Chapter 19: Long'an Forest Farm

Taketori paced back and forth in the tent, his hands behind his back, his brows furrowed, looking very melancholy. The army surrounded the mountain for three days and three days, what is this King of Shu going to do? There is a war in the northwest, he has already received the news, he estimates that the army will have to return to Chengdu County to assemble in three or five days, and the king of Shu can rest assured that there is a Jiulong Mountain in the rear?

"Your Excellency."

The voice of the guard Liu Heng sounded outside the tent,

"Come in."

Taketori sat down on a chair next to him, picked up the steaming blue and white teacup on the table, and took two sips.

Liu Heng took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Taketori, it was the one that Zhou Yunlong saw nailed to the tree last night, and after he opened the letter and read it, he handed the letter back to Liu Heng.

"Look at it, do you know what the north side says? Oh, they said that the war had begun, and they wanted to collect our mahogany for double the usual price. Taketori said to Liu Heng next to him,

Liu Heng took the letter, and frowned after reading it, "Second uncle, when is this?" The King of Shu is here with us, and we are not committing crimes against the wind. ”

Taketori's face looked ugly, his small triangular eyes narrowed, and he looked even more gloomy, and he said, "If I guessed correctly, this time the north came to attack, and it was definitely not as simple as fighting the autumn wind." Moreover, last night, the county jail came to report that An Zhiyuan's eldest son, An Yi, had brought a certain Qincha master to raid the prison files, and I estimated that the old man was coaxed and frightened by them, and said everything. ”

"Second uncle, why did Qin Cha come? Is Song Zhong's matter exposed? Liu Heng looked a little panicked when he heard Taketori say this.

Taketori glanced at him, looking very dissatisfied with his uncalm appearance, and said, "What are you panicking about?" The emperor is now on fire in the northwest, how can he have the heart to arrange for any Qin to inspect the prison, I think, I'm afraid that An Yi is eyeing us. By the way, the one on Jiulong Mountain, did I tell him all the things I told you? ”

"According to the second uncle's instructions, I told Lin Huzi everything." Liu Heng replied,

"Well, that's good. In this way, you go to Long'an Mansion and tell the people in the north that you will meet you at the old place tonight and discuss something. ”

"Okay."

"And ....." Taketori grabbed Liu Heng, who was about to come out, and said in a low voice: "You go and find Lin Xiancheng." ”

"Second uncle, what are you looking for Lin Xiancheng for?" Liu Heng obviously couldn't keep up with Taketori's rhythm, and if it weren't for his nephew, he might have been kicked out of the yamen by Taketori a long time ago.

Taketori said compassionately: "What are you doing? Of course, it's for you and me. ”

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early morning

Longan Forest Farm

Out of Chengdu Mansion, and then run through a mountain col to Long'an Mansion, Long'an Mansion is the northernmost government in Sichuan, and further north is the border of Shaanxi Province, not far from Gansu Town. This Long'an Forest Farm is in this col, and the mahogany forest in the entire col is almost within the scope of Long'an Forest Farm, because it is under the jurisdiction of Long'an Prefecture, so it is called Long'an Forest Farm.

When An Yi and his team arrived at the Long'an Forest Farm, it was already close to noon. When they were still some distance away from the Long'an Forest Farm, they dismounted and walked slowly, slowly approaching the mountain col, which was densely forested and easy to hide.

"Ming Yin, look, where are the guards." An Yi snorted at the front and said to Jin Mingyin, "When he walks to the bottom of the slope, send someone to get it over, and he wants to live." ”

Jin Mingyin nodded, took out a short dagger from his boots, and the whole body was made of cold iron, and he quietly stepped forward step by step.

The guard walked slowly down the hill with a wooden crossbow in his hand. Suddenly, he noticed that the woods in front of him on the right shook a little, and he immediately alertly leveled the crossbow in his hand, and shouted coldly at the shaking place: "Come out!" ”

He gradually came closer, one step, two steps. Suddenly, his mouth was covered by a hand, and just as he was about to resist, a cold knife light was tightly pressed against his face.

An Yi looked at the guards who were dragged over by Jin Mingyin, and said in a low voice: "If I ask you anything, you can say anything, don't say much!" I nodded when I understood. ”

The guard nodded violently and motioned to Jin Mingyin to let go of the hand covering his mouth.

"Below the col is the Long'an Forest Farm?"

"It's... Yes. ”

"How many guards do you have?"

"We are the periphery, standing on the slopes of various hills, twelve in all. There are also two watchtowers inside, one on the top. ”

"How many people are there in the forest farm now?"

"There is no work today, no one is there, only a few carpenters and forest farmers."

"Who's the farmer?"

"The owner of the forest farm is a native of the Western Regions, I don't know what his name is. We usually call him the chief, but we just do as he says, and receive his salary every month. ”

An Yi really didn't come to the wrong place when he heard this, he asked Jin Mingyin's militia to change into the clothes of guards, take the big crossbow, carry his small crossbow on his body, and return to the hillside to "stand guard".

"Let him take you to find the rest of the guards, all of them will be replaced by our people, be careful, don't alarm the people inside." He said to Jin Mingyin, and then he climbed up the hill with his waist bent and looked into the col.

