After the failure of this attack, the horse bandits did not move for two hours in a row, Qin Dong estimated the time, at this time about three o'clock in the morning, less than three hours before dawn, about half past five will dawn, he estimated that the horse bandits should not have any action before dawn, so he ordered the men to start a fire to cook.

The guards of the camp began to walk out of the camp to the front to take back the arrows they shot, these arrows are made of iron arrows, which can be recycled and reused, and some of the guards also collect the weapons and jewelry left by some horse bandits after the death of some horse bandits on the battlefield, some of the trophies are very valuable, many horse bandits have gold or silver coins in their pockets, pick these things back and hand them over, and then distribute them uniformly from above, this practice makes Qin Dong's soldiers very much agree and wholeheartedly support.

"My lord, all the loot has been collected, and there are no casualties in our army, I can't imagine that these horse bandits still have some goods in their pockets!" An hour later, Alfald came to report.

Qin Dong looked at the sky, it was still dark now, but it would not be long before there would be dawn, he said: "Leave the share for Su He and the hundred archers, and send all the others down, don't come to me for this kind of thing in the future, and form a system, everyone has a share in the officers and soldiers, and the brothers pin their heads to the waistband and follow me, I can't let them shed blood and tears, and in addition, we must do a good job in supervising matters, and there must be no matter where the officers withhold military salaries and booty or ask for benefits from soldiers for various reasons, once discovered, No mercy! ”

Alfard's heart shook, and he bowed and saluted, "Yes." My lord! ”

Just as Alfald turned to leave, Qin Dong stopped him again: "Wait a minute, let people destroy and burn all the ten large bed crossbows." No one can piece together a prototype of a bed crossbow out of wreckage! ”

"Understood, sir!"

After Afalde left, Qin Dong walked into the tent in the middle of the camp, Pethius and Gebuus were inside, and when they saw Qin Dong walk in, both of them stood up, and Pethius asked first, "Bull." How's it going? ”

Qin Dong briefly introduced the situation, and then said: "It's been two hours since the last time the horse bandits attacked, and I estimate that they have already caused a lot of casualties from our attack and don't dare to do it again. At least they didn't dare to do it until dawn, and judging from the map given to me by Gebuus, Faisal had come from the lair and should be there by daybreak. Until that time. The two bandits are bound to meet, so we must leave here before dawn, and before they meet, uncle, Master Gebuus, there is still more than an hour to rest, if you are tired, you can take a rest, half an hour before the evacuation I will send someone to wake you up for breakfast, after eating early we all leave the camp! ”

Gebuus seemed very reluctant. "Bull, do you have to give up these goods?"

Qin Dong looked back at Gebuus. Shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm afraid so!" None of us could think of anything else to save our lives but this one! So in order to save this little life, Master Gebuus, you should reluctantly abandon these goods, look at my uncle, he can see better than you! ”

Since he was outside this time, and he was going to Constantinople, when collecting the loot, Qin Dong had already ordered not to use those broken copper and iron, and only collected the previous things and precious sharp weapons, most of the loot collected were coins and jewelry, as well as a few valuable weapons, among which was an extremely rare Damascus scimitar.

The Damascus scimitar is one of the three famous knives even in later generations, forging it requires special materials and craftsmanship, which is extremely rare, and each handle is hard to find, and it is not known which unlucky ghost left on the battlefield. This Damascus scimitar, like other Damascus scimitars, is not only extremely sharp, but also extremely luxurious in decoration, the handle is inlaid with four precious stones, the knife body is hand-decorated, inlaid with gold gems, but unfortunately there is no scabbard, if there is a scabbard, it is a perfect match, exquisite.

"I've got it for you!" Qin Dong threw this Damascus scimitar to Afard, although this Damascus scimitar is sharp and world-class, but the shape is not the type that Qin Dong likes, this kind of knife is arched in the middle of the back, bent down in the front, and the tip is a little upturned, and the shape is a little weird. Qin Dong liked the shape of the Tang knife, the blade was slightly curved, the blade was thin and the back was thick, the handle was long, and it could be used with one or both hands, which could not only be used for foot combat, but also conducive to chopping when charging on horseback.

