"Brother Shixuan, Zhu Ran, this time I went to Tongcheng Pass to ask for a doctor, you must be careful along the way!" At dawn on the eighth day of the first month of February, at the gate of Ye Hong's house, facing Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran, who had been sick for more than ten days due to Xia Shuanghan but still did not get better, so they were about to go out of the village to ask for a doctor for her, Baliya said sincerely: "During the time you go out of the village, I will definitely take care of Sister Shuanghan, so Brother Shixuan, you can rest assured." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Thank you, Sister Bariya." thanked Baliya closely, and Lu Shaoyun immediately consciously gave up the last bit of time before departure to Yi Yi, who had just been dating for a short time, and Lin Xuran.

The young men and women around him were saying goodbye, and Lu Shaoyun, who had said goodbye to Yehong's family, looked up and looked up at Xia Shuanghan, who was leaning on the carved wooden window on the third floor, and it was inconvenient to go out of the house to see him off because of "illness". Then, waving to their sweetheart for the end, Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran took their horses and stepped onto the village road, and left Naming Village soon after.

It is not easy to get out of the Chuz Mountains, which are still in the ice period. Although the snow and ice along the road have begun to melt slightly, it is still very difficult to travel through the mountainous areas that are full of white eyes, which is not conducive to discerning directions and finding roads.

Originally, in order to prevent Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran from getting lost or having any accidents, for the trip to Tongcheng Pass to ask for a doctor, Taluk and Aguirre both proposed, "Or, let me go with the Shixuan brothers".

It's just that because their real intention of going to Tongchengguan was to transfer troops, Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran respectively used the excuse of "Anyway, our brothers are also people who have gone to the northeast, how to deal with the severe cold and how to identify the direction, we are still used to survival in the wild, we still have a way", and "We are going to leave the village in March to do business, how can we let you lead the way when we are so busy", and politely declined the kindness of the Yehong brothers.

Leading the horse and walking on the rugged mountain road with a compass, Lu Shaoyun couldn't help but go through the deployment plan of the entire encirclement and suppression operation that was about to be launched in his mind.

According to the exploration of the mountains that lasted more than three months, Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran finally got the final draft of the map, in addition to the four entrances and exits mentioned by Xia Shuanghan, they added two.

Subsequently, after ensuring that even if there were other entrances and exits to the mountain, the criminals in the mountain were like the two of them, and only knew about these six, Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran divided the entire map into six areas, and accordingly drew up the arrangements and plans for the entire encirclement and suppression operation.

Thanks to the several fruitless encirclement and suppression operations in the past few years, in order to leave enough time for their own retreat, they were forced to completely destroy and seal several mountain entrances and exits.

Therefore, in order not to expose the remaining six entrances and exits, the criminals spent the whole winter and early spring with great caution. They have never done anything like manually removing ice and snow, walking on snow-covered paths, or opening five entrances and exits that have been blocked by snow and ice.

During the ice period, in addition to waiting for the news from the "sentinels" in the small town in Tongcheng Pass at the entrance and exit where there was a waterfall hanging on time, they only went out of the mountain when they stepped on the rope ladder to go up and down the waterfall and went outside the village to get the small paper scrolls provided by the "sentinels" in Naming Village.

Therefore, in the plan drawn up by Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran, as long as the defenders of Tongcheng first control the "sentinels" in the town before leaving the customs to ensure that they cannot pass on the news, and then arrive at Naming Village under the cover of night, and block the village, and then enter the mountain to carry out encirclement and suppression, this operation will definitely be able to catch all the criminals and finally win a big victory.

It is not difficult to control the "sentinels" in the small town of Kannai. At the beginning, when Lu Shaoyun had just become the deputy commander of Jin Wuwei, the information sent back to the capital by the defenders of Tongcheng had already made it clear that they had completely included the three "sentinels" in the town into the scope of surveillance, and they could be arrested at any time.

The reason why no arrest was taken at that time was because, as long as the map problem had not been solved, the result of capturing the "sentinel" was nothing more than allowing the criminal to install a new "sentinel" into the town, which did not make much sense. Therefore, it is obviously wiser not to arrest than to arrest.

As for trying to control the "sentinels" and villagers in Naming's village, it's even simpler.

In Naming Village, the fences and horses that have been erected outdoors throughout the winter have long been frozen by ice and snow, so unless it is late March, the winter closure of Naming Village will not end. Want to control such a small village with only one entrance and exit to the south? This was too easy for the Tongcheng defenders.

