Chapter Twenty-Five: The Recapture of the Mine Valley
Another day passed, Zhao Er and the others had all designed on the road according to Kong Rui's plan, and everyone was quietly observing and waiting on the mountain far away from the valley mouth.
Suddenly, everyone saw that the gate of the castle tower at the mouth of the valley was opened, and a large group of soldiers and several large carts came out, and when they came to the flat ground in front of the valley, they all stopped, as if waiting for someone. After a while, twenty or thirty more people came out, but they were all dressed in white, and there was no one to tell from the costumes.
Everyone was wondering, only to see a man who looked like a commander among the soldiers of the Monkey came out on horseback, as if giving orders. I saw twenty or thirty men who came out from behind them all kneeling on their knees, and twenty or thirty soldiers came out and handed each of them a knife, and those who knelt took the knife with both hands and remained silent. I saw that the chief of the sinister turned his horse's head and waved his hand downward, and the twenty or thirty men all committed suicide with their swords and fell down.
When everyone saw it, they all thought it was very strange, and they all talked about it, and guessed that these people must be the remaining soldiers in the valley before, and this time because the mine was destroyed, they were ordered by the commander to kill themselves.
Seeing this, Kong Rui and Su Yun couldn't help but be shocked in their hearts, but the others secretly laughed and said, "Why don't you die a few more and save us trouble?" Kong Rui hurriedly told a few leaders about his plan, and everyone nodded and acted separately.
When the chief saw that the matter was over, he took about 150 soldiers and two puppets and escorted the master to the city.
In the evening, when the commander saw that it was getting late, and was about to order the soldiers to find a place to set up camp, suddenly a cart pulling the puppet fell into a mud puddle on the road, and the puppet almost fell. And when the chief came to look, he saw that when the cart was sliding toward the pit, there was a great stone on the edge of the pit that was on the axle of the cart, and the axle was broken, and it was impossible to move forward. The commander scolded bitterly, and ordered the soldiers to carry the puppet out of the cart and set up camp on the spot, while sending men to repair the cart.
In the middle of the night, I saw a group of black shadows suddenly appear near the camp of the slingers, and the patrolling stingers were soon quietly killed; the puppets that were carried out of the car were soon controlled by the miners; and before the puppet behind them could be launched, the emholes were blocked by several broken quilts. The puppet soldiers were about to come down, only to see four figures, and as soon as they swarmed up, several soldiers were slashed to the ground with random knives. Most of the soldiers were much more relaxed on the way back, and were killed in their sleep. When the chief saw that the situation was not good, he got on his horse and was about to flee, but he was shot down by someone with an arrow, and hacked to death. And not a single squirm escaped.
Seeing that things were going well, Zhao Er and the others picked out dozens of miners, put on the clothes of the soldiers, and pretended to be embarrassed and ran in the direction of the valley; Kong Rui and Su Yun hurriedly went to check the cart, and sure enough, they found that there was a cart loaded with a strange thing, which was full of runes, which should be a ban that could suppress the spirit disciples, and hurriedly arranged for someone to keep the cart strictly guarded, and no one was allowed to go up and come up.
When Kong Rui and Su Yun packed up their spoils and returned to the valley, Zhao Er and the others had already taken down the gate of the city tower at the valley entrance. It turned out that they were dressed as soldiers, and when they arrived at the door at night, they shouted that they had been ambushed and told them to open the door quickly. The soldiers on the gatehouse did not know the clue in the night, and saw Zhao Er and others wearing their own clothes, so they opened the gate, and Zhao Er and others rushed in, together with the miners who were ambushed in all directions, and soon took down the gatehouse of Gukou.
When they arrived at the Gukou barracks, Kong Rui and Su Yun found another prohibition that could suppress the spirit disciples, so they told Zhao Er what they were using for this thing, and let them keep it for a good time; If you hold the valley mouth and the dark river passage, this valley will be a paradise, there are five puppets in the valley, and now there are two more that can be moved, and the defensive ability will naturally increase greatly. As long as there are no spirits or above to attack this valley, this place is basically impregnable. Seeing that life would get better again, everyone was overjoyed, and their treacherous and stubborn spirit was subdued a lot, and they also sent people to find other lost blacksmith and miner brothers.
