Chapter 124: Pingkun’s strategy Amid the heavy snowfall, the city of Hangzhou was covered in silver.
However, with the city gates tightly closed all day long, Hangzhou citizens can no longer enjoy the snowy scenery of West Lake as they used to, and the increasingly urgent war atmosphere has made everyone completely lose interest in sightseeing.
Ever since the bandits invaded in large numbers from the sea, Liu Mengqian, the prefect of Hangzhou, has always adopted the tactic of shrinking back and closing the city gates tightly and never attacking.
Although this approach allowed him to avoid the risk of risking his own life, it also caused the vast and densely populated countryside outside Hangzhou to become a hunting ground for thieves to come and kill at will.
It was so ravaged.
So in the past few days, Magistrate Liu's life has not been easy.
After the bandits ended their siege of the city, papers from various counties flying in like snow flakes filled his desk, as well as a bunch of scholar-officials whose families had been ruined.
Go to the city and come to him This parent official cried and begged for revenge: In the late Ming Dynasty, the literary style in the Jiangnan water towns was very prosperous.
Even rural landlords probably had the reputation of being a scholar or a scholar.
According to the Ming Dynasty system, they had a certain political status and should be admired and respected by others.
However, this group of thieves didn't know why they were so crazy.
They treated the humble commoners in a so-so and polite manner, but they treated the Jin gentry with brutality.
They ransacked and exterminated their homes at every turn.
In the eyes of the famous and wealthy families, no big gentry family in the place he passed was spared.
Even the retired old minister killed one of you stupid and ignorant thieves.
Don't you understand the principle of "you can't punish a doctor"?
In short, Prefect Liu Mengqian knew very well that after so many well-known gentry with imperial titles died in one fell swoop, as the parent official of Hangzhou and the first person responsible for this war, his situation was already very dangerous.
If you do anything, when the governor of Zhejiang comes back or the court holds him accountable, not only will the black gauze hat on your head be unsafe , even his own head is a bit mysterious.
However, Magistrate Liu, who didn’t want to regard the shrunken turtle as a dead turtle, thought for a long time, but still couldn’t come up with a good countermeasure.
Finally, he decided to brainstorm and borrow the wisdom of everyone to widely Scholars from all over the city are invited to come and offer their suggestions, hoping to save the city of Hangzhou and at the same time teach the thieves a harsh lesson.
Well, why only scholars who are studying are invited?
Of course it is because scholars are knowledgeable and dignified officials of the court.
How can they associate with traffickers and pawns?
As a result, the lobby of the magistrate's office was filled with people.
Poor scholars and down-and-out literati from all walks of life appeared at the Pingkun Conference.
Scholars from wealthy and noble families saw that the thieves were so powerful that they were difficult to defeat.
Now they are taking advantage of the break when the Tiankun thieves stop sieging the city, dragging their children and daughters out of the city under heavy snow, and fleeing to the north to Huzhou and Jiaxing.
Only poor scholars with no money came to the Yamen to join in the fun.
Although the situation was urgent, Prefect Liu Mengqian still did not forget to put on a show, and Shi Shiran did not show up until most of the attendees had finished their second cup of tea.
A group of eagerly awaiting supervisors, scholars, academicians, and laotongsheng hurriedly came forward to receive the ceremony.
They waited until everyone had finished the ceremony and sat down.
Master Liu first wiped his hands and face with a hot towel slowly, then took a sip of the Longjing tea brought by the servant, and then spoke leisurely: "Everyone, you must have heard about the deeds of overseas thieves who pretended to be descendants of the Song Dynasty, colluded with traitors in Fujian and Guangdong, and killed loyal people.
Today, these clowns are so crazy that they have invaded this most virtuous person in the south of the Yangtze River.
Since ancient times, Han and thieves have been at odds with each other in the world.
It is sad that outside the city of Hangzhou, there are countless loyal ministers and righteous men of the Ming Dynasty who have hated Kun.
If it were not for the safety of the people in Hangzhou City, I would have personally led the troops out of the city to meet these evil thieves.
But right now, defending Hangzhou City is the top priority.
If the people here are in ruins, please feel free to offer your suggestions.
If we can really defeat the thieves, I will recommend everyone here."
