Chapter 451: Changing Goals
Xian'er seemed to be impatient with a limited amount of listening, so she asked Liang Houzai: "Which way do we go?" ”
Liang Houzai shook his head: "I haven't thought about it yet." I always felt that it was not the right way to go. ”
After a while, Liang Houzai asked Yan Xiaotian again: "In the past two days, hasn't Zhao Dekai contacted Cao Hongbin?" ”
Yan Xiaotian blinked: "How do I know about this kind of thing, Cao Hongbin is now controlled by the Cao family, and I have been running around all this time, and I have never been to the Cao family at all." ”
Liang Houzai nodded, and said to me again: "Brother Dao, I estimate that there should be some actions on Zhao Dekai's side recently." ”
I asked him, "What move?" ”
Liang Houzai pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said, "I'm not sure either. It's just that last time Zhao Dekai said that Cao Hongbin would get the Cao family's heirloom within a week, I think there must be a reason why he is in such a hurry. Now that Cao Hongbin hasn't gotten anything and Yi Qingping is missing again, what will Zhao Dekai do? Alas, it would be nice if Baiwushan could have our eyeliner, at least we could touch Zhao Dekai's movements. ”
Yan Xiaotian on the side interjected: "You said it earlier, I have eyeliner, and he will follow Zhao Dekai now." ”
I glanced at him: "You planted a traitor next to Zhao Dekai?" Why didn't you say this kind of thing earlier? ”
Yan Xiaotian looked a little embarrassed: "It's not that I don't want to say it, you haven't asked me all along, have you?" ”
I asked him, "Can you contact your informant now?" ”
Yan Xiaotian nodded: "Yes, but after twelve o'clock in the evening." ”
I put down the sketch, sat back on the couch, and let out a comfortable sigh: "I can't do it anymore, I haven't slept since yesterday, I just slept for a while, I have to rest now." You should study which way to go, and let me know if you have a conclusion...... Ha...... No, I'm really sleepy. ”
As I spoke, I felt that my upper and lower eyelids began to fight, and then Yan Xiaotian said something to me, but I didn't hear it, and leaned back on the sofa and fell asleep in a daze.
Not long after I slept for a long time, Senior Brother Zhuang called, saying that he had escorted those people to the border between Tibet and Qingdao safely, and asked me not to call him even if I had something recently, and said that Liu Shangang knew how to contact him.
I hung up the phone and fell asleep again.
I slept until about one o'clock in the morning, Yan Xiaotian woke me up, and said excitedly that Liang Houzai guessed correctly again, and Zhao Dekai really had a movement recently.
Yan Xiaotian learned from his informant that Zhao Dekai seemed to be planning to go to Cao's house in person in the past two days, but Jiang Bin and Di Guangtong prevented Zhao Dekai from leaving the Baiwu Mountain boundary on the grounds that "once Zhao Dekai leaves Baiwu Mountain, Baiwu Mountain will be leaderless".
And Zhao Dekai thinks that Jiang Bin and Di Guangtong are putting themselves under house arrest, and the three of them are in trouble.
In fact, Zhao Dekai was right, Jiang Bin and Di Guangtong were going to put him under house arrest, and after learning that he was leaving Baiwu Mountain, Jiang Bin had already left his own territory and came to Di Guangtong's territory with some cronies, which was closer to the Baiwu Mountain General Altar and could better monitor Zhao Dekai.
But when Jiang Bin left his territory, he deliberately added several secret posts on the road to Baiwu Mountain, and Yan Xiaotian's informants did not know the specific location and number of these secret posts.
Liang Houzai speculated that the reason why Di Guangtong and Jiang Bin put Zhao Dekai under house arrest should be the meaning of the high-level of the funeral sect, these years, Zhao Dekai has spent a lot of effort to hold the power of Baiwushan in his hands, but he is only making wedding clothes for others at best, even if he really becomes the head of Baiwushan one day, the funeral sect will not allow him to become bigger, and will only turn him into a puppet in name only.
Now, the Funeral Sect has set out to cut off Zhao Dekai's contact with the outside world and trapped him in Baiwu Mountain, and next, the Funeral Sect should attack Zhao Dekai's cronies.
Before, I thought that getting rid of Di Guangtong and Jiang Bin was to cut off Zhao Dekai's wings, but after listening to Liang Houzai's speculation, I realized that Di Guangtong and Jiang Bin were just two shackles that restrained Zhao Dekai, and now the people who pose the biggest threat to Baiwu Mountain are no longer Zhao Dekai, but these two people.
Liang Houzai said that Di Guangtong and Jiang Bin are now a small group, and Zhao Dekai himself is a small group, and the relationship between the two groups is not coordinated, and they both want to bring down each other and beware of each other. In this way, even if there is a fire in your house, you will never tell the other party, because at that moment, the other party will definitely fall into the ground.
In other words, these two groups are isolated from each other, and there is no need to worry about them supporting each other in the process of breaking down.
Now the question is not that we should approach Zhao Dekai from that road, but which group is more beneficial to us to choose first.
I thought about it, I still think it's better to move Zhao Dekai first, let's control him first, and then inform the major clans of the news of his defeat in this battle, and the control of Baiwu Mountain will fall into Yan Xiaotian's hands.
When I talked to Old Man Wei about the situation of Baiwu Mountain before, he once said that in addition to him, several other clans in Baiwu Mountain only knew that Zhao Dekai had Yi Qingping by his side, but they did not know the existence of Di Guangtong and Jiang Bin.
