Chapter 044: Bandit Siege and Killing
The night was still dark, and in the forest, the branches covered the moonlight, and the fingers could not be seen.
But at this time, under Chen Jing's orders, not only did he relight the lantern. Even the torches were lit with a few lights.
"The route is simple." Chen Jing calmed his voice, "I'll ride the horse first, run to the official road in front for a while, and then pretend to be invincible, and ride the horse to the rear." ”
With lanterns, torches, and a disturbance as they were discovered, it wouldn't be long before they would be hunted down by bandits all over the hills.
Chen Jing estimated that the so-called black book should have a head-killing bonus.
"Brother Chen, how to get out of the chase?"
Chen Jing didn't answer immediately, turned his head, looked at the three cargo horses in the horse team, and his face ached. These three horses were finally picked out when they were cracking down on the old bandits. This way, although not as good as Yongzhou horses, but also horsepower.
With the addition of the previous three inferior horses, it is already six horses to be scrapped.
Slowed down, Chen Jing's face quickly calmed down.
"As long as we deceive the direction of the old bandits' pursuit, we will turn off the lanterns, hide for a while, run for a while, and wait for the battalion at the north outpost."
"If something is unlucky, according to Mr. Taishi's intentions, make the last resort, pretend to be a mountain bandit and capture the king of thieves."
Chen Jing exhaled and looked at the few people in front of him.
"Do you get it?"
"Boss, got it!"
Even Tai Shiqing also hugged Chen Jing seriously.
"So, let's get moving. Xiao Jiu, if you need to set fire, let Zhao San stay away, his martial arts are not as good as yours. ”
Xing Xiaojiu and Orion Zhao San nodded, put on the old bandit's sackcloth, covered the hemp face again, and quickly turned over and got on the horse.
"Let's go."
Chen Jing frowned, calculated the time, and then let the other people, with twisted lanterns and torches, quickly rush out of the forest from another direction.
As he expected, as soon as he stepped into the official road, there was a whistle sound all around.
"Let's go!"
Worried that there would be a bow again, Chen Jing didn't dare to stay, and after urging a sentence, the group rode their horses and galloped. Seven or eight old bandits who were also riding horses roared out of the forest road, waving knives and shouting wildly.
"Flat guns—"
Zhou Yong, the three villagers, roared angrily and took the wooden pole, clamped it under his armpit, and rushed towards the bandits blocking the road.
Two of the bandits were poked and fell off their horses, and the other did not dare to fight, just adjusted the horse's head, and was led by Hu Donglian, and the whole thing was poked to the ground.
Tai Shi Qing had just cut down a cavalry bandit, and another cavalry bandit behind him jumped on his horse and raised his knife, roaring and chopping down, slashing onto his cage, and suddenly, there were countless pieces of paper, which were scattered with the wind at once.
Tai Shi Qing's face was cold, he avoided his body, and the long knife stabbed into the chest of the sneak attacker, and then pulled it out, and the blood splashed onto the plain white Mei Lan robe.
The remaining two bandits did not dare to block it anymore, so they fled quickly in shock.
Chen Jing looked around, drew his long sword, and cut the long rope leading the cargo horse. He did not forget to raise his sword and cut it on the horse's hips.
"Turn off the lights." Chen Jing opened his voice.
"The proprietor said, turn off the lantern!"
The three frightened goods horses, quickly moving in the other direction, with bright lanterns, galloped wildly, farther and farther away.
"Hide in the forest for a while."
After the three goods and horses recruited the thieves, the sound of the fight had slowly moved away. But Chen Jing understood that this was only temporary, and it wouldn't be long before there would still be people coming towards them.
"Dongjia, Hu Dong is injured." After finally finding a place to rest for a while, Zhou Yong suddenly spoke.
Chen Jing was startled, walked over to take a look, and sure enough, Hu Dong's chest was slashed at some point, but he couldn't bear it.
"Owner, it's okay, it's quite over."
"Don't speak."
took out the gold sore medicine to stop the bleeding, tore another robe, and helped Hu Dong tie it up. Chen Jing's face became more and more worried.
"Those who break the skin and hurt the flesh need to be sutured with mulberry white leather threads." Tai Shiqing frowned, "I am a knife practitioner, I often have injuries, there are some in the cage, if Brother Chen believes me, let me sew the wounds." But let me say first, after the stitches, there is no sealing medicine, so I can only burn the scar with fire. ”
"If not, it will be bumpy immediately, such a big wound, within ten miles, will inevitably collapse and die."
Chen Jing looked at Hu Dong. Hu Dong gritted his teeth and nodded.
"Zhou Yong, make a fire."
Making a fire will attract bandits, but now the situation, Chen Jing can't care about it.
Tai Shiqing picked up a dead branch and asked Hu Dong to bite it first. Then he took out the needle from the cage and scalded it on the fire.
Chen Jing turned his head.
On the side, Hu Dong's suppressed whimper could be heard.
……
"Damn it!" Riding on a horse, Wei Shou, who was wearing old armor, raised his horsewhip and whipped an old bandit who reported the news to the horse.
Four or five hundred men were busy for most of the night, but they couldn't even see a single figure. That damn little thing, so smart, didn't run to the north official road, but hid.
"It's an eggless dogman, your king of Huo'er Mountain, and a radish with a bad head, and he actually killed a little dogman!"
The thin bandit Old Mo'er, who was standing under the horse, hesitated, but finally did not dare to refute.
"If I catch him, I will ask the sheep killer to come and skin him first!" Wei Shou was furious. I just felt that I couldn't catch a small owner, so he lost all his face.
"King, look over there!"
"What?" Wei Shou turned his head sideways, and for a while, there was some surprise in his eyes. Not far from them, there were actually a few wisps of fire smoke, slowly rising into the sky.
Wei Shou was overjoyed, "Quick, that little thing must be hiding there!" Send someone to touch it and surround the forest! If you catch that little thing, the king will have a reward, thirty taels of silver! ”
……
"Zhou Yong, you take Hu Dong with you." In the forest, Chen Jing frowned and spoke.
With the help of Tai Shiqing, although the wound had been sewn up, after the severe pain, Hu Dong fainted.
"Brother Chen, it's time to go."
Chen nodded his head, and after the fire was lit, it would definitely attract bandits.
In the current situation, I can only hide for a while and run for a while, dragging off time, if Xing Xiaojiu's side succeeds, it won't be long before the battalion army will kill him.
"Get on the horse."
A few people got back on their horses and set off.
"It won't be long before dawn." Tai Shiqing laughed, "This long night, Brother Chen and I can be regarded as temporarily surviving. ”
Chen Jing understood that even if it was dawn, the old bandits would not necessarily retreat. After all, in the vicinity of here, except for the heavy outposts dozens of miles to the north, there are no battalion troops.
Without a battalion army, it is the world of this group of bandits.
"Thank you, Mr. Taishi, for your help along the way."
Tai Shiqing was silent, "People like you are rare in the world. Otherwise, when you return to Tang Village, you and I will go to the capital again. ”
"Rushing for the exam? I said it before. ”
"Another thing. Just like this horse gang of yours, selling goods from the south to the north, escorting along the way. ”
"Escort what?"
Tai Shiqing didn't answer, and smiled, "Brother Chen, you'll know when the time comes." ”