Mingshi

Chapter 642

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The businessman took two steps back, then turned and left, with a sneer on his face, and thought to himself:

"It's as timid as a mouse!"

"Power, step aside!"

"Yes, Lord Hou!"

Wan Daquan ordered the team to move to the side of the team, at this time Luo Xin had already got off the carriage and stood by the roadside.Wan Daquan came in front of Luo Xin, eagerly wanting to say something, but he didn't dare to say anything.Luo Xin said:
"Let it go!"

"Yes, Lord Hou!" Wan Daquan's expression was still looking forward to Ai Ai said: "Master Hou, if there are really bandits in front, we let those merchants explore the way, is it... is it..."

"Could it be that this Marquis has a dark heart and disregards human life?" Luo Xin's face turned red.

"No... just..."

"Don't worry!" Luo Xin walked to the side of the carriage and took out a wooden box, opened the wooden box, and inside lay the telescope that Zhang Daoyuan gave him, took the telescope in his hand and said:
"Even if someone is ambushing there, it's not a bandit."

"Not a bandit?"

"Yeah!" Luo Xin nodded and said, "They are the ones who specially ambushed us. They won't attack unless they see us. So I let those businessmen go first, so as not to follow us, and once they fight, it will bring disaster to Chiyu."

Luo Xin picked up the binoculars and looked at the mountains on both sides of the road. The two-step mountain was not high, only about 500 meters high, and the road between the two wings was about [-] meters long.The mountains on both sides were densely covered with trees. Luo Xin watched for a long time, and he didn't find anything until the merchants passed the road safely.

However, Luo Xin knew that if he didn't find anything, it didn't mean that there were no people there, because the trees were too dense, if those people hid inside and didn't move, even if he had a telescope, he wouldn't be able to find them.

"Master Hou, what should we do?" Wan Daquan asked softly.

"Daquan, if you were here to ambush this Marquis, what would you do?" Luo Xin asked casually while looking ahead.

Wan Daquan's expression became tense and he said, "How dare my subordinates ambush Lord Hou..."

Luo Xin said dumbfoundedly: "I'm just making an analogy, so hurry up and say, why have you lost your courage after leaving the battlefield?"

"Yes, Lord Hou!" Wan Daquan thought for a while and said, "Huo Gong, wait for Hou Ye's team to get to the middle, and then use Fire Gong to seal the two ends of the road, and then you can shoot at will."

"That's right!" Luo Xin also nodded seriously.

At this time, the businessman who had already crossed that road looked back at Luo Xin's team, seeing that Luo Xin and the others hadn't moved, he couldn't help but sneered twice:

"How timid! What else can such a person do besides ups and downs the common people?"

On the other side of the road, Luo Xin looked at Wan Daquan and said, "If there are really people ambush me like you do on the mountains on both sides at this time, what do you think should be done?"

Wan Daquan immediately became serious, he knew that this was Luo Xin's assessment of him, if he could pass the assessment, he would have a bright future with Luo Xin.If he doesn't pass the assessment, even if Luo Xin doesn't replace him now, he will replace him when he finds new talents. After thinking about it seriously, he said:

"Take the ridge and drive those people out first."

"Not bad!" Luo Xin nodded happily, "Go ahead and take everyone away."

"My Lord, you..."

Luo Xin smiled lightly and said, "As long as I don't enter the ambush circle, they can't do anything to me. Daqing, horse!"

"Yes!"

Lu Daqing led two horses over, Luo Xin got on the horses and took the long knife.Lu Daqing also got on his horse, holding an iron rod in his hand. At this time, there was still a book boy there, majestic and murderous.

Wan Daquan just hesitated for a while, and did not persuade Luo Xin again.He admires Luo Xin very much, and also thinks that as long as Luo Xin does not enter the ambush circle, no one can threaten Luo Xin with some mob.Therefore, he quickly divided one hundred soldiers into two teams, each with fifty men, and marched towards the two ridges.

Luo Xin was riding a horse, standing in the middle of the mountain road, looking forward.Seeing Wang Daquan and others, they quickly came to the foot of the mountain, holding a shield, and quickly pushed towards the top of the ridge.

The top of the mountain was silent, and when Wan Daquan and the others reached the halfway up the mountain, arrows suddenly shot out from above.

"Sure enough, there is an ambush!"

