“Ah? When will they be back?” Wang Erzhuang asked.
“In the next few days, so we must increase our defenses these days,” Nan Feng coldly said.
“We’ve wounded so many of them, won’t they seek revenge?”
“Of course they will, they’ll deploy more people to deal with us, but don��t be afraid, we must fight them to the end, because….” Nan Feng looked at everyone, his expression very serious: “I saw Wang Dachuan!”
Uncle Lan quickly added: “That’s right, I saw him too!”
Nan Feng seriously said: “Wang Dachuan leading the mountain bandits to our village, it can’t just be for robbery, even if we don’t resist, he will slowly torture us to death, so we have to fight!”
“Alright, fight!”
“Fight!”
…
In a stockade on a mountaintop, the “Azure Dragon Camp” flag was still flying in the wind.
Upon returning to the camp with the seriously wounded Erzhuang, Wang Erchun immediately sent someone to notify the leaders.
Looking at the second-in-command barely breathing on the ground, the leader slapped Wang Dachuan in the face: “Didn’t you say that Daping Village’s **** were easy to deal with? Didn’t you say that there would be rice, grain, and women when we came back? Why is it like this?”
Wang Dachuan knelt on the ground begging: “Boss, as soon as we arrived at the village, we were ambushed. Some expert must have set up the traps. We saw no one, just arrows flying at us. My brothers can attest, those arrows were as tall as half a person. They even set up a sentry post. I swear, the people of Daping Village didn’t used to be like this, someone must be teaching them how to deal with us…with us good guys.”
The leader squinted, “An expert?”
“Yes, an expert.”
The leader looked at the twilight outside, his pock-marked face showing hints of viciousness: “At midnight tomorrow, I’m going to meet this expert. All of you listen, tomorrow night, all hundred of our bandits will go out. Hmm, Daping Village dares to hurt my men, I’ll make the whole village pay!”
…
It was the next night.
The village’s sentry post sounded the gong again.
Because Nan Feng had expected the mountain bandits to come, she had already made meticulous arrangements, and the villagers had all been properly arranged.
Upon approaching the village, the bandits found it incredibly quiet. There was a faint light the previous night, but tonight it was pitch black everywhere.
Even the barking of dogs had stopped.
“Boss, be careful! There might be traps,” Wang Dachuan said, trying to ingratiate himself with the leader.
“Where’s the trap?” the leader asked.
“At the sentry post!” Wang Dachuan replied.
The leader stopped to think for a moment, then had an idea. He had all his subordinates dismount and crawl on the ground, which greatly reduced the chances of being hit by arrows.
So, all the bandits dismounted, leaving their horses at the village entrance. They all crawled forward.
The sight of over a hundred people crawling on the ground was truly impressive.
However, they crawled nearly a mile into the village, and the expected traps were nowhere to be found.
The leader, not wanting to lose face, immediately got up and slapped Wang Dachuan again: “Where are the traps? Where are the arrows? Are you playing me?”
Wang Dachuan pleaded with a mournful face: “Boss, there were really arrows last night, I wouldn’t dare to lie to you.”
The leader ignored Wang Dachuan, brushed the dirt off himself, and shouted back: “Everyone, get up! Stop crawling around like scared turtles!”
The bandits got up one after another, and soon a large group stood ominously in the darkness.