The maiden led the way, and repeatedly said that she would ask her people before the caravan could enter their stockade.

When the group went around the hill and saw several fires smoking from a distance, the girl looked at it from a distance and said anxiously: "That is the direction of our stockade." ”

The stockade caught fire, and one or two places can be said to be accidental, but six or seven fires indicate that the fire came from an external cause, and the most likely was an attack by mountain bandits.

"How many people are in your stockade?" Liu Yu asked.

"More than 300 people, my people may be in danger, I will go and save them." The Beiyue girl nervously wanted to rush in the direction of the village, but was hugged by Liu Yu.

Liu Yu said: "If you go over like this, you will be sent to death, listen to me, let's try to get close to the village and see if we can save each other." ”

The girl of the Beiyue tribe has no idea at all, and she doesn't seem to resist when she is held by Liu Yu, looking at Liu Yu's sincere gaze, she nodded slightly, then lowered her head again, and struggled slightly as if she wanted to break free of Liu Yu's arm. Liu Yu let go of his hand, grabbed the girl's hand and rushed over to the back of the hill without hesitation.

The mountain road was difficult to navigate, but after bypassing the mountain, the road was much better, there were many terraced fields where grain was grown, and the trees in the dense forest were gradually becoming sparse. Just as Liu Yulai knew before he came, the fertile land in Lingnan is occupied by local forces, and the further north they go, the more this is the case, and it is not easy for the North Vietnamese people to make a living under the noses of Lingnan's military power.

"Come with me, be careful, there are some traps...... It is the people who guard against thieves and wild beasts. ”

Liu Yu already knew that the girl's name was Duo Lin. She is a sixteen-year-old girl of the North Vietnamese tribe who has never been far away. I have an older brother and two younger sisters. However, his parents have died early, and he lives with his grandfather.

Qu Ning was very unimpressed with Liu Yu's investigation, she was thinking that it was probably because Liu Yu fell in love with this alien girl that he would agree to help her save the people of the North Yue tribe.

Skirting the mountain, it was about four or five miles away from the place where the fire started, and they all walked on the mountain, and they had to hurry over. Even Liu Yu's body is a little weak, and Duo Lin has to adapt a lot. According to her own words, she herself went down the mountain today to buy needlework and thread and came back to sew clothes for the sisters in the village, and there are many bearers at the foot of the mountain who will do business with the local ethnic minorities, which is also the commercial ecology of this area, and the ethnic minorities rarely enter the territory of the Han people.

"I came out behind my people's back, my willfulness...... It's going to hurt them. The closer the girl got to her stockade, and when she saw the fire, the more she wept and said something of reproach.

Liu Yu comforted: "The arrival of the thief has nothing to do with you, we will find a way to save your people." ”

Liu Yu didn't know the bottom of his heart. I still don't know who is from the road, whether it is a mountain bandit or a regular local force. If it were to retaliate, if it was to exterminate a cottage of more than 300 people, the local forces would use at least four or five hundred soldiers, who only had twenty or thirty guns, and it would not be easy to deal with them.

After walking for half an hour, they finally arrived at the periphery of the village, and the fields became more numerous, Liu Yu took out his binoculars and looked at the place where the incident occurred, and could see a lot of fire points, which were basically simple wooden buildings, and there were some corpses in different clothes lying around. Whether it is a woman, a child, or an adult man, the corpses are intact, indicating that they did not suffer insults before they died.

After watching it for a long time, Liu Yu didn't find a single living one.

Liu Yu thought to himself, wouldn't it be that the whole village was ended? But if they are ended, with the attitude of mountain bandits and local forces towards foreign races, there is no reason why they will not lewd and plunder.

"Why no one?" Liu Yu looked at Duo Lin and asked, "Your people, when they encounter a foreign attack, will they retreat to a certain place to hide?" ”

Duo Lin was reminded by Liu Yu, thought about it carefully, and said, "My clansmen may have withdrawn to the Longyan Cave behind the mountain. There were a lot of rocks that could hit the thieves, and we could hide behind the rocks and shoot them with arrows. ”

Liu Yuxin said that it must be there, and said to Duo Lin at the moment: "Lead the way in front." ”

Although Liu Yu and the people in the caravan were all outsiders, Duo Lin did not have the slightest suspicion and immediately led the way. Liu Yuxin said that this alien girl is really ignorant of the world, and if he were someone else, he would not believe him as an outsider so confidently.

The surrounding mountains were undulating, and after walking for about two miles, the girl pointed to a bare plateau in the distance and said, "That's it." My people are really there......"

The girl saw that someone was on the hill, and it seemed that she was still in a state of battle, and she was very anxious.

The distance between the two sides was four or five hundred paces, and they were out of range of the bow. Liu Yu took out the binoculars and carefully observed the situation, he could only see the situation on this side of the cliff, many mountain bandits with swords were hiding in low places, as if they were discussing how to attack the mountain, and the armed forces of the ethnic minorities were condescending to obstruct the mountain bandits' way up the mountain with stones or bows and arrows, as for how many living people were in the cave behind the cliff, Liu Yue did not know, but looking at the corpses of many aliens left on the cliff, Liu Yue expected that this battle must be very tragic.

