For more than ten years, brothers and sisters, the sky is different, one is in the capital to think hard, the other is born and died at the border, although they are thousands of miles away, but they are through the heart and support each other, and now they are finally close at hand, a thousand words seem to be suddenly no longer needed, Yan Zichen strode over, and a bear hugged his eldest brother into his arms.

Yan Qi saw that Yan Zike's heels had been pulled off the ground by his brother, and his ribs had been broken twice......

"Yes, it doesn't look old!" Yan Zichen let go of his brother and looked at his face with a smile.

"Hehehe. Yan Zike also looked at his brother happily, "Thank you for your hard work." ”

In a simple four words, only these two people can best understand the taste of this.

"When will you arrive in Saibei?" Yan Zichen said, taking his brother to the stone table, and did not forget to grab the back of his daughter's head and bring it over.

"A few days ago. Yan Zike said, "I have taken a step ahead, and it will take a while for the follow-up Holy Orders and other new officials to arrive one after another, before that, how is the deployment for Yao Lida?"

Saying that the people had arrived at the table, Yan Zichen's subordinates hurriedly got up and saluted, and Yan Zichen waved his hand: "It's okay here, let's go back and rest, let people get two jars of good wine and roast a sheep!"

The two brothers of the Yan family sat down at the table as they spoke, and Yan Qi and Yizhi took out the mooncakes they brought and stacked them on the table.

"It's a matter of time before Yao Lida is taken," Yan Zichen then asked Yan Zike, "The difference is that it's just sooner or later." This iron mine Yao Lida has always not allowed outsiders to enter, so there is no way to know the terrain and layout, I have taken people to the top of the mountain to look down, see that the valley has been completely transformed by Yao Lida, not to mention that the surrounding mountain wall is steep and can not climb, Yao Lida is not sparing manpower and material resources in the mountain wall nailed into the hard and sharp iron cone and the iron net full of iron thorns, and there is also a watchtower in the valley, day and night to closely monitor the valley top around, so it is impossible to go down from the top of the mountain to the valley, we have tried to break through the hard break, but also tried to sneak attack, all in vain, the current situation is that our army can not break in, Yao Lida can not break through, the two sides formed a stalemate。 ”

"What if you attack down from the top of the valley with a swallow's crossbow or trebuchet?" said the swallow.

"It can't," said Yan Zichen, "this iron mine is very large, and the range of the Yanzi's strong crossbow can't reach the middle area, and the trebuchet can't, and Yao Lidan's old fox has also set up a lot of obstacles in the valley to block the arrow path and block the projectile, and has erected an iron fence around their camp, so that we can't even detect the internal situation." ”

"Oh, it's tricky. Yan Zike nodded.

I haven't seen each other for more than ten years, and the first time the brothers met was to talk about business first, and the old link was skipped directly, and Yan Qi was also amazed when he watched from the side.

After talking about the wine for a while, the little soldier who delivered the wine also brought three large bowls over, and even Yan Qi's share was counted, Yan Zichen patted the mud seal of one of the jars, and poured the three bowls full, one bowl was pushed to Yan Zike, one bowl was put in front of him, and the other bowl was given to the minors present without hesitation.

"Saibei's drunkenness is enough!" Yan Zichen picked up the bowl and looked at his brother with a smile, "Can you do it?"

"Hehe......" Yan Zike stretched out his long fingers like bamboo knots and picked up the wine bowl in front of him, "Don't forget, more than ten years ago, I also came to Saibei. ”

"Hey!" Yan Zichen raised her eyebrows, "!"

As soon as the brothers touched the bowl, they each poured wine on their necks, how big was the mouth of the sea bowl, while the two of them poured it, the wine slipped down from their mouths and fell into their necks, and they didn't know if they were infected by the rough temperament of the north, and even Yan Zike, who had always been bright and beautiful, didn't pay attention to these.

Yan Zichen first killed a bowl, smiled and wiped the wine on the back of his cheeks, and then saw his eldest brother put down the bowl, and easily took the white and fragrant soft handkerchief handed by his daughter and pressed it on the corner of his mouth.

"...... "Is there any personal service at any time?" and then lowered his eyes to look at the back of his wet hand...... From being a soldier to the present, whether it is eating meat and drinking wine, or wiping blood and tears, I have always used this hand, and I don't feel anything wrong with the back of this hand, but why do you feel so desolate today, so desolate?!

Then he realized that his daughter was sitting on the other side of the stone table, next to her uncle, as if she was a guest - this girl had been in the Yan family army for many days, so she left her father's comradeship behind?

