In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Zhao Yue ordered the fifty Cang Zhao army who had worked this trip to eat and drink on the same day, and immediately returned to the mountain with all the war horses carrying most of the tea leaves and some herbs needed for illness and injury, and transferred another hundred Cang Zhao army that had rested on the mountain.

The soldiers are so dangerous and hard here, good tea should be enjoyed, and this thing is also needed to supplement vitamins.

The remaining tea leaves are just left in the inn to entertain wealthy passers-by, so that some special guests can be satisfied and less troublesome.

The wagon, the horses, and the herbs that were really unused were stored at the inn for the time being. Herbs are left at the inn for your own use and for later use. The rest will wait until the Cui family is eliminated, and then find a chance to go to Dacheng to dispose of it, so as not to use it, and after a long time, the herbs will be broken and wasted.

After the transferred soldiers arrived, Zhao Yue divided them into more than a dozen squads of varying numbers, and Shi Yong, who was familiar with the geography of Yanjing and knew the way to Cuijiabao, and other generals and old horse thieves led the teams respectively, walked separately, and walked to Cuijiabao, and then converged.

Walking delays time, and it is also hard work.

But it's not too far from Cuijiabao. Moreover, this mixed flow of Khitan refugees passed through the important places of Yanjing, which was relatively tightly controlled by the Liao State, so as not to attract people's attention and was safer.

The old horse thieves can speak fluent Khitan dialect, and each team has few people, so it is convenient to throw all the way to the inn opened by the Khitans, and they will not alarm the Cui family after approaching Cuijiabao, which is more conducive to raids.

As for the question of a quick retreat after a night attack.

According to the information obtained by the two armed correspondents of the Cui family who interrogated their fellow travelers into the mountain, Cuijiabao naturally did not have as many good horses as Shifeng's lair, but there was no shortage of war horses, at least not the horses used by the sneak attack team composed of more than 100 people when retreating.

Since the Cui family secretly defected to the Jin army and was secretly on high alert against the Liao State government, they naturally prepared horses that could rush out and escape at any time.

And Shi Yong and Duan Jingzhu are both horse thieves. There has to be a horse that can ride like the wind.

When Zhao Yue transferred the horse thief brigade, he transferred all the war horses together, leaving not a single horse for Shi Yong and Duan Jingzhu, just to eradicate Cuijiabao, and use the horses he grabbed to supplement the needs of the mountain, so as not to delay the horse thieves to start the new year's action after the ice and snow melted.

It's a win-win-win

From the black shop in Xishankou, he was unaware of the change of ownership of Shifeng's lair. Zhao Yue can judge that the correspondent has been arrested a long time ago, but the Cui family, who is old and treacherous and extremely vigilant, still does not know that the two subordinates have already leaked secrets. This sneak attack should not fall into the trap, it can be done.

Actually, there is nothing strange about this.

The correspondent only relied on the two of them to walk through the sinister deep mountains and old forests with many fierce beasts and impermanence for many days again and again, and he had never had an accident before, so he was naturally not a mediocre hand, and he was deeply trusted by the Cui family and had extraordinary force, and had a considerable position in the force system.

Winter. The climate, the lack of grass for horses to eat, and the heavy snow are not conducive to the operation of the horse thieves.

It is easy to leave clues in the snow, which may lead to the exposure of secrets deep in the mountains.

The Cui family is not a poor person who is forced to go out to work in the wind and snow because of food and clothing, and he refuses to endure the hardship and the sin, and he nests comfortably in the deep mountains every year. Arrange communication between the two places, and it is only a regular contact that is carried out occasionally in winter.

There is nothing going on in the mountains, and there is no need to report it immediately. These two communicators were warmly received by the mountain, and often stayed in the mountain to gamble and hunt. Have fun for a few days, stay for a variety of lengths, and return when you've had enough.

The owner of Cuijiabao has long been accustomed to them, so he has not been suspicious.

They also don't believe that anyone can discover the secret of the mountains and break it.

Secrets have existed for decades and have long been proven. They have this confidence and calmness.

They don't know that there are people in this world who are meant to work miracles.

The Cui family provoked a nemesis family that should not be provoked repeatedly, so they naturally had to pay the due price for their murderous and domineering.

In order to strengthen the defense capabilities of each team on the road. Zhao Yue arranged Wang Nianjing, Wu Neng, and Xu Jin in the team led by the generals with weak combat effectiveness, and he took the wild and difficult Wan Qi Danian, followed the general with the worst combat effectiveness, dressed as Pu Tong, and mixed in with the soldiers.

The various departments successfully arrived at the nearby village shops around Cuijiabao and dispersed food and lodging.

Zhao Yue personally went to inspect Cuijia Village.

It is the largest village in the area. There are at least seven or eight hundred households, and it is also a large Han settlement area that is very rare near Yanjing today.

The villagers are all tenant farmers of the Cui family for generations.

The Cui family of Yanzhi is the same as the main branch of Cangzhou is a super large landowner, and when it was originally separated from this branch and moved over, in addition to belonging to two countries, it is convenient to step on two boats and ensure a more stable inheritance of the family, but also to take advantage of the fact that Yandi is sparsely populated after years of war, and easily occupies countless lands.

