Chapter 44: Acting
Everyone asked again, it turned out that they also did not have salt pans, but the salt in their hands was also brought in at a high price from the salt lord tribe that controlled the salt pans thousands of miles away, and the salt lord tribe had four or five thousand people, if the thieves in the Yunwei Mountain dared to enter salt from other places and break the rules of this salt road, then they would be in danger of being cleaned up, and there would be new bandits to take over here. When you hear this, you know how complicated and profound the salt road of this distant mountain tribe is! This is not a trade or a sale, but a source of war.
Zhang Xiaodao gasped when he heard this! It seems that the path of small business that I have chosen is too complicated! Now that I've come all the way to this point, there are only two choices, one is to go home! One is to clean up this gang of thieves and return a clean sky here, and continue to buy and sell on their own road!
Is it retreat or advance???
This question is straightforward, and it is placed in front of Zhang Xiaodao who is thinking! Withdraw! Then you want to return to dust, and then go home! From a national teacher to a businessman! Retreat and fall from merchant to commoner! When the time comes, we will disperse all the family assets and dismiss everyone! Isn't it enough to get to the bottom of your pocket! From a national teacher to a businessman! I'll be disgraced and I'll be thrown home! If you fall from a merchant to a commoner again! I think I'm going to die headfirst!! After thinking about it, I looked at the expressions of the brothers, and now I want to retreat, and they may never retreat.
And even if we want to quit! These people from the thatched hut tribe won't let us go, and this thing has developed in blood! If we want to leave, we have to see blood before we can leave. And after leaving, these people are going to be terrible! Therefore, retreat is already a never-ending retreat, and now it is a sea of swords and fires, and it has to be on.
Enter. Once you decide to enter! The problem at hand is first of all to have about 50 people face 500 people! Ten to one! No matter how powerful a few big brothers are, there will inevitably be deaths and injuries!! Besides, they also have Yunwei cottages that are easy to defend and difficult to attack! We are here in a sparse place! I can't afford to delay it for a long time! It seems that it is quite difficult to enter! But you still have to enter! I'll listen to them!
After the meal, Zhang Xiaodao, Feng Wuhen, Han Ge Mankui, Gu Long, Mai Hu and the tent man Quan Mingde all entered a thatched hut for a meeting. The team was camped outside, apparently under the watchful eye of the residents!!
When everyone arrives! Zhang Xiaodao immediately threw out the question of whether to retreat or advance!
Brother Han Mankui was the first to say: "Of course I killed my mother!" I haven't killed enough of these bullying grandsons!! ”
Zhang Xiaodao was overjoyed after hearing it, and his heart said that you are straightforward! Ha ha! Just with my heart! Then he looked at Wind Endless again, wanting to hear Wind Endless's attitude!
Feng Wuwu looked at Zhang Xiaodao but said, "I listen to the arrangement of the adults!" ”
Zhang Xiaodao really didn't expect it! I didn't expect that Feng Wuhen's trust in himself would reach such a point! Immediately, the feeling of emotion was in Zhang Xiaodao's heart! He was so excited to have such a friend!
Next. Gu Long and Mai Hu also expressed their opinions. Both said a word! That's in!
Mr. Quan Mingde saw that everyone had said it, but he was secretly speculating about Zhang Xiaodao's intentions! His idea is to slip away! You can't put yourself in the first place against yourself! When I saw Zhang Xiaodao looking at him! Quickly squeezed out a word from between his teeth!
As soon as Zhang Xiaodao saw his appearance, he knew what he was thinking! Everyone knows the heart of greed for life and fear of death! Not to mention that he is more than him at some point! Hehe! Zhang Xiaodao looked at his appearance. I feel that he is his timid side. But after the final struggle, he chose to move forward.
Good! Then we decided to enter! After everyone finished speaking, Zhang Xiaodao immediately made a decision.
Say good! But it's hard to do! With the strength of fifty of us. It is difficult to pull up this tree that has been deeply rooted for so many years! Now, if you want to swatt this big fly to death, you must rely on the power of the people here.
Zhang Xiaodao then sent someone to invite the tribal leader Yifu Mountain as well! After a while, Yifu Mountain was supported by the young strong man again. Walked in! When Yifu Mountain saw this scene, he knew what everyone was talking about, and invited himself to participate! So he hurriedly introduced to everyone that this young strong man could also participate, and as soon as he said it, everyone knew that this was his son, Yili.
The people had arrived, and Zhang Xiaodao said to Yifu Mountain straight to the point: "We can stay!" But we're not staying and waiting to die! We've made up our minds! There is only one thing left to do, and that is to find a way to eliminate these bandits! We hope you'll join us too! ”
When Yifu Mountain heard it, he was shocked at the moment! And then I fell into a deep hesitation!!
