Chapter 5 Hunting (1)
The sunshine in the sky is very fierce, but there is a cool breeze in the wilderness.
This kind of weather is most suitable for hunting. Just wear a straw hat and put on a hemp robes, and people and horses will not sweat all day long. In the evening, they will return with their harvest with triumphant light, and their bodies are filled with the afterglow of the setting sun, and their chests are blown by the light wind, which makes people feel even more relaxed and pleasant.
"Report, the boss, Zou Bantou of Liuhe County sent someone to send news that the prey had left the county town half an hour ago! He was walking on Liuyang Road!" A hunter wearing a straw hat and a sackclothed clothes rode his horse through the wilderness and headed straight to the woods by the river. Before the person got off his horse, the voice had already reached the woods.
"How many entourages? How many officers and soldiers are escorted and the civilians accompanying each other?" The eyes of Bai Fugui, the leader of Bai Wangzhai, flashed in the eyes of Bai Fugui. The words he said were as sonorous as the collision of weapons.
"There are about thirty or forty officials, fifty soldiers, and the people are strong, and the people are strong. There are more than 200 people. The people from Zou Bantou didn't explain in detail." The hunter in Geyi quickly gave the answer without thinking.
"Yeah!" Bai Fugui stroked his beard with his hand and nodded slightly.
This time he brought five hundred minions from the mountain to deal with fifty officers and soldiers. Even if the latter is well-equipped, it is more than enough. What's more, there are two other Green Forest heroes nearby who will fight side by side with Baiwangzhai at that time.
However, before he could praise his hunters' care, a series of cold questions sounded at a later position beside him, "How much is the civil warrior? Are they more than 200 years old or nearly 300? Have you ever carried weapons? Have officers and soldiers ever been wearing armor, are they cavalry or infantry? Are there crossbows on the chariot?" He did not give him a face to the boss.
"Second, what do you mean?" Bai Fugui's eyebrows frowned in an instant, turned his head, and glared at the second in command Wang Chunqiu.
"The boss, this transaction is wrong!" Wang Chunqiu, the second boss wearing a clean green robe and dressed as a scholar, raised his hands and explained very respectfully, "If the three villages join forces, if they attack, they will be enough to wash out Liuhe County. But they only used them to deal with fifty officers and soldiers in the wild, which is awesome..."
"As these days, who has the courage to go to wash the county town? Are you impatient to live?" Before he could finish a sentence, the third leader Lu Fangyuan had already curled his lips disdainfully. "Even if he escaped to Wangwu Mountain, he would not be able to escape the conquest of the officers and soldiers and the hunting of the Green Forests together!"
This is a big truth. Although the imperial court's control over the local area is far less than before. In the mountains and lakes, the "green forest heroes" who had disappeared for a long time have also "resurrected the world". However, there is an unwritten agreement between the green forest and the government, that is, no force in the rivers and lakes should be used to move the city of the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, the local government cannot hide it and must report it to the court. Then the rivers and lakes will be regarded as a rebellion by the court and sent heavy troops to encircle and suppress it. The other implicated rivers and lakes will take the initiative to provide various help to the officers and soldiers in order to quell the matter as soon as possible, and even cooperate with the officers and soldiers to quell the rebellion.
However, this truth is obviously not correct. Not only did the second leader Wang Chunqiu sneer at him after hearing this. Bai Fugui also turned his angry eyes to him, "Third brother, don't mess around if you don't understand! No one thinks you are a mute!"
"I, I just think the second head is thinking too much." Lu Fangyuan, the third head, did not dare to talk back, lowered his head, and muttered aggrievedly, "We are not locals. After doing this transaction, I settled the final payment with Master Ku and immediately hid in Taihang Mountains. As for why Master Ku wanted to invite so many people to kill the chicken, it's all we have to do?!"
"Shut up!" Bai Fugui scolded again, but his eyes had become much softer. He slowly turned his head to the second leader Wang Chunqiu. He frowned and discussed with the other party, "The second brother, fifty officers and soldiers, even if it is bait, we can still take it down in one stick of incense. Even if the monk Ku was not in good intentions and wanted to spend money to trick us out and let the officers and soldiers encircle him, we will fight quickly and decide quickly. When the brigade of officers and soldiers arrive, we will have already run away!"
