A few days passed quickly in the midst of intense preparations, and a few days later, in the second half of the night, 300,000 troops rushed to march from their respective starting points, and in less than two hours they completed the encirclement, arranging an impermeable circular encirclement along the mountainous terrain of Shuanglong Mountain. For the next two hours, the ring encirclement squirmed and continued to move forward, shrinking and tightening through the dense forest and the outer mountain cols, enclosing the entire Shuanglong Mountain like an iron bucket.

Seeing that the completion of the encirclement was progressing smoothly, both Guo Congjun and Chen Ruoping breathed a sigh of relief. That night, 800 gendarmes went up to Shuanglong Mountain overnight, surveying the terrain and topography of Shuanglong Mountain from all directions, looking for possible enemy situations, while the other troops did not move until dawn before continuing to narrow the encirclement.

The 800 gendarmes marched in 32 groups from different directions, and the members of each group maintained distances ranging from a few zhang to a dozen zhang to ensure the efficiency of searching the mountains. The progress of these people is very fast, and the efficiency is quite high, when it is dark, they will send back the news when they enter the mountain in the middle of the night, and the thirty-two teams have already advanced about a mile each, because this kind of circular carpet search is the slowest and most difficult when it is on the periphery, and the more the inner side will multiply with the speed of the circular contraction, so everyone is very satisfied with this achievement, and look forward to them being able to completely complete the task of stepping on the point when the 100,000 gendarmes arrive, if the luck is better to directly eliminate the horse thieves on the mountain, it is of course the best.

It is a pity that such good fortune did not berain these gendarmes, and after passing through the outermost two miles, the progress of the search for the mountains became tortuous, and all kinds of surprises occurred one after another. The more the gendarmes walked in, the more surprised they found that the terrain here was becoming more and more complicated, and the various roads were like a maze, and sometimes they turned around only to realize that they had taken the wrong road, and they went around and around to return to a certain place they had visited. I had to change the direction and go back again, and then I walked in and in, and found that there was a slippery cliff or a deep mountain stream in front of me, and I couldn't climb or jump down, so I had to go back along the road and go around from other directions.

In this way, the 800 gendarmes did not travel half a mile in the second half of the night, and the news that came back was all frustration.

The gendarmerie was surprised to receive the news, and was stunned, and the army immediately ordered the gendarmes to speed up their search whenever they opened roads and bridges in the mountains, and not to stagnate because of the complicated terrain. After receiving the strict order, the gendarmes were desperate, and there was no road here. They have been very desperate to climb all kinds of big rocks, climb all kinds of flying rocks, and try to find a way, how can they open the way in the mountains?

The troops behind did not care about this, and as soon as dawn they directly followed the point that the gendarmes stepped out to further narrow the encirclement, but because the gendarmes did not make smooth progress, the progress of the encirclement was not very smooth, and they only shrank inward for less than three miles throughout the day, and some of them directly reached the back of the gendarmes' buttocks.

"Brother gendarme, isn't that the road, why don't you take it?" the sergeants of the Central Army looked at the stagnant gendarmes. Asked curiously.

"That's not the road, it's a fork in the road, you will turn back when you walk around, you must not go astray and break up the encirclement. We... Let's keep going. The gendarme said bitterly, and went into a forest to find the way.

In the face of such an unexpected situation, the minds of various ministries urgently sat down to consult, and the army was so anxious that their faces were covered with sweat.

"Lord Chen. Can your Central Army send some scouts to help search the mountain, after all, if the search does not go well, it will also delay the training time of your recruits. The army put down everything and begged Chen Ruoping.

"Yes, but Shuanglong Mountain is more than 700 miles around the mountain. The various departments of the Central Army are relatively scattered, and it will take several days just to pass on the order, and after the selection of the scout elite, three or five days have passed, so your people will find it first. Chen Ruoping said.

"Isn't there a herald in your Central Army, and how long does it take to pass on an order?"

"The departments left in a hurry, and none of them brought the herald birds, and even if they did, they brought some birds to contact the original station, so this... I'm really sorry. Chen Ruoping spread his hands and said that there was really nothing he could do.

The Central Army will also use birds to communicate emergency orders, and the people who manage the birds are the internal personnel of the Central Army trained by the Intelligence Department, and Ding Xiaofeng on Shuanglong Mountain took this opportunity to learn some simple intelligence knowledge, and now Shuanglong Mountain's external and internal contacts are all managed by her. This time, the Central Army was only responsible for encircling the mountain, so it did not bring so many kinds of liaison birds, but only brought some birds from fixed locations to facilitate the maintenance of contact with the personnel left behind in the garrison and discuss the process of returning to the camp.

