But he didn't expect that as soon as they entered the mountain, they were ambushed. The enemy took advantage of the complex terrain of Yanyu Mountain to trap them.

It is also said that it is easy to go from simplicity to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to simplicity. In the past, when marching and fighting, I always had Aunt Chen, a know-it-all, to lead the way. I didn't have to worry about encountering unfamiliar road conditions that would lead to failure in the battle, getting lost, or being attacked.

Now, although they took this into consideration, they were still careless. They only found a local headhunter (a man who often went into the mountains to hunt nearby and was very good at hunting) to lead the way. Without careful examination or sending anyone to conduct reconnaissance, they went straight into the mountains to eliminate them.

bandit.

It can be said that people are not used to it. There is always a person as tall as a mountain standing in front of them, and their journey will be unfavorable. But if this person who has been blocking the way in front disappears, then they will always be blocked.

People who look up to him for survival will lose the vigilance and preparedness they should have due to inertia, exposing the subtle shortcomings they have been ignoring.

Chen Baiqi is not a god after all. She was able to build a powerful army in such a short period of time. Her main strength is "strength", the combination of strength and equipment.

It is equivalent to an iron spear. She only repeatedly polishes the sharpness of its tip, so that when it strikes, it will be thunderous and powerful.

As for the toughness of the "gun" body, the overall fit of the "iron gun", and other aspects of teaching such as the measurement of the "gun body" itself, due to the limitations of time and space, she has always relied on her to calm down.

The overall situation makes up for the shortcomings in this aspect.

Now that she is gone, she will give her leadership to Si Jiang. If Si Jiang cannot clearly distinguish Chen Jiajun's strengths and weaknesses, it will be easier to highlight these "subtle weaknesses."

If it were a normal battle situation, with Chen Jiajun's "sharp edge", he would be invincible and go straight to Huanglong. However, if he encounters a delaying battle with "ulterior motives", and it is precisely this kind of "subtle weakness", sometimes

, can decide who wins or loses in a war.

As soon as they entered the mountain, the "headhunters" they invited led them astray and waited for an opportunity to escape. However, when Chen Jiajun encountered a chaotic ambush by bandits, he was able to cope with it without panicking. At that time, they only said:

There were people belonging to the bandits at the foot of the mountain. After they found out that they were planning to suppress the bandits, they launched a clumsy counterattack with a trap.

But in Chen Jiajun's heart, they are the Chen family's regular army who can even give way to a fierce bandit army like the barbarian King Di Rong. How can they be afraid of such low-class shrimp soldiers and crab generals? Chen Jiajun laughed at the intimidating appearance of the bandits throwing stones and throwing weapons.

They don't even have a formal set of equipment and weapons to show people.

And precisely because of their carelessness and complacency at the moment, they fell into a well-designed ambush when they arrived.

The bandit's tactics dwarfed by the enemy's plan were no match for Chen Jiajun's all-out counterattack. Seeing the thieves retreating step by step, they jumped in panic. Chen Jiajun and others were high-spirited and rushed along the road to catch up without waiting for orders from the vanguard until they caught up with a man.

In the narrow mountain col, a "rumbling" sound came from the mountains on both sides.

But it was the thieves who deliberately lured them here, lifted huge rocks and blocked the entrances and exits at both ends of the col that could only be used by one person, and they blocked them severely.

Of course, the thief who brought them into the game was also trapped. When the thief saw that he had succeeded, he wiped his neck and fell to the ground dead. His style was decisive, not like a greedy bandit for money, but like someone who had been cultivated by some kind of influence.

The dead soldiers came out.

For a moment, Chen Jiajun was stunned and puzzled when encountering this situation, and secondly, he felt trapped and troubled.

No matter how hard Chen Jiajun and the others pushed, squeezed, dug, and chiseled in the mountain col, they could not shake the boulder even one inch.

Now we are in trouble, and we have completely fallen into the enemy's trap.

