In the afternoon, in the narrow valley between the peaks of the West Mountain of Luoyan Valley and the Dazhai Village of Beishan, the sun shines on the white snow and reflects the dazzling light, which forms a sharp contrast with the dark forests on the slopes on both sides.

On this white and blinding snow, hundreds of soldiers were converging from the slopes on both sides towards the middle of the snowy valley. To the north are the 200 soldiers of the Luoyan Army who came down from the slope of the west mountain of the Luoyan Valley, and to the south are the 300 elites carefully selected from the Beishan Dazhai.

Last night, after careful negotiations, a plan was made, and Lin Jue and Ruan Ping jointly led 500 soldiers and horses to Shiren Mountain Dazhai to carry out an internal flowering assassination operation. Lin Jue named it 'Operation Decapitation'. Luoyan Valley Dazhai sent 200 soldiers and horses, and Beishan Dazhai sent 300 troops. Going deep into Zuo Zongdao's territory, bringing too many soldiers and horses may cause suspicion, but bringing fewer soldiers and horses is difficult to protect itself, so five hundred people is considered a number of no more and no less. Zuo Zongdao would not feel threatened, and these five hundred people could also cause a lot of damage in the event of an incident, and they could protect themselves for a while.

Originally, Bao Meng asked the Luoyan Valley side to fulfill its previous promise and send all three hundred soldiers and horses. But how could Lin Jue do this. Bao Meng is unreliable, he must keep a hand. At least more than 100 people should be left to defend the cottage, in case Bao Meng took advantage of the empty strength of the cottage to launch a surprise attack. It was the number of these two hundred people, and Lin Jue also gritted his teeth and took the risk. Lin Jue also thought about it, and there was no big problem for the more than 130 Luoyan troops left behind to defend it with the help of the cottage's defensive measures, and once Bao Meng dared to mess around, the cottage would notify him with fireworks. He immediately led the army back, and these more than 100 people should be able to hold out until they rushed back.

Bao Meng finally made a compromise, it was not that he didn't want to take advantage of the old nest in Luoyan Valley, but he wanted to focus on big things. Coupled with Ruan Ping's persuasion, he had to consider Ruan Ping's thoughts. He can't go back on his word anymore, and if he refuses to act simply, he feels that he has no faith in front of his brothers.

Two hundred soldiers of the Luoyan Army, dressed in black armor, walked neatly to the meeting place. The armor on their bodies glowed black and dim in the sunlight, and the whole army looked solemn and mighty. In comparison, the three hundred people in Beishan Dazhai are much shabby. Although they are also carefully selected good players, all of them have big shoulders and round waists and are as strong as oxen, but they wear a variety of equipment. Some are rattan armor, some are leather armor, some are broken pieces of armor, and some are even just cotton clothes. Compared to each other, they are as pitiful as Hanako. They looked at the equipment of the other soldier, and their eyes were full of envy, jealousy, and hatred.

But fortunately, Gao Muqing, who led them here, immediately issued an order after arriving, and all the soldiers of the Luoyan Army had tattered overcoats on board and covered their armor inside. The whole army immediately became a ragged soldier and horse called Hanako. Naturally, this move was not to make the mountain bandits in Beishan Dazhai feel better, but Lin Jue had told Gao Muqing before that he should not show his armor after entering Zuo Zongdao's territory, and it would seem that the whole army of soldiers and horses was not in the same style, not like the soldiers and horses of Beishan Dazhai. Second, it will also remind Zuo Zongdao of what happened in Qingtai Town some time ago, which will arouse suspicion. But even so, this move objectively made the bandits in Beishan Dazhai feel a lot more comfortable.

Gao Muqing was dressed in a black coat today, with a green silk wrapped in green cloth and a hat on his head. The whole person is capable and energetic. This morning, Lin Jue had already sent the information to the cottage and asked Gao Muqing to organize two hundred people to assemble, and Gao Muqing did not delay at all.

Lin Jue greeted him with a smile, Gao Muqing also smiled and walked over, the two stood a few steps apart, Lin Jue asked softly, "Is everything ready?" ”

Gao Muqing nodded and said, "Don't worry, everything is ready." ”

Lin Jue nodded, leading this Gao Muqing to Bao Meng and the others who were standing not far away. There was no need to say anything between the two, with a simple conversation, Lin Jue knew that Gao Muqing had settled everything in the cottage. Liang Qi didn't follow, he would lead more than a hundred Luoyan troops to guard the cottage. Originally, Lin Jue wanted Gao Muqing to stay in the cottage, but Lin Jue dispelled this idea, because he knew that Gao Muqing would not agree. Born together and dying together, Gao Muqing will definitely use this oath to convince herself. Rather than that, why bother.

Bao Meng squinted his eyes and smiled at Gao Muqing who came over: "Is the master of Gao Dazhai planning to go out in person?" ”

Gao Muqing returned the salute with a smile, and said crisply: "It's not as good as the tall village master, the rule of my Luoyan Valley cottage is that the village owner takes the lead, and the most dangerous thing is that the village owner must rush to the front." ”

Bao Meng's face turned red, and he said with a haha: "Okay, although the tall village owner is a woman, he should be a heroine." With the owner of the tall village going, things are more certain. ”

Gao Muqing said in a deep voice: "Don't dare to be, although I go together, but the matter is still decided by the military advisor and the lord of Ruan Zhai, I just go as a soldier in Luoyan Valley." ”

Bao Meng was stunned, glanced at Lin Jue, and said with a meaningful smile: "I understand, I understand." With characters like Fang Junshi, the tall village owner can naturally be easily the shopkeeper. Then, the soldiers and horses have been assembled, and the time is not early, and it will take two days to reach Shiren Mountain, and I think it is time to go. ”

