Chapter 19: Task 5: Suppressing Bandits (3)

Just when Long Thirteen led his small team to train in full swing, he didn't forget to send people around to inquire about the news.

Especially the fact that the simulator wants to go to Wuya Mountain to suppress bandits by himself, he has not forgotten.

The time soon came to the beginning of February of the following year, seventy days had passed since he began training in Qinglongdu, and according to the original plan, he should start going up the mountain to suppress the bandits in ten days.

But on this very day, the simulator appeared again.

"Dragon Thirteen, there are only twenty days left before you complete your plan to go to Wuya Mountain to suppress bandits, pay attention, you need to act immediately, you are not the only one who plans to suppress bandits, if any accidents happen, the hidden event will not happen, and your insight secret skill can only reach level four at the most"

He immediately called Li Zhanchun, who had secretly gone to Wuya Mountain to investigate not long ago.

"Three masters, that Wuya Mountain is located on the north side of Yongning Prefecture City about five miles on the mountain, the mountain forest is dense, there is a flat land of about ten acres on the top of the mountain, it turns out that there is a large temple, called Anguo Temple"

"At present, the army is in chaos, and it has long been occupied by a group of Gujishan bandits, led by the 'dangerous road god' Gao Jiaji, who is a local thief in Shanxi, since the thirty-five families crossed the river to Shanxi, they were once attached to Cao Cao Luo Rucai"

"Later, I was not used to the life of a thief, so I did the previous business of robbing houses and houses on the mountain, and occupied Anguo Temple, drove away the monks inside, and occupied the place."

"Anguo Temple is surrounded by cliffs hundreds of zhang high, only towards the direction of Yongning Prefecture City there is a stone step winding up, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is said that it was originally a temple built in the Tang Dynasty, there are four into eight courtyards, very magnificent"

"There were originally only a few dozen people under the Danger Dao God, but when the thirty-five families crossed the river, many villagers around them brought their families and brought their mouths to Anguo Temple with grain pigs and sheep on their backs to take refuge, and Gao Jiaji accepted them, but when all the righteous troops settled down, he left behind the families who had strong men who took refuge in the mountains."

"So there are hundreds of people, because Anguo Temple is the largest and most dangerous mountain refuge in Yongning Prefecture, and those who can reach here safely are all wealthy people in the township, so most of the characters deducted by Gao Jia Ji are the slaves of those rich people, of course, the money and grain that the rich people take up the mountain are naturally all detained by him."

"He didn't kill the rich men?"

"No, this guy obviously has some brains, and he is not only the slaves of the rich man, but also their young girls, apparently to cast a long line to catch big fish."

"Then Yongning Prefecture didn't go to encircle and suppress?"

"Three masters, after the thirty-five families came over, except for a few bold officers and soldiers in the cities west of Gujishan, who dared to come out casually, when our troops crossed the Yellow River, the enemy came out to attack, it was because they got the internal intelligence of our battalion, so they went out on three sides."

"When did the god of danger go up the mountain?"

"Half a year ago"

"Well, that means that they ate almost all the grain that the rich men carried up the mountain at that time?"

"Not necessarily, didn't you just say it, they also took the young daughters of the rich people as hostages, and those rich people must have put some grain and grass somewhere from time to time, and then Gao Jiaji's men came down the mountain to pick it up and carry it up the mountain."

"A few days ago, I went to the vicinity of Wuya Mountain, and found many traces in the snow, and the traces went all the way down the stone steps to the top of the mountain, and apparently this guy carried some grain up the mountain."

"At that time, I caught a hunter who was catching hares in the cedar forest with a trap at the bottom of Wuya Mountain, and according to the man's confession, at least 100 people went down the mountain, and later they all carried a hemp bag up the mountain, and that one hemp bag could hold one stone of grain, which is a hundred stones."

"This activity has been going on for five days, which means that there are now at least a hundred stone of grain on the mountain"

"How much food do we have?"

