At this time, the officers and soldiers of Linjiang County either fled in panic with the governor Dunlun, or they sneaked away in groups with their families and relatives, and the servants tossed all night, only gathered more than 300 sergeants, and took advantage of the light of the sky to arrange the trebuchets and Zhuge crossbows on both sides of the bridge abutment.

But just took a breath, and saw that the Tati army on the south bank really began to repair the chain bridge, so the servant gave an order, and the stone cannons and crossbows were fired together, and suddenly the Tati soldiers on the other bank cried and called their mothers, and they fell into the water one after another, so they were not happy.

The Tati soldiers on the south bank were unable to repair the chain bridge, so they had to retreat in disarray.

Seeing that there was no movement on the south bank, the servant ordered the sergeants to eat in shifts and guard the bridge abutment, and went to the garrison's palace to inform Jin Ming of the news.

When Jin Ming heard this, he was very worried: First, there were too few defenders, only 300 soldiers; second, there were too many soldiers from Laitati; third, reinforcements from Daozhou Shendutong had not yet arrived.

So he told the servants to rest first, dressed himself neatly, and came to the bridge with the sword path, and while defending the north bank of the chain bridge with all the sergeants, he looked forward to the reinforcements led by Shen Dutong.

If calculated according to the distance from Daozhou to Linjiang County, it is only hundreds of miles away, and the reinforcements should have arrived long ago.

But why did Shen Dutong delay his arrival? Could it be that he was also as greedy for life and afraid of death as Dunlun, the governor of Linjiang County?

In fact, this Shen Du is surnamed Shen Mingmai, but he is a brave and loyal man.

On the same day, he received an urgent report from Jin Ming and immediately asked the Daozhou general to send reinforcements quickly, but unfortunately the Daozhou general did not send a single soldier on the grounds of civil strife.

Shen Mai was anxious and helpless, so he privately ordered more than 500 people from Qi Jiading and his henchmen to rush to the aid of Fuyun Pass, and asked Jin Ming to go back to report the news first. He was so anxious because he was worried about the country, and believed that external troubles were better than internal strife: this internal strife was nothing but a dispute between brothers, and the land was not divided, and if the land was lost, it would be difficult to recover it.

Therefore, Shen Mai led 500 soldiers to march day and night all the way, and arrived at the boundary of Linjiang County in three days.

On the morning of this day, the soldiers and horses hurried to the Yaksha Ridge, crossed this ridge, and there was only more than a day left before the Fuyun Pass.

When the soldiers and horses were walking, they suddenly saw a group of soldiers walking on the mountain road in front of them, all covered in blood and embarrassed.

When Shen Mai caught a glimpse from afar, he was taken aback, and hurriedly ordered Duan Siping, the guard in front of the horse, to summon them to come and interrogate.

In a few moments, Duan Siping brought several wounded soldiers to Shen Mai's horse. Several wounded soldiers were on their knees, terrified.

Shen Mai looked at them and asked, "What kind of people are you?"

"The little ones are from Linjiang County. One of the creeps replied.

When Shen Mai heard this, he instantly struck the top like thunder, and his expression changed miserably: "You are the official army of Linjiang County? Could it be that Linjiang County has also been lost?"

"Not yet...... Not...... There is no ......," the soldier muttered.

"Linjiang County hasn't been lost yet, so why did you come here and become like this?" Shen Mai was so angry that his lungs and abdomen exploded.

"The little ones are here with Lord Dunlun, the Governor. When passing through this Yaksha Ridge, they encountered a group of bandits on the ridge, they robbed more than ten carts of gold, and took the chief steward into captivity, and the small ones fled here in the scuffle. "Little soldier 1510 confessed.

"It turns out that the enemy is now, but your Dunlun Governor wants to be a turtle with a shrunken head, it's really annoying to me! It's good that he was captured by the bandits, but it's a pity that the gold!" Shen Mai was furious and asked Xiao Bing again, "Do you know which mountain those bandits are hiding?"

"It's right in front of you on the Yaksha Ridge. The little soldier looked cowardly.

"Okay! Pontus just picked them up along the way. Go ahead and lead the way!I'll follow the rest, and if I want to run for my life, I'll cut you down first!" Shen Mai shouted loudly, and ordered the men and horses to hurry forward and go straight to the Yaksha Ridge.

Yaksha Ridge is the only place for Linjiang County to transport gold and other materials to the land of Zhao, the mountain is strange, the road is dangerous, because the people and horses have walked for thousands of years, so they trampled out a rather wide avenue on this mountain range.

Shen Mai led 500 soldiers to hurriedly enter the Yaksha Ridge, and walked along the mountain road, and when he had traveled enough, he had reached the head of the ridge.

