"It's finally over for now,"

Zhou Huai'an, who was lying on a flatbed cart straw mat, greatly stretched his waist under some kind of lazy energy after eating.

Immediately, he glanced at the human body imaging and energy markers in his field of vision, and finally did not need to be in a highly stressful situation, because of the frequent overuse of scanning power, he was always in a state of prostration warning and sub-health in high hunger, and the thin energy storage strip seemed to have increased a little.

Under the surprise of the enemy, this pre-ambushed Tutuan soldier still could not escape the result of collapse and collapse after causing some chaos and casualties.

Finally, he met the rebels of other tribes who came to meet and support, claiming to be the third order of the left flank alias "Cangshan Army". A much better army than the pre-expansion Fury Battalion in terms of equipment and outfits; not only has relatively neat and uniform robes, but also nearly three or four percent of the armor rate is not very neat, almost catching up with the local officers and soldiers;

After they crossed the river, the men and horses gathered together in front of and behind and in front of the banner were at least two or three thousand people; Among them were at least hundreds of horses with spears and swords, and their mounts were still tied to the horses. Among the many archer brigades, there is also a group of standard crossbowmen who are obviously from the official handiwork;

Zhou Huai'an looked at it for a while, after all, he had played with crossbow hunting many times in Africa, and it was not until this thing almost represented the extreme development of long-range destruction in the era of cold weapons.

When he joined up with this friendly army in the usual sense, Zhou Huai'an, who was uneasy in his heart, could be regarded as secretly sighing and repeatedly carrying out some kind of introspection and reflection;

Sure enough, it was not so easy to survive in this ancient period, and I was obviously too big and too simple at first; If it weren't for the outing, he would have been caught up in some dangerous wishful thinking; Because he calculated all kinds of risks and possibilities, how could he ignore the existence of the local Tu people in Lingnan.

You must know that even in later generations until the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were still a large number of Tu and barbarians in Liangguang or Lingnan; In the earlier Qin and Han dynasties, the vast area south of Wuling was once the territory of the indigenous people known as Nanyue.

In this era, a large number of mountainous barbarians known as Liao slang were widely distributed in inland areas outside the coastal areas of Lingnan; Even according to the rhetoric of some local newcomers, even in the boundaries close to Guangzhou, there are scattered corresponding village settlements, among which there is a so-called "Mo Ximan" (the ancestral source of the Yao people in later generations) and "Shanhamaman" (the ancestral source of the She people in later generations).

In this regard, whether it is in the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's "Sui Yan Xing", or the great poet Liu Yuxi's "Barbarian Song" has been described and recorded from the side. And the Xishan barbarians encountered in Shixiang Town before were a larger tribe in the "Xi Mozi", a branch of the Tu tribe known as "Mo Xi", which was more fierce and did not obey the king.

If you really want to go on the road alone according to the previous impulse, I am afraid that even if you can get out of the control area of the rebels, I am afraid that you will either fall into the hands of these remnants of the Tutuan armed forces hidden in the countryside, or become a new sacrifice of these Tu barbarians.

If you want to survive, especially a better survival, and even survive with dignity and quality, sure enough, you still have to rely on the scale and strength formed by holding together; For the first time, he had a faint longing and thirst for power in the abandoned rebel army.

Therefore, under the rule of this appealing mentality, this team has the advantage of being the rear of the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finch, and most of the Tutuan soldiers who attacked and captured from the rear were all taken by Zhou Huai'an as a reason for gratitude, and took the initiative to leave it to the rebels of this department, which was also exchanged for relatively friendly and cordial treatment.

For example, ready hot food and priority medication, then neatly replenished, promised to send someone to escort the return journey on the road, and so on. So from this moment on, they finally entered a relatively safe environment, and they could recuperate and adjust.

It is said that the leader of this unit is a Lang general surnamed Zhu, but he does not have the spare time to meet in person, their small team and a self-appointed deputy battalion manager; In the end, he just sent a lieutenant named Yang Neng, who was responsible for arranging and disposing of everything related to them, and by the way, he checked the specific ins and outs.

Therefore, after exchanging information with the other party and explaining the reasons for the situation, Zhou Huai'an also took the opportunity to get acquainted with the snake and asked some things on the stick.

"Those thieves, what are their heels and their origins?"

Zhou Huai'an pretended to be surprised quietly.

"How the hell did we get bumped into."

"Obviously, the places along the way before are all where the heart is directed to the righteous army."

"It should be a Tutuan soldier from Duanzhou (Zhaoqing) of the northern branch of the small river."

Captain Yang Neng replied quite seriously.

"It is said that he also bought a number of streams and mountains in the nearby mountains, echoing and opening his eyes for them."

"These ghosts are familiar with the place, and they can secretly ambush the road, rob and kill the soldiers of our righteous army and the lonely travelers."

"At least a lot of people have died."

"The headquarters came here this time, and it was also a place to help."

Then there was a new change in things, and in the news of the return from the front of Tanma, many cities, including the county seat of Sihui garrisoned by the rebels, a large area had fallen, and what happened to Shixiang Town was only a small part of it.

Therefore, under the urgency of the enemy, this group of men and horses from Guangfu did not delay too much at this ferry, and re-embarked on the journey of attacking the enemy. It's just that before leaving, he easily requisitioned the excess animal power in this small team;

Then, as a symbolic compensation, he also gave back some miscellaneous ordnance, and re-armed all of them, so that they could protect themselves on the way back; Of course, the so-called plan to send someone to escort has also failed.

For Zhou Huai'an, the most valuable of these gifts is undoubtedly that he specially asked to leave four crossbow arrows, although it is the simplest wooden single crossbow, the patent leather is polished, the bowstring is also a little soft, and the crossbow arrow has no tail feathers with a stable trajectory; But it also means relatively easy to use ranged lethality and threat;

More importantly, he wanted to use it as a sample to understand its structure and details, and try to imitate and improve the possibility.

Therefore, on the next slow return journey, he began to disassemble these crossbows back and forth in the tyrannical objects and incomprehensible eyes of the crowd of onlookers.