After Jia Huan, Mo Da, Mo Er and other seven people hid themselves, within a quarter of an hour they heard chaotic and dense footsteps coming from the foot of the mountain.
Apparently, the Jin army was already chasing him.
Mo Da, Mo Er and other six people were so frightened that they did not dare to move or even take a breath.
Only Jia Huan, until now, was still looking at the path up the mountain with great interest.
The sound of footsteps became clearer and audible, and after a while, the figures of Jin Army soldiers appeared in Jia Huan's sight.
These people rushed to the top of the mountain in a hurry, but their presence was not discovered.
He didn't even bother to look over here.
In fact, there is not much time left for them.
After catching the group of big summer rats who set fire to the front, they were about to evacuate immediately.
If they don't evacuate, they will be in danger.
It took a full quarter of an hour for the three thousand golden troops to pass through them.
After everyone passed by, and after waiting for a while until the footsteps gradually became less audible, Jia Huan called out all the people.
"They have all rushed up, now we can set fire!"
"Yes, sir."
Next, the seven of them quickly took out another sealed iron box from the package.
Next, they wrapped their hands with cloth and carefully sprinkled some white powder on the grass and trees in front of them.
Then they lit torches and started setting fires.
It was autumn now, and the ground was covered with a thick layer of golden fallen leaves.
These fallen leaves are not yet dry, so they are not easily ignited.
But because they had sprinkled the white powder beforehand, it quickly started to burn.
In fact, those white powders were phosphorus powder that Jia Huan asked the Mo family to collect.
The ignition point of phosphorus is extremely low. With these phosphorus powder, dead leaves can easily burn.
And when the yellow leaves on the ground started to burn, the spark quickly turned into a prairie fire.
Spread quickly to the top of the mountain.
Of course, the fire not only spreads up the mountain, but also burns downward.
But the downward spread is much slower than the upward spread.
Jia Huan led several people and hurried down.
But naturally they won't run to the foot of the mountain. There will definitely be a large group of Jin troops at the foot of the mountain. Running down to the foot of the mountain is the way to die.
Jia Huan had already checked the topographic map of Yanshan Mountain and knew that there was a small and medium-sized pool below. They could just go to the pool to take shelter.
Not long after, they came to the waterhole. When the fire was about to spread, the seven people quickly dived into the water.
The fire was so intense that even when they were hiding in the water, their heads exposed above the water could feel the burning sensation.
Next, they once again took out the prepared bamboo tube with a hole in the middle, and then immersed their entire heads into the pool.
Let's talk about Yeluqi and other three thousand gold troops who were chasing the Xia army. They were about to climb to the top of the mountain, and they could even vaguely see the figure of the Xia army in front of them.
They grew more excited and cautious.
Needless to say, they were excited because they were about to catch these rats.
As for caution, because there is a cliff ahead, these rats from Daxia have no way to escape.
(The author has never been to the terrain of Yanshan Mountain. Even the name of Yanshan Mountain and the distance from the capital came from Baidu. If there is any discrepancy with the actual terrain, it is purely fictitious. Please forgive me.)
They have to be careful of these rats and dogs jumping over the wall. For example, they will occupy a high place and roll rocks down or shoot arrows and so on.
However, what they worried about did not happen.
General Jia and others are hiding on the mountainside. They are also afraid of accidentally injuring General Jia.
Furthermore, these people were already dead in their eyes, so there was no need to take action.
They could faintly see that the Daxia soldiers were quickly putting on something.
The distance between them further shortened, and soon they discovered that each of these Daxia soldiers was wearing a very strange thing.
The lower part is tied around the waist with a cloth cover, and there are seven or eight ropes tied to the belt around the front and back. The upper part is made of unknown materials, and it looks like the same thing when enlarged.
Well, these things are naturally the most primitive parachutes that Jia Huan ordered the Mo family to make in advance.
In fact, the prototype of the parachute has been around a long time ago.
There is a record of the application of the parachute principle in the "Historical Records of the Five Emperors" written in the Western Han Dynasty in 100 BC.
In ancient times, a man named Shun once climbed to the top of a granary. Gusou lit a fire from below. Shun used two bamboo hats to jump down from the top and was not burned to death. This is the earliest application of the parachute principle by humans.
These principles are not complicated, but the parachute has not been tested in actual combat.
Jia Huan also didn't know whether these parachutes were really practical.
Jumping off a cliff with a parachute is basically gambling with your own life.
That's why Jia Huan chose to stay on the mountainside and set fire instead of rushing up the cliff and parachuting to escape.
Because he is afraid of death...
Next, all 360 East Palace guards put on their parachutes, and then, led by Zuo Lang General Zhang Shan, they jumped off the cliff one after another.
After the Jin army rushed up, they were shocked to find more than 300 Daxia soldiers, all floating in the air.
Occasionally, a few unlucky ones would hit the cliff, or their parachutes would be cut by branches and fall.
Most people were actually unscathed.
This made the three thousand Jin Army soldiers extremely angry.
They all took out their bows and arrows to shoot.
However, under the influence of the west wind, they had already deviated from the cliff by a considerable distance, at least several hundred meters away.
The arrows they shot were beyond the reach of the whip, and there was nothing they could do.
They could only sigh in vain at Xia Jun's figure in mid-air.
At this moment, a Jin Army soldier suddenly discovered something fishy.
He pointed in horror at the mountainside and shouted: "Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!"
Fortunately, there are no time travelers among this group of golden soldiers, otherwise someone might start singing: You are my little apple.
As soon as this golden soldier shouted, more and more golden soldiers started to look back.
Then, to his horror, he discovered that the mountainside was on fire.
At this time, the raging flames have gradually reached the sky!
Their path was cut off!
They never expected that this group of Daxia soldiers had not only prepared things to jump off the cliff for a long time, but also secretly hid their manpower and set fire to the mountainside!
The speed of the fire spreading was really too fast.
I'm afraid it won't be long before the fire reaches the top of the mountain, and by then, all of them will be buried in the sea of fire.
At this time, all the three thousand gold troops looked desperate.
Some people were so frightened that their legs trembled, some were so frightened that they burst into tears, and some even screamed, and the scene suddenly became a mess.
At this time, their general Yeluqi said angrily: "Shut up, everyone! Quick! Light the fire! Light the fire! Light the fire!" (End of Chapter)
