Everyone was surprised.

"No! Did the thieves really take down Taizhou City?" Li Zhaoji was a little unbelievable.

"In my opinion, it may not be. Liu Changle is a veteran with rich experience on the battlefield, and there are more than 4,000 guards in Taizhou City. It is almost impossible for the Wenxiang Sect to win this city in such a short time."

Li Zhaoji ordered the team to stop first and seize the time to build defensive fortifications on the spot.

"Why don't I go and see the situation first!" Yu Ren said.

Li Zhaoji nodded. "But General Yu remember to be careful and not to advance lightly."

Yu Ren nodded and rushed to Taizhou City with his more than a dozen personal guards.

As he walked south, Yu Ren brought all Zhang Pan's men out when he passed Mount Tai. After several days of recruitment, Zhang Pan's men had expanded to two thousand. He had become the elite pioneer of Li Zhaoji's team.

Yu Ren followed the direction of the horse to find the enemy, and indeed, a large number of incense-smelling scholars were found in a valley not far away.

This valley is relatively remote, and there is no road connecting with the official road. Only a small path full of weeds leads out. If their spies had not been careful, they would not have discovered this place at all. Yu Ren secretly thanked that if the horse explorers did not find this hidden enemy, their army might have fallen into the enemy's trap.

But what traps did these incense-smelling soldiers lay? Whether they had taken over Taizhou City? Yu Ren felt that these two issues were very important and he had to figure them out as soon as possible. Otherwise, it would be too risky for the army to move forward again.

Thinking of this, Yu Ren ordered people to lead all the horses into a dense forest next to them, and arranged one person to stay. The other nine people followed him and continued to move forward, trying to find out the enemy's intention to garrison here.

It was dusk at this time. Because he was worried that he would be discovered by the enemy's secret whistle arranged by the valley entrance, Yu Ren bypassed the valley entrance from afar and chose a cliff that seemed impossible to go up the mountain. Fortunately, because he had a professional climbing tool - Feitian Claw, he did not take much effort to get up the mountain. Then, the rest of the people were hung up one by one from above.

When they climb to the top of the mountain, they can clearly see the panoramic view in the valley.

Seeing that this small valley was covered with military camps at this time, Yu Ren roughly estimated that there were at least two or three thousand people.

Yu Ren took out a simple telescope he had made from his arms and looked down carefully. The barracks here were arranged in an orderly manner, and almost all the soldiers were young and strong. They did not take a variety of weapons like the ordinary team of the incense smelling sect, even hoes and shovels. Everyone of the soldiers here had a knife. It was obviously a relatively combat-ready team.

Yu Ren was so shocked that a familiar figure suddenly broke into his camera. He was a woman, and a beauty.

Yu Ren's heart aches. This is a woman who makes him feel indebted - Yu Yuqian.

Then, he saw an old friend, Li Xianzhong.

Yu Ren was secretly wondering why these two people appeared in the same place? Logically speaking, they were enemies! This is the camp of the Yinxiang Sect. As the second generation of officials in the court, Li Xianzhong should not appear in the thief's military camp. If he was captured, he had no ropes on his body.

This made Yu Ren feel even more unreasonable.

More importantly, Yu Ren saw a hint of greed on Li Xianzhong's face. He couldn't help but feel worried about this former playboy. Although he knew that he would not have any result with Yu Yuqian now, maybe she had already hated him to his bones, when he found that another man was approaching her, Yu Ren still couldn't help but want to come forward to stop him.

"You guys are waiting for me here. I'll go down and take a look." Yu Ren whispered to the sisters Lu Yue and Ruolan beside him.

"No! This is too dangerous. Besides, there are all their people below, how do you go?" Lu Yue opposed firmly.

Yu Ren gritted his teeth and did not speak out. He knew that Lu Yue was right. The group of enemies in front of him were numerous, and most of them were elite. If they discovered it, there would be only a dead end.

Yu Ren stared at Li Xianzhong behind Yu Yuqian with hatred. He seemed to be deliberately trying to please Yu Yuqian and talking to her on his own initiative, but Yu Yuqian seemed to be keeping others from thousands of miles away. This made Yu Ren a little relieved.

