There were also several looting folk girls in the grotto, who were being played by these bandits.

Xia Houlan saw from a distance that there was a folk girl who was still from their Zhaojia Village, and she couldn't help but be angry, so she wanted to rush into the grotto with a spear.

Zhao Yun hurriedly stopped him, pointing to the structure of the grotto, surrounded by walls on three sides, facing a cliff on one side, only a narrow path on the right can be passed, and he can't use a spear, and he will be attacked by the thieves inside at the gate of the grotto.

Wei Yan looked around the scene around the Flying Grottoes, pointed to a protruding boulder on the side of the Flying Grottoes, and asked Zhao Yun, "Is this stone famous?" ”

Zhao Yundao: "This is the flying stone, according to legend, Emperor Shun toured north, came to the foot of Changshan, a boulder from the flying grotto broke through the mountain and flew, fell in front of Emperor Shun, so Emperor Shun named this spiritual stone Anwang Stone." After five years, Emperor Shun patrolled to Quyang, but was blocked by heavy snow, so he could only sacrifice to Changshan from afar, but this spiritual stone flew to Quyang again. ”

Zhao Yun's explanation made Wei Yan hear it in a fog, and after thinking about it carefully, he recalled that this flying grotto was the "Flying Stone of the Hidden Grotto" at the head of the eighteen views of Heng Mountain.

Hengshan is called Changshan, because in the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty to avoid the Han Emperor Liu Heng, so Hengshan was renamed "Changshan".

Wei Yan pointed to the flying stone and said with a smile: "Let's stand on that stone and look at this flying grotto, I believe we will definitely find something!" ”

Zhao Yun walked on the flying stone suspiciously, and looked into the flying grotto, the group of thieves were all exposed in front of them, and the original stone walls and cliffs were all no longer blocked, there was only one problem, that is, the distance, this flying stone was a hundred steps away from the flying grotto.

Wei Yan saw Zhao Yun's doubts, and saw that he didn't have a bow behind him, so he took a bow from a guard sergeant and handed it to Zhao Yun: "Zilong, let's compare archery skills again this time to see who shoots the most thieves." ”

Zhao Yun looks very simple on the surface, but he has a lot of political vision, and he has long seen that Wei Yan is a lord who attaches great importance to personal skills, and the more powerful he behaves, the more important Wei Yan is to himself, so he was unceremonious, opened his bow and arrows, and shot into the flying grotto.

Wei Yan put the Overlord Bow aside, and instead of using a Xuantie arrow, he took a horn bow from another guard sergeant and put it on an ordinary black carved arrow.

In order to save time, he mounted five arrows each time, and the five arrows were fired in unison, shooting at each of the five thieves.

The five thieves saw the black arrow feather heading straight for them, but they didn't have time to dodge, because the arrow feather came so fast that before their eyes could blink, they heard the sound of the arrow feather shooting into their bodies.

Zhao Yun glanced at Wei Yan sideways and was taken aback, he could only barely achieve four shots in a row now, and he couldn't guarantee whether he would shoot accurately, but Wei Yan could shoot five shots in a row, and each of them could hit the vital point of those bandits, Zhao Yun had to admire.

Xia Houlan's archery skills were average, so he couldn't intervene, so he had to teleport the arrow feathers in the back, and he didn't feel anything, so he heard Wei Yan and Zhao Yun say in unison: "Go over!" ”

Xia Houlan looked up and saw that except for those few people's girls, all the other bandits were shot to death, and everyone was just an arrow, and an arrow piercing the heart was enough to kill, so he waved his hand and led the guards into the Flying Grottoes, rescued those people's girls, and after moving out the things that the bandits had looted, he set a fire and incinerated the corpses of these bandits, and at the same time, Dian Wei also incinerated the bodies of more than 400 bandits in front of Zhaojia Village.

Wei Yan, Zhao Yun and others came down to the mountain, Wei Yan repaired a letter and handed it to Zhao Yun, asking him, Zhao Feng and Xiahou Lan to take all the villagers of Zhaojia Village and transfer to Taihang in advance.

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It has been close to the year, Wei Yan wants to return to Yiyang New Town as soon as possible, so he is like an arrow, urging the guards to speed up the road, there are continuous mountains between Taiyuan County and Hanoi County, which is the natural boundary between the two counties, the official road is carved in the mountains, the mountain road is rugged, Wei Yan commands most of the cavalry, the war horse marches between the mountain roads, it is not as good as the infantry to go fast, and it takes more than an hour to barely walk more than 30 miles.

Wei Yan said boredly: "If you want to get rich, build more roads!" Such a road will affect the Han Dynasty to make the country rich and the people strong. ”

Xu Shu pointed forward: "Lord, look, through this valley, it is a horse and a flat river, and in five days, you will be able to reach Luoyang!" ”

"The valley?" Wei Yan has been using the trick of ambush in the valley to deal with the enemy recently, and as soon as he hears about the valley, he himself becomes sensitive!

