Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 50 The target is me
I really doubt that the forest battlefield here in Ling County Mountaineering is a trap, but I also found that some important links do not make sense. Xiang Kang, who once wanted to retreat and retreat quickly, inevitably hesitated. Followed by Feng Zhong and Cui Pai passed Xiang Kang one after another, and kept beckoning Xiang Kang to follow up. Xiang Kang, who was afraid that he would be alone, had no choice but to put aside his doubts temporarily and continue to follow the brigade.

There are rocks, weeds, roots and thorns all over the place. They have never been to this forest before. Of course it is not easy for Feng Zhong, Xiang Kang and others to catch up with the bandits in front of them. The cunning, in addition to specifically drilling into densely wooded areas, gradually divided into two groups, fleeing in two different directions, forcing Feng Zhong, Xiang Kang and others to split into two groups, one route led by Feng Zhong. Xiang Kang and Cui Pai led the way, chasing the two groups of bandits respectively.

During this period, the militiamen under Xiang Kang's command, as well as the pavilion soldiers brought by Feng Zhong and Cui Pai, all opened their bows and fired crossbows, trying to shoot the enemy with crossbows, but because the bandits had already left before entering the woods, The torches were mostly hidden in the darkness, and the effect they received was not great. It was only judged from the screams of the bandits that they should have been shot twice. Unfortunately, it was too dark to hit the fatal spot. The two bandits who were shot by the arrow gritted their teeth and fled with wounds. Feng Zhong, Xiang Kang and his party did not get any further gains. At the same time, because the trees became more and more dense, Xiang Kang, Feng Zhong and others simply shot arrows after they arrived. All the opportunities are gone, so I can only catch up with my feet.

Fortunately, although the bandits were all armed with weapons, they did not have long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows. Therefore, Feng Zhong, Xiang Kang and his party did not have to worry about being attacked by the enemy with hidden arrows while they were struggling to catch up.At the same time, hard work pays off, under desperate pursuit, Xiang Kang and Cui Pai finally gradually approached the enemy, and there was hope to catch up, but at this moment, Xiang Kang, who was walking fast, was extremely unlucky Suddenly tripped by a tree root on the ground and staggered, lost his center of gravity, and fell a dog in a panic, almost smashing his jaw.

"Ah! Ouch!"

The one who screamed was not Xiang Kang, who had thrown a dog to eat Xiang, but a low-level militiaman behind Xiang Kang's side. He crawled on the ground and turned his head to look in doubt. Xiang Kang was surprised again by the light of the torches in the hands of other militiamen. I saw that the reason why the militiaman screamed suddenly was that he was shot in the right rib by a sudden arrow. The sharp arrow pierced into the rib, and the injury was very serious.The other militiamen around the militiaman also shouted in surprise: "There are back arrows, everyone be careful!"

"How could there be an arrow in the back all of a sudden? The gang of bandits didn't shoot the arrow just now?"

Xiang Kang felt strange, just when he was about to struggle to stand up, Xiang Kang quickly thought of a terrible event - if he hadn't accidentally dropped a dog just now, the hidden arrow might have hit him!

"Coincidence? Accidental? Or intentional?" Countless questions flashed through Xiang Kang's mind in an instant, and at the same time subconsciously shouted: "Put out the torch! Be careful of backstabbing!"

Only Xiang Kang's militiamen followed orders, while Cui Pai's Daxing Pavilion soldiers were still holding torches stupidly. Cui Pai, who was about to catch up with the bandits, turned his head and hurried towards Xiang with a torch. Kang and the militiamen who were shot by the arrow asked: "How is the injury? Then the back arrow?"

Sensing the light of the torch shining on him, Xiang Kang had no time to think about other things, and almost subconsciously rolled on the spot, scrambling and leaving the spot, and what happened then scared Xiang Kang into a cold sweat—— With a whooping sound, another arrow suddenly flew from behind, and it was nailed to the place where I just lay down!Xiang Kang lost his mind, and hurriedly shouted: "Brother Cui, throw away the torch, the enemy's target is me!"

