"Caravans? Not, fleeing? Not like that. Jiang Zuo couldn't help frowning, the Ding Zhuang guarding the door had already carried bundles of arrows and stones up the wall, and a few were lighting the stove and preparing to boil the water. Then the strange procession stopped, and several knights slowly approached this direction.

"Stop, don't look like a horse thief!" The leader stopped his subordinates, he cautiously retreated behind the female wall, and said to Jiang Datou: "You have a loud voice, where did you come from?" What to do? Where to? ”

"Whoa!" Jiang Datou answered, cleared his throat, and shouted loudly, "Where did you come from?" What are you going to do? Where are you going? ”

The knights stopped, talked to each other for a few words, and a man came to the place where he was about a stone's throw away, and shouted loudly: "We are merchants from the south, doing business, I want to ask, how to get to the Yujia village?" ”

"Yujia Village? Do business? Liar! The leader sneered: "There are horse thieves everywhere over there, and they are all trading with you with knives!" ”

"Then ignore them?" Jiang Datou asked.

"Tell them!" The leader sneered: "Don't stop the goods that want to die, they brought it on themselves anyway!" ”

"Hmm!" Jiang Datou stammered his tongue, turned around and shouted to the knight outside: "Yujia Village, right, go west along the river, about forty miles away, just next to a hill, overgrown poplar forest!" ”

"Thank you so much!" The knight arched his hand, touched it from his bosom, and shook it twice on his head with a sling, but heard only one sound. But it was something that hit the ground. Jiang Datou picked it up and wiped the ashes to see, but it was a silver ingot, about two or three taels, and when he looked back, he saw the knight shouting to this side: "Thank you for this big brother, that piece of silver will buy you a glass of wine to drink!" ”

"Get out of the way, take back all your claws to Lao Tzu!" Jiang Datou opened a few outstretched hands, put the silver into his arms, looked back at the departing riding shadow, and sighed secretly in his heart: "Bodhisattva bless kind-hearted people." Don't run into those wolf cubs! ”

"Will the Lord. Walk along the river, forty miles to the west! Liu Sheng returned to the team and said to Zhou Ping. Hearing this, people's faces were full of joy, and the smell of gnawing dry food and sleeping on the meadow along the way was indeed unpleasant. The group that followed Zhou Ping earlier was better. Those who only joined the army in Zhending Mansion are much worse. Most of them used to be farmers, and many of them were traveling across states and counties for the first time, and they heard that they were about to reach their destination. I couldn't help but let out a cheer.

"Humph! A bunch of mud legs! It was the man who was tied to the wheel of the car who sneered, and saw that the man was wearing a short leather robe, and one leg was tied with a dried willow branch as a splint, but it was the Liao army who was crushed by a dead horse that day. It turned out that after this guy was captured by Niu Gaosheng that day, he was not killed, but asked the casual doctor to treat his leg injury and brought him all the way. Zhou Ping planned to learn more about the tactics of the cavalry at that time from him.

"Then walk ten miles first, rest for the night, and strive to get to Yujia Village tomorrow!" Zhou Ping ordered. The crowd cheered, turned around and headed west.

"Brother Yue!" Niu Gao was wearing a leather coat, holding the handle of the knife on his waist with one hand, and said to Yue Fei on the side: "Where is Zhou Ping going to take us this week!" Isn't Yanjing in the north? How do you go west? Why do I feel that the more I go, the more desolate it becomes! ”

"Silence!" Yue Fei snorted coldly, he looked at the back of Xue Liangyu in front of him, and said in a low voice: "Whispering is forbidden in the army, don't you know?" Watch out for the leader's spine! ”

"I'm afraid of him as a bird, I'm not afraid of Lao Tzu's death, and I'm afraid of those spine sticks!" Niu Gao was not afraid of what he said, but his voice was not small, he looked at Xue Liangyu's attention in front of him and was not on his side, and leaned his head towards Yue Fei: "Brother Pengju, I heard that the general surnamed Zhou is your old acquaintance, why didn't he give you an official?" I don't miss the old love anymore. ”

"Hugh is talking nonsense, what do you know!" Yue Fei snorted coldly: "Brother Juncheng, this is what it looks like to do great things, I just came here, and I was promoted before I made an inch, what will others think?" Besides, if you have made meritorious service, didn't you reward you? ”

"Also, this week's general is not a stingy person!" Hearing this, Niu Gao grinned, and he patted his bulging pocket: "It's a pity that it's not in Zhending Mansion, otherwise with these dozen or so copper, I will definitely invite Brother Yue to go to Vasheri to have a good time!" ”

At this moment, a whistle suddenly sounded in front of the convoy, followed by another whistle, as if it should be reconciled. Yue Fei's face changed greatly: "Tanqi has met someone!" ”

Almost at the same time, the first big car sounded: "Stop, pass on, stop!"

