The bridge is arched, but the topography says that it is high in the north and low in the south. Birds chirp and insects chirp all around, and the plants that have turned red and yellow on the mountain are intertwined with the dark green, as if a beautiful landscape picture is hidden behind the hazy fog of the early morning.

The river under the bridge is about three zhang wide, and in this late autumn season, the river is not in a hurry, and the sound is slow. It seems to be lazy because the air has become colder, but the fog that is still floating on the surface of the water knows that it is not shallow, and it can drown people if it is not!

"Shh——!h Li Dan turned around and made a silent gesture to everyone, he waited for the grinning Lu Jiu and the others with a stern gaze, then turned around and walked slowly and silently towards the wooden bridge.

Zhao Baogen swallowed and foamed involuntarily, he saw his partner Lu Rui's brows tightened, and thought to himself that if something happened to this Lord Li here, how could we go back to pay the decree?

Zhou Tu pulled out three arrows from behind him, one in his mouth, one in his hand holding the bow, and the other on the string.

Lai Wufa stretched his neck and put his hand on the hilt of the knife, and he felt that his heart was about to stop.

Of course, he remembered that he was a sentry on the bridge, and that he ended up being a prisoner of a life, which seemed like a long time ago. Now, he only begged the heavens in his heart not to let the sound of the lord's feet!

Everyone looked at Li Dan's back like this, and walked towards the bridgehead step by step. Every dry leaf that was trampled on was cursed in their hearts, as if they shouldn't have made a sound.

Li Dan himself is also cautious, he is not worried about his feet, mainly ...... There were enemy defenders on the other side of the bridge, and Li Dan could even hear them talking in whispers.

He wore a bamboo hat, and the mist that had condensed in the morning light was dripping from the brim of his hat, and the dripping was clearly audible on the coat he was wearing.

Since the discovery of the enemy's situation, the whole battalion has been blocked in Fengqi Pass for a day and night. Due to the fog, it has been impossible to see the true number of enemies on the other side, and it has really become "only the sound of human voices, but the empty mountains and no people".

Fortunately, the camp on the South Mountain still existed, and the main force went up the mountain to camp first. Because the wall of the Toad Pond camp was still there, Li Dan asked Song Jiuyi's auxiliary squadron not to go up to Nanshan and directly stationed in Toad Pond.

After a night's rest, the 3rd and 2nd companies of Shi's army entered the position in the early morning reinforced by the reconnaissance platoon to prepare for the capture of Fengling Town.

Just when everyone was anxious about the long-lasting fog, Li Dan suddenly asked everyone to wait here, and he went to the front to take a look. Before everyone could understand, he had already gone to the bridge alone.

Standing in front of the bridge, Li Dan looked left and right, and then tiptoed to look at the bridge. He suddenly remembered a scene from a famous war movie in his previous life, and wanted to try it himself on a whim, but just stepped on the bridge when he suddenly heard movement behind him.

As soon as he turned around, he saw that it was Lai Wufa who was carrying a spear behind him, and when he saw him glaring at him, he quickly knelt down on one leg. Li Dan bit his lip and signaled him not to move, just stay at the bridge, and then slowly walked towards the bridge.

The voices of the enemy on the other side seemed to stop, and after a while they began again. Li Dan stopped, slowly stood on tiptoe, and couldn't see the other side. He continued to walk up, taking a few steps before stopping, and standing on tiptoe again.

This time he saw three men in robes and hats sitting around the bridge, with leggings tied to their legs and knives and spears in their arms, chatting happily.

A thin and black-faced man complained that he was conscripted into the army, and his daughter-in-law didn't know about it, and when he returned from the war, he might have remarried.

Another with a short beard and a fierce face said, "Although Lao Tzu has no daughter-in-law, he can't continue the iron business. Alas, the hard life of the hard-working man is deserved by the womb when he was born!"

The third seemed to be young, and timidly asked, "The two eldest brothers didn't even think about running away? No one knows anyway, so what if we slip away?"

