Chen Shi took the lead one by one, and everyone gathered around Zhang Yanling to gallop towards the entrance of the mountain road and rush in.
The mountain road is narrow and extends forward around one side of the hillside. The hillsides on both sides are lush and densely wooded. The horseshoes step on the gravel mountain road, dust and grass clippings fly everywhere, and the sound of the horse's hooves echoes in the forest on both sides, startling the hare mountain in the forest.
The chickens are running around.
In less than a moment, the mountain road ahead turned and entered an area with an upward slope. The trees on the slopes on both sides were replaced by dense bamboo forests. The bamboo forests were so dense that one could only see through a distance of more than a dozen steps. The uphill mountain road also changed.
It has to be narrowed down.
At this moment, a thin and sharp whistle could be heard in the bamboo forest. A huge sound suddenly came from the front and rear of the road. After a crash of bamboo trees falling, the uphill road and the mountain trail behind suddenly disappeared.
He was blocked by more than a dozen bundles of fallen rafts. He immediately blocked Zhang Yanling, Chen Shi, and more than a dozen riders in the middle of the mountain road.
"Dang, dang, dang, dang!" The harsh sound of the gong sounded, and the next moment hundreds of figures rushed out from both sides of the bamboo forest. Each of them was in ragged clothes but holding bright weapons. They shouted and surrounded Zhang Yanling and others.
Zhang Yanling and others quickly reined in their horses. Chen Shi gave orders one by one, and more than ten personal guards surrounded Zhang Yanling's horses, holding blunderbuss to form a defensive formation.
"Hahahahahaha." A harsh laugh sounded, and behind the bamboo raft blocking the way ahead, a tall middle-aged man wearing a short coat and a bare chest appeared laughing.
"Brothers, it seems that we are lucky today. We caught a few fat sheep and a dozen healthy horses. Now we will make a fortune. It will be much easier for us to move in the future." The man laughed loudly.
"Hahaha, yes. The boss will have a horse to ride from now on, and we, the leader of Cangzhou Liuma Mountain Tianwang Village, will finally look like ourselves." The bandits around them started making noises.
Zhang Yanling said loudly: "Who are you? Why are you blocking our way?"
"Hahaha."
"Hahaha, aren't they some idiots?"
"No, why are you blocking their way now? They look like a group of chicks."
"Looking at his clothes, he looks like a young man from a wealthy family. Does he want to get rich?"
A group of bandits were laughing. The bandit leader was also laughing.
"Listen up, I am the master of Tianwang Village in Cangzhou Liuma Mountain. I opened this mountain and planted this tree. If you want to live from now on, leave money to buy the road. Why don't you get off your horse and kowtow to beg for mercy? Leave the gold and silver.
The treasures, horses and clothing may spare your life." The bandit leader shouted loudly.
"Get off your horse and kowtow, get off your horse and kowtow." A group of minions shouted loudly.
Zhang Yanling cupped his hands and said: "It turns out that you are the mountain king here. You are polite. How dare you rob families and homes here in broad daylight? What is wrong with you? Doing such a thing? You will be beheaded."
"Ouch! Damn it, you meet a fool and say something like this. Why don't you get off your horse and kowtow to beg for mercy? Do you want to die?" the bandit leader yelled and cursed.
"Are you looking for death? Are you looking for death?" A group of minions shook their weapons and threatened loudly.
Zhang Yanling said: "You guys are here rustling horses and robbing houses. That is not a good business. I advise you not to do this kind of business. Let's do this. I will give you some money. You can go home with the money and don't do this again.
The business is prosperous."
"What a fool." One of the minions laughed.
The mountain king laughed and said: "This guy is so talkative. I don't want to keep him alive anymore, so I'm here to teach you a lesson. Second village leader, please bring someone to kill them."
A short and strong bandit said: "Brother, they look like young children of a wealthy family. It would be a pity to kill them. They kidnapped them and extorted some money. It won't be too late to kill them after the money is obtained."
"Well, that makes sense. Take them, ask for their identity, and then come to ask for ransom. Maybe they are really fat sheep. We brothers are very lucky today. We haven't opened for three months, and we have three meals a day after opening.
Months. Hahaha.”
"Hahahahaha." The bandits on the mountain jumped up and down in laughter.
Zhang Yanling's face turned cold and she asked loudly: "You robbed people's houses and hurt people's lives? You kidnapped people and extorted money, and then you broke up with them?"
"Hahaha, are you scared? We kill people without blinking an eye. There are dozens of corpses lying in the bamboo forest below. They all died in our hands. If you are scared, kowtow and beg for mercy, and ask your family to redeem you with money. Maybe I
Out of kindness, I will spare your lives." The bandit leader said with a proud smile.
Zhang Yanling sighed and said: "Well, I originally thought that most of you were forced to become bandits, and I wanted to persuade you. But now it seems that there is no need. No matter whether you were ordinary people before or not
, whether you are forced to do so for other reasons or not
You have no choice but to become bandits. You can rob homes or extort money, but you can't kill people. As the saying goes, thieves have their own ways, but it seems that you don't have any. They are just a group of extremely vicious people, and you deserve to die. So,
I don’t have any psychological burden anymore.”
"What? What did he say?" the bandit leader asked the person next to him in shock.
