Chapter 57: Salary Draw from the Bottom of the Cauldron (3)
Lou Jun's sudden move to death startled everyone, Wang Hui hurriedly put away the knife, but Lou Jun's neck had been cut, and blood beads dripped out along the knife.
The fourth old man, Lou Ang, took a step forward in fright, and Zhang Shumo was dizzy when he saw the blood, but he quickly closed his eyes and survived, and the two said separately.
"Don't be impulsive!" "Well done!"
Wang Hui also launched a ruthless attack, and smashed Lou Jun's head with the handle of the knife: "Don't think that I won't dare to kill you, I'll let you die a happy death when we return to the cottage later!" β
"You still expect to go back?" Zhang Shumo endured his dizziness and pretended to be calm: "Don't be naΓ―ve, the purpose of our coming today is to raze you, I don't care if this old man dies or not." After speaking, Zhang Shumo glanced at Lou Ang meaningfully.
Lou Ang frowned, and after a while, he said to Zhang Shumo: "Boy, if my eldest brother has three longs and two shorts, you don't want to go back alive today!" β
Wang Hui originally thought that he had met a stunned young man who didn't care about it, but Lou Ang Chaozhang Shumo was so loud that Wang Hui couldn't figure it out, could it be that they were infighting?
As everyone knows, the time was dragged down by the two of them singing and harmonizing.
In the cottage, not long after Niu Ben and others fled back to the cottage, they received a report from Wang Hui, saying that a large group of people would immediately go up the mountain. Niu Ben immediately became alert, and asked the people in the village to cheer up and keep an eye on the surrounding situation.
Wang Hui's people went from the road to the side and rear of the cottage, and were soon discovered by the sentry in the village, Niu Ben was overjoyed to get the news, and was about to let people open the gate of the village sentry but the news came, and the people from the government followed Wang Hui's people up the mountain.
Niu Ben hurriedly took the remaining more than ten people in the cottage to the sentry tower, and sure enough, he found that there were officers and soldiers under the sparkling firelight. What makes Niu Ben even more strange is that these officers and soldiers chased all the way but did not fight with their own people, more like they were racing against their own people.
"Big brother, what should I do?" A mountain bandit asked.
Niu Ben was silent, if he wanted to say that he would fight and use force, Niu Ben naturally had nothing to say. But when it comes to making plans, Niu Ben can only scratch his head, in this situation Niu Ben is a mess in his head, now the situation is not clear enough, Wang Hui is nowhere to be seen, Niu Ben is heartbroken: "Don't open the door first, wait and talk." β
From the small road to the gate of the village less than a mile, although Lou Zaiying and Lou Cang chased with the soldiers, but still did not catch up with the front bandits, the front bandits escorted the captured soldiers to the gate of the village: "Open the door quickly, we are back, open the door quickly!" β
The mountain bandits shouted a few times, but when they saw that there was no movement inside, and the soldiers behind them were about to chase after them, they couldn't help but start scolding, and Niu Ben on the sentry post couldn't help but return when he heard the scolding: "You fucking come back and give me the officers and soldiers?" If Lao Tzu opened the gate of the village, wouldn't he be killed by the officers and soldiers? β
After saying that, Niu Ben regretted it a little in his heart, after all, this matter was caused by his greed for money and agreeing to help the thin horse to save Liu Bao, but he didn't expect to save Liu Bao's official mansion to send so many people to attack him. No, Liu Bao shouldn't have such a big face, he should have something to do with Liu Bao's slaughter of that family, but that family doesn't look like a big family? I knew that I shouldn't have let Liu Bao do more!
At this time, Lou Zaiying and Lou Cang had already been killed, and the mountain bandits could not open the door, so they had to confront the officers and soldiers by leaning on the walled gate.
Lou Zaiying was a little anxious in his heart, he still didn't catch up with the other party when he charged with all his might, there were at least sixty or so mountain bandits here, and he would definitely not be able to eat the other party for a while, let alone capture the cottage.
