The man fell to the ground, the torch in his hand was discarded aside, only a few inches away from the dry firewood at Zhang Qi's feet, but the fire tongue **** dry firewood failed to attract it, Zhang Qi breathed a long sigh of relief, if this man was planted forward, he would have to enjoy the burning in advance.

Feather arrows whistled from the night sky, the angle was different, the accuracy was abnormal, Hong Xiaoyan and his guards fell to the ground one after another, but the onlookers of the cave were unscathed, suddenly attacked, everyone did not know why, stood in a daze, suddenly a whistle sounded sharply, it was a whistle of early warning.

The cave people were crying and scattering, Hong Shayan and his guards wanted to keep the people together as hostages, and suddenly heard shouts of killing and shaking the sky all around, and saw the stilt building, the granary and the pigsty of the cave village on fire.

Hong Shayan panicked, improper command, the cave soldiers saw that their homes and wealth were swallowed up by the fire, and their mood was in a big disorder, some people quietly dropped bamboo guns and iron knives, took off the shabby leather armor on their bodies, and quietly blended into the fleeing crowd, in order to prevent the dereliction of duty from being investigated, the cave soldiers who escaped from the battle took the initiative to join the ranks of panic makers.

At night, as it gets dark, the panic continues to spread, and more people join the ranks of the panic makers, consciously or unconsciously, and a terrible scream comes from the mouth of a woman who runs madly towards the burning house.

"Fight the fire!"

The sound of firefighting resounded through the valley, and no one had the heart to resist it, and no one wanted to investigate where the cold arrows that were coming from the night sky came from.

Although Hongyan Cave is one of the best caves in this area, it is not without enemies, and he is also one of the "best in the world" by force.

In addition to the old and weak women and children, everyone in the cave village can be called a soldier, and when they were suddenly attacked, the cave soldiers in the cave village were chaotic for a while, and now they have come back to their senses. Someone blew the horn of the guards gathering, and the cave soldiers separated from the fleeing cave people in twos and threes, and soon gathered forty or fifty people.

Most of the weapons in their hands are bamboo guns, bamboo bows, and bamboo crossbows, and only a few of them have iron weapons. Under the command of the commander of the guard, the cave soldiers were divided into three groups, one group of hand-held leather shields to protect the cave master to retreat to the back mountain, and the other group remained in place and broke off.

There was also a group of cave soldiers running back to the mountain, and there was a natural cave on the hillside behind the stockade, which contained the secret weapon of the stockade - medicine arrows.

The composite bow and crossbow equipped by the enemy are stable, accurate, and ruthless, and the rate of fire and range are far beyond the bamboo crossbow and bamboo bow of the cave village.

To the surprise of the attackers, the cave soldiers carried leather shields in their hands.

The information they had received before the battle was that the Hongyandong people only knew how to use the simple Teng shield, which was large and bulky and unsuitable for head-on encounters, while the leather shields they were using were suitable for head-on confrontation.

But soon they discovered the weakness of the wildlings, their shields were too old and broken, and there were very few of them, their iron weapons were very few and broken, and the bows and crossbows they used were all simple bamboo bows and bamboo crossbows, with short range, poor strength, and average stability, if they did not use the legendary poison arrows, there was no suspense that this raid would have won.

After the situation was generally under control, Li Mao and Qin Mo appeared in the cottage. Beside them, a guard held a hemp rope in his hand, and a young girl was tied to one end of the hemp rope.

The girl wore a white silk scarf around her neck.

"Tell me where the poison and arrows are hidden, and I'll spare these people from dying."

Qin Mo pointed to the dozen or so wounded and captured cave soldiers lying on the ground, and threatened the girl.

The girl Hong Ermu gritted her teeth, but she didn't say a word.

"Hey, you're joking with you."

Qin Mo stepped forward with his knife, and he stabbed him in the thigh with an injured cave soldier, who was only a teenager, thin and thin, but his eyes were as fierce as a wolf, Qin Mo didn't like it.

The cave soldier screamed in pain. The pain was contagious, causing a commotion among the captives around them.

"Don't kill, I say, I say."

The girl Hong Ermu pointed to a lonely peak in the back mountain with her hand: "There is a cave there. ”

A six-man squad of six men came out silently, carrying a full load of quivers and a formidable compound crossbow.

Li Mao bent down and picked up a leather shield on the ground, the leather shield is very light and strong, although the manufacturing process is a little rough, it is very comfortable to hold in his hand, but the shield is very old, and the **** in the corner has been polished, revealing the wood used as a support frame.

"This should be something left over from the civilization of ten years ago."

Li Mao threw the shield on the ground and stepped on it, and the leather shield was damaged.

The girl Hong Ermu glanced at Li Mao, with deep fear in her eyes.

Li Mao asked her again: "What about your aunt, why don't you see her old man?" ”

Hong Ermu lowered his head, thinking about whether to tell the whereabouts of her aunt Hong Zhu.

A small colonel rushed over and reported to Li Mao: "The inside and outside have been swept away, Hong Xiaoyan fled into the cave in the back mountain, got the poison arrow, and we can't go up." ”

Qin Mo said: "Why can't you go up, what is the shield in your hand for?" ”

"The road is so narrow that only one person can walk, and they only need to use two bows to block the way." But we can't go up, and they can't get down. ”

Qin Mo said: "Then guard the entrance of the cave and trap them." Speaking of this, he dragged the rope and led Hong Ermu over and asked, "Is there another exit in the cave?" ”

Hong Ermu didn't like the cave master Hong Shayan, but he didn't like the rude and vicious man in front of him.

