Unfortunately, the commander who spoke so condescendingly was one of the unlucky ones. Because he was standing close to the entrance of the cave and close to the rockfall, the vibration he received was particularly strong. In addition, he was taller than the deputy next to him. The commander was nearly a head away when he was hit in the head by a stone as big as a pot that fell from the cave ceiling. He died on the spot. The deputy commander beside him only suffered a scratch on his shoulder from the stone.
Although it was so dark inside the cave that I couldn't see my fingers, I could still sense a person who suddenly fell down next to me. Deputy Commander Yu felt nervous and shouted hurriedly: "Master Control, Master Control." As a result, the only answer to him was the cave. There was a "crackling" sound of falling rocks inside, mixed with the muffled sound of someone being hit from time to time!
Deputy Commander Yu quickly squatted down and reached out to touch the place where the Commander used to stand. He first touched the clothes on the Commander's body, but for a moment he couldn't tell what part of his body it was. Then he touched up along the clothes. For the first time, his hands were filled with warm and slippery liquid. Based on years of experience on the battlefield, Deputy Commander Yu immediately judged that it was human blood. He immediately ordered: "Whoever has a torch in his hand, please light one first!"
There was only a flash of fire in the darkness. Someone was blowing a torch, and then lit the torch in his hand. The cave suddenly lit up. Only then did Deputy Commander Yu see clearly that the Commander was lying in front of him, his head full of mixed thoughts. There was blood on the white brain, and half of the head next to the cave wall was smashed away.
Deputy Commander Yu couldn't help but take a breath when he saw the situation. Then he turned around to look at the situation inside the cave, which made him even more panicked. Although a torch couldn't illuminate much of the place, as far as he could see, everything was covered in smoke. It was a mess, and almost half of the sergeants were hit by rocks. Now these sergeants were lying, sitting, or leaning on the rocks. Some gritted their teeth and sucked in the air conditioning to prevent themselves from screaming, and some took advantage of this. The light from the torches was seizing the opportunity to bandage each other. During this period, sporadic stones were falling from the top of the cave from time to time!
What to do? Now that the commander was killed by a falling rock, it was up to him, the deputy commander, to make a decision. Deputy commander Yu was thinking of countermeasures in his mind. At this time, a young man who looked like an officer, who had just bandaged his head, emerged from the pile of rocks. Staggering over, he first took a look at the body of the Commander lying on the ground, then clasped his fists at Deputy Commander Yu and said, "Deputy Commander, would you like me to take someone to the entrance of the cave to investigate? It may be a rock landslide on the mountain. Yes, my subordinate used to go to herd sheep in the mountains in my hometown, and things like this often happened!"
Deputy Commander Yu shook his head: "Commander Wang, I've seen landslides before, but this time the sound doesn't sound like a landslide."
Commander Wang clasped his fists again: "Sir, Deputy Commander, I would like to go to the entrance of the cave to find out what's going on."
Deputy Commander Yu thought for a while and finally nodded: "Go ahead and bring two more people with you. If you find anything unusual, don't act rashly. Come back and report it to me immediately."
"It's your order." Commander Wang agreed, beckoning for the two uninjured sergeants, and stumbled over the rocks towards the entrance of the cave.
Because they were very close to the entrance of the cave, the three of them walked forward four to five feet, and then turned a double bend. At this time, their eyes suddenly lit up, and they saw wisps of light leaking in from the cracks in the rocks not far ahead.
When the three of them saw this, they couldn't help being shocked. At this time, one of the sergeants put his mouth to Commander Wang's ear and whispered: "Master Commander, the entrance to the cave is blocked. What should I do? Otherwise, let the subordinates go forward. Go and explore?"
Commander Wang waved his hand: "No, the deputy commander told me not to act recklessly. We will go back and report it now, and let him make the decision."
In fact, the distance between the three of them was not that far. Even if they spoke a little louder, both sides could hear them. The key was that there were too many gravels under their feet, and the light in the cave was dim, so it was quite difficult to walk.
"Deputy Commander" Commander Wang bent down and clasped his fists and said, "As you said, it is indeed not a landslide outside, but someone blocked the entrance of the cave from the outside!"
"Oh!" Deputy Commander Yu didn't seem too surprised. He just said "Oh" softly, as if everything was as he expected. After thinking for a moment, he said: "It seems that the commander is wrong. The other party is not We don’t have many manpower, so maybe they are bandits who have been targeting us for a long time!”
Commander Wang glanced at the commander's body, leaned over and asked, "Sir, why did you see it?"
Vice President Yu snorted coldly: "Huh, doesn't the method they used to plug the hole just prove that they don't have enough manpower? Otherwise, they can just set up an ambush around the entrance of the hole and catch us all in one fell swoop, so why bother!"
Commander Wang hesitated and said: "My lord, I saw that the stone blocking the entrance of the cave seemed to be a whole boulder. I wonder if the huge earthquake that just happened was caused by the falling of this boulder?"
"How is that possible!" After hearing this, Deputy Commander Yu's first reaction was to deny it. He glared at Commander Wang, and then scolded: "Commander Wang, you are really brave enough to think that a huge boulder just rolled down the mountain, and another It happened to fall at the entrance of the cave and blocked us inside! Such a coincidence allowed us to catch up. Did we break some rules? God wants to punish us like this!"
"This, this..." Commander Wang hesitated. He couldn't hold back any good words in his heart, so he had to step aside in disgrace.
