Chapter 361 If there are no accidents, it will definitely happen...
Before the cavalry arrived at Huyan Valley, the road was relatively peaceful.
The two scouts who came forward sent news from time to time, reporting that no enemy traces had been found.
"No news is sometimes the best news."
Li Chongrun worked very hard to adjust the atmosphere on the carriage, but this optimism did not alleviate the gloomy and tense atmosphere on the carriage.
"Brother is so optimistic, how do you survive until now?"
Xianhui asked a very crucial question.
"Stupid people are stupid."
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Alan replied coldly.
Being crowded around by several women and speechless, Li Chongrun could only touch his nose in embarrassment, lie down and continue to sleep.
Even Hua'er realized something was wrong and sang a melodious song on Thirteen's horse.
"Hua'er, stop singing, we are the ones getting beaten this time."
Bao'er heard that the content of the song was that Turkic women prayed for men to go out to fight and return victoriously. However, the so-called Turkic men who went out to fight usually came to the south to plunder, which was indeed not consistent with today's scene.
The speed of the convoy was unsatisfactory. In one day, it had already traveled three hundred miles. The Yinshan Mountains around it became a little lower, and a stubble stood out abruptly in the dim twilight of the southwest.
"Ahead is the Huyan Valley, which is where the Yin Mountains and the Yellow River meet. The narrowest place is just over a mile."
The scouts who scouted the road ahead also conveyed news that there were no checkpoints or anything like that in the corridor in the Yellow River Valley. It was just that it had just rained before and the ground was very muddy, so the carriage might move very slowly.
"Would you like to cross over at night?"
Bao'er came up with an idea.
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"If the enemy is ambushing us on the ridge of Yinshan Mountain, when we get halfway there, we don't even need to shoot arrows. We can just rush down the mountain. The momentum alone can push us into the Yellow River."
Li Chongrun rejected this self-deception plan: "If the enemy sincerely ambush us, how could he not have thought that we would sneak in while it was dark? I'm afraid that the narrowest corridor would have been full of traps, just waiting for us to jump in."
Go down."
"Set up camp first!"
It was easy to find a place to camp. In a dangerous place like Huyan Valley, various dynasties had many pass barracks and the like. Everyone easily found an abandoned outpost in a valley to take shelter from the wind.
"This outpost was built by Cao Zhen during the Battle of Hexi."
Li Chongrun wandered around the abandoned outpost twice and found a broken stone tablet in the southeast corner of the ruins, with many small seal characters vaguely visible on it.
After cleaning the stone tablet twice with water, Li Chongrun worked hard to read it for a long time before he could barely read the content on it.
It's just that it's not the time for archeology right now. The location where the stone tablet is located is flat and has been selected as a preparation area for hot-air balloons. Li Chongrun can only ask people to move the cultural relics from the Three Kingdoms period aside to give space to new things like hot-air balloons.
Make some space.
There is an ancient well inside the outpost, but it has been abandoned for a long time and has long since collapsed. However, there is always a clear spring dripping from the mountain wall on the side, which converges into a small pool on the ground. There are many yellow sheep and foxes around it.
Such footprints and bones must have become a gathering place for wild animals.
Although they didn't dare to blatantly light a large bonfire, fortunately there was a small copper stove on each carriage. For a while, the smoke and smoke enveloped the long-abandoned outpost again.
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"I was in a hurry today, but I didn't catch any game. Let's just make ends meet. Then we went back through Huyan Valley and arrived at Wuliang Suhai. I'll catch big fish to satisfy everyone's cravings."
Li Chongrun held a bowl of fried noodles in his hand and greeted his brothers who were waiting for hot water to make the noodles.
"I hope the prince is fishing. Even if there are so many fish in Wuliang Suhai that you can walk on them across the water, it will be hard for everyone to drink a pot of fish soup."
The factory guards present were all our own people who had been with him since Yangzhou, so they naturally knew their prince's fishing skills, and they all joked with Li Chongrun.
"I'm not bragging to you. I relied on my fishing skills to become so fat back then. If you don't believe me, ask Brother Fan. He basically ate the belly of the fish he caught back then..."
