone is sad even when they rest in the forest. Wang Liehai said unconvincedly, "Although this Black Mountain Cliff is dangerous, it will eventually be guarded by people. If the barbarians above are mediocre, maybe it's not difficult for us to take it down, right?

Wang Junqing shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Are all barbarians fools? Such a dangerous place, they only need to send 3,000 or 5,000 people to prepare enough stone and wood and other throwing weapons, which is enough to stop 100,000 enemies. Will they be negligent?

Wang Liehai suddenly lost his voice, and other people's hearts were even heavier. At this time, Xu Jinghong said, "This may be a flaw. The barbarians are not enough, and they can't really understand the importance of it as we do. Will they leave only a small number of people on the cliff to give us a chance?

"You mean they will only have one or two thousand people to guard the cliff? This should also be impossible. After all, the barbarians have also fought with Wu. They should know how many people are needed to defend the Black Mountain Cliff. Wang Junqing shook his head.

"Anyway, we have to give it a try. Didn't the general give us another task to explore the barbarian troops guarding the Black Mountain Cliff? Why don't we investigate it?" Xu Jinghong didn't want this last possibility to slip away, so he continued to say persistently.

"This is indeed a way!" Wang Liehai couldn't help nodding and said, "It's just how should we investigate? Now we can see the situation from under the cliff, but it is easy to be found by barbarians. And if it's dark at night, you can't understand anything.

"It is impossible to really grasp the situation from afar. Let's just go up and see what's going on." At this time, Mao Shun, who had never spoken, also participated in the discussion: "I have carefully looked at the Black Mountain Cliff. Although the front is very steep, it should be better behind the mountain. Maybe we can try to climb up the mountain from there to see what's going on."

"Go from the back mountain?" Xu Jinghong's heart lit up: "This is a good idea to capture it!"

This also reminded Wang Junqing, and he also nod and said, "Yes, since the frontal attack is not possible, it's time to think about it from the back and sides. However, the side is too far away. Even if we can go up, we can't threaten the enemies on the main cliff, but if we can go up from behind the mountain, the situation will be completely different!"

"Yes, but everything still has to wait until we go to the cliff to see it before we can make a conclusion. If the situation behind the cliff is generally the same as before, I'm afraid that the Black Mountain Cliff can't really be taken down." Wang Liehai said again.

Mao Shun said confidently, "I thought it was impossible. No mountain can be as steep and steep. Since the front of the Black Mountain Cliff is so steep, there must be a way to go up behind it!"

At this point, there is no other better choice. After trying to go to the Black Mountain Cliff, I hope to get something. Fortunately, there are only 30 of them, so they don't have to go around too big circles from both sides of the mountain to the back, but just need to pass through the woods with almost no roads, which can save a lot of time for everyone. However, they can't know what kind of danger is buried in this roadless forest.

For good, these scouts are all very good and courageous. Although there are some difficulties, they have not scared them. After the decision, they immediately set off behind the Black Mountain Cliff. They knew that there was not much time left for them. Maybe three or four days later, the Song army will arrive. If they can't give a proper way, if they want to break through the Black Mountain Cliff, they will kill countless brothers in battle.

Fortunately, the dense trees in the forest had a good concealment effect, so Xu Jinghong and others were able to start to rush to the Black Mountain Cliff during the day. Fortunately, they were on their way during the day, so some attacks of snakes, insects, mice and ants along the way were discovered and solved by them early, which did not cause unnecessary casualties.

In the weeds with a height, more than 30 people walked for two days and a night, and finally came behind the Black Mountain Cliff on the third night. At this time, everyone's whole body had been rowed by unknown plants. Fortunately, they were all strong elites, otherwise they would have fallen halfway long ago. It is.

Looking at the sky that was about to darken, Wang Junqing ordered everyone to rest on the spot and stay until dark before leaning up to see what happened. Then everyone sat down on the edge of the forest and gasped. The hard work of these two days was more tormenting people than several battles with the enemy before.

However, when they saw the back mountain of the Black Mountain Cliff, everyone still felt that their hard work was worth it. Although the back mountain looks very steep, at least there is a possibility of climbing, especially these good people who are used to going high and low scout camps, which they can overcome.