"He said we shouldn't kill people, that we are extremely evil people, and that we deserve to die!" said a person nearby.
"Fuck them, take them for me and skin them alive," the bandit leader cursed.
Over there, Zhang Yanling was ready to take action. Originally, Zhang Yanling did not want to be cruel. After all, he knew that many of these bandits were forced to live in the countryside, which seemed to be excusable. But after the conversation just now, Zhang Yanling also understood
Yes, even if the people in Luocao are bandits, they are still bandits. They kill people and harm others, and they have become a disaster, so there is nothing to say about it.
"Do it! Fight quickly!" Seeing the opponent swarming towards him, Zhang Yanling shouted in a deep voice.
A dozen personal guards held a golden melon thunder, lit it with a fire stick, and threw it towards the crowd around them.
The gangsters didn't know what they had thrown. Only when the smoking golden melon thunder fell at their feet and exploded did they realize what a terrifying firearm it was. The roar resounded through the mountains and fields, and smoke and dust filled the surroundings, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.
Amid the screams, dozens of bandits fell groaning in a pool of blood.
"Kill!" Chen Shiyi shouted.
"Boom, boom, boom," the cannons started roaring, and the dazed bandits fell to the ground one after another.
These bandits never dreamed that the group of fat sheep they thought were actually a group of fierce tigers. The enemy was actually equipped with ferocious firearms. In just a moment, screams and screams were heard up and down the hillside and on both sides of the mountain road.
More than a hundred bandits killed fifty or sixty people in the blink of an eye.
The two bandit leaders above were not killed by the explosion. Three golden melon thunders were thrown under the bamboo bundles blocking the road, blowing up the bamboos. The bandit leader and a dozen bandits standing behind did not suffer much damage.
"Damn it, what is going on? Are these people officers and soldiers? The officers and soldiers are not that powerful." The leader of the Tianwang Village Dazhai's legs were weak and he shouted in surprise.
"Run quickly. The big creditor has kicked the iron plate." The second village leader saw the opportunity and had already fled.
The leader of Dazhai woke up from a dream, turned around and ran. After running a few steps, he felt a sharp pain in the back of his heart. He fell forward and fell to the side of the road. He opened his mouth wide and couldn't take a breath, and kicked his legs wildly.
, he lost his breath for a moment. A steel ball bullet hit the back of his heart, killing him instantly.
The surrounding bandits had already begun to flee into the woods. The guards took aim with their muskets, and the bolts of the muskets clicked. The firing speed of a dozen or so continuous muskets was already comparable to the firing speed of the previous 40 or 50 muskets.
, just need to move skillfully, five breaths
He could fire two shots, and the speed was already quite astonishing. These dozen personal guards were all carefully selected soldiers with extremely accurate marksmanship. Almost every shot was fired with perfect accuracy. The remaining few bandits were running around like wolves.
He burrowed into the depths of the bamboo forest and fled as fast as he could.
"That's all, there's no need to chase. It's important to hurry up." Zhang Yanling stopped everyone who wanted to chase.
Chen Shi smiled and said: "These little thieves actually followed other people's example of robbing homes and houses. Today I'm going to teach them how powerful they are. The name of Tianwang Village is quite impressive, but it's just like a pustule."
Zhang Yanling sighed and said: "This is us. If we were just ordinary people or merchants today, we would be in trouble. There are so many bandits in such a small hill. All the nearby villages are related to them.
The connection is simply incredible.”
Chen Shi said, "That's right. The local government didn't come to encircle and suppress them. Are they allowed to run rampant here?"
Zhang Yanling shook his head and said: "It must have been an encirclement and suppression. I'm afraid I've suffered a loss. The traces were discovered before entering the mountain. If we are trapped on a slope between mountains and forests like this, we only need to shoot randomly with bows and arrows on both sides to kill a large number of people."
Shoot the enemy. This group of people saw that there were few of us, so they did not use bows and arrows. I guess they were afraid of killing the horses. Otherwise, if they fired arrows at us from the forest, we might really be in trouble."
Chen Shiyi smiled and said: "Don't be afraid of that. As soon as they let go of their arrows, we will greet them with grenades and blow them up. This move has no effect on us. We had already discovered them when they were in the bamboo forest.
We are just pretending to be confused. However, the officers and soldiers of the local guard station are not as fierce as our firepower, so I am afraid they will really suffer."
Zhang Yanling said: "Suffering losses is bound to happen. Haven't you seen any of them wearing armor? Many of the weapons are also weapons equipped by the soldiers and horses of the guard station. This shows that the officers and soldiers came to encircle and suppress many people and suffered losses, so they simply did not dare to come.
.”
Chen Shi nodded, sighing.
Several guards in front had cleared the roadblocks and came to report. Zhang Yanling and others stopped lingering and rode on their horses. After about a stick of incense, everyone had already left the small mountain called Liuma Mountain and galloped in the official direction.
On the road.
Although Zhang Yanling was worried about the chaotic situation in Hebei, he had no time to care about it. He arrived in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province that night. After that, the journey was smooth and he encountered no obstacles. He went south, crossed the Huaihe River, and crossed Yangzhou
, crossed the Yangtze River and went south via Nanzhili.
Eight days later, the group arrived in Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi.