The sky seemed to have been washed, black and blue.

A bright moon rises in the night sky shrouded by light clouds. It is round and crystal clear like a huge night pearl surrounded by clouds. Its silky silver glow gives the surrounding clouds a magnificent halo. The clouds move and the moon moves away.

, the surrounding halo also changes with the clouds, and the wonderful colors are like a dream.

A few silver stars are dotted around, and the bright moonlight shines on the water. The moonlight is like water, and the shadows are silent on the wall.

Zhu Biao stood by the water, looking up at the night sky and the bright moon, but there was no elegance and joy in admiring the moon in his heart.

——There are dozens of junctures in the Great Wall of Zhao State. Where will Uwetuo get out?

Since he left Yanxi, he has lost contact with the Northern Han Dynasty, and at the same time, the news channel with Zhao Jun has not been established. He has completely cast a shadow on the current domestic situation of Zhao State. It is not easy to judge!

There are three routes between east and west, each route is possible, and each route also has its reasons.

Although the Zhao State is very powerful, with no less than 500,000 troops and more than 100,000 cavalry, these troops must be stationed along the two thousand miles of the border and stationed in more than 200 counties across the country.

Yes, the only ones who could spare their hands to deal with the Uwei cavalry army were the 100,000 cavalry troops who surrounded them from east to west, south and north in the Battle of Xiyu River.

After Uweituo broke through the encirclement, the infantry could not keep up with the cavalry. The flat land of Zhao State was the fertile wilderness for Uweituo to gallop. Zhao State encountered the same difficulties as the Northern Han Dynasty, but its luck was not as good as that of the Northern Han Dynasty. Because

There are many mountains and rivers in the Northern Han Dynasty, but Zhao State is an endless wilderness!

The dangers of mountains and rivers have never been matched by the Zhao State. Otherwise, the Zhao State would not have repaired the two thousand-mile long dragon in the north for thousands of years.

…

…

In mid-May, a cavalry force of 25,000 to 6,000 troops arrived at Feixian Pass.

Uweituo stared at the pass not far away with sharp eyes. This was the last pass for them to escape from the prison. As long as they could break out of Feixian Pass, the world would be dominated by barbarians!

For this reason, he spent more than a month toiling in the north and south of Zhao State. Using the speed of the cavalry, he made continuous assaults and assaults, committing a heinous debt of blood and leaving ruins all over the ground!

Galloping hundreds of miles at night, charging under starry night, more than 70% of the 100,000 war horses that entered the Zhao Kingdom were broken, and the number of men with three horses dropped to two horses per man now. A large part of them were obtained from the Zhao people.

Captured. Marching three hundred miles a day has become a daily routine!

Everyone has become much thinner. Even Uwetuo's plump cheeks have lost weight, but in exchange - Zhao Jun's cavalry was destroyed by him one by one, and Zhao Jun's infantry were destroyed during the march.

He defeated and even killed them one by one. Compared with the pressure given by Zhu Biao in the Northern Han Dynasty, Uwetuo, who had hardly fought against Zhao Jun, said that it was easy to defeat Zhao Jun.

Now, more than 100 to 200 thousand Zhao troops were thrown behind him by three to four hundred miles. His entire army reached the Feixian Pass. Whether he can compete for the full merit depends on his performance!

"Your Majesty, if you want to take Feixian Pass, you must first take Hutouling. But if the Zhao army cannot get out of the mountain, what should we do with our exhausted army?" Hu Jietan's face looked ashen, as if he hadn't been there for several months.

It looked like a washed car, covered with a layer of dust.

Hutou Ridge is four miles behind and to the right of Feixian Pass. It is no more than a hundred feet high. But it is the key point that Hu Qi must take before attacking Feixian Pass. Otherwise, Hu Qi who goes straight to Feixian Pass must be vigilant at all times.

A knife stuck in Hutou Ridge.

"Don't come down? Burn the mountain!" Wuweituo had a sneer on his face. Since he had chosen to fight out of Feixian Pass, how could he not know about Hutouling? He had already made up his mind.

"Burn the mountain?" The generals were stunned when they heard this.

