"My husband, there is a horse thief!"

After returning, Han Daxia said anxiously, seeing that his face was particularly shocked, and even his speech was trembling. His son Han Guan'er's always indifferent face also felt panic. Even if he encountered a pack of wolves that day, he could not let him do this. After all, wild beasts cannot be compared with humans.

The team was also filled with panic and shocked. Yang He tried his best to look at it, but there was no commanding height. His vision was covered by weeds. The people and horses there appeared and could not see clearly.

He asked in a deep voice: "Have you seen it clearly? How many people are there?"

Han Daxia said: "Look clearly, there are four horse thieves, and there are more than thirty in the thieves, but less than forty in the thieves. The thieves often hold sticks, some hold spears, and one holds a sword and shield. As for those thieves... there may be bows and arrows."

The team was even more frightened, and some women were old and weak and cried. Qi Youxin looked at Yang He anxiously: "My husband, what should I do?"

The most feared thing about encountering bandits and soldiers on the way to escape was that of bandits, especially bandits with bows, arrows and firearms. At that time, hundreds of them fled, and in the end there were only dozens of them left, because they encountered bandits many times on the way.

Everyone looked at Yanghe with anticipation. The surface of Yanghe was as deep as water. He looked around. The flat fields were without any terrain. This situation was even more dangerous than facing the wolves at that time...

He looked over there again, and suddenly said, "Form a formation, all the young and strong people stand in front and form the second row. Ministers, you will be commanded... Han Daxia, Han Guan'er, you two follow me behind and take charge of the two wings."

Yang He made a quick arrangement, and as the bandits got closer and closer, he also saw it a little more clearly. He counted it quickly. As Han Daxia said, there were four horse thieves and less than forty thieves, but the number was definitely more than thirty-five.

Moreover, they are all young and strong, and they are bandits who make a living by robbery, and have certain combat power.

On the other hand, even if we took in new people a few days ago, there were only twenty-five young and strong men... One person was killed not long ago, and only twenty-four people remained, and most of them were ordinary farmers' children.

The other four people had horses. People with horses in this era were not simple characters. Even in the Qi family's army, only cavalry had armor. Ordinary infantry only had captain-level figures, and only armors were similar to ordinary soldiers in cavalry.

Among their infantrymen, there was also a man holding a sword and shield to escort the formation. Such people were either veterans of the officers and soldiers, or elderly bandits in various villages. They could survive until now in troubled times, and they had excellent skills.

Originally, when encountering an opponent with a horse in the wild, it is usually arranged in a square or circular array to defend, but the troops on your side are not strong enough and the protection is even less. The enemy only needs to concentrate on attacking...

The square and circular arrays are too rigid and rigid, so they can only stand and be beaten, which is very easy to collapse overall.

So Yang He put all the young and strong in front. Although the number of people here is already at a disadvantage, Yang He believes that his archery skills are no worse than his. He hopes that with a small bow, he can withstand the pressure on the front.

He and Han Daxia and his son used a strong bow, a three-eyed gun, and a waist knife, hoping to block the enemy's possible attack on both wings.

Yang He was most afraid that the horse thieves had bows and arrows so that they could shoot from afar and pose a threat to their side. Otherwise, after Minister Yang's archery attack, the horse thieves would suffer certain losses and might retreat.

At this time, he was so eager to have a large number of shields, even if everyone held a piece of wooden board, it was difficult for ordinary horse bows to shoot through the wooden boards.

Under his arrangement, the young and strong men who were originally divided into two classes gathered in front, each holding sticks, while Qi Youxin pulled out his waist knife and gasped. Yang He also arranged some old and weak men on both sides, and finally women, girls and children gathered in the middle.

Minister Yang took off his backpack and placed it in the middle of the crowd. His younger brother and sister came out of the backpack, his face full of nervousness.

Sister Ying'er shouted even more terrified: "Brother..."

Minister Yang hurriedly comforted her, and Yang He also smiled at the two of them: "Ying'er, don't be afraid of Qian'er, it's okay."

Han Daxia looked calm and took out the fuse from his waist to light it. He said to his son Han Guan'er: "Don't panic... check again and take the medicine..."

Han Guan'er nodded vigorously, but his hands were slightly trembling.

Minister Yang checked his bow and arrow knife again, and handed the copper stick in his hand to Yang He: "Young Master, give it to it."

Yang He took the bronze stick and patted him on the shoulder. The two nodded hard. Minister Yang walked forward. He grew up together since childhood, and there was no need to say anything.

Soon the refugees formed a formation and were nervously alert. Yang He touched the copper stick in his hand, and the metal patterns on it gave him a sense of peace of mind.

He pulled out the slashing saber and screwed the grip into the thread hole in the stick, making it a sharp seven-foot long knife. The blade body was beautifully streamlined, the tip of the knife was slightly curled with a curve. The material of nearly high-carbon steel was chilling and extremely sharp.