"This is exactly what I can't understand." Wang Chunqiu shook his head and then bowed gently, "Master, logically speaking, we have helped Baima Temple do dirty work over the years. If the abbot betrays us, it will definitely not be worth the loss. But this time he started to contact us before the first month of the year. It took more than three months to kill a civil servant who came out to measure the celestial phenomena, and he was afraid that our village would not be able to do well..."
"Did Zou Bantou say it? What's the name of this enemy who is miserable? What's the official position?" The more I heard it, the more I felt guilty. The boss Bai Fugui suddenly turned his head to the hunter in the erry clothes and quickly checked.
"I said that my surname was Zhang, but I didn't say how old the official was. However, when he passed by the county town, the county magistrate did not pick him up and drop him off in person." The hunter in the rogue has been a scout for many years and has a lot of experience. After thinking about it, he quickly gave the answer again.
The county magistrate did not personally welcome and see him off, which shows that the enemy who was a official was either not at a high level or was a noble official with no real power. No matter which one was, after this person was assassinated, the court would not let everyone treat everyone as a rebel to fight.
Thinking of this, Bai Fugui secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He smiled and turned his eyes to Wang Chunqiu, the second leader, "Second, we have collected all the money and the people are here, we have to be right. Master Ku has an explanation. At worst, he will send more scouts around him later, and immediately hello when he finds that the situation is wrong."
"The boss is wise!" Wang Chunqiu, the second boss, also knew that the team could not leave just by saying that. Otherwise, if the monk Ku and the White Horse Temple behind him would have countless troubles. He took a deep breath and whispered, "However, I suggest that you be more stable and let the people from Heifeng Village and Huangye Village go first. That official is a person who comes out to do things and will definitely not bring too much money. The village that cuts his head is just a 500-yuan hanger than other villages!"
"Okay, let's listen to you. You are the Zhiduoxing of our village!" Bai Fugui was very reluctant, but twisted his nose and reluctantly agreed.
As soon as he finished speaking, the second scout arrived, he had already arrived. From a distance, he clasped his fists and saluted, "Report, the boss, the target was alarmed by the spies from Heifeng Village, and stopped the team at Yemaiziling."
"I think he did this killing Hei Wuchang on purpose!" Bai Fugui immediately guessed the truth, and was so angry that he gritted his teeth, "I was afraid that everyone would do it together, and he would not get the five hundred hangs!"
"Okay, let the people in Heifeng Village explore the way!" Wang Chunqiu was overjoyed and smiled and reminded loudly. "Master, we are not in a hurry. Let's spread the scout first and monitor all the movements within five miles around!"
"Well!" Bai Fugui spat into the ground and nodded angrily, "Second, all the scouts are handed over to you, you can arrange it at will. Third, you will take the brigade and walk slowly behind you. I will take the brothers from the old camp to take a look first. Who is the prey? How many benefits can Heifeng Village get this time?"
There are only fifty officers and soldiers around the prey. Now that Baiwang Village is rushing over, it will definitely not be able to grab the prey's head. Therefore, it is better to follow the flow and adopt the idea of the second leader Wang Chunqiu, and then talk about it more with confidence.
This arrangement immediately won everyone's approval. The second leader Wang Chunqiu stepped forward to take the command arrow and immediately began to assign tasks to the scouts dressed in hunters. The third leader Lu Fangyuan organized the team and gathered all the minions who had no mounts to travel together, and slowly leaned towards Yemaiziling.
The boss Bai Fugui led more than 50 elite troops from the old camp to instigate mounts and rushed to the battlefield like lightning. He did not seek to pick up any "leftover meat" under the claws of the hungry wolf in Heifeng Village, but he only wanted to have the opportunity to see how powerful the prey was. It actually made Master Ku spend such a lot of effort to take his life.
Unexpectedly, the destruction of the Gula he had guessed did not appear at all. Until he arrived at Yemaizi Ridge, the people from Heifeng Village could not cut off the heads of the prey. On the contrary, the green forest seemed to have suffered a great loss. Not only did the corpses of the minions lay row after row on the not-steep hillside. Yang Kun, the leader of the Heifeng Village, also had flowers hanging on the arm, standing under a dead tree, as if he was losing his parents.
'I call you a spirit, call you a ghost, I deserve it!' Bai Fugui was so happy that he saw it, but he deliberately pretended to be concerned, rode his horse to Yang Kun, the leader of the Heifeng Village, and asked loudly. "What's wrong, Boss Yang? Is it a stubborn idea? Could it be the Imperial Guard?"
