Guan Dahu, formerly known as Niu Er, was originally a swordsman. He did some big business in the northwest. After saving some money, he went to Lanzhou Fuzhan, opened several butcher shops and noodle restaurants, and recruited dozens of rogues.
I started a half-black and half-white business. After years of hard work, I have gained a lot.
Relying on both black and white, Niu Er gradually became domineering, roaming the countryside, but he actually bullied the new prefect's young master. The young master took the young lady to play on the street that day, and Niu Er bullied them that they were from outside the country.
The young man came up to tease him. Unexpectedly, the young man was a martial artist. He started beating the general after a few words. If the patrol police hadn't arrived in time, someone would have died.
After the incident, Niu Er threw money around, trying to make it a big deal, but it turned out to be a trivial matter. He never thought that the prefect wanted to use him to establish his power when he first arrived, so he ordered soldiers to come and arrest him. Fortunately, someone in the Yamen tipped off the information, and Niu Er
Wrapped in soft clothes and carrying a bunch of rogue skins, he escaped from Lanzhou Prefecture. On the way out of the city, he also stabbed the prefect's son to death, so a reward was offered for his capture.
Niu Er was accustomed to living a happy life in Lanzhou Prefecture. When he first came back to work in his old profession, he felt a little uncomfortable. For this kind of life of living in the open air, his gang of scoundrels also complained a lot. He secretly thought that being a horse thief was not a common practice.
He had to make a big profit and then go back to Lanzhou to work on his relationship and try to get rid of the charges. Even if he couldn't live in Lanzhou, he still had a clean body to go to Guanzhong.
More than ten days ago, Niu Er's group met another group of horse thieves who were also poor people in Tianya. They didn't say anything. The two groups joined together and looked for business opportunities on this road that the caravan must pass.
Coincidentally, no one passed by for more than ten days, and finally a big fat sheep came. However, the gang of partners refused to fight, saying that they could not offend the team with the banner of the Thirteen Taibao.
Niu Er was furious, saying that when I was wandering on this road ten years ago, what kind of bullshit Thirteen Taibao didn't know where to pee and play in the mud, but now he has to rush to plant the flag!
The two sides couldn't stop arguing. Did Niu Er simply lead his men to charge forward? Unexpectedly, he bit a hard bone. Deng Ziming's caravan brought a lot of bows and arrows, and fired more than a dozen arrows. Although they didn't hurt anyone, they killed everyone.
I was shocked and didn't dare to attack by force. I just wanted to wait until dark before rushing over, killing everyone and grabbing everything. I did it neatly and naturally the news would not be leaked.
Unexpectedly, a caravan gangster took advantage of the chaos and ran out. Niu Er asked people to intercept and kill him, but they did not stop him. It happened that the horse thieves were afraid of Niu Er's blame, so they lied to him and said that the man had been dealt with. So Niu Er went to
Calmly and calmly, I waited here for dark, but before it got dark, reinforcements arrived. After two rounds of fighting, Niu Erye lost more than half of his direct troops, and they could only flee in a hurry.
The more Niu Er thought about it, the angrier he became. He had only one hundred people, but he could defeat thirty of them. It was all because those cowards didn't come to help, otherwise they would have succeeded now. Looking at his dejected brothers, he really couldn't swallow this breath.
, after replenishing the water in Tianshuijing, he decided to kill another enemy!
These gangsters were all used to being brave and fierce. After drinking a few sips of soju, Niu Erye's blood was aroused. No matter if he had enough people, he mounted his horse and ran north with a howl.
The two groups of people happened to bump into each other.
In terms of strength, the two sides are actually evenly matched. These gangsters under Mr. Niu often fight in Lanzhou Prefecture, and many of them have murder cases under their hands. However, fighting in the wilderness and fighting in the city are completely different things. The first is the battle on horseback.
, their advantage is not big at this point, and then there is the comparison of forces, which is almost one against two, which is really not a good thing for the gangsters who are used to bullying the smaller ones.
