Chapter 285 [Professional Robbery]
The path passes through the trees, and the terrain on both sides is slightly higher and the forest is very tight.
Char and the others, under the leadership of the horse stick that led the way, hid behind the roots of the slopes on both sides of the path.
These horse thieves were obviously veterans of this kind of business, and they didn't need Char's orders, so they were busy with tasks one by one, and some people quickly pulled down thin stumbling ropes in front of the path, all painted with black paint, and in this somewhat dimly lit forest, if you didn't get closer, you couldn't see it.
The rest of them divided two legs and feet to run to the front to explore the way, and separated two to run to the far side of the forest to control the wind. The rest of them and Char were in the woods on both sides of the path, each of them cleverly found various hidden places next to the rocks behind the roots of the trees, and they didn't need to be told by anyone, they held their breath one by one, just waiting for the target to come to the door.
Seeing that these guys, who were already dressed in Imperial cavalry uniforms, did everything so well, Char didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
These guys, when it comes to this kind of roadblocking, are even more elated, and their eyebrows are dancing.
There are also people who prepare a few large bags of fine sand, which can only be marked with Q and thrown out to confuse the other party's sight. Damn, it seems that these guys are all more professional than Lao Tzu. The turtle secretly pondered in his heart.
When Uncle Ben was in the wildfire field, when he was down, he also considered doing this kind of part-time road robbery work, but he was far less familiar with these professional guys.
Just thinking about it, I heard the direction of the road in front of me, and there were a few whistles like birds chirping in the distance, and the horses listened to it, and immediately their eyebrows flew and danced, and someone next to them gently pulled Char and lowered his voice and said: "The brother in front reported that the rabbit is coming, my lord." ”
After a while, far away, this path in the woods, in the distance, heard the movement of squeaky wheels, several fully loaded carriages came into everyone's sight, and in front of the carriage there were a few cavalrymen wearing leather armor and carrying swords and bows in the front, and when they saw this scene, everyone hurriedly lowered their bodies again.
Gradually, most of the team came into everyone's sight, the number of people in the team was not too much, more than a dozen carts, sure enough, were fully loaded, covered with thick leather mats, and I don't know what they contained.
The cavalry of the escort numbered about forty-five horsemen, and most of them were concentrated at the back of the wagon convoy, except for the seven or eight open roads in front.
And just after the cavalry, a delicate four-wheeled carriage, pulled by two fine horses, the carriage was well-made, the wood was black and bright with black paint, and it was obviously not something that ordinary people could sit on. Around the carriage in the west, there were twenty cavalrymen, all of whom were wearing light armor and had sabers hanging on them, and ten of them were actually hanging on the saddles of rare military crossbows.
As soon as he saw the short crossbow, Char immediately perked up! The person who could prepare this kind of rare goods was obviously an extraordinary person in the carriage!
As the team gradually came to the ambush, suddenly a whistle sounded from both sides.
Then I heard two rumbling sounds, and at the front and back ends of the procession, two or three big trees on the side of the road were put down, and the thick trunks of the trees immediately blocked the road of the team!
The people in the convoy were immediately alarmed, but on both sides of the path, among the trees, behind the rocky slopes, the horse thieves jumped out one after another. A round of arrows rained over at the head, and a few screams were heard, and suddenly a cavalryman fell off his horse.
These escort cavalry were immediately busy surrounding the frightened war horses, and were about to counterattack, when a few large sandbags fell all over their heads, and suddenly the dust and sand covered the sky, and many cavalrymen were immediately confused.
There was a shout of slaughter all around, and the horse thieves fired another round of arrows, and some people rushed down from both sides with weapons.
The path was already narrow, and there were big trees blocking the road in front and behind, and the cavalry galloped forward, but before they ran a few steps, the horse's hooves hit the tripwire on the ground, and they immediately fell to the ground, and the horse thief caught up with him took advantage of the situation and stabbed into the gap in the armor on his neck, and suddenly a nest of blood flew out......
