In the hunting team, in terms of martial arts, outstanding marksmanship, and high hunting skills, Zhao Qinghu is of course the first choice. But when it comes to water quality and boating skills, then he, Pan Loach, has to take the cake.
So he subconsciously went straight to the simple dock where the boat was docked.
However, he did not expect that the dock was already controlled by someone, and in the flickering firelight, he saw a familiar face.
The arrogant and respectful steward of Pingbo Hall, the despicable villain who was beaten up by the Ding family's cruel trick half a year ago, with a bruised face and bloody face, and who knelt in front of Brother Hutou and begged, is now leading a few of his men in Pan.
The fishing boats in Jia'ao are poured with kerosene.
Seeing this scene, Pan Loach, who was hiding in the water, felt his heart sink to the bottom of the river. He knew that the bandits and Ping Botang planned to kill them all without leaving a single person behind.
The subsequent development of events also verified his judgment.
At this time, he had hid behind a cluster of reeds and witnessed with his own eyes a human tragedy that was unforgettable and made his eyes split open.
In and outside the village, the boats on the water's edge were all ablaze.
Some villagers who struggled to run out of their homes were chased from behind by the bandits with a grin on their face, and were slashed to the ground. Then, regardless of the villagers' screams and pleas, they continued to slash at the body writhing in pain on the ground with one knife after another.
It's like chopping wood.
The blood splattered, but it was so charming and eye-catching in the firelight, and the bandits on the side laughed.
At this time, the screams and cries of the women in the village were like steel needles, piercing Pan Loach's heart one by one. The more they pierced, the harder they pierced, making his eyes bleed.
Come.
At this time, Pan Loach no longer had the original fear and fear, and his whole body and mind were filled with grief and hatred. He wanted to rush out and fight such beasts several times, and suppressed his impulse and anger several times.
No, we need to inform Brother Hutou as soon as possible, and we need to tell the brothers in the hunting team as soon as possible.
At this time, Pan Loach had only one thought in his mind: to find Brother Hutou and his brothers.
From then on, Hepingbotang will fight to the death and vow to take revenge.
Just as the bandits were throwing the corpses of the villagers into the fire one by one, Pan Loach, who was familiar with the terrain, swam from the water to a secluded beach and landed on the shore, and then ran towards the dark mountains.
Although Pan Loach is good at water activities, he has followed Zhao Qinghu in Wushan for several years, and it is no problem to travel through mountains and rivers.
On the second day after he entered the mountain, that is, the third day after Zhao Qinghu and the others set off, he unexpectedly met the hunting team on their way back.
Ordinarily, Zhao Qinghu and the others should not have come back so early. If they just escorted the caravan through Wushan, it would take more than three days at the earliest on the hundreds of miles of mountain road. In addition, the caravan would have to sell goods along the villages and stockades.
It would take more time, and Pan Loach didn't expect to see Zhao Qinghu's team on the third day.
Pan Loach didn't have time to ask why. Instead, he cried loudly and told Zhao Qinghu everything that happened in the village.
At this moment, the spirits and emotions of the young members of the hunting team collapsed instantly. There was a burst of crying in the woods, and some team members rushed back, clamoring to avenge their families.
Zhao Qinghu also knew at this time that he had been deceived by Pingbotang.
Needless to say, it must have been a trick that Pingbotang and Jiujiang, a well-known firm, teamed up to set up for themselves.
No wonder there is such a large-scale caravan going into the mountains, and no wonder they offer themselves a reward that they cannot refuse. This is a typical tactic of luring a tiger away from the mountain.
It's ridiculous that I thought Pingbotang had given up. It's ridiculous that I still stubbornly refused to listen to my adoptive father's dissuasion and insisted on going my own way, eventually sending my adoptive father who raised me and the villagers of Panjia'ao into a dead end.
Regret, anger, shame, grief, sadness...
All kinds of emotions were intertwined, like a poisonous snake biting his heart.
After all, Zhao Qinghu was a young man who had not experienced much of the world. In addition to being devastated by grief, the anger in his chest was burning so fiercely that he almost wanted to burst his chest.
Without much thought, Zhao Qinghu led a group of brothers who were all overwhelmed by grief and anger and rushed back to seek revenge.
Fortunately, although they were eager for revenge, they finally knew that they needed to bring more guns to be more confident. So they rushed to the temporary camp where they were hunting in the mountains.
You know, although the hunting team has obtained nearly twenty rifles from various channels in the past few years, in order not to attract the attention of the government and others, most of the guns are usually hidden near this temporary camp. The escort caravan is
I only dared to carry less than ten rifles, and they were all hidden in the cargo pile, just for fear of being misunderstood by the locals when passing through villages and towns.
The so-called temporary camp is actually the wooden house where the old hunter lived in the mountains. Later, when Zhao Qinghu took his brothers hunting, he transformed this place into a temporary camp where he could stay overnight, and built many straw and wooden houses.
They didn't expect that his first move to come to this temporary camp unknown to outsiders to get a gun would actually escape a fatal trap set by Pingbo Hall and save the lives of him and more than forty of his brothers.
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He didn't know that on the second day after the Panjia'ao massacre, Pingbotang led officials to the scene and quickly confirmed that it was a group of bandits called Tianfanbao who came from Wuyi Mountain who had committed the crime.
On the same day, Pingbotang gathered most of his men, nearly 200 men and guns, and entered Wushan in the name of suppressing bandits. He also sent people to strictly control several mountain passes, and no one was allowed to enter or exit.
Of course, Ping Botang's purpose in entering Wushan was definitely not to suppress bandits.
They paid a lot of money to invite the bandits, and they were all habitual underworld criminals. Of course, they were afraid that Pingbotang would demolish the bridge and kill people. So after wiping out the Panjia'ao village, they took the proceeds of the robbery to Peace that night.
Bo Tang's reward escaped into Wushan.
Ping Botang's intention to enter the mountain was actually to eliminate the weeds and eliminate the unsuspecting Zhao Qinghu and his hunting team in one fell swoop, so as to avoid future troubles. The purpose of controlling the mountain pass was to prevent the surrounding villagers from tipping off Zhao Qinghu.
But they didn't know that someone had escaped from Panjia'ao and had found Zhao Qinghu in advance.
But that's all. Mr. Ding of Pingbo Hall is convinced that whether Zhao Qinghu knows that this is Pingbo Hall's conspiracy or not, after knowing that Panjia'ao village was wiped out, can he still hold back the anger in his heart and not be impatient?
Coming back for revenge?
And Pingbotang set up an iron-clad ambush circle at a must-pass point on the way down from Wushan Mountain, waiting for Zhao Qinghu, who was hurried back, to be arrested.
However, what they didn't even know was that what happened in Panjia'ao that night was not only witnessed by Pan Loach, but also a foreigner who witnessed the entire tragedy and the whereabouts of this group of bandits named Fan Tianbao.