Chapter 176: A Deal in a Corner of the Mountain
When Jiang Ming returned to the military camp in Wohua Mountain, he hurriedly distributed the red phosphorus pill to Luo Hu and the others, and no one knew what miracle effect a sky-high pill of three million silver had, but everything had to wait for Liang Jin, Luo Hu, Chu Hong, and Huanziyu to recover from their injuries before it was revealed. But when Jiang Ming and Lin Han came to Meng Lang's tent, they wanted to use the Red Phosphorus Pill to recover Meng Lang's injuries first, and then let the tea refiner of the Qianfeng Inn treat him, which should be beneficial to the treatment efficiency.
"Are the Five Commanders resting now?"
The guard in front of the camp said: "I have already sent food in an hour ago, and the five commanders have not moved since they used the food, it is estimated that it is ......."
Jiang Ming vaguely felt that something was not right, so he walked over directly and opened the tent curtain, but he found that Meng Lang was no longer in the tent, he looked at Lin Han, Lin Han suddenly shouted at the soldiers: "This is what you say, I want to ask, what about others?"
The guard immediately knelt on the ground, his face was terrified, and said: "My subordinates don't know, there was no movement from the five commanders at this time a few days ago, so I didn't pay too much attention to it, the five commanders were probably just walking around the camp......"
Lin Han said angrily: "He is infected with the epidemic now, he knows his own situation, he definitely does not want to transmit the disease to us, and it is almost impossible to stay in the barracks." I didn't come to check on the affairs of the army in the first half of the day, I didn't expect you to be so negligent!"
Jiang Ming said indifferently: "Lin Han, forget it, with the strength of Meng Lang's eighth-stage position, it is not very difficult for him to find a vacancy to escape, we were too negligent before, it is imperative to get him back, the old tea refiner of the Qianfeng Inn should be here soon, and he must not let go of this opportunity." ”
Lin Han sighed lightly, dispersed the guards, and said in a low voice: "We have found so many doctors who can't treat his epidemic, and he is probably also cold, probably thinking that no one can cure this disease, and staying in the barracks will only harm us, so he made up his mind to escape from the barracks, as for where he will go, no one knows." ”
Jiang Ming nodded and said, "Do you think Meng Lang's character will directly assassinate the generals of the Qin army?"
Lin Han pondered: "It's very possible to say this, but I don't think so, when he stayed in the barracks, in order to trouble us, he dragged his injured body to bandage his wounds, although his illness was already very serious, but his head was very clear." If he wanted to die with one of the generals of the Qin army, he would naturally leave us a letter to prevent us from running around for his affairs. And he is now seriously injured and not healing, and he has an epidemic in his body, at most, he can only make two moves with the usual seventh-rank martial artists, and it is impossible to kill the eighth-rank martial arts master, he should also know these very well, if he fails and is captured, his plan will be frustrated, he has always understood things, and he should not do such a stupid thing. ”
Jiang Ming said: "This is the only way out of the camp that a normal person can think of, if he didn't go to Qin Jun, then where would he go?"
Lin Han said: "The first possibility is the northern mountains and forests, because his three lieutenants were all damaged there, and his five thousand battalion soldiers have not survived, he is very likely to go to mourn, the first battle of the northern mountains and forests is the biggest defeat he has ever experienced, he is a person who has rarely been defeated in battles, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is proud, it is very likely that this matter cannot make him linger." The second possibility is that he was desperate and could not find a doctor to treat him, and he knew that he might soon have a seizure until he died like his battalion, so he simply left us without any trouble and left alone. ”
Jiang Ming said: "The second possible meaning is that he is very likely to commit suicide?"
