Caucasus Mountains.

After a few days of trek along the Telec River, Nangongxi's mountain camp finally arrived at the river on the northern slope of the mountain. From here (the city of Stepanzmingda in later generations, there was the highest church in the world), and it was eighty miles away from the capital Barengal, which was previously destroyed by the cannibals.

However, when we arrived here, the Sada Army had nowhere to hide. On the eighty-mile mountain road, the Xhosa people set up three mountain forts!

But all this is not a big deal for the mountain camp. There are two mountain forts where elites from the Yuhou Army climbed up the mountain and jumped to the top of the mountain fort. Not long after throwing the thunder of the sky, the people inside surrendered, and one mountain fort was blown up with a black gunpowder pill pack.

After taking over the third mountain fort, the rebuilt defenders of the city of Balungal had already received news of the mountain camp coming.

Barongar is located about eight miles south of Vladik Okz, a city in the later Russian North Caucasus, near the Caucasus Mountains. It is the Telec district affiliated to the city. The area spans the Telec River and is about five miles wide. There are steep mountains on both sides of the straits. The mountains on the east bank are steeper and the mountains on the west bank are gentler. The castle is mainly built on the west bank.

Like most castles in Europe and West Asia at this time, the city of Barongal was also built on high places on the river bank, while the lower places were connected to the castle by walls. After the Telec River came here, since the two sides were still mountains and the width of the river was less than forty meters. The Romans once built stone bridges on it, but were later destroyed by the nomadic tribes. The Persians took over and restored the stone bridge.

The Great Cannibal could not obtain this land in the protracted war. When he left for the last time (the main general was Gazheval), he destroyed the stone bridge again. After Adam came to power, he felt that the Great Cannibal was restrained by the Shattered Ye Army. After Mansour came to power, he kept showing goodwill to the Khanate and repaired the bridge again. However, this time, he built a wooden bridge.

On the east bank of the Terek River is another smaller castle. If the Leaf Army wants to approach Crassus Road and cross the Caucasus Mountains to reach the hinterland of the North Caucasus, they must occupy this place.

As the former capital of the Khanate of the Khanate, the castle on the west bank is naturally quite large, but it can only be stationed in three thousand infantry troops. The problem facing Nan Gongxi is:

The castle was built at a height of about thirty meters above the ground, with only narrow open space around it, which was not enough to set up a large army. When the siege was rushing up, it would be immediately hit by the bows and arrows of the soldiers on the city.

In later generations, the North Caucasus area was a treasure land throughout Russia. It was an important granary base on the west side, the main animal husbandry base on the east side, and later it was its best horse breeding base. Catherine once rewarded the Cossacks in order to allow the war horses here to supply the Cossacks continuously so that they could guide the Ottoman Empire and the Transcaucasus area.

Therefore, with the high-quality port, this place is obviously taken into account by the king, rather than being smashed to pieces.

Therefore, it is not advisable to dig tunnels to bury gunpowder and blow up the castle.

Like all the castles in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, the newly built Balungal Fort is also white, and the three-meter-high city walls are emitting a captivating light under the setting sun in winter.

At this time, the defenders had obviously received news that the Thunder Ye Army was invading, so they naturally would not come out to take the initiative to fight. So Nan Gongxi's plan to annihilate the enemy in the field was also ruined.

However, what was beneficial to him was that Bai Xiaode's army was still on the Caspian Sea at this time, and Yuanfeng's army in the west did not capture Taman City. Ma Lin's army in the east had just penetrated into the territory of the Khanate. In ancient times, when transportation and message transmission were inconvenient, any army that appeared in the Khanate might be considered the first.

Therefore, the plan to siege the city and attack the aid is still effective.

However, this plan obviously does not include Nan Gongxi's mountain camp. He must take down Balengar and then open up Georgia's connection with himself in order to prevent the army from coming from Georgia when the attack is set.

Also, if Bai Xiaode's army could not cross the hinterland of the Northern Caucasus to support Yuanfeng as soon as possible, his mountain camp would be Yuanfeng's greatest dependence.

Standing at the highest point of the mountain to the west of Barongarh City, in the telescope, the situation inside is completely visible. Unlike the simple rammed earth in the Central Plains or the rammed earth in the outside bricks, the city walls from the Western Regions to Europe are all made of earth bricks or stones, and the same is true for the city of Barongarh in front of you.

The city is divided into two floors. The middle part was the place where the Khanate of the Khanate lived in the Xhosa Khanate, which was counted as the inner city. However, there are dozens of acres of buildings. The buildings in the outer city are very rich, including stone, acres of earth bricks, and wooden ones.

To the north of the castle is a vast hilly area, with many fields and pastures mixed in. Looking north, it is a low plain, which is probably the real hinterland of the North Caucasus.

No wonder the Khanate of Khanate chose its first capital here, which is the northern slope of the Caucasus Mountains or a half-slope, with both farmland and vast pastures. The nobles of the Khanate had nearby food, a large number of cattle and sheep to eat, and could raise a large number of war horses.

