The fire of the withered grass has been extinguished, staining the morning sky gray.

Although dozens of carefully selected pioneers were killed, and the bloody corpses were still tied to the stakes, which had a great deterrent to the bandits, but the perennial knife licking blood made a living, naturally could not flee back in disgrace, let alone make a loss-making deal, no matter what, the caravan was a fat sheep.

"Boss Yue, Xiao Hu is willing to be a pioneer!" Carrying a short axe shining with cold light, Xiao Hu, a black-faced strong man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, stepped forward and took the initiative to ask for help.

"The vanguard has been destroyed, the morale is already low, if you lose for a while, I'm afraid there will be no more heart to attack!" Lou Zi'an glanced at Xiao Hu with contempt on the side, and hugged his fist to the big boss Yue You, "The sword has no eyes, if the second master is folded under the hillside, wouldn't it be a great loss for my Shiyun Village, it's better to let the little brother lead someone to charge!" ”

Xiao Hu suddenly changed color when he heard this, this Lou Zi'an is not a thing, he actually cursed him if he attacked, he would die here, Xiao Hu laughed angrily, raised the short axe in his hand and suddenly rushed towards Lou Zi'an, the other party smiled coldly, took out the saber on his waist, and his eyes were full of contempt, and the subordinates of the two hurriedly rushed up to hug the leader, so as not to kill each other in their own family, but they couldn't let the enemies standing on the hillside see the joke, not to mention that Boss Yue was present, don't look at his appearance, if he is really fierce, Xiao Hu and Lou Zi'an are not enough to see.

"That's it!" Master Yue snorted coldly, looked at the hillside in the distance and said indifferently, "None of you need to go, I have my own way to break this group of experts!" ”

Han Yu, who was holding a longbow, stood beside Cui Linjiang, looking at the thieves who were standing outside the range of the bow and arrows, although these thieves were outnumbered, more than five times the number of teachers, but they had no intention of attacking, maybe the previous elite vanguard was demoralized and suffered a heavy blow, and it took some time to boost morale, or it was possible that he planned to attack at night, but one thing Han Yu could be sure of was that this group of bandits obviously did not intend to give up.

According to the calculation of time, Zhang Zhimo led people to Xuzhou to move the rescue troops for more than a day, even if the rescue soldiers were successfully moved back and forth for five days, at present, the strength of the two sides is five to one, fortunately, the caravan with a small number of people has a lot of strong people to join in, filling the vacancy of lack of personnel, although they do not practice the battle formation, but the carrying of the baggage can still be done, and the caravan occupies the favorable terrain on the hillside, the water source is sufficient, the arrows are complete, and a lot of traps are arranged around the hillside, although the number of bandits is large, if it is a crazy attack, I'm afraid there will be a terrible price to pay.

Time passed minute by minute, under the more solemn atmosphere, even the air seemed to be filled with an aura of slaughter, but the bandits who were besieging but not attacking did not know why, they were actually cooking in a pot as if no one was on the side, and they didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack, although this was very beneficial to the caravan's side, but it made Han Yu smell a breath of conspiracy.

Previously, taking advantage of the night, Zhang Zhimo had already led people to Xuzhou to move the rescuers, since there were bandits wrapped in dry grass last night, they must have noticed the people who left, even if they guessed with their toes, they could think that they must be going to Xuzhou to move the rescuers, but Han Yu was not worried that Zhang Zhimo and others would catch up with the bandits, and it was too late to stop the reports that came and went, knowing that there might be Xuzhou's officials and soldiers coming to kill them, these bandits had no intention of attacking in a hurry. Instead, he buried a pot around the area to cook and rest.

It stands to reason that seeing that his subordinates were killed, he should rush up desperately to avenge his companions, and if he was frightened by the caravan's previous methods, he should have retreated earlier, but the unusualness of the bandits made Han Yu have a bad premonition, but he pondered for a long time, and still couldn't guess what the bandits planned to do.

Han Yu sat on a rocky rock the size of a millstone on the edge of the hillside, with a longbow and quiver beside him, and a dog's tail grass in his mouth, carefully observing the group of bandits not far away, as if he was going to see something from it, but he quickly shook his head and smiled bitterly, and at this moment, suddenly more than thirty bandits suddenly rushed forward.

