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Just as Gu Xiancheng was trying to boost morale, a large black flag with the word "Qin" on it slowly emerged from the woods at the foot of Gaoling Mountain, and the hundreds of bandits on the mountain suddenly fell silent.
This... ... ... What's going on? I sent out so many minions to search but couldn't find any trace of Qin Mu, but Qin Mu showed up right under my nose.
Gu Xiancheng unconsciously touched the scar on his cheek. People who were familiar with him knew that this action meant that Uncle Cheng was very angry and had the urge to kill someone.
Gu Xiancheng really wanted to kill people and wanted to cut into pieces those thugs who went out to inquire about Qin Mu's whereabouts.
"Hurry, get ready, the enemy is coming. Get ready to fight."
Amid Gu Xiancheng's hysterical roar, hundreds of bandits on the mountain began to prepare for battle in a disorderly manner. Gaoling Mountain was stuck between Wangyangjie and Ling County, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack. If it was a head-on fight, Gu Xiancheng knew that his few hundred people might not be a match for Qin Mu's two hundred elite soldiers, but defending in a dangerous place would not be a problem.
It is difficult to get supplies in these mountains and dense forests. As long as we defend Gaoling Mountain and block Qin Mu's way, we can kill him in a few days.
At this time, a few wisps of smoke drifted out of the woods at the foot of the mountain, and faint voices could be heard in the wind, as if someone was making a fire and cooking in the woods.
There were only seven or eight people under the big Qin flag that fluttered out of the woods.
I saw these seven or eight people holding a big flag running down the mountain and shouting, "Gu Xiancheng, our governor said that he and you are old acquaintances, so I advise you not to take off your pants and sit on the top of the mountain all the time."
"Take off your pants and sit on the top of a mountain? What does that mean?"
"I don't know. Did the king often take off his pants and sit on the top of the mountain?"
"Hey, stop talking nonsense. What does it mean to take off your pants and sit on the top of the mountain?" A thug on the mountain couldn't help but ask loudly. Although Gu Xiancheng knew that it was not a good thing to say, he couldn't help but feel curious.
Niu Wanshan at the foot of the mountain laughed and answered loudly: "Don't you know what it means to take off your pants and sit on the top of the mountain? I'll tell you.
It means to throw an egg against a rock."
Hundreds of bandits on the mountain wanted to laugh but didn't dare to. Some of them were so angry that their shoulders were shaking. Gu Xiancheng was furious, but this time he quickly controlled his anger and laughed coldly: "Stop talking nonsense. If you have the guts, let Qin Mufang come here immediately. If he doesn't dare, he has no balls. I'll fuck his sister."
"Gu Xiancheng, our governor has no sister. If you want to fuck, go fuck a sow. Gu Xiancheng, our governor said that we could beat you to a pulp with tens of thousands of troops back then, but now you only have a few hundred followers. We don't need to fight at all. We just need to pay a thousand taels of silver, and someone will probably come down with your head to claim the reward. If one thousand taels is not enough, then five thousand taels. If five thousand taels is not enough, then ten thousand taels. Wealth and honor are sought in danger, and my governor does not believe that no one on the mountain is willing to take this wealth and honor. Gu Xiancheng, surrender quickly if you are sensible. My governor will not take my faults seriously and will spare your life."
"Bend your mother's head!" Gu Xiancheng jumped onto a big rock, holding a big knife and cursing, "Stop talking nonsense. Let's fight it out, Qin Mu, come out if you dare. I'd be remiss if I don't chop you into eight pieces."
To be honest, Niu Wanshan's words really frightened Gu Xiancheng. He had just seized the position of mountain king and his subordinates had always suspected that he was the one who killed Huang Datou. Qin Mu's name was there, and even Zhang Xianzhong's hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated by Qin Mu. If Qin Mu was really willing to pay a large sum of money for his head now, there was no guarantee that the subordinates on the mountain would secretly attack him and take his head to Qin Mu to claim the reward.
Niu Wanshan at the foot of the mountain shouted loudly: "Gu Xiancheng, my governor is not too selfish. I will give you half a day to consider. You'd better come down the mountain and surrender. If you don't surrender after half a day, my governor will make sure you die without a burial place."
After Niu Wanshan finished speaking, he led his men into the woods opposite without looking back.
Qin Mu did not plan to personally go out and eliminate Gu Xiancheng. He had no time to delay in Jinggang Mountain. In the spring of the 17th year of Chongzhen, the world was about to change. How could he hide in the mountains and forests and play hide-and-seek with a few bandits
So he took advantage of Mo Er's familiarity with the terrain of the nearby mountains and rivers, and after attacking the bandits' lair in Eagle Forest in Wangyangjie, he immediately turned from light to darkness and disappeared into the mountains and forests.
However, the jungle at that time was dense in Jinggang Mountain, and there were not many passages. In order to bypass Gaoling Mountain without alerting the enemy, he sent Niu Wanshan to infiltrate the enemy and attract Gu Xiancheng's attention to the foot of Gaoling Mountain.
Sure enough, when Niu Wanshan went there to make a fuss, the thugs that Gu Xiancheng had sent out to search were naturally attracted back.
Qin Mu took the opportunity to lead more than a hundred people, avoiding the bandits' eyes and opening a path through the dense forest. After bypassing Gaoling Mountain, he rushed towards Ling County.
Ling County is Yanling County in later generations, because there is a sacred mausoleum in the town - the Mausoleum of Emperor Yan. After the founding of New China, it was renamed Yanling County.
Now it is called Ling County and is under the jurisdiction of Hengzhou Prefecture, which means that it has entered the territory of Huguang.
