At this time, Jiang Rong quietly entered the door with a sara, and saw Wang Jiu and Chen Yunfeng left and right, Jiang Rong said:

"Father, Mr. Qin has already returned to the house, and he just asked someone to come over and let you come over."

"Got it, you can stand down first."

Jiang Min Ping retired Wang Jiu and Chen Yunfeng, and said to Jiang Rong:

"Rong'er, do you know what's going on?"

"Mr. Qin said that there will be a change in Guangxin, please ask my father to secretize the business opportunity."

"Got it, you stay in the mansion to preside over the inner mansion, your eldest brother's express letter should be delivered today, as soon as there is any news, let Wang Jiu send it immediately."

After carefully instructing, Jiang Min got into a carriage and rushed to Qin Han's mansion. Qin Han, who had just returned from Dongyuan County, was dark, changed into a linen robe and enjoyed the comfort brought by the ice.

"Brother Qin, the little girl said that there will be a change in Guangxin, I don't know what Brother Qin means."

"That's the case, on the way back to Guangxin, I received an eyeliner to report that Guo Peng's head is not in good condition, and Jiang Gong has heard about it."

Jiang Min was taken aback:

"Someone wants to kill Guo Peng? Who is so bold. ”

"Who else, Wei Xian thinks that he already knows that the horse thief and Guo Peng are secretly communicating with each other, and the royal guest is making a big splash in Dingyang City. Seeing that the January deadline is about to pass, once the limelight is over, Guo Peng will secretly contact the horse thief.

In this way, once the royal guest knows that Guo Peng is in the same stream with the horse thief, he is bound to take him to the top. As soon as Guo Peng died, Zhang He and Chen Gonggong did not have to worry. ”

But if this is the case, Guo Pan should not be angry with him. Wei Xian's approach was too presumptuous. I had intended for him to retreat from the thieves without finding them, but I didn't want to come up with such a poisonous plan. ”

"Yes, although Wei Xian took refuge in the public, behind him was Zhao Xun after all. Zhao Xun has no military power, but his influence in the army cannot be underestimated. If Guo Peng is eliminated with the hands of the royal guest, Guo Pan will be helpless for a while, not to mention that Guo Peng secretly communicates with horse thieves, how can Guo Pan protect his shortcomings, this is where Wei Xian dares to take risks.

Kill Guo Peng, this horse thief will become a rootless leaf, and the horse thief will no longer rob and kill Wei Xian, on the contrary, because of the defeat of Wei Xian's hands, the horse thief will not dare to trouble Wei Xian again, so it is also a way to advance and retreat. ”

"This son is vicious, I wanted to polish him, but I never thought he would be so bold. But Guo Peng is dead, Guo Peng is dead, and Guo Pan should also be restrained. ”

"This is to capture the thief and capture the king first, but Jiang Gongda doesn't have to worry. Wei Xian is too sharp, this time he must make him suffer something, otherwise it will be difficult to control this person. ”

"So, Brother Qin still has a clever plan?"

"yes, otherwise how can he be allowed to make a big move. By the way, I heard that Wei Xian was secretly preparing something to ignite the fire today, can Jiang Gong know what his intentions are? ”

"I thought about it when it came, but I didn't know what it meant for a while. But the Gongfu eyeliner has entered the deserted village, and there must be action. ”

"This person is becoming more and more invisible, and he always feels that something is wrong."

On the night of the second day, the deserted village gathered 100 strong men and 120 royal guests, carrying chariots, horses, firewood and grass and other materials.

Arrived at the mountain forest is already the second day of Buddha dawn, by the royal guest in front of the road, more than 200 people carry horses into the mountain, and travel half a day, arrive at the southeast of the mountain forest, it is noon at this time.

"Brother Song, people are sleepy and tired right now, so you should repair for a while. I waited for my men to explore the path along the creek, and when I found anything suspicious, I immediately set fire to them and smoke them. ”

"Okay, I'll let Fang De follow you, just in case."

Fang De is a sharpshooter, with excellent eyesight, and the clues that are difficult for others to find, Fang De often finds the traces one step ahead of others.

