Chapter 47: Mountain Bandits (4)
About an hour later, Luo Tiantian and Zhang Fan hurried back and reported the situation in Zhang Xian's account:
Zhang Fan was the first to step forward, clasped his hands into fists and said to Zhang Xian.
"My lord, the two subordinates of the ten miles in front of this official road have been carefully investigated, and in line with the conditions for ambushes mentioned by the adults, there is only a valley eight miles ahead, called Broken Soul Peak, the terrain is similar to the valley where we ambushed and scared everyone before, which is more suitable for ambushes, and we found that there seem to be people walking around on the mountain, and the subordinates and Luo Sansan were afraid of startling the snakes, so they came back immediately to report the situation."
Luo Tiantian then added:
"My lord, the slope here is steep, and there is a wide flat land in front of the valley, and there is a large forest on the side, if people and horses enter the canyon, it is really difficult to get out!"
Zhang Xian listened and asked carefully, sometimes holding a branch to draw something on the ground, sometimes standing in deep thought, Niu Dameng and Jiang Wei respectfully waited for Zhang Xian to give a military order on the side. Zhang Xian made up his mind and then moved, and quickly arranged the plan. The grain and grass escort team began to move in an orderly manner again. Niu Dameng led the team as the forward, Zhang Xian personally guarded Jiang Wei, Luo Tiantian, and Zhang Fan in the center, and Fang Kun monitored and guarded the county soldiers in the back, and was responsible for breaking the back.
When the team arrived in front of the valley that Luo Santian and Zhang Fan said, it was really a good ambush place, the two mountains were sandwiched by a line, and the mountain bandits could rush to the bottom in a moment, Niu Dameng ran over as if nothing had happened, and said to Zhang Xian:
"My lord, the brothers have walked seven or eight miles, and their stomachs are hungry, let the big guy take a rest!"
Zhang Xian stretched his waist, yawned, turned his hand and hammered his waist, looking sleepy, and said:
"I'm really tired, so I'll give the order to go down, let the brothers do a good job of normal defense, bury the pot and cook, and then go on the road when they are full. By the way, Zhang Fan and Luo for three days, you come over and accompany me around! ”
Zhang Xian took the two of them from the path to sneak quietly to the halfway up the mountain, Luo Santian and Zhang Fan chased all the way behind, Luo Santian seemed to be frightened by Zhang Xian's sneaking speed, he was a child who grew up in the mountains and forests, and his understanding of the mountains and forests was even higher than his own understanding, how to sneak fast, how to catch the prey, he was very familiar, but the scholar in front of him, the mountain forest sneaking actually threw himself behind, and it was just a matter of throwing him behind, the problem is that the figure of this adult sneaking is extremely low,I don't know where to do the grass and vines on the way to sneaking.,It feels like it's going around the body at random.,It's natural to blend in with the surrounding environment.,If you don't pay attention to the dare.,You can't see the young adult at all.。 Zhang Fan lagged behind a little further, tired and panting, sweating like rain, after all, a little scholar, usually did not go through any kind of exercise, and he couldn't keep up with the rhythm even if he tried his best, finally, Zhang Xian stopped at the edge of a big stone and said:
"You see, on the top of this Broken Soul Peak, the green trees are like trees, the shrubs are vertical and horizontal, the slope is steep and the stones are big and many, and the bottom of the mountain slope is a line of sky, although it is a little wider, but it is only a dozen zhang wide, if the ambush bow and arrows on the hillside, the rolling stone and the wood are released, there must be no way to hide around the mountain, there is no way to hide, not to mention thousands of troops and horses, even the Daluo Immortals cannot escape from the ascension, this terrain is completely the best place to hide the ambush, but unfortunately, these mountain bandits will not make good use of such an excellent terrain, And it was also known in advance that it was ambushed. ”
"My lord, did you see the mountain bandits ambushing the soldiers? I'm ashamed, my subordinates looked carefully for a long time, and I didn't find that there was an ambush on the mountain? Luo Santian hadn't recovered from the shock of Zhang Xian's sneaking speed and disguise, and he heard that there were ambushes on the mountain, but no matter how hard he tried to open his eyes, he didn't see that there were ambushes there, so he had to say ashamedly.
