On the school grounds of the rear camp, Tao Shang ordered his troops and horses, and summoned seven generals, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Tai Shi Ci, Ma Chao, Huang Zhong, Xu Chu, and A Fei, to prepare to send troops to sneak across the ancient Yinping Road.
The elite soldiers of Danyang and the Nanman Battalion accompanied him on the expedition.
After the three drums were played, the pottery merchant stepped onto the high platform, looked at the crowd below, and cleared his throat: "Soldiers!"
Danyang elite soldiers and soldiers from the Nanman camp stood still.
"This battle is very important. It is the last battle related to the unification of the world. After this battle, the world will be peaceful and everyone can live a good life."
All the soldiers shouted in unison: "Mighty!"
"The Prime Minister is mighty!"
"The Prime Minister is mighty!"
"The Prime Minister is mighty!"
The voices of the soldiers of the three armies were loud and clear, shaking the sky and filling the sky with anger.
The pottery merchant nodded happily and said: "You are all good, and you are all my good sons and daughters in Jinling! With such momentum, how can any army in the world compare with it? It's amazing, it's really amazing! The one who unified Sichuan and Shu.
This tough battle depends on you."
Ah Fei stood up and said in a loud voice: "Soldiers, although the Yinping Road is dangerous, for the sake of the Prime Minister, we should sacrifice our lives and move forward courageously! Do you know who is doing this to show kindness to the world today when it is peaceful and the people have good harvests?
of?"
The soldiers of the three armies shouted together: "They belong to the Prime Minister's family!"
"From the Prime Minister's family!"
A Fei said with satisfaction: "Then in your family, whose parents, children, and children eat the food and wear the clothes?"
"Prime Minister! It belongs to the Prime Minister's family! It belongs to the Prime Minister's family!"
Ah Fei nodded with satisfaction and said, "Then whose wife is the woman you are sleeping with now?"
"It's Cheng..."
Speaking of this, many soldiers suddenly shut up, feeling that something was wrong in their hearts.
Doesn’t this slogan offend people a bit?
Tao Shang kicked A Fei aside, then cleared his throat, wanting to say a few more inspiring words.
But when things came to an end, he found that he couldn't shout anything.
Ah Fei is such a bad guy.
Tao Shang stared blankly at the soldiers for a long time, and finally waved his hands helplessly and said: "No more nonsense...send troops!"
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The pottery merchant's banner was still erected in Lord Jian's main camp. Xu Rong and Guo Jia were in charge of all matters in the camp, while the pottery merchant led two battalions of soldiers and horses, and seven fierce generals, and began to set off towards the Yinping Road.
There are about 40,000 elite soldiers and horses in the two battalions, each fully armed.
First, we secretly headed north to Lintao, and then entered the Yinping Ancient Road.
Along the way, the entire Yinping Ancient Road was surrounded by high mountains and deserted areas. The army advanced slowly, building roads across mountains and building bridges over water.
Along the way, the pottery merchant and others traveled through mountains and rivers, and the pottery merchant also took time to explain to his generals the new rock climbing tools transferred from Jinling City.
"These ropes are different from the ropes we usually use. Not only are they long, but they are also divided into main ropes and auxiliary ropes. They are more than four times thicker than the ropes we usually use. They are equipped with chisels specially used for rock climbing.
Nails can work wonders."
While Xu Chu was listening, he carefully watched the chisels turning over and over: "Why are these things of different sizes and styles?"
Tao Shang said: "Chisel nails are mainly used to drive into cracks in rocks. Chisel nails of different lengths and thicknesses are selected according to the type of rock. Screw heads are tools used to clamp into rock cracks as a fulcrum."
Xu Chu nodded suddenly.
Tao Shang said: "Since this period of time, Danyang Jingbing and myself have basically been using the three-point fixation method as the basis of daily rock climbing skills. I will tell you the essentials later."
In this way, a group of soldiers and horses, with sufficient preparations, slowly advanced on the Yinping path. Although the journey was very difficult, they did not encounter any serious problems because they were well prepared in advance.
After walking like this for nearly twenty days, Tao Shang and others arrived at the most difficult and dangerous place on the Yinping Road, which is Motian Ridge.
Motian Ridge is a cliff, surrounded by cliffs, and the slope is quite steep.
Faced with such a situation, pottery merchants were well prepared.
When he came this time, he ordered the soldiers of the three armies to bring ten very thick long ropes for sliding down.
Of course, there are some simple protection measures attached to the rope.
Xu Chu looked towards the bottom of Motian Ridge and suddenly felt dizzy.
"Here, is it possible to climb down?" Xu Chu asked Tao Shang fearfully: "Isn't it possible to fall to death?"
The pottery merchant shook his head and said: "Don't worry, the quality of these ropes is quite good. You only need to use ground nails to fix one end on the cliff, throw the other side down, and then slide down bit by bit. There will be someone pulling on it."
, it can naturally slide down."
Speaking of this, Tao Shang paused and said: "More than three hundred years ago, among the civilians far overseas, there was Spartacus, the leader of the Western civilian army. He once led his civilian army on the towering
On Mount Vesuvius, he climbed down and slid down, and finally defeated the imperial officers and soldiers who came to capture him. It can be called a legend. He had no protective measures at that time. He used ropes connected with hemp ropes, and other
The height of the volcano we climbed was much higher than ours, and they succeeded in the end, so what's the difference between us?"
Xu Chu sniffed and said: "You will lie to me with such nonsense stories. Look at this bad name you made up. Why do you want to die but can't die? How can anyone name their child this? Why feed pigs?
Volcanoes... a certain family has never heard of them..."
"If you don't go down, I will feed you to the pigs." The potter frowned: "Stop talking nonsense and go down step by step!"
Landing down from Motian Ridge bit by bit, even with sufficient preparation, is still a very difficult and meticulous job. In history, Deng Ai here could only let the soldiers of the three armies wrap themselves in cloth blankets, one by one.
There is a natural fall when jumping downwards, and the result can be imagined. Naturally, most of the people will be damaged.
But even after knowing this and making some preparations, the Jinling Army still had many accidents when climbing down Motian Ridge, and many dangerous situations occurred among them.
Fortunately, there were not many casualties in the end, but it took a lot of time. It took ten days for everyone to fall to the ground.
The pottery merchant asked everyone to bury the soldiers who died due to mistakes during the climb at the foot of Motian Ridge, and after letting the three armies pay their respects, he began to send troops to the hinterland of Yizhou.
At this time, those who were ordered by Liu Zhang to guard Fushui Pass were Liu Zhang's generals Yang Huai and Gao Pei.
For the two of them, they never expected that a strange force would appear in front of them.
In their minds, the Jinling Army is now like a foreign visitor far away in the horizon, still far away from them.
When he heard that the Jinling Army had appeared not far outside Fushui Pass, Yang Huai couldn't breathe and almost fainted.
These damn Jinling dogs, don’t they have wings under one of their ribs?