The road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to be in the mountains and blue sky. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Approaching Heiyan Ridge, Qi Ning finally understood why the officers and soldiers had not launched an offensive against Heiyan Ridge for a long time.

The road is rugged and narrow, and there is no official road leading to the Black Rock Ridge, so there is no clear road to approach the mountain range.

Thorny and overgrown with weeds, there are many places where the road looks like weeds, but in fact, when you step on it, it is likely to be a huge deep pit.

The terrain near Black Rock Ridge is so difficult to navigate, and you can imagine what kind of scene it is on the mountain.

There is no avenue leading to Heiyanling, which is destined to have poor transportation in Heiyanling, and life in the stockade is quite stuffy, but because of this, it is not easy for officers and soldiers to attack.

Fortunately, Eve was very familiar with this area, leading the way in front, walking forward along a narrow weedy road for a while, and then heard the sound of "whoosh", a burst of arrows shot from the side messily, after everyone approached the Black Rock Ridge, they were already on guard, the arrows suddenly came, and everyone drew their knives in their hands, waving knives and splitting arrows.

Although this rain of arrows came suddenly, fortunately it did not last long, and it was not very sharp, and in a moment, the arrows stopped, and only a sound was heard, and a group of men and horses had rushed out of the woods on the side, and in the weeds on the other side, suddenly dozens of officers and soldiers emerged from the grass.

"Don't act rashly!" Qi Ning said in a deep voice.

There were as many as forty or fifty officers and soldiers, and when they rushed up, they surrounded Qi Ning and others, and all Miao Han were holding swords in their hands and waiting for them.

Eve approached Qi Ning's side and whispered, "What should I do?" Do you want to kill it? We don't have many fewer people than they do. ”

Qi Ning shook his head slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Who is in charge here?" ”

Among the crowd of officers and soldiers, a person came out, in his early thirties, holding a big knife in his hand, and shouted at Qi Ning: "Are you the same party of the Black Rock Cave anti-thieves?" If you know each other, drop your weapons immediately and be captured, otherwise they will all be slaughtered. ”

Qi Ning smiled: "If you don't ask about it, you are going to kill people, are you bandits on this mountain?" ”

"What did you say?" The man changed color and pointed to the armor on his body, "You are blind and don't see what this is?" We are officers and soldiers of Xichuan, specializing in suppressing bandits. ”

"It turned out that they were not bandits." Qi Ning said with a smile: "Just now, you suddenly shot an arrow, I thought it was a bandit robbery." ”

"Bold." The man had a cold face and looked at Qi Ning a few times, "Are you a Miao person?" It's neat to talk, to be honest, what are you doing here? Oh ho, I see, you're a rescuer, you're here to save Black Rock Ridge? ”

When the Miao people speak, they still have some Miao family accents, but the Qi Ning characters are correct and round, but there is no Miao family voice.

"Get out of the way." Qi Ning didn't want to delay too much here, "I have something urgent to go in." ”

"Joke, you can go in if you want?" The man sneered, "Don't talk about going in, now you can't go back if you want to." He was about to wave his hand to signal his subordinates to pounce, but he saw Qi Ning suddenly raise his arm, under the sunset, Qi Ning's hand was shining with golden light, only to see Qi Ning take a few steps forward, and asked in a deep voice: "Can you see clearly?" ”

The man was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but step forward and stretched out his hand to pick it up, Qi Ning's face turned cold, and the man smiled: "Okay, you still dare to bribe the officers and soldiers here, and bribe with such a big piece of gold, it's really bold." Then he snatched the gold medal, "I will confiscate it as evidence of your bribery." ”

Only then did Qi Ning understand that the person who dared to love knew the Imperial Gold Medal at all, and sneered: "If you don't want to die, you can touch it." ”

The man was stunned, saw that the gold medal seemed to be engraved with handwriting, and saw Qi Ning's grim expression, and felt that something seemed to be wrong, so he couldn't help asking: "Is this ..... What's written on it? ”

"Who's in charge here?" Qi Ning asked lightly, "Is it you?" Or is it someone else? ”

The man heard Qi Ning's pronunciation, but with a group of Miao people, he felt more and more strange, hesitated, turned around and walked back, and whispered a few words to a soldier, who turned around and left quickly.

Qi Ning knew that it was likely to inform his superiors, and he didn't stop all the way, knowing that he was not in a hurry, he motioned for everyone to rest first, but the officers and soldiers still surrounded him, not daring to relax.

"Come here." Qi Ning beckoned to the man, who was a little annoyed in his heart, but he couldn't help but take a few steps closer and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"Haven't you attacked Black Rock Ridge yet?"

The man immediately said, "This is what you can ask?" But he still said: "There is no military order from above, we can only stay here, damn it, it's been a few months, stay in this bird place for ......., fight and not fight, retreat and not retreat, I don't know...... I don't know what the above thinks. ”

Qi Ning was slightly relieved, and it didn't take long for him to hear the sound of footsteps again, only to see a middle-aged man in gray armor hurrying over with four or five soldiers, he saw the officers and soldiers surrounding a group of Miao people, frowned, looked cold, and asked in a deep voice: "Which village are you from?" ”

Qi Ning didn't say much, and once again showed the royal gold medal.

The gray armor general frowned, took two steps forward, took a look, his face changed greatly, and he suddenly knelt on the ground, and said respectfully: "Yue Qianliang, the commander under the command of Lord Xichuan Assassin Shiwei, meet the emperor!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.

Eve and White Tooth opened their mouths and looked at Qi Ning, their minds were blank for a while, and they couldn't speak.

