What appeared in front of Zhao Yue was actually a rather large mountaintop lake, which should be roughly located in the center of the mountaintop, and its shape was extremely irregular. The edge of the lake and the near embankment are covered by not too thick snow, and there are few traces of weeds, which are basically smooth, indicating that they are stone.

According to Zhao Yue's knowledge, this should not be a volcanic lake, but a stone lake formed by a large area of rocks formed for unknown reasons, and the water formed by snow and rain.

It is also possible that there is a miracle spring under this lake that is so stressed that it can reach the peak, but the lake is frozen and covered with snow, leaving only a flat lake with ice and snow, and it is difficult to know the details of the lake.

But there are footprints on the edge of the lake, and there is a place where the ice was broken not long ago to get water, and judging by the thickness of the ice that is exposed, the lake may not be shallow.

Zhao Yue knew that there were many lakes in the Yanshan area of Beijing, such as the famous Ming Tombs Reservoir, but he really couldn't imagine that there could be such a big lake on such a high stone peak.

Shi Yong and the others interrogated the Cui family's communication personnel who were caught, and they only paid attention to asking about the situation of the people on the mountain, and they didn't know that there was actually a big lake.

This is a natural wonder and provides the most basic living conditions for the people who live here.

No wonder this man is still cultivating among the trees.

There is soil, there is water, and there is no problem with farming.

Zhao Yue looked across the lake.

First of all, it is still a wooded field hundreds of meters deep, or the undulating weedy and rocky wasteland that is inconvenient to cultivate.

Through the gaps in the trees, you can see rows of houses sandwiched between sparse trees.

Zhao Yue finally saw the place where the old enemy hidden in the mountain was entrenched.

Except on the opposite side, the lake area is surrounded by fields and wooded fields. There was no sign of people and no signs of animals. But here, you can clearly hear chickens, sheep, and horses coming from the other side of the house. There are even cow calls.

Zhao Yue was sure that no one was around, and no one was aware of his sneaking in. He continued to burrow into the woods and sneaked to the side of the house to observe closely.

The scene in front of him made him feel like a big village in the mountains.

From north to south. Because of the situation, there are many houses built, how can thousands of people live in it, which is in line with the situation of interrogation.

What surprised Zhao Yue again was that the house was different from what he imagined, it was not a simple and rough house built with wood like Duan Jingzhu and Shi Yong's cottage, but a sturdy and spacious cement stone house with a lot of water.

Although the roof is also covered with thick thatch, the comfort and safety of living are far from being comparable to the simple wooden houses with ventilated walls and easy to catch fire.

There is no shortage of stones, which are abundant on the mountain, and there is no shortage of them to build houses. It takes a lot of effort to gather all the materials.

I'm afraid that the cement was not brought in from outside the mountain.

So many houses. With such a large amount of cement, if you rely on foreign transportation and walk such a far-reaching mountain road, it is difficult to kill a person by mule and horse. It should be built in a secret and convenient place near this stone peak to replace wood quarrying, refine it on the spot, and then transport it nearby.

Zhao Yue looked at the cement house and couldn't help but sigh lightly.

Damn, there is no secret that Da Song can keep.

At the beginning, the family dedicated the cement materials and firing methods to the imperial court, with the aim of helping the military to strengthen the fortress more easily and effectively. It is convenient for the government to repair the city, and it also indirectly reduces the burden of hard labor on the people in this regard, and as a result, the building weapon leaked the secret in a blink of an eye, and not only the rich gentry and wealthy merchants of the Great Song Dynasty made and used it for profit. Even the enemy country was not long behind the Great Song Dynasty, and it was widely fired and used.

It is easy for a powerful family like the Cui family to get a cement formula, and it is not a problem to build a stone cement house in the mountains.

This family is insidious, vicious, domineering and greedy, but they are also really powerful. Really work hard to survive and hide the legacy.