She clenched her teeth, puffed up her chest, and stubbornly raised her head, but she didn't say a word.

Qin Mo raised his horsewhip to make a gesture to whip, but Hong Ermu was not afraid at all, but puffed up his chest to meet it. Qin Mo put down the horsewhip stupidly, good men don't fight with women, this is what Li Mao said, whipping a defenseless girl, he felt down.

Li Mao looked at the surrounding terrain and judged that there would be no other exit from the cave in the back mountain, they had medicine arrows in their hands, and they had geographical advantages, so it was not suitable to attack them for the time being. If you can't attack, then slow down, but you are not afraid that they will run away.

Li Mao turned around and came to the stake in the square and looked at the three naked men.

The three men were also looking at him, and Zhang Qi couldn't help but shout at first: "What do you see, don't you have it yourself?" ”

Li Mao pinched his nose, smiled slightly, waved his hand to put Hu Chuan down first, and in the short fierce battle just now, he saw the arrows flying in front of him, and heard the slightest sound of feathers cutting through the air, and he was very unbearable for a while.

"It's strange that you can be unscathed by these arrows."

Qin Mo snorted gloatingly, but shouted in his heart that he was glad, because of Hong Ermu's non-cooperation, there was a slight error in the timing of this attack, they should have started with a cup of tea earlier, at that time, the three of them were still locked in the water prison, much safer, as soon as the war started, Qin Mo's eyes were always on the three of them, lest the stray arrow go the wrong way and take the lives of his three good brothers.

The crossbowmen in charge of sniping are all among the best figures in the guards, and naturally they will not miss the arrow, but the strange thing is that Hong Shayan did not kill three people to vent his anger when he was defeated, whether it was a mistake, or disdain, or the simplicity of these savages, Qin Mo didn't know, and he didn't want to know, he pulled the knife into a beautiful knife flower, and returned the knife to the sheath.

Only then did he smile and untie his leather coat and wrap it around Zhang Qi, whose lips were already frozen and blue, hard as a piece of wood.

"You...... When I say this, I will cut it off with you...... Delivered. Zhang Qi was furious and trembled and threatened.

Qin Mo laughed and handed over his good brother to the guards beside him. took a battle axe in his hand, and knocked down the wooden stake that bound Han Yi three times and five times, saving Han Yi. He stroked Han Yi's bald head and praised it repeatedly: "Good head, good head, if you don't die in a big disaster, you will have a blessing." Brother, from today onwards, you and Brother Mao are a family, look at this bald head, tsk, it's really not good to shave, and there is a scar, what kind of knife is used, this is, shaving such a big bit. It hurts, tsk. ”

When Qin Mo commented on Han Yi's new hairstyle, the witch doctor Hong Zhu was escorted over.

After Li Mao's guards took control of Hongyan Cave, they found a stone niche on the cliff wall when they searched around, and there seemed to be a person in it.

Everyone was surprised, a figure like a huge black crow jumped out of the stone niche, fluttering and falling on the flat ground under the cliff, five or six feet high, the old woman was unscathed.

She can speak the official dialect of the Han family, and she keeps saying that she wants to see Li Mao and her nephew Hong Ermu.

The guard was stunned by Fang Cai's scene, how dare he take him to see Li Mao? The old woman smiled slightly, and took the initiative to stretch out her withered hand like a bird's claw, asking the guards to tie her up.

Seeing that she was old and frail, and her legs and feet were not very flexible, everyone hesitated for a while and put a steel cuff anklet on her, which brought her to Li Mao.

When Hong Ermu saw the old woman, he glanced at her again and again, telling her not to speak.

The little girl's little trick couldn't hide from Li Mao's eyes, and he quietly observed the old and the young.

The lieutenant reported: "This person can speak official language, and she wants to see Brother Mao and Miss Hong Ermu." ”

Li Mao nodded, and looked at the old woman carefully, with messy hair, hunched back, wearing a wide and dirty linen robe, with deep eye sockets on her frowning face, and a pair of black eyes as clear and deep as well water.

Li Mao said: "Are you blind? ”

The old woman nodded: "It's been ten years." ”

Li Mao said: "You are Mrs. Huang." ”

The old woman said: "This name has not been called for ten years." ”

Li Mao said: "I'm sorry for killing many of your clansmen, but I can't help it, it's all to save people." ”

The old woman said: "The unpleasantness is over, now that they are unarmed, can the chief open the net?" ”

Qin Mo said: "The net is open, you said lightly, there are still your people on the mountain, with poisonous arrows in their hands, I want to open the net, people want to kill us all." ”

The old woman said quietly: "We can make a deal." ”

Hong Ermu exclaimed: "Auntie! ”

Qin Mo pointed at Hong Ermu and said, "You shut up for me, you kid is the most confused, if you are willing to agree to cooperate with us, as for the death of so many innocent people?" ”

Hong Ermu was speechless. If she hadn't been clever enough to deceive Li Mao, her people would indeed have died a lot less.

The old woman looked at her neck with a slightly surprised expression, as if she could see the circle of white silk cloth wrapped around her neck.

Hong Ermu had a silk handkerchief wrapped around her neck, and under the silk handkerchief was a slender and long wound, which was cut by Qin Mo on her neck with a knife.

After stabbing her, Li Mao and Qin Mo walked away, and the girl stopped the wound with a washed and hairy silk handkerchief according to the treatment method her aunt had taught her, and struggled back to the cottage.

A moment later, as she struggled to remove the cover that covered the entrance to the cottage, a pair of powerful thugs slapped her on the shoulder, and then she saw the smiling face that she hated.