While talking, Brother Fan was mentioned again for some reason, and I don't know what happened to that boy now under the Wuling people. But since the Wuling people are now the leader of my family, they shouldn't treat my nephew too badly.
Seeing that Li Chongrun was silent, everyone was silent as well, and there was only a faint sound of eating fried noodles.
"Brother, add a piece of rock sugar to make it more delicious."
Guo'er wanted to be more considerate. Seeing Li Chongrun's silence, he guessed that he was thinking about Wu Fan. He went back to the carriage and groped for a long time, took out a small bag of rock candy, and stuffed it into Li Chongrun's hand like a treasure.
"Brothers all eat this way, so I can't be special. I just keep it for myself."
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Soybean cakes that have been squeezed out of oil, stir-fried with some flour such as wheat flour and buckwheat sorghum noodles, then stirred with boiling water soaked in vinegar cloth, this is the Tang Dynasty version of military rations.
"It's really unpalatable."
With the beginning of Bao'er, all the boys had a chance to vent their anger, and they all complained about how unpalatable the takeaway food was.
"I haven't eaten for a few days now that I'm full, so I'm just fussing over it now."
Although no one had any ill intentions, it was just because the little princess who had always been liked by everyone said something and everyone agreed, but they were still severely scolded by Eleven.
Among the Seven Tigers, Li Wu and Li Qi stayed in Shendu to look after the situation. The senior brother present was Eleven. At this time, he always had to step forward to stabilize the morale of the army.
"Eleven, everyone is just joining in the fun, don't take it so seriously."
There might be a big war coming soon. Li Chongrun was worried that everyone was too nervous, so he offered some words of comfort.
Eleven did not accept Li Chongrun's kindness, and still seriously punished the few brothers who were the first to make noises to stay on night watch.
"What the prince said is absolutely true. However, although the brothers have received the prince's care and have lived a good life for a few days, they still cannot forget their origins."
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On the 11th day of the lunar month, Li was not so rigid. Today he suddenly enlightened and acted like a senior brother, which made Li Chongrun look twice.
Silence returned to the audience, and everyone began to eat the extremely bitter fried noodles again.
"Shishilang doesn't usually behave like this when running. If he were in normal times, he would definitely be the first one to boo. Why are you so rigid today?"
Bao'er didn't know why Li Shiyi seemed to have changed, lying on the car's shaft and whispering in Li Chongrun's ear.
"Eleven is a man who is not good at kung fu, and can only be average when it comes to doing things. First he saw Li San being a flatterer and was promoted to become a general, so he learned to be diplomatic. Now he saw Shi San being serious in doing things and asking for trouble.
Not to mention having a daughter-in-law, I might be able to be a tribal leader in the future, so I will learn to be serious like Thirteen."
Naturally, this kind of thing was not suitable to be said directly in front of everyone. Li Chongrun simply lifted the door curtain, got into the carriage, reached for the rock sugar in Bao'er's hand, sprinkled a lot of it on his fried noodles, and mixed it randomly.
Mix it, and then I feel like I can barely eat it.
"Hey, leave some for me." Bao'er is the kind of person who can't live without candy. The candy he brought on this trip has already been eaten, and this bag of candy has been soaked for a long time.
I asked for it from Xianhui. Seeing how ruthless Li Chongrun was, he screamed repeatedly.
"Eleven may not be as talented in martial arts as Li San and Shi San, nor is he as good at doing things as Wu Qi or the others, but he is the one who works the hardest, has the strongest ambition and desire." He threw the candy bag back to him.
Bao'er, Li Chongrun commented on Li Shiyi: "Of course, he is also a person with a strong sense of presence. I see him hanging in front of my face every time I see him."
"Eleven is pitiful. The whole family is starving to death and everyone is so small. Before entering the house, all I could do was cry."
Alan brought this group of boys into the underworld, so as the eldest sister, she was naturally familiar with these little brothers.
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"Speaking of which, when Wu Qi and the others entered the mansion together with Alan, when they were working under Lao Yang, except for Alan who was taller, the rest of them were not outstanding. Who knew our family was so lucky? It's just that we have been raised in the mansion for a while.