Lin Han said: "It should be impossible to commit suicide, I know him, although sometimes he is a little impatient, but it is impossible to choose this path." We have all been honed in many life-and-death battles, and until the last step, even if death is behind us, we will not end our lives by ourselves. Even if you stand on the edge of hell, you may have a chance to live, but if you really give up on yourself, then you really have no chance. ”
Jiang Ming said: "According to this statement, we have to divide our troops into two routes, one team goes to the northern mountains and forests, and the other team searches on the roads around here. ”
Lin Han said apologetically: "I will transfer a team of mountain and forest armor soldiers to you, and I still have to take care of the Gu military camp, so you can only go to a farther place to find it." ”
"It's fine. Jiang Ming nodded, and was about to go to the camp tent to get the halberd, when he suddenly remembered something, and said with some distress: "Since Meng Lang is gone, why did he take my jade Ruyi with him?"
Lin Han suddenly asked, "That jade Ruyi is very important?"
Jiang Ming said: "Can make a person invincible, do you say it's important?"
Lin Han asked again: "That's all?"
Jiang Ming said again: "It was sent by a senior." ”
Lin Han said: "Is there any other meaning?"
Jiang Ming said helplessly: "Your method of trying to trick me is really clumsy. Well, that jade ruyi is really important, at least for many years to come, I will have to carry it with me, although it may not be useful for a while, but once something happens, it will be related to the lives of two people. "The lives of the two people do not include himself, just Yequan and Lin Shi.
Lin Han was slightly surprised, and said, "Then you must not lose it, hurry up and set off to find Mengzi!"
Although Jiang Ming felt that Lin Han's words were a little strange, he couldn't say what was strange, so he just regarded it as an illusion and went to his camp. After that, the two armies of the military camp were transferred, one launched a search near the Jiaozhi Plain, and the other went deep into the Jiaozhi Mountains, led by Jiang Ming. On the hill a few miles outside the military camp in Wohua Mountain, several cloth clothes pretending to be ordinary people sentry slowly showed their heads.
"Did you see it clearly, as General Pingwen expected, they really came out of the camp. ”
"Boss, what should we do? Shall we report to the general now?"
"Wait a little longer, and when you are sure that they have no other tricks, you will go and keep up with Jiang Ming's team, and then guess that the patrol time difference of this team will be deduced, and I will personally report to General Pingwen and lead the army to capture Meng Lang alive. ”
Jiang Ming led this team forward, and after passing through the Jiaozhi Mountains, he felt more and more that something was wrong, although the armored soldiers he led should be suitable for fighting in the mountains and forests, but after Jiang Ming asked, he found that there were many archers of the eighth battalion among them.
"Since you want to give me a mountain and forest armor soldier, why do you send more than half of the archers? According to my understanding of the troops, in addition to serving as counterattack and ambush tasks in large-scale operations, archers also serve as encirclement and suppression duties in small operations, and for long-range search for targets, the physical fitness of archers is undoubtedly weaker than that of ordinary armor soldiers. ”
Jiang Ming was puzzled by this, he could only think that Jiang Ming was not very good at the transfer of troops, but he stopped and thought about it, he has not recovered from his injuries now, although only he and Lin Han, two martial arts masters in the military camp now, can exert their strength, but for the matter of searching for targets, even Du Henghe and Feng Qing must have no problem, why let him personally lead the troops?
Jiang Ming felt the injuries in his body, although he had been treated by the uninterrupted Huangyuan Ding Agitation the night before, but he still did not recover much strength, and now he can exert three or four percent of his combat power is already good, if he can continue to use agitation means to recover, from today to tomorrow afternoon, I am afraid that he will be able to completely heal his injuries, so that there is also a lot of victory rate for the predicted battle.
"By the way, the big war?" Jiang Ming suddenly remembered that there was still an important matter, if he went to the northern mountains and forests, what would he do with the Wohua Mountain military camp? Meng Lang was important, but if he gave up the protection of the Wohua Mountain military camp because of this, then Liang Jin, Chu Hong and the others would fall into a huge crisis, and his mission this time was a little meaningless. Jiang Ming said to himself: "Lin Han didn't say anything about the big war when he sent me the mission, he naturally wouldn't forget such an important matter, so why did he transfer me out of the barracks?"
