Chapter 17: Encountering Bandits on the Road
I don't know if it's the luck of the team, or the luck of those bandits, the convoy of the Huwei Dart Bureau has been on the flat road for more than ten days, and even a robber has not been encountered, the convoy successfully passed through Yingnan Province and entered the boundary of Sanyuan Province. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
This is Zhao Lengfei's first time going far away, he is new to everything, and he has encountered many unknown strange animals and plants along the way, which makes him excited, and the monotony of the rush has also been swept away.
On the third day of entering Sanyuan Province, the convoy has to pass through a place called Liulian Mountain, Liulian Mountain, as the name suggests, is six connected stone mountains, there are no villages and towns around Liulian Mountain for dozens of miles, there is a small road at the foot of the mountain, about 100 miles long, one side of the road is a mountain, one side is a forest, it is very dangerous.
There are several bandits and bandits on Liulian Mountain, known from far and near, almost all the businessmen in the past are bypassing, in the face of this Liulian Mountain, Huang Hu actually has the meaning of detouring in his heart, because the bandits of Liulian Mountain are different from more than ten people in other places, dozens of small groups of bandits, there are several bandits here The scale of more than 100 people, the largest of which is as many as five or six hundred, is really not something that more than 30 people in his line can handle.
And we must not leave anything to chance, because as long as the convoy that has passed through here is armed with no more than 1,000 people, almost all of them have been robbed to a greater or lesser extent, of course, if the strength of the convoy is strong enough, and they are willing to honestly hand over a certain amount of property, these bandits will not do such a foolish thing as harming others and themselves, and insisting on killing the other party.
What worries Huang Hu the most is that there is a family member in Liulian Mountain who is a guy who doesn't eat hard and soft, and doesn't eat oil and salt, this person is a martial arts idiot, and he has good kung fu, but he has to go up for a while to pass by the master of Liulian Mountain, and he has never heard that this person has failed, Zhao Qingshuang's name can not only deter him, but will provoke him to fight fiercely, Huang Hu is not worried that Zhao Qingshuang can't beat that martial idiot, but he heard that the family is short-tempered, worried that the other party will be angry after losing, and does not pay attention to the rules, Attacking the team with more bullying and less will cause him to suffer a lot of losses even if he can win the team, and he really doesn't want to take this risk.
Huang Hu told Zhao Qingshuang his thoughts, but Zhao Qingshuang disagreed, insisted on taking the road under Liulian Mountain, Huang Hu saw that Zhao Qingshuang was so confident, but he had a little confidence in his heart, so he told the other dart masters in the team that this time they changed to the road under Liulian Mountain, although the other dart masters had objections, but they were all rejected by Huang Hu.
Today, Zhao Lengfei didn't take the car anymore, and his father asked him to ride a horse and follow him, because he was small and short, and his legs were limited, and he couldn't step on the stirrup when he rode a horse, so Huang Hu specially found a more honest bantam horse for him to ride.
The convoy gradually approached the foot of the mountain, Zhao Qingshuang and his son, and Huang Hu walked at the front of the team, "......Huh" Zhao Qingshuang reined in his horse, pointed to a row of peaks in front of him and said, "Is this Liulian Mountain?" It is really steep, such a terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the bandits take advantage of this location, and they can indeed take one as ten. ”
"Yes, every time the officers and soldiers come to encircle and suppress, they bring thousands of troops, but the bandits hide in the mountains and do not come out, and the officers and soldiers have no choice, if the officers and soldiers dare to go up the mountain, the bandits can rely on the terrain to ambush, and the officers and soldiers have returned from several encirclement and suppression in vain, and they have also lost a lot of manpower, and then the officers and soldiers simply gave up. Look at the road at the foot of the mountain, there is a bare mountain on one side and a dense forest on the other, and there is no need to guess, there must be countless secret sentinels in ambush in the forest. Huang Hu's brow condensed into a pimple, and several deep wrinkles appeared on the shiny brain door.
