Chapter 16: The Snake of the Land
Huang Wuji sat in the carriage, and the caravan galloped on the avenue. Huang Wuji's eyes in the carriage were cold, faintly flashing with the light of wisdom, and before getting on the car, he subconsciously counted the number of caravans, five guards were not missing, and the lowest level composed of thirty coolies was one less.
Originally, the small number of people in the caravan would not arouse his suspicion, and there were many people coming in and out of a small caravan like this, and it was possible that one of the coolies would not want to do it and leave the caravan every place he went.
However, this is precisely the problem, Huang Wuji had just killed a person who had come to monitor his whereabouts last night. The next day, the caravan was one less person, such a coincidence is too simple.
Huang Wuji was a cautious person, and from the moment he sat in the carriage, he felt that things were beyond his expectations, and it seemed that he had been involved in a trouble again, and what made him even more unexpected was that when he encountered a caravan, trouble could follow.
Huang Yao woke up, opened her big watery eyes and looked at Huang Wuji in contemplation, her chubby little hands shaking in front of her eyes. Huang Wuji was thinking about something, and suddenly felt a black shadow appear in front of him, which kept shaking, and his big hand grabbed Huang Yao's small hand and said.
"The little girl woke up, how can she sleep comfortably!".
"Hmm!" Huang Yao stretched a little and yawned and climbed into Huang Wuji's arms, looking at Huang Wuji with big watery eyes. Huang Wuji didn't know why Huang Yao woke up, so he liked to lie in his arms, probably because she had been holding her for too long, so she got used to it.
Huang Wuji was highly vigilant about the caravan, and did not participate in some of the caravan activities, and when the two sides were eating, they did not get out of the car with Huang Yao on the grounds that they were not used to it, and ate the food brought out of the storage ring in the car.
Gradually, it was a month, and in a week's journey you could get to Jianghuai City, along the way, Huang Wuji and the caravan were safe, you don't care about me, I don't care about you, everything is done according to the agreement between the passengers.
On this day, the caravan stopped, and the owner of the caravan came to Huang Wuji's car, as always, with the face of a philistine, and said respectfully: "Childe, I have something to say next!"
Huang Wuji lifted the curtain, a smile appeared on his cold face, and slowly asked, "What's the boss, it's up to you!"
"Childe, the one in front is the Wild Wolf Plain, there are no people within a radius of 10,000 miles, and the traces of people are rare, the Blue Feather City that I passed by just now is the last city on the border of the Great Man, and Jianghuai City is a three-regardless zone connected to the Great Man!"
Huang Wuji interrupted the caravan boss and said softly, "Boss, to make a long story short, what exactly do you want to say!"
"Childe, I won't hide it from you, this wild wolf plain seems to be deserted, few people, in addition to encountering wolves, the biggest scourge is the rampant grassland horse thief. For the sake of safety, the caravan must go with some other caravans, I hope that Childe will not advise, and I also hope that Childe will stay in the carriage and not come out, so as not to threaten Childe's safety!"
The caravan owner said a lot in one breath, first about the threats he would encounter on the grassland, and then about going with other caravans, in the final analysis, he didn't want Huang Wuji to show up, so as not to arouse the suspicion of other caravans.
The horse thieves in the Wolf Plains usually disguised themselves as ordinary caravans to spy on passing caravans, and this habit seems to have become a common practice, and every caravan targeted by horse thieves will not be able to escape, and finally end up with no personal wealth and no money, and their own lives will be saved.
Therefore, when you arrive at the Wolf Plain, ordinary caravans will notice strangers in other caravans. The caravans traveling together also knew each other basically, and at this time of year they would gather in the Wild Wolf Plain to form a large caravan so that the horse thieves did not dare to move them easily. If there are outsiders in one of the caravans, they will be isolated from the other caravans, so that strangers do not become the internal agents of horse thieves.
Although Huang Wuji didn't want to respond, just in case, the caravan owner still ordered him to show up as little as possible.
Originally, Huang Wuji didn't want to show his face, and the fact that tens of thousands of Black Flag troops were wiped out must have also spread at the top of the Great Barbarian, and some people would be aware of his existence, and it was the best choice to be able to go out quietly without showing up.
"Don't worry, boss, I don't like to show my face either, if we have food, we will have it ourselves, so we won't trouble you, boss!" Huang Wuji agreed to the caravan boss's request.
"Well, I'm afraid that Childe will be unhappy, so I'll be relieved!" The caravan owner, Philistine, smiled and turned away.
After walking for a morning, I finally arrived at the periphery of the Wild Wolf Plain, and suddenly it became lively, and there were dozens of large and small caravans. There were the most small caravans like the miserly bosses, more than forty, fifteen or sixteen medium-sized caravans, five or six large caravans, and the total number of people was almost six or seven thousand, and the largest number of people in the crowd were coolies and men, six-tenths, three-tenths, and one-tenth of the caravans.
During this period, Huang Wuji also called the caravan owner over to ask about the situation. According to the caravan owner, spend a day on the outskirts of the Wolf Plain, waiting for other caravans that did not arrive. If it doesn't come tomorrow morning, then the caravan won't wait any longer.
A team of six or seven thousand people, encamped, and the voices of a huge wild wolf plain were boiling, and the caravans came and went and knew each other and constantly greeted each other. Before entering the Wild Wolf Plain, the task of guarding is far less heavy, and they know each other.
Open the fire to cook, anyway, the periphery of the wild wolf plain is chaotic, so that the uninhabited wild wolf plain has a rare vitality.