It's just strange to say that after trapping them, the wandering bandits seemed to disappear out of thin air. No matter how Si Jiang threatened, lured, cajoled, and tried his best in the mountain col, no one came to answer or speak.

During the negotiation, the entire bare mountain col was silent and very strange.

At this time, Si Jiang already realized that something was wrong.

He immediately sorted out the whole incident together with several strategists, and suddenly discovered a problem, that is, this group of bandits had deliberately targeted them.

There are two reasons for this conclusion. Firstly, the trap set by this group of bandits could not be accomplished in a day or two. It was one link after another. In terms of their journey, the bandits never learned about Chen Jiajun.

The situation of suppressing bandits, confirming, then arranging, setting traps, and then luring them here, the process, sequence, and time are really unreasonable.

Secondly, seeing that this group of bandits has tried one more plan after another failed, and that they know how to use people's precautionary and negligent psychology to design, you can see that this group of people are cunning and cunning, and they are not as capable as a group of stupid bandits. In addition,

, Bandits have always acted just for money, but now that they have been caught, they are neither killed nor tied, and they are left hanging here like this, which is very unreasonable.

In addition, since the bandits have surrounded a group of them, they will definitely use weapons to escape, so why must they commit suicide... unless they are afraid that they will accidentally expose something after being caught by them?

Important things, so I would rather commit suicide.

Based on this inference, it still needs to be considered whether this group of bandits are "bandits" or not.

Now that I think about it, the people who were talking in the tea house were not at all afraid of the revenge of the bandits around them, and deliberately made louder announcements. It seemed that they deliberately used the bandits to capture a young man to attract their attention.

All the irrationality in this made Si Jiang very confused.

He couldn't figure out who was plotting against them secretly.

They were trapped for three whole days, in the coldest month of winter, with snow and frost. Fortunately, they were equipped with enough food and water. They were just suffering from the cold and frost, but they did not suffer from hunger. Otherwise, they might not have been able to carry these three days.

day.

In the past three days, Si Jiang was restless. He looked at the snowflakes falling in the vast sky, recalling that the secret letters he had sent many times had never received a response. At first, he could comfort Chu Cangyue, the mountain that protected him. Chen Baiqi

Nothing will happen, but now...

He was always worried. He thought about it carefully. The Chen family army was ambushed and besieged. It must not have been groundless. It must have offended someone. And in Danyang, he asked himself that his identity had not been exposed and he had offended someone, let alone anyone.

There are any old grudges between enemies, and he has investigated the life experiences of other people, and there is no doubt about it.

After thinking about it, he couldn't think of any other reason for this besides Chen Baiqi.

If this man in the dark designed Chen Jiajun to deal with Chen Baiqi, then something might have happened to Chen Baiqi at this time...

When she thought of this, Si Jiang suddenly pursed her lips, which turned purple from the cold, and her face became tense and anxious.

He glanced at the general who had taken off his coat and armor and was chopping stones. With a flash of his figure, he snatched the big knife from one of the people's hands. With a cold look on his face, he slashed at the mottled and crisscrossed stone surface of the boulder as if to vent his anger.

A few knives.

Suddenly, his whole body felt like it was struck by thunder, he froze on the spot, and he spit out a mouthful of blood.

With a "clang" sound, the big knife in his hand fell to the ground, and he stared blankly at the stone surface where a scarlet mist was sprayed out.

"Lang Jun, what's wrong with you?" People around him hurried over and asked nervously.

Si Jiang pushed away their support, stretched out her trembling hand, and touched her still beating heart. Her face was as pale as a ghost: "I, I suddenly felt as if someone had dug out a piece of flesh in my chest...

…”

Naturally, no one could understand his meaningless words. Even Si Jiang himself didn't understand what he was talking about.

The pain that suddenly appeared in his heart made him think that he might die of pain at that moment.

But in fact, the pain did not kill him.