"Encirclement and suppression are futile? Hehe, I think it's the officers and soldiers who didn't do their best. Zhao Qingshuang smiled, he pointed to Liulian Mountain with his finger and said: "Look at this mountain, the surface looks bare, but there are a lot of yellow moss and dry stems growing in the stone cracks and grottoes, and the yellow moss and dry stems are extremely afraid of water, indicating that Liulian Mountain is six dry mountains, there is no natural spring water on the mountain, and there is no dark river in the underground, so what about the water used by the bandits to draft water?" You look deeper into the forest, and see no, it's the tree, how can there be a riverside tree like green willow in a forest without a river, obviously there is an artificial culvert under the forest, and under the green willow tree is one of the water intakes of the culvert, these must be the water supply facilities of the bandits.
These water supply facilities are difficult for ordinary people to find, but it is very obvious to experts, when those officers came to encircle and suppress, they also brought military advisers and staff officers, they could not all eat idle meals, I don't believe that none of those military advisers and staff officers saw it. These hidden water supply facilities can not be built in a year or two, eighty percent of them were built by the ancients, but they were found and used by the bandits, if there is no water supply set up, the bandits of Liulian Mountain will never have such a scale, they are the lifeblood of the bandits, if these water supply facilities are destroyed, or even more ruthless to poison the water intake of the culvert, the bandits of Liulian Mountain will not attack themselves. ”
"Brother Qingshuang is really knowledgeable, and he admires my brother." There is no vanity under the fame, Zhao Qingshuang can break the bandits here in a few words, Huang Hu is really convinced.
"It's nothing, even if you can't find these water supply facilities, those yellow moss and dry stems on the mountain should always be recognized, the dry stems are oily and flammable, and the yellow moss is poisonous when it encounters fire, if it is in the autumn and winter when the grass and trees wither, the mountain will be set on fire on all sides, and the bandits will not escape the bad luck, I think those soldiers are not encircled and suppressed, but the officers and high-level officials are not willing to do that at all, the official and bandit family is a common thing, and the encirclement and suppression is probably just a show, but this hurts those small soldiers."
The more Zhao Lengfei listened to his father's words, the more surprised he became, he had studied water supply and drainage facilities in his previous life, and had also studied books such as "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Thirty-six Strategies", and in this life, he had read a lot of articles about Dashengguo's city defense organs and facilities, and the art of war and strategy.
Zhao Lengfei's idea when he saw this Liulian Mountain at first sight was that unless there were modern guns and artillery, or there were dozens of times more troops than the bandits for a long-term siege, it would be wishful thinking to exterminate the bandits in Liulian Mountain, after listening to his father's words, Zhao Lengfei felt that his idea was really ridiculous, it seemed that without such a keen insight as his father, it would be in vain to study the art of war for another hundred years.
"Okay, don't be afraid, if there are bandits, I have my own way to deal with it, just go straight ahead." After saying that, Zhao Qingshuang took the lead and walked in the front, Huang Hu and several dart masters behind him listened to Zhao Qingshuanggang's words, one by one frowned, smiling, Zhao Qingshuang was so confident, they were relieved, but the team driver and other dart masters did not hear a few people talking, they were still frowning, worried, and secretly prayed in their hearts not to bump into those bandits.
Sure enough, it backfired, and the convoy had traveled less than ten miles on the path at the foot of Liulian Mountain, when suddenly a few arrows sounded, and a dozen or so cold arrows flew out of the woods on the side, heading straight for the guards on horses at the front of the team.
Huang Hu pulled out the saber on his waist with a "bang", and was about to pick up the hidden arrow that was shot at him, but the other dart masters in the team did not react so quickly as Huang Hu, and when the other dart masters heard the sound, the arrows had already flown to the place in front of them, and then it was too late to draw the knife to pick it open, and suddenly all the dart masters were like ashes, closed their eyes and prepared to die, Huang Hu glared angrily, but he was too far away from other dart masters, and he wanted to help but could not do anything.
Before the arrows reached their bodies, they heard the sound of gold and iron intersecting, and the dozen or so arrows were all shot down to the ground a few steps away from everyone's bodies.
At this time, several people in front of the convoy, except for Huang Hu drawing a knife in front of him, Zhao Lengfei and his father maintained a posture of stretching their right hands on the horse, and several other dart masters were holding on to the reins, and they were shocked into a cold sweat.