It was already late autumn, and most of the trees in the redwood forest had already withered, but because of the huge number, it still looked dense from a distance. There is a clearing in the middle of the col that is fenced off, and it must be the Longan Forest Farm. There are two wooden watchtowers in front of the gate of the forest farm, and there are bare tree stumps about one or two hundred paces between the fence and the redwood forest, which should be a clearing.

After a while, Jin Mingyin came back from the other side with the guard.

"Brother Yi, it's all replaced by our people. There are twelve of them, and we have six left. Jin Mingyin said,

An Yi looked at the frightened chick-like guard in Jin Mingyin's hand and asked, "What about the other guards?" ”

Jin Mingyin smiled, shook his short crossbow at An Yi, and then made a gesture of cutting his neck with his hand.

"Don't... Don't kill me, hero, don't kill me, I'll take you into the woods, I know there are tunnels. The guard said in a trembling voice, for fear that An Yi would think he was useless and kill him too.

An Yi pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "If you take us in through the tunnel, I will spare your life." ”

"Yes, yes, yes."

Six militiamen, together with An Yi and Jin Mingyin, followed the guard and touched into the woods below the mountain pass.

The tunnel in the guard's mouth was a not very long hole in the earth, leading from the mountain forest to the wall. An Yi wondered, how could there be such a passage, what was the point of the specially cut out open space around the wall?

The passage is narrow and can only accommodate one person. An Yi walked in front by himself, followed by the guard, then Jin Mingyin and the six militiamen. Sandwiched the guards in the middle, it was also to prevent him from moving, and before he entered the cave, he instructed Jin Mingyin that if the guards played tricks, he would wear him to the core.

A few people hunched their waists and walked about half a pillar of incense, and then they saw the bright light at the entrance of the cave in front of them, and further on, they were blocked by an iron fence gate.

An Yi stepped forward, and found that the iron fence was rusty, and broke it with his hand, but he did not move at all, and he turned his head to look at the guard,

"Good man, you see that on the ground outside the iron fence, there is an iron disc, you open the disc and there is a stone handle inside, and then turn left three times, and the iron fence can be lifted." The guard behind him,

An Yi did as the guard said, he stretched his hand out along the gap in the iron fence, brushed away the dirt on the ground, and sure enough, a small disc with a pitted surface was exposed. He opened the disc and turned the handle inside three times to the left. But the iron fence did not react much.

"Why didn't it work?" He turned to the guards and asked,

The guard scratched his head with his hand, also looking puzzled, and he said to An Yi: "Hero, if we change positions, I can't reach the handle behind you, I don't know what's wrong with this mechanism." ”

As he spoke, the two men changed positions in the narrow passage, and then they saw the guard stretch out his hand and pound at the stone handle a few times,

"Qiang Qiang Qiang~"

The iron fence gate rises slowly,

An Yi just wanted to ask the guard how to operate, but before he could say this, the guard rolled on a donkey, rolled out along the half-human-high space that had just risen from the iron fence gate, and then smashed down the stone handle, which had been slowly rising and falling suddenly.

Comfort is not good!

"Give me the crossbow!"

He stretched his hand back and asked Kim Myung-in for his iron crossbow.

When the guard saw that An Yi was about to take out a crossbow arrow, there was no reason not to run, so he ran to the entrance of the cave with a roll.

"Someone coming.... Someone~"

An Yi took the crossbow and faced the guards who were running towards the entrance of the cave,

"Whoosh whoosh!"

With Jin Mingyin's crossbow's extraordinary rate of fire, the five short crossbows instantly nailed the guard firmly to the ground, lifeless.

After shooting the guard, Comfort held the crossbow vertically and stuck it under the descending iron fence.

"Crunch squeak~"

After paying the price of the crossbow arm being bent, the entire iron fence gate also stopped descending.

"My crossbow~" Jin Mingyin looked at his masterpiece, damaged under the rusty iron fence gate, and couldn't help but feel a little distressed.

An Yi looked at him with a painful look on his face, couldn't help laughing, and patted Jin Mingyin's shoulder, "As long as you're okay, it doesn't matter how many crossbows are broken, it's you who are valuable, not crossbows." ”

With that, he looked at the remaining space in the iron fence, just enough space for a man to crawl through. So he leaned down and tried to move out of the iron fence step by step. Jin Mingyin, who was behind him, with the militia, also climbed out one by one according to his comfortable appearance.

When they reached the entrance of the cave, An Yi motioned for them not to show their heads yet, and he slowly pulled at the edge of the cave and looked out.

The exit of the cave was under a wall, on the right of a clearing with piles of timber stacked like triangular stacks, and on the left was the main entrance of the forest farm, in front of which two watchtowers, each with a guard with a crossbow and arrow, looked around.

An Yi retracted back to the entrance of the cave and said to Jin Mingyin: "There are about seventy or eighty cloth on the left, there are two guard towers, you take a person with good skills, go out of the cave and rush directly to the direction of the guard tower, and after you are within the range of your short crossbow, kill them, can you do it?" ”

Jin Mingyin lowered his head and took the wooden short crossbow pen in the hand of a militiaman and drew a few times, and then said to An Yi: "No problem! ”