"It's impossible to get through."
The road south was not smooth.
Zuo Mengeng and others walked to the outskirts of a village and were blocked.
The village was the only access, but it was occupied by hundreds of bandits on horseback.
From far away, you can see the flames in the village rising into the sky, and the faint screams of women and children can be heard in the cold wind.
Apparently the horse bandits were burning, killing, looting and doing all kinds of evil inside.
Zuo Mengeng and the other three frowned, and Miss Xu started nagging again.
"I'd say go north to the capital. It's far enough to avoid the bandits. You guys are just ignorant."
"Shut up."
Zuo Mengeng was upset and had a bad temper, and he didn't tolerate her.
Miss Xu was furious and wanted to argue, but fortunately Zuo Rong warned her.
"somebody is coming."
The four people quickly lowered their bodies and took a peek.
I saw four or five horses coming from a distance, neither fast nor slow. Although the people on the horses covered their faces with black scarves, they were talking and laughing wantonly.
The place where Zuo Mengeng and the others were hiding was behind a reverse slope on the roadside. Although they were next to the road, they didn't have to worry about being discovered. They just listened.
"Brother, what do you think the holy aunt wanted to do when she called us here?"
"Why do you care so much? She, Saint Aunt White Lotus, is so powerful now, we can just make do with it."
"Brother, do you think there are so many comrades here this time and we all don't know each other? Are you afraid of causing trouble?"
"It's good that you know. Please be alert this time and stay away from others. If someone wants to do something evil, let's do it first."
With an awe-inspiring response, he rode over and entered the village.
Zuo Mengeng frowned in thought and vaguely noticed something.
"Zuo Rong, the horse bandits who chased us that day were all wearing masks, right?"
Zuo Rong didn't understand why he asked, so he just nodded and gave him some popular science.
"Young master, I don't know. There are not many other places 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 are in trouble. Shadow, a ruthless bandit who disappeared without a trace. Back then, brothers Liu Liu and Liu Qi caused a lot of trouble with the horse bandits."
Zuo Menggeng was certainly aware of Liu Liu and Liu Qi's uprising.
After all, Yang Kuohu met the Duke of Yang named Yang, and it was quite a romantic affair.
Zuo Rong added: "What the horse bandits do is to behead people, so you have to be very careful. There are not many of them, but I don't know how many groups there are. They are not in contact with each other. In this way, even if there is a group of horses, The gangster is caught, and no one else can be implicated.”
Zuo Mengeng finally figured out his thinking.
"So they all cover their faces because they're afraid of being exposed?"
Zuo Rong nodded.
Zuo Mengeng pointed to the village and asked, "There are about a hundred horse bandits there. Do you think they are a group?"
Zuo Rong laughed out loud and shook his head.
"Impossible. For the sake of safety, the horse bandits can be in a group of at most ten people, or as few as two or three people. There are more than a hundred people, and it is impossible to hide their tracks. The government has already exposed them, and it is impossible to survive until now."
That's it, Zuo Mengeng finally has a plan.
He pointed at the three cavalrymen coming slowly from a distance and ordered: "Shoot those three people down, don't scare off the enemy."
Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua didn't understand what he wanted to do, but they followed the order very faithfully, and they were ready with their bows and arrows.
Miss Xu saw the clues.
"You want to fish in troubled waters."
Zuo Mengeng gave her an appreciative look.
"What a pity. If you were a man, you would definitely do something great."
Miss Xu didn't care what she did or didn't do, and said anxiously: "You three can hide the truth, what should I do?"
Zuo Menggeng and the other three grown men, with their faces covered, looked more like horse bandits than horse bandits. But she is a weak woman. She cannot ride a horse, nor can she hide her figure.
Zuo Mengeng gave her a reassuring look.
"The mountain man has his own clever plan."
While talking, the three knights in the distance came closer. Just like the people who passed by before, they were still shouting and laughing, and they didn't expect that murderous intent was lurking around them.
Seeing that the three horsemen were at their feet, Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua stood up suddenly and shot down the two horse bandits with one arrow each. Zuo Rong was faster. Just as the first arrow was shot, the second arrow also left the string.
