Volume 1 The Battle of Luchuan Chapter 44 The Secret Passage (II)
This street corner looks ordinary, and perhaps the only thing that is more special is that there is a well that seems to have dried up next to the wall. Auma walked to the well and jumped straight into it.
Jiang Yu's eyes twitched when he watched from the side, and he said in his heart that he never expected that this secret passage was actually at the bottom of the well, so if he wanted to use the secret passage to escape hundreds of people, it would be too difficult.
However, after Auma jumped, he could still see the top of his head. In this way, this well is very shallow, which makes Jiang Yu's hanging heart settle down a little.
He waved his hand at Jiang Yu outside the well: "Baihu, the stone bricks outside the well can be removed, can you help remove them and then hand them to me?" ”
Hearing Aouma's words, Jiang Yu beckoned Ah Tian to come and dismantle it with him, and sure enough, the bricks around the well were loose, and he and Ah Tian dismantled the bricks one by one, and handed them to Auma piece by piece, but it took a lot of effort.
After giving him dozens of bricks, Aummahbi made a gesture and said, "It's already okay, you don't need to give me any more bricks."
Jiang Yu couldn't help but ask curiously, "Awuma, what is the use of these bricks you want?" Is there any mechanism in the secret passage that needs bricks to activate? ”
"Organs? There is no mechanism. Aouma's voice came from the bottom of the well: "I need bricks just to put them under the foot, unlike me, you have not walked much through this secret passage, you are not familiar with the conditions of this well, and it is not good to jump down and fall." ”
Was it because we were afraid that we would fall? Jiang Yu couldn't help but collapse, he was still thinking about what kind of artifact mechanism this was, and it needed so many bricks as a condition for activation.
"Alright, you can come down." Auma clapped his hands and said.
Jiang Yuyan was the first to follow, because Auma had already paved several steps of steps, so it was quite easy to go down. After going down, Auma slapped the stone wall on one side of the well, making a thud like a watermelon, and the dust on the stone wall fell in a plop, revealing the outline of a door frame. It's a stone door.
Auma pushed hard, and the bottom of the stone door was unexpectedly smooth, as if the lower edge of the door had been treated, and with a rumbling sound, the door was pushed to the back, revealing the space behind the door.
Jiang Yugang followed Awuma in, this is a fairly spacious corridor, which can almost accommodate four to five people walking side by side, with a height of about two and a half meters, and Jiang Yuyan, who is more than one meter and eight, does not feel very depressed when he walks in it.
There was no light source in the corridor, but I could still see the specific situation here from the entrance on my side and the light faintly coming from in the distance. The inner walls of the tunnel are all covered with stones, leading straight into the distance, and should be more than 200 meters long.
"It's pretty clean in here." Jiang Yuyan was a little surprised by the relatively refreshing air here, and he was ready to hold his breath at all times before coming down.
Auma smiled, "Of course, this secret passage is under my management, and I come down to clean it almost every month, and it's not been long since I last cleaned it." ”
"Where does it lead?" The people behind also came down one after another, looking at this secret passage hidden under the cottage, or hidden in the mountain, in amazement. Chen Ziyu asked Awuma.
"It leads to the other end of the southern mountain of Manggu Mountain," Auma said, "and with the help of this passage, it is possible to escape from the village safely and secretly."
"Such a powerful project, if Lu Chong sees it, he will definitely be shocked." Ah Tian stretched out his hand to touch the cold stone wall, couldn't help but sigh, and couldn't help but smile: "It may also hit this guy's self-confidence well." ”
Jiang Yugang was also a little curious: "Is this passage your own piece of the village?" ”
"Probably not." Awuma shook his head: "As far as I know, this generation of village owners came here to build a village nearly a hundred years ago, but I have never heard of a story of using manpower to build a secret passage. ”
"In other words, this secret passage is left over from a previous era?"
"It is very likely that for hundreds of years, this part of Nansangzhai has been the location of the largest village in the Nanshan area of Manggu Mountain, and the reason for this may lie in this secret passage." Auma frowned slightly: "Because of the existence of the secret passage, people can escape, so there are more opportunities to develop greater power." ”
"It's just a pity that the old village owner's family didn't have time to escape from the secret passage." He sighed.
Jiang Yugang didn't ask too much, and slowly walked to the exit of the secret passage, where a lot of dirt had been piled up, and it had become hard after countless winds, sun, and rain, and it was ready for people to be sure.
Stepping on the mud pile at the exit to leave the secret passage, there is a sparse forest in front of you, and around the woods, you can see the gatehouse of Nansang Village from a cliff.
"If the enemy wants to chase after the secret passage, we can move stones to block this exit after using the secret passage." Jiang Yu looked at the size of the space at the exit.
"A few people need to be left here." Chen Ziyu also followed, nodded and agreed: "I'm going to let people move some big rocks over." ”
"We also need to prepare more soil that can be used for landfilling, and we must make sure that this exit is blocked." Jiang Yu thought about it for a while, and then commanded.
"Baihu doesn't have to be so careful, except for me, no one knows about the existence of this secret passage now," Auma said with relief: "After all, the master of the village is the master of the village, and many things can only be known by being the master of the village, and no one else in the village will know this secret." ”
Jiang Yu shook his head: "If the retreat is not timely, it is still possible to be discovered, so be careful." ”
He beckoned to the other officers and members of the Intelligence Department who had followed: "Come here, let's discuss the final battle plan one last time." ”
"At this stop, we want to completely exterminate the Luchuan soldiers in the area of Manggu Mountain." Jiang Yu said resolutely.
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Waiting for all affairs to end, and when the battle was about to begin, the atmosphere in Nansang Village became warm. The old and weak women and children who did not participate in the battle had already left Nansangzhai and went to the Ming army's Manggu Mountain camp to escape the battle, and some of the Ming troops who were responsible for ambushing outside also left with them.
In the end, the remaining Ming army and the militia of Nansangzhai started a grand banquet under the instruction of Jiang Yugang. After the families of these villagers also went to the camp of the Ming army, Jiang Yugang also indirectly controlled the net worth of these remaining militiamen, and his authority increased greatly for a while, and he became a prominent figure in the village.
No one dares to have any resistance to Jiang Yu's words and deeds, after all, his family and everything can be said to be in Jiang Yu's hands. This can also be regarded as an unexpected gain from Jiang Yu's kindness and letting the villagers who were unable to fight go to the Ming army camp to hide.
On the other side, the informant returns with the last information from before the battle. The Luchuan army was divided into two routes, with a total of nearly 800 people marching towards Nansang Village from the two mountain roads that could enter the cottage, and it seemed that they wanted to surround the village first, and then find a place to break through.
Jiang Yu's palm holding the knife was oozing sweat, and the big battle was about to begin.