"Captain, it's not a good thing for us that this mountain is here." Huang Lang's lieutenant general stared at the busy soldiers of the beggar army on the top of the mountain, and said with a frown.

"I know that as long as those walls are equipped with bed crossbows and catapults from Ulzhou, with this mountain as the center, there will be attacks from the Akagi army within a radius of two miles, especially us." Huang Lang also looked sad, "First control the Yellow River, and then use this military horse to control the only way to the Khitan." The entry and exit of the tea and horse market are all controlled by Qin Wang, and this person does things, and there is really nothing missing. ”

"What are we going to do with the captain?"

"What else can I do? Now that the head of the family has reached an agreement with Qin Wang, as long as the tea and horse market is open, we must protect them, and we must not turn against them. This is the death order that the head of the house gave me when I came. Alright, stop talking nonsense, let's go clean up the camp. ”

Just as Huang Lang and the others saw, it turned out that in the bare Mantou Mountain, a military camp built of stone stood on the top of the mountain, and the core military camp was guarded by a city wall for several miles. Not only that, but every time you descend from the top of the mountain, you will have a low wall for every five zhang meters of height. The low wall is no taller than a person's waist, and there is a huge slope outside, which is just right for soldiers to lean in and fight, but if the enemy wants to climb the low wall, he will roll down the slope, and the enemy does not even have a place to stand. Behind the wall was built level, where the defenders fought and secured trebuchets and bed crossbows. At the foot of the mountain, there are 18 low walls, and from a distance, it looks like a terraced rice field.

The five low walls below, because the terrain is too low, are no longer suitable for placing trebuchets and bed crossbows, and if they lose their terrain, the power of these big killers will drop a lot. Here, it will be the first line of defense for the defenders against the attacking enemy. In the event of a battle, shieldmen, pikemen, and archers are placed here to form an orderly, layered defensive position. Coupled with the countless long-range weapons on top of his head, Mantou Mountain is like a copper pea that can't be chewed, smashed, or cooked.

And Mantou Mountain because of the eighteen trenches, enough to hide 20,000 soldiers, the best thing is that there is a small spring on the mountain, constantly gushing out clear spring water. If there are enough ordnance, grain and grass, even if Mantou Mountain is besieged by a million troops, without the fighting in March and May and tens of thousands of casualties, it will be difficult for the attacking side to take down Mantou Mountain.

Akagi began to build Mantou Mountain as early as three months ago, and with the efforts of tens of thousands of laborers, Mantou Mountain has low walls, trenches, hidden soldiers' caves, grain depots, armories, and military camps, but it has not yet been completely completed.

As Huang Lang said, Mantou Mountain is like a huge fortress stuck on the road from Akagi to Horin. Whether the Khitan people go south or the Central Plains people go north, they must walk under the noses of Mantou Mountain. Since controlling the Yellow River, Qin Forget has controlled the land route again, making the weight in his hand a little heavier.

Standing at the top of the mountain, looking at the layout below, Huang Wushuang swished and inhaled the cold air. Although Mantou Mountain was still just a grass creation, he had already realized what this mountain would mean in the future. He asked himself if his beggar army came to attack the fortress in person, and he had no chance of winning. There are trenches on all sides of this mountain, which can attack all the enemies around it, and it is obvious that it is not only the Khitans but also the Yan people.

"General, there is a sentence that I have been stuffing in my heart for a long time. How did you say our Huang family got to this point? On the one side of the Golden Mountain, on the one side of Huang Ling, and on our side, the entire Huang family is actually divided into three parts. And there are many dirty enemies between the three parties, and even enemies of life and death. Huang Qi seemed to be stimulated today, and asked Huang Wushuang in confusion and confusion.

This time, Huang Wushuang took him to Ulzhou to blackmail Golden Mountain, and the one who cooperated was another big man of the Huang family, which made Huang Qi a little emotionally unacceptable. After eating the Huang family's food all his life, he has never thought that he is the Huang family, and he never thought that he would betray the Huang family one day, this is a sense of belonging, when this sense of belonging is gone, it makes him panic in his heart.

Huang Wushuang fell silent when he heard this, why didn't he think about this problem, but many things were not so easy to figure out. However, compared with Huang Qi, he knew very well in his heart that he couldn't turn back now, and he had to go on no matter what.

"Huang Qi, according to generation, you are my distant brother, and we are all members of the Huang family. But you tell your brother, are you happy in the Huang family? Huang Wushuang's eyes looked at Huang Qi with a little affection.