As a result, this little bit is quite generous as a "guest", got up and poured wine for the brothers, one bowl per person, and put the food box containing moon cakes between the two: "First pad the food and then drink the bar, the uncle has not eaten dinner yet." ”

"Oh, I heard Wuzhi say that you made this mooncake yourself?" Yan Zike poked his shoulder and looked into the food box.

"There are your favorite puff pastry mooncakes, this one is pretzel and hundred fruits, this one is puff pastry mixed with jasmine, and this one is milky egg yolk. Yan Qi pointed him out.

Yan Zike stretched out his hand and took out a jasmine filling, took a bite first, tasted it carefully, and turned his face to look at Yan Qi: "Very good." ”

"yes. Yan Qidao raised his eyes and glanced at the other side, "Dad also taste it, what kind of stuffing do you like to eat?"

"......" Yan Zichen propped his elbows on the table and rubbed his chin with his hands, "You did it?"

"That's right, I just started learning it today, and that's it, do you dare to try one?"

"Ha! My daughter's cooking, even this stuffing is sandwiched with arsenic, and Frost Laozi has to eat eight in a row!" Yan Zichen reached over, grabbed a big yellow moon cake, and opened his mouth to bite most of it, "Hmm! Not bad! Delicious! What kind of stuffing?"

"......" Yan Qi looked at her father's mouth speechlessly, "Meat floss...... Don't be in a hurry, beware of choking. ”

"I can't choke, there is wine, come and come, girl, it's a big holiday, drink one with my father!" Yan Zichen picked up the bowl.

"I'll drink with Uncle first. But his daughter picked up the bowl and went to the uncle to clink glasses.

The reason is also such a reason, the young and the old are orderly, and the toast is, of course, to the elders first...... Yan Zichen put down the wine bowl and ate the remaining half of the moon cake in his hand in two bites, what kind of stuffing is coming?

Saibei's wine stamina is sufficient, and the stamina is not weak, Yan Qi didn't dare to do it in one go, he drank a few sips and put it down, and he had to pad some freshly roasted mutton, and the brothers next to him entered the topic of work again, Yan Zike said: "Yao Lida's dead soldiers have caught a few in the city, but since they are dead soldiers, it is difficult to ask anything from their mouths." If these dead soldiers don't return for a day, Yao Lida's suspicion will increase, so if you want to do it, you must do it as soon as possible, otherwise the secret passage will become an ornament and a waste in vain. ”

"I think so too," Yan Zichen said, "It's just that there is no way to find out the details of the valley, and Yao Lida is not afraid of us surrounding the valley, which means that he should have a back hand." I led people to turn over the vicinity of this valley inch by inch more than ten times, and did not find any other exits, but if there is an underground passage leading to other places, it is not easy to find, but I have people patrol every day within a radius of 100 miles centered on this valley, even if there is a secret passage, Yao Lida is not so easy to escape. ”

Yan Zike nodded slightly: "The underground in this area is full of rocks, and it is not so easy to dig a dark passage, but Yao Lida has been here for more than 20 years, and if he really tries to find a way out for himself, it is not impossible to build a secret passage that is hundreds of miles long." ”

"This radius of 100 miles is a rocky mountain in addition to the sandy land, and if it is farther away, it is the boundary of the barbarians to the north, and it is impossible for Yao Lida to repair the back road to that side, to the south is the wind slaughter city, there is already a dark road, to the east is the desert, to the west is the mountain, if Yao Lida considers that one day it will be surrounded in the iron mine, if you build an escape tunnel, you should go to the place where you can survive, and the south leads to the wind slaughter city, this is one of the ways to survive, and if there are other secret roads, it should also be the second choice to survive, east, west, Compared with the three sides of the north, probably only the mountainous area in the west is conducive to his escape, but the western mountainous area is not only steep, but also all stone mountains, and the grass and trees on the mountains are not growing, even if he escapes to the mountains, he is afraid that he will not be able to last long, so I doubt ......" Yan Zichen said and raised his eyes to look at Yan Zike, "Secretly, there is only one that leads to the Wind Slaughter City." The so-called Yao Lida's backhand is just a backhand for his own escape, such a narrow secret passage, it is absolutely impossible for his army of personal soldiers to escape from it, but if only let him and his secret guards escape, it is relatively easy. ”

"Yao Lida probably never thought that he would lose control of the Wind Slaughter City," Yan Zi dusted off the crispy dregs of the moon cake crust that fell on his clothes, and lifted his legs with the hem of his clothes, "In the worst plan conceived in his mind, the soldiers of the imperial court to surround him in the Wind Slaughter City is the worst situation he can fall in, after all, the Wind Slaughter City is his foundation, and he can't lose this city if he loses anything, so what is the effect of this underground tunnel......