Han Yu, who turned over, picked up the longbow and wanted to shoot, waiting for the bandits to enter the firing range, only then did Han Yu breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that the bandits were just pretending before, and now they finally couldn't help but plan to attack them, but Han Yu's originally confident smile quickly froze, and it turned out that everything was not what he imagined.

The more than thirty bandits who rushed up were not armed with blades, but only carried quivers and longbows, and most of these people were strong men with strong bodies, and what was even more strange was that each bandit only advanced fifty steps and suddenly stopped, took out the arrows and shot them in the direction of the caravan, and soon the scattered arrows came from the air at the farthest distance of the maximum elevation angle.

"Enemy attack, raise shield!" Cui Linjiang let out a loud shout, quickly rushed to Han Yu's side, and protected him behind him.

Actually, it was a shield, but it was just some found planks with some handshake cloth tied to it, but it was enough to block these arrows.

Bang Bang!

The two arrows pierced the plank and lost their power, and those thieves who advanced fifty steps forward continued to shoot arrows with bows, as if they had completed the task, scattering randomly, and in the shortest possible time, **** all the arrows immediately returned and retreated, these arrows did not cause much damage, but many did not even go up the hillside, seeing the bandits retreat, a group of merchants and their servants and their families rushed forward, although they were very afraid of these bandits, but they still planned to come forward to see the true face.

Sneak attack? Deter? Tired of waiting for the enemy? Han Yu couldn't understand what these bandits were up to for a while.

"That's not right!" Han Yu got up suddenly, pulled out an arrow from the ground, tore off a strip of cloth from it, unfolded it and saw that there were actually a lot of words written on it, and at a glance and ten lines, Han Yu finally understood what the bandit was thinking.

"Uncle Cui!" Han Yu said, taking advantage of the situation to hand the strip of cloth that was originally tied to the arrow to Cui Linjiang.

Cui Linjiang was stunned for a moment, took the strip of cloth and looked at it a few times, and suddenly changed color and said: "These bandits are actually persuading them to surrender, it's really a joke!" Cui Linjiang's face was full of ridicule, and he casually threw the strip of cloth full of words on the ground and stepped on his feet disdainfully, "Just a few means, thinking that I can make everyone shake the line?!" ”

"It's not easy!" Han Yu pointed to some merchants and their servants and family members in the distance, and under the drive of curiosity, he took off the strip of cloth on the arrow, and some people who could read and hyphenate not only read it themselves, but also read the content to the people around them.

Han Yu saw this situation in his eyes, stepped forward again and picked up the strips of cloth on a few arrows to check carefully, the content was roughly the same, they all hoped that the caravan would disarm and surrender, if it was just this content, it would not play any incendiary role, but the person who wrote these words was obviously very insightful of human nature, and it was clearly stated that they were only avenging their brothers, as long as the caravan disarmed and surrendered, they would only kill the master who fought the line, and they had nothing to do with others. To be defeated, the caravan will not be left behind, and they will be executed.

This trick looks simple, but under the grace and power of the subtle but the caravan is divided into two groups, with the group there are interests, for the sake of interests will form an antagonism, people are also animals, with the instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, if only at the expense of a small number of practitioners, and can save their lives and property, this transaction is obviously very cost-effective.

This is also what Han Yu is worried about, if the bandits attack and kill and don't say anything, they just pick up the sword, but if these merchants and their servants and their families plan to give up protecting their practitioners, in exchange for that ethereal security and unguaranteed trust, how should Han Yu and the others deal with themselves?

As the saying goes, don't think too badly of others, but don't think too badly of others, and it's clear that some people are already a little ready to move after looking at the strips of cloth tied to those arrows.

Han Yu immediately came to Cui Linjiang's side and told him these thoughts, Cui Linjiang frowned slightly, and also realized this serious problem, if it was in a flat place, if these merchants were in the nest, the masters could ride their horses and escape, but they originally planned to hold on to it for a long time, so they occupied this piece of high ground, but now it has become a constraint, and it is impossible to ride their horses and jump down the hill to evacuate.

However, things have not happened to the irreparable step, Cui Linjiang decided to talk to those respected business leaders, as long as there is their support, I believe that the rear can be completely peaceful, Cui Linjiang handed over the command to a subordinate division, the first time to go to the tent to find the business leader, at the very moment to do extraordinary things, if someone plots wrong, can only be protected by bloody suppression.