Uwetuo narrowed his eyes slightly and looked ahead proudly. He said: "Although it is no longer the dry season in summer and autumn, Hutou Ridge is where the trees are lush. All you need to do is light a fire and there is an east wind.

"Send it, are you afraid that the mountain won't burn? Besides, even if it doesn't burn, the king can still pour oil on it!"

Hu Jie Tan, Hu Lulu Men and other generals suddenly realized that they were waiting here. No wonder the king asked the sergeants to pay attention to the grease three days ago. They were really prepared for a rainy day!

"This is a good idea. I'm just... afraid that Zhao Jun has been promoted!"

Uwetuo was not completely sure about this, and he was also worried about this: "You will know if it succeeds or not once you try it. Moreover, Hutou Ridge is not the place where the Zhao army's soldiers and horses are permanently stationed. On weekdays, there are only a hundred people in the mountain. Now the Zhao army's soldiers are stationed there.

It's already troublesome enough to build barracks, but how can we have time to cut down trees?"

"Even if you can't burn it with fire, you can still smoke it!"

Uweituo glanced in the direction of Hutou Ridge a few more times, then withdrew his gaze and continued to look at the Feixian Pass in front of him.

Soon this hill will become a huge mountain of flames, but I don’t know how many people will be burned to death. But as long as they are not barbarians, it will be fine! After more than ten years of fighting on the battlefield, Uwetuo has never seen or done anything bloody.

Pass?

Not to mention anything else, but on the way down from the Northern Han Dynasty, there were already millions of living beings under his command. Those who were cruel and ruthless were talking about people like him.

The people of the Central Plains have a saying that water and fire are merciless! Killing too much is against the harmony of nature and will shorten your lifespan. Uwetuo doesn't care at all.

It's night, and there's another bright moon hanging high in the sky.

Che Ganqian hurried over and reported to Wuweituo: "Your Majesty, everyone under Hutou Ridge is ready. Do you want to launch an attack immediately?"

After hearing this, Uwetuo looked up at the sky. The moonlight was clear. He stretched out his hand to feel the east wind that was still blowing, and said to Che Gangan: "It's almost time, tell them to take action!"

It was midnight at this time, and Uwetuo's subordinate Hu Qi spent an afternoon making preparations, and now he is fully prepared!

"Target, halfway up the mountain, prepare the trebuchets!" A silver-ringed general glanced at Hutou Ridge in the dark night, with thirteen extremely crude trebuchets driving in a row behind him, and gave instructions to the left and right, "

put!"

With this order, the sound of trebuchets continued to sound from left and right, and oil tanks flew towards Hutou Ridge in the darkness.

Although these trebuchets lag behind the Thunderbolt Cars by an era, even the throwing is manually pulled, instead of having a counterweight box like the Thunderbolt Carts. The range is short, the power is low, the accuracy is low, and the personnel configuration is large.

It can be said that it is useless. But it is simple to make, isn't it? Moreover, no matter how bad a trebuchet is, it can shoot farther than an ordinary crossbow, and the force of the shot is greater.

In the darkness, Uwetuo couldn't see clearly where the oil tanks had landed. However, as long as they landed on Hutou Ridge, that was it.

Yinhuan General Hu couldn't control that much anymore. After ten rounds of projection, a simple trebuchet was damaged. So he continued to give the order: "Light the fire pot and continue throwing!"

When the voice fell, it was dark before. The trebuchet position, illuminated only by the moonlight, lit up with fire. There were torches and bonfires!

The orders from left and right came one after another. A series of orders were passed on. Some of the sealed oil cans that had been installed on the net bags were removed one after another and replaced with cupping cans with coarse cloth seals and the cloth strips could be easily caught.

After ten rounds of projection, more than a hundred oil cans have been thrown on Hutou Ridge. Although the accuracy of the trebuchet cannot be trusted, no matter how big the error is, it can never surpass the mountain forest facing the trebuchet array.

?Nowadays, if you use a cupping pot to throw it, you will always be like a blind cat hitting a dead mouse.

By then a fire will be burning!

Uwetuo watched more than a dozen fire pots rising into the sky. He knew in his heart that his plan had been exposed. The next step would depend on the blessing of the Changsheng Heaven...

