Chapter 20: A Great Victory
Dead and nervous loading arrows, levers, aiming, and then numb and mechanical shooting.
A body fell in front of him, and a scream was piercing in the night sky.
It seemed that after a long time, when many felt the muscles of their arms become stiff and sore, the caravan had turned black, except for the occasional low moan, and a few frightened neighing of mules and horses, except for the sound of short arrows snapping into the cart.
"Stop shooting!" Tang Xidong looked at the caravan that had stopped moving, and ordered in a loud voice.
But many of the 120 young men in the garrison were already stunned by the slaughter scene they had created, and they were so nervous that they blocked all the sounds of the outside world, and still mechanically hid in the gaps of the carts, shooting numbly.
It wasn't until Tang Xidong and Li Shangquan ran up to push and knock that they woke up.
After a long time, everyone came back to their senses and looked at the silent caravan in disbelief.
"Prepare the torch and throw it over." Tang Xidong looked at the black caravan, thought of a way, and instructed everyone.
So they divided half of the young men and began to look for torches.
After another hour, a handful of lighted torches were streaked through the air and thrown around the caravan, but fortunately these people still understood the preciousness of food, and did not ignite it.
"The Kang family who is still alive listened, slowly stood up and walked over, but they could save their lives, if they didn't listen, they would be killed, and no one would be left behind." Tang Xidong looked at the dead caravan lit by torches and said coldly.
After waiting for half a moment, he was met with a dead silence.
Tang Xidong's eyes flashed with ruthlessness, and he said loudly: "All the guards have it, dismantle the planks to pave the way, and prepare to kill them, leaving no one behind." ”
At the moment when Tang Xidong's voice fell, a miserable cry came from the caravan.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me, I'll come out, I'll come out, don't kill me!"
Screams like pigs were heard from the caravan, and they were piercing under the night sky.
"Come slowly, save your life!" Tang Xidong breathed a sigh of relief, afraid that the other party would resist.
"Master, no! Beware of thieves and deception. A voice next to him suddenly sounded.
But in response to him, there was a burst of crying and scolding: "You useless dog, do you want me to die?" Waste, waste ......"
In the midst of the crying and scolding, a figure trembling down from the carriage looked like a woman.
The woman got out of the carriage and trembled and almost fell to the ground, followed by a man again.
The man cowered and hid behind the thin woman, hiding himself, stepping on the corpse on the ground, startled from time to time, and the two of them slowly approached Tang Xidong.
In the darkness, the sound of Suosuo's footsteps and the frightened sound of the maid of the eldest young master of the Kang family sounded from time to time.
Gradually, when the two approached the convoy hidden in Tang Xidong.
Under the torch, the man's face was dull and ugly, his forehead was frightened and cold sweat, and there were tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, but he still showed a flattering laugh: "King, the little one is here, you have a lot of old people, but you have to talk and count!" ”
Tang Xidong showed a trace of disdain in his eyes, and he didn't want to look at it anymore: "Build a plank and let him come." ”
So the two young men flashed out of the car formation, kicked down, and the wooden plank nailed in front of the board car was kicked away, and the sound of the wooden plank falling to the ground made the young master tremble with fright, so even the two young men were contemptuous.
Putting on the plank, the young master was slowly walked over by the slightly calm maid.
As soon as the two of them came over, they were tied by two young men with hemp ropes: "King, you said that you won't kill anyone!" ”
When the Kang family saw that they were tied up, they were so frightened that they cried again.
"Shut up, just tie up, why did you ever cut off your dog's head?" Tang Xidong scolded impatiently, made a look, and asked the two young men to take the two of them to the side first.
"You see, those who surrender will not be killed, uncle, my patience is limited, if you want to surrender, hurry up, otherwise you will be waiting for arrows." Tang Xidong persuaded again.
Next, sure enough, there were several figures, walking cautiously and slowly, and then they were tied up one by one.
Tang Xidong calculated, and there were as many as twenty-three people who were captured.
Until finally after waiting for half a day and no one came out, Tang Xidong asked Liu Lianqing behind the wall to bring people out to press the prisoners up the mountain to guard them first, and then ordered the garrison team to start attacking.
The planks were dismantled and put on the trench, and one after another figures rushed up at speed, and a team of five people began to search vigilantly.
What made Tang Xidong breathe a sigh of relief, except for those who were injured and lying on the ground, the rest were corpses.
So a robbery that had been planned for a long time, but was accidentally helped, came to an end.
Truckloads of grain were pushed up the mountain, boxes of silver boxes with seals were carried up the mountain, mules and horses, wooden carts, weapons, and even clothes carrying corpses were carried up the mountain.
After finishing everything, Tang Xidong began to take the young man guarding the village to deal with the corpses on the official road.
The young men of the guarding team experienced a massacre, after all, they had seen blood, and these bloody jobs naturally had to be entrusted to them.
The bodies were lifted onto the carts, then pulled closer to the dense forest, dug a deep pit, and buried in a centralized manner, regardless of identity.
Even the bodies of the masked men left on the battlefield of the previous battle were all buried.
Then the entire official road was hidden overnight.
The trenches were filled and the blood was removed.
Waiting for the sky to show a trace of belly, the official road returned to normal, bloodstains, wheel marks, arrows, and limbs were all gone, except for a few traces that were difficult to deal with but difficult to find.
It was a busy night, but the whole cottage was immersed in excitement and nervousness.
Last night, everyone pushed grain up the mountain, and naturally they could estimate how much grain was harvested this time, so much grain was pulled up the mountain, and how could they not be excited if they didn't worry about the lack of food in the future.
When Tang Xidong, who was busy with everything, went to look for Liu Lianqing, he was told that Liu Lianqing was in the house where the prisoners were held at this moment.
When Tang Xidong heard this, he was anxious, afraid that Liu Lianqing would be carried away by hatred and start killing, so he hurried away.
It wasn't until Tang Xidong arrived in a hurry and saw the scene in the room that he breathed a long sigh of relief.
Although Liu Lianqing's face was cold and her eyes were full of murderous intent, she was lucky not to start concocting the eldest young master of the Kang family, but stood at the door and quietly stared at the eldest young master of the Kang family who was shrinking and hiding behind the family.
Liu Lianqing only had two guards around him, and Deng Dahu and Liu Dagou were still busy cleaning up and counting the harvest this time.
"The owner of the village." Tang Xidong reminded loudly.
Liu Lianqing turned her head, looked at Tang Xidong quietly, and then said cold words from her mouth: "Don't worry, I won't kill him, I will wait until all the Kang family members are escorted up the mountain and cut off their heads one by one with my own hands." ”
The cold language made Tang Xidong feel a little chill in his heart, how could this woman's hatred be as incomprehensible as his predecessor?
Tang Xidong knew that even if Liu Lianqing cut down the frightened young master of the Kang family at this moment, he would not have anything to say, after all, Liu Lianqing and the other party had a grudge against his father.
But when Tang Xidong caught this Kang family yesterday, he already had a new plan in his heart, and Tang Xidong was willing to see that he could leave the Kang family.