Many horse thieves shouted and rushed down, and with one look, the remaining escort cavalry was already less than half, and the cavalry was confined to such a narrow space, and the horses could not gallop and could not be used. The horse thieves were very well distributed, leaving five or six to fire cold arrows on either side, and the rest rushed into the crowd and slashed with knives. The opposing cavalry could not move, sitting on their horses and condescendingly trying to resist, but they had to bend down to reach the enemy on the ground. In the midst of the screams, in a matter of moments, the guards and cavalry of the front team were completely killed.
Some of these fellows were apparently well-trained, and when they saw that they were in trouble, the rest of them shouted and gathered around the magnificent carriage, and some of the elite guards took down their crossbows to shoot at the horse thieves.
This kind of military short crossbow is well-made, the rate of fire is block, and it is small and agile to hold in the hand, and there is no need to open the bow to aim, and the short crossbow arrow is loaded with three consecutive shots, and suddenly the horse thieves who rushed in front fell four or five.
The cavalry dismounted one after another, forming an array around the carriage, and for a while the situation was faintly deadlocked.
Although the horse thieves in the distance also shot with bows and arrows, the other party had an array, and also raised the small hand shields of the cavalry, clustered together, and it was obvious that the rest of them were elites, and they were not afraid to fight to the death. The horse thieves were hindered by the opponent's sharp short crossbows, and they rushed twice for a while and did not get close, but killed and wounded several people. Char could see clearly behind him, and suddenly shouted: "Brothers, stand back and look at Lao Tzu."
The horse thieves instinctively stepped back when they heard the shouts from behind, and suddenly they heard a wind whistle overhead, and a huge black shadow swept overhead.
With a bang, I saw a boulder the size of a table and the roof of the carriage that flew from behind and was hit.
The two cavalrymen who were originally standing next to the carriage were suddenly smashed and their brains burst!
The roof of the carriage was cracked. Char clapped his hands behind him, turned his head and saw that there was another bigger rock on the ground beside him, took a few steps, bent down and hugged his hands, exhaled, and easily lifted it!
This stone is the size of a door panel, not 100,000 catties, but I am afraid that there are five or six thousand, Xia Ya held it in his hand, his arms and eyes faintly glowed with a red light, and he shouted, and with a breath, the boulder flew over.
I heard a loud click, and the carriage was hit again, and the carriage of the carriage was completely smashed and collapsed, the template was shattered and flew, and many guards next to it were affected, and suddenly there were 2 or 3 heads broken and bleeding and flesh flying. Many of the horse thieves burst into cheers, and they only felt that their new leader was indeed very powerful! "The eldest prince is dead!!"
Char looked up and saw that in the carriage, which was already half a fan left, there were several pieces of broken wooden planks pressed by stones, and a person was pressed underneath. The artificial half of the body was pressed under the stone, only the legs were still exposed, and the robe on the body was obviously of a luxurious texture, looking at the shape, I was afraid that the upper body had become a pulp, and the dead could no longer die, and the blood on the body was flowing down the river.
As soon as he heard the other party's mournful shout, Xia Ya suddenly waved his hand, pulled out the fire fork and rushed forward: "Brothers, just leave one or two live mouths to ask!"
Although the remaining guards were elite, the death of the people in the carriage was obviously a devastating blow to their morale, and they collapsed in less than a moment, and the rest of the people, seeing that more than half of them were killed and wounded, threw down their weapons, knelt down with their heads in their hands, and surrendered. The battle soon ended, and Char had two bloodied captives come up for questioning.
The two captives were all as if they were dead ashes, and their clothes were obviously the same as those of officers in the cavalry, and they said: "The master is dead, even if we go back, we will definitely not survive, you can kill if you want." ”
Char's eyes rolled: "Let me ask you, if you come back honestly, I won't kill you, and I'll give you some ruthenium money to let you go, how about it?"
When the two of them heard this, they both obviously showed a little expectant looks.
"I ask you, looking at your attire, are you from the Corsican army?"
The two glanced at each other, and one of them sighed: "Yes, the glycosides-they are the guards of the Doge's Palace of Corsica, and I am the captain of the guard of the Doge's Palace, and my name is Gu'an."