Because the place where Liu Yu is located is lower, looking at the cliff from here, the situation can be observed at a glance.

Liu Yu estimated that the number of mountain bandits besieging the cliff was about fifty or sixty people, not like the group of people who attacked them before. According to Liu Yu's speculation, the main purpose of today's mountain bandits is to camp the village, but it is a coincidence that they met a caravan, and the group of people who were repelled by Liu Yu may be a sentry on the periphery or a backup team, because they were hindered by Liu Yu and the caravan's muskets, and the mountain bandits failed to attack the cottage with the strongest force, so they would leave a fish that slipped through the net.

There are fifty or sixty people who show up among the mountain bandits, and the number that does not show up should be about this number, that is to say, there are more than 100 mountain bandits in front of Liu Yu.

Liu Yu pointed to the top of the mountain and said to Lian Husheng: "You take six people to kill from the east side of the stone valley, use earth cannons to make some noise, and we will cover the past from the front......"

Even being born is difficult: "The big boss, your safety is important......"

"You mean to make me a shrunken turtle?" Liu Yu straightened his face and ordered, "Hurry up, this group of mountain bandits will attack the mountain when it's late, and there will be no chance at that time." ”

Lian Husheng had no choice but to take the order, ordered six guards, and went up the mountain with one of the only two earthen cannons in the caravan. Liu Yu, on the other hand, asked people to set up another earthen cannon on the spot, preparing to shell the hiding place of the mountain bandits. Although the earthen cannon is powerful, it can only be fired once, and there is a risk of exploding.

"Get out of the way." Liu Yu shouted to Qu Ning and Duo Lin, who were ignorant of the danger of earth artillery.

Then Liu Yu prepared the short gun and bullets, carried a long spear, and beckoned the guards and two women to follow him, leaving only one guard ready to fire.

"When the company guards them to the position, they will fire when they see the signal. Neither sooner nor later. ”

After Liu Yu finished instructing, he led people to the direction of the high ground. Because the firing point was 500 paces away from the hiding place of the mountain bandits, and he had just reached the firing range of the musket, Liu Yu had to get as close to the mountain as possible to complete the encirclement and shooting.

During the preparations, the bandits attacked the top of the cliff again, but were hindered by stones and arrows, leaving four or five corpses behind.

Liu Yu thought to himself that these were just mountain bandits after all, greedy for life and afraid of death, if they met the regular army, just the little resistance of the remnants of the ethnic minorities, the mountain would have been captured long ago.

When the group reached 300 steps from the top of the mountain, Liu Yu signaled not to move forward. The soldiers are gearing up one by one, they are very excited when they encounter the war, Liu Yue knows that they are used to being sick on weekdays, Liu Yue looked at the two women in the team, they are all delicate and have never been on the battlefield.

Liu Yue used the binoculars to see that Lian Husheng's side was already ready and was using the Lingqi to spread the word, and Liu Yue knew that Lu Dao couldn't wait any longer. Directly ascend to the sky with a red flare to give the command to open fire. With the ascension of a firelight, the people on the mountain had not yet figured out the situation, and when they landed, they felt two black things flying towards the hiding place of the mountain bandits.

"Boom, bang......"

One was crooked, and the two implosion shells caused great damage on the mountain, filling the air with smoke and dust, and then Liu Yu beckoned, and the guards behind him quickly attacked the hill, shooting while attacking. Many of the bandits who had not yet figured out the situation and fled from the area around the explosion site were hit by bullets and rolled down the mountain, and only then did the bandits realize that they had been attacked.

The power of the musket did not agree with the crossbow arrows and stones, and Liu Yu was only more than 20 people on his side, so he divided into two groups to attack the mountain. Originally, Liu Yu thought that the Beiyue people on the top of the mountain would take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, so as to form a three-sided encirclement, but he didn't expect that when Lian Husheng came out from the flank, the remnants of the mountain bandits were forced to flee down the mountain, and the top of the mountain was still in a state of wait-and-see.

From beginning to end, Liu Yu did not go to the battlefield in person, but symbolically took out a short gun and fired two shots after the mountain bandits retreated. It was the first time that Duo Lin had seen the power of the earth cannon, and she could only shrink there and not dare to act rashly after the previous two explosions, although Qu Ning's psychological quality was better, but her situation was not much better than that of Duo Lin.

"What are you waiting for, hurry up and see how your people are!" Liu Yu said to the frightened Doreen.

Doreen nodded in a hurry, and at this time, Lian Husheng and the others, who had killed the mountain bandits, had already gone in the direction of the mountain, and a few people came out of the mountain to greet them. Although the ethnic minorities have prejudices against the Han people, they can also distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad, and they witnessed Lian Husheng and others suddenly come out of the flank just now. Liu Yu could see below that when Lian Yusheng brought people up, there were not many young and middle-aged people who could come out to greet him.

After Liu Yu climbed the mountain under the leadership of Duo Lin, he couldn't help but sigh a little when he saw the situation below.

The original 300 people in the Beiyue cottage were only 40 or 50 people hiding in the open space in front of a small cave, and many of them were still injured, and most of them were women and children. The young man escorted these people up the mountain with his life, but if Liu Yu hadn't appeared with people, they would have been buried here, and the entire cottage would not exist. (To be continued......)