The words of Magistrate Liu Mengqian contained both great justice and selfish interests, and successfully stimulated the utilitarian aspirations of all the down-and-out literati.
Immediately, a trembling old voice spoke up: "Master Fu Zun, cough, the thieves came from afar, just to rob property and people.
The students thought that they only needed to select dozens of brave men who dared to fight and blended into the villagers. , as soon as we get the opportunity to assassinate the thieves chief, the thieves will definitely retreat."
An old man with white beard and hair and a stooped figure stood up tremblingly first.
His face was flushed with excitement, and the few strands of white beard on his chin trembled as if at the command of Magistrate Liu, this An old sour man in his seventies would personally carry a sharp blade and go out into battle to defeat the enemy.
Inspired by this old man, the scholars present also started to make suggestions.
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You and I came up with a lot of ideas.
Unfortunately, most of them were inspired by the Water Margin and the Three Kingdoms.
Although they talked about assassination, alienation, and false surrender.
There are everything like beauty traps, but they are basically taken for granted, and there is a serious lack of operability.
Therefore, Prefect Liu Mengqian listened with great interest at first, but soon he became more and more frowning.
Opening the city gate and pretending to surrender requires me, the prefect, to go to the enemy camp in person to hold hostage, regardless of whether the enemy can retreat in the end.
Isn't this asking us to die?
They planned to empty the city, but everyone knew that the thieves were vulgar and illiterate, and did not know poetry or writing.
What if they rushed directly into the city?
How could it be so easy to assassinate a thief chief among thousands of troops?
Can such a powerful assassin be found in the city of Hangzhou?
At present, everyone knows nothing about the internal affairs of the thieves outside the city, and there is no way to start a divorce plan.
The straw boat borrows arrows to feed them.
Where did the thieves get the bows and arrows?
They are just blunderbuss and cannons.
How can the straw boat catch them?
Just when Magistrate Liu Mengqian was increasingly doubting whether it was necessary to hold this "Pingkun Conference", someone finally said something that made his eyes light up: "Master Fu, seniors, we can think long and hard about what strategy to use to attack the Kun bandits outside the city.
But the art of war has this saying: know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles.
Before we fight with the Kun bandits in a battle of wits and courage, we must find out.
The details of these overseas giant bandits , talents should be adapted to local conditions, targeted at the students' talents.
In recent years, they have also been interested in national affairs.
They have been paying attention to find out the inside story of Kun thief, collecting and excerpting Kun thief's books.
It took more than a year to compile it into a volume of Ping Kun's minutes.
Today I hereby submit it to you, and please take a look at it, Your Excellency."
This scholar named Gao Xuan was only in his twenties.
He was wearing a half-worn straight jacket that had been washed white.
It showed that his family was not well-off, but his expression was unusually calm and composed.
He smiled faintly, and at that moment He took out a volume of booklet from his arms and handed it to Magistrate Liu respectfully.
This move can be said to be a surprise victory, and it immediately attracted the attention of everyone around.
Although there were many people who just came up with random ideas, and there were also many people who had read the Kun Shi Directory, they were able to systematically implement the Ping Kun strategy they envisioned in their minds.
Except for Gao Xuan, a poor scholar, it is really the only one who can compile it into a manuscript.
And Magistrate Liu was not ambiguous.
He immediately took the Pingkun Minutes and started reading with his head shaking.
When he read something unclear, he would politely ask Gao Xuan a few words, as if he appreciated this person very much.
All of a sudden, Gao Xuan, who was originally unattractive, suddenly became the center of attention.
Those blazing eyes full of envy, jealousy and hatred almost almost set him on fire.
As for Gao Xuan, who was attracting the attention of everyone, after listening to a few words of flattery, he also had a proud look on his face.
He thought that he had embarked on the road to success and was about to reach the top of the world, so his whole person entered a state of mindlessness.
In this state, it seemed as if he saw his father-in-law who had always looked down on him before finally looking at him with new eyes, and the brother-in-law who had always looked down upon him knelt down in front of him and said hello to him.
This Gao Xuan Gao scholar who made a big splash at the "Pingkun Conference" is not yet thirty years old this year and has already gained the reputation of a scholar.
He can be considered young and promising, but his family is really poor these days.
Like many scholars, Gao Xuan had no job and relied entirely on his ancestral property to survive.
