The bamboo building where Xiao Yao was located was far away from the several roads up the mountain in front of the main peak, and it was originally a place where Yi Feng used to cultivate alone, but now the Witch God Temple blocked the watchtower, so no one would come here.

With the continuous beacon fire on several mountain peaks, the surrounding Miao villages began to gather the guards in the stockades, led by various large and small Tusi to come to the direction of Phoenix Mountain.

According to the practice of Miao Jiang, Phoenix Mountain is generally guarded by the four Miao descendants of black, white and red flowers, and the white Miao where Miao King is located is naturally among them, so when Xiao Yao and the others hid in the small building to discuss countermeasures, the outside of Phoenix Mountain was already in chaos.

The first is that the witch temple is closed, and the connection between the witch temple's underground palace and the watchtower is broken.

At the same time, it is rumored that King Miao colluded with Qincha to intend to mistreat the Wushen Temple, and as a result, the two of them had a fight because of the uneven distribution of spoils, and King Miao was attacked by the Qincha guards, and only five or six hundred people escaped from the guards directly under him, and they were all wounded soldiers.

In addition, Kang Qincha was also killed in this firefight, so it is very likely that the Central Plains Imperial Court will soon send a large army to Miao Xinjiang to quell the rebellion.

With the emergence of various rumors, for a while, the shadow of war was cast around Miaojiang, and the large and small Tusi around Phoenix Mountain were even more suspicious of each other.

Since the four Miao descendants of black, white and red flowers are jointly taking turns to elect the Miao King, then the Miao King is not only suspected of attacking the Wu God Temple, but also suspected of colluding with the Han Qin Cha, and finally has an inexplicable relationship with the death of the Qin Cha, so different voices began to appear within the four Miao descendants.

Except for Bai Miao, where the Miao King is located, the other three Miao descendants all asked to replace the Miao King in order to calm the chaos in the surrounding areas. It's just that this time, except for King Miao, the three major toasts all chose to be silent and did not express any opinions, and the Witch God Temple was still in a closed state, so they could not get the truth of the matter from it.

But according to the tradition of the Witch God Temple, if it wasn't attacked by Yan Zhan, it would never be closed lightly, and the last time this kind of thing happened was when Lord Wuzu was in power, he was rushed into the Phoenix Mountain Underground Palace by an unknown force, and intended to steal the witch book.

At this time, the silence of the major forces in Miao Jiang was in stark contrast to the frequent army movements between the small tribes around Phoenix Mountain, so when Xiao Yao and the others slipped out of the bamboo building and quietly descended the mountain, they had already encountered several patrol guards composed of the Tusi around Phoenix City.

Although with Hu Yiyi's identity, several people went down to the main peak of Phoenix Mountain, but they still encountered an accident when they rushed to the Poison Dragon Sect station.

As soon as a few people came to the foot of the main peak, they saw a group of dozens of light cavalry guards on the opposite side confronting a team of 100 infantry guards, both of which were sent by several surrounding tribes, because the rates belonged to different Miao descents.

In order to avoid a situation where the Phoenix Mountain family is dominant, the four Miao descendants adopted their own methods, that is, the patrols of the four Miao descendants patrolled alone.

Due to the accident of the Phoenix Ceremony, this year's tea trade was not carried out as scheduled, and at the same time, the grain trade that the major tribes concerned about was also delayed, although the King of Miao intended to convene again to reopen the Phoenix Ceremony, but it was resisted by many people, so for a time all tribes in Miao Jiang were facing the problem of lack of food in winter.

In previous years, the grain produced in the Central Plains was bought in the autumn, mainly through the guò waterway and transported to Xizhou, but due to the killing of Kang Qincha, the imperial court strengthened the inventory of the three main passages from Miaojiang to the Central Plains, which delayed the normal grain trade.

At this time, what Xiao Yao and the others encountered was a group of Bai Miao's infantry, about a hundred people, obviously improvised by farmers and hunters, and they were also people from a small tribe, their clothes were quite neat, but the weapons were varied.

The cavalry on the opposite side were members of a large tribe of Hongmiao, from the horses to the sabers, all neatly aligned, obviously specially trained, and the people on the horses obviously did not look down on this group of infantry patrols improvised by the peasants.

The reason why the two teams did not give in to each other was also because Hong Miao's cavalry asked to take over the main peak of Phoenix Mountain and set up a simple temporary checkpoint, but Bai Miao's patrol team was blocked by the Red Miao cavalry when they passed guò, saying that they were not allowed to pass guò without showing the token of the Phoenix Tusi Alliance.

Looking at the two teams of people who were stalemate with each other, Xiao Yao also realized the severity of the problem, that is, due to the weakening of the authority of King Miao, the originally balanced four Miao descendants began to split, and the patrol conflict here is just an introduction, and I believe that there will be more conflicts in the future.

Hongmiao's cavalry not only stopped Bai Miao's patrol, but also stopped Xiao Yao and his party for the same reason, and even asked for inspection.

Originally, due to the relationship between King Miao, the population of Bai Miao around Phoenix Mountain was relatively large, but now the problem is that the cavalry of Red Miao insists on inspecting every batch of Bai Miao teams that have passed through the checkpoint, and those who cannot provide a reasonable identity explanation cannot be released.

