Yi Song

Chapter 72: What are you looking at, gang inspection?
  Liu Guozhang thought for twenty or thirty seconds and gave the decisive order.

"Everyone, take off your red patent leather armor, quickly!"

Under the banner of the Suzaku Guard, they naturally wore the Suzaku Guard's unique red lacquer leather armor and leather hats.

"There are also turbans and waistbands. Put them away. Roll up the flags. Wang Datou, you take five people and put everyone's leather turbans and flags together and take care of them.

Everyone just needs to wear ordinary clothes, and use a bun and a forehead wipe. Quick, quick! "

As Liu Guozhang spoke, he peeled off his armor.

Leather armor was much easier to take off than iron armor, so everyone packed it up quickly.

"Diwanren!"

"exist!"

"You take twenty brothers who are good at archery and hide in the woods by the roadside, waiting for my order."

"Yes!"

"Yang Xiaojie, Zhang Meng!"

"Here, you two take ten people with you and follow me to rob."

"Robbery?" Everyone looked at each other, confused.

"Let's go! Remember, everyone, you are not the Suzaku Guard, nor the Hwarang Party, nor the Forbidden Army. You are just a group of rogues."

Liu Guozhang shouted, rode his horse and took two steps, then stopped.

"What's wrong, Erlang?"

"Do you think my Silver Dragon Iron Spear is very conspicuous? Will others recognize me as Liu Erlang at a glance?"

"Yes. Brother, your silver dragon iron spear is famous in Yujin Garden."

Liu Guozhang took off the iron gun and threw it to Di Wanren, "Di Sanlang, hold it for me. Give it to me later when you rush out after receiving the order."

"it is good."

"Let's go!" Liu Guozhang turned his horse's head and ran down the mountain forest first.

The straight road from Kaifeng City to Fengqiu County is a thoroughfare. There are many business travelers going north and south, and there is an endless stream. Two carriages among them are particularly conspicuous and eye-catching.

Good horses were always the most lacking strategic material in the Song Dynasty. They had always been obtained through transactions with Northern Liao and Xixia.

During the Xining period, there was finally a horse source land in Tuobian River in Huanghuang. But there are gains and losses there, and it's very unstable.

Most of the good horses are used by the army, and only a small part will be released.

Nowadays, official families like to have fun and play polo, so Tiansi Prison has many good horses, but they are not available to ordinary officials.

Things are rare and valuable, so even if powerful officials go out, they usually ride in ox-carts or mule-carts inside and outside Kaifeng. Only those who are a little further away and belong to wealthy and noble families will ride in a carriage.

Therefore, everyone will judge that the thieves are threatened and will definitely take the people on the carriage as hostages.

Suddenly, they saw a group of cavalry rushing out and surrounding the two carriages. Everyone ducked and stayed away.

The carriage in front is the main carriage, with a green box body, a red roof with four ridges and a flying luan, and brocade woven curtains on all sides.

Behind is the auxiliary car, an ordinary two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.

There were four mounted guards and six foot followers.

Seeing someone coming, they immediately surrounded the main car. The leading guard stepped forward and shouted: "In broad daylight, where is the thief who dares to block the road outside the imperial capital? I don't know whether to live or die!"

Liu Guozhang's clothes were baggy, with a wild chrysanthemum picked from the roadside on his head, and a straw stalk in his mouth, which made him look more like a Peppa Pig than a Peppa Pig.

"Grandpa blocks the road to find people, never distinguishing between day and night, or inside or outside the city!"

"Who are you! Do you want to die!" the leading guard shouted.

"Your grandfather and I are the younger brother of Interior Minister Yang, Interior Minister Yang! Do you know who it is? Interior Minister Yang Jian, are you scared?

Ha ha! I heard that a young lady came to Fengqiu City and she looked like a fairy. Therefore, all the horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts passing by on this road today must be inspected. "

Seeing Liu Guozhang slowly approaching, the leading guard became anxious and drew his single sword, "Do you know who is blocking him? Even if Yang Neixiang comes, he has to stand aside to greet him!"

"Tch!" Liu Guozhang sneered disdainfully, "It's like a toad yawning so loudly! Apart from officials, who has my brother been afraid of? Even Grand Master Cai would not dare to walk in front of him."

He glanced quietly and saw that Wang Dahu and his party were slowly approaching on horseback.

Along the entire avenue, the rest of the businessmen were scared and hid far away. Now, except for his group and the two carriages, only Wang Dahu and his party were left on the road.

"If you dare to take another step forward, I will chop you down!" the leading guard yelled, pointing the bright tip of the knife at Liu Guozhang.

"Xue Qi, let him come over." A female voice suddenly came from the carriage.

Xue Qi turned around quickly and asked in surprise: "Palace Master!"

"It's okay, I know him."

Xue Qi looked Liu Guozhang up and down, followed him with a knife, and followed him to the carriage. "Yang Jian has no brothers and sisters, you are lying." The voice coming from the car was clear and soft.

"Haha, wouldn't it be more dangerous if I pretended to be Yang Jian's younger brother to rob? Little lady, why aren't you afraid?"

"Hehe, I recognize you, you are Liu Erlang."

"Ah, you didn't expect me to be so famous? If you go out, you can be recognized even if you want to rob me. If I had known, I would have covered my face."