In the early years, his family still had a small income, and he could make do with it.
He kept studying and making friends with teachers in order to be able to enter school and pass the examination.
However, something unexpected happened and Gao Xuan's parents suddenly passed away one after another.
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Before his parents passed away, he married another wife and a series of affairs, which depleted the last of the Gao family's wealth.
In the end, only a dilapidated house passed down from ancestors and some dilapidated household items were left.
By last year, most of Gao Xuan's family had to rely on his father-in-law to support him.
Gao Xuan's scholarly wife was the daughter of a commoner family.
I was a wine seller on the street.
He married his daughter because he thought it would give him face to marry a scholar.
Married to him, a poor scholar.
Unexpectedly, Gao Xuan, a talented son-in-law, had to keep his filial piety to his parents, so he could not take the civil service examination for a long time.
Even if he passed the examination, he might not be able to pass the examination in one go.
As a result, the couple had to rely on his father-in-law to support him.
So in the face of the father-in-law's glare and the brother-in-law's cold words, Gao Xuan was always so frustrated that he couldn't even lift his head.
In this depressing atmosphere where everything is sad, the Perfect Bookstore opened by Zhao Yingong, the "Lingnan Gentleman" in Hangzhou, became a good place for Gao Xuan to spend time and escape from reality.
In order to gain enough popularity in Hangzhou, he also gave himself as a foreigner "Nursing hope", when Zhao Yingong opened Wanbi Bookstore, he implemented a free borrowing strategy for those poor and talented people.
Not only did the talented and poor children not interfere with the matter of reading for free in the bookstore, but they also provided tea, in order to gain a good reputation among the scholars: these days, there is no fame, no protection from the government and the gentry, and they can do whatever they want.
As a result, a cultural salon famous throughout Hangzhou was quickly formed, especially among the poor scholars.
Therefore, Gao Xuan, a scholar who was depressed and had nothing to do, plunged into the vast collection of exquisite books in Wanbi Bookstore under the introduction of several similarly down-and-out scholar friends, and read them all day and night.
After eating, he refused to leave until the bookstore closed.
Unexpectedly, just last summer, Mr.
Zhao Yingong, who was originally praised by Hangzhou scholars, suddenly became a "conspirator and spy", and his perfect bookstore was also closed down by the government.
When this earth-shattering news came, Gao Xuan was in Wanbi Bookstore as usual, watching the other customers in the bookstore and the clerks in the bookstore.
After hearing the news, all of them were so frightened that their faces turned pale and they fled as fast as possible, fearing that they would be indiscriminately raped by the officials.
They were arrested and convicted together.
Only Gao Xuan remained calm and calm.
After the others had fled, he picked up the pens, inks, paper and inkstones they had left behind, plus a purse that someone had left behind.
He also plundered several books from the bookstore in one go.
After ten books, I happily returned home carrying a large sack.
In the next few months, in order to make ends meet, Gao Xuan pawned these windfalls from Wanbi Bookstore one after another in exchange for money to buy rice.
But among the pile of books he brought back, he found a handwritten booklet that recorded many "Kun thief secrets" and "Ping Kun's clever tricks".
Gao Xuan immediately read it with gusto and most of them Like the Confucian scholars of the late Ming Dynasty who cared about the world, Gao Xuan also had a strong interest in "investigation", "firearms" and "strategic science", which was in line with the society at that time.
It has something to do with the historical background.
The continuous defeats on all fronts made the entire Ming court look forward to reversing the crisis through the development and introduction of several new weapons and new tactics, so a wave of "war on paper" arose at that time.
Many scholars who originally had no basic understanding or concept of war began to read military books in order to keep up with the fashion.
When he was at Wanbi Bookstore, Gao Xuan once wanted to find some Australian military art books to achieve a surprise victory.
But I couldn't find this kind of book.
Now that I got this "Secret Book of Pingkun", I felt like I had found a treasure.
I studied it day and night, trying to learn some "dragon-slaying skills" from it.
What he didn't know was that this handwritten booklet recording the "Secrets of the Kun Thief" and "Ping Kun's Clever Plan" was actually collected by a traveler from the Lingao Group when he was extremely bored and collected information about them in the Guangzhou market.
