Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 158
"This time the attack on Zhenxian City, Governor Liu is the chief general, and I am the deputy general. The chief general supervises all the troops to attack the city from the front, and the deputy general leads the troops to climb the mountain around the path. How can I not go there myself?" Wang Wenzuo raised his arms and let Sang behind him Qiu tightened his belt: "You don't have to worry about me! In the face of the enemy, you and He Bayong are inferior to me!"

"That's what I said, but Governor Liu is also strange, he has to personally supervise the army for such a trivial matter as attacking Zhenxian City, can't he just stay in Sibi City and wait for the good news?"

"Don't you think he doesn't want to?" Wang Wenzuo smiled: "On the surface, he is the governor of Fangzhou, but in fact he is just a death row prisoner waiting to be executed. He offended Li Yifu, the prime minister of the dynasty. If I change him, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep Anwen, dare to stay in Sibi City and wait for the good news?"

"That's true, it's just a pain for you!" Cui Hongdu smiled and shook his head: "By the way, what do you think of that guide? Is it reliable?"

"The Silla people and the Baekje people have fought for hundreds of years, and the two sides have long been bloody feuds. Are you still afraid that they will not work hard?" Wang Wenzuo jumped lightly twice to confirm that the belt was firmly tied, and said with a smile: "You It's better to put more wax on your own bowstring, I'm counting on your magic shot tonight!"

The Silla guide was a tall, thin, middle-aged man, with a piece of black cloth wrapped around his head, wearing a tight leather jacket, with a dagger stuck in his waist, and a long-handled bone in his hand, which could be used as a weapon or as a weapon. Climbing sticks.His bowing posture was quite elegant: "Master Joining the Army, I assure you, I walked this road hundreds of times in the dark when I was young, and nothing would happen to me!"

His confident tone also infected Wang Wenzuo, and he couldn't help smiling: "Very well, what's your name?"

"Golden Ge! The gold of gold, the Ge of Ge Tiao!"

"Very good, I have given you all the 100 people I have with me. If everything goes well, you can be the first to pick the loot. Besides, I will reward you with another twenty bolts of silk!"

"Thank you, sir!" Jin Ge kowtowed, stood up and said, "My first suggestion is that all of you put on hemp shoes and tie them with straw ropes, just like me, the roads on the mountain are slippery, and the roads are slippery. Every ten people are tied together in a string, so that even if someone stumbles, they will not fall into the valley!"

"Very well, everything will be done as you said!" Wang Wenzuo asked, "But if you climb the mountain at night, don't you really need to raise a fire?"

"No need!" Jin Ge looked at the sky: "Tonight must be a good weather, the stars and the moon are enough, just follow my footsteps, there will be no problem!"

Just as Jinge expected, the night was a fine day, and the moonlight shone on the mountain road like jade.At first, this mountain road was much easier than Wang Wenzuo had expected.

The forest was very close to them, stretching out to cover the mountain path, and put up a rustling green roof, which even blocked the moonlight, so that they seemed to be walking in a dark passage.

But the gait of the mule in the haul was steady, without fatigue, and Jin Ge was indeed as he said, his gait was steady. The mountain road was winding and rugged, and a group of people walked slowly along the road and crossed the mountain wall.The thick pine needles spread on the ground like a blanket, and the mule made only the slightest sound when walking on the stone steps, which even gave Wang Wenzuo an illusion of safety, as if he was not a night raid, but a night excursion with his friends.

"Yingchui Ridge is ahead!" Jinge announced, "The rest of the road will be difficult. We need to unload the baggage from the mules. Let's take a rest here, eat something, and set off in a moment!"

Wang Wenzuo sat down cross-legged and spat out the wooden chip he was holding in his mouth. Only then did he feel that his cheeks were numb. The food was dry biscuits and jerky in the pouch, which he cut into small pieces with a knife and swallowed.

Then they packed their bags and set off again under the moonlight. As Jinge reminded earlier, the road ahead was more difficult and dangerous. Not only was the road steeper, but the ground was full of pebbles and rock fragments. The branches cleared the road so that no one could step on it and slip.

"If someone falls here, it will be terrible!" Jinge whispered.

Wang Wenzuo nodded again and again. He could feel the altitude he was at. The trees here were thinning and the wind was getting stronger, pulling his clothes and blowing his hair into his eyes.The mountain road continued to twist and turn, so he could see the Baekje people's fence below, and the Tang army camp below, where the flames were like candle flames.

It wasn't until dawn that Wang Wenzuo stopped. His legs had already lost feeling. With the help of the morning light, he could already clearly see the stone wall of Zhenxian City.

The scale of this mountain city is not large, only one acre in size, with a reinforced tower, a main castle built of wood, and stables, warehouses, and dormitories hidden behind low stone walls.The walls were crudely built, consisting only of large blocks of stone, and without plaster.

Even so, it is close to the mountain, and the situation is large enough to control all the stone steps from the mountain gate to the mountain.If an enemy wants to touch Zhenxian City, he has to climb up from the mountain fence bit by bit, and at the same time he has to bear the flying arrows and falling rocks from the mountain city.

"We don't have a ladder, how can we climb the city?" Wang Wenzuo asked in a low voice.

"There is no need for a ladder!" Jin Ge stretched out his right hand: "Look over there!"

Wang Wenzuo looked in the direction of Jinge's finger, and couldn't help taking a breath. He saw that there was an extremely steep cliff about two arrows away from Zhenxian City. The cliff was almost vertical and went straight to the top of the mountain. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can overlook Zhenxian City.

"You are not a spy of Baekje people, are you?" He Bayong said angrily, "We are not monkeys, how can we climb up!"

"I can climb it!" Jin Ge insisted: "I have climbed many times when I was a child, and I am very familiar with this route!"

"Even if you can climb up, it doesn't mean we can climb up!" He Bayong became more and more angry: "Besides, this place is so close to Zhenxian City, how come there are so many of us climbing up without any movement? If we are discovered, everyone There is only one dead end on the cliff!"

"He Ba, needless to say!" Wang Wenzuo stopped his subordinates, turned around and said to the soldiers behind him, "I don't need to talk about the reward for being the first to ascend, only 20 people are needed, and those who have courage will step forward, and the rest Just wait here!"

After a while, a few people came out from among the soldiers. Wang Wenzuo counted them, and there were only 17 people in total. It is convenient for mountain climbing!"

The people who were about to climb the cliff walked to a boulder beside the cliff, took off their armor and weapons, wrapped them in cowhide and tied them up, then wrapped a roll of thick hemp rope around one shoulder, straddled their chests obliquely, and then Strap on special soft moccasin boots - with protruding iron hooks on the top of the shoes, and they also have climbing iron hooks hanging from their waists.There are four people in each group, and the last group is five people. Wang Wenzuo was about to fight in person, but He Bayong stopped him.

(End of this chapter)