Fumi Village was founded about 120 years ago, and its history is not very long, with about 80 households at its peak.

Both village elders were born and raised in their own village, and although they had barely left the county of West Gagawa, they were very familiar with the surrounding villages and towns.

The village is about half a day's road from the nearest city, but it is impossible for these hundreds of rogue soldiers to take it even if they are raided, if the target is those towns, although the number of rogue soldiers is more than the standing army, but the price paid will not be too small, in fact, the rogue does not like to fight hard at all, and it is their favorite to rob while the fire is hot, such as looting the town that has just been attacked by the imperial army. The Imperial Army had not heard of an attack on a nearby town, so the village chief thought that their target was not the town.

So could it be some precious resource? such as gold mines, spar mines, etc.? I'm sorry, there is really no gold mine, not even a silver mine, I heard that there is a magic crystal mine, but it is within the autonomous territory of the legal management department of the kingdom of Miredang, don't look at the fierce offensive of the imperial army, they are all going around the autonomous territory of the legal management department of Miledang, the mage of the legal management department is the main factor, and the legal management department of each country is also very important, if the imperial soldiers intrude on the autonomous territory of the legal management department of the Miledang kingdom, people can sue the emperor in front of the emperor with a word, not to mention the small soldiers who committed the crime, even the legions involved will be unlucky- Destroying the harmony of the royal law is a serious crime of treason. Therefore, no matter how bold and reckless the Imperial Legion generals are, they will never dare to hit the autonomous leader of the Ministry of Legal Affairs, anyway, the Ministry of Legal Affairs will never take the initiative to intervene in the war between secular countries, as long as everyone is safe. Although the rogues don't have the political taboo of the Imperial Army, with their numbers and rotten equipment, they can't even break the magic circle, so what else can they talk about?

Of course, it is not for any beautiful woman, but for some important people and family members who can be used to blackmail nobles and generals. However, the village elder said that there were many aristocratic manors nearby, but not to mention whether these manors had noble family members, with the current situation, even if there were before, they should have moved to the city or even the castle now.

They racked their brains, and they couldn't think of anything in the vicinity that was worth sending out with such a large group of rogues. The village elder finally deduced that perhaps these rogues were just passing through, and their destination was not nearby.

However, Ao Zongheng doesn't think so, he is a little interested in marching and fighting, but it is better than not knowing anything. But he trusted his instincts, and more importantly, he had the Ringwraiths to provide him with data to back it up—a word that the Ringwraiths had taught him.

When the regular army marches, it has to eat and drink, and it is generally necessary to bring a little by itself, a little by logistics, and then by transportation. Of course, the rogues are not armies, but they also have to eat, so why are the rogues rogues and not sitting tigers? It is because they don't have so much food for them to sit on one side, and they have to rely on migration and wandering to find food. So there aren't many people per share of the rogue - there are so many people that it's hard to get enough to eat no matter how much you flow, and you're either going to get lucky or go to town.

And now that hundreds of rogues are together, their food itself is very problematic, and the regular army can carry half a month's ration on their backs. It's not that they can't carry their backs, it's that they don't have that much food to carry on their backs—do they still need to be rogues when they have so much to eat? So no matter where they come from, they can't be too far away. The most plausible explanation is that they have a stronghold nearby.

However, the two village elders were very sure that there were no rogue strongholds nearby, and their reasons were also very strong - if there were such a large-scale rogue stronghold nearby, Fumi Village would definitely not be spared, and they would have to abandon the village and flee a long time ago.

It seems that everything will have to wait for the return of the villagers who went to scout to be further determined.

The villagers returned quickly, and without alarming the enemy—the rogues by the river had already left, and judging by the footprints, they were heading up the river.

This is really good news, although the old master said that these rogues are not coming to the village, but it is only a little calming, and now that the enemy has left the village, the old and young of the village are really relieved, hugging each other and rejoicing.

However, the arrogant expression was not relaxed at all, since this stream of rogues had sneaked all the way and hidden, why did they choose to trace the river when they arrived here? You must know that although the road along the river may be easier to walk, it is very difficult to hide the traces, and the other party chooses to trace the river, and their destination should be related to this river.

The two village elders frowned when they saw Aoheng, and they didn't dare to celebrate, so they hurriedly walked up to the master and listened to the instructions.

"What's in the upper reaches of that little river?"

"Nothing, the little river is a tributary of the Gidang River. ”

"Is the Jidang River a big river?" asked Ao Zongheng, how could he know this as a passerby.

"Well, of course it's a big river, and the Gidan River is one of the main streams of the Shandon River", they were afraid that they would not know, so they asked again, "Does the Master know about the Shandon River?"

Of course, Proud knew about the Shining River, although it was not long before he knew it, when he stopped in the town on the edge of the Ferran Valley to rest, he heard the story of the Shan Don.

The Shanton River originates from the Gengugo Mountains, and runs through the kingdom of Miredang from north to south, and there are many rivers that meet, with a basin of more than 10,000 taekwons, no matter the basin, length or flow is the largest river in the kingdom of Miredang, and even the entire Ferran Valley is just a section of its ancient river channel, and its water volume can be imagined.

