With the money gone, the enthusiasm of the Murong Prefect to intercept and kill the people of Erlongshan was greatly reduced, but he still did not give up, and ordered the most capable spies to make every effort to find out where the money went, and those who could find it would be rewarded. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, the subsequent batches of spies only reported where the people of Erlongshan went, and there was no news of money at all.

There is also a return, Erlong Mountain dispatched a large number of soldiers and horses down the mountain, I am afraid that there are not 30,000 or 40,000, and the cavalry alone is thousands, and the leader is the thief Chao Gai, who may be the robber who went to the Baihu Mountain to return to the cottage.

In addition, the robbers of Peach Blossom Mountain have suddenly increased the number of spies on foot and horse, and it seems that there is going to be some big action.

The gang of thieves in Qingfeng Mountain didn't have any outstanding reaction.

The prefect of Murong was taken aback, he only knew that Erlong Mountain was powerful before, but he never expected that so many soldiers and horses had been formed. Not counting the tens of thousands who went down the mountain to pick them up, there were tens of thousands of robbers who returned from Baihu Mountain alone, and they were all fierce criminals.

How many troops would be appropriate if this was to be sent to intercept the attack?

Originally, it was expected that Qin Ming, the honest and reliable commander of the soldiers and horses, and the commander of the soldiers and horses, led 5,000 elite troops, with many generals and strong bows and crossbows, could defeat the returning tens of thousands of robbers and seize money and materials, and 20,000 officers and soldiers were guarded by Cui Meng, the governor of the prefecture, and prepared to meet Qin Ming. In this way, both offense and defense are assured. Now the robbers are so powerful, and there are tens of thousands of robbers in Peach Blossom Mountain waiting for an opportunity, how to deal with it?

If there are fewer troops, I am afraid that it will not be the bandits but the bandits, and the officers and soldiers will be defeated, not because of merit but because of the sin, but because the bandits of Erlongshan will become more elite and arrogant after bloody battles, and they will have a lot of weapons and equipment for officers and soldiers, and their strength will be stronger. There are too many troops, what do you rely on to defend the city?

Although Qin Ming shouted that only 10,000 elite soldiers and horses could inflict heavy losses on the thieves of the rabble, the thieves left the fortified lair and lost the geographical advantage they relied on for arrogance, this is a God-given opportunity not to be missed. Fifteen thousand soldiers and horses can be left in the city to defend it, and there is no need to worry.

But the prefect of Murong still had no determination to send troops.

If you don't have any money to collect, what are you going to risk fighting?

To grab some cloth, oil, salt and useless doors and windows?

Murong Prefect was disappointed and annoyed in his heart, and the more Qin Ming and the other generals shouted, the more he was in such a bad mood that he had no intention of sending troops, and finally simply clapped the board angrily and called it off, asking the generals to be calm for a while.

Fifty or sixty thousand fierce robbers, you should be as good as chickens and ducks?

10,000 soldiers and horses can defeat several times the outlaws?

Not to mention the thousands of the most difficult cavalry in Erlong Mountain.

Don't forget that the vast majority of the officers and soldiers in this city are the first time to go into battle, but they are just a group of people who have never seen blood, and when they go to the battlefield and see the vicious robbers who are used to killing people several times as many times as far as the eye can see, I am afraid that their legs will be weak first, and they will become a rabble ridiculed by thieves.

Let's all go down and hold on to the city and continue to play the horses.

When the time comes, the implementation of the summer harvest and bandit suppression plan will be a good opportunity to grasp the eradication of the three mountains.

A big battle disappeared in a blink of an eye with the timidity of the prefect of Murong and the disappointment that he didn't get the money. Erlongshan soldiers and horses returned to the mountain smoothly. Without Song Jiang's broom star to make trouble, there is a material storage that is not afraid when winter comes, and the mountains are full of harmony and festivity for a while.

