Chapter 20: Becoming a Thief (4)
A simple quantitative analysis can lead to a fairly accurate conclusion! For example, a small ...... with 17 rooms The middle-aged man of the concubine, he must be very rich, and in a friend's study in Chang'an City, there are more than two officials who are short of books, and he must be very rich in addition to being very rich.
Therefore, when the number of horse thieves in the silent grain team exceeded 600 horses, the suspected object of the forces behind the horse thieves quickly surfaced, either Yan Guo or Wang Ting. Because in this wasteland, only the Yan Kingdom and the Left Tent Royal Court can afford to raise so many horse thieves, but Ning Que has never been able to understand the purpose of this group of horse thieves, because whether it is the Yan Kingdom or the Left Tent Royal Court, they should be very welcome to negotiate peace now.
Ning Que became silent, indicating that he was also starting to get nervous.
There were two hundred Yan Qi in the food delivery team, more than 100 people, and more than a dozen cultivation girls from the Mochi Garden of the Great River Country, at the beginning, the strength of the two sides on paper was not much different, he thought that to deter the other party, according to the usual way of horse thieves, the other party might withdraw.
However, as he watched the horse thieves gather more and more in the wasteland, he finally confirmed that the other party's purpose was not simply robbery, but other intentions.
Now the horse thieves who appeared around the grain delivery team have more than six hundred horses, and their strength is completely dominant, even if he gallops away with Moshan Mountain and kills more than ten horses of the other party, it will have no effect on the overall situation.
There were no new horse thieves joining the team, and the six hundred horse thieves followed the grain delivery team slowly northward in silence, and for some reason, the horse thieves never attacked, and seemed to be a little hesitant, as if waiting for some order.
But whether they attack or not, these horse thieves are there, just in the surrounding wilderness, the people in the grain delivery team are under tremendous psychological pressure, feeling that there is a dark cloud above their heads that can not be blown away by the wind, but the pressure is getting lower and lower, the atmosphere is depressed and panicked and even desperate, if it were not for being in the cold wasteland, maybe those pale Yan troops would have dispersed the camp in a hurry.
An invisible rope is getting tighter and tighter between the Dao Grain team and the group of horse thieves, although there is no hideous face at the moment, but Ning Que knows that as the distance between him and the royal court gets closer and closer, the horse thieves will lose all opportunities if they don't attack, so this rope will always break.
The wasteland is not entirely frost grass and black soil, there are also abandoned earth cities and undulating hills, in a leaf is called a poplar forest, the grain delivery team temporarily stopped to rest, the Yan army general looked at the horse thieves on the periphery in panic, or sent a scout outpost, although there is no meaning, but it can always make people feel at ease: "If there are no reinforcements, the grain team has no way to hold it." Now that we are not far from the royal court, whether it is Shan Yu's elite cavalry or the cavalry of the temple, it is possible to touch us, my problem is that even if they can't see the fireworks, but your palace is such a powerful talisman, there should always be a way to inform them. ”
Ning Que's gaze moved away from the map, looked at Mo Shanshan beside him and asked, his tone was a little solemn and stern, while Mo Shanshan was as calm or indifferent as usual, as if he couldn't see the horse thieves on the periphery in his eyes at all.
After a period of silence, she looked at Ning Que, her sparse and long eyelashes blinked slightly, and said, "The temple has to escort a few flowers...... Important people go to the royal court, there should be a team of cathar cavalry, according to the itinerary, it should not be far from us, they should have seen the fireworks last night. ”
Ning Que stared at her eyes that looked a little dumb and asked, "What if...... They didn't see the fireworks, can they know we're here?"
Mo Shanshan nodded slightly, and his straight black hair fell down his shoulders like a waterfall.
Ning Que was in a slightly calm mood, took out the water bladder and drank it. Water, silent after frying, said: "If there are no reinforcements, I will withdraw first when I can't hold on, do you want to pick with me." ”
You in this sentence naturally refer to the disciples of the Mochi Yuan of the Great River Country, and do not include those Yan army cavalry and those people who were collected from the Yan country.
The Tmall girl picked and delivered food, and happened to listen to Ning Que's words, her pretty face was slightly red, and she said expectantly: "Senior brother...... Senior brother, you ...... How can this be?"
Ning Que didn't explain anything, rubbed the little girl's head dotingly, looked at Mo Shanshan who lowered his head slightly, and continued: "You should know that I am a very cold-blooded guy, the first consideration is to live myself, if there are no reinforcements, after the horse thief attacks, the grain team will not be able to withstand it at all, and at that time you still want everyone to live and pick, which is equivalent to sending your junior sisters and brothers into a desperate situation, so I hope that you can be more resolute when you make a decision at that time." ”
Because the six hundred horse thieves were watching, the grain caravan was extremely vigilant every time it stopped, and in addition to being released to patrol the sentry, the grain wagons would also be densely arranged in a circular convoy to prevent the other side from rushing to the camp, although this would bring a lot of trouble, but compared with death, no one would think it was too troublesome.
There was a sudden noise under a poplar tree that was about to die of old age, Ning Que stood up and looked over there, shook his head, put on his mask and walked over, and the lynx girl followed him curiously.
