"Put!" Zheng Qing narrowed his eyes and waved his hand down, and a young man behind him swung the axe in his hand fiercely, cutting the rope.

The fence hanging between the two thick bamboos roared down, and several bandits who were running between the bamboos were hit by the bamboo that fell from the sky and pierced directly. And a large net fell with the bamboo spear, covering the bandits who came one after another in it.

"Where the hell did this come from!" The knife in his hand slashed the rope in a panic, and a bandit leader shouted loudly in panic, subconsciously looking up, in the darkness not far away, the fire flashed away, and then two or three figures came to meet him, and the sharp bamboo spear pierced directly into the chest of the bandit leader with the sound of the wind.

"They are also people, I don't know where they came from!" Finally, a bandit settled down and saw these enemies who showed their figures for the first time in the dark, and the rest of the bandits around were also staring at this roar at this time, and sure enough, these guys were holding bamboo spears and galloping back and forth between the bamboo forests, although they were agile, but they were real people, not some god with three heads and six arms, who could roll up the ghost fire.

Although they didn't know what the ghost fire that caused them to run and flee came from, the bandits had clearly realized that they had been ambushed nine times out of ten. And look at the surrounding traps, most of them are used for hunting in the mountains, and this team is not without mountain hunters, and they can even call the names of these traps.

"Fuck, we're fooled!" A thief scolded angrily, the knife in his hand was lifted at once, they have always harvested human lives like mowing grass, but they have never been bullied into such an embarrassed appearance, how can there be no anger in their hearts.

"Slaughter these bitches!" The bandits had fully woken up and rushed up scolding, and a few of them lit torches or fire crackers to illuminate the surrounding mountains and forests and guide their companions in the way and direction.

After all, those traps on the ground were only hastily dug up, and with the light and the lessons of their companions, the bandits naturally would not step on them stupidly.

Although those traps trapped a lot of bandits before, and even most of them were killed, but after all, the number was limited, and Huoguang secretly estimated that there were fifty or sixty bandits who were scattered or buried in the traps, and the more than ten bandits who were caught by the ropes before were also carefully rescued by their companions, so the number of bandits still had the absolute upper hand, not to mention that after figuring out the way of the other party, the bandits were no longer panicking.

Before, it was because they had done too many bad things, thinking that they had been retaliated against by the mountain god, but now that they saw that it was a group of ordinary young people who were ambushing them in the dark, they naturally had nothing to fear. The two young men who were left behind were quickly overwhelmed by the bandits who came with their shouts, and as for their fate, they didn't have to think about it.

"Brother Qing'er!" Several young people around Zheng Qing looked at the bandits who were getting closer and closer, and they were all a little nervous, and they could set up traps, but this rush to kill, let them, novices, go to compete with these bandits who make a living by robbing houses and robbing houses and licking blood with knives, it is inevitably difficult for strong people, but these young people still gritted their teeth and lifted the blades in their hands - even if these blades are not at the same level as the swords of the bandits.

"Retreat, retreat south!" At this moment, Li Xinchen ran out of the darkness with someone, and Li Xinchen waved his hand at Zheng Qing.

"Retreat!" Zheng Qing was in a trance, and then he came back to his senses and shouted loudly.

And Li Xinchen did not hesitate to throw the torch at the artemisia grass on the ground, and Li Qiu and the others behind him did the same, and the flames fell into the artemisia grass and other weeds, and suddenly sparks splashed, and the fire burned fiercely, and soon devoured the wild grass on the ground, and began to lick the surrounding bamboo. And the thieves who rushed up with a roar saw the wall of fire in front of them and the figures behind the wall of fire, although they were angry, they could only form a team and look for other breakthroughs.

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The silence of the mountains and forests has been completely illuminated by the chaotic shouts and footsteps, and the torches have been raised. Throughout the mountain, the angry bandits called for their companions while following the orders of the leaders and kept pushing forward.

And the village on the opposite hill, which had a faint light, had been completely silent in the darkness when the night attack occurred, and the erratic ghost fire was gone, and the enemies who seemed to emerge from the ground returned to the place where they came out and disappeared without a trace. Of course, the bandits were attacked this time, but they would not stupidly wait for the second time to be attacked, not to mention that through the later fire, they also saw the true colors of these sneak attackers.

