The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 399
After eating, Jia Min checked the sentry position, went to the surrounding area to familiarize himself with the environment, and got into a sleeping bag to sleep after returning.

Qin Zhong, Ni Er, and Jia Qin took turns sleeping and taking turns on duty.

Xiabeihe is relatively remote here, and there is no good pasture in the seabuckthorn forest.Therefore, those grazing people will not come here.

However, there will still be some herdsmen grazing around here.The most recent time was at noon, less than 400 meters away from this campsite.Fortunately, I didn't stay here for too long, and left in just over half an hour.

This is also the case that the two herdsmen were lucky and did not find this place.If they find out, their lives may be gone.

They never imagined that they were actually turning around before the gate of hell.

Just after four o'clock in the afternoon, the sky suddenly became overcast.Immediately afterwards, it began to rain.

The climate on the grassland is changeable, and it is not surprising that it rains.Sometimes it even snows in August.

But this rain is a bit special, it has been falling continuously, and it is getting bigger and bigger.This is relatively rare in autumn.

The rain didn't stop until six o'clock in the evening.

Because of the rain, it got dark earlier.Therefore, the Fubingtuan set off early, and the rain continued to fall along the way.

The soil on the grassland is black clay.When it rained, the soil became wet, slippery and sticky, and it became much more difficult for the horse to walk.

Because it is cloudy, there is no moon, looking around, it is completely dark, and the visibility is very poor. Sometimes, I have to stop and check the road before moving on.The marching speed also inevitably dropped.

Fortunately, they have all been trained at night and in rain and snow. Although their speed has dropped, they have not stopped moving forward.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, I finally arrived at the destination of this trip: Hongshilazi.

Hongshilazi, as the name suggests, is a cliff.

It's just that the cliff is too long and too high.

It is more than ten miles long and six to seventy meters high.All steep cliffs.

Because people cannot come down from above, this is the place where the Tatars are most negligent in defense.

In other places, every 200 meters, there is a Tatar soldier or a local herdsman who is monitoring Mount Vendura. Once someone is found coming out of the mountain, an early warning signal will be issued, and nearby patrols and garrisons will , will rush over at the first time.

Although there were no clear sentry posts in the cliff area of ​​ten miles or so, there was a team of 30 people stationed on each side.Therefore, in order to reach the joint location, the two Tatar squads must be eliminated first.

It rained continuously that night, and it has not abated until now.

Although the heavy rain brought a lot of inconvenience to the Fubingtuan, it also brought favorable conditions.

The traces of the march along the way were covered up, and the defense of the Tatars was also relaxed.

Where there used to be sentries near Hongshilazi, there are no sentries now.

On the east side of Hongshilazi, there are two yurts, which are the residence of a team of 30 people.

Ni Er took a platoon to touch the past and was responsible for dealing with the enemies there.

Qin Zhong led a platoon and continued to advance, preparing to deal with the 30-man team on the west side of Hongshilazi.

Jia Min, Jia Qin, and Jia Qiao each led a squad, and Gao Dazhuang led a personal team to clean up the Hongshilazi Yanchang Shili area.Search for possible dark sentries and sentries hiding from the rain here.

Half an hour later, the three squads and the guards met in the middle of Hongshilazi.The ground had been cleared, and nothing was found except that two Tartars who had taken shelter from the rain were found and disposed of by the lancers.

Ten minutes later, Ni Er led the team to arrive.The Tatars in the two yurts in the east were asleep. They broke in, and with a meal of short guns, crossbow arrows, and knives, they eliminated all the enemies without any casualties.

According to the original plan, at four o'clock in the morning today, Wei Ruolan and Princess Chang'an will lower a rattan rope from the middle of Hongshilazi, and then those people will descend here to make peace with Jia Min.

After retreating from here, thirty miles away, re-enter the dense forest at the foot of Wendura Mountain, hide for a day during the day, and then return along the same road at night.Arrive at Xiaobeihe Seabuckthorn Forest again to spend the day, and then return to Bukui for another night.

The people of Princess Chang'an have received rope descent training.It is not known whether the prince's bodyguards have undergone rope-drop training.

Jia Min reckoned that they were untrained.So, just follow the plan without training.I specially asked Wei Ruolan and Lichun to come there five days in advance, told them to have some training, and brought salt and some dried meat, and asked them to recover their strength.

If people don't eat salt for a long time, their muscles will become weak. In layman's terms, they just have no energy.Salt was brought to them for this purpose.

Now, Jia Min and the others have arrived at the joint site on time, and are waiting for the rattan rope to be lowered from above.

All the people are waiting anxiously.

"Come on, the rattan cable is down."

Gao Dazhuang was the first to shout.

"It's coming, it's coming down."

More people shouted excitedly.

Although it was still raining heavily, I still couldn't hide my excitement and enthusiasm.

The rattan rope finally landed, which proved that Wei Ruolan and Lichun had successfully found the prince and the others and began to retreat.

The rattan rope is as thick as a wrist and is woven from wild kiwifruit vines in the Windura Mountains.The vines of this wild kiwi are long and soft and can be found everywhere in the Ventura mountains.The woven rattan ropes are very strong and can lower six or seven people at the same time.