With a sound of "stop", the convoy gradually stopped, and then, under the command of the leaders of the cars, the whole convoy formed a semi-oblate circle with its back against the river, and people and livestock were on the inside of the formation.

"There are horse thieves, horse thieves!" Liu Sheng, who was on the task of leading the way and scouting, rolled down from his horse panting, and the look on his face at this time was in stark contrast to the complacent look of Fang Cai in front of the stockade, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.

"How many centaurs!" Zhou Ping asked anxiously.

"I don't know, at least more than a thousand!" Liu Sheng's face turned pale: "How can there be such a large number of horse thieves, how can it be, this season!" ”

"A thief is like a comb and a soldier is like a grate, and the common people can't get by-" Zhou Ping said this, sighed, and said: "Pass the order, put on armor, and send down the divine arm and bow, without my order, you are not allowed to send an arrow without permission." ”

Zhou Ping's order was quickly passed down, and at this time the role of the forty-odd veterans was manifested, driven by the backs of their swords and leather shoes, although they were a little panicked, all the people were in place, the spearmen with spears in the front, the short soldiers with Taiping axes and sabers in the back, and the archers with divine arms at the back, and the coachmen were responsible for carrying arrows and winding.

"Bang!" With a sound, a hole appeared in the wall of the carriage behind Zhou Ping, and before he could react to what was going on, he was thrown to the ground by Liu Sheng.

"What's wrong?"

"It's a sling, and the horse thief is hitting us with that!" Liu Sheng turned around and shouted to the rest of the people: "Hide behind the carriage, and those who have helmets must wear them!" ”

The people behind the carriage lined up to hide behind the carriage according to Liu Sheng's shout, and some simply lay on the ground, but from time to time someone was hit by a stone, made a miserable scream, or simply fainted. The stone or lead bullets fired by these slings are so powerful that even from a hundred paces away, a soldier in iron armor will often break his head and bleed. And pebbles are much cheaper than arrows, the only drawback is that this is a weapon that requires a lot of skill from the user, and it is rare for someone to be able to hit a person fifty meters away on horseback, but it is enough to cover the shot.

Zhou Ping struggled to raise his head from the grass and looked out from the gap in the wheels, he could see hundreds of horse thieves shooting with slings at a distance of about one hundred and fifty meters from the convoy, and about five or six meters to his right, a corpse was lying on the ground, blood and brains were splashed everywhere, and the moans and screams of the injured were heard behind him, like hell.

"Bastard, let me go, you bastards!" A voice came from above Zhou Ping's head, and when he looked up, it was the captured remote blocker, only to see that he struggled to break free from the rope, but the cowhide made of raw cowhide struggled more and more tightly, and strangulated into his flesh, and even his face turned purple.

"Zhou Ping, you son of a bitch, let go of Lao Tzu!" When the distant blocker found that Zhou Ping was looking at him, his voice became even more high-pitched, and it was no wonder that several stone bullets hit the carriage he was in in a row, and even the wall of the carriage made several holes.

Zhou Ping smiled, pulled out the short knife on his waist, got up and quickly pulled the leather cord on his body twice, and the far stop quickly tore open the cowhide rope, and he didn't care about his injured leg, so he threw himself on the ground, and then let out a miserable scream.

"What to do with these horse thieves?" Zhou Ping asked as he leaned on the ground.

"Why does Lao Tzu want to help you? It's our Khitans over there! Yuan's eyes widened in anger.

"The horse thieves can't tell the Khitan people and the Han people when they come in, and they are all chopped into sections, if you don't believe it, run out and shout to them, and see if they recognize you?"

Yuan Yanzi grew his mouth, but he didn't speak, and after a moment he replied in a low voice: "The horse thief can't keep fighting like this, he always has to come over, you have a divine arm bow, put it close and give it to a guy!" ”

"Hmm!" Zhou Ping laughed: "Sure enough, it's almost the same as I thought!" He crawled to the side twice, and said to the little leader on the side: "Pass it on, and you are not allowed to send an arrow without my order!" ”

After a while, the stone throws of the horse thieves gradually became sparse, and the convoy without any return fire made them hesitate, and although pebbles were cheaper than arrows, they were not so easy to find in the grasslands. Zhou Ping noticed this, looked at Yue Fei not far away, and shouted: "Pengju, you go to the roof of the car and say that we are willing to surrender!" ”

Yue Fei immediately understood what Zhou Ping meant, he quickly climbed onto the roof of the car, waved his arms above his head and shouted: "Don't fight, don't fight, let's surrender!" ”

After Yue Fei shouted twice, the stone bullets of the horse thieves gradually stopped, and then there was a burst of laughter, although Zhou Ping still couldn't understand the language of the horse thieves, it was not difficult to hear the arrogance and smugness in his tone. He smiled slightly, got up, leaned back against the wheel, and gestured to the group.

"Guys are ready, I'll give these dog thieves a good look later!" (To be continued......)