In a blink of an eye, time has come to the next day.
According to the agreement between Tao Ziming and Lu Yaoyao, today is the time to set off.
Far outside Shizhou City, Xianhe Village is almost at the junction of the two cities. According to Li Wuyou's guess, it will take about a day and a night to reach it. This is still the fastest progress.
In order to make the trip smooth for the three of them, the city lord Lu Beihai specially prepared a carriage.
The driver who was driving the car had been with Lu Beihai for more than twenty years and was considered a very trustworthy person under him.
The driver was in his twenties, older than the three of them.
They didn't talk much along the way. After learning the address from the old housekeeper, the three of them got into the car and drove the carriage non-stop.
Not even stopping to take a sip of water and take a breath.
The speed of the carriage is not very slow either.
The car was driving on a wide official road. After leaving Lincheng Shizhou City, the road began to get bumpy.
This route will pass through a rather special place.
According to Li Wuyou's introduction, on the way to Xianhe Village, this rather special place is called Shenmu Castle.
There are more than two hundred strong men living in the Shenmu Castle.
Neither farming nor doing business, their livelihood depends entirely on robbing passers-by.
It just so happens that the robbers on the Shenmu Castle are usually very thieves.
Shenmu Castle belongs to Shizhou City, so the city lord Lu Beihai organizes young martyrs in the city to go to Shenmu Castle to encircle and suppress these bandits every year.
At first, the plan was to destroy the Shenmu Castle directly so that these bandits would disappear completely.
However, Lu Beihai ignored the character of these bandits.
Naturally, these bandits also knew that they could not be Lu Beihai's opponents, so every time the bandit suppression team set out, they could escape and disperse, and they would never have a head-on conflict with the martyrs coming from the city.
As a result, the righteous men in the city missed every time. The feeling of their fists hitting the air was not pleasant.
After doing this again and again, even Lu Beihai felt helpless. It was clear that Shenmu Castle belonged to his Shizhou City, but there was still no good way to solve this hidden danger.
In the middle, Lu Beihai also tried changing strategies several times.
Since the other party couldn't retreat from the head-to-head confrontation, Lu Beihai no longer cared about the above-board and false tricks. Lu Beihai simply organized the martyrs to raid the bandits on the Shenmu Fort at night.
But what Lu Beihai didn't expect was that although these bandits were all a ragtag group of people, there seemed to be a particularly smart person on the fort who arranged the bandits clearly.
Lu Beihai originally thought that it would be easy to sneak attack these bandits. Who would have thought that the Shenmu Castle was brightly lit, with a post every three steps and a sentry every five steps. When they had just entered the Shenmu Castle a hundred meters away, the bandits had already noticed their attack. trace.
After a round of carefully arranged traps were launched, when Lu Beihai and a group of people rushed to the Shenmu Castle in embarrassment, they once again missed the target.
These thieves escaped very quickly, and the only purpose of these traps set by their subordinates was to delay them.
Because only by doing this can they have enough time to escape far away.
Later, every other year, Lu Beihai still refused to give up and would regularly organize martyrs to encircle and suppress Shenmu Fort.
Although it never had any effect, Lu Beihai never gave up.
But this made the robbers on the Shenmu Castle increasingly resentful of the City Lord's Mansion.
Every time the caravan from the City Lord's Mansion passed this road, they would always be attacked by bandits on the fort.
One time, Lu Beihai also learned the lesson. He organized 200 righteous men in the city, disguised as a caravan, and deliberately walked through this road, waiting for the robbers on the Shenmu Castle to fall into their trap.
Not to mention, this time the plan was a complete success. The robbers on the Shenmu Castle were seriously injured this time and almost disappeared for a long time.
The reason why I say almost is because as time passed, the bandits on the Shenmu Castle reappeared again.
It is true that wildfires cannot be burned out, and the spring breeze blows them again.
The hatred between the City Lord's Mansion and the Shenmu Castle only intensified.
This time, the three of them were passing by the Shenmu Castle, but Lu Beihai planned to make them wait for one more day.
When the time comes, he organizes the righteous men in the city. Firstly, he can escort them, and secondly, he might be able to launch a surprise attack on the bandits on the Shenmu Castle.
However, this decision was rejected by Li Wuyou and Tao Ziming.
With Tao Ziming's strength, two hundred bandits would naturally be ignored.
Not to mention two hundred, even four hundred or six hundred.
Tao Ziming was calm as usual, without any fear.
If the other party really dares to show up, then he does not suggest to eliminate harm for the people. If the other party is hiding and hiding, he will not dare to come out. In order to send Xiao Cui's bones back to his hometown as soon as possible, he will not bother to make trouble on the Shenmu Castle.
However, although Tao Ziming wanted to settle the matter, the robbers on Shenmu Castle did not think so.
When the carriage flying the flag of the City Lord's Palace drove into the route below the mountains, the carriage's whereabouts were quickly captured by the bandits on the mountain.
All the movements on the top of the mountain have been captured by Tao Ziming.
Although he had his eyes closed, the two robbers quietly observing them on the top of the mountain were a full three hundred meters away from him.
However, none of these could escape his mind.
Tao Ziming could even hear what they were saying clearly.
"Look, that's the flag of the City Lord's Mansion."
"I think I've seen this carriage before. I remember that when I lurked into the city before, I saw Lu Beihai and boarded this carriage in person, several times."
"Do you think the person sitting in this carriage is Lu Beihai?"
The two robbers asked and answered questions, their eyes full of confusion.
They also couldn't understand why this carriage dared to fly the flag of the City Lord's Palace and pass through the Shenmu Castle. If there was only one carriage, wouldn't it be a little too bold?
Could it be that he is provoking Shenmu Castle?
"Nine times out of ten, it's Lu Beihai who has brought people to carry out a sneak attack again. You should go back and report to the Lord of the fort. I'll watch from here."
The other person hesitated for a moment. He looked at the clean mountain road. There was not even a shadow of a ghost behind the carriage.
"No way, didn't Lu Beihai always carry out sneak attacks in the middle of the night?"
"Besides, there is only one carriage on this mountain road, and that broken carriage can hold at most twenty people. Isn't it too fanciful for twenty people to want to sneak attack Shenmu Castle?"
The other person frowned.
"You know what the heck, Lu Beihai is full of tricks, just go if I tell you to, don't be so damn verbose!"
