The aboriginal army took a day to stop and set up camp five kilometers north of the Wang Estuary.
The place where everyone stopped was a hill, and in front of them was a dense forest. On both sides of the road were trees that were several feet tall, and a person could wrap their arms around them. There was only a four meter wide dirt road that passed through the forest, and at the end of the road were two tall mountains in the distance.
Ren Baqian met Zuo Cheng and the others as soon as he arrived.
"How was it? Was the trip successful? What about the others? "Ren Baqian asked.
"Thanks to these items, we were able to find out information about the other party from a distance. We mainly investigated at night, and with the night vision devices, we were able to easily discover the other party's hidden sentries. Although we were detected twice during this period, we retreated ahead of time and didn't even encounter them. "Zuo Cheng smiled. These binoculars and night vision devices were really useful.
In particular, the infrared night vision devices were extremely useful in the jungle at night. Furthermore, they could easily find out the approximate number of people within a certain distance, which reduced the danger of this investigation.
In addition, the empress had killed the two Spirit Wheel experts, so they didn't encounter any danger.
"As for the others, they are still monitoring the other party's movements. We will come back first to report the news to you. "
"It's good that everything went smoothly." Ren Baqian nodded. "What's the situation ahead?"
Zuo Cheng took out a hand-drawn map. On it was an abstract forest and two tall mountains, and various roads were indicated.
On the mountain, there were many points marked on it.
Zuo Cheng explained to Ren Baqian while holding the map.
"Sir, there aren't any ambushes in the forest. The other party is all on the mountain ahead. To bypass the mountain and reach the Wang Estuary, they need to go through a mountain road that is about six steps wide. On both sides of the road are steep slopes. This road has a total of 2,600 steps. After this road, they will pass through the gap between two mountains. On the right side is a steep slope, but on the left side is a cliff that is 300 meters high. If they fall, they will be smashed to pieces.
Along the way, they have piled up a lot of boulders and broken wood on both sides of the steep slopes. When the army passes through, they will push these boulders and broken wood down.
In addition, there are 8,000 soldiers on the mountain, many of whom are archers.
In addition, there are more than 70 Earth Wheel experts and nearly 1,000 Man Wheel experts from various sects and the army. As for the Spirit Wheel experts, I haven't seen them.
If we attack by force, I'm afraid there will be many casualties. "
Ren Baqian muttered to himself for a while. It was more or less what he had expected. As long as one wasn't an idiot, they would be able to come up with this method of rolling wood and stones.
It was mainly because the two mountains in front of them had gentle slopes towards the south, while the mountains in front of them were all steep slopes.
It would be easy for the other party to ascend the mountain from the other side, but it would be troublesome for everyone to ascend the mountain from this direction. Only the winged cavalry could do it. By the time the winged cavalry expended a lot of effort to climb up, what awaited them were numerous Earth Wheel and Man Wheel experts, as well as thousands of soldiers.
He was afraid that the winged cavalry would only exist in name after this battle.
Ren Baqian pondered for a while before bringing this map to look for the empress.
Moments later, Xi Wanya, Zong Shen, the generals of the Protectorate of the South, and Gong Zheng all received the news and rushed to the vicinity of the empress's imperial carriage.
Ren Baqian drew a map on the ground that the people from the Rearguard Commandery had investigated, marked the locations, and explained everything that they knew so far. The empress then asked, "What do you think?"
The empress rarely expressed her opinions on these matters.
It had always been one of her strengths to hand over professional matters to others.
"I will first take the experts from the army up the mountain and occupy an open space. The winged cavalry can ascend from there. With me leading the way, the other party definitely won't be able to stop us. When the winged cavalry and the soldiers ascend the mountain, we will be able to drive them away in one fell swoop, "Xi Wanya said.
Ren Baqian nodded slightly.
If they encountered such a situation on Earth, it would indeed be more difficult. However, they were in Dayao at this time, and the most prominent feature here was their superior individual strength. Although the aboriginals didn't have the advantage in terms of military strength, they had the absolute advantage in terms of experts.