And the last step of the encirclement operation, that is, the soldiers who broke into the mountain in six ways, directly engaged in face-to-face hand-to-hand combat with the criminals harboring in the mountain, which was also easy for the defenders. After all, the soldiers of Tongcheng are all warriors who have fought with the Mobei people on the battlefield, and in the face of these criminals who do not have much actual combat experience in making red and white pills, as long as the soldiers do not underestimate the enemy, it is impossible to have the possibility of failure.

Therefore, to sum up, Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran can be said to be full of confidence in this encirclement and suppression operation.

After traveling for most of the day, Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran, who finally walked out of the Chuzi Mountains and were able to turn over their horses, galloped freely on the snow-white wilderness in front of them.

Horses that live in the mountains and have not been able to go outside for a good run all winter are now in need of spreading their hooves and moving their muscles. As a result, Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran, who each had spare horses behind them, although they were moving forward on the wilderness at a much faster speed than when they rode to Naming Village in the summer, they would not have the possibility of slowing down after the first wild gallop because of problems such as "people are sleepy and horses are lacking".

In the endless white snowfield, apart from snow hares, snow foxes and wolves, the only thing that still has vitality is a winding river that does not freeze even if it flows for a long distance in the ice and snow, because it is mixed with hot spring water in the Chuz Mountains.

A river gurgling out of the mountain runs from outside the village of Naming Village to the three-way junction leading to the Jiuping Iron Mine and Tongcheng Pass, and then after converging with another river that has long been covered with thick ice, there are fragments of small floes of ice that have not gathered into layers on the surface of this ice-free river.

"Frost and cold take that medicine, in fact, it is quite a sin." At a place where there was still a long distance from the fork in the road leading to the Jiuping Iron Mine, Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran, who had already changed spare horses on the way, sat down by the river together and had a simple, simple, belated lunch. "She was afraid of cold in winter, and after taking the medicine, she was still sore and dizzy, and she couldn't sleep well at night."

"Actually, she has been taking that medicine for so many days, even if she takes the antidote this morning, her sick face can last until we go back." Lin Xuran, who had built a simple stove with a few stones found from the riverbank, put a small copper kettle filled with untrampled ice and snow on the stove, and said, "Why didn't you persuade her to take the antidote?" ”

"I persuaded you, why didn't you persuade you?" Lu Shaoyun fiddled with the "crackling" small bush bonfire, while nibbling on the cold dry food and said: "But Shuang Han said that as soon as she eats the antidote, she will be able to reduce her fever in a few hours, so in order to prevent Baliya from discovering that her fever is subdued, which may lead to the failure of the previous pretending to be sick, she will wait until the first night when we are expected to return to Naming Village before taking the antidote." ”

"I really don't know whether to praise her for being cautious or for being too careful!" Lin Xuanran, who poured the boiling snow water on the stove into two small wooden cups, swallowed the last mouthful of dry food in his hand, turned his hand and opened a bag of dried mutton and said: "Let's eat quickly and set off quickly, if we can go back early and one night, she can also suffer one less night's sin, right?" ”

The bonfire in the stove was quickly extinguished after boiling the water in the copper kettle. And Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran, who were eating lunch in three or two bites, also got on the horse again after drinking the water in the cup.

When night falls, it is painful to sleep in the snowy wilderness. Although Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran chose a place to sleep in the open on several rocks that were surrounded by "concaves" and the depressions were located behind the leeward mouth, even though they were covered with waterproof mats and blankets, and they were next to each other back to back, they still felt very cold.

Meditation and luck to warm himself, Lin Xuran, who slept in the ice and snow for the first time in his life, deeply realized the benefits of internal strength. At the same time, at the speed at which they were traveling, they would need to spend two more nights in the snow-covered wilderness before they could reach Tongcheng Pass and drink a bowl of hot vegetable soup.

At the end of February 11, it took three days for Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xiran, who had been traveling the ice field, to finally arrive at Tongcheng Pass. Subsequently, the two of them took off the disguise on their faces and went straight to the Tongcheng military camp after entering the customs.

On duty at the sentry at the entrance of the barracks, there were not only robes who had gone into battle with Lu Shaoyun to kill the enemy, but also recruits who came here after he returned to the capital. But no matter whether their faces were the joy and surprise of seeing their comrades-in-arms, or the doubts and vigilance of strangers, they immediately let Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran go without delay after Lu Shaoyun showed the token provided to him by the prince.