A good shot of arrows.
The three horse bandits did not create any waves and became dead souls under the arrow. Their mounts were ignorant and stood where they were after their master died.
Zuo Mengeng and the other two people rushed down, led the horses, moved the corpses, and cleared the scene in the blink of an eye.
The bodies of the three horse bandits were randomly thrown into the grass, and their face scarves were also put on the faces of Zuo Mengeng and the other three.
Miss Xu was just anxious.
"Me, me, you can't ignore me."
Zuo Mengeng chuckled.
"Miss Xu, I have wronged you."
As he spoke, he jumped up behind Miss Xu and took out a piece of hemp rope. Put Miss Xu's arms together and tie them tightly.
"You...what are you going to do?"
Zuo Mengeng picked her up and put her on the horse.
"Since it's difficult to hide your figure, you can be my wife first."
Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua clapped their hands and laughed, praising the idea as a good one.
Bandits burned, killed and looted everywhere, and robbed beautiful women for pleasure. In this way, it would not be out of the ordinary for the three of them to have a woman with them.
Miss Xu lay on the back of the horse, facing the loess. She was so angry that her mouth was full of smoke, but she had no choice but to crush her silver teeth.
"Zuo Mengeng, wait."
Zuo Mengeng didn't know her resentment, so he got on his horse and ran towards the village with Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua.
The village was in chaos. All the horse bandits were enjoying themselves and turned a blind eye to their appearance.
However, a guy with an evil gleam in his eyes ran over and shouted: "Brother, this girl you snatched is pretty good, how about giving it to me?"
Zuo Mengeng laughed loudly and tried his best to look rude.
"Grandpa has been a bachelor for a long time. He finally got a woman, and he wants to take her back to continue the family line. Look, this big ass can be fertile at first glance."
Saying that was not enough, he raised his hand again and slapped Miss Xu's round butt with a big slap.
This is the second time.
The strong shock almost knocked Miss Xu's soul away. Half of her body was numb and she almost wanted to curse.
Fortunately, I remembered that I was in danger, so I barely held back, and silently hypnotized myself in my mind.
"My surname is Zuo. If I don't avenge you, I will never be a human being."
The horse bandit stared greedily at Miss Xu's beautiful figure, becoming more and more lustful and unable to bear it.
"Brother, give this bitch to me and I'll give you three hundred taels of silver."
"Three hundred taels?"
Zuo Mengeng pretended to be hesitant, but Miss Xu was going crazy.
Wouldn't this guy just sell himself for three hundred taels of silver?
She had made up her mind that as long as Zuo Mengeng dared to do this, she would yell and reveal Zuo Mengeng's identity.
If you want to die, let's all die together.
"Tch, grandpa has robbed countless treasures these days, and grandpa still doesn't like three hundred taels of silver. Unless it's five thousand taels, if you come up with five thousand taels, we'll make a deal."
The horse bandit's expression changed drastically and he cursed loudly.
"Five thousand taels for a girl, thanks for your words, are you suffering from hysteria and going crazy? You bastard, you came here to entertain me."
The horse bandits around him laughed loudly, just watching the fun.
Zuo Mengeng clamped the horse's belly and continued to move forward.
"You can't even grab five thousand taels of silver. If I were you, I would find a cesspool and soak the ball myself."
The horse bandit couldn't take out five thousand taels of silver no matter what, so he returned to his original position cursing.
A short episode passed, and Zuo Mengeng and the others continued to move forward without any further problems.
But just as he was about to leave the village, there was a sound of resistance from the side.
"What are you going for?"
Zuo Mengeng turned his head and saw a man as strong as an iron tower. The knife in his hand is also much larger than others, weighing at least fifty kilograms.
There are many people around this man, about twenty in total, and he is probably the most powerful group among the horse bandits.
But thinking about Zuo Rong's introduction, he was fearless and snorted coldly: "Didn't you see that grandpa snatched a treasure? Find a place to enjoy it. What, you want to see grandpa's majesty? Then come along. "
The others burst into laughter at such dirty talk, but not the big man.
"You have to enjoy it later, come along, it's time to do something."
