Li Yuanzhong had just left for a while, and suddenly returned to the courtyard, Li Hao was stunned when he saw this, looked at him with blinked eyes, and asked, "What are you doing when you come back, I can't speak well?" ”

Immediately afterwards, another person entered the courtyard, and it turned out to be Lu Yun dressed in black, Lu Yun entered the courtyard and said, "Young master, I asked him to come back." ”

"Oh?" Li Hao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, suddenly reacted, and hurriedly asked, "Is the closure of the grain store related to Cao Tian?" ”

Lu Yun nodded, and said: "Young master, you said that Cao Tian would not give up so easily, and sent me to keep an eye on Cao Mansion every night, last night I found that there was an abnormality in Cao Mansion, and more than a dozen minions of the Cao family quietly went to the house of Shopkeeper Li in Longchang Grain Shop, and robbed Shopkeeper Li's youngest son Li Xiaobao, who had just turned four years old, which was his only lifeline. ”

"I see." Li Hao suddenly realized when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Do you know where they robbed people?" ”

"Yes." Lu Yun said, "After they robbed people, they quietly left the city, went all the way north, entered the desert and traveled more than 160 miles, and sent people to Wuerhe Wind City, where a group of horse thieves were stationed. ”

"Urhe Wind City?" Li Hao was shocked when he heard this, Wuerhe Wind City in the north of Tingzhou he had traveled there in his previous life, in the future world is one of the wonderful landscapes of Xinjiang, also known as the Devil's City, in fact, it is not a city, but a unique wind erosion landform, its shape is strange, it looks like a gloomy and terrifying city from a distance, so it is named the Devil's City, Li Hao hurriedly went back to the house and took out the map to look at it, pointed to a group of mountains due north, and said: "It should be here." ”

Lu Yun looked at it and nodded, "It's here." ”

"How many horse thieves are there?" Li Hao asked.

Lu Yun said: "There are a lot, I don't dare to get too close, for fear of being discovered, preliminary estimates, no less than three hundred." ”

"Three hundred." Li Hao frowned and muttered, "The Devil's City is not on the Silk Road, even if there are horse thieves, there should not be too many, three hundred people is considered the limit, this Cao Tian really has dealings with horse thieves." ”

Li Yuanzhong, who had not spoken, asked anxiously: "How is this good, my lord, it is better to lead people to raid those horse thieves by the humble position." ”

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and asked, "Raid?" How many people to bring? ”

Li Yuanzhong thought for a while and said, "Two hundred is enough!" ”

"Huh." Li Hao sneered, "Two hundred people out of the city, Cao Tian won't see it?" If Cao Tian saw it, he didn't notify the horse thief? ”

Li Yuanzhong was stunned when he heard this, and he was speechless for a moment.

Lu Yun's eyebrows tightened, yes, if you want to deal with so many horse thieves, you have to have a large number of people, but a large number of people and horses will inevitably let Cao Tian in the city know that Cao Tian is an accomplice of the horse thieves, this problem is tricky, not to mention tricky, it is simply unsolvable.

Who knew that Li Hao suddenly raised his head, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said slowly: "The task of rescuing hostages naturally requires special forces." ”

At noon, twenty-eight people gathered under the boulder on the edge of the desert fifteen miles north of Tingzhou City, although these twenty-eight people were dressed as civilians, but they also covered up their murderous aura, that's right, this is Li Hao's twenty-eight special forces, disguised as civilians, went out of the city one after another, and then met here, Li Hao has already given them the task, first: protect yourself; Second: Save the four-year-old son of the shopkeeper of Longchang.

After the battle of Loulan Ancient City, Li Hao knew how important these special soldiers were in his mind, of course, their skills also proved their value, so Li Hao specially told them, it doesn't matter if you can't save people, you must come back, Li Hao's simple words made these twenty-eight iron-blooded men sour with a sour nose.

After the twenty-eight people were assembled, they set off on horseback and headed straight north, and at the same time brought Li Hao's artifact - military binoculars.