"Our gendarmes have brought birds inside, and some of them are directly connected to the defense line of the Central Army, and some are not far away, otherwise, Lord Chen issued an order through the contact network of our gendarmerie system, so that all battalions of the Central Army can quickly select elite scouts, what does Lord Chen think?"

"This... I'm afraid they won't believe it, and they will ignore the order when they are ordered. After all, military orders are not child's play, and I don't think it's appropriate to convey the military orders of the Central Army through the gendarmerie. Don't be in such a hurry, maybe your people will make progress today, so let's wait and see. Chen Ruoping said.

She was originally opposed to this anti-bandit operation, but now that she saw that the progress of the gendarmes was unfavorable, it was already interesting enough that she did not gloat, and she would rush to help search the mountains.

In addition, the army saw that it was really not possible here, so he had to issue an order to the 100,000 gendarmes, so that they could change from a rapid march to an emergency march, and quickly come to Shuanglong Mountain to reinforce at all costs.

Just when the minds were discussing urgently, Mo Cong was in the Feilong Camp and the generals of the nearby Fang troops were drinking a little wine and blowing idle days to enhance their friendship with each other. Although the central army and the local army of the Swiss country belong to different sequences, there is no friction between them, after all, everyone guards their own land, each does their own thing, and receives their own salaries, and the biggest friction is just some good things for the small officers to fight for a Qinglou girl and the like, at most they can rise to the squadron level and each send more than 100 people to fight, to Mo Cong, a general of their level can't rub it if they want to, unless one side rebels out of the Swiss army sequence, it is impossible for the two battalions to have more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in each direct exchange of fire。

"General Mo became famous for his scout operations in one fell swoop, and judging with the general's professional vision, when will those gendarmes complete the task of searching the mountains?" asked a local army general.

"The general praised falsely, the place I went to was the grassland of Yima Pingchuan, the terrain was not complicated, but those gendarme brothers were fighting in the mountains and jungles, and the difficulty was not the same. I think the terrain of the mountain here is really complicated, and it is really difficult to judge when the task of searching the mountain will be completed. Mo Cong said modestly.

Just drinking wine and chatting around the mountain, the day passed quickly. Probably in response to Chen Ruoping's words, after the early stage was not smooth, the progress of the 800 gendarmerie suddenly went smoothly again, from morning to noon, more than a dozen gendarmerie groups advanced forward for about five miles, and the other groups finally found a breakthrough in the morning and advanced two or three miles. The army finally breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the teams to make persistent efforts to speed up.

The groups did not dare to slack off, and searched in a circular carpet along the winding mountain road or no road at all, and the faster they went in, the faster they progressed, and when it was dark, the news came back, and the groups had advanced more than ten miles in a whole day from the time they set off to the present, and they should be able to complete it soon if they continued to shrink and shrink more and more at this speed.

The military police scouts made progress, and the ranks surrounding the mountain also shrank inward, further reducing the encirclement by seven or eight miles, which was not far from the speed of five miles a day as imagined in advance. In this way, sometimes smoothly and sometimes unsmoothly, the eight hundred gendarmes walked step by step into the depths of the mountains of Shuanglong Mountain.

As the sky gradually darkened, some of the various groups of gendarmes continued to search, while others stopped to drink water and eat dry food to regain their strength. After more than two days of searching, none of the horse thieves they saw, not even horse manure, but this kind of thing can't tell whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, at least not finding a horse thief is better than being killed by a horse thief hiding in the shadows, so although everyone is meritorious, they are still not arrogant and cautious.

A group of twenty-five men gathered to replenish their food, report on the situation, and set up identification marks at the fork in the key road for the army to follow, then got up and continued their search.

It was already completely dark, and a hazy moon shone on the mountains of Shuanglong Mountain, casting shadows at the foot of the peak. For the sake of safety and security, the members of each team are in a team of five when searching, and sometimes when they encounter a particularly large jungle or a particularly dangerous place, more people or the whole group go directly into it. The sky was dark and the moon was not bright, and the shadows were everywhere, and this bad condition brought great trouble to the gendarmes' search of the mountains, and if they lit the torches, they would regard themselves as the target of cold arrows, and if they did not light the torches, they would really not be able to see their fingers. While the teams were faltering, the people hiding in the shadows were already secretly starting to act, and one by one the figures slashed through the night sky, each rushing towards their respective targets. (To be continued......)