Each one is more aggressive than the other. It is said that when Wu Qi married Li San, all the young men in Yangzhou were blinded by tears. "
Li Chongrun was a little curious, why did it happen that everyone was pretty good-looking when he looked like a bunch of ugly children like quails under the hands of a man named Lao Yang? He was not even selected to learn drama, but
They are a few girls who are studying crafts with the palace people in Qingyi Garden, and they are far better than those maids with disheveled faces seen on the street.
"My husband is kind, my aunt is compassionate, she treats others tolerantly, and her food is good, so she is naturally good-looking."
Alan naturally wanted to say something nice about Li Chongrun, but Bao'er also followed him: "Sister-in-law Alan is trying to flatter you and Aunt Shangguan. Don't take it seriously. Brother bought the child from the best place."
Those people have already picked out the dental shop for you, and naturally those crooked ones can’t even get into that dental shop.”
Judging from the gnashing expression on Bao'er's face, she must be venting her anger on Li Chongrun for eating so much candy just now.
However, what Bao'er said made sense. Li Chongrun sighed at the damn world and said nothing. He lowered his head and started eating his fried noodles with sugar.
It will be night soon.
The few brothers who had just started making noises went out to replace the scouts who were on guard in the distance and came back to rest. Li Chongrun took Xianhui to the site where the hot air balloon was being prepared and prepared to take off for reconnaissance.
The hot air balloon can rise very high, but there is really no such long rope to use as a safety rope. This is not inside the customs. You can fly freely and boldly, so the hot air balloon only rises a hundred feet high and begins to control the firepower.
It drifted towards the Huyan Valley in the slight east wind.
It's dark, moonless, and starry. The flame of the hot air balloon's alcohol blowtorch is not particularly conspicuous. In addition, the hot air balloon makes no sound during flight, so it is very suitable for flying over other people's heads at night for reconnaissance.
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Yinshan Mountain, which is close to the Yellow River, stretched out a finger at the Huyan Valley, blocking the flow of the Yellow River with its ninety-eight bends, causing the Yellow River that originally curved to the north to make a ninety-degree right-angle bend.
Then rush eastward again.
The protruding mountain ridge was empty and there were no human traces. However, when the hot air balloon flew over the mountain ridge, Li Chongrun quickly discovered some clues.
On the hillside facing away from the Yellow River, there were many dark shadows. Hundreds of such shadows surrounded a large bonfire that was rising endlessly. There were also many faint howls that penetrated the hustle and bustle of the surging Yellow River.
Come to the 100-foot-tall hot air balloon.
"It seems they have no hidden intentions at all."
With the help of the telescope, Li Chongrun looked at the group of people singing and dancing on the hillside.
The hundreds of tents are obviously of the Turkic style. Most of the Han tents are square. Only the Turks like to use these eagle-like tents.
It's just that the Turks below are dressed very strangely. They don't wear big braids like the Turks, but more like Han people.
What's more important is that there are hundreds of tents and thousands of bannermen, but not a single banner.
"Rather than being Turks, I feel more like bandits or horse thieves."
Xianhui put down the slender telescope in his hand and discussed with Li Chongrun, who was riding with him.
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The people below had no idea that there were two pairs of eyes staring at them from the sky, and they were still enjoying themselves there.
"If it's a horse thief, it makes sense. After all, where are we as brothers? No matter whether it's the Turkic Khan or Li Laosi's men who ambush us, if we are found dead in the hands of the Turks, the Turks don't know how to deal with it.
His Majesty’s wrath.”
Li Chongrun touched his nose: "But if he died in the hands of a horse thief, and my brother came here secretly, everyone only needs to condemn the horse thief's cruelty, and Gui Minggong might be able to drop a few drops of hypocrisy at my brother's funeral.
Tears, and then I will offer a piece of land south of Yinshan Mountain to His Majesty as a favor, and everything will be over."
"As long as they spread some news, saying that this convoy has brought a lot of valuable things, they don't have to do anything, and bandits will naturally do it for them."
Li Chongrun said it very easily, as if these thousands of people were as easy as an appetizer to him.
"Even if they are bandits, there are probably more than a thousand people in these 100 tents. We only have a convoy. It is an impossible task no matter what, right?"
