On the mountain road at the foot of Yangquan Ridge, Liu Tie led the cavalry team to trot along the mountain road.
Guan Xiaorou rarely rides horses, and her riding skills are not as good as those of Tang Xiaobei. She almost hit a rock several times when she made sharp turns on the mountain road.
But Guan Xiaorou still tried hard to control the horse and followed closely behind the cavalry.
Fortunately, the fog was heavy and the mountain road was narrow and had many turns, so Liu Tie and the others couldn't run. Otherwise, Guan Xiaorou really wouldn't be able to keep up.
When we were still three miles away from Yangquan Ridge, a fire suddenly appeared in front of us on the left.
Liu Tie's expression changed instantly.
He had made many deliveries to the county before and was very familiar with the surrounding terrain.
Although the fog was thick and the fire appeared and disappeared, Liu Tie knew very well that the place where the fire was burning was Yangquan Ridge!
"Madam, there's a fire in Sheepfold Ridge. There must have been a fight. You walk slowly behind, I'll lead someone over first!"
Liu Tie turned his head and shouted at Guan Xiaorou, giving an order: "Fang Zhou, you lead a squad to protect my wife, and everyone else should follow me!"
After saying that, without waiting for a reply, he led the people and started to speed up.
However, this section of the mountain road was too narrow and rugged, and Liu Tie and the others could not run at all.
The speed is only a little faster than before.
Instead, two escorts rushed out of the mountain road when they turned because the thick fog affected their vision.
Fortunately, the bottom of this section of the mountain road is farmland and not a cliff, otherwise the two escorts would be doomed.
Delayed by these two escorts, Liu Tie not only did not get rid of Guan Xiaorou, but instead asked Guan Xiaorou to stop and wait for him...
Liu Tie was so anxious that he slapped his thigh but did not dare to take any more risks and ordered the team to slow down.
Guan Xiaorou raised her head and glanced at the fire in the distance. She was very anxious, but she didn't dare to rush Liu Tie.
In another direction, Master Chen was standing on a huge rock with his hands behind his back. Looking at the fire, his mood was completely opposite to that of Guan Xiaorou and Liu Tie.
Because this operation was planned by him, it was also Master Chen's idea to kill the female worker's heavy crossbow position.
A counselor has learned all his life about planning, and he is very good at guessing people's hearts.
Before Master Chen started the banditry, Jinchuan was prosperous, and less than half of the people in the county found jobs at Jin Feng's construction sites and factories.
Not only can I have a full stomach, but I can also feed my family and help poor relatives.
Having extra money in your hands will also improve your life.
Other people who did not work in Jin Feng's construction sites and factories also had some ways to make money.
In the past, if a hunter caught a large game animal such as a wild boar, it would need to be sent to the county government, and several butchers would often need to pay for it together.
It's not that a butcher can't afford wild boar, but that there are so few people willing to buy meat that one wild boar can't be sold for several days.
Dakang didn’t have a refrigerator, so the meat would smell bad if it wasn’t sold out.
This is true even for county governments, let alone villages and towns.
Butcher restaurants in villages and towns only dare to accept small prey such as hares and pheasants.
Sometimes it may not be sold, and it needs to be made into smoked meat or air-dried meat that is easy to store.
Now when hunters kill wild boars, they don’t have to send them to the county government. If there is a Jinfeng factory nearby, they can just send them there directly.
If there is no factory nearby, you can also sell it directly to the butcher in the town.
Nowadays, the life of the people in the county has improved, more and more people are buying meat, and the butchers in the town dare to harvest wild boars.
This is the change Jin Feng brought to Jinchuan!
Not to mention that the people live and work in peace and contentment, but the number of people who died of cold and hunger this year was more than 90% less than in previous years.
But destruction is always easier than construction. After Master Chen's action, the prosperity brought by Jin Feng was like a bubble, which was ruthlessly burst.
In just a few days, the once prosperous Jinchuan became dire!
Countless bandits swarmed in, like locusts, sweeping away everything edible and useful in their path.
This is the power of a counselor!
Master Chen was also very proud of this plan.
Everything is developing according to his plan, even more smoothly than originally planned.
Because he didn't expect that so many people would take the initiative to pretend to be bandits.
The powerful people sent Master Chen to plan everything in order to put pressure on Zhang Liang, so that Zhang Liang would give up suppressing the bandits and come back to protect Jinchuan as soon as possible.
A few days ago, Zhang Liang received news of the banditry in Jinchuan, so he immediately gathered the Zhenyuan army and rushed on the road at full speed.
But just when the dignitaries thought Master Chen's plan was working, Zhang Liang suddenly took action against the bandits again.
And in order to retaliate, Zhang Liang also took a cruel approach this time and specially selected two bandit lairs with steep terrain.
The terrain of these two bandit lairs is complex, the scale of the bandits is also large, and there are many granaries. They are the places where the rich and powerful reserve the most food.
The dignitaries and bandits never expected that Zhang Liang would dare to take a detour to attack them at this time, but they were caught off guard and directly defeated.
A group of dignitaries suffered heavy losses. While scolding Zhang Liang and Jin Feng for being crazy, they quickly sent a message to Master Chen to speed up the progress in Jinchuan.
In fact, Zhang Liang was not crazy, but he received a message from Jin Feng.
The dignitaries wouldn't let Jin Feng have an easy time, and Jin Feng wouldn't let them have an easy time either.
Knowing that it would be difficult for Zhang Liang to get back in a short time, Jin Feng simply asked Zhang Liang to leave Jinchuan alone and try his best to suppress the bandits.
Master Chen received a message from the powerful, and in order to continue to exert pressure, he hired a group of truly brave bandits to gather in Guaizigou, and then personally led the team, preparing to attack Xihewan in one fell swoop.
But who would have thought that halfway through, he was stopped by a female worker from Iron Can Mountain.
Even Master Chen didn't expect this turn of events.
Because Iron Can Mountain involves the soap formula, supervision is extremely strict, and Master Chen received very little information.
I only know that Jin Feng's soap factory is here, and the workers it uses are "meat horses" from the bandits' dens in the past, as well as slaves bought from the tooth shop.
Don't know about the others.
But Master Chen didn't pay much attention.
They are just a bunch of weak women, what should they care about?
Besides making soap, what else can they do?
But reality slapped me in the face.
In order to defeat the female textile factory workers in next year's spring sports meeting, the female workers in Iron Can Mountain have trained their catapults and heavy crossbows to be as proficient as the female escorts, completely blocking the mountain road.
Master Chen organized several charges, but they were all repelled by the female workers.
The bandits suffered heavy losses, but not a single female worker was injured or killed.
Although Master Chen also brought a catapult, his catapult was the most primitive version used by Jin Feng in Qingshui Valley. Its range was far inferior to the improved version used by the female workers, so he did not dare to take it out.
The brave bandit was blocked by a group of weak female workers at Yangquan Ridge.
If you want to bypass Yangquan Ridge, you have to walk dozens of miles of mountain roads.
Master Chen had no choice but to suspend the attack and wait until night fell and the fog was thick enough before launching another attack.
In order to reduce his own casualties, Master Chen asked the bandits to hide in the thick fog, and then sent someone with a scarecrow to fake a shot.
The female worker was indeed fooled, and out of nervousness, she activated the heavy crossbow and catapult.
Master Chen immediately ordered the bandits to rush to the female workers' formation before they could reload.