Chapter 539: Young Boy in the Snow (Part 2)
The north wind was howling, and the rapid sound of horse hooves was approaching. The vendors around silently picked up their weapons and ran to the northwest land. They would run for life and death. Facing horse thieves, they might not suffer any loss when they faced horse thieves.
The iron hooves brought up snow mist and filled their sight. In the wind and snow, hundreds of horse thieves roared over and over. Before they got close, they were riding and shooting. However, the other party's archery technique was obviously not enough to match their momentum. The soybeans fell on the carriage blocking the periphery, and it might be that the other party had no intention of killing.
Calamity and murder are two different things. Living on this land, horse thieves make a living by robbing past vendors, but they are also worried that the vendors will not go here, so unless they have personal grudges, they usually rob the goods and do not kill them.
The sound of horse hooves finally stopped, and a famous horse thief galloped back and forth around the chariot formation.
"In Zhang Zhong, Xiayiyang, I have just passed by the precious land. I don't know where to reinstall you?" Zhang Zhong slowly poked out half of his head from behind the vehicle and looked at these people carefully.
"Stop talking nonsense, keep the goods and leave." The leader of the horse thieves was a tall man, eight feet tall, sitting on the back of a horse like an iron tower. A long scar pulled down from the other party's eyebrows to the left, through his eyelids and to his left face. The wound was particularly hideous, adding a bit of evil to him.
"This leader, the rules are not like this. I am willing to spend some money to save my life. These goods are all my wealth. The leader wants them. Isn't it okay?" Seeing that the number of people on the other side is not much higher than that of him, Zhang Zhong had some confidence in his heart. He might not lose if he really fought. However, when he was away, he would be safe. If he really took action, he would win miserably and was not worth it.
"That was the past, now I can't even eat enough, who cares about you?" Scarface grinned.
"What are you afraid of? Fight with them!" The middle-aged guard tightly held the ring-headed knife in his hand. This was the treasure knife he bought at a high price. It was a Han army-style equipment obtained by someone from the battlefield, but it was not cheap.
"Don't be impulsive." Zhang Zhong took a deep breath, stood up slowly, looking at the scarred face. This person was obviously not a good person. He slowly bowed: "This leader, we are all living in the northwest, and we are all doing some small business. You can get all the goods for me and can't make any moves. We are willing to give tens of thousands of dollars."
"Okay." Scarface looked at the people hiding behind the car array, thought for a while and nodded, "Get the money."
Zhang Zhong took a deep breath and looked at everyone: "Everyone, let's get together."
This kind of thing must not be paid by one family. Although ten thousand yuan is not too much, it is not a small amount. There are a group of travelers here. If one person bears ten thousand yuan, this trip will basically be lost.
They were all vendors who had been walking here for a long time. Everyone understood this principle, so they nodded silently, took out some of the coins they had on their bodies, put them in a wooden box, and finally carried them out of the car array by two guards.
"Even if I give it, they won't let us go." Cheng Yuan stood with his chest in his arms, still with that indifferent expression, and even a little boring feeling.
"Oh~" Zhang Zhong glanced at the young man, sighed, and said nothing, signaling the guard to carry the box out and put it in the snow, and shouted: "This head man, the coins are ready, please let the head man go."
A horse thief came forward and took the money box away.
"Okay, you can leave." The horse thief leader didn't go to count the money, and sent people directly to him. He waved his hand. The horse thieves around him retreated slightly, but did not leave, and even handed their bows and arrows in their hands.
Zhang Zhong is not a fool. The boy had a glimmer of hope when he said that, but now this situation is obviously arguing by the young man again.
"Let's go." The bandit leader picked up his chin, his smile a little raging.
"Head man, isn't this right?" Zhang Zhong said gritting his teeth.
"I can't use this money even if I wait. I'll change my mind and hand over all the food you carry and let you go!" said the bandit leader.
"It's interesting." Cheng Yuan sat in the carriage with a slightly more interesting expression on his face. He was not afraid of looking at the bandit leader, but just smiled and said, "Without food, it's hard to walk next. In this weather, even if you leave, we can't walk Yunwu. The food is gone, and I'm afraid that we will starve to death here tonight. You just need to go to the rear and take away all these finances without bloodshed. Are the horse thieves here doing this?"
"Who are you?" The scarred man heard this and looked at the boy with a fierce look.
The horse thieves around pointed their bows and arrows at the boy.
"Passenger, please continue." The young man jumped out of the carriage and hid behind the carriage. His expression on his face was always indifferent after the beginning: "But this method may be easy, but not smart enough. If I were to collect money, leave, and then set rules. In the future, the vendors who pass by hand will hand in some wealth and let them go, use these wealth to recruit soldiers and then annex other thieves. In a few years, this area is your territory, and there will be at least thousands of people and traders. They will offer 10% of wealth. Although it is not much at a time, it can flow slowly. Your approach will only make everyone choose to detour."
