Chapter 95 Hands and Feet
On that day, after Xu Yi accepted an extremely difficult solo mission and left, Du Yuanfei, Zheng Guihao and Ren Yayi took on the next garrison mission without hesitation.
"Northern Fortress No. 5, 3 people, mission difficulty: extremely difficult."
Based on the flight time of the Divine City, the three speculated that North Fortress No. 5 was not far away from Xu Yi's North Fortress No. 4, and the two should belong to the same area, and the number of people required was exactly three.
No one was willing to compete with them for the extremely difficult task, so the three of them successfully accepted the task.
During this month, they intercepted and killed several outpost patrols and then stormed the Dongwang outpost, completing the first step of the mission and entering the next stage.
Their next target is also Redwood Town. After all, it is a military training for freshmen, and an extremely difficult task would not be so crazy as to let Xu Yi face a defensive town with over a thousand soldiers alone.
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After climbing down the ladder, Xu Yi discovered a bottomless square pit, dark and unknown where it led to.
There are more than ten pulleys of various sizes hanging in the sky, and thick iron cables and bundles of steel ropes are hanging down tightly, extending into the endless darkness.
The stone wall is smooth, and it should have been formed by a weapons master who is proficient in controlling earth and stone.
There is a long steel pole at the edge of the square pit, and underneath it is a wooden wheel with three scales marked on it, namely zero, fifty, and three thousand.
At present, the long rod position remains at the fifty level.
Without rashly moving the long pole, Xu Yi turned towards the dome-shaped corridor facing the square pit.
After walking a little further, the corridor branched into three forks. Thinking about the locations of the other three camps on the ground, I thought that this must be an underground passage connecting the three camps.
The secret doors found in the other three camps also led to similar scenes, deep pits, long poles, and corridors...
This is a defense system built inside the Wangxi Mountains. The square pit here should be a mechanical lift similar to the elevators in the previous life.
A total of four elevators ensure the rapid transfer of troops between Redwood Town, the sniper cliff with an altitude of 50 meters, and the Wangxi Mountains.
The information given by the two prisoners at Wangxi Ai was still misleading, describing the four elevator exits as backup camps.
Perhaps even they themselves were unaware of the existence of the fortifications inside the mountain. After all, it was difficult for people who were controlled by mental spells such as interrogation to not tell the truth.
Such a grand defensive structure could probably only be easily built by a high-level weapons master who was good at influencing the environment.
Xu Yi thought about it for a while, and asked the flesh and blood butcher who followed him to use local materials and start the wasteland assembly process.
Then he activated a spell scroll [Levitation], and with the finished product assembled by the Flesh and Blood Butcher, he plunged into the dark pit that was probably thousands of meters deep...
As he expected, the four elevators all stopped at the 50-meter floor. Xu Yi walked in the shadows through the gap between the elevator, which was like a square iron cage, and the stone wall, and officially stepped onto this floor.
He quickly arranged the finished product assembled by the Flesh Butcher, and while the levitation technique was still in effect, Xu Yi flew back again.
Only the undead meat shield Hoshgris was left, and Xu Yi led the rest of the people down the mountain along the mountain path, bypassed the ruins of Wangxi Pass, and returned to North Fortress No. 4.
The whole process, including the capture of Wangxi Pass, the ambush of the Yu Division team and the search for hidden information, took a full day and a half. After a short rest, Xu Yi led his team straight to Hongmu Town!
The news of the breach of Wangxi Pass will surely spread soon. By then, Hongmu Town will most likely receive support through the station, and the difficulty of capturing Hongmu Town will be greatly increased.
Besides, his arrangements in the Wangxi Mountains did not allow him to delay any further.
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Hongmu Town is built on the mountain, and in one corner of the town there is a small patch of red li wood. This is a kind of high-quality wood, which is specially used for making short guns for the Eight Banners of the Black Banner Empire.
It is said that someone once wanted to transplant this kind of tree, and it took many years, but they found that only a small piece of land in Hongmu Town was suitable for the growth of this tree. The quality of the Hongmu wood dropped greatly after it was transplanted, which can be said to be like a southern tangerine tree that has been unripe in the north.
However, at this moment, a debate was breaking out in Redwood Town.
"Brother Fang, I'm not being impulsive. My straightforward Junior Brother Tang has only been at Wangxi Pass for two weeks when the news of the pass's fall came out. How can you expect me to remain calm?"
"But as the representative of the Sha Dao Sect here, we are not allowed to leave our post without permission without special circumstances." Fang Chengwang, the weapon master of the Eight Banners Spear Sect, who was called Brother Fang, said seriously with a blank expression.
"Hey, hey, hey." Sighing three times, the swordsman from the Sha Dao Sect who called himself Ling complained irritably: "You gunmen always say the same thing. You have a stupid brain!"
Weapon masters who use spears are generally called gunmen. After being complained about, Fang Chengwang did not get angry at all. He just listened patiently to what the swordsman Ling Yang had to say.
Just then, an urgent message interrupted their argument.
"Report! The Feather Division Camp at Wangxi Mountain has sent out a smoke signal for help."
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Walking out of the two-story house in the center of town, the two looked up and saw, as expected, a small wisp of lingering red smoke floating out from the cliff above their heads.
"Brother Fang, let me go up and take a look!"
"Let me go. You are too emotional to lead the team outside."
After some discussion, the two quickly reached a consensus, and there was no sign of the discord between the two factions that had been rumored.
In the end, Fang Chengwang, who had always appeared to be relatively calm, led the team to go up the mountain via the mountain elevator to check. He led two hundred people, which was the maximum number of people that the four elevators could carry at one time.
To the west of Hongmu Town is the long cliff of Wangxi Mountain Range. Fang Chengwang brought 200 selected weapons divisions to a more remote street, opened a secret door on the rock wall at the end of the street, and entered the fortifications inside the mountain.
The bottom floor of the fortifications also had a connecting corridor dug out like the 50-meter and 3,000-meter floors. After checking the elevators on all four sides along the corridor, Fang Chengwang was sure that the elevators had not been used since the last ambush on the cliff by the elite feather division.
Reassured, he pulled the long pole to lower the elevator, and divided the two hundred people he led into four groups, taking four elevators up the mountain...
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Hoshgris, who stayed behind, released the flare and quickly ran down the mountain, while Xu Yi led the team slowly towards Redwood Town.
It was night, and even though there was a wasteland outside Hongmu Town with excellent visibility, it was difficult to see the team marching in the dark several kilometers away.
Xu Yi secretly calculated the time, and when he felt it was about time, he quickened his pace. There would be a big commotion in a while, and this was a perfect opportunity to launch a surprise attack into Redwood Town.
In another direction, several heavy troop carriers were driving forward in the dark. The outline of Redwood Town appeared vaguely in the field of vision in the darkness.
Suddenly, four loud noises were heard in succession from the belly of Wangxi Mountain in front of us, as if the entire mountain range was shaken...
A rumbling sound was heard from afar, and a pleasant girl's voice rang out: "It might be Xu Yi who is doing it, let's speed up!"
(End of this chapter)