Duan Jianhan's group and the bandits quietly entered the wall-hanging mountain road at night. They chose the easiest area to destroy and prepared to completely destroy the mountain road here. As long as the mountain road here was destroyed, it could not be restored in three to five months. In this way, they could greatly delay the Tang dynasty's plan. Although the wall-hanging mountain road was made of stone by the local people, it was not particularly difficult to destroy it. Since they could dig a road, it meant that they could definitely destroy it.
The bandits were all stimulated by Duan Jianhan. Every one of them was fantasizing about a good future. They all obeyed Duan Jianhan's orders and entered the wall-hanging mountain road to carry out large-scale destruction. As long as they destroyed this road, they could directly go to Dongnu Province to enjoy a happy life. For this reason, they even abandoned their nest and brought all their valuables with them. It seemed that they had completely believed in Duan Jianhan and naively thought that Duan Jianhan's promise to them was true.
Duan Jianhan's group and the bandits divided the work. Except for Duan Jianhan who did not work, everyone else was working hard to dig the mountain road.
Because the narrowest part of the wall-hanging mountain road could only accommodate a truck, the width was at most 50% more than the width of a truck. Therefore, they did not need to dig out much of the road. They only needed to make the wall-hanging mountain road narrower and less than the width of a truck. Then, they would be done.
When the wall-hanging mountain road was only wide enough for one person, it could only allow people to pass through. Vehicles could not pass through at all. In this way, Duan Jianhan's purpose was achieved. As long as the road here could not be opened to traffic, the Tang dynasty's plan would be stopped, at least temporarily.
The group worked in full swing, but they did not expect that they had been discovered by the hidden Tang Army. The hidden team that discovered them only had ten soldiers, much fewer than them, but their combat effectiveness was very high. In addition, there was more than one team lying in ambush in this area. There were two other teams elsewhere. As long as they were notified quickly, they would quickly arrive. In addition, the main city of the Jiang Clan was not very far away, so it was not difficult to transfer people from the Jiang Clan. Before Ang Lee left, he had already told them that as long as the Tang Army was in trouble, they would help.
Since the wall-hanging mountain road was made of stone, and Duan Jianhan's group didn't have explosives, they could only use the most primitive method to destroy it. Therefore, there wouldn't be much destructive effect in a short period of time. It would take at least a whole night to achieve the required destructive effect, or even more time.
In this way, the soldiers of the Tang dynasty would have more time to prepare. The soldiers of the Tang dynasty could easily mobilize more people to form a strong encirclement around these guys, leaving them no way to escape.
The ten soldiers of the Tang dynasty immediately began to divide the work. Two of them went to inform the other two teams lying in ambush, two went to the Jiang Clan to ask for reinforcements, and the remaining six stayed nearby to observe the situation so as to know the situation of Duan Jianhan and his group at any time. Once these guys tried to escape, they would immediately follow them, find out where they were hiding, and catch them all in one fell swoop.
The other two hidden teams of the Tang dynasty were on both sides of the wall-hanging mountain road. Once they received the news, they could form a two-sided encirclement around Duan Jianhan and his group, leaving them no way to escape.
Duan Jianhan and his group were trying their best to destroy the wall-hanging mountain road. However, the wall-hanging mountain road was made of hard stone after all. Even with hammers and chisels, it was not so easy to destroy it. In the beginning, everyone was quite excited, thinking that as long as they completed the task, they could go to Dongnu Province to enjoy life. But after working for a while, they began to curse.
"These stones are too hard. How long will it take to cut them?"
"Yeah! These stones are really hard to cut! It's only a shallow hole after a long time. "
"I really can't figure out how much effort and manpower was expended when this road was first dug."
"At the beginning, at least thousands of people were used to cut this road. They worked hard for decades to complete it. I'm afraid that we, as amateurs, can't destroy the road after a night of digging!"
"You don't know until you do it. You don't know how hard it is to cut these stones until you do it!"