"The little baby has some knowledge." Scar's face narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the young man.
"I can't tell you what you know, but I see you are not like an ordinary horse thief. This is the first time I have done this kind of robbery." The young man looked at the other party, his tone calm, as if he was just saying a fact.
"How do you know?" Scarface's eyes flashed with murderous intent and said coldly.
"Although I have never seen an ordinary horse thief, if you can advance and retreat like you, there is no need to be a horse thief. Moreover, you seem to be quite familiar with the method of cavalry fighting. When you surrounded it before, the cavalry formation seemed chaotic, but it changed at least three times. Is that a guard against another crossbow here?" the young man smiled. Computer terminal::/
"We are knowledgeable, not bad. We are the Han army. As cold and cold today, the army is short of food. We are especially ordered to be a bandit in this robbery." Scarface sneered.
"If it were the Han army, we wouldn't be able to talk to you at this moment." The young man shook his head and said.
"Oh? Why?" Scarface stared at the boy, but the boy winked at Zhang Zhong and others in the back of the carriage.
Zhang Zhong understood and quickly hid behind the car with his men, and each showed off his weapons.
Scarface rode his horse around the chariot formation and asked, "Why don't you say it?"
"Not to mention the powerful crossbows of the Han army, I just said that among the batch of armies sent to Xiliang by the Han army three months ago, the bows and arrows were compound, with a range of 240 steps and within fifty steps, they could penetrate the mail. Within a hundred steps, they could shoot through bamboo armor. However, the bows and arrows, when they had been shot at about fifty steps before, they could not even shoot through the car board. Not to mention the latest strong Han army bows, even the Han army crossbows ten years ago were not so weak. You are so well-versed in the military formation, but their equipment was so unbearable. Should it be the Wei army that had never escaped or been captured at the beginning?" the young man asked behind the car.
"Little baby, you are forcing me to silence me." Scarface's eyes shone fiercely and said with a harsh look.
"I won't say that you are not ready to let everyone live." The boy calmly greeted everyone with dissatisfaction eyes, and his tone was still calm: "We are here now. Although we will be frozen, you are also frozen. Now everyone is talking about it, that is, we will never stop and these people are no longer lucky. You have two choices. Now give up the horse and rush in and fight with us. The other one can choose to swim around and waste time with us. The situation is unclear and we dare not act rashly. You can trap us here. How would you choose?"
Scarface snorted coldly, and led the man around the frame for a moment, suddenly let out a whistle, turned around and whipped the horse, whistle away.
"My surname is Cheng, what do you mean?" After the people left, several guards stood up and looked at the boy with a bad expression.
"They only have these two choices. If I say so, at least I can save your lives for the time being. Otherwise, you really want to fight with them?" The boy stood up, patted the snow on his body, and looked at the other party and asked.
"Brother Cheng, how do you know they will choose the second one?" Zhang Zhong stood up and frowned and looked at the boy.
"If you do something immediately, it will cost a lot of people and take some time. You can drag these people to death without a single soldier. How would you choose?" the young man asked back.
"This..." Zhang Zhong thought for a while, he probably chose the second one.
The middle-aged guard on the side said angrily: "Who knows if he will be cruel to come in at any cost?"
"If I didn't say it, he would, but if I said it, he wouldn't." The young man glanced at the middle-aged guard and said, "He is a soldier, and some things are better than you. At the beginning, his subordinates may not know it, so if he ordered, he would definitely attack in, but now I have made it clear. If he still does this, he will not take his subordinates' lives as his life. It will be difficult for the remnants of the Wei army to survive here. If the hearts of the people inside are dispersed, it will be difficult to bring the soldiers. Once the hearts of the people are dispersed, if we kill in, we will have a greater chance of survival."
"Brother Cheng..." Zhang Zhong looked at the other party's indifferent expression. Even when facing everyone's doubts, he still slowly explained his thoughts. His emotions seemed to be not affected by everyone at all. Don't underestimate this. Zhang Zhong has been traveling around for many years, but if he is really surrounded by people and asked badly, he will be panicked. But this young man... seems to have no feeling of panic at all. He is just a statement of facts, and he is just a 14 or 15-year-old boy, which is a bit scary. Mobile::
"Who are you?" Zhang Zhong suddenly understood a little at this moment. He probably hadn't hidden his previous cleverness from him.
"Passing by." The young man replied lightly: "Now the thief is gone, but the crisis has not been resolved. Let's think about how to get through this level first."
"That's right, Brother Cheng thinks, what should we do?" Zhang Zhong looked at the boy, and the others also looked at the boy. Unconsciously, although the boy did nothing and just said a few words, he had already won the trust of everyone.
Chapter completed!