Ren Baqian opened his eyes and was a little annoyed. He was fully prepared for this night, but he still didn't sleep well.
Anyone who was woken up every two hours would not be able to sleep well.
Ren Baqian yawned as he walked out of the tent. He casually asked the guard, "How was last night?"
"The enemy came to harass us three times and left behind 400 corpses. The people from the Rearguard Commandery have examined the corpses. Eleven of them were Earth Wheel experts and the rest were Man Wheel experts, "the guard said loudly.
Ren Baqian didn't expect the enemy to send a wave of heads before he could even attack.
He was originally worried that there were too many experts on the other side of the mountain. In the end, nearly 1,000 Man Wheel experts were killed just like that.
Did the enemy's higher-ups have an insider?
Ren Baqian called for Zuo Cheng and asked in surprise, "Did some of the people we sent to the south to persuade them to surrender sneak into the enemy's ranks?"
Zuo Cheng was a little puzzled as he didn't know why Ren Baqian asked this question. He answered truthfully, "Sir, I'm not sure about this. No one left a note or anything like that, and I have no way of knowing the internal situation of the enemy."
"Oh, you may leave then." Ren Baqian dismissed Zuo Cheng and went to see the empress.
After breakfast, Xi Wanya sent a portion of the soldiers from the Protectorate of the South to open up a path in the dense forest ahead. They had to at least double the current mountain road and open up an open space.
For an entire day, as the towering trees fell with a loud rumble, bundles of vines were brought back from the forest, and some people weaved them into ropes.
These ropes were as thick as an arm and were very strong. They wouldn't break even if they were to bear a weight of 500 kilograms. The only problem was that they were too heavy.
After all, these weren't hay, but vines filled with water. A rope that was 100 meters long would weigh at least 300 kilograms. After removing the gentle slope that was more than 100 meters long, the remaining mountain wall that was difficult to climb was at least 300 meters high. This meant that a rope would weigh more than 500 kilograms.
Even the winged cavalry could carry this thing and walk as if they were flying.
However, only a few Cardinal Heaven experts like Xi Wanya and Zong Shen would be able to carry this thing up a mountain that was close to a vertical cliff without affecting their movements.
On the morning of the third day, the army set off again, passing through the forest and arriving at the foot of the two mountain peaks.
Ren Baqian raised his head and looked up with his binoculars. He saw that the mountainside, which was four to five hundred meters high, was filled with piles of rocks, rolling logs, and other things. There were even people craning their necks to look down.
"Your Majesty, please allow me to drive away the enemy." Xi Wanya cupped his fists in front of the empress's carriage.
"Permission granted!" the empress said.
"General Xi, please wait a moment," Ren Baqian said to stop him.
"Is there anything else, Sir Ren?" Xi Wanya turned his head and asked.
"Distribute some things to the winged cavalry." As Ren Baqian spoke, he got someone to drag out his grenades and called Gong Zheng over to distribute them.
Gong Zheng was overjoyed when he saw this familiar thing. "Sir Ren, this thing is very useful. This battle will definitely make those thieves on the mountain wish they could grow two more legs. "
Ren Baqian pondered for a while, took out more than ten skunk bombs, and handed them to Gong Zheng. "These are extremely powerful and will hurt both sides. Try not to use them if possible. Use them if the situation isn't good. "
Gong Zheng looked at the skunk bomb in his hand. It was indeed different from those grenades, but he didn't know how powerful such a small thing could be.
"Let's set off!" Xi Wanya saw that Ren Baqian handed a batch of things to Gong Zheng and didn't ask any more questions. After Ren Baqian finished speaking, he gave the order to set off.
Ren Baqian took the opportunity to call Lin Qiaole over and set off with Xi Wanya and the others.
Xi Wanya, Zong Shen, and Qing Ping were in front, followed by some personal guards. Behind them were the winged cavalry, and the ordinary soldiers followed from a distance.
Along the way, Xi Wanya and the other two couldn't help but look for places to land on the mountain wall.
"Release!" Just as everyone set foot on the gentle slope, a dark cloud suddenly appeared in mid-air, and countless arrows rained down.
"Give me the rope. You guys stand down!" Xi Wanya shouted. He lifted the huge rope that was coiled into a disc as if he was lifting a house.
"Lin Qiaole! It's your turn. "Ren Baqian reached out and poked Lin Qiaole's waist.
Lin Qiaole immediately jumped a few times and landed in front of the steep slope. She then began to move her body and climbed up half the height in a few flashes.
