94: Bombardment of Black Mountain Pass

Chapter 94 Bombardment of Black Mountain Pass

Late at night.

In the pitch-black Black Mountain Pass, there wasn't a single idler on the entire street.

There were only patrolling soldiers and night watchmen beating gongs.

As early as two years ago, when the great war broke out between Wu Country and Great Yu, Black Mountain Pass had already implemented a curfew.

After the Hour of Xu, those wandering the streets were either Wu Country soldiers or Great Yu spies!

And tonight was destined to be an extraordinary night.

At the Hour of Chou, when the night watchmen had already rested, more than a dozen figures suddenly darted out from some small alleys.

Their division of labor was clear as they moved toward their respective predetermined directions.

Some people even had dry firewood, sulfur, and other items strapped to their backs, shuttling quickly through the alleys.

What they did not know was that in several surrounding rooms, a large number of fully armed, armored Wu Country soldiers were hiding!

The leader was a man in a green shirt, his folding fan constantly tapping against his other hand.

"Lord Qian, are we still not going to make a move?"

A soldier asked in a low voice, his tone somewhat grim.

The man surnamed Qian shook his head and said, "No rush. Our Wu Country's Feiyan Forest discovered that Xu Mujun will launch a surprise attack on my Black Mountain Pass tonight, having Great Yu spies set fires within Black Mountain Pass. I am quite curious to know what method they will use."

"General Tu'erga has already gathered all his elite soldiers to guard the city walls, just waiting for the Great Yu army to walk right into the trap."

"Hmph!"

The soldier snorted coldly, "Some Great Yu Grand General, isn't he still firmly pinned down by us in Black Mountain Pass?"

"No matter how strong his Xu Mujun's strength is, can he charge into Black Mountain Pass all by himself?"

"My Black Mountain Pass is as solid as a fortress; even if you give him another million troops, he still won't be able to take down my Black Mountain Pass!"

The man surnamed Qian shook his head, but in his heart, he kept pondering how Great Yu planned to launch a stealth attack tonight.

Black Mountain Pass!

That was a majestic city built in a valley of the Yin Mountain, entirely constructed from boulders transported from the Yin Mountain range, mixed with rice glue, making it extremely sturdy.

Unless... digging a tunnel?

He shook his head.

The entire area beneath Black Mountain Pass was a unified whole, being a massive piece of rock. What could Great Yu possibly use to dig?

"There's a fire! There's a fire!"

At this moment, a panicked cry suddenly came from outside the door.

Along with it were numerous figures rushing out of the rooms in a hurry, frantically fetching water to put out the fire.

Those who could remain in Black Mountain Pass now were basically people related to the military, so the fire was quickly controlled.

However, more than a dozen fire spots suddenly appeared all over Black Mountain Pass, waking up almost more than half of the people in Black Mountain City.

The man surnamed Qian immediately stated, "Everyone hold your posts, and do not go out to put out fires at will."

"Understood!"

"Feiyan Forest!"

More than a dozen figures quickly stood out. As Wu Country spies, they were all elites in the Wu Country military.

"Go, capture a few captives, see what trick they are playing, and ideally find out their target for the surprise attack."

"Understood!"

The dozen or so people quickly chased out and soon captured two Great Yu spies who had just set fires.

After a round of severe torture, no useful intelligence was obtained, and the expression of the man surnamed Qian immediately changed.

"They won't talk? Or could it be... they don't know either?"

The man surnamed Qian frowned and said, "Tell General Tu'erga that Great Yu's attack will come very soon. Let everyone hold their posts and not move around blindly."

"Understood!"

"Great Yu spies... what on earth are they doing?"

"Also, from where on earth will Great Yu's attack come?"

"A tunnel? Impossible, the underground is completely integrated, making it fundamentally impossible to dig."

"The peaks on both sides? Also impossible!"

"The mountain roads are rugged and difficult to walk, disadvantageous for a large army to travel together. Moreover, I have built a large number of arrow towers on both sides of the mountain roads. If the Great Yu army dares to come, I will definitely make their entire army annihilated!"

"Then where can they launch an attack...?"

Inside Black Mountain Pass, everyone was waiting for the Great Yu army's surprise attack.

And those dozen or so piles of fires, which risked exposing the identities and even lives of a dozen Great Yu spies, were gradually extinguished.

What everyone didn't notice was that in the direction of the southern side above Black Mountain Pass, giant balloon-like teardrops were slowly drifting over.

Those were... hot air balloons!

