Yun Yuansheng was escorted back to the camp by more than ten horsemen behind him, and the middle-aged man was silent on the road. On the contrary, cheers were heard from time to time on the other side of the camp, but no one came out without permission. Walking closer, the group had just arrived in Xuancheng, and there were only more than 100 tents in the camp, and the tents were surrounded by just some simple obstacles. Dozens of brightly armored knights in front of the camp looked at themselves solemnly. The horses snorted. Hundreds of men, women, and children in the camp all had sharp weapons in their hands and watched them vigilantly.

Yun Yuansheng had just seen a fast rider galloping back to the camp first, and they already knew the details of the battle just now. Yun Yuansheng still felt that there was a trace of disdain in their gaze. A young man rode out on horseback, and the middle-aged man who grabbed him said: "Ru Yu has gone to Mingxi, the cordon is scattered within a radius of one mile, and the sentry is in a group of six, practicing the basic formation of six snowflakes. ”

Yun Yunsheng was trying his best to recall the name "Ru Yu", which felt very familiar, but he felt his back tighten, and his body was lifted from behind. Yun Yuansheng grinned to show his dissatisfaction.

"Hey, hey, Sister Jue'er, he's grinning and scaring people, where does he think he is?" Yun Yuansheng was so ashamed that he didn't dare to look at which of the four beautiful women who stood up in the camp came from the mouth. Yun Yuansheng didn't expect that they didn't even conduct a simple interrogation, so they threw him into the open space in the camp. There was a busy situation in the camp, and although Yun Yuansheng was lying on the ground, he could still see that they were building a camp.

Although Yun Yuansheng admired the enemy's combat effectiveness very much, but seeing that they were only a thousand people who dared to build a camp in such an empty Lishui River Valley, and there were half of the old and weak women and children among them, he smiled contemptuously and thought: Even if a figure like Yanmen Beiyue and General Qingfeng came here, he might not dare to be so rampant. Yun Yuansheng was like a lightning strike, staring at the messy ground with grass stalks in a daze, ah, isn't the name of General Qingfeng Xu Ruyu, could it really be that he came to Xuancheng.

Yun Yuansheng cleared his throat and found that he could still speak, he felt that his hands and feet were a little numb, and he stretched a little, but he could still move. His somewhat extravagant hope lifted the breath of Tidan, and there was no movement.

"Are you disappointed?"

Yun Yuansheng looked back in surprise, looking at himself with a pretty face, and his old face was red. Lao Yuan heard a crisp voice calling: "Listen to the snow, listen to the snow, Xiao Yu, they have sent a large group of people back." ”

The girl turned her head and left, Yun Yuansheng struggled to stand up, saw a bandit knife not far away and abandoned it at will, looked around, but saw that people had put down their work and rushed to the camp gate. Yun Yuansheng whistled lightly, no one paid attention to him, he turned around and walked backwards towards the knife.

Yun Yuansheng felt a hint of pride in his heart, bent down, and before his hand touched the knife, he heard a "whoosh" sound, and a featherless arrow was nailed to the open ground through the gap between the knife and his hand, leaving only the tail of the arrow more than two inches long buzzing and shaking. Yun Yuansheng was taken aback, and hurriedly withdrew his hand, only to feel that his fingers were hurt by the arrow wind, and thought: If you shoot faster, isn't this hand useless?

Yun Yuansheng looked around again, but still didn't see anything abnormal, as if the featherless arrow appeared out of thin air, and after a while, a person walked over, picked up the knife, and walked around Yun Yuansheng with his very disdainful eyes before leaving. This made Yun Yuansheng even more embarrassed and angry. Yun Yuansheng watched Xu Ruyu walk into the camp that could not be regarded as a camp surrounded by everyone, and more than 50 brothers in Yunqiao Village were escorted by more than 100 sword-wielding warriors and walked behind.

Xu Ruyu came to Yun Yuansheng and said, "You are Yun Yuansheng, the young master of Yunqiao Village, right?" Yun Yuansheng was thinking about not answering, but he saw Xu Ruyu turn around and say to a person: "In the past, you led ten people to monitor them to build a walled wall in the west. With that, he led a group of people and walked away.

He had originally imagined that they would arrest him and interrogate him, and he would bite the bullet and not say a word, nor would he say a word about torture. They couldn't help it, General Qingfeng came to interrogate him in person, but he still didn't say anything. They decided to put him to death, and General Qingfeng gave him a bowl of wine and said, "Man." However, now that this is the case, Yun Yuansheng couldn't help but be a little discouraged.