Zhao Yue has been secretly staring at the development of the current situation in Qingzhou, waiting for the official and bandit war to make further arrangements, and now he also relaxed, while thinking about how to provoke a big war and involve all the three mountains to change the situation in Qingzhou, while focusing on the broom star Song Jiang.

And Song Jiang and his entourage of four pretended to be ordinary small businessmen and servants, all the way without incident, this day at noon, hungry, the four of them entered a small inn on the side of the road to eat.

The small inn is not big, the conditions are simple, it is a roadside shop, but the meat and wine taste very authentic, which proves that the master is in the people, so that the four of them can eat smoothly, so that Song Jiang, who has seen a little of the world and enjoyed the deliciousness, can't help but be satisfied, and he rewarded the silver when he paid.

The shopkeeper saw that Song Jiang was a generous person, so he was extremely enthusiastic.

"Ouch, a small thank you officer. It is the honor of the small shop to be able to satisfy the few masters. But the small ones need a few more words. If a few people go south again, the little one will persuade a few guest officers to prepare some more wine and meat for use at night, so as not to go hungry. ”

Song Jiang was stunned, his eyes narrowed, and he asked a few times, "Why is this?" ”

Is there no inn in the south, so you have to take it with you?

The shopkeeper nodded and smiled: "It's not that the shop wants to make more money from the guest officer." Just a few miles to the south is the boundary of Ruilong Town, the town is the traffic artery from south to north, it is a prosperous place in Qingzhou, there are at least seven or eight thousand households, people come and go in the past, and the excitement is almost less than that of the city, but now it is not done, there are not a few households left, all of them are hard to farm and live. Ordinary residents fled one after another. The big families in the town are either dead or moved to other places, and even the luxurious mansions are dilapidated, and all the useful things have been demolished. There were no doors or windows left. As for the reason, presumably the guest officer also knows something. ”

Xiao Er didn't directly say the reason for the decline of Ruilong Town, but Song Jiang understood that it must be the result of the bandits' trouble.

But what does that have to do with eating and drinking tonight?

On a hot day, you can't walk to the town until night. You can't pay attention to going out. It is safe to find a village household to spend the night.

The shopkeeper seemed to see Song Jiang's thoughts, or he had experienced this a lot, and quickly explained: "This town is defeated." Around Ruilong Town, especially in the villages here, there are no people passing by the guest officials at this time. Houses are locked or fenced against the courtyard gates from the inside. The guest officer wants to spend the night, and the house is there. Find one without a lock, and it will be easy to go over the wall and open the door after some trouble. No one will care. It's just that there's nothing in the house. The pot is not there. Those who want to stay overnight can't make some food by themselves. ”

Song Jiang Oh, I really have to thank the shopkeeper for these words, otherwise I would have to be confused on the road, and I would be hungry tonight.

Song Jiang has been to Qingzhou, but he went to Qingzhou City to do business, and inadvertently got acquainted with the young Hua Rong, the last time he killed his wife, he fled from Yuncheng in a hurry and ran to Chai Jin Daguan to take refuge, passing through Qingzhou, and accidentally met the brothers and sisters of Kong Ming and Kong Liang of Baihu Mountain who regarded him as an idol, and now they are mixed in Qingzhou, but the detailed geography of Qingzhou is a yard black, and the three followers are all from Shaanxi, not to mention.

He rewarded Xiao Er with more than one or two silver, and said thank you to the little second brother for reminding him, and made the shopkeeper so happy that he couldn't see his teeth. Song Jiang took the opportunity to inquire: "Little second brother, I am going to Qingfeng Town to visit friends on errands. What is the most convenient way to walk this way? ”

The shopkeeper was particularly enthusiastic.

"Qingfeng Town, it's still west of Ruilong Town, so you have to go through Ruilong Town."

