Jia Min ate, checked the sentry post, and familiarized himself with the surrounding environment, and when he came back, he slept in his sleeping bag.

Qin Zhong, Ni Er, and Jia Qin took turns sleeping and taking turns on duty.

Xiabei River is relatively remote here, and there is no good pasture in the sea buckthorn forest. Therefore, those who are herding herds, will not come here.

However, there are still some herders grazing in the vicinity. The most recent was at noon, less than 400 meters from the campsite. Fortunately, I didn't stay in this neighborhood for long, and I left in just over half an hour.

It was the luck of the two herders that they didn't find out about the situation here. If they find out, their lives will be gone.

They never imagined that they were actually turning around in front of the ghost gate.

Just after four o'clock in the afternoon, the sky suddenly became overcast. Immediately after that, it began to rain.

The climate on the steppe is changeable, and it is not surprising that it rains. Sometimes, it even snows in August.

But there was something special about this rain, it kept falling and it got heavier and heavier. This is relatively rare in the fall.

The rain didn't stop until six o'clock in the evening.

Because of the rain, it got dark early. Therefore, the government corps set off in advance, and it still rained non-stop along the way.

The soil on the grassland is black clay. As soon as it rained, the soil became wet, slippery and sticky, and it became much more difficult for the horses to walk.

Because it was cloudy, there was no moon, and it was dark as far as the eye could see, and the visibility was very poor, and sometimes I had to stop and check the road surface before we could move on. The pace of the march also inevitably slowed down.

Fortunately, they were all trained to march at night and in rain and snow, and although their speed slowed down, they never stopped advancing.

At 3:15 a.m., we finally arrived at the destination of the trip: the Red Stone Stone.

As the name suggests, the Red Stone Hammer is a cliff.

It's just that this cliff is too long and too high.

It is more than ten miles long and sixty or seventy meters high. It's all steep cliffs.

Because people cannot come down from above, this is where the Tatars are most negligent in their defense.

In other places, every 200 meters or so, a Tatar soldier or a local herdsman is monitoring the Windula Mountain, and if someone is found coming out of the mountain, an early warning signal will be issued, and nearby patrols and garrisons will rush over as soon as possible.

Although there are no clear posts in this section of the cliff area for more than ten miles, there is a team of 30 people stationed on each side. Therefore, in order to reach the junction location, the two Tatar squads must also be eliminated.

The rain continued to rain overnight, and it has not abated until now.

Although the heavy rain brought a lot of inconvenience to the government corps, it also brought favorable conditions.

The traces of the march along the way were obscured, and the Tatar defense was lax.

Where there used to be sentries near the redstone sentry, there are no sentries anymore.

On the east side of the redstone stone, there are two yurts, which are the quarters of a team of 30 people.

Ni Er approached with a platoon and was responsible for dealing with the enemy there.

Qin Zhong took a platoon and continued to move forward, preparing to deal with the 30-person team on the west side of the red stone stone.

Jia Min, Jia Qin, and Jia Qiao each led a squad, and Gao Dazhuang led a team of pro-soldiers, responsible for cleaning up the area of Hongshi Lizi Yanchang for ten miles. Search for possible sentries and sentries that are here to hide from the rain.

Half an hour later, the three squads and the pro-soldier team met in the middle of the Red Stone. The ground had been cleared, and nothing had been found except for the fact that the pro-troops had found and disposed of two Tatars who had taken shelter from the rain.

Ten minutes later, Ni Er led the team to arrive. The Tatars, who were asleep in the two eastern yurts, broke in, and with a shot of short guns, crossbow arrows, and slashes, they killed all the enemy, and they suffered no casualties.

According to the original plan, at four o'clock in the morning today, Wei Ruolan and Princess Chang'an will put down a rattan rope from the middle of the red stone stone, and then those people will descend here to make peace with Jia Min.

After retreating from here, thirty miles away, re-enter the dense forest at the foot of the Windula Mountains, hide for a day during the day, and then return the same way at night. After arriving at the Xiaobei River Sea Buckthorn Forest again for the day, spend another night returning to Bukui.

The people of Princess Chang'an have been trained in rope dropping. It is unknown whether the prince's bodyguards have been trained in rappelling.

Jia Min estimated that they were untrained. So, just follow the plan that you didn't train. He specially asked Wei Ruolan and Lichun to rush there five days in advance, asked them to train, and brought salt and some dried meat to restore their strength.

If you don't eat salt for a long time, your muscles will become weak, and in layman's terms, you will be bored. Bringing them salt is for that purpose.

Now, Jia Min and the others have arrived at the joint site on time, and they are waiting for the rattan rope to be lowered on it.

All of them were anxiously waiting.

"Here, the vine rope is down."

The tall and strong were the first to shout.

"It's coming, it's falling."

More people screamed excitedly.

Although it was still raining heavily, I couldn't hide my excitement.

The vine rope finally landed, which proved that Wei Ruolan and Lichun had successfully found the prince and began to retreat.

The rattan rope is as thick as a wrist and is woven from the vines of wild kiwi fruit in the Windula Mountains. The vines of this wild kiwi are long, soft, and found everywhere in the Windula hills. The rattan rope is so strong that it can drop six or seven people at the same time.

