Horse on the World

Chapter 731 Wind Rises from Lianshan Island ([-])
Mid night, no moon, thick clouds.On the surface of the sea, the Southern Army Fleet, anchored tens of miles away from Lianshan Island, was brightly lit, reflecting the flames of Lianshan Island. Both tigers stretched out their sharp claws, ready to pounce on their opponents at any time.

From the shadow of the light on one side, dozens of small boats rowed out from the huge fleet without a sound, and each small boat was fully loaded with soldiers.Far away from the place where the lights are reflected, one by one oars stretched into the water, gently scratched the waves, and rushed forward.

Hu Bin glanced at the fleet that was drifting away from him full of nostalgia. After leaving, it will be a farewell forever. No matter whether he succeeds or not, the possibility of his return is extremely low.

Turning his head, he thought hard, the matter has come to this point, so he can only make up his mind, since stretching out the head is a knife, and shrinking the head is also a knife, why not die bravely, if things can really be done, wait until Lianshan Island is broken At this time, they will never erase their own credit, and if they can't get it, their wives, children, and children can still enjoy it.

Hu Bin set off after leaving a suicide note.And Zhong Xiang's farewell words before he left were more like a promise.

I have selected [-] dead soldiers, each of whom is a famous figure in the army. With such a team, success may not be impossible.

In order to avoid the opponent's eyes and ears, the boat traveled extremely slowly. It took several hours before they came to the steepest side of Lianshan Island. Standing under the cliff and looking up, the almost straight cliff made people feel An inexplicable oppression, just as Zhong Xiang said, it has been here for a long time, although the cliff is steep, but it is covered with vines, branched and forked trees grow across it, under the night, it looks like the arm of a devil.

The boat is carefully hidden in some hidden caves under the cliff. These places have been washed by the sea for years and are recessed inward, some as deep as tens of meters.A large number of vines hang down from the cliff, covering these holes tightly, and it is impossible to find them without personally going to the front to investigate carefully.

What we have to do now is to find out if there are any outposts set up by the enemy on the cliff.If there is, the first step must be to pull it out, otherwise everything is empty talk.

"Pershing Pan Hong!" Hu Bin called.

"What orders does General Hu have?" Two stalwart men came up together. This brother of the Pan family came from a Jianghu gang, with outstanding martial arts, he was regarded as the best among this group of people.

"There are still about two hours before dawn, are you sure to climb up?" Hu Bin asked.

The two nodded.

"Okay, the two of you go up first and check the details above. If there are opponents' outposts, you two should lurk down first, and don't touch them for the time being. Wait a day, and then do it after dark. You must clean up quietly. kill them. If not, drop the rope and we'll go up."

"As ordered!"

The two men nodded, stood up, tightened their clothes, slung a long roll of rope over their shoulders, saluted Hu Bin, and turned around.

"Be careful!" Hu Bin said.

"Thank you General for your concern, we understand."

The two walked to the cliff, stretched out their hands and tugged at the vines, tested the firmness of these vines, nodded, stretched out their fists, the two touched, pulled the vines, and climbed up like an ape.

Seeing the two slowly blur and disappear in his eyes, Hu Bin returned to the hiding place, arranged for sentries to be on duty, and then ordered everyone else to go to bed immediately. There was no rest all night, and everyone was tense , if all goes well, the next step is to climb the [-]-meter-high cliff. This is a big test for everyone's physical strength. Without sufficient physical strength, it is impossible to complete.

This job is indeed not something ordinary people can do, and the job of exploring the way first is even more difficult and dangerous. Although there are vine branches on the cliff, let alone night, even in the daytime, how can you clearly distinguish which one is strong? , That one also implies danger, maybe the thickest one you touch, you think it is the best, but when you apply force, you will find that it suddenly falls apart and breaks apart.When you touched the protruding rock with your hand, it collapsed suddenly when you just exerted strength. Even if you reacted quickly and didn't fall, the falling gravel hit you with a bruised nose and a swollen face.

In the first few tens of meters, Pershing and Panhong were relatively smooth, but after reaching a height of 50 meters, it gradually became difficult. Taking advantage of the strength, they had to move sideways on the cliff to find a place to climb up. Without the cover of branches and vines, the rocks were weathered badly after being exposed to the sun and night dew. It will fall off with a splash.

But what made them most uncomfortable was the wind. After climbing tens of meters, the sea breeze became more violent. Even though the two of them were clinging to the cliff, they always felt that they would be blown away by the strong wind at any time.The two had to slow down, took out their short knives, made small holes on the weathered rock wall, and slowly squirmed upwards.

The sky is getting brighter slowly. Unlike inland, the time from dim light to bright light here is very short. When a round of red sun suddenly jumps out from the sea level, it shoots out thousands of golden lights, reflecting on the sea surface. At that time, Pan Xing and Pan Hong were more than ten meters away from the top of the cliff. Hu Bin looked up from under the cliff, and couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat. Swinging like two paper kites, if there is a sentry post on the top of the cliff, if there are soldiers, you only need to probe, and you can see the two people. The two people in the air have no other way to go except to wait to be poked. .