He put his hands on his forehead and prayed devoutly to the God he believed in!

At this moment, General Hu of Yinhuan felt that these fire pots were flying too slowly. He really wished that these fire pots would fall down immediately. The Hutouling Mountain would be burning immediately. However, no matter how slow the fire pots flew, there would still be a time when they would arrive.

.

I saw more than ten cupping jars falling halfway down the mountainside. At first, there was no trace of them, but in an instant, a faint light of fire lit up from down the mountainside.

Hutou Ridge is full of mountains and forests. The cupping jars must have landed under the tree canopy first when they flew. This situation is normal, anyway. General Hu of Yinhuan looked at it and found that none of the cupping jars in the first round hit the trunk of the tree.

A single spark can start a prairie fire! Besides, someone poured oil on the fire, and soon the fire lit up the dark night sky, and the entire mountainside of Hutou Ridge became a sea of ​​flames.

Uwetuo was overjoyed when he saw this, and prayed to the Immortal God even more devoutly.

Hu Qi at the foot of Hutou Ridge could already hear the shouts of Zhao Jun on the mountain. Presumably they had already reacted. General Hu in Yinhuan was afraid that he would be delayed for a moment, so he asked Zhao soldiers to put out the fire, and then urged the soldiers to throw stones.

The machine shot faster. Countless oil tanks rose into the sky from the foot of the mountain and flew away into the sea of ​​​​fire on the mountainside.

The east wind was blowing hard, and the fire was blown by the wind, and it became uncontrollable in less than a quarter of an hour.

After a while, I saw that the fire on Hutou Ridge was soaring into the sky. The fire had burned from the mountainside to the top of the mountain, and the fire was twice as big as before.

At this time, Zhao soldiers had already rushed down from the mountain. Uwetuo looked from a distance and saw a general leading thousands of remaining soldiers to rush down from the mountain, trying to escape the sea of ​​fire. At this time, the fire reflected the surroundings like daylight.

You can see the Huqi clearly from a distance. Without Uwetuo's orders, a Huqi rushed forward, bows bent and waiting!

Hutou Ridge was no longer a topic, and Wuweituo's attention turned to Feixian Pass. I wonder if the Zhao army in Feixian Pass, after seeing the changes in Hutou Ridge, would come out to respond.

?

But he said this is Feixian Pass.

The guarding general's surname is Zhao, his surname is Guo, and his double name is Dezhao. But Zhao Dezhao is not a member of the royal family like Zhao Lian, and he does not have hundreds of thousands of troops like Zhao Lian. His total force at Feixianguan is only 12,000

Get ahead.

Relying on the difficulty of Feixian Pass, 12,000 troops could sustain for several days against 100,000 Hu cavalry. This was enough for Zhao to mobilize troops for reinforcements.

But this time Hu Qi came too fast and from behind.

It must be clear that the enemies of Feixian Pass are Hu Qi, the Hu Qi outside the Great Wall. The main defensive measures of Guancheng are aimed at the outside of the Great Wall. On the inside, although there are the same high wall crenels, there are not many decent horse faces.

Dishes.

Moreover, when Zhao Dezhao received the news that Hu Qichong was coming to kill him, it was already too late to ask for troops. He had to order his deputy general to lead 3,000 troops into Hutou Ridge. He thought very clearly that he did not need to defeat Hu Qichong, as long as he could keep Fei

If the immortal pass is not lost, within three days, the army will surround Hu Qi from behind.

However, a fire, a sudden fire on Hutou Ridge, caused Zhao Dezhao to lose his beloved general, and at the same time, three thousand elite soldiers were also destroyed.

Fragrant, really fragrant.

The food and treatment for the soldiers at the border were good, and they often had meat to eat. But even when the imperial court rewarded the troops during the New Year, the aroma of cooking meat and barbecue in the city was far inferior to that at this moment.

The usually mouth-watering aroma filled the sky above Feixianguan.

However, not one of the defenders at Feixian Pass and the soldiers and civilians in the city showed a trace of salivation at this time. Some were just endless vomiting and disgust, as well as anger and fear!

The fire was extinguished on the south wall...
To be continued...