That night, the moon and stars were scarce, Li Hao climbed the city tower of Tingzhou, looked at the north from afar, only to see that everything he saw was vast black, and the bright moonlight made the border city clothed in silver gauze, such a night scene, so that Li Hao remembered a poem that fit the current artistic conception very well, and couldn't help but chant slowly: "The bright moon and the Han period in the Qin period, the Long March people have not returned." But so that the dragon city will fly, not called Humadu border pass. ”

When he was in Chang'an, he had used this poem to pretend to be forced, but at that time it was just to pretend to be forced, and now he really stood on the border gate city thousands of miles away, looking at the desolate scene under the cold moon, his heart was full of emotion, although what he did in Tingzhou, although it was not as good as Wang Changling said that he swore to guard the country's border pass with the kind of bloody spirit, but he was indeed guarding the peace of the border pass, he wanted to let the people of Tingzhou be fed, clothed, and rich, a country should not only resist Huma, It is also necessary to prevent internal turmoil, if the common people can't even eat enough, then they have no other way to go except rebellion, the corruption within the state officials is really ten times more terrible than Huma, at least he knows that the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were destroyed in the hands of a group of corrupt civil officials.

Twenty-eight groups of fast horses galloped all the way, and finally saw a huge shadow of an ancient city in the desert in front of them in the dark night, like a giant beast, crawling in front, the flying eagle picked up the telescope and looked at it, only to see that the devil's city there are strange stones, some like towers, some like palaces, some like giant statues, so many strange stones are naturally eroded by the wind, which makes people have to sigh at the magic of nature.

"Six miles away." Feiying took off the binoculars and said slowly, "There are too many strange rocks, which block the view, so I don't see the enemy." ”

When the bayonet heard this, he said, "Then send someone to investigate." ”

Hearing this, the cheetah nodded, and then said, "Zhang Han, when you go to investigate, you must be careful." ”

"Yes!" One of the special forces of the Cheetah team took the order and ran towards the Devil's City.

The Eagle watched him through his binoculars until he disappeared into the Devil's City.

After a long time, Zhang Han's figure appeared in the telescope again, left the Devil's City and began to run back, and soon, Zhang Han returned to the front of the team, and Feiying hurriedly asked, "How is the situation?" ”

Zhang Han reported: "Seven miles north after entering the Devil's City, there is a relatively tall palace-like hill, and there is a huge flat-shaped cave at the bottom of the palace-shaped hill, which can shelter from the wind, and the nest of horse thieves is in it. ”

"Okay." Hearing this, Feiying nodded and said, "In this rescue operation, the master has an explanation, and you can only outwit it, not forcefully, because it is too dangerous, and it is very likely to hurt the hostage's life, we had better disguise ourselves as horse thieves and blend in with horse thieves, and then act at the opportunity." ”

When the bayonet heard this, he said, "What the master said is indeed a good idea, so let our bayonet team go and mingle with the horse thieves." ”

Cheetah shook his head and objected: "No, there are too many people, when we were in Lantian, the master gave us a lesson in rescue tactics, blending into the enemy, it is appropriate to have two and three people, because there are few people and it is not easy to be exposed, and there are people who can take care of each other." ”

Flying Eagle thought about it when he heard this, nodded and said, "Get off the horse and formulate tactics." ”

In the Devil's City, there is indeed a huge palace-shaped hill, about three hundred meters high, about one mile wide, the bottom is hollowed out, forming a large groove hollow, it is simply a natural shelter, a group of horse thieves occupy here, build a camp in the cave, and also build a very thick windshield wall outside the hole, this wall is more than three meters high, more than five meters thick, not only blocking the wind, but also blocking all the enemies who want to invade, because this wall has no door at all, usually they want to enter and exit, they are all against the three springboards above the wall, Each springboard is five or six meters long, more than ten centimeters later, more than one meter wide, and a single springboard weighs thousands of pounds.

