“The sway is as big as an elephant, so don’t go up to the pedestrians;

The storm is as big as a horse, but the Qutang cannot be reached. The storm is as big as a turtle, and the boating in Qutang is as big as a turtle,

The turtle is as big as a turtle, and the Qutang cannot be seen.”

Li Daoyuan of the Southern Dynasty recorded his proverb in "Shui Jing Notes":

——I am the dividing line—

"This is Kuimen, the most dangerous place in the Jiangtian area. It's really the best place to sail. "

In Kuizhou, in the famous Qutang Gorge, Wang Chongba, the right general of the Taiping Naval Army, was also looking at the steep and beautiful gorge in the distance on the watercraft ship, and couldn't help but sigh.

Originally in the ruins and withered to the point of almost population, the vast and cheerful river surface in Guizhou, and the gentle mountains that slant like birds' wings, it suddenly stood up like a tight throat when it was strangled to a certain extreme.

The two sides of the banks are like shredded between Chijia Mountain on the left and Baiyan Mountain on the right, and the rock walls are towering. In the brilliant sunshine, Chijia Mountain is slightly red, and Baiyan Mountain is gray-white, facing each other across the river, one in red and the other is covered with plain, which is a wonder.

The river rushes in the cliffs, looking up at the blue sky, clouds and sky, the deep and deep waters in the gorge are surging, surging and roaring, which is thrilling. On the white-haired mountain walls and feet, there are layers of traces left by a large section of water-rise lines throughout the ages.

The narrowest part of the river is less than a hundred feet, which seems to be the gateway of the river that was born from the mountains. Therefore, it is called Kuimen, which is the gateway of Kuizhou and the throat of Bashu. It is together with Jianmen Pass on the northern land. Since ancient times, it has been known as "there is no more dangerous than Jiange and no more powerful than Kui".

The canyon is as narrow as a corridor, and the cliffs on both sides are steep as city walls. There are also plank roads that are looming, hanging coffins and large and small inscriptions left by famous people and scholars of all dynasties. Du Fu once wrote a poem: "All the waters meet Fuwan, and Qutang compete for a door."

On the mountain wall at the west entrance of Qutang Gorge is the famous Qutang Pass. The city itself is not tall and inconspicuous, but just as the road on the cliff is about to reach, there is a large river flowing under the cliff, and the other is a steep slope and ridges overlapping up.

There is only a long and narrow ancient road winding up along the walls of Chijia Mountain and the edge of the mountain. Through the pass, it leads to the west of the Kuizhou capital - Fengjie Baidi City. More importantly, the natural ship-riding danger on the river surface - Yanqidui, also commonly known as the swallowtail stone, which is the first obstacle to the middle of the Xiajiang Road.

As the saying goes, "Who dares to pass the storm on the edge of Baidi City? In May of Qutang?" (Li Bai, "Jingzhou Song") Now it is August and September, and it is not the season for the largest and most suitable for boating. The top and bottom are washed by the river, which are large and small, like mushrooms, stand on the water like a cluster.

In the cracks of several feet wide, there are still many decayed black ship fragments left and embedded in them, which are the remnants of the victims of adventure boats in the river in previous dynasties; the whistling and waving of the river wind, it is like the sound of the undead of the undead of the past dynasties and whimpers during the wandering.

However, on this relatively stable river surface, several large flat-panel ships with strange shapes were dragging out a faint trail and slowly moving upstream, moving towards the Yanhua pile, which is known as the fate of the boats.

There were also thick long poles and hooks extending out on the bow of the ship; just as the water was rolling, they approached the huge rocks between the rivers and the rivers swirled together; this also attracted the attention of the vaguely gurgling defenders above the city.

"What a weird thing to be good..."

"It's amazing, it's amazing..."

"These big boats have no sailing cables, no paddles, and no one pulls the fibers, so how did they swim up by themselves..."

"What's going on in this situation?.. Is there any movement in the downstream thief army?"

With the responsibility of the town left behind Qutang Pass, Qin Shigong stood up and looked out.

"Don't worry about how much he has, I'll cheer me up and watch out for the defense... Cannon stones, wood, arrows, as long as the thief army dares to come, he will die as much as he wants."

He was ordered to stay in the local area, just to guard against the possible pursuit of these Hunan thieves. For this reason, the governor Song Hao did not hesitate to lose his manners in front of the hall and was negligent, and executed the original general who was born in the local area, who claimed to have made contributions.

