Chapter 8: Night Raid II
Hu Ding listened to the child's words, the big stone in his heart finally put down, although Hu Ding has been thinking about how to escape, but Hu Ding did not learn very good history, vaguely remember the end of the Ming Dynasty is a few years, the Ming Dynasty will usher in a rare catastrophe, the whole north is either a drought or a locust plague, because of various internal and external reasons, so that the country is not able to help the victims, resulting in the largest number of farmers in history, but also because the Ming court did not attach much importance to the peasant army, the whole country was greatly damaged, and even the destruction of the country. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Of course, the current Hu Ding does not have any sense of historical responsibility as a crosser, but Hu Ding knows that if he loses these sweet potatoes, Hu Ding really does not know whether he can survive the famine in the Xiaoice River period at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Because of history, the famine and war at that time made a large area of land barren in Qilu, west of Youyan Mountain, and it was uninhabited for thousands of miles. The current Hu Ding doesn't think that he can get through it, because in that era, many large families like Yang Quan's main family did not carry it, not to mention Yang Quan's poor man now.
"Okay, okay, I'll hand over the things in this car to you, you should be careful on the way, try not to bump into it, this is a good thing, if you keep it well, when you go back, you will be indispensable!"
The kid looked at Hu Ding's excited appearance, and also knew the value of the things in his car, although he was curious, he still didn't ask, just nodded, "Don't worry, Brother Yang, just leave this matter to me." ”
At this time, there was a sudden bang in front of the convoy, and someone shouted rarely, "Listen to the guards of the house, Steward Qin said, let everyone gather in front of the convoy!" ”
Hu Ding frowned, finally couldn't help but do it? He looked at the figure walking towards the front of the convoy, and suddenly his heart moved, he reached out and patted the shoulder of the child in front of him, "Now Brother Yang has given you one thing, when we go to the meeting, you go and drive the car and Miss's car together, and put them in the same formation as in the afternoon, remember, don't be greedy, how many cars can be rushed." How's that, do you understand? ”
The child looked at Hu Ding's serious expression, nodded like a chicken pecking rice, Hu Ding saw the figure of Donald Er's group, and quickly followed, and when he walked in, the people just now were gone.
Tang Lao Er also saw Hu Ding and nodded at him. Hu Ding was relieved. When they came to the front of the convoy, they saw the two stewards standing in front of the convoy, looking at the guards below with a serious face. At this time, the younger Qin Er steward shouted at the people below
"Are you all here? Now I will talk about tonight's defense, in the first half of the night, the front is Zhang Tiezhu and Sun Laosan on duty, and the second half is Yang Quan and Tang Laoer, in the second half of the night, there are two of us assigned to patrol and inspect the goods. When the time comes, they will sleep like dead pigs. “
The people below laughed, and the old Qin housekeeper next to him coughed, and the laughter below immediately stopped, and he looked at the quiet crowd with satisfaction. said with a smile, "Everyone don't listen to the second child's nonsense, you have worked hard all day, or rest assured, just patrol the people on duty at night, you have to cheer up." You must guard against the night attack of the mountain bandits, you must lift your spirits, don't slack off"
Hu Ding listened to the old man's arrangement, and pursed his lips disdainfully, this special thing is simply to open his arms and let the mountain bandits rob him. With such a large convoy of only three or four people on duty for the night, and an indefinite number of people patrolling the night, if the mountain bandits really came, what would they do?
Hu Ding shook his head, followed the crowd behind him, and walked towards the place where he was camping, and when he arrived in front of the young lady's carriage, he saw a group of people in front of him.
"What's going on, what's going on, why are you all crammed here?" When the people in charge of Qin arrived, they found that the convoy, I don't know who had gathered several cars together, happened to surround the young lady's carriage in the center, but the black lights were blinding, and it was a little difficult to separate the carriage. At the moment, these people had no choice but to accept this fact.
The night finally deepened, and the family members who had worked all day were snoring one after another, Hu Dingze looked blankly at the beautiful figure projected by the candlelight on the window of the young lady's carriage, and somehow, Hu Ding thought of the appearance of the person in the car, and couldn't help but look stupid.
"Brother Yang, how is it, I did a good job" After a while, the kid who drove the car slipped to Hu Ding's side, and Hu Ding patted his head, "Yes, you go to bed early, you have to hurry tomorrow." ”
The boy nodded, turned and dived into the darkness. "Brother Yang, we are all ready," Hu Dingzheng was flustered, he heard a whisper behind him, he looked back, only to see several people standing behind him, Hu Ding waved his hand, those people were moving some things, and they all moved into the carriage in a circle.
"Big brother, are those guys really coming back tonight?" Tang Lao Er looked at the darkness in the distance and couldn't help asking.
Hu Ding shook his head, and was about to say something, but he heard a light suddenly turn on in the distance, and then a noisy shout of killing came through. When Hu Ding heard this voice, his expression relaxed. He jerked himself to his feet from the ground. He said to the dark shadow behind him, "Let's go!" Let's go to the inside of the car! ”
As soon as they stood still, they heard bursts of screams from the convoy, and in the dark night, they couldn't see where the enemy was, and then the torches lit up one by one. In an instant, he was slashed by those people and fled.
Sun Laosan was the one who arranged the night vigil with Hu Ding, he had just patrolled to the back of the convoy at that time, at this time, in the dark woods, there was the sound of Xi Xi Suosuo, Sun Laosan was stunned, and laughed randomly, this is so close to the convoy in the middle of the night, it must be the night when the family gets up at night,
He just wanted to turn around and go back, but he saw a ragged figure in the night, and then the light flashed, and the family member in a carriage in front of him shook for a moment, and then a round thing rolled in front of him, Sun Laosan took a closer look, but it was the head of the night watchman, and his face still retained that shocked expression. But he didn't even scream, and he lost his life.
"Enemy attack!" Sun Laosan, who was stunned for a moment, just had time to shout like this, he felt his neck cold, and then fell to the ground, in his eyes, a thin figure came out of the woods, and after cutting down several people in a row, he was finally found by the people in the convoy, and then those family members were cut down by those people in a row.
In Sun Laosan's eyes, he finally saw a thin man wearing a family uniform, leading those people and rushing towards the back of the convoy.