As Lan Erqi was talking, he suddenly felt that something was not quite right, and after walking on this road for a long time, except for the sound of the hooves of their horses on the mountain road, there was silence around them. He listened attentively, but there was no movement except the sound of the wind blowing through the woods. It's so quiet, it's so quiet, it's so quiet that it makes people's hearts furious.

After walking forward for a while, I felt a tightness in my heart for no reason, my scalp tingled, and a cold air rushed up my spine from the tail vertebrae. He felt that in the woods and grass on both sides of the mountain road, there seemed to be a dangerous beast hidden, and if he took a few more steps, he would pounce and tear himself to pieces.

He quickly pulled the reins and stopped the mount. Seeing him stop, the blue bald man asked curiously, "Big brother, why don't you keep moving forward?" ”

Erqi snorted at the front and said, "I think something is wrong in front, you send someone to check it." ”

The bald man is also a veteran of roadblocks and robberies, and when he heard Erqi say this, his heart suddenly became vigilant. He looked at the woods and grass on both sides of the mountain road in front of him, and suddenly he had a creepy feeling, he couldn't help but shudder, and then beckoned to a leader behind him: "You go to the front to explore the way." ”

The leader who was called also sensed that something was wrong in front of him, and although he was extremely reluctant to do such an errand as a pathfinder, he couldn't help it at the moment, who called him the lowest status among several people. He tightened his grip on the spear in his hand, flicked the reins and urged his mount, passed the two brothers, and carefully searched forward.

The leader rode his horse and walked more than ten feet ahead, when suddenly a sharp arrow flew out of the nearby forest and passed through his neck impartially. The spear in the leader's hand landed on the mountain path with a click, and he covered his pierced neck with his hand, and without even snorting, he fell heavily from his horse.

"It's not good, there's an ambush, run!" Lan Erqi saw that the leader of his subordinates was shot by the cold arrows flying out of the forest, and he was so frightened that he turned his horse's head and ran away after shouting. Three of their men also turned their horses' heads and followed.

But as soon as he ran far, Lan Erqi reined in his horse, and he found that there were twenty or thirty bandits armed with knives and guns, blocking the mountain road in front of him.

"Big brother, there is an ambush." The blue bald man waved the weapon in his hand and shouted loudly, "Let's kill it!" ”

"Kill what?" Erqi glared at the stupid younger brother, and said angrily: "There are four of us, and there are twenty or thirty people on the other side, can we fight?" Turn back. The four turned their horses again and headed off the way they had just gone.

Unexpectedly, there were more bandits on this side of the mountain road, not only were there bandits armed with knives and guns standing on the mountain road, but even on the slopes on both sides, there were also bandits with bows and arrows. The corpse of the Yellow Turban Leader who had been shot to death had been thrown aside, and the mount was ridden under the crotch by a fierce bandit leader.

Lan Erqi knew that in this situation in front of him, with the four of them, it would be more difficult to fight his way out of the encirclement than to ascend to the sky. As soon as his eyes rolled, he immediately thought of a new trick, and hurriedly urged him to step forward, and said to the other party's bandit leader: "Down is Lan Erqi, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, who has no grievances with you in the past and no enmity in the near future, I don't know why you want to block our way?" ”

The bandit leader on horseback originally looked lazy, but after hearing Lan Erqi's self-reported name clearly, his eyes widened suddenly, he sat up straight and looked at Lan Erqi and asked, "Are you a subordinate of Zhang Liang, the former general of Rengong?" ”

"That's right, that's right," Lan Erqi heard the other party call out the name of the former lord, as if he saw a glimmer of life, and replied busily: "In the past, he was indeed the personal soldier of the general of the people, could it be that Your Excellency knows my lord." ”

Unexpectedly, after confirming Lan Erqi's identity, the bandit leader suddenly raised his eyebrows, his eyes were full of anger, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Lan Erqi, uncle, I have been looking for so many years, but I didn't expect to meet you here." He turned his head to the right and commanded in a loud voice, "Except for this leader, kill all the rest of the people." ”

The blue bald man saw that the bandit leader was about to kill if he didn't agree with him, where was he willing to sit back and wait for death? He roared, brandished his weapon and prepared to rush forward, but the archers on the hillsides on both sides opened their bows and arrows at the same time, and more than a dozen of them immediately shot the blue bald man and the two leaders off their horses. Then a few minions rushed over from the bandits standing opposite, waving the weapons in their hands, and chopping the blue bald man and the others who were not yet dead, and after chopping them into human appearances, they cut off their heads and returned to the ranks of the bandits.

Lan Erqi saw that his three subordinates turned into three piles of mud in an instant, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly turned over and dismounted, kowtowed to the bandit leader on the opposite side, and said: "The king spares his life, the king spares his life!" ”

The leader of the bandits commanded left and right: "Little ones, take him down!" ”

The left and right minions hurriedly stepped forward, dragged Lan Erqi off the horse, and tied him up with ropes.

The bandit leader got off his horse, slowly and leisurely came to Lan Erqi, snorted coldly, and said, "Lan Erqi, it's really you, the dog thief." When you open your dog's eyes, do you still recognize who I am? ”

Lan Erqi raised his head and carefully looked at the burly, bearded bandit leader in front of him, trying to think about where he had seen this master. But after thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't come up with a reason, so he could only shake his head and reply in fear: "The little one has never seen the king." ”

"Little ones," the bandit leader said, glancing at his men to the left and right, "do you know who I am?" ”

His words made the left and right minions stupid, and everyone looked at each other and didn't know how to answer. Fortunately, there was a clever minion who asked very cooperatively, "Who are you, King?" ”

The bandit leader straightened his waist and said, "My surname is Sun Mingliang, and I turned out to be the county lieutenant of Anping County. After the rebellion of the Tiangong general Zhang Jiao and the Rengong general Zhang Liang, they occupied the Anping State of Jizhou and captured Liu Xu, the king of Anping. I took the owner of the Weng to sneak out of Anping at night, but I was intercepted and killed by this dog thief on the road. After a fierce battle, except for me, who was lucky enough to break out of the encirclement, all the 20 brothers who accompanied me were killed, and even the whereabouts of the lord Weng were unknown. I fled here, and when I encountered the original king of the mountain, I killed him with a knife, occupied his stockade, and fell into the grass here. It is because of this man that I have fallen into such a field. ”

Hearing Sun Liang say this, Lan Erqi remembered that a few years ago, he was indeed ordered by Zhang Liang to hunt down and kill the daughter of King Anping. After a fierce battle, although he almost killed all the opponents, he also killed and injured more than 50 people. I didn't expect to meet an opponent here today, it's really a narrow road.

Thinking that he would not be able to escape death anyway, he raised his head and put on a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance and said: "Since it fell into your hands, I never thought of leaving alive. ”

Sun Liang snorted: "It's not so easy to die." Wouldn't it be cheaper to kill you with a sword? Then he instructed his subordinates, "Take him back to the cottage, and when I find the master, I will disembowel him and dig out his heart to pay tribute to the old master." ”