"Where are you going in this wilderness? I was accidentally caught by the officers and soldiers and the villagers, and your head was cut off to repay your merits!" The fierce-faced man frightened him, and the boy seemed to shrink back.

Thin Face hurriedly comforted him: "Don't be afraid, it's also good to follow the team, there is food to eat, right?" There are officers and soldiers more than two miles past this bridge, and you can't tell you if you encounter them, you can really be cut down as a spy.

It's safe to stay here, and you can live one more day without anyone coming. I've heard that there are thousands of officers and soldiers there

, so don't go anywhere, it's best for you to stay here with our brothers!"

As soon as he finished saying this, he suddenly jumped up and drew his knife from its sheath, and shouted in a low voice, "Who is it? Come out!"

The young man was so frightened that he grabbed the red tassel gun and asked in a trembling voice, "Is there anybody?" Where, where?"

What surprised Li Dan the most was that the fierce-faced man jumped up on the ground, crawled into the grass next to him, but pouted half of his ass and shivered.

"Don't be nervous, everyone, your surname is Li, and you are a child. Such a beautiful morning and full of fun in the mountains, so walking here, there are many disturbs. I'm listening to you chatting here, and I'm going to have some fun.

There is still half a bag of sake in the skin, I wonder if the hero will be happy?" Li Dan said, pointed down his current position with his fingers, summoned Lai Wufa to come over and squat down and stand by, and he himself picked up the wine bag on his waist and walked up to the bridge with a smile.

Seeing him emerge from the fog, the two people below were obviously relieved. "It's a scholar, what are you doing this early in the morning? By the way, where are you from?" The boy straightened up and slowly lowered the gun in his hand.

"I stayed in the toad pond last night, but there was really a toad inside, and it was very noisy all night, so I couldn't sleep well. So I simply decided to come out for a walk, and the scenery near the left of Fengqi Pass is also famous locally.

I wanted to go up to the pavilion to see the sunrise, but I couldn't find the way, so I walked along the riverbank." Li Dan said and sat down cross-legged, raising the wine bag in his hand: "What, why don't you taste it together?"

The boy swallowed and foamed, and turned his head to look at the thin man. The thin man was alert, put the knife into the sheath and held it in his arms, and said, "Childe is a guest, you invite first!"

"Well, that makes sense." Li Dan unscrewed the cork lid and took a sip of it himself, handing it to the young man. The young man also drank it, and immediately his eyes lit up, and he shouted, "Fourth Brother Pei, serve good wine, I have never drunk such a delicious wine in my life!"

The thin man sighed, rubbed the top of his head, and said, "How many jars have you drunk in your life? Breathe a big sigh!"

Li Dan laughed and said, "I think this brother should be about the same age as Zaixia, right? Why are you all fighting as soldiers?" The two of them are in a pretend, and the young man is one year older than Li Dan, but he is far inferior to him.

As they spoke, they drank and they got closer, and then they heard a noise in the grass, and the fierce-faced man crawled out, ignoring the cobwebs and grass stalks on his head, and hurriedly ran and shouted, "If you have wine to drink, you don't wait for me, and you are biased against yourself!"

Fourth Brother Pei pouted: "When something happens, you run faster than anyone else, and you still have the face to beg for wine?"

"This is Zeng Tietou, he was originally a blacksmith, and he was arrested halfway through to buy things." The teenager said.

Li Dan arched his hand and asked, "Then what is your name?"

"My name is Mao Xiulu, a native of Yongfeng Shatin." The boy replied.

"He's a child, too." After speaking, Fourth Brother Pei snatched the wine bag from Zeng Tietou's hand and returned it to Li Dan respectfully.

"Are you a child?" Li Dan looked at him in surprise: "Then why are you ......?"

Mao Xiulu smiled bitterly: "When my father died, my mother drove our mother and son out, and only gave us a house and fifteen acres of land. We were followed by an old servant, Uncle Luo, an old soldier with a wounded leg, who helped take care of the land, and the three of us barely survived.

