ushernet Chapter 192 Someone is coming
Chapter 192 Someone is coming
Bourne felt something was wrong when he heard this. The villagers were indeed still in their hands, so they couldn't just leave like that. They had to rescue them.
After checking around a bit, they found that the villagers were locked in a cellar with someone guarding the door.
"Let's go back first." After Bourne had a general understanding of the situation, he took his men back.
"How is it? What's the situation now?" Li Da asked when he saw Bao En coming back.
"General, the situation is not very good now. The villagers are locked in the cellar, and the other side is waiting for us to take the bait."
Li Da frowned. Their situation was not very good at the moment. His injury had just improved, and the manpower they brought was a little insufficient. How to escape unscathed became their current problem.
"Is there any good way to rescue the villagers?"
"General, how about we attack at night?"
"Have you found out the situation? How sure are you?"
"Fifty percent!" Bourne didn't dare to say that the probability was too high. The current situation was like this. If he wanted to save people, he could only launch a surprise attack before the other party could discover it.
"Okay, then tonight. We are still some distance away from the village. They should not have discovered our tracks yet. So we should show up now. When we are near the village, you lead a small team to sneak into the village and find the villagers. After that, I will send another team to set fire around the village to lure the people out. You can take the opportunity to rescue them."
"It's the general."
Li Da arranged everything and immediately led his men towards the village. However, they never imagined that such a big thing would happen in the middle of the night.
"General, something bad has happened. A group of people are coming from the other end." The scout who was sent out suddenly returned.
"What's going on? Did you see who the person is? How many people are here?"
"I can see clearly that it is a group of civilians, probably hundreds of people."
"How come so many people suddenly came here, late at night?"
This was so strange that Bourne couldn't explain what was going on.
"Sir, how about I go over and take a look first, and you take the people to guard the place, and we will come back and report as soon as there is any situation."
"Okay, Bourne, you go first."
So many people showed up for a surprise attack in the middle of the night. Bourne wanted to see how they got here. When he got closer, he found that the people in the village had woken up. Tonight's action was doomed to fail, but he had to investigate the situation.
"Hide well and don't move." Suddenly, Bourne saw a group of people coming out of the village. They were holding torches and looking around.
When the people who came from another place saw the fire in the village light up, they actually sped up their pace. Someone suddenly shouted from the crowd.
"Hey, fellow villagers in front, we came from a nearby village and would like to stay here for one night. Is it convenient?"
On a quiet night, someone suddenly shouted so loudly that everyone in the village could hear it.
The guards in the village were a little hesitant after hearing this.
"Go back and report to the adults and see how to deal with it."
The group of people who came out to check didn't know what to do when they heard them shouting. Who would have so many people go out so late at night and ask for a place to stay? They didn't know if they were real villagers or fake.
Soon, the leader glued a white beard on his chin and walked out. When he arrived at the village entrance, the group of people who suddenly appeared also came over.
"Muramasa, could you please let us stay for one night?" The speaker was a middle-aged man, who seemed to be the elder among the hundred people. When he saw the white-haired man on the other side, he took him as Muramasa.
"Old man, this village is small, I'm afraid it can't accommodate so many of you, but there is an empty field in the west of our village. There are not many people at night. That field is usually used to dry crops. Now the crops have not been harvested yet, you can stay there."
"Thank you very much, Muramasa. We just need a safe place to stay. Can you give us some water to drink and buy some dry food from you?"
The white-bearded fake villager smiled and said, "Water, there is a well in our village. I will ask someone to take you there to fetch some water later. There is also some food. I just don't know where you are from and where you are going. Why are so many people staying together in the middle of the night? Are you from the same village?"
"Muramasa is right. I forgot to mention that we are from Meihua Town, which is not far from your town. We are all from Lian County. The whole place has been in chaos these days. There has been burning, killing and looting everywhere in our towns. If we had not lost our way to survive, why would we have fled in the middle of the night?"
"Oh, what do you mean?" Jiacunzheng became curious after hearing this. They didn't know that such a big thing had happened in this county.
"Muramasa, can you please let us go into the village to rest first? I will talk to you in detail." The old man was a little tired from walking, and it was really tiring for him to stand and talk like this.
"Oh, I forgot. I'll have someone take you to settle down first." Muramasa signaled the people at the back to take the group to the open space in the west.
Bourne also sneaked into the team at this time, because he found that these people were probably from several villages, and many of them did not know each other, so he would not appear out of place if he mixed in.
It is hard to imagine that these sparsely distributed people of about one hundred are actually made up of several villages, but they all seem to listen to the people in the front team. I think they may be the village chief of their own village. It is really not easy for them to walk such a long distance without any idleness.
Bourne was somewhat impressed by these Muramasa. However, he did not dare to ask anyone, so he took advantage of the fact that no one else noticed him and found a place near the upper room, a distance away from the Muramasa-looking people, but still able to hear their conversation.
They took off their night clothes and used them as luggage, but everyone around them had bags of all sizes, and their bag was the smallest. However, there were still a few people like them who had very little luggage, and they didn't know how they had walked so far.
When the village head saw that they had finished packing, he brought people over, showed them the way to find water, and gave them some food. The old man who had spoken to them before came over and gave them some silver and money.
They started chatting again, and Bourne quickly moved closer, pretending to clean up in the dark and listening to what they said next.
"Old man, my surname is Xu. There are only a few dozen people in our village. It's night time and everyone is asleep. Can you tell me more about your situation? From what you said just now, it seems that things are not peaceful now?" Jiacunzheng asked sincerely.
"I'll call you Brother Xu. I'm from Gaojia Village. The one over here is from Zhaojia Village, and the other one is from Liujia Village. The three of us used to work together when we were young. Now that we're old, we have to be respected by the villagers to take over the position of village chief from our father. This time, something happened in our town, so we discussed and decided to bring our respective villagers out together." Old man Gao began to introduce their situation.
"You all seem to be very united. How could so many people from so many villages leave together and stay together? I was wondering, brothers, you guys are in such a situation." Fake Muramasa was indeed curious about them at the beginning.
They looked very strange, but I didn't know what was wrong. Now that Old Man Xu had explained it, it made sense. The problem was that there were so many people and they didn't leave.