"The Doge's Palace of Corsica?!" Char's eyes lit up.
Then he interrogated for a while, and after the two captives made it clear, Char laughed and slapped his thigh hard, his face was strange, and there was a faint glint of eagerness and excitement in his eyes.
"Fuck! Is it really God forbidden? This casual job of robbing the road will kill the eldest son of the Corsican military district?"
The upper body of the corpse was blurred and invisible, and a head was like a rotten watermelon, but the clothes on the body were obviously not worn by ordinary people, and a gold family badge was found in his arms, which was also owned by the family of the Governor of Corsica, Carlos. You can't go wrong with that.
Char was ecstatic in his heart, but patiently interrogated the two captives repeatedly for a few words, and finally relented.
After sending two captives to tie up and keep them in the custody of the other captives, Char summoned several of the leaders of the horse thieves to discuss.
"This is the eldest son of the governor of Corsica, and he is going to the camp of Odin to negotiate. We fanned the flames in the middle, and the two were already fighting. This dead ghost is going to be a peacemaker, but his fate is not good, so he will swallow us here, hahahaha......"
The leader of the horse thieves below smiled and said: "Uncle, it seems that the gods bless, this dead ghost boy is dead here, without him to negotiate, the two families will definitely fight to the ground!"
Someone next to him also smiled: "Yes, yes, it seems that we didn't work in vain, so it's good to hide aside and watch the show." ”
Char touched his chin and smiled for a while, his eyes rolled, and after a while, he shook his head solemnly: "No, no, it's just a bluff to look at the Odin."
Manninger, though arrogant, is not brainless. He's just trying to scare the Corsicans. He has a big picture and will not go to war without permission. ”
Looking at the blank eyes of the horse thieves, Char smiled strangely: "They don't fight, but Lao Tzu has a way, let them have to fight, and they can't fight if they want to!" The leader of the horse thieves asked, "Uncle, what do you say?"
Char was in a good mood at the moment, and he didn't even care about the other party calling him "uncle", and smiled mysteriously: "You think, the Odin people don't fight, but we can force the Corsicans to do it!" "How can this be forced?"
The turtle laughed: "Hmph, the eldest son of the governor of Corsica, died at the hands of the Odin. Hehe, in this way, even if the governor of Corsica can bear it anymore, his own son dies in the hands of others, this can't be endured, right?"
There was also a horse thief below who had no head and no brain, and someone shouted: "Uncle, what kind of dead ghost is this big boy, obviously we killed him, how did he die in the hands of Odin?"
The organic spirit next to him pulled this person hard, and said with a smile: "Uncle said that he died in the hands of the Odin, so naturally there is a way to let this person die in the hands of the Odin, right, uncle?"
Char squinted, touched his nose, and then pointed to the corpse next to him: "Pick up the clothes of this dead ghost, go get some water, and wash the clothes!"
After a pause, he smiled again: "And those prisoners, and those dead Bo guards, send a few brothers to bring their armor and weapons over." ”
Although there are still people who don't understand, there are some clever ones among the horse thieves, and they have already vaguely guessed what this uncle's idea is.
After being busy for a while, a horse thief came to Char with wet clothes, and the blood stains on them were almost clear. Sure enough, it was a good material, and after cleaning, the stain was gone.
Char put the clothes wet on his body, turned around in place, and said with a smile: "Look, Lao Tzu doesn't look like a young master from a rich family?"
This guy was born in the grassy mountains, where is there a bit of aristocracy in his whole body? But these horse thieves around him are all coarse, and everyone laughs and says: "Not bad, not bad! Uncle is naturally wise and martial, let alone pretending to be a nobleman, even if he is an emperor, it is not bad!"
Xia Ya laughed, these horse thieves had no scruples about talking, and he didn't think much about it when he heard it, but he snorted: "Damn, Lao Tzu is just pretending for a while, pretending to be the son of President Carlos, who is a dead ghost, is also a big loss! But it doesn't matter, this time pretending to be his son, next time he pretending to be his Lao Tzu, won't he get it back." ”
After a pause, he touched his face: "These noble guys speak softly, I still have to dress up......"