Holding the long sword, Yang He felt much more at ease. He heard Yan Dezheng, who was not far away, seemed to be trembling. He smiled and said, "Mr. Yan, don't be afraid."

Yan Dezheng trembled and said, "Students are not... not afraid..."

He looked at Sun Zhaodi and his children, and many children, who were full of nervousness in front of him. These days they were obeying their teachings, and suddenly calmed down Yan Dezheng. He remembered the various teachings of the saints when he was studying, and he had to protect them.

At this time, the bandits in front were getting closer and closer. The weeds separated and four horses jumped out. Seeing the side was ready, they seemed surprised. They stopped more than a hundred steps away from a distance, gathered together, and looked over here.

Yang He also saw clearly the four horsemen's outfits. Two of them were wearing red tassel felt hats, one was wrapped in a red headscarf, and the other was wearing a blue folded scarf. They were a little far apart and were not very clear in appearance, but they all looked fierce and rude.

Yang He wanted to see their weapons clearly, but the four of them were wearing cloaks, but it was difficult to see their weapons and equipment clearly.

Then the messy footsteps sounded, and the thief arrived. Although their queue was in chaos, the fierceness and cruelty of the bandits over the years were undoubtedly revealed. Yang He counted and the number of these thiefs reached 37, and his face became even more serious.

His eyes were patrolling the three spears and the bandits holding swords and shields.

These bandits gathered together and pointed at each other from time to time, bursts of crazy laughter burst out. The laughter was full of cruelty and ruthlessness, reminding Yang He of the three riots he killed in Duxu.

Like them, these bandits have no human nature. Sometimes they do some evil things in the refugee team and are forced to do helpless. These people simply take evil as their profession and enjoy trampling on goodness.

Then the four horse thieves discussed something, and then the horse thief wrapped in a red turban came out. He skillfully rode the horses and spyed around the refugee team in circles. The heavy horse hooves stepped on the ground, knocking everyone's hearts one after another.

Everyone's eyes couldn't help but turn with his figure, afraid that he would suddenly rush into the crowd and kill. This was the insecurity of all infantry facing the cavalry.

Yang He saw the turmoil of his team, and everyone's face turned pale. He sighed in his team that he saw little blood, and he also lamented the innate shortcomings of the infantry when facing the horse team.

Minister Yang turned his head angrily and said to Yang He: "Young Master, this thief is too arrogant, wait for me to shoot him an arrow."

Yang He shook his head and said, "Don't act rashly."

He was also very angry when the horse thief was so arrogant, but although the thief was rampant, he was actually very cautious and only spyed around a hundred steps away. Not to mention Minister Yang, even his strong bow was not sure to hit him, so he would just wait and see what happened first.

The horse thief surrounded Yang He's team for a few times. When he saw the many women and children here, many luggage and supplies, and carriages, his eyes were obviously bright, and his eyes turned on Yang He, and then he ran back.

Not long after, a thief came out from there. He spoke in a very loud voice. He walked about seventy steps away and shouted and muttered to the side.

Yang He listened carefully. The voices of Guide Prefecture and Fengyang Prefecture are not very different. Although this thief is speaking this local dialect, Yang He can still hear his meaning clearly.

He meant to give three choices here, one was to join them, they were willing to be regarded as accomplices, the other was that young and strong could leave, but all supplies and women and children must be kept. The third was that if they did not agree with the above two points, they would be killed and no one would be left.

He particularly emphasized that the scholar here refers to Yang He. If he is willing to join them, they are willing to give him a military advisor.

Yang He is not surprised that scholars in this era have a transcendent status. Bandits generally do not harm each other when they encounter scholars, but instead rush to the mountain to become masters. Even if Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong meet scholars, their first reaction was to persuade them to surrender first.

However, so far, few scholars are willing to join the thief team, but once scholars join, the organizational and destructive power of the bandit will be exponentially amplified.

It is naturally impossible for Yang He to join these bandits and become a dog-headed military advisor.

He would not agree to any of the three choices.

He didn't believe it anymore. A mere gang of bandits could make all his previous efforts was wasted.

He stared at the group of people opposite him. The poles in Huaibei were like clouds and the thieves were like hairs. I don’t know where these bandits came out.

The main force was the four horse thieves, and then they depended on a group of people.

The loud voice of the thief shouted for a long time, without any reaction here, he could only go back helplessly, and then there was a burst of roars and roars coming from the other side.

A horse thief wearing a red tassel felt hat called something in a high-pitched voice, as if it was arousing rewards, which made the thief excited.

Suddenly they shouted, and under the escort of the sword and shield hands, holding swords, guns and sticks, they rushed towards this side with a grim smile.
Chapter completed!