Deputy Commander Yu let out a long sigh and said in a rather helpless tone: "Oh, it seems that it would be best for me to go and investigate in person!" After saying that, he stood up and walked towards the entrance of the cave.
When Commander Wang saw this, he was afraid of an accident and quickly waved to the two sergeants who had just followed him to follow him.
As a result, within a moment at most, Deputy Commander Yu returned with two sergeants dejectedly. Commander Wang stepped forward to greet him and asked impatiently: "Sir, do we still have a chance to rush out from here?"
Deputy Commander Yu's face was frighteningly gloomy, and he said angrily: "It's difficult."
Commander Wang seemed to have expected this answer. He paused and said tentatively: "Sir, how about we go back and take the Jin route instead?"
Upon hearing this, Deputy Commander Yu gave Commander Wang a hard look and scolded: "Nonsense, since these people can target us, they must be prepared at the entrance to Linshan County, and there are more than 20 people behind us." If a Taiping car wants to turn around in a narrow cave, it must be completely dismantled and reassembled. This will take at least two days. Besides, when coming out, Wang Taiwei told Mr. Fang that no matter what, , I would rather give up the money than go the Jin route."
Commander Wang asked blankly: "Why is that?"
Deputy Commander Yu sighed: "Because the escort silver we robbed belongs to the Jin State's Risheng Gold Branch, and the Jin State's Risheng Gold Branch is actually controlled by the Jin Kingdom's royal family. Think about it, if We are currently taking the route of the Jin State. Judging by the time, the Jin State headquarters should have received the Zheng Guo semicolon flying pigeon letter long ago. A convoy as big as ours can avoid the royal family in the Jin State. Eyeliner? If we are caught and find out that our true identity is the Qi Cavalry Guards of Qi State, this will not be a big deal. Wouldn’t it make the relationship between Qi and Jin suddenly become antagonistic? You must know that our Qi State’s current main The goal is to capture the Zheng State as quickly as possible and destroy it. If the Jin State intervenes again at this time, the outcome may change!"
"Sir, what should we do?" Commander Wang said anxiously: "We have so many living people, we can't be suffocated to death in this cave, right?"
Deputy Commander Yu pondered for a moment and said solemnly: "If Lord Ru Ding and the others still don't come back after another hour, let's remove the shaft and break open the stone blocking the entrance of the cave."
At this point, Commander Wang himself couldn't think of a better way, so he had no choice but to nod in agreement.
Next, Commander Wang was about to leave and go to the convoy behind to prepare for removing the shaft. Deputy Commander Yu called him back again, reached out and took out a bulging cloth bag from his arms and handed it to him, saying, "This is Mr. Ding." He left it behind when he went to buy wine, so he asked me to keep it temporarily for him. I originally distributed it after he came back, one pack per person, but now I have to distribute it first."
Commander Wang opened the cloth bag in his hand, looked at the small thumb-sized paper bags inside, and asked curiously: "Master Yu, what is in this paper bag?"
"Returning Yang Pill!" Deputy Commander Yu said without changing his expression: "This is an ancestral treasure passed down from Master Ding's family. If you are tired from practicing martial arts, you only need to take one pill and your physical strength will be restored to its original state."
"Then, what do you mean by Master Ding?" Commander Wang inquired.
Deputy Commander Yu smiled unnaturally and said: "Master Ding told me that this time we came to the enemy's territory with hundreds of sergeants to rob a huge amount of escort money. The risks were very high, so when we came out, he asked his family You rushed to make hundreds of pills of Yang Yang Pills overnight to distribute to the sergeants before encountering a tough battle. However, due to lack of preparation, each person can only get one pill, so you told the sergeants to keep it. , Don’t take it out easily until you are very tired from injury and fighting, otherwise you will not be able to exert the maximum effect of Huanyang Pill!”
Commander Wang is a very thoughtful person. When he took the elixir from Deputy Commander Yu, he also noticed the strange forced smile on his face and immediately kept an eye on it.
An hour passed quickly. At this time, Chen Xiaomu and others were already building several large piles of rocks with rubble on the roof of the Immortal Cave. They waited for the people in the cave below to rush out and then started to smash them down. As a result, After waiting for a long time, it was quiet down there, without any movement.
This is strange. Although I heard them at the entrance of the cave just now saying that they would wait for the Ding brothers to come back before making plans, there was no sound like landslides and earth cracking outside the cave. Inside the cave, it was as stable as Mount Tai, with no sound at all. When he thought about it, Chen Xiaomu felt that the quality of these Qi soldiers was so high that it was really scary!
At this time Qingkui came over and reminded: "Master Tongpan, have these Qi people retreated from the cave? If so, wouldn't we have waited in vain?"
Chen Xiaomu scratched his head and analyzed it for Qingkui: "Mr. Qing, I don't think this is possible. The silver that was robbed this time was actually the silver from the Jin State's Risheng Money Manor and the Zheng State branch. I heard that the Risheng Gold It is actually under the control of the royal family of the Qi State. This morning, I have informed the Jin State headquarters of the Rishengjin about this matter by sending a letter via flying pigeons and expediting it for eight hundred miles. It is estimated that it is now over there in the Qi State. Scouts are already out in all directions, looking for this convoy. I think that even if these people from Qi have a little bit of brains, they would not dare to use Jin’s money, and they have a special status. If they are in Jin then If he is caught in the country and his true identity is found out, he will be in big trouble!"
The two were talking when suddenly several muffled "boom" sounds came from below. Chen Xiaomu blinked and said with a smile: "Mr. Qing, they finally took action!"
