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"Deputy General, the bandits want to exchange twelve Hu merchants for Erlang of the Li family!" The soldier on duty at the front ran down to report, glancing at Li Erlang as he spoke: "Just now the bandits finally took action and escorted a Hu man. Out!"

Vice General Cao frowned, said to Li Erlang, "Wait here," and then followed the soldiers on duty to the bandit's base camp.

Several people holding torches stood on the top of the nearly twenty-foot-high wall. The bandit looked at the soldiers holding torches below and shouted to the leader, Vice General Cao: "Have you thought it through, general? I want one person." Or do you want twelve people?”

As the bandits waved their hands, the people below pushed a dozen blindfolded and gagged foreigners up, pushing them and half-hanging them on the edge of the wall. These people were horrified and screamed.

The firelight under the torch reflected faces that were different from those of the Li people. They were indeed foreigners.

The bandits looked down triumphantly, expecting that the soldiers below would be furious, but the expected situation did not happen. The leader, Deputy General Cao, did not panic at all. He only saw him holding his hands calmly, and the old god was saying: " Businessmen make a living with their heads in their belts, and they gamble with huge profits. They must have known the dangers before coming to Dali. I am a warrior, and I am not very good at arithmetic. How about you help me with the calculations, and one by one can eliminate the harm to the people? Is it more important to have a Dali boy who is a bandit on one side, or a group of people from a vassal state who are making money from Dali but disrupting the border while Dali is trying to eradicate bandits like you?"

After Lieutenant General Cao finished shouting a long paragraph in one breath, he still inevitably took a deep breath.

The bandits on the wall were asked and didn't know how to react for a moment. They looked at each other for a moment and then shouted: "General, are you going to keep Li Erlang?"

"As Dali people, you seem to think Li Erlang is more important!!"

The bandit choked again and was speechless.

Who said soldiers and ruffians can't talk? This man is very eloquent!

At this time, another bandit shouted: "The general doesn't want to change, so he is going to spend time with us? The county government also spent a lot of time with us some time ago. I don't know how long the general plans to spend with us this time." ?”

Lieutenant General Cao laughed loudly: "It doesn't take many days. You haven't gone down the mountain for a while. This time we will stay for ten days and eight days. Don't sleep too deeply at night. Touch the head on your neck." , be careful not to drop it!”

After saying that, he turned around and returned to the garrison below, leaving the soldiers on duty to take turns watching.

Time passed slowly, and they actually stayed in the mountains for three days!

The bandits said they would punish the foreigners leniently, but there was no movement. I don't know if the foreigners persuaded the bandits to exchange their lives for more valuables.

Lieutenant General Cao didn't care at all. It didn't mean that he didn't care about the lives of the people in the accident, but because of the situation at that time, he couldn't give in at all in terms of momentum. Although the foreigners were captured, they were only blindfolded and gagged when they were pushed against the wall. There were no injuries on their faces or bodies. It seemed that the foreigners were not stupid and knew how important it was to save their lives.

The current task is to suppress the bandits. As long as they find the water source on the Yaoshan Mountain, they can break the bandits' confidence.

The bandits showed up the night they went up the mountain, and then hid again.

On a scorching hot afternoon, the resting soldiers quietly walked down the mountain, took a dip in the river to relieve the heat, and then went up the mountain to change their posts after eating and drinking. Such a day was much more comfortable than guarding the deserted border.

Once the sun rises in the northwest, it scorches the earth. Staying in the mountains and forests is not pleasant. It is like staying in a steamer. You will be covered in stinky sweat after a while. If you stay for a long time without drinking water, you will easily suffer from heatstroke.

So Vice General Cao ordered that the guard duty should be changed every two hours. There were only three teams left on the mountain at the same time, led by three centurions. The other two teams went to bathe when they needed to take a bath, and went hunting when they needed to hunt.

On the first day of guarding the mountain, Li Erlang was still relatively cautious. After another day, he dared to run to the front of the stronghold with his knife in hand and follow the guard.

The young man was naturally very conspicuous among a group of weather-beaten men. The bandits on the wall recognized Li Erlang and soon shouted to Li Erlang: "Li Changxiang, I will kill you to pay homage to our dead brother!!"