"Big, big, great, my subordinates didn't find out that there were ambushes there?" Zhang Fan also began to become unnatural, since this son came back from disappearance, he is simply a world of difference from before, when did he become wise and so full of physical strength?
"Not only do you two learn to observe, but the officer has also taught you to empathize and look at the problem from the enemy's point of view, and the officer asks you, if you are mountain bandits and are ambushed in such an excellent place, will the mountain bandits think that we are all fools, and stupidly do not send spies to check, so they swagger into the ambush circle?" Zhang Xian asked.
"My lord, the mountain bandits must know that we will send spies to investigate first, and if there are ambushes, we will definitely not rush in." Zhang Fan said.
"According to what the adults said, since this mountain bandit can expect that we will send spies to investigate, they will definitely find ways to hide their ambushes, and we will not be easy to detect, right, my lord?" Luo Santian asked seriously.
"Since the two of you can think of this layer, then you should think further, if we are mountain bandits, we want to arrange ambushes, and we have to avoid spies, what is the best way? You see, this valley is not narrow, and if the mountain bandits want to ambush us, it is impossible to ambush us in a distant place, so that their ambush will lose its suddenness and cause us no harm, and only if they are close enough to us can they launch a sudden ambush and take us by surprise. So, if you think along this line of thought, the mountain bandit ambush must be around this mountain, and under normal circumstances, the spies will at most explore the way from the mountainside or the top of the mountain, and basically ignore the back of the mountain, if there are ambushes behind the mountain, climbing to the top of the mountain is also an instantaneous thing, and there is no time to delay at all! You have to learn to draw inferences! Zhang Xian taught Luo Tiantian and Zhang Fan seriously, and cultivated them carefully.
"My lord, my subordinates understand, now behind this Broken Soul Mountain, there are neither birds nor insects, which means that these animals behind the mountain must have been frightened!" Luo Tiantian said happily.
"My lord, my subordinates also understand that wherever there are ambushes, it is naturally impossible for the boat to cross the water without a trace, and the subordinates took a closer look, and some of the leaves of the grass and trees behind the mountain are unnaturally reversed. The back of the tree is exposed, indicating that these branches and leaves must have been affected by external forces. Zhang Fan smiled and added softly.
"You two boys are pretty smart! That's drawing inferences! On the battlefield, the more careful and calm you are, the longer your life will live, learn hard, see how the official cleans up this gang of mountain bandits, and want to ambush Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu teaches you this group of mountain bandits, what is anti-ambush! Alright, let's go back slowly now, and get ready to clean up this gang of bandits! Zhang Xian said softly.
Hearing Zhang Xian's words for a while, Luo felt comfortable, and Zhang Fan was slightly embarrassed, where does this son still look like a scholar......
Just when Zhang Xian and the two of them were about to withdraw down the mountain, a green shadow instantly flickered in the bushes in front of him, Zhang Xian's heart was excited, and he unconsciously followed the strain skills learned in the military academy in the later generations, and when the enemy situation was unknown, he immediately lay on the ground, and Luo Tiantian and Zhang Fan in the back didn't know what situation Zhang Xian encountered, and they also lay down.
Zhang Xian looked at the place where the green shadow floated, and was shocked in his heart, if it was a beast in the mountains, there was no beast in his memory that was green, if it was a person, this person was too fast, and his agility was much higher than his own, it was incredible.......
"My lord, but you found out that there is a situation?" Luo Tiantian asked.
"I saw a green shadow, I don't know what it is, but even if it is a person, there should be no hostility, the official sees that the place where he drifts down is our grain and grass escort team, if it is a mountain bandit, he should flee to the back of the mountain, ignore him first, we will go down the mountain first." After Zhang Xian finished speaking, he got up and sneaked down the mountain with the two.
