There are two roads to the south from the Yandao, one goes directly to Yelang through Nanqin and Pingyi, and then goes down from Yelang to the southeast, you can reach Lingling County and Guiyang County in Jingzhou. This path has been around since ancient times. However, the other road to the south is artificially carved out along the mountain, because the width is five feet, so it is also called "five feet road". After the Great Qin conquered Shu and arrived at the Yandao, the vast mountains that stretched for many miles to the south were far south. The king of Qin was not satisfied with just conquering Shu, so he asked the general Chang Meng to lead 7,000 men to the south along the mountains to dig roads, from Yandao, through Nanguang, Zhuti, Tangwolf, and then arrived at Wei County in Ningzhou. Later, in the period of Emperor Wu of the former Shang Dynasty, he sent people to open the five-foot road from Zhuti to the east to Pingyi, which opened up the north and south and east and west, and made Shu and Yunnan and even Jiaoguang unblocked.

Since the excavation of the five-foot road, this difficult mountain road like a snake has become a road of wealth in the eyes of business travelers. The jade agate of Yunnan and the silk well salt of Shu are the most popular goods for both sides. At the same time, bandits who plundered the caravan also arose on this trade route, large and small, all over the two states and four counties. Many of them are in two capacities, civilians and robbers. When you are weak, you will rob, and when you are strong, you will become a "simple and simple" people

Yong Kai is the most well-known bandit along the Wuchi Road, with more than 700 men and horses, active in the area of Yunwuling in the west of the Wumeng Mountains. This place guards the north-south five-foot road and the east-west five-foot road, and the geographical location is very important. In this southwestern mountainous area, he has surpassed many small tribes scattered in the vast mountain range, and his strength is very strong. The terrain of Yunwuling is abnormal, but there is a lake and land in a valley, and there is even a small piece of spiritual field of less than thirty acres, where Yongkai is encamped.

This Yongkai family was originally the surname of Qiqi County, and his father was engaged in the Taishou of Qiqi back then. Because he was dissatisfied with the tyranny of the Taishou of the year, his father repeatedly admonished him and refused to carry out the orders of the Taishou many times, and finally the Taishou found an excuse to sentence him to death for the crime of rebellion. Yong Kai, who was only twenty-one years old at the time, scattered his family wealth and gathered a group of people to rob the court in Pingyi County in broad daylight and rescued his father. Since then, he has been a robber on Mount Umeng. Since he is a robber, he cannot be classified by the state and county, and no one knows what kind of cultivation he is or how many grades he is cultivating now. In the legend of the people, Yong Kai's cultivation is extremely profound, and he is good at using a big knife, and he is brave and abnormal. Wumeng Mountain is deep and densely forested, and the roads are dangerous. Yong Kai has been a robber for more than ten years, and Zhu Tiqi and the two counties have always had no way to take him.

There is also a story of this Yongkai that circulates in the two counties of Zhu Ti and Qi. After he snatched his father from the court at that time, he burned down his ancestral house with a big fire, and fled to the cloud mountain of Wumeng Mountain with more than 30 people with his family and slaves. Originally, there was a group of robbers living here in this Cloud Ridge, with the number of fifty or sixty people, led by the name of Wu Boss. Because in the early years, when the boss of Wu robbed a merchant, he was injured by a monk among the merchants and fled, and was just bumped into by Yong Kai and saved the boss of Wu who was seriously injured and was dying. The two became inseparable friends. When robbing Yongkai's father, Boss Wu and a few good hands also followed Yongkai to make a big fuss in the court. The people who followed Yong Kai to Yunwu Ridge together, in addition to Yong Kai's own family, there were also several young monks and slaves he had befriended on weekdays, and there were more than a hundred people. The big guy thinks that Yongkai treats people boldly and righteously on weekdays, so he jointly promotes Yongkai as the new leader.

After Yong Kai excused himself several times, he saw that everyone's intentions were very firm, so he said: "You can afford Yong, and you can respect Yong, Yong is really scared." If you let Yong be the master, everyone should follow Yong's conditions, otherwise, the position of the owner of the village will be nominated separately. ”

Everyone in Wu Lao said: "Since we sincerely recommend the virtuous brother as the master, we will naturally agree to any conditions." ”

Yong Kai then said: "Once the number of people is hundreds, there will inevitably be disputes between them. It is imperative that rules be established first. We and the others shall not kill or steal from each other, and if there is a dispute between them, the elders shall judge. Men and women shall not have any private marriages, but shall make weddings and funerals......"

As a result, this Yunwuling is in order under the management of Yongkai, and everyone is happy, that is, robbing merchants, Yongkai has formulated a series of rules. This made his reputation even louder, and the number of people who defected to him increased.

Just one day, Yong Kai was instructing some young men in the valley in the art of bow and arrow, when he suddenly saw a person rushing from the entrance of the valley, it was one of his right-hand men, Ehu. This Ehu is good at using a spear on weekdays, and his cultivation is second only to Yong armor in them.

"Big brother, it's not good. Before the Huren arrived, he shouted loudly, "Boss Wu has been taken, and that man is rushing here." ”

Yong Kai couldn't help but be shocked when he saw that the tiger was disheveled and disheveled. Yesterday, he got the news of Yamashita Eyeliner, saying that there was a merchant with an unfamiliar face, and today he was going to pass through the five-foot road at the foot of the mountain. The caravan had a strange face, and the other was not planted with the banner they were familiar with. In layman's terms, they have never paid protection money. After learning the news, early this morning, E Hu and Wu Boss went down the mountain with more than 20 good men, to give this group of strange business travelers a little color. In Yongkai's eyes, there were two monks with extremely rich fighting experience, Ehu and Wu Boss, who were in the array, and a small group of business trips was nothing. Any of the business travelers who have been walking on the five-foot road all the year round have to come to the pier first, and then they can be unimpeded, and the rules that have been going on for many years cannot be broken.

"What's going on?" asked Yong Kai in a deep voice with surprise in his heart.

"Those guys are here for us. At this time, Ehu had long lost the pride of looking forward to Shenfei on weekdays, and his black face was covered with beads of sweat the size of beans, "Only one person made a move, and I joined forces with Boss Wu before he went through three moves, and he was beaten to the ground." After the man knocked us over, he didn't take my life, but just asked me to come back and report, and he followed behind with Boss Wu. Said he wanted to meet you, big brother. ”

"What!" Rao is Yongkai has always been calm on weekdays, and his face changed color when he heard this, he knows a lot about the skills of Ehu and Wu Boss, and the two of them join forces, even if he can't resist it, let alone take down the other party within a few moves, "How can such a master appear in this kind of place?"

"The person who came came at me, but he didn't hurt the lives of the two of them, so he naturally didn't think it was an official soldier. Could it be that he came to the fire, but with such a clever skill, what did he do in this place where birds don't?" Yong Kai frowned, and his heart was shocked.

"Big brother, look," Hu Hu pointed to the valley mouth, "those two are already here." ”

Yong Kai looked at Ehu's fingers, only to see that the first person was tall and dignified, although he was wearing a cloth shirt, he couldn't hide his unique temperament. This man was holding the black boss in one hand, and although he was unhurried at his feet, he could step out in one step, and there was a distance of several feet. And behind him was a fair-skinned middle-aged man who looked to be about thirty, with a natural demeanor, following the young man in front of him, which showed that his cultivation was also extraordinary.

These two people are none other than Gao Ming and Du Chou.