Ni Er grabbed the vine rope and began to shake it for a while, then waited for the reaction from above. After a while, the vine rope shook from the top of the mountain.

This proves that the above already knows that the people below are coming.

Then it's time to start the rappelling.

However, after waiting for ten minutes, there was still no movement from above, and no one came down.

After another ten minutes of waiting, there was still no movement.

Qin Zhong came back with people, and they had already and successfully eliminated the 30-person squad on the west side. As long as the people above come down, they can be evacuated immediately.

Ni Er shook the rope twice, and the rope was also shaken on it, but no one came down.

This circumstance proves that the person who set up the rattan rope here in advance is already in place. However, the large army of people, has not yet arrived.

A sense of foreboding rose in Jia Min's heart.

The prince and the others did not arrive at the place of the rapport in time, there must have been an accident.

It has been raining since last night, which may have affected their movements. However, with Wei Ruolan's experience, they will definitely act in advance. There will be redundancy in the time to arrive at the landing site to ensure that the landing is on time.

They haven't come down yet, and there is only one possibility, which is that they have a serious accident and can't get here on time.

The biggest possibility is that you have encountered the Tatars who are searching.

And it doesn't stop there.

On the way back, there is also a huge trouble.

Due to yesterday's overnight rain, the march back to the road became more difficult.

Muddy and slippery are small things, some roads will turn into swamps, and big things are the few rivers on the way back.

On the way back, you need to cross the Wudaojiang, Sidaojiang, Sandaojiang, and finally the Erdaojiang to reach the Bukui control area.

These four rivers do not have much problem crossing the river in normal times. However, if it continues to rain heavily, the water will definitely rise. This will make it more difficult to cross the river.

The people of the prefectural corps have all been trained to swim crossing. However, it is not trained to solve the problem.

It's hard to say whether people can pass or horses can pass. Even if the horses passed, the heavy equipment would not pass.

The sealing of gunpowder is only effective for rain protection, but as soon as it enters the water, it has to be soaked in water and completely fails.

Without these firearms and other heavy equipment, once you encounter the Tatars, you will be able to fight the enemy with your bare hands.

No matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the government corps is, it will be difficult to win in the face of an absolutely superior enemy.

The only result was that the whole army was annihilated when the battle was exhausted.

At 4:40, there was still no movement. Forty minutes have passed since the scheduled time.

"Chief Min, what are we going to do? Go up? ”

"No, wait. It's useless to go up now. ”

Jia Min had already had the idea of going up to respond, but then he denied this impulse.

Since the crown prince still has dozens of people, and they have not gotten out of the predicament, it proves that the Tatars must be quite numerous and have strong combat effectiveness.

There are fewer people on my side, so it doesn't work, and it is very laborious to transport those heavy weapons up the mountain.

Even if it is transported, its effectiveness in the jungle is greatly reduced.

There were too many people to go up, and if the Tatars rushed here, the back road would be cut off.

When they all entered the mountain, they repeated the old path of the prince and the princess, and took all of them into it. The operation was a complete failure.

"The Guardian is there, and we have to have faith in him. Wait a little longer, and if there is no movement at five o'clock, cancel the operation and we will retreat. ”

Jia Min believes that even if there are more Tatars, it will not be a problem for Wei Ruolan to flee for her life.

As for the prince and princess, it is estimated that they are more than lucky, so they can only give up.

My more than 100 brothers can't wait for death here in vain. He had to get them back alive.

"Look, someone's coming down!"

Jia Qin shouted.

Everyone looked up, and sure enough, someone began to climb down the vine rope.

Ni Er hurriedly beckoned someone, took out the rope net, pulled it open, and waited to pick it up.

"Sir Min, you are slow and stupid, you haven't had any training at first glance, and you don't seem to be a princess."

Qin Zhong saw the fame at a glance.

"Alas, at this time, the importance of usual training is revealed."

"Yes, Chief Min, if it were me, I would be down now. Looking at this guy's official uniform, he should be a general. ”

Ni Er is also very discerning, but there is disdain in his tone.

"Hmph, even the generals are like this, so it's no wonder they lost the battle."

In the first batch, six people were lowered. It took about ten minutes for the first person to fall into the rope net.

When the general had ten meters left, he couldn't hold on. As soon as the hand was released, it fell. If it weren't for the rope net underneath, it would have been crippled if it didn't fall to death.

The general finally got up and straightened his clothes. However, his clothes were really messy, and no matter how they were straight, they couldn't be neat.

"Which of you is Jia Min?"

The general was obviously a little angry, and although his expression was embarrassed, his tone was very arrogant.

"I'm Jia Min, are you?"

"Why did you come to save us now? You don't care who I am, now everything is under my command here, you ....... ”

With a punch on the ground, Jia Min hit the general directly in the face, and the guy immediately threw himself to the ground, and the second half of the sentence was not said at all.

"The general of the defeated army, what kind of face does he still command the troops. You idiots can command a fart. Tie him up, and if he is not honest, he will be killed! ”