Zuo Mengeng's heart tightened and he said, "Grandpa wants to play with women now, and do something stupid?"
The big man looked over with sadness.
"If you don't listen to the Holy Aunt's orders, try it."
After saying that, he stopped talking, got on the horse, and led the people forward.
The rest of the horse bandits changed their previous laziness and mounted their horses one after another, gathering behind the man and forming a team.
"Master, what should we do? How about we run away?"
It sounds like a bad idea at first sight.
"Where to run? These are horse bandits, do you think we can outrun them?"
Zuo Mengeng had no choice but to ride his horse to keep up, and ended up at the end of the bandits' team.
Seeing the three of them following, the rest of the horse bandits stopped looking at them. More than a hundred people moved forward silently, not knowing what to do.
After traveling east for about thirty miles, we came to a battlefield.
The sky is filled with dust and sand, and there are shouts of killing. There is a fierce battle between the two armies.
One of them is far away, but its numbers are endless, scattered everywhere on the plain, and they are charging and killing indiscriminately.
From a distance, these people were in ragged clothes, with yellow faces and skinny muscles, and they had all kinds of weapons in their hands. Hoes, sickles, dung forks, everything.
The other side was directly in front of the horse bandits, arrayed with their backs to them.
There are not many people, there are thousands of people coming, but the formation is quite strict and the levels are clear. A few big flags were flying, and the clothes and armor were not bright, but they were armored after all.
Especially since there are firearms in the formation, each time it erupts, it is extremely powerful.
The lethality...
Anyway, two or three of the rioters fell down, and the rest immediately ran back in fear.
One infected the two, and both got onychomycosis... No, it was fear that spread quickly, and the mob fled back in droves.
But there was a supervising team behind them. After beheading several heads in a row, the mob turned around again and attacked the official army.
If you advance, you will die, if you retreat, you will die. The rebellious people have no choice.
As the saying goes, the best way to defeat fear is to face it.
When death is inevitable no matter what, the mob is no longer afraid of death. When they charged again, they actually gained an overwhelming reputation.
On the other side, the officers and soldiers had already seen the horse bandits approaching, and they couldn't help but feel a little confused.
These are all infantry, so it doesn't matter if they are fighting with the mob on the plains. Facing the cavalry, I'm afraid they will be massacred.
The generals of the official army were obviously panicked. While commanding the infantry in front to withstand the charge of the mob, they also mobilized troops and generals to defend the rear formation.
The horse bandits won't give him any time.
The leading man raised his machete and led the more than 20 people around him to accelerate the horse.
"Master, do we want to go too? We are fighting against the army. If we are discovered, we will be executed."
Zuo Rong couldn't make up his mind, so he had to look at Zuo Mengeng.
Seeing that the other horse bandits also started to move, Zuo Mengeng's eyes became sinister.
"This is our opportunity, wait and see my signal."
As he spoke, he grabbed Miss Xu and cut the rope around her wrist.
Finally freed, Miss Xu hurriedly pulled out the cloth from her mouth and beat Zuo Mengeng repeatedly.
"You little brat, if you dare to humiliate me, I will never listen to you now."
Wu Nong's soft-spoken curses were really ineffective. Miss Xu's embroidery boxing was almost like a massage, and Zuo Mengeng felt nothing at all.
He grabbed Miss Xu's waist and immediately changed her position and placed her behind him. Then he handed over the cloth strip in his hand and ordered: "Tie it up, we are going to fight hard."
Miss Xu was stunned and made several gestures with the cloth before she understood what it meant. He stretched his arm across Zuo Mengeng's waist, then looped it around his own waist, and then tied the cloth into a tight knot.
In this way, she and Zuo Mengeng were firmly tied together.
Unless Zuo Mengeng fell from his horse, nothing would happen to her.
Because of the binding of the cloth strips, Miss Xu had to stick closely to Zuo Mengeng.
The man's broad back was like a city wall, but his hot breath was like coals, and it blocked the biting cold wind that hit his face, which made people feel at ease.
Miss Xu stopped making trouble. She was quite tall. At this time, she could only shrink her body as much as possible and hide silently behind Zuo Mengeng.
