A moment later, the Feilong camp manager took the camp tent, and the remnant of a man in black flew into the camp tent in a flash and threw himself on the bed where Mo Cong was sleeping.

"How's it going, is it going well?" asked Mo Cong in a low voice.

"Well, but I want to stay here with you. Mo Min's voice whispered from under the black cloth.

"You'd better go back quickly, it's not good to be discovered, if you want me, go to the base camp of the Flying Dragon Camp to find me in a few days." Mo Cong said.

"Okay, then I'll go. Mo Min lifted the mask and kissed Mo Cong, and the afterimage flew out of the camp and headed south.

The military police battalion, the left and right of the army could not wait for the sound of the movement of soldiers and horses, and hurriedly sent the herald out to inspect, but as soon as the people left, there was a loud sound, and the sound of arrows sounded. In addition, Congjun hurriedly asked people to get the letterhead, and when he opened it, he was completely stunned, the two deputy commanders of the gendarmerie, the four pipe belts, and the twenty-five general flags, all of which were all on the letterhead, and the twenty-nine people were valued at 200,000 taels of silver, which was added to the previous ransom, a total of 380,000 taels.

The only remaining pipe belt in the camp tent hurriedly made a guard suit, and the safety of the army was also protected if he was killed, and he would not leave the camp tent if he was killed. In addition, the army also felt that it was better to let him stay here than to go out for more than 10,000 taels of silver, so he hurriedly ordered someone to inform the other gendarmerie commanders who had not been poisoned, and the four gendarmerie bands that had just arrived at the gendarmerie camp to strengthen their guards and pay attention to safety, so that the enemy would not take advantage of the situation and fish in troubled waters.

"Lord, this... Things are too strange, what should we do?" asked the only remaining pipe strap with a cold look on his back, and his voice trembled.

"Don't panic, the ghosts and spirits are all haunted at night, don't you see, it's dawn, and they have to release people as soon as our army goes up the mountain. Guo Congjun said. "And don't you see, the ransom of those horse thieves has been rising, but not a single head has been delivered. It's a complete bluff, and we have to take a non-negotiable attitude towards such people, and we can't let them have a fluke mentality, otherwise there will be more officers and generals who will disappear as soon as this mouth is opened. ”

"Master Guan is clever, then let's order our troops to go up the mountain to exterminate this gang of arrogant horse thieves and rescue those brothers. The only remaining pipe band said.

As the two of them made up their minds not to pay the ransom and not report to the court, the sky outside changed from cloudy to slightly bright, the silhouettes of various mountain-shaped trees gradually appeared, and the 40,000 gendarmes were all ready to go.

Had breakfast. With the order of the army, 40,000 gendarmes divided into eight routes, respectively to the east and west sides of Shuanglong Mountain, north, west, north and south, the time is not long, and the other 20,000 military police also rushed to the foot of Shuanglong Mountain, along the mountain-shaped terrain divided into various directions to go up the mountain for reinforcements. As the 60,000 gendarmes ascended the mountain one after another, the army calmed down a little, and while ordering the gendarmes to further narrow the encirclement with other troops, they waited for the news of the victory of the 60,000 army.

I waited until the afternoon. The 60,000 gendarmes sent back news one after another, and no horse thieves were found, but the bodies of some captured people were found in some places, including the body of Duan Wenhuo, the deputy commander of the gendarmerie. There is still a writing next to the corpse, the ransom has risen to 500,000 taels, and if the ransom is not paid, it will be waiting for more people to collect the corpses.

"What can I do? They... They really killed people. The six new gendarmerie bands had already led their troops up the mountain, and the only remaining bands were completely panicked when they looked at the news coming back.

"Hurry up and contact the central army and the local army to see if they have encountered a similar situation on their side. "The army calmly passed the order. Anyway, the people have been lost, and the only hope now is that it is better to lose people alone than to lose people, so that the shame of the gendarmerie system will not be too obvious.

After a long time, the bird herald came in to report that no one in the central army and the local army had been captured or kidnapped, let alone officers and generals, and there was not even a single small soldier.

"Looks like those horse thieves are specifically targeting us. The only remaining pipe band said angrily.

"Our people go up the mountain to suppress bandits, of course, they are aimed at us, otherwise if they are aimed at the central army or the local army, will they have a deterrent and interference effect on the troops who go up the mountains to suppress bandits?" "Okay, hurry up and write a war report to the imperial court, and report the battle situation in detail and detail, it is not okay to conceal such a big thing and not report it. He didn't make any requests to the imperial court, just made a report, as for what to do later, whether to take money from acquaintances or continue to encircle and suppress, just wait for the court's decision.

In the evening of the same day, the outer encirclement shrank more than ten miles inward, which was considered to be a relatively rapid advance, and with the further reduction of the encirclement, the troops needed to encircle the mountain were no longer so many, and several battalions of the left guard of the Central Army gradually broke away from the encirclement and marched towards the original station. On the surface, the situation in the suppression of bandits is very good, and it is faster and smoother than expected.

In such a good situation, a divine eagle flew back to the capital with a message from the military police, reporting in detail the cruel reality hidden under the good situation.

"Horse thieves robbed the gendarmes, and the price continued to rise?" Hang Xiao seemed to have heard a big joke and looked at Yan Tao in surprise.

"This is my translation, and the original words of the commander are that the situation is very good, but a group of sergeants and generals have been captured, and the other party has offered to exchange silver taels for prisoners. Yan Tao said.

