Chapter Twenty-Four: The Soldiers
It turned out that the scheming man who was guarding the mine had already sent a message to all the nearby roadblocks, saying that the miners had rioted and the mine cave had been destroyed.
The blacksmiths and miners easily escaped from the valley, and when they reached the roadblock, the soldiers urged the puppets, and the feathered arrows came like locusts, and the men saw that they could not rush out, so they had to retreat again.
Seeing that there was a shortage of food, everyone broke up and tried to find another way out in the mountains and forests, and then they formed groups and began to loot each other for food, which was even more dangerous than in the valley.
Kong Rui knows his strength, although he is also a little overlord in the valley, on the one hand, he still has some ability, but the important thing is that those people are more afraid of Su Qingyun and Lin Wen, his two backers. Now these two people are gone, and now here, everyone has no scruples, most of them are fighting for their lives, and the two children are still a little scared.
The two children were discussing how to escape from this mountain, Kong Rui suddenly remembered what Lin Wen had said to him, "The most dangerous place is also the safest place", and immediately said to Su Yun: "It's better for us to go back to the vicinity of the valley, maybe there will be a better chance." ”
Su Yun was taken aback: "I just escaped from there, why do you want to go back?"
Kong Rui told Su Yun his thoughts, Su Yun thought about it, and saw that it was difficult to go out of the mountain, so it was better to go back and try his luck. At that moment, the two children walked in the opposite direction, but they did not dare to walk along the river, and as they walked, they got lost.
Fortunately, the farther he went to the valley, he gradually couldn't touch anyone else, and there were more prey, so Kong Rui had the opportunity to catch some hares and pheasants and make them into jerky, and usually fed on these jerky; Su Yun ate the food left by Lin Wen, and he was so hungry that he was hungry, and he also ate raw jerky last time, so he slowly didn't feel disgusted, but he just had to pick the thinnest and best dried meat to eat.
Seeing this, Kong Rui was of course overjoyed, and the two also cooperated in hunting, but they didn't have to worry about eating.
On this day, the two children were walking halfway up the mountain, and suddenly there was a sound of horses neighing at the bottom of the mountain, and the two showed surprise instead, and looked at each other, knowing that they should be able to find the way.
At that moment, the two children quietly dived down the road below to take a closer look.
I saw that there were about 200 soldiers escorting several large carts, which were moving on the road, and on two large carts were the kind of puppets that could quickly release arrows, but they were lighter, although the two children had never seen such light puppets, but they had also seen the kind of fixed ones, and they knew that they had seen them at a glance, and the other carriages were tightly wrapped, as if they were important objects and figures, and the two children felt strange, and decided to follow them from a distance.
It turned out that when the people learned that the mine was in such a situation, they sent a few masters of the mine from other places to the valley to prepare for a careful investigation to determine whether it was worth continuing to operate on the mine, so more than 200 soldiers escorted these masters to the mouth of the valley.
Although there were still a few thousand miners and blacksmiths scattered among the mountains, the Monkeys believed that they were powerful puppets, and the soldiers were well-trained, so they were not very worried about these absenteeisms.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the soldiers set up camp on the spot, the two puppets stood in front and back, and the rest of the soldiers surrounded the cart in the middle, and released the sentry to patrol around. From time to time, the roars of wild beasts and the cries of night owls can be heard from the mountains on all sides, which is particularly terrifying.
Kong Rui and Su Yun took advantage of the cover of night to quietly approach a group of sentinels, only to hear that one of the sentries seemed to be very scared, so they gently said to the other sentry: "Brother, you are so afraid of people at night in this mountain, have you been on night duty before?"
The other was also nervous, but he forced himself to calm down: "What is there to be afraid of? There are already wild beasts in the mountains, so we are still afraid of them?"