When the brigade was repairing on the spot, the royal guests sent out secret sentries to be responsible for guarding. Bailiyan and Fang De led ten people to find two small streams, one flowing to the southeast and the other to the southwest, decisively following this tributary in the southwest, groping to the southwest, about two miles out, Fang De asked:

"Wei Langzhong, although we came to the starry night to walk in secret, it was already dawn when we entered the forest, and after half a day's trekking, it was difficult to ensure that we would not be discovered by the horse thief's secret sentinel, what if the remnants of the horse thief were on guard, or escaped?"

Bai Liyan smiled:

"Brother Fang actually looked down on this group of horse thieves who stayed in the lair, since the main force of the horse thieves has disappeared, but the lair is bound to be guarded, and the purpose of guarding the lair is to keep the gold and silver treasures. The reason why a thief is a thief is precisely because of his money-obsessed mind.

I dare to assert that when we arrived at the outskirts of Beishan at night, the horse thieves must have discovered our traces. At that time, even if you escape, it will be too late. What's more, horse thieves rely on their nests to be secretive, and they are extremely difficult to find, so I am afraid that they will not escape easily. ”

Horse thieves burned, killed, looted and accumulated countless wealth, and many people were addicted to money. What's more, the people who stayed behind in the nest were all horse boys, and they ran away without letting go of a single shot, how could Huo Xing, the leader of the horse thieves, bypass them.

Seeing that only more than 200 people entered the mountain, the horse thieves still luckily thought that with their familiarity with the cave, they could defeat the incoming enemy, and it would be too late to defeat the incoming enemy when they defeated the incoming enemy.

Therefore, even if the horse thieves found more than 200 people entering the mountain, they would not immediately give up their lair, and there was absolutely no reason to sit on the golden mountain and give it to others.

Continuing the search, the creek slowed down, and even puddles even accumulated downstream, which flowed down and formed a stream. It is said that ponds should not appear halfway up steep mountains. Most of the mountainsides have fissures, and puddles will not form unless the ground is gentle.

The puddle also comes strangely, the water level is not relatively constant, but will rise and fall in a few moments.

If it is a natural puddle, there should not be such a drastic change in the downstream puddle without the upstream flow being interrupted or the water supply is increased, and it is obvious that this puddle is extremely abnormal.

Baili Yan's eyes gestured to Fang De, Fang De comprehended, looked around, made sure that there was no abnormal situation in the forest, and then carefully searched the ground nearby.

Dead trees are lodging near the puddles, rotting plants are layered on top of each other, and mosquitoes and flies are more sure that there must be people nearby.

Although the mountains and forests are infested with wild animals, they should not be an excuse for mosquitoes and flies to frequent them. Moreover, mosquitoes will also suck blood when they lie in the human body, which means that mosquitoes are female, not male. Male mosquitoes do not suck blood, but live on dew, and only female mosquitoes that need to reproduce need to suck blood. And if there is no large amount of flesh and blood in the mountains and forests, how can there be so many female mosquitoes.

As he walked, Fang De suddenly shouted:

"Wei Langzhong, look!"

Looking in the direction of Fang De's finger, he saw a large tree with a diameter of more than two feet that had died.

"Brother Fang De, what's so strange about this dead tree?"

"Wei Langzhong doesn't see the dead tree still alive?"

After looking closely, I found that there were still green leaves on the branches at the top of the towering tree, but the sunny side of the tree had died, forming a strange scene of the yin and yang tree.

"Shhh...... Brother Fang De is saying that there is a mystery under this yin-yang tree? ”

"If it weren't for the roots of the tree, and water flowing through the tree, the tree would not have died halfway."

"Yes, under this tree is the waterway."

Most of the trees are dead, but they are stiff but not dead, which is more common in plants that are dying.

But the unnamed tree in front of me is not too thick compared to other trees of the same family in the vicinity, but it is dying and has half a life left. Unless the root system of the underground is destroyed, how can it be so dead.

When I think of the puddle, it must be a horse thief who buried a bamboo pipe under the puddle, and introduced water into the ground through the bamboo pipe, which resulted in the root of the tree rotting and revealing the flaw.

