Chapter 499 Mutation
A fierce battle didn't last long, but for the sand bandits, the losses were quite tragic. The scorching sun was in the sky, and the steamed yellow sand was filled with bloody smell.
There were still more than a dozen sand bandits struggling on the sand and trying to crawl away from the battlefield. Xuanyuan Sheng finally waved his hand, and more than twenty guard soldiers put down their bows and arrows in one go, pulled out their swords, and went forward. Seeing the struggling sand bandits, without saying a word, they raised their swords and killed them, cleared the battlefield.
These guard soldiers looked tired and sweaty, but they were still very decisive when they used the knife.
After Chu Huan waited for the sand bandits to retreat, he sent a few people to visit and report back that the sand bandits had fled in panic and had gone far away.
Xue Huaian and other civil servants finally emerged from the pile of goods, showing terror on their faces. Although the dead and injured were the sand bandits, the continuous screams of the continuous screams still made Xue Huaian and others feel creepy.
Chu Huan had already come in at this moment and bowed, "Sir, I'm frightened!"
Xue Huaian Assassin only wore a single dress and had his collar open, and he didn't care about his image. He came forward, grabbed Chu Huan's hand, and said gratefully: "Deputy Envoy Chu, thanks to you, thanks to you..." He didn't know what to say for a moment.
All the officials also came forward and bowed. Someone had already said, "Deputy Envoy Chu, if you hadn't been prepared this time, we would have been the devil of the sand bandits."
Chu Huan smiled and said, "It's not important anymore. What's important is that you are safe and sound now. Everything is safe for our mission, and that's enough."
Xuanyuan Shengcai has cleaned the battlefield, so he naturally will not care about the corpses anymore, but will ask the soldiers who cleaned the battlefield to collect arrows.
Although the Guards were equipped with long bows and short crossbows, the number of bows and arrows was limited after all. This round of fierce battle actually consumed most of the arrows, and the remaining arrows were few. If you want to replenish the arrows, you can only recover the shot arrows.
Some of the arrows fell on the sand, and some shot into the key points of the sand bandit's body. Collecting arrows is not a simple task. Although the arrows on the sand are just enough to pick them up, the arrows shot into the body need to be taken out with great skill. The front ends of these arrows are flashing and look extremely sharp.
This time, he used the plan and won a great victory. Most of the White Wolf Sand Bandits were lost, and the second-ranked Black Wind Sand Bandits were also shot to death by an arrow, while the delegation had no casualties.
Xue Huaian and others had found a place to sit down and took clean water to drink. Chu Huan knew that the bandits would not come again in a short period of time, so he ordered the soldiers to withdraw their troops and rest.
"Deputy Envoy Chu, how do you know that the sand bandits will definitely attack today?" Xue Huaian took a few sips of water, came to his senses, looked at Chu Huan beside him and asked, "How do you know that they must launch a sneak attack at noon?"
Chu Huan smiled faintly, instead of answering the previous words, but explained the question below: "Noon is the time when we are most distracted. They have a greater grasp of sneak attacks. The most important thing is that the sun at noon is very poisonous. Even if they are unable to retreat, we cannot chase them. At this time, if we ride a horse and can't chase for a few miles, all the horses will die."
"So that's it." Xue Huaian nodded and said, "Deputy Envoy Chu, the emperor appointed you as the Deputy Envoy, and he really did not see the wrong person." He sighed, "If it weren't for you, we would be afraid we wouldn't be able to get out of the desert."
At this moment, when he heard the sound of footsteps, Chu Huan went over and saw that Qiu Yinghao had already rushed over with the camel tourists from the Qiu family, got up and met him.
Qiu Yinghao looked solemn. Before he could approach, he bowed and said, "Uncle Chu, what's the situation? Are there any casualties? We're late!"
Chu Huan shook his head and smiled, "No wonder the Qiu family, this group of sand bandits were prepared for a long time. It is hard to imagine a sudden attack."
At this moment, Xuanyuan Shengcai had already come over and reported: "Sir, the deputy envoy, killed 67 sand bandits, and more than 30 horses."
Qiu Yinghao admired: "Uncle Chu predicted things like a god, and set up an ambush. This group of sand bandits were seeking death."
Chu Huan laughed and said, "You are polite to the boss Qiu. In fact, if it weren't for the boss Qiu's help, it wouldn't have been possible for such a big victory today."
"Help?" Qiu Yinghao was stunned and said in confusion: "Uncle Chu was joking. We really couldn't help much today, but we saw the power of the elite soldiers of the Qin Dynasty."
Chu Huan smiled and said, "Chu understands that the Qiu family must have thought that if he walked for two consecutive days and stayed day and night, these soldiers must be vulnerable. But this time he could ambush here and hit the sand bandits with a painful attack, it must be something that the Qiu family could not have imagined."
Qiu Yinghao's face suddenly changed, Chu Huan's expression turned cold. He looked at Xuanyuan Sheng before he could shout loudly: "You are here, you have taken down all!"
A group of guard soldiers holding big swords suddenly appeared from all sides, and some of them were holding short swords, aiming at the camels of the Qiu family, whether they were blades or crossbows.
