Ming Zuo

Chapter 4 Backstab
"I can't get past it."

The road to the south is not smooth.

Zuo Menggeng and a few people walked to the periphery of a village and were blocked.

The village was the only passage, but at this time it was occupied by hundreds of bandits on horseback.

Across the distance, you can see the fire in the village, and the screams of women and children are faintly heard in the cold wind.

It was obvious that the horse bandits were burning, killing and looting inside.

The three of Zuo Menggeng frowned, and Miss Xu began to nagging again.

"I will say that the capital of Beijing is far away. It may avoid the gangsters. You are just ignorant."

"To shut up."

Zuo Menggeng was upset, had a bad temper, and was not used to her.

Miss Xu was furious and wanted to care, but fortunately Zuo Rong warned her.

"someone is coming."

The four of them hurriedly lowered their bodies and peeked out.

I saw four or five horsemen coming from a distance, not hurried or slow. Although the people on the horse were all covered with black scarves, there was no taboo to talk and laugh recklessly.

The place where the four of Zuo Menggeng hid was behind an incline on the side of the road. Although it was next to the main road, there was no need to worry about being discovered, and they were listening.

"Brother, what did you say that the saint called us to come?"

"What are you going to do with so much? Her Saint Aunt Bai Lian is very powerful now, so let's just do it."

"Brother, you said that there are so many comrades here this time, and everyone doesn't know each other, so you're not afraid of making trouble?"

"It's good for you to know. Be vigilant this time and stay away from others. If someone wants to make a bad move, let's do it first."

Awe-inspiringly called Zhong, a few rides over, and entered the village.

Zuo Menggeng frowned and pondered, faintly aware of something.

"Zuo Rong, the horse bandits who were chasing us that day were all covered, right?"

Zuo Rong didn't understand why he asked that, just nodded and gave him some popular science by the way.

"Young master doesn't know, there is not much else in Beizhili and Shandong, but there are many horse households. These guys usually seem to be good people, but as long as they get on the horse and cover their faces, they will have nothing to do. Shadow, the gangster who disappeared without a trace. Back then, brothers Liu Liuliuqi brought the horse bandits into a big trouble."

Of course, Zuo Menggeng was clear about the uprising of Liu Liu and Liu Qi.

After all, Yang Kuahu met the Guo Gong surnamed Yang, and it was also quite romantic.

Zuo Rong added: "What the horse bandits do is beheading, so you have to be more careful. There are not many of them, but I don't know how many gangs there are. They don't communicate with each other. If the bandit is caught, no one else will be implicated."

Zuo Menggeng finally made up his mind.

"So they all covered their faces, just because they were afraid of showing their faces?"

Zuo Rong nodded.

Zuo Menggeng pointed to the village and asked, "There are about a hundred horse bandits there. Do you think they are a group?"

Zuo Rong laughed and shook his head.

"Impossible. For the sake of safety, the horse bandits have a group of ten people at most, and there are two or three people at the most. There are more than [-] people, and they can't hide their deeds at all.

That's it, Zuo Menggeng finally has a plan.

He pointed to the three cavalry that came slowly from a distance, and ordered: "Shoot those three people down, don't startle the snake."

Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua didn't understand what he was going to do, but they were very faithful in carrying out orders, and they were ready to bend bows and arrows.

Miss Xu saw through the clues.

"You want to fish in troubled waters."

Zuo Menggeng gave her an admiring look.

"It's a pity, if you are a man, you must do something."

Miss Xu didn't care what she did or didn't do, she said anxiously, "You three can hide from the sky, what should I do?"

Zuo Menggeng and the three big men covered their faces and looked more like a horse bandit than a horse bandit.But she is a weak woman, she can't ride a horse, she can't hide her figure.

Zuo Menggeng gave her a reassuring look.

"The mountain man has his own plan."

While speaking, the three riders in the distance approached.Just like the people in the past, he was still chatting and laughing, and he was murderous beside him at all unexpectedly.

