In the camp of the Qing army's Chinese army camp, Li Tingyu stood on the top of the silver car, silently watching the chaos below the hillside, without saying a word, more than 500 soldiers wearing Ming army mandarin duck uniforms stood quietly behind him, also silent. The procession of hundreds of people, through the thick wooden fence erected in a circle around it, was as quiet as a forest, watching the valley below.

Li Yan looked at the sky, estimated the hour, quietly approached Li Tingyu's side, and said in a low voice: "My lord, almost three hours have passed, and it will be time to attack in a while." ”

Li Tingyu turned his gaze and looked at the outside of the thick wooden circle, where there was another layer of thick wooden fence covering here, forming a concentric circle, enclosing a larger circle camp, in the middle of the two circles was the camp tent of the Qing army, which firmly guarded Li Tingyu and others in the core, and could not get out or enter, and was strictly guarded.

"Well, be patient." Li Tingyu stared at Tuhai, who was still full of energy, from afar: "Just tell the brothers to get ready, it's still early before dawn, we have enough time, we can afford to wait!" ”

Li Yan nodded silently, turned around and walked to the group of soldiers standing in the pile of silver carts, everyone saw him coming, silently made a way, revealing a bundle of wooden sticks hidden in the pile, Li Yan picked up one, and checked it in his hand, one end of the wooden stick was sharpened, sharp as the tip of a spear, and the length was more than that of ordinary spears and spears.

Li Yan was very satisfied with such a weapon, and after carefully inspecting it, he put the wooden gun back in its place, stood in front of the crowd with his chest straight, and waited for the final moment to come.

Outside the fence, Tuhai was very excited, very happy, his mouth was grinning to the root of his ears, he couldn't help but be happy, on the top of this high hillside, he saw very clearly, his subordinates disguised as horse thieves were very capable, with a clear goal and went straight into the chaos, and the movements were swift, almost a quarter of an hour, and dozens of carriages were swept away, these vehicles were full of wooden boxes and iron boxes, needless to say, full of gold and silver property, this harvest was worth his harvest in Yangzhou for several days, and it took no effort to get it, How can you not be happy?

Seeing the rumbling horse team disappear outside the valley mouth, Tuhai waved his hand and sent a personal soldier to the bottom of the hill to say a few words, and asked those commanders and captains to gather the personnel of each battalion on their own, under the pretext that it was dark and the enemy situation was unknown, so they could not risk sending troops out of the camp, and let them wait until dawn.

"Haha, sons, okay, let's go back to the tent and have a good meal, tomorrow will be postponed for two hours, and we will rest before leaving!" Tuhai's generous order caused a burst of cheers from the Eight Banners, eating meat and drinking wine, who wouldn't want that? Especially the general Li Tingyu, who was quite good at being a man, paid a lot of tribute to meat and wine, and the aroma could be smelled outside the tent, and he had a big meal at dinner, and there were many leftovers, and the flag soldiers couldn't hold it anymore, so they got the order and poured into the tent in a swarm.

The slope was jubilant, the slope was desolate, and in the woods on the side of the halfway slope, Wang Huan and the others had been hiding for a long time.

Before the thieves had entered the valley, they climbed up in the dark, hid themselves in the shadows of the trees, and witnessed the whole process.

Blood splashed, countless dead people, the experience of the family team of the baggage battalion made the little monks feel cold all over their bodies, sweat flowed down their cheeks one after another, biting their lips tightly and not daring to make the slightest sound, fear, panic and even anger flowed in their hearts.

Chen Ergou stared nervously at the two soldiers standing on the roof of the carriage, one was killed by the horse thief, the flying head, so that the muscles of his body were stiff, he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time, and only turned his head stiffly after half a ring, but found that Wang Huan, who was lying next to him, was looking in the direction of the horse thief, stretching out his fingers, and gently muttering the number "one, two, three, four" in his mouth, as if he was counting something.

"What are you doing?" Chen Ergou asked softly with a trill.

Wang Huan was engrossed in counting, ignoring him, the light under the mountain was dim, and he couldn't see clearly, and it was easy to count wrongly if he was distracted. Fortunately, those horse thieves seemed to be afraid that others would not be able to see them clearly, and each of them held torches and illuminated themselves clearly from head to toe, which greatly facilitated Wang Huan's counting process.

Chen Ergou looked at Wang Huan depressedly, only to see him count twice, until the horse thief drove the car and disappeared at the mouth of the valley, he still counted carefully with his fingers on the horse's buttocks, and when he couldn't see it clearly, Wang Huan let out a long breath and said to himself happily: "There are two hundred and fifty cavalry entering the valley, and there are fifty each guarding the valley at both ends, a total of about three hundred and fifty people. ”

Chen Ergou heard it inexplicably, his eyes straightened, and he was about to ask out loud, but Wang Huan jumped up and pulled him, beckoning everyone to run into the depths of the woods at the waist of the waist.

It was almost to the other side of the hillside, from which the fire in the valley could hardly be seen, before Wang Huan stopped and stood in the middle of a glade.

Chen Ergou and the others followed him so far, they didn't know what was going on, the horse thieves had already left, what else were we running? You can go down just by waiting for a while.