The sudden change caused the camel guests of the Qiu family to change their colors suddenly, and like conditioned reflexes, they all held the hilt tightly. However, although the guard soldiers surrounded all sides looked tired, they still exuded high fighting spirit. They were all the most brave elites in the empire. When they started their swords, no one was vague. The fighting just now made their blood roll, and it was still burning hot.
Qiu Yinghao's face looked extremely ugly, and he clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Chu, what do you mean?"
Xue Huaian and other civil servants were also extremely surprised when they saw the guards surrounding the camel tourists. Xue Huaian had already come forward and frowned and said, "Deputy Envoy Chu, what... is this... what is this?"
Chu Huan looked calm, staring at Qiu Yinghao, and said calmly: "I think the Qiu family should be able to explain all this."
"I don't understand what you are talking about." Qiu Yinghao looked cold and stern: "Uncle Chu, what's wrong with us? Just say it, but isn't it too much to add up the swords and weapons?"
Chu Huan smiled and said, "Dangshu Qiu, I actually don't have many questions about me, I only ask you a few small questions!"
"What?"
"Qiu Dangjia, we are rushing through the past two days and nights. You claim to be trying to escape the wind. Is this true?" Chu Huan stared at Qiu Yinghao's eyes, "Is there any other purpose?"
Qiu Yinghao suddenly laughed: "Just, our Qiu family camel guests took your money. Their duty is to take you through the desert. When you encounter the wind eye area, you will naturally hurry up. Not only for you, but also for all the guests. What other purpose does this have? Are you going to wait for death in the wind eye area?"
Chu Huan shook his head and sighed: "Dangshu Qiu, at this time, are you still lying?"
Qiu Yinghao sneered: "Mr. Chu, although we have few camel guests, we are not afraid of death. If you want to bully the weak with more, our Qiu family camel guests are not afraid of you. If you use a knife to us for no reason, we will not tie up!"
Chu Huan said slowly: "Actually, Chu also knows that the Camelke has always kept his promises and is a well-known man, but I really can't understand why you are colluding with the bandits."
The camels of the Qiu family frowned, and Qiu Mingdao beside Qiu Yinghao had already said sternly: "Nonsense, when will our Qiu family comels of the Qiu family go with the sand bandits? Don't just ask the name of the Qing Dynasty and make random accusations."
Chu Huan said: "Dangqiu family, have you even hidden your own son?"
Xue Huaian was confused when he heard this and frowned, "Deputy Envoy Chu, is there some misunderstandings in this matter? How could the camel guru collude with the sand bandit?" He looked disbelief.
Chu Huan said lightly: "Sir, do you know why he kept us on the road these two days?"
"Don't you want to escape the wind?" Xue Huaianqi said.
Chu Huan shook his head and said, "No. He asked us to hurry up, just to make us exhaust our physical strength and have no resistance. In this way, the sand bandits can take advantage of the situation to attack."
Qiu Yinghao said with a cold face: "It's nonsense. As a camel guest, how could I be entangled with the Black Wind bandits?"
"Heifeng?" Chu Huan laughed and said, "It turns out that the Qiu family knew that the sand bandits who attacked our delegation were Heifeng, and I just knew it!"
"I saw Heifeng on the sand dune just now, so I naturally knew it was his man." Qiu Yinghao said: "Mr. Chu, Heifeng is extremely vicious and has always been our mortal enemy of our camel guests. I wish I could see him kill him, so how could I go with him?"
Chu Huan laughed and said, "Why are you walking with them? Only the Qiu family will tell us by himself." His face darkened and he asked, "Qiu Yinghao, I asked you, why did Ma Zhengyi win the bid? Why did he stop your Qiu family camel guest from taking this job?"
Qiu Yinghao said without changing his face: "I have said a long time ago that my senior brother does not agree to us leading troops through the desert. Although you are a mission, you are from the official family. The senior brother prevents our Qiu family from taking the official family from crossing the desert." He sneered: "But I see that you are not familiar with the desert and are convenient for others. He takes you through the desert. After a kindness, he is framed by you like this. Are your officials in Qin so ungrateful?"
Chu Huan shook his head and said solemnly: "You are wrong. Ma Zhengyi doesn't let you take the job, not because we are from the official family. On the contrary, he is a real camel guest, obeying the rules of camel guest. He prevents you from taking this job because he already knows that you will break the rules of camel guest this time, which he will never allow."
Qiu Yinghao's lips twitched and he said coldly: "Did you break the rules?"
Chu Huan nodded and said, "Before we left Luoyan Town, Ma Zhengyi already knew that you were colluding with the sand bandits, and knew that you would be unfavorable to our mission. Ma Zhengyi prevented you from entering the desert, or even won the bid. The purpose was to make you retreat if you did not take on this job, avoid this dispute, so as not to break the rules of the Camel Guest, and he was even worried that you would implicate the entire Luoyan Town because of you. Ma Zhengyi's initial idea was to let our mission enter the desert by himself. It was a disaster or a blessing, all depends on our mission's own fortune. The Camel Guest not only had anything to do with it!"
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