When Qin Mu suddenly appeared at the gate of Ling County with more than a hundred elite guards, the city was still in chaos. Gu Xiancheng recruited hundreds of followers in Ling County, and adopted the method of combining old and new. He led more than 300 people to Gaoling Mountain to stop Qin Mu, and left his confidant Ma Qing with 200 people to "guard" Ling County. But bandits are bandits. How could they not satisfy their selfish desires first after taking over a county
When Qin Mu arrived, the remaining bandits were raping and looting in the city, doing whatever they wanted, making the city a mess with smoke and weeping.
The dozen or so bandits guarding the city gate were busy drinking and having fun. Qin Mu and his men did not walk on the main road, but walked through a small path they had created through the mountains and forests. Many of their clothes were torn by thorns, and their hair was disheveled and their faces were dirty. At first glance, the bandits guarding the city gate thought they were a group of beggars.
"Kill!" Qin Mu gave the order, and the Juque Sword was unsheathed. During this period, Niu Wanshan taught him a lot of martial arts moves and taught him moves every day, but when it came to fighting and killing people, Qin Mu still preferred to use the moves that Meng Ke had taught him, which were grand, simple, direct, and absolutely domineering and fierce.
The sword suddenly chopped down with great force, and the wall of the city gate was immediately splashed with scarlet blood. Before a tall and thin bandit could come to his senses, his head flew out in the air like a rolling gourd.
Li Shi and the others were all filled with resentment. Ever since they became Qin Mu's personal guards, they had always been so majestic. How could they have been so embarrassed? Look at everyone. Li Shi's pants were torn by thorns. His white buttocks were exposed. Well, I have to say, I didn't expect this guy's buttocks to be so white... ... ... ... ... ...
If Li Shi had become like this, how could the others be any better? Everyone had suffered so much in order to get here, and now they could just vent all their resentment on the bandits in the city.
They were like a group of savages coming down from the mountains, howling as they rushed into the city. Qin Mu also rushed in for several dozen feet before he remembered that Dong Xiaowan was still outside the city. Well, we won't be savages, that's too cheap, so he retreated again.
Dong Xiaowan also had her hair in disarray and looked extremely embarrassed. Fortunately, she was a key protected person and her clothes were not torn, otherwise it would have been a big loss.
"Xiao Wan, are you okay?"
"Master. I am fine."
"This... I didn't expect to encounter bandits in Jinggang Mountain. I can't help it. I'm sorry to trouble you."
"Master, don't say that. It is my blessing to be able to follow you, even if it means suffering." Dong Xiaowan said this sincerely. She came up to help Qin Mu tidy up his clothes like a docile little wife, and her movements were natural and gentle.
Qin Mu took her and twenty or so personal guards and retreated to a high slope in the east of the city, waiting for Li Shi to wipe out the bandits in the city.
As for Gaoling Mountain, due to his deep concern for Qin Mu, Gu Xiancheng did not dare to give up the advantage of terrain and go down the mountain without knowing the real situation in the forest. The people he sent to check the real situation in the forest could not get close. Finally, he sent dozens of people to launch a tentative attack, but they were easily repelled by Niu Wanshan. This dragged on for most of the day. At night, there was no sound in the forest at the foot of the mountain. When Gu Xiancheng sent people to check again, there was not even a bird in the forest.
Gu Xiancheng's intuition told him that the situation was not good. Sure enough, not long after, he received news that Qin Mu had attacked Ling County.
"Damn it, they are all a bunch of idiots..."
Gu Xiancheng was furious. He had finally found a boss in Jinggang Mountain, and after nearly a month of planning, he finally succeeded in launching a surprise attack on Ling County. But that damn Qin Mu was still lingering around, and happened to come to Jinggang Mountain at this time, and took Ling County back in one fell swoop.
Maybe, Qin Mu felt that Gu Xiancheng was a nasty fly that haunted him. And Gu Xiancheng also felt that he was haunting him. Every time his "career" was getting better, Qin Mu would appear like a ghost and ruin the good situation.
"Could it be that I owed him in my previous life?" Gu Xiancheng, who had always killed people without blinking an eye, suddenly had the urge to hug the thigh of Goddess Guanyin.
Go, go as far as you can. If you can't afford to offend us, can't you just hide from us
Gu Xiancheng immediately made a wise decision. He never thought about going back to Ling County to fight Qin Mu. He just wanted to stay as far away from him as possible. Fortunately, he had robbed a lot of good things in Ling County, which could be used to stabilize the "military morale". Hundreds of followers were still willing to follow him.
Qin Mu of Ling County originally wanted to show weakness and lure out the angry Gu Xiancheng, but he didn't expect Youjia to be so decisive. He didn't even want to stay in a Feng Shui treasure land like Jinggang Mountain, and ran away without a trace.
Qin Mu is not afraid of this guy if he is out in the open, but when this guy plays disappearing, it gives Qin Mu a headache.
According to past practice, no one knew where this guy would pop up from next time to cause trouble. Qin Mu didn't have time to play hide-and-seek with him, so he had to order the Bachelor's House to do their best to investigate Gu Xiancheng's whereabouts, and ordered Xiang Liancheng and Cui Feng to encircle and suppress him with all their strength.
Gu Xiancheng has hundreds of people around him, and I don’t believe he can hide underground.
After temporarily appointing a county magistrate to manage Ling County, Qin Mu rushed to Changsha with his personal guards. When he arrived in Zhuzhou, He Lianxi, the head of Zhuzhou Bachelor's House, hurriedly came to meet Qin Mu and reported: "Sir, there is an outbreak of plague in Daning Village, Xiangyin County..."
"What? Plague?" Qin Mu was shocked and his heart trembled.
"Yes, sir. The officials in Changsha are all panicking. Mr. Zhuge asked me to report this matter to you immediately. Please make the decision."
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