"Lord Xia, these two people were found in a separate room, they should have been locked inside, and the condition of that room was very poor. When we found both of them, one of them was frozen out. ”

The matter of imprisoning Li Qi and Wang Ergou, Ao Bai learned Liu Yifeng's method of controlling people's hearts and threw it to Zhao Lao Wu, who had been wronged for a long time, and Zhao Lao Wu, who wanted to avenge his old grievances, naturally wanted to "entertain" the two of them well, and confiscated their shoes, socks and coats on the grounds of preventing the two from escaping, and only issued a blanket that was deliberately cut short and barely enough for one person.

Wang Ergou was not as strong as Li Qi, and the blanket was naturally occupied by Li Qi. It was only locked up overnight, Li Qi was only in a cold state, and Wang Ergou directly had a low-grade fever.

"These two people have committed something, right, what have they done?"

"Yes, Lord Xia is wise, these two people said that they offended Liu Yifeng."

Xia Jie already knew that the real name of the shopkeeper he was tracking was Liu Yifeng, but he didn't care, explorers used fake names everywhere.

"But we asked the other people, and they said that the two were punished for hiding gold."

"Humph!"

Xia Jie, as the shopkeeper of the bank, was very sensitive to taking public funds privately, and instinctively began to dislike Li Qi and Wang Ergou.

But he still held back his disgust and asked, "Do these two know where the other two camps are?" ”

"The guy named Li Qi knows where one of the camps is."

"Very well, bring him here!"

Xia Jie and the others already knew from the people that there were two more gold panning camps, and they had found a large number of golden sands and golden lumps in this camp, and the harvest was already quite rich, and now that they knew that there were two more camps, they naturally did not plan to let go. But Liu Yifeng's early team refused to say anything, and most of the people also knew that there were still two camps and didn't know how to get there.

In fact, not only did the people not know, but more than half of Liu Yifeng's early team didn't know the road, which is why Song Xiance asked Ao Bai to take him back to inform Liu Yifeng that someone had come to grab the gold.

In later generations, if people were put into the environment of nature without navigation, there were very few people who could remember the road on the premise of only walking two or three times, let alone this era. This is an era when guides are serious professions, and Li Qi is a guide, but he often steals guests' property and was sent to Dongshan Prefecture after a mistake.

Although he had only walked the road from the base camp once, he was really confident that he would find it.

"Found it, I have a big reward."

"Thank you, thank you, your lord!"

Xia Jie was not interested in watching Li Qi kowtow in front of him, in essence, he was very disgusted with this person. After waving his hand to let him down, his henchman walked over.

"Shopkeeper Xia, I suggest going to that base camp when the firecracker team arrives."

Xia Jie glanced back at him and asked, "The loss is great?" ”

"Five dead and 11 wounded."

One-tenth of the battle losses are already considered medium losses.

There has always been a saying in later generations: when the casualty rate of ancient wars reached 5%, soldiers began to rout. This is not entirely true, but it is true that the organization and morale of ancient soldiers cannot be compared with that of later generations, and the specific situation must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

For the team of 100 explorers led by Xia Jie, the casualty rate is 16 people, which is already a moderate loss, if the camp is not breached, it is estimated that there are 10 casualties, and these explorers who take money to do things will definitely start to protect themselves. Even if Xia Jie asked them why they didn't work hard, they would say three words with an underdog expression: You have to add money.

But if it is the 50 firecrackers trained by the Zhang family who participate in the battle, it is estimated that the casualty rate will be at least more than 30% before the morale will be low, and more than 50% will be defeated, and this can already be regarded as an elite.

Xia Jie was a little dumbfounded when he heard this number, he didn't expect that a group of Jurchens only had one firearm that could cause such a large battle damage.

"Lord Xia, they seem to be soldiers, after we attacked the camp, they formed a formation with three sword shield hands, three spearmen, and a fire gunner, and the five who died on our side died when the formation was broken."

"The Northern Army? No, this formation belongs to the Southern Army, but you said that they are basically Jurchens and Goryeo, doesn't the Southern Army only accept Han Chinese? ”

The henchmen didn't know how to answer this question, the formation was indeed very similar to the Mandarin Duck Formation of the Qi Family Army when the Southern Army started, but after the formation was broken, the people who caught it were indeed Jurchens and Goryeo.

The Northern Army of the Ming Dynasty was to recruit foreigners, generally a Jurchen and Mongol. It is said that the Western Army has also begun to recruit people from all over the Western Regions, but the Southern Army, from the establishment of the army to the present, only recruits Han Chinese.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter." Xia Jie wasn't ready to think about it, and said: "You personally take 5 people, follow that Li Qi to explore the road first, find out the situation of their base camp, and I'll wait here for the arrival of the Fire Gun Team." Whether they are the Southern Army or the Northern Army, 50 arquebuses, I still don't believe that they can't be destroyed. ”

As soon as the sun came out, the henchmen left the camp with the people. Halfway through, he had the urge to kill Li Qi countless times, because this guy didn't know the way as he said he did.

"Do you know the way?"

"I know, I know, it's just that I haven't left for too long, and I forgot a little, it should be over there!"

The henchman finally couldn't help but look at the direction of Li Qi's finger, and kicked him over, because that direction was two quarters of an hour ago, and it was Li Qi who repeatedly promised that he would not change the direction of this side after making a mistake. In other words, they have to go around again.

"Bastard, you're kidding me!?"

I also couldn't help but beat Li Qi with my hands, and the 5 people who came with me, they were not good citizens in the first place, and they were indeed a little depressed when they were taken around by Li Qi, so they rushed over and kicked Li Qi with their feet when they saw this.

Li Qi could only protect his head and stomach, desperately promising that he would never make a mistake again!

"Alright, stop fighting."

Thinking that not only did Li Qi need to point out the way to the base camp, but he also needed him to return to the camp, so his henchmen pushed away the five people who had already been interested. At that moment, all five of them heard something in the woods behind them rushing towards them quickly.

The five explorers are also experienced in the attack of wild beasts in Dongshan Prefecture, which is not as good as the mainland, and there are only cases of gray wolves attacking people at present. But wolves have always been one of the main beasts that attack people, and most of them act in groups, and the six of them suddenly became nervous.

But the presence in the woods that was close to him suddenly stopped at a distance of more than 20 meters from him, as if it had never appeared, which made the six people a little strange.

"Let's take a look."

The six men let out a shrill cry as they drew their weapons, trying to scare away the beasts that might be there. The man who walked the fastest was still thinking about whether he could eat the wolf dog, licking his lips with some excitement, and then saw a swarthy fire pipe appear under a tree 5 meters away, and a strange man smiled hideously.

"You're the first person I killed."

The fire rang, white smoke rose, blood flew, and people fled in a hurry, leaving the remaining 5 people who didn't know what was going on.