Liu San also said: "We only have a few people. If something happens to you and you get stuck inside, we can't save you desperately. ”

Zhao Yue smiled: "It's okay." Hide around here. If I haven't come back in half an hour, you just have to go back. ”

Liu Er shook his head and said, "That's not possible." Our brother brought you, and we must take you back. ”

Liu San pursed his lips and nodded.

Zhao Yue was moved when he heard this.

Although he knew that most of the two of them were for breaking him, it was not easy for him to confess to their righteous brothers Cheng and Jin, but he did have a sense of responsibility for him.

As for going to live in the Great Song Dynasty with him and leaving the deep mountains where it is not easy to survive as a family, I am afraid that this reason is not important.

Zhao Yue could feel that the mother and son of the Liu family had no utilitarian intentions, they liked to live here, and they had nothing to do with him.

After knowing each other for a short time, the two parties are actually strangers who know each other, and they can't talk about how much affection there is, and the fact that the Liu brothers can treat him like this shows their character.

Zhao Yue smiled warmly: "The two of you will listen to me once." That's it. Remember, don't break into the cottage for me. ”

Without waiting for the two of them to react, he immediately burrowed into the woods, ran in the direction of the cottage, and disappeared in a few blink of an eye.

Liu Er and Liu San couldn't help but be stunned when they saw this.

This little brother of the Zhao family is much faster in the mountains than we are used to in the mountains, like a ghost, could it be that there is a legendary Taoist supernatural power?

The two brothers sighed again after admiring it, thinking about the danger of the thieves' nest.

Not optimistic about Zhao Yue's trip.

But I can't stop it, I don't make a move, I feel that the little son of the Zhao family is too conceited, too bold, and reckless and impulsive, isn't it a little unreliable?

Helpless. The two prayed that Zhao Yue would not have an accident.

It is still extremely cold in the early spring in the mountains. Find a leeward and wait in secrecy.

Zhao Yuezhen didn't have much trouble to get into this so-called heavily guarded cottage.

With his current eyesight and hearing, even if someone lurks within twenty or thirty feet, the faint sound of breathing cannot escape his ears.

As long as it wasn't an ambush in the labyrinth's secret passage or a dense defense of people from person to person, it would not be a problem for Zhao Yue to sneak in quietly from the sentry post.

This cottage is indeed not small, built in a dangerous mountain, and there is no flat and large land like Erlong Mountain or the nest of the deep mountain.

Lots of houses. Many of them are sturdy and durable houses made of stone and cement, which can only be built in a relatively flat place in the east and west according to the geographical situation, so they are of different sizes and orientations, and they are all over the cottage.

The dwellings are scattered, so there are voices everywhere in the cottage.

The people who are active outside the house, except for the many sentry posts set up around the cottage where people may climb up, are busy chopping wood and feeding the horses. Only a very small number of diligent people are practicing martial arts.

Because it's cold in the mountains. There is nothing to do, and most of the voices gather together to drink, gamble, and talk about the mountains......

The atmosphere in the cottage is casual and leisurely.

Zhao Yue felt that there were indeed not too many people here, but unexpectedly there were a lot of horses, and he was afraid that there were not thousands of them, and they were kept in a house for the winter.

In order to prevent it from being another cave set up by the Cui family, he didn't find a tongue to interrogate and then kill it. So as not to alarm this thief's nest too early, which is not conducive to subsequent efforts to exterminate it.

Sneak deeper. After observing stealthily for a while, he judged that a place should be the residence of the thief leader here, and touched it.

In the room, the head of the thief here, Cui Chuancheng, a descendant of the Cui family, and several side branch disciples led by the military advisor Cui Chenggong were drinking a little wine, whispering about some secrets in the family and some goals to be completed this year. Complain about things, complain about troubles, talk about joy.

They never imagined that someone would be able to get from the cliff to the cottage without any aids, and avoid the strict security and sneak in without alerting a single person. and lurked right under their noses to eavesdrop.