Xu Ruyu still didn't worry about Liang Bao, so he went to see him with Youli.

Xu Ruyu asked Youli in a low voice: "How is Liang Bao doing now?" ”

Youli said: "I still remember to keep calling 'Sleeve'er', it should be fine, Sleeve is a maid like a shadow?" ”

Xu Ruyu couldn't hear the sourness in her tone, smiled dumbly, and said: "If you don't mention it, I almost forgot, yes, yes, Liang Bao is the same as me in this matter, so I recognize a person." ”

Youli smiled in a low voice and said: "Praise yourself in disguise, I thought you were a lot more serious for a long time, but I didn't expect you to show your original form again." ”

Xu Ruyu saw that Liang Bao's pulse was weak, but it was much more stable than in the morning, and knew that he was recovering quickly, so he returned to the big tent with Youli with confidence. Zi Yangqiu, Xu Boying, and uncle Fang Wu are negotiating in the big tent.

After a brief meal, Zi Yangqiu said: "The little accident has passed, General Qingfeng probably won't forget why he invited me here, right?" ”

Xu Ruyu saw the impatient look on Zi Yangqiu's face, and thought: The mountain is really unbearable. said: "When I came to Xuancheng, I didn't see Liang Bao leading the Yi people to wait here in time, and I knew that the Baiyi clan had moved to the depths of Wuling Mountain. This time I can provide you with 30,000 loads of grain and 100 loads of sea salt, but how do you deliver them, do you have enough livestock? With manpower alone, how many people do you Baiyi want to organize, and how do you plan in the future? As far as I know, if you want to survive this spring famine, it is not enough to have 100,000 loads of grain. ”

Zi Yangqiu said: "General Qingfeng is really good, and he knows a lot about my Baiyi clan. Most of the residents of my Baiyi clan originally survived on the slope of Wuling near the Lishui River Valley, and the eight villages of Taishan, among which Shaozhai, Jizhai, Yunqiao Village, Shengyun Village and other forces were originally civilians on this land, and later they were forced to set up a church in Taishan for their livelihood, but they were also engaged in production in the mountains, and they were not considered bandits, and they were also safe with me Baiyi. However, in recent years, the black market in Qingjiang Prefecture has been controlled by more than a dozen forces close to Puji Island, such as Gaotang Village and Yuantun, and most of the black market resources are provided by Puji Island. After Puji's defeat in the East China Sea, Gongliang Youqin proposed a trade condition of exchanging slaves for grain, and Yuantun and other forces were naturally willing to have another way to collect money, but they did not expect that Yunqiao Village, which was short of grain, also entered the mountain. For six months, our people had to be forced to move to the depths of Wuling Mountain again and again. ”

Xu Ruyu said: "I don't know much about Xuancheng's current fine form, Lishui has more than 50 miles of waterways in Taishan before it will turn into Wuling Mountain, and the 30 miles of waterways in Taishan will pass through which spheres of influence?" ”

"Do you want to use water transportation?"

"How can we transport grain without the help of the Lishui River?"

"General Qingfeng crossed the Qingjiang River, I have heard a little, but the Jiang bandits in Qingjiang Mansion are different from the mountain bandits, the Jiang bandits are not short of grain and grass, so they will not act rashly, but there is a shortage of food in the mountains, especially the four villages such as Yunqiao Village and Shengyun Village, which raise thousands of villagers, for food, you will use a knife on Yun Yuansheng's neck, and Yun Yi will also lead people to come over to rob grain, although Lishui only passes through the forces of Yunqiao Village and Jizhai, if they hear that General Qingfeng personally escorts it, the four villages are very likely to unite to rob the grain."

Xu Ru smiled foolishly: "Isn't the black market in Qingjiang Mansion controlled by Puji Island? Now that it has changed, I, Xu Ruyu, also want to get a piece of it. I will not only sell it to you, but also sell it to Yunqiaozhai them, and I will bring a total of 50,000 quintals of grain this time, which can cope with it for a while. The Puji Black Market is on the Qianjiang River, and we are on the Qingjiang River, but how to maintain it depends on what you mean. Bo Ying, please bring Yun Yuansheng in. ”

When Yun Yuansheng walked into the big tent, he saw that several people sitting in the tent were all looking at him with a kind face, without a trace of interrogation.

