Chapter 458: Foregone conclusion

In the (two-in-one) octagonal pavilion, Qin Donghe and Gao Muqing, as the leaders of their respective cottages, signed their names on a life and death contract. The development of this matter was beyond everyone's expectations, and many people sweated for the people of Luoyan Valley. There is no doubt about the strength of the soldiers and horses of Black Wind Village in terms of combat effectiveness. Although it can't be as exaggerated as one as ten, on the whole, their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.

Moreover, the Black Wind Village is one of the few cottages in Funiu Mountain that has a lot of standard equipment, which naturally benefits from Qin Donghe's adventures, and when they attacked the county seat of Shannan, they seized hundreds of sets of armor. And the fifty guards he brought with him at the moment were wearing a full set of armor and equipped with standard blades. At this point, there is basically no big gap with the fifty people in Luoyan Valley.

Mu Zhenshan was also a little worried, he tried to remind Gao Muqing and Lin Jue that they didn't have to do this, but the tall village master and Fang Junshi in Luoyan Valley insisted on going on as if they had eaten a scale. Mu Zhenshan was helpless, he only hoped that they would not affect his promise to transform the soil quality in the future. If Fang Junshi and Gao Dazhai Master personally played, then they must be strictly stopped.

Lin Jue put forward a request to fight against thirty people against the other party's fifty people, and of course Qin Donghe would not agree. In Qin Donghe's view, he didn't think it was a humiliation, but an escape from the other party. They must have been afraid that all the people who came on the field would die, so they were only willing to go to thirty. Because they understand that even if all fifty guards play, there is no chance of victory.

If Lin Jue knew that Qin Donghe was thinking so in his heart, he was afraid that he would laugh off his big teeth on the spot. Lin Jue felt that he didn't need fifty people to solve the opponent, and thirty people was enough. There's no need to send everyone on the pitch to show how much you value each other. But since Qin Donghe refused, he also gave up.

After the contract of life and death was signed, everyone poured out of the place of the alliance and came to the square outside. The guards on both sides were resting in various parts of the square, and at this moment they were summoned to announce the matters to be contested. Suddenly, the hands of both sides were noisy and excited. They are all guys who lick blood on the knife edge, and no one has stage fright. As soon as I heard that there was going to be a fight, and it was for the honor of the cottage, I suddenly surged up one by one, and the noise was endless.

Over there, Qin Donghe mobilized his subordinates with black faces. On this side, Lin Jue and Gao Muqing talked and laughed with the soldiers of the Luoyan Army, and there was no agitation and mobilization at all. There is no reward after victory and punishment after defeat as mentioned in Qin Donghekou. Finally, after the preparation phase was over, fifty soldiers from each side lined up in the middle of the field, twenty paces apart.

The morning winter sun shone on the open field, this sun should be powerless in the world outside the ice and snow, but in this valley, it is warm and scorching. Coupled with the tense atmosphere before the battle began, even the onlookers were sweating.

Mu Buping, as a notary, sounded three drums, and suddenly, the shouts of killing on the field shook the sky, and the battle began.

However, what is strange is that it was the fifty soldiers of Black Wind Village who launched the charge, while the soldiers and horses of Luoyan Valley stood still, only the formation changed. The thirty men in the front formed a combat squad, while the twenty soldiers in the rear took a dozen steps back and became bystanders.

Everyone was dumbfounded, it turned out that Luoyan Valley still had to use thirty soldiers against the other party's fifty people after all. In this kind of life-and-death situation, this is tantamount to too much trust and death.