The crowd looked at the dozen or so arrows that had fallen on the ground, six of them each had a quadrangular black hidden weapon on their arrowheads, and the other three arrows had two arrows on their arrows.
"What's going on?" Several dart masters in the middle and behind the team heard the sound, and immediately stabilized the convoy, urging the horses to rush over, and shouted loudly from afar.
"It's not bad, I was able to react in such a short time, and managed to intercept three of the nine arrows that were fired at you, me, and your cousin." Zhao Qingshuang nodded slightly.
Zhao Lengfei took a deep breath, in fact, he was still very nervous in his heart, after all, it was the first time he had encountered this kind of emergency, and he was caught off guard just now, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he almost shouted.
Zhao Lengfei looked at the nine arrows that were shot down, the nine hidden weapons sent by his father were actually in the center of the arrow, but the three hidden weapons he sent out were shot at the arrows irregularly, if it wasn't for his father's help just now, maybe these three arrows just changed direction and were not shot down.
"I didn't expect to meet the bandits so soon, but these guys are quite particular, every arrow is not aimed at our vital point, it seems that they don't want to take our lives, interesting."
Zhao Lengfei calmed down his mood and teased his father.
Huang Hu looked at the chatting father and son from the side, scratched his bright head, and showed a wry smile on his face, this father and son are really freaks, fighting with the bandits here, the time and place are not favorable, and the two of them can laugh so easily.
"Huh?" At this time, a voice suddenly came from a dark place in the woods: "It seems that there are masters in this team, Hu San, go and tell the big boss, just say that I met a hard stubble with fat goods, and the others will follow me to drag this team." The ugly voice in the darkness commanded.
"Bell bell bell ......." a few gongs, dozens of bandits rushed out of the woods, standing twenty or thirty steps away from Zhao Lengfei and others, one of the thieves stood up, shouted at the top of his voice: "I don't know who your Excellency is fighting, whose road you are taking, you have passed at the foot of my Liulian Mountain, and you don't say hello. The man's voice was terrible, like a bloodletted duck.
Zhao Lengfei squinted his eyes and looked up and down at the bandits opposite, they were all unkempt, their beards were unkempt, their clothes had not been washed for a long time, they couldn't see the color, they were holding weapons such as knives, guns, swords, sticks, etc., but they were polished, except for the two or three people standing on the far side who were a little short and thin, the others were all tall and strong, especially the black-robed man who spoke, more than two meters tall, holding a big knife, with a black face and a big beard, looking fierce and vicious, and looking very terrifying.
At this time, Zhao Qingshuang could not stand out and speak, Huang Hu urged him to step forward, hugged his fist, and said: "Huang Hu, the dart master of the Xiaying Beihu Wei Dart Bureau, has a task to pass by Guibao Land, and wants to borrow the road to pass by, and I hope that all friends in the green forest will make it convenient." ”
"Huang Dart Master, who has admired his name for a long time, is the second master of the North Wind Village in the lower Liulian Mountain." The black-faced man said and arched his hand, he didn't know what Yingbei Tiger Wei Dart Bureau was, and he hadn't heard of anyone named Huang Hu, what he said just now was just a routine polite remark before he started, in fact, he put cold arrows to sneak attack, and he couldn't talk about salute before soldiers, Hei Er did this just to delay time and wait for them to be in charge.
Hei Er glanced at Tian Hu's appearance, and saw that the other party's hands and feet were stout, his eyes were shining, his temples were slightly convex, and there was a big bump on the top of his bright head, as if he had practiced hard kung fu to a certain level, he estimated that Huang Hu's skills would not be worse than his own, but it would not be too high, and there were a few real masters who would go to be dart masters, and it should be another master who shot down the arrow just now.
Black Er is thick and fine, he saw that the master who shot down the dark arrow did not stand up directly, guessing that most of them were just walking with the team of dart masters, so it was easier to say, so he said unhurriedly: "It's not impossible to borrow the way, I just said, the rules of the rivers and lakes, our brothers in Beifeng Village opened mountains and planted trees under these six mountains, chiseled stones and paved roads, and made it convenient for people, but they were extremely hard, and the yellow dart master would not want to pass this without saying anything, right?" I have long admired the name of the Yellow Dart Master, but the rules of Liulian Mountain have always been like this, and it is not Hei Er's decision alone, if I break the rules of Liulian Mountain because of Huang Dart Master alone, how can I explain to the brothers in the mountain? ”
"Poof!" Zhao Lengfei couldn't help laughing, opening mountains and planting trees, chiseling stones and paving roads, and making it convenient for people, this Hei Er's face is really not ordinarily thick, and he can say anything, especially Hei Er's tone of speech is quite serious, as if Huang Hu and others have taken advantage of his Liulian Mountain, and he has to stand up.
