The prosperity of commerce is due to the tireless work of merchants, driving large carriages and pushing BMX carts, whether it is windy or rainy, spring, summer, autumn and winter, from city to city, always busy.

There is a joke among businessmen to describe their profession: endure hunger, thirst and fatigue, avoid tigers, wolves and beasts, send away officials and evil officials, and inevitably escape bandits and horse bandits!

In the Great Song Dynasty, which emphasized literature and light on military force, from the beginning of the founding of the country, the state and county officers and soldiers who were responsible for arresting thieves and arresting thieves and deterring local security were not as strong as the regiments and people in the villages.

Wild wolves chasing sheep, thieves following merchants, all of them are driven by interests, everyone is afraid of taxes, but the most afraid is these thieves who collect money from the road.

The dog looked at the small cottage in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh in his mouth, the gourd king has only been in the past two or three years, and he can actually collect thousands of wealth, an inconspicuous small firewood house, which is actually stuffed with a room full of copper coins, and the hemp rope of the string of money is rotten, and then look at another room, okay, a room of grain, no less than a thousand stones, no wonder General Zhang Lao has been reluctant to come down since he went up the mountain, and he also ordered himself to bring all the people up.

"Master Zhou, this bandit leader is so rich, why are the people under him still wearing tattereds?"

Old man Zhou glanced at the dog, snorted and said, "Boy, have you ever seen a foreigner who will give the family property to the servants of the family?" ”

"But after all, these bandits are different from the servants, they will carry knives and follow the thieves to fight! I heard them say, "Do you go hungry when you go to war?" ”

Old man Zhou glanced at the bandits who were tied up by the officers and soldiers, and sighed: "To the leader of the thieves, these minions are no different from slaves. ”

After speaking, he said to a soldier passing by: "Press down and put it in the barracks at the foot of the mountain." ”

The dog frowned and said, "Master Zhou, they live in the barracks, so where do we live?" ”

Old man Zhou pointed to the sergeants and people who were busy, and angrily scolded the dog: "The big guys are busy, are you embarrassed to sleep?" ”

Eh, this old man, what kind of tantrum he has in a good way.

He was too lazy to serve him, so the dog went to the storehouse where the grain was kept.

General Wang wore a wolfskin coat, sat on a wide soft chair, and when he saw the dog coming, he beckoned: "Little dog, if you are sleepy, find a place to rest, rest assured, every corner of this cottage has been searched, and it is safe and ruthless!" ”

The dog arched his hand and thanked him, glanced at the military official who kept the accounts, and saw that the booklet said "1,236 stones", and his mouth was happy, so he walked to the old general and stood still: "Old general, it is said that there are eighteen thieves around here, if each of them is defeated, I am afraid that there will be tens of thousands of stones of grain!" ”

Old General Zhang sighed and said: "What do you think, let's not mention how difficult those thieves' dens are to find, just the golden soldiers in front can't beat them, who has the leisure energy to catch these bandits?" ”

The dog also sighed, yes, the thieves will rob you of some money at most, but this gold thief will even rob people!

"Old general, I saw that Commander Liu went to the prisoner camp in Hulu Valley, who will guard the barracks at the foot of the mountain?"

General Zhang said with a smile: "First, there are not so many people, second, the thieves who can run have already run away, and the rest are old and weak bandits, and they don't have the courage to run, just leave a dozen soldiers to guard the door!" ”

The dog nodded, and when he saw Tang Laosan and his party coming up, he walked over to see them loading rice and weighing, looking east and west, and suddenly a burst of sleepiness hit him, covering his mouth and hitting Hache several times, looking up at the sky, there is no moon tonight, and he can't even see the road clearly, no wonder they move slowly, and they can't stop when they are not busy until dawn.

As soon as he turned around, he saw that in front of the big brazier, Hua Fourteen was holding a small knife, and he was busy scraping his precious arrow shaft, shaking his head, this kid is also a nerd, and there are more than a dozen arrows inserted in the thatched shed behind him, can't you see it?

He walked up to him, snatched the shaft of the arrow from his hand, and threw it aside.

Hua Shishi looked at the dog angrily and said, "What are you doing, I'll be able to scrape it right away!" ”

The dog dragged him up, carried his head, and showed him the arrows on the thatched hut.

Fortunately, this kid was not stupid to the end, turned his head to look at the dog and said, "I know, but where ......are the officers and soldiers?"

Oh, it turned out to be timid, and he coughed lightly and said to him: "Whoever picks up the ownerless things is his, and besides, the arrows in this army are different from the arrows of the bandits, and it doesn't matter if you pick up some, if you are worried about causing trouble, just engrave your mark on it!" ”

"That's right! I engraved my name on it, so that when they saw it, they said that I did it myself! ”

Stretching out his thumb and giving him a thumbs up, he yawned and said, "Let's go, it's getting late, I'm sleepy, let's find an empty room to sleep!" ”

Hua 14 said excitedly: "You sleep first, when I entered the village, I saw a lot of arrows in the forest at the gate of the village, I quickly picked them up!" Hahaha. ”

In this way, the dog watched this overly surprised fool running away with a basket on his back, and sighed, obviously there was a large bundle of arrows in front of him, and he had to spend time to pick it up in the wild forest?

After another hacket, the two of them couldn't stand the old fight, and when they saw that a large group of people around them were busy working, they turned around and picked a clean room and got in.

