Looking at the corpses all over the ground in this camp, Faisal knew that he was in big trouble, these people were all his horse bandits, none of them were from other cottages, and there were no caravan guards, not a single one of the three hundred people died, these people were poisoned for no more than a quarter of an hour, obviously someone carefully prepared it, put exquisite food in the camp, and his subordinate horse bandits could not stand the temptation of that kind of food. Confused, everyone ate the food, so they were poisoned and died.

This is definitely premeditated and carefully designed, Faisal felt chills all over his body, since he arrived here, he was calculated to lose three hundred people before he could follow a move, which made Faisal feel so distressed that he wanted to get angry, but he didn't know who to send the fire to.

Faisal hurried to be sure, this is definitely not the nine gangs united by the cottage, they don't have such a powerful character, he Faisal and the horse bandit leaders of the nine cottages are very familiar, those people have a bit of intelligence out of Holm, and the others are reckless, it is absolutely impossible for someone to design such a vicious set for him to drill, could it be that the nine cottages have invited some wise people this time?

In fact, what Faisal didn't know was that in addition to the Nine Great Cottages were calculating him, Qin Dong was also calculating him, Qin Dong was not only calculating him, but also calculating the Nine Great Cottages, and the Nine Great Cottages and Faisal both underestimated these two caravans, and even more underestimated Qin Dong, or they didn't know that the one in charge of the overall situation in the two caravans was Qin Dong, the Hun thousand-commander, if they knew that Qin Dong, the Hun thousand-commander, was in the caravan, they were afraid that they would not dare to do anything to the caravan again.

Faisal held back his worries and asked, "Is there any news from the outpost?" ”

One of his subordinates replied, "Chief, not yet!" ”

Faisal thought about it for a moment. The order: "Load the goods into the wagon, and pull the wagon away with our horses!" Tools that don't have anything else, do it now. Especially items like ropes that pull horse-drawn carriages with horses".

"Yes, Chief!"

Under Faisal's orders, the bandits began to load the goods scattered throughout the camp, which was an easy job, but it was not easy for those who had not done this kind of work again, and it was easy to carry the goods, and Faisal had horse bandits under him. There were still a lot of them, and these people worked together to quickly gather all the goods, but they had to load them into trucks. And to maximize the use of the space of the large board truck to load more goods, this is not an easy, this seems to be easy, in fact, it is difficult for people who have not done this kind of work to put the goods high and stable. Many times the goods that the bandits had stacked on the carts collapsed on their own.

It took hours. The goods were only half loaded on the car, which made Faisal very anxious, but there was no way, he thought that after attacking the camp, he would kill those guards, and then capture those coachmen and men, with these people, the loading and unloading of goods was naturally very easy, but what he didn't expect was that the camp was empty. The coachman and the men were gone, to his complete surprise and the rest of the bandits.

Thirty miles from the camp. The leaders of the nine cottages led by Holm got that Faisal was loading the goods with his men and horses, and they lost about three hundred people when they attacked the camp, which made the leaders of the horse bandits led by Holm very happy, if they took the lead in attacking the camp, I am afraid they would also die more than three hundred people, and now this loss is borne by Faisal, which proves their wisdom and wisdom, the leaders of the horse bandits are all in good spirits, and the clouds of the night's fiasco seem to have disappeared from their heads.

Holm looked at several other bandit leaders and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, Faisal lost three hundred men in attacking the caravan camp, this incident proves that we chose to retreat wisely, and now Faisal is directing his men to carry the goods, it is the time for us to attack, if we let them escape with the goods, everything we did before will be in vain, so, guys, let's make a big deal, right?" ”

The other bandit leaders looked at each other a few times, and Ruth was the first to say, "So what are you waiting for?" Gather the men and kill them now! ”

"Okay, kill it!"

