Qin Fang stood up: "Everyone take torches and look around for this light. Because there are many boxes, the powder may be scattered. After finding it, teams of ten will follow up to search."
"Yes." Whether it was the soldiers of the Yulin Army or Yunxiang County, they consciously and efficiently formed teams to search.
With the help of the powder, they searched along the way. Because walking was slow, they searched for a whole night and several pairs of people gathered in the same place.
Du Xingran looked around: "We started from the scene of the incident. The powder was scattered in different places. We took several different routes, but in the end they all gathered here. And what is here? Cliffs, what are they going to do here in the end?"
This is the last place to gather. There is no road ahead, it is a cliff. Everyone was searching separately along the powder and finally gathered here. That is to say, after the carriages separated, they finally came back here. So there must be something wrong here, otherwise why would they come here?
Qin Fang: "Everyone search separately to see if there are any clues nearby. Some people go to the front to see if there are any signs that the carriages have left."
"Yes."
Soon, a soldier found the traces.
"General Qin, there are problems with the trees here. There are traces of ropes tied to them."
"General Qin, there are traces of ropes tied to them here too."
"General Qin, there are traces of ropes tied to them here too."
"General Qin, there are traces of ropes tied to them here too."
So many trees have traces of ropes tied to them. This is obviously unusual. What are the ropes tied to here for? This question is very simple. There is a cliff in front. Any normal person can think of the ropes tied to them. It may be related to the cliff.
Qin Fang first looked at the tree for a while, and then went to the edge of the cliff to look. Sure enough, there were traces of friction on the edge of the cliff, and there were also ropes and grass fluff here.
At this time, the ropes were all made of grass or hemp. If they rubbed against the edge of the cliff, there would definitely be grass or hemp fluff left behind.
"General?" Captain Yang also squatted down to watch. But he didn't squat too close, in case he fell down, it would be no joke.
Qin Fang said, "Go prepare the ropes, we'll go down and take a look."
Captain Yang: "Yes."
They naturally brought ropes when they went out, after all, they were transporting gunpowder, which was very heavy, in case the rope tied to the gunpowder box broke in the middle of the journey, so there was a spare. But these ropes were obviously not enough, so Captain Yang took people to cut some rattan to connect them.
After preparing three ropes in total, they fixed them on the tree. Then Captain Yang pulled the rope hard, and after making sure it was firm, he said to Qin Fang: "General, it's all right."
Qin Fang nodded: "I'll go down and take a look."
Yu Nian said: "I'll go too."
Du Xingran also wanted to go, but he was average in martial arts and didn't dare to go down. Among the children of wealthy families, very few are really good in martial arts, and most of them practice martial arts for self-defense and strengthening.
This cliff is not very high, but it is definitely not low. The rope they prepared is long enough, but it is not as low as the cliff. However, when you go up and down the cliff, you can see the traces of heavy objects being hung down.
Yu Nian: "It seems that the gunpowder box was transported down from here." So they didn't find any traces of the powder leaving.
Qin Fang nodded: "It's very possible."
The rope was not long enough, Qin Fang said to another Yu Linjun who followed him and Yu Nian down: "You go up and ask them to prepare a longer rope, and then arrange some people to come down. General Yu, let's go down and take a look?"
"Yes." The Yu Linjun climbed up.
Yu Nian said angrily: "No problem. Damn, you robbed my way, I don't intend to let it go like this." He looked fierce, and the bandit's words were quite scary.
The rope was not long enough, and the two had to give up the rope climbing. There is a problem with rock climbing, that is, you can't hold a torch, otherwise you can't climb with one hand. Fortunately, Qin Fang and Yu Nian were both very skilled, and the cliff was not very high. Moreover, they had been climbing with the rope for a long time, so they reached the ground in about a quarter of an hour with their hands.
Once on the ground, Yu Nian took out the tinder he carried with him and lit the torch. Once the torch was lit, the situation around him became clear at a glance. "This...Isn't this burned by fire?"
The traces of fire at the bottom of the cliff were particularly obvious, with charcoal from the wood still there, and the traces in the grass were also particularly obvious. However, the most obvious thing was the clay block next to the fire. This was the fake gunpowder made by Qin Fang, which was transported out of Yunxiang County by Yu Nian and his friends that day, and now appeared here.
Yu Nian picked up the clay block and said, "Is this the gunpowder that General Qin gave me?" As soon as he saw the size, he knew it. He had measured the gunpowder and it was the same size, so he almost immediately determined that it was fake gunpowder.
Qin Fang said, "Indeed. They burned the boxes and other things that needed to be burned, and this piece of clay could not be burned away, so they had to throw it here. I guess they found out that the gunpowder was fake when they were burning it, so they threw it away. However, this route was well chosen. If we hadn't discovered it, they would definitely leave with the gunpowder."
Yu Nian said, "The other party's plan is very thorough, but now that everything is here, I'm afraid we can't follow them. We can only look for clues nearby. I don't know if there are any manors nearby, or if anyone has seen them."
"General..."
While Qin Fang and Yu Nian were talking, many soldiers from the Yulin Army and Yunxiang County came down from above.
Qin Fang said, "Let's rest here for one night, and ask about the situation tomorrow."
"Yes."
It was late at night, and even if there was a village nearby, they couldn't go and ask, as it would be bad to scare people. Besides, it had been two or three days, and the barbarians would not wait for them there. So, there was no rush.
The next day
Early in the morning, Yu Nian and Qin Fang took people to check, and they found that there was indeed a village nearby.
"Auntie, have any strangers in your village walked to the back mountain recently?"
"I haven't seen any."
"Uncle, have any strangers entered your village recently?"
"This big sister..."
Qin Fang and others asked many people, but they all said they hadn't seen any. In fact, it was normal not to have seen any. After all, although the village was nearby, there was still a long way to the cliff of the back mountain. If the barbarians wanted to avoid the villagers, there were still many ways.
Yu Nian said, "General Qin, I'm afraid we won't be able to find out anything for a while. We have a mission to accomplish. We need to go to the Yongzhou military camp to confirm whether the gunpowder has been delivered. After that, we will return to the capital to restore the Ming Dynasty. I'll leave the matters here to you for now."
Qin Fang said, "Then I won't see you off. We'll have a chance to drink together again." Yu Nian
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