Chapter 203 The Eighteen Kings blocked the road
It is not uncommon to form a village to protect oneself, especially in this kind of border stopper.
Before the gold thieves came, there were bandits and horse thieves in various places, and the officers and soldiers came to take a trip, but the bandits did not drive away, but they ate the pigs and sheep of the common people cleanly.
After crossing the north court to the south, the gold thieves are like locusts attacking every year, and the days are getting more and more difficult, and the bold bandits and horse bandits, and even the black-hearted officers and soldiers, rush into the village in broad daylight and run away after grabbing things.
The case was handed over to the government and did not play a role, so the big guy could only rely on himself, and the originally sneaky things became just the light, as long as you gave money for armor weapons and even bed crossbows, some caravans could buy them for you.
At first, the government also investigated, but later saw that as long as the slightly larger village has such a set of "forbidden weapons", in order to look good, it issued an official notice of "forming a militia group on its own, preparing thieves and preventing bandits", and since then it has been out of control, originally this Xihe Prefecture is a big granary, but the result of this annual tax is less and less, and the officials who collect taxes in the yamen, not twenty or thirty people dare not enter the village, regretting that the big officials in the government are green in their intestines.
Dogs and their entourage sell while walking, don't look at the war in Xihezhou every year, but there is really no shortage of money in the villages below, especially those big villages whose walls are higher than the city walls, and they don't even blink their eyelids when they buy things one by one.
When the war was in chaos, there were still people who had a big birthday, and bought all the red silk cloth left by the dog in one go, if the old general didn't agree, he could still wrap up the wine in the team.
It took two days, walked twenty or thirty villages, the goods have been sold seventy-seven eighty-eight, open the account book and see, oh, it has already exceeded 50,000 yuan, the old general immediately decided to rush to the camp at full speed, this road has been delayed for several days, and the heralds sent by the camp have come in two waves.
The dog, who had made a great contribution, was specially approved by the old general to lie in the carriage and hurry, and the others ran with their lives.
"Fourteen, how many of those homeless people are left?"
After all, Hua Fourteen is underage, and he can keep up in a short time, but once it is a long time, he will fall behind, and the dog will call him to the carriage.
"There are also two girls, they said they didn't want to live in the village and wanted to follow you!"
"It's big flowers and small flowers, right?"
Hua Fourteen nodded.
For the sake of these 200 homeless dogs, in addition to helping them find food, when doing business with the village, he asked people if they hired a small servant, and did not give money for food.
The two of them are sisters, the eldest thirteen and the youngest eleven years old, I don't know what misunderstanding has been, as soon as they say that they are maids to others, the two of them began to cry, as if they were going to send them to the kiln, and in the end, these two people were left without sending them out.
"Where's the person?"
Hua Fourteen said: "In the carriage of the little seventh brother!" ”
The dog nodded, and said to Tang Xiaoer, who was driving the car: "Tang Xiaoer, hurry up, catch up with the old general, I have something to talk to him!" ”
Tang Xiaoer sat down, waved the whip hard, and exploded out of thin air, so frightened that the horse pulling the cart instantly stepped faster, and the carriage was pulled by it quickly, but the road was potholed, it was really difficult to walk, if it wasn't for the thick forage under him, he would have to turn his butt into eight petals.
When the carriage caught up with the old general on horseback, the dog sat up straight and hugged his fists at him and said, "Old General Zhang, are you tired?" ”
General Zhang was relieved: "It's rare that your kid still misses me, I see that your spirit is not bad, well, someone is coming!" Twice as fast as the order! ”
The dog hurriedly blocked his ears, but the curse still came in, touched the sweat on his forehead, pretended not to hear, and continued to shout to him: "Old general, do you want to find two little ladies to serve you!" ”
Ahh A mouthful of thick phlegm spit on the dog's face.
"Don't come to pollute the old man's ears, and then make noise in front of a certain family, and whip you carefully! Drive! ”
Looking at the old general who was running away from the horse, the dog wiped his face wistfully, and said to Hua Shishi, who was eating and laughing: "What's ridiculous, it's normal for him to be old, have some ears back, and a dull head, but why is this temper still so irritable, alas, forget it, if you can't get out, just follow me!" ”
Fortunately, there were a lot of empty carriages, and those who couldn't keep up with the team were thrown into the carriages, and the originally neatly lined up teams couldn't be seen as long as they ran, and the team had to stop from time to time to wait for the scouts to come back, otherwise they would really be tired and a few would not be able to do it.
On the gourd valley on the gourd mountain, you have to cross this road to worship the gourd.
This ballad is suddenly popular in the gourd village in the past two years, which means that there is a valley in front of it that looks like a gourd, and the terrain is more dangerous.
Hulu Village is still thirty miles away from Hulu Valley, and the people who have eaten lunch were driven back on the road by Liu Zhangfei with a whip, and it is no wonder that they are anxious, because after Hulu Village, there is a day away at most to reach a big village called Youchuan, and the camp on the front line is stationed here.
Tanma continued to put in Sanli, the team of centaurs still chose to move forward in a line formation, the dog was lobbying the old man Zhou to accept two little maids, usually read and write official documents or something, and someone brought him tea and water, grinding ink and laying paper, just said that people were a little excited, just listened to a gong, the sergeant in front of the head to explore the way ran back like a desperate run, ran to the front of the team in one breath, and fell directly to the ground.
