Chapter 424:

Two days later, the news of Tianyan and Diwang finally came back, but the specific situation of the enemy was still not clear. It's not that the spies didn't want to find out, but that they couldn't find out at all.
The Peng Army on the other side of Huangshui was extremely defensive, and the patrolling guards even extended dozens of miles away, especially the dense forest opposite Lishan City, with three steps and one post and five steps and one whistle. It will be discovered, and it is for this reason that those spies previously sent out have all been defeated by the enemy.
This time the spies did not dare to be too close, and the information they checked was very general. They only found out that the Peng army had a strength of 10,000 to 20,000, and judged from the forest clearings observed from a distance. There should be more than twenty trebuchets.
The little poor information was almost useless to Tang Yin, but Lotte and Ai Jia brought back a villager, which surprised Tang Yin.
This villager is about thirty years old, long, black and thin, not tall, and young, but the skin is rough like dry orange peel, and the clothes on his body are not bad. No patches. After being led by Lotte and Ai Jia, he looked around, his eyes were not enough, and everything looked fresh.
Tang Yin glanced at the man, shrugged, and looked at Xiang Le and Ai, asking, "Who is he?"
"His name is Zhao An, a villager in the east of Lishan City." Lotte replied.
Ai Jia glanced back at the villagers, frowned, and reprimanded, "See the Lord, don't you see the ceremony ?!"
"My lord? What my lord?" Zhao An looked at Tang Yin without hesitation. Tang Yin is now wearing only a coat, shirtless inside. In Zhao An's eyes, he naturally does not have the power of Rakuten and Ai Jia who are both helmets and armors, and naturally thinks that his official should also be less than Rakuten and Ai Jiada.
Ai Jia stared at him fiercely and whispered, "This is Master Tang Yin Tang."
Hearing this, Zhao An gave a surprise, apparently did not expect that the sick young man in front of him was Tang Yin. He first stunned, then threw himself on his knees, and fluttered again and again, "Little ... small People ... Zhao An, see ... have met Lord Tang! "
Tang Yin wasn't wasting his thoughts on the villagers now. He just arbitrarily put down his hand and said, "Get up!" After speaking, he looked at Lotte and Aijia in puzzlement.
Ai Jia took a step forward and said positively, "Sir, Zhao An said that he knows that there is a shoal in Huangshui, and that he can cross the river even without a boat raft."
"Oh?" After listening, Tang Yin's eyes brightened and he looked at Zhao An.
Zhao An has never seen anyone's eyes so bright, almost to let out light. He had already stood up, but under Tang Yin's gaze, his legs were soft, his body was low, and he fell down on his knees again. Raise, even more afraid to look at Tang Yin.
Seeing this, Tang Yin laughed and said softly: "Zhao An, don't be afraid, I'm not a tiger, I won't eat you."
He was a joke, but Zhao An still didn't dare to look up while kneeling on the ground, but responded again and again: "Yes, yes, yes! Master ... adults are not tigers, they will not eat me ..."
Huh! Ai Jia couldn't help laughing, Tang Yin was also happy, motioned to the left and right guards, moved the chair over, and let Zhao An take a seat.
Zhao An had never faced a big official like Tang Yin in his life, and had never seen anything before. At this time, he was nervous and scared. His body was shivering, even if he was sitting on a chair, it was just sticky buttocks. On one side, he was stiff, as if he would slide off the chair at any time.
Tang Yin asked with a smile: "Zhao An, you know that there is a shoal in Laoshui, even if you can go without a boat?"
"Yes ... yes!" Zhao An stuttered.
"Where?" Tang Yin, who had been lying on the soft collapse, also sat up subconsciously.
"Back ... to answer people, it's ... just ten miles east of Lishan City."
"Oh?" Tang Yin stared at Zhao An without blinking, and his sharp eyes seemed to look directly into his heart. After a short pause, he rolled his eyes, returned to grab the map next to him, and threw at Zhao An, saying, "Show me!"
Zhao An kept his head down all the time, and the map that was thrown to him was hit coldly. He slipped out of the chair to the ground in shock, and after a while, he returned to his mind, spreading the map with both hands, straight. , Look at it the other way, and finally bravely raised his head, looked at Tang Yin in an embarrassing manner, and whispered, "Master ... villain can't understand ... villain doesn't know the word ..."
Ugh! Tang Yin sighed weakly. To such a villager, there was really no way to take him. He grinned and said, "Then how do you know the shoal? How many people know that place? Why have I never heard anyone mention it?"
"Return to my lord, there are not many people knowing that shoal, and the villains are inadvertently present, and it is only when there is low tide in the water in July and August. In normal months, the river there is still deep ..."
