After a chaotic fight, the bandits still failed to capture their target.
Kang Shi lifted the car curtain and looked at the chaos outside.
Sighing, “Not taking the bait.”
After a delay, no reinforcements arrived.
This meant that these bandits had no value in existence. Captain Yang raised his hand and tapped the wooden frame of the carriage, with varying rhythms and sounds. As the last syllable fell, terrifying screams rang out one after another outside the carriage.
Plop, plop, plop—
There were sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground one after another.
After a few breaths, it was completely quiet outside the car.
Captain Yang wrapped his cloak tightly to keep warm, lifted the curtain and got off the carriage, followed by Kang Shi. He declined Kang Shi's help and jumped off the carriage. The "housekeepers" all saluted. Captain Yang glanced casually and saw dozens of corpses lying on the ground.
He looked away indifferently: "Where are the survivors?"
Soon, two "housekeepers" held down a bandit who was drooling and covered in blood. Kang Shi only needed to take a glance to see that the bandit's hands, feet and temporomandibular bones had been violently cut off, in order to prevent this "lucky guy" from committing suicide.
If he commits suicide, wouldn't this night have been wasted
Li Li wiped away the blood splattered on his face.
Go forward and ask whether to take the person away for questioning.
Captain Yang smiled and said, "No need to bother."
The bandit's face turned pale with fear, and he had obviously imagined some inhuman torture methods. He kept shaking his head to beg for mercy, but his temporomandibular bone was severely dislocated, and he could not speak. Instead, he spit out a lot of turbid saliva.
The "guard" who was escorting him frowned in disdain.
I kicked him secretly to signal him to stay still.
Li Li was puzzled: "No need?"
"Prisoners can lie too. Why waste time?" Captain Yang bowed to Kang Shi and said with a smile, "I'll trouble Ji Shou next. Act quickly."
Kang Shi smiled calmly and said, "It's a small matter."
It's very easy to get people to tell the truth.
Less than half a cup of tea later, Kang Shi couldn't help showing his joy and said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, great joy!"
Captain Yang asked hurriedly: "How is it?"
Kang Shi said: "There is a military camp in the mountains!"
Even the well-informed Captain Yang was shocked and said, "Military camp? No wonder, no wonder they use this method to force merchants to take a detour and common people to stay away..."
After all, brave warriors and literary men are a minority.
On the battlefield, the largest number of people are ordinary people.
They also need armor and weapons to fight.
Although the world was in chaos, Zheng Qiao was still the nominal ruler, and privately operating a military camp was equivalent to "rebellion."
No wonder there is such caution.
After saying that, Kang Shi seemed to have something else to say.
"Besides the military workshop, what else is there?"
Kang Shi had a "get-rich" expression on his face: "There's a mine!"
Captain Yang: “…”
This fat sheep is really fat and juicy.
Captain Yang asked again: "What is the scale of the military camp?"
Kang Shi could hardly hold back the arc of his mouth: "Not small, the military workshop will transport 5,000 arrows down the mountain in the next two days."
Captain Yang smacked his lips and said, "Five thousand arrows?"
Regardless of how long it took to make these feather arrows, the number alone is enough to make people jealous.
For brave warriors, such as Gong Xichou and Zhai Le, feather arrows and bowstrings are free. One hand turns the martial energy into a bow, and the other hand turns it into feather arrows. As long as the martial energy is not exhausted, there will be an endless supply of arrows, and no matter how many are shot, they will not feel sorry.
Theoretically, as long as there are enough brave warriors who can transform their bows, thousands of arrows can be fired at once and the firepower can cover the entire area, and the black arrows can be like rain.
But what is the reality
Ordinary people cannot create something out of nothing.
Arrows are very expensive.
The difficulty of making the arrow does not even lie in the arrowhead. If you are very poor, you can just sharpen one end of the arrow and use it. It also does not lie in the selection and polishing of the tail feathers. The tail feathers are only for making the flight trajectory of the arrow more accurate and are not a necessary part.
The real cost and difficulty lies in the arrow body.
The arrow shaft is not something you can just find a piece of bamboo or wood and carve it into shape.
The straighter the stick, the better. It is best to use dry wood. If not, it needs to be heated and dried, and then polished, straightened, calibrated, and painted according to the condition of the arrow body to make the arrow more durable and preserved. These are all skills.
There are also requirements for the length of the arrow body. Otherwise, what should you do if you pull the bow to its full length and find that the arrow body is not long enough
Under various restrictions, the production cost naturally goes up. Without the participation of brave warriors, those who can play Ten Thousand Arrows must have a mine at home! Now, I have encountered a fat sheep with a mine and 5,000 arrows!
