In the years of famine, the knife in my mother's hand is not bad either

The scout hurriedly pulled the horse's reins.

He instantly changed direction and ran back towards the camp.

When the barbarian team saw the scouts approaching, they immediately became alert.

The scimitar at the waist was unsheathed.

But when he saw the scout turn around and leave, he was stunned, and then rushed towards the direction the scout was coming from.

They couldn't let the scouts take their news back safely.

You know, a small group of cavalry going deep into the country to explore the way is a conspiracy of the upper echelons. If it is discovered in advance, it will arouse vigilance.

Then their hundreds of miles of raid would become meaningless.

"Da da da!"

The horse's hooves made a sound as they stepped on the ground.

But they and their horses were covered with iron armor.

Naturally, the speed cannot be faster than that of a scout.

The leader who was chasing in the front saw the scout in front was about to disappear from his sight, frowned, took out the bow and arrow behind him, clamped his legs around the horse's belly, straightened his upper body, drew the bow and shot the arrow!

When the bow was fully drawn, the horse stabilized its body in the instant it took off into the air, and the arrow in the barbarian leader's hand flew out.

"Whoosh!"

Without looking at the arrow, the barbarian leader released the bow and arrow, then bent down and pulled the reins of the warhorse again.

Control the warhorse to slow down to avoid falling off the horse and being trampled by the companions behind.

The scouts who were fleeing in front could never have imagined that the barbarians could actually draw their bows and shoot arrows while chasing them.

There was a 'pop' sound.

The arrow hit his back accurately as his horse leaped up.

The scout subconsciously tightened the reins in his hands and gritted his teeth.

Regardless of the fact that he had been hit by an arrow and the shaking of the horse's body, he still maintained the original speed and ran forward.

"Did the arrow just now hit the target?" The barbarian leader stopped, looked up at the direction where the scout had disappeared from his sight, and asked his men who had also stopped chasing behind him.

"Hit...Hit!" As soon as the words fell, a barbarian stood up and responded, pointing out the direction the scout had left.

"But the scout didn't slow down and continued to move in that direction."

"Ada, what should we do? Should we continue chasing?"

"Send five riders to search in the direction he fled!" The leader listened to his men's questions, pondered for a moment, and said seriously:

"After we find the county town, we will lie in ambush and kill the messenger they sent to the county town."

"If we are discovered too early that we have already penetrated deep into Pingyuan County, Daliang will probably realize our intention to move south, and the royal court's plan will fail."

"Yes!" At that moment, the barbarian team of hundreds of people shouted in unison.

Five scouts were also released.

......

at the same time.

Shen Qian's eyelids kept twitching as she sat in the carriage.

I thought to myself: Why am I so uneasy today?

Could something important happen?

Thinking of this, Shen Qian closed her eyes and recalled.

After a long time, he shook his head and couldn't think of it.

In his previous life, he arrived at the coal-rich area of ​​Pingyuan County twenty days later. This area had long been invaded and plundered by barbarians...

and many more!

Invasion and looting.

Thinking of this, Shen Qian couldn't help but widen her eyes.

I won’t meet those damn barbarians today, right?

Just as she was thinking about it, Shen Qian shouted to the scout beside her:

"All scouts, check behind the team, and double the security range!"

"promise!"

As soon as the words fell, the remaining scouts who stayed with Shen Qian immediately took action.

In less than half a minute, the five scouts returned from the rear at the same time.

They also had with them the scout who had been hit by an arrow.

"What happened?" Some confused villagers were shocked when they saw the scout was injured, especially the arrow wound.

"Could it be that the barbarians are attacking us?"

"What nonsense! We've been traveling all the way from Beiyang County to here without stopping for a day, how could we be caught up so easily?"

"They can't be bandits. There aren't any mountains or forests nearby."

"..."

While they were talking, the wounded scout had already arrived in front of Shen Qian's carriage.

Without the time to dismount, the scout directly lay on the horse's back. After the horse stood firm, he reported in his weak voice:

"Lord!"

"Twelve miles behind us, there is a group of barbarian cavalry with a hundred men."

"Excluding the time it took me to get here, if they continue chasing us, they'll be at most three or four miles away from us!"

"It may be only less than two miles away."

After the report was over, the last obsession in his mind dissipated and he fainted.

He was hit by an arrow in the back. Even though it didn't hit any vital parts, the arrow remained in his body. He had been tossing and turning on the horse for more than ten minutes and had already lost too much blood.

Being able to hold on until now is truly an amazing test of willpower.

After hearing the report, Shen Qian opened the small window on the side of the carriage and looked out.

"Come here, treat his injuries."

"I remember that among the gifts Lin Shisan sent, there were medicinal herbs." Shen Qian ordered the maid who was driving beside her.

Seeing this, the maid responded repeatedly.

After watching the maid help the scout down from the warhorse, Shen Qian continued to give orders:

"You, tell the whole village to gather together. Let everyone who can get a stick get a stick, and anyone who can get a hoe get a hoe."

"As long as it's long enough, it can be used as a weapon! When the barbarian cavalry gets close, we'll have to push them off their horses."

"promise!"

As soon as Shen Qian finished speaking, a group of scouts quickly began to surround the Wangjia Village team and shouted loudly.

When the people in Wangjia Village heard that the barbarians were coming, they all took action. No one would joke with their own life.

"Hoe! Dad, you take it, and the eldest brother takes the shovel. You are the pillars of the family, you must not fall down."

"Don't stay in the car, get out and push the cart, and push everything together!"

"Mother, mother! Give me the bow and arrows at home! I can draw the bow."

"..."

Although the Wang family members were a little disorganized, they generally formed a circle as Shen Qian had said.

Outside the circle formed by the people of Wangjia Village, there was a pile of carts placed in a disorderly manner.

This was beyond Shen Qian's expectations.

What she didn't expect was that the villagers of Wangjia Village came up with it out of quick thinking.

In this way, their Wangjia Village was formed into a simple camp.

It is not easy for those barbarian cavalry to rush into the camp.

The county officials and wealthy businessmen naturally heard what the scout said, and in a state of panic, they drove the carriage into the circle surrounded by the people in Wangjia Village.

The county official got off the carriage and ran towards Shen Qian with big strides.

However, they discovered that Shen Qian's carriage actually came out from the middle of the crowd and approached the edge.

In front of her carriage stood fifty heavily armored soldiers, fully armed.

"Sir!" County Lieutenant Liu Sheng stood outside Shen Qian's carriage and called out to her loudly:

"How are we supposed to arrange this?"

"I'm at your disposal!"

He had no experience in dealing with barbarians.

To be precise, apart from running faster when he escaped, he didn't even see the barbarian.

After Liu Sheng finished speaking, those wealthy businessmen also expressed their opinions.

When encountering a group of barbarians, even if they are led by a regular general of a thousand men, there is no possibility of winning in the plains. This time it can be said to be a life-and-death crisis.

Shen Qian felt a little relieved when she heard that Liu Sheng and his group were willing to hand over the military power to her.

"Notify your people to line up outside the heavy armored infantry and surround them. When the barbarians approach, you can disperse to both sides in an orderly manner. Then, with the help of the heavy armored infantry, we may be able to kill those barbarians by surprise." Shen Qian thought for a while and came up with a plan that might work.

After all, she had no experience in deploying troops, and her only inspiration in dealing with cavalry was some Maginot Square.

We will have to wait until the real confrontation to know the specific situation.

"Yes!" As soon as Shen Qian finished speaking, Liu Sheng and his group immediately bowed in response.