Chapter 164 He is the Idiot
Although the bandits were caught off guard, they had been suppressed for many years and had fought with the government countless times, so they had their own means of escape.
Instead of running straight out of the city, they ran while throwing the gunpowder firecrackers they brought with them to places where there were people.
The people were confused and there were always people who came out to see what was going on.
Whether they were hit by the bomb or kidnapped, Chen Duo's troops had to take the injured civilians away, but they did not dare to chase too close for fear that the bandits would kill the kidnapped civilians.
The enemy fought and retreated, and when only about ten people were left, they finally retreated to the northwest corner of the relatively short city wall on the other side.
They threw the hostages in their hands towards Chen Duo and others, and they swiftly climbed onto their horses and used grappling hooks to quickly climb over the city wall.
Chen Duo, who had been chasing them all the way, was furious. He quickly climbed up the city wall and saw that these people had prepared wooden sleds outside the city wall and were paddling them towards the outside.
Looking towards the nearest west city gate, Chen Duo landed on his horse. "Quick, get someone to open the west gate!"
Before his men could answer, Yun Ji and his men came riding over on horseback.
Seeing the grappling hook still hanging on the city wall, Yun Ji looked at the furious Chen Duo and advised: "Don't chase after a desperate enemy."
"They just got out. There are only a dozen of them and a few broken planks. How far can they get? Cutting the grass at its roots, hasn't the commander learned this from military books?"
"If you can move, follow me!"
With a shout, Chen Duo spurred his horse to a gallop, but Yun Ji stepped forward and grabbed his reins. "Now is not the time to act rashly. The mountains and forests are deep, and you may not be as familiar with them as they are."
"There's no place in Yanzhou that I'm not familiar with. I'm the one commanding the troops' operations, so the commander-in-chief should be in charge of the overall situation."
Pulling back the reins, Chen Duo ran two steps. Seeing that no one was following him, he roared, "If you don't come, get out of my army from now on."
They have been brothers for many years, and even though some people think that Chen Duo is trying to challenge Yun Ji, they have no choice but to follow him.
"Your Highness, do you want to send troops along?" Wu Feng asked.
Yun Ji shook his head.
With Shen Duo's temper, if he sent someone to fight him, it would only speed up the process and make him more dangerous.
Reaching out and pulling down a grappling hook, Yun Ji looked at it carefully and said, "Take two people and follow secretly, and keep in touch with Team Three."
Chen Duo rode his horse all the way to the west city gate.
There was no one outside the city gate to clear the snow and ice, so horses could not run. Today was a half-moon, and it was not very bright. Although the snow reflected light, it made the mountains and forests look even more terrifying.
"Brother Chen, do we really have to chase him?" The deputy was worried.
Chen Duo also had the idea of quitting, but he had just spoken to Yun Ji. If he quit now, he would be laughed to death. He would be even more incomparable to Yun Ji.
no!
We can't let that fake monk suppress us.
"Chase!"
After changing to the same wooden board, Shen Duo slid towards the place where the bandits fled and chased them.
The snow was thick and no one was walking. Chen Duo and the others were wearing cotton coats and trousers, so they didn't feel cold when they moved and slid faster and faster.
Soon the bandits were seen.
Seeing people chasing them, the bandits slid even faster.
But they had been freezing for days, and they didn't have many clothes, so they were not as flexible as Shen Duo and the others.
Seeing that he was about to catch up, Chen Duo's mind was full of catching these bastards back immediately so that he could make up for the mistake.
So much so that he didn't even notice that something was wrong with the snow as the bandit slid past in front of him.
A group of fifty or sixty people were skiing close together. When they were sliding across the snow, the snow suddenly collapsed and everyone lost gravity and fell down.
Shen Duo, who was at the front, turned around and immediately reached out to grab the deputy behind him.
He fell to the ground and saw that there was a big pit underneath that was deliberately dug. It was about five or six feet deep and supported by layers of thin branches. The mouth of the pit was covered with oilcloth. The accumulated snow and light weights could support it, but it would collapse immediately if there was too much weight.
