Countless stones suddenly flew out of the forest by the river, at least the size of the bowl, and smashed into Tao Fangjin's team like hail.

The soldiers raised their rattan shields one after another, but this thing could block bows, arrows and pike guns, and they couldn't bear the stones and smashed them all indiscriminately, and the rattan shields were smashed to pieces in a few clicks. Some of the soldiers didn't say a word, and their brains were smashed and fell to the ground, and their brains flowed to the ground, and their deaths were unbearable.

The terrifying situation made the hearts of all the Annan soldiers feel cold, the enemy is in the dark, so you can't see or touch, the arrows can only be shot blindly into the forest, but the stone rain seems to be getting more and more violent. More and more soldiers fell, and those who did not fall could not bear it, so they took refuge in the knee-deep grass, and some soldiers even retreated into the river.

Suddenly, a burst of screams sounded, one after another in the grass, it turned out that the pot keepers had already laid pits, bamboo nails, lassoes, thorns and other things in the grass, and the Annan soldiers who blindly hid in were killed and wounded again in the midst of the terrible howls. The Depositor lived in a dense tropical primeval mountain forest, with an inexhaustible supply of trees and stones. Using tree trunks as bowstrings and stones as arrows, they suddenly attacked, as if they were devastated, inflicting great casualties on the officers and soldiers of Annam, who had the courage to break in and did not know what was going on. Broken in their hearts, the Annan soldiers left their dead and wounded companions behind and began to retreat in the way they came.

Once the formation is in chaos, even the Heavenly King Lao Tzu Nether Realm can't be contained, Tao Fangjin slashed a few rout soldiers with a knife, but it didn't have the slightest effect, and the frightened Annan soldiers in their hearts ran back around him. He shouted a few more times, and suddenly a big stone with a bowl mouth flew towards him, he quickly lowered his head, and with a "snap" sound, the helmet was smashed to the ground, his head buzzed, and before he could recover his senses, a personal soldier behind him was smashed into the chest by a big stone, and his chest was concave, and he fell to the ground and convulsed a few times, and then died of blood spurting from his mouth and nose. Tao Fangjin felt a chill in his heart, and he didn't dare to delay any longer, so he gritted his teeth, turned his horse's head, and fled along the lower reaches of the river with the defeated army......

......

Hearing the news of the defeat of the forward, Zheng Ke was not too surprised, ordered the whole army to suspend its advance, and removed Tao Fangjin from the post of governor of the Andao army, and Li Yuan, the deputy governor, temporarily replaced the post of governor of the Andao army. At the same time, a large number of secret scouts were sent to find out the way that could directly enter Banlong Cave.

The army was stationed along the banks of the Xinping River. Zheng Ke summoned all the generals to his big tent to discuss the military aircraft, but he didn't talk about it for a day, after the generals dispersed, he sat silently in the big tent and was silent, the people who should be removed have been cleared, and the army has entered the territory of the Depositor, it is impossible to return in vain, how to spend the minimum price to make the Depositor succumb, placed in front of Zheng Ke, he just sent someone to Li Yuanlong, who was far away in Tokyo, on a note, detailing the sneak attack on the camp on a rainy night by the Depositor, Ruan Zhi and the palace guards with him were all killed, The crowd in the barracks was indignant, and all the soldiers unanimously demanded to crusade against the barbarians, and in order to appease the anger of the people, they led the troops westward without authorization, and they were determined to be victorious in the future.

"Time drags on for a long time, I'm afraid something will happen!" Zheng Ke closed his eyes and sighed.

Since the sixteenth year of Yongle he raised troops with the former king Li Li, it has been a full thirty years, these years, he has been cautious day by day, walking on thin ice, for fear that the suspicion of the two generations of kings will fall on him, but the wind is not strong and the tree wants to break, and he holds a heavy army, which is inevitably framed by traitors in the court.

"No, I must not sit still," he thought of this, his eyes widened slightly, and his mouth muttered, "I will continue to fight the battle, so that the king will know that he can't do without me, and the whole of Dayue can't do without me......"

As soon as the curtain was lifted, the two walked in, Zheng Ke stared at it, and saw that it was his daughter and Yang Muyun, and leaned back slightly with his body raised.

"Daddy......" Zheng Yu walked behind his father and stretched out a pair of slender hands to gently knead his shoulders.

Zheng Ke groaned comfortably, and glanced sideways at his daughter, "Yu'er, what's the matter with you?" ”

"No, Daddy," Zheng Yu said sweetly, "I'm afraid that you will be tired, and I want to serve you well." ”

"It's rare that you have a filial piety," the corners of Zheng Ke's mouth turned up slightly, "Say, while I'm in a good mood now, I may really promise you if you say it." ”

Zheng Yu hesitated for a moment and looked at Yang Muyun who was standing aside.

"Master Hou," Yang Muyun took a step forward and bowed, "I wonder what good strategy you and the generals have discussed?" ”

"You want to know?" Zheng Ke sighed lightly, "The soldiers are fast, if a good plan is really discussed, can Ben Hou sit here?" ”

"Then can Master Hou tell me that there are several roads that lead to the Banlong Cave, the old nest of the pot keepers?" Yang Muyun asked.

