Under the protection of his subordinates, the leader of the horse bandits retreated into the horse bandit formation in some embarrassment.

The leader has been attacked, and he has retreated!

The horse bandits who rushed to the mouth of the valley turned back and lost sight of the leader who was standing on the high sandy slope to supervise the battle, and suddenly it was as if they had lost their backbone, and suspicion and panic spread rapidly in their hearts like a plague.

They looked at each other, they exchanged ears, and the leader was injured?

They began to retreat step by step, and no longer had the courage and momentum to rush forward, they had lost their fighting spirit.

At this moment, a long, shrill whistle came from the rear horse bandit formation, which was a signal to retreat.

So the bandits quickly retreated, no slower than when they had rushed up.

The horse bandits retreated, and finally held on!

Ye Feng and the others stood at the mouth of the valley, looking at the horse bandits who had receded like a low tide, and they couldn't help but let out a long breath, and a trace of happiness for the rest of their lives appeared on their faces.

Only Tang Da lowered his head in contemplation.

The viper who had fought him just now turned to look at him as he retreated.

The strange pale yellow eyes that shot out of the viper's strange eyes were not fierce and vicious, but a feeling of pity with a little sympathy.

Tang Da felt the same way.

As a killer, the Viper's martial arts are very high, almost no less than Tang Dalai.

Such a character can undoubtedly become a hero in any sect in the rivers and lakes. How did he become a killer?

For money?

Tang Da didn't believe that a person with such attainments in martial arts would be covered in copper stench and be driven by others for a little money, even if his asking price was very high.

Although the moves made by his pair of daggers were extremely ruthless, there was a hint of everyone's style in the faint way. It's like, like making a pair of double knives!

Tang tried to recall all the well-known double-knife knife techniques in the world, but none of them could correspond to the moves of the poisonous snake.

Tang Da's eyes flashed with a deep light, what is the origin of this person?

They retreated to the valley, and the camels counted the casualties, and the group was harmless except for one camel rider and two grooms.

Except for Zhang Fatzi and Tang Da, everyone was more or less injured, and the most wounded was the Helian Tie who was charging ahead, and there were more than ten wounds on the dark upper body, but fortunately, they were all flesh wounds.

The most seriously injured is Xie Zhenliang, who doesn't know martial arts, just now his blood is surging, and his bravery in waving a steel knife is no worse than others.

It's a pity that his skills are so poor that he was stabbed in the arm by a horse bandit, and his whole arm was stained red with blood, and he couldn't lift it at all. If it weren't for the righteous brother Ye Feng working hard to protect him, I am afraid that he would not only be injured.

At this moment, he was sitting on the ground, grinning in pain, and the fat man was squatting in front of him, clumsily bandaging his arm, wrapping one arm around like a big dumpling.

The camel was also wounded, and his clothes were soaked with blood, but he didn't care, and walked around to check everyone's injuries, and told everyone to hurry up and rest.

His composure made him seem to be covered with a halo, and everyone looked at him, as if they had the courage and confidence to persist in their hearts.

The vicious battle just now, coupled with the injury of his righteous brother, made Ye Feng feel upset and his mouth was dry, he grabbed a water bladder and poured water into his mouth.

At this time, the camel suddenly turned around and asked him, "I heard Ye Gongzi say just now, you know who he is." Is this the leader of the horse bandits?"

Ye Feng put down the water bladder and nodded silently.

The camel's eyes lit up and he asked, "Then he's here."

Who's that?"

Ye Feng hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke: "This horse bandit leader, he is the eldest son of the commander of Shazhou Wei, Brother Lan!"

As soon as the words were spoken, everyone was stunned.

The leader of the horse bandits is Brother Lan?

In this way, this group of horse bandits with a large number of people is actually not a bandit in the desert at all, they are simply disguised Shazhou Wei sergeants!

No wonder they have so many numbers, no wonder their advance and retreat attacks are so well-ordered and well-trained.

But when he was sleepy, he obviously received the entrustment of His Royal Highness King Su in Lanzhou and the little Marquis of Song Hu in Ganliang to protect the safety of Ye Feng and his party, how could he connive at his son to lead Shazhou Wei's subordinates to disguise themselves as horse bandits to rob and kill them?

What exactly is the reason?

Zhang Fatzi felt a little unconvinced: "You can't be mistaken, right? How did you know that the leader of the horse bandits was Brother Lan?"

Ye Feng sighed lightly: "That's right, I know the short knife on Brother Lan's waist." ”

He looked at the puzzled face of the fat man, and then said: "On that night in Dunhuang, the leader of the sleepy and imminent came to a banquet for us, and when you ate roasted whole sheep during the banquet, you were so drunk that you accidentally dropped the knife that cut the mutton into the coals, do you remember?"

Zhang Fatzi nodded while recalling.

Ye Feng said: "At that time, Brother Lan, the eldest son who came to his side, once pulled out a short knife on his waist and asked you to use it to cut mutton, and I saw his knife at that time. ”

"His knife is very special, there is a small crack in the blade, but he has found a craftsman to engrave a small flower with great skill to cover it up. At that time, he explained that this knife was a relic of Brother Lan's mother, and he couldn't bear to give it up, so it was so. ”

"However, when you attacked the leader of the bandits just now, he also pulled out the short knife on his waist to fight, and at that moment, I clearly saw that his short knife blade also had the same pattern decoration!"

