May 19, early in the morning.

On the mountain road, a star-lit fire dragon was rapidly advancing north in the dark night. Hundreds of mountain bandits were carrying torches, not caring how conspicuous they would be in such darkness. They were all very fast, and although most of them were infantry, they almost always trotted all the way without stopping, and the wounded were killed mercilessly in order not to drag down the whole army.

Yue Xiang and his men mingled in the middle of the group, turning along their route.

Originally, when he heard Wang Yining's name, he was already a little relieved. Later, when Yang Shan said that his mountain gate was actually in Xianglu Mountain, the destination of Yue Xiang's trip, Yue Xiang decided to follow him in every aspect. The incense burner mountain turned out to be a bandit cottage, and he didn't expect this beforehand. If this is the case, it is almost impossible to achieve the goal plan by force, and the twenty people may not be enough to see at all.

But fortunately, Wang Yining's guy is actually in the cottage, Yue Xiang really feels that there is really a providence in this underworld. I haven't seen him for three or four years, but I didn't expect to be a bandit leader in this cottage. A talented student has no intention of making a fuss and learning to gain fame, but he likes to walk the rivers and lakes and make friends with three religions and nine streams, such a character can be regarded as an alternative family.

But it's also because of this that I can make good friends with this guy, because they both belong to this kind of outlier.

However, after Yue Xiang was admitted to Xiucai, he gave up the idea of continuing to take the exam, because his interest was not in this area, but purely to win the title of a scholar, and his father couldn't control him, but Wang Yining was even more extreme.

At the beginning, he was determined to make a name for himself and wanted to take a career in office, which is nothing to say, the general environment at that time was like this, and the reader didn't want to go to the official career and read a bullshit book. But after losing to Sun Shan twice in a row, this brother's temper also flares up, and he scolded the chief examiners of the court for being wine bags, rice bags, shit, and garbage, and even a talent like himself doesn't know how to admit them, and such an idiot court is not worthy of letting him work.

Later, he went home in anger and burned the Four Books and Five Classics that had tormented him for more than ten years, and then left home to wander. But fortunately, his parents died early, and he did not have a wife's room, he was alone without worry, wandering around with a hammer in the east and a hammer in the west, and later met Yue Xiang in Qinghe, and the two people with the same smell hit it off at first sight and became good friends.

At that time, Wang Yining had completely become a dung youth, opening his mouth and scolding Baguwen for being shit, scolding Cheng Zhu Lixue for being all rubbish, and even Old Master Kong was among his curses. To say that I am really a wasted more than ten years of precious time reading this useless shit. At that time, Yue Xiang Xiucai's fame had just arrived, and he was trying to fight against the pressure of his father to continue studying, and he was also extremely disgusted with continuing to study, so he naturally agreed with Wang Yining's words. With a common language, it's logical to become friends.

The two stayed together for more than three months, but Wang Yining was obviously determined to say goodbye to the stable and boring life in the past, and left Qinghe to go away again.

Later, he could occasionally receive letters from Wang Yining, but he never saw him again. For several years, I originally thought that this guy was probably in exile in the Guannai, and it was more than enough for him to be a staff master for powerful people with his skills. Unexpectedly, when I heard his news again, he had already become the leader of the bandits who occupied the mountain. Yue Xiang seems to have ordinary force in his memory, and it is estimated that he is a dog-headed military advisor in the cottage.

This guy is always unexpected, and he really isn't a good person. Yue Xiang instead felt that it was a good thing for the imperial court that he didn't get the exam, if he really admitted this kind of restless guy as an official, maybe he would make some big mess, it seems that those examiners still had a vision after all.

It was early in the morning, and in the darkness hundreds of people with torches walking on the mountain road, far away, they could see clearly. But Yang Shan was not afraid, and the team swaggered on the road. His explanation was that the officers and soldiers did not dare to go out of the city to fight at night even if they saw it, and the group of officers and soldiers who had just fought with them and were beaten away belonged to a chance encounter on the road, and it was not so fast to go back to deliver the letter, but he also said that the rumors of the descent this time may have leaked, and a caravan transporting grain temporarily changed the route and made them pounce. Grain was also diverted from many villages, and the guards of officers and soldiers became stricter.

Yue Xiang asked him about Wang Yining's situation, and Yang Shan said nothing wrong. Yue Xiang was even more sure that the incense burner on the mountain was not another person with the same name and surname.

I didn't expect that the incense burner mountain had been occupied by people, if the Gaohuai Tibetan gold was really in the mountain, would it have been discovered by these people? Even if you don't excavate, how do you act on someone else's territory? He didn't mean to share this treasure with Yang Shan, although this person was a little moral, but he was ruthless and not easy. But it is almost impossible not to be noticed, unless Wang Yining can help him.

Compared with Yang Shan, of course, Wang Yining can be trusted more. But Yue Xiang didn't intend to let him know these things. Yue Xiang takes Wang Yining as his own, but not everything can be shared with his own people.

Unless you really need his help. Yue Xiang decided to go to the cottage first to see the situation, and then he was not sure if the incense burner mountain was the real treasure hiding place. Besides, there is something that makes me even more troublesome, that is, the movement in the establishment of the state. What Nurhachi wanted so far there was nothing he couldn't get except for an old Yehe girl, Dongge, and since he was also worried about Gao Huai's Tibetan gold, it was impossible for him to give up after a little setback.

Now the question is whether I can catch up with him. Historically, Nurhachi has always emphasized speed and efficiency, and with such a huge shadow hanging over him, the threat of Yang Shan and his ilk is simply negligible compared to him.