Lu Shaoyun, who had seen his old superiors and several fellow officers, and explained his intentions to them, soon entered the barracks of Captain Han, who was going to complete the encirclement and suppression task with them, with Lin Xuran. After all, it was not a big battle to go into the mountains to encircle and suppress, and there was no need for the general to go out in person. Therefore, it is enough to order a hundred elite soldiers in the barracks to go out of the pass and enter the mountains.

"I see!" In the barracks dedicated to the officers' official duties, Lu Shaoyun's old comrade-in-arms, Captain Han Ling Han, had heard an overview of the entire hidden mission that Lu Shaoyun, Lin Xuran and Xia Shuanghan had completed, and couldn't help but sigh: "It turns out that Tingxuan, your bride ran away with someone else, and it turned out to be a pretend!" You don't know how many brothers in the camp were still very embarrassed and sighed when they heard that you were hurt by love and left Jiangnan. ”

"But I'm sorry for you." After a brief greeting, Lu Shaoyun quickly took out several maps that he had transcribed, and cooperated with Lin Xuran beside him, telling all the arrangements and plans for the entire encirclement and suppression operation. "Brother Han, do you think there is anything wrong with my plan and that of Xuan Ran? If there is still one, we will seize the time to modify and add to it, if not, then we will immediately go to order troops, so that the soldiers are ready to leave tomorrow morning! ”

"The action plan is really thorough and detailed, and there is nothing more to revise. It's just that before we order the troops, let's go to lunch first! When Han Ling said this, the horns sounded one after another in the entire barracks, as if echoing his proposal, and began to announce the arrival of lunch and lunch break.

So, Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran, who had been busy all morning, walked out of the barracks with Han Ling and went to the barracks canteen after finishing the drawings on the desktop.

The soldiers sat down in the cafeteria where they ate silently in accordance with the order of discipline, and while eating the rice they had not seen for a long time, they looked around at Lu Shaoyun, and soon recognized many faces that he was very familiar with. And many soldiers who couldn't wait to come forward to greet him as soon as they put down their jobs quickly spread the news that "Lu Shaoyun came this time and has an important mission" in the barracks.

After the lunch break, on the barracks and school field where the assembly horn sounded, Lu Shaoyun and Han Ling discussed together and counted a hundred elite soldiers, and then divided them into groups, and assigned and deployed the tasks they were about to complete in the next few days.

A transcribed map was divided into six by Lu Shaoyun and distributed. The six squads that were about to enter the mountain at the six entrances to launch a surprise attack were divided into six teams, and each team got one. According to the instructions, the six teams will advance little by little into the interior of the mountain, and finally reach the same cave for rendezvous according to the signs provided on the map.

The seventh squad, which was listed separately after the division of the team, was tasked with capturing the "sentinels" in the small town of Guannai and controlling the entire Naming Village when the large army launched an encirclement and suppression operation.

Before dinner, the seventh team, led by Han Ling, captured the three "sentinels" in the town according to the clues that the defenders of Tongcheng had already mastered, and completely cut off their possible way to deliver any news to the Chuzi Mountains.

Subsequently, when the soldiers had eaten dinner and began to prepare for the rapid march in the next few days, Lu Shaoyun, Lin Xuran and Han Ling seized the time to interrogate the three "sentinels" respectively. According to the confessions of the "sentinels", Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran confirmed that among the three confessions, there were no available clues that they had not yet mastered.

So in this way, more than 100 people who completely completed the preliminary preparations, after a good night's sleep, went out of the customs together to the direction of Naming Village when the city gate was opened on the second day.

The rapid march of more than 100 people, including several military doctors, was not much different from the march of Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran, after all, this march was only more than ten days, and the march that could replenish supplies in Naming Village did not require them to bring any heavy weapons or a large amount of grain and grass. Therefore, on the morning of 14 February, the group of people who traveled lightly arrived at the entrance of the Chuzi Mountains smoothly according to Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran's expectations.

At the entrance of the Chuzi Mountains, where the snow melt and spring were becoming more and more obvious, Han Ling issued an order to his subordinates to "rest on the spot and enter the mountain in the afternoon".

According to Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran's plan, the soldiers who entered the mountain in the afternoon and would arrive at Naming Village at dusk could use the cover of twilight to complete the deployment at the six entrances and exits of the mountain without being noticed by the villagers.

Next, after the seventh team completely controlled Naming Village in the early morning of the 15th, the remaining six teams could break into the interior of the mountain according to the plan.

