Chapter 110: Strict Vigilance
Li Rong stood in the treetops, his body floating up and down with the wind, like a fairy, looking around, and the scenes around him for ten miles were all in sight.
"There's a village over there!" Li Rong found a village in the northeast, four or five miles away from Huailin, "It is estimated that it is Zhangchai Village." ”
Smoke rises in the village and gathers together, rather than smoke rising from every house like in a normal village. There was only one place in the barracks for cooking, and all the stoves were there, which could be identified by the visible smoke.
Li Rong jumped lightly from the treetops, landed on the ground, and was about to leave the forest, when he suddenly heard a familiar footstep in his ears.
After a few breaths, a figure appeared in Li Rong's field of vision.
Ge Fushun hurriedly ran down the road, as if looking for something.
"Fushun," Li Rong walked out of the forest, jumped into the middle of the road and stopped Ge Fushun and said.
"Young Master?" Ge Fushun was startled, and when he saw that it was his own young master, he was relieved.
"How did you find here?" Li Rong asked.
"Didn't the young master let us go separately to find the camp where King Yue trained cavalry, so I went to the northeast of the county to search to see if there were any traces left by a large number of vehicles transporting grain and grass on the road, and I accidentally found that this road seemed inconspicuous, but there were traces of a large number of vehicles passing recently, so I followed." Ge Fushun said.
"Your observation is careful, the place where King Yue secretly trained soldiers and horses is not far away." Li Rong said.
"Then I'll follow the young master to explore the truth and reality?" Ge Fushun said excitedly.
"I saw it just now, the secret base of Li Zhen, the king of Yue, is four or five miles away, and it was originally an abandoned village called Zhangchai Village. But now that the summer harvest has passed, there are no crops around the village. With Li Zhen's caution, it is likely that there are soldiers everywhere in the village to guard the surrounding movements, and it is difficult for us to sneak into the village in broad daylight without being detected. Li Rong shook his head and said.
It can be seen from the arrangement of Li Zhen, the king of Yue, in the palace that he is cautious and has rich experience in using troops, and the sentinels arranged are strict and efficient, that is, Li Rong is skillful, and under the cover of night, it is difficult for ordinary masters to easily sneak into the palace without being discovered. In the same way, it is impossible for Li Zhen, the secret base for training soldiers and horses, not to pay attention to it, and it is estimated that the vigilance will be tighter, and it is not so easy to infiltrate.
At this time, Li Rong took Ge Fushun to hide in the forest next to him to talk, so as not to be noticed by passers-by.
"Young Master, what should we do then?" Ge Fushun asked.
"Last night, I sneaked into the palace to investigate the movements of King Yue and was discovered, provoking King Yue Li Zhen to make a move, and his identity has been exposed. Li Zhen sensed our arrival and sent the master of the palace to chase and kill me, he probably expected that I would come here to investigate the military situation, if you follow me and meet the master of the palace, it will be troublesome, and then I can't take care of you, it is better to be alone and easy to move. Li Rong said, "In the next two days, I will get the information of King Yue's secret base, and hide the news on the top of the highest locust tree in this forest, you leave here now, and take the news three days later, and after taking it away, I will return to Shendu with Dong Xuanjing and them overnight, and tell the news to Lord Changshi." ”
Li Rong pointed out the tall tree in the locust forest to Ge Fushun and told him to come and get the news at that time.
Before Li Rong brought people to Caizhou, he made careful arrangements for the retreat. He asked for Li Yuanfang's help, and secretly prepared more than a dozen horses in a village not far north of Runan City, preparing to leave Caizhou quickly in an emergency.
After telling Ge Fushun and taking him to avoid trouble, Li Rong turned back to the depths of the Huai Forest, jumped on the tallest and thickest ancient acacia tree, sat cross-legged on the canopy, took out some dry food in his arms, and slowly ate a few pieces of beef before closing his eyes and pranayama.
Last night, Li Rong received the "Mountain Destroying Fist" shot by King Yue with all his might, and suffered some minor injuries, and in order to get rid of the pursuit of the "Dark Leopard" Ande, he ran fast for several quarters of an hour, and his energy and true qi were greatly consumed.
Li Rong sat cross-legged on the trunk of the tree, closed his eyes, and breathed slightly slowly. The surrounding Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi turned into a cloud of mist-like gas and entered Li Rong's body through Li Rong's body surface pores, and after pranayama refining, it turned into a trace of true qi.
Li Rong felt that the breath in the Huailin was full of vitality, and the vitality contained in it was full of vitality, and it took a short time to fill up the true qi, and the energy was full of consciousness, and the state was restored to the state of perfection.
Most of the locust trees here are decades or even hundreds of years old, tall and straight, standing tall and tall, and the environment is very suitable for cultivating internal breath. Cultivators of Buddhism and Taoism often choose famous mountains and rivers to practice, but also for the vitality and vitality of these places, and the practice is twice the result with half the effort.
After finishing his practice, Li Rong was about to stand up and move, when suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves in his ears, as if dozens or hundreds of knights were coming from south to north along the official road.
"There are more than 50 knights, all of them are good, and their riding skills are not bad, and there are many masters among them." Li Rong said in his heart.
