Xiao Yuehan and Shen Keran were planning in the tent. Of course, General Hu and Zhang Cheng were also involved in the layout.

The four of them had been conspiring for quite some time, two hours. It seemed that they had to make it easy to capture the enemy.

The final decision was to go during the day.

Early in the morning of that day, the four men set out with about a hundred imperial guards. Xiao Yuehan's plan for the day was not to ride a horse.

Because General Hu and Zhang Cheng said that this route was not suitable for a large group of horses.

So everyone walked on foot.

Just like that day, it was a winding, narrow path with no other forks.

After walking for a while, General Hu and Zhang Chengcai realized how steep the road was.

It was night, another dark night without moon or stars.

They were leading the horses through here and had no idea that the road was so narrow.

It can only accommodate one horse or one person walking along the wall. If something goes wrong, the abyss on the left will be no joke.

The two looked at each other and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. They had only relied on their own strong abilities that day to pass the test.

It's daytime now, so of course there's no problem.

A hundred or so people walked silently in the mountains. They moved slowly forward along the cliffs.

The mountains on both sides are majestic and gloomy, the peaks are like swords piercing the sky, and the dark pine forests are full of hostility.

It is not as people say today, that the negative oxygen ion levels are very high and there is plenty of oxygen.

Instead, everyone has a feeling of being unable to breathe and feeling very depressed.

Everyone continued to move forward cautiously. Two hours had passed, but this thrilling and narrow path on the cliff seemed endless.

General Hu came to Zhang Cheng along the cliff and asked him, "That day, we walked this section of the road with horses, but I don't think it took us this long."

Zhang Cheng looked around and said, "It was too dark that day and we didn't notice what was happening under our feet.

Today, on this cliff, everyone is walking very carefully, so won't they walk slower?"

"Yes." General Hu nodded slightly. He felt that this was the only road here, and he had been on this road since entering the mountain, and had not encountered any forks in the road. It should be correct.

Today's weather is very good. From the time we set out till now, the sun has been shining brightly. The sky is clear and there is not a single cloud.

As I walked, paying close attention to the people below my feet, I felt that the sun seemed to be covered by dark clouds.

It slowly got darker. This was normal, as the weather in the deep mountains was complex and changeable.

But until a surprised voice woke everyone up: "Everyone look!"

Everyone looked up and saw what was that? It was a dark mass that blocked out the sky above their heads.

Looking closely, I saw clearly that it was actually a group of black birds.

So I felt relieved and continued on my way. It was normal to have birds in the mountains, maybe there were tigers and leopards too.

No one stopped.

But the situation was not that simple, because everyone found that the sky was getting darker and darker, to the point where they could not see the path under their feet.

Everyone looked up again, and this time they could see clearly that the large birds that were flying lower and lower were actually bats as big as goshawks.

Their wing membranes, which were connected to their fingers, spread out in the sky to form a large net, covering all the sky outside the mountains.

The first reaction of the imperial guards was to squat down collectively and draw their bows and arrows.

Shen Keran whispered, "No."

No one dared to let down their guard for a moment, watching the bat circling lower and lower.

A flame appeared in Xiao Yuehan's eyes.

She stared at the groups of bats and said, "These bats came prepared, and they are coming for us."

She turned her head slightly and said to Shen Keran, "When they come down to attack us later, don't panic. Look for them to see if they have a leader."

Before he could finish his words, the first one had already rushed down, attacking a soldier. In a flash, the soldier raised his sword and chopped off its head, which fell into the abyss.

Seeing this, the other bats did not weaken their fighting spirit. Instead, they seemed to be encouraged and stayed in the air for a moment facing everyone.

Suddenly, as if they had heard the sound of war drums, they swooped down collectively, like cannonballs dropped from the sky, accurately hitting the crowd below.

The soldiers were also extremely brave. At the moment when the beast swooped down, they kept a good distance from each other, and as if receiving an order, they fired arrows and swung swords.

The bat's smelly black blood splattered everywhere.

"Pah, pah, pah" the bats that were hit fell into the abyss one after another.

The soldiers looked at the falling bats. Those that landed on their bodies, shoulders, and heads were shaken off by them in disgust and thrown into the abyss with their swords.

However, this was only the first round. You see, the ones in front fell, and the ones behind rushed forward with full enthusiasm, not affected at all by the dead soldiers in front.

In just a short while, the soldiers were ready for the second wave of battle.

The bats were very strange. They could stay in the air and it seemed as if they were observing the soldiers below.

After a moment, they swooped down, this time more densely packed.

Shen Keran did not take any action. He was observing whether there was a leader.

But he was surprised to find that the bats in the second round seemed to be bigger. They were just as brave, but were naturally shot down by bows and swords.

The strange thing is that the moment they fell into the abyss, they shook their wings and another one emerged from the wings.

Every bat that gets hit has a backup force hidden under its wings, making it hard for the soldiers to defend themselves.

Some were attacked immediately, and their bird-like beaks pecked directly into the soldiers' eyes.

Shen Keran was shocked and immediately shouted: "Protect your eyes!"

Soldier Chen Bing's eyes were pecked and the blood blurred his vision, but the beasts seemed to know that he was attacked. Several of them flapped their wings and pecked at his head and face randomly.

Chen Bing scratched his head and face with his hands, and swung his sword wildly. He used too much force and stumbled and fell into the abyss.

The other soldiers watched this scene helplessly.

They had no way to help him because there were several bats in front of each of them, attacking them.

Shen Keren didn't find who the leader was, so he took out an arrow, tore off a pine branch nearby, rolled it into a ball, inserted it into the arrowhead, and lit it with the fire lintel he carried with him.

He aimed at a seemingly thick mass of black, drew his bow and released an arrow. The flaming arrow flew directly into the mass of black.

Instantly, the air seemed to explode, igniting balls of fire. The rest of the bats flapped their wings in panic and flew away.

During this gap, the soldiers did not rest. They pulled pine needles and made fireballs as quickly as possible. After a while, the arrows on the soldiers' backs were all filled with fireballs.

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