By the time Wang Ruoli arrived at the Red Maple Building, the captain of the guard, Kou Xin, had been waiting at the entrance of the courtyard for a long time.

Wang Ruoli walked into the Ning Red Hall and asked, "How is the situation in the mining area over there in the Red Maple Mountain Range?"

"Young Master Hui, Liang Zhangshi and the six escort captains have been stationed in the mining area to patrol two days ago, but the news of the red iron deposit has somehow spread to the whole city for several days! Kou Xin frowned slightly.

Kou Xin glanced at Wang Ruoli's expression, and then said: "These are just horse thieves and rogues gathered from the neighboring military towns, and their strength is weak, as the news spreads farther and farther, the subordinates are worried that not only will there be more and more people who will hear the news, but also the strength will become stronger and stronger, and the mining area may be difficult to hold!" Now that they have heard the news, the people with the idea of treasure hunting, just like rushing to the market, have already stayed at the foot of Hongfeng Mountain, or in the nearby villages, and the number of people is only afraid of no less than a few thousand, among which there are not a few masters of the three paths of Jitian, and there may even be masters of the Danyuan Sanhua (Hua Dan, Hua Yuan, Hua Ling) have arrived!

"Is there any movement from the Sima family and the Xie family?" Wang Ruoli's face was heavy, "Also, have the Jingxiang royal family and the military sent people over?"

"The Sima family is from the second son, Sima Shen, and the Xie family is from Xie Lingqiao! As for the military, I heard that Jiang Fengnian, the general of Huwei, was dispatched, and it is expected to arrive tomorrow!" Kou Xin said truthfully.

Wang Ruoli couldn't help but think carefully: Whether it is the other two major families, or the military, the people sent are obviously outposts, it seems that the major forces do not fully believe in the red iron deposits, otherwise there are far more than these people sent!

"Kou Xin, you ask the guards stationed in the Red Maple Xiaozhu to prepare, wear civilian clothes tomorrow, and set off at 7:00 a.m.!" Wang Ruoli thought for a moment and ordered.

"Yes!" said Kou Xin faithfully.

The night was dark.

The Ye family in Luoshui Town.

A group of fast riders came galloping, fast but not loud.

"Inferior Luoshui Town Captain Ye Wushuang, see General Huwei!" Ye Wushuang led the crowd to greet him at the door.

"Hmm!" The general led by him hummed lightly, turned off the horse, and under the guidance of Ye Wushuang, stepped into the Ye family's mansion.

"Captain Ye, has the red iron deposit been verified to be true?" Waiting for the Huwei general Jiang Fengnian to sit down at the head of the hall, he retreated, leaving only the guards he brought to guard the door.

"General Hui, I have personally inspected the mining area, as well as the Wang family's iron-smelting workshop, and it is indeed red iron!" Ye Wushuang said carefully.

"Very good, this time the news of the red iron deposit, you reported it in a timely manner, I will ask the general for credit for you!" Jiang Fengnian's tiger eyes relaxed, a little moved.

"Thank you, General Huwei, for your appreciation!" Ye Wushuang thanked excitedly when he heard this.

"The accompanying 10,000 troops will only arrive tomorrow, and Ben will come first tonight, just because he wants to explore the mining area at night!" Jiang Fengnian thought about it and said, "Zi Shi (23:00) action, Captain Ye, you will lead the way!"

"Humble obedience!" Ye Wushuang obeyed.

The Red Maple Mountains, which stretch for an unknown number of thousands of miles, seem to be a long dragon hovering over the boundary between Jingzhou and Yizhou under the thick night.

At this time, on a hill at the junction of Xialan Town and Luoshui Town in the Red Maple Mountain Range, beams of light were lit.

Tonight's people on duty are Pei Qiong and Hua Yuming.

"Brother Pei Xian, do you think it will be peaceful tonight?" Hua Yuming touched the hilt of the sword and couldn't help asking.

"In the past few days, what night has been peaceful!" Pei Qiong looked at the lights in the distance under the mountain and smiled slightly bitterly.

"Alas, the young master hasn't come to the mining area yet, and he always feels that he has no backbone!" Hua Yuming couldn't help but think.

"Soon, the young master said, it will be here in a day or two!" Pei Qiong was a little looking forward to it.

"The situation is getting more and more severe, and the foolish brother is worried about ......" Hua Yuming was worried.

"Yes, I can only follow the young master's instructions, take advantage of these few days, mine day and night, and see if we can dig out more red iron, I'm afraid there will be a big mess next!" Pei Qiong said uneasily.

At this time, there was a commotion of miners in the mining area, and Pei Hua and the others, looking at each other, immediately swept over to check.

"Captain Pei, please look!" When the two of them came to the mining hole, several miners walked out of the mine with excited faces, and presented a piece of indigo ore with a slight cyan glow, "We dug out this ore from the side of the red iron, it looks somewhat similar to the red iron, but it is cyan!"

"I'll take a look!" Pei Qiong took the indigo ore, held it in his hand, and looked at it carefully, "Although I don't know what it is, if I want to live with my red iron companions, it shouldn't be ordinary!"

