The Mystery of Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 26 Xiaoding's Adventure undercurrents
"What?" The next morning, Li Mao was shocked when he heard the report from his scouts. Zhang Xiaoding, a little bastard, led a dozen people directly to Tianxiong Camp?What does he think of the Tianxiong people? It's all paper?

"When will they arrive?"

"Bing officer, we walked all night when we went, but Zhang Xiaoding and the others will come back with the large convoy. The large convoy is no faster than the cavalry. If we leave this morning, we will arrive at Tianxiong Camp at midnight."

The depression in Li Mao's heart is beyond words. Everyone knows that Zhang Xiaoding is General Yang Sheng's personal soldier. The first time he came out to fight, he was killed by his subordinates. How will he explain to General Li Hui?How will General Li Hui explain to General Yang Sheng?
"Immediately find a place close to Tianxiong camp and hide. If there is any change in Tianxiong camp, prepare to save people immediately." At this point, Li Mao had no choice but to do his best and obey the destiny.

Zhang Xiaoding was on his way to Tianxiong camp with the eighteen scouts.

The horse bandits in the canyon camp came from various forces in the desert, and they were not familiar with each other.Early this morning, the Tianxiong cavalry took over the command of the entire convoy and asked Sun Kuan and others to return it by themselves. There was no one to identify the identities of the horse bandits. The car set off with the mighty team.

On the way, Niu Liang looked at Zhang Xiaoding, who was driving in front of him, and he was full of admiration for this young man. Although he had only been in the army for a month, he had almost completely mastered the essence of scout combat, cunning, vicious, adventurous, and grasping fleeting opportunities ability.Being able to come up with this idea in an instant can only be described as talent.

"This kid is really enviable."

Niu Liang was absorbed in his thoughts, but he didn't know Zhang Xiaoding's distress at all.

Indeed, Zhang Xiaoding was very distressed at the moment.Although now there are [-] people following him to carry out this crazy plan, Zhang Xiaoding has no clue about what he will do after entering the Tianxiong camp.

In a camp of 10 people, it takes half a day just to walk. On the premise of not getting lost, what can I do with my little manpower?To assassinate Lord Tianxiong?Zhang Xiaoding was taken aback by his own thoughts, as if under the calm appearance he deliberately created, a rush of adventurous blood could no longer be suppressed.Zhang Xiaoding laughed dumbfounded, thinking of something useful, looking out of the corner of his eyes, the black oilcloth made his eyes shine.

In Redstone City, the battle is still going on.

Ever since the Tianxiong people's building car leaned against the city wall yesterday, Li Hui has been calculating how to defend against the enemy. In order to prevent the Tianxiong army from resorting to any new siege tactics, he deliberately did not demolish the two towers on the city wall. building car.Sure enough, early this morning, after the Tianxiong army once again occupied the trench, they sent three thousand-man teams to attack the city wall through building vehicles.

This move hit Li Hui's heart, and he had already made arrangements for it. Following the Tianxiong people's ascent to the city, the Xia army's infantry formed a tight formation consisting of large shields and spears, and pressed the Tianxiong infantry against the city wall.

The fighting started again, and blood flowed like rivers.

At this time, a messenger rushed over and handed a pigeon letter to Li Hui.

"The reinforcements will arrive tomorrow, so be sure to stick to it."

Li Hui was overjoyed, but he didn't spread the news to the whole army. Before the most critical moment in Hongshi City, he planned to block the news first.

In the Tianxiong camp, Zhuo Rilang, the ruler of Tianxiong, was still watching the battle calmly, just like what Li Hui thought. , brought to Tianxiong some of the production techniques of the Xia Kingdom, as well as the advanced combat concepts of the Xia Army. It's not for siege, but I still want to test the power.

Tian Qi was still in the Tianxiong Camp, and before the armament handover was completed, he had already become a de facto "hostage". Freedom of movement in the camp.

Seeing the stalemate on the city wall, and the Tianxiong army's delay in breaking the situation, Zhuo Rilang issued a new order: "Send more buildings, attack the east and west walls, and rush to attack."

Sudden change!

In the Tianxiong camp, several building vehicles and city crash vehicles were slowly rolled out, and nearly ten thousand soldiers each went towards the east and west walls of the city.

