Chapter 591: Cottage
The person in charge of the caravan didn't seem to expect that the team that attacked them would use such an attack method. But even if they realized, it was too late, and the Roman cavalry, which could strengthen their protection, was already far away. For now, they can only try to save themselves.
It's just that it's obviously even more unlikely. Under the attack of the Qihada team, the caravan of the Roman Empire instantly lost its core leader, and the caravan members suddenly seemed to be in a mess, and it was impossible to decide whether to advance or retreat. What's even more terrifying is that the grenade used by the Mountain Eagle Special Combat Team exploded next to the caravan at once, and the deafening sound made their hearts tremble, like ants in a hot pot jumping with the explosion from time to time.
The defense of the entire caravan collapsed in an instant, and it was impossible to recoordinate with each other to protect the caravan. In such a dense fog, they could not judge which position was weak and which position needed support. Therefore, even if you want to attack, there is no way to find the people of the Qihada Blade in this dense fog and shoot at them. At this time, the Roman caravan was like a lamb to the slaughter, and people were constantly dying under the bow and arrow fire of the Zihada Blade. It is foreseeable that they will be killed by Zihada's team in a short time.
"We surrender!" Finally, someone shouted out in the caravan's defensive circle. Maybe it's to save their lives, or maybe it's because they can see the reality that the situation has turned one-sided, anyway, they have fully understood that it is pointless to insist on the trapped beast fight anymore.
"Lay down their weapons and everyone walked out with their heads in their hands. "The members of the Blade of Zihada, according to the rules laid down by the leader Zihada, shouted at the people of the caravan. Only if the caravan surrenders according to the rules, Zihada will think that the caravan is willing to surrender. Otherwise, all the qiē is a quibble.
However, the voices in the caravan that said they were going to surrender just now reacted a little strangely, and they did not respond to the words of the Qihada Blade immediately after, and what was unexpected was that the people of the caravan actually fell silent after hearing the surrender rules given by the Qihada Blade.
This anomaly made the Qihada Blade more vigilant, so it did not stop attacking, but did not rush into the defensive circle, but only continued to attack on the periphery. Only the enemy, who lays down his arms, is harmless. This was to prevent the caravan from carrying out its plan to lure the enemy, so it was not intended to penetrate deep into the interior of the caravan in a dense fog. In fact, it is enough for them to stay on the periphery and wait for the surrenderers to come out of the defensive circle automatically.
I don't know if I really wanted to implement the plan to lure the enemy but didn't succeed, or if I was forced to surrender after some ideological struggle, the caravan of the Rossi family, after a moment of silence, finally someone slowly came out of the defensive circle, raised his hands high, and surrendered.
Zihada also didn't want to kill all the caravan personnel of the Rossi family, as long as he laid down his arms and didn't resist, he was a good prisoner. A good captive is worth protecting, and the next time you have experience, you can surrender better. In fact, dealing with people is not the real goal of Qihada, for him, the most important thing is property.
"Capture a dozen or so of the main figures of the Rossi family, and then leave the people who drive the car, and the rest of the people drive them away, and all the goods are carried away. Zihada ordered.
After Zihada ordered his subordinates to complete these tasks, they had to evacuate as much as possible, because at this time, they were not far from the city of Hasala, and the longer they stayed in this place, the less safe they would become. If it alarmed the Roman royal army in the city of Hasara, it would definitely not be a good thing for the Blade of Zihada. Zihada didn't want the duck that he had finally caught to have a chance to escape, and if the army of Hasara City noticed it and rushed out to support the caravan, then I was afraid that the duck with a beak would fly.
The entire caravan, in addition to more than a thousand Roman soldiers, had more than two thousand. After a simple and crude choice, more than 1,500 people were disarmed and driven away. The rest, under the watchful eye of the Zihada's men, drove the wagons of the caravan and quickly left.
Nearly three hundred wagons were used to transport the goods, and on the way out, Zihada divided them into two parts, one to the north and the other to the south.
To the north, the carriages carried mainly noble luxuries, including ornate cloth, spices, and so on. These things, although they have their value, but if they want to convert these materials into wealth, they still need to find a corresponding market to digest them, which is too troublesome for the Qihada Blade who needs to fight quickly, so they would rather choose to give up owning these items;
The carriages to the south were mainly used to carry gold, silver and jade, which were not only convenient for smelting, but also very valuable for retaining their value, which was precisely the main goal of Qihada.