Although Yanshan Mountain has a peak of one or two thousand meters above sea level, the height of this stone peak and the base mountain together is only more than 1,000 meters. It is definitely not a high mountain in Yanshan, but it is not higher than it in the surrounding ten miles. In the era when there were no aircraft and satellite photography, no one knew the secrets of this place if they didn't go up the mountain.

There's something more interesting about this mountain.

The peak of the pinnacle may not occupy a large proportion of the area at the top of the mountain, and the entrance is an almost bare stone with the highest point of only ten meters, and the position is not in the center of the summit as usual, but roughly blocked in the northwest direction.

I don't know what's going on behind the top of the mountain.

The 'village' was built at the foot of the peak.

The ground in that area is rocky and mudless, which is not suitable for farming, but it is just used for building residential areas, and the foundation is particularly solid and solid.

The top of the mountain happens to block the cold and strong northwest wind in winter, so that the habitat is not affected by the northwest wind, but it does not affect the warm and humid southerly wind.

The other sides of the top of the mountain are widely covered with soil, and the trees that can grow show that the soil layer is not shallow, there are ancient forests outside to block the wind, and there are forest fields and wilderness pastures inside, plus not a small stone lake, planting vegetables, growing grain, grazing, life, everything is convenient.

Zhao Yue looked at the layout of this mountaintop again, and couldn't help but sigh: "This is really a paradise where a high-ranking hermit lives in seclusion!" It's a pity that a nest of poisonous snakes and wolf-like gangsters stole the treasure land, destroying the beauty of such a paradise. In order to inherit wealth, the Cui family reproduced, engaged in the diversion of the Song and Liao families, and carried out the three caves of cunning rabbits, which was really painstakingly laid out and operated. ”

It's just that such a virtuous and sinful family is worthy of being a wealthy family for a long time? Is it worthy to live here and escape the troubled times again?

Their existence and pride are trampling on and challenging human nature, and insulting the good and beautiful.

A cold light shot out of Zhao Yue's eyes.

Let me destroy you self-conceived beasts.

He glanced at the residential area, saw that some of the houses were already billowing smoke, apparently starting to prepare lunch, there were almost no people on the street, it was too cold in the mountains, people hid in their homes as much as possible to enjoy the leisure, so it was just right to sneak in, first think of destroying the main leaders here, and try to destroy the command system here.

The thieves are leaderless, and they are always easier to deal with. Then take the next step and try to break the level and open the mountain gate.

As long as the most difficult and difficult second level is destroyed and the subordinate horse thieves are released, the Cui family's nest will be destroyed, and most of the foundation will be destroyed. The rest of Yanjing is easy to say.

Zhao Yue covered his face and cleaned up his tightness. Then he quickly ran to the 'village', which seemed the largest from a distance and had the most complicated layout. Also the most illustrious mansion.

With the identity of the Cui family and the high-minded temperament, he expected that it must be the concentration of the Cui family. It should be equipped with a lot of guards and soldiers, and maybe the backbone henchmen here.

This secret has existed for decades. It has been more than ten years since the soldiers and horses were gathered here, almost the same age as Zhao Yue.

The people on the mountain, whether they have joined for a long time or are newcomers, are used to being safe here, and no one would have imagined that someone would be able to sneak in and attack.

Zhao Yue was dressed in the common winter dress of Yandi people, and he covered his face as if the people here were afraid of the cold when they came out, not to mention that there were few people outside, even if someone saw Zhao Yue hurrying by. I'm afraid that I don't care about it because of myself. Zhao Yue approached very easily.

He went straight to the back of the mansion.

This is a dead spot that cannot be seen by people in the surrounding rooms. When he came, he listened attentively, and judged that there were no dogs and people in the courtyard in this area, but there was the sound of horses, and it was estimated that it should be a horse shed.

Sure enough, this is a horse breeding shed, in which twenty or thirty fine war horses are raised.

Zhao Yue's eyes were sharp. Knowing the horses, at a glance, it can be generally seen that at least six or seven of them can be called BMW-class.

Although it is convenient to get war horses in Liao, BMW is also a rarity. From this alone, it can be seen that the Yanzhi Cui family is indeed mixing well.