"It's not to get back to Wind Slaughter City from the Iron Mine—" Yan Zichen said.

"Instead, it's used to get from Wind Slaughter to the Iron Mines. Yan Zike smiled, "Yao Lida's personal soldiers are disguised as craftsmen who open the mine and hide in the mine, once the wind slaughters the city is besieged, Yao Lida can immediately send people to the iron mine through the secret passage, and the pro-soldiers in the mine can be armed out of the valley when they get the order, and attack the besieging imperial army from the outside, and Yao Lida's defending army in the city should be combined with the outside to break the imperial army, and the reason why the secret passage is set in the Yongle Tower is also Yao Lida's prudence, to prevent the spies from being mixed around, it is not good to put this last life-saving straw in his general army's mansion- From this point of view, there is only this dark passage between the iron mine and the Wind Slaughter City. ”

The two brothers got together and sorted out their thoughts while chatting.

"That is to say," Yan Zichen poured wine for his brother, "Yao Lida has been able to survive in the iron mine until now, all relying on the military rations accumulated on weekdays, once it is consumed for a long time, sooner or later there will be a day when the food will run out, and he will have to come out if he doesn't come out, and he will have to fight with us if he doesn't fight." ”

"According to your estimates, how much is Yao Lida's military rations?" Yan Zike picked up the bowl, took a sip and put it down.

"Every year, it is used to support his own soldiers, and at least enough for a year, and Yao Lida saw that the situation was unfavorable to him a while ago, so it is unknown that he transported more military rations in advance. Yan Zichen drank the wine in his own bowl in one go, and then hooked his finger at Yan Qiyi, and then pointed to his empty bowl, and his daughter poured him full of wine very pleasantly.

"There are many long nights, a year is too long, people have inertia, when we are lax, if Yao Lida comes by surprise, the victory or defeat is unpredictable. Yan Zike said, "What is the situation at the entrance of the iron mine?"

"There is only one tunnel through the belly of the mountain leading to the iron mine, Yao Lida has been prepared for a long time, and the tunnel mouth is actually a bronze suspension bridge door, which is as thick as his mother's city wall, and the gunpowder can't be blown up. Yan Zi said.

"An Anke has an idea?" Yan Zike suddenly threw a sentence to Yan Qi like a flying fairy out of the sky.

Yan Qi was eating with a branch of moon cakes next to him, and turned around when he heard this: "If the gunpowder can't blow up the door, it will blow up the mountain." ”

The inside of the iron mine is very large, eight miles long, and the stones will not be able to hit Yao Lida's camp even if they fly. Yan Zichen raised his eyebrows, "'An'an'?"

"Uncle gave me the words. "Yan Qidao.

"Besides, the gunpowder that can blow up the mountain needs thousands of catties?!" Yan Zichen finished speaking.

Yan Qi forgot that the explosives of this era cannot be compared with modern times.

"Then I'm out of options, unless there's a way to throw the gunpowder at the camp. "Yan Qidao.

"Where to find such a thing," Yan Zichen said with a bowl of wine, "even a swallow's flying bow can't shoot so far." ”

"Swallow flying bow?" asked Yan Zike.

"I gave the girl the name of the bow. Yan Zichen rubbed his mouth with the back of his hand and smiled.

"At the moment, it seems that the only way to defeat Yao Lida is to use gunpowder airdrop to defeat Yao Lida in one fell swoop," his brother has already continued to talk about Fang Cai, "Gunpowder bombs the camp, Yao Lida knows that there is a siege outside the valley, and the only way to escape is - the secret passage." ”

"And if we arrange people in the secret passage in advance, we can come and wait for the rabbit," Yan Zichen continued, "The premise is that as soon as possible, it is best to do it within these days or two, before Yao Lida has more doubts about the situation of the dead not returning." ”

"So now there is only one problem left to be solved," Yan Zi Ke drank the wine in the bowl for a long time, and then took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, "how to throw gunpowder onto Yao Lida's camp. ”

"I said," Yan Zichen's dark eyes lit up, "with a well-trained eagle, is it okay?"

"The amount of gunpowder that the eagle can hold is too limited, and it will definitely attract Yao Jun's attention after one cast, and it will be difficult to continue to cast it, how many eagles can the Eagle Bureau have?" Yan Zi said, "What we want is to put in a one-time amount of gunpowder that is enough to destroy Yao's camp." ”

"Well, I have an idea. Yan Qi put down his wine bowl, and the wine in the bowl had already bottomed out. 166 Reading Network