Alfalde took it, held it in his hand and kept stroking the blade of the knife, looking extremely obsessed, obviously very happy, he hurriedly knelt down on one knee and said, "Thank you for the knife!" ”

After dividing the spoils, Qin Dong ordered the meal to be opened, the steamed buns were made hard, and the breakfast was finished before five o'clock in the morning, and the men carried the food on their backs with the help of the soldiers, and the goods were left, but the food should be taken away, and the food should be brought with them at all times. It doesn't matter if one or two people are met, you can get some game to satisfy your hunger, but there are one or two hundred people here, and they have to eat two hundred catties of grain a day, this is still Qin Dong's order to control the rationing, if you don't control the rationing, a person can eat more than two catties a day, the grain production in this era is too low, and no one can afford to eat with his subordinates open their stomachs.

As soon as Qiē was ready, Qin Dong, Peteaus, Gebuus and others were waiting in the big tent, Afald walked in and saluted, and before he could speak, Qin Dong asked, "Are you all ready?" How about I arrange for you to do something? ”

Alfald saluted: "Yes, my lord, everyone has been prepared, and there are already some condiments in the other thousand steamed buns, I believe that the horse bandits will have a surprise after eating!" ”

"Very good, it depends on which horse bandit is unlucky, I hope it is Faisal, only in this way can they maintain a balanced combat strength, if one side is too strong, it will be very disadvantageous to us, okay, pass my order, all set off to evacuate, and join Su He!" Qin Dong got up and ordered.

"Yes!"

In fact, the place where Su He was hiding with a hundred archers was not far from here. It's on a nearby hill, but it's very densely vegetated, and overgrown with shrubs and thorns. It was hard for anyone to think that there could be people hiding on that hill, Qin Dong and the others soon converged with the hundred archers led by Su He on the hill to the southwest, and on the top of the mountain, if it was dawn, Qin Dong and the others could still see the situation around the camp very clearly.

Before coming, Qin Dong ordered people to take away all the war horses and mules and horses that pulled the carts, along with the ropes on the carts and the curved wood around the horses' necks, so there were no horses in the carts in the camp. If the bandits wanted to pull the goods away, they had to take a long time to load the goods into the trucks and then find horses and ropes and bent logs to put around the horses' necks to tow the goods away. This is Qin Dong deliberately let people do this, in order not to let the horse bandits transport the goods lightly, no matter which side of the horse bandits advanced camp, they will not be able to transport the goods in a short time. This created time for the encounter between the two horse bandits.

Qin Dong stood on the top of the mountain and observed. However, because it was still too dark, he couldn't see clearly, but he remembered a very serious mistake, but this mistake was still too late to be saved, he immediately called Su He and pointed to the bottom of the mountain and said: "When we came, we must have left a lot of horseshoe prints, as well as scattered horse manure, if there are careful people in the horse bandits, they will definitely follow these horseshoe prints and horse manure to find our hiding place, you now take people down to clean up these horseshoe prints and horse manure as quickly as possible." Be sure to clean up and get back before the bandits show up! ”

"Yes, sir!" Su He agreed and took more than 100 people down the mountain.

At this time, it was as if God was helping. The light rain, which had long since stopped, began to fall again, and it tended to get heavier and heavier, so that the horseshoe prints and horse manure they had left behind could be washed away by the rain.

Due to the rain, the rain blocked the view, and the sky gradually brightened, but Qin Dong and the others couldn't see the situation under the mountain at the top of the mountain, let alone the situation around the camp.

Qin Dong immediately sent scouts to wait around the camp, and once he found signs of horse bandits, he had to come back and report immediately, only in this way could he know the movements of the horse bandits in time.

Su He soon returned with his men, and the horseshoe prints and horse manure left along the way were cleaned up, and it was difficult for the horse bandits to find traces, so that they had no way of knowing that they were hiding in this hill densely covered with bushes and thorns.