Luo Xin smiled faintly, he was not worried about Wan Daquan and the others.On the one hand, Wan Daquan and the others are all battle-tested veterans with rich combat experience, and they are simply not comparable to the mob.Even Luo Xin believes that even the real officers and soldiers in the southeast are not the opponents of Wan Daquan and the others, or that only Qi Jiguang's Qi family army can compete with Wan Daquan and the others. .On the other hand, Luo Xin spent money on these guards. The armor and weapons were all high-end goods. As long as the opponent's number did not exceed 1000, Wan Daquan's 100 men could win the battle.

Moreover, Luo Xin did not believe that there would be 1000 people ambushing here.

Sure enough, Wan Daquan and the others quickly approached the top of the mountain with the help of trees.Those arrows hit the shield and were bounced off one after another.

Soon, Wan Daquan and the others were no more than ten meters away from the top of the mountain, when they heard a cry from the top of the mountain, and those people ran away from the other side of the mountain.

"drive!"

Luo Xin urged his horse fiercely, and rushed towards the mountain road.He had already seen that the people who ambushed him fled very quickly, which was clearly the movement of the Jianghu people. Now that Wan Daquan and the others had no horses, they couldn't catch up with those Jianghu people at all.So Luo Xin urged the horse to rush forward.

Luo Xin's analysis was correct. Those who ambushed him were some Jianghu people. They saw that the arrows they shot did not hurt Wan Daquan and the others alone, and also saw Wan Daquan's quick movements and the murderous aura emanating from them. Knowing that they are not opponents, and there are not many of them, and there are no more than sixty people in total.In this case, how not to run?
It took less than three breaths for the people above to escape, Wan Daquan and the others had already rushed to the top of the mountain.Wan Daquan was also an experienced person. He knew that he and the others would not be able to catch up just by looking at him, but he took off his bow and arrows in a calm manner, and headed towards the fleeing Jianghu people.At the same time, those veterans also shot arrows one after another.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

"Ah ah ah..."

There were screams at the sound of the bowstring, and in an instant, more than a dozen people fell to the ground and rolled down the mountain road.The rest of the people ran down the mountain frantically, exerting all their strength to feed.

Luo Xin at the bottom of the mountain heard the sound of bowstrings on the mountain, and his face showed admiration. When he rushed out of the mountain path, he saw that there were only a dozen people running down the mountain, and the rest were all taken by Wan Daquan and the others. shot.

At this time, those businessmen had already run to the side of the road, standing there tremblingly, and some guards held weapons and watched the dozen people warily.However, the dozen or so people didn't have time to talk to them at this time, and ran towards a woods under the mountain like the wind.

"boom……"

Luo Xin urged the horse to rush to the back of a person. Instead of slashing with the blade, he swept the back of the knife against the person's leg. He heard a "click" next to his ear, and the person screamed. , fell to the ground, howling and rolling.But Luo Xin's horse had already rushed out, knocking down five people in a row, and the remaining nine people had already rushed into the woods. Following a group of horses, the remaining nine people jumped on the horses one after another, and then rushed out of the woods.But in the end, only five people rushed out of the woods, and the remaining four were all beaten by Luo Xin, and even two people were knocked down by Luo Xin before they could jump on the horse. Luo Xin swept him down with a knife, and the other one ran a few steps before being caught up and swept down by Luo Xin.

Luo Xin urged his horse to rush out of the woods, but he saw that outside the woods, Lu Daqing had already knocked down three people, and only two people had run more than 50 meters away.Luo Xin snorted coldly, and urged his horse to chase after those two people.

Luo Xin's horse is a real good horse, how can it be compared with the broken horses of those two Jianghu people?
In just a dozen or so breaths, they chased a head-to-tail connection.At this time, the two killers were running wildly on the mountain road, one behind the other, and when they heard the sound of horseshoes behind them, the killer behind gritted his teeth, released a fierce light from his eyes, and slashed at Luo Xin with a backhand.He held a short knife in his hand, and Luo Xin held a long knife in his hand. Just as he turned around, the knife hadn't been cut completely, when there was a cold light in front of his eyes, and Luo Xin's figure had already rushed past him , Lun raised the long knife in his hand and slashed down towards the last killer.

The killer was already prepared, turned over and raised his knife to meet Luo Xin.

