There was a silence in response to Chen Ying.

After a few moments, a flat voice sounded: "Half of the run." After a pause, he added, "I'm not sure." ”

Chen Ying sighed softly.

Ma Laosan said that this group of thieves had about thirty horses, and today's daytime arrow array and fire attack caused the other party to lose eight horses, and at this moment, Meng Qing estimated that half of the remaining twenty or so horses had run, and the other party still had more than ten horses.

There are still quite a few of them.

Chen Ying thought to herself, and with a sweep of the afterglow at the end of her eyes, she caught a glimpse of Li Gong who wanted to speak and stopped.

"Is there something wrong with my cousin?" She asked immediately.

Li Gong frowned slightly, with a worried look on his face: "According to what Ye Nuxia said, there are still more than ten horses in the hands of the thieves, and we ...... Can you beat it? ”

This remark hit Chen Ying's heart, and she opened her mouth to speak, but in the next moment, a thought suddenly crossed her mind, making her eyes light up.

She finally remembered!

She had always felt that there was something very important before, but she never thought about it, and now she heard Li Gong's question, and she knew what she was ignoring.

"Cousin, could you please take my place a little longer?" Chen Ying replied to the question, his tone was a little urgent, and when he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed to the end of the mountain road, and said: "The chaos over there has not yet been captured, presumably it will never be attacked at this time, I just remembered a very important thing, I must do it now, and ask my cousin to stay here for me for a while." ”

At this moment, it is the second half of the night, and it is Chen Ying's turn to be on duty, but this matter is very urgent, and she must start arranging it immediately.

Li Gong was stunned by her for a moment, and then smiled warmly, and said with a clear face: "If what I expected is good, my cousin thinks there is a way to deal with it." His slightly tired face was calm, and in the dim starlight, he had a bit of a jade-like demeanor.

Chen Ying didn't speak, only nodded to show that he had guessed correctly.

"Cousin, just do it, I'll keep it here." Li Gong said immediately, his expression becoming solemn.

Chen Ying thanked him, turned around and returned to the camp, woke up Guo Wan softly, and explained a few words to her like this.

Guo Wan's mobility has always been very strong, and after a while, a big iron pot was set up on the bonfire, and water was boiling in the pot, and Chen Ying woke up several servants and asked them to collect what she wanted, and collect as much as she could, and then throw it into the water to boil.

The work lasted for about half an hour, and when the water boiled to a turbid color, Chen Ying ordered the pot to be brought to the back of the clean room.

She doesn't know if these things work, but it's not her style to do them when she knows they might work.

The carriage that was used as a clean room was surrounded by curtains, and after Chen Ying entered, he didn't know what he was doing inside, and it took a long time to come out.

When she returned to the cordon to replace Li Gong, the other end of the mountain road had fallen silent, and the shouting and neighing of horses had all dispersed.

At this moment, it was night, and the light projected by the torch seemed to be swallowed up by this inky night, and the shadows of the trees around it were indescribably gloomy.

Chen Ying tightened the arrow sleeves on his body, re-buckled the leather wristbands, lowered his voice at the same time, and said tentatively: "Ye Qing, you can rest for a while, I'm here." ”

No one answered.

Ye Qing seemed to melt into the night, Chen Ying waited for a long time, and did not wait for her words.

Chen Ying shook her head, hung her quiver and took up her longbow, and sat down on a big rock next to the intersection.

Time seemed to stand still, and even the sound of the wind became like a dream.

In such darkness, Chen Ying always felt that everything in front of her was like a big dream before she woke up, or she was in a movie scene, and the strong sense of unreality made her seem to fall into a hallucination.

"Smack", there was a very soft crisp sound from nowhere, as if a branch had been broken.

Chen Ying immediately came to her senses and listened carefully.

"Rustling", "rustling", the sparse sound is like the wind sweeping the treetops, and it is like sand and stones beating against the cliff.

There was no change.

Chen Ying breathed a sigh of relief and raised her hand to press her eyes.

Today she is so tired and tired that it seems normal to have auditory hallucinations.

However, just as her fingers were about to touch her skin, she was shocked.

It was a very strange feeling, as if a beast was peeking in the dark, and she shivered.

She immediately went to touch the quiver.

Almost at the same moment, in the silence of the night, there was a sudden burst of clarity.

"Enemy attack!"

This voice instantly shattered the thick inky black, and the short voice was a little out of tune, Chen Ying even wondered if this was Ye Qing's voice, but the muffled snort from the darkness in front of her made her completely sober.

Nothing could be seen, and from time to time there was a muffled sound in the darkness, and the sound of cold weapons cutting through the air seemed so faint that it was almost completely drowned out by the gale.

There was no time to hesitate, Chen Ying quickly picked up the longbow and shouted: "Come on, rocket!" ”

In the thick of the night, the sound was like a stone hitting water, and the silence was disturbed in an instant.

Some of the sleeping people had already woken up, but they didn't understand what was happening, so they just sat in place and were stunned, only a few people reacted quickly, such as Guo Wan, who was always awake, and Li Gong, who had just been lying down.

Standing at the intersection with Chen Ying were the two male servants of the Li family and the Han family, both of whom were obviously shocked by the scene in front of them, and they were both a little stunned, until after a few breaths, the two of them shouted together:

"Oh no, the thieves have attacked!"

"Help! There are thieves! ”

The sound of breaking sound made Chen Ying's ear drums "buzz", and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of one of the servants running back with a rolling belt, and the long wooden branch that he had originally held in his hand to repel the enemy was also thrown aside. The other man was bolder, but he only held the wooden branch and trembled, and could not move his steps.

Chen Ying struggled to maintain her composure, most of her eyes still locked on straight ahead.

In the light of that torch, not a single animal or human being has ever appeared.

However, it was only a matter of time.

Ye Qing alone will definitely not be able to support it for long, and if the enemy attacks all of them, the second line of defense will also be quickly defeated.

"Miss Chen, fire ...... Rocket. A slender figure stumbled over, and the "rocket" that Chen Ying had used to cut from branches in his leisure time was trembling between the man's fingers, and the bright star was as red as a snake letter, and it couldn't stop swallowing in the night.

This figure and voice are unfamiliar, not Guo Wan, let alone Li Xi or He Sui, nor does it look like a maid from any family.

Chen Ying didn't have time to identify the owner of the voice, so she quickly took the arrow in her hand and put on the bowstring, and the little fire on the tip of the arrow was at an angle of forty-five degrees to the ground, about thirty degrees away from the mountain wall.