The rain is very unfavorable to the two horse bandits and Qin Dong and others, Qin Dong and others are hiding on the hills, only a few bigwigs in Qin Dong have tents to hide from the rain, and the guards, coachmen, and guys can only stand or squat under the trees, fortunately there is no lightning and thunder in this rainy weather, otherwise the people who hide from the rain under the big trees will be dangerous.

When Qin Dong was lying in the tent with a piece of grass in his mouth to catch up on sleep, Alfald came in and reported: "My lord, the horse bandit who attacked us last night appeared!" However, they were cautious and did not immediately attack the camp, perhaps the armored straw men we had placed in the camp frightened them! ”

Straw men wearing tattered armor, this is Qin Dong has already arranged for people to tie up, when they evacuate before dawn, let those straw men put on armor, and erect them in the camp, there are still a lot of them, in order to prevent the horse bandits from sending people to the camp to investigate closely, Qin Dong also arranged ten archers with excellent archery skills to hide in the camp, only the horse bandits have someone to investigate, they will release arrows to kill the horse bandit scouts who are scouting, if the horse bandits send a large force of cavalry to kill, these ten people will run away immediately, and one person has two horses, so that the horse bandits can not catch up.

Obviously, the straw men in armor arranged by Qin Dong frightened the horse bandits, and only two of the dozen scouts fled back, and the others were all shot by the archers who were ambushed in the camp, and the horse bandit scouts who fled back made a detailed report to Holm and the others about what they saw.

This situation made the bandit leaders hesitate, they feared that they would suffer too many casualties by forcibly attacking, but their greed made them salivate over the goods in the camp, and the two situations created a very contradictory situation in their hearts, and they did not know how to choose.

In the end, greed prevailed, and it was not too early to do so, and if they didn't do it again, it was still unknown whether they would be able to grab the goods once Faisal arrived with a large group of men.

"If you do it, if you don't do it, you won't have a chance!" Holm's face was stern, and he looked at the other bandit leaders and said, "But we will only rush once, and if we can't rush in again, we will abandon this caravan, because we can't afford to lose each of us, what do you think?" ”

The leaders of the horse bandits looked at each other, and Ruth took the lead in agreeing: "Okay, I agree, let's rush again, if you rush in, it's best, if you can't rush in, give up, and leave quickly, with our current situation, we may not be able to do it better than Faisal!" ”

"Agreed!"

"I agree!"

Soon, several of the bandit leaders agreed to make one last charge, but a shout stopped them, "Report-"

After the words fell, a scout horse galloped over, and when he reached the tent, the horse bandit scout quickly jumped off his horse and ran into the tent and knelt down on one knee and said: "Chief, there is a group of about 100 people on the mountain road ten miles away in the northeast, it seems that it should be Faisal's vanguard army, because the mountain road is difficult to walk, they are leading the horses on foot, it is estimated that they can arrive in about an hour!" ”

Ten miles here refers to a straight-line distance, but it is really more than ten miles, and the mountain road is difficult to walk, and it is good to be able to walk it in an hour. This report of the scout surprised the leaders of the horse bandits led by Holm, Faisal came so quickly!

"An hour is not enough, and before we can break through the camp, Faisal will appear behind us with his men!" Ruth said a word worriedly, which made the face of the bandit leader show unwillingness.

Holm laughed, "You don't just want to give up, do you?" You must know that we have already lost more than 200 people for this shipment, should we let these people die in vain? You don't want to recoup a little bit of your money? ”

Mars muttered impatiently: "Oh, Home, if you have a fart, let it go, when is this happening, it's still hanging our appetite, say it!" ”

Under the gaze of everyone, Holm said slowly: "Let's withdraw first, let Faisal gnaw that hard bone, I believe that after he takes the camp, he will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and then we will rush out and kill him by surprise!" Whose hands will this shipment end up in, do you think? ”

Everyone looked at each other, and Ruth said, "Okay, that's it, maybe you can kill Faisal this time!" ”

"Agreed!"

"I agree!" (To be continued......)