In Anhui, thousands of miles away from the capital, the team escorting Zuo Guangdou left Tongcheng County in an orderly manner. The Jinyi guards were silent, and no one said a word.

Since the arrest warrant was issued by Dongchang, the local county magistrate took this matter very seriously and sent officers to protect the Jinyiwei team.

There were twenty-four members of the Jin Yiwei team, escorting a prison cart. However, Zuo Guangdou did not sit in the prison cart. Instead, he hired a mule cart and asked Zuo Guangdou to sit. Perhaps it was the scene that Tongcheng saw that made the Jin Yiwei

They had changed their views on this mission and quite respected Zuo Guangdou. After all, in the chaotic Tianqi Dynasty, it was rare for officials to be loved by the people.

When the Jin Yiwei arrested Zuo Guangdou, they encountered no obstruction from relatives and friends of the Zuo family. Instead, the villagers from Tongcheng, Anhui Province blocked the Jin Yiwei's carriage and shouted, "Don't take Mr. Zuo away!" Because the villagers did not use force to obstruct him, but

Kneeling down and crying, the Jin Yiwei couldn't use force. In the end, Zuo Guangdou showed up in person to persuade everyone to retreat. In addition, the local county magistrate sent people to escort the Jin Yiwei and dispersed the besieging villagers.

able to escape.

The Qianhu who led the team was called Lu Qiming. As he swayed on the saddle, he thought about the scene in his hometown when he was a child. Generally, when a county magistrate goes on patrol, he always shows off his power and hugs each other, and ordinary people will definitely avoid it. A county magistrate basically

It can determine the life or death of a family. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, taxes were heavy, and officials severely restricted grain. If you had a good relationship, you could avoid paying some, and turned a blind eye when measuring. If you didn't have a good relationship, the government officials would deliberately

It is very common for farmers to kick out most of the basket of grain and then ask farmers to go back and replenish it.

Therefore, the general public hated officials with itch, but Zuo Guangdou had never imagined the scene of the common people crying to Zuo Guangdou.

The group of people walked quietly, each thinking about their own concerns. The front of the official road became narrower and narrower, and they entered a forest. The towering black trees seemed like a breathless maze inside.

Lu Qianhu said, "Let the policemen from Tongcheng go and see if there is any problem. Kong You, you go and see too."

"It's your order." Kong You pulled out the Xiuchun knife and answered neatly.

Kong You led three servants and rode forward quickly. He checked the official road in the woods and saw no one. Except for five tea vendors holding pack horses and resting in the shade of the woods, no one was seen.

Exceptions.

Anhui is prolific in tea, and Keemun black tea is famous all over the world. It is common for tea merchants to come and go in official circles. Kong You ordered the officer to go and interrogate the five people. The officer carefully questioned the five people in the local Anhui dialect and confirmed that they were local tea merchants in Anhui.

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Kong You asked the officer to stay where he was, and went back to reply that only a group of tea merchants were there. Lu Qianhu hoped to have the team pass through the woods as quickly as possible. Years of arrest experience allowed him to try to avoid special terrain, such as woods, inns and canyons.

This is the easiest place to fall prey to.

The Jinyi guards led Zuo Guangdou's chariot and horses through at a fast pace.

As a group of people passed by the guards and tea merchants, they suddenly heard a loud roar from behind. "Do it!"

Lu Qianhu saw the tea merchants pull out knives from the bushes behind them, and neatly put the knives on the necks of the three officers one by one. The three officers were unprepared and could only raise their hands to fight.

Qianhu turned around to see where the sound of fighting came from. A group of about twenty people sprang out from the trees and grass.

"Don't be surprised, everyone, we are here to pick up Mr. Zuo." The leader, with a beard on his face, said loudly.

"Who is coming?" Lu Qianhu turned around and asked.

"I'm here to pick up Mr. Zuo, are we going to tell ourselves our real names? Mr. Qianhu is too naive," the leader said.

"You dare to rob the people escorted by the Jin Yiwei? How brave you are. You are the only ones who dare to touch the Jin Yiwei." Qianhu said.

Qianhu said this with confidence. There were twenty-four Jinyi guards accompanying him, all of whom were carefully selected before departure and had excellent martial arts skills. There were also fifteen servants sent by the county magistrate. In terms of number, Jinyiwei accounted for

Taking advantage of the situation, Qianhu thought to himself: "Unless these people are highly skilled in martial arts..."

The person who took the lead in speaking shook his head and hands, and his whole body made a crackling sound like exploding beans. "Is it possible that the officials don't believe it? How about we give it a try?"

Qianhu turned around and whispered to Mr. Li Baihu next to him, "You lead a group of ten people to protect Mr. Zuo's car and rush forward. We will meet at the post station on the official road."

Then he turned around and said to a neighbor next to him, "Go and beat him to death. I'll reward you with twenty taels."

Baihu got off his horse and ran towards the leader.

