Niu Wenzhong's Dazhai, located at the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, is surrounded by clear streams, secluded pools, and beautiful peaks and forests. Before the group of grass bandits took over, it was a good place to visit and enjoy the scenery.
In order to explore the convenience of plundering, Niu Wenzhong did not set up the village at a dangerous height. Behind the gate of the village blocked by a wooden fence was a skyline canyon, which could only allow two or three people to pass side by side. It would be difficult to walk a few dozen steps. The wooden gate has hard crossbows and strong bows at the front and back. It would take a lot of effort to attack Kuzhulu Village by force.
Shi Xiu, Xiao Yi and Yan Qing, dressed as villagers, led a group of village heroes pushing a wheelbarrow to the village gate. When a few minions saw them from a distance, they immediately picked up their arrows and pulled the strings, pointing at Shi Xiu and others and shouting : "What are you doing?!"
Shi Xiu looked submissive and said loudly: "Your Majesty, in the name of my master, these young men have raised enough money to come and redeem this person."
One of the minions put down his bow and shouted loudly: "Where are you from? From Jincheng? Or from Yangcheng?"
It seems that Niu Wenzhong, that dog thief, has used this trick of robbing people for ransom a lot. I wonder how many meat stocks he has locked up in this village? Shi Xiu thought to himself, and then replied: "Your Majesty, we are from the Ren Xia Xiao Dong family of Daming Mansion. The banker under my command is here to redeem the head of our escort agency Yang."
"hb From the Daming Palace?" The minion smiled and said to his companions: "The Daming Palace appointed Xiao Tang, it turned out that it was also a powerful foreigner who did it. The king brought three hundred people to rob his escort team without knowing it. That stupid bird Instead, he came to deliver money to his door."
After laughing and scolding for a while, the gangster opened the gate of the village and let Shi Xiu and others in. Shi Xiu and others looked around. After passing the line of sky, the front of the canyon suddenly became clear. More than a dozen tents were built with wooden fences. The large open space has a panoramic view, and there are two or three narrow paths behind it. It seems that they are mountain roads to escape if they are afraid of being attacked by the army.
Yan Qing walked quietly to Shi Xiu and Xiao Yi and whispered: "Brother Shi Xiu, brother Xiao Yi, the lair of these thieves has been exposed, are we ready to take action now?"
One of the minions saw it and came up and scolded: "What are you muttering about there?! You are a dog-killer, so hurry up and leave!"
The gangster was yelling and cursing as he walked near Shi Xiu. He saw Shi Xiu's eyes flashing with light. He grabbed the gangster's head and pulled out the steel knife from the gangster's waist. He struck it at the heart and stabbed the gangster. Shi Xiu was shocked, and before the thief could react, Shi Xiu shouted again: "Do it!"
More than a dozen village warriors immediately jumped up and attacked the minions around him. Yan Qing opened a box on a wheelbarrow, which was full of bows, arrows, steel knives and other weapons. Xiao Yi took the bow and arrow, and then grabbed a spear with his hands, three or two. Together they stabbed three more thieves to death.
At this time, nearly a hundred thieves who were guarding the stronghold, as well as the powerful general Fang Qiong who was staying in the stronghold, heard the movement of the iron gun, and ran out of the tent. They saw Shi Xiu's sword flashing, and more than a dozen people with him. Ge Xiang bravely defended the entrance of the canyon. Xiao Yi picked up his bow and arrow and only shot at the small leaders of the thieves. Fang Qiong gritted his teeth and cursed angrily: "How dare more than a dozen people come to attack my camp? Kill them all!"
Taking advantage of the large number of people, the thieves swarmed towards Shi Xiu and others. Shi Xiu took the lead and cut down several more thieves. Half of his body was already stained red with blood.
Seeing Shi Xiu's bravery, Fang Qiong was about to rush towards Shi Xiu with his gun drawn and his horse on his horse. Suddenly he heard the fierce sound of horse hoofs in the canyon, and the sound of "Woo!" suddenly broke through the wind, accompanied by a crescent shovel arrow. A fierce roar came from the canyon!