The soldiers of Black Wind Village rushed forward with a shout, their swords shining with white light, and their momentum was really impressive. The distance between the two sides was too close, and the soldiers in Luoyan Valley couldn't even shoot a round of arrows with a long-range strike according to the previous routine, and the opponent had already rushed in front of him. This is followed by full-scale hand-to-hand combat. It seemed that the soldiers of the Black Wind Village were even more imposing, brandishing their swords and slashing indiscriminately, looking unstoppable, but it soon became clear that their attacks did not have much effect. The three-three formation composed of soldiers in Luoyan Valley, relying on the cover of the shield and the flexible combination of long and short, shook the opponent's charge stubbornly. After four or five soldiers hung up the lottery, the soldiers and horses of Heifeng Village began to fall one by one.

Blood splashed, and people turned on their backs. The screeching of blades, the grinding of swords into flesh, the grinding of spear tips against armor, the screams of soldiers, all converged, but they were clearly discernible. Even those who watched from the sidelines had not seen hand-to-hand combat, nor had they experienced hand-to-hand combat. But after looking at the tragic battle in front of them, they all looked unbearable.

At the beginning, more than a dozen soldiers in Black Wind Village fell, but because the number was still resistant, there was no obvious defeat. But as more than a dozen people fell, the situation on the field suddenly became clear. Just like the dominoes falling, the number of people is getting smaller and smaller, which also leads to the collapse of the situation. The hard training and coordinated combat tactics of the soldiers of the Luoyan Army can be said to have little pressure to deal with these opponents who only know how to rush and kill.

What's more, the fifty people selected to participate in the meeting this time are all the elite of the cottage, and Lin Jue values their coordinated combat strength even more, because if something goes wrong, it will depend on these fifty people to hold out until the reinforcements arrive. These people are the best in training and the elite in combat. It seems that they don't have a grinning roar, no terrifying slashing. They just use the most reasonable moves and formations to avoid and hit their opponents. Even when the force is exerted, it only makes a muffled sound, which does not affect the operation order issued by the core personnel of each station. The formation of threes runs like a machine, and it is just a matter of solving opponents with maximum efficiency.

In the stunned eyes of everyone, the battle on the scene finally came to an end. Most of the fifty Black Wind Village soldiers fell to the ground, and the remaining ten or so began to turn around and flee. Whoosh, arrows flew, and the dozen or so people all fell to the ground, struggling for a moment and then not moving. All fifty of them fell to the ground after the battle, which lasted less than a stick of incense, and it seemed that not one of them was alive.

Everyone on the sidelines was silent, they saw with their own eyes the combat methods of the soldiers in Luoyan Valley, although it was not shocking, but the result made their jaws drop. It was so easy, and the fifty soldiers of the Black Wind Village were finished. On the side of Luoyan Valley, there were only eight or nine people lying on the ground, and it could be seen that they were only injured, not dead.

What's more, there were still twenty soldiers in Luoyan Valley who stood in the rear from beginning to end and did not participate in the battle. Thirty against fifty, a clean battle of annihilation ended in an overwhelming margin.

Qin Donghe's face was blue, and his mouth was full of bitter taste. Among them, he actually saw that he was going to lose, and he wanted to shout to stop, but according to the life and death contract he had made, the standard for one side to defeat the other was to completely annihilate the opponent, so that the opponent would no longer have the power to fight back.

Mu Zhenshan loudly ordered the military doctor in the village to treat the wounded, after all, he couldn't watch so many people lying in a pool of blood on the ground. However, not long after, the military doctor and six or seven servants who had gone to treat him came back to report that none of the fifty people in Heifeng Village were alive, and all of them were injured and dead.

After getting this news, Mu Zhenshan and the owners of the village gasped even more, and their eyes changed when they looked at Gao Muqing and Lin Jue. Although it is a battle of life and death, they are too ruthless. Unexpectedly, none of them were left alive, and they all killed each other. It's hair-piercing.

The vast majority of people were both frightened and glad in their hearts, fortunately the alliance leader agreed to accept them, otherwise if they really had to jointly send troops to attack Luoyan Valley, what would be the result? The opponent's combat power is so strong, how can you fight them?

