The scorching sun hangs high above our heads, and the sunshine is like fire. At noon, the power of the autumn tiger makes the earth steam. From a distance, the heat waves are rolling on the dry ground, and the yellow sand and dry soil on the ground look like they have been fried in a pot. The same, steaming heat made the air twist. Within a radius of ten miles, there was almost no green at all, only the fluffy low thorn trees and the twisted and toppling poplar trees after drying. The tree trunks are telling the harshness of the natural environment here. Occasionally, strong winds blow, and the sand on the ground rises like a yellow dragon, causing pain in the face.
This is the junction of Ganzhou and Lanzhou, and it is also the most desolate place. There is not a single person in a radius of dozens of miles. In the wilderness, in broad daylight, the only thing that can be seen is the wandering wild wolves. There are creatures such as iron lizards that blend in with the stone and gravel in the wilderness, but once they feel threatened, they move like flying iron lizards.
It was at this time that the hoofs of horses roared and the wheels rolled. A group of people, riding rhinoceros horses and driving a four-wheeled carriage, were galloping quickly on the wilderness road in the yellow sand. Looking from a distance, Wherever the traveler passed, he brought up a cloud of dust.
When passing by a dry riverbed, the team suddenly slowed down with the sound of a rhinoceros, dragon and horse.
"Look, here is the boundary monument of Ganzhou. After here, we are in Lanzhou!" Shi Dafeng, who was riding on the Rhinoceros horse, pulled down his face towel and pointed at an ancient boundary monument on the roadside and shouted.
"Yes, this is the junction of Ganzhou and Lanzhou. After here, you will reach the territory of Lanzhou!" The dark clouds and snow swirled under Yan Liqiang's crotch. Yan Liqiang also took off his face towel, squinted his eyes, and pointed. In the distance, "Over the mountain over there is the Langya Valley. The entire Langya Valley is almost more than thirty miles long. Through the Langya Valley, we can reach Huijiaji before dark!"
"Last time, Li Qiang, you and Mr. Sun seemed to have taken this road when they left Ganzhou?" Shen Teng took two steps forward on the rhinoceros horse and walked to Yan Liqiang's side and said.
"Not bad!" Yan Liqiang nodded, with a smile on his face, "Last time Master Sun and I walked this road, we encountered Black Wind Bandits in Langya Valley, haha..."
"I heard that the Black Wind Bandits suffered heavy losses!" Shi Dafeng chuckled, "After that incident, in the past two years, the Black Wind Bandits seemed to have disappeared in Ganzhou and Lanzhou. There has been no news about them for a long time. "
"That's right, we were just a little bit close to wiping out the Black Wind Pirates that time!"
"It's okay to keep it for a while, and let our Kyudo Club practice in the future!"
"Let's go, there will be a chance in the future..." Yan Liqiang smiled, clamped the dark clouds and snow under his crotch, and the dark clouds and snow suddenly rushed out, and other carriages and horses followed Yan Liqiang across the Ganzhou border. The boundary monument rushed towards the distance.
Today is already August 24th, two days have passed since Lingchi Zhongxiankui arrived at the Manufacturing Bureau. Two days ago, on the afternoon of Lingchi Zhongxiankui's visit, Yan Liqiang had already left the Manufacturing Bureau with his people and car, and walked all the way. Non-stop, heading towards the border between Ganzhou and Lanzhou.
Following Yan Liqiang were Shi Dafeng, Shen Teng, Hu Haihe, Zhou Yong, and twenty elite sergeants from the manufacturing bureau, a total of twenty-five people. Among them, Yan Liqiang and others were riding rhinoceros horses, while Hu Haihe and several others A sergeant drove seven four-wheeled carriages. Everyone changed into civilian clothes and left Pingxi County without saying a word. They traveled day and night and arrived here in just two days.
There was only one reason why Yan Liqiang came here - to recruit troops and turn the endless money in his hands into a formidable force.
If there were no complications in the transfer yamen, according to Yan Liqiang's plan, the first batch of students from the Kyudo Club would be put to great use in one year. By that time, Yan Liqiang would not care at all about the few soldiers and horses that the transfer yamen could use. In the eyes, because of the sudden feud with the Zhuan Yamen, Yan Liqiang had to make preparations in order to deal with the upcoming revenge of the Zhuan Yamen. He is now in urgent need of a group of fierce men who dare to fight and kill. The sergeants dare to fight and kill, but after all, the number is too small. The sergeants with only one flag can barely control the manufacturing bureau. The students of the Kyudo Club have just begun to study in the Kyudo Club and have not yet grown up. Kyudo It was obvious that the students in the society were not capable of taking on big responsibilities at the moment and could not be used for the time being. Therefore, Yan Liqiang could only start from other places.
According to Zhong Xiankui's previous instructions, Jiang Tianhua gave him half a month to control the manufacturing bureau. After half a month, he would send people back to the transfer yamen to report the situation in the manufacturing bureau to the transfer envoy Jiang Tianhua, and transfer the information from the manufacturing bureau to Zhong Xiankui's previous instructions. The first batch of silver collected by the bureau was transported to the transfer yamen. There are thousands of miles between Pingxi County and Zhuan Yamen, not within the same state, so after a comprehensive assessment of all aspects of the situation, if Jiang Tianhua still does not receive news from Zhong Xiankui and the others after twenty days, he may have noticed that Zhong Xiankui and the others are out of the picture. Problem, something will be done, the fastest, about a month later, that is, in late September next month, Jiang Tianhua, who knows the truth, may completely break up with the manufacturing bureau and send his troops into Ganzhou , to make Yan Liqiang look good.
Therefore, Yan Liqiang must make preparations within a month to gather a group of people who can fight hard with the people in the transfer yamen.
According to Yan Liqiang's idea, of course he would not wait for the people from the Zhuan Yamen to knock on the door and then passively defend. Instead, he wanted to intercept the more than a thousand soldiers and horses that the Zhuan Yamen could use before they entered Pingxi County. Or die on the way.
Yan Liqiang didn't want to ask Lei Sitong for this kind of thing, although he knew that if he asked, Lei Sitong would definitely help and would do his best, because Lei Sitong wished he could ask him, but it was precisely because of this that Yan Liqiang became more I won't say this easily, because if you rely too much on Lei Sitong, it will be more troublesome in the future, and the current cooperative relationship between the two will change. That is definitely not what Yan Liqiang wants to see.
In addition to Lei Sitong, Yan Liqiang can also recruit soldiers from the Dayue tribe to help. However, at this time, Yan Liqiang did not want to expose his relationship with the Dayue tribe, so this option was eliminated.
After much deliberation, there is only the third way...
Poor people can do a lot of things for money, and tough people can dare to do many things that timid people dare not do. A group of poor and tough people is exactly what Yan Liqiang needs most now.
And where are the people who are both poor and tough
Yan Liqiang thought of Huijiaji. In the barren mountains at the junction of Ganzhou and Lanzhou, there must be more than one place like Huijiaji...
(End of chapter)