Chapter Ninety-Seven: Acquaintance on the Road
From Huya Pass to Shanjin Town, there are four large checkpoints and nine small checkpoints along the way, with a distance of nearly 500 kilometers, and more than 40 villages of different sizes are distributed.
If you travel in a normal way, it will take at least seven or eight days, and if there are some unexpected changes on the way, I am afraid that you will not be able to reach Shanjin Town for more than ten days.
And now, some aristocratic forces rooted in Shining Gold Town have already killed Yunlang and put it into practice. The longer it drags on, the better prepared they will undoubtedly be. For Yunlang, it will also be even more unfavorable.
Standing in Yunlang's position, he did not want to have large-scale turmoil in his territory, and if he wanted to eliminate this possibility, he could only rush to Shining Gold Town as quickly as possible, disrupt the other party's plan, and try to stabilize the situation.
For these considerations, Yun Lang could only travel lightly, ride all his troops, and hurry to Shanjin Town.
However, when his ideas were put into practice, it did not go well.......
The first level located on the northwest side of Huya Pass is Wolf Tooth Pass.
The day before, Mansa White sent spies to let the garrison of Wolf's Tooth Pass lead the crowd to Huya Pass to support. The spies truthfully conveyed the news, but the garrison officer of the Wolf's Tooth Pass ignored it at all.
Today, Mansa led the crowd to the level, and when she wanted to pass the checkpoint smoothly, she was shut down again.
The garrison officer of the Langya Pass also gave a clear answer: because the garrison officer of the Huya Pass, Mansa White, led the crowd to leave the checkpoint guarded by the town without authorization, and the intention was unknown, for the sake of safety, he could not give him permission. In addition, there was a vision in the direction of the twilight forest last night, which is not yet clear, so it is even more necessary to strengthen the defense of the checkpoint, and it is not possible to let people of unknown origin easily enter the checkpoint.
Hearing this, Mansha's lungs exploded, didn't he think she was a gang of robbers?
She was angry, so she asked Yunlang for instructions, and was willing to lead the crowd to besiege the Wolf Tooth Pass.......
In this regard, Yun Lang was also indifferent, he was in a hurry to rush to Shining Gold Town, but he didn't want to spend too much time in this kind of place, and after calming Mansha's emotions, he ordered to bypass the Wolf Tooth Pass and continue to Shining Gold Town.
On the rest of the way, as long as there were checkpoints and checkpoints that could be easily bypassed, he directly ordered the detour, so as not to cause other situations.
When the curtain came, the sky was getting dark, and Yunlang and his party were sleepy, so they chose a suitable grove and stationed it for a short rest.
While they were still preparing to eat, a group of people suddenly came and blocked them in the woods.
Yun Lang, Mansha, Vivian and others were discussing things, and after learning the news, they were all shocked. Mansha hurriedly went to verify the identity of the other party, and Yunlang was also a little uneasy, so he went to see it together.
By the time Mansha and Yunlang arrived, the two sides had already set up a position, guarding each other, and the situation was very tense.
The leader of the other party was a middle-aged man in his thirties, tall and strong, wearing a black armor, bald head, scarred face, messy beard, holding a two-handed axe, looking very vicious.
After seeing the other party at a glance, Mansha's face suddenly softened, and she turned around and whispered to the cloud corridor: "My lord, the leader of the other party is Doug Hall, the captain of the guard of the Hall family, who is a third-order berserker, known as the mad dog black hand. ”
"Ahem...... Black hand, ......" As soon as these two words were spoken, Yun Lang sighed a lot of emotion, and muttered unconsciously.
"My lord, what's wrong?" Seeing Yun Lang's strange performance, Mansha was puzzled.
"It's okay, it's okay......." Yun Lang didn't explain after stopping again and again, and asked: "You go and ask them why they are surrounding us first, if the purpose is me, it will inevitably be a battle...... And if it is for other reasons, try not to have a conflict, the strength of the Hall family is weak, and it may be possible to properly win them over and balance the other two. ”
"My lord, I see...... If you don't have any other orders, I'll be over!" Mansha asked.
