The small note was delivered by Double Hump via flying pigeon.
After Xiaoyu finished reading, Guan Xiaorou asked anxiously: "What does the letter say? Is there anything wrong with the double hump?"
"Double Hump is okay for the time being. The escort team stationed there occupies the advantageous location, as well as heavy crossbows and catapults, guarding all mountain passes."
Xiaoyu said: "But there are too many enemies, Shuang Hump has been surrounded, and many traders and chamber of commerce men who went to transport salt were killed by bandits."
The terrain of the double humps is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is also easy to be blocked.
There are only a few ways to go down the mountain. Once blocked by the enemy, people on the mountain will not be able to get down.
If there were a large number of escorts stationed there, they would be able to break out of the encirclement.
However, Jin Feng went to Xichuan and took away many bodyguards. Tang Xiaobei continued to establish chambers of commerce and bodyguard offices in the south of the Yangtze River. These stations also needed bodyguards to guard them.
Although Zheng Fang has been recruiting new soldiers non-stop and sending blood transfusions to various places, almost all the young men around Jinchuan who meet the requirements for escorts have been recruited, and the recruitment of new soldiers is not going very smoothly.
And even if new recruits are recruited, they still need time to train.
This has led to the fact that the current defense capabilities of various factories under Jin Feng are not very strong.
Before Jin Feng left, two companies were stationed in Shuanghump. Now there are only three platoons left, and most of the manpower has been taken away.
The three platoons relied on the terrain and fortresses to defend themselves. It was not a big problem, but breaking through would be very dangerous.
The most important thing is that once they break through, the enemy will attack again, and even the defenders will be gone.
It will be broken if bandits rush it up the mountain.
"Are there too many bandits?" Tang Dongdong asked, "How many are there?"
"The letter said there were at least five to six hundred people. I'm not sure whether there are people hiding in the dark!" Xiaoyu replied.
"At least five or six hundred?!" Tang Dongdong gasped: "Where did they come from?"
All the bandits in Guangyuan had been wiped out by Brother Liang. She thought it would be huge to have at most a hundred or so people go to fight the double hump, but who knew there were so many here at once.
"The Jialing River goes up to Guanzhong and down to the East China Sea. I don't know where they came from."
"Didn't the guard post find it?" Tang Dongdong asked with a frown.
The Double Hump is close to the Jialing River, making water transportation extremely convenient.
It was also for this reason that Jin Feng built the salt factory at Shuanghump.
Our own side is convenient, and the enemy is also convenient.
When the factory was first built, Jin Feng thought of the possibility of someone raiding the Double Hump by boat, so he set up several observation posts upstream and downstream to monitor ships on the river.
Once a suspicious vessel is discovered, Double Hump will be reported as soon as possible.
"The bandits must have disguised themselves and were not noticed by the outpost." Xiaoyu said: "There is another possibility that the people at the outpost were also attacked by bandits. In short, Shuanghump did not receive early warning."
After all, the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau is not a government organization. Jin Feng can send people to keep an eye on the river, but he has no right to stop other people's ships for inspection.
As long as the bandits hide in the cabin, they can hide from the surveillance of the outpost.
Jin Feng had no choice but to try his best to cultivate the observation skills of the outpost bodyguards.
"Check!" Tang Dongdong said: "Xiaoyu, I don't care what method you use, you must find out where they come from!"
"I'll arrange for someone to check immediately. I believe there will be news soon!"
Xiaoyu stood up immediately: "Maybe we can't find out where they came from for the time being, but at least we can know which direction they came from."
"Okay!" Xiaoyu walked out of the yard and was about to arrange for someone to call Zheng Fang, but Zheng Fang ran over on his own.
Behind him were Iron Hammer and Iron Niu.
Now that Jin Feng, Zhang Liang, and Qing Mulan are not in the village, Zheng Fang is in charge of the village's defense, assisted by Tieniu and Tiechui.
Tie Chui once served as the captain of Jin Feng's bodyguard. After he was injured in Weizhou City, the captain of the bodyguard was replaced by Da Liu.
After the injury healed, he followed Luo Lan and Han Feng to the capital to open up a market.
When Jin Feng left Xichuan, he specially called him and Han Feng back from the capital.
Han Feng took people to Xichuan to join Jin Feng and take charge of intelligence work, while Tie Zhui stayed to assist Zheng Fang and sit in the base camp.
Tieniu is Zhang Liang's big black comrade-in-arms. He is regarded as the second escort of the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau. He is now the commander of the second escort battalion and is highly trusted by Jin Feng.
For those who have endured hardship, they especially cherish the hard-won good days, so Tieniu works very diligently and often personally leads the bodyguards to exterminate those bandits who dare to take action against the Zhenyuan Bodyguard Bureau.
Zhenyuan Escort Bureau's great reputation in the world was almost created by Tieniu's leadership.
Perhaps because of killing too many people, Tieniu is now more silent and more powerful than before.
For the safety of the village, Zhang Liang got a few dogs and patrolled with the patrol team at night.
These dogs are usually quite ferocious, but when they saw Tieniu, they were so frightened that they clamped their tails and shrunk their necks, daring not to make a sound.
Tieniu spends most of his time away from home, and this time he was recalled by Jin Feng.
"Xiaoyu, where are you going?" Zheng Fang stopped Xiaoyu and asked.
Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle. When Zheng Fang heard about the double humps, he immediately went to Xiaoyu to find out the details.
As a result, Xiaoyu was not here, so he found this place again.
"Brother Zheng, my sister-in-law has arranged for me to do something. You go in first, and I will come right away after I have arranged it."
Xiaoyu said quickly: "Director Tang just asked me to find you."
"Okay!" Zheng Fang nodded and took Tieniu and Iron Hammer into the yard.
After a while, Xiaoyu came back.
When I came back, I happened to hear Tie Hammer talking: "Tieniu, can you use your brain when you speak? It is obvious that someone is taking advantage of the absence of my husband and the empty defense of Xihewan to take advantage of the situation. If you take hundreds of people to Double Hump,
, the village is empty, what if someone comes to attack the village?"
"It's precisely because they want to take advantage of the situation that we have to take ruthless measures to prevent them from coming back again."
Tieniu said: "What if, as you said, we only take more than a hundred people there and fight them off with the two-hump brothers? What if they come again when we leave?"
"Then let more than a hundred people be stationed at the Double Hump." Iron Hammer said: "The Salt Factory at the Double Hump is too important, and there can't be any mistakes. Otherwise, it will be a problem for the whole Guangyuan to eat salt. We must keep more manpower, not only to ensure that the salt factory
For normal production, we must also ensure that the salt can be sent out."
"The salt factory is important, but Iron Can Mountain is not important? Heishuigou is not important? Maomao Mountain is not important?"
Tieniu said murderously: "Our current manpower is simply not enough, so we can only be ruthless and kill one by one. Only in this way can the bandits know that if they come to Jinchuan to cause trouble, they will die, and they will be afraid!"
"Your father was right in naming you. You are an iron cow. You only know how to kill and kill, but you don't know how to use your brain at all!"
"You know how to use your brain, so what do you think we should do now?"
"I..." Tie Hui was left speechless by the question.
If he had a way, he would have said it just now.
"You don't even know what to do, so why are you blabbing? A big man has become a woman, has he spent too much time in the brothels in the capital, and has the bloody spirit of the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau been soaked away!" Tieniu sneered.
"I don't want to talk to Man Niu, sister-in-law, you make up your mind!"
Tie Hammer stopped paying attention to Tie Niu and turned to look at Guan Xiaorou.