Three days, a full three days, Wu Shengjun's general camp turned upside down and found nothing, just when Yun Zheng was already thinking about whether he was too nervous and making a big deal and was ready to put this matter behind, Peng Jiu told Yun Zheng with a dark face, Lao Shao's gang lost two pieces of meat in the camp, these two pieces of meat were rewarded by Yu Hou to the two brothers who won today's work, and they were cooked early in the morning, because he was worried that he would be troubled by the big rats here, so he was specially put in a bamboo basket and hung in the tent, When the brothers finished their work to see who the prize was for, who knew that when Lao Shao went to get the meat after Yu Hou announced the winner, he found that the basket was empty......

"Huang Shimi's army is less than three hundred miles away from the hot spring pass, the prefect of Yizhou abandoned the city again and fled, and the people also fled to the nearest Liuzhou with the prefect, the hot spring pass is about to become the last line of defense of the Great Song Dynasty to block Huang Shimi, Guangxi Jingluo appeased Yu Jing twice a day and quickly reported, asking Wu Shengjun to wait for help, not to let Huang Shimi return to Yongzhou and Nong Zhigao to merge.

At such a critical juncture, you actually told me that there are still spies in the camp of the Wusheng Army that have not been cleared? You are waiting for the back camp, don't you feel ashamed to say this at this time? ”

Peng Jiu gritted his teeth, clasped his fists with both hands and strode out, Yun Zheng sighed and had to put down the military report at hand, planning to go to the back camp to take a look, such a thing is most likely to be spread into a ghost thing, especially in this part of Guangnan, where witchcraft is rampant, Di Qing needs to throw a hundred copper coins that are the same on both sides when he goes out on the expedition, and use the pros and cons to calm the army's heart.

When he first heard it, Yun Zheng thought it was a joke, and he nailed these copper coins to the ground, so that no one knew that there was actually only one side of the copper coins, and those fools who deceived the forbidden army were still successful, if they planned to deceive Wu Shengjun, forget it, Yun Zheng thought that his subordinates had seen the market, and Han Niu reported that two days ago, someone said that the matter of flying at midnight was still a joke, but now it is not done, and he must find out in person.

Hot springs are as stated in the almanac. It was originally a place of great evil, and when everyone dug the trench these days, they dug up the dry bones of people and beasts, and there were even many bronze artifacts that had been covered with green rust, and after being washed, the bronze utensils were covered with strange creatures. With the character of Wu Sheng's soldier who is so greedy for money, he didn't dare to leave these valuable bronze statues.

So what Yun Zheng is worried about now is that the ghosts and gods rule his military camp.

When I arrived at the back camp, I saw Lao Shao sitting cross-legged in the middle, swearing by the gambling curse, saying that he definitely did not steal food, surrounded by soldiers, some people endorsed Lao Shao, some people were accusing Lao Shao of not being optimistic about the canteen, and the rest of the people were mysteriously spreading small words, needless to say. It must have something to do with ghosts and gods.

"Disperse! It's just that I lost a little bit of ingredients, it's not a big deal, maybe it was taken by a mouse, and I just need to do a little more tomorrow. ”

When the people saw that the Lord had spoken, they dispersed in twos and threes.

Lao Shao rubbed the corner of his clothes and walked up to Yun Zheng and said, "General." The small ones really didn't steal it. ”

Yun Zheng nodded and said, "Of course you didn't steal it!" What Yun Zheng said was categorical, Lao Shao followed him on a trip to Western Xia, and Yun Zheng never doubted his character.

When Lao Shao saw the general say this, his spirit immediately relaxed, and he pointed to Peng Jiu, who was digging a ditch, and whispered to Yun Zheng: "General, it is impossible for someone to dig a tunnel, the groundwater here is shallow." Water can be dug out less than a zhang deep, which is not suitable for digging tunnels at all, and besides, we are digging trenches outside the city, if there is a tunnel, it will be discovered a long time ago.

In the past few days, the little ones have not dared to sleep to death, and they have pricked up their ears to listen all the time. I didn't hear any rats or anything else coming, but the food was gone, or in broad daylight, which was weird. ”

Yun Zheng looked back and suddenly saw a crow falling on the city wall. His heart moved and asked, "Have any crows come to harass you in the past few days?" ”

Lao Shao nodded and said: "Yes, as long as it is time to cook, those flat-haired beasts will fly around the tent, you see, the good tent is full of bird droppings, every time you cook, the small ones have to take a big pole to drive these beasts away, otherwise there will be bird droppings falling and ruining the food." ”

Yun Zheng got up, put a little rice in his pocket and handed it to Lao Shao Dao: "Put it in the place where you put the rice that day, let's go far and see what happens." ”

Lao Shao watched Yun Zheng cut a piece of meat and hang it on the pole, and in confusion, he followed the master behind a tent in the distance and secretly looked at the room.