Li Hui complained in his heart. So far, the Tianxiong Army's attacks have been concentrated on the south wall, so Li Hui was able to concentrate his forces on the south wall to resist, but the sudden change of formation of the Tianxiong Army caught Li Hui by surprise. The timing of Tianxiong's change of formation was simply too terrible.At the moment, there is a fierce battle on the south wall, and half of the defenders of Redstone City are concentrated here. Now it is very difficult to transfer troops to other places.

"We can't lose this Red Stone City before General Yang Sheng's reinforcements arrive, can we?"

Li Hui fought a cold war, and immediately separated part of the defenders around him to support the east and west walls respectively. At the same time, he spread the news that the reinforcements arrived at dawn to the whole army. Some can't hold on.

Half an hour later, the Tianxiong Army's newly dispatched building vehicles and city crash vehicles had already leaned against the east and west walls of Hongshi City. Li Hui's biggest crisis finally appeared. During the fierce battle on the city wall, the east and west walls were attacked at the same time. Thousands of people climbed up the city wall through the building cars at the same time, and Hongshi City fell into a bitter battle in an instant.

The Tianxiong army rushed up the city wall from all the buildings and vehicles without fear of death. Li Hui was like a firefighter at the moment, leading more than 100 soldiers, back and forth to support the three sections of the city wall, barely maintaining the entire front.

"General, Dongcheng can't hold on anymore."

Hearing the soldiers' shouts, Li Hui looked back and saw a group of Tianxiong soldiers with bare upper body killing wantonly. The defenders on the city were outstretched and showed signs of collapse. The Tianxiong soldiers had already reached the gate tower nearby.Li Hui is very familiar with these Tianxiong soldiers who don't wear armor-running wolf fighters, the best Tianxiong infantry.

"Follow me." Li Hui chopped down a Tianxiong soldier, and headed straight for the East City with his "fire brigade".

When they came to the east wall, it was the limit of the Xia army's desperate resistance. Li Hui arrived at the right time, and immediately fought with the wolf warriors.

The wolf warriors are the new army trained by the Lord Tianxiong in the past ten years. He has been drinking blood in the wild since he was a child. He conducts fighting training every half a month. Ten warriors are put in a room to fight desperately. There is only one out of ten. Being able to walk out of the house alive, it can be said that this team was tempered by stepping on the corpses of countless people of their own.It is precisely because of such cruel training that the warriors of the Wolf Runners no longer have fear and shrinking in their minds. Only killing can make them happy.

Li Hui met a wolf runner, and the beast-like light in the opponent's eyes made him smack his tongue inwardly.The other party didn't talk nonsense, the ghost head knife slashed down, and Li Hui raised the knife to block it. With just one knife, Li Hui's arms went numb and he took a step back.Benlang Lishi has to be reasonable and unforgiving, and a knife is as fast as a knife. Even an experienced veteran like Li Hui can only be tired of coping.Seeing this, Xia Jun hurriedly shot with his crossbow, "Pfft", three crossbow arrows hit the wolf runner's stomach and arm, but it didn't affect his attack speed at all. These people have already been immune to all pain .

Seeing this, Li Hui hurriedly greeted his subordinates, "Bring fire oil."

Four or five cans of kerosene drew an arc in the air, and fell to pieces under the feet of the wolf runner, and the kerosene in the cans flowed all over the ground.Immediately afterwards, several torches followed the same trajectory and were thrown on the ground full of kerosene.

The sky was full of flames, and the bodies of the wolf warriors in the field were ignited one after another, like that hell.

Even so, there were still some wolf-running fighters who did not forget to hug the soldiers of the Xia army around them and fell to the city wall together, screaming on and off the city.

Li Hui hurriedly commanded his soldiers to join the battle on the other two sections of the city wall with kerosene, and barely turned the tide of battle back.The soldiers of Tianxiong were also made of flesh and blood, so how could they resist the raging fire.

The call to retreat was heard from Tianxiong's camp, and the thousands of remaining Tianxiong soldiers on the city wall all retreated in a short time as if they had been pardoned.