As soon as his voice was suppressed, he whispered again: "I heard that a few guest officials have foreign accents, and it may be the first time to come to Qingzhou, but how can I have heard of the local bandits and robbers making a lot of trouble, right?" ”

After Song Jiang and the other four looked at each other, Song Jiang nodded slightly, touched his beard and said with a smile: "I just arrived, I don't know the depth of this place, and I ask the second brother to give me more guidance." ”

The shopkeeper whispered politely: "It's not a secret to say it, it's just that the robbers are fierce." Ordinary people, the small ones don't dare to talk too much. ”

Song Jiang clenched his fists, "There is a second brother Lao." ”

Xiao Er was fooled by Song Jiang and felt comfortable, but he didn't forget to whisper: "Don't hide it from the guest officer, we have a gang of thieves from Qingfeng Mountain, and the three nicknames led by them are all called tigers, which are very terrifying, one is delicious, one is lustful, and the other is murderous." Qingfeng and Ruilong are all under the threat of this gang of robbers, and in terms of distance, Qingfeng Town is closer to the robbers, and it is easier to rob, but there is a Qingfeng Village there, with officials and soldiers, Wuzhi Village called Xiao Li Guanghuarong's ability to give birth to it, although the Sanshan robbers are powerful, but no one dares to commit Qingfeng Village. As a result, Ruilong Town has become a key scourge of Qingfeng Mountain. The little ones don't dare to talk nonsense about it to others. If you let the three evil tigers know that it is light to kill people and set fire to the small life, I am afraid that it will also affect the mother-in-law of the family and the neighbors, even if they die, they will not be all corpses, their hearts will be gone, and they will be drunk. ”

Song Jiang and the others had heard of the evil deeds of the three tigers of Qingfeng Mountain when they were in Erlong Mountain, and their courage was not ordinary people, and it was not appropriate to kill individuals, and even Song Jiang was used to seeing bloody slaughter in Baihu County, but at this moment, he couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this.

It's good to kill and be or eat people?

Could it be that these are the three demons who came into the world?

Xiao Er was shocked when he saw the guests, he was a little proud, and whispered: "Don't hide it from all the distinguished guests, the three tigers have done evil, and Ruilong Town has fallen." The people of the nearby villages either fled or hid in Ruilong Valley. Ruilong Valley is a natural anti-theft place, since ancient times it has been a place of refuge in times of war, and the name of Ruilong Town is based on this. A circle around is a stretch of mountainous area, like a dragon guard, to the valley is a mountain cliff, inconvenient for the bandits to attack in a big way, only two small exits in the north and southwest, now have set up a dangerous gate to defend. It is said that there are thousands of households, equipped with their own knives and guns, and led by the owner of the Niujiazhuang in the valley, Niu Xiong Niu, and the outside of the village to form a village soldier to fight against the robbers, so that there is a more stable life. The villagers in the valley usually cultivate the outside land, but rarely stay outside, and most of the original houses are used close to the ground during the busy farming season. When the summer harvest is approaching, there is no work in the fields, and they all hide in the valley to enjoy the summer, and the village is even more empty. ”

"If a few guest officials suspect that the village house is poor, the coolies in the hot world should go faster, and they dare to walk in the mountains at night and are not afraid of being late, they can go to Ruilong Valley to spend the night."

Song Jiang figured out the situation here, thanked Xiao Er, bought a lot of wine and meat to eat, and brought it to be delicious on the road, so he left and continued to hurry.

Try to pick trees to walk in the shade under the scorching sun, and after walking for a long time, people will be groggy and drowsy.

Song Jiang and the four of them walked listlessly, and suddenly saw a clear river appear, their eyes suddenly lit up, and they hurried over to wash their faces, and their brains were much clearer, and they felt hungry and thirsty, so they went to the nearby woods and took out some wine and meat flatbread in the shade of the tree.

was about to eat and drink, when suddenly two big men burst out of the forest, startling Song Jiang and the others.

