Chapter 797 Deadly Flood

Huangting Mountain is not a steep terrain. Both the east and west sides are relatively flat, and the height is not more than 100 feet. As long as you have patience, ordinary people can climb the mountain.

But for the army, it is quite difficult to maintain the formation while climbing the mountain - there are only a few small paths trampled by people in the mountains, and other places are covered with dense plants. Thousands of enemies have to line up and slowly move up.

Looking down from a high place, these seven or eight teams are like prints embedded in the green background, and all their movements are clear at a glance.

And the army of Huiyang City is located in the middle of the three small paths.

That is also the road that can directly threaten the cave.

"Sister Fang, they have entered the border."

"Let's do it."

"That's right, once the enemy enters the cave, it will be difficult to eliminate them..."

Some of the subordinates couldn't help but say.

"Wait a little longer." Gongsun Fang said calmly, "We have been waiting for so long, there is no need to rush for a while."

As the leader of the rebels, she deeply knows the gap in strength between her side and the opponent. If they fight head-on, they don't even have a 10% chance of winning. Therefore, if they want to defeat the opponent, the role of those traps is crucial. Only by inflicting a heavy blow to the enemy in a flash and making the opponent lose the will to fight instantly, can they have the possibility of winning.

So the more people who enter the ambush circle, the better!

After waiting for another three quarters of an hour, when the team in the front row was almost about to leave the strike zone, Gongsun Fang stood up and blew the horn hard-

"Woo woo woo---!"

For a moment, the low sound of the horn resounded throughout the hillside.

The teams on standby in various places took action at the first time.

Gongshu Jin was no exception.

He urged his breath and injected it into the mechanical instruments that had been arranged long ago. The latter's wheels and suspension cables began to operate, driving the fences outward, and behind it was a mountain lake filled with water.

Two or three years ago, this lake was just a pond, formed by natural accumulation of water. But under the leadership of Gongsun Fang, the rebels carried out a series of transformations on the pond, including blocking the drain and artificially raising the height of the dam, so that it rose nearly three feet in just two months, turning from a pond into a lake.

However, Gongsun Fang has not found a suitable way to discharge the flood. After all, it is easy to pile up the soil, but it is another matter to dig it out. She originally wanted to ask someone to go to Shenzhou for help, and even considered saving a large sum of money and directly hiring a Taoist priest of Ze or Gen to complete this last link. Unexpectedly, the appearance of Gongshu Jin helped her solve the release problem in advance.

These fences buried in the water slowly moved outward, slowly but unstoppably, and the piled up mud and stone "dam" cracked and disintegrated little by little until it collapsed completely.

A large amount of lake water rushed out from the crack and rushed down the hillside!

But this is far from all.

The surging torrent looks terrifying, but its lethality is very limited. This is due to the terrain of Huangting Mountain. The gentle slope will quickly disperse the direction of the water flow, and the dense plants at the foot of the mountain will also hinder it. Gongsun Fang does not expect the enemy to be knocked over and it will be difficult to climb up again. As for the target at the foot of the mountain... it is a problem whether this little water can cover their ankles.

So releasing water is just a trigger.

Less than a few dozen breaths after the dam burst, a dense roar came from the mountainside, like thunder shuttling through the woods!

I saw pillars of soil spraying into the sky, as if the whole earth was boiling!

That was the gunpowder buried by the rebels in advance, and it was also the core link of the Huangting Mountain ambush circle. The raw materials for gunpowder were purchased from Baisha Mine, and then ground and mixed according to the chemistry textbook compiled by Jinxia. These granular black gunpowders are not many in number, and it is difficult to directly destroy the enemy, but they can create a loose "landslide area" on the mountainside.

When the water rushed into this area, a wonderful change occurred. The soil blocks only needed a small amount of water to form a highly fluid adhesive body. In this state, the soil can not only slide freely, but also "absorb" the surrounding solids into it, constantly growing itself, which is similar to the effect of a snowball.

The rushing water was quickly absorbed by the loose soil, and drove a large number of stones and trees down. Compared with the previous flood discharge lake water, the lethality is completely on a different level. Even a fist-sized stone, after accumulating enough kinetic energy, can cause fatal blunt force injuries when hitting armor, not to mention those arm-thick trees and large rocks mixed in the surface layer, even compared with the battering rams and rolling stones during the siege.

A man-made mudslide was fully formed in less than a quarter of an hour.

It made a deafening rumble and rushed towards the enemy with overwhelming force. The paths that lacked vegetation and were trampled by humans became natural flood diversion channels.

In fact, when a series of explosions occurred halfway up the mountain, the powerful and the servants had already realized that the situation was not good. Unfortunately, when they saw the mudslide, it was too late to run.

The rocks roared into the climbing team, knocking the people who tried to escape to the ground!

Once hit by a tree or a stone, even if you are not killed on the spot, your bones will be broken and it will be difficult to escape from the range of the mudslide. And this is already a relatively ideal way to die. The unlucky ones will be buried alive after being swept away by the mud and become part of the ecological cycle of Huangting Mountain.

The enemy's encirclement and suppression troops were in chaos!

The powerful families at the foot of the mountain didn't care about the orders of the Privy Council and turned around and ran away immediately.

Even if they didn't lead the escape, they couldn't control their subordinates anymore - anyone who saw this natural disaster would first flee for their lives. In a sense, the overwhelming mudslide was more terrifying than the high-level alchemists of the Privy Council, because at least the latter were still human.

And for the team at the front, they were undoubtedly lucky.

At this location, the pouring torrent had not yet completely dispersed, and the soldiers still had room to hide. Especially in the area near the cave, the raised cave became a natural barrier, which split the mudslide into two like a mainstay, allowing a small number of people to escape the first round of the mudslide.

But this luck was only for a moment.

Gongsun Fang blew another horn at this moment and issued an active attack order.

"Charge!"

"Kill all these beasts and avenge our fellow villagers!"

The main force of the rebel army crawled out of the secret passages and caves dug in advance, holding a variety of weapons and charging at the frightened enemy troops!

This is another torrent that tilts from top to bottom.

And the torrent is composed of the angry people of Liuzhou and the refugees they took in.

Although the Privy Council has never looked at this rural rebel army, at this moment they have proved with their actions that when this long-accumulated anger breaks out, it will be as deadly as a torrent!