Looking at Yuan Feng and other young men, with their passion to avenge their brothers, they overwhelmed them in terms of momentum. Furthermore, these young men had no distracting thoughts. Fighting is fighting, fighting is fighting, and no one thinks about it.
The idea of retreating, simply put, this battle is a life-threatening battle.
Tonight, the moonlight is like water, and the spring breeze in the northwest wilderness is still like a knife, cutting people's faces. Two groups of knights with the same purpose met together. Enemies are extremely jealous when they see each other. There is no need to report by name, just directly
Hedge!
Seeing the darkness on the opposite side, Niu Er's men began to beat their hearts. When a small breeze blew, all the drunkenness was awakened. The frightening scene during the day came to mind, which made their hearts feel cold.
As soon as he started sprinting, the person running in the back began to turn his horse's head and escape to the side.
Looking at their enemies, twenty-seven knights lined up in a wedge shape and rushed towards them. Their spears were flattened, and the spear tips shone coldly in the moonlight. Yuan Feng, who was at the front, stretched his bow and nocked an arrow, and shot three arrows over his head.
He caught the three men who were running in front of the opponent, and they were about to collide with each other. Then they threw their bows and drew their swords. When the two horses crossed each other, they used the force of the impact of the horses to cross the sword and cut off the oncoming attackers.
Down.
After all, the number of people on Yuan Feng's side has nearly doubled. There is no point in defeating two against one. If one charges, except for those who escaped beforehand, all the people on the other side will be killed, dead and injured, lying on the ground groaning.
Humphing, the young men turned their horses back, pointed their knives at the people on the ground and said, "Who is Guan Dahu? Come over here!"
Someone shouted: "Good man, Boss Guan was shot to death by you, and he is lying over there."
Yuan Feng took people over to see a fat and strong man lying on the ground. He was shot by an arrow in the left chest and was already dead. However, it remains to be verified whether this man was a bully, so he asked people to tie up the injured.
He threw it on the horse and carried it back together with the corpse. The remaining corpses were also patched up to prevent any fish from slipping through the net.
Yuan Feng and the others were so fast that they caught up with Deng Ziming's group in half an hour. They lit up the torch and took a look, confirming that the corpse was that of Niu Er. The three or four prisoners were also famous gangsters in Lanzhou Prefecture. The people in the caravan hated them.
After killing his own brothers, Yuan Feng did not stop him from slaughtering these people to pay homage to the deceased, and allowed them to hack the prisoners to death with a random sword, and just shrugged his shoulders.
It was a journey of eighty miles and took a whole night to arrive. When we were resting in Shibali Fort, the town helped cremate the dead from the caravan. Because their hometowns were far away, it was extremely inconvenient to transport corpses over long distances, and the dead from the caravan were also dead.
It is common practice, so there is a tradition of transporting the ashes back to the hometown for burial after cremation.
As for Niu Er's corpse, we can't do the same thing, because we still have to rely on this corpse to exchange for reward money. The 500 taels from the horse thief, as well as the funeral expenses of the dead brothers, all have to be paid here.
The body could not be kept for a long time, so without further delay, Yuan Feng and others immediately went out, hitched a carriage, swept Niu Er's body with grass, and rushed to Lanzhou Prefecture along with the caravan.
Accompanying the team are Zhao Ding'an, Zhang Tietou, Ye Kai, and the rest stayed in Shibalibao to continue training. Lanzhou Prefecture is the provincial capital of Gansu, the largest city within a few hundred miles, and dozens of miles away.
You can feel its prosperity, which is different from the desolate scene near Shibali Fort. There are tea sheds and taverns on the roadside every few miles. When they see the caravan coming, the guys will greet them with smiles and stand there.
There were shouts on the roadside, inviting the guests to stop and chat. The villages in the distance were not as barren as Shibalibao. They were lined with green trees and even the faces of the common people looked rosier.
