005 Retreat to the Mountain Temple
The caravan with more than 130 people is now only 110 people left. Such a large number of people cannot hide the collective breakout. Now they can only fight a time difference. Taking advantage of this gap that the bandits could not imagine, they rushed to the mountain temple. Relying on the protection of the terrain, there may be a glimmer of vitality.
The bandits never expected the caravan to abandon their goods and break through? You should know that the information said that the caravan brought 110,000 yuan in cash this time. If you say so much money, you won't want it? It was this little hesitation that allowed the caravan members to find a gap and fired all the way.
The mountain road is rugged and hard to walk. Xiao Letian is tired now like a dog. Although he is also in the assault team of four people, he can only be regarded as a substitute. He occasionally fires two shots and doesn't know where to hit him. The sky is getting darker and darker, and there are big stones under his feet. Xiao Letian has fallen several big falls. At first, someone helped him up, but later the scene becomes more and more chaotic, and no one cares about him at all.
More than a hundred people gathered together to run up the mountain. It was still dark in the evening. In a short while, the gathered circle had already dispersed, rushing north like a bug, and almost everyone was listening to the steps of the people ahead.
On both sides of the team, bandits rushed in from time to time, and many friends were hacked to death by the enemy in the dark, screaming endlessly. Fortunately, the night also restricted the bandits' actions, and these scattered attacks could not stop everyone's steps.
"Oh, fuck..." Xiao Letian stepped on the air again. He couldn't remember how many times he had fallen, and his forehead was bruised. At this moment, two women suddenly heard behind him, "Ah Chou, do your legs still hurt? Can you still leave?"
When Xiao Letian heard that this was Hu Niu, the old shopkeeper's daughter? He quickly turned around and looked carefully. With the vague light, he vaguely found a stone next to a stone. Hu Niu was supporting his yellow-haired little girl. It was broken. How could he stop at this time? The two little girls are looking for death.
"Hurry, hurry up...what are you two doing? You're dead, you can't stop even if your legs are broken..." Xiao Letian lowered his voice and touched him.
"Is it Brother Xiao?" Hu Niu was excited at the time. "A Chou fell down and injured his foot. Can you carry her?" Xiao Letian was anxious and angry, thinking that my head was as big as the Indian A-san, and I didn't see anyone carrying me. Do you really think this is your family?
But there is no way. It is not Xiao Letian's personality to be afraid of death. He didn't say anything. He squatted down and said, "Hurry, hurry up, climb up..." Unexpectedly, the little girl A Chou still twisted up, "Miss, he is a man..."
Damn, when is it still my mind to think about this? You, an ugly monster at the age of thirteen or fourteen, are you interested in thinking about men and women? But at this hesitation, a figure suddenly flew out of the darkness on the right.
"There is a woman here, it must be the lady of the Fan family! She caught her alive..." The black shadow rushed A Chou like a hungry wolf. At that time, A Chou's head tilted and fainted. Xiao Letian was so angry that he didn't get on my back. It turned out that he was waiting for the man to push it down? You tasted so strong enough.
The bandit miscalculated. He thought it was the lady who was being served, but it was a little maid who was knocked down. Hu Niu stood beside him. This girl was definitely the most personal lady in the Qing Dynasty. Her temperament was too savage. Before Xiao Letian could see clearly, she saw a cold light flashing in her hand, and a silver hairpin was inserted into the bandit's back. "You let Ah Chou go, you big bad guy..."
Xiao Letian was shocked. The delicate maid was the one who was as beautiful as a woman. The one who was as good as a woman was actually a lady? God is so playful. But now is not the time to be dazed. The mountain god temple in the north has already lit up the light of torches. Master Qing San and Lewis must have arrived. Now the bandits' encirclement army will never be far away. If you waste time, you will be looking for death.
Xiao Letian gritted his teeth, took out the dagger in his arms and rushed over, "Want to kill me? You should do the next life..." This is the first time Xiao Letian killed someone in the true sense. The one that time was definitely a man-killing, but this time it was different. It was Xiao Letian's brain controlling his hands and stabbed the cold iron into the enemy's body.
The blood had already flowed out. Although it was invisible, Xiao Letian could feel the stickiness and slipperyness in his palm. The dagger stabbed the back of the heart and penetrated the heart with a knife. The bandit kicked his legs several times, and he vomited blood without even shouting.
Xiao Letian was almost exhausted, but he was still insisting. He overturned the body and picked up A Chou and roared, "Start..." He actually carried A Chou on his shoulders like carrying a pocket.
Hu Niu was already stunned. He found that the man in front of him was as majestic as a mountain, and his black figure exuded an invincible temperament under the starlight. Hu Niu's eyes suddenly turned red. She wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeves, followed with great strides, and followed closely behind Xiao Letian.
Poor Xiao Letian, in his previous life, he never even had gas tanks or rice. Although his muscles were bulging and very healthy, they were all trained from the gym, and they were typical muscles to pick up girls. More and faster chapters were invited. If he really wanted to carry a living person to climb the mountain, he would probably get tired and sweaty when he thought about it.
