In the unknown small mountain village in Pingzhou, everyone in Yongdu City is eating, and both the palace and Tsing Yi Wei have experts in medicine, they have all tested it, and they dare to eat it with confidence if there is no sign of poisoning.

"Jiang Cheng, your report is right, my people have examined it, among the more than 100 people, there are only six old people, fourteen women, and none of the children under the age of ten, let alone babies, this village is not right."

He Zhifang and Jiang Cheng didn't eat, only nibbled on a little dry food, He Zhifang said worriedly, after he received Jiang Cheng's report, he sent someone to investigate, the population structure is wrong, the village is eighty percent young and strong, this is not a normal village population structure.

"Could it be mountain bandits, the bandits in Pingzhou have always been very serious, and we are walking along the official road, I can't think of anything else except mountain bandits"

"There is this possibility, Pingzhou bandits are rampant, they cannot be exterminated, Pingzhou is also the poorest state in the Great Wei, not to mention eighty percent of the territory is mountainous, and it is extremely precipitous"

"If it's a mountain bandit, it's actually okay, there are more than 200 of us, except for a few adults in the Ministry of Rites, princesses and maids, and more than 20 people, all of whom are strong in martial arts."

"What do you mean..."

"Calming the Gods"

"The Tranquility Pill is indeed too coincidental, if it is not an urgent matter, it must be investigated"

He Zhifang replied, the Anshen Pill case is too coincidental, and the fools can see that there is a problem, but they don't have time to track it down, it is important to hurry, and sending Yu Zhaohua back to Nanzhou to take over the throne is the most important thing, and it must be fast, so as not to have many dreams at night.

"My lord, be careful tonight"

"I know, the outer layer will be handed over to you, I will let the three worshippers help you, try not to let the thieves impact the world"

"Yes, my lord"

Jiang Cheng arched his hand and said, Tsing Yiwei did not have a thousand households this time, but there were two thousand households, and the other one stayed behind, except for He Zhifang, Jiang Cheng was the largest, and the security of the periphery was handed over to Jiang Cheng.

After eating, some people fell asleep in a hurry, and they rushed for more than a month, which consumed a lot of people's spirit, even if they were martial arts practitioners, they might not be able to hold on, and they had to step up their rest.

And the Tsing Yi guards stationed on the outer layer are sleeping in clothes, with knives and guns by their side, and many people can't sleep even if they are very tired, because Jiang Cheng has already ordered, and many people know that something will happen at night.

"Zhao Ziming, how is it, are you sleepy?"

"Don't be sleepy, sir"

"Take it, the mint picked outside, enhance the awakening"

Jiang Cheng gave Zhao Ziming two pieces of mint, which Jiang Cheng picked casually in the village, and the taste was very strong, which could enhance the awakening of the mind.

"Thank you, sir."

"Be careful tonight"

"Yes, so do adults"

"I'm going to patrol"

Jiang Cheng nodded, Zhao Ziming is Jiang Wu's henchman, if he can't die, don't die, it's not easy for Jiang Wu to gather a few henchmen.

Most of the Tsing Yi guards on duty at night are sleepy, Tsing Yi Wei is also a human being, and they are about to be unable to stand it, if they arrive at a larger gathering point, Jiang Cheng will propose to rest, and if they don't rest, many people will not be able to hold on.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh"

When it was almost time, Jiang Cheng heard the sound of breaking the air.

"Enemy Attack"

"Enemy Attack"

"When, when, when"

Before Jiang Cheng moved, he heard a terrible roar, which was sent out by the Tsing Yi Guard's innate offering, and then the Tsing Yi Guard on duty rang the alarm gong, and the awakened Tsing Yi Wei quickly got up and assembled.

"Spread out, fast, it's a fire attack"

Jiang Cheng also rushed out as soon as possible, and saw dozens of torches being thrown from a distance, and the three innate offerings continued to fall, but the fallen torches still lit the houses and tents.

"Kill, kill"

"Rich, rob treasures"

More than 100 villagers have all become fierce mountain bandits at this time, or they were originally mountain bandits, and now they are shouting to get rich and kill everyone.

Jiang Cheng expressed concern about their IQ, the convoy did have two carriages, containing more than a dozen large boxes, but there was really no treasure in the box, that was the emperor's etiquette for pardoning the king of Zhennan, that is, the official uniform of the prince, the big seal documents, etc., plus the personal belongings of Yu Zhaohua's family, such as clothing, food, etc., the real treasures brought from the palace were all behind.

"Kill Them"

Jiang Cheng coldly ordered, the Tsing Yi guards, who had been prepared for a long time, began to kill, the archers gathered a salvo, and a round of bows and arrows went down, and without armor, more than a dozen mountain bandits with shields fell.

And the Tsing Yi Wei worship is even more ruthless, killing them from the left and right into the mountain bandits, and even killing them on their backs.

"Whew..."

"There are wolves"

"It's a mountain wolf again"

"What's going on"

The battlefield suddenly became weird, generally speaking, the bandits are a rabble, intercepted by masters, and they will collapse at the first touch, but those mountain bandits are fighting to the death and do not retreat, and the even more bizarre thing is that halfway through the fight, suddenly a wolf howl appeared, followed by a green eye.

"Withdraw, Defend"

"The shield moves out"

"My lord, we have few shields"

"Door Removal Panel"

"Lighting a Bonfire"

Jiang Cheng kept ordering, most of the Tsing Yi guards who rushed to kill began to retreat, and it didn't take so many people to kill the mountain bandits, and Yu Zhaohua's side had already made a good defense, the palace guards were ready, and the innermost layer was still full body armor, and Yu Zhaohua was the same.

