Chapter Thirty-Seven: Today's Mountains and Rivers Meet
Wulong Gorge is more than 30 miles long, which is the shortest shortcut from Qingluo Village to Tanghuwei, and it is also a dangerous road.
The caravan walked slowly, and it took about two hours before they finally reached a water holding.
I saw a tributary rushing together with the main stream, merging into a mighty river, rushing in the direction of the caravan road.
The deep and precipitous long gorge cracked a narrow gap here, and the two trails sandwiched a deep stream several zhang wide with an uproar.
Xie Yucheng and the others had been following behind Big Scar Liu, only to feel that the top of their heads suddenly darkened, and they turned into a stone pass. The temperature plummeted suddenly, Niu Er and a family member sneezed a few times in a row, and Xie Yucheng also felt like he had suddenly transitioned from hot weather to late autumn, and the long shirt on his body was very thin.
Looking up, the sky is lined, and in the distance is a small mountain basin, where the sun is still shining.
Big Scar Liu took out his pocket watch and looked at it, it was five o'clock in the afternoon, it was time to set up camp and bury the pot to cook. While clenching his bridle and paying attention to the mountain road under his feet, he shouted to the back of the team: "Everyone pay attention to your feet, work harder and walk two or three miles, it is the pellet brain, when you get there, you will stay!" ”
The horse journey is slow, and the mountain road is rugged and difficult. Rao is a horse driver is in good health, but along the way, not only must pay attention to the feet and take care of the horse and mule goods at all times, but also from time to time to guard against possible dangers at any time, the horse driver's mental and physical strength has been overdrawn to the extreme.
The horses and mules carrying the goods were even heavier, and the horses were already sweating and panting, and many horses and mules in the team were even scattered in the rhythm of their hoofed steps.
Luckily, the campsite is right ahead. The setting sun of the pelvic pearl brain is sending out a warm call.
The exhausted caravan mustered up the last of their courage and charged the camp. However, when approaching the pass, Liu Yuzhen, the big scar in front of Xie Yuzhen, suddenly stopped, raised his hand, and stopped the team from moving on.
"Why don't you go?" Liu Tou stretched his neck and looked forward for a while, attached to the big scar Liu, and asked softly, "It's nothing, Boss Liu ......"
Scar Liu didn't answer, his gaze turned from the bushes outside the pass to the gap, and slowly swept over the opposite gorge wall.
There is also a trail, but it is not bare here, where it looms under the shade of lush trees and flowers.
When he was walking just now, Xie Yucheng didn't feel that this stop, the gorge wind swept by, Konoha Xiaoxiao, and the deep stream under his feet whimpered like a ghost fork night horn, and in the originally cold and damp pass, the ground became cold and gloomy.
Xie Yucheng felt that the long shirt on his body was getting thinner and thinner.
Two men immediately ran from the back of the procession, one was wearing a pair of short coats, with thick hands and feet, and fierce eyes, and he was holding an old-fashioned rifle; The other hooked nose, short and sturdy, carried a box cannon.
"What's wrong, Fourth Brother?" The two of them opened the formation as they ran, and the hook-nosed box cannon swung and the nose of the plane opened; The man in the practice gown clicked, pulled the bolt, and the spear was loaded. The two of them flashed behind the mules and horses, hunched over and on guard, and intently scanned the woods a few feet away on the opposite bank.
"Old six, old nine, maybe into the urn," the big scar Liu took two steps forward with the mule, and also sank down, stroking a heel dog on his knee with one hand, and taking an old-fashioned rifle from the horse's shoulder with the other, "Old nine, you go and tell the brothers, get ready for fire." In addition, notify the big owner and let his people show the guys everything. A few people came ahead. ”
The man in the placket practice gown held his gun and trotted backwards. Big Scar Liu pushed with his left hand at this time, "Mountain dates, go!" As soon as he finished speaking, the dog on his lap ran out and ran out of the pass.
