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"Boom boom boom boom--"

A series of low roars came, which surprised Liang Hong and others. They also felt very strange at this time because this was not in their plan.

Originally, Liang Hong's plan was to use his group of people to lead Zhang Rui into the Hulu Valley, and then he led a bandit army of 3,000 people, relying on the bottom of the valley, relying on the masters such as Ren Yingying, Lan Fenghuang, Tian Boguang, etc. to block the offensive of the government army. Later, the bandit army that was ambushed at the entrance of the valley in advance lit a fire, cut off the retreat of the government army. Then, the bandit army that was ambushed on the ridges on both sides used a catapult to throw the government army in the valley, and slowly bombed the government army to death.

These trenchers were designed by Liang Hong himself. The structure was extremely simple. They were basically a bracket, plus a beam, with a long stick tied to the beam. One end of the stick was a large flat wooden spoon, and the other end was tied with a rope. When operating, first put the things that needed to be thrown in the wooden spoon, and then from one to two people pulled the rope hard, the things were naturally thrown out vigorously. Because the structure of this trencher was very simple, many tools were made on the mountain over the past period of time. After they planned it carefully last night, they secretly transported no less than a hundred trenchers to the peaks on both sides of the Hulu Valley.

Of course, if the catapult only throws stones, its power is still too small, so Liang Hong has already transformed its ammunition and changed the stones into bags.

This bag was designed by Liang Hong himself. Even Liang Hong asked Wang Wensu to buy back saltpeter and other materials. Then, according to his experience, he used appropriate proportions to prepare powder with stronger blasting ability. Then he carefully wrapped these with oil paper and used twists. Then, with this as the core, he wrapped stones, caltrops and other items on the periphery. Then, the whole thing was wrapped in coarse cloth, weighing ten kilograms, which was just suitable for throwing the catapult, and the distance could reach a hundred feet. Then, when the catapult was thrown, just ignite the twists of the pack first and then throw them out.

In this way, Liang Hong has a small close-range howitzer that transcends the era. Once such a thing is formed in the combat scale, its combat power will be extremely terrifying. Moreover, most importantly, this thing is simple in structure and convenient to manufacture. Therefore, this is definitely a powerful weapon in Liang Hong. He originally wanted to wait until Yang Shen's army entered the mountain before exposing this secret weapon, but now because he wanted to destroy Zhang Rui's troops with the smallest sacrifice, he had no choice but to take out the secret weapon first.

It is conceivable that once Liang Hong's plan is successful, the five thousand official troops would be crowded in Hulu Valley, with hundreds of catapults on both sides bombing the official troops in Hulu Valley one after another. Not to mention the five thousand official troops, I am afraid that even 50,000 or 500,000 official troops would not last long.

However, what Liang Hong did not expect was that something happened in the middle of the process. For example, now, because the sound of the explosion of the bag was too loud and powerful, the snow on the surrounding peaks began to crumble.

This situation really surprised Liang Hong because he knew that according to the original plan, as long as they stabilized the front line and clearly separated the official army from the bandit army, the official army would be attacked by fierce artillery fire, and eventually they would be killed or injured, and they would definitely win. But now, the avalanche does not care about the front line or the front line. The heavy snow fell from all sides and filled it directly into the valley. In this way, Liang Hong and the official army would be buried in the snow and die together.

This was obviously an ending that Liang Hong didn't want to see. He originally wanted to lure the official army, but he didn't want to die with the official army. So Liang Hong looked up at both sides and watched the snow cover slide down into the valley. The official army was so shocked that he howled and fled in all directions. The people on his side were also fighting each other. He was stunned, and Liang Hong's heart sank to the bottom of the sea.

There is no other way. Faced with such a large-scale avalanche, any resistance is unnecessary. The only way left is to sit still and wait for death with peace of mind. Leave the power of the ruling to God. Whoever God wants to die will die, no one can escape, and no one can escape.

According to Liang Hong's prediction, the amount of snow brought by such a large avalanche should eventually fill the entire Hulu Valley, which means that everyone will eventually be buried under a layer of snow that is more than ten meters deep. It is conceivable that under such a situation, few people will probably survive.

What should I do?

There is no place to hide. The narrow and long Hulu Valley is five or six miles long. Now the military troops in the valley are obviously divided into two groups. On one side is a 5,000-man official army, occupying nearly three-quarters of the entire valley, while the remaining quarter is occupied by Liang Hong and the others.

After the avalanche began, the officials and soldiers tried their best to retreat backwards, and some people rushed into the blocking fire, trying to rush out of the valley, but in the end they just let out a scream, and were burned to ashes by the raging fire. The flame was ignited with a large amount of tung oil and pine branches. It was difficult to destroy it for a while. It was really a bit too fantasy to try to break through.