"Didn't you join Thirteenth Sister? Why did you come out to rob? Lingguang Academy didn't pay you any salary? Tell me, what on earth are you going to do?" he asked, still smiling in the car.

"My dear, please forgive me. I offended you. I will apologize to you later."

After Liu Guozhang finished speaking, he deliberately turned around, just as Wang Dahu and his men walked by in a swaggering manner, and immediately pointed at him and shouted.

"What are you looking at! I've never seen gangsters inspecting me on the street!"

Wang Dahu glared at the ruffian Liu Guozhang, raised his head, snorted, and was too lazy to answer.

"I'm asking you what are you looking at!" Wang Dahu's arrogant look angered Liu Guozhang. He roared and galloped forward angrily.

When passing by Xue Qi, Liu Guozhang whispered: "Be careful to protect your palace master."

Liu Guozhang rode his horse towards Wang Dahu, pointed at him and cursed: "Where is the asshole that is not clamped tightly, exposing such a reckless thing? How dare you play hard with me, grandpa? I will tell you later how many eyes Lord Ma has!" "

Suddenly a follower rushed out from beside him and hit Liu Guozhang's mount with his horse's head.

The mount was frightened and its head swayed back and forth, causing the horse's body to sway. Liu Guozhang also followed suit, swaying from side to side, screaming in fright, and holding on to the reins and saddle tightly.

Wang Dahu and his followers laughed heartily when they saw Liu Guozhang's embarrassed appearance.

The mount swayed while carrying Liu Guozhang and pacing forward, less than two feet away from Wang Dahu.

A person behind him saw Liu Guozhang's appearance clearly, his pupils shrank violently, a look of extreme horror appeared on his face, and he blurted out: "Red Tiger!"

"You're so fucking stupid! Do it!" Liu Guozhang roared, kicked the stirrups with both feet, spurred his horse forward, pulled out the Hundred Flowers Slash, and slashed at Wang Dahu.

Di Wanren, Zhang Meng and others had already taken their positions. When they heard Liu Guozhang's shouts, they immediately took action, stabbing with spears and slashing with knives. The men screamed and the horses neighed, and they were massacred.

Wang Dahu reacted quickly. He ducked backwards, pulled the reins at the same time, and pulled the horse's body to the left to make room.

Liu Guozhang's mounts passed by each other, and the sword in his hand was about to be cut empty.

Liu Guozhang took off the pedal with his right foot, grabbed the reins with his left hand, turned his body backward on the horse, with his left foot on the stirrup as the axis, turned a circle in the air, fully extended, stretched his right hand longer, and cut hundreds of flowers. Suddenly he moved forward four or five feet.

With a flash of the sword, Wang Dahu's head and his mount's head were chopped off together.

The man behind Wang Dahu panicked even more and shouted: "Red Tiger is coming! Run!"

Before he finished speaking, the four people led by him galloped out on horseback.

The companions behind him suddenly panicked, some ran out after him, and some continued to resist.

However, Di Wanren and Zhang Meng were unyielding when they had the upper hand. They led their brothers to attack fiercely. Twelve people surrounded the remaining four people. They used swords and guns to kill them all in twenty or thirty breaths.

Liu Guozhang rode his horse to catch up with the seven people who were escaping, and only after two or three hundred paces did he catch up. Yang Xiaojie led the twenty brothers who had ambushed him, and rushed out diagonally. He first shot three of them with a burst of arrows in his pocket, and the others drew their swords. Carnage with guns.

"Leave two alive!" Liu Guozhang took the Silver Dragon Iron Spear thrown by Yang Xiaojie, shouted, and lifted one person into the air with one shot, then gave the body a hard shake and threw the body aside.

"There are only two living places, first come first served! Surrender quickly!" Liu Guozhang waved his iron gun and shouted viciously.

The thief who first shouted "Red Tiger" rolled off his horse, lay on the ground and shouted: "Surrender, I surrender!"

Another man who was hit by an arrow and fell from his horse was lying on the ground. He was very clever and immediately shouted: "I will surrender too!"

Another man who was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground, and another man on horseback, also shouted, "I surrender too, I surrender too!"

Liu Guozhang rushed forward, shot the two people behind him, and stabbed them all to death. He sneered: "The quota is full, it's too late!"

He flicked the gun and said loudly: "Yang Liulang, drag those two people to the woods and tie them up separately. I want to interrogate them personally. The rest of the people will be killed and no one will survive. The corpses and horses will also be taken to the forest. , don’t block the road. Di Sanlang, did you hear that?”

"I heard it." Di Wanren answered loudly while poking at the thieves on the ground with a plain wooden gun.

Liu Guozhang put away his iron gun, turned around and ran to the carriage.

"I don't know which house Liu Erlang was offended by."

"Seeing that Erlang is very busy, let's go to the post station under Tuogang to wait."

"Okay, I'll finish my work here and then go apologize!"

Liu Guozhang pulled the reins, and the horse made a purring sound and ran forward.

He directed as he ran.

Soon, the body was carried away, and the mount was led away. Zhang Meng led four people, each dragging a cluster of branches behind the horse's tail, and ran back and forth twice. The blood stains on the road disappeared completely.

When they left again, the road was quiet, as if nothing had happened.

(End of this chapter)