Chapter 285: Wolf Disaster in the Mountain Village (23)
When he heard Dong Erzhu suddenly shout the name of Crouching Tiger Mountain, the villagers who were holding the hunting knives and steel forks in their hands and tightly formed a circle five feet in front of him immediately let out an exclamation of "ah".
There is no other reason, just because this Crouching Tiger Mountain Guniuzhai is the largest group of bandits in the nearby 300 miles of ground.
It is said that there are more than 200 sturdy bandits in this cattle village who can pull out real swords and guns to fight with the officers and soldiers who requisition grain.
I heard that the bandit chieftain surnamed Li was the leader of the bandit, and he was called 'Race Whirlwind' in the Dao.
It is rumored that he is skilled in martial arts, especially good at using a pair of fast axes, and more than a dozen men are not close to him, and he really has the power of the black whirlwind of Shuibo Liangshan back then!
For powerful bandit cottages like Guniu Village, Lijiacun has always pursued the policy of 'never provoking and not making friends'.
As long as people don't come directly to Lijia Village, they will never provoke the other side; Even if a caravan is robbed and killed at the gate of the village, it is your own grudge in black and white, and it has nothing to do with us...... Of course, we, the hunters who eat and beg for food, have nothing to do with you bandits who rob houses and houses!
However, after Li Xuan took the position, he began to take the initiative to show favor to several nearby cottages, not only holding the post to worship the mountain as gifts, but also secretly selling a lot of shortage of injury medicine to the other party in private.
In this regard, many old people in the village had complaints, but they were all pressed down by Li Xuan on the grounds of 'this time and that time, the bandits are big at the moment, and they must not be held grudges by them'.
But right now, Dong Erzhu not only accused Li Yan of having a personal relationship with Guniuzhai, but even insisted that the bandits who killed Lao Lizheng and Li Chang and his party back then were the subordinates of the 'Race Whirlwind' in Wohu Mountain, what is going on?
However, before Li Xuan, whose face was pale, could explain, a middle-aged woman with a sad expression suddenly pushed away the two hunters in front of her, staggered to Dong Erzhu with a whistle stick: "Erzhu, you, what did you say?" ”
As soon as he saw the face that had appeared in his dreams countless times, Dong Erzhu, who looked crazy and crazy, couldn't help but show a trace of charm on his face: "Xiuying, these years...... You're old and haggard! ”
I saw Dong Erzhu staring at Xiuying fixedly, completely ignoring the villagers around him who had almost put their knives and spears on him, and took the initiative to raise his right hand and poke towards Xiuying's sideburns, as if to wipe away the grass clippings stuck to his sideburns.
Seeing Dong Erzhu reaching out, Xiuying instinctively turned her body away and gently dodged away.
This time, Dong Erzhu, who had just sobered up a little from his previous madness, suddenly exploded again: "Okay, it's so good, even you treat me like this!" Li Xiuying, haven't you always wanted to know who killed your father Li Chang back then? ”
I saw Dong Erzhu raise his hand and the tip of Li Yan's nose heavily: "It's this thing with a beast's heart!" It was he who handed over the time and route of their departure to the bandits in Crouching Tiger Mountain! If it weren't for the fact that when Daddy and Dad were dismounting and they were startling, Fa'er suddenly scared the horses away, how could these twelve men who were skilled in equestrianism be surrounded by people and not one of them could get out?!"
As soon as these words were finished, the Orions who had originally surrounded Dong Erzhu suddenly changed their faces and turned their heads to look at the other side: "Li Xuan! Did you really do this? ”
It turned out that over the years, the villagers in Lijia Village had always been angry about Li Chang being robbed and killed by bandits.
Just because Li Chang is the most outstanding hunter in Lijia Village in the past 100 years, he became the leader of the team leading the team into the mountains to hunt at a young age; If it comes to how to arrange the marching formation of the team, it is simply the ability to beat the mother's womb.
The watchman asked, what is the use of going up the mountain to hunt and not marching and fighting, so what is the use of lining up?
Now you are asking the right person, going up to the mountains to hunt and going out of the city to fight, that is the truth of different paths to the same end.
If the hunters who go up the mountain do not have a convenient mutual support, they can disperse the formation at any time; As soon as you encounter fierce beasts such as evil tigers and mad bears, you push me and huddle into a ball, even if you can encounter rare mountain goods, you can't outflank the prey before it escapes...... It's better to stay at home comfortably.
With Li Chang's eyesight, he would never arrange for eleven people to rush together side by side.
Once the formation is opened, the leader and tail of the team can spread out seven or eight hundred steps; The hardest hunting bow only shoots 600 paces, what kind of bandits must be in order to surround the leader of the team and stop the tail of the team, and not even escape alive?
A few villagers thought about it and felt that only by taking advantage of the fact that these people dismounted and sharpened, that is, when they scattered the tired horses to the vicinity to gnaw on the green rest, first tried to scare away the horses, and then closed the nets, there was a little possibility of surrounding these eleven people.
But this is easier said than done, because the place where Li Chang dismounted and hit the top was chosen by Li Chang himself!
As long as Li Chang feels that the horse is tired of running, he can stop the team at any time and stop fighting; This kind of thing is not accurate at all, how can outsiders be ambushed in advance?
Moreover, when Li Chang chose the route of travel, he only secretly informed a few villagers in the village, and everyone was related to Li Chang's family, so what benefit could he get from betraying him?
But today, when Dong Erzhu mentioned this, several villagers present suddenly remembered something: Li Xuan's father Li Qiaozi happened to be one of the villagers who knew Li Chang's route; Also, the dry food and water bags that Li Chang and his family were responsible for preparing on the way for Li Chang and his family!
In fact, for such a trivial matter as preparing dry food, Li Chang does not need to fake others at all; It's just that Li Chang feels that Li Yan and his family have never had a chance to contribute to the roundup of Bi Fang.
After the tail feathers are sold, every household in the village will share the benefits according to the size of the merit, and it will not be appropriate to give no benefits to Li Xuan's family at that time.
How can it be said that the family is also the largest landlord in the village, and if it is really in time for the disaster year, maybe they will have to use the grain stored by other families to survive the famine, and the relationship is going to be divided...... But what can Li Xuan's family do?
Thinking about it, Li Chang patted his head: "Just Li Xuan, you can prepare some dry food for us to eat on the road." ”
Now that I think about it, if Li Yan did something in those dry foods, such as secretly putting a few taels of crotons.
Even if Li Chang and the others didn't fall into an ambush, just a few times they ran to their stomachs, their legs and stomachs were all tendoned, and they were worried that they couldn't catch up with people?
Just as the surrounding villagers looked at Li Xuan and Dong Erzhu suspiciously, Hu San's curious baby-like voice suddenly sounded from outside the crowd: "Li'er is this Li'er, but what I'm curious about is that Dong Erzhu, how do you know all this?" It stands to reason that after Li Chang and the others left Lijia Village, they should go to the wealthy merchant who wanted to buy the tail feather in the starry night to trade face-to-face. If you delay on the road for one more day, you will have more risks, it seems that there is no reason to turn to Dongjiazhuang and inform you Dong Erzhu, right? ”