"Brother Fang De, since there is a water source here, there must be ventilation holes around, so simply burn the fire and let the smoke seep in."

"Well, they can't hide it."

Horse thieves can be stuffy in a hole in the ground, and the entrance must be cleverly camouflaged. If you are not an authentic expert, it will be difficult to find the entrance. But as long as it is underground, it needs to be ventilated, as long as the smoke is burned, and the horse thief will have to come out for a long time to breathe.

There was a fire in the southeast forest, and Song Jie and others, who were guarding the upstream, immediately brought someone to touch it:

"Wei Langzhong, but a cave has been discovered."

"The cave hasn't been discovered yet, but there are clues."

After explaining the puddles and dead trees in detail, Song Jie, Tang Zhao and others suddenly felt reasonable, and immediately gathered all the horses and horses, set up firewood and grass in units every fifty steps, and everyone retreated to the upper wind, allowing the fire to spread.

The wind blows from north to south, and the smoke permeates the entire south slope under the action of the wind, Bai Liyan and Song Jie, Tang Zhao and other 100 people stand upstream, and 30 villagers and 30 Yuke, each with two teams on both sides of the east and west, to observe the movement of the south slope.

After about a tea time, a shout came from the west side:

"There's someone a mile to the southwest!"

One mile to the southwest is one and a half miles away from where Baili Yan is, and he saw it through the smoke at all, so he led people to the west side, and faintly only saw countless figures fleeing a mile away:

"The thief is fucking, and it was really smoked."

Gu Shan was already eager to try the double halberd, Bai Liyan frowned and said:

"Since you are hiding in the cave, I believe that this is not the only way out of the cave. Brother Song. When the precautions come, the trail behind the mountain, in case this is a horse thief's plan to attack the west, and the horse thief kills us from behind, but is pulled back by it to win a chance. ”

Song Jie, Fang De and the others all nodded:

"Wei Langzhong's words are reasonable, Fang De, when you quickly take fifty people to rush back and forth, if you encounter a sneak attack by horse thieves, immediately release arrows to report the news."

"Okay, everyone come with me."

Don't look at the activities of a large number of unknown people looming in the southwest, but none of them are coming to the mountain, but they are busy fleeing for their lives. Besides, there is a reason to leave only one exit when making holes, and there are still three holes for cunning rabbits, not to mention people, who always have to leave one or two secret backup passages for transporting troops to sneak attack or escape.

Even if it is an old and cunning mountain carving, he still leaves a way to retreat under his ass, and the horse thief is not a fool, if the entrance to the cave is blocked, it will not become a sitting and waiting to die.

If the situation is covered up at this time, the innocent will be harmed, and the original geographical advantage will be very likely to be attacked by horse thieves from behind against the occupied geographical advantage, which will pose a major threat to the bandit army.

Fang De fell and returned the same way, and heard a sound when he was young.

"It's Fang De's arrow!" Song Jie said.

"Bastard,, really plotting against me from behind!"

Gu Shan picked up the double halberd and was about to kill it, but Song Jie said again:

"Listening to the shouting and killing sound, Fang De is firing arrows again, thinking that there are not many horse thieves."

"Well, it's very likely, but it's also possible that the horse thief cheated him." Tang Zhao said, looked at Bailiyan and said: "Wei Langzhong, there are not too many horse thieves behind the mountain, could it be a horse thief?" ”

"What Brother Tang said is not unreasonable. When the horse thief saw that we did not go down the mountain, he failed to cover up and kill us from behind, but we still saw through it. If the bandit does the opposite, we will go to the back of the mountain at this time, and the horse thief will kill the mountain from the exit at the bottom of the mountain, so we will be in a dilemma. Unexpectedly, among the horse thieves, there are also such people who are good at the art of war, if they are ordinary people, they are already in the middle of the plan at this time.

Let's go, send another thirty people to reinforce Brother Fang De, I will rush down the mountain in one go, presumably the horse thieves have moved from behind the mountain to the exit, and when we wait to kill behind the mountain, they will kill from behind. Therefore, the horse thief at this time was exposed to the bunker in the cave, and if he killed it at this time, the horse thief must be caught off guard. ”