Chapter 40: The Hopeless Army
Just when everyone in the Yang caravan was still discussing whether to go back to look for Li Yi, Li Yi had already leisurely walked out of the mountains and forests.
"Senior brother, have you encountered any difficulties? Why didn't you catch it alive? ”
Jing Zizheng saw that Li Yi did not bring back the other party's secret whistle, so he asked.
Everyone also looked inquiring.
"No, it's just that I caught too much and I can't bring it back alone."
Li Yi scratched his head embarrassedly and said.
"I see." Yang Ping's chubby hand wiped the non-existent sweat on his forehead and said.
Just now, he was very worried that something would happen to Li Yi.
"Shopkeeper Yang, I'm bothering you to send a few people to the woods to carry these guys back."
"How many people are there?"
Yang Qi, the head of the cauldron, asked.
"A total of five people, all of whom were knocked unconscious by me and tied to a tree."
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but secretly marvel, in just over half an hour, Li Yi found out these secret sentinels and subdued them all, which shows his strength.
"Originally, I just wanted to catch one and come back, but I found that they had left a contact mark on the tree, so I simply knocked them all unconscious." ”
"Senior brother, do you want to use those marks to invite you into the urn?"
Hearing that Li Yi knocked out all the dark sentinels after seeing the mark, Jing Zizheng guessed his thoughts.
"Yes, we can come up with a plan, why should we take the initiative in their hands."
Li Yi nodded and said what he thought.
After hearing this, everyone in the caravan couldn't help but nod their heads to indicate that the plan was feasible.
So the people went their separate ways.
Some of the convoy scattered to find a suitable ambush site, while others began to imitate markers in the woods.
During this period, An Su, who had been hiding in the carriage, gave Qi Ning some suggestions on the ambush location.
Qi Ning also told Yang Ping these suggestions as soon as possible.
In this way, in less than an hour, everyone found a suitable place.
It's a half-sloped road.
On one side of the road is a steep mountain wall with strange rocks, and on the other side is a slope with a certain slope.
Not far from this site, there is another place that is even more steep than this one, and that place is also a steep mountain wall on one side, and a cliff dozens of feet deep on the other.
Originally, Yang Ping and the others planned to choose the ambush location here, but Ansu thought that although this kind of place was an excellent place for ambush, it was easy to see the clue because it was too good.
So in the end, they chose a place that didn't seem too precipitous.
Soon another group of people succeeded in marking it as well.
While everyone was busy, Li Yi sat leisurely on the steep cliff.
At this time, five ropes were tied to a boulder in front of him, and five people were hanging upside down at the other end of the rope.
The five of them were all hung on the cliff by Li Yi, looking at the cliff below, the five did not dare to struggle at all, for fear of falling down accidentally.
Once you fall off such a high cliff, you will definitely fall and be crushed.
These five guys are crying and begging Li Yi for mercy.
However, Li Yi was not moved at all, but Qi Ning next to him was a little unbearable.
"This good man, please let me go, we are old and young, if something happens to us, how can you let our family live!"
One of the five cried out in tears.
"Who are you? How many of you are there? When do you do it? ”
Li Yi asked a series of three questions, and he asked them very concisely.
"I'm the woodcutter in this mountain, I don't know where I offended the hero, and I hope the hero will spare his life!"
The eldest of the five was the first to speak.
"The acting is good, it seems that you really don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin."
As he spoke, Li Yi untied the rope that bound the man from the big stone.
As the rope is untied, the person suddenly falls towards the cliff.
The other four were so frightened that they couldn't even stop crying.
The older man had fallen about four or five meters, and then the rope attached to the big stone was tense again, and the man was so frightened that he could not even speak.
Although the soldiers of the Night Wolf Battalion loot and kill passing convoys every year, they are still afraid when they are facing death.
"Let me ask again, what exactly are your identities?"
Li Yi's voice this time was not as casual as before, and his tone was full of this cold killing intent.
"Hero, don't do it, let's be honest, we are bandits in this mountain."
The older man was again the first to speak, before everyone else.
"It seems that you really think that I dare not kill you, do you?"