But I saw that the huge rocks on the mountain ridge were towering, the strange rocks were craggy, and the bases were stacked on top of each other, and they were endless, like countless yaksha shouting and dancing. On the side of the mountain road and among the rocks, there were countless bloody corpses of officers and soldiers, and flocks of vultures flew around the corpses, rising and falling, scratching their intestines and stomachs, pecking their eyes and hearts.

Seeing such a scene, all the soldiers bluffed their scalps one by one, their pores stood up, and they couldn't help but slow down.

Shen Mai was also taken aback and told everyone to be careful.

But when everyone was terrified, suddenly there was an urgent bang sound on the top of the ridge, and a hundred and ten minions jumped out of the pile of rocks, some with bows, some with knives, some with guns, and some with rakes...... One by one, they are in tattered clothes, with fierce faces, as if the Yaksha has gone out to sea, and the evil ghost has returned to the sun, and he is bluffing to the extreme.

It turned out that at dusk yesterday, this gang of bandits defeated hundreds of officers and soldiers on the Yaksha Ridge and took away more than 10 carts of gold.

In the middle of those words, I saw two forty-year-old men swaggering out of the crowd, both carrying ghost-headed knives on their shoulders, one on the left with a dark blue face and a yellow stubble, and the other on the right with a purple sauce face, red stubble, with the same sturdy body, all wearing soap, with a fierce appearance and a murderous face.

The dark face raised the ghost head knife in his hand, and shouted: "I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to fight this, leave to buy road wealth!"

Hey, the words of the rivers and lakes that block the road and rob are easy to memorize.

The soldier who led the way was already half frightened to death, and reported tremblingly: "General, it's... They...... It's ...... them."

"Don't be afraid, there is Bendu Tong here!" Shen Mai said majestically, and then called Duan Siping, the guard in front of the horse, and said, "Take the leopard tail halberd! Pontus will personally take down these two thieves!"

"Dutong, use a cattle slaughtering knife to kill chickens! Let the last general Fu Yang go and take them down!" Fu Yang, the deputy general of the left, was already angry, and without waiting for Shen Mai's order, he urged the war horse and rushed out like an arrow.

In an instant, after rushing to the gang of bandits, Fu Yang took the reins of his horse, stopped his mount, pointed the iron gun in his hand, and shouted: "Dare to rob the officers and soldiers!"

"What's wrong with robbing officers and soldiers? Lao Tzu specializes in robbing officers and soldiers! Yesterday, he robbed a vote and arrested an instigating officer. Can you take Lao Tzu's cock off?" said with a smug face, and then looked at each other with Zi Sauce and laughed, very happy.

"Little thief, don't be rampant, see if you don't kill a few blood holes in you!" Fu Yang was angry and angry, urging the war horse to shoot and kill the general.

Seeing the approaching war horse, he didn't swing his sword to engage in battle, but threw up a foot and kicked towards a boulder on the side of the road. The boulder was a thousand pounds to say the least, but it was kicked to pieces, and the large and small gravel flew over one after another, which is really a good foot force!

Fu Yang was taken aback, hurriedly swung the iron spear, knocked down a few pieces of gravel, jumped away from the war horse, shook the spear in the air, and stabbed straight at the man with an obscure face.

The blue face jumped, and he dodged in a panic, and the iron spear was pierced between the rocks, and sparks flew everywhere, and a puff of smoke and dust flew up.

Fu Yang saw that he missed a move, and made a "python out of the hole" and squeezed it over.

With a flick of the knife in a panic, the head of the gun was removed, and the horse rushed forward, swinging the knife and splitting.

The two exchanged guns and knives, and fought together.

I saw rubble flying and dust and smoke billowing out. After more than ten rounds of fighting, the obscure face couldn't resist, sweating profusely, and was very embarrassed.

Seeing that his accomplices were nervous, he shouted, raised his knife and rushed over, and killed Fu Yang. After killing seven or eight he, Fu Yang really fell behind.

But at this time, a yellow shadow flew down into the battle group like an eagle falcon, and hit it with a familiar copper stick.

In an instant, on the Yaksha Ridge, the knife is like the wind, the gun is like electricity, and the iron rod is like shaking the mountains; you split me, I poke him, and the figure comes and goes like hemp; only the rocks are like rain, and I see the sunset rolling up the wild sand.

When the four heroes fought for a long time, they suddenly heard a cry, and Zi Jiang's face was swept on the leg by Chang Yu's stick and fell to the ground. The blue face rushed to the rescue, and he might as well be kicked to the ground by Fu Yang again. At one moment, the two thieves were pressed to the ground by their weapons, unable to move.

Dozens of soldiers had already rushed up, twisting their arms, twisting their wrists, breaking their heads, and pressing their heads, and after a while, they tied the two of them with ropes.