At the foot of the mountain, at the col three hundred meters away from the barracks, Uluqi was lying on the hillside, squinting at the camp in front of him, and after looking at it for a while, he turned his head to the tent soldiers and said: "Tooth thorns, this is such a large camp tent, there must be no less than 100 of them!" ”

The golden soldier next to him called for a tooth thorn replied: "One hundred and thirty-three barracks!" ”

"Where are the barracks and barns?"

Jin Bing said: "In the northeast corner, the cattle are enclosed in the barracks on the west side, the tent owner, I see that the people seem to be still working, groups of people are carrying things down from the mountain, you see, there is a group of people coming down from the mountain!" ”

Uluqi glanced at it and saw that it was more than a dozen Song soldiers with whips whipping hundreds of "people's husbands" with bamboo baskets on their backs, afraid that they would run away and still have ropes around their necks, so they said indignantly: "Song soldiers are really black-hearted, they let the people work at night, but they hide in the barracks and sleep, Baima, you go and call my brother and them to come over, and when this barracks is served, grandpa will follow their example and tie them to work!" ”

The Jin soldiers next to him shouted, and turned over and went back on horseback, Uluzik had already finished packing, and was anxiously waiting for the news, when he saw the spies coming, he shouted from afar: "White horse, how is the front, is it the Zizhong team of the Song soldiers." ”

Bai Ma jumped down from his horse and said: "It's the Zizhong team, I touched it and looked carefully at it, there are many meters, and there are one hundred and thirty-three barracks, the small one thinks there should be 14 or 500 people inside, the barracks are very quiet, presumably those Song soldiers have slept, but the people outside are still working!" ”

Uluzik thought about it, there was still a day's walk from the Song soldiers' barracks, and this group of Song soldiers let the people work overnight, and they must have wanted to arrive at the barracks tomorrow.

"White horse, are the guards strict?" The Han centurion next to him asked.

Bai Ma replied: "The Song soldiers are all staring at the people to work, and the guards are not strict!" ”

"Good!" Uluzik shouted loudly and said to the left and right: "Warriors, the horses pick up the bells in the mouth, hide their figures on the road, and when they are one hundred and fifty meters away from the Song soldiers' camp, they will get on their horses and charge, if anyone intercepts them, just charge and kill, until the camp, if you can't do anything, you can set fire to the food, and then leave!" No love for war! ”

"Yes, Centurion!"

There is a very embarrassing thing about the cavalry attacking the camp at night, that is, the night will cover the figure of the cavalry, but the sound of the horse's hooves running will be heard far away at night, so the cavalry will bring a chew to the war horse before attacking, and then lead the horse to walk on the ground like a foot soldier, and wait until a certain distance, and then get on the horse to speed up the charge.

The best charge distance for heavy cavalry is about 200 meters, and light cavalry is about 100 meters to speed up the horse.

Just when the Jin soldiers arrived at the position and launched a charge, the officers and soldiers at the top of the mountain had just finished packing up the things in the stockade, and the soldiers followed the last wave of people down the mountain together.

General Zhang, who had been sitting all night, took the account book handed over by Old Man Zhou, glanced at it, and said with a smile: "With this batch of money and food, your errand this trip can be regarded as double!" When the time comes, your official position will also be able to rise by two levels, and it will not be in vain for you to take this trip! ”

Old man Zhou hurriedly arched his hand and said: "If it weren't for the old general coming to help me, where would I be able to complete this task, and when I see the marshal in the barracks, my subordinates will definitely thank you!" ”

The two sides looked at each other, and the purpose had been achieved, so they pulled away from the topic and wanted to talk about something else.

Just as he was about to speak, Zhao Dutou, who had escorted the people down the mountain before, ran over in a panic.

"General Zhang is not good, the gold thief is attacking the camp at the foot of my mountain!"

The two of them hurriedly followed him in a panic, and the surrounding soldiers hurriedly ran down the mountain in their arms with the three of them when they saw this.

Halfway up the mountain, the group secretly hid in a corner to take a peek at the big camp.

I saw that in the camp, the figures were longing, accompanied by the flickering firelight, and from time to time I could see the gold thieves on horses, chasing and killing the bandits who ran out of the barracks everywhere, and I could faintly hear the laughter of the golden soldiers after the successful attack on the camp, as well as the miserable howls of the bandits.

A group of people shivered coldly, glanced at each other, and saw the blessing in each other's eyes.

Seeing that twenty or thirty men who had escaped death and ran towards the mountain, Zhao Dutou asked anxiously: "General, what should we do?" ”

As the saying goes, if there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, if there is a veteran in the army, it is more valuable than a treasure, and the old general has already come up with a way to deal with it.

"Zhao Dutou, you take a group of soldiers out of the forest to lure the gold thieves, and when they chase them, they will return to the forest in disguise, and the others are ambushed on both sides of the forest, and when the gold soldiers chase into the forest, they will be eaten, as for the people outside, everyone shoots them with bows and arrows, and they have horses and remember not to run away, this team of gold soldiers only has a hundred people, eat twenty or thirty, and you can rush out to fight hand-to-hand."

A group of sergeants shouted promises, and Zhao Dutou, who was responsible for luring, ordered ten soldiers to run out of the forest, and the three gold thieves who were chasing and killing were a random arrow.

Uluqike, who was happily slashing and killing the "Song soldiers" in the camp, turned his head and saw this scene, so he ordered the Han centurion next to him: "Deputy centurion Shen, you bring your own soldiers and horses over to kill those few fish that slipped through the net!" ”

The Han centurion echoed that he took twenty soldiers and horses from his headquarters, held torches, and shouted to kill.

Seeing this, Zhao Dutou spread his feet and ran into the forest.