Unexpectedly, there was a henchman sentry at the door to prevent his subordinates from suddenly breaking in and overhearing the secrets of the Cui family; Behind the window of the house is a wide open space, which can be seen by people who are active outside the village, and no one can eavesdrop on it; There is snow on the ground, and if anyone comes close to the window, the snow will creak when they step on it, and they can hear the sound and perceive it early. So vigilant and careful, whispering in the house, there has never been an accident that has caused a leak for more than ten years, but today someone is hiding in the window, and they can roughly hear their words from a distance.

Zhao Yue listened to the discussion and was pleasantly surprised to learn that this was indeed another cave of the Cui family, but he couldn't help but be shocked by the layout of the Cui family.

After the incident in Cangzhou that year, the Cui family set up this cottage, gathered people, at first concentrated people and horses to loot and retaliate against the Yandi government in the distance, and later as the Liu brothers said that they encountered a Yanjing army that came back from beating the Jurchens, and suffered heavy losses, although the use of Qingshiyu to eliminate the revenge, but also luckily hidden the secrets here, but learned a lesson, felt that the brigade was not suitable here, it was easy to expose the traces, so it was changed to this place as the nest, to stay with the elite, only do big work and secret work, reduce the dispatch, The rest of the horses were led by the leaders of the henchmen and scattered to the dangerous and convenient mountains in the east of Yanshan to set up remote villages, and then recruited a large number of lost manpower.

There are so many mountains that are easy to defend and easy to ride up.

In the actual operation, the remote village has to become mainly robbed by the nearest bandits, and the horse thieves who attack the distant target are not supplemented. This makes it easier to escape. If they were surrounded and suppressed by the officers and soldiers and could not resist it, they abandoned their horses and fled into the mountains, and the officers and soldiers retreated and came back to continue.

And here, there is a way for horses to go up the mountain, walk horses, there is a large area of hidden open space in front of the mountain, and it is also convenient to transport grain from the outside, many conveniences, therefore, the wealth grabbed is concentrated in this old nest, and the good horses are also concentrated to feed, and the more concentrated, the more they are concentrated.

The good horses are concentrated in this lair, but also in case the Cui family is severely attacked by the government in Yandi, and the thieves can retreat here, becoming a horse thief with huge power and difficult to deal with, and the action is like the wind rushing out of the dangerous place and moving to another base.

Zhao Yue was shocked that this base was actually located in the Taihang Mountains far away from the Yanjing region.

The nest in Taihang Mountain belongs to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty according to its jurisdiction, but it is very close to the Khitan realm, in fact, it is a two-sided zone of barren mountains and wild mountains, the south is the continuous and treacherous Taihang Mountain Mountains, and the weak and incompetent Great Song Dynasty rule does not care about the bandits of the Taihang Mountains at all, and the north is the vast Khitan land, which is the place where the movement space is free.

Even if the Khitan and the Great Song Dynasty government knew the harm, it would be difficult to fight and really want to exterminate it.

Zhao Yue thought so. In the future, the Jin army destroyed Liao and went south to attack the Song Dynasty to attack Shanxi, so wouldn't the thieves of the Cui family in Taihang Mountain just be the leading party?

The Cui family took this into account with foresight and set up a third cave in Taihang Mountain?

If that's the case, then the family is really terrible.

Zhao Yue was pleasantly surprised to learn that there was indeed a pick-up office in the east of Cuijiabao, and it was also an inn. It's called Long An Inn, I don't know what the specific situation of the inn is, is it located in a sparsely populated remote place, or is it located near the village?

He didn't hear any more important information, and he didn't dare to stay long, so he immediately quietly retreated, came back to find the Liu brothers, and hurriedly returned.

The Liu brothers were pleasantly surprised by Zhao Yue's safe return and wanted to inquire about the situation. But seeing that Zhao Yue had no intention of saying more, he didn't ask.

Zhao Yue saw Cheng Ying and the two golden eagles, and the first thing he said was to ask them if they knew that there was an inn called Long An in the east of Cuijiabao?