Seeing that the three horses were at their feet, Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua stood up abruptly, and one person shot down the two horse bandits with one arrow.Zuo Rong was faster, the first arrow had just been shot, and the second arrow was also off the string.

A good shot of arrows.

The three horse bandits did not stir up any waves, and they became the ghosts of the arrows.Their mounts were ignorant, standing in place after their master died.

Zuo Menggeng and the three hurried down, led the horse, moved the corpse, and cleaned up the scene in the blink of an eye.

The corpses of the three horse bandits were thrown into the grass at will, and their face towels were also put on the faces of Zuo Menggeng and the three.

Miss Xu was just in a hurry.

"What about me, what about me, you can't ignore me."

Zuo Menggeng smiled.

"Miss Xu, I have wronged you."

Saying that, he jumped behind Miss Xu and took out a piece of hemp rope.Bring Miss Xu's arms together and tie them firmly.

"You...what are you going to do?"

Zuo Menggeng picked her up and put her on the horse.

"Since it's not easy to hide your figure, you can be a Mrs. Yazhai for me first."

Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua clapped their hands and laughed and praised the idea.

The robbers burn and loot everywhere, robbing beautiful women for their pleasure.In this way, the three of them brought a woman, so it would not be abrupt.

Miss Xu was lying on the back of the horse, facing the loess, her anger was burning, but she had no choice but to break her silver teeth.

"Zuo Menggeng, you wait."

Zuo Menggeng didn't know her resentment, so he got on the horse and ran to the village with Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua.

The village is in chaos, all the horse bandits are enjoying themselves, turning a blind eye to their appearance.

However, a guy with evil eyes in his eyes ran over and shouted: "Brother, this bitch you grabbed is not bad, how about you give it to me?"

Zuo Menggeng laughed and tried to pretend to be rude.

"Grandpa has been a bachelor all the time, and he finally got a woman, and he has to take it back to inherit the family. Look at this big ass, it can be born and raised at first glance."

Saying it wasn't enough, he raised his hand again and slapped Miss Xu's round buttocks with a big slap.

It's the second time.

The strong tremor almost wiped out Miss Xu's soul. Half of her body was numb, and she was about to curse.

Fortunately, I remembered that I was in danger, barely held back, and silently hypnotized myself in my heart.

"If the surname is Zuo, the old lady will not take revenge for this, and swear not to be a human being."

The horse bandit stared greedily at Miss Xu's beautiful figure, becoming more and more condescending, unable to bear it any longer.

"Brother, you give me this bitch, and I'll give you three hundred taels of silver."

"Three hundred taels?"

Zuo Menggeng pretended to be hesitant, but Miss Xu was going crazy.

This guy can't sell himself for three hundred taels, right?

She made up her mind, as long as Zuo Menggeng dared to do so, she would shout and call out Zuo Menggeng's identity.

If you want to die, everyone will die together.

"Cut, grandpa has robbed a lot of treasure these days, and grandpa still doesn't like three hundred taels of silver. Unless you take out five thousand taels, we'll make a deal."

The horse bandit's face changed greatly and he cursed.

"Five thousand taels for another woman, thanks to what you said, are you suffering from hysteria and losing your mind? The bastard, the bastard, came to entertain Lao Tzu."

The surrounding horse bandits burst into laughter, just watching the fun.

Zuo Menggeng grabbed the horse's belly and moved on.

"You can't even grab [-] taels of silver. If I were you, I would find a cesspit and immerse myself to death."

No matter what, the horse bandit couldn't pull out five thousand taels of silver, and returned to his original position cursing.

After a small episode passed, Zuo Menggeng and the three continued to move forward, and there was no more situation.

But just as he was about to leave the village, there was a sound of shouting.

"What are you going to do?"

Zuo Menggeng turned his head to look, and saw a strong man, like an iron tower.The knife in his hand is also much larger than others, at least fifty pounds.

There are many people around this man, about twenty people, and he is estimated to be the most powerful group in the horse bandit.

But thinking about Zuo Rong's introduction, he was also fearless, and snorted coldly: "Didn't you see grandpa grabbing a treasure? Find a place to enjoy it. What's the matter, do you want to see grandpa's majesty? Then come along. "

Others laughed at these slanderous remarks, but the big man didn't.