Baihu ran faster and faster, and punched the leader in the chest with the "Overlord Lifting Cauldron". The leader did not avoid the punch, and his fist and flesh made a loud "boom" sound.

In the second move, Jinyiwei Baihu swung the knife from top to bottom with his right hand, and struck the leader's jaw with a slash with his left hand.

The leader yelled, and took a second punch with his shoulder and neck. He stretched out his left hand to block the attacker, and punched upwards with his right fist from the bottom of his waist. One punch hit Baihu's jaw. Baihu was hit by this punch.

He was beaten until he vomited blood, his front teeth were broken, and he fell to the ground unconscious.

Seeing that the leader's skills were not weak, Qianhu already had some concerns in his mind and told the head of the 100 households just now, "Quickly go, don't stop."

After Qianhu explained what happened to Zuo Guangdou, he turned around and said to Kong You, "Go and deal with this leader."

"Others take action and let them see what our Jinyiwei can do." Qianhu raised his arms and shouted to other Jinyiwei to attack.

Before setting off, Qianhu told the rest of the Jinyi Guards that the most important purpose of this trip was to escort Master Zuo Guangdou. If he took action, no matter what the situation was, he must not be reluctant to fight. The purpose of his action was to delay the robbers here.

Let Zuo Guangdou leave first.

Kong You said excitedly, "Get the order", kicked off his feet, and flew directly from the saddle to the leader.

The leader saw Kong You's Qinggong jump immediately and praised him, "Good work." He went up to meet him.

The other Jin Yiwei also found their targets and started fighting. For a while, the woods were full of shouts and the sound of swords clashing.

Kong You was in search of the best martial artist today, but he failed during the martial arts test with Jin Yiming and was defeated by a few moves. After that, he was very depressed.

I have been practicing martial arts for many years, but it is a pity that I met Jin Dao Xiuchun. This time I came to Anhui, it was Kong You who took the initiative to ask me to show off my skills.

Kong You waved to the leader, provoking him to take action.

Kong You was fully confident that the person taking the lead was not his opponent. He had just observed this person and found that he mainly practiced hard qigong and could withstand a few punches without any problem. But when he encountered a real practitioner, he could only resist in the chest and abdomen Dantian.

Some blows cannot be resisted by other parts. In the world, only the Shaolin Iron Shirt Kung Fu can be practiced until there is no weak spot on the whole body, but it is said that no one even in the Shaolin Temple has mastered the Iron Shirt Kung Fu.

The leader took the initiative to attack. He made a feint move by splitting the sword with his palm, then hid his killer move and used his calf to sweep across Kong You's lower body.

Kong You stepped forward with his left foot, turned sideways to avoid the hand knife, and jumped up with his right foot to avoid the sweeping leg. Kong You was not in a hurry to attack, he knew that the fist and kick skills of the leader must be sparse, and the strength may be enough, but the speed and moves are not.

Kong You put his hands on his back and tied the Embroidered Spring Knife around his waist. He just moved left and right, jumped up and down to hide, easily avoiding the leader's attack. After fighting for more than ten moves, he still had his hands behind his back.

One or two of the punches couldn't be avoided, so Kong You simply used his inner strength to remove the punches. The leader knew that he had been underestimated, and the more he punched, the angrier he became. His punches became faster and faster, and his words became unclean.

After fighting for more than thirty moves, Kong You also felt that he had had enough and stretched his hands back from his back.

Taking advantage of the gap between the fists, a palm hit the leader's chest silently, but he did not release any force and remained stuck to his chest.

The angry left arm of the leader pressed down on Kong You's right arm, trying to knock the palm away.

Kong You turned around and said, "hit". With a force of his palm, he pushed the leader a foot away and fell to the ground.

The leader, the boss, patted the grass clippings on his body, got up again, and rushed towards Kong You with all his strength.

Kong You twisted around and hit the leader with his shoulder on the chest. The impact was so loud that the leader was knocked over several times and far away.

Seeing the leader fall to the ground, the others gathered around the leader and helped him up.

Kong You patted the dust off his body, adjusted his green and embroidered clothes, looked at the group of people with disdain, and said coldly, "Are you still fighting?"

The leader waved his hand and roared: "Fire the arrow."

The Jin Yiwei were shocked. The Jin Yiwei didn't have to worry about fighting alone. The arrow trap was not easy to mess with.

Kong You quickly mounted his horse and turned its head. Lu Qianhu shouted, "Retreat quickly."

Several arrows were shot one after another with whistling sounds, and one arrow was nailed to the tree trunk next to Kong You.

Kong You looked at the incoming arrow and quickly pulled out his Xiuchun knife. The light of the knife flashed and he danced the knife in a circle to block the incoming arrow.

But the horse couldn't hide. Kong You's horse was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground with a mournful cry. It was twitching but could not stand up.

With a hiss, another arrow was nailed to the tree trunk on the right side of Kong You, only a few inches away from his right arm.
Chapter completed!