The rumors about Hainan Island travellers, combined with my own wild and evil thoughts Xiangli, a self-entertainment work written casually, its nature is probably similar to the various nonsense jokes on the Internet in later generations.
However, when I went to Hangzhou for business, I somehow left the booklet behind.
Wanbi Bookstore was stolen by Gao Xuan, an "elegant thief" If you are a veteran with rich combat experience, you may be able to see the absurdity of the contents in the booklet at a glance.
The problem is that Gao Xuan, a poor scholar, is like all similar "military enthusiasts" of the Ming Dynasty.
He has high ambitions and low abilities.
He has no professional military experience and can only talk about what he takes for granted.
Looking at the eloquent words written in this booklet of boasting, , he believed it to be true.
After being fascinated by the book, Gao Xuan also excerpted the passages in the booklet, combined it with his own secondary processing and artistic imagination, as well as some "deeds of Kun people" found in other books, and painstakingly wrote a summary of Ping Kun.
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I think I am a "master of affairs".
It is a pity that although Ping Kun's Minutes were completed, the Kun thieves were thousands of miles away.
Gao Xuan, who was in Hangzhou, had no way to apply for fame even if he wanted to use this strange book.
Likewise, not many people were interested in him.
The top cadres of the Donglin Party and Fushe are not interested in such noisy things.
The characters can be contacted, but in the end he just lives in a shabby house and has nothing to do.
However, as the saying goes, the emperor pays off, just when Gao Xuan laments that his skills are useless all day long, a large number of fierce thieves fall from the sky, and all of a sudden...
Flooding onto the Qiantang River just a short distance away Regarding this, the others were horrified and worried all day long, but Gao Xuan was as excited as if he had fallen asleep on a pillow.
First he took out Pingkun's minutes and carefully transcribed them, in preparation for submitting them to the nobles when he recommended himself, and then I found all the books on the Kun thieves and read them over and over again, and also talked to those who fled into the city for refuge to find out about the thieves.
Finally, I got a blockbuster at the "Pingkun Conference" At this moment, in his professional capacity as a "professional expert", he was giving advice to the prefect Liu Mengqian, who was currently confused.
"It is said that most of the thieves cannot bend their legs, so they often use firearms.
As long as they select a few brave men and throw them to the ground with bamboo poles, they will not be able to get up again and can only be captured without any help.
Even children with yellow mouth and old men can also kill them with their hands.
Counting thieves, you might as well give it a try, it will definitely work wonders."
After hearing Gao Xuan's "high opinion", Magistrate Liu decided to recruit the young men in the city to organize a bamboo pole team.
Although if they were allowed to go out of the city to attack the bandit camp in Phoenix Villa, they would probably be unable to do so, but if they just stayed behind the city wall for street fighting, they should still be able to make do.
"Among the Kun thieves, there are many foreigners from the West.
They have been eating dried beef and mutton since they were young, and the food cannot be digested.
Therefore, they need tea and rhubarb to facilitate digestion.
If the foreigners cannot do this, their intestines and stomach will be blocked and they will not be able to survive.
This is Give me the power to control barbarians from China."
After hearing this, Magistrate Liu ordered all the tea shops and medicine shops in the city to be quickly sealed down to prevent any more tea leaves and rhubarb from falling into the hands of the thieves.
Next, Gao Xuan analyzed to Magistrate Liu that the Qiongzhou Kun bandits came across the sea from thousands of miles away in the south.
Their plans were very big and they were bent on seeking our great tomorrow.
However, these vulgar warriors who went into battle naked in person were all exiled due to failure in the party struggle.
"Sin Kun", so it can be used by high-ranking officials and generous salaries to use barbarians to control barbarians.
This statement coincides with the social reality of today's Ming Dynasty that "the nobles and the military are lowly", so Magistrate Liu couldn't help but nod.
Finally, as the conclusion of this high-level discussion, Gao Xuan, a scholar with an ever-increasing imagination, even revealed the secret behind the sharp weapons of the Kun Thieves: "The Kun Thief artillery is made with the method of gouging out the heart, so it is the most vicious.
Taking away the heart and lungs will lead to no harm, only to reach the yang "Things that are extremely yin and extremely filthy can be broken."
