Yuan Jin was walking in the middle of the team, more than 50 steps away from the throwing position. The distance of the Molotov cocktail was close to the position on the south side of the mountain road, so it did not pose a threat to him.
However, two incendiary cans were thrown high and far, flying over the heads of the soldiers on the edge of the mountain road to the middle of the mountain road. The two incendiary cans were thrown by Dachun and Da Zhuang. The two had strong arms and smashed them.
High and far.
One of them landed more than ten steps behind Yuan Jin and exploded. Several of Yuan Jin's soldiers were set on fire and screamed in horror.
Yuan Jin was not affected and hurriedly rushed to the north side of the mountain road. At this moment, another burning can fell from the sky. Lin Pianjiang, who could tell jokes, looked up and saw that the burning can was falling towards the top of his head. He was anxious.
Before he could draw his sword, he swung the scabbard and struck it.
"General Lin, no!" Gao Meng on the side screamed in horror when he saw this, but it was too late. General Lin was agile and his strikes were like lightning, accurate and ruthless. The scabbard of his sword hit the incendiary tank, which was in the air.
It exploded and turned into a rain of fire all over the sky.
"Ah!" Lin Pian poured a lot of strong wine on his head. Instantly his hair caught fire, and his head was full of fire, burning into a torch. He yelled and patted the wine fire on his head, but it extinguished it, and instead burned it.
Flow down the cheeks and into the neck.
"Save me!" General Lin screamed loudly and fell to the ground. The people around him picked up the sand on the ground and sprinkled it on his face. They poured water bags on his face. It was difficult to extinguish the flames, but General Lin's head and face were still intact.
It had been burned to the size of a pig's head. It was screaming loudly and rolling on the ground.
Not only was Lin Pianjiang unlucky, he smashed the incendiary canister in the air, causing everyone around him to suffer. The wine and fire were scattered in all directions, and seven or eight people around him were affected to varying degrees.
And he was surrounded by generals, including Major General Yuan Jin. A rain of fire fell on Yuan Jin's arm. Just now, he needed treatment after being scratched by thorns, so Yuan Jin's sleeves were rolled up. At this moment
He was exposed. A ball of fire fell on his arm, which made him scream.
Everyone around him ignored the flames on his body and quickly put out the fire on Yuan Jin's arm. However, Yuan Jin's arm was still burned with large blisters, and he screamed loudly in pain.
"Set arrows, shoot them! Shoot them to death." Someone shouted loudly.
The soldiers woke up as if from a dream. The crossbowmen quickly bent their bows and set arrows, and fired arrows into the grass beside the road. Soon more archers began to release arrows, scattering thorns and vines in the grass dozens of steps away.
Flying like a heavy rain.
There was no movement in the grass. Gao Meng shouted loudly and ordered a group of soldiers to go and check. The soldiers rushed over with torches and took a look. There was nothing in the thorns. The attackers were nowhere to be seen.
A soldier took two steps forward and slipped into the crevice with a 'plop' sound. Everyone hurriedly pulled him up, and then they discovered that this was a ravine created by floods, which was more than half a person deep. The attackers had just arrived
They were hiding in this ravine and throwing incendiary cans. After throwing them, they huddled in the ditch. Naturally, they would not be harmed by any arrows. They had already slipped away along the ditch.
At this moment, another round of incendiary canisters was thrown from the ditch dozens of steps away from the rear, and landed among the troops at the rear. Immediately, there was another chaos and screams. The opponent followed the ditch to the ditch dozens of steps behind, and then
One shot.
After this throw, they did not wait for the arrows to be fired, and dozens of black shadows fled towards the south hillside. One person even turned around and laughed a few times provocatively, and then turned around and fled up the mountain.
"Kill them, kill them." Yuan Jin yelled angrily.
The pain on his arm had already made him sweat and irritated. The other party actually attacked him secretly right in front of his eyes. How could he bear it?
"Major General, don't worry about them. Let's get out of the mountain quickly. The enemy is in darkness and we are in the dark..." Gao Meng tried to dissuade him.
Yuan Jin was furious and shouted: "No, I must catch them tonight and put them on firewood and burn them alive. Give me the order to search the mountain for me."
Yuan Jin was furious and ordered to search the mountain. Because he saw the opponent's figure escaping on the south slope, all the soldiers and horses formed a team to attack on the south slope.
This time, the soldiers were miserable. At night like this, in the dark mountains and forests, there were thorns, vines, gravel slopes, mosquito bites, and countless dangers and obstacles on the slopes. In this case, they had to climb the mountain to search for potential dark places.
enemies, how difficult it is.
But even though he was scolding his mother in his heart, he had no choice but to obey the order and search and attack on the hillside.
In addition to Yuan Jin and the guards around him, the remaining 1,500 soldiers were divided into ten teams, gathering at a distance of thirty or forty steps, like a giant comb inserted into the forest, to conduct a large-scale search.
More than an hour later, after a long search, following the traces and sounds left by the enemy intentionally or unintentionally. After circling the entire mountain forest, the exhausted Shouchun soldiers finally passed the extremely depressing moment.
The forest reached the bottom of the mountain top.
