Chapter 38: Magpie Mountain Village
Wang Fang rode the thunder to the mountainous area of Mubei County.
As Zhou Shixiong said, there are poor mountains and bad waters, with dangerous peaks and winding rivers everywhere, and there are almost no roads in the dense forests and shrubs.
From a geographical point of view, Mubei County is blocking the northwest of the Jiang Kingdom, and the Mushan Mountains extend east and south.
In the case of Canghai in the east and Taijiang in the south.
The Great Wei Empire wanted to go south to attack Jiangguo. If he did not want to take the narrow mountain road, he could only enter Jiangguo along the open land near the sea.
The same is true for the Liang Kingdom to the west. Not to mention that the Jiang Kingdom is stronger now, even if Liang Kingdom is strong, if they want to attack Jiang Kingdom, they can only advance east along Taijiang.
The easy-to-defense and difficult-to-attack terrain has enabled the Jiang Kingdom to be able to survive the many changes in the human regime, and has always occupied a very important position among the major empires.
This also shows the importance of Mubei County to the Jiang Kingdom.
Even though Mubei County not only cannot provide taxes for Jiang State, it requires Jiang State to subsidize a large amount of money here every year, Jiang State has not relaxed its rule here.
However, even though the Jiang Kingdom supported Mubei County to establish a relatively strong county government army, the Mubei government still could not control the entire territory and only limitedly guarded those more important passes.
Most of the places here belong to village autonomy, and these villages are both civilians and bandits. When they encounter brigades of officers and soldiers, they hide in the mountains; when they encounter small groups of officers and soldiers, they dare to rob them directly.
In recent years, many bandits from the Great Wei Empire entered Mubei County. They not only increased the number of bandits to Mubei County, but also brought a lot of supplies. Especially those bandits who fought head-on with the Great Wei Empire Army, brought the tactical ideas of regular troops to these villages.
The villages in Mubei County do not want to be annexed by other villages, and they actively absorb these bandits to train their villagers.
The combat effectiveness of bandits in Mubei Mountain Area is growing rapidly.
However, the regularization of training brings rapid consumption of materials. Mubei County is originally barren, and the demand for materials has attracted a lot of infiltration of external forces.
When Zhou Shixiong led his troops to fight against Liang State in Lingyang County, south of Mubei County, many military supplies were secretly sent to the mountainous areas of Mubei County.
Among them, Queshan Village is one of the many villages controlled by Zhou Shixiong in Mubei County.
This time, the Queshan Village was an ambush area where Zhou Shixiong set up an ambush and prepared to capture the devil king Zheng Guan.
Wang Fang quickly found Queshan from the air based on the bird guide provided by Zhou Shixiong. The village was built on the top of the mountain, and only two small paths along the ridges connected the mountain up and down.
After Wang Fang lowered the height, he could clearly see that Queshan Village was completely a military fortress.
There are guardhouses on the two paths up the mountain. There are low arc-shaped stone forts along both sides of the path at any distance behind the guardhouse. These stone forts are distributed in steps, which can form cross-fire power on the road up the mountain.
The Queshan Village is above the stone fort group. The three-meter-high stone wall provides very good protection for the village. There are arrow towers and stone throwers built on the village wall. Not only the mountain road in the middle, but the rear of all stone forts is completely exposed to the village's firepower strike range. The enemies attacking the mountain have no way to use heavy firepower, and there is no cover to use. Every step forward will be taken to a top-down three-dimensional strike.
Even if it is to deal with air forces, it can form a layered air defense firepower network.
This is a military stronghold built by Zhou Shixiong, with elite personnel, [58 Novels www.58xs.info] with sufficient weapons. After all, it is to trap the Demon King. As a secret stronghold for detaining the Demons, if you find a cave at random, it will be too easy to be suspected.
At this time, Zhou Shixiong had already led people to take over Queshan Village and arranged the senior painters he brought to the key points.
The entire ambush circle is ready.
Wang Fang had long noticed Zhou Shixiong's ambitions, so he was not surprised that he had such a military stronghold.
When Wang Fang approached Queshan Village, Pegasus cavalry rushed up to stop him. When Wang Fang revealed his identity, these Pegasus cavalry flew with him and escorted him to land in the village.
Half the village is built on the top of the mountain, and half is built in the excavated underground cave.
As a prison for "detaining" the demon clan, of course it must be placed underground.
Wang Fang knew that Zheng Guan must be following him secretly. Regardless of whether he had the ability to follow him silently into the underground of the village, the situation and arrangement here were enough for him to believe in the demons detained here.
I don’t know where Zheng Guan was at this time…
After Wang Jian entered the underground cave, he looked at the entrance behind him. Several soldiers in armor stood there, and the gate at the entrance of the cave was also closed after he came in.
A turtle in a jar.
Wang Fang suddenly felt this way about himself. If it weren't for the fact that he needed to work together to arrest Zheng Guan, I would probably be the one who would be the one who would be able to get rid of the situation after the resignation of the Duke of Ji.
However, Wang Fang believed that Zhou Shixiong would not do anything to himself before he caught Zheng Guan.
Wang Fang inspected several prisons that imprisoned the demons, then took a scale from a demon and left the underground cave.
Then the soldiers here asked him to arrange a room for himself in the village, and Wang Fang lived here.
Nothing special happened during the whole day, so Wang Fang stayed in the room to paint. It was located on a high ground, higher than the village wall not far away. Through the open windows, you can see the mountains in the distance.
What Wang Fang painted was the mountain scenery in front of him.
He used magic pen and entered his own original state.
This scene appeared in his eyes, with light shining deep in his eyes, mechanically recording everything he saw without any interference.
The picture forms a film-like image in his mind, and then appears on a long scroll through a brush.
Queshan also underwent extremely subtle changes in his creations. The undetectable momentum gathered along the mountains towards Queshan villages, and then all came into the paintings gradually formed in front of Wang Fang.
Look at it from a ridge to a peak, with different heights and heights.
I don’t know the true face of Queshan because I am in this mountain.
Wang Fanglue changed Su Shi's "Inscription on the West Lin Wall" as a matching poem for this painting. After the painting is completed, the day passes and the night comes. A faint mist rises from the bottom of the mountain, gradually covering the entire Que Mountain.
In a slight vein, even the villagers who were born and raised here couldn't help but feel strange about Queshan. Under the moonlight, the mountains beside them and the mountain roads nearby seemed to be a little wrong, but there was no way to tell what was wrong.
Maybe it was because of the poor vision in the mountain fog.
The villagers can only explain this to themselves and then perform their duties conscientiously.
They don't know who they are doing, but since the mysterious force comes, their lives have improved significantly.
Chapter completed!