I don't know how this guy found out the forging and cannon-making method from an unknown book, and further extended it to the heart-gouging method.
The most filthy thing can break a firearm" is a strange conclusion.
It would be a shame not to write fantasy novels with such a great talent.
In short, Gao Xuan is very satisfied with his ambition at this moment.
He thinks that with his understanding of the Kun thieves, he will be promoted and make a fortune.
The world is in chaos right now, powerful people are everywhere, and there are people running around and making smoke in all directions. , and this Kun chaos may not be over for a while.
Although the people are miserable, it is an excellent stage for counselors like him to make achievements and become famous, just like Guo Jia and Zhuge Liang in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms.
However, since ancient times, literati have looked down upon each other.
Seeing Gao Xuan win the favor of the master with his little tricks, how can the other scholars present sit still?
Although they know little about foreign affairs, it does not prevent them from growing up.
Drawing wisdom from the stories of our ancestors, we immediately came up with clever tricks: "I wonder if Liu's parents heard that during the Battle of Jingnan in the past, Prime Minister Tie Xuan defended Jinan and retired as Emperor Chengzu.
This generation of thieves came from overseas and pretended to be Miao descendants of the Song Dynasty.
If you please take out the memorial tablets of the emperors of the Song Dynasty and list them on the city wall.
On top of that, write another heroic article to denounce the courage of the enemy.
If you want to come, the thief will retreat if you feel ashamed."
Although this teenage boy took things for granted, at least he had learned the history of this dynasty well.
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"I wonder if Mr.
Liu knows about the Battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms.
The Soochow Navy took advantage of the east wind to use fireboats to destroy Cao's army's large ships.
Nowadays, the big ships of the Kun and Thieves are anchored in the Qiantang River.
Isn't it different from the situation of Cao Ying's navy back then?
It seems like it is now In the cold winter, the northwest wind blows strongly, and the officers and soldiers are in the upper reaches of the Qianjiang River.
In Fuyang County, we let fire ships attack the enemy.
If the wind and water are favorable, we will be able to repeat the battle of Chibi at the foot of Phoenix Mountain.
Then we will select elite soldiers to go out of the city and take advantage of the chaos by land to attack the bandit camp at Phoenix Mountain Villa.
Even if we cannot defeat the bandits in one fell swoop, we can still defeat them.
There is chaos and there will be no time to attack the city for many days.”
Although this Juren master's statement is still a bit vague, it is already the "most professional" idea at this conference.
All in all, the Hangzhou Government Office's "Pingkun Conference" ended successfully with Gao Xuan's fame and heated discussions among everyone.
After the meeting, the entire city of Hangzhou was in commotion under the repeated urgent orders of the prefect.
Those who posted lists to recruit warriors, collected bamboo poles to stab the thieves in the knees, closed down tea shops and medicine shops, and searched everywhere for black dog blood, clean buckets, Children's urine, women's "riding cloth" ancient version of sanitary napkins, and other "things from the most yang to the most yin to the most filthy", there are all kinds of things that are very strange.
Idle people in the city rushed out to see this rare Western view, which eventually led to a ridiculous attack and defense battle in Hangzhou.
However, at the beginning of this ridiculous offensive and defensive battle in Hangzhou, the actions of both sides were barely normal.
On the night when the heavy snow stopped for the first time, before the Kun thieves, who had been huddled in Phoenix Villa for many days, resumed their offensive on Hangzhou City as the weather improved, the Ming Dynasty officers and troops in the city had already taken the lead and attacked from land and water.
The two groups launched a comprehensive counterattack Under repeated strict orders from Hangzhou, Fuyang County in the upper reaches of the Qiantang River bravely recruited a fire attack fleet, forcibly seized more than 50 civilian ships, piled them with firewood, poured them with clear oil, and added many poisons that were said to be poisonous.
Smoke the poisonous medicinal materials and use them to burn.
At the same time, he spent a lot of money to recruit a group of daredevils with good water skills, most of whom were heroes in the rivers and lakes, and planned to let them drive these arson boats to ram the Kun thief's ship.
This fire attack fleet raised its sails from Fuyang Pier at dusk and rode the wind down the river.
It is expected to arrive at the foot of Phoenix Mountain at night.
