Nanming Engineer

Chapter 21 Chaos

In the camp of the Qing army's central camp, Li Tingyu stood on the roof of the silver car, silently watching the chaos below the hillside without saying a word. More than 500 soldiers wearing Ming army's mandarin duck uniforms stood silently behind him. There was silence.A team of hundreds of people, separated by thick wooden fences erected in a circle around them, were as quiet as a forest, staring at the valley below them.

Li Yan looked at the sky, estimated the time, quietly approached Li Tingyu, and said in a low voice: "My lord, it's been almost three hours, and it's time to have an attack in a while."

Li Tingyu turned his gaze and looked outside the rough wooden circle. There was another layer of thick wooden fences covering it, forming a concentric circle, which formed a larger circle camp. In the middle of the two circles was the camp of the Qing army. Li Tingyu and others were firmly guarding the core, unable to get out or enter, and were closely guarded.

"Well, be patient." Li Tingyu stared at Tuhai, who was still full of energy, from a distance: "Just tell the brothers to get ready, it's still early before dawn, we have plenty of time, we can afford to wait!"

Li Yan nodded silently, turned around and walked to the group of soldiers standing in the pile of silver carts. When everyone saw him coming, they made a way silently, revealing bundles of wooden sticks hidden in the crowd. Li Yan picked up one and He weighed it in his hand, one end of the wooden stick was sharpened, as sharp as a spear point, and the length was a bit longer than that of ordinary spears and spears. If you are a person who knows the goods, you can immediately recognize that this kind of wooden gun is very Like the white wax spear, the famous weapon of the white soldier.

Li Yan was very satisfied with this kind of weapon. After a careful inspection, he put the wooden gun back to its original place, stood at the front of the crowd with his chest upright, calmly, and waited for the last moment.

Outside the fence, Tuhai was very excited and happy. He grinned from ear to ear. He couldn't help but be unhappy. On the top of this high hillside, he could see clearly. The men disguised as horse thieves were very capable and had clear goals. He went straight into the chaos and moved swiftly. In less than a quarter of an hour, he swept away dozens of carriages. These vehicles were piled with wooden and iron boxes. Needless to say, they were filled with gold and silver. This time The harvest was equivalent to what I had been busy working in Yangzhou for several days, and it took no effort at all. How could I not be happy?

Watching the rumbling cavalry disappear beyond the entrance of the valley, Tu Hai waved his hand and sent a soldier down the hillside to say hello, and asked the commanders and captains to gather the battalion personnel by themselves. The excuse was that it was dark and the enemy's situation was unknown, so they couldn't risk sending troops Get out of camp and let them wait until dawn.

"Haha, boys, that's it, go back to the tent and have a good meal. We will postpone our departure by two hours tomorrow. Let's go after we rest!" Tuhai's generous order drew cheers from the Eight Banners soldiers. Who wouldn't want to eat meat and drink alcohol?Especially the surrendered general Li Tingyu, who is quite good at being a man, paid a lot of meat and wine, the aroma can be smelled from outside this tent, he ate a big meal at dinner, and there is still a lot left, the banner soldiers have long Unable to hold back anymore, they got an order and swarmed into the tent.

Joyful uphill, desolate downhill, Wang Huan and others have been hiding for a long time in the woods on the side of the hillside.

Before the horse thief entered the valley, they climbed up in the dark, hid in the shadow of the trees, and witnessed the entire process completely.

Blood splattered, countless dead people, seeing what happened to the family members of the logistics camp, the young monks felt chills all over their bodies, sweat flowed down their cheeks one after another, they bit their lips tightly and dared not make the slightest sound, showing fear, panic and even anger , circulating in their hearts.

Chen Ergou stared nervously at the two soldiers standing on the roof of the carriage, and was killed by the horse thief when they met each other. The flying head made his muscles stiff, and he couldn't recover for a long time. After a while, he turned his head abruptly, only to find that Wang Huan, who was lying beside him, was looking in the direction of the horse thief, stretching out his fingers, and whispering the number "one, two, three, four" in his mouth, as if he was counting What.

"What are you doing?" Chen Ergou asked softly with a vibrato.

Wang Huan concentrated on counting, and ignored him. The light below the mountain was dim, and he couldn't see clearly. If he was distracted, he would easily make a mistake in counting.Fortunately, those horse thieves seemed to be afraid that others would not be able to see them clearly. Everyone held a torch and illuminated themselves clearly from head to toe, which greatly facilitated Wang Huan's counting process.

Chen Ergou looked at Wang Huan depressedly, and saw that he counted twice, until the horse thief drove the car and disappeared at the valley entrance, he still pointed the horse's buttocks and counted carefully, and when he could no longer see clearly, Wang Huan He let out a long breath, and said happily to himself: "There are 250 cavalrymen entering the valley, and 350 of them guarding the valley entrances at both ends. There are about [-] in total. These Ziqing soldiers are really courageous."

Chen Ergou couldn't understand what he heard, his eyes straightened, and he was about to ask a question, but Wang Huan jumped up and pulled him, calling everyone to run into the depths of the woods bravely.

After almost running to the other side of the hillside, the fire in the valley could hardly be seen from here, so Wang Huan stopped and stood in the middle of a forest clearing.

