The road to Shu is difficult, but it is as difficult as the mountains and the sky.

As he approached Heiyanling, Qi Ning finally understood why the officers and soldiers had not launched an offensive against Heiyanling for a long time. He left the inside story and just looked at the terrain near Heiyanling to know one or two.

The road is rugged and narrow, and no official road is built to Heiyan Ridge, so there is no clear road close to the mountain.

There are many places where thorns are lush and weeds are covered with weeds, but in fact, once you step on it, it is very likely to be a huge deep pit.

The terrain near Heiyanling is so difficult to move around, and you can also imagine what kind of scene it is on the mountain.

Without a highway to Heiyanling, Heiyanling is destined to have poor transportation. Life in the village is quite congested, but for this reason, it is not easy for officers and soldiers to attack.

Fortunately, Ifu was very familiar with this area. He led the way and walked along a narrow weed road for a while. Then he heard a "swooshing" sound. An arrow shot from the side in a mess. After everyone approached Heiyan Ridge, they were already careful. The arrow suddenly shot, and everyone drew their swords in their hands and slashed the arrows.

Although this rain of arrows suddenly came, fortunately it didn't last long and was not very sharp. In a moment, the arrow stopped and there was only a sound. A group of people rushed out of the woods next to it, and dozens of officers and soldiers suddenly emerged from the grass from the weeds on the other side.

"Don't act rashly!" Qi Ning said in a deep voice.

The officers and soldiers had a total of forty or fifty people. When they rushed up, they surrounded Qi Ning and others. The Miaohan held their swords in their hands and were ready to fight.

Yifu approached Qi Ning and whispered: "What should I do? Should I kill me? We are not much less people than them."

Qi Ning shook his head slightly and said in a deep voice: "Who is responsible here?"

One of them came out of the crowd of officers and soldiers. In his early thirties, he held a big knife in his hand and shouted at Qi Ning: "Are you accomplices of the Black Rock Cave thief? If you know the truth, you will immediately throw down your weapons and surrender, otherwise you will all be killed."

Qi Ning smiled and said, "If you don't ask, you will kill someone. Are you a bandit on this mountain?"

"What did you say?" The man changed color and pointed to the armor on his body. "You are blind and didn't see what this is? We are officers and soldiers from Xichuan, who specialize in suppressing bandits."

"It turns out that it's not a bandit." Qi Ning smiled and said, "You suddenly shot arrows just now, and I thought it was a bandit robber."

"Bold." The man looked at Qi Ning with a cold face, "Are you Miao people? You speak neatly, and honestly, what are you doing here? Oh, I understand, you are the reinforcements, are you coming to rescue Heiyanling?"

When the Miao people spoke, they still had some Miao sounds, but the word "Qining" was straight and straight, but there was no Miao sounds.

"Get out of the way immediately." Qi Ning didn't want to delay too much here, "I have something urgent to go in."

"Just, if you want to go in?" The man sneered, "Don't talk about going in, now you can't go back." He was about to wave his hand to signal his subordinates to pounce on him, but he saw Qi Ning suddenly lifting his arm. Under the sunset, Qi Ning's hand was shining with golden light. He only saw Qi Ning walking forward a few steps and asked in a deep voice: "Did you see clearly?"

The man was stunned and couldn't help but approach and reached out to pick him up. Qi Ning's face turned cold. The man smiled and said, "Okay, you dare to bribe officers and soldiers here. It's so bold to bribe such a large piece of gold." He was about to snatch the gold medal, "I want to confiscate it and keep it as evidence of your bribery."

Only then did Qi Ning realize that this man knew the imperial gold medal and sneered: "If you don't want to die, you can touch it."

The man was stunned. Seeing that there seemed to be handwriting on the gold medal, and when he saw Qi Ning's expression was cold, he felt something was wrong, and he couldn't help but ask: "This... what is written on it?"

"Who is responsible here?" Qi Ning asked lightly: "Is it you? Or is there someone else?"

The man heard Qi Ning's pronunciation and accentuation, but hesitated and walked back, whispered to a soldier, and the soldier turned around and left quickly.

Qi Ning knew that it was probably going to inform his boss, and he kept working all the way. He knew that he was no longer in a hurry and signaled everyone to take a rest first, but the officers and soldiers still surrounded him and dared not relax.

"Come here." Qi Ning waved to the man. The man was a little annoyed, but he couldn't help but step closer and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Have you not attacked Heiyanling yet?"

The man immediately said, "Is this what you can ask?" But he said, "There is no military order from above, so we can only stay here. Damn, it's been a few months now, staying in this bird place..., fighting but not fighting, retreating but not retreating, and I don't know... I don't know what the above thinks."

Qi Ning was slightly relieved. Not long after, he heard the footsteps again. He saw a middle-aged man in gray armor hurried over with four or five soldiers. He saw the officers and soldiers surrounding a group of Miao people, frowned, with a cold expression, and asked in a deep voice: "Which village are you from?"

Qi Ning didn't say much, and once again showed the imperial gold medal.

The gray armored general frowned and took two steps forward. After a look, his face changed drastically. He suddenly fell to the ground and said respectfully: "Yue Qianliang, the commander under the command of the governor of Xichuan, please pay homage to the emperor!"

As soon as these words were said, everyone changed their color.

Yifu and Baiyali opened their mouths and looked at Qi Ning. For a moment, their minds were blank and they couldn't speak.

The officers and soldiers around him stayed for a while, and had already kneeled down on the ground and said in unison: "Long live the emperor!"