You should know that the local 800 government troops relied on this natural danger to block tens of thousands of bandit troops along the river and eventually destroyed them along the coast of the Xiajiang Road. Now he has more than 2,000 local soldiers and horses.

In the dull collision and knocking vibration in the river, Song Deyi, a water ghost team known as the first-class water quality among the Taiping Navy and wearing Eucommia rubber water cover, also woke up in a state of anxiety. In an instant, he quickly climbed up quickly, shaking left and right and trembling, and hitting the pole on the bow;

I saw that he looked like agile and soft, and he was evaporated through the river with long poles and hands and feet. The fog that was evaporated from the river was swelling. He finally carried a thick rope and landed steadily on the edge of the huge rock that was washed by the river.

However, not everyone could climb to the top of the boulder like him; soon someone was beaten by the waves and slid down in the wet pole.

Although someone climbed to the edge of the blue-black Yanshe pile, he slipped down due to the sudden change of the dislocation of heights and lows, and then fell into the vortex next to the boulder, and then disappeared in the ripples.

Until the leash tied back onto the boat from the river, he lost consciousness. In the end, he could stand on the pile of huge rocks like Song Deyi, and only the other two people were left.

Then they kept cooperating with each other, using the tools, ropes and iron cones they brought, and hit several fine steel hooks hard, deeply embedded in the top of the boulder; and then reinforced and connected with thick iron rings dragged from the other end of the boat.

Because the stone roof was particularly slippery, people kept falling to the ground with force, but they quickly got up and continued to work; until the fixed hooks and long poles crawled over again, and joined their fierce labor ranks with various tools.

Until the sky turned dark, the defenders at Qutang Pass were still watching inexplicably, and the dim flames in Jiang's heart continued to fight on the stone roof at night. After this, when the next day, when the Zhenzhao Qin Shigong was called over again, he found that there was a different situation on the river.

The Yanzhe stone in the middle of the three waterways in the middle of the river was exposed as the water level retreated. However, on the top of the gray-black stone, it seemed like a giant beast covered with shackles and saddles. At some point, two thick and long chains across the river were already drawn to the shore.

"Does these thieves want to build bridges on the river?"

Qin Shigong couldn't help but come to a very absurd conclusion. You should know that every year during the flood season, it is suitable for boating. The Yanxi stone here must be submerged underwater.

However, on the third day and the fourth day, it was similar, and the defenders became a little lazy and bored again. They even used the crossbows brought from the city to shoot at the river several times as a deterrent.

The only change was that as the river water retreated further, the strange ships of the thief army also hung many rope ladders and wooden frames for climbing on the edge of the Yankeshi. Also, because of the fog that had not yet faded in the river, a strange ship accidentally hit the edge of the Yankeshi and almost capsized.

However, with the increasingly distinct firelight in the night in Jiangxin, Qin Shigong, who was the commander of the stern, became more and more uneasy, and his originally sparse brows became more and more tight, and there was no good color on the left and right.

He decided not to believe that during this dry season, the thief army spent a lot of effort to get on the Yanshi Rock, just to build a few cableways between the mountain walls on both sides of the river to facilitate crossing the river. Could it be that the ancient story was to build a river-blocking cable at the key points of the exit of Shu to prevent ships from falling from being released from Shu?

The next two days began to rain heavily; and the strange ships working on the middle of the river and the fire at night made him feel a little relieved as the result of disappearance. Finally, he ordered the disbandment of the civilians and equipment that were collected and gathered in Baidi City in Ziyang Mountain several miles away.

On the seventh day, when the river clears again, it is covered and shrouded by the heavy fog all over the mountains and gorges. And the Guancheng, which is also floating in the fog, is as magnificent as the city in the sky, which makes people feel refreshed.

And foggy days like this often last for a day or two to several days, which also means that the enemies on the river cannot continue to do anything.

After a routine tour of the city, Qin Shigong, who was covered in wet and dew, had just changed his clothes and burned them with a carbon bucket, but he was called out by the noise from the soldiers.

"You said you heard the sound of thunder..."

Qin Shigong looked at the old servant in front of him with suspicion, his face wrinkled in a ball but still had swollen eyes.

"It's more than one word... If the town master doesn't believe it, please ask everyone..."