"It's not much, in the past, the big boss allocated two months' grain and grass for me and others according to the number of 300 people, a total of 600 stones, and I waited for more than 200 people plus horses, and it would cost me 300 catties of grain every day, that is, three stones."

"There are less than 100 stones left, and it can last for a month at most"

Long Thirteen thought for a while, and secretly thought: "Since this simulator solemnly proposed to complete the task of suppressing bandits, it is obviously not for these hundreds of stones of grain, I have never heard of any dangerous Taoist gods, but since this person can take in the villagers, he will not kill them all, but not like a bandit, but more like a thief."

But what does it have to do with me? Is it because I chose 'Random Event Mode' and the simulator randomly assigned me tasks? Obviously not, the simulator will definitely make a rough arrangement based on my development, not a random arrangement"

"Even if it is arbitrarily arranged, it is impossible to conquer a cottage along a stone staircase when the snow is still half a meter deep."

"So, since I still have time to complete this task, it must be a coincidence"

Then he asked, "What is there to pay attention to in Wuya Mountain these days?" ”

Li Zhanchun said with a smile: "Coincidentally, I arranged two secret sentinels near that stone step, and a spy happened to come back today to report ......"

Long Thirteen said secretly: "Sure enough"

"Three masters, the day before yesterday, a small group of cavalry came down the mountain, the spies counted, a full eighteen horsemen, very powerful, look at that appearance, neither thieves, nor bandits, very strange, the horses are also high-headed horses, although the snow is deep, but it does not affect their walking"

"The men wandered down the hill for a while, and a man came down from the hill, and when he learned of their purpose, he went up the mountain......

"Wait," Long Thirteen interjected, "According to this situation, either those who come to join the gang or come to seize the village, can the people on the mountain pay attention?" ”

"Yes, that group of people came in the morning, and some people came down from the mountain in the afternoon, and the leader was a tall man with a fierce appearance, most of whom were scheming about the dangerous Dao God."

(The god of danger, the god of death who opened the way for people after death, is very tall and vicious)

"One of the men also came out, also very tall, but much thinner, and fought with the dangerous god at the foot of the mountain, and knocked the dangerous god to the ground in a few rounds, and then the dangerous god knelt down on one knee, according to their rules, most of them recognized this person as the new big leader."

Long Thirteen nodded, and secretly thought: "That hidden event is probably related to this person, otherwise he wouldn't have been busy prompting him as soon as he arrived at the simulator."

"However, it is said that the Anguo Temple on the top of the mountain is at least five or six hundred meters high, plus the winding stone staircase road that is only three feet wide and has no guardrails, let alone attacking it, it would be good if you are not familiar with it can go up smoothly, and the people under the mountain must have shoveled the snow down."

"And these days must have been freezing again, and it is even more slippery, right......"

He thought of something again, "In the past few months, I have arranged for Yuan Zongdi to bring some blacksmiths who came from Suidezhou City to make some iron palms with nail sleeves for war horses, and some iron palms with nail sleeves that can be used to nail cloth shoes."

(Suidezhou City is where Suidewei, the capital of Shaanxi, is located, and there are a large number of craftsmen)

"Originally, it was made to learn the lesson of the last time I used those straw sandals with grass ridges on the ice of the Yellow River and still didn't stop slipping, so that it could have an unexpected effect at the critical moment when leaving Qinglongdu Fort, and now it seems that it was prepared for this matter."

"However, at the moment, I am waiting for a few people, the highest force value is Bai Wenxuan, and it is only 83, and the others are all 80, if you pretend to be a person in the rivers and lakes to invite you to fight, you must be sure that you can defeat the dangerous Dao God or the person who has won the boss position in the past few days?"

"Anyway, it's the only way"

Among the few people under him, after getting along for three months, the characteristics of each person gradually appeared, as later celebrities, they were naturally the best in bravery, but they were different:

Bai Wenxuan's strength is amazing, and he is very brave, but his disadvantage is that he is a little violent, but fortunately, he is only seventeen years old now, and if he grows up, he really doesn't know what he will develop into.