However, by the moonlight and stars, everyone saw Wang Huan standing in front of everyone, his expression was extremely serious, his face was sinking like water, the cold light in his eyes made people dare not look at him, and he didn't have the usual thin little junior brother at all, although everyone knew that he was smart and witty, but this serious look was the first time I saw it.

Even his thin body seemed to be several times taller at this moment, and his momentum was compelling, with a faint sense of oppression like Li Tingyu, and the little monks couldn't help but stand a few steps away from him, forming a circle, not daring to look at him silently.

"Brothers, tonight, Lord Li Tingyu will launch anyway, kill all the Qing troops accompanying him, and return to SC Wang Huan got straight to the point, and dropped a bomb with one mouth.

"Ahh There was a burst of exclamations, and all the people present were stunned, their mouths couldn't be closed when they opened, their eyes were wide open, and they looked at Wang Huan, almost as if they didn't know him.

The sound coming out of the mouth is almost the same, and the expression on the face is different, some are surprised, some are scared, and some are excited.

"Good!" Hu Dahai, who was the first to speak, the big man who was a head taller than everyone else shouted first: "Lord Li is really a bloody man, worthy of being a hero, I know that he will definitely kill the Tartar anyway to avenge his blood!" ”

"But wouldn't it be too risky? There are a lot of Qing soldiers. The person who said this was a little monk named Yuanfu, who asked timidly.

The rest of the people didn't speak, looking at Wang Huan, at this time, everyone regarded him as the backbone, so naturally they wanted to listen to what he had to say.

Wang Huan quietly glanced at everyone's expressions, and said slowly: "Actually, there is one more thing, I have to tell you that the people who rushed into the valley to rob and kill people tonight were pretended to be Qing soldiers, and they deliberately pretended to be horse thieves in order to rob the money of their family members, in order to kill for money, and people can't recognize who did it." They grabbed the things and left, and they will definitely not come back, tonight, the Qing soldiers in this valley will not exceed two hundred, and Lord Li has five hundred elites, and he will definitely not miss. ”

There was silence again, everyone didn't know what to say, and the news after news was too exciting and needed time to digest and accept.

This time it was Chen Ergou who spoke first, he took a step forward, and shouted with his neck in his hand: "I don't care, Wang Huan, what do you say we should do, this world can't live, I'll listen to you, follow you to live!" ”

Xu Goudan was infected by Chen Ergou, his face was full of excitement, and he jumped out and wanted to say something, but Hu Dahai came first, and squeezed him aside with a big stride, Hu Dahai stood up and stood side by side with Chen Ergou, raised his eyebrows and said: "Yes, I am the same as Ergou, Wang Huan, you will be our leader in the future, we will go wherever you take us, we will listen to you!" ”

Wang Huan also felt his blood surging at this time, his head was dizzy, his spirit was uplifted, his hands were clapped on the shoulders of the two, and he said excitedly: "Okay!" In fact, I have already had a plan with Master Li, and when he starts tonight, it will be the day I join his team, and I can't hide it, Lord Li has a lot of trust in me, and has appointed me as a senator in his army, and I will join the army in the future and fight together. If you are willing, you can also join me, and the fourteen of us brothers will share weal and woe in the future, and share good and bad. ”

When everyone heard this, Wang Huan actually became an official in the Ming army, which is even more incredible, as a monk as a military counselor, from ancient times to the present, I am afraid that there are few people, everyone is even more excited, and shouted together: "Share the weal and woe, share the blessings and woes!" ”

Hu Dahai almost left tears, the big man bent down, lifted Wang Huan up, carried it on his shoulder, raised his arms and shouted: "In this world, everyone should not be this monk, follow Wang Huan, and go out to live together!"

Wang Hua sat on Hu Dahai's shoulder, looking at more than a dozen pairs of warm eyes looking at him with strong trust, more than a dozen arms dancing towards him, and the voice "Wang Huan, Wang Huan!" He was deeply aware that from this moment on, he had his first hardcore team, although there were only a dozen weak teenagers, but it would be the most reliable foundation for future development and growth.

Wang Huan raised his right hand and raised it high to the sky, and the cheers became even more enthusiastic.

In the valley, the chaos caused by horse thieves has gradually subsided, and people have lit bonfires to collect corpses and comfort the wounded. The families of the dead were crying bitterly, the wounded were groaning, and the commanders roughly counted that in this catastrophe, more than 500 people died, and countless people were injured, because it was dark and the night was deep, the number of injured could not be counted, and among the more than 500 dead, only more than 100 people were killed by horse thieves and shot by Qing soldiers, and the rest were trampled to death by each other in the dark.

Most of the battalion commanders themselves were wounded, and some were unlucky, or even died directly in the chaos. They gathered together to discuss what to do with this mess.

"Lao Li, you are the old general of the adults, come up with an idea, what can we do if those horse thieves come again?" One of the conductors had a white cloth wrapped around his head, and the cloth was soaked with specks of blood, and he shouted weakly at one tall conductor after another.

The commander who was shouted frowned deeply, and said angrily: "What can I do, the Qing soldiers don't care about us at all, just a few of us, we won't bubble up if we throw it into the pile of people outside, just wait until dawn!" ”