Li Erlang was not afraid: "How can you take my life while hiding in there? It's really funny!"

The leader of the bandits smiled cunningly: "There are things you haven't seen before!"

Li Erlang stood at a low place and stared at a high place. Naturally, he was not trying to be a target. In order to guard against hidden arrows, some of the soldiers were in the open and some were in the dark, relying on trees or hiding behind rocks. Li Erlang took this opportunity to learn a lot of ambush and reconnaissance techniques from the soldiers. During the past three days, he did not feel hard at all, but rather enjoyed it.

There is another person in the mountains who doesn't feel hard at all - Ji Qingyue.

The longer Ji Qing stays in the painting, the more external changes will change his life in the painting.

When Li Erlang was on duty, he was burning bricks. When Li Erlang was confronting the bandits, he was harvesting the wheat he had planted in the previous batch. When Li Erlang was resting against a tree trunk, he was cooking a pot of boiled fish.

Although he wanted to let Li Erlang have a taste, conditions did not allow it, so he could only enjoy it alone with tears in his eyes.

Delicious!

What made him happiest was that the four cotton plants on the hillside grew almost like trees, with lush branches and leaves, which made the cotton plants on the top look a little pitiful.

Ji Qingyue picked the cotton, and the small ball of cotton in his hand looked stunted. It didn't look small because of the contrast, but it was just a tiny flower.

He immediately understood that all the nutrients of the cotton seemed to have been robbed by the branches.

In order to prove that the cotton was mature, Ji Qingyue waited until the cotton leaves began to wither before picking cotton. As a result, the picked cotton buds were balled up and could not even be filled in the palm of his hand. It turned out to be simple malnutrition.

There are about a dozen cotton flowers growing on each cotton tree, and there are seven or eight cotton seeds in the cotton. So this time, he harvested about two taels of cotton and nearly a hundred cotton seeds.

With this experience, Ji Qing knew more and more that next time he would prune the branches of the cotton, pinch off the underdeveloped cotton, and make way for nutrients for the normal cotton.

While the sun was shining, Ji Qingyue hurriedly dried the cotton seeds he picked out. He planned to grow a few batches before winter came and replace the stuffing in bedding and cotton clothes for his family. The stuffing used now is animal hair. Animal hair stuffing Not only do the clothes and quilts have a slight odor, but after a while, the filling inside becomes compacted and becomes neither soft nor warm.

Ji Qingyue was busy with things in the fields while paying attention to what was going on outside. It has been four days since he and Li Erlang came to the mountain. Do they still have to stand in front of the mountain stronghold to call for battle today?

On the fourth day of guarding the mountain, Li Erlang quietly climbed to the top of the towering tree while it was still dark in the woods before dawn.

If Ji Qingyue came out at this time, he would definitely be shocked by this amazing height!

Li Erlang's height was almost at the same level as the top of the stone wall. Although he could not see directly over the wooden wall into the camp at this height, it had made up for the 11-20-foot gap between him and the mountain wall. This was what he found. The tallest tree.

He used the leaves as cover and the tree trunks as a block. While he was on guard against sneak attacks, he could easily see more things in the cottage.

Li Erlang had branches and leaves tied around his body and stood motionless on the top of the tree, holding on to the trunk. He focused his gaze on the slightest movement in the cottage through the gaps between the wooden walls.

It can be seen from the gap that the land close to the wall in the village has indeed been reclaimed into farmland. These farmlands are reclaimed in stages based on the mountain tops, rising step by step like stairs. In the early morning, there are already many shadowy figures standing on the ground. , it seems that women and children are working in the fields.

Li Erlang kept changing his gaze at the small area on the top of the tree, observing carefully. For several hours, the sun rose high and illuminated the land without tree shade on the mountain. Many bandits were still chatting and laughing inside the wall. Discussing, planning, arranging.

He smiled and slowly climbed down the tree. It should be almost time, maybe there will be new news tonight.

In the forest, the soldiers changing the guard took several turns. The day was finally coming to an end, and the sky slowly dimmed again.

The soldiers on duty changed guard again. Li Erlang looked at these familiar soldiers and felt funny in his heart.