The golden eagle was puzzled, but said: "Coincidentally, I really know." My brother has also stayed. ”

Cheng Ying reacted and said in surprise: "That inn is not big, about forty miles south of Cuijiabao, we didn't pass through there last night." Cuijiabao is on fire. But that's far away. Coupled with the undulating terrain, it is not visible. The wind blew away the smoke again, and I guess something had happened. Presumably, no one among the people who escaped from Cuijiabao knew the secret of this place, and no one could notify them in time. ”

The golden eagle also understood, and said with a smile: "It is located in a clearing in the middle of several mountain villages, and consists of some single-story stone and cement wall houses. The main family does not have the surname Cui. The guys were welcoming and cleaned up. It shouldn't be a black shop, but it doesn't take the main road, the guests are mainly the surrounding villages, the business is dull or even deserted, and most of the local idlers are borrowing land to kill sheep and drink wine and gamble. ”

That's right.

Zhao Yue nodded. immediately wrote a letter, so that Cheng Ying, who was more stable, urgently sent it to the Nanshan sentry post of Laochao.

He took the golden eagle to the Longan inn on a fast horse, let the golden eagle watch the horse outside and answer, he sneaked in from the backyard over the wall alone, and saw that the inn only raised a good horse, presumably for daily contact with the Cui family, not for the Cui family after the emergency absconding, and had to evacuate, to take away this person.

In other words, it is very likely that the people here do not know the true purpose of the Cui family to open an inn here, and they can be abandoned at any time without knowing it.

This place is indeed like an ordinary and serious inn, and it should not be aware of the changes in Cuijiabao, and the guards are loose, allowing Zhao Yue to sneak in easily.

It was noon time to prepare for dinner, and more than a dozen guys from the inn were busy eating and entertaining in front.

Zhao Yue also heard the sound of gambling coming from a house, and there were probably dozens of idlers playing enthusiastically inside.

There are no guards at the backyard owner's place.

Zhao Yue only found a man who was drinking and eating with a young woman.

He knocked the woman and the waiting maid unconscious, closed the door and threatened to interrogate.

The middle-aged man may have been trapped here comfortably and idlely for too long, not a murderous black shop that can maintain the bloody nature of the operator, his courage has long been cowardly, and he may be shrewd, strong, loyal and reliable in front of the master, but in front of the sharp blade, he immediately showed his true colors of fear of death, and he was so frightened that he kept trembling, kneeling and begging for mercy, and it turned out to be just a small housekeeper of the Cui family.

There is really no Cui family here.

The butler and the other thugs who guarded the place knew nothing but that they had been ordered to maintain the inn for many years.

The inn is open seriously but the business is light, so as not to arouse suspicion and jealousy, to open for a long time, and to be conducive to being a secret contact point.

The Cui family is really well-arranged.

Zhao Yue secretly praised, finished up with this waste housekeeper, turned over some money casually, made a house robbery, and left immediately.

As long as the Dulu Mountain thief Kou Cuijiabao can't be notified here, and the other thugs are not guilty, there is no need to kill them all.

Zhao Yue and the golden eagle returned to Dulu Mountain, patiently waiting for the arrival of the horse thief army urgently transferred, and immediately arranged to clean up the nest of this mountain.

This time, in addition to leaving twenty Cangzhao soldiers in Shifeng to guard the mountain gate, all the other soldiers were transferred on foot.

Even the more than 200 horse thieves who were almost well injured, there were less than 500 people in total, and if they wanted to clean up the Cui family's bandits in Dulu Mountain, the troops were not enough. Fortunately, there are many of these collected in Cuijiabao, and they are very willing to take revenge on the bodyguards and heroes of the Cui family.

Such a sinister and convenient way to monitor the surrounding enemy cottages, if you want to destroy them, you can only attack at night and destroy and disintegrate the defense from the inside.

The brothers of the Liu family also wanted to make a move, and they could follow Zhao Yue in the future, but Zhao Yue refused.

Deep in the mountains and dangerous places, the old woman of the Liu family is at home alone, which is too unsafe.

Zhao Yue asked the Liu family brothers to protect the old lady is a credit. The one who does not work is not for a while, and it is not necessary to follow him.