"Jiang Cheng, what's going on"

"I don't know, the mountain wolf has reappeared"

"What the hell is going on, wasn't the mountain wolf killed and retreated?"

"Lord He, Lord Jiang, I suspect it's a barbarian"

Yu Zhaohua said suddenly, everyone's faces changed, but they also felt that it was wrong, this is the hinterland of Great Wei, how can there be barbarians.

"Lord Shizi, are you sure?"

"The barbarians are good at resisting beasts, their living conditions are extremely harsh, and there is also ancient worship, with beasts as totems, mountain wolves appear at this time, it may be that there are barbarian people in the secret beasts"

"This is Pingzhou, not Nanzhou"

"Pingzhou and Nanzhou are connected, and the mountains run through each other, and the border army can't look at it at all"

Yu Zhaohua said that although he has not returned to Nanzhou, he knows a lot about Nanzhou, Pingzhou is north of Nanzhou, but it is connected by mountains, and a small number of areas in Pingzhou are also bordered by the Southern Wilderness, the border of the Great Wei and the Southern Wilderness are intertwined, many mountains and forests cannot be guarded at all, and it is normal for small groups of barbarians to enter and exit the Great Wei, and there is also a very serious smuggling, which cannot be stopped.

"I'll talk about this later, but retreat from the enemy first"

"Lord Jiang, I will give you thirty guards, please retreat from the enemy as soon as possible"

"Yes"

Jiang Cheng nodded, and then a leader of the palace guards with thirty people added to the outer position, and at the same time, hundreds of mountain wolves began to attack.

The mountain wolf is extremely smart, and even knows how to cooperate, constantly roaring, constantly making a surprise appearance, and the archers in the Tsing Yi guard also keep shooting arrows.

"My lord, I'm running out of arrows"

"Mine is gone, too"

"I'll be the last one"

"I still have two"

Soon, the bad news came, the arrows were gone, they didn't have many arrows, they had shot a group of mountain bandits before, and now they were almost all gone.

"Prepare for close combat, don't fight at will, play defensive battles"

Jiang Cheng ordered that their biggest enemy was actually nothing else, but that it was dark and that it was always scary to be out of sight.

From the point of view of command, Jiang Cheng did nothing wrong, but Jiang Cheng overestimated the discipline of these people, what is Tsing Yi Wei, in essence, it is an intelligence agency, focusing on individual ability and small group combat ability, which is used to capture bandits, but they are not an army, and they are much worse in discipline,

So even if Jiang Cheng ordered a defensive battle, there were still people who rushed out, one person rushed out, facing the siege of the wolves, it was suddenly dangerous, and his colleagues, brothers, couldn't stand it, so they went out to support, and soon, a large number of Tsing Yi guards rushed out, but it was the palace guards, who were trained in accordance with military law, and all of them obeyed the order.

"Look, my lord, what's that?"

"What a big mountain wolf, what's that?"

Jiang Cheng was a little overwhelmed now, and someone found something abnormal, in the firelight, someone found dozens of extremely tall mountain wolves, which looked like calves, a large circle larger than ordinary mountain wolves, and these mountain wolves could still stand on two feet.

"It's a man-wolf, it's a man-wolf"

Some palace guards exclaimed, their voices trembling.

"What is a human wolf?"

"The human wolf is the king of wolves, they can stand and walk on both feet, and they can also worship the moon, and they are said to be demons"

"Demons?"

"My lord, I remember, there is a record in the Tsing Yi Wei archives that the human wolf is indeed a demon, and the Lunatic Cult is a sect that was killed in the previous dynasty, and it is in Nanzhou, Pingzhou and the Southern Wilderness area to preach."

"The man-wolf rushed in"

Just between a few people talking, those human wolves rushed out, although they were large, but extremely fast, in the blink of an eye, they rushed to the battlefield, the unprepared Tsing Yi Wei was suddenly killed and injured, some were bitten to death on the spot, some were bitten and dragged away, the battlefield was miserable.

"Go and help"

Yu Zhaohua in the inner layer also saw the human wolf, and said to the leader of the guards beside him, the leader of the guards nodded, and with a slam of his feet, the whole person flew out, splitting a mountain wolf with a knife.

"Innate"

Jiang Cheng took a look at it and knew that this person was an innate martial artist, and he was the kind that had been in the innate for a long time, not a weak chicken who had just entered the innate world.

"The palace guards, you form a formation to rush and kill, and exterminate the mountain wolf"

Jiang Cheng ordered, but he himself brought a few people to Yu Zhaohua's side.

"Lord He, the situation is not right"

"What's wrong again?"

"What about offerings?"

"This..."

He Zhifang was stunned, yes, what about the offerings, there are only more than 100 mountain bandits in total, and after fighting for so long, the movement is gone, why didn't the worship come back.

"Prepare to break through, their target is Lord Shizi, and how many masters are there, all of them will follow Shizi"

Jiang Cheng said to He Zhifang, there is definitely an enemy in command in secret, and they are led by the nose by the enemy, scattering their forces step by step, since this is the case, Jiang Cheng will help him and directly let Yu Zhaohua break through, so that he can't take a few people.

He Zhifang was about to cry, his brain was not enough, he didn't know what to do, he knew that breaking through was the next step, but he didn't know what better way to do it.