Ye Wan was not in a hurry to go down the mountain. She guessed that most of the things they were hiding in the reed marsh were related to the six people who went out to Qiaotou Village to investigate, and they must have fallen into the hands of these bandits.

Without Chiyu staring at him, Ye Wan let go and walked around the back of the village with a very quick and weird skill. He got in at a blind spot that could not be discovered by the guard. The guard felt a gust of wind blowing from behind and did not find anything. It was raining heavily, and the village was not in good sight. The village was blocked by the sound of "rattle" rain, which added a little smoother to Ye Wan's infiltration.

Ye Wan narrowed her eyes and thought for a while, and then found the hall where the village leader was.

She lay under the wine barrel behind the largest wooden house in the mountain village, with dense straw covering her head. She could faintly hear the angry sounds coming from the house.

"Idiot, who told you to move the officers and soldiers!" The voice was full of majesty, and he was roaring at the dozen people in the hall who were soaked in the rain.

Ye Wan heard a familiar voice and argued: "But the boss, those stupid soldiers are here to suppress the bandits. If we don't teach them a lesson, we would think we're easy to bully." It was the bandit who just said that he had made great contributions across the pond.

"Silly! Do you think those people are so scared that they can come and cause trouble for us?" said the boss. "If you want to do it, just do it cleaner. Do you think the rain can burn them all to death with the torch?"

"But... they were killed or injured. Even if there were no deaths, they were just old, weak and disabled soldiers." The bandit replied.

The boss seemed to be crying stupidly by his subordinates, and even choked for a while. His roar was even more shocking: "Idiot! Although the soft boys in Yunzhou Guard dare not treat us, the nearest military base here is only three days away. In a few days, you will wait for the mountain to be surrounded by heavy troops!"

"Then, what should I do!" another different voice asked anxiously.

"Our boss, we only had a dozen people attacked us. They would not guess how many of us were. They only sent two thousand households, one of which had been caught by us, and the other was just a little better than the recruits. The subordinates were afraid of it. The soft egg would only feel that 500 people could not beat more than a dozen of us. Moreover, the rain is so heavy, he would not easily go to help the soldiers! While they were just burned to death, we should send someone to silence them." Some smart people also spoke up.

Ye turned his eyebrows lightly, wanting to see what the person who is talking looks like, even Fang Qianhu can guess accurately.

I heard that the hall was silent for a while, as if the village leader was thinking. After a long time, he spoke coldly: "Before the rain stops, be sure to abandon those people and not leave any troubles."

"Do you want those six in the prison..." asked the person inside. Ye Wan guessed that he would destroy him first.

"Don't hurry, keep it just in case." The commander of the boss.

Seeing that Zhao Yan and others were not in danger of their lives for the time being, Ye Wan breathed a sigh of relief and wandered out of the village quietly. The boss was also a smart man. If they could not silence them, they could use a thousand households as hostage to discuss the conditions with the Zhenxi Army. However, it was just enough to discuss the conditions.

...

In the middle of Qiaotou Village at the foot of the mountain, there were many people lying straight and straight, and the rest of the uninjured were squatting or sitting in a depressed look.

Fang Qianhu listened to the number of casualties reported by his subordinates with an ugly expression. Thirteen died, eighty-six seriously injured, and one hundred and ninety-seven slightly injured. Among them, those who were seriously injured were either shot into a key part by the arrow or were seriously burned, were all unconscious. With him now, there were only two hundred people who were completely fine.

This reached a casualty rate of 50%, which was enough for him, a thousand households, to be directly introduced to the military law to deal with it!

He finally climbed to the Qianhu position and was about to be driven down before his butt was even hot! He would have changed his life with Zhao Yan if he had known... Speaking of Zhao Yan, I don’t know where Zhao Qianhu and his people died!

"Do the villagers still refuse to open the door and let us go in to shelter from the rain?" Fang Qianhu looked at the dejected soldier who was running over in the rain not far away, and his face became even more ugly, as white as a piece of gold paper.