Seeing most of his brothers falling down and wailing, Chen Duo realized that they had fallen into a trap.
"Brother Chen, let go! Run away!" The adjutant shouted as soon as he saw the bandits coming.
But Shen Duo refused to fight back, he grabbed his off-hand with one hand, drew his sword and turned around to resist.
However, the bandits did not confront him head-on. Instead, they threw a handful of raw pepper at his face, narrowed their eyes, and then the two of them worked together to grab his legs and threw him down.
The deputy immediately hugged Chen Duo with both hands, using his body as a cushion, and the people below also took action to relieve the force, so Chen Duo was not injured, but the deputy and the brothers who helped were injured to varying degrees.
Even though they clenched their teeth, Shen Duo could still hear the muffled sound of pain and the clear sound of broken bones.
"It's raw pepper powder. Hurry, find some water for Brother Shen. Snow will do. Hurry!"
Someone immediately took some of the fallen snow, melted it into water with their hands, and used it to wash Shen Duo's eyes and face, but he couldn't recover in a short time.
Chen Duo could only vaguely see the outline and shouted anxiously: "Don't worry about me! Take care of your own injuries! Check the terrain and see if you can climb up!"
"Looking for water?" A joking voice came from above the pit.
Shen Duo suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Officials are looking for water, why don't you bring some boiling water?"
Boiled water?
Once boiling water is poured down, not only will it burn you, but the cotton clothes will also be soaked and will no longer keep you warm, and will quickly freeze.
These bandits want to retaliate and freeze them to death.
He can die, but his brothers cannot.
He vaguely saw something floating at the mouth of the pit and realized that it was boiling water. Shen Duo roared, "Stop!"
But the bandits would not listen to him at this moment, and poured boiling water from the pot on them.
Almost instinctively, several soldiers immediately put their arms around each other's shoulders, bent down, and covered Chen Duo in the middle to block the falling boiling water for him.
Chen Duo couldn't see, and couldn't push anyone away. He could only feel their cotton coats quickly getting wet, from scalding hot to warm and then to ice cold.
And he also smelled blood, very strong.
Many people were injured and bleeding.
At this moment, Chen Duo really regretted that he had acted impulsively and had to chase after her.
He knew it was dangerous, but he just refused to accept it. He didn't want to admit that Yun Ji was no mere show-off and was more qualified to be the commander than him. He was even more worried that he would not have a place in Yanzhou.
He was even so angry that his brothers turned against Yun Ji one by one.
But it's just that I'm useless.
At this moment, it is even more harmful to the brothers.
"Not enough! Hurry, keep burning!"
When the people above gave the order, they grabbed the snow on the ground, wrapped it in stones and threw it down, watching the soldiers below with no way to avoid it. Many of them laughed triumphantly with blood on their heads and kept talking.
"What a bunch of idiots! I even heard their leader tell them to stop chasing us, yet they kept on chasing us. They're really courting their own deaths."
"Yanzhou isn't fighting a war. They're just locust soldiers who eat food. How could they understand these things? They're all just idiots."
"If the commander, Prince Yong, hadn't already brought everyone inside and deployed patrols, we might have been able to loot some things and wouldn't have had to go through this trouble today. But it's good that we have these things. We might even be able to force them to give us charcoal and grain in exchange."
"What if they don't want to?"
"Don't want to? Then eat the pigs down there. If a person starts burning, he'll burn for a while."
Listening to the words from above, Chen Duo was anxious and helpless. The pit was too high and he couldn't climb up at all, not to mention that there were people on top.
If they were kept, even if Yun Ji was willing to give them charcoal and food, these bandits might not let them go and would keep asking for more. There was already not enough in the city. If his mistake caused someone in the city to freeze to death, the blame would be on Yun Ji.
The bandit was right, he was the idiot!
“The water is coming!”
There was a shout from above that boiling water was about to fall.
"fall……"
The shouting stopped abruptly, and Shen Duo felt the water dripping, but it was not hot.
It's warm and fishy.
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