"If we get some firewood, heat the stones, and then pour cold water on them, the stones will be much easier to cut."
"Yes, it will save a lot of trouble to use fire. For example, use fire!"
A group of bandits who were working began to talk. Everyone seemed very anxious. They had never done stone chiseling before, so they were relatively unfamiliar with it. Duan Jianhan's men were even more unfamiliar with it. Although they all had strength, their skills were far worse. They couldn't grasp the essentials of the work and their progress in chiseling the stone was very slow.
Looking at these people working so slowly, Duan Jianhan seemed very anxious. From time to time, he would urge them. He seemed impatient.
"Hurry up! Aren't you guys too slow?! How can you be so slow? It's really too slow. You have to cut faster. Cut faster. "
Duan Jianhan did not work himself, but he was very good at teaching others. This made the bandits who were working very dissatisfied. They did not slack off. They worked very hard when they were working, but they were still reprimanded for being slow. Naturally, they felt very uncomfortable. In addition, they were used to being free and had never been reprimanded like this. So, they were very uncomfortable in their hearts. Their rebellious mentality soon came up, and they simply slacked off. This naturally made Duan Jianhan even angrier.
"You are too slow. If you want to enjoy life in Dongnu Province, you have to do your best. Everyone, work harder, work harder."
Duan Jianhan said again.
The bandit leader was very strong, but he was not good at chiseling stones. He had never done this before. When he first started chiseling, he did not expect these stones to be so hard. It was far beyond his imagination. After chiseling a few times, he realized how powerful these stones were. His confidence took a big hit, and Duan Jianhan's urging made him even more annoyed. He did not like the feeling of being urged by others.
"These stones are too hard. General Duan, why don't you try it yourself?"
The bandit leader said angrily.
Duan Jianhan naturally understood that these stones were indeed very hard, but other than using chisels to chisel away bit by bit, there was no better way. He was also very helpless and very anxious. Other than getting angry and urging, there was no other way.
Seeing that their leader and Duan Jianhan were arguing, several bandits ran over. One of them supported their leader, and the other wanted to express his opinion and express his own views.
"Leader, it's too slow to chisel like this. It will definitely delay things. Why don't we burn it with fire? Burn the stones until they are brittle. Pour a bucket of cold water on them, and the stones will explode directly. This will save us a lot of trouble. "
"Yes! Leader, it's too slow. How long will it take? It's faster to burn it with fire. It will save more energy! "
"Leader, there are many trees nearby. There is enough firewood. Burning it with fire is the most suitable."
Those bandits really didn't want to continue chiseling the stones, because they were too hard and too difficult to chisel. They thought it was more convenient to burn it with fire, which could save a lot of energy and increase the efficiency. It was the best way.
The bandit leader listened to his subordinate's suggestion and thought it was very reasonable. He immediately looked at Duan Jianhan, because Duan Jianhan must have heard it too. He was waiting for his opinion.
"What? General Duan, you don't think it's appropriate to burn it with fire?"
Seeing that Duan Jianhan was displeased, the bandit leader was displeased. It was too difficult to chisel the stones now, but Duan Jianhan disagreed. How could he not be angry?
Duan Jianhan said, "We can't use fire. If we do, we will expose our target and attract the Jiang family. Have you thought about how to deal with it?"
Obviously, they were doing something bad, and they couldn't let the Jiang family find out. If they were found out, they would be in big trouble. Therefore, they had to be careful. They were doing it secretly, so how could they dare to start a fire?
Hearing that, the bandit leader thought it made sense. They came secretly at night to destroy the road. If they did it openly, it would inevitably attract the attention of the Jiang family more than ten miles away. At that time, the Jiang family would come in large numbers, and they would be in trouble. In the Western Detention Area, where the people were tough, the bandits and the common people had the same fighting strength. There were no weak people here. As long as they were strong adult men, their fighting strength was not weak. Therefore, the bandits were also afraid of the common people. As long as there were a lot of common people, their fighting strength would be stronger than the bandits.
