After making these arrangements, Zhu Bai set off again.
The commander of Gongchang Guards escorted them for fifty miles before turning back, and reluctantly asked: "When will Your Highness come again."
Zhang Yu couldn't laugh or cry.
That’s right, the health centers further northwest of Xi’an are poorer and more miserable than the last.
In addition to being divided into those in the capital and those outside the Ming Dynasty, the guard posts in the Ming Dynasty were also divided according to their functions into field guards, mausoleum guards, pro-army guards, etc.
It is also roughly divided into three categories according to whether it is solid soil or not.
Real earth guardhouse. All the areas under the jurisdiction of Liaodong Dusi and Shaanxi Xingdusi only had guard posts but no prefectures and counties. The guard posts took over the role of prefectures and counties, and the generals in the guard posts mounted their horses to manage the army and dismounted to manage the people.
The Zhunshi Tuwei Base is nominally located within Fuzhou County, but it occupies a large area of land and population, and competes with the chief executive of Fuzhou County.
Shitu and quasi-shitu guard stations are mostly located in border areas or areas inhabited by ethnic minorities.
The area governed by the non-real Tuwei Suowei includes Fuzhou County, which has an absolute advantage in terms of land and population. This kind of guard station only cares about the military and not the people. Mainly distributed in the mainland, Yingtian and some coastal and border guard stations.
Gongchang Guard is a real land guard. It nominally owns a large area of land, but it is either an uninhabited desert or a deep mountain full of wild beasts.
To put it bluntly, let alone collect taxes from the people, they may also have to provide aid to the local people.
It is estimated that you will never meet someone like Zhu Bai who delivers food and supplies to your doorstep in ten years.
Therefore, it is understandable for the commander of Gongchang Guards Station to be so reluctant to part with Zhu Bai.
The further you go northwest, the harder it becomes, the road is slippery and dangerous, and the colder it gets.
The speed of riding a horse had slowed down, let alone pulling more than a dozen carts of goods.
The speed changed from a few hundred miles a day to a hundred miles a day.
Fortunately, it’s only four hundred miles from here to Hezhou.
If he didn't want to bring goods, he actually didn't even want to bring fifty people with him.
Now there are three people escorting the car. Zhu Bai leads Fugui and ten people in front to clear the way, and Zhang Yu leads ten people behind.
Just enough people.
The pro-military captains complained secretly.
I thought that following Zhu Bai would be enough to keep an eye on him and not let him run around and take risks.
After working for a long time, Zhu Bai wanted them to be like cows and horses.
The road becomes more and more dangerous as we go.
Zhu Bai saw that there were high mountains on both sides in front of him, and there was only a narrow road passing through the valley.
Gee, what a perfect place to rob and set up an ambush.
He stopped immediately and turned around.
He had always been fearless, but now he suddenly stopped leaving, and everyone was surprised.
Zhu Bai stood there and observed carefully.
The road in the middle is too narrow and there is no place to hide.
To ambush, either wait for them to enter the valley, block both sides, close the door and beat the dogs; or you can be condescending.
They had no one to follow them all the way, so it was impossible to block them from both ends.
So it can only be at high places.
If you are at a high place, you should choose a place that is convenient for attacking and where you can run down quickly.
Otherwise, before the gangsters could run down, they would have already run out of the valley.
In this valley, there is a cliff on the left, which is impossible to get down and up.
Then it can only be hidden on the right side.
And the bushes on the right are dense, making it really easy to hide people.
By coincidence, he saw a few small dots moving quickly on the tops of the trees on the cliff on the right.
Wild golden monkey...
This place belongs to Gansu, and these golden monkeys should belong to Sichuan golden monkeys.
After traveling through time, the best thing for him as a veterinarian is that he can see various animals in the wild that he could not easily see in the past.
He excitedly took out his binoculars and stared at the small black dots.
The golden monkeys obviously saw them too, but they were far away, so they didn't pay attention to them at all.
The monkeys stopped on a tall wild peach tree to pick flowers and eat them.
The wild peach trees are full of flowers, which is a rare food in this early spring season.
One of them suddenly screamed, and the group of golden monkeys ran into the mountain together again.
If not frightened, the golden monkey would not leave the precious food and run away.
That is, there are people hiding under the fruit trees.
Zhu Bai took out his telescope and looked at it. A human head is looming behind the bushes.
Haha, thanks to those golden monkeys, otherwise it would be difficult to locate him.
Although they knew there was an ambush, they pulled the cart and could not go around the wooded cliff.
Fugui asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, what's wrong?"
Zhu Bai didn't answer but asked: "How far is it from Lintao Guard?"
Fugui said: "More than eighty miles."
Zhu Bai: "Everyone, stop and rest. You choose four or five guards who are agile and have accurate marksmanship, and take the blunderbuss and follow me."
Zhang Yu said: "Wherever Your Highness is going, let me follow you."
Zhu Bai said: "Master Zhang will guard the goods for me. I and Fugui are small and easy to attack by surprise. When you hear me blowing the brass whistle, one long and one short, you go forward. I will chase you." "
Zhu Bai always had great ideas, and he never missed his ideas.
Although Zhang Yu disagreed, he could only say: "Your Highness, please be careful."
Zhu Bai said: "If I am in danger, blow three long blasts. You are only allowed to divide into ten people to rescue me. Otherwise, no matter what happens, don't move, lest you fall into someone else's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain." .”
Zhu Bai asked those who followed him to load their fireguns with gunpowder, and then led Fugui up the mountain road on the right.
They lowered their bodies and advanced quietly.
Fugui and the others don’t know where Zhu Bai is going.
Zhu Bai stopped near the wild peach tree and gestured to Fugui and others to prepare for the attack.
Those people didn't realize that someone had touched behind them, they just stared at the road below.
Zhu Bai took out his gun, aimed at the tallest man in the middle, and pulled the trigger.
"boom!"
There was a loud noise and the man fell backwards.
Fugui and the others also opened fire. Four or five of the group fell down at once.
Zhu Bai reloaded and shot again.
The group of people finally woke up from their daze and ran away along the mountain road.
Zhu Bai and the others only fired two shots, and those people had already fled into the woods and could no longer shoot.
There were people lying scattered on the ground.
It is true that poor mountains and harsh waters breed bandits and bandits.
The poorer and more remote a place is, the more people there are who have no law and do evil.
Zhu Bai reloaded his weapon, took out his whistle and blew a whistle, one long and one short, to remind Zhang Yu that they could leave, then he slowly walked forward with his gun in hand.
Fugui asked: "Your Highness, don't we need to go back the way we came?"
Zhu Bai said: "They are ambushing here. There must be a shortcut to the bottom of the valley. We stand on high alert to prevent others from making sneak attacks again."
Then they walked for a while, and sure enough they saw a road going down.
Those people stopped while running to see if there were any other opportunities. Unexpectedly, Zhu Bai came with them, and they didn't dare to stay anymore. They scattered like birds and beasts.
Below, Zhang Yu and the others had quickly exited along the valley bottom.
Just as Zhu Bai was about to leave, he smelled a fishy smell in the wind.
How to put it, it's like the smell you smell through the cage when you go to the zoo to see tigers.
