Chapter 50: The Hot Potato

After Ling Xia returned to the camp, he immediately called Lao Cui and a few of them over, and when all the people arrived, Ling Xia told everyone Nangong Bo's order, and after speaking, he handed Peng Lie to Lao Cui and asked him to take care of Peng Lie personally, in case Peng Lie waited for an opportunity to escape.

Then, Ling Xia took out the panorama of the battle deployment in the Roaring Frontier, and looked at the route on the map with a pensive expression, Baishi Province was about 18,000 miles away from the imperial capital, and it was necessary to pass through the intersection of the four territorial boundaries in the middle.

There are two roads from Baishi Province to the imperial capital, one is to go straight along the official road built by the imperial court, this road is the smoothest, there are post stations along the way to rest, if everything goes well, according to the calculation of one hundred and fifty miles a day, the fastest will take four months.

The next day, the road is to take a small road to take a shortcut, along the remote lower road to move quickly, although this road is a shortcut, but there is no post station on the road to rest, and there are many bandits along the way, it is very easy to have accidents.

"Captain, which way do we enter the imperial capital?" Lao Cui asked with a solemn face, and learned that Peng Lie was a prisoner personally named by the Governor of the Praetorian Guard, and everyone felt a burst of pressure inexplicably, for fear that something would happen on the road.

"These two roads seem to be safe, but in fact they are all full of dangers, and I can guarantee that as soon as we go beyond the borders of Baishi Province, someone will attack the team and rob people." Speaking of this, Ling Xia thought for a moment: "Let's take the third way." ”

"The third way? How can there be a third way? Yang Lucai looked at the map blankly.

"The road is all walked by people, and after we finish walking, there will be this road in the future." After saying this, Ling Xia pointed to the route on the map and analyzed: "You see, to the south of Baishi Province is the Stone Beast Province and Mei'an Province, and Mei'an Province and Zhongmiao Province of Linlangjiang meet.

When we came with the division before, because we had to meet with the other two divisions, and we were not familiar with the place, we took a long road at that time, but you can see the route marked on the map.

From the Stone Beast Province and Mei'an Province to Zhongmiao Province, only more than 2,000 miles away, which is closer than the official road we walked when we came, after entering Zhongmiao Province, we went straight to the territory of Chong'an County, Hedao Prefecture, from Feifengling into Rosewood Frontier, from there into the imperial capital. ”

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That night, a hundred-strong squad of the Tiger Division left the base camp of the Battle Guards, and when they left the boundaries of Baishi Province, the group headed straight for the official road.

After an hour, another team of 100 people came out of the base camp of the battle guards, and they rushed in the direction of Baihu Mountain, where there was a short road to the imperial capital.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning just after dawn, the new commander Yi Haojie went to the War Hammer Division to serve as the commander of the army, he was followed by a team of 100 people, and after saying goodbye to Fu Qingyun, Yi Haojie and the others left slowly.

After getting on the road, Yi Haojie looked at his side with an uneasy face: "Ling Xia, I have helped you do everything you asked me to do, I hope you will be true to your word." ”

It turned out that after discussing the route last night, Ling Xia found Yi Haojie, and he asked Yi Haojie to do him a favor, and asked the division to send two fake escort teams, one along the official road, and the other along the path.

Although Nangong Bo announced that he ordered Ling Xia to set off overnight, Ling Xia didn't leave until the early morning of the next day, and he went on the road under the pretense of escorting Yi Haojie to take office to suppress bandits, and he didn't go in the direction of the imperial capital, but went to the Warhammer Division in the opposite way.

In order to let Yi Haojie help, Ling Xia decided to help him come up with a war plan to exterminate the Blood Hand Sect, the temporary camp of the War Hammer Division is located in the southernmost part of Baishi Province, bordering the Stone Beast Province, the reason why Ling Xia wants to go with Yi Haojie is to do the best job of concealment.

Before setting off, Ling Xia had studied the map and the battle report of the Warhammer Division, and there were more than 27,000 people in the Bloody Hand Sect, and after repeated encirclement and suppression by the Warhammer Division, there were now only more than 5,000 people left, and the Warhammer Division only had more than 8,000 soldiers.

Ling Xia thought about countermeasures as he advanced, and it was noted on the map that the Blood Hand Sect had a special etiquette, and the disciples had to go home to have dinner with their relatives at the end of every month, and only return to the main altar the next morning, this clue was only known to the members of the sect, and outsiders did not know.

There are five days left before the end of the month, so Ling Xia thought of a note to wait for the rabbit, he asked Yi Haojie to withdraw his troops immediately after taking office, pretending to be cowardly and reluctant to go into battle, creating a false impression for those bandits, misunderstanding that Yi Haojie does not know how to lead troops.

When the bandits went home to have dinner with their relatives five days later, Yi Haojie suddenly sent troops to attack the headquarters of the Blood Hand Sect, and Ling Xia specially instructed Yi Haojie to destroy the main altar of the Blood Hand Sect first, and then in turn to clear those scattered sect members.

People have a subconscious of guarding their homes, and the main altar of the Bloody Hand Sect is the source of confidence of the sect members, as long as the main altar is captured, the confidence of those bandits will collapse, at this time, they are surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers, affected by frustration, it is difficult for them to rise up to resist.