Jiang Ming suddenly slapped his head suddenly, feeling that he was a little sluggish, and immediately smiled, and said: "I see, it seems that I was a little confused by the words of Chang An and Yang Tafeng today, but fortunately, it is not too late." ”
At this moment, he felt as if a pair of eyes were staring at him and his team, and he immediately became interested, said a little explanation to the captain, and left his team. After a short while, Jiang Ming came out of the woods and said to the captain: "Pass my order, the whole army will hide in the mountains and forests and withdraw quickly." 360 Literature Network
The lieutenant said, "General, why did you suddenly give this order? Aren't we going to search for the traces of the five commanders?"
Jiang Ming smiled faintly and said, "I have already found him." ”
Later, the captain sent someone to find three corpses in the woods, all three of them were dressed in cloth, but they followed behind this team, which showed that they were not good people. From the short knives and other items they carried, it was enough to judge that they were the sentinels of a certain force, and they were killed after being discovered by Jiang Ming, and Jiang Ming was therefore more sure of his speculation.
"Lin Han, you are now in control of the entire battalion, and you even want me to play a game of chess, although I am not very smart, but I don't happen to be very stupid, I already know your plan. ”
In the corner of the Jiaozhi Mountains, you can see the camp like black dots, but because of the woods here, you can't see the characters here at all. On weekdays, there must be many spies in Wohua Mountain to monitor the Quartet, but today I don't know why, the woods and stones here are very lonely.
A figure slowly walked from the plain, wearing a black cloth cloak, his face could not be seen clearly, and he walked very slowly, as if because of the wounds on his body, and also because the sun of the day was really a bit scorching, and the speed of his walking made people look extremely anxious.
He came to the woods, looked around, and shouted casually without reply, he coughed twice, stretched out his blistered palm, wiped it, and said, "Whether you will appear or not, I will stand here and count three times, and if no one comes, I will leave." ”
"Three!"
The breeze blew, not cool, but rather as if it had ignited the dry air.
"Two!"
The scorching heat burned people's skin, and it seemed that the leaves on the trees were beginning to shrink weakly.
"One!"
Meng Lang turned around and walked towards the Wohua Mountain military camp without a trace of hesitation.
"The five commanders are slow, and they have been waiting for a long time in the next leveling text. ”
Meng Lang turned around again, and saw more than a dozen people walking slowly at the end of the woods, the leader of which was in armor and holding a long black iron knife, looking particularly majestic.
Meng Lang took off his cloak, revealing the flesh and skin on his body that had begun to rot, he was naked, and said in a cold voice: "What do you mean, since you invited me to come, but you didn't show up quickly, is this a test of my patience?"
Jiao Pingwen looked at Meng Lang's terrifying appearance, there was no doubt in his eyes, and he didn't seem to hear the unkindness in Meng Lang's words, and said: "This epidemic is really terrifying, a tall and handsome young general from before was tortured into such a non-human and ghostly appearance, I think those brothers who are not the five commanders have been looking for doctors for you, using various drugs to help you suppress and delay the onset of the epidemic, I'm afraid you should have died a long time ago, right?"
Meng Lang said: "Don't talk this nonsense, if you hadn't said that there was a cure for the epidemic on my body, and you wanted me to exchange my cold saw Kunwu knife with Hanzi's silver-white brake spear, I would never have had contact with the people of Daming Cave." At that time, the general base of your Daming Cave was in the northern mountains and forests, when the epidemic broke out and killed many people, your Daming Cave was almost wiped out by this epidemic because of the late prevention, if it were not for this historical experience, I really wouldn't believe that you have a way to cure the epidemic. ”
Jiao Pingwen said with a smile: "Of course it can be cured, that period of history is true or false, my Daming Cave can survive that disaster, of course, it is not luck, if it weren't for the fact that there is a doctor in my army, maybe I would have died like you back then." He can indeed cure the epidemic, but I am hesitant now, after curing you, you are still a person from Wohua Mountain, or our enemy, didn't my behavior set up a powerful enemy for my Daming Cave?"