Gao Muqing nodded, turned around and walked to Lin Jue's side. Ruan Binh stepped forward and gave the order. The two soldiers immediately formed a team. Ruan Ping bowed his hand to Bao Meng and shouted: "Please give a lecture to the master of Dazhai." ”

Bao Meng waved his hand and said: "There is nothing to say, I hope you will succeed immediately, I am waiting to give you a celebration banquet." The rest is up to you. ”

Ruan Ping said: "Thank you Dazhai Master." So here we go. ”

Bao Meng nodded, Ruan Ping looked at Lin Jue, and Lin Jue smiled and nodded. Ruan Ping turned to the five hundred soldiers and horses, and shouted: "Go!" ”

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The vast mountains, the snow-covered peaks and valleys, and the roads are difficult to navigate. A procession of 500 men marched between these extremely difficult mountains. Soon after leaving the control area of Beishan Dazhai, he entered the jurisdiction of Shirenshan Dazhai of Zuozongdao. The news trees on the cliffs on both sides of the mountain peaks fell one after another, and it was the mountain bandits who saw the traces of these five hundred people in Shiren Mountain Dazhai who were passing the news. Soon, the woodlands on both sides of the valley were filled with sneaky figures and prying eyes.

Fortunately, before leaving, he had already sent people to inform the other party, and the other party also knew that this was the people and horses of Beishan Dazhai who were going to the main village by the appointment of the lord of Zuo Dazhai, so they would not attack. But surveillance and prying eyes along the way are inevitable.

On the morning of the third day, everyone finally crossed the last peak of Shiren Mountain Dazhai 'Pheasant Ridge', and the highest peak on the east side of Funiu Mountain in front of him was Shiren Mountain, where Shiren Mountain Dazhai was located.

Entering the left side of Shiren Mountain, it was already the core area, and the situation in front of him was very different from the situation on the way. The number of bandits in Shiren Mountain Dazhai is only more than 3,000, and the number of mountain people and their families and the mountain people in the area under its jurisdiction is no more than 7,000. And most of these more than 6,000 people live near the left side of Shiren Mountain.

The garrison strategy adopted by Shirenshan Dazhai is to focus on defending the core area, and the peripheral areas under its jurisdiction often only have a certain number of people stationed in the sub-villages on the border mountain, but there are no more than hundreds of people, less than dozens of people, and most of them play the role of monitoring and garrisoning ventilation and signaling. On Laojun Mountain, which is at the junction with Luoyan Valley and Beishan Dazhai, there are only more than 400 mountain bandits stationed. That's because Laojun Mountain was snatched from others, and some thieves were weak-minded, so they had to send heavy troops to garrison.

However, in the area to the left of Shiren Mountain, there are more than a dozen villages scattered on the flat land between the valleys here, and all the people under the jurisdiction of the cottage have been forcibly relocated from the periphery to settle on the small flat land under Shiren Mountain. The land here has also been developed into a field. Although there are few flat areas, relying on the mountain topography and the abundant snow-covered water source on the mountain, the mountain people and the common people have exerted their wisdom to create terraces along the slopes of the mountains, effectively solving the problem of scarce arable land.

However, the soil in the mountains is sandy and gravel, and it is originally a place where grass and trees take root, so the soil fertility is limited, and the yield of crops can be imagined. But in order to survive, they can only do so. Even if there were more arable valley flatlands outside, the Shiren Mountain Village would not allow them to freely find a place to settle.

Shiren Mountain Dazhai naturally has his reasons for doing this. The cottage needs food supplies, where does the food come from? It can only be snatched from the hands of the people and the mountain people. And gathering everyone near the Shiren Mountain Dazhai can make it easier to manage and collect grain, without having to send people and horses to search around. And everyone is gathered in one place, which can also ensure that they do not flee to other places, which is convenient for unified management. Of course, the reason given by Zuo Zongdao was that the people gathered in one place could facilitate the centralized protection of them from the massacre of hostile cottages.

There is a problem that needs to be explained here, when Gao Muqing and his men came here to join Zuo Zongdao, because more and more people came from all over the country to join Gao Muqing, so they had entanglements with Zuo Zongdao. Zuo Zongdao didn't actually want to take in the people, but when he found out that most of the people who came here were old, weak, sick and disabled, and these were originally people from Guishan Island, and he only wanted to go with Gao Muqing in his heart, he was no longer interested in them. In addition, there were one or two thousand more mouths at once, and the cultivated land under the mountain was tight, and it was impossible to settle these people who could not produce food and refused to return to themselves, so Zuo Zongdao refused to provide them with rations.

At the foot of Shiren Mountain, in addition to these villages and fields, the most noticeable thing is the ubiquitous towers and fortresses. From the moment you step into the valley below, you can see bandits everywhere on the undulating slopes around you. They poked their faces out of the towers and towers, watching with wary expressions as the troop of soldiers and horses walked down the mountain path below them. At every dangerous point, dense arrow towers are spread all over the slopes on both sides. On both sides of the mountain road leading to the cottage, there are many fortifications and arrow towers, which can be said to be difficult for even a fly to fly up.

After all, the Shiren Mountain Village has existed for ten days, and since the internal division of Funiu Mountain into various small hills, the Mo family has been entrenched in the Shiren Mountain. It has been more than 100 years since then. For so many years, in order to ensure the survival of Shiren Mountain Cottage, it is natural to do a lot of things to build fortifications and arrow towers by splitting stones in the mountains. And all this has intensified after Zuo Zongdao seized the position of the owner of the cottage. Zuo Zongdao knew that it was dishonorable for him to seize the position of Shiren Mountain Village, so he was very worried that the rest of the cottages would come to interfere and attack him, so he added a lot of defensive measures on the original basis. It can be said that the main village of Shiren Mountain is now impregnable.