The four teenagers sat in the car and looked at the scenery around them. Except for Zhang Tietou, the other three were dumbfounded. No wonder, they had never even entered the county seat, so how could it be this provincial capital city.
You can see the city wall of Lanzhou Prefecture from a long way away. It is a huge city built with loess on the inside and blue bricks on the outside. However, it has been in disrepair for a long time. Many bricks have fallen off, exposing the loess inside and there are many weeds.
Unwilling to be left alone, they emerged from the cracks in the bricks, showing abundant livelihood, but it made this majestic city look a little dilapidated.
There were four soldiers standing at the gate of Beicheng. Lanzhou Prefecture is a big city with a huge flow of people. If everyone wants to inquire, they don't know when they can enter the city, so these soldiers have developed a pair of sharp eyes.
, can quickly identify the person they are looking for in the crowd.
Of course, these servants are not looking for spies from foreign countries, but people who can be extorted. Of course, dignitaries cannot be extorted. Those caravans come and go all year round, with complete customs clearance documents, and they are also connected with the officials above.
, and these people are very sensible, and when they meet, they tell them how hard it is, and even throw two strings of copper coins to them for tea, so there is no need to investigate. What is being investigated is the kind of country soil person who looks like he has two small coins, but has no background, and
Yuan Feng and others driving the carriage fit this condition best.
In order not to bring trouble to the caravan, they entered the city separately, with four people in a carriage. As soon as they arrived at the north gate, a soldier pointed at them and said: "Carriage, pull over."
Zhang Tietou, the driver, quickly stopped the carriage by the side of the road, trying not to disturb the people behind him entering the city. Then he ran over, nodded and bowed and said, "Master, what do you want to say to me?"
The soldier ignored him at all and continued to search for targets in the crowd. It happened that there was no suitable prey at the moment, so they got together and started laughing and chatting, still ignoring the carriage on the roadside.
There was no expression on Yuan Feng's face. He was just looking at the structure of the city wall, as if he was fascinated. Zhao Ding'an couldn't hold his breath anymore. He wanted to go over and ask for an explanation, but Zhang Tietou pulled him back: "Ding'an
, don’t cause trouble, this is Lanzhou Prefecture, not comparable to our home."
Country people have an inherent fear of big cities, and Zhao Ding'an is no exception. He spat on the ground angrily and stopped talking. Only Ye Kai quietly hid the money in his arms into his shoes.
inside.
After a while, the doorman wandered over. Everyone looked at his attire, and saw only the red tassel felt hat on his head. The red tassel was so dirty that the color could not be seen, and the battle jacket on his body was also in tatters.
A sword with peeling paint on the scabbard, really desolate.
They looked at the desolation of the soldiers, and the soldiers looked at them in the same way. Shibali Fort was not a wealthy place, and it was extremely short of water, so the young men's bodies and faces were covered with old dirt, and their heads were tied in knots.
The leather jacket on his body also smelled bad, and he looked no better than a beggar.
Mentin looked at them, then at the carriage, and asked: "Whose carriage does this belong to?"
Zhang Tietou quickly replied: "To tell you what, this carriage belongs to the Deng family's horse gang in Guanzhong. Look here." He pointed at the horse's buttocks, which had a small word "Deng" printed on it with a soldering iron.
"You are from the Deng family, then who are you? How come you have the Deng family's carriage?" The main reason why the men detained them was because they liked the carriage. If there was no brand on the horse, they might have taken it for granted.
The stolen goods are withheld.
"We are fellows from the caravan. The caravan brigade will arrive shortly. Let's go into the city to do some errands." Zhang Tietou said, stuffing a dozen copper coins over, "Master, take them to drink tea."
The copper plate was collected, but the doorman's eyes fell on the straw mat tube in the carriage, "What is this? Open it and take a look."
"Does the military master also want to see a dead person?" Zhao Ding'an asked with a straight face.
The doorman was stunned, then took a few steps back, put his hand on the handle of the knife and asked: "What dead person?"