On the same day that Du Dewei's team set off to the north to investigate, a meeting was also being held in Yantou Village, which is more than 40 miles south of Longyan County.

Yantou Village is also one of the famous local bandits. The steep terrain of the first line of heaven is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is stuck in the trade route from Meizhou and Shanghang to western Fujian, so there has been an endless stream of bandits from this place for hundreds of years.

Now the toll station in Yantou Village is a group of strongmen led by Ma Shixia. Under the horse, this person is fat and fierce, strong in martial arts, and was born in the border army in his early years. Later, because this person was impersonated by his boss, he cut down his boss in a fit of anger, and then ran back to his hometown to occupy the mountain as king......

Generally speaking, the style of Yantou Village is a bit similar to that of Pingfeng Mountain after the transformation: it is mainly based on card charging, supplemented by robbery.

The Tsushimaling bandits in the north, who mainly robbed, naturally had some misalignments with Yantouzhai at this time, so the relationship between the two sides was very tense for a while.

This situation is very normal: peers are enemies, swindlers look down on robbers, saying that robbery has no technical content, robbers also look down on swindlers, what do lewd people drag?

In fact, the two sides have gone too far - there are many people in Tsushimaling, and the big boss of Yantouzhai is the champion of the three armies, and the two gangs finally fought a draw, so everyone is now bounded by Longyan County and do not interact with each other.

......

This situation was broken by the Crossing Crowd not long ago. After the Zhao'an notice endorsed by Chenjiazhai being broken in seconds was posted, the nearby bandits did not pay attention to it.

Now, at least theoretically, one of the two magic weapons of the bandits, "defending to the death" is no longer feasible. Of course, it doesn't make sense to face the gang head-on, the bandits can't even be just the battalion soldiers, let alone the elite of the 200 Red Gun Battalion.

And as a last resort, who is willing to give up their own treasures of feng shui and turn to hard guerrilla warfare?

Therefore, the 100,000 Tsushima Linglin, who was facing huge strategic pressure, had to break the routine this time and send the seven masters surnamed Shi to contact Yantou Village.

In fact, after seeing Ma Shixia, the seventh master only said one sentence: "When encountering such a strong army, if the brothers on the road don't join forces again, everyone will meet at the gate of the county yacheng...... It's just that the heads of the people we are waiting for are hung up a few days early, and the horse is strong in martial arts, so he can be late for a few days. ”

Of course, Ma Shixia understood the seriousness of the situation, so after sending the Seventh Master to rest, he held a high-level meeting in the lobby of Yantou Village to study countermeasures.

The seven or eight heroes attending the meeting are all the core figures in Yantou Village, and under the horse momentum of a strong suit, a burly figure, a round face and thick eyebrows, he is sitting on the top chair at the moment, and next to him stands the nine-ring big knife that shocked the rivers and lakes.

"Big shopkeeper, if you want me to say, you don't need to care about Shi Laoqi's." After a hot-tempered little leader saw that the people sitting were all worried, he couldn't help but get angry, and said loudly: "The Red Gun Battalion is bent on leveling Tsushimaling and making a name for itself, and it is Lin 100,000 who is sitting on the wax, what are we going to do?" I didn't have to put a cushion on someone's back. ”

"Nonsense!" A man in his forties, with a wrinkled face on crutches, slammed the cane in his hand to the ground at this time. This person is Chen Youshou, the third master of Yantou Village, who has been on crutches recently because he injured his leg because he was incompatible a few days ago.

Chen Youshou, who is the longest in the house and has been "in the industry" for the longest time, and is quite popular in the village, said fiercely at this time: "The Zhao'an notice is on Tsushima Ridge to hit the head, and we are the back, once Tsushima Ling is suppressed, the official army will turn around and kill with a big victory, how to deal with it then?" ”

"Hmph, it's a big deal that the whole gang goes over the mountains to avoid it, how many days can the officers and soldiers follow? Aren't all the older generations coming over like this? The little boss was still unconvinced, and sacrificed the gangster's final inheritance move: the enemy advances and I retreat.

"Stay."

Just when Chen Youshou opened his mouth to refute, he stretched out a palm and pressed it down under the horse sitting at the top. After seeing the big shopkeeper speak, the rest of the people also stopped.

"Abandoning the village and entering the mountain, let's listen to the news brought by Xiao Wu."

With the sound of the horse's words, everyone turned their eyes to a man sitting at the bottom.

This man is short, dark-skinned, and honest, and he is the first man who went to the Tianhou Temple to sell hens to the crowd: Lin Dajin.

After hearing the big shopkeeper's words, "Lin Dajin", who was originally sitting there and seemed to be Mu Nadun thick, suddenly changed his expression - a clever and deceitful face appeared on his face.

"Everyone knows the coal pit in Heipigou, right?" The pseudonym Lin Dajin, whose real name is Xiao Wu, did not enter the topic, but talked about an irrelevant matter.