"The bullshit imperial guards, the officers and soldiers collapsed half of the time before the war started. The real one was the civil war under the dog official! No, that was not civil war at all, but the servants of the dog official!" Yang Kun, the chief of the Heifeng Village, stamped his feet in anger, accidentally pulled the arrow on his shoulder and grinned in pain. "And the dog official was still carrying an iron vest in the carriage. When he saw my brothers from Heifeng Village approaching, he immediately asked his confidants to put the iron vest on his body."
"Iron vest?" Bai Fugui was puzzled and quickly turned his head to the hillside. On the top of the slope, more than forty carriages were connected to the head and tail, and had steadily surrounded a car city.
In front of the only exit of Checheng, there were more than fifty monsters standing. Each monster wore a felt-hat-like iron helmet on his head, and his shoulders and chest were covered with iron plates in a vest-shaped shape.
In the hands of the monsters, they were holding a long-handled sword that was one and a half tall. At the edge of the blade, red light lingered, faintly, as if blood was still flowing down.
In this way, not to mention that the thieves in Heifeng Village could not be chewed, even if the elite troops of the old camp of Baiwang Village rushed forward, they would not be able to think about the gate of Checheng!
"Go to the side, use iron hooks and lassoes to pull over the carriage." After all, he is an experienced old man. After his eyes swept over the car city, Bai Fugui decisively gave advice to Heifeng Village. "They don't have many iron armored soldiers! They can't protect the entire car city!"
There was no need for him to remind him at all. With a irritable horn, the minions of Heifeng Village had already rushed towards the target from the left and right sides under the leadership of the second leader Du Renjie. And directly opposite the Checheng, there were more than 40 elite Black Wind Village riding horses to restrain the iron-armored monsters. As long as the latter dared to disperse to take care of the car wall, they would instigate the mount to drive in from the front!
"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo--" Early summer sun is warm and bright, but the sound of the horns is as cold as the north wind in the twelfth month, making people's body tremble uncontrollably.
Accompanied by the shrill sound of cow horns, more than 300 minions were divided into two left and right teams, taking big steps, and quickly approaching the sides of the car city. The weapons in their hands were dazzling and cold in the sun.
The hillside was very smooth and had little impact on running speed. However, many minions started to lose their strength as they ran. Some minions stopped in place, waved the steel knife in their right hand, hit the wooden shield in their left hand, and roared loudly in their mouths.
They were creating pressure on the people in Checheng, and at the same time, they also encouraged the accomplices who rushed to the front of the team. Most of the elite Black Wind Village who rushed to the front of the team were wearing leather armor, and the quality of the weapons in their hands was far better than those who cheered on the spot. Among these elites, there were dozens of people who did not carry any offensive weapons, and only had hooks and ropes in their hands. They all acted very low-key, just lowered their heads and walked closer to Checheng, and refused to make any sounds.
"Dongdong, dongdong, dongdong..." The intense sound of war drums suddenly exploded in the car city, instantly suppressing the womb of the Niuke. The next moment, hundreds of feather arrows soared from the car city, "swhoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, and swoosh, making the sky dark.
Less than fifty steps away, the feather arrow flew over at high speed. The sharp arrowhead quickly pierced, creating a disaster in the extremely narrow area.
Anyone who accidentally stepped into this area, whether wearing leather armor or only cloth clothes, became the target of feather arrows. The sharp arrowheads ignored the protection of armor and cloth clothes, and directly tore the skin and muscles of the minions, and penetrated several inches deep into their bodies.
"Ah, ah, mom--" Between forty and fifty steps on both sides of the Checheng, more than twenty minions screamed and fell down, blood flowing all over the ground. The other minions were stunned and their paces instantly slowed down. And the second wave of feather arrows had once again escaped from the bowstring, swept across the blue sky, and sent the second disaster to their heads!
Without the third wave, after two waves of feather arrows, the minions of Heifeng Village collapsed. They left behind the injured and dead accomplices, turned around and ran away. The ropes, hooks, shields, and steel knives were thrown all over the hillside. Du Renyi, the second leader of Heifeng Village, was furious and swung his knife to cut over the two retreaters, leading his close friends to try to reorganize the team. A cold arrow suddenly came into the air and hit his neck.