She didn't know what he was going to do, but this time it would be something shocking.
More than a hundred horses let go of their legs and feet, reaching the limit of speed, and rushed towards the officers and soldiers.
Once this group of cavalry is knocked into the formation, the army's defense line will definitely collapse. When the mob in front rushes in again, this group of officers and soldiers will be completely annihilated.
Zuo Menggeng and three others were at the very back of the cavalry, and no one noticed their situation.
And this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Zuo Mengeng pulled out his scimitar and waved it in the air twice. Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua received the signal and also drew their swords out of their sheaths.
Seeing that the cavalry was less than 200 steps away from the army, Zuo Mengeng's eyes were filled with murderous intent.
He laid the machete flat, with the blade facing forward, at the height of the horse's neck, and then kicked the horse's belly hard.
The horse was stimulated and accelerated suddenly again, catching up with the horse bandit in front of him.
Although these horse bandits did not wear armor, when they charged, they all lay on their backs, making it difficult to hit vital points when slashing from behind.
Coupled with the need to save energy, Zuo Mengeng adopted a destructive style of play.
When the flat scimitar used the speed of the horse to rush past the person in front, the sharp blade directly cut open the left rib of the horse bandit like cutting tofu.
Amidst the screams, the horse bandit lost all his strength and immediately fell from his horse.
Zuo Mengeng didn't care at all and just kept pushing the horse to speed up.
His horse speed became faster and faster, and when he overtook a horse bandit, one of them was cut off from his horse. All he had to do was adjust the direction of the blade back and forth depending on whether the horse bandit was on his left or right side.
Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua, who were following him, were responsible for finishing the blows. The horse bandits he didn't kill were all cut down by the two of them.
Soon, the other horse bandits noticed something was wrong. Looking back, I saw a large number of dead souls.
"What a thief!"
"There's a mole!"
The horse bandits never expected that there would be a traitor among them.
Seeing that they were about to engage in battle with the officers and soldiers, the mole took action at this time and caught them off guard.
Some of the horse bandits scattered in panic, while others wanted to turn around and stop them.
But the cavalry were all galloping in the same direction, and turning back at this time was tantamount to courting death.
Sure enough, many of the mounts collided with each other, causing them to flip over, making the cavalry even more chaotic.
By this time, there was no need to conceal one's whereabouts.
Zuo Mengeng lifted up his face mask, raised his machete high, and started slashing with all his might.
"kill!"
Zuo Rong and Zuo Hua followed closely. Wherever the three of them went, no one could stop them. In an instant, about thirty horse bandits lost their lives in a daze.
It turned out that the generals of the army had closed their eyes and waited to die when they saw the charge of the horse bandits. As a result, I saw that there was chaos within the cavalry team, and the momentum of the charge suddenly dropped. I couldn't help but be overjoyed.
Before he could think too much, he jumped on his horse, pointed his flag, and led his men to charge forward.
Zuo Mengeng didn't know how many people he had killed, but the anger he had received these days had really dissipated a lot.
In just a moment, they had already killed the cavalry and rushed to the front.
Just at this time, the officer general had rushed in and fought with the leader of the horse bandits.
Seeing the two men fighting with their lives and completely forgetting themselves, Zuo Mengeng urged his horse to mount.
People are like the wind, horses are like dragons, and the light of the sword is like the Milky Way flying across the sky.
The leader of the horse bandits couldn't care less about the murderous intention behind it, and the huge head flew into the air.
The rest of the horse bandits wanted to come to the rescue, but when they saw the leader's head flying off, they all lost their fighting spirit. Without saying a word, they hit their horses and galloped away, and they went away faster than when they came.
The crisis of annihilation of the army was completely lifted.
On the other side, without the support of the cavalry, the dead bodies of the rebels were scattered across the field, and they ran away again.
Soon, the entire battlefield fell into silence. Except for the smoke and the smell of blood, it seemed as if nothing had happened.
"My general Nanpi attacked Liu Yuanqing in a guerrilla attack. You abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side. You have made great achievements in killing the thieves. Would you like to join my general?"