Later, Yin Shuai's team came and wanted to draw Ding as a soldier. Luo Bo refused to go, and they heard from somewhere that he had been a soldier, so they wanted to kill him. So I begged them to spare Uncle Luo and to serve as a soldier for him."

Li Dan was stunned and patted him on the shoulder: "You did the right thing!" Then he turned to Fourth Brother Pei and Zeng Tietou: "You two were also arrested and came out?" The two nodded. "A few people are in turmoil, but they want everyone in the world to accompany him, making the people's lives miserable!" Li Dan said indignantly.

Fourth Brother Pei's eyes narrowed, and he suddenly said, "Listen to what you mean, do you agree?"

"Naturally, I can't agree." Li Dan didn't take the wine bag back, handed it to Mao Xiulu again, and then said, "Yintuo rebelled with Lou Zishi, Lou Zishi wanted to defeat Shangrao and claim the king, and Yintuo also wanted to be the king if he was not convinced.

You see, these two guys will bite each other in order to compete for Shangrao, Guangxin Mansion doesn't know how many people have to die?

This summer, Lou Zishi was surrounded for the first time

At the time of Shangrao, the harvest in this area was almost wiped out, and now that there is no relief from the imperial court next spring, Guangxin Mansion is likely to break out in large-scale famine and epidemic.

Those two guys don't care, as long as they don't compete for the high and low, they will continue to catch strong men and continue to fight!

It was endless, until there was no one to catch anymore, and they were tired of each other, and the imperial court reinforcements and encirclement teams came up, and these two guys slipped into the mountains and threw the mess to the imperial court.

When the population recovered, they came out of the mountains again, saying that the court was not right and that it was not good, and bewitched the people to follow them to make trouble again. Hmph, therefore, displacement has never had anything to do with people like them, it is the people who suffer!"

The three of them looked at each other. Zeng Tietou whispered, "Childe seems to be very reasonable!"

"It's not only very reasonable, it's simply thorough!" Mao Xiulu suddenly tidied up his clothes and arched his hand: "Although I am in the bandit camp, I dare to ask the name of my son? Don't worry, we won't say it!"

"Yes! We don't say!" Zeng Tietou hurriedly agreed, but Fourth Brother Pei didn't speak.

Li Dan smiled: "It's better not to know, I'm afraid that if you know, it will harm your life if it reaches the ears of your boss."

"Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years. If Xiulu didn't even know who he was talking to, wouldn't he regret it for the rest of his life?" Mao Xiulu saluted again.

Li Dan smiled but turned to Fourth Brother Pei: "I'm still on the other side of the bridge, you have already found out, good hearing!" I'm afraid it's not a simple strong man, right? If you come to guard the bridge and patrol the sentry, it means that they have not yet discovered that you have martial arts. I don't know if I'm right?"

"Hmph, Childe walks lightly, looking forward to Shenfei, I'm afraid he is not a simple scholar." The corners of Brother Pei's mouth turned up:

"Also, if you don't have two strokes on your body, how can you walk freely in this chaotic world? However, people have a name in the rivers and lakes, and they dare not show their names that are not the work of the big husband." Talking about holding fists:

"In Xia Pei Si, the large Heavenly Tiger, known as 'Black Tiger Shiro. I was on my way to visit a friend when the Yintuo incident happened, and I didn't want to be coerced and had no way to get out.

"Hey, why didn't you take the opportunity to escape when Yintuo was defeated in the summer?"

Li Dan's question made Pei Tianhu's eyes flash. "I'm Yinshuai's own army, and I'll flee with him all the way. Later, he was sent by Lou Shiming to return to the south bank.

Now that I have come down to make a small flag, I actually have the intention of seeing an opportunity to escape." After he finished speaking, he changed his words: "Since Childe knows about summer, then he hasn't just arrived in the local area, right?"

"I'm going and coming back." Li Dan smiled: "So, Jun is from Fujian?"

"No, my home is in Yushan."

"Oh? That's not far from Shangrao."

"So I don't dare to go back now, that side is still occupied by Lou Zishi, and I can't say that I will be caught when I go back."