But a person's potential in desperate situations is infinite. Looking at the torch more than fifty meters away, it is hope for life. When listening to the tsunami behind him, it is the threat of death. Xiao Letian actually stood up, and his legs took big steps and meteors walked to an extremely steady pace.
When Xiao Letian walked into the range of the torch light, Master Qing San and the old shopkeeper were even stunned. At this time, Xiao Letian was really a hero. He was carrying the unconscious Ah Chou girl on his left shoulder and his right arm was holding Hu Niu's armpit. Hu Niu just fell and couldn't walk anymore.
A big man carries a woman and holds a woman. Who has seen this diorama? This was the three years of Tongzhi. When Confucian ethics was the most harsh time, can a woman still live if she loses her reputation?
Storekeeper Fan almost fainted. He jumped out and rushed to Xiao Letian. "Bastard, you bastards..." The old storekeeper rushed to Xiao Letian, but he was not scolding Xiao Letian. The old man beat the guys around him like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.
"I'll support you in vain. If you miss a miss, you won't help any of them. You can eat for nothing..." It was not until this time that Xiao Letian realized that he was not rushing over by himself, and there were five or six guys around him.
I was confused, I was so tired and scared. I really can't blame these guys. They didn't have the energy to pay attention to the things around me at the critical moment of life and death. Even Xiao Letian himself did not expect that there were companions around him. At that moment, there was only the mountain temple in his eyes and the light of a torch.
However, it was not wrong for Manager Fan's worry. In that society at that time, if his friend saved the lady, even though some people were talking, there were some superiors and subordinates to cover it up. It was not unethical to save his lady, but it would be hard to tell if an outsider hugs like this.
The old shopkeeper did not dare to lose his temper on Xiao Letian, so he could only punch and kick these unsightly guys.
When Xiao Letian settled the two girls into the temple, he shouted at the old shopkeeper, "Okay, just hit it twice. All of you are your friends here. Master Qing San is not an outsider. What are you afraid of? Go back and give everyone some hush money, who can still gossip? The most important thing now is to block the bandits, listen..."
The scene immediately became quiet. At this time, a sound of tsunami sounded from the darkness below the hillside, which alarmed the birds in the mountains and fields fled in all directions.
"This is a bandits mobilizing before the war. There are more than 200 sounds..." Master Qing San's face turned bitter at that time. He looked at the scared men and soldiers around him and sighed, "Now our subordinates are less than a hundred people, how can we resist this..."
Xiao Letian looked around and then he realized that nearly 20 caravan members had lost their traces during this breakout. They seemed to have died on the hillside, and half of the remaining ones were colored, most of them sprained ankles.
"Mr. Lewis, what should you do if you Americans encounter such a dilemma?" Xiao Letian asked.
"Sorry, I don't quite understand the fighting habits of you orientals. I just counted it. Except for the 5 Colts in the hands of the three of us, there are only ten remaining muskets called bird guns. Since there are 200 bandits on the opposite side, I can only pessimistically think that we will lose..."
"But don't worry, as an American, I will resist until the last moment. I will not surrender if I don't shoot all my last bullet..."
Let’s take it down, you Americans just love to dream, dream of personal heroes every day, and want to surrender? Do you really think that such bandits who fight undeclaredly and robbed according to the rules of the law will want you, the captive? Xiao Letian shook his head and did not say what he said in his heart.
But at this moment, a dense sound of bowstrings suddenly came from the hillside. Master Qing San rushed the old shopkeeper beside him, "Let's go down, hide quickly, the bandits shoot arrows..." Before he finished speaking, a hail-like arrow shot on the ground.
This was the first time Xiao Letian had experienced a volley of bows and arrows. He hurried on the inside of the mud wall to avoid the attack of bows and arrows. In the courtyard, several guys with unstraight legs and feet had been nailed to the ground, and blood flowed like a stream.
"The enemy actually has more than a hundred bows and arrows? What kind of bandits are these? How could there be so many strong bows..." Master Qing San was aware of the goods. The Qing government's ban on bows and arrows was the same as the ban on guns in later generations. Even hunters who made a living by hunting were at most just a bamboo bow. This kind of long-range weapon in the era of cold weapons was already very stunning if the bandits had a few.
But today, Master Qing San suddenly discovered that this wave of bandits had more than a hundred strong bows, and this battle could not be fought.
The volley of bows and arrows lasted only four rounds, and more than 400 feather arrows had already penetrated the mountain temple like reeds. Just as the feather arrow attack stopped, a fierce shout of killing suddenly came from the darkness outside the mountain gate, and the bandits finally began to charge.
"The bandits are touching it, shoot arrows, shoot them, and fight them off..." Master Qing San roared and stood up and supported half of the short wall. He shot quickly. The ancestral riding bow made him play it in awesome.
No one in the caravan is afraid now. They looked at the bandits rushing into the darkness and knew that they would die if they didn't fight to the death. For a moment, bird guns shot bows and arrows flying in, and those who didn't have the guys in their hands were smashed with stones. But in this way, they still did not block the bandit tide. When a few muffled sounds and firelights came from the bandit group, Manager Fan was going crazy at that time.
Chapter completed!