Chapter 124: Something Isn't Right
"It's coming!" Finally, the bandit in charge of the sentry shouted excitedly, and the rattlesnake looked down the mountain in surprise, and sure enough, he saw a long caravan coming, and the number of guards was really not much, less than a hundred, and the goods on the carriage were piled high, and the outside was tightly wrapped in oilcloth so that it was impossible to see what was loaded, but generally speaking, this would only be done when transporting valuables, one was waterproof, but not to let outsiders know what was loaded, so as not to cause bad intentions.
"Sure enough, it's a big fat sheep! We're going to get rich this time! The rattlesnake slapped his thigh excitedly.
The diamond leopard on the side suddenly frowned and said, "Hey, it's a little wrong, how come these carriages have four wheels?" Two horses in each carriage? ……”
The rattlesnake looked at it, and sure enough, he found that the carriages of the caravan were different from the ones he had seen, each carriage had four wheels, and two horses were also set, but he pouted disapprovingly and said: "It's different, I said how can it carry so many goods, but what's so strange about this, this 'big fat sheep' is from out of town, maybe the carriage from other places is different from ours, isn't it better?" The more goods we load, the greater our harvest! ……”
Although the Diamond Mountain Leopard felt that something was wrong, he couldn't say anything wrong, so he didn't speak. Needless to say, everyone guessed, of course, this team was sent by Guo Zhiyuan, the key to this four-wheeled carriage is the steering device, and Zhao Shizhen has prepared a lot of test materials when he built the four-wheeled carriage, as long as it is assembled, more than a dozen sets of steering devices can be put together, so Guo Zhiyuan can put together so many four-wheeled carriages in such a short time!
At this time, the caravan was getting closer and closer, and even the faces of the caravan guards looking around nervously could be seen clearly, which was also in line with the performance of the passing caravan, which passing caravan should not be nervous when walking this way, and he was worried about being robbed by bandits at any time!
The last bit of suspicion of the rattlesnake also disappeared, and with a wave of his hand excitedly, he ordered: "Ring the arrow!" Generally speaking, the caravan guards will drop the goods and flee quickly when they hear the sound of the arrows, which also avoids the caravan guards fighting desperately to cause damage to the Rattlesnake's subordinates, which is also the origin of the nickname "Rattlesnake".
Sure enough, as soon as the arrows sounded, the caravan below began to stir, but to the Rattlesnake's surprise, these caravan guards did not directly drop the goods and flee by themselves like the caravan guards he had met before, but urged the carriage to turn around and flee with people and goods!
"Grandma's, dare you run?! People can run, and the goods have to be left for me! Brothers, chase me! The rattlesnake shouted angrily, and the bandits could not contain the excitement of the robbery, and immediately screamed and pounced on the caravan down the mountain!
The leopard always felt that something was wrong, but the rattlesnake had already led people to rush, and he had to bring people to rush together, otherwise the goods were robbed by the rattlesnake's people, and he could only drink the northwest wind, in fact, before he gave the order, the bandits below him had already rushed with the rattlesnake's team, who could take care of what military discipline at this time, if there was really such a strict military discipline, then it would not be called bandits!
Generally speaking, when a caravan is robbed by bandits, it will not try to make the carriage turn around and flee with the goods, because the bandits can't run away with the bulky goods, and they can only die in the end, and only by leaving the goods and running can there be a glimmer of life, but this caravan is different, this kind of four-wheeled carriage steering is more flexible than the two-wheeled carriage, because it is two horses pulling at the same time, and it runs much faster than the two-wheeled carriage, and those caravan guards are also panicked, and they did not block the carriage because of the escape, and the foot strength is not slow, It didn't run much slower than the carriage pulled by the two horses at the same time!
Of course, these bandits who were carried away by excitement couldn't find these small differences for a while, but they just screamed and spread their feet to chase behind, and the bandits' team also stretched longer and longer in the chase, and this chase chased out several miles, and saw a corner col in the distance, and those caravan guards seemed to have given up a little, and gradually some people began to drop the carriage and run to the slopes and mountains on both sides of the road.
In the end, the guards ran away, and only a dozen or so coachmen driving the carriage were still running, but they seemed to be completely panicked when they saw that the guards had finished running, and the horses were turned around, but the speed was not so fast, and they were slowly caught up by the bandits chasing behind, and at this time the convoy was already very close to the corner col, and the coachmen driving the carriage seemed to be a little desperate, and the driver of the leading carriage shouted: "Brothers, let's run away, we have done our best, worthy of the owner, You can't lose your life for all these things! As he spoke, he whipped the horse a few times, jumped out of the carriage himself, and ran into the hillsides and forests on both sides, and several other coachmen also hurriedly did the same, jumped out of the carriage and ran into the mountains and forests on both sides. The carriage was unmanned, so the speed naturally slowed down, but relying on inertia, it barely ran through the corner of the mountain pass and could not be seen!
The rattlesnake, who was already running out of breath, was overjoyed and scolded with a smile: "Grandma, these rabbit cubs can really run, I think you can run to the edge of the sky?!" Brothers, rush me! Whoever grabs the goods counts! ……”
At this time, the diamond leopard grabbed the rattlesnake and frowned: "It's really wrong, we can't chase it anymore!" You see that those guards run in a straight line, not chaotic at all, they are clearly formally trained, and there must be an ambush on the side of the mountain pass in front! ……”
How could the rattlesnake let the fat that had already reached its mouth fly, shook off the hand of the burrowing leopard, and laughed: "You are really frightened by the surname Guo!" I'm not afraid of an ambush! How many troops can Gutian County muster? Three or four hundred people are up to the sky! There are a thousand of us, three against one, and I will kill him with a heap of people! I'm not you, a thousand people let less than 200 people raid the nest, I can't afford to lose that face! You don't dare to chase, I dare to chase! ......" said this, and led his bandits to rush towards the corner of the mountain pass!
The diamond leopard was so angry that the rattlesnake's face was swollen and purple, but he also had to admit that the rattlesnake was reasonable, the ambush could only play the role of a surprise soldier, but if the gap in strength was too large, the role of the ambush would be limited, with the existing strength of Gutian County, he really couldn't think of any way for Guo Zhiyuan to win this battle with such a huge disparity in strength!