Everyone sat there scattered, some taking a nap and some eating. The rice is also very simple. It's just some dried dough cakes with some dried meat in it. However, this food can well replenish the energy of the soldiers, so that they can quickly get out of fatigue. Although the environment here is very bad, and the rotten smell spreads to the nose, this does not affect Xu Jinghong's mouthful eating cakes in order to quickly restore his physical function and save enough strength for the later action.

Suddenly, Xu Jinghong, who was biting the cake in his hand, frowned, because he felt a burst of boredom in his chest, and he was even more surprised when he looked at the brothers around him. Many people have fallen to the ground, and several of them have foamed directly. In just a moment, why are they all like this?

"Dong..." Xu Jinghong also found that he fell to the ground with strength when he looked at Wang Junqing, and his eyes were full of fear. Obviously, even he did not know what was going on. Is it the barbarians who have raged some poison here, and we are all poisoned? Xu Jinghong's heart immediately began to sink. If so, he would all die here.

At this time, Mao Shun, not far from Xu Jinghong, struggled violently. He had a few green leaves in his mouth. After chewing and swallowing it hard, he cheered him up a little: "This is a miasma. Because of the large number of trees, all kinds of poisonous gases mixed, this was formed. There is miasma, and there are cliffs here that block the airflow and cause the miasma to accumulate, so it is especially severe..."

Hearing this, Xu Jinghong suddenly thought of the smell of rotten smell he had just smelled. Obviously, it was miasma. He only hated that he had never thought about it before, but now he was deeply poisoned. I'm afraid it's difficult to save himself. But soon, Xu Jinghong cheered up again, just because he found that his body could not move completely like others, and then he guessed that the skill he had practiced was working.

However, it was not a time to be happy at this time. He hurriedly said, "Mao Shun, what should I do?" He could see that Mao Shun was the only one among these brothers who could save himself.

"We must let everyone take this kind of grass immediately to suppress the toxicity of miasma!" After eating the grass leaves, Mao Shun obviously regained some strength and said slowly. However, his body is still weak, and obviously his strength has not recovered quickly due to the suppression of toxicity by grass leaves.

After looking at the remaining grass leaves at the corners of his mouth, Xu Jinghong immediately found the same plants on the grass beside him, and then quickly reached out and picked some and put them in his mouth. The bitter and slightly sour taste immediately filled the whole mouth, but at the same time, the feeling of chest nausea just now also faded a lot, and Xu Jinghong was even more relieved.

He immediately struggled to get up from the ground, then picked down the grass leaves that could be picked in front of him and put them into the mouths of his brothers one by one. At this time, these soldiers had fallen on the edge of life and death, but their will to survive still kept them a trace of clarity in their hearts, so when Xu Jinghong fed them the grass, they immediately chewed and swallowed them.

The effect of this grass leaf is obvious. After half an hour, everyone's situation is much better, but everyone is as if they have just had a serious illness. And everyone looked at Xu Jinghong, the lifesaver, with more admiration. Unexpectedly, this teenager could be stronger than everyone at that time.

Mao Shun recovered slowly. After he had some strength, he said, "This miasma is even worse in the middle of the night. We must put this grass in our mouths so that we can ensure that we will not be invaded by the miasma."

Everyone did it one by one, and then everyone looked at Wang Junqing and waited for him to give an order. Because at this time, the sky has completely darkened, and according to their previous plan, it is time to turn it over and find out.

But Wang Junqing also knew that it was impossible for everyone to climb such a steep cliff now, so he said, "Let's take a day off. Only by nourishing our spirits can we complete our mission!"

At this time, Xu Jinghong suddenly said, "All of them, this will delay another day, which is very unfavorable for the army to attack the mountain."

"Do you have any other good ideas?"

"Let me go up and find out by myself! Anyway, it's just looking at the strength and layout of the barbarians on the mountain. It's useless if there are too many people. On the contrary, it's more convenient for me. Xu Jinghong gave his own opinion.

"Will you make it?" Everyone suddenly looked at the teenager with some worry. He was poisoned with everyone just now. Why did he propose to go up alone in a while? Has his body recovered?

"I can do it. Now my strength has recovered!" Xu Jinghong waved his fist and said, "And we can't waste too much time. We must try it."

After a moment of meditation, Wang Junqing finally nodded: "Okay, then everything will be handed over to you. But you must be careful and protect your safety as the first priority!"

"Yes, I wrote it down!" After Xu Jinghong nods to the crowd, he bent down and rushed to the back cliff of the Black Mountain Cliff...

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