"Empress Yue Duke got up." Qi Ning shook his head and said, "I am not the priest, but you can recognize this gold medal. It is indeed a gift from the emperor."

"It turned out to be the senior officer." Yue Qianliang said respectfully: "I don't know if the senior officer is here, what are the instructions?"

Baiyali and Yifu looked at each other and realized that it was a misunderstanding. Qi Ning was not the emperor, but even so, Qi Ning held the emperor's gold medal, and his identity was definitely extraordinary.

"Is Lord Wei here?" asked Qi Ning.

Yue Qianliang shook his head and said, "When I go back to the upper class, the governor is still in Chengdu City, and I ordered Commander Yao to be responsible for besieging Heiyanling."

"Commander Yao?"

"That's right." Yue Qianliang said: "The officers and soldiers have been trapped under Heiyan Ridge since the end of last year and surrounded Heiyan Ridge. The east, west and north sides are blocked by officers and soldiers, and the south side is the Jinguanwei of the King of Shu, responsible for blocking it. They are surrounded on all sides and cannot be exhausted. I am afraid that it will not take long for the Miao people on Heiyan Ridge to starve to death."

Yifu couldn't help but take a step forward, with anger on her face, but her eyes were full of worry.

She naturally knew the situation in the village. Although the village had made various preparations, the most lacking thing for the Black Rock Cave was food.

In the past, Heiyan Cave would use medicinal materials and fur from gifts to exchange food and necessities for life with the outside world, but once Heiyan Ridge was blocked, the source of food was cut off.

Although there is a portion of the food stored in the mountains and even people can be sent to hunt wild animals in the mountains, there are five or six thousand people in the entire Heiyan Ridge, and the food consumed every day is quite large. In addition, from last year to now, it has been several months since the Heiyan Ridge is not afraid of attacks by officers and soldiers. What they fear most is that they are exhausted and the people in the village will starve to death.

It was precisely because I realized this before that I took the initiative to lead people to break through and ask for help.

It had been almost ten days since I left, and there was not much food at that time. Ifu knew that these ten days had passed, and the food on the mountain was now too short to last long.

"You didn't attack Heiyanling because you wanted the Black Rock Cave to exhaust the food and starve them to death?" Qi Ning asked frowned.

Yue Ganliang hesitated for a moment and finally said, "Report to the emperor, the governor's meaning, Heiyanling is easy to defend but difficult to attack. If it is a rush to attack, there will be a lot of casualties. So, they will surround them first. When their food is exhausted, they will definitely not be able to support them and will inevitably break out. At that time, we will be on the important roads everywhere, waiting for work, and we will be able to catch them all in one place."

"Despicable!" Ef's pink face was as ice as ice.

Yue Ganliang glanced at Yifu, but Yifu was following Qi Ning, so Yue Ganliang didn't have much to say.

Qi Ning was thinking in her heart, could Wei Shutong really think this is the case?

From a strategic perspective, Wei Shu and his team were surrounded without meditating and waiting for the Heiyan Cave to break through, which is also an excellent method. After all, the officers and soldiers had sufficient food and supplies, and the logistics supply was continuous. The Heiyan Cave Miao Village consumed one point less. When the Heiyan Cave food was eliminated, the officers and soldiers would wait for their work and win without a doubt.

But in this way, the time will inevitably take very long.

Wei Shutong is so confident that there will be no other changes during the waiting time? Or is it that Wei Shutong is surrounded but not fighting, which is to leave time for changes?

"Why did the King of Shu send troops to surround the mountain?" Qi Ning frowned and said, "Jinguanwei is his personal soldier, and he is only responsible for protecting him. How can he be used to attack Heiyanling?"

Yue Ganliang bowed his head and said, "I only know that there is a fiefdom of the King of Shu in the south of Heiyanling. After Heiyanling rebelled, the King of Shu mobilized 600 troops to assist the officers and soldiers to block the access roads in the southern part of Heiyanling."

Qi Ning thought about it and said, "Person Yue, please send someone to Chengdu immediately to report to Governor Wei and ask him to come to Heiyanling quickly. I want to enter the mountain to meet the master of Heiyan Cave."

Yue Ganliang looked up and said in surprise: "You must not enter the mountain, Heiyan Cave has rebelled. Danba County Magistrate Bai Tangling was killed by Heiyan Cave. Not long ago, the Miao thieves from Heiyan Cave sneaked into a camp in the north while at night, as if they wanted to send people to break through the north and kill dozens of brothers. Fortunately, reinforcements arrived in time."

"This matter has been reported to the court. I ask you, was the survivor caught at that time?" Qi Ning said in a deep voice: "I raided at night and killed dozens of people. Didn't a survivor catch a living?"

Yue Ganliang said a little embarrassedly: "Reporting to the best, actually... not only did he not catch a living person that night, but he also... and even a Miao thief could not kill him..."

"You don't have to be a Miao thief on the left and the Miao thief on the right. I don't know who is the thief." Yifu was angry and scolded coldly: "Does of people died, but no one was killed or killed by the other party. Eifu was either too incompetent or the murderer had great martial arts skills, and you could not hurt them at all."

Yue Ganliang frowned and wanted to speak but stopped.

"No need to argue, Yue Duwei, we will enter the mountain now, you will lead the way." Qi Ning said: "I have something to discuss with the Lord of Heiyan Cave, so you can send someone to report to the governor Wei."
Chapter completed!