At noon, Yi Haojie came to the garrison area of the Giant Hammer Division, Ling Xia separated from Yi Haojie from here, and after seeing Yi Haojie enter the division camp, Ling Xia and the others escorted Peng Lie to march towards the Stone Beast Province next door.

Affected by the suppression of bandits in Baishi Province, several surrounding provinces have also launched an encirclement and suppression of the bandit forces in the territory, Ling Xia found out the battle map of the Stone Beast Province and studied how to avoid the war zone, he didn't want to be entangled by the battle guards or the local bandit forces.

At this time, the battle defense map in Ling Xia's hand played a great role, those maps were made very carefully and accurately, and along the guidance of the map, Ling Xia and his party successfully avoided the territory forces of several groups of bandits, and also avoided the detection of the local war guards.

In order to speed up the journey, Ling Xia brought all the war horses under Yi Haojie's name before he came, anyway, Yi Haojie was transferred, and he couldn't use these war horses and supplies, and it was cheaper for others to stay.

In addition to the war horse, Ling Xia also instigated Yi Haojie to take the materials, because Yi Haojie had not yet stepped down, and the new commander had not come to hand over it, so Wuzi Ling did not dare to disobey Yi Haojie's orders, and honestly allocated the materials that Yi Haojie needed to him.

Yi Haojie didn't get anything else, so he took out the coins he deducted when he suppressed the bandits, although Ling Xia took away some gold coins in the name of military pay before, but there were still a lot of them in the warehouse, and this time Yi Haojie brought them all out at the instigation of Ling Xia.

Because Yi Haojie was only in office, there was no way to carry too many things, so the task of transporting these coins fell on Ling Xia, after sending Yi Haojie to the Warhammer Division, Ling Xia left two boxes of gold coins as freight, and the rest were all returned to Yi Haojie.

In this way, when Ling Xia left, he also earned dozens of war horses and two boxes of gold coins, because everyone was riding horses, and Ling Xia was moving forward unimpeded all the way with the map, so in less than two days, Ling Xia and the others left the territory of Stone Beast Province and entered Mei'an Province.

In a dense forest, Yang Lucai and the others were cooking on a fire, while Ling Xia was leaning on a tree and looking at the map, Mei'an Province is different from Stone Beast Province, this is the province second only to Baishi Province to suppress bandits, and it is different from the main attack policy of Baishi Province, and the outer encirclement core implemented here.

Baishi Province concentrated on attacking the main bandit forces and exterminated the three major bandit forces, and then turned around and cleaned up those scattered small and medium-sized gangs, while Mei'an Province was just the opposite, they first encircled and suppressed those small and medium-sized forces, and finally attacked the strongest bandit gangs.

It is precisely because of this all-out war situation that Mai'an Province is full of war zones, and if you want to enter Zhongmiao Province, you must at least pass through four war zones, and once you fall into the war zone, it will be troublesome.

In those four combat zones, three of them are the deployment of troops on the scale of 1,000 people, and the last place is the deployment of troops at the level of 10,000 people, if Ling Xia and the others break in recklessly, there will only be two of them, and they will either be absorbed or annihilated.

Because this is the territory of other legions to suppress bandits, the signboards of Nangong Bo and the S.H.I.E.L.D. are not easy to use, if those who are soldiers see these materials carried by Ling Xia, they will directly come to see the wealth and take it for themselves.

"Captain, what should I do? Do you want to go to the local war guard to report your whereabouts? With the Legion's Commander's token, they can determine our identity with a little inquiry? Seeing Ling Xia's contemplation, Lao Cui couldn't help but make a suggestion.

"No, our whereabouts this time must be kept absolutely secret, the more mysterious the better." After saying this, Ling Xia pointed to the bandit-infested area marked on the map and said, "Notify me, change your clothes, and go to the bandit-infested area." ”

After making up their minds, everyone changed out of their armor, and after putting it away, they changed into a strong suit, and after lunch, they began to hurry, and as soon as they traveled dozens of miles, they were stopped by a group of bandits.

On the opposite side were more than thirty bandits, carrying machetes on their backs, and after seeing Ling Xia and these people, one of them cocked his chin and shouted the secret words on the road with an arrogant face: "Oh, I planted this tree, I opened this road, if you want to fight this, leave ......"

"Boss Luo, destroy them, and fight quickly."

Ling Xia was in a hurry at the moment, and he didn't have time to grind with those bandits, and after giving the order, he turned his military horse to the back, not daring to watch the strangulation scene behind him.

"Don't mind...... I'm not done yet...... Let's go, let's go. ”

Seeing the five Luo brothers leading fifty burly men to greet him, the bandit was suddenly startled, and he saw the situation in front of him clearly, and found that the number of people on his side seemed to be less than half of that on the other side.

Seeing the momentum exuded by Boss Luo when they were advancing, the bandits were all so frightened that their teeth chattered, and after the minions finished speaking, seeing that Boss Luo was still advancing, the fear in his heart was even greater, and he hurriedly dismounted and begged for mercy: "The rules on the road, get off the horse and beg for peace."

My brother has eyes and does not know Mount Tai, collided with everyone, flooded to the Dragon King Temple, his own family does not know his own family, the younger brother offended the landlord, willing to break the gold and silver for wine and drink, brother here thirty people, thirty gold coins, thirty silver coins. ”

Hearing the other party's words, Boss Luo and the others were all stunned, they didn't know what the other party meant?