When the leading Jin Yiwei Baihu heard the sound of horse hooves, their expressions changed. They grabbed the weapons at hand and stood up. At the same time, they did not forget to say: "Get up, stop sitting, and take out all your weapons."
The few Jinyi guards on the side did not dare to delay. They tore open the tattered clothes wrapping the weapon, revealing the Xiuchun knife inside, and grabbed the handle of the knife with one hand.
All the Jinyi guards looked warily towards the direction where the sound of horse hooves came from.
A cavalry team suddenly appeared on the road, and everyone felt a sense of gloom. The first thought was that Lingqiu's Tiger Flag cavalry were chasing them.
If this is the case, they are in danger this time.
As the sound of horse hooves became louder and louder, the horse team in the distance finally appeared in the sight of these royal guards.
"Sir, they are not the cavalry that Lingqiu is chasing."
The thin-faced Jin Yiwei's tone became much more relaxed when he spoke, and the expression on his face was no longer as solemn as before.
The Jinyiwei Baihu nodded.
The cavalrymen of the Tiger Banner uniformly wore black armor and even used the same weapons. Each man had a musket, which was very conspicuous. Unlike the cavalry that was galloping towards them in the sight, most of the clothes they wore were shabby cloth. , only the person at the front was wearing worn-out cotton armor, and he had a variety of weapons in his hands.
There were knives, spears, forks, wooden spears, and even one with a long stick in his hand.
The armor on these people is not as good as that of the cavalry of the Tiger Flag, or even compared to the ordinary soldiers in the army.
The thin-faced Jin Yiwei said again: "Sir, I'm afraid they are horse bandits. Should we avoid them?"
"Everyone retreat to the roadside. We are wearing refugee clothes. The horse bandits will not target us." Jin Yiwei Baihu said to several Jin Yiwei beside him, "Be careful, put away your weapons, and try not to provoke these people. Horse bandits.”
Several Jinyiwei followed the words of Jinyiwei Baihu and retreated to the wasteland connected to the roadside.
More than twenty riders in the distance gradually approached, and eventually, both sides were able to see each other's faces clearly.
When the distance between the two sides was less than 200 steps, the person in front on the horse raised his long knife horizontally.
After the Jinyiwei Baihu noticed it, they were shocked and shouted: "Quick, pick up weapons and kill these horse bandits, they are coming for us."
As he finished speaking, not only did he not be the first to take out his weapon and face the horse bandits, but he turned around and fled to the wasteland behind him.
As soon as he ran away, several other Jinyi guards also fled behind him.
Behind them was a wasteland, and more than a mile further back, there was a forest and a hilltop. As long as they escaped into the forest, they would most likely be able to escape.
It's a pity that a man's two legs are not as fast as a horse's four legs.
These Jin Yiwei escaped less than fifty steps before they were overtaken by the horse bandits behind them, and they were immediately attacked with swords and guns.
In a matter of moments, these imperial guards died in the hands of the horse bandits without even a hint of resistance.
"Third brother, go over and see if there are any left alive?"
A bearded man wearing cotton armor, holding a bloody long knife in his hand, ordered the person beside him to go over.
The man called Lao San jumped off the horse, holding a short knife in his hand, and stabbed the corpses on the ground one by one.
After doing all this, he squatted down and groped around the body.
After groping for a while, the third child took out a waist tag made of wood from one of the corpses, looked at it twice, and said, "Brother, does this person have a waist tag on him?"
The bearded man pointed at the other corpses with the tip of his knife and said, "Look through the other corpses and see if they have the same belt."
The third child stood up, walked to several other corpses, and took out a waist tag from each of these people's arms.
"Brother, each of these people has a badge, and they are all here."
He was illiterate and didn't know what was written on it, so he took back all the waistbands he had collected.
"Look at my dick?"
Looking at the badge in front of him, Bearded Beard had a bad feeling in his heart.
The man named Lao Er got off the horse and took the badge from Lao San. He glanced at it and saw clearly what was written on it. His expression suddenly changed and he raised his hand and threw the badge to the ground.
"Second brother, what are the identities of these people? Are they official officials as mentioned by the Tiger Flag people?"
Seeing the performance of the second child, the bearded man's bad premonition became stronger and stronger.
"Big brother, I'm afraid we're in big trouble!" the second brother said with a bitter look on his face.
The bearded man said in a deep voice: "What kind of trouble is this? Please make it clearer."
"We, we killed the Jinyiwei, and one of them was a Jinyiwei Baihu." The second child stammered.
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The bearded man took a deep breath and felt a chill running down his spine.
Jin Yiwei is different from ordinary officials. They are prestigious in the hearts of the people. Even the local magistrate will be three points shorter when he sees Jin Yiwei.
Killing so many Jinyi guards at once was more serious than killing the official servants in the yamen, especially since these Jinyi guards were all wearing refugee clothes. It was obvious that they were doing something and did not want anyone to know their identity.
"Brother, we were deceived by the people from the Tiger Flag." Lao San said angrily, "This matter cannot be ignored easily. The people from the Tiger Flag must give us an explanation!"
"What explanation do you want? What explanation do you think the Tiger Flag people will give you?" The bearded man glared.
He also knew that he had been tricked by the people of Tiger Character Flag, but he had no way to do it. Even if he wanted to settle accounts with Tiger Character Flag, he had to have that strength.
The dozens of them alone are not enough to fill the gap between Tiger Character Flag's teeth. Looking for trouble for Tiger Character Flag is no different from seeking death.
The second brother on the side said: "Brother, don't the Tiger Character Flag still lack us a hundred taels of silver? When the people from the Tiger Character Flag come again, we will ask them for some more silver as compensation for this incident. When we get the money, we Leave immediately, I don’t want the copycat anymore, as long as I have money, I can still do business without capital in another place."
"It's a good idea. Can the people from the Tiger Flag give us some more money as compensation? I'm worried that they won't give us the rest of the money."
The bearded man agreed with the second brother's idea of abandoning the stronghold and fleeing, but he was worried that Tiger Flag would not give them the remaining money. If this was the case, they would suffer a big loss in this transaction.
Not only did he not get enough money, but he also killed people he couldn't kill. In the end, he couldn't even stay in the stronghold. The price was too high.
"Don't worry, brother." The second brother said, "The tiger-character flag business is so big, they won't care about the little money, and they should know that they are killing Jin Yiwei, and they definitely don't want us to leak the news. Don't say a hundred taels then. , even if it’s two hundred taels or three hundred taels, they will give it to me.”
"Then I want more, I want him a thousand taels." Lao San said bitterly.
The bearded man ignored the third child, but looked at the second child and said: "I don't want much. As long as you can get another three hundred taels from the Tiger Flag, I will give you fifty taels at my discretion."
"Don't worry, brother, I can get at least five hundred taels from Tiger Flag." The second brother stretched out a hand and opened the five fingers of his palm.