Later Liao strengthened its rule over the Yanyun region, focusing on limiting the power of the Han people and preventing the Han people from rebelling against their strength.

In order to keep the foundation of Yandi and the opportunity to inherit the two boats, the Cui family had to follow the trend and sell most of the land to show their obedience and cooperation with the Liao government, and also won trust, but there is still a lot of land left.

Later, the pirate army made a fuss. The Liao government forcibly relocated Han Chinese families to the Yanjing area to make room for Khitan refugees and strengthen security in the Yanjing area. The Cui family's land and several villages in this area were once again cut off, and the land and the ruling population were once again greatly reduced. They have strength in the local area, they have a wide and deep tentacles in the officialdom, although they do not have a big official but have a certain connection, and they have always been loyal and positive to the Liao State.

Other places are now the fields and dwellings of the Khitans who came from the north.

The political environment has changed, and although the Cui family is still majestic in the local area, it is indeed facing endless troubles and crises caused by the barbaric, backward and poor new neighbors of the Khitans, who are staring at the wealth of the Cui family.

The Khitan government naturally favors the Khitan people in its heart, and it is also eyeing the Cui family's wealth.

This is a very common embarrassment and pain encountered by traitors after taking refuge abroad.

Nowadays, there are not many men in the Cui family who live in Cuijiabao.

Most of the children are hiding in the lair deep in the mountains, managed by the eldest son of the current patriarch and the next patriarch. This person was the first to die on the wine table where Zhao Yue raided.

Some literati children are desperately infiltrating and mixing in various parts of the Khitan officialdom, they have no outstanding talents, and they are of different races, so they cannot be big officials. Some of them served as auxiliary officials or petty officials with real power, and some simply gave Khitan bigwigs as educated Han slaves to cling to power and borrow power.

What remained in the fort were the patriarch who had to stay behind to support the portal, the second son of the martial artist who was responsible for protecting and taking care of him, the three or two backbone members who managed to deal with the daily affairs, and the old man and the woman and the child who could not stand the bitter cold of the mountains and waited for death in this happy nest.

The Yanzhi Cui family is also very powerful, but the castle is not big. It is far from being able to compare with the grandeur of the original Cangzhou Castle.

The Liao government did not allow Han Chinese families to build huge castles. Not to mention the Cui family, even if it is a Han family that is the prime minister of the Liao State. The reason is still to prevent the Han people from harboring a large number of people, money, and food, and have the power to rebel or incite the Han people and the government to violently confront.

The small square castle built of big black bricks is five meters high, has four city gates, does not rely on the river, has no moat, and does not have a city gate tower, only a small lookout house is set up at the four corners for vigil and monitoring the city wall, so as to prevent people from climbing and sneaking into the city at night.

Zhao Yue saw this layout clearly and understood the way in and out of the village. Quietly retreat.

That night, it was very windy, but the sky was relatively clear. A very thin crescent moon could not shine on the earth. The stars are brilliant, but they can't illuminate the darkness of the night.

Zhao Yue has strong night vision, a little light, and it is not a problem to travel in the dark.

Wang Nianjing, Wu Neng, Xu Jin, Shi Yong and some generals of the Horse Thief Army used to go to the rivers and lakes to go to the underworld, and Pan Xun and Pan Su used to fight in the Western Army to conduct reconnaissance, and often sneaked at night. These people are also good at night walking.

Wan Qi is good at shooting, and his eyesight is excellent. It's like an adult ape from the mountains, with strong night vision, that is, it can't be compared with Zhao Yue, who has become a freak.

Together, they led their team into the dark village, and quickly rushed towards the north gate of the castle.

Maybe the Yan Zhi Cui family has been doing too much evil for too long, and it deserves to perish.

Some of the farming families in the village used to have guard dogs. Zhao Yue: When they enter the village, they will cause dogs to bark, which will inevitably attract the attention of the people in Wangjiao House.

But since then, it has become a poor and meat-loving Khitan village. The village always loses poultry and livestock.

The Khitans don't necessarily love dog meat. Dogs used to be important assistants in their grassland grazing and wolf rejection homes. Respected by herders. But now it was the presence of dogs that prevented the Khitans from stealing at night, and the dogs in Cuijia Village soon became extinct.

The Han villagers can't afford to provoke the Khitan neighbors who play with scimitars and have the favor of the government, and the chickens and sheep at home are about to be lost, and they are lucky to keep them in the house for the rest of the night, and there is really nothing to lose outside the poor house. simply stopped raising dogs to guard the door, and saved the already small amount of food.

In the dead of night, the lights in the houses facing the two corners of the city wall were bright, but no one was shaking inside, and no one came out to patrol.

It is estimated that he does not want to stay up all night to be cold on a windy and cold night, so he roasts the fire cat inside and sleeps and is lazy.

The Night Raiders slowly approached the castle with light steps.

