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Chapter 517 Brother Xu Wu is so confused [Thank you! Goodbye! I owe you 40k more]

"What are you doing? Where is the donkey's owner?"

The thieves, whose weapons had been stripped and whose hands had been tied, lay aside. Qingyun and He Guan pulled out the arrows from their bodies while asking them questions.

Xu Zaijing patted the agitated donkey's neck.
After calming him down,

He casually lifted the cloth covering the wicker basket.

Looking at what is hidden in the basket,
Xu Zaijing narrowed his eyes slightly.

aside,
Gu Tingye, who was watching the interrogation of He Guan and Gao Puyu, his eyes widened when he saw what Xu Zaijing took out of the wicker basket.

Gu Tingye walked to the other donkey, looked at the bundles of crossbow arrows in the basket, raised his head and said in surprise: "Brother Jing, these...they..."

Xu Zaijing looked at the accessories of the crossbow in his hand and said, "They are trying to ambush us."

As he spoke, Xu Zaijing turned his head and looked forward.
There are many trees planted on both sides of the official road ahead. Some of the trunks are as thick as a bowl, while others can be hugged by a young man. They are not sparse and block a lot of view.

The bloody smell has spread on the road.

The three people who were shot down had sweat on their foreheads and screamed in pain, but they did not answer the questions asked by Qingyun, He Guan and others.

Qingyun looked up at Xu Zaijing and said, "Sir, these three people are like dead men, they are very stubborn."

Xu Zaijing nodded: "Yes, stop the bleeding and apply medicine, and hand it over to the clerk of the Imperial City Department in Beijing when we return to Beijing."

Hearing Xu Zaijing say this,
The three people who were shot by arrows had different expressions.

Some of them breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed, and were dragged away by Qingyun;
Someone had a stream of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth. It was the blood that flowed out of his mouth when he raised his mouth corner to sneer.
The oldest one, however, lowered his head, and Xu Zaijing could not see any expression on his face.

Glancing at the expressions of the three people, Xu Zaijing said, "Horsemen and horses are wearing armor!"

The official road of the Great Zhou Dynasty,

Next to a brick bridge,
On both sides of the bridge, there are piles of earth dug out from the dredging process, more than one meter high.

Looking from the mound, the trees blocked a lot of the view.
Through the gaps in the woods, I could vaguely see smoke and dust floating in the distance, and the sound of horse hooves.

There is little water in winter, and most of the ditches under the bridge have dried up. Only a few puddles formed by the river water near the bridge are still moist.

There are a lot of fallen leaves and dead grass around the puddle beside the bridge. Through the dead grass, you can see that the puddle is actually dark red.

In the gray bridge tunnel just below the brick-earth bridge, there were several young figures in tattered clothes lying there, and the puddles were dyed red by the blood flowing from beneath them.

Not far away there were bundles of firewood scattered around.

Beside the mound on the ditch,
There were more than a dozen people holding crossbows and knives, crouching and hiding there.

These people all wore face scarves, one to cover their faces, and two to prevent the white breath they exhaled from being seen.

As the sound of horse hooves gradually grew louder, some people began to step on the stirrup at the front of the powerful crossbow, using their hands and feet to load arrows into the crossbow.

suddenly,

The sound of horse hooves, which should have been getting closer, gradually disappeared at this moment.

This made the dozen people behind the mound stop what they were doing.

Some people who were standing by took advantage of their position and looked out quietly.

In the field of vision, the target, which should have been advancing lightly, was now covered in armor, both men and horses.

Xu Zaijing stopped his horse on the official road.
I turned my head to the side and looked at the reed marshland with traces of harvest.
Then he looked at the official road a dozen steps away.
Then he looked at the mound of earth by the river about forty or fifty steps away.

Following behind Xu Zaijing, Gu Tingye, who was wearing armor, turned his head and looked forward curiously through the gap in his helmet.

"Brother Jing, what's wrong?"

Gao Puyu, who was standing by, said, "Erlang, there is a tripwire. Look, it's at the place where the wind is blowing up dust."

"This road looks flat, but there might be pits dug there that could trap horses' legs."

When Gu Tingye heard this, he looked ahead carefully.