Li Hui looked up and saw that the walls of Hongshi City could no longer be described as tragic, full of broken arms and charred corpses.This fierce battle lasted from morning to afternoon. Although the defenders of Hongshi City killed more than [-] Tianxiong soldiers, their own casualties reached [-]. If it was not for the use of kerosene and bows and arrows, the city would have been destroyed long ago.Although the Tianxiong Army retreated, Li Hui did not dare to be careless. He dragged his saber, which was about to break, and directed the soldiers to clean up the battlefield. Went to Gexin to report the situation.On a residential house in the city, a falcon flapped its wings and flew towards the north against the red sun that was about to set on the western mountain.

"It turns out that Master Yuange Qingying is still in this city."

Li Hui thought to himself.

"Great lord, the Xia people used the will-o'-the-wisp fire to burn many of our warriors to death, including your Benlang. It's too miserable, woo woo woo."

In the Tianxiong camp, a Tianxiong general with a shoulder injury was crying to Zhuo Rilang.

"Okay, Li Biqi, don't cry like a woman here, it will only make you more stupid, and you won't be able to bring back the dead warriors." Zhuo Rilang interrupted him impatiently, Frowning.

"Xia Jun's reinforcements should be here soon, Li Biqi, I will give you another chance to lead your troops to monitor Xia Jun's reinforcements for me, if there is another mistake, I will cut off your tongue and feed you An eagle on the snow field." Zhuo Rilang's voice was very soft, but it was full of unquestionable majesty, and when he heard the king's words, he ignored his injuries and crawled out of the big tent.

Zhuo Rilang looked at Tianqi with piercing eyes: "The ordnance will arrive at the camp tonight, and I guess Xia Guo's reinforcements will also arrive. If nothing can be done tomorrow, I will withdraw my troops."

Tian Qi nodded. Originally, Zhuo Rilang's primary goal this time was not to capture Red Stone City. If too many troops were lost here, it would have a great impact on next year's plan.

Through the curtain of the large tent, Zhuo Rilang looked at the camp where tens of thousands of people gathered, frowning.In this attack on Redstone City, the soldiers he painstakingly prepared and trained really caused great trouble for Xia Jun, and even almost broke through the city wall several times.However, Xia Jun's equipment and tactics were as strong as ever. There were only 5000 people in this small town, but they blocked him for two days.

The gap is still huge.

Thinking of this, Zhuo Rilang said to Tianqi again: "Young man, I want your Xia Guo's will-o'-the-wisp formula."

Tian Qi knew what Zhuo Rilang meant, he wanted Xia Jun's kind of instant kerosene. Although Tian Qi didn't know about it, a fool could think that the kerosene formula must be Xia Jun's secret.

"Okay, I will get the formula of fire oil for the lord."

Tianxiong Kingdom is very critical to Tianyuandao's plan, Tianqi decided to agree to it first, as to whether it can be done, it depends on the master's will.

"Very good, young man, if you do this, Tianxiong Kingdom will always reserve a place for you." Hearing Zhuo Rilang's wooing, Tian Qi wanted to laugh in his heart, but thanked him with a serious expression on his face.

"Great lord, your guards are back." An officer came in at this moment to report.

Zhang Xiaoding is slowly entering the Tianxiong camp with the convoy.

On the way from the canyon, Tianxiong King's guards kept urging the horse bandits to hurry, and even killed dozens of uncooperative horse bandits on the spot, and finally made the whole convoy arrive at Tianxiong camp at dinner time.

The Tianxiong Kingdom camp had long prepared a huge open space to store these stolen ordnance, and the horse bandits skillfully drove the carts to the designated place, and then they were locked in tents next to them.

Zhang Xiaoding also brought his 100 scouts into the tents of the horse bandits. About [-] people were stuffed into each tent. Tianxiong soldiers came and each of them gave a large piece of horse meat and a pot of water. Gobbled it up, and there was a lot of noise in the tent.

While eating, Zhang Xiaoding observed the Tianxiong camp through the tent. At this time, he saw a large group of people guarding a tall Tianxiong man who walked into the middle of the cart. This person should be Zhuo Rilang, the leader of the Tianxiong Kingdom. The strange thing is that beside Zhuo Rilang there is a young man who is about the same age as him, who is actually dressed as a man from Xia Guo.

Who is he?
Zhang Xiaoding looked at the young man from a distance, with murderous intent on his face.

　Classmate Xiaoding's life is hanging by a thread, and he is spinning back and forth before the gate of hell.If you want to know what happened next, we will break it down in the next chapter.

　　
　
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