Xu Ruyu pointed to the empty seat on his left side and said to him, "You sit here." ”

Yun Yuansheng was in a trance for a while, and sat down in a daze, only to see Xu Ruyu's wide sleeves flicked, his left rib was numb, and a trace of Dan breath penetrated his body, and before he could guess that Xu Ruyu's intentions came out, he found that the prohibition on his body was lifted. But knowing that his cultivation was not worth mentioning in front of General Qingfeng, his thoughts of sudden embarrassment only flashed in his mind and then went out.

Xu Ru smiled at him as if he was aware of it, and said: "Yun Shao is in charge, I am most tired of hunting slaves, so I will be in the mountains to the second master of Guizhai to be bitter, but I learned that you Yunqiao Zhai only entered Wuling Mountain before the second day, and has not yet made a deal. The spies of Guizhai have already dived ten miles away, and it seems that it will not be long before your father will know that you have fallen into our hands. ”

Yun Yuansheng said, "What do you mean? You want to lure my father down the mountain, but you're afraid you've made the wrong decision. In the eyes of my father, the survival of tens of thousands of villagers is much more valuable than my life, if you kill it quickly, I will admit it, if you want to humiliate the man of my Yun family, my father will definitely get this festival back. ”

Xu Ruyu laughed, turned sideways and said to Youli: "My father once commented on the customs of the people of Yuejun, saying: The surname is restless, and the atmosphere is decisive. Killing people is more troublesome, it is not a big deal in Yue County, and if it is humiliated, it will form a mortal enemy. Then he said to Yun Yuansheng, who was confused: "I don't want to do anything bad to the master of Yunzhai, I just want to make some deals with Guizhai, in order to show your sincerity, you can lead fifty-seven subordinates to leave immediately." I know that Yunqiao Village is extremely short of food, and before you leave, everyone can carry a few bags of food. ”

Yun Yuansheng was stunned and said, "You... You... What does that mean? You want to make a deal with us... What kind of deal?"

"You probably haven't seen sixty boats parked at the mouth of the Lishui River, have you? There are 50,000 quintals of grain stored there, and we can trade with Guizhai in many forms, such as bartering grain, money for grain, and labor for grain, but please don't have other ideas in Guizhai, the combat power we brought over this time is a thousand elite cavalry, sixteen hundred-tip giant ships, when you leave, you might as well look at the north shore. Xu Boying unceremoniously counted the children of the Xiangfan Society into the Qingyan Army, in fact, at the critical moment, the attitude of the Xiangfan Society under the control of Xu Jingcheng is very debatable, only the two hundred Mabang disciples who came to Xuancheng with him are still reliable. Thinking of this, Xu Boying couldn't help but hope that Mi Yusheng would return to the camp quickly, and he could take advantage of the opportunity to train the water camp guards to transfer 200 children of the original horse gang to the south bank, Xu Jingcheng was afraid that he couldn't say anything.

Yun Yuansheng was surprised: "What you said is true? ”

Xu Ruyu asked, "What do you have any suspicions?" ”

"No, no, as long as you can sell us food, I don't doubt anything. My Yunqiao Village only needs 10,000 loads of grain to survive the spring famine. ”

Xu Ruyu shook his head and said: "The food I brought this time is limited, and there are too many places in Qingjiang that need food, Guangtai Mountain, there are four families of Yunqiao Village, Shao Village, Ji Village, and Shengyun Village, and there are hundreds of thousands of Baiyi people in Wuling Mountain. However, there is a premise, those who want to buy grain from us are not allowed to enter Wuling Mountain to hunt slaves, and if they do not hide it from the master of Yun Shaozhai, I will immediately send an anti-hunting battalion into the mountain to clear it. ”

Zi Yangqiu was a little unbelievable when he heard this, and suddenly he couldn't figure out what Xu Ruyu meant.

Xu Ruyu smiled indifferently and said: "Gongliang Youqin stabbed me without killing me, I will always be his nightmare, Mr. Ziyang, don't think about it, the anti-hunting matter, I also want your Baiyi clan to cooperate." ”

No matter what, this matter is beneficial to the Baiyi people and harmless, Zi Yangqiu was too lazy to speculate on Xu Ruyu's intentions, and nodded busily in agreement.

Yun Yuansheng heard Xu Ruyu's meaning that he still needed someone more important than his status in Yunqiao Village to come down to negotiate, and he couldn't help but hesitate for a while.