We released the news that Yi Qingping was dead, and then released the news of Zhao Dekai's defeat, and finally, when dealing with Di Guangtong and Jiang Bin, we claimed that we were cleaning up the remnants of the cult that Yi Qingping brought into Baiwu Mountain, and let the major clans provide assistance.
At that time, the major clans did not know the strength of Di Guangtong and Jiang Bin, and secondly, they had to find a way to tie up with Yan Xiaotian, who had just gained power, and would definitely let the clan children who stayed in Baiwu Mountain fully cooperate with Yan Xiaotian.
After determining that the first target of this operation was Zhao Dekai, Yan Xiaotian and I agreed on a route to advance to Baiwu Mountain, and we planned to enter the loess slope from the northwest of Baiwu Mountain, and enter the hinterland of Baiwu Mountain through a narrow ravine.
As for the news of Yi Qingping's death, we don't plan to spread it so early, for fear that after Zhao Dekai, Di Guangtong and Jiang Bin get the news early, they will join forces again because of a period of life and death.
At present, in addition to us, there is also an old man Wei who knows the news of Yi Qingping's death. Liang Houzai expected that Old Man Wei would not make this matter public, Old Man Wei is a smart person, after he learned of Yi Qingping's death, he must have realized that Zhao Dekai had reached the end of his rope, and he knew more about the relationship between Zhao Dekai and Di Guangtong and Jiang Bin than we do, so he knew what kind of chemical reaction would be caused once he spread the news of Yi Qingping's death, and this news reached Zhao Dekai's ears.
Even if Zhao Dekai and the three of them joined forces, they wouldn't be able to support it for too long, just causing a little trouble to Yan Xiaotian. And what Old Man Wei should do now is to slap Yan Xiaotian as much as possible, he definitely doesn't want to become the one who causes trouble to Yan Xiaotian.
Although Old Man Wei is not a trustworthy person, we still agreed to let him spread the news of Yi Qingping's death as quickly as possible before the few of us enter the gate of Baiwu Mountain.
Because everyone knows that he is Zhao Dekai's person, the news of Yi Qingping's death came out of his mouth, and it was more credible than anyone else.
When we finalized everything, it was already more than five o'clock in the morning, Yan Xiaotian went out to sell breakfast, and Liang Houzai and I studied the sketch again during the time he was away, and made sure that there were no mistakes, so I asked Liu Shangang to pack up his things in advance.
During the day, we didn't do anything, just watch TV, or sit together and chat, and this way to relax and recharge.
Although Zhao Dekai's cultivation is not as good as Yi Qingping, Liang Houzai is right, this battle will be a continuous fatigue battle.
At six o'clock the next morning, after eight hours of sleep, everyone embarked on a bumpy journey again.
Lao Zhai couldn't move with us because he bumped a long way in the trunk and drove for a long time, which led to a recurrence of back disease. So this time the driver was replaced by the unreliable Yan Xiaotian, although his driving skills have improved, but the car quality is not very good, when he first got on the highway, he encountered the road ahead to repair the road, and the traffic jam was jammed for two hours, so he scolded in the car for two hours.
At the time, I didn't understand why a temporary traffic jam could make Yan Xiaotian look like this, and it wasn't until many years later that I learned that his symptoms at that time were called "road rage...... Mental disorders? I don't know if road rage is a mental disorder.
The car drove to the boundary of Baiwu Mountain, and I asked Yan Xiaotian to park the car in front of the highway hotel where Lao Zhai lived before, and opened a room, and several people got together to eat something inside, and by the way, Yan Xiaotian calmed down his restless mood.
Just two hours of traffic jam made him sullen for the whole trip. Oddly enough, when he got his hands off the wheel, I noticeably felt that he was in better shape.
At one o'clock in the morning, we left the hotel and entered the loess slope with deep ravines and ravines.
The road chosen by Yan Xiaotian is the one with the fewest sentry posts, but to complete this road, you need to climb over three cliffs and then cross the deepest and widest ravine on the loess slope to reach the gate of Baiwu Mountain.
In order to climb over the cliffs, Liu Shangang prepared enough ropes and five sets of professional mountaineering equipment, and each time he climbed up with his bare hands, he made spikes and hung ropes on the cliffs while climbing.
After we crossed the two cliffs, Yan Xiaotian, who had been driving all the way, was a little physically exhausted, and we rested in place for two hours until Yan Xiaotian's physical strength was fully recovered.
Beyond the cliff, there are six or seven sentry posts distributed in a row on a section of the road, and Liu Shangang is in front to explore the specific location of the sentry post, and by the way, he also has to see if there are any secret sentry posts placed by Jiang Bin nearby.
In addition, Liu Shangang also had to find a path that could avoid the sentry post's line of sight.
In my opinion, Liu Shangang seems to be more and more like a scout now, as if since he returned from his studies from Senior Brother Bao, in addition to preparing supplies before each operation, he has also handled such things as pathfinding and gathering intelligence.
It took us two full days to climb the mountains and mountains, and another day to cross the longest ravine on the Loess Slope, and the entrance to Baiwu Mountain finally appeared in front of us.
The night had just ended, and the clouds on the horizon were covered with a reddish hue, indicating that the morning sun was about to rise. At this time, the sky was between night and day, and the sky took on a gray blue, and even the canyon outside the gate of Baiwu Mountain was shrouded in this color.
A few of us lay on a dirt bag and quietly watched into the canyon, but because of the light, I couldn't see what was going on in the canyon.