Peng Jiu also followed, leaned over to Yun Zheng's side and said, "Did you find anything wrong?" ”

Yun Zheng hummed and said: "We have ruled out a lot of possibilities in the past few days, and now there is only the last possibility left, I want to see if this possibility is true." Don't make a noise, just watch. ”

The red-eyed crows were honest at first with their claws and occasionally croaked, and seemed to be very honest, but this state did not last long, and a crow landed in front of the canteen tent to peck at the scraps of the ground, grains of rice, and other things like ordinary sparrows.

After a while, the rest of the crows also jumped down, bouncing on the ground looking for food, seemingly not interested in the meat strips that Yun Zheng hung on the pole and the rice bags that Lao Shao hung on the door.

A smile appeared on Yun Zheng's face, and he said to Peng Jiu: "I am now eighty percent sure that these things were done by these crows, in the end, they are flat-haired beasts, pretending to be too much, and such a big piece of meat can be ignored?" I don't believe it. ”

At this moment, a small monkey jumped out from behind the tent, picked up the bag of rice and ran, and the crows followed the monkeys, and one of the crows picked up the meat and flew away, and the monkey who unloaded the rice bag squeaked, and the crows actually grabbed the rice bag and flew over the city wall to a hill to the south, and the monkey also ran into the grass and disappeared.

Peng Jiu stuffed a whistle into his mouth and blew it vigorously, and said hatefully: "It turns out that it is really these flat-haired beasts and a monkey who conspired to steal our food. ”

Yun Zheng's face was extremely difficult to see, he stood up and stepped on a horse, patted the horse's buttocks, and flew out of the city, the monkey and the Han Niu also found their own horses to follow closely, and Peng Jiu had already ridden to the root of the city wall.

Seeing the crows flying in front, Yun Zheng led people to chase behind, those crows flew very slowly because they were holding the rice bags, he deliberately slowed down the speed of the horse, just far behind.

Skirting the hill to the south, and walking less than five miles, a deep pit appeared in front of everyone, and the crows had just fallen into it.

Most of Quang Nam is a limestone formation, and after such a formation is washed away by water, it is easy to have geological wonders such as sinkholes and cracks, which are widely distributed in Quang Nam, and there is nothing strange to see.

"This is it, if there is no underground river in this sinkhole, they will not be able to escape."

Su Xun, who came up, asked strangely: "Since our grain was dragged away by wild beasts, there is no need for us to make a big move, it makes sense to go back and continue to guard against Huang Shimi, there is no need to deal with monkeys and flat-haired beasts." ”

Yun Zheng shook his head and said: "It's not a beast, these crows and monkeys are domesticated by people, I want to know who this person is!" Monkey, prepare ropes, bamboo ladders, prepare more lantern torches, let the scouts put on armor, tie ropes and walk to the sinkhole, and at the same time order Zhou Tong and Wu Jie to prepare for battle, and the battalion is on third-level alert, and will not give up if this person is not dug out. ”

The monkey was ordered to go to the scouts, prepare armor and ropes, bamboo ladders, taking advantage of this effort, Peng Jiu ordered to eradicate the shrubs and weeds around the sinkhole, Wu Shengjun never did things brutally, he was ready to start clearing from the entrance of the cave, and extended into the pit step by step.

Yun Zheng pointed to the crows hovering above his head and smiled: "Since I know your origin, I don't believe that you have any place to stay, ghosts, the most unconvincing thing for Lao Tzu is ghosts, before Lao Tzu solves his mystery, you don't want to bewitch me." ”

As he spoke, he took off the strong crossbow from Han Niu's back, and after he put on the string, he raised his hand and shot a firework bomb, which exploded in mid-air, and those crows croaked and fled in all directions.

The monkey didn't take much effort to bring the scouts over, these people were all armored, even their eyes were covered under the armor, and the whole person was like a moving fortress, this was the famous step armor of the Great Song Dynasty, which Yun Zheng spent a lot of money to buy from the warehouses of other state capitals, even if it was the Wusheng Army, there were only less than a hundred such heavy armors.

After being improved by Yun Zheng, the useless decoration and excess weight were removed, and the armor of more than sixty catties weighed only thirty catties now, but the effect of defense was rising, because Yun Zheng removed the inner lining of the armor and replaced it with light cork, so that as long as it was a slightly stronger sergeant, he could wear such armor to fight.

More than a dozen lit torches were thrown into the sinkhole, and after a short time, the sound of torches falling to the ground was heard, and these torches soaked in fierce fire oil fell to the ground and splashed countless sparks, shining brightly underground.

There was an exclamation from below, it seemed to be a child's voice, Yun Zheng and Su Xun looked at each other and ordered: "The first group of six people, go down and have a look, if you can, don't hurt people......"

Six experienced scouts were slowly lowered by the rope, Yun Zheng calculated the length of the rope, and found that this sinkhole was not deep, but seven or eight feet, seeing that the six scouts carried torches into the side hole, and ordered again: "Second team, go on!" Support the first team. ”

Peng Jiu swapped places with one of the scouts, and the first one slipped down the rope, he very much wanted to know who had reprimanded him.

ps：

In the second chapter, 800 monthly passes plus more meals were delivered.