Accompanied by the blowing breeze, the clouds and mist were blown away, revealing the ghastly white moonlight.

One by one, huge giant hot air balloons slowly revealed their true appearance.

On one of the hot air balloons, Chen Hongxiu looked at the densely dark city below, at the dozen or so faintly flickering flames, and immediately said, "We have reached above the target, order the attack!"

"Understood!"

The messenger beside her immediately replied, then lit two torches and began waving them in the air.

Flag language.

In the dark night, only torches could be used to communicate.

As for the others, they quickly and cautiously carried out melon-sized Thunderbolt Mines from the wooden frames beside them.

There were about ten people standing on each hot air balloon. Every time they carried out ten Thunderbolt Mines, they pulled out the fuses and casually tossed them down.

These Thunderbolt Mines had been specially prepared; the fuse lengths were lengthened, and the burning time was set to around ten seconds.

Now their distance from Black Mountain Pass was at least three to four hundred meters high, and the shockwave generated by the explosion could not possibly harm them.

In an instant, as many as a thousand Thunderbolt Mines fell one after another from the air, heavily smashing into Black Mountain Pass.

"Boom!"

"Boom, boom boom boom, boom boom...!!!"

Immediately, continuous explosions instantly resounded throughout Black Mountain Pass.

"Boom!"

"Ah!"

"Heavenly Thunder! It's Heavenly Thunder!"

"Rumble!"

"There's an earthquake!"

"Explosion!"

"There are Immortals...!"

"Ah!"

For a time, the sounds of explosions, screams, and collapsing houses instantly came from within Black Mountain Pass.

Looking out into the dark night, there was a violent explosion above the entire Black Mountain Pass, with flames shooting in all directions.

Whether it was the soldiers hiding in the houses or the people patrolling and putting out fires on the streets, all of them were blasted dizzy by this wave after wave of explosions.

Most people were directly blown to pieces by the Thunderbolt Mines, while even more people were heavily pinned down by houses collapsed by the Thunderbolt Mines, screaming as they were smashed into a pulp of flesh.

As for the Feiyan Forest spy organization hidden inside the houses, as well as the Wu Country soldiers stationed on the city walls waiting for the Great Yu army's surprise attack, their losses were even heavier.

The first bombing target aimed at by Chen Hongxiu and the others was the southern city wall of Black Mountain Pass!

Only by blasting down the city wall here could the Great Yu army advance straight in and occupy Black Mountain Pass.

"Boom, boom boom boom, boom boom...!"

Continuous explosions continued to ring out, as if hundreds of thousands of people inside the entire Black Mountain Pass were setting off firecrackers.

And on the southern side of Black Mountain Pass, the Great Yu army, which had been fully prepared, was actually scared to a standstill at this moment.

Especially the twenty-some leading generals, who stared with wide-open mouths, dumbfounded at the distant Black Mountain Pass and the soaring flames.

"Heaven... Heavenly punishment?"

"An Immortal is helping us!"

"Great Yu actually has an Immortal helping us!"

"Such... such a powerful weapon..."

Wu Jun was even so scared that he fell off his horse with a thud, trembling as he knelt on the ground: "Heavenly Thunder descends to the world! Divine Beings! They are all Divine Beings!"

At this moment, he didn't have a shred of the overbearing attitude he displayed in the military tent yesterday.

In front of the crowd, Zhao Tieshan, who had been waiting for a long time, shouted loudly: "What are you waiting for, quickly march towards Black Mountain Pass!"

"A quarter of an hour! The time General Chen and I agreed upon is a quarter of an hour; after a quarter of an hour, the Thunderbolt Mines will stop..."

Xu Mujun immediately flicked his cloak, pointing his longsword far toward the direction of Black Mountain Pass.

"All troops, charge!"

"Rumble...!"

Under Xu Mujun's order, the fifty thousand Longxiang Army instantly mounted their horses and charged toward the direction of Black Mountain Pass.

The remaining troops also dispatched one after another, trampling toward Black Mountain Pass.

At this moment, the morale of the Great Yu army was incomparably high.

With Heavenly Thunder aiding them, they were bound to capture Black Mountain Pass tonight!

At this time inside Black Mountain Pass, some of the Wu Country troops who had been continuously bombed reacted and began looking up at the sky.

After all, Black Mountain Pass was very large, and both sides were mountain slopes. Coupled with inaccurate sights and the hot air balloons constantly moving, there were always places that Chen Hongxiu and the others could not bomb.

"The sky! Look at the sky!"

"What the hell is that thing!"