In the past few days, Vice General Cao only occasionally appeared in front of the bandits, and symbolically shouted to the bandits to persuade them to surrender. He did not pay attention to the attitude of the bandits. As soon as he finished speaking, he left without showing a single expression.

Lieutenant General Cao left only 300 soldiers to act as 500 soldiers in the woods to build momentum, and it seemed to be very successful.

The bandit Jing didn't know that there were no more 500 soldiers in the forest, and Li Erlang couldn't tell where the 200 soldiers who had been transferred had gone, but he had already guessed what Vice General Cao had asked these people to do!

Maybe tonight is the time to find out!

The soldiers who were resting during the day caught fish in the river and carried dozens of fish up the mountain, so they had a delicious meal of grilled fish around the campfire.

As the night progressed, everything seemed to be no different from the previous few days. Ji Qingyue had gone to bed early after working all day. Suddenly he heard a cry, very far away, and it didn't seem to come from Li Erlang's camp.

After Ji Qingyue was awakened, he walked towards the bridge wearing a loose T-shirt and cloth shoes.

The camp was quiet, and the shouts were not from the soldiers suppressing the bandits. Ji Qingyue knew that Li Erlang must be carrying the painting on his back, so he did not dare to ask out loud even if he had doubts.

After the shouting, there was an angry curse, no matter how dirty it was, it sounded like that group of bandits.

What's going on here?

No matter how much the bandits scolded them, the soldiers in the forest remained motionless and stayed in the camp without saying a word. Each one of them was already in combat mode, holding the hilt of their swords to guard against sudden bursts of bandits.

Ji Qing listened more and more. After listening for a while, he still didn't hear what the bandit was cursing. I wondered if they had done something disgusting to the bandits and made them jump in anger?

Not to mention Ji Qingyue, the three hundred soldiers who stayed on the mountainside at this time did not know why the bandits suddenly became angry. Vice General Cao had an order to prepare to attack the camp immediately if the bandits made any changes!

A few days ago, Vice General Cao ordered that one hundred soldiers appear in front of the bandit camp every two hours every day to call for formation. One hundred soldiers were stationed in the camp waiting for rotation, and the remaining one hundred were responsible for building momentum. There must be 500 people on the mountain. He took away two hundred soldiers and sneaked into Lancang Mountain quietly.

As mentioned before, Lancang Mountain is a dividing line that can block the intrusion of Uighurs. The height and width of the mountain cannot be measured in feet. The scenery and even climate on Lancang Mountain are different from those on the plains. The mountain is so big that when people walk in, it looks like a mountain. A drop of water falls into the sea.

Lieutenant General Cao was the first to not believe that there were no bandits in Lancang Mountain, which was so wide.

Hidden in the precipitous Lancang Mountain, the advantage is that it is not easy to be discovered. At the same time, it takes more effort to carry heavy objects such as food. Relying on abandoned mountain roads for transportation is okay, but it is easy to be tracked, so bandit dens can only be set up in places where mountain roads are not accessible. Various obstacles make transportation even more difficult.

As I said before, the scenery on the mountain is very different at every distance from Lancang Mountain. Some are full of trees, and some are so dry that there are only stones.

It happens that this section of Lancang Mountain behind Yaoshan Mountain is covered with trees. You must know that there is a dry river valley under the cliff, indicating that no rivers pass through this mountain range.

And Lancang Mountain is actually lush with trees!

No matter how impossible it is, the water on Juishan Mountain most likely comes from Lancang Mountain behind it.

There is a spontaneous water source on Lancang Mountain, which may be mountain springs or cave water. In short, this water source can keep the trees on the mountain fully hydrated when it does not rain for a long time, and it can also support Yaoshan.

The night before, Lieutenant General Cao groped in the dark and led nearly five hundred people to surround the entire hill. After squatting for several days and nights, he finally locked onto and captured a dozen sneaky black figures.

Panting heavily, Li Changji followed Deputy General Cao up the mountain several hundred meters high as soon as night fell. He didn't have a moment to rest, and finally gained something. Their days of crouching and exploration were not in vain.

They have reached a position above the halfway point of Lancang Mountain. The pursuit in the mountains and forests is extremely exhausting, even for Lieutenant General Cao, who is used to training troops.