Gao Puyu saw Xu Zaijing looking back and shouted knowingly, "Fire!"

quickly,

The Gu family's personal soldiers who followed behind him used the reserved fire to ignite several fire feather arrows tied with flammable oil.

The flaming arrows quickly ignited the reeds on the roadside.
The north wind blows in winter,

Xu Zaijing and others were in the upper wind direction.

The fire took advantage of the wind and burned fiercely in a few breaths.

Seeing the dark shadows rising and fleeing from the depths of the reeds, He Guan beside Xu Zaijing had already drawn his bow and arrow and shot at the thieves.

"Ji Lang, let's go!"

"what!"

Gao Puyu shouted from the side.

Afterwards, Gu Tingye followed Gao Puyu, brought his personal soldiers, rode his horse down the official road, and went around to the two sides of the mound beside the bridge.

He Guan and Qing Yun rode their horses in a roundabout way to the other side.

While riding the horses, He Guan and Qing Yun kept drawing their bows and shooting.

At the bridge in the distance,
Seeing that things were exposed,

There was already someone behind the mound, shouting and directing people to go to both sides and defend the flanks with crossbows.

As the people rode their horses,
From time to time, crossbow arrows were shot out from behind the mound.

Gu Tingye skillfully used equestrian techniques such as hiding in the stirrups, either to dodge arrows or to draw the bow.

Xu Zaijing did not follow the official road, but instead trotted along the drainage ditch on one side of the official road, heading straight for the bridge.

There were raging flames in the reed marsh on the other side, and black ashes were flying into the air.

"Ding"

"Snapped"

From time to time, crossbow arrows were shot over, but were either knocked away or knocked down by the bow arm of Xu Zaijing's strong bow.

When the thieves behind the mound were setting up their crossbows, Xu Zaijing would draw his bow and fight back.

When we were still a dozen steps away from the bridge,

Looking at the terrain near the mound, Xu Zaijing dodged a crossbow arrow by turning his head and then squeezed the horse's belly hard.

The little black horses, cooperating well with each other, sped up immediately and ran towards the slope.

Looking at the little black colt running towards me,
The thief behind the mound quickly suppressed the powerful crossbow of his companion beside him and shouted in Northern Liao dialect: "Wait for his mount to go up the hill, and the mount's belly will not have any horse armor!"

The thief's companions understood and the horses stepped uphill, with their bellies no longer facing downwards but slightly raised, which was a good opportunity to shoot them.

To shoot a man, shoot a horse first; to capture a thief, capture the king first!
If the horse was injured, frightened and fell down, crushing the knight, with such heavy armor plus the weight of the horse, the knight would be a lamb to be slaughtered even if he had all the armor.

While talking,
Xu Zaijing was already approaching on horseback.
then,

Under the thieves' surprised eyes, the little black colt suddenly turned around and faced them sideways.

At this time, Xu Zaijing had already put the strong bow back into the bow bag, holding the long spear with one hand, and exerted a little force on the saddle with the other hand. With his feet slightly standing on the stirrups, the whole person instantly flew into the air.

Then, Xu Zaijing just got off the horse from the tail of the little black colt.

During the entire process, the belly of the little black colt, which had no horse armor, was never exposed to the crossbow arrows.

"Crack~"

The long spear danced in Xu Zaijing's hand, blocking the crossbow arrow shot from behind the slope.

But it seemed that Xu Zaijing's actions surprised them too much, and the crossbow arrows were shot at different times.

"Ding~"

"Duo~"

Some crossbow arrows were nailed on Xu Zaijing's arm shield, and some were nailed on the front of Xu Zaijing's armor.

These crossbow arrows only hindered their progress slightly.
Xu Zaijing then rushed towards the thief quickly.

"Woo~"

The sound of a long spear breaking through the air was heard.

The bandit leader, who had just given orders in Northern Liao dialect, reflexively raised his crossbow to block.

"cha"

There was a teeth-grinding sound of wood tearing, the crossbow broke into pieces, and the leader was slammed to the ground with his chest sunken.

Pierce, collapse, pierce, pick and chop.

The bright spear blade shuttled through the crowd of thieves like a swimming dragon.

If it touches you, you will be seriously injured, and if it hits you once, you will die.