In the backward era of cold weapons, the gap in equipment was relatively small. Most of the time, the number of people determined the strength of both sides. The side with more people would have a greater advantage, and the side with less people would be at a disadvantage.
However, the stone was really too difficult to chisel. According to their current progress, even if they worked for an entire night, they might not be able to complete the set task. Once it was daytime, the parts they destroyed would be discovered. It would be very difficult to continue destroying the stone the next night. Therefore, it was really a dilemma.
Duan Jianhan meant that the bandits should work hard and use all their strength to destroy the wall-hanging mountain road here in one night. However, the bandits obviously felt that it was not realistic. They had underestimated the hardness of the stones on the wall-hanging mountain road. The hardness of the stones they thought was obviously far from enough. They seemed to have overestimated their own ability.
After trying it out personally, they were shocked to find that these stones were much stiffer than they had imagined. Even if they tried their best, they wouldn't be able to destroy the mountain path to the required level after an entire night. In other words, they wouldn't be able to complete the task given by Duan Jianhan. And if they couldn't complete the task, it meant that they wouldn't be able to go to the East Nu Kingdom to enjoy life. Even though this enjoyment was fake, at least they believed it.
"It's easy to be discovered if we light a fire, but if we don't light the stones, we can't complete this task at all. We are bandits, not stonemasons. We have never done this before. We just saw others do it. I didn't expect it to be so difficult to do it ourselves. Now, there is really no other way except to light the stones. Why don't we take the risk and give it a try? Anyway, it's the middle of the night and the Jiang Tribesmen are all asleep. We can block the fire a little and it won't be so easy to be discovered. "
The bandit leader said.
He felt that in the middle of the night, when normal people were asleep, no one would notice the fire in the distance. Moreover, they could also take measures to block the fire and reduce the intensity of the fire to the lowest level. In this way, they would not be discovered easily.
Duan Jianhan thought for a long time and felt that there was indeed no better way. At this moment, there was no other choice but to agree to the bandit leader's idea. However, the necessary cover was still necessary.
"Okay then! But let everyone take off their clothes and tie them together to make a curtain to block the fire. Cover as much as you can! Cut some more branches to block the fire. We must avoid being discovered by the Jiang Tribesmen in the distance. "
Duan Jianhan said.
The bandit leader nodded and immediately ordered the bandits under his command to stop chiseling stones and go to the woods to cut wood and prepare to burn the stones. Then, it would be much easier to chisel stones.
However, in this way, it would provide a very good opportunity for the Tang Dynasty soldiers to defeat them one by one.
The six Tang Dynasty soldiers who were monitoring the bandits nearby saw that the bandits returned to the intersection and went to the surrounding woods to cut wood, so they immediately divided into two groups to follow these bandits. When they found those who were alone, they directly killed them. Then, they hid the corpses under the leaves. In this way, they could kill many bandits without being noticed.
After killing several bandits who were alone, another group of ten soldiers came back together with the soldier who delivered the message. The Tang Dynasty Army had 17 people in the woods. They were divided into five groups, so their hunting efficiency was higher. A single group could kill a single bandit, while two groups could kill two bandits quietly and weaken the bandits' combat strength without being noticed.
Because most of the bandits had gone to look for firewood, only five or six people including Duan Jianhan were left on the mountain road. Obviously, it was very dangerous. Once someone attacked them, they had no ability to protect themselves at all and would definitely be killed.
As a matter of fact, the eleven soldiers who came from the other side had quietly come over. Their number was twice that of Duan Jianhan's group. As long as they sneaked over, they could kill Duan Jianhan and his group quietly. In this way, the remaining bandits who went to look for firewood were no longer a concern.
The number of bandits was not large, and Duan Jianhan's group was even smaller. Under the silent hunting of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, they soon lost more than half of their men. There were very few bandits left. When they were about to go back after finding firewood, they saw a group of people rushing over quickly. These were the reinforcements of the Jiang Clan. They rushed over as soon as they got the news.
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