Li Dan nodded: "There is a heroic gentleman in Shangrao who can you know?" It is said that this person is good at locksmithing and is very skillful, but he has been living in seclusion all the year round, and is known as 'one of the three masters of Jiangnan'."

"Childe is talking about Suo Tiangang judging Jie. Pei Si is ashamed, he is a junior, Xianjie and Pei Si are from the same family, and they are my uncle in terms of seniority." Pei Tianhu tilted his head and looked at Li Dan again:

"After talking for a long time, Childe has figured out everything about us, but he still refuses to tell the honorable driver?" As he spoke, he lowered his arms in his arms.

"Actually, it doesn't hurt to tell you. Under the surname Li Mingdan, he is known as 'Xiao Yuanba Li Sanlang is also.'"

When Mao Xiulu heard this, he thought that he was also a person from the rivers and lakes, so he hurriedly made a gesture and said: "Disrespectful, disrespectful!" Zeng Tietou also learned the same thing at a glance. Pei Tianhu was stunned: "Li Dan, Li Sanlang? Are you from Yugan County?"

"Exactly!"

Pei Tianhu jumped up, took two steps back, pulled his sword out of its sheath, and glared, "You, you are Li Sanlang, the leader of the Tsing Yi team?"

"Yes!"

"Ah, the Tsing Shirts?" Mao Xiulu and Zeng Tietou also jumped up, and the blacksmith threw it back to Li Dan as if the wine bag in his hand was hot, and then circled around the ground to find where he left his spear gun.

Li Dan smiled

The wine bag was hung around his waist, and he got up and patted the soil, but he didn't move in place.

"You, so bold! Aren't you afraid that we will tie you up to repay your merits?" Pei Si looked nervously in a certain direction, and said nervously in a suppressed voice, "While others don't see it, you'd better leave quickly!"

"When you just come here, how can you just leave?" Li Dan said with a smile.

"You—you're going to attack the town?" Mao Xiulu suddenly understood.

"Xiulu is not the right word, such a small town, this defender is not worth attacking at all."

"You don't come alone, you have the patience to chat with the three of us, and invite us to drink, what do you want to do?"

Zeng Tietou hadn't found where his gun had gone, he had heard Pei Si tell the story of Yintuo fighting with the Tsing Yi team many times, and in his opinion, he was a monster who was tougher than the official army, so he spoke with a trill.

"I'm not alone, I have a companion behind the bridge." Li Dan beckoned, and Lai Wufa appeared and stood majestically on the bridge.

"Originally, with a wave of my hand, the three of you could be overwhelmed by the army. But when I heard you on the other side, I felt that you were all miserable people, wouldn't it be better to give you a clear way? So I'm going to come and talk to you myself."

"What if you talk about it? It's nothing more than sparing our lives." Pei Si said.

"Speaking of life, how much do you think you can buy back a life?" Li Dan asked:

"When I first conquered here, dozens of recalcitrant people died at this bridgehead, but he survived, and after being captured, he joined the Tsing Yi team, and now he is an inspector from Jiupin."

Li Dan pointed his finger at Lai Wufa: "You can ask him, what is a life worth?"

The three of them were a little moved when they heard this, and Zeng Tietou took a few steps forward and asked Lai Wufa, "Have you really guarded this bridge?"

Lai Wu smiled: "That night we were also a three-person guard post, and there were officials living in the fort below, and most of them spent the night in the shed outside.

I remember that it was too hot in the summer, so I went to the back pond to carry water and poured it on myself, and then I went back to the shore and took the clothes from the branches of the locust to dry and put them on."

"He—what he said was true." Zeng Tietou turned around and muttered, everyone knows about the dragon horn locust, so Pei Si also lowered his head this time, and the knife in his hand also hung down.

"If you lie to me, Black Tiger Shiro will never give up with you!" He said.

Li Dan shook his head: "It doesn't matter if you and I are willing to give up or not, I just ask you what the strength of the town is, where is it, and who is the leader of the troops?" Answer honestly, and you will be credited with what you have done."