One of the thieves was shot through the body by the arrow, and then it hit the chest of another thieves behind him. Several of the thieves' ribs were shattered, and a cloud of blood mist burst out of his chest as if it had exploded! The thieves screamed, and were hit by a huge With all his strength, he flew backwards and knocked down a few more people. All the minions stopped in fear, and everyone was stunned. In the past, they had never seen such a scene when fighting with others.
Fang Qiong was also frightened when he saw it. Who could use a strong bow to be so powerful!? Soon, Xiao Tang rode a fierce horse and held a wolf nine-jun bow, leaping in from the mouth of the Yixiantian Canyon! He shot another heavy arrow at the person. The leader of the thieves shot at him, and the arrow hit his head, and half of his head was shattered!
In addition to Xiao Tang, one, two, three... His eighteen riders filed out from the mouth of Yixiantian Canyon, riding horses like eighteen black lightnings. These eighteen riders When they were far away, they rode and fired arrows; when they were close, they slashed with their sabers. In no time, nearly a hundred bandits killed another thirty or forty people!
Xiao Tang shouldered the wolf nine-jun bow, picked up the gold-chiselled tiger-headed dragon-tooth spear from the victory hook on the saddle, took a good look at Kou Fangqiong, glared and cursed: "Gaizhou grass bandits, dare to come and stroke my tiger beard, Xiao Tang !Today is the day when your stronghold will be destroyed and everyone will die!"
Fang Qiong gritted his teeth and cursed sternly: "Are you that famous Xiao Tang? Don't think that I, Fang Qiong, are afraid of you, come on!"
"Are you Fang Qiong?" Xiao Tang raised his eyebrows, clamped his legs, and the horse neighed wildly and rushed towards Fang Qiong to kill him. Fang Qiong cursed again and rode up to meet him.
The fight was truly murderous! The dragon tooth spear in Xiao Tang's hand was shooting out in all directions, and his spear skills were three points of stabbing and seven points of slashing sword skills. The skill of the iron spear in Fang Qiong's hand was also quite extraordinary. The two They fought for more than 20 times. Although Xiao Tang and Fang Qiong each had a chance to kill their opponent with one move, the outcome was only 50-50 based on the situation in front of them.
This powerful general Fang Qiong... After all, in the Water Margin, he fought fiercely with horse fighting masters like Bing Yuchi and Sun Li for more than 30 years, and he did have some tricks! Xiao Tang secretly thought to himself, fight him This can be used as a touchstone to test my current horse fighting skills. Fang Qiong pointed his spear at Xiao Tang, and Xiao Tang turned around with his dragon tooth spear to fend off the enemy. The two of them fought fiercely for more than ten seconds.
Although Xiao Tang and Fang Qiong were in a stalemate, the bandits in the village were overpowered by Xiao Tang's Eighteen Cavalrymen. They were killed and injured again and again by the Xiangyong counterattack led by Shi Xiu, Xiao Yi, and Yan Qing. Fang Qiong saw it in front of his hands. There were only about thirty people left, and they were already in a state of confusion. But Xiao Tang's dragon-tooth spear tightly entangled him, and the difficult situation of riding a tiger made Fang Qiong's fighting spirit gradually disappear.
Yan Qing watched clearly from the side. He took out the Sichuan crossbow again, aimed at Fang Qiong and shot a crossbow arrow. Fang Qiong was already in a panic fighting with Xiao Tang, but Yan Qing's crossbow arrow unexpectedly came and hit him in the chest. Fang Qiong's body After a pause, only this moment of effort made the difference between life and death. Xiao Tang swung the Dragon Tooth Spear and turned it into a shrill slash of light, hitting Fang Qiong's neck heavily! A puff of blood mist burst out, and Fang Qiong immediately rolled down. The horse was killed by Xiao Tang with one blow!
When the remaining bandits saw it, they had no intention of resisting. They all knelt on the ground and begged Xiao Tang and others for mercy. In this battle, more than 70 of Niu Wenzhong's bandits were killed and more than 20 were captured. Three local heroes from Xiaotang died in battle and three were seriously injured. It can be said to be a great victory.
Xiao Tang ordered his eighteen horsemen to tie up the captured bandits one by one. At this moment, Yan Qing walked up to Xiao Tang and said with a smile: "Brother Xiao, your horse fighting skills are getting better and better."