In addition to the intention of classifying these materials in hand, Qihada also did this to confuse the pursuers.
Two hours later, Qihada led the team to escort more than 50 carriages back to the base of the Qihada Blade - Qihada Cottage.
This cottage, more than fifty kilometers away from the city of Hasala, turned out to be the lair of a gang of bandits. Previously, Qihada discovered this thief camp, and immediately led the team members to grab it all the way, and finally successfully captured this camp, and took it as his own, as a temporary base for the Qihada team, for them to store the looted materials, and to facilitate the team members to rest and regroup here.
This cottage can accommodate 1,000 people, although the place is not big, but the sparrows are small and complete, the supporting facilities in this cottage can be described as very complete: there are houses, warehouses, dungeons and so on. It is precisely because the configuration of this place is complete enough that Qihada and the others do not need to add anything else, which has become the goal of Qihada, and finally set it as a base.
After returning to the cottage, Zihada instructed his subordinates to put all the people of the Rossi family in the dungeon and lock them, and sent two members of the team to guard them. Then, Zihada gathered the crowd and began to sort out the looted materials and began to divide the spoils.
"The old rule is that the cottage leaves thirty percent to maintain the living expenses of the whole village, one percent to the leader, and the remaining sixty percent are divided according to the merits. If there is any objection to the division, it must be raised on the spot. If there is no objection, you must not repent, nor can you say anything more. ”
"Chief, have the final say!"
Qi Hada smiled slightly and instructed the team leader Li Lei to supervise the distribution of property. According to the rules, the Mountain Eagle Squad is about 100 people, and they can divide about 20% of their property. Therefore, nearly sixty percent of the property belonged to Qihada and the Mountain Eagle squad.
Zihada steals the air and goes to meet the principal of the caravan. The person in charge was also arrested by them. For talents, Qihada has always attached great importance to them. Moreover, Zihada has indeed been trying to build up an armed force in the eastern part of the Roman Empire that is strong enough to influence the situation in the region.
However, when Zihada walked down the dungeon and saw the person in charge, he was a little surprised.
"You are the master of the caravan, and you are the one who commands the caravan's guards to fight us?"
In front of Zihada was a girl who looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old, with black hair and blue eyes.
"That's me!" the girl replied coldly.
"I don't believe it!" said Zihada bluntly.
"If it weren't for the power of your weapons, we wouldn't have lost to you. The girl said stubbornly.
"If you lose, you lose, and you can't deny it. Seeing the girl's refusal to admit defeat, Qihada was inexplicably a little happy and smiled.
When the girl saw Zihada laughing at her, she was silent.
Zihada said again, "What's your name?"
The girl remained silent and turned her head to the side, not looking at Zihada.
"If you don't confess, I'll kill them. Zihada gestured to the captives next to the girl's cell.
"You're shameless!" the girl said in disgust.
"Didn't you say yes?" Zihada asked again, retracting his smile.
The girl said helplessly: "My name is Jessica, the daughter of the housekeeper of the Rossi family. ”
"What about you?" Zihada asked, gesturing to the others in the dungeon.
"We are members of the Rossi family and are willing to pay the ransom. The members of the Rossi family in the dungeon hurriedly said.
Zihada smiled and said, "Jessica, there's something I need your help with, which can offset your ransom. ”
"I have a ransom at home!" Jessica said.
"Are you sure? Your ransom is 100,000 gold coins. Zihada said. He deliberately said a high price so that she couldn't pay it.
Sure enough, Jessica was suddenly furious and said with a red face: "You did it on purpose!"
"Yes, I did it on purpose. You too, at least 10,000 gold coins per person...... If Jessica is willing to help me, a hundred gold coins each. You can do it, there is no ransom, and after seven days, kill them all. Zihada said. Zihada saw that Jessica was a little girl, but he was a little sorry. I want to fight for it and see if I can pull her into the gang. Of course, Zihada does this, more to feel a little bored and find some fun.