Zhang Xiaodao continued: "Things have come to this point, do you think if we want to leave, can you stop it!" But then again! If you don't resist! When do you want to live such a day when black clouds cover the sun!! Now we have decided to live and die with you, advance and retreat together! If we don't lift this black cloud for him, we will never leave! ”
Yifushan took a deep breath when he heard it! At this time, I only heard Yifu Mountain's son Yili say: "Dad! Everyone has said this, what are you hesitating about! Is it better to have a life like this! We're going to follow these guys against the fuck!! ”
Yili said that Yifu Mountain considered that both horizontal and vertical were dead! Finally, I made up my mind and said, "Let's join!" ”
With the addition of the tribal leader Yifu Shan, the bargaining chips of this power have increased a lot! Everyone is happy when they hear it!! But after listening to his next words, everyone was cool again!
The tribal leader Yifushan continued: "Although I have joined you, I don't have much hope that you will be able to destroy them! I'm already half-buried in the loess! I have already seen through the heat and coldness of this world! And the sinister of the human heart! Life and death are nothing to me! But I can't swallow it!! Alas!!! In short, I want to destroy them! It's hard!!!!! ”
When everyone heard this, their brows were tightly locked!! Hurriedly asked Yifu Mountain what his opinion was???
Yifushan asked rhetorically, "I wonder if you can do anything to eliminate these thieves?" ”
As soon as the question came out, everyone listened to it and stared! The next thing is to look at each other. There's really no way to do it! But I haven't had time to think about it yet!?
Brother Han Mankui was the first to hurriedly say: "I will lead some men and horses and kill them up the mountain!" Even their nest was brought to him! ”
Yifushan hurriedly shook his head and said, "No! No way! Absolutely not! If you go up like this, you can only give away your life in vain! Yunwei cottage, the mountain is high and steep, there is only one way to enter the cottage! And we rushed up like this, and before we could get there, I was afraid that we would be killed by arrows and rolling stones!! ”
Brother Han was full of anger, it seems that this strong attack is really not good!!
Mai Hu continued: "Then we block the only way out of the cottage!" What about trapping them inside?? ”
Yifushan shook his head again and said, "This doesn't work!" They have had enough food for many years, and in my opinion, it will be no problem to last for a year! And we can't even hold on for a month! Not to mention. If they find a way to descend from the cliff. Then get reinforcements from all over the neighborhood! When the time comes, if we besiege us in turn, then we will only have a dead end!! ”
"What?? They also have reinforcements! Aren't there only about 500 people!!??? Everyone asked in surprise!
"They are clearly about 500 men! But they will do anything to survive! Once they knew that we were besieging them, they knew they were invincible, but they would go down to the other surrounding tribes. Threaten to seize the life of the tribal chief! Then turn the hordes against us! Until then. The surrounding tribes have all turned to attack us. Then we will die without a place to bury! ”
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this! It looks like the water is so deep! The problem is not as simple as we think! The enemy we are facing is not just 500, maybe 1,000. Three thousand, five thousand! And even more!! The bandits can be killed, but what should we do with these coerced residents! If that's the case, there's really no place to die!!
The conversation reached an impasse, and when Zhang Xiaodao heard such a complicated situation, his head really hurt now! The enemy is not just a poisonous snake entrenched in the mountains, but a centipede with 10,000 claws! These claws have been deeply extended into the surrounding hut tribes!! Once it is beaten and does not die, this centipede will immediately transform into a dinosaur! And once he is allowed to transform, we will only have a dead end!
Zhang Xiaodao exhaled deeply, the difficulties he is facing now are really unexpected! He never thought of it! Selling salt is such a big deal!!
At this time, I heard the bookkeeper Quan Mingde say: "Then what if we go to rebel against those thatched hut tribes? ”
"Rebellion??? It's not impossible, but the more people who know about it, the easier it is to show the rumors, and once the enemy finds out, maybe they will go back again! In addition, other tribes are facing different situations from what we are facing, and this kind of matter of life and death is also difficult in my opinion! And once they defend the cottage, how can we attack it with the strength of our residents! Besides, most of us are old and weak, women and children, and we can't beat these murderous thieves if we go up and fight hard! Yifushan said.
When everyone heard this, it seemed that this plot against other tribes was not impossible! But it is not good to rebel too much, there are many people with mixed mouths, the road is far away, and when mobilized, it is inevitable that they will show the rumors, and under the power of these bandits for many years, they still have the nature of being two-sided, it seems that once the rebellion is made, the enemy must be annihilated in one fell swoop, otherwise it will be too late to change, and even finally collapse because it cannot be delayed for a long time! But these residents are some of the people's armed forces, no matter from the equipment, or combat power, how to compare with those who rely on knives to eat, once close to the close combat, it is inevitable that there will be casualties, the enemy is the head snake here, occupy the advantage of geography, and the combat power must be strong, relying on the core strength of our fifty people, and these old and weak women and children are armed to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop is really uncertain!
Everyone discussed again, and the best strategy to discuss was to lure all the enemies out, and then surround them and annihilate them in one fell swoop! But this is too difficult, and the enemy is not a fool, how can the whole army be dispatched so easily! Even if they all come out, relying on these weapons with farm tools, hunting forks, wooden sticks, etc., they want to surround and annihilate the five hundred people who lick the blood with their knives. It's really difficult!
