The general found the granary in the village and ordered someone to call Wei Lan over.
Wei Lanren hadn't entered the big house, but the general greeted him and said to Wei Lan: "There are only a small half of the food bags left here. These Yi people may have left with the food yesterday."
"Bastard," Wei Lan whispered through gritted teeth.
"The Yi people didn't expect us to come at this time." The general followed Wei Lan to the big house where the grain was stored, and said, "So they may have left in the rain yesterday to carry the grain."
Wei Lan stood down in the big room. The room was half empty, but there was still a lot of food in it.
"General Wei, what should we do?" the general asked.
Wei Lan walked around the big house. A dozen large wooden barrels were all empty, but the grain bales were tied up with ropes and placed neatly. "These grains should still be transported away," Wei Lan said to the general following him.
"The mountain road is difficult," said the general. "The Yi people can't carry so much grain all at once. We are stationed ten miles away from their stockade, and the fool knows what we are going to do."
"They will come back," Wei Lan walked out of the house.
"It's been killed like this, and those barbarians will come back?" The general asked after him.
"Just clean up," Wei Lan said, "We'll just wait here for the master to come back."
General Liu waited until sunset this morning, and none of the people Wei Lan took out came back to give him news. General Liu also sent people to inquire, but no one came back. General Liu was restless in the empty barracks, is Wei Lan defeated? Or what happened again
"General," Seeing that it was the second watch, the middle officer ran into the tent.
"General Wei has news back?" General Liu asked hurriedly.
"Luo Shuai is here," the middle officer said while shaking his head, "the people have already arrived outside the camp gate."
General Liu rushed out of his tent to greet him at the gate of the camp.
Luo Ze had already entered the military camp on horseback at this time, "Where have all the people gone?" He asked the people in the camp, "Where are Wu Yan's own people? Did you lead the troops to fight?"
"Luo Shuai," General Liu ran to Luo Ze's horse.
Luo Ze kicked off his horse. This General Liu, he recognized, was someone Wu Yanji could use. "Where are the generals and soldiers?"
General Liu retreated from the left and right, and whispered to Luo Ze: "Luo Shuai, something happened in the camp. General Wu was assassinated by the barbarians. General Wei Lan went with most of his troops to chase the assassins."
The news of Wu Yanji's death surprised Luo Ze, but he didn't feel sad. This Wu Yanji belonged to Qiu Che, and he caused him a lot of trouble. It's best to die. It seems that Yiren can do it occasionally. Do a good thing. "What's the matter? You tell me in detail," Luo Ze said to General Liu.
General Liu told Luo Ze what happened in the past two days.
Luo Ze came this time to settle accounts with Wu Yanji. Wu Yanji made a mistake in the military situation, and Luo had to personally issue Wu Yanji's general order. Now that Wu Yanji is dead, there is no news of Wei Lan. Luo Ze doesn't stay in the barracks any longer. He said to General Liu, "I'll go and see for myself, you are guarding this camp."
General Liu hurriedly said: "The last general will go with Luo Shuai."
"No," Luo Ze said, "The body of General Wu has been buried in a way, let's transport it back to my handsome camp."
"Yes," General Liu replied.
Luo Ze didn't bring a large group this time, only his own battalion. The group left the camp and headed south. After the two rains, the further the mountain road went, the more difficult the road became. In the end, the horses only spun in place and could no longer move forward.
"Get off the horse," Luo took the lead to get off the horse.
"Master," the family will ask, "are we going to walk in?"
"Wei Lan can go in, why can't I?" Luo Ze said. He has now found out that the stockade in the mountain is the largest grain storage place for the Yi people within a radius of 100 miles. This stockade is absolutely necessary. "Leave a group of people watching the horse," Luo ordered, "The others will walk in with me."
In the valley, in the early morning of this day, the barbarians who had been transporting grain finally returned.
The stockade looks like some lights and some smoke from cooking, everything is as usual.
"General, someone is here," the sergeant whispered to Wei Lan from behind the gate.
Wei Lan nodded slightly.
The Yi people shouted loudly outside the village.
"They're calling to open the door," a sergeant who knew the Yi language told Wei Lan.
The gate of the village opened slowly.
The barbarians walked inside without noticing that they were in a different place.
"Go ask them if the journey is going well," Wei Lan ordered the sergeant who could speak the Yi language.
The sergeant went out.
The barbarians could not see the sergeant's face clearly, but when the sergeant got closer to them, the barbarians realized that something was wrong. The people in this stockade are all familiar. Not only are they unfamiliar with the sergeant's accent, but when they ask the person's name, the sergeant always tells him from the left.
Wei Lan saw that some Yi people had weapons in their hands, and the sergeant could no longer move forward, so he ordered left and right to say, "Light the lamp!"
When the lights came on, it was the moment when the barbarians were stunned, and Zhou Jun appeared on the roof with a bow and arrow. After a rain of arrows, Zhou Bing, who was hiding in the backlit streets, rushed out from the Yiren's house.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the Yi people turned around and wanted to escape from the village.
At this moment, the Zhaimen smashed down heavily, killing two barbarians right under the Zhaimen on the spot.
The soldiers of Zhou who were in ambush outside the village also surrounded the barbarians who were still outside the village.
Luo Ze was already fast into the valley with the people at this time, and the screams of killing in the valley could be heard clearly by their group. A member of the family immediately said to Luo Ze, "There's a fight inside."
Luo Ze was not in a hurry to enter the valley. When the situation was unclear, he took someone up a hillside and looked down on the stockade. Seeing that the stockade was located deep in the dense forest of the valley, it was no wonder that he had never been able to find this place where the barbarians hoarded grain.
"We have the advantage," Jia Jiang said to Luo Ze from the side.
The situation in the village could not be clearly seen from this hillside, but Luo Ze and the others could see clearly the situation outside the village. It was their Zhou army who was besieging the barbarians.
"Go and help them," Luo Ze didn't order his subordinates until then.
These Zhou soldiers rushed into the valley, and the battle soon came to an end.
When Luo Ze arrived outside the village, Wei Lan also greeted him and called Luo Ze, "Second son."
Luo Ze patted Wei Lan's shoulder and said, "Lan, it's yours!"
Wei Lan accompanied Luo Ze to the village and said, "We are still a step late, and most of the food and grass here has been transferred."
Luo Ze said, "This is the fault of that short-lived ghost Wu Yanji."
Wei Lan said: "I still have three living places left, and I want to ask them where they transported the food to."
Luo Ze looked at the corpses in one place in the village and asked Wei Lan, "Where are the other people in this village?"
"I didn't keep anyone except for the questioning," Wei Lan said.
Luo Ze rubbed his hands together and asked, "Where are those survivors?"
Wei Lan led Luo Ze to see the three people who were captured alive, and asked Luo Ze, "Second Young Master, how long will this battle last?"
Luo Ze said: "If the leaders of the Yi people who raised the army are not caught, the battle will not be over. Lan, you have made a great contribution this time, and I will give you credit when you go back."
"Second son," Wei Lan said to Luo Ze without the slightest smile on his face Come back at one point."
Wei Lan mentioned Luo Wei, and the smile on Luo Ze's face disappeared. He said absentmindedly: "It's my brother who is useless, I can't protect him, and I don't know how Xiaowei is in Beiyan?"
Wei Lan looked up, and he saw a large black cloud coming towards them.