Captain Yang was well aware of the cost of making feather arrows.
He estimated in his mind and his eyes lit up.
If he missed this fat sheep, he would regret it in his dreams and slap his thigh. He must eat it! Captain Yang glanced at the soldiers pretending to be "merchant guards", and his eyes flickered inexplicably. He also knew that he had difficulty making choices. He could lead troops to fight but not command them. In order not to delay, he asked Kang Shi directly.
"Jishou, what do you think we should do?"
Captain Yang was afraid that the fat sheep that was so close to him would run away, but he didn't want to fight rashly, for fear of misjudging the enemy's strength and burying these dozen people here in vain. You know, that's a mine, and there's also a military workshop, how can the overall force be weak
For a moment, he began to hesitate.
Kang Shi had no such problem, and immediately made a decision: "Keep your troops in place and continue pretending. I will send a message to ask for help."
Captain Yang asked, "Won't it alert the enemy?"
Kang Shi shook his head: "Probably not."
If we alert the enemy, they will either send powerful warriors to silence us or quickly relocate their troops.
A cunning rabbit has three burrows. I don't believe these people don't have a backup secret place. But more than a dozen soldiers, including Li Li, did not use martial arts, and I didn't attack directly. The enemy should not have discovered it yet. We just need to stabilize our position and keep calm.
Captain Yang nodded.
He waved his hand to signal a dozen soldiers to deal with the body.
He and Kang Shi returned to the carriage.
With the help of the carriage, Kang Shi transformed himself into a few small and light blue birds, and flew to his destination under the cover of night.
Captain Yang calculated the positions and distances of the people in his mind and said, "It should be Qi Yuanliang and Zhao Dayi who are coming."
Everything will be stable now that Zhao Feng and Qi Shan are here.
but-
It would take them at least two hours to get here.
There were still three hours until dawn.
It should be in time.
Take down that military workshop before daybreak.
Compared to this, Captain Yang was more curious about who the military workshop belonged to—that was five thousand feather arrows! Assuming that batch of feather arrows were all of medium quality, the cost of one feather arrow would be around fifteen to twenty coins. Now that it was a disaster year, the production cost had risen, and a conservative estimate was twenty-five coins. Five thousand feather arrows would be one hundred and twenty-five thousand coins... Captain Yang was jealous just thinking about it.
You have to know that when he was still serving in the Sibao County garrison, there were all kinds of wrangling every year, and military supplies were delayed, deducted, and reduced... The military arsenal had less than 100,000 arrows in reserve, and this was the wealth accumulated over several years...
There are 5,000 of them in just a small mountain defense store!
How could Captain Yang not be moved
He asked Kang Shi: "Besides feather arrows, are there other things?"
Kang Shi said, "There should be some, but the little thief has only been here for a short time and has not been given any important position. He can only do some marginal work, so he doesn't know the real situation. He only knew about the feather arrow when he was filling in for someone else."
A glimpse of the whole picture.
This military camp is definitely rich.
Captain Yang asked again: "Which family?"
Kang Shi's expression became a little more strange.
"Zhang, He Yin Zhang."
Tsk tsk tsk—
I really don’t know whether to say that Ha Yin Zhang’s is lucky or unlucky. Why is this family everywhere
Shen Lang had been planning to target this family, but he didn't expect that before he could make his move, they would bump into him first. Isn't this a coincidence
only-
Bai Su said that Zhang Clan of Heyin was a soft persimmon that was easy to pick on. They had a great reputation in Heyin but their overall strength was average. Now that they had accidentally discovered the military workshop, it was clear that Zhang Clan of Heyin had more than that. Kang Shi was a little worried that Shen Tang would hit a wall.
Seeing Kang Shi frowning, Captain Yang thought something had changed.
Then he asked, "Why is Ji Shou so worried?"
Kang Shi expressed his concerns.
Captain Yang asked, "Is there something wrong with Bai Su?"
Kang Shi shook his head and said, "This is unlikely."
Few people knew that Shen Tanglai had taken office as the Yin of He.
On the surface, Shen Tang has no people or money, and most of his people are old, weak, women and children, and there are more than a thousand "elites" with varying levels of skills. Is it necessary for such a makeshift team to spend so much energy and set traps
The possibility is very slim.
Kang Shi thought that Lady Bai Su was innocent.
Captain Yang said, "That lady Bai Su is a thief. Although thieves have their own ways, the Heyin Zhang family is at least a powerful local family. If they were so incompetent that they let a thief figure out their true intentions, how could they have survived until now?"