"There are people up there! They are throwing things down!"

"Heavenly Thunder?!"

"An Immortal?"

"There are Cultivators!"

Inside Black Mountain City, a dark-bearded old man suddenly appeared on top of a house, staring fixedly at the Thunderbolt Mines continuously falling in mid-air.

Yin Mountain Old Ancestor!

"Cultivator Magical Artifact? Sort of, yet not quite?"

"Pass down the order! Call the archers over and shoot down this bunch of ghostly things!"

"We can't, Great General! That ghostly thing is too high; the archers simply cannot reach it!"

Black Mountain Pass was incomparably chaotic, while Yin Mountain Old Ancestor stared fixedly at the hot air balloons constantly shifting in the sky.

His figure flickered, actually transforming into an illusion as he swept toward the left peak.

His entire figure shuttled through the mountain forest at lightning speed like a leopard, quickly sweeping to the top of the mountain forest.

He took a deep breath, his robes fluttering without wind, and then with a single foot tapping the air ahead, his entire body soared into the sky like a giant bird.

In just a few breaths of time, he flew up a hundred meters high!

This height had already reached the flight altitude of the hot air balloons.

His entire figure, resembling a majestic eagle, very easily swept onto a hot air balloon.

"Hmm? Made of animal skin, with people hanging below? The objects in their hands are what cause the explosions? Immortal family Magical Artifact?"

"Someone!"

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

The Shenji Camp soldiers in the basket immediately discovered the figure of Yin Mountain Old Ancestor, but to pack a few more Thunderbolt Mines, they had not carried weapons.

They could only watch helplessly as Yin Mountain Old Ancestor landed and very easily slaughtered the few people inside the basket!

"This thing is what triggered the explosion of Black Mountain Pass?"

He picked up a Thunderbolt Mine and examined it closely, his eyes full of suspicion.

"No Innate Qi fluctuations, just a pure lump of iron? What on earth is this?"

"Hiss, hiss, hiss..."

Suddenly his ears twitched, and he saw a Shenji Camp soldier whose chest had been shattered by him collapsing in the basket, covered in blood, but his eyes were staring fixedly at him.

He was still holding a Thunderbolt Mine in his arms, and his right hand had already snapped the fuse!

For some reason, looking at the rapidly burning fuse, the hairs on Yin Mountain Old Ancestor's back suddenly stood on end.

"Go to hell!"

Yin Mountain Old Ancestor's expression changed drastically, his single foot tapping the ground, and his entire body quickly swept out of the basket.

A few seconds later, the Thunderbolt Mine exploded violently, detonating along with the remaining dozen or so Thunderbolt Mines inside the basket together.

"Boom, boom boom boom, boom boom...!"

In an instant, an incomparably brilliant firework burst into bloom in the sky!

"Damn it! This thing really has tricks to it!"

In mid-air, Yin Mountain Old Ancestor's figure plummeted rapidly, yet he was still gripping a Thunderbolt Mine in his hand.

"If this thing can be sent back to the imperial court, our Wu Country will also..."

At this moment, a flash of saber light suddenly appeared before his eyes, slashing toward his neck with lightning speed.

"Xu Mujun!"

He roared angrily, his figure retreating explosively, while reaching out to grab a strange scimitar resembling a crescent moon into his hand, narrowly blocking this attack.

"Yin Mountain Old Ghost!"

In the darkness, Xu Mujun's figure swiftly swept out, his eyes filled with grim killing intent.

"Previously, you kept hiding in the Yin Mountain, and this old man could do nothing to you. Today, leave your head here!"

"Hmph!"

Yin Mountain Old Ancestor snorted coldly, "Both you and I are Innate; who lives and who dies is not yet certain!"

"Rumble!!"

Right at this moment, an even more violent explosion suddenly rang out, accompanied by the exclamations of countless people.

"The wall has collapsed!"

"The city wall has collapsed!"

"The Great Yu army! The Great Yu army is here!"

"Quickly retreat...!"

"Kill!"

"Trample down Black Mountain Pass!"

"Trample down Black Mountain Pass!"

Yin Mountain Old Ancestor suddenly turned back: "Xu Mujun, you really didn't come alone!"

Xu Mujun held his long saber inverted and said coldly, "Today, this general will let you know that Innate and Innate are different."

"Hundred Battles Blood Fiend Saber!"

"Boom!"

Blood-red Saber Qi burst forth with a bang.

The trees and Hua Cao in the surrounding forest also rapidly withered due to this Evil Qi aura, turning into flying ash.

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