That evening, a group of gendarmerie groups suddenly lost contact with the gendarmerie battalion and did not return the report when it came time to make progress. The gendarmerie battalion hurriedly took the initiative to send birds to contact, but two batches of birds were passed but they could not be contacted, and even the birds that were released were not returned. The army hurriedly convened his subordinates for urgent consultations, and at the same time warned the other teams to temporarily stop the mountain search operation, stay in a safe place as soon as possible to avoid accidents, and wait until dawn to continue the operation.

As a result, the warning birds here had not yet been released, and a cold arrow with a letter swished through the night sky and was nailed to the wooden stake outside the camp tent. When the army opened the letter and looked at it through the lamp, his face suddenly exploded.

I saw that it was written: "Your people are in our hands, and one hundred taels of silver will not be bargained, give you a stick of incense and put two thousand five hundred taels of silver in the grove fifteen miles northwest of Daying, and after that time, you will go to the hill fifteen miles northeast of Daying to find someone's head." ”

"Robbery, this is a naked robbery, it really makes no sense, those horse thieves kidnapped tickets to our heads. In a fit of rage, he tore up the piece of paper, and immediately ordered a thousand gendarmerie soldiers to go to the two places on the extortion letter in two ways, and must find the horse thief hiding in the shadows, and at the same time sent a team of elite scouts to quickly search and find the horse thief who fired the cold arrow.

The three soldiers and horses moved separately, and the warning birds were also released, and the soldiers paced around in the camp tent anxiously waiting for news.

After half a pillar of incense, another cold arrow hit the stake, and Duan Wenhuo shrank his head and went out to retrieve the letterhead, only to see that it read: "Thank you Commander for sending another 102,000 taels of silver, and the location remains the same." ”

Everyone was shocked, and they were a little unsure whether the horse thief had really captured the three people or was bluffing. He was so good at kung fu, and more than 1,000 people marched a total of less than two miles. Is this all annihilated?

"Commander, what do you do about this?" Duan Wen was covered in cold sweat.

"Don't say we don't have so much silver, even if we have, we can't start this, the gendarmes were robbed by horse thieves, this kind of thing is definitely a great shame to spread out, and those horse thieves will taste the sweetness and will come to extort them unscrupulously, and in the end they may ask us to let go of a road to let them go down the mountain, no... This is absolutely not a no-go. He said as he walked around.

A group of gendarmerie generals were also helpless, they also participated in the encirclement and suppression of horse thieves in other places, but they had never seen such arrogant horse thieves as Shuanglong Mountain. The robbery hit the head of the encirclement and suppression troops. It's absolutely whimsical and lawless.

Just when everyone was at a loss, the bird herald from the military police came in to report that two more search teams had lost contact and that the birds were gone.

"It's... How is this possible? Those gendarmes are all selected masters, and each one is a hundred, how can it be that fifty people can't be contacted if they can't be contacted? How many horse thieves are there on Shuanglong Mountain?"

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Just when a group of gendarmerie generals were shocked, in the depths of Shuanglong Mountain, Mo Cong and Mo Xiao were each looking for the next group of targets on one side of the mountain, and they sent a signal once they succeeded. The hapless gendarmes were already trapped in a pile of rubble, unable to get out. As a result, they fainted to the ground in the dark in front of them for some reason, and all the contact birds they brought with them flew to the horse thieves of Shuanglong Mountain to pass on the message, and the birds sent by the military police battalion were also led to the horse thieves by various special signs and special gestures.

"Lord Ding, do you think those gendarmes will send the silver?" A horse thief scout asked Ding Xiaofeng in a low voice.

"These people are just small fish and shrimp, those gendarmerie leaders may not care about their life and death, and they will be scared when we catch a big fish later. Ding Xiaofeng whispered: "Okay, let's transfer the prisoners as soon as possible and then go to the next location to catch the prisoners." ”

"It's the first time I've fought such an easy battle. It's so enjoyable. A scout, with two unconscious captives in his arms and one on his shoulder, hurried through the rocks to the depths of the hide. Others also carried and quickly transferred the captives.

Time passed in a hurry, the gendarme battalion, bad news came one after another, the thirty-two groups of gendarmes all lost contact, as if suddenly the world evaporated, those horse thieves were too lazy to send letters one by one, but finally packed up, gave a ransom of 1,800 heads of 180,000 taels of silver, and the other 200 people said that because they missed the time, their heads had fallen to the ground, and if you wanted a corpse, you could consider five taels of silver, discounted by 1,000 taels.

A group of gendarmerie generals all rushed to the ground when they heard the news, some said that they were bluffing and would never dare to really kill people, some said that if it was true, the two thousand people would be finished, and some said that what should I do, where to find the 180,000 taels of silver, I can't declare it to the imperial court, and some people said that if it really can't be done, let the two thousand people fend for themselves, anyway, everything is possible to go up the mountain to suppress bandits, everyone originally came with the intention of dying in battle, and it is expected that they really died in the end.

"Okay, since Deputy Commander Duan regards death as home, then you will now take 20,000 gendarmes up the mountain to search and rescue, Deputy Commander Du, you will also take 20,000 gendarmes to the east of the mountain to rescue and search. ”

Of the 100,000 gendarmes who had come to reinforce them, 60,000 had already arrived near Shuanglong Mountain, 20,000 of them were still 30 miles away and were estimated to arrive at dawn, while the other 40,000 had already reached the foot of the mountain and were advancing to the gendarmerie camp, which would come in handy immediately.

"This ......" The two deputy commanders were sweating on their foreheads, they originally thought that this time it was just a formality and a meritorious service, but they didn't expect to really meet horse thieves and those horse thieves were so arrogant and powerful, Duan Wenhuo did some foreshadowing work in the early stage in order to quietly run those horse thieves, so as to leave an empty mountain, and when the time comes, just kill a few ordinary people and pretend to be horse thieves to ask for credit, but I didn't expect those horse thieves to be stubborn and stubborn, and they had to stay here and die with him, which really made the deputy commander's lungs blow up.

"Saving people is like fighting a fire, immediately prepare to lead the troops, and I will send another 20,000 people to reinforce you at dawn. The congjun gave a death order, and threw two tokens to the two of them to hurry up.

The two of them held two tokens, as if they were holding two spirit cards, their hearts were full of pain, and every step was also very heavy, who was provoked, and they had to run to this place to suffer the crime? The two brothers and sisters were out of the camp and whispered their hearts, when suddenly a wind sounded, and the two of them fainted together in front of them, and before they fell to the ground, they were taken by an afterimage and flew into the night sky and disappeared into the deep mountains and dense forests. (To be continued......)