After setting off south from Yangquan City in Yangquan Prefecture, everyone found that the roads under their feet were getting worse and worse, and there were more and more mountain roads and forest roads, so the ghost guards had to be more cautious.
At this time, bones and newly dead corpses appeared one after another on the road. Some died of starvation, some died of illness, and most of them were refugees. Zhang Xiaowu was afraid that the plague would infect the team, so he ordered the team to stay away from those corpses, and during each break
, emphasizing that soldiers search up and down within five miles of a water source. If there is a corpse lying in the water, the water source must not be drinkable. If there is no corpse, the water must be boiled before drinking.
With such caution, no one in the team was infected.
After two more days, everyone finally arrived at Qingfeng Mountain at the junction of Huizhou, Daizhou and Yongzhou. Looking at the rolling Qingfeng Mountain mountains, Zhang Xiaowu was worried in his heart.
There are two roads from Daizhou to Huizhou. One is a mountain forest road that goes directly through Qingfeng Mountain. Of course, you can also bypass Qingfeng Mountain, but the detour will take you half a month longer.
Zhang Xiaowu called Kang Tianen and asked him if he knew about the two roads. Kang Tianen said that the Qingfeng Mountain Road was actually an official road, but it was built along the mountain and could easily be ambushed. The road around the mountain was not safe, especially now that the plague was rampant and corpses were dead on the roadside.
More and more likely to infect soldiers.
"Report! Mr. Chen is back and has brought a group of people with him." Wang Yijin shouted.
"Did Menyou Ping find Qingfeng Village?" Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile.
It turned out that Chen Guanxi left the Ghost Guard in advance in order to rush to Qingfeng Mountain to find Qingfeng Village and express his intention to cooperate. Unfortunately, Song Chong, the leader of Qingfeng Village, led his troops because Liu Hou had gathered troops.
After leaving Qingfeng Village, they came to Yang Quan Mansion first, so the two sides missed the opportunity to meet.
Fortunately, Song Chong's people marched quickly, unlike Zhang Xiaowu and others who protected their caravan and traveled slowly. As soon as Song Chong returned to the village, he met Chen Guanxi who was a guest in the village. After Chen Guanxi found Qingfeng Village, he was greeted by the breeze.
After Song Chong returned, Chen Guanxi immediately expressed the ghost general's admiration and cooperation with him.
Song Chong thought to himself that he was just a low-ranking mountain king, but he upheld the will to uphold justice for heaven and his reputation among the people was several times better than that of the government. Now that he suddenly got the favor of the ghost general, he was overjoyed. Afterwards, Song Chong went with
Chen Guanxi went down the mountain to greet Zhang Xiaowu and others. As soon as they left Qingfeng Mountain, they met the Ghost Guards and their group.
Chen Guanxi immediately recommended Song Chong, and Zhang Xiaowu dismounted and stepped forward, cupping his hands and saying, "I have admired the name of the leader of Song Clan for a long time, and his righteousness is so great that when I meet him today, he is indeed even more famous than before."
Song Chong was deeply moved when he saw a dignified third-grade general on the other side dismounting to greet him. He ran forward in a few steps and said with a smile: "General Zhang has been praised too much. A certain family is just a poor man who gathered a group of brothers with the same fate to escape."
Those who enter the mountains and forests to become bandits cannot really be called heroes. If General Zhang does not give up, please go to Qingfeng Village to rest for a while, brothers. There are many cottages in Qingfeng Mountain in the Eight Hundred Forests. Allow me to report them one by one so that everyone can protect them.
How about General Zhang passing Qingfeng Mountain?"
Zhang Xiaowu said: "If that's the case, it's just a trouble for the leader of Song Village. I'll feel sorry for you first. I won't let it go."
"General Zhang, you are a hero, protecting the civilization of the Central Plains. We are lucky enough to be able to do something for you." Song Chong said excitedly, "General, please don't refuse. Now please rest your feet for a while."
"It's such a big thank you to Master Song."
"General, you're welcome, please."
"please."
Qingfeng Mountain is not a mountain, but the most famous mountain in the mountain range. There is a thousand-year-old Taoist temple on the mountain, Qingfeng Temple.
It is in a valley, which is located in the mountains. The surrounding peaks serve as city walls, and a stream flows through the middle. It is really a quiet and elegant place with the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers.
If it weren't for the people of Qingfeng Village living here, Zhang Xiaowu would simply feel that this place is the source of peach blossoms.
The chirping of birds, the fragrance of flowers, and the intoxicating breeze.
No wonder this place is called Qingfeng Mountain.
After Zhang Xiaowu and others came here, Song Chong introduced that this place was originally called Qingfeng Valley. After Qingfeng Village was located here, it was renamed Qingfeng Village.
It was the Taoists of Qingfeng Temple who discovered Qingfeng Valley. Those Taoists saw that the harsh government of the imperial court was fiercer than tigers, and the people were forced to have no way out by various taxes. They had to flee into the mountains to avoid the government officials. They couldn't bear it and placed the victims in this valley.
