Chapter 68: An ambush at the Cliff Valley
"Cliff Valley? The Cliff Valley is a dangerous place, and it is within the territory of the Great Xia Dynasty. Not to mention that the team escorting food and fodder will not pass through the Cliff Valley, even the barbarians will not go to that place."
Qiao Chuanbai thought that Huo Yu's idea was simply crazy.
Huo Yu was very persistent. He must go to that place. He was determined to go to the Cliff Valley.
"I had a dream last night. I dreamed that the team escorting food and fodder passed through the Cliff Valley. I have a hunch that this dream must be accurate."
Qiao Chuanbai couldn't help rolling his eyes: "You slept so deeply last night, and you were snoring. I couldn't wake you up even if I called you. How could you still have a dream?"
Huo Yu: ...
Just say what you want to say. What's wrong with exposing someone's shortcomings?
I haven't seen this cousin for half a year, how come he has become so annoying?
Anyway, he doesn't care.
He will drag Qiao Chuanbei to the Cliff Valley no matter what.
Seeing that Huo Yu was not giving up, Qiao Chuanbai agreed with his idea immediately.
"Okay, then let's go to the Cliff Valley to have a look."
"If my second uncle's innocence is proven by then, you are not allowed to doubt him again in the future."
"And you have to apologize to my second uncle."
Huo Yu agreed immediately: "Okay, I'll do as you said. If I misunderstood my second uncle, I will apologize to him without you telling me."
In a blink of an eye, it was the day after tomorrow.
Qiao Chuanbai ordered the people of the Huo family army and took Huo Yu out to check the terrain.
The people in the barracks looked at each other.
They just checked the terrain two days ago, why are they going again today.
Qiao Chufeng's confidant looked at Qiao Chuanbai's receding back figure and hurried back to the room. He recorded Qiao Chuanbai's whereabouts in a notebook.
This was what Qiao Chufeng instructed when he left, asking him to keep a close eye on Qiao Chuanbai and record everything Qiao Chuanbai did.
And the confidant was indeed loyal, even recording the time when Qiao Chuanbai ate, slept, and went to the toilet in great detail.
As soon as the group left the camp, Qiao Chuanbai's confidant stepped forward and told him about Qiao Chufeng's confidant's inquiries for information.
Qiao Chuanbai listened to his subordinates' report calmly and asked them to leave.
Huo Yu walked over with a teasing tone.
"Cousin, you have some suspicions in your heart, don't you?"
Qiao Chuanbai glanced at his cousin and said nothing.
He didn't suspect his second uncle, but suspected that there were spies in the barbarian camp.
Just as Huo Yu said, the place where the food was robbed was too coincidental for him not to be suspicious.
Qiao Chuanbai was about to take his men on the road, but Huo Yu suddenly spoke.
"Cousin, if you were a barbarian and agreed with Uncle Qiao to meet at the Cliff Valley, what would you do?"
"Of course, I mean if. Anyway, if you want to convince me, you have to do what I say. Otherwise, I will complain to my cousin when I go back, saying that you didn't bring the bronze mirror. I'll see if my cousin will still pay attention to you in the future."
Qiao Chuanbai cares most about the little girl. Huo Yu really knows where to poke the knife. Qiao Chuanbai's face turned black before he finished speaking.
"Huo Yu, are you itchy?"
He is two years older than Huo Yu, has a higher position than Huo Yu, and has better kung fu than Huo Yu. If he wants to deal with this cousin, he can really deal with it.
Huo Yu also knows himself and has already run a little further by pinching the horse's belly.
However, he ran out, but his attitude did not soften at all: "Anyway, your second uncle is innocent, so what if we give it a try."
In order to make Huo Yu give up, Qiao Chuanbai did not say anything else, but instead carefully considered his assumptions.
If his people were among those escorting the food, and it was in a place like the Cliff Valley, then he would definitely lead people to ambush.
At that time, killing the escorts and robbing the food would definitely be able to severely dampen the enemy's arrogance.
Qiao Chuanbai thought of this and led a group of people directly through the back of the Cliff Valley.
In this way, even if the barbarians came, they would not find them.
When the group arrived at the Cliff Valley, someone saw the horse hoof prints on the ground and immediately went forward to check.
"General, someone just passed by here and went up to the Cliff Valley."
The Cliff Valley is like a mountain that was split in half, leaving a ten-meter-wide road in the middle.
But there is no road on the top of the Cliff Valley, so under normal circumstances, no one would go up, not to mention that there were quite a few people, and they were all on horseback.
Judging from the formation, the opponent was obviously a well-trained team.
This time, Qiao Chuanbai gave the order without waiting for Huo Yu to speak.
"Everyone, follow me into the Cliff Valley from the back and find a place to hide the horses."
The group followed Qiao Chuanbai into the Cliff Valley from the back, and then hid on a slope closer to the cliff.
The opposite hillside is level with the cliff valley, but there are a lot of rocks and many blind spots. There are not many people in Qiao Chuanbai, so it is not difficult to hide.
As the group hid, they carefully observed the surroundings and soon made a discovery.
"General, they are barbarians."
Those people seemed to be moving stones to the top of the mountain.
"General Huo is right."
One of them exclaimed.
But as soon as he finished speaking, he felt that the atmosphere was wrong and shut up immediately.
General Huo not only said that there were barbarians here, but also said that Uncle Qiao would trade with the barbarians here.
Now one of them has come true, and I don’t know if it is true the next day.
Huo Yu took a look at the barbarians and was not surprised at all.
After all, this is what Qiao Nian Nian thought. My cousin can even deal with ghosts and can recognize the leader of the bandits at a glance, so it is no problem for her to deal with the barbarians.
Qiao Chuanbai's expression became serious.
If the soldiers escorting food passed by here, and the barbarians moved so many stones up, they would push the stones down when the soldiers escorting food passed by.
Without any physical effort, the soldiers escorting the food were beaten so hard that they had no power to resist.
But the route for escorting food that had been set before was clearly not this one.
Qiao Chuanbai couldn't help but glance at Huo Yu.
Could it be that this cousin really had a dream last night?
Not only a dream, but this dream also had the ability to predict the future?
Qiao Chuanbai didn't care whether this was true or not, he couldn't just ignore the fact that the barbarians were preparing to ambush them.
He immediately sent people to ambush on the other side, and to warn the soldiers before the barbarians took action.
On the other side.
As the escort officer, Qiao Chufeng directly ordered to move forward in the direction of the Cliff Valley.
The subordinates who followed him back to Beijing spoke in confusion.
"Sir, the route we had planned before was to go through the mainland. The terrain of the Cliff Valley is dangerous and rugged. Why did we suddenly change the route?"
Qiao Chufeng said righteously: "You don't know, when we left, the food and grass in the barracks could not last for half a month. But this time we have been traveling back and forth for more than half a month. I guess the army has run out of food."
"The barbarians are cunning. If they attack us at this time, how can the soldiers fight with empty stomachs?"
"Although the road in this Cliff Valley is rugged, it is more than half a day's walk faster than this road."
"But, what if someone ambushes us on both sides? We can't resist at all."
The deputy expressed his doubts.
I didn't choose that road before because it was too dangerous.
And it's only a half-day journey. Even if I'm in a hurry, there's no need to take risks.
This argument is somewhat untenable.