Cui Hongyu shook his head, "No, he said it would only take three to five days."
At this time, Princess Zhaoning next to her spoke, "Then let's go up the mountain to look for him quickly. We will find him back as soon as possible and we will feel at ease."
"Your Highness Princess, you should wait in the village, I will take them up the mountain." Liu Rumei quickly said to stop them.
Princess Zhaoning glared stubbornly, "No, I have the final say here, you have to listen to me."
Liu Rumei was helpless and spread her hands, "But before we came, His Highness the Crown Prince said that we must listen to Sister Hongyu."
Princess Zhaoning looked at Cui Hongyu with a smile and said, "Miss Hongyu, we will go up the mountain to look for Chen Xiaobei now. Do you have any objection?"
Cui Hongyu shook his head and said, "Your Highness, you should wait at the bottom of the mountain. Miss Liu and I will go up the mountain."
"No." Princess Zhaoning's attitude was very firm, "I came here just to go up the mountain. Let's stop talking and set off immediately."
Princess Zhaoning is impatient, and because of her position, Liu Rumei cannot forcefully dissuade the princess from being so aloof.
Liu Rumei had to rearrange the plan and let Yang Zhi, Yang Chun and Liu Ce stay with two thousand soldiers to protect Hetou Village. She and Princess Zhaoning took the little girl, Chu Han and others, as well as Liu Tie and Zhou Quan's men
, plus a thousand soldiers went up the mountain overnight to look for Chen Xiaobei.
The reason why the heavy troops were left at the foot of the mountain was because of what Shen Qiang said. There were five thousand people on the mountain. If they gathered together, the impact on the small mountain village would be huge.
Bringing a thousand men up the mountain, the mountain road is narrow and difficult to maneuver, and the disparity in troop strength is not as obvious as down the mountain.
At this time, Chen Xiaobei and the others were still transporting urgent supplies of military supplies overnight, and danger was quietly approaching.
As Shen Qiang said, there were still many soldiers on the mountain. After the fire, these soldiers panicked and ran to the Longwang River. Seeing that there was no way out, they had to turn back, so Qi Chong led people up the mountain and down the mountain just in time with them.
Perfect miss.
The leader was named Zhu Ting, who was Zhu Meng's confidant.
He summoned about two thousand people. He walked back along the mountain road, and soon someone came to report.
"General, I saw someone moving our military supplies ahead."
Zhu Ting couldn't help but frown after hearing this.
"Are you from the prince?"
The visitor shook his head and said, "The clothes he wears are the clothes of ordinary people, and he speaks their dialect."
Zhu Ting nodded, "So they are a group of mountain people."
"The indications are yes."
Zhu Ting thought for a moment, then turned around and said, "You guys wait here, I'll go over and take a look."
Zhu Ting took off his armor. He only took the scimitar and followed the spies forward.
Sure enough, there were torches burning in front.
Dozens of villagers walked back and forth from their tents carrying various supplies down the mountain.
Frankly speaking, Chen Xiaobei and others were also careless. After Qi rushed away, he thought that there was no one on the mountain, so there was no sentry at all, and he sent everyone to race against time to transport supplies down the mountain.
And because the battle line was too long, the closer to the original location of the cable bridge, the more supplies were left behind. Therefore, more than a hundred villagers were spread out on these dozens of miles of mountain roads, and naturally they looked sparse.
Most of them are groups of three or five, and there is no large-scale team.
Zhu Ting looked at it carefully for a while, and then he had an idea in his mind. He said to the spy next to him, "Go and bring 200 people over and put them all in civilian clothes."
Soon, two hundred soldiers were brought there. Zhu Ting pointed to a few torches coming from a distance and said, "These three or five people will definitely enter the tents nearby. You go in first to ambush."
Two hundred people immediately got into dozens of nearby tents in twos and threes.
Sure enough, after several villagers arrived, they immediately split up and went into the tent.
The leader of the villagers was Chen Daqiang. As soon as he got into the tent, someone covered his mouth and pushed him to the ground.
Soon Chen Daqiang was tied up tightly and his mouth was stuffed with rags.
Then several villagers were carried in from the tent, and Zhu Ting waved his hand to carry them away.
Zhu Ting just waited here, one after another, and arrested more than twenty people in one hour.
At this time, Chen Xiaobei knew nothing about this, and he and Chen Dayong were walking this way while talking and laughing.
While walking, Chen Dayong suddenly stopped.
"Brother Xiaobei, why do I feel something is wrong?" Although Chen Dayong has never been a soldier, he has served as a guard for a wealthy family and knows some boxing and has some experience in this area.
Chen Xiaobei scratched his head, "What's wrong with this? Don't scare yourself."
Chen Dayong pointed forward, "Look, it's dark in front, and there's no fire at all."
"We walked all the way and not many people passed by."
Chen Xiaobei's mind buzzed.
The memory quickly regressed. Yes, when we first came from the steep slope, there were many torches in front of us.
"Oops, something happened up front." Chen Xiaobei immediately became alert.
"Brother Dayong, let's go back quickly. We'll stop everyone along the way. Let's take a count and see how many people are missing."
The two turned around and walked back, stopping everyone and quickly retreating to the steep slope to take stock. Later, they found that nearly thirty people were missing. Among them, the village guard captain Chen Dachun, team members Chen Daqiang, Chen Sanliang and others were all missing.
After waiting for another half an hour, no one came back. Chen Xiaobei was convinced that something had happened to them.
At this time, Zhu Ting waited for a long time and saw no one came. He also realized that these villagers must have noticed something.
"Take these mountain people and retreat to the place with the pool."
Zhu Ting was talking about longan, but he didn't know the name, so he could only refer to it as a place with a pool.
Before leaving, Zhu Ting called the soldiers over and brought as many supplies as possible.
As they walked, the soldier next to him asked in confusion, "General, why don't we go all the way and kill all these villagers?"
Zhu Ting laughed and said, "Don't be in a hurry. If you arrest more people, you will have to eat more rations. These twenty people are enough. Whatever you take, you have to vomit it back to me."
At this time, Chen Xiaobei was so regretful that his intestines were turning green. He should go back in the afternoon as planned. He had already passed the mountain temple by now, so nothing happened.
If you are greedy, you will swallow the elephant. You have done it too harshly. Now you are fine. What should you do now that you are gone?
And what's even more terrible is that except for Chen Dayong, the rest of his group of people don't know much about boxing.
Where do we start talking about saving people?
At this moment, Chen Dayong said eagerly, "Brother Xiaobei, we'd better take the people to evacuate first."
Chen Xiaobei shook his head, "You take them to retreat to the mountain temple first. I have to wait here. What if they come back?"
Chen Dayong sighed, "Oh, I came back early. Something must have happened."