The Teng Ji and Teng Hu brothers took 50 or 60 men to remove the smuggled smuggled salt from several boats on the Huai River, loaded more than a dozen carts, and hurriedly drove mules and horses into the mountain path of the interception road while no one was around.

Everything went well, walking on the barren mountain road that I don't know how many times I have passed in the past few years, Teng Jian listened to the familiar birds and beasts roaring, scanned the familiar grass and trees, and was relaxed.

"Hehe, this is the deal."

In a blink of an eye, I saw that Teng Ji still had a serious face.

"Hey, I said brother, this section of the mountain is our territory, and there is not even a ghost in the long snake valley at this time, why are you so cautious?"

Teng Ji said: "Can you be cautious? These tens of thousands of catties of good salt took a lot of effort to get it, not to mention the time spent, and spent all our net worth. In case there is a good one, there is no place to cry. ”

Teng Jian disagreed, and waved the tiger's eye bamboo steel whip.

"Entering the Valley of the Long Snake is our world, what is there to worry about?"

Teng Ji said: "There is no big mistake in being careful. Besides, if we are detected and surrounded by the government, we can kill them with our ability. What should I do if the goods are available? Can you still carry it out while killing? Won't you pay it cleanly? ”

"Just in case, just in case. Big brother, why do you keep saying unlucky things? ”

Teng Ji glared at his younger brother: "It's not a matter of words whether it is auspicious or unlucky, put away the hanging, and be careful to finish this trip is serious." ”

He beckoned to the back: "Brothers, do your best." Let's go home early and be happy. ”

Teng Jian shut up at this time.

More than a dozen narrow carts were pulled down by people pushing mules, and the special wide wooden wheels and bones ran quickly forward along the mountain road, and soon walked four or five miles, entering the only wide place in this mountain road, the snake belly valley.

The snake belly valley is an irregular oval, the widest part of the east and west is less than 100 meters, the north and south are less than 200 meters long, the two ends of the exit mountain stone stand and narrow, the width is about two meters, the depth is two or three zhang, the valley is indeed like the bulge formed after the big snake swallows the giant.

The east wall of the valley is a smooth stone cliff that stands straight and upright, and the lowest point is also three or four zhang high, and monkeys may not be able to climb it. On the west side, there is a mound slope overgrown with weeds and small trees, but at the top of it is either obstructed by an abrupt overhanging stone wall, or a high rock wall that is sunken and steep, and there is no grass growing on it, and even a monkey cannot climb it. The valley was flat, and there were few trees except for some large rocks and a few bays of water.

Not far from this valley is a collapse that the Teng brothers accidentally discovered in their early years of hunting, and now it has been cleaned up and covered with rotten wood and wattle weeds, and has become a secret passage for the Long Snake Valley to turn into the Interception Mountain.

As long as the goods are turned into the secret passage, it is basically safe.

When you arrive at your hidden home in the mountains, you can use the river in the mountains to carry goods in small boats and slowly sell them to various places outside the mountains. There are tens of thousands of catties of salt, and there is no need to lift your head and toss hard this year.

The group knew this, so they were all excited, and hurried through the valley.

They were struggling to make their way when they suddenly heard someone laughing maniacally in front of them.

Suddenly, there was a buzzing sound. Then there was a whooshing sound.

When Teng Ji and Teng Ji heard this voice, they were immediately shocked, and roared urgently: "Defend against arrows." ”

The two brothers roared again and again, wielding their weapons in one hand and picking up their shields from the cart with the other, which was actually a wooden pot-like thing for self-defense. The other men did the same in a panic.

Hundreds of arrows flew down from the east and west cliffs of the valley, but mainly the mules pulling the carts were shot.

Pitiful, in the blink of an eye, nearly twenty sturdy mules that had made countless contributions to the lives of Er Teng and his subordinates were covered with arrows, and they fell to the ground in a panic.

Teng Ji and Teng Ji saw the hundreds of archers that suddenly appeared on the two cliffs, and then saw the hundreds of officers and soldiers pouring in at the mouth of the valley at both ends, knowing that they were in an ambush, and they also understood the other party's intention to shoot the mule first.

The officers and soldiers were afraid that they would use mules and horses to rush into Taniguchi and kill them.