Just as Faisal was urging his horse bandits to load their carts with all their might, a knight galloped over on a horse and reported: "Chief, there are nine cottages of men and horses twenty miles to the west, about six hundred horsemen, it seems that they are coming for us!" ”

Faisal's face was extremely ugly, his subordinates were carrying goods, the people and horses of the Nine Great Cottages would not come sooner or later, but at this time, it was clear that they were all made by the people of the Nine Great Cottages, Faisal was furious, and immediately shouted angrily: "Let all the brothers stop and put on their armor and take their weapons and assemble!" ”

"Yes, Chief!"

Under the scolding of the other small leaders, the little minions put down their goods one after another, took their weapons, mounted their horses, and gathered in front of the camp, all facing the direction of the horse bandits from the nine cottages.

Just as Faisal tried his best to gather the horse bandits and line up in a complete formation, the men and horses of the Nine Great Cottages also arrived, and the two horse bandits finally faced each other for this batch of high-value goods, and a fight was inevitable.

"Chief, they're coming!" One of his subordinates alerted Faisal.

Faisal raised his eyes and saw that it was indeed the people of the Nine Cottages, a large group of horse bandits led by Holm, Ruth, Mars and other horse bandit leaders appeared in sight, the two groups of people and horses were not far apart, and Faisal could vaguely see the appearance of Holm and others.

"Lil-" Homler's horse stopped, and several other horse bandit leaders also stopped, and their respective horse bandits also stopped behind them, and Holm immediately asked several other horse bandit leaders to reorganize their ranks and let the horse bandits line up in battle formation, but fortunately, they had only run thirty miles, and the horses and men were not tired, and Faisal had just finished the horse bandits at this time.

Holm originally wanted to take advantage of the fact that Faisal was carrying the goods when he suddenly killed Faisal by surprise, but he didn't expect Faisal to notice it, and immediately waited for them with his men and horses, it seems that the sneak attack is not working, the previous plan has not worked, if you don't want to lose that batch of goods, the only thing you can do now is to fight Faisal head-on. There is not much difference between the two sides in terms of strength, Faisal has 600 people, and the Nine Cottages still have more than 500 soldiers who can fight at this time. The two sides are evenly matched, and it is not yet known who will win and who will lose.

From ancient times to the present, whether it is the West or the East, as long as there is a face-to-face battle, no matter which side has to wait for the other side to gather men and horses and complete the formation of all troops before attacking, which is also part of the etiquette of war. Unless it's not a head-to-head battle, but one of the sides uses other tactics to not wait for the other side to be ready.

When both sides are ready, their respective leaders will come out for a dialogue. This is customary, even if they are horse bandits, that is, to declare to the other party's soldiers that they are righteous and that the other party is wrong. The main aim is to demoralize the other side in this way.

Faisertzer immediately stepped forward and shouted, "Home, Ruth, Mars." What do you mean? We got this batch of goods first, and now you are killing them, do you want to snatch this batch of goods from me? ”

Holm stepped forward to reply under the recommendation of several other bandit leaders: "The leader of Faisal is wrong, who of the people in these three mountains and thirty-six villages does not know that it is our nine cottages that move first, we fought all night last night, and this morning we withdrew to rest for a while before gathering people and horses to turn back, and the leader of Faisal knew that it was our hand that moved first, but he intervened in the middle. I don't know who doesn't follow the rules? If the Faisal leader is an upright man, he should leave with your men now. Leave the goods behind, so that we, the people of the three mountains and thirty-six villages, still know that the leader of Faisal is a person who will follow the rules, otherwise you are a person who does not speak of morality, and your subordinates will be ashamed of you and turn their backs on you! ”

Where would Faisal leave the goods behind and withdraw with his men and horses, so that he would not be busy in vain, but with three hundred men? This is definitely a big deal at a loss, he is not stupid, he knows how to settle the account, but Holm emphasized that he intervened halfway on the grounds that they did it first, saying that he did not pay attention to morality and rules, which is really not easy to deal with, in fact, who doesn't know that everyone is secretly doing some shady things? It's just that everyone tacitly understands that this kind of thing will lose its prestige when it comes to the surface, prestige is useful for anyone, in fact, not only officials need prestige, but also horse bandit leaders need prestige, some use benevolence and righteousness to keep their subordinates, some use the name of murder to let the horse bandits follow, and some use wisdom or force to let the horse bandits have a reason to follow them, if the horse bandit leader loses this prestige, it will endanger his image and status among the horse bandits.

