Chapter 55: Drawing Salary from the Bottom of the Cauldron (1)
Zhang Shumo didn't wait for Lu Li and the others to react, rushed out, and shouted towards the mountain: "Lou Zaiying, don't divide the troops, don't divide the troops!" ”
Lou Bo's troops, who were about to go down the mountain, immediately discovered Zhang Shumo, and Lou Bo hurriedly stopped Zhang Shumo: "Zhang Shumo, why are you here?" ”
"Uncle, I'm worried that you are in danger, so I'll follow you, stop Lou Zaiying, you can't divide the troops!" Zhang Shumo said anxiously.
Lou Bo's impression of Zhang Shumo is not very good, but after all, he is Lou Zaiying's husband, Lou Bo hesitated and said: "Go, I'll accompany you up!" After speaking, Lou Bo said to his subordinates: "You go to Shankou Village to garrison, and I will accompany him up the mountain." ”
After the arrangement, Zhang Shumo and Lou Bo ran towards the mountain together, and at the same time Zhang Shumo shouted again.
Hu Kun, who was hiding in the grass, quietly asked Lu Li: "What should I do?" ”
Lu Li couldn't help but smile: "This second young master thinks more seriously of the Lou family than the Zhang family. Let's quietly follow behind, and hope they don't fight. ”
Lou Zaiying and the others originally discussed that the three and four masters would take 100 people to chase the mountain bandits along the path, and Lou Zaiying would take 100 people to search for Lou Lao. As soon as the crowd began to move, they heard the shouts and couldn't help but stop.
Not long after, Zhang Shumo and Lou Bo ran over.
"Zhang Shumo, why did you come along?" Lou Zaiying asked in surprise.
Zhang Shumo panted: "No, you can't divide the troops." ”
"Why?" Since Yang Xue went to Lou's house to say that she was kidnapped by Lou's family, the fourth master has always been suspicious of Zhang Shumo, and after Zhang Shumo expressed his opinion this time, the fourth master unconsciously paid more attention to it.
Zhang Shumo gasped: "You talk about the current situation first, and I'll talk about the reason." ”
Lou Zaiying's face was displeased: "It's okay if you come secretly, and it will delay our time, do you know that if you delay for a moment, grandpa will be more dangerous!" ”
The fourth master told Zhang Shumo what happened, and Zhang Shumo's face became solemn after hearing this: "The fact that the mountain bandits can deliberately arrange people and horses to ambush at the foot of the mountain shows that they are not simple. It is said that there are more than 100 mountain bandits, and if we divide our troops, it will be easy to be defeated by each of them. And if Grandpa is really hiding somewhere in the mountains, he will go to the agreed place without us looking for it. Now what we have to do is to bite the main force of the bandits, so that they have no time to take care of grandpa's side, even if grandpa is unfortunately caught by them, we can only have a chance to rescue grandpa by catching up with their main force. ”
After speaking, Zhang Shumo couldn't help but sigh, in fact, he knew in his heart that Master Lou hadn't gone down the mountain for so long, which meant that he was likely to have fallen into the hands of the mountain bandits, and now he hoped that the mountain bandits were smart people and would not kill Master Lou.
After hearing this, the third master couldn't help but scratch his head with his hands: "I can't care so much, I see that what Zhang Shumo said makes sense, let's catch up!" ”
The fourth master nodded: "Okay, let's not divide the troops, follow the traces!" ”
Everyone chased along the path, and soon found the corpse on the ground, which Zhang Shumo did not want to see, which showed that Master Lou who rushed up the mountain did not get rid of the mountain bandits, and the mountain bandits were numerous, and Master Lou was likely to be in danger.
Naturally, the others could think of this, and their faces became very solemn. Everyone came to the three-way intersection, but they didn't know which way to choose.
"There are traces of both roads, and there are also traces of blood, which one should we choose?" Lou Zaiying looked at the fourth master.
"What to choose? Just go to one side of both! The third master was a little impatient.
Zhang Shumo looked at the blood stains on the ground and the direction of the mountain road, and immediately pointed to the path up the mountain: "This one." After saying that, he took the lead and walked up.
Lou Zaiying hurriedly followed: "Why this one, what if they go the other way?" ”
"One of these two roads extends upwards and the other extends towards the mountainside, which one would you choose if you were grandpa?" Zhang Shumo asked as he walked
Lou Zaiying was even more puzzled after hearing this: "That must be the road on the mountainside, why did you choose this?" ”
"The bloodstains are only there when they reach this intersection, but there is no road before, which means that the injured person was injured in one of these two roads, grandpa They will definitely choose to take the road on the mountainside, and the thieves will naturally chase after it, but there are also blood stains on the road up the mountain, what does it mean? It means that the injured person has turned back from the road on the mountainside and walked the way up the mountain, otherwise there would definitely be no blood on the way up the mountain. Zhang Shumo expressed his analysis.
Lou Zaiying and the third master were still a little confused, but the fourth master's face was even more grim: "In this way, either the eldest brother defeated the bandits, or the eldest brother they were defeated by the bandits, otherwise the bandits have no reason to go back to the mountain." ”
At this time, everyone was silent, and they couldn't help but speed up the chase. At this time, the fourth master suddenly found that the blood stains on the ground were getting fresher and fresher, indicating that the injured person had just gone up. A glimmer of hope rose in the heart of the fourth master, and shouted to everyone: "Hurry up, we should not be far from them, we have torches, they don't, so they are not as fast as us!" ”
When everyone heard the order, they began to chase upwards quickly, and Zhang Shumo couldn't get up fast and slowly fell to the back of the team. After chasing for two quarters of an hour, the voice of the third master suddenly came from the front of the team, "The thief is gone!" Then the shouts and fights mingled.
The third old man, Lou Cang, rushed to the front of the team, he ran with a torch and soon heard the commotion in front of him, although he couldn't see anyone yet, but he shouted to the front: "The thief is gone!" ”
Sure enough, the mountain bandits in front heard Lou Cang's voice even more chaotic, and their speed slowed down. Lou Cang and the others saw the tail of the mountain bandit by the light of the fire, and immediately drew their knives and rushed over, because the mountain road was very narrow, it could only accommodate four people in parallel, and Lou Cang alone opened a killing ring on the tail of the mountain bandit team!
The commotion soon spread to the front of the group, and Wang Hui knew that he could not outrun the other side without a light source, so he ordered his men to move on, and he escorted Lou Jun towards the rear of the group.
"Stop! Otherwise, I'll kill this man! When Wang Hui approached the end of the line, he found Lou Cang and others holding torches, and immediately shouted.
Lou Cang was stunned for a moment, a mountain bandit took the opportunity to slash at him, and the fourth old man Lou Ang slapped his horse and kicked the mountain bandit away, and the two sides opened up a stalemate.
"Well played! Is the third brother and fourth brother good at home? Lou Jun was tied up by Wuhuada, and blood dripped down his arm to the ground.
"Big brother!" "Grandpa" The three members of the Lou family immediately shouted when they saw Lou Jun.
Lou Cang choked up and replied: "Big brother, they killed 6 lives of my Lou family!" ”
Lou Jun clenched his back molars when he heard this, glared at Wang Hui and said, "You guys leave me alone, kill these beasts, and avenge my Lou family's children!" ”
When Wang Hui heard this, he immediately put the knife on Lou Jun's neck: "Old man, you don't want to live anymore, do you want those young people to die with you?" ”