Seeing this formation, no matter how stupid they were, they understood that Xie Yucheng and the others had already hid behind the mules and horses. Xie Yucheng also teamed up with Niu Er to hold on to the strap on the mule's back, lest the meat shield leave them and run away if something happens.
Liu Tou and the two armor guards were even more desperate, a rabbit-like flash, and hid behind a big log on the side of the wall, at first the three of them were squatting, and found that the diameter of the wood was only two feet, which could only cover the chest, and quickly changed the strategy and wanted to lie on the ground. At this time, someone quickly squatted behind the butt of a defender, making him lie sideways. When I looked back, it was two horsemen, and the armor guards glared: "Go away!" ”
The horseman didn't answer, he was staring at the other side, and he didn't care. The armor guard kicked him down. The horse chaser who was kicked and sat on the ground suddenly found that it was better to lie on his stomach, thinking that the other party kicked him as a kind reminder, and hurriedly beckoned another horse chaser to also bow down and lie down, and after lying down, he did not forget to give a thumbs up to the armor team gratefully: "Awesome, brother!" ”
The armor guard was about to have a seizure, and Liu Tou next to him reached out and pressed him, the wood was about five meters long, but after being occupied by the horse chaser, the rest of the place was not enough even if it was lying on his stomach. Liu Tou and the three of them had to curl up as much as possible before they could barely hide.
The reason why Liu Tou held down this armor guard was because there were eight or nine people bending down against the wall behind him.
Among the people who came later, the leader was a man with glasses, about thirty years old, wearing a top hat and a long gown, tall and thin. He came to the side of Big Scar Liu, looked at it, and asked, "How is the situation, Master Liu." ”
A few young men followed behind, all dressed in short clothes, all of them were capable, calm and calm, two of them were holding long guns, three or four people were carrying box guns in each hand, and two of them were holding guns that were not long or short, Xie Yucheng immediately recognized that it was a German-made MP18, which was called a flower mechanism at the time.
"Big boss. I guess it's been cucked in! Big Scar Liu's eyes fell on the opposite shore wall, and he didn't look back, but his ears stretched out in the direction of the pass. For a while, the jujube did not turn around, and its barking was not heard in front of it. He really wanted to whistle and call for the mountain dates, but after thinking about it, he still didn't do anything.
"Stopped?" The glasses looked at the basin beyond the pass, and then at the other side of the deep stream. Although his voice was still steady, there was also a hint of anxiety and chagrin.
The situation is a little bad, it seems that the other party has set up a pocket array here, the basin in front is a pocket, and here is the pocket mouth. As soon as the caravan enters the basin in front of them, the mouth of the bag will immediately be tightened.
Big Scar Liu is worthy of being a well-known caravan in Luo Xiaoshan, and the caravan stopped in time before it could enter the pocket.
But now it's getting late, the deep stream under your feet, a line of sky overhead, and the road behind is dozens of miles of long gorges, and the exhausted horse gang from afar has actually fallen into a Jedi.
"Fourth brother, there's no one on the other side!" Hooked nose bent over and pouted.
"Don't take the lead!" The glasses said, waving his hand, "Behind the curl of mango flowers!" Before he could finish speaking, a stone flew out of the hand of the young man behind him, and threw it towards a cluster of purple-red flowers in the thorn on the opposite bank.
The stone was the size of a fist, and it was in a hurry to castrate. It was too late, but it was too late, but I only heard a gunshot on the other side, and the stones that flew to the middle of the canyon suddenly burst and shattered into several pieces, two of the larger ones flew straight into the air, and three or five smaller ones shot into the turbulence.
However, the shot went off and was silent. Everyone looked at each other.
"It's a water bead, five or six steps ahead of that flower!" The young man whispered in his glasses. At this time, Big Scar Liu suddenly laughed and said loudly: "Which one is the boss of the urn?" Under the big scar Liu, who has been walking this road for many years, today the mountains and rivers meet, the palm of the plate raises his hand, rewards the brothers with a mouthful of food, and there will be a generous gift when he turns back! ”