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Chapter 215: Capture
It was daybreak. According to the intelligence from the spies, the Qianheng military camp seemed to be unaware that the granary of the Barbarian Kingdom camp was on fire. It was still time to eat and train.
After extinguishing the fire, the barbarian soldiers found eight iron arrows in the wreckage at the scene.
Even after burning out, there was still a pungent smell of oil at the tip of the arrow.
But judging from the smell, no one could tell what kind of oil it was because no one had ever smelled it.
The great general of the Barbarian Kingdom, Huertu, threw the wooden wine cup in his hand to the ground, and quickly picked up an iron arrow to weigh it.
An arrow is as thick as a finger and is solid, so it is not light.
They followed the arrow's trajectory last night and searched for a long distance but didn't see anyone.
Unless the arrow went farther than they expected.
Moreover, this arrow is so heavy. Anyone who can do this must be tall and have great kung fu skills.
Huertu immediately gave the order: "Investigate! Capture all the strong men who are about my height in this area!"
He must find out the spies or traitors in the country.
No matter how quickly the rescue comes, most of the food and supplies have already been lost. Even if we rush to send food and supplies over now, we are afraid that they will be robbed.
Now the Barbarian Country is in a passive position, and must be on guard against everything from now on.
Huertu, who is naturally suspicious, not only guards against his own army being harmed again, but also becomes suspicious of the people around him.
The person who asked him to wait for half a month and not send troops.
Chaos has begun to break out within Jiashun Pass.
Whether they were outsiders or locals, anyone who met the requirements was arrested.
As luck would have it, Alang meets the requirements.
The shopkeeper invited the man downstairs with a fawning look on his face, and the officers and soldiers soon surrounded him to arrest him.
Hearing the noise, Cang Fei picked up the machete and jumped down from the second floor.
"What are you going to do to my brother!"
Cang Fei directly protected Alang in front of him.
Ah Lang also clenched his fists, ready to fight at any time.
The shopkeeper quickly stepped in to mediate: "There's a problem in the camp, so we have to take you away for questioning. My place is small, so please don't get up!"
"Those who disobey will be arrested together!" the leading officer shouted.
The people behind him drew their swords together.
"Hey! Masters! Don't fight me!"
The shopkeeper sighed and stood between the officers and soldiers and Cang Fei. Seeing that their swords were all pointed at him, he made a bitter face and moved aside carefully.
"If you want to catch my brother, you have to get past me first!"
The two groups of people seemed not to hear the shopkeeper's dissuasion.
Suddenly they started fighting.
Cang Mi and Ah Huang, who also lived on the second floor, came out together.
Ah Huang was used to using his bare hands, so he finished off the attack from the outside.
The two brothers Cang Mi and Cang Fei cooperated with each other tacitly. They were both good at using weapons. They fought against the enemy's weapons together, and Alang used his natural supernatural power to knock people away.
The ground was in a mess, and the officers and soldiers who came to arrest the people were also in a mess. More than a dozen people were beaten by four people without any ability to fight back.
The shopkeeper hid under the table. When he heard the noise died down, he raised his head tremblingly and saw the officers and soldiers lying in all directions. A chill ran down his head.
Someone went to inform Huertu halfway through.
Just when the shopkeeper mustered up the courage to offer to return the money and let Cangmi and others move to another place to live.
Huertu came riding on a horse.
The shopkeeper, who had finally managed to stand up straight, immediately lost his composure.
He immediately knelt down and said, "General, spare my life! I have advised these customers to cooperate. They are used to being wild and violent. If they don't agree with me, they will start fighting. This has nothing to do with my shop!"
Huertu frowned and dismounted, and the cloak behind him smeared the shopkeeper's face.
He ignored the innkeeper and walked straight into the inn.
After the fight, several people went upstairs, and Cang Mi stayed alone to talk to the shopkeeper.
After taking a quick look, Huertu didn't see anyone as strong as an ox, but only Cangmi who was a little shorter than him.
He said, "Where is the person who caused trouble just now?"
"It's me." Cang Mi took a step forward and looked up at him without fear.
Hu Ertu said impatiently: "Call out all those who were causing trouble just now."
"General, you should at least give someone a reason to arrest him."
"Now that the war is imminent, do I need a reason to investigate the enemy's spies?"
Huertu shouted angrily, grabbed Cangmi by the collar and lifted him up, gritting his teeth and saying, "Either obey me, or be killed without mercy!"
Cang Mi looked unconvinced, but he still pried Huertu's hands apart with his hands, went upstairs and called him out.
He only called Cang Fei and A Lang.
After seeing Alang, Huertu stopped making things difficult for Cangmi.
He gave a look and someone came in behind him carrying a large bow.
Huertu pointed his finger at Alang and said, "You, come here and compete with me in archery."
Ah Lang blinked his eyes, clenched his hands and bent over, feeling uncomfortable no matter what he did.
He stammered, "I don't know how to play with a stick."
"Won't?"
Huertu obviously wouldn't believe it so easily. He picked up the iron arrow and taught Ah Lang how to draw the bow. "You're such a grown man, but you can't even draw a bow? What's the point of learning martial arts?"
Ah Lang's unfamiliarity didn't seem to be fake. Although he was in good health, he felt very awkward when he picked up the bow.
But he was quite courageous and seemed to really believe that Huertu wanted to teach him archery. He even asked several questions seriously.
Until Huertu's patience was exhausted, it was still impossible to tell whether he was pretending or not.
It's really stupid and annoying.
Later, they stopped catching people, but just asked people to keep a close eye on the area around the inn and then left.
In the end, the shopkeeper still didn't let them move to another inn, for fear that Huertu wouldn't be able to find them the next time he came to look for them. He also volunteered to entertain several distinguished guests.
In fact, it was to help Huertu keep a close eye on people.
However, after this incident, Cangmi and his friends never went downstairs to drink again.
They all gathered in Bai Sui'an's room at mealtime and asked the waiter to bring the wine and food there.
Except for those who already knew the inside story, no one noticed that there was a new person in Bai Sui'an's room.
All a few people need to do is eat and drink in the inn, and the sky of the barbarian country will collapse.
Huertu has captured countless strong men and screened them one by one recently, but he still couldn't catch the culprit of the granary fire. Instead, it seemed like a haunted place. No matter how he prevented it, the grain carts that delivered the grain would be robbed, and those that could not be robbed would be burned directly.
The 20,000-strong army without food was like a swarm of locusts. Huertu directly led his men to requisition food from the surrounding residents.
The person Huertu had been waiting for for a long time finally arrived from Qianheng.
Inside the general's tent that day, outsiders could only hear some noise, but they had no idea what they were talking about.
Huertu, who just didn't want to endure it any longer, originally planned to send troops to Qianheng in the next few days, but he endured it.
As for food, I don't know how the general managed it, but he actually sent food from other places and sent people to hunt in the mountains and forests to add to the food, so life was not too difficult.
As the autumn wind grows colder, wild animals in the wild become even rarer.
The Qianheng military camp was still as peaceful as ever.