Yunlang nodded, and Mansha came out of the crowd. In order not to cause the other party's misjudgment, she did not carry weapons and shields, which can be regarded as a full show of goodwill!
"Hello Doug Hall! I'm Mantha White, the garrison officer of Huya Pass. Mansha casually took off the voyeur and said hello normally.
When Doug Hall saw Mansha, his face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly stepped forward and asked puzzledly, "Why are you....... How did you lead the team here?......."
The two-handed axe in his hand was also hurriedly handed over to the person behind him, and he stepped forward empty-handed, expressing that there was no intention of fighting.
"Over there in Shining Gold Town, you urgently invite me to go back, but I can't refuse, so I can only go back!" Mansha explained with a light smile.
"Aren't you a garrison officer......? Why did you lead the crowd to leave! This ...... This is a bit out of order!" he looked at Mansha with scrutiny, his face sank, and he said very bluntly, "To be honest, I still have a very good impression of you...... You have the ability, and you don't participate in the frivolous battles between the families, and you are at ease, and I envy you about this....... Since you've been persisting for more than ten years, why did you suddenly change your mind?"
Mansa couldn't stop laughing, she didn't expect that she was quite famous, and in this way......
"Hehe, Doug...... Let's not talk about me, let's talk about you, I remember that this is not the Hall family's sphere of influence, why did you lead a team here and besiege me and my subordinates?" Mansha asked rhetorically.
"Misunderstanding...... A few days ago, I led a team to escort the family's goods to Shining Gold Town for trading. After returning, while passing by a nearby village, I heard from the villagers that a group of robbers with all their mounts had entered the woods. I was curious about what kind of robbers could be so rich that they could ride all the mounts, and I wanted to see with my own eyes, and secondly, these villagers had been of great help to my Hall family for a long time, and it was my duty to drive out the robbers for them. That's why I led the team...... I never thought it was yours!" Hale explained truthfully.
"Ha, for some special reasons, I had to leave the Huya Pass where I was stationed, and I couldn't act too high-profile, so I didn't enter the village along the way, which made them suspicious, and I can't blame others. Mansa didn't care.
"Since it's you, I won't have much to do......." Hall waved his hand back, and after touching the confrontation, he tried to persuade again: "Mansha, among my peers, I can only afford a few people, and you are one of them, you have skills, perseverance, and you don't care about personal gains and losses, to be honest, I admire you." I take the liberty of suggesting that you ...... Don't get involved in the fight between families, it's boring and boring, people like me who have no choice really can't get out of the way, that's it, and you've already got rid of it, so why take the initiative to jump in!"
Mansha didn't know how to explain it, so she could only smile wryly......
Seeing this, Doug waved his hand in disappointment, and before leaving, he said loudly: "Alas, I will give you enough respect when we meet on the battlefield, goodbye......."
In an instant, Doug's back was a little decadent, and Mansha saw it in her eyes, and it was also very unpleasant.
When they were young, they knew each other well, and their relationship was not too bad, but for the sake of their respective families, they had to fight for life and death....... Come to think of it, it's really sad.
After seeing Doug walk away, Mansha returned to her own front, ordered to continue repairing, and then reported to Yunlang in detail about the conversation.
Hearing this, Yunlang was very interested in Doug, so he asked Mansha: "Can you find him again, I want to talk to him face to face." ”
Mansha hesitated, but nodded, and then immediately rode after him, and soon caught up with Doug and his party.
Doug was surprised to see Mansha chasing after him, so he hurriedly greeted him and asked, "Mansha, do you have anything else?...... Let's start with it, the relationship between our Hall family and your White family is not very good, if you come to me as a White family, I advise you not to speak, I really don't want to ....... Hate you. ”
Mantha jumped off her mount, took a few steps forward, and whispered, "I'm not working for Lord White's house right now......
Looking at Doug's questioning expression, she didn't explain in detail: "Come with me and have a look, there is an adult who wants to see you!"
"Your Excellency...... Who is he?" Doug was even more confused.