"You have to enjoy and wait, then come along and do something."

Zuo Menggeng's heart tightened, and he said, "Grandpa wants to play with women now and be a birdie?"

The big man looked at him sullenly.

"The aunt's order, if you don't listen, try it."

After speaking, he stopped talking, got on the horse, and walked forward with the people.

The rest of the horse bandits changed their previous laziness and mounted their horses one after another. They gathered behind the man and formed a team.

"Master, what should I do? Otherwise, let's run?"

Sounds like a bad idea.

"Where to run? These are horse bandits, do you think we can run?"

Zuo Menggeng was helpless, so he had to ride his horse to keep up, and he was tied at the end of the horse bandit team.

Seeing the three of them follow, the rest of the bandits stopped looking at them, and more than a hundred people marched silently, not knowing what to do.

After traveling eastward for about thirty miles, they came to a battlefield.

The sky was full of dust and sand, shouting and killing like waves, and there were two armies fighting fiercely.

One of them was farther away, but the number of them was endless, scattered all over the plain, and they were rushing in a scattered manner.

From a distance, these people are in rags, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and the weapons in their hands are also varied.Hoes, sickles, dung forks, everything.

The other party was right in front of the horse bandits, lined up with their backs to them.

There are not many people, thousands of people come, but the formation is still neat and clear.A few big flags are flying, and the armor is not bright, but in the end there is armor.

Especially the fact that there are firearms in the formation, and every time it erupts, the power is extraordinary.

Lethality...

Anyway, two or three of the rioters fell, and the rest immediately ran back in fright.

One infected two, all got toenail fungus... No, it was fear that spread rapidly, and the rioters fled back in swarms.

But there was a team of supervisors behind them, and after beheading several times in a row, the rioters turned around again and attacked the official army again.

Entering is also death, retreating is also death, the chaotic people have no choice.

As the saying goes, the best way to overcome fear is to face it.

When it is death no matter what, the chaotic people are not afraid of death.When they charged again, they actually had the prestige of destroying the trees.

On the side of the official army, they had already seen the horse bandits approaching, and they couldn't help but feel a little chaotic.

These are all foot soldiers, and it doesn't matter if you fight with the chaotic people on the plain.In the face of cavalry, I am afraid to be massacred.

The generals of the official army were obviously panicked, and while commanding the infantry in front to withstand the charge of the chaotic people, they also had to dispatch troops to defend the rear.

The bandits don't give him time.

The leading man swung a machete and led more than [-] people around him and began to speed up the horse.

"Master, do we want to go too? This is a battle with the official army. If it is discovered, it will be cut all over the place."

Zuo Rong couldn't make up his mind, so he had to look at Zuo Menggeng.

Seeing that the other horse bandits also started to move, Zuo Menggeng's eyes became cloudy.

"This is our chance, wait for my signal."

While speaking, he grabbed Miss Xu and cut the rope around her wrist.

Finally freed, Miss Xu hurriedly pulled out the cloth ball in her mouth and beat Zuo Menggeng repeatedly.

"Little defiant three, if you dare to humiliate me, I will not rely on you now."

Wu Nong's soft words are really not lethal.Miss Xu's embroidery was similar to massage, Zuo Menggeng felt nothing.

He grabbed Miss Xu's waist, and immediately changed her position and placed her behind him.He handed over the cloth strip in his hand and ordered, "Tie it up, we're going to work hard."

Miss Xu was stunned and gestured a few times with the cloth strip before she understood what it meant.He reached over, passed through Zuo Menggeng's waist, looped around his own waist, and tied the cloth with a dead knot.

In this way, she and Zuo Menggeng were firmly tied together.

Unless Zuo Menggeng falls off the horse, she will be absolutely fine.

Because of the binding of the cloth strips, Miss Xu had to stick to Zuo Menggeng firmly.

The man's generous back was like a city wall, but his scorching breath was like charcoal.

