After interrogating County Magistrate Zhang for a while, he didn't ask a single reason, and Shen Xi felt that his inherent thinking was a little narrow. Shaking his head slightly, he didn't know what to say for a while.

Turning his head to look at Lu Qingyi next to him, Shen Xi's face was full of helplessness. Lu Qingyi sighed: "What you said is indeed right, but we are not here to suppress bandits. ”

"There are some things I don't think you should know too much, otherwise, your little life will not be saved." Lu Qingyi shook his head.

County Magistrate Zhang's eyes blinked when he heard this, the people who came to suppress the bandits before were all local officials, and the power was not very great. But those who came this time were all ordered by the emperor himself, and they still had holy decrees in their hands.

I thought that the emperor had paid attention to the bandits here, but who knew that it was even involved in the affairs of the capital. County Magistrate Zhang is not a fool, Lu Qingyi has already said this, and he also knows that this is no longer something he can mix.

That's what they said. I don't know what you need me to do now? I will cooperate with you. County Magistrate Zhang hurriedly spoke.

"Let our people go first." Shen Xi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, although they said that they could handle it themselves, but if there was the help of County Magistrate Zhang, it would definitely be much easier.

County Magistrate Zhang glanced at Chief Song next to him, and a slightly embarrassed expression appeared on Chief Song's face: "You're really embarrassed, we were narrow-minded before." ”

"Lord Liu is in the barracks now, unharmed." Chief Song said softly.

Lu Qingyi nodded: "If you send him over in a while, I won't move the owner of the restaurant, if I guess correctly, she should be the head of that big bandit's den." ”

County Magistrate Zhang and Chief Song neither spoke, and the two glanced at each other and acquiesced. Lu Qingyi nodded: "What we are looking for is a relatively small bandit den, how many small bandit dens are there on your side?" ”

"The small ones are actually not very clear, and some are hiding in the ravines and ravines that no one knows, but there are two more famous ones." Chief Song hurriedly spoke.

Shen Xi nodded, if he didn't guess wrong, one of these two little bandit nests should be for the second prince, and the second one was for the mountain.

"Which one was wiped out more than half of them some time ago?" Lu Qingyi raised his eyebrows and asked.

Lu Qingyi said that half of the information that was wiped out was the source of their news, because the bandit's den was half wiped out, so they could get the mutilated letter.

"Then you should be talking about the bandit nest on the eastern mountain, they were exterminated in order to suppress it because they occupied too many resources on the mountain." County Magistrate Zhang said slowly.

Lu Qingyi nodded, if he didn't guess wrong, the one who served the second prince should be the bandits' den on the west mountain.

"Do you know where they are?" Shen Xi was a little unsure.

Chief Song glanced at County Magistrate Zhang, County Magistrate Zhang closed his eyes and nodded, and then Chief Song dared to speak: "Knowing is knowing, but most of our soldiers can't go up." ”

"Why is that?" Lu Qingyi's brows furrowed slightly, and Shen Xi was also at a loss.

"Because they're not local to us, it's very difficult to get up that hill." Chief Song said slowly. Keyuan

Lu Qingyi was not particularly worried in his heart, there were at least two or three thousand people in the barracks, even if most of them couldn't go up, the small number of people should be five or six hundred. He just nodded faintly: "Then how many people can you go up?" ”

County Magistrate Zhang and Chief Song glanced at each other, only to hear Chief Song stammer: "That, there can be about a hundred people." ”

"A hundred?" Shen Xi's jaw almost didn't fall, and he looked at Chief Song in front of him: "No, I remember that there are two thousand people in your barracks!" ”

Chief Song sighed softly: "Although there are more than 2,000 people, half of them are on missions, and they need to be stationed in various nearby cities, even if they are transferred to the maximum number, there are only 1,300 people who can move." ”

"A hundred people should be about the same, how many people are there in the bandits' den?" Lu Qingyi was calculating in his heart.

"We don't know exactly how many people are inside, but their combat strength should not be a hundred people." County Magistrate Zhang smiled lightly, and there was a little more relaxed expression on his face.

But Chief Song snorted coldly: "Although there are not so many of them with combat effectiveness, their terrain advantage is very large. That hill was already easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

"Well, take me up the mountain to see the terrain first." Lu Qingyi narrowed his eyes slightly, and then continued.

Chief Song nodded: "It's not that you can't do it, it's just that it may be a little dangerous." ”

"Don't underestimate people, Lu Qingyi has a bit of martial arts." Shen Xi smiled.

Although Shen Xi really wanted to go and see, he also knew the current situation, if he brought her. Lu Qingyi was afraid that he wouldn't even be able to go up the mountain, so he could only stay in the yamen and wait.

Lu Qingyi went up to the west of the mountain under the leadership of Chief Song and a few of his subordinates, and the martial arts of ordinary soldiers were not strong, so it was difficult to go up the mountain. But this is not a difficult thing for Lu Qingyi.

Shen Xi knew that they were just going up the mountain to investigate, so he wasn't very worried. I didn't have a good rest yesterday, so Shen Xi simply slept in the yamen.

Sleeping soundly, Shen Xi suddenly felt as if his breathing was blocked. When he opened his eyes, a dark figure faintly appeared in front of him, and this black figure was holding a cloth over his mouth and nose.

Shen Xi struggled hard, but his hands and feet became more and more weak. Shen Xi's consciousness gradually became blurred, and everything in front of him became dark.

By the time I opened my eyes again, the scene in front of me had changed. The beam above his head looked wild, and he looked to the other side of the room, and he was lying on a bed covered with animal skins.

"Where is this?" Shen Xi rubbed his head and sat up, the strength of the medicine just now was too strong, and now his brain is still confused.

There was no one else in the room except himself, and naturally no one answered Shen Xi's question. She wanted to get out, only to find out when she got out of bed that the door to her room was locked from the outside.

Sitting on the bed helplessly: "Who caught me?" It didn't hurt me to look at it. ”

It wasn't until it was completely dark that Shen Xi heard a voice from the door. Because there was no light in the room, Shen Xi didn't know who was coming.

"Yo, little lady, when did you wake up?" A slightly flirtatious male voice sat at a table in the center of the room and lit the lamp on the table.