Li Yi directly untied the entire rope this time, and then grabbed the rope with one hand and walked to the edge of the cliff step by step.
The four of them couldn't help but be horrified when they saw that the rope that tied the older man was grabbed by Li Yi in his hand.
"Hero, don't do it, we are soldiers of the Night Wolf Battalion."
The other said immediately.
"Second child, don't say it, you are betraying the wolf king god!"
The older man immediately shouted angrily.
"Big brother, I was raised by you since I was a child, and I really can't watch you being thrown to death, younger brother."
The man choked up and said, he knew that as long as he opened his mouth to tell the secret of the Night Wolf Camp, he was afraid that he would never be able to return to the grassland, but he was helpless for the sake of his eldest brother.
"Very good, I like this kind of person who knows the times the most, and he is dragged up and entertained with good wine and meat."
Li Yi commanded Qi Chao to pull the person who opened the mouth up.
The other four watched as the man was pulled up, and they began to think about it in their hearts.
"Now that he has opened his mouth and is willing to cooperate, the four of you should have been able to die, but I am more merciful, and now I am giving you a chance, tell me how many of you there are?"
Li Yi's tone was not angry and arrogant.
"Whoever speaks first will live."
Li Yi then added.
"I said, I said, there are fifty-five people in our night wolf battalion."
The youngest of the remaining four people in the middle grade hurriedly cried and spoke first, his speed of speech was extremely fast, and he was afraid that others would preempt him.
"Hmph, you're still playing tricks on me, it seems that you really don't want to live anymore, we've seen the traces of your battle last night before, and your number is definitely more than fifty people."
Li Yi said angrily.
"Good man and slow, he didn't lie to you, our night wolf battalion really only has fifty-five people, and we also have a hopeless army."
The other person hastened to explain, and the youngest person was too frightened to speak.
"Hopeless? Brother, have you ever heard of it? ”
Li Yi asked Jing Zizheng beside him in a low voice, and Jing Zizheng frowned and shook his head to say that he had not heard of it.
"What Hopeless Army, aren't you lying to us?"
Keiko asked.
"The heroes are now borrowing ten of our guts, and we don't dare to lie to you again!"
The man quickly pleaded.
Li Yi immediately motioned to Qi Chao to drag this person up.
"Tell me more about the Hopeless Army."
Waiting for someone to calm down a little, Keiko began to interrogate.
The Hopeless Army had never heard of it before, so they had to figure out what kind of existence they really were.
"Good man, this hopeless army, as the name suggests, is a group of people who have lost hope."
The man sat on his knees and confessed honestly.
"Go on, be specific."
Keiko is very concerned about the so-called Hopeless Army, and he thinks that this Hopeless Army may be even more terrifying than the Night Wolf Battalion.
"The Hopeless Army is an army organized by Lord Night Wolf, and they are actually local Dayu people."
"Dayu people? How could they help you steppe barbarians? ”
Qi Chao couldn't believe what this man said at all.
You must know that the first people in Youzhou to suffer from the attack of the Dayu Dynasty by the tribes of the grassland.
And now this person said that the local people of Dayu in Youzhou would cooperate with the Night Wolf Battalion to loot the materials of their own army, isn't this a big joke in the world.
Li Yi and Jing Zizheng all wrinkled their brows, and a bad premonition rose in their hearts.
Li Yi even remembered the prophecy that Tai Jizi had told him when he went down the mountain about the great Yu would be destroyed and the world would rise in chaos.
He felt that the so-called Hopeless Army might well be a precursor to the prophecy.
"Tell me why the Dayu people listen to your leader's commands?"
Keiko's face became more and more solemn.
"According to Lord Nightwolf, these Hopeless Soldiers are all lonely people who have lost their loved ones near the border fortress."
"I see, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, lost loved ones and became a lonely life, that is, went to hope."
Qi Ning repeated the term hopelessness in a low voice, and she finally understood the true meaning of the hopeless army at this time.
"But even so, they lost their relatives because of your grassland tribe's grass valley, why do they still help you fight against your own country?"
The Qi dynasty could not understand why anyone was willing to help the enemy who killed his own family against the army that protected him.
The man was silent, he didn't know how to answer him.