As a result, more and more refugee people living in Qingfeng Valley gathered, forming the earliest village, and the people later spontaneously formed Qingfeng Village.
The current leader of Qingfeng Village, Song Chong, is the third leader of Qingfeng Village. The first leader was killed while fighting the government because he resisted the government's siege; the second leader was originally a martial arts hero who led everyone
He resisted the imperial court, but was betrayed because he believed in the traitor. He was captured alive by the government and executed in Ling Chi. Song Chong was originally an escort, but was robbed because of his escort. He had no choice but to become a bandit and was reused by the second village leader. Later, the second village leader
When the leader of Ren Village died tragically, Song Chong took over his mantle and became the head of Qingfeng Village.
"I should be afraid of the government, but I have faith in the general," Song Chong said.
"Why?"
Song Chong said: "In addition to General Zhang fighting against the Dog Barbarians, protecting the civilization of the Central Plains, recruiting martial arts knights from the Central Plains, and finally defeating the Dog Barbarians who abandoned their helmets and fled back to the north, it is also because of General Zhang's background."
"My origin? You mean I am from a commoner, right?" Zhang Xiaowu laughed twice, "Then Liu Hou is also from a commoner, but you don't trust him."
Song Chong shook his head and smiled: "Because I come from a bodyguard business, and the general also comes from a bodyguard business, so you and I are from the same clan."
When Zhang Xiaowu heard this, he burst out laughing and said, "Yes, we are traveling together, but my grandfather is an escort, and I am not qualified to be an escort. I only work as an escort in an escort agency."
"I was just a handyman before, hahahaha..."
Zhang Xiaowu was surprised and said: "The leader of Song Village is actually a gangster? I admire him!"
Song Chong laughed endlessly, thinking that he had really met an acquaintance.
An escort agency often has one or several escort teams. The boss behind the scenes is called Dong Jia, the general person in charge is called the shopkeeper, the person in charge of all the escort teams is called the chief escort leader, and the person in charge of one escort team is called the escort leader. An escort team consists of one escort leader
, consisting of several escorts and more than a dozen escorts. The so-called escorts are apprentices of the escorts or employees of the escort agency, but their abilities are not as good as the escorts. Because the escorts can negotiate with the escorts or be responsible for the part of the escorts, while the escorts
The hands can only listen to orders. The bodyguards also have various tasks. There are the dartmen who explore the road ahead, the coachmen who drive the carriages, and the flag bearers who carry the flag. The dartsmen are also divided into high and low. The dartsman has the highest status.
Executioners, because they must understand the green forest cuts. When opening the road ahead, those who encounter danger must first face the cuts.
As for escorting in an escort agency, you need three skills: one is backing, the other is connections, and the third is kung fu. The escort is the person at the front of the entire team, so naturally he has to be more sophisticated. If a reckless man is the escort, it may even be possible.
Cause conflicts and bring unpredictable losses to the escort team.
After the two entered the cottage, Zhang Xiaowu observed the interior of the cottage with great interest. In front of the cottage was the martial arts training ground, in the back was the farmhouse, and at the end was farmland. The farmland area of Qingfeng Village was only about one hundred acres, and the people who came out to greet them were
There are four to five thousand people, and these dry fields are simply not enough to support so many people. Therefore, although the village is famous, it is very poor.
Zhang Xiaowu saw a group of naked children looking at their group of elite soldiers with big round eyes curiously. Compared to the ghost guards who were armed to the teeth, Qingfeng Village was extremely poor.
Kang Tianen whispered beside Zhang Xiaowu: "The people in the village are far more than this."
"Where are the others? Are you curious enough to come out and watch?" Wang Yijin asked.
Kang Tianen said sheepishly: "Many people only have one piece of clothing, so...the couple changes clothes and goes out, while the other person should be at home."
"Ah?" Everyone was surprised. Didn't you say that the mountain king drank a lot and ate meat? How could he be so poor that he only had one piece of clothing left?
Kang Tianen explained: "After all, Qingfeng Village is a bandit village. The government embargoes it and does not allow people and merchants to trade with them, so they are short of everything, even food."
Zhang Xiaowu heard this and sighed slightly in his heart. This is the real cottage, this is the real bandit den, not the colorful world that people imagine. Not to mention this cottage, Zhang Xiaowu once traveled to Weihai in his previous life.
At the beginning, Weihai vigorously developed the property market and built many sea-view houses. One of his classmates was moved by the sales and bought two sea-view houses in Weihai. Unfortunately, there were only sea-view houses around the sea-view houses, no shops, no hospitals, and no schools.
, there is no market, not even a bus station, and only privately contracted cars lead to the sea view housing area.
Without trade, all the people who live in sea view houses will starve to death, so that sea view houses in Weihai have become the biggest scam in the country. Tens of thousands of people who came to invest here cry for sale, but they can never be sold. Without trade, no matter how good it is,
The house is also a tomb.