The soldier shook his head: "The little one almost knocked on the door of the village. The timid one pretended not to hear it. The more timid one opened the door a crack and told the little one that he didn't want to cause trouble..." He handed out two full baskets in his hand, "The few families gave the little one some towels and food, and the doctor in the village also gave all the medicinal materials in the house to the little one."

"These unruly people!" Fang Qianhu bit his teeth hard and shouted loudly, "I don't know why we are protecting our country in the wind and sun. They are all afraid that the bandits are unwilling to open the door for us!"

The soldier was also angry and resentful. When he thought of the villagers' expressions of wanting to speak, he felt heartbroken. He shook his head and looked at Fang Qianhu who was still scolding. He acted as a soldier and handed the water and food in the basket one by one with another soldier to the dejected soldiers.

"Will the villagers open the door if you scold me for a day?" A cold voice came from the entrance of the village.

Fang Qianhu spread all his resentment on the villagers. At this time, he heard someone refuting and looked at the person who came viciously.

A slim young man in a dirty military uniform was standing at the entrance of the village with his hands hanging down, his bound hair wet against his head, and a few strands of dripping hair were hanging from his head. His fair face was a little dirty by the smoke, but it could not hide the clean and calm temperament that was emitting all over his body. Her lips were a little white with cold, but the dark eyes still looked at him faintly, making people dare not have a trace of blasphemy.

"Ye Wan!" Liu Ergou was raising his hand to help a soldier with a seriously injured leg block the rain. When he saw her, he immediately shouted happily, and a handful of rain in his hand hit the screaming soldier's face. He clumsyly ran towards Ye Wan and looked around, "That's great, I was looking for you just now! Fortunately you are fine!"

Ye Wan watched the soldier wiping his face with amused look and nodded.

She was not surprised that the villagers of Qiaotou Village did not allow the town's western army to enter. From the fire that had been burning in the early morning to rain for two hours, no one could come out to see how afraid these villagers were of war between officials and thieves.

Ye Wan walked straight to another basket covered with cloth, bent down and picked up the basket, and saw a lot of bottles and jars and dried herbs inside. She looked at the soldier who had knocked on the door of the people: "Go and ask if anyone has waterproof cloth and bamboo poles, and then find two people to pick some straw from the cowshed in the village." The rain seemed to be unable to stop for a while. Even if they could not change their clean clothes, they could not let the wounded continue to be wet in the rain. Don't freeze to death before reinforcements arrived.

At this time, Fang Qianhu seemed to have suddenly thought of something, picked up the long sword and bow arrow on the ground and shouted: "Come with me if you are not injured. Let's take the heavy rain to suppress those bandits! Avenge your brothers!" He is now destined to take the blame, so it would be better to make meritorious service while he is now guilty and then tell the governor that he fought hard with the bandits for a day and a night... and lost two hundred brothers to successfully wipe out the bandits. Maybe the governor would not care about their sneak attack for no reason! The brothers who have made contributions will naturally not care about him, and those disabled... Fang Qianhu's eyes flashed with ruthlessness.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt it was feasible. Fang Qianhu started yelling and pushed several soldiers who were eating dry cakes to ask them to lift their knives.

They have not rested since they started traveling last night. They have not closed their eyes for nearly thirteen or fourteen hours. They have experienced another fire and heavy rain. They are all exhausted. They have no strength to carry their swords to suppress the bandits. They all sit on the ground weakly and do not move.

"Thousand Houses... Brothers are so tired..."

"Yes, please send someone from Qianhu to invite Governor Wan to reinforce."

Seeing that they all looked like they ignored each other, Fang Qianhu instantly started to get angry and raised his hand to slap the person who was talking. "What do you know? It's raining now..."

The slap did not wave down, and a slender but powerful hand firmly grabbed his wrist. It was so powerful that Fang Qianhu was about to pull it back, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pull it back.

A cold voice said: "There are five thousand bandits on the mountain. If Qianhu wants to go up to see the world alone, it is better for brothers to rest. "Ye Lang's eyes drooped slightly. It is obvious that he is much shorter than Qianhu, but he can't have the idea of ​​resisting at all.

