After walking for three or four days, they entered the desert from the Gobi Grassland. Master Zhiren said: "I heard from the people in the village that after entering the desert, you only need to walk northward for another three to five days to reach Gaochang."
Everyone cheered up and couldn't help speeding up.
After the lunch break, everyone drank water and started to move on staggeringly. Man Bao was taking a nap in the carriage, because she was sleepy in the afternoon, her head was shaking a little bit. Suddenly, the Keke alarm bell rang out, and Man Bao was frightened , looked up at once.
Zhou Liru, who was dozing off across the way, was taken aback, "What's wrong with you, sister?"
Man Bao tilted his head, and listened to Keke's emotionless broadcast report: "Unknown forces were found within the scanning range, and it was judged to have a bad impact on the life and safety of the host. Please take refuge after receiving the warning. emergency escape."
Man Bao woke up instantly, and she asked Keke in her mind with a sullen face, "What kind of power is it?"
Keke said word by word: "I don't know..."
"Whether it's a man or a wolf or something..."
"People," Keke said in more detail, "it's 20 kilometers southwest of the host. Now that the distance is closer, it's only 19 kilometers away. There are 189 people in total..."
Keke paused, and scanned two familiar creatures, so he said: "One of them is the person the host met in the desert inn, and the other was the person he met when suppressing bandits. According to the name recorded in the video, the latter It's Erg."
Man Bao immediately opened the curtain and shouted outside: "There is an enemy attack! Nie Canjun—"
Nie Canjun was taken aback, the team was on alert immediately, Nie Canjun led the horse and ran past, only to arrive at the front, he went to scout the way ahead of time and waited for the fast horse to come back, rolled off the horse when he reached the front and back, and said loudly: "My lord, there is a team coming towards us thirty miles to the southwest. It is extremely fast, and there is no military flag."
Nie Canjun turned his head and glanced at Zhou Man. Seeing her nodding, he knew they were talking about the same thing.
He frowned. Without a military flag, he was not a person in the military camp. In this kind of place, it could only be caravans and horse thieves, but it was obviously not a caravan at such a fast speed.
He glanced at the surrounding environment, immediately selected a place, pointed to a place and said: "Everyone speed up, move towards the take out, hurry up!"
The carriage speeded up instantly, and the soldiers and guards guarded the carriage and quickly moved towards the direction Nie Canjun pointed. This is a depression with high sand dunes on one side. They are not in the depression, but on the spine of the depression.
The high sand dunes facing the south will block the impact of the horse team. No one dares to gallop down from above. If someone comes down from above, the horse and people will easily fall.
So they can only come from one direction...
Nie Canjun ordered: "Second Lu, take your men to ambush with the tripping rope, and be sure to stop the horse in front."
"yes!"
One of them ordered his soldiers and ran towards the place with a tripping rope.
"Zhang San Wu Si, bring bows and arrows and lie in ambush."
"yes!"
Only then did Nie Canjun look at Zhou Man who had gotten off the carriage and ran over on his precious horse, he twitched the corner of his mouth and ordered: "Everyone protect the carriage behind."
"yes."
Everyone changed their formation, most of the soldiers stood in front, the carriage was pulled to the back, closely protected by the guards of the Bai family and the Yin family, and a small number of soldiers were divided into two sides.
Nie Canjun ordered them to protect the drinking water. As for the luggage containing gold, silver and jewelry, he glanced at Bai Shanhou and asked them to give up. This is what he said at the beginning. The most important thing is to protect the drinking water, this is their life.
After making the arrangements, he said to Zhou Man and the others standing behind him: "Master Zhou, why don't you go back to the car?"
Man Bao refused, "We want to ride a horse, and we can escape quickly on horseback."
"Then you also go to the back, it's too dangerous here."
This is no problem, Man Bao and the others are still very obedient, so they turned around and rode backwards. "
The fronts of the carriages in the back are all facing the north, but they are facing the southwest direction. Nie Canjun's order is that if they can't resist, the coachman will take the carriage to the northeast. When you walk northwest again, you can always go back to Gaochang.
After the arrangements were made, the scouts rushed back to report again, "My lord, they are here!"
Nie Canjun and everyone looked up at the head of the high sand dune. Sure enough, people appeared on it after a while, and the people who had just climbed the sand dune did not expect them to stop. With a whistling sound, the people who came up all shouted "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh".
"Woooo, Erlangs, go—"
The eyes of the three leaders were all shining with strange light, the horse thieves cheered each other, everyone's arrogance was high, the soldiers and horses in the convoy felt uneasy for a moment, the horse stepped on the spot a few times, but Nie Canjun stood firmly in place, Everyone gradually quieted down.
Man Baoxin also raised his heart high, gripped the reins tightly, and finally reached out to touch Chiji's neck to comfort him.
Hiding under the sand, the soldiers with only half of their heads and eyes exposed saw the horse galloping down, and couldn't help but clenched the ropes in their hands. Suddenly they heard Nie Canjun yell, and without thinking, they immediately slammed the ropes in their hands. The rope was taut, and the horses rushing down saw the rope suddenly raised from the sand, some stepped over it directly, and some wanted to rein in the horse to stop, but those who wanted to rein in the horse tripped the people behind, and some stopped. If it is not in time, the horse's leg trips over the rope, the horse stumbles, and the person on the horse flies forward...
The soldiers holding the rope only felt a strong pull that made them rush forward. They knew that they had tripped the horse, and they didn't care about it. They just turned around and rolled down the sandy slope, got up and ran towards the team...
The horse thief damaged more than twenty horses in one fell swoop, and those who fell behind realized that they were going to chase after them. Nie Canjun drew out his long knife and shouted, "Put—"
With the tip of the knife pointing forward, he shouted: "Boys, this is the time to make meritorious deeds, rush—"
The soldiers shouted, and followed Nie Canjun to meet the horse thief rushing down, and the archers lying in ambush on both wings also rose from the sand, and divided into three teams from left and right to shoot arrows at the horse thief...
It was the first time for Heavy Rain and the others to see such a battle between soldiers and thieves. It was not at all different from fighting horse thieves against horse thieves, or between horse thieves and caravan guards.
Don't talk about the blood, just say that the casualties are very different.
When Da Yu saw Nie Canjun leading the soldiers to meet the horse thieves and mixed with them to fight, he hesitated for a moment, then turned to Zhou Man and asked, "Are we going to help?"