"Ordinary people generally never carve patterns and decorations on the blade, and the patterns are so similar, it is clearly the same short knife! So I am sure that this leader of the horse bandits must be Brother Lan himself!"

After listening to him, everyone was silent.

In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that on the boundary of Shazhou, a group of five or six hundred horse bandits suddenly appeared inexplicably, robbing and killing Ye Feng and his party who promised to protect them when they were trapped.

But if what Ye Feng said was true, then it would be impossible for Brother Lan to be completely unaware of all these actions, and to mobilize so many sergeants under the command of Shazhou Wei, it must have been instructed or acquiesced by him.

So before they released the carrier pigeons that were given by the sleepy and laid, and their distress letters, if they fell into the hands of the sleepy and lailai, wouldn't it be equivalent to sinking into the sea?

The Shazhou Guard reinforcements they are waiting for here will naturally not appear, and all their hopes have come to naught?

So what's the point of their current insistence?

Looking at everyone's faces, Ye Feng also felt a chill in his heart.

He had hesitated to tell the story just now, because he had already expected how discouraged and disappointed everyone would be when they knew the true identity of the bandits, and knew that the reinforcements could no longer be counted on.

On the battlefield, in the face of life and death, hope and confidence are often the greatest driving force to sustain it.

But in the end, he still told the truth, compared to concealing the truth and letting everyone fight for life and death, or even give their lives, for a false hope that does not exist, I am afraid it will be more cruel.

Zhang Fatzi's eyes were a little distracted, and he muttered: "We are still going to ask for help from the people who want to kill us, and we are still dreaming of reinforcements to save us, but there is nothing, there is nothing......"

At this time,

Xie Zhenliang frowned and said, "It's just that there is something very strange, and I haven't figured it out. ”

Ye Feng raised his eyes and looked at him: "What's the matter?"

Xie Zhenliang said: "As the commander of Shazhou Wei, he gave us a carrier pigeon that night to report to him, but when I took the carrier pigeon, I took a look at it, and the pigeon foot ring engraved on it was not the logo of Shazhou Wei, but a sweet word. ”

Ye Feng also frowned: "Ganzhou Wei?"

Xie Zhen nodded brightly and said: "The strange thing is this, Shazhou Wei is subordinate to the Suzhou Wei Institute in terms of establishment, and the carrier pigeon used in the army should be the symbol of Suzhou Wei even if it is not engraved with the sand character of Shazhou Wei." ”

"Now the pigeon's foot ring is engraved with the Ganzhou Wei logo, since we are in danger of using the pigeon to report to him, how can we give us a pigeon that does not belong to him at all, this pigeon really reported to him?"

Zhang Fatzi said: "Didn't you make a mistake in the rush that night?"

Xie Zhenliang shook his head and said: "No, as soon as he clapped his hands that night, someone came in with a carrier pigeon outside the door, it was obviously prepared a long time ago, how could he be mistaken because of a hurry? At that time, I thought I was thinking too much, but I didn't say it, but now that I think about it, it is more and more suspicious." ”

Ye Feng nodded, it was indeed very suspicious. What secrets are hidden in this pigeon?

Before I could figure it out, I suddenly heard a noisy sound in the distance.

Everyone got up and looked, but saw that in the formation of horse bandits, shouting loudly, and the men and horses were dispatching left and right, it seemed that a new attack would soon be launched.

The camel thought for a while with a calm face, turned his head and whispered a few words to Xie Zhenliang and Zhang Fatzi.

Zhang Fatzi shouted loudly: "I'm not leaving, stay here with one more person, one more strength, I want to be with you!"

The camel's face sank, and he said, "Gongzi Xie is so seriously injured, do you want to let him go into the valley alone?

Zhang Fatzi looked at Xie Zhenliang's arm wrapped like a dumpling, and was speechless.

Xie Zhenliang didn't speak, he understood that the camel had good intentions to let him leave the battlefield.

He also has a lot of blood in his chest, and he also wants to stay and live and die with everyone, but he understands more that he doesn't know martial arts, and what he can do if he stays is really limited, and it will even become a burden to everyone, dragging everyone down.

Just now, if it weren't for the desperate protection of his righteous brother Ye Feng, I was afraid that he would have died under the chaotic knife of the horse bandits.

Zhang Fatzi, don't look down on the top of his skills, but unfortunately his fist and foot kung fu are also commonplace, otherwise he wouldn't have suddenly attacked just now, and he wouldn't have been able to take down a brother Lan.

In comparison, even the horsemen and camel riders who have been walking in the desert for a long time and are quite experienced in dealing with desert horse bandits are far more effective than them.

They left the battlefield, and everyone was more free of their hands.

So Xie Zhenliang didn't say anything, just pulled the reluctant Zhang Fatzi and walked towards the valley without looking back.

He was afraid that as soon as he turned back, he couldn't help but stay with everyone, living and dying together.

When he left, he sighed to himself in his heart, if his father didn't only teach him yin and yang math since he was a child, if he could also learn some martial arts from an early age, if he wasn't such a weak scholar, but could be stronger like a, maybe he wouldn't be a burden to everyone now.

It's useless, it's a scholar!" Xie Zhenliang sighed in his heart.

Seeing the two of them walk into the valley, turning around, the Helian Tie held the black iron staff in both hands, jumped on top of the pile of human and animal corpses at the mouth of the valley, faced the direction of the horse bandits, and shouted: "Come on, rabbit cubs!

Behind him, everyone also roared in unison: "Okay!"