Chapter 2181 Arrival
Manbao reined in his horse and looked back. When Mr. Zhuang and the others saw them looking back, they smiled and waved to them.
Liu Huan was very worried, "Are they okay?"
Yin Huo was not very worried and said, "If you can't win, just run. Run this way first. If that doesn't work, you can run to Liangzhou City. This place is not very far from Liangzhou City. A fast horse can get there in half a day."
He said, "My family's general said that nothing will happen."
Liu Huan finally felt relieved. "That's good. Do we still need to go grazing with them? I'm not interested in grazing right now. I just want to eat their meat."
Zhou Liru said, "I want to check their health. If you have nothing to do, you can help me."
She felt that it was not good for them to be too idle as they would have too many random thoughts.
Manbao and his men ran back to their camp. When Lieutenant General Nie saw them, he nodded and said, "I've sent someone to wait ahead. If they find any trace of the army, please report back."
Manbao dismounted, looked at the distant mountains and asked, "They should be able to find out, right?"
Nie Canjun said, "It depends on how Governor Duan plans to fight this battle."
If they just wanted to steal things, they would come directly here, scare away the people in the mountains and then plunder them; if they wanted to wipe out everyone, they would definitely send people here first, and then they could launch a night attack.
"By the way, someone has confessed." General Nie said that he would chop off the heads and then take the chopped heads back to the tent and display them in front of the surviving bandits. When he chopped off two people and was about to pull out the third one, they confessed.
Bai Jilang was very interested, "What did they recruit?"
"How many people are there on the mountain? What's the name of the leader? How many checkpoints are there since we entered the mountain..." Nie Canjun said, "I've asked everything I could."
Bai Shan asked, "Are you asking separately?"
Officer Nie nodded, "Of course we have to ask them separately. Otherwise, we'll give them the opportunity to collude with each other and it will be difficult to get a lot of information out of them."
Manbao asked, "Have you asked where they hid the treasure?"
"I asked, and they all said the place they knew was in the village."
Man Bao: "Impossible. Every cunning rabbit has three burrows. Governor Duan has broken them up twice. Even though Governor Duan is their mortal enemy here, they still keep coming here. Isn't it because they have the money they looted here?"
General Nie naturally knew that it was impossible, but they just refused to confess, or they just didn't know. What could he do?
The remaining few have caused a lot of trouble, and he can't just kill them.
Manbao frowned and thought for a moment, "Forget it, let's fight first and talk about it later."
General Nie: ...
Bai Shan also thought that they should take it down first, and privately said to Man Bao: "If we can catch the bandit leader, we can naturally find out the things. If all else fails, we still have my father-in-law. I will ask him for help when the time comes."
Manbao asked, "Is there any reward?"
"Yes," Bai Shan winked at her, "If we find it, I'll talk to General Nie and Governor Duan and we'll pick out a few good things. If we come across something my father-in-law wants along the way, we can buy it..."
Manbao started to plan and asked Keke in his heart, "Can you find it?"
Originally, Koko had no intention of getting involved in their affairs, but after hearing what Bai Shan said, it felt it was okay to participate. It said, "Okay."
When searching for unlisted creatures, just scan more underground or in stone, but the loss will be a bit greater if you scan in stone.
So it gave Manbao a list and said, "You have to pay points."
Manbao took a look and thought that with 80 points, she was still quite good, so he nodded and said, "No problem."
This one sentence answered both Bai Shan and Koko.
So the two sides agreed on this.
At noon, scouts from the north and south came to report. The scout from the north said, "There's movement in the mountains. They should be searching the mountains."
The scout from the south said, "Inspector Duan has arrived twenty miles away with a thousand soldiers. He wants you to come and discuss suppressing the bandits."
Manbao asked, "Does he want to come up again at night?"
Governor Duan really wanted to come up again at night. He had four experiences with the horse bandits in this mountain. This was a major battle. He had also experienced many small conflicts when he sent people to escort the passing caravans, so they knew each other very well.
He said, "That mountain is exposed on all sides. It would be easy to be discovered if we approach it during the day. It would be much more concealed at night. My plan is to advance at night and ambush at the foot of the mountain. I can attack the mountain the next day..."
Lieutenant General Nie asked, "Sir, where do you want to attack from?"
Governor Duan discussed the matter with him, and the two talked for about half an hour. Manbao and the others sat on the side and listened. They understood everything, but they still didn't understand why they had to attack from the left. But who cares? They were not good at fighting.
After Governor Duan and Lieutenant General Nie discussed the matter, they assigned him 300 men and asked him to lead the team as the center forward.
Bai Erlang looked around, raised his hand and asked, "What should we do then?"
Governor Duan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Second Master Bai will naturally stay in the camp with Lord Zhou and the others to await good news."
What's the difference between that and going to another tower?
Bai Erlang turned around and asked Manbao, "Should we go to Tabu to find the master and the others?"
Manbao said: "No, we will follow, and if any soldiers are injured, I can also help."
Bai Shan was still thinking about finding the treasure and nodded repeatedly.
The injured soldiers were sent to the rear for treatment. Thinking of this, Governor Duan and General Nie had no objection.
Manbao also made plans, "Let Liru come tomorrow. She happened to have learned suturing before, so this is a good opportunity for her to practice."
Bai Shan asked, "Do you have enough catgut?"
"Many, several volumes, all nicely packed away in boxes."
If that is not enough, she can also buy imitation ones in the mall, which are basically indistinguishable from the real ones. Not to mention laymen, even experts can't tell the difference without careful observation.
That thread can also be used for sutures.
But for Teacher Mo, it is used to suture pets.
So both sides made a plan. Because the base camp was still there, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, the chief officers could not all run away, so Manbao took Bai Shan and Bai Erlang back.
The horse thieves in the mountains searched most of the mountain during the day but found no one. However, they found two headless corpses and the bodies of two caravan servants. The latter were obviously chopped by their men, but they rolled down the hillside and fell directly into the haystack, so they were not seen.
Erg walked over and looked closely at the two headless corpses. When they were placed together with the headless corpse they found yesterday, certain features became more obvious.
"They're soldiers from the Great Jin!" He said with a gloomy expression, "You could still call the two bodies we found yesterday an accident, but these two were found in different places, both with their heads chopped off. Is that still an accident?"
Only people in the military would deliberately chop off someone's head or cut off their ears, just to show their military merit.
The latter had their ears cut off because their heads were too big to carry, but this is obviously not a common situation now, so it is easier to reward people by holding their heads.
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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