"when……"

The knife in his hand was split in two. Luo Xin cut it down, and his figure rushed out from one side. Behind him, the head of the person who was killed by Luo Xin first came out from the neck at this time. Rolling up and down, the headless corpse fell from the horse, a line of blood appeared between the eyebrows of the second person, and then the line of blood spread rapidly, the body split in two from the middle, and fell under the horse .

Luo Xin reined in his horse and looked towards the mountains on both sides. He saw Wan Daquan and the others rushing down at this moment, and shouted loudly:

"Catch the ones who are not dead."

Wan Daquan responded, and led people to arrest those who were not dead but disabled.Luo Xin looked at the businessmen on the side of the road and said:

"You can go!"

Those merchants were overjoyed when they heard the words, one by one got into the carriages and horses, and soon they were all gone.But at this time, Wan Daquan had already caught the undead people in front of Luo Xin, besides those wounded by Luo Xin, there were also a few who were shot by Wan Daquan and the others, there were seventeen people.Luo Xin glanced at them, and said to Wan Daquan:
"Interrogate them separately!"

"Yes, Lord Hou!"

With a wave of his hand, Wan Daquan separated the seventeen people and began to interrogate them.About two quarters of an hour later, Wan Daquan came to Luo Xin and said:
"Master Hou, they are just horse thieves in a fake village. A month ago, someone found them with a silver note of 5 taels and asked them to come and kill Lord Hou. They didn't know that person, but that person said that only by completing this task, he will give them 5 taels of silver, so they came."

Luo Xin frowned and said, "Didn't they think of stealing that person's money?"

"They said that the man's martial arts was very high. They thought about it and did it, but the man escaped easily and then came back. So they finally agreed to hire him."

Luo Xin frowned, his face was already gloomy.

"Master Hou, who is that person? Can you guess it?"

"Who else could it be?" Luo Xin stretched his eyebrows, and said lightly: "It's just those who don't want me to go to the southeast. I'm going to meet them instead, and ruin their jobs."

"Master Hou, these people?"

"Kill it!" Luo Xin said lightly: "Send someone to the nearest yamen and tell them about this matter."

"Yes, Lord Hou!"

Wan Daquan quickly dealt with the seventeen people, and then sent people back to the other side of the road to drive Luo Xin's carriage over. Luo Xin jumped off the horse and entered the carriage. The team headed towards Suzhou again. .

Two days later.

Luo Xin and his party entered Suzhou City.Went straight to the Suzhou station to stay, Luo Xin looked at the sky, it was almost dusk.So he put out the idea of ​​going to place Hu Zongxian immediately, and planned to go to the Southeast Governor's Yamen early tomorrow morning.

Through this assassination, Luo became vigilant in his heart.Although he still doesn't know the identity of the person who assassinated him, but he knows the scope, it is nothing more than those powerful families, or Japanese pirates, and of course they are probably pirates.

He has not taken office yet, and the other party has already started to assassinate him, which shows that the other party is very unwilling to see him appear in Hangzhou.

Moreover, the assassination of him became more severe every time, so Luo Xin must have an army as soon as possible. He believed that Emperor Jiajing's will had reached Hu Zongxian, so he was going to ask Hu Zongxian for an army.In addition, he must wipe out the Japanese pirates as soon as possible.Originally, he thought that it would be enough for him to come here to run the Shibo Department. Even if those powerful families colluded with Japanese pirates to harm him, they would not be too blatant.But now that he knew he was wrong, the other party dared to ambush him blatantly, maybe there would be a larger-scale ambush in the future.

So what would be the larger ambush?
Japanese pirates!

The Japanese pirates also attacked Daming's cities several times, and they also broke through the city and massacred the city. Of course, the Hangzhou city where Luo Xin is located is not so easy to break into, but in this way, Luo Xin is like being grounded in Hangzhou city. , but dare not go out.He believes that once he enters Hangzhou City, he will be monitored immediately, and his every move will be investigated clearly. Once he leaves Hangzhou City, the news will be spread immediately, and thousands of Japanese pirates will come Surrounding him, no one dared to predict the result.

Therefore, the Japanese pirates must be exterminated, and only Hu Zongxian has the power to exterminate the Japanese pirates in the southeast.Therefore, he had to persuade Hu Zongxian to exterminate the Japanese pirates, otherwise he felt that it would be difficult to open up the situation of running the Shibo Division, and his life was in danger at all times.

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