The somewhat vulgar old man hurriedly swears to the sky.

However, Qin Shigong became increasingly suspicious when he looked at the sky gloomy and cloudy but didn't look like it was about to rain.

"You're not so confused about sleeping secretly for a while... you actually alarmed the town master who is in charge of this. Can you afford to be guilty of it?"

A general scolded him with a look of expression.

At this time, a low sound came from the platform at the bottom of the city of Guancheng.

"It seems like it's thunder again..."

"We heard it right..."

"It seems like I'm getting closer this time..."

Qin Shigong's face changed slightly, because he also heard a series of faint trembling sounds similar to thunder, and whispered to the left and right:

"Get your armor and put it on with me..."

Then more shouts rang out one after another.

"The mist in the gorge seems to be dissipating..."

"The fog is getting thinner and thinner..."

"Thunder sounded again..."

"This time the thunder is closer..."

"How could thunder sound on the mountain?"

At this time, as the fog gradually dissipated, the outline of the river, shaped like a green jade belt, was gradually revealed. Qin Shigong felt faintly uncomfortable in his heart, as if he had ignored some key points.

At this moment, someone started shouting again.

"Dwallowtail stone...Dwallowtail stone..."

"The swallowtail stone on the river is gone..."

"Is it because of the long river of the river?"

"It's not Changshui, the river bank is still there, but why is the swallowtail stone gone?"

"Is it because the thief has magic tricks that have moved the giant thing in the river elsewhere with the cover of heavy fog."

"What are you talking nonsense? We have the protection of Baidi, and the Lord of Shu Han shows his saints. How could we let the thief...?"

At this time, Qin Shigong was also stunned by what was revealed on the river, and he was not even in the mood to scold and stop them; because, just where the Yankeshi stones were originally located in the river, not only were the chains and the strange ships across the river disappeared, but even the huge stone itself seemed to disappear without a trace.

Only the flowing green river water is still there, but if you look carefully, you will find that there are still many vague residues of underwater rocks in the clear and thorough river water, which drags out a series of winding water lines that are not very obvious.

Could it be that the strange ships of the thief army really had monster magic to shatter the huge rock in the river, or even transport it to another place? At this moment, even Qin Shigong was a little confused and suspicious, considering whether he needed to go to the Baidi Temple to sacrifice and pray.

Then, there was another shrill sound of slap, accompanied by sporadic screams, and then it quickly came to an abrupt end.

"The thief army has touched the city..."

At the same time, on the other side of the Qutang Pass city wall, the mist that dissipated appeared, and there were groups of Taiping Army soldiers holding short soldiers and carrying crossbows.

They were as light as monkeys on the mountain walls on both sides of the shore. They used ropes and hooks as auxiliary means to push and drag each other up the not-so-high walls, and kept using very accurate medicine arrows to put down the guards behind the posts and bunkers one by one.

And behind them, more shimmering soldiers were like long blue dragons, holding simple long ladders and iron cones to hit the hammer, running around and filling the ancient road by the river.

In the distance, the mountains and forests on the inner side of the road had been cleared and filled out at some point. Behind the objects that looked like big trucks, one after another, burst out from here.

Then it became various buildings behind Guancheng, and the neighing and screaming of people and horses, bursting out one after another.

On the inner platform of the wall, Zhou Ben, another general who jumped down like a divine weapon, was holding a corpse of a general whose head was broken in his hand. He waved his iron bones in his left hand and shouted loudly at the defender who was dispersed in panic.

"Who else, who else will die..."

——I am the dividing line—

Thousands of miles away.

The army led by Wang Xingkong also officially stepped into the Yuguan Pass full of blood, burnt smell and fireworks. I saw the abandoned mess on the ground, and some naked corpses fell on the side of the road without any concealment.

When passing through the market that was spontaneously formed in the pass, there were also noises and shouts in it, and from time to time, groups of men, women, and young people who were dragged and escorted out could be seen; after the men were selected, they were tied up and pushed down on the side of the road and chopped off their heads.

"These are all the remnants of the old dynasty who resisted the righteous army and their families. They have caused many deaths and injuries to brothers; if they are not killed, they are not enough to calm the anger in the army..."

The Rebel Military Academy, who led the way, took the initiative to explain. It was just a corner of the silk clothes exposed under his armor that had some influence on the corresponding persuasion.
Chapter completed!