The officers and soldiers around were stunned for a moment, and they had already knelt on the ground, and said in unison: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live!" ”

"Captain Yue, get up." Qi Ning shook his head and said: "I'm not a saint, but you can recognize this gold medal, it is indeed a gift from the emperor." ”

"It turned out to be a bad trip." Yue Qianliang said respectfully: "I don't know what the superiors have to come here, what are your orders?" ”

White Yali and Eve glanced at each other, only to know that it was a misunderstanding, Qi Ning was not the emperor, but even so, Qi Ning held the emperor's imperial gold medal, and his identity was definitely extraordinary.

"Is Master Wei here?" Qi Ning asked.

Yue Qianliang shook his head and said, "Back to Shangcha, Lord Assassin Shi is still in Chengdu City at the moment, and he ordered Commander Yao to be responsible for besieging Heiyan Ridge. ”

"Commander Yao?"

"Exactly." Yue Qianliang said: "Since the end of last year, the officers and soldiers have already besieged the Heiyan Ridge under the Heiyan Ridge, and the eastern, western, and northern sides are all blocked by officers and soldiers, and the south is the Jinguanwei of the King of Shu who is responsible for the blockade. ”

Eve couldn't help but take a step forward, her face annoyed, but her eyes were full of worry.

She naturally knew the situation in the village, although the village had made all kinds of preparations, but for the Black Rock Cave, what was most lacking was food.

In the past, the Black Rock Cave would exchange medicinal herbs and gift skins with the outside world for food and necessities of life, but once the Black Rock Ridge was blocked, the source of food was cut off.

Although there is a part of the grain stored in the mountain, and even people can be sent to hunt wild animals in the mountain, but in the entire Heiyan Ridge, there are five or six thousand people, old and young, and the daily consumption of grain is not a small amount, plus from last year to now, several months have passed, and Heiyanling is now not afraid of the attack of officers and soldiers, what is most afraid is that the grain will be exhausted, and the people in the village will be starved to death.

It was precisely because Eve was aware of this that she offered to bring someone to break through and ask for help.

It had been almost ten days since he left, and at that time there was not much food, and Eve knew that after these ten days, the food on the mountain was now stretched thin, and it could not last long.

"You didn't attack Black Rock Ridge because you wanted the Black Rock Cave to run out of food and starve them to death?" Qi Ning asked with a frown.

Yue Qianliang hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Back to the top of the court, the meaning of Lord Shi, Heiyan Ridge is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if it is attacked, I am afraid that there will be a lot of casualties, so first surround them, and wait until they run out of food, they will definitely not be able to support it, and they will inevitably break out. ”

"Despicable!" Eve's pink face is like ice.

Yue Qianliang glanced at Eve, but Eve's came with Qi Ning, and Yue Qianliang didn't say much.

Qi Ning was thinking in his heart, could it be that Wei Shutong really had such thoughts?

From a strategic point of view, Wei Shutong surrounded the siege without meditating and waited for the Heiyan Cave to run out of food to break through, but it was also an excellent method, after all, the officers and soldiers had sufficient food and grass, and the logistics supply was continuous, and every point consumed by the Heiyan Cave Miao Village was one point less.

However, in this way, it will inevitably take a long time.

Wei Shutong is so confident that there will be no other changes in this waiting time? Or is it that Wei Shu is surrounded and does not fight, which is to set aside time for accidents to occur?

"Why did the King of Shu send troops to besiege the mountain?" Qi Ning frowned and said, "Jin Guanwei is his personal soldier, and he is only responsible for protecting him, how can he be used to attack Heiyan Ridge?" ”

Yue Qianliang bowed his head and said: "I only know that there is a place in the south of the Heiyan Mountains that belongs to the fief of the King of Shu, and after the rebellion of the Black Rock Ridge, the King of Shu mobilized six hundred soldiers and horses to assist the officers and soldiers in blocking the passage to the south of the Heiyan Mountains. ”

Qi Ning thought for a moment before he said, "Captain Yue, you immediately send someone to Chengdu to report to Wei Tingshi and ask him to come to Heiyanling quickly." I'm going into the mountains to see the Black Rock Cave Master. ”

Yue Qianliang raised his head and said in surprise: "Shangcha, you must not enter the mountain, the Black Rock Cave has rebelled, Danba County ordered Bai Tangling to be killed by the Black Rock Cave, not long ago, the Miao thieves of the Black Rock Cave also took advantage of the night to sneak attack a camp in the north, it seems that they want to send people to break through from the north and kill dozens of brothers, fortunately, the reinforcements arrived in time." ”

"This matter has also been reported to the imperial court, let me ask you, can you catch it alive at that time?" Qi Ning said in a deep voice: "Raided at night and killed dozens of people, didn't you catch a single live mouth?" ”

Yue Qianliang was a little embarrassed and said: "It's a bad return, in fact...... In fact, not only did he not catch a single live mouth that night, but he ..... And even a single Miao thief failed to kill .......! ”

"You don't want a Miao thief on the left and a Miao thief on the right, I don't know who the thief is." Eve was annoyed in her heart, and reprimanded coldly: "Dozens of people died, but the other side did not kill a single person, either your officers and soldiers are too incompetent, or the murderer is strong in martial arts, and you can't hurt them at all." ”

Yue Qianliang frowned, and stopped talking.

"There's no need to argue, Captain Yue, we'll go into the mountain now, and you lead the way." Qi Ning said: "I have something to discuss with the Black Rock Cave Master, and you should also quickly send someone to report the history of Wei Thorn." ”

Yue Qianliang saw that Qi Ning's expression was serious, and his tone was non-negotiable, so he hesitated for a moment, and finally gave up: "Obey orders!" ”