The entire Hangzhou officials and gentry are looking forward to these arson ships reenacting the Battle of Chibi.
Miracle, sadly, in pervasive satellite aerial photography As soon as this fire attack fleet left Fuyang Pier, it was noticed by the time traveler, and was monitored in real time all the way.
The reason why a small boat was not dispatched to intercept it at the first time was because it was mistakenly intercepted at first.
They regarded them as refugee ships and didn't take them too seriously.
In addition, sailing a boat in the dark is a very difficult technical job.
If you are driving a sailboat instead of a motor boat, it will be even more difficult.
These warriors who were lured by the government bounty to drive the arson boat, on the other hand, Courage and water skills are good, but the ability to sail a boat may not be very good.
At the same time, not everyone is familiar with the Qiantang River waterway.
If it was during the day, one ship could still follow the other, but the fire attack had to be at night to have miraculous results.
In the dark night, these arson ships were constantly stranded and left behind, and in the end there were only more than thirty people.
The ship arrived at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, and the "Kon Thief Fleet" at the foot of Phoenix Mountain was already impatient to wait.
The next moment, along with the red flares rising from the pier to represent an attack, a sharp siren spread throughout Captain Li Huamei's Hangzhou because the ship's berth was closest to the upstream.
Captain Li Huamei, who had been in battle for a long time, immediately adopted standard counter-fire attack tactics: the bright searchlight swept across the river, allowing these small boats that thought they were lurking well to see at a glance; The naval guns immediately opened fire, and hail-like bullets swept across the river, leaving holes in these thin fishing boats.
Seeing the bright searchlight beam before, the warriors on the fire attack fleet were already in a panic.
Several ships immediately collided into a ball and capsized one after another during the collision.
And the rain of bullets that hit them immediately further aggravated their panic, amid the rumbling gunfire and heart-rending wails.
These suicide squad members, who were actually quite afraid of death, immediately lit the arson boat, drank a small pot of soju to keep out the cold, and jumped into the water to escape in a hurry.
Some people had their clothes burned by the flames lit by their companions before they even had time to jump from the boat.
At the stern of the Hangzhou, Li Huamei held a newly acquired pair of telescopes with night vision effects and looked at all the farce happening in front of her with a contemptuous expression.
The coastal defense battery of Phoenix Villa did not fire at all, and the other warships did not move at all, from beginning to end.
Only her Hangzhou fired two broadside salvos.
As a result, more than 30 ships of the other party were all in chaos.
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Some sunk or swirled on the water after collision, some caught fire and sank after being hit by artillery shells, some burned prematurely and sank due to premature ignition at a long distance, some drifted to an unknown destination due to wrong heading, and some fled to the river.
While trying to escape from the shore, only one of the luckiest arson boats floated near the Hangzhou, but it was immediately extinguished by the crew with high-pressure water cannons.
"It's so boring.
They are just a bunch of cowards.
They are far worse than the fire attacks of Malay pirates."
Finding that there seemed to be no more excitement on the river, she curled her lips in disdain, put down the telescope, and went back to the cabin to sleep.
On the other side, while the army officers and soldiers in Phoenix Villa were looking at the flames on the river with interest, Captain Zhenhuan from Li Village in Qiongzhou was ordered to gather everyone in the mountain infantry company and listen.
A chief wearing a snow camouflage uniform lectured: "As we all know, a good hunter will not just make a trap.
Although I think most of these enemies in Hangzhou are not good hunters, you still have to be careful when you should be careful.
According to reliable information, an elite enemy force left Hangzhou this afternoon. city, and sneaked towards us, and your mission is to find all these damn rats and destroy them all."
After solemnly accepting the mission, Captain Zhen Huan, who had black stripes on his face, led his Li soldiers to separate and quickly disappeared into the vast night surrounding the villa.
What he didn't know was that this The enemies were also discovered by time travelers through satellites, and they have been tracked and observed since they left the city.
It was only when the other party entered the densely forested mountainous area west of the city that they lost track of them due to the darkness of night and the cover of the trees.
In addition, what Captain Zhen Huan didn't know was that when they were carefully stepping on the snow against the cold wind and searching for this unknown enemy all over the mountain, the enemy was actually still slowly walking on the way to Phoenix Villa. , and a considerable number of people will never get here oshow7: