Zhao Yue guessed that the Yanzhi Cui family was very likely to hide their main wealth in the mountains, so as not to be suddenly turned on by the rude and greedy Liao people and cut off the economic foundation of the family's inheritance and development. But not a lot of money was found in the mountains. This disappointed the horse thieves. The most precious thing is the thousands of war horses harvested.

Resting on the stone peak, Zhao Yue found that the Cui family had a family temple and ancestral hall in the mansion, and he was idle, so he went in to check and saw that one side of the house was actually built by a huge natural mountain stone wall, and the Buddha statue enshrined in it was also carved from an isolated mountain stone, but he always felt that something was wrong.

The Buddha statue is carved majestically enough, but it is too rough and simple.

With the power of the Cui family and the conceited status of the clan, it is not possible to find a skilled craftsman, and such a rough Buddha should not be worshipped.

He examined the statue closely, only to find that the stone floor behind the statue was empty.

It was because of his strange voice when he stepped on it in iron boots, and his sensory sensitivity was far beyond that of ordinary people, so that he could hear the non-real anomalies below.

Illuminating the black void behind the Buddha statue with a wolf's eye flashlight, the heavy stone floor was revealed, and Huo Ran revealed a deep cave with a cold air.

Zhao Yue was bold, neither believing nor afraid of any demons and monsters in the cave.

There are no venomous snakes hiding in such cold caves.

He personally went down to check, and finally verified the conjecture and found the wealth hidden by the Cui family in the mountains.

The Yandi branch did not keep the huge wealth inherited by the family, and naturally did not have as much money as the Cangzhou branch, but there were also at least one million pieces of gold and silver and precious jade jewelry that could be preserved for a long time in this cave. There is not a single copper plate.

It seems that after moving to Yandi, this branch took advantage of the war of the year and the ingenuity of the future. Gathering wealth locally is not light.

What Zhao Yue was interested in was that this cave was very deep. It is even larger, divided into dozens of large and small cave rooms that are naturally added and artificially modified to live in people. There is a low, narrow but passable natural cavern that leads diagonally down to a cliff in the air.

Small bags of sulfur powder to repel snakes and insects are scattered along the passageway, leaving the passage with a pungent smell.

The smell can be so pronounced in a ventilated area that these sulphur bags are often replaced with new ones, and they always maintain the insect repellent effect.

The openings were smaller, allowing only people to climb out, and were groomed in a more regular manner, closed by a small iron door with a fine sieve eye, apparently to avoid strong winds. Prevents venomous snakes from burrowing through the mountain walls and ventilates the cave. The outer layer of the iron plate door is deliberately painted in the same color as the stone wall.

Zhao Yue leaned over and looked down from the entrance of the cave, the clouds and mist in front of him were shrouded, and he couldn't see the bottom clearly, and then looked up to see the height of the top of the mountain, and it was estimated that the height of the base mountain from here to the bottom was about four hundred meters. With his eyesight, he hadn't discovered this secret when he had observed the climbing path around the cliff before. Whether it is below or on the nearby high mountains, others want to notice that there is this small door on the cliff from hundreds of thousands of meters, and it is impossible to estimate it without high-powered telescopes.

The iron plate door is about a meter to the inside, and a thick stone hole is drilled into the left and right stone walls of the cave. There is a separate hole inward. The stone noses are thick and strong.

Zhao Yue wondered what this was for?

Could it be that this Cui family still wants to tie a rope here to play high-altitude escape?

So high. It's not particularly bold, professionally trained, crawling down the rope to escape, and the person swings in the air. can't go up to the sky, can't go down to the ground, can't scare him to death.

It is about a foot away from the entrance of the cave. A man built a stove to dig a hole that had been enlarged. There are complete sets of cooking equipment such as pots. The space is not too big, somewhat low. But enough for cooking.

Zhao Yue noticed that there were two large iron compartments that were an eyesore, tightly covered but not locked, thinking that they were edible products such as grain, and when he opened them, he turned out to be a thick rope ladder and a thick rope. One end of the rope was made into something like a leg strap.