Xu Ruyu caught a glimpse of his expression and continued: "I hope that the Lord of Yun Shaozhai will block the news in a few forces that have nothing to do with Puji Island, if it is known by the people of Gaotang Village and Yuantun, they will definitely do everything possible to sabotage our deal." ”

Yun Yunsheng naturally nodded in agreement. Xu Ru foolishly saw that the treatment he had just treated him made him angry, and knew that he would report Yunyi truthfully when he went back, so he signed an order and asked Xu Boying to lead him to Mingxi.

Xu Ruyu asked Youli to leave, recruited Meng Yi, Ao Fang and others into the tent, and discussed the details of the anti-hunt with Ziyangqiu. Most of the forces that organized the slave hunting team to enter Wuling Mountain were inextricably linked to Puji Island, and Xu Ruyu himself would not be compassionate, but it was impossible to carry out a comprehensive counter-hunt with the current strength of the Qingyan Army.

Ziyangqiu said: "Yuntun, Gaotang Village, Black Tiger Camp, Luhongzhai and other forces that are relatively close to Puji Island have all sent a hundred slave hunting teams into the Wuling Mountains, with a total of about 2,000 people. Although I Baiyi still has nearly 10,000 elite combat power, but the material is extremely scarce, only 2,000 combat forces can be sent at a time, but it is not easy to find and destroy the slave hunters in the mountains and forests, our clan dispatched several times, not only can not drive the slave hunting team out of Wuling Mountain, but also lost a lot of manpower, so it is only to make the central ethnic group transfer to the area of Cuishi Peak, but there are still many clansmen who can not take care of it, in the past six months, more than 6,000 clansmen have been plundered, and more than 3,000 people have been slaughtered when resisting. ”

"Mother's ball......" Wei Yan kicked in the door curtain, his eyes split.

"Get out, who let you in?" Xu Ruyu shouted.

"Sir, but ......"

Xu Ruyu's face turned grim, and he said in a deep voice: "Without my call, except for the three major deacons, even Jiang Youli will be punished for trespassing into the big tent, do you know?" ”

"I heard Xu Boying say that he was going to go into the mountains to hunt those bitches......"

"Ao Fang, you take him out and whip him for twenty years, and then lead him and Mingxi into the account to discuss matters."

Since knowing about the slave hunting team, the more than 100 Yiren soldiers in the Qingjiang cavalry camp were extremely unstable, if they were allowed to go into the mountains to carry out counter-hunting, they would have to make trouble, Xu Ruyu had to pretend to be a face, and pushed Wei Yan out to be effective.

Ao Fang vaguely guessed what Xu Ruyu meant, and naturally did not dare to slack off when he was executed, and said in his ear: "You stay up." He whipped one whip after another on Wei Yan's back, leaving twenty blood marks.

Wei Yan asked in a loud voice: "Uncle Ao, is it that I don't have my point in entering the mountain this time?" ”

Ao Fang sighed: "Liang Bao came down from the mountain and became like this, how could Ru Yu let you go again?" You have a surname, and you will have your own arrangements. ”

Wei Yan tried his best to keep his eyes wide open, not letting tears fall, and the corners of his eyes were cracked and oozing blood. Ming Xi couldn't bear to see it, don't turn around, he had already guessed that this time he went into the mountains to fight against the hunt, Mr. would not let the Qingjiang cavalry camp go out at all.

Xu Boying sent Yun Yuansheng away, returned directly to the big tent, and said: "The shortage of food in Yunqiao Village is really serious, more than 50 of them each carried three loads of grain and left, and Yun Yuansheng carried five loads of grain alone, and the distance from here to the foot of Taishan Mountain is thirty or forty miles is really difficult for them." ”

Xu Boying saw that everyone didn't laugh, so he noticed the abnormality, sat next to his uncle and grandson Fangwu, and asked in a whisper about the origin.

Ao Fang and Mingxi opened the curtain and came in, but they didn't see Wei Yan. Xu Ruyu knew that he would not be unable to withstand twenty whips, and asked, "Mingxi, why didn't Wei Yan come?" ”

"Sir, Wei Yan's surname is stubborn, and I can't figure it out for a while."

