"Captain, they are coming." A tiger-character flag soldier whispered.
On the official road, two royal guards rode in front, followed not far behind by a carriage, which carried several large wooden boxes, occupying the entire carriage. The coachman could only hold the reins and follow the carriage.
Zhou Qingyun looked down at the official road with an expressionless face.
First he glanced at the Jin Yiwei who was walking in front of the carriage, and then at the carriage following behind. He pulled the bow string in his hand and made a banging sound.
The arrow always moves slowly with the carriage on the official road.
Two royal guards rode through the official road at the bottom of the hillside, and the carriage following behind them also passed most of the way.
At this moment, Zhou Qingyun's two fingers that tightened the arrow's feathers loosened, and the arrow flew toward the official road with a whoosh.
At a distance of about thirty steps, the arrow hit the target almost instantly.
Zhou Qingyun did not look at the result of the shot, but took out another arrow from the quiver, hung it on the bowstring, and shot again towards the horse pulling the cart below.
The first arrow accurately hit the neck of the horse pulling the cart, bursting out a beautiful flower of blood. The arrow penetrated the body, and the horse's blood flowed out along the arrow shaft.
The horse in pain was frightened, threw away the coachman holding the reins next to it, and ran away.
At this time the second arrow shot over.
Another accurate shot hit the crazy horse, but this time it only hit the horse's belly.
The horse that had been hit by two arrows became even more frantic and rushed forward desperately. The blood in its body flowed out faster. Wherever it passed, there was a line of blood on the ground.
"No, there's an ambush on the mountain."
Yuan Hong, who was riding ahead, noticed that the horse pulling the cart was hit by an arrow, and quickly shouted loudly to alert other Jinyi guards.
"kill!"
From behind the hillside, more than twenty young and strong men suddenly appeared, waving knives in their hands, and rushed towards the official road down the mountain.
Facing dozens of bandits, Yuan Hong not only showed no fear, but instead pulled out the Xiuchun knife from his waist and shouted: "Kill the bandits with me!"
After shouting, he rushed towards the bandits on the hillside with his men and horses.
Several other Jinyi guards also drew their weapons and killed the bandits on the hillside.
In their eyes, there seemed to be many bandits. As long as they charged and killed them, they could naturally defeat them.
Whoosh!
An arrow shot down from the hillside and headed straight for Yuan Hong's door. He was so frightened that he hurriedly leaned to one side.
The arrow failed to hit his face, but hit his right shoulder, causing his entire arm to lose strength for a moment. He could not hold the Yanling Saber in his hand and fell to the ground.
"Sir, let's go quickly." The guard named Zhang Qing shouted at Yuan Hong and stood in front of Yuan Hong.
Yuan Hong, who was hit by an arrow, did not bother to pull out the arrow from his shoulder. He endured the pain, used his other uninjured left hand to pull the reins, turned the horse's head, and ran away.
When several other Jinyi guards saw that their adults had run away, they all turned their horses and followed Yuan Hong, galloping away.
At this time, he didn't care about the carriage and the boxes on it. He just kept urging his horse to run quickly and escape from the archer's range.
They are not afraid of bandits, but facing an archer who shoots arrows from time to time, everyone knows that they will not get anything good if they stay.
Yuan Hong and others did not flee back, but fled forward along the official road.
A dozen miles ahead of this pipeline is a county town.
But they didn't go too far when they saw a fence blocking the road ahead, and a dozen bandits with weapons standing behind them.
Yuan Hong's expression suddenly changed as he rode at the front.
At this time, it was too late to think about going back. The bandits rushing down the hillside had blocked the way back, especially the archer hiding in the dark, who was the most deadly threat to them.
Yuan Hongnao only hesitated for a moment in his mind, and then said to the others: "Don't hesitate, rush over with me."
The fence on the road does not occupy the entire road, but only blocks the middle of the road. People can pass through the areas covered with weeds on both sides of the road.
Jinyiwei Zhang Qing rushed to the front, holding his Xiuchundao with one hand.
A person behind the fence said: "Commander, do you want to stop them? There are only four of them? Even if we don't use fire guns, I can still stop them."
"Don't worry about these people. Follow me to the side of the road and let them pass. We only block the carriages, not the people." Huang Jun said.
At the same time, he took a few steps back to one side of the road, leaving the other side of the fence open for the guards to pass.
Zhang Qing, who was riding at the front, did not expect that the bandits in front would take the initiative to retreat. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief, waved the reins, increased his horse speed, and took the lead in rushing over from the other side of the fence.
Following closely behind were three other Jin Yiwei, who rushed over from the fence one after another.
Huang Jun turned around and saw the Jinyi guards walking away, and then he said, "Let's go to the carriage with me."
The horse that was hit by the arrow fell down on the road before it could reach the fence. Blood was bleeding from its neck and abdomen, and it could see that it had no air intake.
Several boxes on the carriage all fell from the carriage to the ground, and silver was scattered around.
Huang Hong said to his subordinates: "Put all the money back into the box."
A dozen soldiers under him began to pick up the silver on the ground and put the ingots of silver back into the wooden box.
Zhou Qingyun rushed over from the hillside and brought the other two teams to the carriage.
"Captain, everything on the carriage is here, and the Jin Yiwei subordinates didn't stop them and let them go." Huang Jun came to Zhou Qingyun to report.
Zhou Qingyun nodded, and then said: "Where is the driver who drove the car before?"
"I didn't see it." Huang Jun shook his head slightly and said immediately, "Maybe he escaped during the chaos. Would you like me to send someone to search the area?"
"Since he escaped, don't worry about him." Zhou Qingyun said, "It's only a dozen miles away from the nearest county. We can't waste time for a coachman and leave immediately after collecting the money on the ground."
"Yes." Huang Jun agreed.
Someone from the Foreign Intelligence Service came over, and two carriages came with him.
"Captain Zhou, please ask your people to carry these boxes of silver to these two carriages." The young and strong man said to Zhou Qingyun with a smile.
Zhou Qingyun turned around, pointed at his subordinates, and said, "Take these wooden boxes containing silver and carry them to the carriage."
The carriages are all ordinary carts, not four-wheel carts like the Tiger Flag.
Soon, all the wooden boxes were loaded on two different carriages.
The people from the Foreign Intelligence Agency said to Zhou Qingyun again: "Captain Zhou, please escort me to the bank of the river five miles away."
"No problem." Zhou Qingyun nodded.
The wooden boxes containing the silver were loaded separately on two carriages, and they drove much faster than one carriage. It didn't take long for the carriages and people to disappear from the official road.
Yuan Hong endured the pain caused by the wound and came to the county with several other Jinyi guards.
The brocade clothes and embroidered spring knife on his body were the best signs. No one dared to stop him after entering the city, and he went straight to the county government office in the county town.
Less than half an hour later, hundreds of police officers and white guards followed the two guards in golden clothes out of the city gate and rushed towards the official road to the west.