Miss Xu is no longer making a fuss. She is quite tall, so she can only try to shrink her body as much as possible and hide behind Zuo Menggeng silently.

She didn't know what he was going to do, but this time, it must be a shocking move.

More than a hundred steeds let go of their legs, their speed had reached the limit, and they rushed towards the official army and swept away.

Once hit by this group of cavalry, the defense line of the official army will collapse.When the rioters in front rush in again, this group of officers will be wiped out.

The three of Zuo Menggeng were at the back of the horse team, and no one noticed their situation.

And this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Zuo Menggeng pulled out the machete and swayed it twice in the air. Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua received the signal and also drew the sword out of the scabbard.

Seeing that the horse team was less than two hundred paces away from the official army, Zuo Menggeng's eyes were full of murderous intent.

He laid the machete flat, with the blade pointed forward, at the height of the horse's neck, and kicked the horse's belly.

The steed was stimulated and accelerated again suddenly, catching up with the horse bandits in front of him.

Although these horse bandits did not wear armor, when charging, they all crouched on the horse's back, and it was difficult to hit the key points from behind.

In addition to the need to save energy, Zuo Menggeng adopted a Yin-damaging style of play.

When the flat machete rushed past the person in front with the help of the horse speed, the sharp blade was like cutting tofu, directly cutting the left side of the horse bandit.

In the screams, the horse bandit lost all his strength and immediately fell off the horse.

Zuo Menggeng didn't care about it at all, just kept urging the horse to speed.

His horse speed was getting faster and faster, surpassing one horse bandit, and one person was cut off from the horse.And what he has to do is to adjust the direction of the blade back and forth according to whether the horse bandit is on his left or right.

Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua, who were next to him, were in charge of making up the knife, and the horse bandits he didn't kill were all cut off by the two of them.

Soon, the rest of the horse bandits noticed something was wrong.Looking back, the spirits of the dead are roaming.

"Good thief!"

"There's a ghost inside!"

The horse bandits never imagined that there would be a traitor inside.

Seeing that they were about to fight the official army, the inner ghost shot at this time and caught them off guard.

Some horse bandits scattered in panic, and some wanted to turn back to block.

But the horse team is galloping in one direction, and turning back at this time is tantamount to courting death.

Sure enough, many mounts collided with each other, and the horses turned on their backs, which made the horse team even more chaotic.

At this time, it is no longer necessary to conceal the whereabouts.

Zuo Menggeng lifted his face towel, raised his machete high, and slashed openly.

"kill!"

Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua followed closely, and no one could stop them wherever they went.In an instant, thirty or so horse bandits lost their lives in confusion.

The generals of the official army had already closed their eyes and waited to die when they saw the momentum of the horse bandits' charge.As a result, seeing the chaos within the horse team, the momentum of the charge suddenly dropped, and I couldn't help but be overjoyed.

He didn't have time to think about it, he jumped on his warhorse, gave the flag a finger, and led his subordinates to rush up.

Zuo Menggeng didn't know how many people he had killed, anyway, the bird anger he received these days really dissipated a lot.

In a matter of seconds, he had already killed the horse team and even rushed to the front.

Just at this time, the general of the official army had already rushed to fight with the leader of the horse bandit.

Seeing the two of them risking their lives to fight, they completely forgot about themselves, Zuo Menggeng urged the horse to mount.

People are like the wind, horses are like dragons, and the light of the sword is like the Milky Way.

The horse bandit leader couldn't care about the monstrous killing intent behind it, and the huge head flew into the air.

The rest of the horse bandits wanted to come to rescue, but when they saw the leader's head flying, they all lost their fighting spirit.

The crisis of the annihilation of the official army was completely lifted.

On the other side, without the support of the horse team, the corpses of the rioters were all over the place and ran away again.

Soon, the entire battlefield became silent, except for the smoke and blood in the sky, as if nothing had happened.

"This general Nanpi guerrilla Liu Yuanqing, you and others abandoned the dark and turned to the light, and have made great achievements in killing thieves. Would you like to be placed under the command of this general?"

(End of this chapter)