"Hah, he said it so tactfully. Hang Xiao laughed angrily. "How many of us have been captured, and how much silver do the horse thieves want?"

"The captives were all military police, specifically two deputy commanders, sixteen commanders, five hundred and twenty-eight general flags, three hundred and twenty-eight middle flags, more than five hundred small flags, plus more than a thousand sergeants, a total of two thousand and twenty-nine people, and the horse thieves asked for five hundred thousand taels of silver. Yan Tao said.

"So many officers and generals only cost 500,000 taels of silver, and it seems that the appetite of horse thieves is not very great. Hang Xiao smiled and sighed.

"They probably didn't know that there were so many high-ranking officers and high-ranking generals among the people they caught, after all, the 800 people who went in the early stage were all wearing ordinary gendarmerie armor. Yan Tao said.

"It's going like this, you have an idea. Hang Xiao said.

"More than 900 officers and generals lead more than 1,000 ordinary sergeants, and spending 500,000 taels of silver to get them back can be sold for personal favors, and it is much cheaper than issuing death pensions, killing two birds with one stone. Yan Tao said.

"You said that those horse thieves are really familiar with the operation of the army, how to contact the birds can be abducted by them, and the ransom they ask for is also reasonable and just stuck in the range that we can accept, this is too strange. Hang Xiao shook his head and smiled.

"Didn't the Mo Guan Belt of the Wyvern Battalion say last time, there are many people who have served as soldiers among them, combined with this information and some other clues, these horse thieves are likely to be the remnants of the right guard who were originally scattered. No one is more familiar with the terrain of Ssangyong Mountain than the original right guard, and it is impossible for ordinary horse thieves to have such strong combat effectiveness. Yan Tao said.

"Did the battle report say how many horse thieves there were?" asked Hang Xiao. He had already learned through various rumors and clues that the horse thieves in Shuanglong Mountain were likely to be the remnants of the right guard, so he had to make such a big determination to exterminate them.

"The war report says that not a single horse thief has been found, but according to some of the encounters, there should be no less than five thousand. Yan Tao said.

"Five thousand people need five hundred thousand taels of silver, one hundred taels per person, I don't think there are so many people. And since they dare to ask for silver, they naturally have a way to get out, otherwise what is the use of asking for silver and losing their lives. Judging by these circumstances, there may have been only three or five hundred of those horse thieves. It is more than four or five times less than the minimum of 2,000 people you originally said, and it seems that a large part of it has been withdrawn, leaving behind a group of masters. Hang Xiao groaned.

"Then it is necessary to inform the ministries to make good contacts to prevent those horse thieves from slipping out of the encirclement by putting on the armor of the Central Army or the captives of the gendarmes. Yan Tao said.

"It is necessary to do this, in addition, we also organize a group of masters on our side to take advantage of the opportunity for the horse thieves to accept the silver and the captives come over to ask about the situation on the mountain, and then wipe out all the horse thieves, rescue all our captives, and then torture the whereabouts of the other horse thieves and annihilate them in one fell swoop. Hang Xiao said with a deep groan.

"Master, did Your Majesty mean the masters of the Central Army?" Yan Tao asked.

"Yes, since the other party is the master of the old Central Army, we must also dispatch the master of the new Central Army here, so that the trump card is against the trump card, and the situation is symmetrical, otherwise how can we get beaten so passively. However, this order must be guaranteed to be top secret, and there can be no leakage of the rumors, and the number of people does not need to be too large, as long as a dozen people are enough, after all, the original right guard only accounts for four of the eighteen masters, even if these four people are all in Shuanglong Mountain, it is not Chen Ruoping's opponent alone, plus Mo Cong, plus He Ming, Deng Yong, Xu Hu, Lei Bao, Peng Tianhua and others, um... It's still our lineup that is luxurious. Hang Xiao said that he had seen the dawn of victory.

"Okay, then I'll arrange it right away. Yan Tao nodded.

......

That night, a divine eagle flew out of the Ruiguo Imperial Palace, spread its wings and flew all the way north. Immediately after that, the four condors took off into the air one after another, flying towards the stations of the left guard, the right guard, the front guard, and the rear guard. After a while, another Divine Eagle belatedly flew to Shuanglong Mountain with a clear order sent to the Jing Congjun.

Among several people, Chen Ruoping was the first to receive the order of the top-secret general, and then He Ming, Deng Yong, He Yunzhong, and Fang Tianhao also received the order of the top-secret general. The reactions of the five people varied, Chen Ruoping frowned, He Ming immediately sent a bird pass to the pioneer battalion, the tiger battalion, the leopard battalion, and the flying dragon battalion, Deng Yong quietly continued to arrange emergency military affairs such as recruit training, secretly waiting for the departure time, He Yunzhong was worried that he didn't sleep for half a night, although he was one of the eighteen masters, but going up the mountain to suppress bandits was a dangerous thing after all, Fang Tianhao glanced at the secret order and continued to sleep, preparing to pass the book to his masters the next day.

As for the commander of the gendarmerie, he received a letter of exchange for the horse thieves, and in order to ensure the safety of the hostages, he temporarily stopped the purging operation, and recruited all the 60,000 gendarmes who had already gone up the mountain back to the military police camp, but the encirclement must be pressed step by step, and at the same time, the horse thieves must be strictly prevented from fleeing at night disguised as the central army or the local army. (To be continued......)