In order to make good use of this ferocious river, human civilization has made many efforts and attempts, such as the construction of the Tuan embankment.

The Touan Embankment was built much earlier than the birth of the Miledan Kingdom and is said to have a history of more than 500 years. The purpose of building the embankment was simple: to control flooding.

The Shanton River is known for its abundant water, rushing all the way from north to south, and it is particularly ferocious when it reaches the slightly gentle and low-lying Jidang River Basin, especially in the wet season, when the floods are simply not too much, and today's West Gagawa County, although there was also an administrative office five hundred years ago, it is sparsely populated, because the floods are ferocious, and often turn the land into a swamped country, and it is impossible to cultivate at all.

It wasn't until the lord named Tu'an mobilized tens of thousands of people and spent six or seven years building this Tu'an embankment that the waterlogging of this land was finally controlled. In the first year of the completion of the embankment, the area of cultivated land in Sigagawa County alone increased by more than twenty times.

It is precisely because the Tu'an embankment is so important that the lords of the past dynasties, whether virtuous or foolish, did not dare to ignore the safety here, in addition to the regular maintenance of craftsmen, but also arranged special personnel to inspect the embankment, and in the case of a wet season, they will also mobilize the people to be stationed on the embankment continuously. Since that minor levee breach, the Tu'an Levee has been safe for nearly 100 years. This continuous peace has even made many nobles, soldiers and civilians forget what a terrible beast this embankment seals.

On the edge of the Tu'an embankment, there is a lonely two-story brick and stone building, which is the embankment patrol station.

The embankment patrol is regarded as the competent unit of the Tu'an embankment, safety supervision, public security, and administrative ...... Almost everything in the levee is managed and executed by the levee patrol, except for the cost of money - the real director of the levee is the levee officer appointed by the county magistrate himself, but the levee officer is based in the city and cannot be here a few times a month.

The leaders in charge don't come often, and the funds or something naturally come less, and they are not on time.

So the morale of the patrol embankment can be imagined.

It has been seven years since Ding Murui was the director of the embankment patrol station, and he has been thinking about changing positions for seven years, but he has never been able to do so.

The establishment of the embankment patrol is four people, who are responsible for patrolling the four taekappe-long embankments on the east and west banks, which is actually not very hard, but now that it has entered the wet season, the embankment patrol is day and night, so the four people can not bear it. But the embankment officer has not sent the money for a long time, and the helpers will naturally not be able to get in place, let alone the people who should be on standby on the embankment for emergencies.

Ding Murray was very depressed, Ding Murray was very dissatisfied, but he couldn't say anything, the money and people were not in place, this was not the corruption of the levee officer - he would not dare to be so blatant if he was given three more dares. Isn't this the current fierce war? Lord Dujue has to give priority to meeting military needs if he has money, and as for the people, they are all on the battlefield, and the matter of the embankment can only be let go first, isn't it all safe for hundreds of years, and occasionally arrange a few fewer manpower a year, it should be no problem, right?

After breakfast, it was time to start patrolling the embankment, because of the lack of manpower, Ding Murui, the director, could not be lazy, and in teams of two, each patrolling the embankment on one bank. Why don't two people patrol each half of the river separately? Wouldn't that save time? This is also a layman's saying, patrolling the embankment is not a walk, but often going down to the embankment close to the river to check, and a team of two has to take care of each other. This is still a shortage of manpower, if there are many people, a group of three or four people, each other is connected with a rope, tie a slipknot, so that in case of falling into the water, there is still a chance to save it, it really can't be saved, the rope is over, it will not be too dangerous.

The upstream probably has just rained, today's flow is obviously greater than yesterday, the water level record line engraved yesterday has not passed, according to Ding Murui's past experience, the peak of rainfall in the wet season is still half a month away, although this year's water level record is higher than the same period record in the past few years, but if there is no problem with the embankment itself, it should not be overflowing. In that case, the absence of the people to garrison the embankment is not too serious a problem.

It must be admitted that although Ding Murui does not like this job very much, he is indeed a competent director of the embankment patrol.

Ding Murui stared at the water level and was thinking about it, and suddenly heard Mi Yang behind him shouting loudly: "Hey!!Hey!!!There are rogues behind you" Mi Yang shouted another group of people on the east coast.

Ding Murui looked up, and across the river sixty or seventy miles, he saw twenty or thirty men in tattered clothes and armed with crossbow arrows rushing up from the slope behind the embankment.

However, their warning came too late, and before the two embankment patrolmen could even hear what they were shouting, they were shot by the crossbow arrows of the rogues, fell into the rushing river, and disappeared without a trace.

They didn't have time to grieve over the death of their companions, and the two of them realized in an instant that they had to flee, and that these rogues were coming for us.

Although their consciousness and reaction were similar, the two fled in completely different directions, Mi Yang turned around and ran towards the embankment, while Ding Murui hesitated a little and jumped directly into the raging and fast Jidang River!