Qingfengzhai has beautiful mountains and clear waters. Unfortunately, as a bandit's nest, it has been subject to dual military and economic sanctions. Although it has a good reputation, it only has a reputation.
Arriving at the Juyi Hall, Zhang Xiaowu led everyone to sit down. At this time, he saw the eighteen heroes of Qingfeng Village. They were all capable and dark, and they were far less carefree than imagined. It seems that life in the village is beautiful on the surface, but in fact it is extremely difficult, just like in northern Shaanxi.
Just like in the red zone, you have to save yourself. But the bandits don't have the wisdom of the leaders of the red zone in northern Shaanxi, so their lives are even more embarrassing.
After both parties sat down, there was nothing to say for a moment. Zhang Xiaowu suddenly thought that he had framed Qingfeng Village, so he smiled slightly, and then said: "The leader of Song Village also knew the purpose of our visit this time, and actually came to apologize. Liu Hou's death was related to
Qingfeng Village has nothing to do with it, but I have been wronged by you, so I am really sorry."
Seeing Zhang Xiaowu's frankness, Song Chong immediately felt warm and hurriedly said: "General Zhang is so frank, he embarrasses us, he embarrasses us."
"Why do you say this?" Zhang Xiaowu asked curiously.
Song Chong told everyone that he led his men to kill seventeen members of Liu Hou's family. Zhang Xiaowu and others laughed, and Ruan Qingwen said: "This is called no acquaintance without fighting."
Zhang Xiaowu said: "In short, we are the cause of this matter, and we should apologize. In this way, we have no spare money, but we have some refined salt. One kilogram, two carts of refined salt and various heroes, as our
Apologize sincerely.”
Song Chong and others hurriedly declined, but Zhang Xiaowu said that there was no need to refuse. This was what we wanted. Song Chong and others naturally lacked refined salt, and this cart of refined salt solved their urgent need. Seeing Zhang Xiaowu's generosity, Song Chong suddenly thought that he had a gift, so he
He whispered in the ear of his confidant for a while, and then the confidant ran to the treasure house and brought an iron mace.
Song Chong said with a smile: "This iron mace was used by a fleeing general. After he fled to Qingfeng Mountain, he fell ill and died in Qingfeng Village. He did not reveal his life, but said that this iron mace
It's called the Purple Gold Mace, and it was forged by Ouyang Zi Qiongji, the world's master forger, in his lifetime. He was originally going to give it to King Ning, but he didn't expect that King Ning rebelled and had his whole family killed, and countless others were implicated. This man broke out of the siege and eastward.
He hid in Tibet and ended up living in Qingfeng Mountain. It is said that a sword matches a hero. No one among us can use this purple gold mace. I was surprised to see the general's skeleton, so I gave it to him as a gift."
Zhang Xiaowu took the purple gold mace with one hand and almost dropped it to the ground. He was immediately shocked. How could the purple gold mace be so heavy? It even weighed more than an ordinary knife. He couldn't help but exclaimed and praised: "The purple gold mace is indeed extraordinary.
, this..." He pulled out his waist knife and struck it vigorously with the purple gold mace. With a sound, the waist knife was disconnected from it, which shocked everyone.
Zhang Xiaowu held the purple gold mace in his right hand and smashed it hard against the stone on the ground. He heard another "ding" sound, and a piece of the stone on the ground was smashed off, revealing cracks.
"What a weapon, what a sharp weapon." Zhang Xiaowu praised, and everyone congratulated him.
Then Zhang Xiaowu asked why the people in Qingfeng Village didn't use this sharp weapon. Song Chong smiled bitterly and said that no one in Qingfeng Village had such a big sharp weapon that could hold the Purple Gold Mace in one hand, because the Purple Gold Mace was four feet long (one meter and two meters) long and weighed fifty kilograms.
Those with natural powers cannot use it. Ultimately, this purple gold mace is an armor-piercing artifact, best used on the battlefield. If you use it in daily fights, the enemy will dodge and be killed at close range before you get close to it.
Song Chong smiled bitterly and said, among the eighteen heroes of Qingfeng Village, none of them can wield this purple gold mace.
The mace is divided into double iron mace and single iron mace. The double iron mace is three feet long and the single iron mace is four feet long. The purple gold mace is a standard single iron mace. It can be held in one hand or both hands. When wielded, it can break armor and cut through the blades.
Resist. Iron maces are more flexible than hammers and have longer blades, so many people like to use iron maces as weapons. The best mace among the Ghost Guards is Bai Hao, who has defected to Mohe, also known as Alaea.
Kutuoye, but Bai Hao used an eight-petal golden melon hammer, and even used an iron mace with a double iron mace.
Zhang Xiaowu danced twice casually, which made everyone cheer. Zhang Xiaowu also liked the mace and said, "I accept the kindness of the leader of the Song Dynasty."