After Tang Yin heard it, she wanted to scold her mother. Now it is early April, and it is still far away from July and August. By July or August, the main army of her party has already arrived, and tens of thousands of rafts can be built. Do you still need to find any shallows to cross the river?
His face was still cheerful, but his fists had been clenched slowly, his eyes fluttered away from Lotte and Aijia from time to time, and the dissatisfaction had been revealed.
Lotte and Ai Jia also grinned secretly. When he first found the villager, he didn't say that he had to wait until July or August. Isn't that all right to find a problem and to trouble the adults?
After Zhao An had fallen behind, Tang Yin sat back down, closed her eyes, and waved him away. "
"Master, I ..." Rakuten wanted to explain, but really didn't know what to say, and finally shook his head helplessly and said to Zhao An, "Brother, let's go!"
Lotte was pulling Zhao An out, but the latter hurriedly said, "Master ... adult, the villain is not finished!"
Tang Yin was lazy to look at him more, and asked with closed eyes, "What else do you have to say?"
"Yes, that's it! Adults want to cross the river without a boat, there is still a way."
Tang Yinxuan laughed: "Keep walking on the shallow you said?"
"Yes, sir." Zhao An swallowed his mouth, explaining in detail: "Jiangbei is very tidal, and the forest is also wet. It is almost full of mushrooms all year round. The villains often go to the north of the river to pick, which can support the family and I can get some homes in the city, but I have to pay money every time I cross the river. How can a villain have so much money to pay every day, so the villain waited for the tide in August and pulled a rope from the south bank at the shallows. On the North Shore, whether it is high tide or low tide in the future, as long as you hold this rope, the villain can easily swim from the South Shore to the North Shore. For many years, no accident has occurred, and this rope is hidden in the river, except for the small People, almost no one knows. "
"Oh? Why is this still happening?" Tang Yin's body sat up again, her eyes glowed again, her brain flew, and she carefully analyzed the words of Zhao An, and thought about it, she thought it was reasonable and reasonable. He nodded cheerfully and asked with a smile, "Is all this what you said true?"
"Even if you have the courage to be small, you dare not deceive adults!"
Tang Yin tilted her head, her eyes rolled, and said with a smile: "Okay! You take me there. If what you say is true, I will reward you with gold and two hundred. If what you say is false, I can ask you Head! "
After listening to Zhao An, instead of being afraid, she looked excited and almost jumped up on the spot. You need to know that one hundred and twenty gold is enough for an ordinary villager to live a lifetime, and this windfall is flying over him. How can he be unhappy and not excited? He nodded again and again and said quickly: "Yes, yes, yes! If you are young, take an adult to check it!"
Tang Yin was very satisfied with his response. From this, it can be seen that this person does not seem to be pretending to be a fraud. If he is really a fine work of the Peng Army, the acting skill is too high.
This matter is very important. Tang Yin couldn't care about the injury and decided to go in person, but he was also worried that there was Peng Jun's eyeliner in Lishan City, and he didn't dare to travel with fanfare. Instead, he changed into casual clothes. Jia, Cheng Jin and Zhao An quietly came out from the back door of the county government, took a carriage, and went straight to the east of the city.
After leaving the city, it was confirmed that there were no spies behind him, so Tang Yin guided Zhao An to the shallow where he said.
The shoal that Zhao An said was located ten miles east of Lishan City. This is the foot of Lishan Mountain. There is no road. The ground is full of stones and weeds. The carriage cannot pass. When you come here, the carriage can only stop. Tang Yin also stops Came in the car, supported by Cheng Jin and others, and walked to the shallows.
As he walked, Tang Yin asked curiously, "Zhao An, do you say that the rope is hidden in the river?"
"Yes, sir!" Zhao An replied respectfully.
"How long has it been?"
"It's been almost five years."
Tang Yin smiled and asked casually: "Five years? So long, won't the rope rot in the river?"
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Zhao An replied cheerfully: "No, no, the villain uses an oil rope, let alone five years, even if he has been in the river for ten or twenty years."
Tang Yin, Lotte, Ai Jia, and Cheng Jin are no strangers to what you call the yoke. The oil rope is made by repeatedly soaking the special rattan in oil, which is strong and resistant to water. It is usually used in the military to make ropes for binding armor. Tang Yin laughed: "Will you make a yoke?"
"Yes, the villain learned from the older brother."
"Ling brother is ..."
"My elder brother is the Central Army. It used to be ..."
"Oh?"
"But two years ago, my brother went to Ningguo and died in the battle in Hedong County." Speaking of this, Zhao An's expression fell lonely, and his eyes also showed sadness. Hedong area is the focus of the struggle between Feng and Ning. Fengfeng has always regarded Hedong as its own territory. Therefore, Hedong is generally called Hedong County in Fengfeng.