Wei Yan squinted his eyes and looked at the valley not far away, two mountains and a ditch, the mountain is very steep, the wild grass on the mountain is more than one person high, and there are countless pines and cypresses on it, if there are thousands of troops and horses in ambush, it is difficult to find.

Xu Shu took a closer look at it, and said with a smile: "Lord, this valley is so quiet!" ”

"yes, it's so quiet!" Wei Yan sneered: "It's so quiet that it's suffocating!" ”

Xu Shu smiled: "Lord, then we can't get by?" ”

"What do you say?" Wei Yan looked at Xu Shu's expression and knew that he already had a number in his heart.

Xu Shu looked up at the sky: "Lord, I think it's not too late this day, why don't you camp at the mouth of this valley tonight." Look at this cloud, there will be a wind tonight, it should be a north wind. ”

"Are you sure?!" Wei Yan was very surprised, when will Xu Shu also look at the celestial phenomena.

"In the past few months, I have learned to watch the celestial phenomena with Mr. Sima, and I have a little experience." Xu Shu smiled: "It seems that this gust of wind is not small." ”

Wei Yan asked, "When will the wind rise tonight?" ”

"It's probably the fourth watch!" Xu Shu smiled and looked at the slopes on both sides of the valley.

Wei Yan rode on the black horse, and from time to time he galloped backwards, urging everyone to hurry up.

Dian Wei's high-pitched voice sounded: "Lord, it's getting late, why don't you set up camp here!" ”

Wei Yan looked up at the sky and put on a helpless look: "Soon it will be dark, forget it, let's camp here." ”

After a short time, a large camp was set up at the mouth of the valley, and the guards entered the camp to rest, and the large camp was heavily fortified and well defended.

There was no word all night, and on the fourth watch, the originally silent night was suddenly awakened by a whistling wind.

"Yuan Zhi, as you expected, this north wind really rose!" Wei Yan asked again, "Is everything arranged?" ”

"It's arranged, please give the lord an order!" As a military advisor, Xu Shu is similar to the senior staff officer or chief of staff in later generations, and has the right to transfer and arrange the deployment of troops.

Wei Yan stepped onto the black horse, took off the overlord's bow, and drew a ringing arrow, and a sharp and piercing whistling sound pierced the night sky.

Countless torches lit up at the mouth of the valley and threw themselves at the grass-covered hillside, the wildfire rose violently, and the fierce north wind whistled, and the fire borrowed the wind, and the wind helped the fire, and for a while, the grass-covered slopes on both sides of the valley became a sea of fire.

Wei Yan laughed: "It's dry, be careful of wildfire!" ”

Xu Shu also grinned and said, "Who dares to come and ambush us, don't you know that our Wei army is the best at ambushing?" It's just that they are ambushing, and they dare to do an ambush in such a season when the weather is dry and the weeds are withered and yellow, which is really stupid! ”

A burst of terrible screams sounded from the hillsides on both sides, and the bandits who looked like the Yellow Turbans wearing yellow scarves and yellow jackets were busy getting up from the wild grass, and the fire was wrapped in the north wind more and more, and the smoke also filled the entire hillside, and those bandits panicked and ran around, all trying to escape the greeting of the god of fire.

Some blind bandits actually rushed to the mouth of the valley, and Wei Yan had been waiting for a long time with the red blood knife in his hand.

Wei Yan instigated the black horse and brandished the red blood knife, like a black lightning rolled up a red storm, and wherever the red blood knife went, it rolled up a cloud of severed limbs and stumps, and scarlet blood sprayed in the air.

Xu Shu saw Wei Yan killing, and hurriedly reminded loudly: "Lord, stay alive, this ambush, someone must have missed our marching route!" It's even more important to find out the mastermind behind it! ”

Wei Yan had long been so suspicious in his heart, and when he heard Xu Shu say this, he deliberately stabbed the legs of several thieves, without stabbing them in the throat, leaving them a dog to live and hand it over to Xu Shu for interrogation.

Xu Shu quickly led a few people, strictly interrogated, and found that these thieves were originally a group of bandits entrenched in Taihang Mountain, the leader was surnamed Long Mingqing, originally with Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army well water does not violate the river water, I don't know that Zhang Yan suddenly attacked Long Qing's cottage two months ago, Long Qing escaped from the cottage with more than 1,000 bandits, all the way to the south, all the way to the mountains at the intersection of the three counties, Jizhou originally had more than a dozen Yellow Turban Remnant Party, was swept away by Yuan Shao, there were several Yellow Turban Remnant Sect to the junction of these three counties, was annexed by Long Qing, Long Qing gathered some more homeless people, and his power gradually swelled to nearly 8,000 people.

