Cangshanzhai is worthy of being a place that officers and soldiers have not found for several years, and the place where it is located is indeed hidden.

This village is not very far from the outside of the mountain. The mountain road is so difficult to walk, with Xiao Ziyang's riding skills that he barely passed, it only took more than an hour to reach the place.

At the beginning, the horse thief took Xiao Ziyang and walked on the path stepped out by the medicine picker, until Xiao Ziyang thought he was unlucky and met the second second master, and the horse thief took him on a strange road.

It is strange because it is not a road, but a small river, and the water is shallow, not more than a foot deep, but it is quite wide, about three feet long.

Because the river is very shallow, the herb pickers put a few stepping stones in the river to cross the river, and the bandit took Xiao Ziyang to ride down the river and did not go to the other side of the river to continue along the path, but walked along the river to the upper reaches of the river.

The river soon parted ways with the path. After walking for about half an hour, the two of them came down the river to a valley. The valley is very densely wooded, and the lush foliage creates a long corridor over the river, and riding a horse in the river must bend down to avoid the branches. The bandit took Xiao Ziyang and walked in this hidden river for another half an hour, and then the front suddenly opened up, and a small mountain plain appeared in front of him.

The place where Cangshanzhai is located is not dangerous, it is between the two peaks of a twin peaks on the opposite side of the mountain plain. The Shuangfeng Mountain is not high, and the cottage is only about 200 zhang away from the foot of the mountain. In front of the cottage is a gentle hillside. There is a two-zhang high wooden wall between the twin peaks on the hillside, and a three-zhang wide gate opens in the middle.

In the hazy morning light, Xiao Ziyang looked at the cottage in the distance, and said to the bandit next to him after half a sound, "Get out!" The thief was stunned for a moment, carefully turned the horse's head and walked back, looking back at Xiao Ziyang as he walked, as if he was afraid that he would suddenly attack from behind. It wasn't until he ran a hundred feet away that he suddenly hit his horse and galloped, and soon disappeared into the river.

The horse thief who was fortunate to have escaped didn't know what to do, just now he was spinning around the ghost gate several times, Xiao Ziyang stretched out his hand to the longbow on his shoulder several times, but put it down several times, and finally let him live.

Xiao Ziyang tied the horse to the woods and dived towards the cottage.

As he got closer to the cottage, he became more and more careful.

Suddenly, a gust of mountain wind blew, and Xiao Ziyang's face couldn't help but change, and there was a thick bloody smell in this wind.

Xiao Ziyang wandered under the shade of the trees and jungles, and slowly approached the gate of the cottage.

He crouched behind a large tree and watched carefully, there were two watchtowers on both sides of the gate of the cottage, two horse thieves who were on guard, and one was lying on the railing with his head bowed. The other sat on the floor of the watchtower, leaning against the fence, his head tilted to the side.

The two seemed to be napping, but Xiao Ziyang took a closer look, and the person lying on the railing had a shadow on his chest, which seemed to be bloodstains. The man sitting on the floor had his head tilted beyond the normal range.

"Could it be that someone is the first to climb" Xiao Ziyang hesitated for a moment, crawled forward, and climbed the sentry tower. One of the two sentry thieves had his neck broken, and the other had been stabbed through the chest, and they had been dead for a long time.

Xiao Ziyang crouched on the sentry tower and looked carefully into the cottage.

This village is not small, as soon as you enter the gate of the village, it is a martial arts training ground of about 60 zhang in length and width; on the side of the martial arts training ground, in the corner near the mountain cliff, there are more than a dozen wooden stakes, and there are a few feather arrows sparsely inserted on the wooden stakes.

There are two rows of wooden houses on the left and right sides of the martial arts arena, and in the middle of the opposite side is a tall wooden house more than three zhang high and more than six zhang wide. There is a black plaque hanging on the main entrance of the wooden house, on which are written the three big characters of Juyi Hall.

There is a courtyard behind the Juyi Hall, and not far from each side, there is also a courtyard, which seems to be the residence of the three village owners.

Xiao Ziyang was checking, and suddenly a black shadow burst out from a wooden house on the right, this person was thin and small, agile, and his feet fell silently, and it was like a light smoke between the ups and downs.

The black shadow sprang out of the wooden house, looked around cautiously, observed for a moment, and then flashed through the window into a nearby wooden house.

This person had just entered the wooden house, and from a wooden house on the left side of the opposite side came another man in black who was also dressed as a night walker.

As the two men in black touched the wooden houses, the smell of blood in the cottage became stronger and stronger.

Seeing that someone had already taken the lead, in order to avoid misunderstanding, Xiao Ziyang retreated. But for some reason, looking at the moving figures of the two men in black, he always felt a little familiar, and after hesitation, he looked at it twice.

At this moment, the sound of a woman's scream, a man's shout, and the sound of blades colliding suddenly came from the courtyard on the right side of the Juyi Hall opposite the martial arts training ground.

This series of noises was like thunder in the silent night, and suddenly woke up all the horse thieves in the village.

The strong smell of blood in the cottage suddenly made the thieves who woke up feel different. A moment later, dozens of disheveled horse thieves rushed out of the hut with their blades.

The two men in black took advantage of the chaos to kill two more people, and the horse thief's screams before they died suddenly made them have nothing to hide. The horse thieves shouted and gathered around.

The horse thieves in this cottage are all bandits brought by the Cao brothers from Jinzhou, all of them are not bad, plus these people are all outlaws who are used to licking blood with knives, and they are all deadly fighters.

The martial arts of the two black-clothed men were not weak, much stronger than Xiao Ziyang back then, but under the siege of many horse thieves, they gradually lost their strength.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Ziyang naturally couldn't see death without help, he turned over and took off the longbow on his shoulder, opened his bow and set up an arrow, and in a moment, several horse thieves with the best skills and the most ferocious fell to the ground with arrows.

The horse thieves were suddenly attacked, and there was a sudden chaos, and the two men in black took advantage of the chaos to break out of the encirclement, converge in one place, and join forces to resist the enemy.

This group of horse thieves was of extremely high quality, and after only a moment of chaos, more than ten people rushed towards the gate of the village, and the rest of them surrounded the two black-clothed men again.

Xiao Ziyang ignored the dozen or so people who rushed towards him, and just took his bow and arrows and shot at the horse thieves besieging the man in black. With each bow, a horse thief fell.

Under the threat of death, the fierce flames of the horse thieves were suppressed, and they became timid when they attacked.

The horse thief, who had lost his ferocity, could no longer pose a threat to the two men in black, and the two joined forces to kill several more people.

At this time, more than ten horse thieves had already pounced under the sentry tower, and Xiao Ziyang saw that the two black-clothed men had escaped, collected the bow and arrows, pulled out the thick-backed knife with his backhand, and jumped off the sentry tower quickly.

With a "plop", Xiao Ziyang fell heavily to the ground, as if it was not a person who jumped from the watchtower, but an iron tower.