Shocked by Xiang Kang's yelling, Cui Pai instinctively knocked the torch in his hand on the tree quickly and extinguished the torch directly. He specially dodged in the dark, and during that time, another sharp arrow flew in, which also shot near where Xiang Kang was, and accidentally injured another low-ranking militiaman.As a result, the matter came to this point, and Daxing Tingting, who was afraid of being plotted against, hurriedly extinguished the remaining torches, leaving his group in the dark, raised their weapons and carefully guarded the surroundings, and finally there were no hidden arrows in the dark woods. .

Touching Xiang Kang's side by the faint moonlight, Cui Pai just wanted to open his mouth to speak, Xiang Kang hurriedly greeted in a low voice: "Be quiet, don't let the enemy hear you talking to me, or my position will be exposed."

Cui Pai nodded, lowered his voice and asked, "Brother Xiang, what's going on?"

"I don't know." Xiang Kang replied: "But the enemy's target this time is probably me. As long as I reveal my position, someone will definitely shoot me again, and maybe they will rush to kill me directly."

Surprised to see the two unlucky militiamen who unfortunately took the arrow for Xiang Kang, Cui Pai busy asked in a low voice: "Brother Xiang, what should we do?"

Xiang Kang didn't answer, but tried his best to analyze the reason why the enemy could easily distinguish himself from the crowd, and he quickly found the answer - he already had some spare money in his hand, and because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, he bought himself a pair of cowhide armor Dressing is very different from other militiamen in terms of clothing.At the same time, I like to be smug, so I wear a straight bun in the center, while other militiamen all comb their right-sided buns for military soldiers according to their own requirements, so that the enemy can easily find themselves in the crowd.

Thinking of this, Xiang Kang felt confident, quickly took off his cowhide armor, untied his bun, and asked Cui Pai to help him tie up a right-slanted bun, making himself look similar to other militiamen, and then Then he said to Cui Pai: "Brother Cui, stop chasing, this is a trap, we have to go back quickly."

"But what about those thieves?" Cui Pai was a little unwilling, and said, "Those are all thieves. If you catch one, you will get a reward of fourteen."

"Is life more important, or money more important? Do you know how many killers are lurking in this forest?" Xiang Kang asked back, and then said: "Don't worry, as long as these bandits don't escape far, when my brothers come tomorrow, I will definitely help you." Catch them, my gang brothers are all skilled in martial arts, and it is easier to deal with this gang of bandits than to crush a group of chickens. But we have to go now, otherwise, the backstabbers might shoot arrows at us indiscriminately, then we It's going to be a lot of trouble."

Unable to resist Xiang Kang, Cui Pai had no choice but to nod, and ordered his soldiers to keep up, surrounded Xiang Kang and retreated along the way. He used the crowd to cover himself, and sure enough, he did not attract any sneak attacks from the back, and gradually retreated to the edge of the forest.

As expected by Xiang Kang, when his group was about to walk out of the woods, two hidden arrows flew one after another as if venting their anger from the dense trees, and shot another pawn of Daxing Pavilion, and just happened to hit the unlucky one. Tingzu's vest is crucial.Cui Pai and all the militiamen were shocked, and quickly dragged the seriously injured pavilion pawn, stumbled out of the woods, and Xiang Kang, who loved his life, even rolled and crawled, hiding in the crowd of militiamen and escaped in one go. After several hundred steps, he didn't stop until he was far away from the woods.

Hiding among the militia crowd and waiting in fear for a long time, it was only in the middle of the night that Feng Zhong and his party came out of the woods cursing and dragging a dead body. Feng Zhong and the others failed to catch up with the gang of bandits, but only recovered the body of a bandit whose name and identity were not known.At the same time, after seeing Xiang Kang whose attire had changed drastically, Feng Zhong also asked strangely: "Brother, how did you become like this? What happened?"

"Brother Feng, have you ever encountered a sneak attack?" Xiang Kang asked without answering.

"Sneak attack?" Feng Zhong was taken aback by the question, and replied: "The gangsters used axes or forks, and the best weapons were swords and knives. Then came the sneak attack?"

"It really came for me."