"Let him go, and we'll get on with our deliberations." Xu Ruyu paused for a moment and said: "My Qingyan Army has no strength to confront the slave hunting team head-on, so they can only use the tactics of attack and killing to harass the slave hunting team, and let them go into the mountains to hunt slaves while paying a heavy price, and when they gain more than they lose, they will naturally give up the act of hunting slaves." The Qingjiang cavalry battalion and I stayed in the camp, and Meng Yi and Ao Fang divided ten orders and 60 people each to teach the cavalry battalion soldiers to sneak into the mountains and carry out counter-hunting against the slave hunting team, with the only emphasis on not confronting the enemy head-on. Even if it's a big win every time, we can't afford to lose it. This entry into the mountains was regarded as an actual combat drill for attack and killing tactics. ”

Zi Yangqiu said: "General Qingfeng, I also use this tactic, can I? ”

Meng Yi also said: "When Yi people encounter certain situations, I am afraid that they will not be able to deal with them calmly. ”

Zi Yangqiu knew the key to what he said, if he saw the slave hunting team that was invading Baiyi Village or the slave hunting team that was escorting the Yi people back to the bandit village, it was almost impossible for the Yi tribe attack and killing team to avoid it.

Xu Ruyu thought for a moment and said: "Sneaking in the dense forest, the hundred-person sentry team is already the limit, and these people's equipment, armor, equipment, and diet have strict requirements. Today, the people and horses of Yunqiao Village are not qualified to go into the mountains to hunt slaves, probably because the director of Yunshaozhai did it in vain. The Baiyi clan has lived in the Wuling Mountains for fifty years, and they must have a wealth of experience in jungle warfare, and the stealth technique should be able to break through the limit of one hundred, reaching one hundred and fifty people, if it is an elite division, even if it is a head-to-head confrontation with the hundred slave hunters, it can easily win. ”

Zi Yangqiu's own martial arts are not high, but his eyesight is not weak, he doesn't know that Meng Yi, Ao Fang and others are the high-status teachers of the Qingyan Army, thinking that they are just ordinary military positions in the teaching cavalry camp, and they have only been in the south bank camp for most of the time, and the shock in his heart is indescribable: there are many masters in the teaching cavalry camp, and first- and second-grade masters like Meng Yi and Ao Fang are not common in powerful families; The Qingjiang Cavalry Battalion as a whole has a strong fighting spirit, and the more than 200 bandits who formed the Qingjiang Water Battalion Protector and the Qingjiang Cavalry Battalion were already brave warriors who had experienced a hundred battles before attaching themselves to Xu Ruyu.

Zi Yangqiu secretly wondered, if he wanted to form a team with the same combat power, how many people could the eight thousand Baiyi army draw out, one thousand? Zi Yangqiu shook his head secretly, afraid that five hundred would be enough. Zi Yangqiu said: "One hundred and fifty people, our clan can send out two teams, as for how to cooperate with the battle, it still needs to be discussed in detail." General Qingfeng is willing to do so much for us, what are the conditions? ”

Xu Ruyu glanced at Mingxi, smiled faintly, and said: "I came to Xuancheng, not only to take a fancy to the land of the Lishui River Valley, but also to the southeast tea and horse trade road from Lishui to Southern Fujian and Qingjiang to Nanning, so I hope to have a good relationship with your Baiyi family, and I hope that Wuling Mountain will be peaceful and peaceful." ”

Zi Yangqiu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and thought about it for a while, this is reasonable. Haha smiled and said: "If General Qingfeng can help me Baiyi expel the slave hunters from Wuling Mountain, I dare not guarantee that the 200-mile waterway of the Lishui River in Wuling Mountain will be clear and pleasant." ”

Xu Boying said with a smile: "Six hundred miles of Wuling Mountain treasures, the 'clouds' on the Cuishi Peak are the best in tea, the iron ore in the Qingyaling area is very comparable to the fine iron under Yanshan, in addition, the fragrant rice on the bank of Lanruo River, the iron maple wood in Tiefeng Gorge, the inkstone in Fuzhou, and the incense in Xuancheng are all famous products from Wuling Mountain, Mr. Ziyang, don't forget to pass through my hands on these goods, but don't worry, I Xu Boying will give you a fair price." ”

Zi Yangqiu heard Xu Boying say this, his eyes couldn't help but gloomy, and he spoke after a while: "In the past, Wuling Mountain, which was treasured and treasured, is now just a sojourn for my Baiyi clan to survive, Lanruoxi's fragrant rice is not worth three gold, and the price of Qingjiang Valley is as high as two gold, and most of the tea plantations of Cuishi Peak have been turned into slope fields, Qingyaling is close to the Lishui River, and bandits from all walks of life often trace the water and invade at night, and the iron mines have collapsed, and they can't count on ......."

Xu Ru muttered foolishly and was silent for a long time. The iron ore in Qingyaling is worth more than the grain millet in Yongyang, but it is only one-tenth of the price in Qingjiang Prefecture.

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