The soldiers behind them looked at the thin figure in front of them with gratitude. In the fire scene, the cold voice was also directing them to retreat in an orderly manner, and now they have stepped forward to help them speak...

Wait? Five thousand?

"What five thousand? It's obviously only hundreds of bandits..." Fang Qianhu gritted his teeth, and his wrist was pinched by the dwarf, making his face pale even more.

When they came, in order not to disturb the bandits, they specially tied their horses to farther forests. Perhaps because of the time, Akayu didn't even meet Fang Qianhu and rode away directly. So Fang Qianhu didn't know what was happening on the mountain at all.

Ye Wan looked at the other soldiers staring at him with bright eyes, without hiding the other people, and said, "I just came down from Ziyun Mountain, and there are about five thousand bandits on the mountain."

"What?!"

"How could there be so many people in the imperial court not knowing!"

"Didn't the governor say hundreds of people?"

Everyone shouted in shock. The Zhenxi Army was famous, and there were few bandits in Longxi. Five thousand bandits suddenly appeared? Are they provoking the majesty of King Yu?

"What are you talking nonsense? You are a nameless pawn. Did you really go to Ziyun Mountain if you have gone to Ziyun Mountain?! You..." Before Fang Qianfu finished his suspicion, he felt a sharp wind flashing from his side. In the blink of an eye, he had already grinned and covered his waist and fell to the ground.

No one saw Ye Wan's movements clearly, only knowing that her skills are really good!

Ye Wan took back his legs in the air and patted his clothes like garbage. "I heard the bandit say that we would kill 500 people before the rain stopped. Please prepare for thousands of families." After that, he turned his head and looked at the other side. The soldier who had just called out had already run over with a few tarps and a few bamboo poles. The soldiers behind him were also holding wet straw.

Ye Wan directed them to insert the bamboo pole on the spot and build a short shed that was not big but could cover the wounded.

Seeing Ye Wan leaving the words, he no longer paid attention to him. Fang Qianhu's face turned blue and white. The bandits were coming to kill people to silence herd, but she dared to build a broken shed so calmly! She was really ignorant of life and death. "Hey, then we..." Fang Qianhu saw that she really ignored her existence for a while, so he reluctantly asked for advice and wanted to ask what to do next.

Ye Wan didn't scare him and said bluntly: "General Chi has gone to ask for reinforcements, we just need to stay here."

Everyone was not stupid enough to say something like "Then why don't we retreat first? Wait until we meet reinforcements on the way and then take these bastards and take these bastards in one fell swoop." More than half of them were injured and some seriously injured could not move at all. If there were really five thousand bandits on the mountain, maybe they would definitely not be able to leave Qiaotou Village for a few miles. Even if they had the chance to withdraw, the bandits might vent their anger when they saw that they could not catch people.

Although the people were timid and afraid of things... the recruits squatting on the ground had never thought of them.

"Ye Wan, have you seen Zhao Qianhu and the others?" asked a new recruit.

Ye Wan was moving a soldier who was seriously burned to the newly built shed. He heard this and nodded and replied: "Well, in the prison of the mountain village, all six of them were captured."

Only after hearing this did Fang Qianhu really believe what Ye Wan said. Zhao Yan is different from him. He is really promoted to Qianhu who is really capable of relying on his ability. He will be arrested, which means that these bandits are really not ordinary bandits.

The other soldiers were also silent. If the rain stopped, they would have been silenced by the bandits...

Ye Wan patted one of the soldiers on the shoulder: "Don't be so stunning, he is almost pinched to death by you." She pointed to the clothes of another wounded soldier held by the soldier. The soldier then retracted his hand and looked at Ye Wan awkwardly and uneasy.

"Don't worry, we can hold on," she said.

The sound is neither heavy nor rough, but unexpectedly soothes people's hearts.

Everyone's hearts gradually calmed down and they firmly believed that they could defend until the arrival of reinforcements.
Chapter completed!