As Xu Zaijing twisted and turned, crossbow arrows were shot at him from behind from time to time.

Some of them pierced Xu Zaijing's armor, and some, after Xu Zaijing dodged, shot into the thief lying on the ground.

After a dozen breaths,

Because Xu Zaijing advanced in the middle, the bandits who were attacked from both sides behind the mound by the river had no choice but to flee or be chased by Qingyun and He Guan.

"Sigh~" on the other side of the bridge

There was the sound of horses neighing,
Xu Zaijing quickly turned around and ran towards the direction where Gu Tingye, Gao Puyu and the others were taking a detour.

The thief who had just shot Xu Zaijing with a crossbow from behind had disappeared.

Xu Zaijing quickly ran to the other side.
In his field of vision were a group of thieves with their backs to him, busy shooting at Gu Tingye and others.

Xu Zaijing was a little anxious. He wanted to whistle to call the little black colt, but the neck of the helmet blocked his mouth tightly.

At this time,

"Deng Deng"

"Pfft~"

The little black colt strolled up to him and snorted.

Xu Zaijing happily patted the little black colt's neck, which was covered with horse armor.

"Hey!"

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The lance tip was stuck into the ground.

Xu Zaijing took the strong bow from the saddle of the little black horse and began to call out the names of the students one by one.

But four or five arrows,
The thief who had his back to him was caught off guard and was soon hunted down by Gao Puyu and other Gu family soldiers.

Why didn't Gu Tingye go? Because the leg of the horse he was riding was hit by a crossbow.

In the reed marsh beside the official road,
The reeds had been burned by the flames, leaving only ashes on the ground and a few wisps of smoke.

The bridge, which had just been filled with shouts and cries of killing, had now returned to the quietness that it should have on a winter afternoon.

Bridge side,

Gu Tingye was removing the armor from his mount with a look of loving care, and from time to time he glanced at Xu Zaijing.

Not far away, Qing Yun and He Guan, who were chasing people, were dragging two or three corpses each behind their horses. They were walking towards here from the other side of the river, leaving red drag marks along the way.

Gao Puyu and several of the Gu family's personal soldiers were also dragging corpses or thieves who were shot but not killed.

Not far in front of Xu Zaijing, a woman with disheveled hair that did not hide her fair skin and beautiful face, eyes as clear and charming as water between her hair, was lying on the side with her legs curled up and a coquettish figure.

The woman had a feather arrow stuck in her shoulder, and her tearful expression was very adorable.

But Xu Zaijing had no time to look at the woman, because when he was charging at the bandits with his long spear just now, he was hit by several arrows from the bandits, and the arrows were still stuck in his armor on the back.

Xu Zaijing, with a crossbow arrow stuck in his back, looked a little funny in the setting sun.

After pulling out a crossbow arrow that was embedded in the chain mail, Xu Zaijing carefully looked at the arrowhead.

After a while,

Gu Tingye came over to help Xu Zaijing remove the crossbow arrows.
Qingyun and He Guan joined the team collecting the bodies.
Soon, the bodies of the thieves were neatly laid out, and the injured but still alive thieves were dragged aside and tied up.

"Son!"

Qingyun's shout came from the ditch,
Xu Zaijing and Gu Tingye turned their heads to look.
Then they saw the bodies of four ragged children, both boys and girls, being carried out from under the bridge.

He Guan looked at the traces around him and sighed, "I think these kids were picking up firewood nearby and were unlucky enough to see these thieves and were killed by them."

Saying,

He Guan walked to the side, took the bow and arrow from his mount, and walked towards the thief who was tied to the side and still groaning in pain.

"Open your mouth!"

He Guan's cold voice came.

"Bang!" The bowstring vibrated.

After two bowstring vibrations, two more corpses appeared next to the row of corpses.

Xu Zaijing said, "Brother He, don't do anything yet. Someone is coming. Don't scare them."

He Guan looked up and saw someone walking towards him shakily along the mound of earth at the edge of the ditch in the distance.

It was an old man wearing thick clothes and leaning on a cane.