He understood that the rope ladder was tied to the lining hole to provide a downward climb. The rope is used to tie the sitting person and use it as a safety rope for the climber.

Zhao Yue couldn't help but praise the family for being really thoughtful, everything was deliberate, and even hiding in such a solid and secret place, they were also prepared to escape in case of emergency. This may be the fear and vigilance caused by the harm to others and the fear of being harmed.

He patted the sturdy rope and wondered if he was underestimating the great courage and audacity of people under the desire to survive.

There is no shortage of martial arts in the Cui family. With this retreat, in a critical moment, there will always be a few children who can escape from here. It won't be served in one pot.

Well conceived. As a result, they were all wiped out. The carefully prepared retreat was completely useless.

This is called the fact that people are not as good as heaven.

This cave has a natural stone roof, a natural stone pillar, very solid, there is a faint light on the top of the cave, so that the cave is not too dark, there are breathable gaps and holes, people are not depressed at all, and there is actually a bay of living water. Zhao Yue speculated based on the location that this place should be connected to the stone lake.

It's an ideal natural hideout and a few dozen people living here is not a problem.

The Cui family also used this as an emergency hiding place in case of accidents. Here, there is plenty of food, salt, beds, even anthracite and other necessities of life.

It stands to reason that Shi Feng was captured like today, or there was a rebellion on the mountain, and the Cui family's life was in danger, and there was no escape from the mountain road, so they should hide here at a critical moment. Why are they not hiding?

Zhao Yue twisted his eyebrows and thought about it, and soon came to his senses.

Those who know the secret of this hiding place should not be known to the Cui family.

This is understandable.

After all, this is where the foundation of the wealth of the Yan Zhi Cui family is hidden, and naturally it will not be clear to all the members. One is to prevent someone within the family from being greedy to steal. The second is afraid that the family is too big, and someone has kidnapped a member, and the secret has been leaked under questioning.

He killed many members of the Cui family in the mansion. Most likely, the people who knew the secret were all dead at the time, and brought the secret to Lord Hades. The others don't know the secret, and they can't hide here to avoid the disaster, so they can only resist hard. He followed the one who recognized the way to the house of Hades.

This family is despicable and evil. The crime was monstrous, and finally another part of his backbone was killed.

Zhao Yue didn't know that what he did was also avenging the historical revenge for the descendants of the famous family in the real Sui and Tang dynasties.

This is only an authentic descendant who suffered a heavy blow that year, resulting in a sparse population. Losing their family fortune and having a bloody society, they felt a lot of hardship, but they suffered a lot. Later generations know that they are the authentic descendants, but they are thin, their lives are difficult and difficult, their family backgrounds are sluggish, and they have always been dominated by robbers and sidewalks, and there is nothing they can do.

What made Zhao Yue's eyes shine the most was that. He found a brocade box in a camouflaged hole.

Instead of a peerless treasure, the box contained a yellow satin and a few metal plaques with odd ornamentations that were half a palm. There were rows of strange words on the satin, Zhao Yue didn't know it, but when he saw the big seal of the Quartet, he smiled, guessing that this should be a holy decree of the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom to seal the Cui family.

He went out and asked the Shi Yong and Pan brothers, who might know this kind of character, to look at the satin.

Pan Xun loves to learn and said that this is a word made by Jin Guo himself. He doesn't know much, but at least he can see that this is indeed a list of officials for some of the children of the Cui family. The metal plate is like the ID card of the official seal of the Jin State, and it probably has the effect of avoiding death, letting go or urgently calling for help when encountering the butcher knife of the Jin Army.

Brand. It should be able to be used as a pass when selling smuggling to the Jin army.

The Cui family's collection of the Golden Lord's Decree was apparently to preserve the evidence.

In case the Jin Kingdom can win the world, the Jin army will kill Yandi and slaughter and loot wildly, and anyone who picks up the brand can use it. It may not be easy to deal with the greedy and rebellious army, but with this holy decree to prove that they are the golden officials of the gold lord himself, this is safe. Jin Jun can pretend to be confused and ignore the effect of the brand. But no matter how fierce and daring he is, he will not dare to kill his own officials indiscriminately.

Zhao Yue was overjoyed.

With this holy decree, you can play a game of borrowing a knife to kill. Use this to cut the grass and root the Yanzhi Cui.

Otherwise, the children of the Cui family who are officials in various parts of Yanyun must be eliminated. It takes a lot of work and a lot of risks.

He immediately asked Shi Yong to arrange for someone to secretly send this holy decree to the Yanjing spy network to collect it, and prepared to put the evidence of the crime into the Yanwang Mansion after the attack on Cuijiabao in Yanjing.

From the cave incident on the mountain, Zhao Yue was deeply aware of the cunning and ability of the Cui family, and was worried that its power would penetrate too widely. I'm afraid that the Yanjing government will be difficult to keep the Cui family secret. If the evidence of the Holy Decree is submitted to the Yanjing Government, I am afraid that before being arrested, the Cui family has already received the news and absconded, at least an important member has been absconded.

It is more prudent to give the powerful Yan Wang, who has effective secrecy measures.

Zhao Yue found the wealth on the mountain, and he would not publicize it to the horse thieves, so as to prevent the thieves from causing infighting on the way to the transfer, which would lead to uncontrollable and catastrophic consequences, and only let the four generals arrange the most reliable Cangzhao soldiers to take out this wealth and pack it, and prepare to transport it away with horses when the time comes.

Soon, he learned from the spy that Ye Luchun, the king of Yan, had searched and blocked Yan Land for a batch of unknown goods a few days ago, and even carried out a key blockade and inventory of all the passages in the north that could go north on horseback.

Zhao Yue knew that this must be for the matter of the Divine Arm Crossbow.

also guessed that Yeluchun was very likely to admit this matter to the Jurchens, so the main target of the pursuit and prevention was placed at the checkpoint leading to the northern Jin Kingdom.

Yan Jun has been in the cold these days, setting up cards along the road or running around to investigate, not eating and sleeping well, being tossed and exhausted, and impatient.

After so many days, Yeluchun found nothing, thinking that the things could not be recovered, and he was discouraged. The momentum of the investigation has also weakened, and troops are no longer sent to run around to investigate, but only continue to strengthen the supervision and investigation of checkpoints. Prevent the Jurchens from hiding somewhere in Yandi first, and then wait for the opportunity to return to the Jin Kingdom with the divine arm crossbow when the wind is loosened.

Yan Wang's troubles don't stop there.

Gao Yongchang, a native of Bohai, suddenly reversed, killed Liao Tokyo (now Liaoyang) and stayed behind Xiao Baoxian, proclaimed himself the emperor of the Great Bohai Kingdom, changed the Yuan to Yingshun, and occupied more than 50 states in Liaodong. Emperor Tianzuo sent Prime Minister Zhang Lin to crusade, and in Shenzhou was defeated by the Jurchen soldiers who supported Gao Yongchang led by Wanyan Yan's mother (the eleventh son of Shizu Wanyan Aguda), who supported Gao Yongchang.

Emperor Tianzuo felt that the former bravery and strength of the Khitan army no longer existed, and was disappointed and angry and awarded the Yan King Yeluchun as the marshal of the capital, recruiting the hungry people of the Han people in Liaodong as the army, taking revenge on the Jurchens, called the "resentment army", which was divided into two hundred thousand people in eight battalions, including the former Yi Battalion, the Later Yi Battalion, the former Jin Battalion, the Later Jin Battalion, the Qianxian Battalion, the Xian Battalion, the Qianxian Battalion, and the Yanzhou Battalion.

The historical villain Guo Yaoshi is one of the leaders, who has officially stepped onto the stage of this human life, and will definitely show his talents and take a side.

The fierce battle between the Liao army and the Jurchens in the early spring was unintentionally defeated again.

Once again, a large number of Khitan refugees in the north fled to the Yanyun area. And King Yan went north to be busy training the new army of the Han Chinese. The Yandi government was busy receiving refugees who had come to the city where the government was located for help. The social order gradually descended into chaos.