Although the Hopeless Army often cooperates with their actions, these Hopeless Army are usually silent.
To the people of the Night Wolf Camp, they looked like the walking dead, so they didn't even think about why the Hopeless Army would follow the orders of Lord Night Wolf.
And Li Yi and Jing Zizheng were also silent.
They all had their own speculations as to why the Hopeless Army helped the Night Wolf Battalion loot the supplies of the Dayu military, but neither of them dared to think about it.
If things really go as they thought, then the Great Yu Emperor's qi is estimated to be about to run out.
"How many people are there in the Hopeless Army now?"
Li Yi asked the most critical question at this time.
"There are about two hundred hopeless troops under the command of our Night Wolf Battalion, but after several battles, there are still about one hundred and fifty people left."
"What you said just now seems to be your night wolf battalion, could it be that there are several of your night wolf battalions?"
Just when everyone felt that the questions that should be asked were finished, Qi Ning suddenly asked.
When she asked the question, the man's expression changed significantly.
Seeing that the man's gaze was a little evasive and hesitant, Li Yi lifted him up from the ground, and then grabbed his throat with a little bit of his fingers.
"Do you want to hide it?"
Soon the man's face turned red, and his eyes began to bulge with blood.
"I said, I said ······" When he was about to be completely suffocated, he finally slapped Li Yi's hand and shouted.
Li Yi threw him to the ground, he took a big breath of fresh air, and he felt as if his lungs had been burned by fire just now.
"Don't say it yet." Qi Chao saw that this guy was still procrastinating, so he stepped forward and kicked him in the chest hard.
The man had no choice but to speak, "Our Night Wolf Camp is divided into six branches, and we are only one of them. ”
"Where are the other five branches, and how many are they?"
Jingzi was asking, he really didn't expect that the night wolf camp would be divided into six branches.
"The six teams of our Night Wolf Battalion are distributed in different areas, and their number is about the same as ours, and it will not exceed a hundred at most, after all, the number of people is too big."
The man coughed.
"Do they all have the Hopeless Army to work with?"
Keiko is visibly more concerned about the Hopeless Army.
"They all have the Hopeless Army under their command to cooperate, and each of them should have more than 200 hopeless troops."
The man honestly gave the exact number of the Night Wolf Camp.
He could have lied about the number of the Nightwolf Battalion and the Hopeless Army, but it didn't make any sense to him.
Not to mention whether the first person to betray would tell them the exact number, the number of the Night Wolf Battalion and the Hopeless Army alone could completely crush this caravan.
They had been notified before they were watching, and they were going to attack the caravan tonight.
So as long as they can survive safely until night, the soldiers of the Night Wolf Battalion will definitely track them down, and the caravan will definitely be slaughtered in the end.
"The humiliation is all temporary, how can you thirty-four people compete with the more than 200 people in my Night Wolf Camp, tonight when the Night Wolf Camp comes, I will definitely slaughter these damn guys with my own hands."
The man was secretly ruthless in his heart.
Li Yi saw that the questions he wanted to ask were basically answered, so he got up and went to the side of the first person who surrendered to Cheng and asked the question again from the question just now.
The man also explained them one by one very simply.
After the explanation of the two, Li Yi determined that the answers given by both parties were the same, which means that both sides should not be lying.
"Senior brother, it seems that tonight's battle will not be easy."
Li Yi sat on the cliff and watched the Yang caravan not far away, and everyone was arranging traps.
Although they can use some traps to take advantage of the slightest advantage, it is still a little difficult to solve more than 200 people with only traps.
"I'm not worried about the fifty or sixty night wolf battalion cavalry and the hopeless army of more than 100 people, after all, the advantage of cavalry on this mountain road is basically not brought into play."
Keiko was looking at the sun that was beginning to set westward in the distance, her eyes were deep, and her tone was heavy.
"Brother Wei is worried that this night wolf camp can pull up a hopeless army of thousands of people, do you know what this means?"
"I know, this means that there are a large number of Dayu people in the border area of Youzhou who are also fighting against the government, and they have given up on the Dayu Dynasty."
Li Yi slowly said what Jing Zizheng was most worried about.