Chapter 17: Black Wind Mountain
"Second son, there is Black Wind Mountain in front of you, and if you want to enter Ying, you must pass through here, otherwise you will have to detour hundreds of miles more."
Atai rode to Ying Xuan's side, looked at the mountains in the distance and said.
Ying Xuan glanced around, there were few people and little smoke. This is not common in the territory of Chu State, the most populous country, which shows that the bandits near Heifeng Mountain are very fierce.
"The horse is also tired, so let's go to the town ahead and rest first."
Ying Hao nodded, if he hadn't followed Ying Xuan and his party, Mo Yan under his crotch would probably not be far from Ying at this moment.
Before the group had even entered the town, the deafening sound of horses' hooves was heard.
The old man in sackcloth was walking around the town with his waist bent, and when he heard the deafening sound of horses' hooves, he shouted anxiously, "The bandits are here again!" The bandits are here again! ”
Immediately afterwards, the few people on the street fled back to their homes, and the doors and windows were closed.
When Ying Xuan and his party came to the town, the breeze blew, and only a trace of sand remained.
Ying Hao walked around the neighborhood and found that there was no one, and said to Ying Xuan, "What's the situation!" ”
The careful Ying Xuan saw the clue and said, "These people should treat us as bandits." ”
Ah Tai asked, "Second son, do you want to explain?" ”
When Ying Xuan was about to refuse, he had a plan.
Since the bandits in the Black Wind Mountain are raging, and Ying Xuan and his party cannot be stronger if they do not have a geographical advantage, it is better to lure the bandits on the mountain to the town and use the geographical advantages of the town to ambush.
"The people of the Chu State! I am waiting for the order of the King of Song to go to Yingdu to participate in the banquet held by Lord Ling Yin, don't misunderstand! ”
Ying Xuan used his strength to make a sound in the dantian, although he didn't roar, he could hear it clearly within dozens of meters around.
Soon, Ying Xuan saw that the windows of several families had opened a crack, revealing a pair of eyes to look at Ying Xuan and his party.
Ying Xuan and his party were dressed in clothes and Chu Guo were very surprised, and there was a world of difference between them and those bandits, and reasonable people could also understand that Ying Xuan and his party were not thieves at all, and the thieves would never coax them when they entered the town, they had already robbed them directly, and they would not grind with them.
A gate was the first to open, and it was the old man who had just shouted that the bandits were coming, and he was hunched over and shouted, "Villagers! Not a bandit! ”
After the doors opened, Ying Xuan had already dismounted and supported the old man's body, and asked, "Old man, are there any bandits around here?" ”
The old man saw that Ying Xuan was not dressed like an ordinary person, and he came to support him regardless of his identity, and he was moved, and said, "There is a Black Wind Mountain near here, and there is a Black Wind Village on it, claiming to have eight hundred people. The road of Heifeng Mountain is a road to Yingdu, and some of the caravans on the road have backgrounds, and these mountain bandits dare not move. When their business is not good, they will come to our town to get food. ”
"No, recently because of Zhaoyang Lingyin's banquet in Black Wind Mountain, the people who go to Black Wind Mountain are either rich or expensive, they don't dare to provoke, it has not been opened for ten days, so they notified us two days ago and asked us to prepare food to get it."
"I'm really sorry for misunderstanding that Childe was a bandit before!"
Ying Xuan smiled indifferently: "The old man is serious, it is we who disturbed the villagers!" ”
"Second brother, these mountain bandits claim to be eight hundred, but in fact, there must not even be five hundred, or we will pick them?" Ying Hao felt that the mountain bandits were actually bluffing, so he said.
"Big brother, think about it, this is not a march to fight, the army deliberately says that its numbers are high can cause pressure and fear to the enemy, but if the mountain bandits do this, there is only one consequence, that is, they will be exterminated by the army! No country will allow bandits to grow. Therefore, the bandits are claimed to have 800 people, but in fact there may be more than 1,000 people! ”
After listening to Ying Xuan's analysis, Ying Hao felt quite tricky. Even if the combat power of the mountain bandits and others is unbearable, but under the absolute numerical superiority, even if they can defeat the mountain bandits, they will definitely pay a heavy price. Ying Hao is not willing to put his younger brother in danger for a group of mountain bandits.
Ying Xuan naturally saw that Ying Hao was worried, patted Ying Hao's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, just mountain bandits, how many people come, I will let him bury as many people!" ”
"Childe! The mountain bandits are coming down! ”
At this time, a soldier from the Ying clan came on a horse and said urgently to Ying Hao and Ying Xuan.