It's the most dangerous time on the road, but it's also the safest time. Be bold and run amok. Zhao Yue made a decision immediately and decided to take the opportunity to transfer quickly.

He ordered Pan Xun and Pan Su brothers, Wu Neng to take his personal guards, generals, and the 300 horse thieves army led by the 300 Cangzhao Army as the squad leader to urgently return to the old nest over the mountain, and the people who stayed there made part of the grain stored there into dry food for people on the road, and the rest were all used as horse feed, and all the important things such as the divine arm crossbow were packed up, tied to the horse's back and transported away, and sent a telegram to the armed merchant ships in Cangzhou's hometown to rush to the agreed place in the Bohai Sea to prepare for it.

Erpan acted in a hurry, returned to the lair to pack up, escorted the captive Han Chang, took all the horses away, locked the empty cottage as a backup hiding place, and the brigade moved out of the mountains.

Zhao Yue's side, ordered Duan Jingzhu, who was injured in the leg, to take his personal guards and one hundred and fifty Cangzhao soldiers to stay in Shifeng, and in the future, he would hide the better living conditions and it would be more convenient for the horse thieves to go out of the mountain as a lair, block the Shifeng Mountain Road, and take care of the wounded who couldn't ride a horse and bump with the original Cui family's 'mountain people' slave families.

He reorganized the horse thieves, and only brought twenty Cangzhao soldiers as the captains of each team after the reorganization, and took away all the materials, money, and weapons other than food and other things that were not needed on the mountain, including the women on the mountain who were used as playthings for the Cui family and their subordinates.

These women are very young and energetic, it is impossible to take a car when they first entered the mountain, they also came in on horseback, and the Liao people can ride horses, this time they are tied to the horse, and it is not a big problem to be escorted by the brigade to rush urgently. Even if it is uncomfortable, young and strong, it is only 300 miles from here to the shore of the Bohai Sea, and it will be there to endure it as soon as you can.

Two brigades went out of the mountain.

Wu Neng and Xu Jin each took their own Hai Dongqing to reconnoiter the situation outside the mountain pass, providing security for the two teams to secretly leave the hideout.

The two teams successfully rendezvoused in the agreed mountain pass.

The money tank left behind in the old nest due to injury, Niu Jinbao, Jin Laishun, and Ma Decai Si will ride those mules and horses who are not good at running, leave the team, and transfer to the new nest with the radio, accompany Duan Jingzhu to recuperate from his injuries, and help manage and defend Shifeng.

Zhao Yue ordered to take out the more than 200 sets of iron armor of the Yanwang Guard, whether good or bad, select a more reliable and suitable horse thief to change on, carry a scimitar, hold a Liao army weapon, pretend to be the elite cavalry of the Liao army who returned from the bloody battle in the north and escort the refugees along the way, and also be responsible for dealing with the attacks encountered on the road with the fifty Cang Zhao army that commanded them.

The captive Han Chang continued to be handcuffed behind his back, gagged, and tightly guarded in the middle of the ranks.

The women also gagged their mouths, dressed up and put on makeup like everyone else, covered the leather coats and hats of the Liao people, and surrounded the things that blocked their faces from the wind, posing as refugee families.

Outsiders didn't know that someone was gagged, and when they saw this mighty team, their intuition was only that they were frustrated and fierce defeated troops and refugees who had retreated from the north.

Zhao Yue made Shi Yong and Wu Neng, who were proficient in Khitan and looked very fierce, the leaders of the former army, to deal with the interrogation that might be encountered when they were forced to retreat. The Erpan brothers, who are proficient in Khitan, are the main generals of the left and right wings. Xu Jin and Wang Nianjing are the rear team. He and Wan Qi Danian were mixed in the middle, taking care of Han Chang and commanding the whole army.

This brigade of more than 200 ironclad soldiers, more than 1,000 'refugee' men and women, and more than 2,000 horses, with the help of two Haidongqing reconnaissance, quietly left the mountain pass, and when they were far away from the passage in and out of the mountainous area, they got on the main road, avoided the densely populated area, and began to gallop eastward on horseback. (To be continued.) )