The moment they emerged from the woods, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The woods were too depressing, and they had to be highly nervous to prevent enemy sneak attacks. It was really not a place for people to stay.
At this moment, my eyes suddenly opened up, and I saw the sky that was already misty and clear, and the wind blowing on the top of the mountain. This feeling was like being saved from a desperate situation.
However, they soon felt that something was a bit tricky. The mountains in front of them were filled with rugged rocks, and countless monsters and monsters seemed to be standing on the dark mountain top. The traces of the enemy they had discovered before also disappeared among the rocks.
The leading generals discussed it and did not dare to rush to the top of the mountain to attack, so they ordered people to go to the valley to report to Yuan Jin, Gao Meng and others. In fact, they also hoped to delay the attack and wait until dawn before taking action.
When Yuan Jin rushed to the north side of the mountaintop and descended the mountain out of breath, it was already Chen hour. The sun in the east had risen, and the heat began to evaporate. There was an anxious atmosphere in the air.
"Are those thieves at the top of the mountain?" Yuan Jin asked loudly, wiping his sweat.
"Come back to Major General, we watched them climb to the top of the mountain." A general reported back hurriedly.
"Then what are you waiting for? Why don't you attack immediately? Don't you see that they are at the end of their rope?" Yuan Jin said angrily.
The generals nodded in agreement and prepared to launch an attack.
Gao Meng frowned and looked at the large rocky mountaintop. After the blisters on his face that were burned last night burst, a piece of red flesh and blood the size of a copper coin was revealed, which looked a bit scary.
"Major General, the terrain is unfavorable. It is difficult to charge against the piles of rocks. The enemy hides behind the rocks, and it is difficult to shoot them with bows and arrows. We don't know their specific location at the moment, so they can easily attack them. I think..."
"It's ridiculous. There are so many of us, but how many are they? Should we worry? It's them who should be worried. We just need to touch them. Will such a battle be difficult?" Yuan Jin interrupted with a sneer.
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Gao Meng smacked his lips and stopped talking. The other party had fire attack weapons that could be thrown over a wide range. This terrain was absolutely beneficial to them and not beneficial to our own side at all. Although we had a large number of people, the top of the mountain was only a few miles away.
People have to gather around each other, which is asking for trouble.
But since Yuan Jin insists on this, Gao Meng doesn't want to make him angry. It's okay to attack forcefully, but it's not wise.
Under Yuan Jin's urging, the rebel soldiers and horses carefully began to climb up among the rugged rocks to get closer. The direction of attack could only be on the north and west sides, because the south and east sides were too steep and the big rocks were loose.
, seemed to be rolling down at any time, and it was impossible to attack. Therefore, the soldiers and horses were divided into two teams, one team of 500 people, and attacked from the west and north hillsides respectively.
In fact, there are less than a hundred steps away from the rocky slope on the flat area of the top of the mountain. As long as they can cross this distance of a hundred steps and reach the flat area on the top of the mountain, it will be difficult for them to escape.
The soldiers used their hands and feet to slowly touch up the pile of stones. The moment the sun came out, it radiated great heat, and the stones reflected the heat, making everyone climbing on the stones feel like they were being roasted by a steamer. But
This is something that can be endured. What they are most worried about is the fire bottles that can be thrown by the opponent. They have witnessed the tragic situation of the people who were burned and do not want to face it at all.
However, what you are afraid of will come. Just as the soldiers climbed forty or fifty steps forward and were about to approach the top of the mountain, countless black spots dropped down behind the high rocks with roaring flames.
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Amidst the crackling sounds, the air instantly became scorched. Those broken burning cans seemed to have no flames under the sun, and only a layer of faint blue could be seen. But the fire was scalding and scorching.
Burning spread among the rocks. After one burning can shattered, flames flew out, covering a radius of five to six feet. Hundreds of burning cans formed a wall of fire, basically covering the slopes on the north and west sides.
Nearly a hundred soldiers who were climbing at the front suddenly suffered. Flames flowed on the rocks, bursting and burning around them. Their heads, hands and bodies began to catch fire, and the rocks were also covered with fire, making it impossible to escape.
The soldiers who were attacked by the flames screamed and turned around and ran down. When a large number of soldiers in the rear saw them running down with the flames on their bodies, they were frightened and turned around and ran away. For a while, the scene was chaotic, with screams and shouts.
In the panic, many people fell on the rocks and got their feet stuck in the gaps between the rocks. They broke their bones, twisted their foot bones, cracked their skulls, and broke their arms. People were burned by Molotov cocktails.
In fact, there were less than a hundred people, but there were fifty or sixty people who fell down on the rocks due to panic and were injured. Some people hit their heads on the rocks while rolling and fell into coma on the spot, with their life and death uncertain.
Yuan Jin was furious and cursed loudly. All his generals also looked extremely ugly.
Listening to Yuan Jin cursing himself as a waste, no one was happy. But they didn't dare to argue. It is difficult to attack in this kind of terrain. The opponent's incendiary firearms are too overbearing. Who can withstand it? Unless he doesn't care.
Deaths and injuries. But is it worth it for such a few thieves?
"Attack again, attack again." Yuan Jin waved his hands and shouted.
Gao Meng opened his mouth but swallowed the words.