Hu Yiyi showed the token of the Poison Dragon Sect, and was also pushed back by the cavalry leader of Hong Miao on the grounds that it was not issued by the Four Miao Tusi Alliance, and either went to Phoenix City with Hong Miao's people to go through the formalities, or they were not allowed to pass Guò.

Xiao Yao didn't expect such a problem in advance, in fact, everyone's identity was no problem, but Wang Lu was a person from the Qin Sect, and the ghost face was a person from the Witch Clothes Sect, this time the Witch Clothes Sect and King Miao participated in the attack on the Witch God Temple, and the eldest lady and herself were involved in the case of Kang Qincha's second son, and Hu Yiyi, the only one who had no problem for the time being, because the relationship between the Poison Dragon Sect and the Red Miao was not good, so the other party did not give any face at all.

Phoenix City is absolutely impossible to go, now Phoenix City has gathered a lot of troops, a few of their own people into the siege, if the flaws are exposed, so that the major forces know that they are involved in the Phoenix Mountain chaos, they will definitely become the target of the public.

I can't go to Phoenix City, and now I can't go down to the main peak, the most important thing is that even if I go back, it seems impossible for these Hongmiao's cavalry to agree, and obviously they will take Xiao Yao and the others who came down from the main peak as the main suspects.

It's just that if you forcibly break through at this time, it will be tantamount to igniting the current chaos in Miao Jiang, and the major forces will definitely go all out to hunt down their own group and then hand them over to the imperial court as scapegoats, which is also what Xiao Yao is most worried about.

Dewey knows his identity, then Miao Jiang has other people who know their identity, if he falls into the current chaos, then many friends will be implicated, and because of his own relationship, it is very likely to affect the Zhao family.

Just when Xiao Yao was in a dilemma, a group of cavalry rushed over from the other side, these cavalry were all black armor, fully armed, and each of them was a man with two horses, one horse fought, and one horse was used as a reserve horse, there were as many as a hundred people.

The appearance of this group of cavalry made both the light cavalry of Hong Miao and the patrol of Bai Miao very nervous, because these people had a tiger head engraved on the armor on their chests, and although the whole group of cavalry was walking on the mountain road, it was still divided into three groups, one group as the forward, one group as the middle army, and one group as the rear wing. This was clearly a battle formation, with each cavalry having not only a saber but also a spear for cavalry.

This is the forbidden army of the imperial court, and it is also the forbidden army that entered Miao Xinjiang with Kang Qincha, which was originally stationed in Phoenix, and now appears here, which is very intriguing.

But the leader of the cavalry of Hongmiao still knows the seriousness of the matter, and now Miao Jiang is a little antagonistic to the imperial court because of the fact that Kang Qincha was killed and changed the land, but when the war has not started, if he attacks these forbidden troops at this moment, it will really tear his face.

This kind of big thing is not something that a small minion like them can decide, so the two sides tacitly kept silent, that is, not to interfere with your actions, but also to maintain enough vigilance, and this is Miao Jiang, once these forbidden troops dare to attack the Miao army, then they will not want to return to the Central Plains alive.

Xiao Yao and others also saw this forbidden army, and in the forbidden army, Xiao Yao also saw an acquaintance, that is, Du Wei, the captain of the forbidden army who was surnamed Kang at the time.

Xiao Yao saw Dewey, and Dewey naturally saw Xiao Yao, so Dewey, who was walking in front of the cavalry of the forbidden army, immediately drove his horse to Xiao Yao and his party, completely ignoring those Miao infantry and cavalry.

"Brother Xiao, we meet again." Dewey's voice was very kind, he obviously knew a lot of things about Xiao Yao, but at this time he didn't have any intention of pursuing it.

"Brother Du, we are really destined." Xiao Yao immediately understood the meaning of Dewey's tone, and took two steps forward to sing and harmonize with Dewey, showing a very good appearance.

Dewey did not get off his horse, but said a few words to an officer behind him, who immediately brought in some horses.

Xiao Yao glanced at the eldest lady a few times, and got on the horse one after another, and Dewey walked side by side with Xiao Yao, swaggering through the checkpoint.

"Brother Du, won't this delay your official business?" Xiao Yao began to ask tentatively.

"Brother Xiao said this, being able to get acquainted with a talent like Brother Xiao is also Du's official business, haha~" Dewey obviously didn't want to directly explain the purpose of their trip.

"Brother Du, we originally wanted to go back to Xizhou, I don't know if it's a stop?" Xiao Yao was very aware of Dewey's cunning, so he began to continue to test on the periphery.

Dewey led the horse forward, Xiao Yao followed closely, and there was a distance of about ten zhang from the people behind him, and then the two looked at each other and smiled.

"Brother Xiao, this time you are in big trouble." Dewey said in a very sincere tone.

"Brother Du will definitely not abandon Xiao, right?" Xiao Yao didn't care, and continued to answer with a smile.

"The imperial court will send a senior official to Miaojiang to investigate the case of Kang Qincha's murder, Brother Xiao, I am afraid that you will not be able to escape the suspicion~" Dewey said seriously.