"It's not that you're afraid of wild beasts, it's those who run away." ”
The other said: "The spirit disciples on both sides of us are dead, what is there to fear about those miners? Even if they still have spirit disciples coming, we have laid down a ban, and we are not afraid of him coming." ”
This said: "Why didn't you use the ban at that time? He also killed one of our spirit disciples in battle, and there were not many spirit disciples in our country. ”
The other said: "I don't know about this, anyway, we don't have spirit disciples to come with us this time, and it's enough to have this ban." ”
The two sentinels chatted for a while, and Kong Rui and Su Yun probably understood the task of this team of sentries.
It turned out that their group of soldiers was going to the valley to investigate the situation of the mines, and some of them had to stay behind to replace the original soldiers, while the rest had to escort the master masters back to the city.
As soon as Kong Rui heard this, he immediately had a plan in his heart, and with a gentle pull of Su Yun, the two left quietly.
When they arrived at a safe place, Kong Rui told Su Yun his plan in his ear, although Su Yun was also a little worried, they had no other better way, so they could only nod yes.
Early the next morning, Kong Rui and Su Yun walked towards the place where they could find the miners and blacksmiths scattered in the mountains, and they did not hide along the way, but they were just on guard against the soldiers and horses.
Two days later, Kong Rui and Su Yun saw a group of miners, about twenty of them, but the person who was the leader, Kong Rui, knew him, it turned out to be the leader of another gang he knew when he was a little overlord in the valley, named Zhao Er.
When Zhao Er saw Kong Rui at first glance, he felt strange in his heart, why did he only see two children, where did Su Qingyun and Lin Wen go? Although he was a little jealous of those two people, he was now more than 20 people, and the other party only had two children, so he was not afraid of them, so he greeted him and said, "It turned out to be Brother Kong! What about your Uncle Su and Uncle Lin?"
Kong Rui thought to himself: It seems that all the miners or blacksmiths still don't know that Uncle Su and Uncle Lin have died in battle, just enough to suppress them, so he said: "They went to the mouth of the valley, where there is something to do, it is Uncle Su and Uncle Lin who asked us to come to you to discuss something." ”
Then Zhao Er and his gang heard that Su Qingyun and Lin Wen had something to do with them, and thought to themselves that these two people had great powers, and if they followed them, it would definitely be better than wandering around now. Zhao Er hurriedly asked, "Is there anything that little brother can reveal one or two?"
Kong Rui pretended to be mysterious and said: "Uncle Su and Uncle Lin asked us to find more people, we can go back to the valley, rob the materials in the valley, maybe we can live there for a long time, why bother fleeing in this mountain every day?"
When the group heard that they were going to fight back to the valley, they were also a little scared in their hearts, but when they thought about it, since it was Su Qingyun and Lin Wen's idea, it would definitely not be a big problem. immediately asked Kong Rui some other information, and Kong Rui told the miners half-truths about the fact that the soldiers went to the valley to change their guards, and also said that Su Qingyun and Lin Wen wanted to deal with each other's spirit disciples, and try to open the ban, and in the future, they could suppress the spirit disciples for a long time and could not show their magic in the valley.
Although those people are cunning, but if you think about it carefully, this is indeed a very good way, everyone knows that the valley is easy to defend and difficult to attack, just farming in the valley is enough for many of them to live, and there is a large amount of money and grain stored in it, if you can conquer the valley, and then try to live there for a long time in the future, it is indeed better than wandering around in this mountain.
After some discussion, everyone nodded in agreement. Kong Rui also asked Zhao Er and his group to find more manpower and prepare to meet in the mountains and forests near the mouth of the valley three days later.
Three days later, in the morning, Kong Rui and Su Yun looked in front of the mountain forest they had agreed on, and there were nearly 2,000 people here, although they were all ragged, but they were all strong and strong people who could survive in this big mountain. Presumably, Zhao Er and his gang had already informed everyone of their plan when they recruited people, so everyone didn't have too many questions, just waited quietly.
Zhao Er and several leaders kept asking Kong Rui and Su Yun where Su Qingyun and Lin Wen were, but where did Kong Rui dare to tell the truth at this time? They could only prevaricate that Su Qingyun and Lin Wen were preparing to deal with each other's spirit disciples, so as not to have too many casualties on their side, although several people were suspicious, they didn't dare to think about it, they could only take one step at a time.