As soon as Li Hu touched it, Qi Yuanhao's entire upper arm shattered with a "poof", and in an instant, the muscles, bones, skin and flesh on the arm completely turned into powder, and the swarthy steel ring also fell to the ground and became two halves!

Rao was a fierce and daring fierce tiger, and he couldn't help but be startled, and exclaimed: "His grandmother is a bear! What kind of strange thing is this, isn't it a trick!"

The martial arts of smashing the opponent's arm into powder with one palm, if it is a trick, it must be a very terrible trick.

Li Hu tightly twisted a pair of thick eyebrows, Yang Jiangyi and Ximen Tong's expressions were solemn, and the faces of the surrounding "Evil Dog Gate" disciples changed color, and everyone's hearts couldn't help but feel frightened.

After a while, Hua Bushi said: "Bury these corpses! Although the murderer's martial arts are high, the target is not us, and he doesn't want to reveal his identity, so he must have already gone far at this time." ”

By this time, the eldest young master had already understood the reason why the eight groups of homeless people were killed on the previous road.

The target of the killer is actually Qi Yuanhao and the "Phoenix Winged Sanying", the reason why they killed the homeless people was only because those homeless people had seen their traces on the road.

In order to extinguish the mouth, more than 100 lives were slaughtered, not to mention the ruthlessness of these murderers, their caution can also be seen, and it is unknown what conspiracy is behind such a deliberate concealment.

"I hope he didn't go far!" Li Hu sneered, "I was going to fight with this Qi Yuanhao, but I didn't expect this old guy to be killed first, so I had to find the person who killed him!"

This teenager, who grew up in group fights since he was a child, has no such thing as "fear" in his mind at all, and the stronger the opponent, the more it can stimulate the ferocity in his bones.

Although Ximen Hitomi, who was standing on the side, did not make a sound, it could be seen from his eyes and expressions that the thoughts in this beautiful young man's heart were probably not much different from Li Hu's.

After burying the twenty-six bodies ※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※, the procession continued northward.

The scorching sun is shining, and the official road is still rugged and difficult to walk, but no more corpses were found on the side of the road.

At dusk, the team had traveled more than 70 miles and came to the junction of Hubei and Yujing, where a large river was crossing in front of everyone.

The river is called the Tang River, which is the main tributary of the Han River, and this place, called Shuanggou, is the confluence of the Tang River and another tributary, the Bai River. The Tang River flows from the east, and the Bai River flows from the west, just like two big ditches in the mountains, and if you want to enter the Yu realm, you must cross the river, otherwise you have to go around at least three hundred miles to the east.

In this season, the Tang River is the same as the Han River, the amount of water is also not abundant, the wide riverbed has dried up for more than half, and only a stream of water more than ten zhang wide in the center passes through, and the boat port that was originally on the shore of the water has been completely exposed to the land. Standing on the riverbank, you can't see a single ferry boat for miles.

There were no boats, so the only way to cross the river was to take a stone bridge over the river.

This stone bridge is very majestic, about fifty or sixty zhang long, and more than one zhang wide, enough for the passage of large trucks transporting goods. The piers of this bridge are all made of large pieces of bluestone, and there are iron cables on both sides of the bridge deck, and they are hung on the thick stone pillars on both sides of the bank, which is very strong and firm. On the stone pillar are carved three large characters: "Bukou Bridge".

When the Thunderbolt battalion and the dart team reached the stone bridge, they were stopped by the soldiers guarding the bridge. This is a key traffic pass connecting the official roads of the two provinces, and it has always been guarded by officers and soldiers of the imperial court.

Dealing with the interrogation of officers and soldiers, Miao Youwu, the deputy chief dart head who often escorts darts in various realms, is very familiar with it, and he even knows the captain who guards this bridge. When the dart team approached the bridge, Miao Youwu had already come to the front of the team, jumped off the horse at this time, took out the customs clearance document and handed it to the junior colonel for inspection.

However, this time it took a lot of time to inspect and negotiate, and the captain guarding the bridge read the official document, but pointed to the brigade of homeless people who followed the dart cart and waved his hand again and again. After a while, Miao Youwu retreated with a calm face, got on his horse and came to Hua Bushi in the team.

"Mr. Miao Dart, but did you encounter any difficulties when crossing the bridge?" Hua Bushi asked when he saw that Miao Youwu had a different expression.

"Young Master Hua, it looks like we have to leave all the displaced people behind us here!" Miao Youwudao, "The officers and soldiers guarding the stone bridge said, and now the yamen of the Henan Governor's Mansion has issued an order not to allow the displaced people from other provinces to enter the Yu border privately, especially the victims from the Hubei border, and they will never be allowed to let go of the bridge. ”

"How can this be reasonable! After a severe drought in Hubei Province, where can the victims of the disaster go if they do not flee to the Yu Realm? Those officials who are powerful and prosperous in their own power and fortune do not care about the lives of the common people!" Hearing this, Yang Jiangyi on the side couldn't help but say loudly.