"Hmph, what a sharp mouth, Boss Holm, it's really humiliating for you not to be a guy in a restaurant!" In the face of Holm's accusations, Faisal could not remain unmoved, and immediately began to refute them.

"Hahaha......" Faisal's horse bandits laughed when they heard him say this.

Faisal continued: "Isn't it a little too unkind, Chief, to accuse me of meddling in the middle of the process? All I know is that when I arrived with my men, there were no of your people here, whether you had fought these two caravans or not, but we didn't see any other comrades when we came, how do I know if it was you who did it first? Maybe it's your kid who is cheating! Now I suspect you guys want to eat black! ”

Home's face was a little ugly, although he could speak, but it was obvious that Faisal was not a good character, and it was really not easy to gain the upper hand verbally from him, so he immediately changed his strategy, "Okay, Chief Faisal, in this case, we don't care if we come first, but now that everyone is here, there is a saying called 'those who see have a share', is the leader of Faisal going to give us points?" ”

"Ha, that's ridiculous!" Faisal almost laughed angrily, this Holm is really capable of breaking, and he can find a reason for himself to intervene at will, what does it mean that the seeer has a share? It's pure nonsense, you want to pick up a bargain without spending a single soldier, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

Faisal immediately shouted: "Stop talking nonsense, Holm, I can tell you clearly, you can't divide this batch of goods, if you have the courage, let the horses come, we will decide here today, the living can get the goods, and the dead will of course get nothing!" ”

Faisal is about to show that the chariots and horses are fighting, Holm looked back at several other horse bandit leaders, in fact, he was asking their opinions, the black horse bandit leader Mars was the most anxious, he couldn't help but say: "What else is there to say, since he Faisal wants to fight, of course we can't show weakness, if we show weakness, others still think that we are afraid of him Faisal!" ”

The other leaders of the horse bandits did not speak, they all knew that once the two sides fought, then the casualties would be extremely heavy, they were horse bandits, not the army, he came here for money, there was no need to waste his strength in vain for the sake of the battle of will.

However, Ruth said a few words that made them give up this idea, Ruth said: "I know what you think, you want to get the goods, but you don't want to cause too many casualties, am I right? But you don't want to think about it, things have reached this point, there is no turning back, even if we show weakness and retreat, do you think Faisal will let us go? As long as we show signs of weakness, Faisal will definitely raise troops to kill, such a close distance, the cavalry will arrive in an instant, and we are in retreat, the people's hearts will inevitably be uneven, when the time comes, we will definitely take care of their own men and horses, can not resist Faisal's cavalry, we are killed and defeated for the best, the worst is that we are killed and annihilated! ”

These horse bandit leaders listened to Ruth's analysis, and also realized that at this time there was no way to retreat, the more weak they were, the worse the situation, and after discussing for a while, everyone could only choose to fight with Faisal to the end, maybe they could win a fight, and if they didn't fight, they would lose, and they would lose very badly, so miserable that they might even lose their lives.

After the decision was made, the leaders of the horse bandits recommended Ruth to boost morale before the battle, Rus rode his horse and ran back and forth in front of the horse bandits in a sparse queue, stopped in the middle and opened his throat and shouted: "Brothers, the goods of the caravan in front were originally ours, we died so many people last night, but today the hurricane thieves brought people to steal our goods, what would we eat and drink without this batch of goods?" The hurricane thieves are too bullying, they occupy themselves as the biggest force in the three mountains and thirty-six villages, and they don't take our cottages in their eyes, and the time has come for us to wash our blood and shame, that is, today, vent your anger on the enemy, we want to snatch back that batch of goods and kill Faisal! ”

"Kill Faisal!"

"Kill Faisal!" (To be continued......)