As soon as the sky dawned, the Tiger Flag convoy started on the road.
As a sentinel, Lao Wu rode up to Chen Wu and said, "I heard that Chen Wen came to see you last night?"
"Yes." Chen Wu nodded and said, "I, Aha, said that the horse bandits were targeting us and asked me to go back to Xinpingbao with him."
Lao Wu was riding on horseback, picking his nose with his fingers and said: "Since you all know that the horse bandits are eyeing the convoy, why don't you go with him? With the skills of you two brothers, you want to escape back to Xinpingbao. Not big."
Chen Wu shook his head and said: "I am a cavalry member of the Tiger Flag Horse Team. I will not leave. I will stay and face the horse bandits with the other riders of the horse team."
"Aren't you afraid of dying in the hands of horse bandits?" Lao Wu said, "I believe your brother has told you what happened to the horse bandits. Our cavalry team has a small number of riders, and this is the first horse battle. What do you think our chances of winning are? ?”
Chen Wu said: "Since I chose to stay, I won't think about escaping. Moreover, you know what the situation is in Ye Bushou, deputy captain. I really don't want to go back."
Lao Wu laughed and shouted: "Go on!"
After he finished speaking, he threw the saber in his hand towards Chen Wu.
Chen Wu subconsciously hugged forward with his hands, took the saber in his hand, and then his eyes showed surprise.
"Don't be stunned, come with me to be a sentry rider." Lao Wu knocked his heel on the horse's belly and rode away at a gallop.
Chen Wu, who was holding the saber in both hands, was overjoyed and looked at the saber as if he were looking at his beloved woman.
What made him even more happy was that what Lao Wu just said and the saber in his hand both proved that he had been accepted by the cavalry team.
From then on, he was no longer Chen Wu who joined the cavalry team, but Chen Wu who joined the cavalry team.
"Drive!" Chen Wu hung up his saber and rode towards Lao Wu and others in front.
………………
The early morning in the grassland was quite cool. After a night's rest, everyone in the Tiger Flag team was full of energy.
"Mr. Zhao, do you think the horse bandits will come today? If they don't come, we will return to Xinpingbao in a few days." Zhang Hong, who was walking beside the cart, said to Zhao Yutu who was in the cart.
Zhao Yutu leaned his back on the wooden board of the carriage and said: "I hope the horse bandits don't come. If there is a war, people will die. It's hard for our brothers to live a stable life for a year. If we lose our lives on the grassland, what will happen to us?" It’s not worth it!”
Zhang Hong said as he followed the carriage: "We must fight the battles that need to be fought, otherwise our tiger-character flag would not be where it is today."
"I understand what you said." Zhao Yutu said, "Those of us have been wandering all the way, and finally came to Lingqiu to settle down. Now we have a peaceful life. I don't know how long we can live such a stable life. Lingqiu Huang Shouwei over at Qiu has been constantly causing trouble for our Tiger Flag and the Headmaster, alas!"
As he spoke, he sighed.
Zhang Hong said: "We can live the life we have now, thanks to the boss. When Shi Yunhu was the boss, what kind of life did we live, and we couldn't even fill our stomachs. Anyway, I would do whatever the boss asked me to do. What to do, as for that bullshit defense, as long as the boss says a word, I will lead people to kill him immediately."
After hearing this, Zhao Yutu showed a hint of embarrassment on his face.
When he was a master next to Shi Yunhu, although his food was mediocre, he would never go hungry and he could eat some meat every now and then, which was much better than the bandits in other camps.
Zhang Hong continued: "Those horse bandits who are targeting the convoy, even if we don't resist, they will not let us go. Let's just fight them. Even if there are some casualties now, as long as these horse bandits are killed, we will be afraid of them in the future." Only when our convoy with the tiger flag walks on the grassland will no one dare to make any plans."
Zhao Yutu nodded.
He understood what Zhang Hong said. They had no choice at this time. Either they would kill the horse bandits, or the horse bandits would kill them.
Since these horse bandits used so much manpower, they would not watch their tiger-shaped flag convoy leave the grassland unharmed.
Along the way, until the convoy stopped to rest, no horse bandits appeared. Even the horse bandit spies who were following the convoy only appeared once in a long time. Compared with the previous few days, the number of people was much smaller and the number of appearances was much less.
"It seems the horse bandits are about to take action."
When the motorcade stopped to rest, Ma Yunjiu came to Zhao Yutu.
"Are you sure?" Zhao Yutu looked serious.
Ma Yunjiu said: "When I was a bandit in Daliang Mountain, if I targeted a caravan, I would send spies to follow the caravan all the way. When the caravan was about to fall into an ambush, most of the spies would withdraw, leaving only one. Two spies confirmed that the caravan was in an ambush."
Zhao Yutu frowned.
He did not doubt Ma Yunjiu's words. Who in the convoy knew the horse bandits best, it must be Ma Yunjiu and Lao Wu who had been bandits in Daliang Mountain.
Although he himself had been a bandit in Hutou Village, the situation in Hutou Village was very different from that of ordinary bandits. On the contrary, it was more like the way of dealing with local powerful people.
Zhang Hong on the side said: "Captain Ma, do you mean that our convoy is about to fall into an ambush by the horse bandits?"
"You can also say that." Ma Yunjiu said, "It is not easy to ambush on the grassland, but you can be sure that the horse bandits will take action soon."
Zhao Yutu asked: "Can we go around and avoid these horse bandits?"
Ma Yunjiu shook his head and said: "This area is all grassland, not even hills, which is very suitable for war horses to sprint. Even if we want to hide, it will be difficult to escape, and the horse bandits are more familiar with this grassland than us."
"So it must be beaten!" Zhao Yutu grabbed a few weeds on the ground.
"Then fight." Zhang Hong hammered the grass hard, "As long as these horse bandits are killed, we will see who dares to fight with us in the future."
………………
In the afternoon, when the temperature dropped a bit, the team got back on the road.
After the convoy had walked for more than ten miles, the sun was setting in the west, the sky in the west was fiery red, and the green leaves of the weeds on the ground were a little more red.
The spearmen of the warrior brigade wore about twenty kilograms of iron armor. Walking such a long way in such hot weather, the iron helmets on their heads could pour out water.
The situation of the cavalry team was slightly better. The riders did not need to walk on their own. Even so, they were all soaked and the body wrapped in breastplates was indescribably uncomfortable.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
A fast horse galloped from the front. As it approached the convoy, the rider on the horse shouted loudly.
"The convoy forms a formation!"
Upon hearing the word "enemy attack", Zhao Yutu did not hesitate at all and immediately ordered the convoy to stop and form a formation.
Large vehicles quickly formed a formation that is typical during training.
The gunman lies on the cart, or in the gap between two carts, and fills the gunpowder with gunpowder and lead.
The spearmen gathered in the car formation, standing neatly together in rows and rows.
"Where are the horse bandits?" Zhao Yutu asked Chen Wu who came to deliver the news.
Chen Wu said: "When our sentinels discovered the horse bandits, the group of horse bandits had already arrived six miles away from the convoy."
Boom...
The ground seemed to shake. Groups of horse bandits who were not dressed as Tiger Flag riders appeared on the grassland and surrounded the Tiger Flag convoy from several directions.
"Chen Wu, come into the car formation quickly." Chen Wen, who was inside the car formation, waved to Chen Wu eagerly.
Chen Wu said: "Ah, you stay here in the convoy, I will go with the brothers in the cavalry to kill the horse bandits."
After saying this, he flicked the reins, urged the horse under his crotch, and galloped towards the assembled tiger flag horse team.