Hei Er didn't notice that there was a kid on the other side laughing at him, he was not in a hurry to find out the master in the team, he just looked at Huang Hu and waited for the other party's answer, this was his plan to delay the army.
"Rules? Say. Huang Hu saw that the other party didn't have a lion and asked for this and that, just hinting at asking for some money, and couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, after all, it was better to be able to spend a little money to avoid a life-and-death struggle.
He hurriedly glanced at a dart master beside him, who urged the horse to run behind, and after a while he brought a small cloth bag, and the dart master walked about five steps in front of Hei Er, dropped the cloth bag, and then turned the horse's head and retreated into the group.
"Daddy, why don't they fight, and they still speak so politely?" Zhao Lengfei asked in a low voice.
"Just now their sneak attack was blocked, I guessed that there were masters in the team, and I was afraid that the casualties would be too great, so I changed it to blackmail, but I looked at the big black man, it seemed to be delaying time, it is estimated that someone has been sent to move reinforcements, let's wait and see."
Sure enough, Zhao Qingshuang said that he was right, and he saw a person from the group of bandits, who was about forty or fifty years old, thin and small, with a handful of goatees. He walked to the cloth bag, poured out all the silver in the cloth bag, weighed it piece by piece, looked at the color, and took a bite from time to time, and then put it back in his pocket after making sure that it was correct, the person's appearance was both funny and ridiculous, and he looked back at Hei Er from time to time to look at the mountain, obviously delaying time.
After a full seven or eight minutes, the skinny thief with the goatee had finished counting the silver, and he returned to the crowd with his cloth bag, leaning into Hei Er's ear and whispering a few words.
Hei Er nodded, and looked at Huang Hu and a few people: "I didn't expect Huang Dart Master to be so bold and generous, our big boss likes to make friends with a good man like you, if Huang Dart Master doesn't dislike it, Hei Er wants to invite you to our cottage to talk to the big boss, and also do your best to fulfill the friendship of the landlord, I don't know what Huang Dart Master wants." ”
Going to the cottage? That's not a sheep into the mouth of a tiger, when it comes to this, it is clear that he just doesn't want to let them go, Hei Er's thoughts can be seen by everyone present, Huang Hu's face is gloomy, and the big knife in his hand is horizontal, he urged him to take a step forward and said: "What do you mean, I have already given you enough face, if you are not satisfied, don't blame me for being unkind, do you really think that Huang is weak and easy to deceive?" ”
When the group of robbers on the opposite side heard this, their faces changed, and they grabbed their weapons one by one to make a guard, but Hei Er said with a wicked smile: "Don't be angry, our big boss is really a hospitable person, he likes to make friends with heroes in the rivers and lakes, everyone knows it, if you don't believe it, you can keep the convoy here, I will let my people help you watch, and I will personally lead you up the mountain to meet our big boss." ”
"Ahh Phew!!" Huang Hu's temper is not very good, the reason why he patiently talked to the other party just now was because people had to bow their heads under the eaves, he was not willing to fight to the death with these bandits, but it didn't mean that he was afraid of the other party, now they are all torn apart, what else is there to say, this group of thieves is too deceitful, and he really thinks that Huang Hu is mud and wood sculpture can't be.
"I don't need to ask you to lead the way, your great boss has already come down the mountain to meet us personally." Zhao Qingshuang gently lifted the reins of the horse, pointed to a certain direction on the mountain, and spoke.
Everyone followed Zhao Qingshuang's gaze, and saw that two miles away from here on the mountain, a middle-aged man wearing leather armor and carrying a golden knife at his waist was rushing towards here along the winding mountain path, and he was also carrying more than 100 minions behind him, one by one holding swords and swords, murderous.
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