Xiao Tang looked at Yan Qing and said, "It's better for you, Xiao Yi, to be your Ruyi son. If it weren't for your crossbow, I wouldn't have killed Fang Qiong and that guy off the horse."
Yan Qing shook her head with a smile and said: "Xiao Yi is just the icing on the cake. With my elder brother's ability, how can I use Xiao Yi to help? It's just that if we kill that guy earlier, the remaining thieves will have less desire to fight. It's better for us to lose less brothers."
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Xiao Tang couldn't help but sigh to himself, thinking that in terms of eloquence and deeds, others were really not as good as the prodigal Yan Xiaoyi. It seemed that he always had a lot more cares in his heart than ordinary people. At this time, several local heroes also had the imprisoned Yang
When Lin was carried out, he saw Yang Lin lying on a stretcher with multiple serious injuries. It seemed that he had been tortured during this period.
"Brother Yang Lin!" Xiao Tang ran up. Seeing Yang Lin's miserable condition, he was filled with anger and said fiercely: "That guy Niu Wenzhong is so cruel! I will cut that thief into pieces!!"
Although Yang Lin was seriously injured, he still grinned and said: "How can a person wander in the rivers and lakes without suffering some hardships? I knew that the young master would come to pacify this bird village. Although I suffered some flesh injuries, Niu Wenzhong
That guy flirted with our young master, but it was the old man who hanged himself because he thought his life was too long."
Xiao Tang saw that Yang Lin was still joking, and he thought it was no big deal, so he felt relieved. At this time, Shi Xiu came over and said, "Brother Xiao, we made a lot of money this time! I didn't expect Niu Wenzhong
That guy is someone who values wealth as much as his life. I just counted the money he plundered, and it turns out that there are tens of thousands of silver and copper coins at least! There are also a lot of caravan goods!"
Niu Wenzhong relied on financing Tian Hu's uprising in the Water Margin to become the Privy Councilor of the Puppet Jin Dynasty. I wonder if without Niu Wenzhong's help, Tian Hu would still be able to gather strong men to cede territory and proclaim himself emperor in the future.
Such smooth sailing... Xiao Tang thought to himself, and then asked: "In addition to money and goods, are there also people who were kidnapped?"
Shi Xiu replied: "There are seven or eight girls in the family, as well as two members of the family and a pair of grandparents."
Xiao Tang, Shi Xiu and others went to check and saw some naked women trembling in fright imprisoned in a village shed, as well as two middle-aged men with earth-colored faces. Xiao Tang asked carefully and found out
I knew that those women were kidnapped by Niu Wenzhong from nearby villages and imprisoned in the village to rape several leaders for prostitution. The two men were two wealthy families from Jincheng, Gaizhou, who were captured by Niu while doing business.
Wen Zhong seized it and blackmailed his family into paying money to redeem him.
Xiao Tang saw that those women were pitiful, so he ordered his men to give each of those women a hundred taels of silver, and ordered eighteen cavalry to escort the women back to their hometowns. As for the two wealthy households, he asked them to deliver letters to the two villagers bravely.
Jincheng reported that they were safe and asked their family members to pick them up.
After the women and the two wealthy families thanked each other profusely, Xiao Yi brought the grandfather and grandson who were trapped in Niu Wenzhong Village. Xiao Tang thought that the older elder was only in his fifties.
With a sad look on his face, he saw Xiao Tang and others looking at him, and held his grandson in his arms. His grandson also hugged his grandfather in fear, looking very pitiful.
Xiao Tang saw Wen Sheng and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, you two. We are not evil people. I am Xiao Tang, the commander of the Sima Military Camp left behind in Daming Prefecture. I broke through the thief's stronghold this time to save those who were imprisoned by such a thief."
Innocent and kind-hearted. What do you two call each other? Where do you live?"
Seeing that Xiao Tang spoke kindly, the elder gently comforted his grandson, turned around, bowed to Xiao Tang and saluted, saying: "My surname is Chang Shun, and this is my grandson Chang Boda.
We are from Changban Village in Yangcheng."
Chang Shun? Xiao Tang frowned, why does this name sound familiar?