However, the heart of this green shadow, but inexplicably vigilant, if this green shadow is a person, then, this person can be so close to himself, if he is hostile, he is likely to not die but also have to be disabled, what makes Zhang Xian even more depressed is that almost every time there is danger, Zhang Xian has a feeling, according to the science of later generations, this is a kind of stress hormone produced by a very small number of people in the face of danger, so it can predict the danger in advance, once proud and proud, but now, but inexplicably does not work, made Zhang Xian's heart slightly annoyed, but he was helpless for a while.
It is said that when Zhang Xian personally led the team to investigate and returned, the real flying leopard was sitting in a stone house behind the Broken Soul Mountain, the stone house was about several zhang wide and three zhang high, and it was surrounded by mountain bandits with knives and guns or sticks. The flying leopard sits horizontally on a huge tiger-striped chair, seven feet tall, with a large waist and a round waist, with leopard eyes and horizontal eyebrows, and a flat nose and square mouth.
A mountain bandit spy rushed to report:
"Report to the big master, the small one found out that Liu Ergou said that the grain and grass escort team is really here, the grain and grass carts and horses are mighty, it is really a group of big fat sheep, but this group of fat sheep is about to march into the valley, but they set up camp, bury the pot to make rice, it seems that they are ready to eat lunch before leaving!"
"Oh? This group of soil buns is about to become Lao Tzu's bag, but they are buried in the pot to make rice? His grandmother's, the starving ghost was reincarnated! Well, you see, they didn't find anything out of the ordinary, right? After hearing this, the flying leopard slapped a chair angrily and asked in the throat of the duck male.
"Back to the big boss, the small one followed them for a mile, this group of grain and grass escort team, the guard is very strict, but I have never seen them send spies to explore the way." The mountain bandit spy said.
"His grandmother's, this group of people who escorted grain and grass, turned out to be a group of rice buckets, heavily guarded and used by birds, and they didn't even send spies out to investigate, that is, the blind and deaf, in the face of Lao Tzu's more than 600 brothers, they are killing themselves, and they can't complain about Lao Tzu! It's a shame that Liu Ergou still blows them so much, and Lao Tzu is so cautious, he should not have promised him so much profit if he knew this. The flying leopard shook the flesh off its face, and seemed to be haunted by his own misjudgment.
At this time, a one-eyed mountain bandit walked by, with a swarthy shoulder, and said to the flying leopard:
"Big boss, didn't this Liu Ergou say in the letter that he had an old relationship with your big boss back then?"
"His grandmother's Liu Ergou, when Lao Tzu robbed the house in Yangzhou and capsized, was caught by officers and soldiers, Liu Ergou personally escorted Lao Tzu to the prison, Lao Tzu promised Liu Ergou that if he let Lao Tzu go, he would immediately tell him a treasure spot, where to bury gold and silver jewelry worth hundreds of taels of silver, after Liu Ergou found it, he released Lao Tzu as promised! Hmph, to put it mildly, Lao Tzu is spending money to buy his life, which is not that kid's kindness. The Flying Leopard said, as if he was still a little angry.
The one-eyed subordinate of the flying leopard, one of the one-eyed bones, turned around and said:
"The big boss, since this is the case, this favor will not be more than Erer, when the time comes, the goods, grain and grass will be in the hands of the big boss, how much profit will be given to him, and even whether to give him Liu Ergou, it is not a matter of the big boss's words?!"
"Yes, if that kid dares to say a word, my third child will directly skin him." A mountain bandit with a big head with a mustache stood up and said.
The Flying Leopard laughed out loud and said:
"Okay, as long as the second master and the third master say so, then we will keep this profit first, and now we should go and arrange it first, and eat this piece of fat in our mouths first! According to the pre-arrangement, fuck it! ”