As he approached, the old man looked at the scene beside the bridge. He was not sure whether he was frightened or cold. He swallowed his saliva, raised his cane and bowed, saying:
"My dear fellows, I am a local elder and have served under General Yao of the Western Army. I wonder if you have ever seen the children in my village?"

"Age"

In the middle of his words, the old man looked at the scene not far from the bridge and lamented, "Oh, oh! This, this, come and take a look!"

While sighing, he pounded the ground repeatedly with his cane.

I heard the old man shouting,
Not far behind the old man, several villagers, both men and women, appeared.

quickly,

There are more and more people around.

Amid the cries of the child's parents, the villagers who gathered nearby had some sighing and sorrowful expressions on their faces, while some strong young men were looking at the woman who was shot by an arrow not far away and whispering to each other.

The old man who had stepped forward first stood aside with a look of admiration on his face, nodding his head and saying, "So it's the young masters of the Yongyi Marquis and the Ningyuan Marquis who are here to eliminate the thieves. I'm sorry for being so rude."

As he spoke, the old man would occasionally look with envy at the strong bows, fine horses, long spears and armor not far away from him.

Gao Puyu on the side said: "Just now, if the father-in-law hadn't come, we would have gone to look for it nearby!"

The old man nodded repeatedly.

Xu Zaijing said, "Father, when the reward money from the Imperial City Bureau comes in for the four children who died in the village, you will have to take the trouble to distribute the money."

The old man cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry, I will keep it in mind."

Xu Zaijing bowed and said, "Thank you, old man."

At this time, He Guan said, "Father, we are going to execute these thieves who are still alive on the spot! Let the villagers hide for a while."

"This Yu Hou, there is no need to avoid it. Killing the bandits here can be considered as some consolation to them."

The old man said this and looked at the child's family who were still crying.

"Yeah! That's good!"

Saying,

He Guan walked towards the three Northern Liao spies who were tied to the cart and had been standing next to the donkey.

The three Northern Liao spies who had just been tied to the car and thought they could survive until entering Bianliang looked at He Guan who was approaching, and some of them had a rare look of cowardice in their eyes.

"Let me go! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!"

One of the spies who had been silent just now now shouted incoherently and with a frightened look on his face.

Someone at the side was shouting in Northern Liao dialect, seemingly scolding the cowardly person.

quickly,

"Zhou Dog~"

"Mitsuraya is here!"

After the shouts and prayers, He Guan's bow struck three times.

Watching her surviving companions on the bridge being executed one by one by He Guan, the woman who was shot by the arrow's eyes gradually changed from resolute at the beginning to not daring to look at He Guan.

At the same time, he looked pitifully at Xu Zaijing, Gu Tingye and others.

Gu Tingye licked his lips and was about to speak, but when he saw Xu Zaijing's cold eyes, he swallowed.

Subsequently,

When He Guan walked over, grabbed the Northern Liao spy's hair and dragged him towards the rows of corpses,
The spy didn't say anything at first, and looked like he was waiting to die calmly.

But halfway through, the spy ignored the arrow wound on his shoulder and started kicking his legs wildly: "I, I, I know a lot, a lot, don't, don't kill me!"

The voice was shrill.

The old man glanced at Xu Zaijing. After a while, he already knew that among this group of strong men, this young nobleman was the one who had the final say.

"My two lords, several Yu Hou, I have also been in the army, and I know that a living, rebellious enemy is much more useful than a dead one! So, let this Yu Hou stop!"

As he spoke, the old man looked at the eight feather arrows standing upright on the ground not far away, their tail feathers trembling in the north wind.

The pungent smell of blood made the old man feel as if he had returned to the northwest battlefield decades ago.

Second day

In Bianjing City,

British government,

Zhang Jia Wu Niang raised her lips slightly, looked at everyone in the room with a teasing look in her eyes, and said, "I heard that Brother Xu Wu brought a woman back to Beijing last night!"

"what?"

"what?"

Several officials’ wives and noble ladies in the room exclaimed in surprise.

There were various coincidences of favors, unintentional connections, and love scenes in storybooks and songs, which flashed through the minds of some of the noble ladies in the house.

The short-sighted Li family's fifth wife narrowed her eyes, held Yu Yanran's hand, and sighed: "Ah? This, Brother Xu, he is confused!"

(End of this chapter)