The dog was frightened, well, there was no way, people were small and timid, so they didn't have to be shocked.
The probe saw that the sergeant was estimated to be unable to survive, and there were five or six arrow shafts stuck in his ass and back, and he shouted at the old general with a blank face: "There is an ambush!" And he fainted.
There was a sound of drawing a knife, and the old general, who was originally in the middle of the team, quickly ran to the front, and the dog also hurriedly followed.
Dog's father once said, where is the safest place on the battlefield? The answer is the general, because he is surrounded by people who can fight, and the equipment is the best!
Where is the most dangerous? The answer is under the flag. On the battlefield, the enemy and the enemy are mixed, and when to charge and when to retreat, it is all commanded by the military flag, so the enemy will focus on attacking your military flag position.
Looking up at the front, I saw more than a dozen flags painted with gourds, birds, hammers, knives and forks, or simply written surnames, where were the three or four thousand people and horses standing still, these people were not the homeless people who robbed halfway before, looking at the group of people who were fully armored, with longbows and crossbows hanging on their backs, and steel knives and spears in their hands, they looked at their group of people coldly.
That formation, scared the dog's legs were weak, I used to listen to Dasha and his father talk about the battle array, and I always felt that it was the same thing, but this time I suddenly found myself in it, and I felt that Dasha's father described it too simply.
The first time I experienced such a scene, my frightened tongue couldn't straighten up, "Old, old, look at the general, there are a lot of people, more than me, there are three more of us, no, three times." ”
The old general glanced at the dog, nodded, and said with a twitch at the corner of his mouth: "It's just a good look, these bandits who have no eggs, they have already met when they came last time, if they didn't run fast, the bones and scum were eaten by the wild wolves, and if they dared to come over this time, the general would never let them escape again." ”
"Hahaha......"
A group of soldiers laughed loudly wherever they opened their throats, and even the horse soldiers who were rescued by Lang Zhong with arrows stuck in their buttocks were laughing.
The dog sighed, this soldier who has been in the battle formation is really different from the one who has not been in the battle array.
Looking back at the sergeants from Longzhou, they were shivering behind them with spears in their arms, no different from the people who were cowering under the carriage next to them.
Hearing the officers and soldiers laughing again, the mountain bandits on the opposite side were not far behind, and in the crowd, a bandit with a big shoulder and a thick waist walked out, and shouted at the officers and soldiers with his mouth closed:
"Listen to the bird soldier on the other side, grandfathers are the kings of the eighteen mountains around here, today we are gathered together, just to do the way for heaven, robbed you black-hearted officials and thieves, acquaintances will get off the horse and surrender as soon as possible, grandfathers promised, leave you a crotch cloth to cover your shame! Hahahaha......"
"I'm mad at me!" Liu Zhangfei next to him said angrily: "General Zhang, please call me 200 soldiers and let me rush at him, I have to chop off the head of this dog!" ”
"No!" General Zhang waved his hand to stop Liu Zhangfei, who was running wild, and squinted his eyes to look ahead.
With a wave of his hand, two horsemen on the left and right came over!
"You two run to lure and see how the crossbow is on the other side!"
The two sergeants clasped their fists and said, "No! ”
The horse rushed forward, and the whip was swung quickly, and the horse that sat down ran fast.
The bandits on the opposite side were laughing, and suddenly saw two soldiers rushing over, and they didn't know what they were running over, and they were about to arrive in front of the battle, and a bandit leader wearing black oil and iron armor and a beard shouted loudly: "Don't you want to shoot me, hurry up and release arrows left and right, and shoot the two of them first!" ”
"Yes, yes, let go of the arrow!" The rest of the thieves also shouted, "Shoot them all, shoot them both!" ”
The two soldiers who rushed into battle looked like veterans, and they ran halfway through the horses, and when they squinted and saw the bandits with bows and crossbows raising their hands in a mess, they guessed that the thieves were about to release their arrows.
Listening to the back, there was a buzzing sound, and the military man on the left climbed directly on the horse's back, and the one on the right simply came to "hide on the horse"!
The sound of arrows sticking in the dirt rang for a long time before it ended, and it was a pity that there was not even a single hair on the arrows.
The angry bandit leaders scolded their minions for being stupid, and a few of them were grumpy and even used whips.
came such a beautiful blow first, the morale of the officers and soldiers on this side soared, and the Longzhou soldiers who were originally afraid did not play a sway, and they clapped vigorously one by one, and the people also got out from under the carriage.
"Report, General! The bandits are lined up neatly, and our army may have big damage when they rush into battle! The two soldiers shouted in unison.
The old general nodded, turned his head and shouted at a military man: "Han Dutou, has the scout horse sent to investigate the back road come back?" ”
Han Dutou arched his hand and said: "I haven't come back yet, and I will send another round of horse exploration to my humble position!" ”
The old general said, "Go ahead." He turned his head and whispered to the left and right: "The bandits are in high spirits, and they need to be demoralized again." ”
Commander Liu squinted, looked at the arrows that were messily inserted in the ground, and said, "It's good to consume a few more rounds of arrows from them!" ”
Old man Zhou suggested: "It's better to attract them to attack, and we can shoot them a few rounds first." ”
The old general said: "But, who of you is going to lure the enemy?" ”
"Humble!"
"Let me come!"
A Han Dutou and a Liu Zhangfei shouted in unison.