If it is revealed easily, can it still be called a trump card
Captain Yang had also dealt with many powerful families in Sibao County and had some understanding of their ways of doing things. He was only concerned about one thing, and said with a slightly complicated look: "Is your Lord Shen really going to wrestle with the local tyrant right away?"
He is not very optimistic.
Which of these local tyrants who have been rooted in a place for many years does not have a few fangs that can kill people with one blow? Captain Yang admitted that Shen Tang was very powerful and could even escape from a strong enemy like Gong Xichou, but some battles cannot be seen with the naked eye -
Not on the battlefield, but in people's hearts.
Kang Shi asked back: "Are there any other options?"
Captain Yang was stunned and sighed: "That's true..."
In this world, there is no way out.
If Shen Tang wants to take root in Heyin, he must seize the nutrients of other local snakes. Even if Shen Tang does not want to take the initiative, the local snakes will unite and kill Shen Tang.
It's as simple as that, either you die or I die.
And Shen Tang chose to take the initiative.
The initiative is in your own hands.
On the mountain, there is a hidden camp.
From time to time, you can hear tinkling sounds coming from afar, and in the moonlight you can see several busy figures.
This is the military camp that He Yin Zhang secretly built in the mountains. There is a mineral vein in the mountains, and the reserve purity is quite good.
Zhang didn't dare to say anything.
So they took advantage of the cooperation with the bandits to swallow this big cake, secretly accumulated enough military force, and waited for Zheng Qiao's royal court to completely collapse, then responded to the call and rose up! By then, they would be able to smoothly annex the other families of He Yin!
This is what the founding ruler of the Xin State did.
If they can do it, why can't we
In order to avoid obstruction to their plan, they deliberately slaughtered the passing merchant teams, using the most cruel means possible, and even spared the common people who went up the mountain to chop wood. They also spared one person alive, and with the deliberate propaganda of their subordinates, this mountain road was deserted, and their despicable development plan was carried out in an orderly manner, and everything was moving in a good direction.
They don't want to be so cautious.
However, they were not the boss who had the final say in He Yin, and they were also under the pressure of the state leader Zheng Qiao. If the news leaked out, the lightest charge would be the extermination of three tribes. I thought I could rest easy, but who knew there would be another bug sneaking in.
It is also a traveling merchant caravan.
The scale is not small, with more than ten guards.
To be on the safe side, thirty or forty people were sent out - the first batch of feather arrows from the military workshop was about to be delivered, and there couldn't be any mistakes! In order to prevent future troubles and prevent the spread of rumors, leaving no one alive was the safest option. Who knew, there was no reply for a long time.
"Did you catch that group of people?"
The person who spoke was a little anxious.
He was inexplicably anxious tonight. Zhang's family was not one of the top families in Heyin. If the news of the military workshop leaked out and was known by other families, Zhang's family might be suppressed by them together, which would be a disaster.
The other person whispered back, "Not yet."
"Not yet?"
There were a dozen or so caravan guards, and we didn't know if their weapons were blunt. Thirty or forty of our own men were armed with sophisticated weapons, but they couldn't kill them? The man's heartbeat was disordered and rapid, and his inexplicable panic and anxiety became more and more obvious.
He paced up and down the room.
Sometimes sit down, sometimes stand up.
Then he asked, “Has the person come back?”
Another person continued to answer: "Not yet."
"Waste! All of you are waste! What are you doing here!" He cursed a few times and was about to call for help when a flurry of footsteps sounded outside the house. He frowned unhappily and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry?"
He replied: "Something bad has happened—"
His heart skipped a beat: "What?"
“Everyone who went there died.”
"Dead???" The man seemed to have heard something ridiculous and was furious. "What do you mean dead?"
"All those who were sent down were killed."
The man's face turned pale: "Did you encounter a brave warrior?"
A brave warrior, even the lowest-ranking one, is not something that ordinary merchants can afford to support.
Even if there were some low-ranking officials among the caravan guards, it would be impossible for them to be killed and not a single one would escape back to report the news.
"Probably not. I didn't use any martial energy."
The man got even angrier after hearing this: "You mean a bunch of ordinary peasants killed thirty or forty of us?"
The person who was sprayed didn't dare to say a word.
Facing the baptism of spit flying all over the place, he could only endure it and restrain the urge to turn his head away. He waited until the other party's anger subsided a little before he said, "Should we send another person..."
"Nonsense! Of course I'm going!"
"Then should the people in this workshop be moved away?"
The man laughed out loud after hearing this.
There are only a dozen or so capable merchant guards. We can solve the problem by sending two brave warriors to lead them down. We are still busy completing the task here and time is running out. Why should we move
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