Since entering the Thousand Cavalry, Li Rong has learned a lot of skills from veterans that have been passed down on the battlefield, such as listening to the sound to identify the number of cavalry, and looking at the smoke and dust to identify the situation of the enemy.
"These fifty cavalrymen should be masters from the Yue Wangfu, I think Li Zhen realized that I might come to Zhangchai Village to investigate, so he sent a master to ambush in advance." Li Rong thought to himself.
Caizhou is the territory of King Yue, and others will not have such a big power. The skills of these knights are nothing in Li Rong's eyes, but they are also a tyrant on the rivers and lakes, at least in the martial arts, they are already high-quality characters, and they are stronger than the thousand knights.
In Shen's house, after Shen Shuxiang woke up, he hurriedly got up to probe his wife's movements, and found that his wife just fainted, so he ran to the courtyard to find the maid to get some water to wake up his wife, and found that all the people in the house, servants and other subordinates were all knocked unconscious by Li Rong, fortunately Li Rong did not kill him.
The people in the house gradually woke up, and they were all very surprised, thinking that they had encountered the genus of ghosts and gods, and they were shouting there. Uncle Shen gathered the people together and sternly admonished them not to mention the matter again, and then after waking up his wife, he hurried back to the palace after a few words.
Uncle Shen naturally wouldn't tell everyone the truth of the matter, and when he returned to the palace, he didn't dare to mention Li Rong's matter to King Yue. In case King Yue knew that he had leaked secrets, he would probably put himself in the cold palace and no longer reuse it, then Uncle Shen's glory and wealth would be in vain, and Uncle Shen was not the kind of selfless person.
Fortunately, King Yue thought that Uncle Shen might be too tired, his face was a little pale, and he said a few words of comfort, so he ordered him to do something.
Walking out of the lobby, Uncle Shen wiped the sweat beads on his head in fear, sighed a little luckily, and walked quickly to arrange the transfer of food and grass for the army.
"King Yue doesn't know if he can succeed?" Uncle Shen was suspicious of the plan for the first time, and when he saw Li Rong's elusive shooter, he not only realized that there were countless masters in the court, and King Yue was a little weak against the court in a corner of the court, but as a henchman of King Yue, he didn't have much chance to choose.
The knights on the official road were Li Gui, the Xuanyi guards led by Ande, and they went out of the city early in the morning to Zhangchai Village, preparing to ambush Li Rong.
"Will Li Rong come?" Wang Kun asked.
"There is a father in the palace, and Li Rong can't sneak into it and get information. Zhangchai Village is our secret base, a place dedicated to domesticating warriors, and the information that Li Rong wants to get the most is here, so he can't help but come. Li Gui said proudly.
"Since it is your secret base, how can Li Rong know?" Wang Kun asked.
"Everything has to be done with leniency. Although the news of the secret base was kept secret by my father in many ways, after all, there were many people and horses, and there were countless grains, grasses, materials and equipment needed every day, and they had to send a cart to transport it, and it was impossible to avoid being discovered at all. According to the news from Luoyang, Li Rong was not only skilled, but he didn't even take him down as a seventh-grade grandmaster-level master, but he was also shrewd and capable, and he sabotaged the snake spirit's actions many times. It's not a bad thing for this kind of person to go high. Li Gui said.
"I see, then we have to plan well and strive to kill with one blow, lest Li Rong escape." Wang Kun said. He knew that the "Snake Spirit" organization had always been friendly with King Yue, and the news from them should be true.
"Aren't you usually very conceited, and you've always fought alone against the younger generation?" Li Gui asked in surprise.
Wang Kun is famous for his arrogance, and he has always looked down on people, and even more so on young people of his generation.
"I'm conceited and I also look at things separately, and I don't want to hinder big things because of Li Rong at a critical moment," Wang Kun said, "What's more, Li Rong's family stealing the Xuanyin Miao Sword Technique is the great enemy of my southern clan, and it can't be calculated ordinarily." ”
While Wang Kun galloped against the wind, he could still speak calmly, and his voice clearly reached Li Gui's ears, showing that the cultivation of qigong had reached a very high level.
"Doing big things is not informal, we are not fighting between the rivers and lakes, so we don't need to pay so much attention." Li Gui said.
Ander and the others followed closely behind the two, silently riding horses and galloping.
"Stop, who's who?" In the distance, a soldier jumped out of the road and asked in a loud voice.
"It's me, Li Gui," Li Gui said slowly.
"It turned out to be the little young master," Li Gui often came here, and the soldiers recognized him when they arrived, so they hurriedly hid to the side and signaled to the other soldier next to him to signal to the village that it was his own people.
"The village is quite heavily guarded!" Wang Kun said that along the way, he found three sentry posts hidden in the shadows.
"That is, there are three sentry posts in the village from the official road, and when the enemy attacks, they will quickly call the police, and of course these sentry posts are also against ordinary people. The most important thing is that the open space around this village is not planted with crops, there is nothing to hide, the trees in the four corners of the village are expected to be towers, and there are people on duty for twelve hours, and no matter how powerful the master is, he can't run in. Li Gui said proudly.
Clearing the trees and crops around the village is a simple method, but the effect is so good that it is difficult for anyone to escape the gaze of the guards on the watchtower.