Zhao Yue glanced at the layout of this place. It turned out to be a large courtyard house like the old house in Beijing, except that this backyard is a horse breeding land, surrounded by a circle of houses.

No more house. As the owner of the entire cottage, the Cui family must live in the main house of the main house facing south and north according to the tradition of the big family. So many other houses should be as expected. It is inhabited by guards and henchmen, and it is convenient to protect the main family at any time in case of accidents.

He then touched the row of houses across the wall of the north courtyard.

In order to avoid being seen from the inside of the house through the window paper, a figure sneaks into the back of the house. Or heard the sound of footsteps stepping on the snow, causing the people in the house to be suspicious and asking, startling the snake, Zhao Yue leaned over and walked slowly, listening to the sounds in the house one by one, looking for the core and backbone of the cottage.

Maybe Zhao Yue sneaked in at the right time.

Before he could take a hard time to slowly touch the situation one by one, the sound of laughter coming from a window in front of him made him lock on to the first target.

Judging by the sound, there were at least a dozen people in the room, most of them men. A few are women with seductive voices.

Judging from the title and the content of the conversation, it should be that a few backbones of the Cui family who can do things set up a banquet to eat, drink and have fun with the henchmen and backbones on the mountain, which is nothing more than to pass the boring time in the mountains in the cold winter for pastime, and by the way, to show the kindness of the main family, and to strengthen emotional exchanges and connections with eating, drinking and having fun, so that the subordinates, who have the ability and can fight and dare to fight, can be more loyal to serve the Cui family.

The deep mountains are different from the outside society.

Many members of the Cui family live in hiding here, not directly protected by the government, in case there are strong people with strong force who have different intentions, secretly contact people to make trouble, kill the Cui family, occupy this place to stand on their own, kidnap hostages, and extort money from the Cui family near Yanjing to seize wealth, then it is terrible, there is a possibility that we have to guard against this, and these martial arts masters will naturally communicate and observe more, and also show more kindness and hospitality.

Zhao Yue stood quietly outside the window and eavesdropped for a while, and couldn't help but smile on his face.

How can I quickly get rid of the backbone of the armed forces and commanders on the mountain, and I didn't think that most of them would gather in this room to be happy, God really helped me, and I deserved to be destroyed by the traitors and traitors.

He wet his fingers, carefully softened the window paper closest to the wall, lightly poked a small eye, looked inside sideways, and identified which of them was a powerful martial artist, which might be the Cui family who could only play tricks and tongues, took the flying cone in both hands, found a good breakthrough and attack angle, jumped up, slammed open the window with one arm and rushed in, both hands flying, and attacked the dangerous person who remembered first.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the sturdy rough wooden window actually broke, and with the cold wind flying into a masked man, the happy people in the room were stunned for a moment, and they all turned their heads to look at it. The look in the eyes of the vast majority of people is one of surprise and curiosity, not vigilance.

It really came as a surprise to them.

Among them, a few big men were really powerful, reacted quickly, and subconsciously got up suddenly, because they were drinking and entertaining in the master's house, even the Cui family didn't bring weapons, and they copied all the stools, but when the cold light hit, they couldn't dodge it at all, and most of them fell down at once.

Zhao Yue sent out ten flying cones, and then stepped to the vicinity of the wine table, when he came over, the sword was already out of the sheath, swinging the sword like lightning, slashing vertically and horizontally, and stabbing quickly, the remaining few men had no weapons, some still held chopsticks in their hands, they couldn't resist at all, and they all fell in a pool of blood in horror in a blink of an eye.

Zhao Yue, who was still panting after killing the flying cone, completely eliminated the potential threat, and smiled at the few frightened young and beautiful drinking women who were lucky to be alive: "What are you doing staring at me?" According to this bloody plot, you should scream in horror. Don't you want to scream? ”

These women were drunk back to their senses by Zhao Yue, and sat on the cold ground, trembling and shouting desperately with their voices at the top of their voices.

