However, Hong Fan sang the opposite.

"I think Hegong has been planning for a long time."

He laughed.

"I once read a sentence from a book, which was said by an ancient saint, and I think it makes sense."

"I am greedy when others are afraid, and I am afraid when others are greedy."

"If you can do amazing things, you can get amazing benefits!"

However, Li Xing found that he obviously did not see any "amazing benefits".

"What did the ancient sage say this? I think it's the stock of the ass! ”

He patted the armrest and smiled wryly.

"My good Hong Shao, I'm worried about this, you still have fun with this......"

The word "stock saint" was said by everyone, and they raised their glasses and walked another round.

Half an hour later, the four of them were full, and the four of them left.

The cost of meals naturally falls on the heads of the tall and the young.

Hong Fan went home and took a nap for a while, and got up to practice martial arts as usual.

When the sun was about to set, he bathed and changed his clothes, and went out wearing a hat.

The Li family was going to move away, which he had long expected.

And this can also be used as a sign that the Heaven-Turning Society has completed its preliminary preparations and is about to start an incident.

The so-called half-ninety who travels a hundred miles, the closer to success, the easier it is to expose flaws.

All it takes is a tangible piece of physical evidence to turn the tide on Hong Beom.

It's hard to say, but it's easy to say.

Since ancient times, the means of conquering a fortified city have long been exhausted, and there is nothing new.

Besiege the heart, earn the gate inside, burn the logistics, destroy the ordnance, dig the tunnels, destroy the city walls......

In view of the above means, Hong Fan made an elimination method one by one.

Hong Jian warned that the ordnance of the garrison in the city was currently under extremely strict control, and no major incident could occur.

In terms of logistics, as an important military town in the frontier, Jinhai's grain storage is enough for the whole city to eat for more than a year.

The water source is based on wells and canals (qanats) drawn from Taishan.

Spring is the season of snow, and the amount of water in the culvert is not small, and it cannot be poisoned at all.

As for Neiying, the Li family itself has to leave, where can they find a large number of people to work for the aliens?

Based on this, what can be arranged in advance and play a decisive role is nothing more than the city walls and tunnels.

And Hong Fan, as the star monarch in charge of the barren sand, is a first-class professional counterpart in exploring underground fortifications.

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Jinhaicheng is not counted as a township and county under its rule, with a total population of more than 100,000, and it is not a big city in Liangzhou, let alone the world.

However, due to the guarding of the frontier arteries, its walls were built solid and magnificent.

The circumference is eighteen miles, the wall is four zhang high, and the top is two or three zhang wide, enough for several horses to gallop side by side.

Under the cover of night, Hong Fan found a no-man's land and easily climbed the city wall.

Pressing against the female wall, in the moonlight, he looked down.

With the climate of Jinhai City, it is naturally not worthy of the moat, and there is only a ditch more than ten meters wide at the base of the wall.

At the bottom of the trench, the roots of the wooden thorns and iron chisels are erect, and there are many dried ochre colors on them, and it is impossible to tell whether it is rust or blood.

Hong Fan looked left and right, supported it casually, and jumped off the city wall.

The sand stream turned into an insole under his feet, allowing him to walk on wooden thorns against the wall.

The True Yuan of the Sand World spread out, helping the Juggernaut sense everything in the inner layer within a radius of more than twenty meters.

The quality of the city walls is excellent.

The foundation is two meters deep, with long wooden piles that penetrate the earth as the skeleton, and then compacted with layers of earth, and the outer bricks are laid with blue bricks.

Similar to the city gate, watchtower and other key places, even purely with stone construction, and then with rice milk to solidify the gaps.

In the blind corner of the guards' line of sight, Hong Fan flew silently eastward along the northern section of the city wall.

Three or four miles of land had passed, and he approached the northeast corner of the city, becoming more and more focused on his senses.

The Li family's mansion is located in this direction of Jinhai City.

The results were not as expected.

Separated from the Li Mansion by a wall, a straight underground cavity appeared in the induction of the sand world.

Hong Fan stopped and focused all his attention under his feet.