Meng Lang said: "You don't have to have other ideas, I, Meng Lang and my brothers live and die together, and I will never take refuge in your Daming Cave and Wohua Mountain as enemies, you should dispel this idea." I'm here to make a deal with you, you want these two weapons, I'll give them to you, you tell me the right way to cure the plague, we have nothing to do with each other from now on, and we will still meet in the future in the form of war, and I will get these two weapons back. ”
Jiao Pingwen breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "I don't have any doubts when the Five Commanders say this, I thought that the Five Commanders wanted to wipe me out, after all, this is your Wohua Mountain's territory, how can I not be guarded? If you take the opportunity to say that you want to take refuge in my Daming Grotto, or if you forget to say that you want to get your weapon back, I have to suspect that you have other thoughts, after all, Meng Lang, who values love and righteousness, will not turn against his brother for his own life, this is what you said to Lord Poison Longzi last year. And this cold saw kunwu of yours is a treasure knife, you have always cherished it as your own siblings, if you don't swear to get it back, it doesn't look like your style. I've already looked around and there's no one else following you, so we can rest assured of this deal. ”
Meng Lang snorted coldly and said, "You Daming Grottoes are really a bunch of cowardly guys with rat heads and snake tails, and you are so cautious that you are really embarrassed to be in Daming Grotto." In vain, you are still an eight-stage martial arts master, and it is a bit despicable to treat a seriously injured military general with such behavior. ”
Jiao Pingwen frowned, and said: "Fifth Commander, this is not to blame, I also have no way, be cautious in order to live longer, don't blame you, we will start the transaction immediately." ”
Meng Lang said: "My weapons are real, I can see them at a glance, but I don't know if your treatment method is true or false, if you want to trade fairly, you have to read that method to me first, I still know some medical knowledge, if you want to use ordinary pharmacies to coax me, then you don't want to get anything." ”
Jiao Pingwen took out a note from his arms and said with a smile: "Of course not, the prescription was written by that superb doctor, and hundreds of people who have saved me in Daming Cave will naturally not be fake, if you want to verify it, I will read it to you first." ”
"The plague is made by ghosts and gods, yin and yang are out of place, and when the cold and heat are wrong, they are born with evil spirits. The common people get it, one person to one family, the light one is eight or nine, and the heavy one is one or two, and within the realm, the rate is like this. There are three ways to deal with it: it is advisable to make up, it is appropriate to disperse, and it is appropriate to descend. The summary is to wash the five organs, prevent the season, and adjust the yin and yang ......"
After a long time, Jiao Pingwen's narration came to an abrupt end, and he smiled: "Most of the content has been told, and then reading it is all the treatments, I don't know if the Five Commanders have eliminated doubts?"
Meng Lang thought about it a lot, and felt that the symptoms were very similar to the epidemic, and the general conditioning methods were also in line with medical theory, so he believed it, so he said: "In this case, you give me the prescription, and I will give you two weapons, and we will trade at the same time, and we are not afraid of who will make trouble, how about it?"
Jiao Pingwen said: "Then as you say, go on!"
The prescription was thrown out at that moment, and the cold saw Kunwu knife and the silver and white brake spear also flew out, and the two of them caught the trading items, and after each verified it, they both showed happy expressions.
"Sure enough, it's a silver and white brake spear and a cold saw Kunwu knife, Meng Lang thank you for sending troops to me, but in order to prevent you from leaking this deal, I'll kill you on the spot!"
"Shoot the arrows!"
I saw more than a dozen archers emerge from the woods at some point, and with the order of Pingwen, the feather arrows broke through the air, and Meng Lang looked at this sudden scene, his face was hideous.
"Jiao Pingwen, you can't die well!"