"Fall!" Suddenly, a few boulders and rolling logs that were bigger than humans came crashing down toward Lin Qiaole.
The boulders that were bigger than humans came crashing down from a height of a few hundred meters. With their own weight and gravity, they smashed toward the three of them with great power. The deafening sound could be heard from afar, as if a landslide was occurring.
However, Lin Qiaole's movements were more dexterous than a monkey's. It didn't take much effort for her to move around on the mountain wall and easily pass through the gaps between the boulders and the rolling logs.
The falling boulders caused a little trouble for Xi Wanya and the others.
The three of them dodged the boulders, placed the rope on the ground, held one end in each hand, and leaped high into the air. They landed on the foothold they had previously found and then changed direction to jump in another direction.
If Lin Qiaole's movements were more like the agility of a feline, then the three of them were completely like gorillas. Every time they landed, they would crush a piece of rock and then bounce high up into the air with great strength.
As soon as Lin Qiaole leaped onto the platform on the mountainside, she caused a rain of blood among the ordinary soldiers.
Almost every second, someone's throat was torn, and fresh blood spurted out from the neck with a slight sound of air leaking.
At this moment, a loud whistle was heard. Soon after, the sound of heavy objects rubbing against each other could be heard from behind the platform.
Lin Qiaole clawed at the head of a soldier, then turned around in the air and landed on the back of another soldier. She only stayed on him for a moment before she leaped high into the air and pounced toward another soldier. However, she had goosebumps all over her body when she was in mid-air.
This was because she saw a huge creature crawling toward her in front of her.
It was a huge python!
It was as thick as two water tanks and was about two meters long. Its entire body was black and yellow, and as it slithered on the ground, it knocked into the soldiers along the way. Many of them immediately heard the sound of bones breaking.
"Ugh!" Lin Qiaole's pupils turned vertical as she lowered her body to the ground. She completely ignored the soldiers who were fleeing in the distance and focused all her attention on the huge python on the ground in front of her.
As soon as she saw that thing, she felt as if she had encountered something that she hated.
The huge python also stopped in front of Lin Qiaole and raised its head. Its pair of yellow eyes exuded coldness and cruelty.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xi Wanya and the other two arrived at the mountainside and saw the huge python first.
The three of them ignored it and split up to find a place to wrap the rope.
However, at this moment, a reddish-brown figure pounced toward Xi Wanya like lightning. It waved its arms in the air and smashed toward Xi Wanya.
"Boom!" Xi Wanya and the other party's fists collided, and both of them took a few steps back almost at the same time.
Xi Wanya fixed his eyes and saw a monkey with reddish-brown long fur, which was about the size of a human, baring its teeth at him.
One had to know that Xi Wanya's strength was more than 2,500 kilograms, but this monkey was able to fight evenly with him. It was truly shocking. Furthermore, this monkey was extremely fast, at least a little faster than Xi Wanya himself.
He had been stationed in the south for more than 20 years, but he didn't know that there was such a strange beast in Tianjing Basin.
At this moment, Zong Shen and Qing Ping were also surrounded by six people. They were the Spirit Wheel experts who had appeared at Mount Wu.
At the foot of the mountain, the empress suddenly looked up from her carriage and said coldly, "They have encountered an expert!"
Before she finished speaking, she appeared 100 meters away in a flash.
Ren Baqian only saw a red shadow flash a few times in the distance before disappearing.
Soon after, a loud roar was heard from the mountaintop, accompanied by the roar of a huge beast and the hissing of a huge snake.
Ren Baqian sighed. No matter how much he prepared, it wouldn't be as good as the empress doing it herself.
In such a world, he sometimes felt quite helpless.
After a full two hours, the empress returned from the mountain.
"Your Majesty is invincible, and the unification of the world is just around the corner!" Ren Baqian exclaimed. He then saw that the empress's expression wasn't right and asked, "Your Majesty? What did you encounter on the mountain? "
"A few strange beasts escaped!" The empress looked a little unhappy. She was still brooding over the fact that the enemy had escaped from her hands.
"Strange beasts?" Ren Baqian was surprised. To be called strange beasts and be able to escape from the empress, could they be like the kirin in the palace?
"A monkey, a snake, and a crow general!"
As the empress spoke, Lin Qiaole appeared near them, threw two pieces of food to Ren Baqian, and said hatefully, "I want to roast them and eat them!"
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