At this moment, Yu Ren saw two people without a red turban walking out of the military camp. It seemed like a father and son. The father and son were carrying two empty loads and were walking out of the military tent next to Yu Yuqian and the others. Yu Ren's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of a plan.

Without waiting for discussion with everyone, Yu Ren turned around and hurried down the mountain. The people responsible for protecting him were startled by his sudden actions, especially Lu Yue. "I just said that I would take the risk of sneaking into the enemy's military camp, but now I hurried back again. What's wrong with this?" Lu Yue followed Yu Ren and complained quietly.

"Our master! That's the temper. Princess, don't be angry. You will get used to it after a long time." Ruolan whispered in Lu Yue's ear.

When Lu Yue suddenly heard Ruolan's words "I've been in a long time", it seemed to have a different meaning, and her face turned red.

Several people followed Yu Ren and hurried down the mountain. They saw Yu Ren lurking in the grass beside a path outside the valley. This place was far away from the entrance of the valley, and because of a turn, his vision was blocked by a forest.

Just when everyone was not sure about Yu Ren's intention to do this, the sound of two men speaking came from afar. Listening to the sound, they were walking towards this side.

After a while, everyone saw the two old and young men who had not worn red turbans and carrying loads that had appeared in the valley just now were walking towards them.

Yu Ren gave Lu Yue a look.

Lu Yue understood it and without waiting for Yu Ren to give another order, she and Ruomei had already taken action at the same time.

The two girls used extremely fast methods to suppress the young and old at the same time. Before the two of them could shout, they were placed on their necks by the cold sword.

Yu Ren ordered them to take the young and old couple into the woods next to them first, and then interrogate them.

"Who are you? Why did you appear in the military camp of the Scented Sect?"

"Big, please spare me! Little, the villain is called Wang Defu, this is my son Lizhi." The old man who was about fifty years old stuttered. And the young man named Lizhi was already scared at this time.

"Are you from the incense smelling sect?" Lu Yue asked.

"What, what teaching? I don't know?" The old man looked surprised. Judging from his expression, he should not have lie.

"Then, why did you appear in that military camp just now?" Yu Ren asked.

"The villain doesn't know who they are! The villain is just a cook. A nephew from my family asked me to cook for them. He said there were a few girls there who were picky and asked me to cook better. He also told me not to tell anyone about this.

So, I came with two loads of fresh vegetables in the morning.”

"Then, why did they let you go back again?" Yu Ren asked.

"They all said that the dishes I cooked were delicious, but the dishes I brought in the morning were not enough. So my nephew asked me to go back and pick them up." The old man said.

Yu Ren nodded. He slowly took away the sword that Lu Yue had placed on the old man's neck and said to him with a smile. "Uncle Wang, look, how about I go home with you to pick up the vegetables?"

The old man Wang was so scared that his legs trembled. "No, I dare not!"

"Don't be afraid. I just want to find someone in the military camp. I heard that I had a girl caught by them. But I couldn't get in. That's it! You treat me like your son, don't be polite. Someone asked, and you said that your son sprained his foot when he went back just now and could not come. So I called me, the distant nephew. How about it, is this OK?"

The old man looked at Yu Ren and nodded timidly, but did not dare to speak.

"I'll go too. Just say I'm your cousin's...brother, that's fine." Lu Yue wanted to talk about her niece. Suddenly I remembered that she was wearing men's clothing.

"I'll go too, I'll go too!" Ruomei immediately told Feng.

Yu Ren shook his head. "No. If there are too many people, it will inevitably lead to doubt. Let me and Lu Yue go! You can stay here and be ready to respond at any time. In addition, send someone back and tell Lord Li about our situation."

After hearing this, Ruomei couldn't help but pout. But she still obeyed the order. Although she was arbitrary at the time, she never dared to do anything in front of Yu Ren.

After dark, Yu Ren and Lu Yue pretended to be the distant relative of Old Man Wang and followed him with a load to the valley where the Wenxiang Cult garrison was stationed.
Chapter completed!