Lin Jue had a cruel smile on his face, and he knew the horror in their hearts from the heavy wheezing of the village owners around him. Lin Jue's move was to take revenge for last night's attack, no matter who did it, it was always one of the fifty people. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, this is Lin Jue's principle for these bandits in the mountains. If you dare to do it to yourself, you will kill him. On the other hand, this move is also to kill chickens and monkeys, and warn all the village owners present to be honest in the future and not to think about the idea of defeating the wild goose valley. Although it was a little cruel, Lin Jue did not have the slightest guilt in his heart, for the survival of Luoyan Valley, he could be even more cruel.

Qin Donghe came back from the battlefield with a pale face, he had confirmed that no one was alive, and the horror and anger in his heart were indescribable. He had already guessed that Luoyan Valley was luring him into battle, and then openly killing his own people to retaliate. One is the opposition and harsh conditions that I have put forward in order to accept their things. Second, I'm afraid it's also because of last night's attack. Others don't know, but he Qin Donghe knows, it was he who found that Lin Jue and Gao Muqing were escorted by soldiers and horses in Taoyuan Dazhai in the evening to Mu Zhenshan's residence, and then ordered to wait for the opportunity to assassinate when they came back, causing a situation in their favor. As the person who was assassinated, perhaps the other party has already understood that it was his own doing.

In any case, at this moment, I can only eat Coptis dumbly, and I can't say what I suffer. The proposal of life and death was put forward by him, and he couldn't blame others for being ruthless, but he was stupid and didn't know that the other party's soldiers were so strong. This time, the face was disgraced. The beam was also settled.

Anger to anger, heartache to heartache, humiliation to humiliation, but what to do now is to get out of here and leave with these corpses. Because two of them had repeating crossbows hidden on their bodies, the corpses must not be left here. Qin Donghe just wanted to leave quickly, the sooner the better, he didn't dare to look at Lin Jue's ugly face full of sarcastic smiles.

With the help of several guards accompanying the owner of the village, the bodies of the fifty guards of the Black Wind Village were dragged away. Before leaving, Qin Donghe put aside cruel words to avenge these fifty brothers. Lin Jue laughed at it, and the rest of the village owners also felt that Qin Donghe couldn't afford to lose. It was clearly agreed that life and death would be aside, and now he is saying such things. In addition, the soldiers and horses under Qin Donghe were vulnerable in the hands of the soldiers and horses of Luoyan Valley, and the prestige of Heifeng Village and Qin Donghe dropped to freezing point at this time. However, the people of Luoyan Valley were sought after. Many people came to show their goodwill and accompany the smiling faces. As the saying goes, the front and the back are flattering.

Mu Zhenshan and his son didn't let these people stay for too long, and after announcing the end of the alliance, they sent these people to leave as soon as possible. Because Mu Zhenshan eagerly hoped that Lin Jue would immediately start transforming the soil. In addition, because of witnessing the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses of Luoyan Valley, Mu Zhenshan did have the idea of forming an alliance with Luoyan Valley in his heart. The combination of strong and powerful is beneficial to control the situation of Funiu Mountain, and it is just right to use the strength of Luoyan Valley to make up for the weakening strength of this village.

At noon, Mu Zhenshan set up a banquet at his residence to entertain Gao Muqing and Lin Jue. At the same time, the two sides also formally entered into an alliance. For Lin Jue, it was undesirable to be able to formally form an alliance with the strongest Taoyuan Dazhai. Mu Zhenshan sits in the central and western parts of Funiu Mountain, which can strongly contain the villages. Especially the abnormal movement of Black Wind Village. This is the best respite for the Wild Goose Valley.

Don't look at Luoyan Valley's thriving appearance of a strong soldier, in fact, Lin Jue and Gao Muqing themselves are also very empty. The real main force of the cottage is actually only three hundred falling geese army. Although the number of soldiers and horses in the cottage is as high as 1,100 people, more than 800 of them have come from the army. If we really start an all-out war, we will not be able to rely on it. And the cottage now has nearly 9,000 soldiers and civilians, and it takes a lot of energy and effort to feed so many mouths. At this time, a stable environment is very important to Luoyan Valley Dazhai.

After the luncheon, Lin Jue inspected the entire cottage with a slightly drunken intention, accompanied by the Mu family's father and son. The main purpose is to investigate the distribution of soil quality in various places and judge the degree of soil acidification. Early the next morning, in the valley on the edge of the cottage, Lin Jue demarcated the kiln sites of several lime kilns. Taoyuan Dazhai still has a lot of manpower, just one day, three lime kilns have been established, and at night, thick smoke has begun to rise. The smoke did not matter, and early the next morning, an important military intelligence report came up, saying that outside the mountains separated by several mountains, a soldier and horse were rushing towards the place where Taoyuan Dazhai was located.

After getting the news, Lin Jue suddenly remembered the agreement he had made with Liang Qi, and agreed to use beacon smoke as the signal during the day and fireworks as the signal at night. Seeing the signal, they marched to the rescue. I actually forgot about this stubble. Fortunately, the lime kiln that started to smoke last night was not detected by Liang Qi's people because it was invisible at night, otherwise I am afraid that something big would have happened at this moment. If Liang Qi and a few hundred people touched this mountain at night, they would have to lose everything in those large and small holes in the forest.

Knowing that it was the soldiers and horses that Luoyan Valley was ambushing on the periphery, the Mu family father and son were stunned and speechless. It turned out that the people in Luoyan Valley had prepared for the worst, and they actually went out to prepare for a surprise attack. Fortunately, nothing happened, otherwise I am afraid that there would be a fight now. Gao Muqing hurriedly went to stop Liang Qi and the others, and came back in the afternoon to tell Lin Jue that he had explained clearly to Liang Qi, and now that the soldiers and horses were stationed at the foot of the mountain and waiting, Lin Jue was also relieved.

After two days and one night of continuous burning, the first batch of quicklime was released from the kiln. In the large pools that had been dug before, large pieces of quicklime were poured into them, and then the water began to be filled. For a while, the smoke was steaming, the heat wave was scorching, and the entire valley north of the cottage was steaming hot, and the air was filled with a choking smell. Many villagers didn't know what was going on, ignored Lin Jue's warning, and did not operate according to the regulations, and as a result, they were caught in their eyes by lime, and several of their eyes were burned blind.

The father and son of the Mu family have always been cautious and skeptical, although they complied with all of Lin Jue's requests, they didn't understand what these limes that could burn the skin of their eyes had anything to do with changing the soil quality of the cottage. But suspicion is suspicion, and they can only let Lin Jue toss.

Of course, Lin Jue couldn't explain to them the principle of using lime and lime water to neutralize the acidic soil in the valley. In fact, Lin Jue is also very cautious, and the method of neutralizing acidic soil with lime and lime water is also risky. If the proportions are not right, the acidic soil becomes saline, and it is also impossible to grow crops.

To this end, Lin Jue collected more than 20 soil samples and water quality, locked them in the house for experiments, and finally obtained the proportion of various soil qualities and soil needs to be neutralized, and calculated the amount of lime water required per mu of land for different soil qualities. This is of course an approximate proportion, but it doesn't need to be too detailed. On the morning of the fourth day, truckloads of lime water were transported to a nearby taro field. According to the size of the acres and the degree of acidity in the soil, Lin Jue personally sprayed the acres with a wooden watering can.

When they heard the news, they all gathered around the fields to watch, and when they heard someone spraying lime water into the fields, they thought that the last bit of taro harvest in the fields would not be saved. I have never heard of lime water that can grow crops when poured into the ground. They worriedly stayed by the field all night and did not leave, thinking that the taro in the field would all die the next day, who would have thought that the next morning, when checked, instead of the dead taro seedlings, the withered yellow seedlings turned a lot greener, and there was an immediate effect, and they were immediately overjoyed.

