The mountain road was not as easy to walk as Meng Tian imagined, and after walking a short distance along the mountain road, everyone dismounted and led the horses forward, and continued to march towards the mountain along the trail.

The north of the eastern county is a mountainous area, and the south gate is a fertile plain, which is an important production area in the Central Plains. It is a pity that due to the rampant bandits in the mountains in recent years, although there are many people in the city, they are not rich, and many people have dragged their families to leave their hometowns and go to live elsewhere.

Continuing along the mountain road, the group walked for nearly half an hour, and finally came to a flat land, which is actually a palm-sized place in the middle of several mountain peaks. Fortunately, there is a mountain spring here for people and horses to rest.

"General, there are still more than thirty miles of mountain roads from the cottage. From here to the northwest is our cottage, to the southwest, past two peaks is another relatively powerful bandit cottage here. When they heard that the rebels were coming, they recruited their men among the robbers in the vicinity, and many of their former accomplices, who either envied the rhetoric of the rebels, or succumbed to their coercion, joined them, and I am afraid that the strength of this group of rebels is much stronger now than it was more than a year ago. Li Qing filled the water bladder with water and handed it to Meng Tian.

Meng Tian took the water bladder, took a sip of the sweet mountain spring, and said to Li Qing: "If I were the leader of that group of rebels, I would do the same." No matter how powerful the bandits are, they are still a group of bandits after all, just a rabble. Li Qing, let me ask you, you also slept in the Mengjia army camp yesterday, how do you feel about the military strength of the Mengjia army?"

Li Qing smiled embarrassedly, and then said to Meng Tian: "The Meng family army under the command of the general is naturally powerful, and the strength of the army is not known how many times stronger than the Qin army stationed in Dongjun that attacked us at the beginning, and it is more heaven and earth than us reckless people, and there is no comparison. ”

"It's nature. Meng Tian said, "Do you know how many military regulations there are in the Meng family?"

"The villain doesn't know. ”

"There are nine military regulations of the Mengjia army, each of which is divided into three detailed rules, which means that there are a total of 27 military regulations. Of the 27 Catch-laws, only five are guilty of crimes that are not punishable by death, and the remaining 22 are capital offenses for anyone who violates them. Meng Tian said.

Hearing that the Meng family army had such a military rule, and almost all of them were beheaded, Li Qing and several people who were used to idleness were taken aback. No wonder the Mengjia army is so strong, with such strict military regulations in front, no one dares to act disobeying military orders.

Meng Tian saw the expressions of several people in his eyes, smiled, and then said, "Relax, you are not a member of my Meng family's army now, so you don't need to know these things for the time being." The discipline of the Mengjia army is strict, but the conditions are also the best in the entire Daqin army, anyone who joins my Mengjia army, the family can be exempted from conscription, the tax is halved, and as long as it is more than five years in the Mengjia army, they can be discharged home by themselves, I will also give them generous settlement expenses, of course, they can also continue to choose to stay in the Mengjia army. ”

"General, why is that, why don't they want to go home?" asked one of them.

Meng Tian looked at this person and said to him: "My Great Qin is very generous for military merit rewards, according to the routine, killing five enemies on the battlefield can be promoted to a knighthood, if you have some ability, just fight a battle or two, you will be promoted from a commoner to a nobleman at once." And my Mengjia army has never been short of battles, do you know how many people there are in my Mengjia army now?"

Everyone shook their heads in disagreement.

Meng Tian stretched out three fingers and said: "300,000, the number of soldiers of the Meng family army will always remain at 300,000, among these 300,000 people, except for 50,000 newly promoted soldiers, the remaining 250,000 are almost all veterans who have experienced more than three wars. ”

Everyone has a new understanding of the military strength of the Mengjia Army in their hearts, and there are so many veterans who can experience more than three battles, and the prestige of the Mengjia Army is indeed not blown. This is not just the result of Meng Tian's reputation alone, it is the result of 300,000 people coming together. With these 300,000 people behind him, where can't the world go?

Everyone rested for a while, and was about to continue walking, when suddenly the person who was standing guard on the periphery came back and reported a message to Meng Tian and Li Qing: a rebel team appeared not far away and was advancing from another road to the cottage.

"How many of them are there?" Meng Tian asked.

"General Hui, there are nearly thirty or so people in total, five horses, each horse has something on it, it should be a team that has been going down the mountain to transport grain. The man in charge of the sentry said.

Meng Tian thought for a moment, and he said to Li Qing: "By the way, you said that these rebels used to recruit robbers from the surrounding mountains, and now they are still recruiting?"