From the outside, this den of thieves is a castle that is impossible to conquer.

Devil's Town is a strong wind area, the perennial strong wind is raging, the surrounding strange rocks are numerous, during the day you can see those strange rocks and the sediment on the bottom of the lake above the hills, which makes people frightened and inexplicable, at night, these stone mounds are like the shadows of countless giant beasts under the moonlight, with the sound of the wind roar, making people shudder.

It is indeed very safe for that group of horse thieves to choose such a place as their lair, after all, ordinary people dare not approach such a terrifying place, and the name Devil's City is not for fun. However, Li Hao's special forces are not ordinary people, although this devil city makes people panic, but they don't care about it at all, they only have one thought in their hearts, rescue the hostages.

A group of black shadows shuttled through the hills, quickly approaching the horse thief's lair, and two horse thieves were patrolling back and forth on the wind wall more than ten meters long, although they occupied such a safe terrain, the vigilance of this group of horse thieves was still very high, which undoubtedly added difficulty to the rescue plan of the special forces.

Directly in the direction of the horse thief's lair, there is a tower-shaped stone mound, about ten meters high, thirty meters away from the wind wall, at this time, on the cliff behind this stone mound, a group of black shadows are on the edge of the rope, it is a member of the Flying Eagle Team.

After a long time, all nine members of the Flying Eagle team went up to this tower-shaped stone hill, and the Flying Eagle stood at the top and observed the horse thief's nest with a telescope, only to see that behind the wind wall was an empty martial arts training ground, behind the martial arts training ground was the hall, and the left and right sides of the hall were houses.

In addition to the two sentry posts above the wind wall, there were also four horse thieves standing guard in the martial arts training ground, there were many horse thieves drinking in the hall, and there were scantily clad orchids dancing in the hall, the scene was very lively, but unfortunately they were too far away, and the wind whistled constantly in the canyon, and they couldn't hear what the horse thieves were saying.

Feiying carefully observed for a moment, put down the binoculars, and said coldly: "Prepare the rope crossbow." ”

As soon as the words fell, the two special forces immediately took out a relatively large crossbow and assembled it, and after the assembly was completed, I saw that the crossbow was really big, one or two times larger than the kind of continuous fire fast crossbow they usually used, and the crossbow arms were nearly one meter and five long, this is the big crossbow specially designed by Li Hao for them, also known as the rope crossbow, although this crossbow is bulky and slow to load arrows, but there is a feature, the power is very large, Li Hao designed this crossbow not to kill, but specifically for shooting ropes.

There are often scenes of SWAT team actions in movies, and those SWAT officers have a crossbow that specializes in shooting rope forks, shooting rope forks into the wall, and then you can slide from one building to another through the sliding rope, and this rope crossbow designed by Li Hao is basically this function.

After tying the ropes to the arrows of the rope crossbow, the members of the Flying Eagles said, "Captain, it's okay. ”

The flying eagle took the crossbow, aimed for a moment, pulled the trigger, and the crossbow arrow shot out with a rope, cutting a beautiful arc, nailed to the cliff wall above the martial arts training ground, only more than three meters high from the ground, and in the dark corner on the left side of the hall entrance, this arrow shot simply perfectly.

There was a sound when the arrow was nailed into the stone wall, but because the noise in the hall was too loud, and there was the sound of wind howling outside, the four horse thieves standing guard in the martial arts training ground did not notice it at all.

The Flying Eagle asked the team members to straighten the rope with him, and then tied it to a thousand-pound boulder on the top of the mountain, and the "rope bridge" did just that.

Everyone took out their repeating crossbows, wound them, and then each took out an iron hook with a rope more than three inches long attached to the hook. "Action." The eagle took the lead in hooking the rope bridge with his hook, grabbed the hook with his left hand, and suddenly slid forward, and the whole person flew towards the horse thief's lair, and the other team members followed, and the nine people crossed the sky like ghosts, sliding down the rope to the horse thief's lair.