"It seems that you are very concerned about military affairs!" Zheng Ke smiled slightly and stood up, "Okay, now Ben Hou is also suffering from no good solution, so he will come to talk to you." He turned around and came to the map hanging in the tent, pointed to the winding line on it and said: "There are three paths that can lead to Banlong Cave, the first is to go up along the Xinpingjiang River Valley, this road is narrower and narrower the higher it goes, and the surrounding terrain is complex, which is convenient for the pot keepers to set up ambushes step by step, and I am afraid that it will cost a lot to pass through, and the vanguard army led by Tao Fangjin is returning from this road." ”

"What about the other two paths?"

"The other two?" Zheng Ke smiled bitterly and shook his head, "The second path is a famous yin-yang path......

"Yin and Yang Dao?" Yang Muyun was puzzled.

"Come and see," Zheng Ke pointed to a zigzag line on the map: "This is Banlong Mountain, a radius of hundreds of miles, there is a small road along the ridge that can be detoured to Banlong Cave, but this road is ......" sighed and continued: "There is a cliff on one side, a cliff on the other, and only one person can walk in the middle." If our army took this road, we could only advance lightly, and if the barbarians were to lay in ambush on the cliffs, they would have thrown down only a few stones, and it would be enough for my whole army to be annihilated. ”

"It turns out that this is the meaning of Yin and Yang Dao, which can separate people from Yin and Yang at any time." Yang Muyun said secretly. Then he asked, "What about the third way?" ”

"The third road is the mouth of the swallowing river," Zheng Ke pointed to a pass mark on the map and said: "This is a pass between two mountains, if you can take it, you can go straight to the old nest of the pot man Banlong Cave in Pingchuan, but this pass is extremely steep, it can be said that it is impossible to open it from a frontal attack." After speaking, he sighed deeply, "In comparison, it is safer to march along the valley area of the upper reaches of the Xinping River."

, but every step forward is likely to come at a considerable cost...... I thought that as soon as the army arrived, the pot keepers would come to ask for surrender, but it seems that Ben Hou still thought things too simple. ”

"Since you want to blame the pot keeper, you must pretend to work hard," Yang Muyun said secretly in his heart: "Who knows that the other party is a hard stubble, but no matter how hard it is, it can only be beaten hard." ”

"Young Master Yang," Zheng Ke looked at him and said, "That's the general situation, do you see if there is a better way to take down the pot keeper's nest Banlong Cave in the shortest possible time and at a small cost." ”

"Master Hou," Yang Muyun pondered for a moment and said, "On the way up the river along the river, I once saw an engraved Ji Gong text on a large stone wall near the river......

"Well," Zheng Ke said, "It was the "Cliff Chronicle Gongwen" made by Chen Riyi, the king of the former dynasty, when he led the army to conquer the mourning prison and triumphantly, and asked the craftsman to engrave it on the stone wall for future generations to admire. ”

"This Taishang King's writing is not bad," Yang Muyun said: "In the autumn of Yihai, the Taishang King and the six divisions of the prince patrolled in the west, and the prince of Zhancheng State, Zhenla Kingdom, Siam Kingdom and the Barbarian Chieftain Dao Kuang, Kwai Bird, Che Le, the new cup and the barbarian chieftain Dao Sheng, the Che Man's various departments are in the party, vying to be the first to meet, and the only rebellion is to mourn the name of the chieftain and fear the crime before coming to the court...... This cup and basin is the current pot barbar? ”

"That's right," Zheng Ke nodded and said, "The name of these barbarians in the previous dynasty is just slightly different from that of my dynasty. ”

"The barbarians risked their lives to rely on the king's master, and this was the case many years ago," Yang Muyun said: "It's no different from today, but how did the predecessors make these barbarians succumb?" ”

"This ......" Zheng Ke thought for a moment and said: "At that time, Chen Riyi first led the army to fight in the mourning prison, but the mourning prison king escaped far away, and when Chen Riyi returned to the division, he defeated many tribes...... his eyes flashed, "You want to say how Chen Riyi defeated the pot keeper back then, right?" Then he shook his head and said: "Back then, the army of the Chen Dynasty went around in a big circle, looking for the king of mourning, and the battle with the Cunpen people when returning from west to east was different from the current battle of our army from west to east. ”

"But the terrain is dead, but people are alive," Yang Muyun said, "as long as you plan properly, you can't replicate the victories of your predecessors." I am willing to go and have a good survey to relieve the worries of the Hou Ye. ”

"You?" Zheng Ke looked at him and laughed, "I sent no less than hundreds, they were all nearby mountain people in the past, and they knew barbarian language, what can you do when you go, can you communicate with the locals?" Don't be caught by them before you go deep into the barbarian land. ”

"Daddy," Zheng Yu winked at him, "Don't forget that there is me, I can go with him!" ”

"You?" Zheng Ke then understood the reason why his daughter was flattering him, shook his head and said: "You can't be even better, wearing this Rausch mask all day long, it looks weird, and people are wary when they see it." ”

"Shall I just take off the mask?" Zheng Yu smiled: "Actually, I have long been reluctant to bring this thing. ”

"I think you don't want to wear this mask since you saw him," Zheng Ke snorted coldly, "You give me to stay in the camp honestly, and there are more suitable people than you to do it." ”