In this barren mountain range, only the people in that village can do such a thing. Although I don't know how these people had the courage to sneak attack, and how they came up with such a terrifying method, but at least the bandits overcame the fear in their hearts, whether it was the increasing number of companions around them, or the torches that illuminated the darkness, they gave them a lot of courage, even if they couldn't find the enemy, they wouldn't suffer much loss, as long as they could survive until daytime, the victory still belonged to them.

The firelight in the distance illuminated half of the sky, and Li Xinchen's face seemed flickering and dim against the beating firelight, and he couldn't see clearly. And Zheng Qing, Song Fei and the others all stood beside Li Xinchen with their lips tightly pursed, looking at the hillside where the bandits gradually gathered.

"There are about forty or fifty bandits killed by us, of course, I don't know how many of them are injured and still breathing." Li Qiu's tone was full of joy, there are a total of about two hundred bandits, if they do this, it won't take a few times, and these bandits will be completely finished, and the most important thing is that the people who are now sent by the village are actually these twenty young people.

Li Xinchen sighed softly, the reaction of these bandits is definitely not slow, Zheng Qing led people to work hard for them in the middle of the night to prepare the trap, that is, half of it has played a role, if the bandits are still running forward in a panic and disorderly, Li Xinchen is really confident that they will eat half of them in one bite, and more importantly, when more than half of the losses are lost, the psychological defense line of these bandits may have collapsed long ago, and they will not care how many enemies they have, they just desperately flee.

At that time, this gang of bandits will naturally retreat without a fight.

But after all, this is just Li Xinchen's beautiful idea, the cruel reality is that he had to retreat with people in time at a critical moment, and even set fire to a small half of the bamboo on the hillside, leaving a natural open land for the enemy, if it were not for the surrounding streams, I am afraid that the power and killing range of this fire would be greater, and then the bamboo, which is a good cover for the villagers, will be burned even more.

It's a pity that these bandits are not slow, except for the more than ten people in the front who were burned and burned by the fire, the people in the back all retreated across the stream in time to avoid being engulfed by the fire. Now they were back in the ash-covered clearing, staring around.

It's a tough nut to crack, and if you don't do any more damage before dawn, they're bound to launch a frantic and deadly attack on the village at dawn.

Both Li Xinchen and the young people present were convinced of this.

Chapter 23: Change

The place where Li Xinchen and them were hiding was the upstream of the stream that Li Xinchen found when he took Li Qiu and a few of them to walk in the mountains during the day. Walking along the creek to the mountain, the vegetation on both sides has become dense trees, rather than bamboo, which is more conducive to hiding.

In this darkness, although the bandits should not have the courage to attack the village - after this commotion at night, I am afraid that even if these bandits see the identity of the attacker, they will be afraid of the village, after all, the ghost fire and those traps that Li Xinchen took out are enough to make those bandits suspicious.

Before figuring out this ghost fire and trap, Li Xinchen believed that these bandits would not act rashly in the direction of the village, once they had more losses, then maybe the number of strong men in the village would exceed them, as long as the bandit leader was not too mad, he would not rashly launch such an attack.

But if the bandits don't attack the village, it doesn't mean that they won't explore in the direction of the village - Li Xinchen They made such a show at night, and the bandits had no place to vent their anger, and they definitely wanted to catch one or two guys, so they were likely to advance or pursue in the direction of the village, in order to be able to catch one or two who were left behind to take revenge.

Therefore, Li Xinchen simply did not take people back to the village directly, but retreated all the way to the southern mountain, at least to prevent being chased by the thieves behind him like a lost dog.

"Count the number of people." Li Xinchen watched a team of people and horses panting and gathered under the big tree, and hurriedly said to Zheng Qing and the others.

"Two people less." Zheng Qing had obviously done it roughly, with a worried look on his face, these two people were his subordinates, and they were obviously missing in the chaos just now, which made Zheng Qing quite worried.

And Li Xinchen also took a breath of cool air, because he clearly remembered that there were no casualties in the chaos at that time, and the lack of two people at this time meant that they were lost during the later retreat, so it was very likely that they were still alive, and it was more likely that they would fall into the hands of the bandits - so many people were advancing and retreating together, it was impossible to go halfway and someone fell behind and the rest of the people didn't notice.

Zheng Qing was obviously aware of this situation, so the application on his face was quite dignified.