As soon as the words fell, the people of the surrounding Chu State exploded and panicked.
Ying Hao frowned, and when he wanted Ying Xuan to go first, Ying Xuan had already opened his mouth and asked, "How many people?" ”
"Look at the posture, about seventy or eighty people!"
After listening, Ying Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and shouted to the people of Chu State, "Can you borrow your house for use, Ying Xuan has a way to retreat from the enemy!" ”
The old man's face was like dust, he shook his head, and sighed, "This son, you better go first, even if you kill these people, more people will come to take revenge on you." ”
Ying Xuan still has to go to Yingdu through the Black Wind Mountain, so naturally it is impossible to delay for this group of bandits, and luring the bandits down is the only way. He said, "Everyone, I have a perfect plan to deal with the bandits, as long as everyone is united, we will definitely be able to drive the bandits out of Black Wind Town!" ”
After the words were finished, the people of Chu State were still flustered, obviously Ying Xuan's words did not play any role, with a hundred enemies? That's something that only a battle-hardened general can do!
"In the past, Qu Zi was humiliated by the loss of the country, and even though he died, he jumped through the ages and passed down to future generations! It is better to die standing than to live on your knees! As long as we are united in the fight against the bandits, even if we die, what does it matter? ”
Ying Xuan did not give up, but gradually stimulated the blood in the hearts of these people, and made the people wake up with a few words.
"Folks, listen to the old man!" The rickety old man poked the ground with a wooden branch, stretched out his deadwood-like palm to signal everyone not to panic, the old man was very prestigious in the town, and soon, everyone looked at the old man quietly.
"Folks! I've lived in this town for forty years, and before the beasts in Blackwind Mountain came, I remember that the town was bustling with people... Afterward! After this group of brutes came, they burned, killed, and plundered in our town, and the people in the town died and fled! A town of thousands! Now, how many people are left? ”
The words of the rickety old man made the people of Black Wind Town silent, and those who stayed were also people who had lived in this town for a long time, full of nostalgia for the town, and they had also watched how the bandits of Black Wind Village destroyed this town step by step. They were also angry, but could not do anything about it.
Speaking of this, the old man said the threat of the mountain bandits two days ago: "Folks, just the day before yesterday, that group of bandits sent someone to say, let's raise a thousand taels of silver, ten cows, and ten sheep!" If they don't give it to them on time, they say they will arrest the women as prostitutes, and the men as slaves! ”
"What! One thousand taels of silver! Where do we have so much money now! Isn't that pushing us to the brink of extinction! ”
"This group of bandits is really getting more and more excessive, last month's money has drained us, where is there so much money!"
"Since the bandits won't give us a way to live! Damn it! We're going to fight with them! ”
"That's right! Fight! Big deal, die! Eighteen years later, Lao Tzu is a good man again! ”
There were also dozens of men among the few hundred people left, and at this moment the blood qi was finally awakened and shouted loudly.
"Good! Don't be impulsive! This batch of bandits is only a small part, and we can solve it! All you have to do is lend us a few houses! ”
Ying Xuan's group was extraordinary, far more powerful than the bandits on the mountain, and this group of villagers hid in the house under Ying Hao's guidance......
At this time, Atai, who was not far away, drove a horse to Ying Xuan quickly, and said in a calm tone, "Second son, the mountain bandits are already less than five miles away from us!" ”
Hearing this, Ying Xuan will gather everyone around him and arrange a strategy.
"Atai, I'll let you lead forty men with bows and arrows to the two rooms on the left. Big brother, you take forty other people with bows and arrows to ambush at the exit of the town, and when they come in, don't shoot, big brother, if you see them going out, shoot hard. Atai! I'll let you shoot in a while, and you'll shoot when you catch someone! ”
When Ying Hao heard this, he nodded directly and didn't ask anything, until Atai frowned and asked puzzledly: "If you don't leave a few alive mouths to go back and report the news, how can you lure all the mountain bandits down?" ”
"If we let a few live mouths go back to report the news, those who fled back will definitely exaggerate our strength in order to cover up their mistakes, and the Black Wind Village will definitely come out. And from the time they came back to report the news to the time they came back again, we didn't have time to set a trap at all. ”
"If we keep all of them, the people of Black Wind Village will definitely send people to Black Wind Town again if they don't understand that they haven't come back, so that we can further weaken their forces. And there's more time to lay out the traps. ”
While listening to Ying Xuan's analysis, Ah Tai's eyes gradually changed when he looked at Ying Xuan, and he felt a little more admiration!