"Ahh

"Help—"

"Murder—"

But damn it, no one in the surrounding houses rushed out.

The doors and windows here are tightly closed to cut off the cold. The guards of the Cui family couldn't see the bloody scene in the house, and took the shouting as a farce of 'wolf'?

A servant who served wine and food came in and noticed that something was wrong, and saw a tall masked man stepping on a stool with a sword, staring at him with a smile in his eyes, and he was so shocked that he dropped the wine and food, wiped his body and fled, followed by the woman screaming in horror and calling for help, and rushed to the courtyard and screamed wildly, which finally alarmed the people here, and in a moment, a bunch of people rushed in the courtyard.

Zhao Yue smiled and whispered to the escort girls: "The adventurer's game has officially begun. If you don't want to die, just hide in the house. ”

As he spoke, he rushed out of the house with his sword and rushed towards the most crowded place in the courtyard. All the way punches, kicks, elbows, swords fly, screams suddenly sounded one by one, and everywhere they passed, people fell one by one.

Zhao Yue's swiftness, ferocity and strength were so startled that the martial artists who had not yet entered the state of vicious fighting when they came out of the comfortable and warm nest for a while retreated in horror, and were chased and killed by Zhao Yue. In doing so, Zhao Yue was to prevent being besieged by the enemy's arrows and hidden weapons. In close combat, he is not afraid of anyone, not afraid of many people.

There are at least hundreds of Cui family guards living in this courtyard, all of whom are carefully selected loyal and good hands, but in a hurry, they were killed and injured by Zhao Yue alone, embarrassed, frightened and constantly retreated, and died for nearly half a moment before they finally entered the state, roaring and starting a counterattack.

The fierce battle that suddenly came first alarmed the men of the Cui family and the leaders who lived here in the houses elsewhere in this courtyard. More than a dozen members of the Cui family who had armed forces rushed out with weapons, but they did not immediately participate in the battle, but gathered together to watch the battle and be on guard.

The leaders swung their swords and spears and shields around the main house.

At this moment, protecting the owner is the key.

None of them knew what was going on with this incident, how many enemies still existed, and there was nothing wrong with the actions of the master and the slave.

Those who are not good at martial arts saw the guards begin to besiege and counterattack the masked men, and their own martial relatives and guard masters were on the side, feeling safe, and wanted to see the battle situation clearly or worried that there were enemies lurking and staring at them, in order to seek protection, they also ran out and gathered behind the warriors to peek. Among them were also several richly dressed teenagers.

Zhao Yue deliberately slowed down the killing speed, pretending to be exhausted in the chaos of knives and guns, and secretly paid attention to the gathering over there.

Wait until no one else runs out and gathers. Zhao Yue suddenly counterattacked, opened a gap, jumped out of the circle, reached out of his waist bag and took out a grenade in this short free time, opened the safety cover, pulled the string and threw it to the crowd of the Cui family, avoiding the pursuit behind, and lost three in a row.

The people here didn't know what the round melon-like thing was, but they saw a few black things smashing at the speed.

The person holding the shield thought that it was a hidden weapon such as an iron egg flying stone used by the Jianghu people who relied on the weight to smash people, and hurriedly swung the shield to block it, but it exploded with a bang. A large crowd fell in the sound of the explosion. Those who did not fall were left with shrapnel and other wounds such as shrapnel and stumps, and howled bitterly.

High-explosive grenades, the killing range of one is about ten meters. The three are set out, and there is no chance that anyone in the dense crowd will be spared.

Seeing this terrifying scene, the guards remembered that the legendary pirate army seemed to have used this terrifying weapon, although they were all murderous warriors, they were all terrified, afraid of Zhao Yue like a demon and a tiger, they retreated and fled, and some even fled into the house in a panic in order to borrow the wall to avoid the terrible explosion attack.

Zhao Yue ignored them at all, and ran out of the courtyard gate quickly, all the way rushing down the mountain under the stunned gaze of the crowd of people who ran out of the house to inspect the unknown reason, and went straight to the treacherous inner pass. (To be continued.) )