After Su Ziheng and his entourage arrived in Jiangkou County, accompanied by the governor of Yanqing Prefecture, coupled with the holy decree gold medal held by Zhong Qinghan, it was easy to transfer more than 50 ships that could operate hundreds of people from the Ducao Transportation Division to transport the entire team to the south.

Coincidentally, the Caoyun Division of Jiangkou County happened to receive an order from his superiors and was ordered to go to Jiangnan to mobilize military rations for the army's westward expedition, so he could also take Su Ziheng and his team on the way.

It's just that because time is in a hurry, there can be no more pauses along the way, and except for the necessary supplies, everyone must not stop on the ship day and night, and cannot disembark without permission.

In this regard, Su Ziheng and the others said that it was okay, their already fleeing team, it was not easy to take a smooth boat, how could there be any other requirements?

The person in charge of the Jiangkou County Metropolitan Transportation Department told Zhong Qinghan that under the condition of smooth wind and water, day and night, the water and land time that originally took seven days could be compressed to five days to reach Gangneung Prefecture.

Su Ziheng was overjoyed when he heard this, Jiangling Mansion is an important transit point on the Dajiang Cao Transport route, and after arriving at Jiangling Fu from Jiangkou County, the ships of Jiangkou Cao Yun can no longer continue to move forward, and can only transfer to the ships of the Jiangling Du Cao Transport Division.

The river runs through dozens of states and counties from west to east, and it is relatively stable at the front end, and large ships can pass through it freely. After arriving at Gangneung Province, there is a mountain gorge about 100 miles long, in which the river beach is full of rapids.

The whole gorge area is composed of high mountains and valleys and dangerous shoals and reefs, there are gorges in the gorges, and large gorges and small gorges; There are beaches in the beach, and the big beach contains the small beach. The peaks and peaks on both sides of the river, the river surface is narrow, the river is turbulent, the reef in the beach is dense, the river surface is exposed like a stone forest when the water is dry, and when the water rises, it is hidden in the water and becomes a reef, and the channel is curved and narrow, and the ship will hit the reef and sink if it is a little careless.

By the time they arrived, the large cargo ships had become impassable, so they had to rely on small boats to traverse them, or take mountain roads instead.

Su Ziheng and his entourage of nearly 5,000 people, after arriving at Jiangling Mansion, bid farewell and thanked the person in charge of the Jiangkou County Ducao Transportation Division, and considered how to set off next.

Zhong Qinghan's opinion is to take the mountain road instead, preferring to take a longer detour, and she is reluctant to take a boat anymore, because she is seasick and does not know the nature of the water, and she feels that there is no sense of security in taking a boat.

It was okay to take a big boat on the canal of Dajiang in the previous section, but when she arrived at the pier of Gangneung Province and saw the kind of small boat that could only seat dozens or even a dozen people at most, she said that she didn't want to take a boat anymore.

Su Ziheng doesn't care about this, he can reach Donghai County quickly by boat, and it is much slower by land, but it is better to be safe. So the two happily decided on the next trip.

Since you are going to travel by land, many things have to be prepared in advance. For example, a new batch of food can be purchased to replenish various items used on the road. The two housekeepers of Zhongfu and Sufu were more familiar with all this, so they left it to them.

Although the people of Zhongfu evacuated in a hurry, they still brought out a lot of good things, not to mention silver tickets and the like, which was no less than 100,000 taels, and the expenses along the way were enough.

The group rested for a day in Gangneung Mansion, and early the next morning, they returned to the road with all kinds of items they had purchased. In order to take care of the elderly and children on the road, I specially bought a lot of mules and donkeys to pull goods. Once there is a person who can't walk, you can also camel people at the right time, which is convenient and multi-use.

After two days of resuming the journey, they left the territory of Gangneung Province and were about to cross the gorge area through the mountains and mountains, when they encountered the first wave of bandits and bandits on the road.

In order not to attract attention along the way, Zhong Qinghan ordered all the soldiers of the Black Crow Army to take off their military uniforms and change into ordinary clothes when he was in Jiangkou County.

As early as when he left Jiangling Mansion, Leng Huo reported that there were many spies on the road, and in order to achieve the purpose of training, Su Ziheng ordered to keep quiet, and after they followed, they would be wiped out.

Who knew that after leaving Jiangling Mansion for two days, the group of bandits and bandits dared to make a move, which made Su Ziheng quite disappointed.

According to Zhong Qinghan's guess, it may be that their team is too large and too many, and the bandits of a few cottages dare not do it alone, and they dare not do it until many cottages unite.

Looking at the thousands of thieves who appeared at the back of the canyon, Su Ziheng and Zhong Qinghan glanced at each other and said, "Qinghan, this battle will be handed over to Shi Meng and them to be responsible, see how their training results have been in the recent period?" ”

Zhong Qinghan smiled contemptuously: "It's just a group of local chickens and dogs, it's too wasteful to use the Black Crow Army." However, since they chose to intercept us in the canyon, they had to prevent them from setting up an ambush on the top of the mountain. ”

After speaking, she turned back to Leng Huo and ordered, "Leng Huo, you take some men and horses to sweep the canyons on both sides." Don't give them a chance to attack with falling rocks, as for the bandits in ambush in front of the canyon, you don't have to worry about it, wait for the stone to defeat the rear army, and then deal with it. ”

Leng Huo arched his hand and said: "No, the Great Commander!" With a wave of his hand, a thousand black crows immediately divided into two groups and outflanked the mountains on both sides of the canyon.

Su Ziheng looked at the guards who were in good shape, and smiled at Shi Meng: "Mengzi, did you hear Miss Qinghan's words?" The bandits at both ends will be dealt with by you, if you lose the battle and let the crow army reinforce you, tonight's dinner will be deducted, and tomorrow's training will be doubled! ”

Shi Meng looked at the shabby-dressed bandits in front of him, and some even had woodcutters and hoes in their hands, and couldn't help sneering: "Master, if the little ones lose to them, then it's better to jump from here with bare butts one by one." ”

Su Ziheng advised: "Don't be careless, their number is several times that of you, even if the weapons are not as good as yours, you have to be cautious, don't be greedy for merit, master, I don't want to see any of you injured." ”

Shi Meng smiled and said, "Don't worry, sir, it's hard to say whether their broken copper and iron can break our armor." ”

Although none of them wore military uniforms, all of them wore leather armor made of fine cowhide, and they did not dare to say that they were invulnerable, and ordinary arrows were indeed difficult to break through.

Su Ziheng nodded, and shouted coldly: "All the escorts are there, ready to attack!" ”

"Hah!"

Everyone shouted, raised the spears in their hands, and walked forward according to the phalanx they had trained before. The spear head made of fine iron is cold and shining, and it is breathtaking.

The leader of the bandits saw that there were only a hundred people coming out on the opposite side, and he couldn't help but be furious: "I really look down on people, is it true that so many of our brothers eat rice?" Guys, fuck me guys and chop them up. ”

"Oh, oh, on, kill them, divide the gold in a big scale, eat meat in a big chunk, drink wine in a big bowl, and the women play as they please! All the men were thrown into the river. ”

Hundreds of bandits wielded their weapons and swarmed towards Shi Meng's hundred escorts to kill them. In their opinion, hundreds of people fighting a hundred people, isn't that a matter of being caught.