Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 117 Scouting
The distance from Kaifeng to Yingchang Mansion was less than 300 miles. Li Buqi and the others rode horses for [-] to [-] miles a day. If they couldn't catch up with Sutou, they took a house in the village and arrived in Yangzhai County, Yingchang Mansion in five days.

Not only Xixia can inquire about news from the Privy Council and the Central Committee of the Song Dynasty, but also Guangzhi, but it is not through formal channels, and must be bribed like Xixia spies.This is really weird.

Judging from the report received by the Privy Council, four Zhuangzi in Yangzhai County were recently robbed by those strong men. Li Buqi planned to go to these four Zhuangzi to inquire about the news without alarming the government.The government can say that the strongman not only occupies the first terrain to drill the peak, but also can call the wind and rain, fly to the sky and escape the ground. There is no bottom line. How can we ask the real situation? It is better to have someone who has direct contact with the strongman. The true situation.

After seeing the first Zhuangzi that was robbed, Li Buqi was surprised. People in such a remote Zhuangzi already knew that they were going to suppress bandits.As soon as he signed up, people took it for granted.After careful questioning, it turns out that the government has long preached the power of thieves, and only by inviting Li Buqi to deal with them, the common people have already spread the news.This is obviously a desperate effort to praise Li Buqi, so that Li Buqi will fall harder in the future.

After walking around Zhuangzi, Li Buqi had an intuitive understanding of the strength of this group of strong men.

This Zhuangzi belongs to the monastery. There are more than 200 young and strong Zhuangzi, and a ten-foot-high wall was built around Zhuangzi.According to the people in the village, the gang of thieves used ladders to attack the wall. Although the villager resisted desperately, but the strong man armed with weapons quickly defeated their resistance.

Do you have military crossbows?This is a bit interesting.

When Li Buqi asked about the number of strong men, there were different opinions. Some said five hundred, some said one thousand, and some said that there were not many thieves in the beginning, but they turned into soldiers.As for the whereabouts of the thieves, the villagers all said that they went to the mountains, because the strongmen robbed all the livestock in the village, but did not ask for vehicles, and even the food was carried away by animals.

The next smaller Zhuangzi said the same thing, and also mentioned that a strong man has a strong crossbow.Moreover, the farmer said that the official army had gone into the mountains to suppress the bandits. At that time, the Zhuangzi's husband was conscripted, but he was ambushed when he walked to a ravine.Fortunately, although the strongman robbed money and food, he didn't do much harm to the people, and released all the captured civilian husbands.

Li Buqi hurriedly asked who was the civilian husband who was released by the strongman, and someone pointed it out to him, so Li Buqi gave the two civilian husbands a few copper coins and asked them to explain the situation that day in detail.According to the two people, they saw more than 200 strong men, all of whom were strong and strong, and some of them were wearing the armor of officers and soldiers.Although not a complete set, it is indeed armor.

There are strong crossbows and armor. It seems that these strong men have stories.Li Buqi became more and more curious about these strongmen, so he gave the farmer some money and asked them to explain in detail the situation of the nearby strongmen.According to them, this group of strong men are newcomers, they don't speak the local accent, and their actions are completely different from the local bandits, so they should not be the bandits on Zhuantian Peak.

In the past, the two relatively large groups of bandits in the mountains robbed homes and houses, and they always picked up small households, small villages with no influence, like monastery farms, and never moved.The group of new strongmen was different, even the Hehui village on the edge of the county was robbed.That Zhuangzi is the Zhuangzi of Wang Yasi in the county, and Zhuangzi has raised twenty or thirty outlaws who are used to wielding guns and clubs.Wang Yasi is very powerful in Yangzhai County, even the most powerful people dare not touch him.However, these new strongmen will pick whoever Zhuangzi is powerful, and they are not afraid of the encirclement and suppression by the government at all.

This is very different from the official documents of the Yingchang Mansion. In the official documents of the Yingchang Mansion, all the crimes committed by the strongmen over the years were planted on the heads of this group of new strongmen.Now that he heard that this group of strongmen only picked powerful Zhuangzi, Li Buqi became interested, and wanted to see if the leader of this group was someone like Chao Tianwang.

Just knowing the origin of the strong man is not enough for planning the battle. Li Buqi proposed to the owner of the villa to hire a villager to lead the way into the mountain to have a look.The owner of the villa robbed a hundred stones of grain, a hundred pigs and sheep, and dozens of cattle and donkeys. Naturally, he hoped to wipe out the strongman as soon as possible. The farmer who is familiar with geography agrees to be the guide.

Li Buqi left the horses on the Zhuangzi, left a few people to guard the horses, and then led the rest of the people into the mountain with the guide.The guide didn't know where the new strong man was hiding, but Zhuan Tianfeng still knew.So Li Buqi asked the guide to take him to Zhuantian Peak where the largest bandit was.