"You're just a regimental leader, how can you make credit for me?" Pei Si was a little unconvinced.

"Look at this." Li Dan took two ribbon buttons from the pocket of his clothes and put them in Mao Xiulu's hands, one was "Wu Cai Lieutenant" and the other was "Jiangnan West Road Xuanfu Experience".

As soon as Mao Xiulu told the two of them, they understood, and quickly knelt down and bowed together, saying, "The grass people and others are offended, please forgive me!"

Li Dan hurriedly pulled them up: "I have been ordered to come to Shangrao, and the army is waiting for the order to advance, without further ado, what is the military situation of the king, I hope to tell the truth as soon as possible!"

So the three of them sat down on the ground and told them what was going on in the town. Li Dan has already occupied this place once, so he is naturally familiar with the road as soon as he hears it. Immediately summoned Lai Wu and told him:

"There are sixty guards in the front fort, and the head sentry is an old bandit, don't stay, go with the reconnaissance platoon, try not to alarm people. There are also a hundred people living in the Land Temple, let the Shi army be dealt with!

The second and fourth companies surrounded and solved Tujiayuan, where there were more than 300 enemies, and he knew very well which way to enter and interrogate the hero! A company marched to the cold water shop to stand on guard." Lai Wufa agreed and ran away.

Pei Si was surprised: "What's the matter, Uncle Judge is also here?"

"Hmm." Li Dan smiled and nodded: "You can meet in a while, but he has to focus on the task first, Xiulu will take him to capture the fortress." The blacksmith will take the stone to the land temple in a while, is it possible?"

Then he asked Pei Si, "How is Guangxin and Shangrao now, have you heard of it?" Wait a while to go to Tujiayuan, you will know on the way

and all that is heard and speak."

Before the words were spoken, the reconnaissance platoon had already run across the bridge. Shen Jie saw Pei Si at a glance and nodded at him, "Tianhu, you did a good job!" Let's talk about the old days after the battle, I'll go to work first."

After speaking, Li Dan handed over Mao Xiulu to him and asked him to take care of the child. Shen Jie led the reconnaissance platoon into two ways and surrounded the fortress.

Then came the company of Shi Dajun, Li Dan introduced him to the blacksmith, and then said, "After you occupy the land temple here, I can go to Tujiayuan, remember to send someone to report to me."

"Yes!" After Shi Dajun finished speaking, he beat the blacksmith: "Well, that's good! Stay in my company after the battle, the stone likes people with great strength! Let's go, let's compete, let's test our strength after the battle!"

By this time, the sky had completely brightened, and the horses, vehicles, and flags on the other side were gradually emerging from the dissipated mist. Pei Si gasped and sighed.

"Huh?" Li Dan looked over inquiringly.

"The villain is glad that he didn't do anything with the adults just now, otherwise he would ......."

Li Dan laughed, beckoned Lu Jiu to lead his horse, and asked Pei Si to borrow a horse, and the two walked slowly towards the middle of the street.

Lu Jiu (Mao Tsai's brother suddenly fell ill, so he could not accompany him) and Master Lin also got on their horses and followed, followed by the second, fourth, and fifth companies, and then a long line of auxiliary convoys and carts full of grain.

These grains are more than 10,000 stones, as well as 4,000 catties of various soybean fodder and grass, which were seized from the warehouses of various counties after the occupation of Guixi, Geyang, and Xing'an.

Along the way, Li Dan not only looted all the silver and grain depots in each county, but also bought and requisitioned all the vehicles and livestock along the way, so there were more than 400 volunteers in the auxiliary team.

Li Dan pondered that the grain transported last time was enough for Shangrao to support all the autumn grain harvest, but it was difficult to say how much of it could actually be stored due to the war, so most of these grains had to be left for Shangrao and Guangxin to defend the army, except for the whole battalion on the road.

He didn't realize at this time that this seemingly redundant decision he made turned out to be a turning point in the battle of Shangrao.