The news spread ten, ten, hundreds, and suddenly spread throughout the cottage. Mu Zhenshan and his son, Lin Juegao, Muqing and others came to check together after breakfast, and when they saw the taro leaves that had obviously become greener, the Mu family father and son were ecstatic. It was only then that they really put their minds at ease.

The next is a comprehensive soil transformation, the dry land is sprayed with lime water, and the paddy field is directly sprinkled with quicklime for stirring and neutralization, Lin Jue strictly controls the proportion of various soil materials, and personally teaches the villagers the amount and usage, and is very busy.

Because of the limited output of lime fired by the lime kiln, Lin Jue could not wait for the transformation of all the acres to be completed, but Lin Jue had calculated the proportion of different soil qualities in all the acres and taught the villagers of Taoyuan Dazhai that they could do it themselves in the future. On the morning of the sixth day, Lin Jue and Gao Muqing bid farewell to the Mu family father and son. The father and son of the Mu family have long been grateful to Lin Jue and Gao Muqing. In the past few days, it has been obvious that the crops in the fields that have been sprayed with lime water and lime have become full of life, and the gratitude in the hearts of the Mu family father and son is beyond words. To a certain extent, Lin Jue saved them Taoyuan Dazhai. Otherwise, Taoyuan Dazhai will inevitably fall into destruction.

The father and son of the Mu family personally sent Lin Jue and Gao Muqing down Panlongling to join Liang Qi and others under the mountain, and they didn't mention it after thanking them, and before leaving, Mu Zhenshan gave several carts of crop seeds to Lin Jue and Gao Muqing. In the past few days, they learned that Luoyan Valley was also cultivating acres of land for large-scale production, so Mu Zhenshan and Mu Buping decided to give a batch of crop seeds as a thank you. Those crops such as taro, tea seeds, and wheat seeds are actually treasures in Funiu Mountain, and there is nothing more useful than these things for Luoyan Valley Dazhai.

Mu Zhenshan once again emphasized the alliance with Luoyan Valley. He told Gao Muqing and Lin Jue that from now on, whoever dares to be unfavorable to Luoyan Valley will send troops to attack whom, Luoyan Valley has any needs, but as long as Taoyuan Dazhai can help, he will do his best to help.

At noon, Lin Jue and Gao Muqing Liangqi said goodbye and left, and drove east along the road to return to Yangu. On the way, Lin Jue and Gao Muqing were in a very happy mood. I didn't expect that this time I came to the alliance to have such a good effect, and I signed an alliance with the largest village in Funiu Mountain, and got a lot of precious gifts, which I didn't dare to think before I came. I was even ready to fight before I came, and now this result is naturally the best.

Of course, this trip also made an enemy, and Qin Donghe of Heifeng Village will definitely not give up. But that's nothing compared to the harvest. Although the strength of Black Wind Village is strong, if there are no other cottages to help, they will have no way to take down the Yan Valley. Even in the future, when the conditions are ripe, it can be destroyed preemptively, and it is not impossible to eliminate this unstable factor. But that's another story.

Talking and laughing all the way, I soon stayed away from the territory of Taoyuan Dazhai. Looking back, the high Panlong Ridge towers under the blue sky and white clouds, majestic and majestic. Looking at the surrounding snow-capped mountains, and then thinking about the mysterious valley in the Panlong Mountains, until this time Lin Jue still felt that the creation was magical. Who would have thought that there would be such a place like a peach blossom paradise in Funiu Mountain. If you can live in seclusion in the valley of Changchun in the four seasons in the future, it must be the best life.

Lin Jue told Gao Muqing this, and Gao Muqing also thought so. However, Gao Muqing understood that Lin Jue was just talking. It is impossible for this man to nest in the mountains all his life, he has a place for him to spread his wings, and he is by no means wasting his life in the mountains and wilderness.