I wonder if my luck will change for the better this time......

At three o'clock in the morning, the border wall of eastern Liao, Fushun Pass.

The debris of the demolished wall and the masonry of the castle tower at the pass piled up on the roadside, forming a huge pile of ruins. A gust of mountain wind blows, and the wild grass dances with the wind. Since the war plague, there don't seem to be even small animals here, except for the sound of the wild grass rustling, not even a ghost.

The crumbling earthen walls burned by the wildfire stretched to the mountain bags on both sides of the pass, and the beacons and wooden turrets that the Ming army had set up on the commanding heights on both sides had been completely burned to char ruins. When the fire was first set on fire, the wildfire engulfed almost all the nearby hills, burning them bare and black. Now, except for the most vigorous wild grass, the other plants here have basically stopped growing.

At this time, the night has begun to fade, and the surrounding scenery is more visible. On the hill to the left of the pass, a ghostly figure gradually emerged.

He crouched on the ground, trying to gather his eyes and look around. Then, as if out of the darkness, there were also figures on the other side of the hill, and they didn't speak, but just looked around. Then someone dived down the hill and disappeared along the road. Others disappeared in the direction of the flanks. The scout looked back, and there were sparkling fires flickering on the mountain road in the distance.

After a while, a sharp whistle sounded in the distant sky, and the scout on the hill heard it clearly, and hurriedly took out the Ming Di from the quiver behind him, stretched his bow and pointed at the sky obliquely, and as soon as his fingers were loosened, a sharp and piercing whistle pierced the sky again, and soon it was another one.

The silent dawn was broken by a murderous whistling sound, which evolved into a heavy tremor, and tens of thousands of iron hooves pounded on the earth, and the shocking hoof sound spread like a tide in the direction of Fushun Pass. At this time, it was about four o'clock in the morning, and the dense team of banner army horses swarmed along the mountain road with torches, like a group of fire dragons sweeping on the ground, and the iron armor under the firelight was reflected with a red luster, just like the scales of the fire dragon.

The Eight Thousand Red Flag Banner Ding Ma Team was advancing in the mountains and fields in the dark of night without saying a word or disorder.

Not long after, the pass of Fushun Pass was illuminated by countless torches, and groups of bannermen and horses poured out of the pass and entered the border of the Ming Dynasty on the Liaodong Plain. This place was no longer strange to them, all of their compatriots had come once a month ago, and they had washed the whole city of Fushun in blood, trampling the seemingly powerful and inviolable Ming army to a hard beat, and it was only then that these Jurchens knew how powerful they were.

Now they have regarded this place as their own backyard, as victors they feel that they have the right to enter and exit this land at will, and their former reverence for the Ming army has disappeared, and they have become convinced that in this land, the Jurchens are the truly most powerful kings.

Dai Shan sat on a big black horse, draped all over. His red armor was also decorated with dragon patterns like Huang Taiji, and of course both said that the other had copied their own ideas. He looked at the dark field in front of him, and a smile crossed his lips.

Huang Taiji has fallen out of favor, and this is a good opportunity for him.

As long as he can complete the task beautifully this time, his father Khan Nurhachi will definitely be very happy, and his heir status will be certain, and this guy Huang Taiji will never have a chance to turn over again. He only knew that someone else had caused Huang Taiji's defeat because of it, but he hadn't figured out who it was, and he wasn't interested in figuring it out. Anyone who opposes Huang Taiji is his friend.

Besides, he is not Huang Taiji, he thinks that the reason for Huang Taiji's failure is because the troops dispatched are too small to be plotted, raising troops for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, nothing to do with what soldiers, Tun Lai Tun and Tun ended up confiscating five cattle records, this soldier was raised for others in vain.

And he would never make the same mistake as Huang Taiji, this time all twenty-five Niu Lu of the Zhenghong Banner came out almost empty, and he also got some exclusive information from Abahai. It seems that Father Khan attaches great importance to the Han man named Yue Xiang, and keeps such a close eye on his whereabouts, is there really a batch of so-called treasures? If there were, he could be sure that his dad would definitely like the money. In the past two years, there have been many disasters in the founding of the state, and now it is turning against the Ming Dynasty, and it is definitely not enough to rob it, and it needs to spend money everywhere.

This is his chance, although he is now the only one of the four Baylors other than his father who has two flags (the owner of the flag with the red flag is his son Yue Tuo, who is about the same as his direct leader), but he continues to be challenged by Huang Taiji, and urgently needs some good results to town his eighth brother, otherwise who knows what his father thinks, maybe one day if the tendon is not right, he will take himself down.

Growing up in strife, he understands very well that status is to be won by one's own strength, not by the favor of others. Only by showing great strength and merit prestige will the status follow. On the contrary, sooner or later, you will have to fall big.

According to the intelligence, Yue Xiang's destination should be the Puhe area, but why didn't he take the relatively safe road and leave the team sneakily halfway? Is that what he's really for? His destination is Fushun? Or do you want to cross the river from Fushun to the north to Puhe City? Was the information in the intelligence a smoke he deliberately released or was it a real purpose?

In any case, let's conduct a thorough search of the vicinity of Fushun first.

"Herald! Shiertai and Lang Ge two leading banners Jia Lama really do not have to enter the customs, leading the headquarters Niu Lu immediately along the border wall north to Sanchaer, Fu'an into the wall to listen to the Hou dispatch, the rest of the Niu Lu immediately searched the north and south of Fushun along the forts, if there are traces of Han people, all captured! Hear it, you must be captured alive! Violators, behead! ”