Xiang Kang's heart sank, and then he told Feng Zhong what happened to him and Cui Pai and his party, but Feng Zhong was of course taken aback when he heard it, and hurriedly asked: "Brother Xiang, what kind of enemy do you have here in Ling County?" ? They target you like this, they want your life?"

"Brother, what do you think?" Xiang Kang asked back.

Feng Zhong's face changed again, and he didn't say the person's name, just nodded and said: "Yes, he is the most likely, and only he can do such a thing."

"Let's go back to Daxing Pavilion first." Xiang Kang said: "This is the boundary of Ling County, we have to prevent him from making further moves."

Feng Zhong hurriedly nodded in agreement, and hurriedly surrounded Xiang Kang with a hasty retreat. At the same time, Xiang Kang discovered that this incident was a proof that Shan Youwei was behind the scenes——Feng Zhong and others It turned out that the body of the bandit was not killed by Feng Zhong's soldiers or the militiamen of the prime minister, but was killed by other bandits!At the same time, the reason why he was silenced by his accomplices was also very simple. There was a crossbow arrow shot by the low-level militiamen stuck in his body. The accomplices were obviously afraid that he would not escape quickly and would be captured alive, so they cut his throat and killed him.

"Ninety percent of the time it was Shan Youwei who did it. The officials and bandits colluded to kill me and avenge his son." Xiang Kang came to a conclusion in his heart, and said in his heart: "The gang of bandits should be just a bait arranged by Shan Youwei. Well, the one who put the arrow in the back is the real killer, and he wants to put the crime of killing me on the bandits, so that no matter how the government investigates, it will be difficult to track him down. But this is a bit strange, how about Shan Youwei? Will you be so clear about my situation that you will definitely lure me to death with this group of bandits?"

After thinking about it carefully, Xiang Kang found that this is not too strange. With Shan Youwei's intelligence ability, it should be easy to know why he formed the militia. It shouldn't be a difficult task for the militiamen to come over. It is reasonable to design booby traps to kill themselves.But Xiang Kang still felt that something was wrong, and always felt that there seemed to be some problem, but Xiang Kang couldn't figure out what the problem was for a while.

After returning to Daxing Pavilion smoothly, Xiang Kang, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, chose to live with his own militiaman for the sake of safety, and carefully changed into the militiaman's clothes, changing positions several times while sleeping.Fortunately, nothing else happened after that. In the morning of the next day, when the young members of the Xiang family hurried to the Daxing Pavilion, Xiang Kang finally felt relieved and told Xiang what happened last night. family children.

Knowing that Xiang Kang was almost killed in a sneak attack last night, the Xiang family's children, who were generally more united, of course all yelled, yelling and roaring to go to Ling County to find Shan Youwei to settle the score.Feng Zhong and Xiang Kang hurriedly stopped them, and persuaded them: "Brothers, calm down, we just suspect that what happened last night was done by Shan Youwei, but we don't have any evidence, so we ran to Ling County to look for Shan You. The lieutenant will only give him an excuse to seize the opportunity to take you down."

Thinking about it carefully, I found that this is also the reason, and the Xiang family's children had no choice but to give up, and Xiang Zhuang said bitterly: "It's a pity that I wasn't there yesterday. If I was, I would rush into the woods anyway, and kill those two little arrows." The thieves took it down and forced them to confess the mastermind behind the scenes!"

Hearing this, Xiang Kang's heart moved, and he asked Xiang Zhuang almost without thinking: "Brother, what did you just say?"

"I said it's a pity that I wasn't here last night, otherwise I would rush over and take down those two little thieves even if I was desperately injured." Xiang Zhuang replied, and then asked doubtfully: "Why? What's wrong with my words? ?”

Xiang Kang finally knew what was wrong there, but Xiang Kang remained calm, just nodded and said, "Thank you brother, I know if you were here last night, such a thing would never have happened."

When Xiang Kang said the word 'certainly', his tone was involuntarily aggravated, but unfortunately none of the Xiang family elites such as Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Guan could hear it, they just kept greeting Shan Youwei's wife and all the female relatives, swearing To avenge Xiang Kang's death.