Moreover, the current situation must be fought quickly, and it is our greatest advantage to strike while the enemy does not know our situation. But to retain this advantage, how can you have time to get weapons, as well as train the team! With these people who have no experience in killing enemies, the outcome is really unpredictable!
It was discussed until late, and everyone couldn't come up with any good ideas in the end!
Unsuccessfully, everyone had to disperse, and Zhang Xiaodao finally instructed Yifushan to say: "Those who know things are limited to the current circle." It's business as usual outside! ”
The gravity of the situation. It is not pressed by the situation faced in the country of Zig, but the state of Zig has an army, a castle, and a people's heart. And here is a scattered situation. Not equipped yet. There was no time. There is no absolute popular will! There was only a small caravan of about 50 of us with one heart, and the small knife lying on the bunk was turning over and over again. I secretly thought in my heart, I had offended the gods on that road, why should I do this! Alas!!! It's so sad for me.
Thinking continues is like a network intertwined in the night sky, the left line and the line are constantly unfolding, one will be entangled together like a locked, tight thread, one will be connected into a piece of slowly become a ball of paste, line paste, paste line, finally a meteor in the night sky, meteor coming, line paste paste, slowly, the sky has appeared bright and beautiful meteor shower!
The next morning, Zhang Xiaodao, whose eyes were full of red silk, immediately gathered everyone to continue the meeting, and Zhang Xiaodao, who was happy, saw Yili and Yifushan coming, and immediately hurriedly asked: "Hey! Chief, do you have any poisonous venom or anything here!? You can see blood to seal your throat, or you can go to a coma! ”
Yifushan replied suspiciously: "Not now!" But if you want to get it, you have to go out and catch some poison! Then come back and refine it. ”
"How long will it take to equip more than 2,000 bows and arrows?" Zhang Xiaodao asked!
"It can be as little as ten days and half a month, and as much as more than 20 days! Dare to ask what you want this for? Yifushan said.
Zhang Xiaodao said: "Forget it, it seems that it is too late!" Originally, I planned to make a bow and arrow right away today, and I could draw and shoot an earthen bow! Arrows! There are no metal arrowheads, but poisonous wooden stick arrows can kill enemies! Now no venom! Forget it! But just blacken the arrows as if they were soaked in poison! ”
After a pause, he continued to say to everyone: "There are about a thousand people in the tribe, and today everyone will have a bow in their hands, and all of them will be equipped with this earth archer!" This will allow you to avoid close combat with the enemy, as long as you can have enough deterrence from this number and weapons! ”
After hearing this, everyone asked strangely, "Then what's the use of this weapon that can't kill people?" And how can we exterminate them? ”
"We have to do two things today, the first is to make earthen bows and arrows! The second is to play another play for Li Ershan, who was captured by Scarface! Zhang Xiaodao said.
Then Zhang Xiaodao told everyone about the first half of this enemy annihilation, and everyone readily agreed. As for the second half, let's wait until the enemies in the first half are cleaned up.
After the plan was completed, Yifushan and Yili went down to arrange, and the two of them sent people to secretly make earthen bows and arrows, while continuing to send people to strengthen the siege and monitoring of the small caravan!
After a long time, Li Ershan, the leader of the scar-faced bandits who was bound, suddenly saw that everyone in the small caravan wanted to leave! Just as they were about to leave, the inhabitants of the thatched hut tribe suddenly appeared with their own farming tools and hunting forks and blocked them back! Then the tribal leader Yifu Mountain appeared, and they were left behind! And then it was the hospitality of sheep hunting! Li Ershan said in his heart, it seems that this Yifu Mountain wants to keep them, and then wait for our people to appear, which can be regarded as giving us an explanation, so that we can finally settle this matter on our own! He's also out of business!
The wine and dinner have been eaten until late, everyone is tired and sleeping, the time until late at night, Li Ershan, the leader of the scar-faced bandits, suddenly saw a person evading the guard of the small caravan who was half asleep, and sneaked towards him quietly! When the man sneaked closer, Li Ershan saw clearly that the person was Yifushan's son Yili!
Yili quietly closed the sight of the guards of the small caravan, and then loosened the rope for Scarface Li Ershan. Li Ershan only understood at this time, he was going to secretly let himself go, and then let himself go back overnight to report the news! The two took advantage of the guard's inattention and sneaked out. When he got to a safe place, Yili also prepared a horse for Li Ershan!
When the two were about to break up, Yili said to Li Ershan: "Uncle! You must say a few more good words for us when you go back, the people who killed you have nothing to do with us, but we can't afford to offend them, and now we can only do this, keep them for the time being! I want to give you an explanation! ”
Li Ershan, the leader of the bandits, said: "Good! Look at you kid still have a little conscience! Okay, just wait! Wait for me to urge the horses back to lead the army, and kill them without leaving a single piece of armor! This has nothing to do with your tribe! When I kill them, I will definitely repay the great boss and ask you for credit! ”
Yili hurriedly thanked him again and again, and Li Ershan urged the horse to take advantage of the moonlight and ran back to Yunwei Mountain to report the news, Yili looked at his back and couldn't help but smile on his face! …… (To be continued......)