The mountain bandits put the captured soldiers at the front: "Officers and soldiers, listen, we have hostages, if you dare to come, we will kill them!" β
"You dare!" Lou Cang shouted loudly and pointed at the mountain bandits.
Niu Ben on the sentry post saw it, and his heart blossomed: "Well done!" The brothers have made a great contribution this time, with these soldiers, I see which of them dares to attack the city! After speaking, Niu Ben said to his subordinates: "Open the door of the village and welcome the brothers in!" β
Faced with this situation, Lou Zaiying and Lou Cang could only be anxious, Lou Zaiying couldn't help but look at the back, what would he do if Zhang Shumo was here? Thinking of this, Lou Zaiying called the tun chief Lei Zi beside him and whispered to him: "You quickly go to Zhang Shumo and tell him the situation here." β
Waiting for all the mountain bandits to enter the stockade, Niu Ben deliberately said loudly to his subordinates: "Those who are soldiers don't have to be polite if they dare to attack the city and directly fall into the rocks and roll the woods!" β
On the other side, Wang Hui was surrounded by Lou Ang and Zhang Shumo with more than 40 mountain bandits, looking at the dispute between the two in front of him, Wang Hui had a rough judgment of the current situation in his heart: the young scholar should be in a hurry to make meritorious contributions, so he didn't care about the life or death of the hostage, and those generals obviously had something to do with the hostage, and they didn't want to see him die. It's just that now the two of them are arguing and don't make way for themselves, what are they going to do?
Lou Ang and Zhang Shumo continued to argue and wanted to buy time for Lou Zaiying to attack the cottage, when the tun chief Lei Zi ran over and said to Zhang Shumo: "Zhang Gongzi, below is the tun chief under Lou Junhou, and there is something important to report." β
When Zhang Shumo heard this, he looked at the direction of the cottage and there was no fire, obviously the plan to attack the city failed. So Zhang Shumo stopped arguing with Lou Ang and asked Lei Zi, "What's the matter?" β
Lei Zi thought that he couldn't let the mountain bandits know the plan here, so he whispered to Zhang Shumo about the situation on the side of the cottage, Zhang Shumo gritted his teeth after hearing it, and then slapped his hand violently, and asked Lei Zi: "Are you all mixed in?" That's great! You did a good job, let the Lou army wait for them to stand still, and we will go over! After speaking, he patted Leizi on the shoulder.
Zhang Shumo's words made Lei Zi unclear, Lei Zi scratched his head and turned back to report the news. Waiting for Lei Zi to leave, Zhang Shumo immediately said to Lou Ang: "I will listen to General Lou and leave this old man alive." Speaking of this, Zhang Shumo said to Wang Hui again: "This hero, we will let you go, but you have to talk and save the hostages' lives." β
Wang Hui looked at Zhang Shumo, whose attitude had changed greatly, and thought in his heart: After the person reported the information just now, this scholar was obviously very happy and mixed in? Did they take advantage of the chaos to disguise the soldiers as ours and infiltrate the cottage? It can only be like this, otherwise there is no reason for him to change his attitude drastically. But even if some of them infiltrated the cottage, there was no reason to let himself go, did he have other tricks? Or did he stop himself just to let people into his ranks?
Thinking of this, Wang Hui couldn't help but turn around and look at the mountain bandits behind him, due to the lack of light, he could only see a single figure.
Lou Ang was also a little incomprehensible to Zhang Shumo's series of actions, and pondered in his heart: I don't know what Lei Zi said to Zhang Shumo just now made him change his plan, there was no fire on the cottage, could it be that the siege failed? But what does it mean for him to let the bandits go back to the cottage? Wouldn't it be more difficult to rescue the eldest brother when he was pressed back to the cottage? Do you want to cooperate with him?
Thinking of this, Lou Ang still shook his head: "No! If they go back to the cottage and don't let them go, what can you and I do? β