This caring and considerate act, the old woman Liu praised Cangzhao's benevolence and righteousness, and also completely strengthened the followers of Cheng Ying, Golden Eagle, Ning Zuo, Ning You, Ba En, Che Li, and the former Cui family bodyguards who were newly recruited.

The Liu brothers had nothing to say.

Before the war, Zhao Yue said to the more than 200 horse thieves: "I promised to send you to a good place to live, but I couldn't do it because you were injured last time." This time the situation is urgent, and I have to rely on your strength again. I guarantee that after this battle, the dead will be safe, and the living will soon be able to leave the Liao Kingdom, receive a heavy reward, and live the life you want. Please believe in me one more time and fight for the last one. ”

Zhao Yue climbed the cliff of the old nest in the deep mountains, and broke the strength of the strong fortress alone, which made these horse thieves frightened into gods, and followed such an invincible peerless powerhouse, why worry about fighting and not winning?

Zhao Yue sent away those horse thieves who could be transferred last time, and he was true to his words and had strength, which also convinced the remaining horse thieves.

At this time, seeing Zhao Yue's guilt for having to fight with them, the cold and lonely hearts of the horse thieves felt the attention and concern of the main family, and felt the human touch of the main family, whether it was the Khitan people or the Han people of Liaodi, their hearts were warm.

The master does not treat us as a tool for his life like other magnates, does not despise and despises us who fight rough, and does not hesitate to participate in the adventurous war in person at the expense of noble bodies.

With Shi Yong and Duan Jingzhu's brainwashing and indoctrination foundation, with money stimulus, and with Zhao Yue's encouragement of hope and courage, the horse thieves all stared at each other and their morale rose.

Zhao Yue also said to the bodyguards who joined: "You are the same. Leave here after the war and live the life you like. ”

Condensed the combat effectiveness, and described the situation in the cottage in detail as much as possible, that night, Zhao Yue took Cheng Ying, Jin Diao, Wan Qi Danian, Wu Neng, and Xu Jin to climb the mountain and sneak into the cottage and destroy it inside.

The brave and shrewd and flexible Wang Nianjing led people to block the entrance of the cottage.

The four generals and four fierce soldiers of the horse thief army: Ningzuo, Ningyou, Barn, and Cheli are responsible for leading the troops to kill them.

Arrange for capable generals and a few brave bodyguards to lead troops to defend a few places that can escape from here to the mountains.

In the cottage late at night, most of the bandits are sleeping soundly. The assassination is underway, and the great war breaks out suddenly.

No matter how strong and dangerous a fortress is, it is easy to break through from within.

Zhao Yue led people to avoid the sentry at the entrance, sneaked deeper, and assassinated several people who were responsible for tonight's internal vigil all the way, and the raid solved most of the most fierce and backbone leaders, in order to prevent the cottage from having a secret way to escape, the thief leader Cui Chuancheng was the first to be killed, the military advisor Cui Chenggong and another civilian Cui family were captured alive, and the rest of the Cui family who did not need to stay alive were all killed.

The remaining bandits, hundreds of soldiers showed their strength in the battle, and the number was superior, but in a hurry, there was no armor, and many people did not have time to put on clothes and hats, and rushed out with only boots and fur coats, and fell into a chaotic situation where no one calmed the army's heart, and no one organized and commanded the resistance and counterattack, and was broken by the Cangzhao horse thief army, which was good at small groups to cooperate with the battle, with tactics and sharp weapons.

Cooks, horse breeders and other logistical thieves also fought fiercely with knives at the beginning, but seeing the ferocity and even madness of the comers, their own people, who had always been strong, could not resist the attack and were killed in pieces, and their courage quickly disappeared, and they chose the road to escape, but they were blocked everywhere......

The nest that the Cui family had set up here for more than ten years collapsed overnight.

Zhao Yue interrogated Cui Chenggong and another Cui family captive, pried open their mouths, and was shocked again by the information obtained and the comprehensive analysis he knew before.

(To be continued.) )