"Uh—uh—uh—" Du Renyi let out a series of desperate cry from his mouth, and his body staggered back and forth as if he was drunk. The weapon fell to the ground, and he stretched his hands to his neck, trying to pull out the feather arrow. Large swells of blood surged out of his mouth and nostrils at the same time, completely blocking his breathing.
"The Second Head of the House" a confidant cried forward and tried to hug his body. "Swoosh" another feather arrow broke through the air and hit the eye socket of the confidant.
After a few blinks of his fingers, Du Renyi's body and his confidant's body fell down at the same time. The rest of the confidants around him were all scattered in birds and beasts.
"It's not the people's mighty, it's definitely not the people's wives! It's not the ordinary servant, it's definitely not, it's definitely not!" Yang Kun, the leader of the Black Wind Village, who thought he could win the lead, stood under a dead tree outside the range of the feather arrows, shook his head repeatedly. His eyes were like an oil lamp that was about to burn out, dim.
The opponent is definitely not a civilian or a servant. Facing a sudden siege, even the officers and soldiers who have not undergone strict training should have collapsed long ago. At this moment, the one who collapsed first was his Black Wind Army.
Although the total losses of the Black Wind Army did not exceed 30% after the two rounds of attacks were failed. However, the "whole army" had been killed without courage. If you do not retreat into the mountains to rectify, then any local commander from the Tang Dynasty, leading two teams of officers and soldiers, can sweep the Black Wind Army into the Liting Court!
"Don't be sad. With me, with me and buck-tooth yellow! We will never give up with the dog official!" Seeing Yang Kun's infatuated appearance, Bai Wangzhai's head of Bai Fugui couldn't help but feel sad in his heart. He gritted his teeth and comforted him loudly.
Although he spoke loudly, his eyes secretly glanced behind him. He was ready to turn around and meet with Lu Fangyuan, the third leader of Baiwangzhai, and then take all his brothers to evacuate the battlefield.
"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo--" A team appeared on his retreat "in time", and the sound of the horn was like a tiger's roar.
The Huangye Village leader, the big boss of Huang Yezhai, rode a Dayuan horse and walked at the front of the entire team. Behind him were Zhou Niu Pi, the second boss of Zhou Waibo, and five or six hundred minions. Later, there were two groups of monks, each of whom was so yellow that they had just applied a layer of beeswax!
"The Demon-Subduing King?" Bai Fugui shivered in his heart, and in an instant, his whole body felt like he fell into an ice cave.
He knew that the monk Leku often followed four same strange monks. Usually, these four yellow-faced monsters rarely talked and just recited the scriptures silently, which made people suspect that they had already read the scriptures and were obsessed with the devil. However, once, Leku went to a wealthy family to collect debts, but the other party tried to deduct him from the debt. As a result, the four strange monks attacked and distributed the wealthy family to the spot. Then they waved their Zen sticks and rushed into the latter's servants' team, killing a river of blood.
He bribed the three counterfeit villages and dispatched hundreds of demon-subduing King Kong just to get rid of a certain official! If he had known this was the case, Bai Fugui would never have accepted the bitter deposit three months ago.
A target that needs to be dispatched to kill hundreds of demon-subduing Kings. Even if the target himself is not noble, the power behind him must be strong enough to compete with the entire White Horse Sect. After this person dies, revenge will definitely come like thunder. By then, the White Horse Sect can withstand, and more than a thousand men and women from Baiwang Village will die without a place to die.
However, at this moment, it was too late for him to repent. The Huangye Village team was approaching him, and two cavalry were suddenly divided into two groups. Although each group had only fifty people, its attack power exceeded that of the entire Black Wind Army. They whistled, and the soldiers were divided into left and right directions, quickly capturing towards the retreating Black Wind Village minions, flying up and down in their hands. In the blink of an eye, they cut all the fastest-escaping minions.
Then, the cavalry whistled again, and like sheep driving, they rushed toward the remaining Black Wind Village minions towards their boss Yang Kun. Anyone who disobeyed the command or could not keep up with the team would cut into pieces.
"Bai Dangjia, where are your brothers? Can you transfer them to help me get rid of demons and protect the way?!" Just as Bai Fugui was so scared that he was crying, a familiar voice suddenly rang in front of his war horse.
Looking down, the monk clasped his hands together, his face full of compassion, and his body was covered with dust.
Chapter completed!