"I'm not happy, although my surname is Huang, my parents can only be regarded as tenants of the Huang family. The food that should be handed over should not be less, and the hardships that should be endured are not less at all. The Huang family is taking from my family, and our whole family is living in poverty, how can we talk about happiness? Huang Qi said without much thought.

"Isn't that enough? In the Huang family, our family is not happy and rich, why do we have to work hard for the Huang family? The Huang family is not our Huang family, but the Huang family of the Golden Mountain. Huang Qi, I hope you understand this, it is the Huang family who is unkind, no wonder we are unjust. ”

Huang Qi couldn't help but ponder, and after a while, he seemed to have figured it out, and a relieved look began to appear on his face.

"Besides, as soon as our family arrived in Chicheng, General Qin divided the house and land, and the brothers just took such a large amount of silver, these benefits are real. Huang Qi, you have to take care of your brothers, General Qin sent us to be stationed here, you must also understand what you mean. You must not let anyone secretly communicate with the people in Huang Lang's army, otherwise, behead! Huang Wushuang said in a cold voice.

"What the general means is that General Qin is testing whether we will collude with the people of the Golden Mountain? But didn't we ignore the Golden Mountain's wooing of us along the way, and we brought back the entire beggar army, doesn't it explain the problem? General Qin doesn't believe us.

Huang Qi frowned.

"No, if we can come back, General Qin naturally still believes in us. Maybe all he's worried about is that our brothers will have emotions like yours. That's fine, let's use this time to completely get rid of the little thoughts that our brothers have about the Huang family. Huang Qi, don't think it's a trivial matter, you have to pay attention to arresting it. ”

Huang Qi was shocked in his heart, and bowed down to make arrangements.

After arranging Huang Wushuang and the others, Qin Forget didn't have time to rest, and the envoy of the Fire Dragon King arrived.

It was none other than Wang Yu, the second leader of the original Fire Dragon Island.

"Wang Yu, have you come to Changxing Island this time?" After some pleasantries, Qin Forget went straight to the point.

"Back to the general's words, everything is fine on Changxing Island. It's just that countless merchant ships have gathered on the sea, asking us to let them into the Yellow River. Here is the handwritten letter of the Dragon King, please check it out with the general. Wang Yu smiled slightly, respectfully took out a letter from his arms, and presented it to Qin Wang with both hands.

Qin Forget read it roughly, to the effect that Wang Yu said, the tea horse market is about to open, and the world's large and small merchants have brought countless goods from the waterway, all of which are blocked on Changxing Island. They kept going to the island every day to ask the Fire Dragon King to let them go, and they were all these things.

"Hey, it's such a big scene, the five families of King Xue of Jinjia Shi have arrived, and there are hundreds of other merchants, and there are as many as 100 large and small merchant ships." Qin Wangxiao was surprised, "Calculating the time, these people should also arrive, but it will be much faster than I imagined." ”

"Yes, general, the Jin family's fleet has arrived half a month ago, and it is worthy of being the first chaebol in the world, although it is the farthest away, it is the first to arrive, this kind of organizational ability is really scary." Wang Yu added.

"It's nothing, the Jin family's industry is all over the world, and the dozens of ships of goods shipped nearby are not the same as playing." Qin Forget was a little disapproving, "Let them in, there are still Liu Jian in Xinzhou." Besides, their big ships couldn't enter the Chaobai River, so stopping in Xinzhou and loading the goods onto small boats was enough for them to delay for a month. The point is that our own goods in Akagi have not yet arrived, so let them wait slowly. You go back and tell the dragon king that according to the order of priority, a batch of ships will be put in every five days, and the tax money should not be collected. Also, how is the salt field on Changxing Island? How much white salt can be dried per day? ”

"Back to the general, Changxing Island has grown again, there are tens of thousands of large and small salt farms, 50,000 salt people, and more than 2,000 stones of salt can be dried every day, and the dragon king has been saved, waiting for the general to call." Wang Yu made a rough calculation and said.

"Yes, I've always been at ease with the Dragon King's affairs. You go back and let him make persistent efforts and save more, and in the future, it will be a treasure that can be exchanged for real money. This time, Jincheng will take a group of merchants to Changxing Island, they want to catch our line and do the business of smuggling white salt, you should entertain well. ”

"Yes, my subordinates are commanded." Wang Yu agreed.