Hu Bin put his hands together and kept praying for the blessings of the gods and Buddhas in the sky.

At this time, the Pan brothers were exhausted. Although there were only ten meters left, the ten meters were like a moat, and their bodies were sore. Every step forward seemed to take away all the strength in their bodies. .

One step at a time, one step at a time, the two of them spent almost an hour on the last ten meters. Finally, Perxing's head poked out from the bottom of the cliff. On the top of the bank, rocks grew up, and weeds half a person's depth blocked their sight. To his great surprise, he didn't see any buildings like sentry towers, nor did he hear any human voices, except for the sound of the wind blowing through the woods.

Pulling the entangled vines with his hands, he tapped the small hole dug out with his toes, and with a whoosh, Perxing rushed out, leaped to the top of the cliff, he immediately fell on the ground, and crawled forward a few times in the grass Stepping aside, weeds were pushed aside, and two eyes were exposed from the gaps in the grass, looking around vigilantly, there was no one around, only not far away, a hare that was looking for food stared at the unexpected visitor with a pair of red eyes, Perxing moved slightly, and the hare slid into the grass without a trace.

Pan Xing heaved a sigh of relief, turned back to the edge of the cliff, but found that Pan Hong hadn't come up yet, poked his head out, but saw his brother's face was flushed red, and he tried his best to wrap the vine around his waist, but he was unable to step out of the cliff. The last step.

Shocked, Pan Xing immediately grabbed onto the vines, and pulled Pan Hong up from the cliff. The moment his feet stepped on the strength, Pan Hong's whole body softened, and he turned his back to the sky. Lying in the grass, breathing the air heavily.

"Brother, I almost fell!" panting, Pan Hong said with lingering fear.

"It finally came up. We were lucky. There was no one up here, and the other party was very secretive. There was no outpost here. Maybe it was because I didn't expect someone to climb up from here!" Perxing said. "Have you calmed down yet?"

"It's almost there!" Pan Hong got up, flexed his wrists, and pulled the rope from his body, "Put it down?"

Perxing nodded, "General Hu said that if there is no one on the top, let them go up by lowering the rope. As long as there is no outpost on the top, and the other side has no patrol boats at sea, how can they find that there are people climbing the hundred-foot cliff on the backside?" ?”

The two tied one end of the rope firmly to the boulder on the top of the cliff, and then let it go down.

Seeing the rope falling from the top of the cliff with a clatter, Hu Bin couldn't help being overjoyed, and said loudly: "Brothers, the Pan brothers have succeeded, now it's our turn, who will go up first?"

With the rope, and there are people on it, the difficulty is of course greatly reduced. Even if two people come out, they still have the rope on their backs, "Let's go up first." Climb the rope and climb forward.

Half an hour later, two more ropes hung down from the top. Hu Bin showed joy, tightened his clothes, and said: "I'll go up this time, listen carefully, the last wave will put our armor and weapons first. Hang up."

As time passed, more and more soldiers climbed up the cliff. Hu Bin stood on the top of the mountain and looked down. On the distant sea, the navy of the Southern Army was launching a new round of attack. Countless soldiers He succeeded in grabbing the beach, rushed to the beach, held a shield, waved a knife and gun, and was rushing forward. In the sky, arrows were raining down, and stones were like flying locusts. Lianshan Island began to mainly attack the soldiers who rushed ashore, which made the Southern Army Some of the main battleships of the Navy were able to sail closer to the shore, firing stone cannons desperately, suppressing the firepower on the shore, and the unique howling sound of the eight-ox crossbow kept coming and going, and the ear-splitting shouts of killing could be heard even here. Clearly.

Hu Bin shook his head. There were too few soldiers who came ashore suddenly, only a thousand or so soldiers. At this time, the soldiers who could run across that section of the beach and avoid the trebuchets, ballistas, etc., could only hide under the breakwater, without climbing tools. , it is impossible to climb up the bare breakwater that is more than ten feet high, and once the follow-up is weak, when these people have to retreat, they will usher in a new round of death threats, and the tens of meters of sandy beach are completely under the attack of the opponent. Below, there is no place to hide.

This style of play is very difficult to break through the opponent's defense, no wonder Zhong Xiang came up with such a note, it seems that he pinned his hopes on himself.Hu Bin smiled wryly, and when he looked back, all his subordinates had already climbed up and put their armor on in a hurry. Zhong Xiang was not stingy about this, as his subordinates were indeed wearing the best armor and the sharpest weapons .

"From now on, everyone treat yourself as a dead person, we have no turning back!" Hu Bin walked to the edge of the cliff, swung his waist knife, cut off the ropes tied to the boulder one by one, and let it fall On the cliff, the faces of the two hundred daredevils all changed color.

"set off!"

(End of this chapter)