Fu Yang was very proud, and shouted at the minions: "Your leader has been taken, why don't you surrender quickly?"

Those minions thought that their own king was sure to win, but they were all captured, and they were suddenly panicked and dumbfounded, and suddenly shouted, threw down the two kings, and fled towards the mountains to the north.

Fu Yang and Chang Yu looked at each other and smiled, and escorted the two to Shen Mai.

Shen Mai glanced at the two of them for a moment, and suddenly shouted: "You two thieves dare to rob and kill officers and soldiers, you are really quite bold!

Obscure and disdainful said: "Officers and soldiers rob the people, Lao Tzu robs the officers and soldiers; officers and soldiers kill the people, Lao Tzu kills the officers and soldiers, this is a matter of course, what is the boldness! Even if Lao Tzu is unlucky, he is planted in your hands, and if you want to kill or chop up, just do it." ”

"Lao Tzu has no accomplices, not one, no! not half of them!" Zi Jiang face shouted after him, "Lao Tzu doesn't know where the gold is hidden, if you want to kill it, give it to Lao Tzu to be happy!"

Looking at these two men, they have fierce faces and strong words, but they have the character of an ancient high-roller in their bones, especially the purple sauce face is very honest, although the words are denials, but they clearly reveal the tone of three hundred taels of silver here.

Shen Mai naturally heard the meaning of those words, so he sneered: "You two are a little righteous, but those minions don't have the righteousness of you two, and they all fled for their lives on the North Ridge, don't Ben Du Tong know where your lair is?"

As soon as the words fell, Shen Mai turned over and dismounted, and ordered: "Everyone follow me to Beiling as soon as possible to find this thief's nest!"

The soldiers shouted their promises, and while escorting the two big men, they searched for the north ridge.

Walking through a section of winding ridges, sure enough, there are several cottages standing on the ridge head in front, coiled and stacked, colluding continuously, and even according to the mountain village rules. There are sentry towers on both sides of the gate of the village, and a big flag of "walking for the sky" flutters in the wind.

But at this time, the sentry tower and the wall were already full of minions, drawing bows and arrows, swords and guns, and they were full of murderous spirit.

Don't shout, there was a minions who had already fled for their lives to report the news, and the owner of the village was about to go down the mountain to save people, but unexpectedly the officials and soldiers had come, so he hurried back to the village, closed the gate of the village, and prepared to fight.

Shen Mai waved his hand to stop the soldiers, and ordered Fu Yang and Chang Yu to escort the two big men to the front of the team.

Then he shouted: "Listen to the heroes in the village: we are the officers and soldiers of Daozhou, and we have met two heroes on the Yaksha Ridge, and now we have them for you, please open the gate of the village quickly." ”

When he heard this, he sent an urgent chapter, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Big brother, don't listen to his nonsense, he wants to earn our village, big brother just guards the village, don't care about the two of us." ”

As soon as the words of the obscure face fell, a man in his forties flashed on the wall. But seeing that his face is like gold foil, his lips have a beard, and he is quite powerful, and he is the owner of this cottage. He replied in a loud voice: "Where does my brother say, how can my eldest brother ignore you!"

"This group of officers and soldiers is much more powerful than the officers and soldiers of Linjiang County, big brother be careful, don't fall for their tricks!" Zi Jiang reminded loudly.

Shen Mai glanced at the two men and said secretly: Sure enough, as I expected, there is some righteousness. So he shouted at the cottage: "I am here, I am by no means here to earn your village, but I have a few heartfelt words to talk to you heroes." ”

"Well, then, do you dare to let my two brothers go up the mountain alone to see each other?" said the master of the village.

"Why don't you dare!" Shen Mai replied, walked straight up to the two big men, and calmly untied the ropes for them.

"The two heroes were wronged, and Shen was afraid that the two of them would be restless on the road, so he had to make this decision, now, please ask the two to lead the way. Shenmai generously made an invitation.

Shen Mai's move was sudden, not only did the soldiers not expect it, but even the thieves in the cottage couldn't believe it.

Two big men, you stare at me, I stare at you, confused, full of confusion, only after a while to come to their senses, pick off the rope on their bodies, and walk slowly towards the cottage.

As soon as Shen Mai walked with him, all the soldiers shouted:

"Dutong, you can't go. ”

"Yes, you can't go. ”

"Dutong: That's a bandit's lair. ”

"You don't have to worry, I have made up my mind: if you don't go into the tiger's den, you will get the tiger. Wait here, and I'll go and return. Shen Mai waved his hand to signal the soldiers to be quiet, then straightened his chest slightly, put his hands behind his back, and strode on the stone road leading to the cottage.