After seeing that everyone present nodded slowly, Xiao Wu continued: "In recent days, that group of shorthair has transported more than 10,000 catties of gunpowder from downstream, and the ground of Heipigou has been lifted by shorthair with gunpowder. ”

"Shorthair has silver, gunpowder is inexhaustible, and it has been brought in boats lately." Xiao Wu paused for a moment when he said this. After seeing the reaction of a few people present, he continued: "The news I heard in the short-haired room is that if you run away from the monk, you will blow up the temple; No matter whose stockade it is, it will be blown up wherever it is dangerous. ”

When Xiao Wu said this, he pointed in the direction of the Zhaimen: "If you leave this time, when you come back, the first line of heaven will be broken." ”

"Good guts!"

Someone in the room immediately cursed.

After listening to Xiao Wu's words, everyone sitting here knew that guerrilla warfare seemed to be ineffective - once the village was occupied by this group of shorthairs, and then the first line of sky at the door was blown up, then Yantou Village would be completely abandoned.

The same reasoning is extended to the following: In the future, officers and men do not need to go all over the mountains and wilderness to fight guerrillas: no matter where the bandits settle, they only need to attack the stockades, and if the bandits run away, they will continue to bomb.

...... A suitable location, not only has natural risks, but can accommodate bandits, but also to build some buildings to store food and goods, and build some barracks nests are not so easy to find, not to mention that this place has to be stuck in the traffic arteries to facilitate the establishment of card charges.

Although the mountain bandits are good at penetrating the mountains and forests, that is only a means: setting up cards to charge, or sitting on the ground to rob large households and business travelers is the goal. If there is no bandit den, then what's the point of sleeping in the open?

After Xiao Wu's explanation, the people present suddenly felt a wave of fear coming: The tricks passed down by the elders for thousands of years are not used in front of this group of weird officials and soldiers?

After figuring out the precarious situation they were facing at the moment, those who were still clamoring just now to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight and the enemy advance and retreat suddenly shut up.

This is exactly what the traversal is trying to achieve.

To tell the truth, both sides are now a bit of a bogeyman: the last thing the crossing crowd wants is actually to launch a protracted guerrilla war.

And because the bandits didn't know the true details of the opponent, they had to choose a way to deal with it in the gap given by the crossing crowd: they couldn't defend or run away, so the final choice could only be to take the initiative.

After seeing that the brothers' thoughts had been unified, the big boss Ma Shixia turned his head and said to a person sitting in the corner with a pleasant face: "Mr. Lan, do you want to help plan the current situation?" ”

"Hehehe, I can't talk about planning, but I can say a few ways to deal with it, let's go through it together."

As the words came out of the corner, it was a middle-aged scribe with a smile, a plain appearance, and an elegant demeanor.

......

Mr. Lan was a mountain more than a month ago, and the guarantor was Lin Chaofeng from Longyan County.

Lin Chaofeng is the landlord of the county, and his family not only has a pawnshop, but also operates a business of buying and selling mountain goods in the nearby area. Both businesses had to deal with gangsters: pawnshops could sell stolen goods, and men who collected mountain goods often had to pass by toll booths. Therefore, Lin Chaofeng has a lot of contacts with nearby bandits, and the two sides can be said to have a symbiotic relationship.

And the Mr. Lan he introduced his real name is Lan Da, and he is also a person in the rivers and lakes, but he is just a clerical - Mr. Lan's specialty is feng shui and looking for dragon points.

The reason why Lan Da came to Yantou Village to borrow this time was to escape the disaster.

Last year, Mr. Lan Da helped a certain town general in the border pass to order an ancestral cave, and over the years, this town general was full of luck, and now he has become a commander of the army......

Of course, this kind of behavior can be regarded as a side-kick that leaks the heavenly secrets, so according to industry practice, Mr. Lan Da has to hibernate and meditate for a period of time afterwards to avoid the backlash of the heavenly machine - so he came to Yantou Village, which is far away from the border pass.

Since Mr. Lan entered the village, he has quickly become a master respected by the whole village.

Mr. Lan, who knows astronomy and geography, is not only knowledgeable and knowledgeable, but also a very good person, and never puts on a scholarly shelf.

He often tells everyone some magical stories about finding dragon points and exploring tombs, and listening to the stories of the villagers.

In addition, such as writing letters and fortune telling, acupuncture and massage, and seeing prescriptions to grasp medicines, these skills are very magical in the eyes of the villagers, and they are all small skills of carving insects here in Mr. Lan - usually some minor diseases such as colds, everyone can swallow two pills prepared by Mr. Lan himself.

The big shopkeeper Ma Shixia is more interested in Mr. Lan's main skill: dragon hunting. You must know that Ma Shixia himself was a member of the border army in his early years, and the promoted town general in Mr. Lan's mouth, Ma Shixia happened to know...... It made him itch.

So Mr. Lan officially helped Ma Shixia once, and then told him: If you can find a good cave and move the tomb of the ancestor of the Ma family to the past, it will not be difficult to mix the position of the town general in the future - and once it is in troubled times, with the fate of Ma Shixia, similar to the life of Liangshan Thirty-six Tiangang Xing, then Ma Shixia will definitely have the fate of a founding general in the future.

Mr. Lan's words made the big shopkeeper excited. Of course, this matter has to be considered in the long run: it is not so simple to find the cave, it takes time to visit around, to buy all kinds of magic weapons, and afterwards to pay a large sum of money to the gentleman.

So recently, Mr. Lan's status in Yantou Village has risen sharply, although he is a guest secretary, but everyone now looks at him as a military advisor.