Yin the general of the Yan army had a calm face, stared at the thinking of Zhihua in front of him, and said hatefully: "If it weren't for you southerners, how could I be sent to such an important errand? This and the situation do you still want me to hold on and wait for help? I only have two hundred people, and there are at least seven or eight hundred horse thieves, how can I defend it? How can this battle be fought? My attitude is very clear, I will take my people to break through immediately...... As for what is left to this horse thief? As long as a man is alive, it is better than anything else, and if you want to accompany this grain and grass to death, it is your business. ”
Zhu Zhihua held back the anger in his heart, pointed to the panicked Minda around him and said, "Then what about these people? They are the people of Yan Kingdom, can you, as a general, not care about their lives or deaths?"
"Who cares if I live or die?"
The general of the Yan army waved his hand angrily, signaling his cronies beside him to gather the cavalry, preparing to take advantage of the fact that the group of horse thieves was still far away, striving to break through quickly.
Around the winter Yang Forest, some Yan folk men heard this conversation, and knew that the general of Zi Si was about to abandon him, and they immediately fell into a greater panic, talking and crying, and even some people looked at those cavalrymen and began to burn the fuel called hatred.
Holding the ebony handle of the Xiu Sword, Zhu Zhihua and the two girls of the Great River Country stopped in front of the Yan army general: Zhu Zhihua lowered his voice and kept persuading, but he did not get any response. The general of the Yan army looked at the horse thieves on the periphery and was even more anxious, he pulled out his saber with a choked sound, glared at the girls of the Great River Country in front of him, and scolded in a cold voice: "If you want to stop me, you must first ask if my knife is agreed!"
Ning Que stood behind Zhu Zhihua and watched this scene, his brows furrowed. To this day, he doesn't know the name of the general of the Yan army, and he doesn't care about the name of the other party, he believes that if this general dares to make a move, he will definitely die under the sword of Zhu Zhihua in an instant, but at this time, the situation is tense, if it causes internal strife or even internal strife, then there is no need for the horse thieves on the periphery to attack, and the hundreds of people in the grain team will die cleanly.
How can we leave this Yan cavalry of about 200 people behind without bowing up infighting?
Then let the infighting end as soon as it begins, and the sparks will be extinguished at a moment's notice, and the chaos will naturally not be able to ignite the prairie Ning Que flashed out from behind Zhihua and stood in front of the general of the Yan army.
The general of the Yan army looked at this fright, the young man wearing a hat and a black mask covering his face, was slightly stunned, and he went all the way, he only thought that Ning Que was an ordinary male disciple of Mochi Yuan, I don't know why this person stood up at this time Ning Que glanced at the saber in the hand of the Yan army general, did not ask if the knife would agree, directly pulled out the Pu knife from behind him, and slashed it against the cold wind in the winter poplar forest.
The knife rose and fell, and the Yan army general fell down with blood spraying his head, because the incident happened suddenly, and Ning Que's knife was too fierce and fast, he didn't even have a chance to raise his knife to block.
There was a big uproar in the field, and the cronies of the Yan army generals were red-eyed, and they were about to draw their knives to counterattack, but they were restrained by Ning Que concisely and neatly.
The girls of the Great River Country, such as Zhihua and Tmall Girl, looked at this scene in amazement, looking at the corpses of the generals of the Yan Army who were still gushing blood on the ground, and they couldn't speak at all, and they didn't understand why Ning Que did this.
Ning Que motioned for them to use ropes to tie up the upper echelons of the Yan Army.
He stood in the middle of the crowd, looking at the frightened people, at the Yan cavalry with complicated eyes, anger and fear, and after a moment of silence, he pointed to the horse thieves in the outer wasteland and said: "Those are horse thieves, their ferocity, you should know very well. ”
He glanced at the Yan Army officer who was tied down not far from his feet, then looked up at everyone and said: "At this critical moment, those who want to abandon everyone, who are greedy for life and afraid of death and want to live alone, must die." ”
"Whoever does not obey orders and commands will also die. ”
"Even if I don't kill you, the horse thieves out there won't let you live. ”
"So I don't want to solve too much and want to live? ”
In the winter Yang forest, there was silence, whether it was the cavalry of the Yan Army or the Minda of the Yan Kingdom, looking at this ordinary male disciple of Mochi Yuan, looking at his calm eyes outside the black mask, they all felt the deepest chill quickly occupy Zisi's body, because of the cold, so calm, because of calm, so they understood that what he said was right.
Looking at the back of Ning Que who was walking towards the carriage in the forest, the Tmall girl opened her big and bright eyes suspiciously, scratched her head, and found that Zi Si couldn't understand this senior brother of the academy at all, he was still persuading the mountain lord to evacuate in advance, why did he react so strongly when the general of the Yan army was about to evacuate?
The curtain of the car lifted a corner, Mo Shanshan looked at him and said, "I know how capricious people are...... People:"
"I'm not a Yan person, these Yan horses and Yan Guofu have nothing to do with me, and their life and death have nothing to do with me, but as a Yan general, he is not qualified to abandon the people and leave. The reason why I killed him had nothing to do with these reasons, but simply because he died, which was more conducive to the survival of the rest of the people. ”
"As for capriciousness...... Ning Que began to check the bow and arrows, pursed his head and said: "If I really can't stand it, I still recommend that you evacuate with me, so my attitude is not repeated." I am the same as that Yan Jiang, I am a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, the difference is only that I have the ability to let him die, and he has no ability to let me die. ”@。