[The depth is six to eight meters, and the width is only enough for two people side by side.] 】

[It's a bit cramped for people, but it doesn't matter to snake people. 】

In the tunnel, where there is no one and no light, scattered sand and dust rise from the ground, slowly filling the entire space.

It's like a temporary limb for Hong Fan.

As the sand and dust danced and collided, he had a rough three-dimensional model of the tunnel in his mind.

[The ground is compacted, and the top and sides are reinforced with wooden columns.] 】

Waiting for the sentinels on the tower to patrol elsewhere, Hong Fan traveled north along the tunnel.

Finally, the end was sensed at a grassy slope eight hundred meters away.

The entrance to the tunnel was backfilled with two meters of sand at the bottom of the slope facing away from the city wall, and the surface was covered with weeds.

If there were no sand world, even if someone stepped on it, they wouldn't notice anything unusual.

Hong Fan exhaled lightly, returned to the city wall, and continued to explore along the wall.

Later, in the eastern part of the city wall, he sensed that there was a foreign object buried under the foundation, and it was no accident that it should be explosives or something.

It was only after circling the city for a week that Hong Fan rushed back to Hongfu over the wall.

The lights in the temple are lit up.

A quarter of an hour later, Hong Jian, Hong Wu, and Hong Fan secretly left and rushed to the northern city wall.

And that's not the end of the story.

At the beginning of the day, the two members of the Hong family, who confirmed the existence of the tunnel, left again.

Half an hour later, they returned with four more.

They are Zheng Zhun, Gongsun Shi, Wen Zhongguan, and Liao Zhenghao.

The last of them, Hong Fan, was not familiar.

This person is the garrison of the City Defense Division, and he is a sympathetic cultivator of heaven and man, ranking among the five grades.

The reason why these people were invited here was because they were official officials of various systems of the imperial court, and it was their duty to guard the land.

If Jinhai City is broken, they will be implicated in the loss of defending the land, so it is unlikely that they will be implicated in the Heaven Turning Society.

Along the entrance of the cave cleared by Hong Fan, Hong Jian held a torch and lined up, and the six people entered in turn.

The tunnel is long and narrow, and the excavation traces are clear everywhere.

In particular, the mud at the end of the wall has not yet dried, indicating that the construction is likely to have been completed in the past two days.

There is no one in the tunnel.

The six of them walked silently, walking for about two miles, before they reached the end.

Under the wide door of the locked cellar, an open area with a diameter of more than ten meters was deliberately dug up.

"This is to facilitate the besieging side to gather their forces and go to the ground in one go."

Liao Zhenghao said in a low voice, his face pale.

Gongsun Shi nodded silently.

The cultivation of several martial artists present is not low, and they have a sense of direction far beyond ordinary people.

They didn't need to go up to the ground to know that they were under the Li Mansion.

"The Li family started renovating the back garden last year, and I know that."

Zheng Zhun muttered.

"I didn't expect it to be covering up the ...... of the tunnel"

His face was ugly.

As a city guard, if the city of Jinhai is broken, Zheng Zhun will either die with the city, or be beheaded for his crimes.

After seeing the tunnel, I returned the same way.

Hong Fan cleared the footprints along the way and restored the earthwork and turf at the end of the passage.

Then the people went to the eastern part of the city wall and dug up the foreign object buried in the ground.

It was a wooden box the size of a desk, painted with white paint and painted with thunder patterns.

"This thing is called White Thor!"

Smell the middle and recognize it at a glance.

"It is the second grade mechanism made in our prison, with chalcedony full of fire and thunder attribute innate aura as the core, and made of explosives."

"Once detonated, combined with this pre-dug underground cavity, it is enough to blow up the three-zhang wide city wall."

At this point, everyone no longer has any doubts about the collusion and planning between the Li family and the Heaven Turning Society.

"If it weren't for the meticulous heart of the virtuous nephew, Jin Hai would be in a catastrophe this time."

Gongsun Shi watched Hong Fan manipulate the sand to backfill and compact the gaps, and sighed in a low voice.

"Selling property, moving south ......"

He sneered again.

"Li Heming really made a good calculation!"

PS: The official system in this book is a mash-up of multiple dynasties.

Don't delve into it.

(End of chapter)