Ni Er grabbed the rattan cable, began to shake it for a while, and waited patiently for the reaction from above.After a while, the rattan rope swayed from the mountain.

This proves that the people above already know who is coming from below.

Then the rappelling should begin.

However, after waiting for 10 minutes, there was still no movement above, and no one came down.

Waited another 10 minutes, still nothing.

Qin Zhong came back with his men, and they had successfully wiped out the 30-man team on the west side.As long as the people above come down, they can withdraw immediately.

Ni Er shook the rope twice more, and the upper side also shook the rope, but no one came down.

This situation proves that the person who set up the rattan rope here in advance has already been in place.However, the large force of people has not arrived yet.

An ominous feeling rose in Jia Min's heart.

The prince and the others did not arrive at the cable drop site in time, there must have been an accident.

It has been raining since last night, which may have affected their actions.However, with Wei Ruolan's experience, they will definitely act in advance.In terms of the time to arrive at the cable drop site, redundancy will be reserved to ensure the cable drop on time.

It hasn't come down yet, there is only one possibility, that is, they have encountered a serious accident and cannot arrive here on time.

The biggest possibility is that they encountered the searching Tatars.

The problem doesn't stop there.

On the way back, there was also huge trouble now.

Due to the overnight rain yesterday, the march on the way back became more difficult.

Muddy and slippery is a small matter, and some roads will become swamps is also a small matter, the big thing is the few rivers on the way back.

On the way back, they had to cross Wudaojiang, Sidaojiang, Sandaojiang, and finally Erdaojiang to reach Bukui's control area.

There is no big problem crossing these four rivers in normal times.However, now that it is raining continuously, the water will definitely rise.This will make crossing the river more difficult.

The members of the Fu Corps have all been trained in swimming.However, it is not possible to solve the problem after training.

People can pass, but whether horses can pass is hard to say.Even if the horse passed, these heavy equipment would not be able to pass.

The seal of gunpowder is effective only for rain protection, but once it enters the water, it will be soaked by water and completely ineffective.

Without these firearms and other heavy equipment, once you meet the Tatars, it is tantamount to fighting the enemy with bare hands.

No matter how strong the Fubingtuan's combat effectiveness is, it will be difficult to win in the face of an overwhelmingly superior enemy.

The only result is that when the battle is exhausted, the entire army is wiped out.

At four forty, there was still no movement.Four and ten minutes have passed since the scheduled time.

"Officer Min, what should we do? Go up?"

"No, wait. It's no use going up now."

Jia Min had long thought of going up to respond, but immediately denied this impulse.

Since the prince and the others still have dozens of people and they have not escaped the predicament, it proves that there must be a large number of Tatars and their fighting power is also very strong.

There are fewer people going up here, so it doesn't work, and it is also very laborious to transport those heavy weapons up the mountain.

Even if it is transported up, its effectiveness in the jungle will be greatly reduced.

There are too many people going up, if the Tatars come here, the way back will be cut off.

When they all entered the mountain, they repeated the old ways of the prince and the princess, including themselves and others.The operation was a total failure.

"The chief of the guard is there. We have to have confidence in him. Wait a little longer. If there is no movement at five o'clock, we will cancel this operation and we will retreat."

Jia Min believed that no matter how many Tatars there were, it would not be a problem for Wei Ruolan to escape by herself.

As for the prince and princess, it is estimated that they are in danger, so they can only give up.

My more than a hundred brothers can't wait here to die in vain.He had to get them back alive.

"Look, someone is coming down!"

Jia Qin shouted.

Everyone looked up, and sure enough, someone started to climb down the rattan rope.

Ni Er hurriedly greeted people, took out the rope net, pulled it away, and waited to pick him up.

"Officer Min, your movements are slow and clumsy. It looks like you haven't received much training. It doesn't look like a princess."

Qin Zhong saw the name at a glance.

"Well, at this time, the importance of daily training is revealed."

"Yeah, Chief Min, if it were me, I would be down now. Looking at the official uniform of this guy, he should be a general."

Ni Er is also very discerning, but there is disdain in his tone.

"Hmph, even the generals are so cowardly, so it's no wonder they lost the battle."

In the first batch, six people descended.It took a full ten minutes before the first person fell into the rope net.

When the general was about ten meters away, he couldn't hold on any longer.As soon as the hand was released, it fell down.If it wasn't for the rope net underneath, he wouldn't have fallen to his death, or he would have been disabled.

The ginseng general finally got up and straightened his clothes.However, his clothes were really in a mess, no matter how straight they were, they couldn't be neatly arranged.

"Which of you is Jia Min?"

The general was obviously a little sullen, although his expression was embarrassed, his tone was very arrogant.

"I'm Jia Min, who are you?"

"Why did you come to save us now? Don't care who I am, everything here is under my command, you..."

With a punch, Jia Min directly hit the general in the face, and the guy immediately threw himself on the ground, without saying anything at all.

"A defeated general, what face does he have to command the troops? You idiots are the only ones who can command a fart. Bind him up, and if he is dishonest, he will be shot to death!"

(End of this chapter)