Long Qing's bandits are mainly active at the junction of the three counties, since it is the junction of the three counties, it is the place where the three counties do not care, the county lieutenants of the three counties are unwilling to use their troops in vain, and they have all reported to Yuan Shao, because Yuan Shao led the troops to deal with Gongsun Zan outside, and no one presided over the overall situation of encirclement and suppression, so this Long Qing has been rampant for a long time.

Xu Shu asked, "How did you know that we were going to pass through this valley at this time?" ”

These thieves replied truthfully: "A person came from Zhending County the day before yesterday, and after that person left, my family commander ordered us to ambush here!" ”

Xu Shu continued to ask about the details of that person in Zhending County, these thieves were not high-level leaders, and Xu Shu didn't bother to ask any more, so he reported to Wei Yan, and added: "We have to capture that Long Qing alive to know who assassinated us!" ”

Wei Yan looked at the unstoppable fire in the sky, and said with a smile: "I estimate that he will come to us soon!" ”

Some of the bandits ran down the hill along the slopes on both sides, thinking that they could save their lives if they got out of this sea of fire, but when they ran down the mountain in a hurry, they saw that thousands of guards had been ambushed on the backs of the peaks on both sides.

The guards rushed and killed, crushing the last trace of morale of the bandits, and the guards shouted in unison: "Disarm and kill, surrender is rewarded!" Follow Wuhou, don't worry! Follow Wuhou and eat meat every day! ”

The bandits were desperate and surrendered.

There were also some bandits who kept running to the south, trying in vain to compete with the mountain volcanic wind, and some bandits were ambushed a little to the south, so they easily rushed down the hillside, escaped the barren grass belt, and were no longer afraid of mountain fires, but found that a large group of men and horses appeared on the south side of the valley, which were county soldiers of Hanoi County, with more than 4,000 people, blocking the way of these bandits.

It turned out that Wei Yan ordered several Guards soldiers to go to Luoyang to deliver the letter, but they actually took Wei Yan's letter and went to Hanoi County to recruit county soldiers. The lieutenant of Hanoi County was Wei Yan's old subordinate, and when he heard Wuhou's call, he didn't dare to disobey, so he hurriedly mobilized 4,000 county soldiers and rushed to this valley called Xiyang Valley overnight to cooperate with this action to encircle and suppress the bandits.

At the same time, Zhang Yan also received Wei Yan's order and sent four thousand men and horses to Xiyang Valley overnight.

In this battle, Wei Yan invested 14,000 troops, and at the same time, he used fire to burn the valley to break Long Qing's ambush plan, and Long Qing poured more than 8,000 thieves in the cottage, and more than 2,000 people were burned alive by this fire, more than 2,000 people were killed by the official army, and more than 3,000 people were captured.

Because of this mountain fire, the flames soared into the sky, this Xiyang Valley was illuminated as daylight, Wei Yan's men had almost no enemies, those bandits did not dare to flee to the north of the valley, Wei Yan was very bored, he saw a brocade-robed man galloping down from the hillside, killed a guard cavalry, captured the war horse, and wanted to flee north.

Wei Yan saw that the man was dressed luxuriously, and knew that he must be the high-ranking leader of this group of bandits, so he shouted with a horizontal sword: "Thief general, where to go!" ”

The man was holding a green dragon halberd in his hand and flew over.

Wei Yan's red blood knife slashed at the man's green dragon halberd, and there was a loud bang, and the man was so shocked that he took a few steps back with his horse.

The black horse didn't move, Wei Yan's figure didn't shake, and he shouted with a horizontal knife: "Report your name, I, Wei Yan, will not kill the nameless general!" ”

The man also raised the green dragon halberd and shouted loudly: "I am the Yellow Turban Admiral Long Qinglong Xiaotian!" ”

"Long Xiaotian! What a name! Wei Yan laughed and said: "I once heard that there is a group of bandits in Taihang Mountain, and the nickname of the leader is 'Qinglong Xiaotian', isn't it you?!" ”

Long Xiaotian shook the green dragon halberd in his palm, looked up to the sky and laughed: "Yes, it's me Long Xiaotian!" ”

Wei Yan smiled coldly and said: "The name is very scary, isn't it still driven away by Zhang Yan, isn't it still a lackey of a certain family!" What a green dragon roaring sky, I think you're just a howling dog! ”

Long Xiaotian was furious, and a green dragon halberd stabbed Wei Yan directly.

Wei Yan put him in his eyes, instigated the black horse, shook the red blood knife in his palm hard, and bounced the green dragon halberd in Long Xiaotian's palm, the black horse was like a black lightning, flying forward, the red blood knife used the momentum of the black horse, and the tip of the knife stabbed Long Xiaotian's defenseless arm holding the green dragon halberd.

Wei Yan shook it harder, and actually picked Long Xiaotian, who was eight feet long and weighed two hundred catties, off the horse.