Afterwards, from Xiang It, Xiang Yang and others, they quietly found out the reason why the Xiang family's children happened to go to a distant place to play yesterday, and why the Xiang family's children didn't come to Daxing Pavilion overnight to help him, Xiang Kang still didn't say anything, he just hid the matter deep in his stomach, and there was a somewhat smug grin on the corner of his mouth...

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As expected by Xiang Kang and others, the mastermind behind this incident was indeed Shan Youwei, who had a vengeance with Xiang Kang for murdering his son. After learning that the assassination plan that had been painstakingly arranged failed, Shan Youwei was of course furious. Beating and kicking the five confidantes who sent him to assassinate Xiang Kang, scolded bloody, and roared: "Trash! Stupid! Useless dog! The arrow missed, why can't you rush up?" Just kill him with a sword? A waste of my gold! A waste of my painstaking arrangements!"

"Master, it's not like we didn't think about rushing up and killing him directly." The two family members who were severely beaten were full of bitterness, and they distinguished: "It's because there are too many people around that little Zhuzi and he is too cunning, let's go straight up and kill him." He was not sure at all, he could only shoot an arrow and sneak attack. He thought that we only shot one arrow, but he guessed right away that we were targeting him. Not only did he hide in the crowd immediately, but he also changed his clothes and bun. We can't recognize him at all, and we don't have the confidence to rush up and kill him directly."

"Trash! Straw bag! Useless dog thing!"

The separation between the two family members only resulted in more insults and fistfights. The furious Shan Youwei was so angry that he was on the verge of defeat, and almost wanted to beat the two family members to death on the spot. Fortunately, Wang Jula, Shan Youwei's most trusted confidant Stopped him, persuaded: "Master, forget it, this time it was really that little Zhuzi was lucky, if he wanted to die, he chose to go another way, if he came to the little one, the little one would have to go directly Go up and kill him. Master, you also ordered that you should not kill Feng Zhong in a hurry, lest you make too much noise and attract the prime minister to investigate with all their strength, so we made this trip in vain."

"However, our hard work was not in vain this time." Wang Ju said again: "At least it proves that that little Zhuzi named Xiang You really wanted to help us get rid of his brother, otherwise he wouldn't follow the master's arrangement and intentionally kill his brother." The gang of the Xiang family who dared to fight and kill was cheated away. It's a pity that we didn't dare to trust him easily, didn't dare to let him know the details of our plan, and asked him to help us more, otherwise we would definitely succeed this time. But it doesn't matter, as long as we make good use of this Xiang You who came to our door, it will be easy to kill Xiang Kang, there are plenty of opportunities."

"Fart! Is that so easy?!" Shan Youwei scolded angrily: "That little Zhuzi is very cunning, and he hardly goes out alone. Be careful, it will only be more difficult for us to kill him!"

"Master, it is of course difficult for us to do it, but what if we let Xiang You's Shuzi do it directly? Xiang Kang's little Shuzi is sure to guard against his own brother?" Wang Juyin asked with a smile.

"He has the guts to do it directly. He has done it a long time ago. He still needs to come to me and ask us to do it. He is helping behind the scenes?" Shan Youwei became even more angry when he heard it.

"If you ask him to use a sword directly, he may not have the guts, but if you ask him to poison him, he may not dare to agree." Wang Ju said gloomyly: "A bottle of Hedinghong (arsenic) is enough The lives of ten Xiangkang's little Zhuzi. And after that little Zhuzi died, the Xiang family's shabby gang would only suspect us, and they would never suspect their own brothers anyway. As long as Xiang You, that little Zhuzi understands this Reasonable, you must dare to move this hand!"

"Great idea!" Shan Youwei finally overwhelmed the case and said, "Secretly contact that little Zhuzi Xiang You, send him the poison, and ask him to find a chance to poison that little Zhuzi Xiang Kang! Tell him, as long as he can help Ben The official poisoned that little Zhuzi to death, and the official not only returned him the handwritten bamboo slips he wrote here, but also gave him fifty gold to help him marry that stinky bitch from the Yu family!"

(End of this chapter)