It was impossible for Jessica to refuse Zihada's request and follow him out of the dungeon.
Once on the ground, Zihada took Jessica to Li Lei and asked Jessica to help the brothers of Zihada's Blade and evaluate their gains. In addition to gold and silver, there are some artifacts that need to be evaluated in value.
At this time, outside the Qihada cottage, a group of people were eyeing the Qihada cottage.
"Wizard, are we going to settle here?" Qihu said.
"I've been observing for a long time, and inside this cottage is a group of horse thieves. We can wipe them out and occupy the cottages. In the future, this cottage will be the cottage of our barbarian tribe. Wizard Lillian said.
The barbarians, who had endured hardships, finally escaped the pursuit of the Roman legions.
At this time, Lilian wanted to find a safe place to recuperate. Running all the way, Lilian just wanted to study witchcraft, but she didn't have time, she was too frustrated.
As for what the barbarians should do to survive here, Lilian also thought about it, so let them catch a few people in the horse thief's den, and take the barbarians to be horse thieves as well. The strength of barbarians is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and being a robber is also a good profession.
"I'll use sorcery to improve your fighting power!" Lillian said.
Then, more than five hundred barbarians gathered together and allowed Lillian to perform witchcraft.
The witchcraft that Lillian wants to perform is also a curse. This curse, called "petrification", petrified people so that they could not eat or drink, and eventually died of thirst. However, petrification can also be used to good results in combat. Rather, it can make the body of a barbarian hard, and it is difficult for an ordinary person's ordinary sword to hurt it. Even if you run into a master, you can increase your defense a little.
Lillian cast a petrification spell.
Then the barbarians took up their swords and axes and touched the cottage.
Qihu led the way, they didn't take the road, and cautiously sneaked from the side of the road to the cottage. Unexpectedly, a barbarian accidentally touched some ropes.
Boom!
There was a loud bang, startling Qihu and the other barbarians.
At the same time, it also alarmed Qihada.
"Someone is invading!" Qihada was taken aback, and immediately commanded the Qihada Blade in the cottage to defend the perimeter of the cottage.
The Mountain Eagles were armed with submachine guns, and the rest were armed with bows and arrows, and ran up the wall.
"What's that?"
"Enemy attack!"
Under the light of the flashlight, the people in the Qihada cottage spotted Qihu and other barbarians.
"Is it the Romans?" Zihada thought the Romans had tracked him down.
"Not the Romans, they look like barbarians. The man in the cottage replied.
"Kill them!"
Seeing that the barbarians were getting closer and closer, Zihada gave the order.
The first round of attack, bow and arrow shooting. In order to save bullets, Zihada ordered the cottage to solve the problem with a bow and arrow first.
"Ah! The enemy is all right. ”
"Chief, barbarians can't shoot through their bows. ”
On the wall, everyone was taken aback.
"Prepare submachine guns, shoot at the enemy as soon as they get close! Snipers aim at the enemy! Kill important enemy targets at any time!" Zihada ordered.
With Zihada's permission, the snipers began a hunting operation.
Sure enough, the barbarians resisted the bows and arrows, but not the snipers.
The barbarians then continued to approach, and Zihada ordered the submachine gunners to shoot as well.
Bang bang bang gunshots rang out, and barbarians kept falling.
Qihoo was stunned when he heard the gunshots. He could hear the gunshot, the sound of their weapons when they went down the mountain to rob the strangers.
Qihoo suddenly stopped moving forward, and did not dare to continue to move forward, but took a few steps back.
Seeing that the bullets could hurt the enemy, Zihada ordered the Mountain Eagles to continue attacking the barbarians.
"Lord Wizard, we met the person who was at the foot of Qixia Mountain last time. Seeing the opportunity, Qihoo stepped back, ran to the back, and informed Lillian.
"What's going on?" said Lillian. She was already a frightened bird, a little frightened.
"It's those people with powerful weapons!" Qihu said.
"What! what about them? Why are you the only one to retreat?" asked Lilian, startled.
Qihoo exclaimed, "I just want to inform you." ”
"You're a deserter again!" Lillian enraged, raising her staff and pointing at Qihu, chanting a witchcraft incantation.
This time, she didn't want to let him go again. (To be continued.) )