About two or three miles ahead of the official road, there is a large mountain with lush greenery. A few miles to the east is a large river, and at the foot of the mountain is a small river branched off from the large river.
Yang Yuan, who had been to Lingqiu once, said: "That mountain is called Hutou Village. There is a group of grass bandits on the mountain. I don't know exactly how many there are. I came back in a hurry and didn't have time to inquire carefully."
Liu Heng looked in the direction of Hutou Village and said: "This place is good. It is close to the official road. This group of grass bandits has chosen a good place to stay."
"Master, do you mean that we also come here?" Yang Yuan heard some meaning from Liu Heng's words.
"Look..." Liu Heng pointed at Hutou Village with his hand and said, "The place here is big enough to accommodate more than a thousand people in our camp. There is a river flowing at the foot of the mountain. It won't delay the camp's water collection. There is a big river inside and outside, and the brothers in the camp will not be short of fish to eat. This place is better than the Qingtian back side. The camp will guard the official road here, and Dongshan is ten miles away. As long as we set up a trap at the foot of the mountain, we can enter and exit. Lingqiu’s caravan can’t even hide away.”
Yang Yuan said: "But there is still a group of grass bandits on the mountain. I'm afraid they won't let us easily occupy Hutou Village."
There is no room for others to sleep soundly on the couch. Since there are grass bandits on the mountain, they will not give up such a treasured land easily.
"I'm not afraid." Liu Heng said, "The brothers in the camp have been training for so long, and they always have to find an opponent to fight with a real sword and a real gun. After all, talking on paper is not enough."
Yang Yuan said: "I understand. I will take a few people to find out the situation above Hutou Village."
Liu Heng smiled and said, "You are the most suitable person to do this."
Hearing this, Yang Yuan's face turned red, thinking that he was saying that he returned to the camp without getting clear information last time.
Liu Heng did not explain. He waved and said, "Let's go back to the camp."
Zheng Tie led Zhao Wu to bring back the horses, and several people got on their horses and continued on their way.
After a day on the road, Liu Heng returned to the bandit camp on the back of Qingtian.
As soon as he came back, he summoned several leaders in the camp to discuss matters.
In the camp, Liu Heng was sitting behind a low table. On his left were Li Shuheng and Yang Yuan, and on his right were Chen Xunping and Zhao Yutu.
Li Shuheng and Chen Xunping were both brigade captains. Although Yang Yuan did not serve in the three newly established brigade, he was also recognized as one of the top leaders in the camp.
As for Zhao Yutu, he used to be the master of the camp when Shi Yunhu was there. Now he and Li Shuheng manage the logistics together and can be regarded as one of the big bosses of the camp.
Five people were sitting in the tent. Liu Heng glanced at the faces of these people one by one and said: "I am going to let the camp enter Lingqiu. The place has been chosen. Hutou Village is thirty miles away from Lingqiu City. .”
Yang Yuan had known for a long time that the camp was going to move to Hutou Village, so An Ran looked calmly at the scene.
Several other people present heard for the first time that the camp was going to Hutou Village in Lingqiu, and they all whispered to each other. Chen Xunping even asked Zhao Yutu what Hutou Village was like.
Zhao Yutu had never been to Hutou Village, so he didn't know what Hutou Village looked like. He could only look at Liu Heng and said, "Master, do we have to go to Hutou Village? Qingtian Bei is actually quite good here. We can stay there." After such a long time, brothers are used to this place."
Chen Xunping and Li Shuheng beside them nodded in agreement with Zhao Yutu's words.
The bandit camp first followed Shi Yunhu to Datong. As soon as they entered Datong, they were surrounded and suppressed by the government troops. It was rare that they stayed stable here in Qingtianbei for more than half a month. They were unwilling to destroy this stability, and they were even more worried that any movement of the camp's troops would attract the officials. Army siege.
Seeing that several people were unwilling to leave Qingtianbei, Liu Heng said: "Yang Yuan, tell everyone about this Hutou Village."
