General Wei rode his horse to the side of the carriage. He looked at Wen Jinhe and persuaded: "Princess Che, there is no cover here in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is not suitable for setting up camp. It is still early, so it is not too late to cross the cliff in front and rest."
Wen Jinhe stared at him and said, "General Wei, please immediately send a team of people to take off in a hot air balloon to explore the front to see if there is anything strange ahead."
Wei Ming was startled for a moment. Although they encountered some obstacles along the way, the number of them was not more than a thousand. It could be said that the passage was smooth. However, Princess Che began to feel uneasy.
Wen Jinhe felt helpless when she saw the other party staring at her.
It was too easy to win, so Wei Ming began to relax his vigilance.
Wen Jinhe said in a rough voice: "Usakana took 60,000 troops with him when he escaped from Yuebei City. It is impossible for the Snow Kingdom to have no military strength left at all. We have already reached the door of someone's house, and we have not encountered any obstacles. You Where did those people go?"
Wei Ming answered first: "Guse City."
Wen Jinhe nodded, "Guse City is the imperial capital of the Snow Kingdom and has the largest population. Although we are less than a day's journey from it, you can see that there is not even a single person escaping on this road. Doesn't General Wei find it strange? "
Wei Ming frowned and turned to look at Xi Zhou.
Wen Jinhe closed her eyes and lowered the car curtain. All the heat inside was gone. "If I were Usakana, I wouldn't be able to stay in the ancient city doing nothing and waiting to die."
After Wei Ming thought for a moment, he turned around and left.
Princess Qinbao saw Wen Jinhe lying on the desk and asked, "Second sister-in-law, are you sleepy?"
Wen Jinhe didn't bother to open his eyes, "I was just thinking that thanks to Archer, he must have been very tired before."
Princess Qinbao looked a little confused, why did she mention her second brother so well.
The white hot air balloon takes off. The temperature at high altitude is lower than that on the ground. The cold wind blows, even if you are wearing a down jacket, you are still shivering.
The hands of Qi Heng and others were wrapped in gloves and they held the telescope in their palms. Due to the low temperature, the wood used to make the telescope had not dried since it entered the snowy glaciers.
It's July now, and Nancheng is about to enter a drought, but it's colder than winter here. Everything is white and the snow is extremely thick.
Everyone's exposed eyes scanned the ground carefully and found nothing out of the ordinary.
……
"General Qi, should we go back?" The soldier standing nearby covered his chest with one hand, his mouth trembling as he spoke.
Qi Heng wiped off the water drops on his lenses with his fingers, "Wait a minute." Why is there no one around?
Standing high and looking far away, at a glance, it was a bit too quiet here, "Keep moving forward."
The soldier reminded: "General Qi, after passing the cliff, you will reach Guse City."
Qi Heng shook his head, "There are so many of us, it's impossible for Snow Country not to notice us. Don't worry, fly higher and don't let anyone shoot us."
Falling from a height of several hundred meters is no joke. No matter how good your Qinggong is, you will have to die if you don't.
When the hot air balloon passed the cliff, Qi Heng suddenly said: "Stop."
Everyone was puzzled because they didn't see anyone.
Qi Heng stared at the snowdrifts on the cliff and didn't move his eyes for a long time.
If the army wants to attack Guse City, the fastest way is to pass between the two cliffs at the bottom and arrive at the foot of Guse City.
But no matter how I look at it now, I feel that the snow there seems to be much thicker than elsewhere, and it is not as flat.
The smooth surfaces in other places can reflect sunlight, but it is darker there.
At this moment, the Snow Country soldiers hiding under the snow were extremely panicked.
"Sir, have they discovered us?" A warrior lying next to Usaqi said anxiously.
Why don't they leave?
Wusaqi scolded: "Don't move around, hide your head." His Highness the Crown Prince said that whether he could defend the Snow Kingdom depended on this attack.
When Beidi's army reached the bottom of the cliff, they immediately pushed down the snow accumulated on it and buried them.
It took them several days to transport the surrounding snow here.
Qi Heng picked up his bow and arrow and shot toward the ground.
After the arrow flew out, he picked up his telescope and looked. The snow was too thick, and the arrow disappeared after piercing the snow.
Qi Heng curled his lips and frowned, "No, you have to use gunpowder to blow it up."
Soldier: "General, since entering the Snow Country, the princess has always said to use less gunpowder. There is snow here, and too much movement can easily cause an avalanche."
Qi Heng had doubts in his heart and was always worried, but he did not make his own decision. Instead, he ordered: "Send a signal and let the princess make the decision."
They brought gunpowder on the hot air balloon, but they had to use it with caution.
Red fireworks exploded over the snow.
Since there is no obstruction, the sound of fireworks is particularly clear.
This made the Snow Country soldiers hiding below become increasingly nervous. Have they discovered them and are they sending a signal?
Hearing the sound of fireworks exploding, Man Dong opened the curtains and said, "Princess, these are red fireworks." That direction was over the cliff road.
Wei Ming rode up to the carriage window and said, "Princess, Qi Heng is asking if he can use gunpowder. I'm afraid he feels something is wrong."
Wen Jinhe nodded, "Okay, it's just in time to let the people in Guse City know that we are here. If the Snow Kingdom royal family is willing to abandon the city and surrender in order to protect the people in Guse City, I would not mind leaving their corpses intact."
It was also a red firework signal. After calculating the height, Qi Heng picked up the gunpowder and extended the fuse, otherwise it would explode before it reached the ground.
Wusaqi, who was hiding in the snowdrift, already knew that something was wrong when he heard the explosion of fireworks in the distance. But if he went out now, he would be discovered by the people in the sky immediately, and he would die.
Just as he was about to crawl out of the snowdrift into the distance, a huge explosion sounded not far from him.
It's gunpowder!
Everyone immediately emerged from the snowdrift like rabbits.
Dense black shadows appeared in the sight of the telescope at the same time, which made Qi Heng's eyes light up. Sure enough, there was someone hiding here.
Qi Heng immediately asked someone to throw down another gunpowder.
Snowflakes flew and a second large snow puddle appeared on the ground.
With the previous experience in Yuebei City and Gucheng, the soldiers of the Snow Kingdom fled in the direction of the Western Zhou Dynasty like a goddess scattering flowers.
But what they never expected was that the vibration caused by the gunpowder explosion caused the snow piles they piled on the cliff to begin to slide down.
They themselves were also involved, with snow pressing on their faces and bodies. The strong sense of suffocation made them want to cry out for help, but their mouths were filled with ice and snow.
Qi Heng and others who were on the hot air balloon just watched everyone being swept away by the snow, and the first one fell from the middle of the two cliffs.
This was the first time they saw the power of an avalanche, like a mountain pressing down on them.
The ground shook three times, and the hot air balloon in the sky shook several times.
The army of the Beidi Kingdom far away on the cliff also felt the shock. The army horses were a little impatient and kept trampling the ground with their hooves.
Princess Qinbao panicked and grabbed the carriage wall, "What's this?"
Wen Jinhe looked at the white air rising in the distance and said, "Qi Heng and the others should have used gunpowder to cause the avalanche. They are far away and will not endanger this place."