A day passed, and a lot of caravans came one after another, plus the original number of people was almost more than 10,000 people, and the procession of tens of thousands of people began to set off in the morning light, lined up like a long dragon with no end in sight, stretching for ten miles.
The caravan began to leave, Huang Wuji looked at such a large number of people, and was also surprised by the caravan's fussy behavior, tens of thousands of troops, whether it was the group of horse thieves who saw it, the first thought should be to flash people first!
In order to doubt in his heart, Huang Wuji specially called the caravan owner to inquire, and after asking, he realized that the wild wolf was not simple. The wild wolf plain is tens of thousands of miles, and there are countless horse thieves of all sizes, among which there are five largest horse thief groups, and the number of them is more than 10,000 people. These people are robbing houses and houses on the Wild Wolf Plain, and they have practiced a good kung fu, and ordinary caravans can't resist it at all.
When it comes to the Wild Wolf Plain, the five major horse thieves are indispensable, the strongest Wild Wolf and Horse Thieves are between 30,000 and 40,000 people, and the leader of the bandits is called Duo Phantom Moon Sky Wolf, I don't know if it is a man or a woman, his cultivation is unfathomable, no one knows, it is said that everyone who has seen him has died.
The second place is the Black Wind Horse Thieves Troupe, the number of which is between 25,000 and 30,000, and the leader of the bandit is called the Black Wind Bandit, who is said to be a hungry wolf in the color, specializing in robbing the women in the caravan and bringing them back to the cottage, and the cultivation is not clear.
The third place is the Wind Fox Horse Thieves Group, the number of people is between 20,000 and 30,000, the bandit leader is a woman, it is said that the length is not bad, the cultivation is unknown, and the Black Wind Horse Thieves are the most like to go against the Black Wind Horse Thieves, the two groups of horse thieves are simply rivals, and they are also the only horse thieves who do not kill people and specialize in grabbing goods.
Ranked fourth, the Red Rifle Horse Thieves, numbering between 18,000 and 20,000 people, the bandit leader Red Gunner, who is said to be a high-ranking military official of the Great Barbarian, offended a big man and was relegated to the border garrison. Who knew that the big man still didn't let him go, killed all his wives and children, and fell into the grass in a fit of anger, and established his own forces above the wild wolf plain, specifically against the military, and the military encircled and suppressed twice and again to nothing.
Ranked fifth, the War Horse Horse Thieves Group, the number of people is between 10,000 and 20,000, the bandit leader Red Tassel Girl, as soon as she hears the bandit, she knows that she is a woman, and the third-ranked Wind Fox Horse Thieves are sworn sisters, and they are also allies with each other.
After listening to the introduction of the caravan boss, Huang Wuji became a little interested in the flying fox, the big boss of the Wind Fox Horse Thief Diagram, and he was able to break out of his own place in the world of bandits that men were crisscrossing.
According to what the caravan owner said, Huang Wuji also felt why such a caravan had to travel together, and the thousands of people were not safe and sound in the Wild Wolf Plain. Any one of the five great horse thieves could wipe out the caravan.
After careful calculation, Huang Wuji found that among the five major horse thieves, except for the wild wolf horse thief group, the Black Wind horse thief group is a group composed of pure evil people and murderers, murder, arson, rape, adultery, and plunder, which can be said to be the purest horse thief group that only exists to rob past caravans.
The horse thief group composed of two women, as long as the goods do not hurt people, although they are not good enough for the good people, for the average caravan, it is already a thousand thanks, and even some caravans are wind fox horse thieves or war horse thieves when they pray to be robbed, and they will die unintentionally when they encounter the black wind horse thief group.
As for the wild wolf and horse thieves, it depends on the mood of their big bosses, who are in a mood as long as half of the goods, and if they are in a bad mood, they will take the goods with them.
The fourth-ranked Red Rifle Horse Thieves Regiment has a strong military style, and generally does not rob the goods of passing caravans, but only robs military supplies, and it can be regarded as a horse thief group with the most distinctive personality. Of course, the reason why the horse thieves are called the horse thieves is also for his reasons, before the military supplies come, they will still rob the caravan, but each time they only take about half of the goods.
The five major horse thieves have their own characteristics, among which the Black Wind Horse Thieves are pure evil bandits.
The caravan boss only introduced some of the five horse thieves, but Huang Wuji thought of other aspects, in addition to the five great horse thieves, there are also large and small horse thieves, who are also attached to the five major horse thieves, so that the five big horse thieves are not as simple as they seem on the surface.
Huang Wuji guessed that in order not to cause a strong reaction from the Great Barbarian Dynasty, Huang Wuji guessed that some of his members were scattered everywhere to form small horse thief groups and become peripheral personnel.
In this way, the number of people is reduced a lot, and it can strengthen its own power, and it will not cause hostility from the barbarian government. Otherwise, once the five horse thieves group grows bigger, even if it is close to the three areas outside the outside of the square, the big barbarians will not let them develop, lying on the couch, how can they allow others to snore, I am afraid that the army will be mobilized early in the morning to encircle and exterminate the horse bandits on the entire wild wolf plain.
Now there can be five major horse thief groups in the Wild Wolf Plain, in addition to showing that the upper forces are not strong, they cannot pose a threat, and mobilizing a large army to encircle and suppress a waste of manpower and material resources, the biggest thing is the collusion of officials and bandits.
This set of Huang Wuji knows best in his heart that a share of the finances robbed by the five horse thieves every year will be sent to the capital and handed over to those high-ranking officials and nobles as a one-year offering.
(End of chapter)