The officials and troops of the Great Song Dynasty, the elite are all in the north, the south has enjoyed too long of peace, the military affairs are not prosperous, no one pays attention to it, the military has long been abandoned, and the officers and soldiers are all scum.

A good example is that during the reign of Renzong, the wild man Nong Zhi, a small minority of South Vietnam, was angry and led the southern miscellaneous people to invade, almost causing chaos in the entire south, and the Song ministers in the south died, fled, and surrendered one by one, and the army was defeated by thousands of soldiers. This shows the rot of the Southern Army.

Speaking of Nong Zhigao, he is really aggrieved, the rebellion and invasion can be regarded as forced, and the people in the Song Dynasty rebelled, he caused serious harm to the south, and he was guilty, but the cause was excusable.

As a leader of an ethnic minority, he rebelled and invaded with only countless shame and anger in his heart.

His tribe lived in the gap between the Song and South Vietnam, was repeatedly plagued by the South Vietnamese tyrants, and lived in a cruel environment, so his heart turned to the Great Song Dynasty, and he wrote to the Song court to request trade and mutual markets, and requested internal attachments, eager to live with the Han people and become Chinese, and the territory of his subordinates naturally became the Song land.

This is supposed to be good for both parties.

Nong Zhigao has a survival guarantee. The southern border of the Great Song Dynasty has been expanded, and there are more layers of defense, and since then there is no such frontier and no trade, which should be a harmonious and beautiful scene.

However, the Great Song Dynasty court vividly showed ignorance, cowardice and arrogance in this matter from top to bottom, and the nature of coldness and false vanity, treating Nong Zhigao as a savage ant, not checking, and disdainful.

Nong Zhigao's request to make up for the assassination was refused, and he waited for it, asking to be a border coach, asking for a robe and a mutual municipal party committee, but he was ruthlessly and disdainfully rejected again and again.

When he rebelled in anger, killing the soldiers and civilians of the southern Song Dynasty from just a few hundred people, all the way to the ground, rapidly developing to thousands of troops, raging in the southeast, the Great Song Dynasty officials knew that they were powerful, and paid a heavy price for their cowardice and arrogance. What is hateful is that the people are innocent.

The Southern Song Army is bad enough, and its combat effectiveness is not as good as that of ordinary militia groups in the north, but in the special terrain of the Snake Belly Valley, it shows the ferocious and powerful side of the villain ruffian army.

No matter how small the strength of the archers of the two cliffs is, no matter how bad the archery skills are, they can still be practiced, and they can shoot forty or fifty meters indiscriminately, or even closer, and there are still a lot of big targets that can be hit.

They stood on the high cliff, safe and sound, and suddenly became bold and tried their best.

Successfully shooting down the mule and cutting off the support of Erteng's gang to rush through the exit, the archers laughed wildly and began to insult and laugh wantonly, shooting the people of the valley as prey to be slaughtered.

Erteng's martial arts are strong, and he is not afraid of such rotten archery attacks.

Their subordinates are also strong men who know how to take a few hits, have experienced fighting, and have some combat experience, most of them are not panicked but not chaotic, and they can resist with pots and knives in the chaos of arrows.

However, they did not have the ability to be a leader, and from time to time some people were shot by arrows or even killed.

The terrible thing is that the two sides of the valley cannot climb up, and the two ends of the valley mouth are blocked by the officers and soldiers with spears layer by layer, and there are more than a dozen archers on each side of the valley mouth to defend. Er Teng and his subordinates fell into a Jedi.

Still careless, although I know that the terrain of the snake belly valley is treacherous, but I have walked too many times, I have lost my vigilance, I am paralyzed, I think I can pass in a few minutes quickly, and I am conceited and brave, no one can block the way, but today I was ambushed and encountered a poisonous plan. If you don't fight to break out, you will have to die here.

Teng Ji and Teng Ji are clear in remorse.

The two of them rushed to the front exit, trying to make a way out.

The defending officers and soldiers heard about Erteng's courage for a long time, and when they saw the two brothers rushing like evil tigers, they immediately panicked.

Immediately, an officer stared at Er Teng with disdain and scolded his subordinates: "I'm afraid of a ball." The second thief is not fleshy? In this narrow place, he can't show his ability. The spear stepped forward and stabbed them to death. ”