However, the next second, he felt that his heart suddenly became empty, as if his originally full existence had been hollowed out. The huge feeling of emptiness swept through his whole body, making him feel powerful uneasiness and anxiety.

Panic.

Why do you feel this way?

At this time, he didn't know...that was because the person who had left a mark on his heart had disappeared.

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After the solstice of winter, the climate in Danyang was extremely cold one day, with ice and snow breaking the fingers. However, in such cold winter weather, the city of Danyang was filled with turbulent undercurrents and was not stable.

By the end of December, the entire city of Danyang was under martial law. Danyang River faced south, and the northwest gate to the east was closed, and no vehicles, goods, people or animals were allowed to enter or exit.

In Danyang City, no matter whether it is a noble or a civilian, every once in a while, a group of cold-faced troops who are merciless and only obey orders will take out their tooth tags, explain their purpose of coming, and then search from house to house. At first, they only look for people, but later...

It turned into an aimless house-invasion search.

Nowadays, there are heavy troops guarding both inside and outside Danyang City. Seeing how ruthless and conscientious the troops are, they are not afraid of offending the powerful people in the city and are ready to turn the entire Danyang City upside down. This has frightened and shocked many people.

, could it be that some extremely vicious gangster had escaped from prison, or that some important person who could threaten Chu State was missing?

Regardless of private guesses, the people of Danyang City did not complain about this laborious and even arrogant behavior in Danyang City, just because they all knew that this was an order from the most powerful person in the palace.

It is reported that the newly enthroned King Chu Ling is looking for someone. As for who he is looking for, no one knows publicly, but privately, it is tacitly known.

King Ling of Chu did not care about the cost and kept discouraging the stubborn search, which really made many people understand something. But the problem is that he has searched back and forth several times, but he has never found him. In fact,

It feels weird.

Ordinarily, if you can't find this person, you don't have to search for her anywhere. You have to know that people have two legs. Maybe the person has left the city, but King Ling of Chu seems to be sure that she must be there.

It seemed that he was in Danyang City, so he stubbornly searched for it in the city.

On the seventh day of January, the weather was gloomy and cloudy.

It had been more than half a month since King Chu Ling started looking for someone. On this day, someone finally found a decomposed female body in a grove near Xishui, Danyang. This incident alerted the officials and attracted the city's officers and soldiers.

This female corpse was identified and indeed resembled the physical appearance of the person King Chu Ling was looking for.

After King Ling of Chu got the news, he put aside all important political affairs and rushed to Xishui immediately.

On that day, many people only rely on "hearings" about what exactly happened after King Chu Ling left the palace.

Among all the "hearings", one thing shocked them the most, that is, when everyone covered their noses in disgust at the rotten and dirty female body and refused to come near it, King Chu Ling, after staring blankly for a long time, unexpectedly

He personally wrapped the female corpse in his own clean and fragrant fox fur, and carried it back to the Chu Palace without letting anyone else touch it along the way, just like protecting a fragile and precious treasure.

This incident was vividly compiled into various versions and spread throughout the Chu Kingdom. Many people were curious about who this female corpse was. However, it was revealed by someone who was interested that King Jie of Chu Ling was content with himself, and the only one with him was

The person who had been involved and had a deep relationship was the person who had met King Chu Ling in the most difficult time, helped him in the most difficult time, and never gave up in the most dangerous time - the sister-in-law of the Chen family in Pingling County.

Sister-in-law Chen is somewhat famous in the Xuzhou area, just because she has made meritorious deeds there, and just because she is a woman and has not been publicly awarded, but privately there are many insiders who praise her deeds.

Immediately, words like "beauties are destined to die", "God is not good at it", "good luck and longevity" were placed on her head.

They all agreed that if the Pingling Chen family did not die, based on King Chu Ling and her adversity, even if she could not earn a queen, she would undoubtedly be the wife of Chu State.

I cut off the life and death, and I don’t know who is responsible for the crime.

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Chapter completed!