Long 13 naturally knew that he was later a fierce general under Zhang Xianzhong, but he didn't know how it was.

Such a person is the most suitable as a pioneer.

Li Zhanchun is light and fierce, if he is in the Ming army, he is an excellent candidate for not collecting at night, since he is known as the "Black Harrier", in addition to his dark face, he is cunning.

Such a person obviously would not be from a peasant family, and Long Shisan now understands that he used to follow the current thief leader "Scorpion Block" to expand and sell illicit salt.

At this time, the "Scorpion Block" Tuoyangkun is a figure on a par with Gao Yingxiang, and he is entrenched somewhere at the southern end of Guji Mountain.

As for Yuan Zongdi, although he is the youngest, only fifteen years old, he is the most calm, and he also has a lot of strength, so it is the most suitable candidate to lead the infantry army and serve as a general who stays behind.

"In this way", thinking of this, Long Thirteen made up his mind, "Since the later batch is eighteen horses, let's also go to eighteen horses, remember, let Yuan Zongdi nail all these eighteen horses to nail the nail set, and then the eighteen horses carry a pair of spikes, and act when the time comes."

"Who's going up there?"

"You, me, Bai Wenxuan, plus the fifteen people in the cavalry who have been the best trained in the past few months."

Two days later, after making preparations, Long Thirteen said to the lantern that he would go out hunting and leave Qinglongdu, because the snow on the ground was still deep, if it was natural to walk on the road, but the physical exertion of the war horse was too great, so they all stepped on the ice of the Sanchuan River.

Of course, it was the first time for a war horse to wear such a nail set on the ice, and it also needed to be familiar, so the eighteen horses slowed down, while letting the horses get familiar with the nail set, while chasing and fighting, and the dragon thirteen began to practice the skill of using their legs to control the war horse without controlling the reins.

In fact, the war horse recognizes its owner, once you establish a relationship with him, and insist on feeding it in person every day, washing and brushing his fur from time to time, and petting it, it is easy to control, and when they arrive in Yongning Prefecture City, Long Thirteen has actually learned this skill.

Of course, it also needs to form such a cooperation with the war horse for a long time.

And for war horses, such actions have long been instilled in them by knights in their ancestors, they already have such genes, and the new knights just "activate" them, so the so-called cooperation is mainly for knights.

In addition to the dragon thirteen, these eighteen horsemen are all people from the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi and Shanxi, even if they can't ride horses, most of them have also ridden donkeys and mules.

After arriving in Yongning Prefecture City, walking on the ice for dozens of miles, the war horse also adapted to the cooperation with the nail set.

After arriving in Yongning Prefecture City, Long Thirteen was not afraid that Zhou Yuji would come out to invite him to fight, he only had twenty horsemen left, and he did not have a nail set secret technique, it was almost impossible to catch up with them in the slippery snow, not to mention that they were all dressed in the same color of the Ming army.

So, he went ashore from the ferry port of the state city with a big grin, and then marched away under the gaze of the Ming army on the city wall.

At the north gate of the state city, there is a road leading directly into the mountain, and it doesn't take long to come to the foot of Wuya Mountain.

"What a steep and majestic mountain!"

After coming to the bottom of the mountain, Long Thirteen couldn't help but praise loudly.

Like all the mountain ranges in Shanxi and Shaanxi, they are all gentle mountains even if they are high, but it is the first time that the mountain is covered with so many pine trees, Long Thirteen has seen it, and the pine trees are hung with thick snow, and in the distance, a cornice faintly picks out from the top of the mountain.

The whole mountain was shrouded in snow, and only the cracks in the pine forest were black.

And the stone steps were indeed frozen, but they were not white, but cyan, the same as the ice cubes in the Water Curtain Cave, and from a distance, it looked like a jade belt floating on the white clouds.

When the eighteen of them came to the bottom of the mountain, Long Thirteen saw another bird halfway up the mountain, and then a black spot quickly ran up the mountain—apparently, the god of danger, or the man who had recently become the big leader, had also set up a secret sentry.