Chapter 77: Spy! (Thanks to book friend Rose Cherry Meat for the monthly ticket!)
After Kobayashi Kenjiro finished speaking, Nakamura Daiji nodded slightly and said, "I agree with what Kobayashi said, but it's still not good enough!"

"Oh? Excuse me, elder, what's wrong?" After thinking quickly, the young Nakamura Kenjiro asked in confusion:

Daiji Nakamura didn't say anything, just smiled and shook his head. Then, under the gaze of Kenjiro Nakamura, he began to write quickly at his desk.

A moment later, Nakamura Daiji finished writing a letter, took out his personal seal and stamped it on it, then handed it to Kobayashi Kenjiro and said:

"Although your idea is good, Xiaolin Jun, you overlooked one point, that is, the gap in strength between us and Zhou Jun. Even if we can take advantage of the surprise attack and catch Zhou Jun off guard, the 500 Red Tide Army in our hands are not enough to defeat Ye Mingsheng's army!"

"Take this letter and go to Qiantai Peak to find Zheng Mingzhe in person. Tell him that I have agreed to his conditions on behalf of the Black Dragon Society. Ask him to bring his 1,000 bandits down the mountain to help. Ye Mingsheng's troops will arrive in a day or two."

"With our five hundred men, we can at best tie with Ye Mingsheng's troops. But with Zheng Mingzhe's thousand men, we have a real chance of winning..."

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Although Pei Zhixiu had already reminded him, Ye Mingsheng had no choice but to lead his troops towards Luwang Town.

Although there are more than one road leading to Huishan, the other roads are very steep, making it difficult to march and easy to be ambushed. Only the road to Luwang Town is relatively flat, so Ye Mingsheng had no choice.

Of course, although they continued to march towards Luwang Town, it did not mean that Pei Zhixiu’s words had no effect.

According to the original plan, Ye Mingsheng was to walk 50 miles a day and reach Luwang Town, but he only walked half the distance in a day and expanded the area originally explored by the scouts from ten miles to fifteen miles.

The expansion of the exploration area also brought unexpected surprises to Ye Mingsheng. The scouts sent out encountered a suspicious person in a woods. During the capture process, a fight broke out. The man died under the scout's knife and the body was brought to Ye Mingsheng by the scout.

After taking a look, Ye Mingsheng saw a corpse in the clothes of an ordinary citizen. He asked the scout team, "How did you find out that something was wrong with him?"

"Reporting to the commander, this person is wearing ordinary people's clothes and staying in the woods. At first we thought they were farmers chopping wood and picking mushrooms, so we didn't pay much attention to them."

"But when he saw us, he immediately panicked and fled backwards. This caught our attention, so we immediately chased after him on horseback!"

"Just when we were about to stop them and interrogate them, this guy used weapons and attacked us first. We were caught off guard and one of our brothers was injured..." When the scout team leader said this, there was a hint of anger in his tone.

Ye Mingsheng nodded upon hearing this, and then continued to ask: "Can you tell who the other party is?"

The captain hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said with some regret: "There is no way to confirm this, but I can be sure that this person is definitely not an ordinary citizen. He is very fierce in martial arts, and you can see that his hands are stained with blood." "We originally planned to capture him alive and hand him over to the commander for interrogation, but this man is extremely fierce. After being seriously injured by us, he actually committed suicide rather than be captured!" The scout captain pointed to the wound on the neck of the corpse and said:

Ye Mingsheng didn't say anything, but just stared at the corpse and thought for a while. Then, as if he remembered something, he ordered, "Take his shoes off for me!"

Although the soldiers standing by did not know what Ye Mingsheng meant, they still faithfully followed Ye Mingsheng's instructions.

Looking at the pair of feet in front of him with flat soles and slightly deformed big toes, Ye Mingsheng's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness, and he said lightly: "Take off this corpse and feed it to the wild dogs!"

After saying this, Ye Mingsheng turned around and returned to his tent. He found a piece of clean white cloth and carefully wiped the sword in his hand.

Although he was still a little confused as to why the people from the Black Dragon Society would collude with Xu Zhaojie and want to harm him.

But the facts are already in front of us. The reason why the feet of the corpse looked like that was entirely due to wearing wooden clogs for a long time. Therefore, the identity of this man who was killed by the scout, had suspicious behavior, and had fierce martial arts skills is self-evident!
The appearance of this person indirectly confirmed what Pei Zhixiu said to him last night. There were ninjas following him secretly. And the three scouts who disappeared a few days ago seemed to have died at the hands of these ninjas...
These people from the Black Dragon Society definitely have bad intentions, and good people don't come. But the key question is, where will they attack me?

Thinking of this question, Ye Mingsheng's gaze was focused on the Huishan map in front of him. There was a black line on it. It was the route Ye Mingsheng drew and planned to take with his troops!

Although the route prepared by Ye Mingsheng has avoided most of the dangerous places in Huishan area as much as possible, there are still too many dangerous places in Huishan area. It is inevitable to encounter three dangerous places along the way, namely Xianglu Peak, Luoying Slope and Xueyueling.

Because the imperial guards of the Great Zhou Dynasty passed through Songquan County when they entered the palace before, Ye Mingsheng did not know the terrain of these three places. He only knew from the records and descriptions on the maps that these three places were very dangerous. As for more specific information, he was not clear.

But now the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, this already steep terrain has become even more dangerous...

"It would be great if I could lure the opponent out to fight me in the open!" Ye Mingsheng narrowed his eyes and thought secretly:
Although he only has 700 imperial guards under his command, Ye Mingsheng is still very confident when facing the Black Dragon Society lurking in the dark.

The Black Dragon Society is absolutely good at gathering intelligence and carrying out assassinations, but they are no match for them if they are asked to stand out and fight.

Therefore, the black dragons hiding in the dark will be the most terrifying, but once they walk into the sunlight, they will not be scary at all!

(End of this chapter)