The people who were caught were obviously in shock and looked in disbelief. The information they received was clearly not like this...

"You... how are you... on the mountain!!" They are clearly at the bottom of the mountain! How come they all suddenly appeared on the mountain!

Deputy General Cao asked someone to light a fire stick, and a little light revealed his proud expression under his unshaven beard. They spent so much effort to catch more than a dozen bandits belonging to different villages in order to let the bandits in Yaoshan feel the atmosphere of despair. .

"Of course I know that we have been under your surveillance. You don't think what you see is real, do you? We have all been in the barracks for training before. Haven't you ever heard of using the enemy's tactics?" Vice General Cao stopped talking nonsense and directly ordered them all to be captured. Take him down the mountain so that the people on Juishan can take a good look at him. Who wouldn't be able to take hostages hostage?

Then he led a group of soldiers to a cave. The cave did not appear to be naturally formed, and there were many traces of artificial excavation.

The cave was well hidden. Vice General Cao stood at the entrance of the cave and looked towards Mount Yaoshan. He immediately felt that the location of the cave was very wonderful. Not only was it opposite to Mount Yaoshan, but it was only thirty feet away from the top of Mount Yaoshan.

The cave is high and the mountain is low.

The water flows downwards, wonderful and wonderful! !

The water in the cave is gurgling, and the sound is not very loud, but it has formed a line of water columns.

He held up the fire stick and huddled into the cave to check, and found that there were many hollowed-out bamboos in the cave. There were a lot of bamboos, each one four or five feet long, and hundreds of them were piled on the ground.

The bamboo is not thick, only as thin as a baby's wrist. It is piled in a dry place in the hole and is obviously cherished by the user.

After checking the bamboo on the ground, Vice General Cao looked at the most conspicuous thing in the cave, and noticed something he had noticed outside the cave.

It was several bamboos hanging horizontally in a row in the air. The bamboos were connected end to end, and one after another connected to form a passage several hundred feet long.

water channel.

Of course, the bamboo will not hang in the air out of thin air. Vice General Cao reached out and touched it, and sure enough he found an iron rope as thick as a finger on the bamboo. The bamboo was hung on the iron rope, one after another.

It leads all the way to the top of Yaoshan Mountain on the opposite side.

This is how water is transported from Lancang Mountain to Yaoshan Mountain!

If no one saw it with their own eyes, no one would believe that water could be transported like this!

The guesses in Fang Ying'an and Li Erlang's minds were indeed verified.

Water does not come from the earth and underground, it can only come from the sky.

The bandits on both sides took advantage of the darkness to connect bamboo pipes and lead the water to Yaoshan. They recovered the bamboo pipes before dawn. They could also transport other items through the steel cables.

The bandits from both sides actually cooperated in this way.

Lieutenant General Cao felt his eyes were opened again.

He did not let anyone destroy the iron chain, but left someone to guard it and report it to the superior.

As for how they confirmed the location of the cave, it was all thanks to Li Erlang. It was Li Erlang's horrifyingly meticulous observation skills that described the trajectories of people's movements in Lancang Mountain. He was able to roughly determine where they needed to sneak into and lay an ambush in advance.

Li Changji and the others did indeed stay at the foot of the cliff on the first day, but the soldiers received an order from Vice General Cao, asking him to bring enough people with him. They must infiltrate and lurk halfway up the mountain before dawn, and they were not allowed to let the bandits on Yaoshan Mountain notice anything unusual. .

I was hiding in the grass forest at the foot of the mountain. It was not easy to leave!

Li Changji led others to tie up the straw man and put clothes on the straw man to replace himself, and he could quietly climb the mountain under the cover of night.

After forcing more than a dozen bandits down the mountain, Lieutenant General Cao couldn't help but sigh. This cave plan is really brilliant and well hidden. When he is not carrying water, he uses grass branches to block the sound of running water and blocks the entrance of the cave with stones. Finally, he smeared mud and fallen leaves on the stone. If it was properly covered, he wouldn't be able to find it even if he passed by the entrance of the cave.

This cave was the second magical cave he had ever seen!

Seriously, wonderful seconds!