"Shall you go back and find it now?" Seinfeld and Li Qiu also walked over quickly, the two of them still had a hideous look on their faces, just now these two killed people with their own hands, and at this time there was also a feeling of being out of the way.

"Don't act rashly," Li Xinchen commanded in a deep voice as he walked towards the heights, "Send a few quick and familiar people to go around from the west to inform the village of what is happening here, and the three elders in the village will know what to do." In addition, let the five brothers go out and patrol the area around the creek at the bottom of the mountain, and if a thief comes, they will report it quickly, and they will not cross the creek! ”

Seinfeld and Li Qiu responded and hurriedly went to arrange, while Zheng Qing said worriedly: "Brother Chen, I didn't bring the brothers well······"

"Don't talk about this yet," Li Xinchen felt his temples beat suddenly, and along with his temples was his heart, "Who are these two people?" ”

Zheng Qing hesitated: "Zheng Ming and Zheng Liang in the east of the village." These two are honest and honest boys, and it's okay to set traps, but the ability to run in the mountains is a little worse, but who would have thought that something really happened, and they would have known that this was the case, and they must have let the two of them stand in the middle of the team. ”

"At that time, I was in a panic, and I couldn't even set fire to the mountain, so a little accident was expected." Li Xinchen said in a deep voice, jumping on a big rock and looking at the mountain where the bandits gathered, the distance between the two mountains is actually not far, and the bandits are eager to burn half of the sky red with torches, so Li Xinchen can clearly see the movements of the bandits gathered there.

The originally scattered bandits gradually closed up, and there were constantly teams with torches coming back in the dark bamboo forest, and on the hillside facing the village, more and more people gathered, and a few bandits could be vaguely seen carrying two people to the middle of the clearing. Originally, the bandits had set up a small platform in that place for the purpose of counting soldiers and giving orders, and now it came in handy, and the two men were tied directly to the pillars on the platform, facing the silent village in the darkness.

"So that the brethren don't have to look for it." Li Xinchen sighed softly, not expecting that instead of going in the best direction he expected, because these two brothers fell into the hands of the enemy, it was likely to lead to an even more adverse impact, "Also, tell Seinfeld and Li Qiu to gather everyone together!" ”

Zheng Qing's face changed slightly, obviously he also knew that this meant that things had reached the worst, and the two people he lost were all people under his command, and they were also the younger generation of the Zheng family, so Zheng Qing was both ashamed and worried. But at this time, he had no idea of what to do, and he had no choice but to obey Li Xinchen's orders.

The young people waiting on the hillside obviously also noticed the noise coming from the hillside over there, and with Zheng Qing, Song Fei and the others ordering to assemble, they all somewhat expected what was happening, and in the darkness these young people's faces were full of angry looks, obviously as long as Li Xinchen gave an order, they would not hesitate to pounce on them to save people.

"There is a good chance that Zheng Ming and Zheng Liang will fall into the hands of bandits, you must have guessed this." Li Xinchen said in a low voice.

All the young men leaned forward slightly, their eyes full of anger and fighting spirit in the darkness. They know very well what will happen to the brothers who grew up together if they fall into the hands of these damned bandits.

"Brother Chen, you say, how can we save people?!" A young man couldn't hold back his mouth.

"Yes, you can't watch the two brothers of the Zheng family fall into the hands of this bandit!"

"That's it, Brother Chen, you ordered, even if you fight with the bandits, we will admit it!"

"According to the method just now, we will definitely be able to put together the bandits ruthlessly, and we can also rescue our brothers when we take the opportunity!"

"Brother Chen!"

Li Xinchen closed his eyes and took a deep breath, as if he was expelling these noisy voices from his mind, and after a long time, he opened his eyes, and his sharp gaze swept over everyone, even in the dark, most people couldn't see where Li Xinchen's eyes were, but there was still a feeling of being watched.

"All said and done?" Li Xinchen's voice was low, with anger that could not be concealed.

Zheng Qing and Song Fei subconsciously glanced at each other, Brother Chen······ Is this infuriating?

For a while, everyone didn't dare to speak, but Li Xinchen stretched out his hand and slammed the big tree beside him, before he said coldly: "Listen to so-and-so, we can't save this person." ”

"Why?!" This time, including Zheng Qing and Seinfeld, all of them stood up straight, a little puzzled, and even looked at Li Xinchen with anger.