Zhao Yue's eyes were sharp, and he was surprised to see that there were two figures on the city wall who were rapidly climbing upward.

Could it be that two bold armed thieves came here to steal?

Judging by his skills, his skills should be good.

Or maybe they came to seek revenge like me.

Who made this family so vicious and domineering, after accumulating for so many years, there must be many enemies who have a deep hatred for them.

Zhao Yue ignored the two of them, and made a gesture to the generals on his side to act according to the pre-battle arrangement, and then started to run with light power and rushed up the city wall.

He didn't wear iron shoes for tonight's sneak attack, and deliberately changed into thick rubber-soled fast boots brought from home, and he acted silently.

As soon as the two mysterious men climbed the city wall, they suddenly saw a figure next to them, which startled them.

Fortunately, he did not scream to alarm the sentry in the Cape. Presumably, he often walks at night.

Zhao Yue couldn't see his expression with his face covered, so he squinted and smiled at the mysterious man to show his hostility, jumped directly into the city, and rushed straight towards the Cui family's mansion.

From the destruction of the Cangzhou branch and the secret nest of Shi Feng, there were secret passages both times, and Zhao Yue deeply realized the cunning and vigilance of the Cui family. He was worried that if this trip was slightly alarmed, the people of the Cui family here would get into the secret passage to hide or even run away, so this trip must be fast.

He has the fastest speed and the highest combat effectiveness, and is responsible for killing in advance, trying to block his retreat in time, and has no time to clear the sentry in the Cape, and no time to open the city gate to let his subordinates enter, so naturally he has no time to explain and entangle with the two mysterious people.

These two people don't delay tonight's action. Whatever they want.

From the captives of the Cui family, it was learned that the four gates of the castle were all warehouses that were convenient for receiving and transporting grain, covering a huge area. The Cui family has many fields, and the grain rent collected is naturally piled up. Now there is not much food in the warehouse, which is only enough for the people and horses here. Except for the sale of some deceived officials, the rest were quietly transferred to the lair in the mountains, and the thousands of people and horses used there were consumed enormously year after year. The Cangzhao horse thief army occupied there, with less than 400 people, plus those 'mountain people', there was really no shortage of food.

At the base of the north gate city wall, there is a section built against the wall of the granary depot to put saddles and other riding equipment and horse breeders' houses, and next to it is a horse breeding shed, raising dozens of horses.

These horses were used by peripheral thugs to run errands. It was placed at the north gate, but it was a good time for the protector to flee deep into the mountains. It's just that the peripheral thugs don't know what they mean. It's really hard to happen, these horses are not enough for peripheral thugs, that is, the Cui family abandoned thugs to block the enemy.

Good horses are carefully raised in the mansion, and they are naturally used by the backbone of slaves such as masters and stewards and elite henchmen.

The Cui family's mansion is located in the center of the castle and is a suite of blue brick houses.

There were about 200 families of outskirts of thugs posing as peasant households, living in stone-cement thatched houses around the mansion, some distance from the city walls.

Zhao Yue went down the city wall and ran to take a look, and couldn't help but curse.

The houses on the periphery were built in an unorganized and haphazard manner, and none of the streets led straight to the center of the city, like a labyrinth.

The Cui family did not understand the rules of construction, did not have a plan, or did not like to be orderly, they did it on purpose, the purpose was nothing more than to prevent the hostile people entering the city from rushing directly and quickly towards the mansion, increasing the difficulty of the attack.

But with so few residents surrounding the mansion, how confusing can the maze be?

Zhao Yue pursed his lips disdainfully, jumped directly onto the courtyard wall blocking the straight road, and rushed to the target.

The two mysterious people on the city wall were surprised by Zhao Yue's powerful ability to fly over the city wall.

This person's martial arts must also be unfathomable, but fortunately, he is not an enemy, and it seems that he is the same as us who came to deal with the Cui family at night.

Fortunately, as soon as they secretly breathed a sigh of relief, they saw several more people quickly crawling up.

Wu Neng and Xu Jin are scuds, the fastest among these people, ignoring the two mysterious people, without Zhao Yue's powerful light function, they jumped directly from the city wall but there was almost no sound, so they ran directly down the road to the lower city, chasing after Zhao Yue.

The chief of the guard, Wang Nianjing, and Wan Qi Danian, who was only with Zhao Yue, followed closely.

The two mysterious men were stunned, but then there was a burst of ecstasy in their hearts.

There's a big team of people to deal with Dead Cui. Now our goal designation can be achieved.

Seeing that Shi Yong gestured to his peers to be friendly, the two ignored Shi Yong and pointed to the Wangjiao over there, which meant that the two families were responsible for cleaning up one while bowing their hands to Shi Yong, and ran down the road directly, staring at Wang Nianjing and Wan Qi Danian.

Shi Yong shook his head with a dark smile, and asked the generals who climbed up to take two people to gently go over and cover the three sentry posts on each side with their mouths and pull their necks with daggers to clean up, he and the Pan brothers got off the road and quietly turned to the north gate, wanting to open the city gate and let the soldiers waiting at the gate come in. (To be continued.) )