With Xi Wanya, Zong Shen, Qing Ping, and other Cardinal Heaven experts ascending the mountain, they would be able to resist the attack of the other party and clear an open space. After that, the winged cavalry and the soldiers from the Protectorate of the South would ascend the mountain.
Although Ren Baqian felt that the other party wouldn't have thought of this, this method was the simplest and most practical. It was to break through everything with brute force. No matter what the other party's plans were, they would crush them with absolute brute force.
"That's settled then." The empress nodded.
That night, just as Ren Baqian went to rest, someone came to report that there was movement on the mountain.
A moment later, someone came to report that many of the other party's practitioners had already descended the mountain and were rushing toward the place where the army had set up camp.
"Only the practitioners?" Ren Baqian asked. After receiving an affirmative answer, he asked a guard to inform Xi Wanya.
If he guessed correctly, since there were only practitioners, it definitely wasn't a real night attack.
After thinking for a while, Ren Baqian said to the guard, "If they really attack, remember to bring me to Her Majesty. As long as you don't see them, don't worry about me. "
After he finished speaking, he found two rags to plug his ears and went to sleep.
After Ren Baqian fell asleep, a series of battle cries could be heard coming from the forest just after midnight. Countless figures rushed out of the forest and threw all kinds of hidden weapons at the barracks. There were darts, flying knives, gold beads, and silver beads.
These people had just come out of the forest, but before they could reach the camp, hundreds of burly men jumped out from behind the fence and gave them a good beating.
"Retreat!" Seeing this situation, the other party immediately shouted. Hundreds of corpses were left outside the camp while the others retreated into the forest.
"There's no need to chase." Gong Zheng stopped the winged cavalry from continuing the chase.
After a while, peace was restored in the camp.
In the forest, dozens of people gathered together and said, "They are prepared! It seems like they have hidden sentries in the forest. What should we do now? "
"Let's go back. Since they are prepared, continuing will only harm their lives, "someone said.
"No, let's go again. They know that this time, there should be hidden sentries who tipped them off. If we go back again, we will definitely be able to surprise them. "
"That's right. Even if we can't hurt them, we can make them unable to rest and attack tomorrow. The longer they stop, the greater the pressure on their rations. "Someone agreed from the side.
Then, everyone's gaze fell on the person in the seat of honor.
"Let's rest for two hours before disturbing the enemy."
Ren Baqian was sleeping soundly when he was shaken awake. In his dream, he was whispering sweet nothings to the empress, which made him feel uneasy. However, he was woken up at this time and was immediately furious. "Have they attacked?"
"They didn't attack. However, there is news that they are resting in the forest, "the guard hurriedly said.
"Inform General Xi that there will be another night attack in a while," Ren Baqian mumbled and went back to his dream to whisper sweet nothings to the empress.
During these two hours, the forest was quiet, and even the birds and beasts didn't make any noise.
"Time's up. Set off. Remember, disturb the enemy, don't fight them," someone in the forest ordered.
Then, a group of people rushed out of the forest again, and a wave of battle cries could be heard in the camp.
Hundreds of sleep-deprived burly men jumped out of the fence and gave them another beating.
Another two hundred corpses were left behind, and everyone retreated into the forest with resentment.
"They are obviously prepared. There is no chance for us to attack tonight. Let's go back."
"As the ancients said, you can do it once, twice, but not thrice. Anything can be done once or twice, but definitely not a third time. I believe the other party thinks so too. "
"They must have hidden sentries in the forest. If we continue to stay here, their every move will be detected."
"We can let some people go back first and deliberately make the noise a little louder to create the illusion that we have all left. The forest is so dark that we can't even see our fingers. I don't believe that they will know that there are still people here. "
After a while, three to four hundred people left the forest with a loud noise.
"Inform Sir that there are still about half of them in the forest. I'm afraid that they still haven't given up their evil intentions," a person on a tree branch in the distance said as he looked at the red dot in the distance with a night-vision goggles.
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Two hours later, hundreds of people rushed out of the forest. Darts, flying knives, golden marbles, silver marbles, and a lot of hidden weapons were thrown at the military camp in front as if they were free.
Battle cries soared to the sky. In the darkness, no one could figure out how many people were attacking.
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