Look closely, but there are two young bald donkeys, although they are monks with bright heads, but there is no compassion, all of them have thick eyebrows and fresh eyes, their eyes are flashing, they are all wearing some tattered and dirty gray cloth monk clothes, and the thousand-layer soles of the hemp shoes under their feet look very new, but they do not hang Buddhist beads, do not hold the fate bowl, do not hold the Buddhist Zen staff, one holds a sharpened double-plate axe, and the other holds a pair of ring knives, so majestic and murderous, and the four eyes are staring at the bags of Song Jiang and others, such as a hungry wolf.

These two bald asses are obviously not good, and their intentions are even worse, I am afraid that they will kill and plunder if they are strong.

Song Jiang has been with the pig iron Buddha Cui Daocheng and the flying yaksha Qiu Xiaoyi for a long time, and he already knows that the monks may not be the unworldly and holy people who have jumped out of the Three Realms and are not in the Five Elements.

Even into the Yunlong Gongsun Sheng, a master of the world is still the third master of the biggest bandit in Qingzhou, leading tens of thousands of outlaws who kill people and set fires, and their minds are deep, and killing people may be like cutting vegetables, anyway, they will not be merciful. The two in front of him will not be living bodhisattvas with the image of Vajra.

The monks who do evil slaughter people are even more ruthless.

Seeing that these two people were afraid that their skills were not low and they were not easy to provoke, Song Jiang and the four of them suddenly became highly vigilant, and they jumped up one after another to show their weapons.

Sure enough, the monk with the plate axe at the head looked at the four people with disdain, and shouted with a wave of his axe: "Grandpa doesn't kill people indiscriminately." The acquaintance dropped his things and the mule and hurried out. ”

The other smiled coldly, played a beautiful knife flower, and pointed a pair of cold and shining ring knives at Song Jiang, who was obviously the leader, and his meaning was self-evident.

Song Jiang didn't say anything, almost only the beast instinct was left to drink and eat meat in a hurry, the half-fool Dwargao Otoro was interrupted from eating, and the things in his mouth couldn't eat and drink, and the monk wanted to rob everything, he might not be able to eat and drink again in the future, and suddenly became angry like a beast protecting food, jumping three feet high, and didn't know what attitude the boss Song Jiang had, so he directly pulled out a pair of plate axes from his back waist that were larger than the axe in the monk's hand, and roared and rushed over.

"Grab my wine and meat. Hack you to death. ”

The fool roared simply and clearly, and in the blink of an eye, an axe slashed in the scorching sun and slashed at the monk who had made the axe.

The monk has been through a hundred battles, and when he saw that although he was short but unusually strong and strong, he felt a little dumbfounded, and his weight was not small, but his pace was surprisingly flexible and fast, and his whole body in this angry rush revealed the ferocious aura of the beast in the deep mountains, and this master split was also fierce and strong, not the kind of indiscriminate split when the ordinary villager was angry, it must be a skill formed by killing and fighting, although he was arrogant, but he did not dare to slack off, he laughed fiercely, lunge an axe to split over, and the other axe was ready to hit the opponent at the same time.

Unexpectedly, the two axes intersected. The monk felt a huge tremor in his hand, and the axe was almost cut off by this beastly dwarf, and the man was even more shocked to take a few steps back before standing still. The two sides distanced themselves, and the other killing move naturally had no chance to be realized.

The axe monk snorted.

Although his pair of axes were not the ones he was used to before, they were lighter and smaller, and they were not easy to use, but they were not easy to resist, and there was no reason to be easily repelled by a fool.

The monk who made the sword ring also let out a surprised question, but the arrogance immediately turned into vigilance and vigilance.

They were milled out of the dead heaps of the northern barbarians, and they have survived to this day by virtue of their ability and high vigilance and careful action.

At this time, the hungry thunder of the two reminded the two of them, and they were repelled by an ugly dwarf like a stupid villager, and they seemed to be invincible after eating a secret loss. (To be continued.) )