Chen Ergou and others followed him for so far, and they didn't know what was going on. The horse thieves had already left, so why should we run?Just wait and go.

However, through the light of the moon and the stars, everyone saw Wang Huan standing in front of them. His expression was extremely serious and his face sank like water. The cold light in his eyes made people dare not look at him. Although everyone knows that he is smart and witty, this serious look is the first time he has seen his junior brother.

Even his thin body seemed to be several times taller at this moment. His momentum was overwhelming, and he felt as if he was oppressed by Li Tingyu. The young monks couldn't help but stand a few steps away from him, forming a circle. Looking at him without daring to say anything.

"Brothers, tonight, Lord Li Tingyu will launch a countermeasure, kill all the Qing troops accompanying him, and return to Sichuan." Wang Huan cut to the chase, and dropped a bomb with his mouth.

"Ah!" There was a burst of exclamation at the same time, all the people present were stunned, their mouths could not be closed when they opened their mouths, their eyes were wide open, and they looked at Wang Huan as if they didn't know him.

The sounds in the mouth are similar, but the expressions on the faces are different. Some people are surprised, some are afraid, and some are excited.

"Okay!" Hu Dahai, who was the first to speak, the tall man who was a head taller than everyone, shouted first: "Master Li is really a bloody man, he is worthy of being a hero, I knew he would kill the Tartars anyway to avenge his blood! "

"But, is it too risky? There are a lot of Qing soldiers." The one who said this was a young monk named Yuan Fu, who asked timidly.

The rest of the people were silent and looked at Wang Huan. At this time, everyone regarded him as their backbone and naturally wanted to listen to what he had to say.

Wang Huan quietly glanced at the expressions of everyone, and said slowly: "Actually, there is one more thing. I have to tell everyone that the people who rushed into the valley to rob and kill people tonight were pretended to be Qing soldiers. They wanted to rob the family team of money. , deliberately pretending to be horse thieves, in order to seek money and kill, and make people unable to recognize who did it. They robbed things and left, and they will definitely not come back. Tonight, the Qing soldiers in this valley , there will not be more than 200 people, Master Li has [-] elites, and he will definitely not miss."

Everyone was silent for a while, and no one knew what to say. The news one after another was too exciting, and it took time to digest and accept it.

This time it was Chen Ergou who spoke first. He took a step forward and yelled, "I don't care, Wang Huan, tell us what we should do. There is no way to live in this world, so I will listen to you. Follow you to survive!"

Xu Goudan was infected by Chen Ergou, his face was full of excitement, he jumped out and wanted to say something, but Hu Dahai came first and pushed him aside with a big stride, Hu Dahai stood up and stood side by side with Chen Ergou Ergou raised his eyebrows and said: "Yes, I am the same as Ergou, Wang Huan, from now on you will be our leader, we will go wherever you take us, we will listen to you!"

At this time, Wang Huan also felt his blood rushing up, his head was dizzy, and he cheered up, clapping his hands on the shoulders of the two, and said excitedly: "Okay! In fact, I have already made a plan with Mr. Li. Tonight, after he does it At that time, it was the day I joined his team. To be honest, Lord Li has a lot of trust in me. He has appointed me as his military councilor. In the future, I will discuss affairs with the army and fight together. If you want, you can also join me , the 14 of us brothers will share weal and woe from now on, and we will share good and bad.”

When everyone heard that Wang Huan actually served as an official in the Ming army, this was even more incredible. There were probably only a few people who had served as military counselors as monks since ancient times. Everyone became even more excited and shouted together: “We share weal and woe, and share weal and woe!”

Hu Dahai almost shed tears, the big man bent down, lifted Wang Huan up, put it on his shoulders, raised his arms and shouted: "In this world, everyone, don't be such a monk, follow Wang Huan, and go out together!" Run for a living!"

Sitting on Hu Dahai's shoulder, Wang Hua watched more than a dozen pairs of warm eyes looking at him with strong trust, and more than a dozen arms waved towards him. The cheers of "Wang Huan, Wang Huan!" cheered him deeply. He deeply realized that from this moment on, he had his first hardcore team. Although there were only a dozen weak teenagers, it would be the most reliable foundation for future development and growth.

Wang Huan raised his right hand and raised it high to the sky, and the cheers became even more enthusiastic.

In the valley, the chaos caused by the horse thieves has gradually subsided. People lit bonfires, cleaned up the corpses, and comforted the wounded.The family members of the deceased were weeping bitterly, and the wounded were moaning. The commanders roughly calculated that in this catastrophe, more than 500 people died and countless people were injured. Due to the darkness of the night, the number of injured people could not be counted. Among the dead, only more than 500 people were killed by horse thieves and shot by Qing soldiers, and the rest were all trampled to death in the dark.

Most of the battalion commanders themselves were wounded, some unlucky ones even died directly in the chaos.They get together to figure out what to do about the mess.

"Old Li, you are my lord's old general. Come up with an idea quickly. What should we do if those horse thieves come again?" A commander had his head wrapped in a white cloth, and the cloth was soaked with specks of blood stains. He looked weak. shouted at another tall conductor.

The commander who was called out frowned deeply and said angrily: "What can we do? The Qing soldiers don't care about us at all. We are just a few of us. If we are thrown into the crowd outside, we won't risk it. Just wait until dawn!"

(End of this chapter)