Xianhui, however, was much more nervous and decisively decided to advise Li Chongrun to make preparations to run away.
"There are more than a hundred of us, and the only thing that can be called a hot weapon is a fire stick, which is enough to deal with these horse thieves. The Turkic cavalry that was killed earlier was not only a few hundred people, we can't even fight with Mao Zedong."
It’s solved without losing anything. Things like weapon replacement cannot be solved with courage alone.”
While he was talking, the hot air balloon had already flown over the bonfire. Even though Li Chongrun was nearly a hundred feet away, he could feel the heat rising under his feet. The hot air balloon picked up some heat and faintly rose up again. Xianhui quickly put it away.
Some alcohol was used to burn the flames of the blowtorch, and the hot air balloon was stabilized again.
"Do you want to sneak attack them?"
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Seeing that the mob below did not notice him at all, Li Chongrun suddenly became interested and took off a piece of ballast hanging on the outside of the gondola, took a look down, and threw it down at the right moment.
"Even if you drop a sandbag from such a high place, the most it will do is smash the unlucky guy's head. What kind of sneak attack is this?"
Xianhui was puzzled.
"Who said these ballasts are sandbags? Just before we set off, I asked them to replace them with fireworks bombs."
After throwing away two packages of gifts one after another, Li Chongrun had a wretched smile on his face, like a rat that had stolen lamp oil.
"Smashed crookedly?"
Two breaths passed and the sound of explosives exploding was still not heard. Xianhui felt a little strange and poked his head to see why there was no explosion yet.
"Don't worry, let the free fall work for a while."
Just after the third breath, the huge bonfire flickered twice like an oil lamp exploding. Even without a telescope, you could clearly feel that the bonfire had dimmed a lot.
"Just stay?"
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Xianhui just asked a question when she heard a series of dense explosions coming from below.
"The latest masterpiece of Bluestone Research Laboratory, a special arson bomb mixed with rust and asphalt. According to the instructions your sister-in-law brought back, it is guaranteed to ignite anything within ten feet on the ground. If it explodes in the air, it can expand
The area is fifteen feet."
"Zhang refers to length and cannot be used to describe area."
Xianhui corrected Li Chongrun's little mistake in a nerdy manner, and happily watched the fireworks set off below.
The shock wave of the arson bomb directly blew away the originally huge bonfire. Countless chrysanthemum-like flame textures fled from the location of the bonfire and splashed in all directions.
The people who were singing and dancing just now were frightened by the thunderbolt from the sky. They fled in all directions, knelt down and begged for mercy, and some even had a mental breakdown. They raised their swords in their hands and roared at the sky.
Many tents were set up very close to the bonfire in order to share the warmth of the bonfire. They were set alight at that time. Except for a few tents on the edge of the land, the rest were not immune to the fate of catching fire. Countless people were hit by the fire.
Roars and screams were accompanied by many naked figures escaping from the burning tent, and the noise could be heard clearly even by Li Chongrun, who was hundreds of feet high in the sky.
"No, I was discovered!"
Xianhui was enjoying watching the excitement with a telescope when she suddenly realized that due to the fire below, the faint light of the fire had illuminated the hot air balloon a hundred feet away.
No wonder they discovered that the hot air balloon was actually as big as a house, and there was a fire burning underneath. Unless all the people below were killed by the fireworks bombs just now, they would never be able to escape the fate of being discovered.
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"The wind is tight, pull it!"
Li Chongrun also noticed the abnormality below. He saw that someone had already raised a bow and arrow and fired it blindly at him. Then it fell on the head of an unlucky guy who was also looking at the sky. He was about to notify the brother below who was pulling the safety rope to take him away.
Pull it back.
Just after pulling twice, there was some faint tension from the safety rope. Li Chongrun felt that the rope holding the hot air balloon suddenly lightened, and then, the hot air balloon slowly and uncontrollably floated into the sky.
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"You can't be so unlucky, this is the best rope you can buy in Yangzhou!" Li Chongrun's face, which was originally very relaxed, turned pale in an instant, and he was holding the remaining piece of the safety rope in his hand speechlessly.
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That's right, the safety rope used to secure myself was broken.