Hua Bushi hurriedly stretched out his hand to grab her, turned his face to Miao Youwu and said: "I have heard about this matter for a long time, but that decree is just a piece of paper, when has it been seriously implemented? ”

Miao Youwu said with a bitter face: "If you can send it away for only a little silver tael, Miao Mou has already made the decision, how dare you let Young Master Hua break the bank? Now it is easy for us to cross the bridge by ourselves, if we want to take the homeless people across the bridge, I am afraid that it is not a hundred and ten taels of silver that can be paid." ”

Hua Bushi said: "Oh, is the little school so greedy?"

Miao Youwu said: "It's not that the little colonel is greedy, but now on the hill opposite the bridge, there are five hundred officers and soldiers from Nanyang Mansion who have been stationed, and it is said that they are here to clean up bandits, and the leading general is Nanyang General You Shilu You." It would have been fine if only three or five homeless people had mixed in with the dart team, but now that there are more than 1,000 disaster victims behind our team, and so many people have crossed the bridge, where can we hide from the officers and soldiers on the hill, then the colonel will not dare to release people for personal gain no matter what. ”

Hua Bushi frowned and said, "You Shilu, but I don't know who it is?"

Miao Youwu said: "I have inquired with the little colonel, this You Shilu is a new military attache to Yujing, who originally fought with the Northern Barbarians in Liaodong and made some military exploits, and was given the title of 'Wude General' by the emperor, and was sent to Nanyang Mansion to serve as the chief soldier. It is said that this person is arrogant in nature, and he has some background, and even the prefect has not paid attention to it after arriving in the local area, and now in the entire Nanyang Mansion, only he has the final say. ”

Hua Bushi said: "Although he is arrogant, he may not love money. ”

Miao Youwu shook his head and said: "Young Master Hua doesn't know, these officials sent down from the Jingshi Imperial Court do love money, but they are all insatiable, and their vision is high, even if they take hundreds or thousands of silver taels, whether they can get over is still between the two! We have escorted this group of homeless people so far, and now we have to spend a lot of money for them, it's really not worth it! In Miao's opinion, let's cross the bridge ourselves and leave them behind!"

Hua Bushi waved his hand and said: "There is a so-called help people to the end, send the Buddha to the west, at this time to leave them, these people have no way to enter the Yu realm, and there is no way to live, more than a thousand silver taels can save thousands of lives, it is not worthless!"

He lifted the reins and said, "Mr. Miao Dart, let's cross the river to the camp of the official army and go to meet that General You!"

went to the barracks to ask to see the chief soldier, Yang Jiangyi was a female dependent, and Hua Bushi only accompanied Ximen Tong, and Miao Youwu came to the bridge together.

The lieutenant guarding the stone bridge did not dare to stop them, and the three of them rode across the river and galloped towards the opposite bank.

A stone bridge is not far away, is a hillside, the slope is very dense woods, and on the slope there is really a camp, the flag flutters in front of the village, the highest apricot yellow flag is embroidered with a big "You" word.

The combat strength of the armies in the state capitals of the Ming Dynasty was generally not strong, and even the so-called "elite soldiers" of the Yuejing Naval Division that Hua Bushi had seen before were not satisfactory when they really wanted to fight. However, at first glance, this camp is different from the ordinary Ming army.

The camp is not located on the top of the mountain, but on the gentle ground on the slope, and the official road and the flat land under the mountain are within the range of the bow and arrow on the wall, so that the camp can be easily defended and difficult to attack with the help of the mountain terrain, and can avoid the risk of being besieged by the enemy at the bottom of the mountain. And the sentry posts inside and outside the camp, as well as the defensive arrow towers everywhere are also laid out quite orderly, Hua Bushi is also a connoisseur, you can see the doorway at a glance, and secretly think that this You Shilu is worthy of being a general who guards the border pass, and he still has some ability to command the army.

When he came to the camp gate, Miao Youwu took out the customs clearance paperwork and handed it to the soldiers guarding it, only saying that he asked to see General You. The soldiers went in to pass the ceremony, and after a while, they came out to inform the three of them, saying that General You was receiving them in the side tent.

The so-called partial tent is a relatively short tent next to the big tent of the Chinese army in the center of the camp.

When I entered the camp, I saw soldiers with knives and guns everywhere. The three of them followed the soldiers who led the way, and came to the side tent, only to see that in addition to a few guards with guns outside the door, there was also a war horse tied next to the wooden trough on the side.

The horse's head was seven feet tall and more than nine feet long, and it was extremely strong, and its whole body was covered with short red hair, even the mane on the back of its neck was red, except for a white spot like a snowflake on the top of each of the four hooves. The saddle on the back is not only very delicate, but also inlaid with gold and silver, and the two stirrups are even more glittering with gold, as if they were made of pure gold.

The mounts in the Perak camp could have been regarded as one of the best horses in a hundred, but compared to this war horse, both the mounts themselves and the saddles used were still too far behind.