Li Qing didn't understand what Meng Tian meant, and said: "This villain doesn't know either, the villain hasn't been in the mountains since he escaped from the cottage, so he doesn't know much about the situation in this area." ”

Meng Tian snorted, he looked down at the clothes he was wearing, today he came to inquire about the news and survey the terrain, Meng Tian specially asked Meng Li to prepare a few clothes for himself as a servant of the Orion in the mountains, and he also deliberately spent makeup before coming, unless he was with someone who was particularly familiar with him, I am afraid that no one would be able to recognize him.

"Li Qing, just now you said that there is a big cottage in the southwest, what is their relationship with these rebels?" Meng Tian suddenly thought about Li Qing and asked.

Li Qing was a little confused by what Meng Tian asked one after another, he thought for a moment and then said, "As far as the villain knows, the relationship between the two of them is not good. The cottage is probably the most powerful bandit we have here, there are nearly a thousand of them in the cottage, about the same strength as the rebels, and we used to know each other before. There is a rule here for robbery, that is, no matter which family makes the first move, as long as they succeed, then the rest of the robbers cannot attack this caravan, which is also to avoid the result of drying up and fishing. Their boss, Jibu, is a ruthless man who will never give in to others. ”

"So that's the case, then do you think it's not feasible for us to accompany Ji Bu's subordinates and pretend to join the rebels?" Meng Tian said his thoughts.

Li Qing was a little difficult, he didn't know whether Meng Tian's method would work or not, he had also done this thing to infiltrate the rebels, he knew what would happen after being discovered by the rebels, he had seen a good brother of his own being shot in the chest by one of the many masters of the rebels, and the bloody scene of this person being picked in the air, he was afraid that he would end up like this.

Meng Tian saw that Li Qing was a little troubled, so he asked, "What's the matter, don't you think it's okay?"

Li Qing raised his head and looked at Meng Tian, his eyes were a little red, and he said in a low voice: "The general's method is feasible, but these rebels are very cunning, I am afraid that if we lose our traces there, it will be difficult to escape at that time." ”

It turned out that Li Qing was worried about this, Meng Tian knew it in his heart, he patted Li Qing on the shoulder, and said, "Okay, I'm not difficult for you, but you can do me a favor." ”

"General, please. ”

Meng Tian summoned Li Qing and a few people over and said to them: "Wait a minute, you pretend to chase me and chase me all the way to that team, and then we will fake a fight, but you may have to suffer a little when you get there, are you willing?"

Everyone's hope for revenge was all tied to Meng Tian alone, although he didn't understand what the specific reason for him to do this was, but he must have his own reasons for doing this, so they all nodded.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Meng Tian continued: "When you get to those people, I will beat you away, and you will go to see Meng Li immediately after you go back, and then lead the scouts of the Meng family army here, and your task will be completed." ”

Li Qing was a little worried, he was afraid that Meng Tian was not familiar with the situation of the rebels and would be easily exposed, so he said: "General, let me go with you, I am familiar with the situation in the cottage, where we can take care of each other." ”

"That's naturally better, okay, those people will be away soon, let's act!"

"No. ”

"Catch them, don't let them run, the big boss said that there will be a big reward for catching the two of them! Chase them!" A voice suddenly sounded in the silent mountain forest, startling many birds.

The procession carrying food to the cottage stopped and looked in the direction from which the sound came. In the direction from which the voice came, the sound of weapons colliding suddenly sounded, which made the leader of this team unashamedly wary.

"Be careful, everyone who comes doesn't know if it's friend or foe, be careful and vigilant!" said the leader of the team.

The rest of the men took up their weapons and surrounded the horses carrying the grain, and then they all turned their backs together in a circle and watched vigilantly in the direction of the fight.

The two sides of the fight are naturally Meng Tian, Li Qing and the other six people, in order to prevent being seen through by the rebels, Meng Tian pretended to have a draw with these people, but Li Qing played a good role, blocking left and right, and from time to time Meng Tian needed to take out his sword to help him block it, and the battle between two people and six people was quite fierce.

"Leader Ji Bu said, catch these two traitors, each of them will be rewarded with five taels of gold, brothers, kill me!" One of them slashed at Li Qing's right arm, and 'almost' cut off Li Qing's right arm, but fortunately, Meng Tian pulled Li Qing 'in time' to save him from this difficulty.

"It turns out that these two people are Jibu's people, how can they be hunted down by their own people?" the leader of the rebel ranks wondered in his heart, and he decided to take another look.

The two people who were besieged by six people seemed to be gradually unable to resist the attack of the six people, and gradually fell behind. At this time, the weaker martial artist among the two people who were besieged said: "Ji Bu is tyrannical and impermanent, just because the two of us want to leave to join Qingfeng Village, he will kill the two of us, this kind of behavior is only for the villain!"

"Hmph, do you want to be a traitor? No way, die!" The attack of the six people was a little more fierce, and the two people who were surrounded in the middle were really unable to resist.

"Stop!" a loud shout sounded on the side, and then five or six people came out of the nearby mountain forest.