Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

Gao Yijue said: "That's true. I was born in the army of Yancheng. I used to be the Datiguan guarding Beihu Pass. If we want to defeat the bronze-armored soldiers of Jinyang City head-on, we need to have thirty or fifty people like me, otherwise there's no way." When they heard that he was an officer of Yancheng before, they were more convinced.

Huai Xiaomeng said, "Mu Tou's ideas rarely work, so everyone should be careful." Everyone laughed, but Huai Xiaomeng said with a straight face, "I'm telling the truth, why are you laughing?"

Xuan Youzhu dipped his fingers in saliva and combed his beard a few times, saying, "We are trapped in this Jiaoshan Mine. There is no way up the mountain, and there is no way down the mountain. It can be said that we are in a dilemma. For now, we should use wisdom instead of strength. I think that the ambush method proposed by brother Xiaomu is the most appropriate, and I fully agree with it."

After arguing for a while, no one could think of a better solution, so they all said that they should do it this way, and they were all willing to follow the instructions and arrangements of Chu Xiaomu and others.

Huai Xiaomeng pouted his lips to show his disdain.

The plan was decided, and Chu Xiaomu began to assign people.

Yu Aqi made a rough count and found that there were about 470 slaves, of which nearly 400 were young and strong men, and there were 30 to 40 old people and women.

Chu Xiaomu then divided his men into three teams. One team, led by Huai Xiaomeng and Xuan Youzhu, would dig traps and trenches on the road. The other two teams, led by Chu Xiaomu and Yu Aqi and Xuan Ying and Gao Yijue respectively, would move large rocks and ambush on the mountains on both sides of a pass.

In the end, there were only a dozen people left. Xuanying said, "You can go and do the embarrassing thing of ambush by yourselves. I have my own plans." After saying that, he walked to a corner with a knife and sat down, no longer discussing with others.

Chu Xiaomu and Yu Aqi wanted to ask Liu Zang to replace him, but Gao Yijue and others objected loudly. Luo Daxi said, "Brother Liu is good in everything except gambling. His luck is terrible. If he brings bad luck here, it will be a big trouble. He may lose his life if he is not careful."

Yu Aqi smiled and said, "Brother Liu Zang, do you want to make a bet with Brother Daxi about whether it will be good luck or bad luck this time?" Everyone also teased him.

Liu Zang's face flushed red, and he said, "You can bet on my affairs, but I dare not bet on matters concerning everyone's lives. I will just help everyone move and push stones, and I will be satisfied if I can kill one or two bronze-armored soldiers."

Everyone knew that he was addicted to gambling and had bad gambling habits, so they looked down on him. But when they heard him say this, they secretly approved of him. Yu Aqi also kept silent, thinking that they shouldn't make fun of him.

Everyone had no choice but to elect another capable man to lead a team together with Gao Yijue.

As for the extra dozen people, Chu Xiaomu simply asked them to go down the mountain early and hide on both sides of the mountain road along the way. They could see each other from front and back. When they saw a warrior going up the mountain, they would pass the message to the next person, and finally pass the message to Chu Xiaomu and others.

Gao Yijue had served in the Yancheng army before, so he taught the dozen or so people a few simple hand gestures. They only needed to know the number of soldiers going up the mountain.

After everything was arranged, everyone set out immediately. This matter concerned life and death, and no one dared to slack off. It was really different from the usual situation of mining ore, where supervisors would scold and urge them, and often deliberately dawdle and slack off.

It took only an hour or so for Huai Xiaomeng, Xuan Youzhu and his team to dig a trap that was more than 10 feet wide and 30 feet long, and filled it with sharpened wooden stakes. They also took out the thin bed board used for sleeping in the slave house and laid it on the trap. The bed board was short and the trap was wide, and a wooden pillar was used to support it in the middle to prevent people from falling in.

Finally, it was covered with a layer of sand and the rest of the messy soil and rocks were removed, and it became the same as the original appearance of the road. If someone didn't know about it in advance, they would not be able to recognize that there was a trap here.

Chu Xiaomu, Yu Aqi's team and Gao Yijue's team prepared hundreds of thousands of large stones on both sides of the trap. Most of them were diggers and tunnel slaves. They had been engaged in digging mines and mining for months, so they were familiar with digging large stones. In addition, there were many stones in Jiaoshan, so they were ready in an hour.

Xuan Youzhu climbed up the mountain panting, combed his beard with his saliva, stood on the edge of the mountain and looked at the foot of the mountain in the distance, then looked at the young faces beside him such as Chu Xiaomu, Huai Xiaomeng, Yu Aqi, etc. He couldn't help but twirling his beard and smiling, and suddenly recited: "A man is old and the world is far away, but he still has great ambitions in his youth!"

Huai Xiaomeng frowned and said, "Uncle Youzhu, please stop saying those incomprehensible words in a flowery way. It's okay if you talk to us, but why do you talk to those supervisors like that? No wonder they scold and beat you. But you can't change even after being beaten so many times?"

Xuan Youzhu dipped his saliva and combed his beard, saying: "Brother Xiao Meng is absolutely right. I will definitely change my ways. I will definitely change my ways. Just now I saw that you are all in high spirits and vigor. I was so excited that I blurted out, don't blame me, don't blame me..."

Huai Xiaomeng said, "Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything!" After a pause, he couldn't help but say, "Also, don't keep combing your beard with saliva, it's disgusting. I guess most of the beatings you received were because of this!"

Xuan Youzhu sighed and said, "Brother Xiao Meng is absolutely right. I will definitely change my ways. I will definitely change my ways... But this is a bad habit I developed when I was young. The more I try to stop it, the more difficult it is..." Before he finished speaking, he stretched out his finger to wipe the saliva in his mouth.

Huai Xiaomeng grabbed his hands and said, "If you wipe your beard with your saliva in front of me again, I will not be polite. I will burn your beard with fire!" He became anxious and blurted out the vulgar words he had just learned.

Xuan Youzhu said quickly, "No, no, absolutely no. There are three things in my life that I will never give up: my life, my books, and this beard. If Brother Xiao Meng burns it, it would be like burning half of my life."

Huai Xiaomeng shook his hand away and said angrily: "Then stay away from me. If you follow me again, I will beat you up!" Xuan Youzhu had no choice but to walk away.

At this critical moment of life and death, everyone couldn't help laughing when they saw the two people joking around.

Chu Xiaomu suddenly saw a messenger slave hiding in the grass beside the road on another ridge, making gestures towards the mountain, indicating that the enemy was approaching. The gestures were messy, and it seemed that there were quite a few soldiers going up the mountain. He hurriedly ordered everyone to be quiet and wait for the Jinyang City soldiers to enter the trap.

Everyone held their breath and waited. Not long after, they heard the sound of horses neighing and people barking not far away, followed by the sound of people and horses stepping on their feet. The footsteps got louder and closer, and the closer they got, the louder they got, and the hearts of the sentient beings who were lying in ambush on the mountain started pounding.

Whether you live or die today depends on the next battle.