However, even so, many officials rushed into the fire like crazy, trying to rush out, because they knew clearly in their hearts that if they could rush out by chance, there might be hope for survival, and if they continued to stay in the valley, they would undoubtedly be dead.

So, in just a moment, the raging fire had swallowed hundreds of people. The bodies of those people were piled up and the fat burned, which made the fire even more intense, making the fire almost a crematorium for officers and soldiers.

Unlike the panic of the officers and soldiers, Liang Hong's side, because they already knew that there was no way out, their mentality calmed down. Everyone subconsciously gathered to the deepest part of the valley. In the end, three thousand people leaned closely together and shrank under a cliff at the bottom of the valley, covering an area of ​​only a football field. Then, at this time, the first avalanche torrent finally rolled down and poured into the valley. The location was exactly in the middle of the valley, which directly separated the official army and the bandit army.

Then, as the first snow flow injected, then the second and third ones continued to flow down from all directions, and the rolling snow flowed, and the valley was almost filled.

However, Liang Hong felt fortunately that since they retreated to the bottom of the valley, there were almost vertical cliffs on both sides, there were indeed some snow blocks falling from their heads, but the real snow flow flowed along the slope at the top of the cliff to the periphery. Therefore, although the entire valley was buried by the snow flow, his place was able to survive alone, and three thousand people eventually suffered no casualties and were all preserved.

The huge avalanche lasted for unknown lengths, until the end of the day, the sky was already slightly shiny, and Liang Hong and the others were buried by thick snow less than ten feet away. Then, at this time, the avalanche completely stopped.

After dawn, everyone walked out of their hiding place, climbed up to the snow peak, and found that the entire valley had been basically filled, and all the officials were buried under the snow layer. Then, Liang Hong and others looked at the scene and felt like they were dreaming. After a moment, they cheered unconsciously. Then they all breathed a sigh of relief, sat down on the snow, breathing heavily, and their gratitude was indescribable.

Tianyou handsome guy, this is definitely Tianyou handsome guy!

Liang Hong opened his eyes and looked around at the white snow layer, and could no longer find any other reasonable explanations.

Such a big avalanche actually buried five thousand officials and did not hurt them at all. How can this be explained? God is helping Liang Hong, and God is on his side.

"Long live, long live—"

At some point, there were waves of crying gradually in the bandit army. Later, someone rushed over and lifted Liang Hong up and threw it into the air, shouting loudly from his mouth.

Obviously, in these people's hearts, they also felt that Liang Hong was too magical. They felt that he had received the protection and recognition of God, and that it was definitely the destiny of heaven. Otherwise, how would you explain this big avalanche? Why did the government army bury and let them go?

In fact, for Liang Hong, this is a very simple truth. Because the terrain is special, the terrain at the bottom of the valley is, there are vertical mountains on both sides, and the snow cannot flow down. Isn’t this a very simple thing? He brought people there because of this reason. This is actually not a god’s will at all, it is just a reflection of his personal wisdom and experience. However, the soldiers who followed him did not think so. They just thought that Liang Hong was the destiny of heaven, so they were excited. They felt that they were following the right person, and they were excited at the moment. They were all excited. On the snow, a ball of heat rushed straight to the sky.

After celebrating for a long time, the crowd finally calmed down. Later, Liang Hong gathered the crowd and checked the situation, but found that his losses in this battle were actually not small. Although not many people were killed by the officers and soldiers, due to the avalanche, the team of catapults originally arranged on the ridges on both sides, including people and tools, were swallowed up by heavy snow, which was considered to have lost an important gunfire support force.

Fortunately, the catapult fleet was easy to form, so Liang Hong was quite acceptable. Then, what they had to do next was to continue to attract fish to the bait and put all the plans into peace so that Yang Shen could be completely defeated.

"Brother Shouren!"

Under the illumination of the rising sun, Liang Hong stood on the hillside, looking at the stacked mountains coldly, and the cloak behind him whistled in the wind.

"I'm here, what are your instructions?" Wang Shouren stepped forward and asked.

"You quickly sent someone to disguise yourself as a defeated soldier from the government army to ask Wei Ying for help, and said that Zhang Rui's five thousand army was trapped in Hulu Valley. If you don't rescue him, the entire army would be wiped out. In addition, you will take another thousand people to Zhang Rui's camp, seize food and grass, and transport it to the deep mountains. Everyone else will set off immediately and go to Sanshanhe to ambush!" Liang Hong said in a deep voice.

"Yes, I'll do it now!" Wang Shouren took the order happily, then turned around and started to arrange things.

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Chapter completed!