Of course, according to the situation that Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran had explored in advance, the personnel and weapon configuration of each entrance and exit were reasonably adjusted according to the difficulty of the obstacles that needed to be broken through when assaulting the entrance, so as to minimize the casualties that their own soldiers might suffer.

It's just that Lu Shaoyun, who was outside the Chuzi Mountains at this time, was gnawing on steamed buns with boiling snow water, while sorting out his thoughts in his mind to ensure that he had considered all the situations that might occur in the next encirclement and suppression operation with Lin Xuran and Han Ling, but he would not have thought that when he entered the mountain at two o'clock on the second day, he would encounter a situation that was completely unexpected to him, and finally ushered in his long-term separation from Xia Shuanghan.

In the early morning of the eighth day of the second lunar month, after Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran set off for Tongcheng Pass, Xia Shuanghan, who had already prepared a reason for them to leave the village, was still swallowing a "pretending pill" every day and continuing to move forward on the road of pretending to be sick.

Seeing that Ye Hong's family was busy for the next southbound business, and even, seeing that they even prepared for her, Lu Shaoyun, Lin Xuran, and the three of them to go south, Xia Shuanghan was really a little reluctant in his heart. So, a day ahead of her original plan, at dusk on February 13, Xia Shuanghan ate the antidote to her current ailments.

"Sister Shuanghan, you have finally lost your fever!" Early in the morning of the 14th, Bariya, who was the first to probe Xia Shuanghan's forehead, said with joy: "Oh my God, this is really good, if you continue to be so sick, I really have to worry about whether your body can hold on." ”

"Baria, thank you and Aunt Sanissa for taking care of me these days." Xia Shuanghan, who woke up from her sleep in the morning, looked good and said with a smile: "Of course, thank you Sister Camorra, although she is not suitable to sit in front of my hospital bed for a long time because she has to take care of the children, I know that she is very concerned and worried about me like Uncle Hatslu. ”

"Hey! There's nothing to be thankful for this. As long as you can get well and fully recover, we take care of you, it's nothing. The smiling Bariya said, and asked Xia Shuanghan if she had anything special to eat today. Then, when she got the answer "nothing special", she went downstairs in a good mood and announced to everyone the good news that Xia Shuang had a cold fever.

In the busy afternoon after lunch, seeing that Yehong's family was busy because of their own work, and wanted to do their part and move their stiff bodies well, Xia Shuanghan proposed to go to the village with Baliya to retrieve the traps and remove the rest of the traps.

Throughout the winter, the heavy snow closure in the Chuzi Mountains did not allow the villagers of Naming Village to go out hunting, so setting up traps and other hunting traps became the only way for the villagers to obtain fresh prey in winter.

According to the hunting area assigned to each household by the village office, the villagers set up an appropriate number of traps on the mountains around the village, so that the prey will not be caught and affect the breeding season of the next year, and they go up the mountain every two days to make rounds.

Then, before the arrival of the following spring, in order to allow the animals to recuperate and reproduce in the spring, the villagers will collect their traps in advance before the hunting ban in late February.

In accordance with the practice of previous years, the work of picking up traps and dismantling other traps will be completed by February 12. It's just that this year, due to the illness of Xia Shuanghan and the outing of Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran, the Yehong family, who has a lot of work on hand, has not been able to free up their hands for the time being.

So, Xia Shuanghan, who wanted to go out and walk around, took over this unfinished work.

Originally, according to Xia Shuanghan's meaning, she had lived in Naming Village for three years in her previous life, and it was not a problem for her to complete the picking up of the trap and the removal of the trap by herself. It's just that a person who has just recovered from a long illness, it is impossible for Yehong's family to let her go out alone. So, Xia Shuanghan, who was carrying a bamboo basket, went out of the village and went up the mountain with Bariya, who was also carrying a bamboo basket.

The area where the Yehon family set the trap was located in one of the several woods scattered around the village of Naming. The snow melted, revealing the rocks and meadows below, and Summer Frost watched as Balia swung her shovel to fill in the trap as she dismantled the trap and put it in the basket behind her.

"Sister Shuanghan, you don't have to wait for me, if all the traps here are finished, you can walk forward first, and I will be able to catch up in a while." Stopping the shovel in her hand, Bariya raised her hand and pointed to the front of the woods, where a trap was set up, but there was no digging a pit and a trap: "There should be three or four more over there, you go over and collect them first!" ”

"Okay, then I'll wait for you over there!" Xia Shuanghan, who was carrying the bamboo basket, nodded yes, and then walked in the direction indicated by Bariya. (To be continued.) )