Zhao Er and the others were overjoyed, of course, they didn't forget Su Qingyun and Lin Wen, and hurriedly pulled Kong Rui and Su Yun and asked the two: "Brother Kong, now your Uncle Su and Uncle Lin should come out, you can't be left without an owner in this mine valley for a day, we have all discussed it, and we all agreed to recommend the two of them to be the leading big brothers here." ”
Only then did the eyes of the two children turn red, and tears fell uncontrollably, Kong Rui cried and shouted: "My Uncle Su and Uncle Lin have both died in battle, and my father and mother have also died in battle...... Su Yun also cried loudly on the side.
Zhao Er and the others were shocked, and hurriedly comforted the two children, and when they calmed down a little, they asked some detailed clues. After everyone knew about such an accident, they couldn't help but sigh, and hurriedly sent someone to collect Lin Wen's bones from the exit of the dark river channel, so that they could be buried in the valley, and this Lin Wen did a lot of good things, and did not end up with a place to die without a burial; and then wanted to find Su Qingyun's body, but the mine had begun to collapse and could not enter, so they had to give up; and the situation at that time was too chaotic, and the bodies of the blacksmith and his wife could not be found for a while. Kong Rui and Su Yun cried a few times, which can be regarded as venting their depression for many days.
In the evening, Kong Rui and Su Yun lived back in the courtyard where they lived that day, seeing that things were wrong, and their hearts were very sad, and the two children hugged each other all night, sleepless and speechless.
After another two days, the blacksmiths and miners who were scattered outside kept returning to the valley, knowing that everyone recaptured the mine valley according to Kong Rui and Su Yun's idea, they couldn't help but admire the two of them very much, so someone came to visit Kong Rui and Su Yun from time to time. The two children did not want to mention the sad things again, so they decided to leave immediately. Zhao Er and the others also knew that they couldn't keep them, and they thought that the people would soon be able to know that this mine valley had fallen, and they would definitely send troops to attack here, and it would not be very safe to stay here, so they had to prepare some things for them and send them out of the valley.
Looking at the small backs of the two children gradually moving away, Zhao Er and the others couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, and when they turned around, they made up their minds that they would make good use of the resources in this valley and swear to resist the scheming people to the death.
Sure enough, the people knew that the mine valley had fallen, and hurriedly sent soldiers and horses into the mountains to suppress it, but the roadblocks on the periphery did not relax at all, but only concentrated the soldiers and horses that were originally sent out to pursue the fleeing miners in the mountains, and focused on blocking the intersection. So as long as they don't encounter a large group of soldiers and horses, Kong Rui and Su Yun are relatively safe along the way.
Kong Rui and Su Yun stayed overnight, and arrived at a roadblock in a few days. Kong Rui took a closer look and saw that the roadcard was set up on the main road against the mountain, and below was a small river, and the barracks were on the open ground on the roadside outside the road. Kong Rui looked around at the terrain, and immediately had an idea, and after discussing it with Su Yun, Su Yun kept nodding yes, and the two quietly retreated.
That afternoon the two children caught two hares, but did not kill them, but put them alive in a bag, and broke two reed poles from the reeds by the river, hollowed out the center of the reeds, and waited until it was dark.
Because of the fighting, the sentries were very careful to observe the vicinity of the roadcar, and at night there were soldiers patrolling around with torches.
Just faintly, a sentry suddenly saw two reeds floating on the surface of the river, and before he could think about it, he suddenly heard a movement next to him, so he hurriedly looked back, but it was a hare that ran out and went far away. The sentry scolded fiercely, and just turned around to look at the reed, but heard another movement behind him, and when he looked again, he saw that it was still a hare running away.