Entering the mountain is the strongman's territory, Li Buqi ordered everyone to prepare their weapons, and sent sharp soldiers, including Xu San to the front.Although Xu San is disabled, he climbs up the mountain like walking on the ground, no worse than a young man at all.

After walking in the mountains for nearly a day, except for a few firewood collectors, the people gathering medicine did not meet strong people.According to these people, Chen Tianwang, the king of Zhuantian Peak, suffered from another strongman's loss, and restrained his subordinates to stay in the village during this period.It seems that the situation is quite complicated.

Li Buqi hired a woodcutter who was more familiar with geography with his usual money, and he took Li Buqi to a place across the hill from Zhuantian Peak to show him the way: "Cross the ditch ahead and you will see King Chen Tian. There have always been Chen Tianwang's spies on this mountain, if they see it, it will be difficult for me to gain a foothold here, and I dare not go any further."

Li Buqi gave the woodcutter a penny of money, and then instead of going into the valley, he led people up the mountain quietly, climbed a big tree on the top of the mountain, and looked at the Zhuantian Peak.At this time, the sun was setting, and I saw a mountain village halfway up the mountain with smoke rising from a cottage. They were all surrounded by wood and stone walls. From such a distance, you can still see the occasional sunlight reflected by weapons on the wall. .Let’s not talk about how many people are in this village, just look at the jagged rocks on the hillside, and many places form an angle of 45 degrees. In fact, there is only one road that can approach the village in the direction where Li Buqi is. open.

Obviously, it is not wise to attack such a stockade head-on, and we still need to see if there are other ways to go up.If it doesn't work, you can only find a way to lure the bandits out.However, Li Buqi was going to accept the command of Yingchang Mansion, civil servants with normal thinking would not understand, who knows if they would agree to Li Buqi's plan.

In the evening, everyone ate some dry food and found a place sheltered from the wind to sleep overnight. The next day, they went over the mountains and detoured to the back mountain of Zhuantian Ridge.The back mountain is more steep than the front mountain, and they are all cliffs that cannot be climbed, but there is actually a narrow mountain beam connected to another lower mountain peak.

What the hell, it would be easy with this mountain ridge.Li Buqi climbed up a tree on a nearby mountain to look at the mountain ridge. He couldn't see it clearly, but he could see a stone fortress on both ends of the mountain ridge.Obviously the bandits attach great importance to the defense in this direction.But for Li Buqi, as long as the fortress can be approached, it is not a problem.

Just when Li Buqi was thinking about whether he should touch the mountain to see clearly, Xu San suddenly warned: "Officer, there seem to be people around us staring at us."

Li Buqi hurriedly asked, "What did you find?"

Xu San shook his head: "I didn't find it. But every time I encounter danger, I have this feeling, and I can't be wrong."

The sixth sense of this kind of veteran who had escaped from the dead had to be believed. Li Buqi ordered to strengthen the vigilance, but found nothing after waiting for half an hour.Safety first, Li Buqi had no choice but to order a retreat.

After turning over two hills and arriving at the front mountain of Zhuantian Peak, Xu Sancai said that the staring feeling disappeared.It seems that the other party should have left.Li Buqi ordered to retreat to the outside of the mountain. In the evening, he occupied a mountain top to strengthen the security. It was a safe night, and nothing happened.

At noon the next day, when I was about to go out of the mountain, suddenly there was a burst of folk songs from the mountain road in front of me, which shocked my spirits.Turning around the foot of the mountain, I saw a scholar dressed in sackcloth and leaning on a medicine hoe was washing his feet by the river. Besides straw sandals, there was a basket full of flowers and plants beside him.

Li Buqi smiled and said: "This scholar, you are so leisurely."

The scholar turned his head and saw a group of soldiers turning around the foot of the mountain, so he asked: "What is this official doing in this deep mountain? Could it be that he is also here to suppress bandits?"

Li Buqi did not answer, but asked: "Since the scholar knows that there are strong people in this mountain, is he not afraid of strong people when he enters the mountain alone?"

The scholar laughed: "Even a strong man needs a doctor. My writing is ordinary, but this medical skill can still be mastered. When traveling around, the strong men I met didn't bother me at the same time. They didn't bother me. like?"

So Li Buqi sat down beside the scholar and asked, "No wonder your accent is not from the locals. I don't know why you have wandered into this mountain where strongmen haunt?"

The scholar said: "I heard people say that Li Buqi, who made people fly into the sky, got the true biography of the gods, so I also have the ambition to travel away from the famous mountains and rivers to find some extraordinary encounters. How can I miss this land of Zhongyue and the visit of the Yellow Emperor? .”

(End of this chapter)