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Chapter 9 Wuhe [Good morning, traveler! 】

Good spirits, bad spirits.

Bai Yuanjie thought about not meeting the bandits all the way, but they hurried on the road, and when they crossed the black ridge, they dragged until it was dark. Whether they were going to stay overnight in the ridge made everyone nervous.

The people found a cove in the Black Ridge, tied up their chariots and horses, and set up camp on the spot. They lit a bonfire and sat aside to eat some dry food. Panicked, the merchants who were attacked were only more than ten people and there were still escaped companions. I waited for a group of 20 people, each of whom carried weapons and even had four, no, five blunderbusses. "

Bai Yuanjie didn't speak, Chen Mu said with a smile: "What Zhang Xiaoqi said makes sense, but you have to be prepared if you are not afraid of returning home."

Chen Mu has a good impression of Zhang Yongshou, but just listening to his words, it is expected that he may not be able to make much achievements in the career of a military officer in the future.In fact, the entire group is more or less vigilant now, but Zhang Yongshou is not at all vigilant, and the bannermen of his small flag are also not at all guarded around the bonfire.Bai Yuanjie was really vigilant. Even this garrison camp was the best place he had chosen for defense. There were stones on three sides. Even if he was attacked at night, he only needed to be prepared for the front exit.

As for Chen Mu?Chen Mu was falsely vigilant, but really scared.

When he set out for Guangzhou Mansion, he was not yet mentally prepared. He just felt that it would be no big deal if he ran into bandits along the way, and that if they met on a narrow road, he would just charge and kill them according to the formation he had practiced.But when the situation came to an end, even if he hadn't met the culprit, just thinking about it would let him know that everything was not as simple as he imagined.

A gangster who makes money and kills as a profession and kills without blinking an eye?
Even with military experience, Chen Mu is neither crazy nor lunatic, and it is a lie that he is not afraid.

After eating the dry food, they started to be on duty at night. The six banner men under his command were instructed by Chen Mu, and even the blankets that were spread out for sleeping were in accordance with the formation, so as to maintain the formation in case of a sudden attack and go directly into battle.Especially for Shao Tingda and Wei Balang, one is on the left and the other is on the right, so he can sleep peacefully.

Everyone was nervous and stayed up late before going to bed. Although Bai Yuanjie and others were all military households, no one had really experienced war in Taiping for a long time, but Shi Qi and Zhang Yongshou's two bannermen And the four Bai family soldiers were a little calm...they are the ruthless characters who have really killed people.

The rustling sound in the night woke Chen Mu up. When he opened his eyes, he saw the dim bonfire reflecting Shao Tingda's hands pushing back and forth on his body. Chen Mu was covering his mouth when he opened his mouth to speak, and Shao Tingda whispered: "Brother Mu, there are people in the woods, please keep quiet!"

One sentence suddenly woke up Chen Mu's drowsy mind, his whole body tensed up suddenly, and then he saw Shao Tingda bent down and grabbed the knife in his hand, his face was not as silly as usual, but full of fierceness, his eyes looked dangerously at the dense forest .Following the direction of Shao Tingda's gaze, Chen Mu saw three piles of bonfires that Bai Yuanjie had arranged on the edge of the camp before going to bed. In Chen Mu's eyes, he didn't see the slightest trouble.

Although he was puzzled, but seeing that Shao Tingda's appearance did not seem to be fake, Chen Mu carefully put the firecracker beside him, covered Wei Balang's mouth with one hand and woke him up softly, then turned his head to look in Bai Yuanjie's direction, and unexpectedly found that Bai Yuanjie He was already awake when he was lying on his side, and when he saw him looking over, he nodded cautiously, clenched his fists and then made a gesture of fourteen, which shocked Chen Mu.

What does fourteen mean? Bai Yuanjie discovered that there were fourteen bandits?
Wei Balang woke up, and his eyes widened when he heard Chen Mu's words, but this half-grown man didn't understand anything, and Chen Mu could only see in his eyes the same panic as when the old cripple was being executed that day I was so excited, as if after today he was a real man.

"Don't move around later, hide behind and fill my blunderbuss with ammunition, do you hear me?"

Or say that the dead boy is stupid, nodding his head non-stop, as if Chen Mu said that what he wanted to give him was not a bird gun but a jelly bean.This kid doesn't know what fear is at all, and I have to say that although Chen Mu has always thought that Xiao Balang is stupid, Wei Balang's performance is indeed much better than Chen Mu's.

Bai Yuanjie woke up earlier than Chen Mu. His childhood martial arts training and family training made him sleep easier than others. What's more, sleeping in the wild made him vigilant during his rest.Although he was still lying there without moving, he had sent a soldier of the Bai family to use the cover of the carriage to wake up the gunners under Zhang Yongshou's banner, hoping to draw out a second line of defense later.

You can see Bai Yuanjie's arrangement from the position where they sleep when they are resting. Chen Mu Xiaoqi's seven people are on the outermost side, Bai Yuanjie and four personal soldiers are in the middle, and Zhang Yongshou Xiaoqi's eleven people are on the innermost side. In the middle, there is a carriage with horses tied on both sides.

Use Master Chen as a shield envoy!

Chen Mu didn't see any movement here. When Shao Tingda quietly woke up Shi Qi and Chen Guan beside him, Chen Mu stared at the dense forest and finally found that the bushes were rattling. The bird gun then heard a cry behind him.

"The thief? Where is the thief!"

There was a cry of alarm, the cry of the bannermen under Zhang Yongshou's banner waking up, and then arrows shot over from the forest, and several ragged figures jumped out of the bushes, shouting and charging out with swords in hand, and suddenly appeared in front of them. There was a mess behind him, and there were gunshots and screams coming from behind!
"boom!"

"what!"

In an instant, there was chaos behind the carriage, and a fireman was frightened by the arrows nailed to the carriage and pulled the trigger in a panic, and then the firecrackers hit the comrades around him, causing even greater chaos.

Chen Mu didn't care about the chaos that happened behind him. Bai Yuanjie's soldiers were already shooting bows at the rushing bandits beside the carriage. Shao Tingda held a leather wooden shield and a rusty goose feather knife in front of Chen Mu, his muscles tensed. Wei Balang leaped from the felt to behind him and quickly lit the fire scythe, holding the matchlock excitedly and handing it to Chen Mu; both sides were already in a mess, and Chen Guan, who was missing his fingers, was also missing. Courageous, he dropped his spear and ran towards the place where the horse was tied, holding his head in his arms. Shi Qi approached Chen Mu with his wooden spear in his arms. Before he could be awakened in time, the old man Zheng closed his eyes because of his sudden shock and waved the spear wildly behind him. Chen Mu wrapped the matchlock on his arm several times, but he couldn't fit it into the matchlock's faucet!
A bunch of rabble.

There was a vague figure in front of him, and Chen Mu seemed to have returned to the state of the old cripple when he was executed. His mind was empty and his ears failed, and he shouted everywhere but couldn't hear a sound.The fire rope was inserted into the faucet, and the thief who rushed to him had just been knocked out by Shao Tingda's shield, and in a blink of an eye another figure swooped in with a knife.

Raising the blunderbuss and firing the gun, like the standard movements honed hundreds of times in Qingyuanwei, has now become an instinctive reaction of muscles.

Thick smoke of black powder burning endlessly came out from the muzzle, and the howling stopped abruptly.

He killed!

　Good morning, traveler!Now "Kaihai" is No.11 on the new book list in history. With a few recommendation tickets, No.10 can be knocked down immediately. Try it?

　　


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