Yang Yuan stood up and said: "I have been to Hutou Village once. The mountains there are deeper than Qingtian Back, making it easier to hide people. It is not far from the official road. Ten miles away is Dongshan, where private iron yards gather. Transport them out All the iron ingots need to pass through the official road at the foot of Hutou Village. As long as we set up a checkpoint at the foot of the mountain, we won't have to worry about making money, unless those merchants are willing to take a detour to the bumpy road twenty miles to the east. "
What he said at the official meeting was repeated to several other people in the big tent.
After listening, Li Shuheng and the other three were silent in thought.
After a long while, Zhao Yutu said: "Since the boss has decided, we support it, but it is impossible for bandits to be entrenched on the mountain in a good place like Hutou Village. We will definitely have a fight in the past."
Liu Heng said with a smile: "There is a group of grass bandits. I am going to ask Yang Yuan to investigate the specific situation. If there are not many people, it will be suitable for us to train. The three brigades of the camp have been training for so long. We must find an opponent to verify. Check out the results, and I have one more thing to announce."
Hearing something announced, several people in the tent sat upright.
Liu Heng said: "The three brigades remain unchanged. I am going to set up another team with a tentative number of thirty people. The captain will be Yang Yuan and the deputy captain Chen Daqing. This team is different from the other three brigades in the camp. , specially used to collect intelligence, and the personnel are selected from the logistics."
"Yes." Yang Yuan put his fingers together and made a gesture of standing at attention.
"Sit down." Liu Heng motioned Yang Yuan to sit down, and then said, "Brother Shu Heng, Yang Yuan's team is very important to the camp and needs your strong support."
Li Shuheng nodded and said with a smile: "I understand that Yang Yuan is equivalent to the leader of the Jinyi Guards of our Ming Dynasty. The team members under him are all Jinyi Guards, and they are all the emperor's personal soldiers."
Liu Heng smiled and said: "It's not that evil. We, the Jinyi Guards, are very important to collect intelligence. We can't be like the last time, where the Ming army set a trap and we didn't even know it. We ran into it. If we had heard the intelligence in advance, We can also be prepared and avoid it in advance. Later, due to lack of intelligence, the officers and soldiers of Tiancheng Guard chased us all the way without knowing it. If it weren't for good luck, we almost would have followed in Shi Yunhu's footsteps.
Li Shuheng said: "Don't worry, Master Zhao and I will give full support to Yang Yuan, and Captain Yang can choose the personnel as he pleases."
For Yang Yuan to become the spy chief, several people in the big tent were not surprised at all.
After all three brigades were appointed, there was no position for Yang Yuan. Several people speculated that Yang Yuan would be appointed in other areas. After all, Yang Yuan had been following Liu Heng loyally, so it was impossible not to arrange an important position.
The newly formed team was somewhat like the Imperial Guards of the Ming Dynasty, and the position of captain was that of someone close to the head of the family. Li Shuheng knew that he could handle minor chores such as logistics, but he couldn't get intelligence. Chen Xunping's carefree character was even worse. It's not suitable. On the contrary, Zhao Yutu is more suitable. However, Zhao Yutu was once Shi Yunhu's man, and he is more comfortable without Yang Yuan in terms of relationship, so only Yang Yuan is the most suitable for this position.
After the positions were decided, the positions of the four people were also divided.
The captain and logistics of the second brigade are all managed by Li Shuheng. In terms of status, Li Shuheng ranks second. The captain of the third brigade is Chen Xunping, so he ranks third. The newly established intelligence team is very important, and Yang Yuan is in Liu Heng arranged to sit behind Li Shuheng, which meant that he was ranked fourth, and the last one was Zhao Yutu.
The left is the most noble, the right is second. The ranking of several people was also intentional by Liu Heng, which established the position of everyone in the camp, and there will be no disputes in the future because of the status.