At the beginning, the Khanate of Xhosa mainly wanted to gain a foothold. They were themselves powerful nomadic tribes, so they were naturally not afraid of other tribes in the north. However, the forces at the other end of the Caucasus Mountain, whether they were Romans, Persians, or Cannibals, were even greater threats to them. The nomadic tribes would not easily fix themselves somewhere, and in that case, they would have to spend a lot of energy to build a city.

Once built, a certain amount of standing military force needs to be arranged, which is another extremely financially consuming matter. Therefore, since it is built, it will be placed in the most critical place. The Crassus Road is the only road across the Great Caucasus Mountains, which lasts more than a thousand miles from east to west. Blocking this road has become an inevitable choice.

Since accepting Jews and Greek and Genoese descendants, commerce has become the main business of the Khanate, so placing it in White City (Makhachkara) near the Black Sea is also a natural choice, not to mention that there are vast grasslands near White City.

However, for mountain camps, before crossing this road, they had already clearly explored the geography, water, soil and resources near the road.

The reason why the Khanate of the Khanate placed the first capital here was not only blocked the Krassu Road, but also another reason - there is a large pyrodite located in the jungle about twenty miles southwest of the castle (Tarskoye later), which is the main iron smelting base of the Khanate of the Khanate.

Of course, after the Jews came in, they entered the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea around the BC and were very clear about the production in various places, not to mention that pyrite is far inferior to limonite for them (there are many pores after the formation of sulfur-containing iron and iron), so they were later abandoned.

However, for the Sai Yejun, who has entered the age of firearms, pyrite is actually more precious than limonite, because they can first extract sulfur and then smelting.

"what to do?"

Nan Gongxi thought about it for a long time on the top of the mountain and finally made a choice.

As mentioned earlier, the castle was built on the top of a small hill. The mountain was about 30 meters high and surrounded by gentle slopes. The road leading to the city gate was also built with stone steps, which was the southwest corner. The terrain there was very steep and it was probably a cliff itself. Nan Gongxi stood on the mountain for a long time, and most of the time he was aimed at the southwest corner of the castle took up.

"There is no cylindrical city gate tower in the southwest corner, but just an ordinary city wall, about three feet high, and there are no soldiers on duty on it. Perhaps they think it is impossible for anyone to climb up from that cliff, and any corner in other places is probably in the sight of the soldiers guarding the city."

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As the weather is beautiful, the climate here has begun to be affected by the Black Sea - there is a lot of rain in winter.

Although it started to rain, the rain was not heavy and drizzling. In such a weather, the sky would not be very bright. However, the soldiers guarding the city on the city were still standing on the top of the guards - except for the southwest corner!

In the first half of the night, a Yu Houjun, a mountain camp, was not tall and short and concise. He climbed up from the cliff with a plate of climbing rope. The cliff wall after the rain was very slippery, but the Yu Houjun was only affected by some influence. In the end, he spent two hours climbing up (forty meters). After going up, he immediately looked for five fixed points and then hung down five ropes.

In the middle of the night, about a hundred mountain camp soldiers had touched the bottom of the southwest corner of the castle - this was also the greatest possibility that this location could hide people, and at most they would be discovered by the enemy.

These people are the most elite strength in the mountain camp. Martial arts, strength, endurance, courage, and cooperation are all the best choices. They wear raincoats and short crossbows (put the strings in advance, stick the crossbow arrows, and the elastic limit can last for about an hour in wet weather), thunder (seal the fuse position with white wax to prevent moisture), long swords with both hands (this is also the longest weapon that can be used when climbing the city wall. If it is a tiger spear or a moth knife, it will make a sound when it hits the city wall when climbing), one-handed horizontal sword and shield are all wrapped in it.

The one who led the team was Nie Xu and Wei Long!

He took out a tiger claws and was worried that the sound of the tiger claws when they hooked the city wall attracted the attention of the enemy, and all the iron tiger claws were wrapped in cloth strips.

Nie Xu and Wei Long looked down for a while, then threw the tiger claws and leaping up!

Unfortunately, a lightning flash happened to appear in the sky at this time. If the tiger claws do not have a cloth, it will reflect light under the lightning. If the soldiers on duty have sharp eyes, there is a high chance of discovering it!

But after wrapping the cloth, although the soldiers may still find it, the chance will be much smaller. Nie Xu Danxi wiped off her forehead, not only sweat or rain, she pulled the rope tightly and tried it, and listened carefully to the movement. When she confirmed that no one noticed it, she climbed up first!

What we need to explain here is that although the architectural styles of the city walls in West Asia and Europe are very different from those in the Central Plains, the designs of the female walls are similar. They will mix grain, fish gum, gum and lime together to enhance the stickiness between the stones. Therefore, once the tiger claws hooked onto the female wall, there is no problem sending these people up.

Nie Xu Weilong climbed up!

Speaking of which, the Xiangxiong, who is not tall but extremely strong, is indeed suitable for serving in the mountain camp. In addition, he learned the skills of the Pamir horse thief from his father and the professional training of the Sailye Army, it would be a matter of time before he could become the deputy lieutenant of the mountain camp.

If such a city wall was still in the Central Plains style, there would be no need for too many people to hide at the corner, but the round castle is different. Its curve is enough that twenty people will not be discovered by others!
Chapter completed!