"Yes, I'm afraid it's also an unusual sword-casting material!" Hua Yuming on the side looked at the indigo ore and said excitedly.

When Pei Hua and a few miners were looking at the ore in their hands with love, not far away, on a dense tree, two burly men in black stared at each other.

Among them, the black-clothed man in front of him watched carefully for a moment, as if he was thinking hard, and suddenly said in a trembling voice: "It turned out to be this thing!"

"General, what is this?" asked the other man in black softly.

It turned out that these two black-clothed men were the Huwei generals Jiang Fengnian and Ye Wushuang who came from the night.

"Born with the red iron, if Ben will not guess wrong, this is the green spirit!" Jiang Fengnian was a little excited.

"Qingjing?" Ye Wushuang didn't seem to have heard of it.

"Yes, the value of green essence is not below red iron!" Jiang Fengnian continued, "The most valuable thing is that the quality of the red iron and green essence that accompanies it is far superior to that of the single red iron or green essence, and the value of this mine is undoubtedly several times higher than expected!"

"This ......" Ye Wushuang hesitated a little.

"No, this matter is too much to do, and it must be reported to the general overnight!" Jiang Fengnian was slightly confused, and he didn't pay attention to Ye Wushuang's expression beside him, "I don't know if this matter is a blessing or a curse for my Jingxiang Kingdom!"

At this moment, an alarm sounded on the mountainside, and a large number of thieves broke in, shouting and fighting with the guards.

I saw the first two black-clothed people, one on the left and one on the right, changing their shapes, bypassing several guards, and rushing directly all the way.

Pei Qiong was shocked when she saw that the two of them were far superior to herself, so she still stubbornly pulled out her sword and wrapped it around Hua Yuming.

The man in black on the left snatched away Pei Qiong's long sword with a sword, kicked Pei Qiong to the ground with a forward kick, and then swept towards the entrance of the mine. On the other side, Hua Yuming was hit by a sword in the abdomen, and was directly kicked by another man in black, rolling down the slope, and it seemed that he was not lightly injured.

Pei Qiong curled up to the ground, her heart was anxious, with the strength of the guards, she couldn't stop these two people at all!

Just as the two black-clothed men in the foundation-building period were about to enter the hole, another black-clothed man suddenly jumped out of the pitch-black col on the side, and a quick sword directly pierced the left arm of the black-clothed man in the foundation-building period on the left, and then kicked down with a side kick, and swung another sword forward, forcing back the black-clothed man in the foundation-building period on the right, preempting the two black-clothed men in the foundation-building period.

The two black-clothed people in the foundation building period were shocked, this person repelled the two of them with such an easy two swords, and he thought that he was at least a master of the foundation building period! Unexpectedly, the praying mantis catching cicada and the yellow finch were behind, and he couldn't help but lose his voice and said: "The master of the foundation building period!"

"Haha, take the next step!" the man in black smiled smugly, and ran towards the entrance of the cave with a bewitching figure.

It's just that as soon as he arrived at the entrance of the cave, the black-clothed man in the calcining period suddenly let out a miserable "ah!" But he saw that the black-clothed man in the calcining period was suddenly torn into two pieces by his hands from the middle! In the blood rain, a burly figure was revealed, it was Jiang Fengnian, the general of Huwei, at this time, he had already shed his black clothes and black scarf, and he walked in a hurry.

For a while, the two black-clothed people present in the foundation building period were shocked: "General Huwei!"

Hu Wei General Jiang Fengnian is a title general of Jingxiang State, that is, a medium general, a cultivator in the Yuan period, and a direct general of the great general! Born in a small family in Jingshui City, the Jiang family also jumped among the top ten families in Jingshui City because of a Huwei general.

"Since the red iron ore deposit is in Jingxiang Country, it is owned by Jingxiang Country, and anyone who dares to contaminate it will die!" Jiang Fengnian's tiger eyes were like light, looking at the two black-clothed people in the foundation building period who had already begun to retreat, and his tone was deep and authentic.

The two black-clothed men in the foundation building period glanced at each other, and suddenly, one left and one right, ran away.

"Hmph!" Jiang Fengnian snorted contemptuously at the corner of his mouth, stepped out, kicked up a long sword on the ground, the long sword was wrapped in powerful energy, directly pierced the black-clothed man fleeing on the left, and rolled down the slope with a mournful howl;

After solving a few black-clothed people, Jiang Fengnian walked up to the frightened Pei Qiong and said lightly: "Which person is in charge of the Wang family at present?"

"It's the son of Wang Tianyang of the Jingyang royal family, Wang Ruoli Young Master!" Pei Qiong said timidly.

"Wang Tianyang's son?" Jiang Fengnian thought for a moment, "Don't say that I am bullied by the Jingxiang military!" The mineral deposits and mountains here were originally the private property of your Wang family, but the red iron and blue concentrate deposits are not trivial, and your Wang family can't swallow them! Let your young master come to see me tomorrow and discuss the division of this mine!"

"Yes!" Pei Qiong said melancholy, and couldn't help but think indignantly: This is not a bully!