Cao Yi's eyes narrowed slightly, this was planning to surround them and kick them!

Thinking of this, the corners of Cao Yi's mouth curled slightly, he was not afraid that you would open his mouth, but he was afraid that you would not take the bait, so that his fishing law enforcement could begin.

Cao Yi turned his head to look at Wang Zhiyuan and Yun Qing next to him, and signaled the two of them to get ready in case the other party suddenly attacked, which is why they surrounded them in a circle with the carriage, if the other party had a very rare long-range weapon such as a bow or a throwing gun, they could also use the carriage as a cover.

Of course, ordinary mountain bandits would never have such a thing, Cao Yi and they did it purely just in case. The heart sails the ship of ten thousand years, and it is better to be cautious than to capsize in the gutter.

The Taibai Secret Guard itself is the elite of the elite in the Taibai Secret Camp, and it has long been well-trained, so Yun Qing just made a gesture of full vigilance, and everyone understood what it meant, although they still stood or sat in the same posture, but everyone's eyes were inadvertently and carefully patrolling within their line of sight.

About two incense sticks later, Cao Yi suddenly heard a sharp bird call, and the call was quite melodious, but it was precisely because there had been no bird call before, and now it suddenly sounded at this time, which seemed a little abrupt and disobedient, so Cao Yi instantly judged that this should be the signal of the mountain bandits.

Cao Yi nodded slightly at Yun Qing and Wang Zhiyuan, signaling that the fish had taken the bait, and sure enough, just now, a group of people appeared from their front, left and right, each group of people was in their early twenties.

Naturally, it was Meng Rui, He Yan and Qiu Quan, the three groups of people did not shout and come forward, nor did they sneak up, they just took their weapons and walked out unhurriedly.

"Guys, which way? Where is this going? Meng Rui, who was directly in front of him, spoke.

Before Meng Rui spoke, Cao Yi and the others had already begun to perform the panicked and frightened performance very realistically, all of them were shouting and screaming, a picture of people in a hurry.

"Hey, if you have anything to say, come out and talk!" Meng Rui's eyes focused on Cao Yi and their group, trying to find out the person in charge of the lead, so he roughly swept it, and finally set his eyes on Wang Zhiyuan, Yun Qing and Cao Yi. First of all, among all the people here, Wang Zhiyuan is the oldest.

Secondly, Yun Qing's iron blood and resolute spiritual temperament are really conspicuous to him, and his posture is straight, so it is easy to be noticed. In the end, it was Cao Yi, because everyone had dressed up in disguise, with blackened skin and sticky beards, and in the end, Cao Yi, who was not disguised and disguised, was the most prominent, the youngest among the fifty people, and the clothes he wore were not deliberately adjusted, which was very gorgeous, so on the whole, Meng Rui judged that Cao Yi must also be an extraordinary person.

The most important thing is that these three people who attract attention in every way are staying together, which is very telling.

Wang Zhiyuan glanced at Cao Yi, and was motioned by the latter to let Wang Zhiyuan come forward to communicate with the other party.

Wang Zhiyuan lowered his head and smiled, then walked a few steps forward, stood in the middle of the two carriages, showed his head and said: "We are a caravan from Jingkou in Runzhou, and the old man's surname is Wang Shicong, I don't know what you heroes mean?" ”

"Hehe......" Meng Rui slapped his thigh with the blade of the knife he held in his hand, tilted his head and raised his chin, looked at Wang Zhiyuan obliquely, and said, "Wang Shicong, right?" ”

As soon as Meng Rui finished saying this, Cao Yi couldn't help but burst out laughing, mainly because the pronunciation of "Wang Shicong" was too similar to a certain national husband in later generations.

Cao Yi's move made Meng Rui's face slightly unhappy, and even Wang Zhiyuan turned his head and looked at Cao Yi curiously. Since Cao Yi asked him to come forward to deal with the mountain bandits, he would definitely not think about coming forward, so he was also a little curious, what was the meaning behind Cao Yi's move?

Wang Zhiyuan had no idea that Cao Yi's abnormal behavior was completely caused by the pseudonym he had chosen casually.

"Do you know what this place is?" Meng Rui didn't look at Cao Yi again, shifted his gaze back, looked at Wang Zhiyuan and said.

"This hero, I know this is Lingshan, I don't know ...... you?" Wang Zhiyuan pretended to ask.

"Hehe, this is indeed Lingshan, but unfortunately, we have occupied this place for a long time, and this road was also opened up by ourselves, so you came to our territory and borrowed the road that we spent a lot of energy and time to open up, I don't know what you can say?" Meng Rui carried the knife on his shoulder, looked at the box that fell just now, and said slowly, the meaning behind it is self-evident.

This is to express to Wang Zhiyuan and Cao Yi, they have already seen the silver that fell out of this box before, and they came up this time for the money in it.

Although Cao Yi didn't have any expression on his face at this time, he was complaining in his heart: "It seems that those and the movies are fictional, and the bandits in this era don't come up and say, 'I planted this tree, I drove this road, if you want to cross this road, leave the money to buy the road!'" But the bandit leader meant the same thing. ”

"Oh? This hero, we are all from other places, we don't know the rules here in your place, and we don't know how much it costs to buy a road? Wang Zhiyuan continued to ask.

"Hehe, it's up to you, if we are satisfied, we will let you pass safely, if you give less, but you have to ask if the sword in our hands agrees, but this sword, sometimes not long-sighted, but not as good as us people to talk." Meng Rui patted his machete and said.

Wang Zhiyuan glanced at Cao Yi, smiled slightly, then turned his head to Meng Rui and said: "This hero, we are not without people who don't know how to lift, a thousand taels of silver, buy a passage money, I don't know if it's okay!" ”

Meng Rui's eyes flashed with joy when he heard this, and his eyes flickered at He Yan and Qiu Quan. He saw that the box had fallen out of about a few thousand taels of silver just now, and now that he hadn't done anything on his side, the other party was willing to give a thousand taels of silver, which was enough to show that the money of the other party's convoy was definitely more than the thousands of taels of silver he had just seen, but only more, and it was still a lot more.

Meng Rui is now going to communicate with the second and third brothers to see if he will collect some of the money or ...... He motioned to He Yan and Qiu Quan with his eyes to come over, since the other party was so upright, he obviously didn't want a fight, so there was no problem for He Yan and Qiu Quan to come over directly.

"Big brother, second brother, what are you going to do?" After the two of them came over, Qiu Quan asked in a low voice, what is generally discussed, it is the eldest brother and the second brother who decide, and he is only responsible for the final execution.

"They can send out a thousand taels of silver to buy a toll so easily, presumably this time to go to business, it must be far more than that, dozens of times or hundreds of times possible!" Meng Rui analyzed.

"Isn't that a hundred thousand taels of silver?" Qiu Quan said breathlessly, the last time he robbed his house, he only robbed eighty or ninety thousand taels of silver, and all the mountain bandits in Lingshan were very happy to live a free life for nearly a year, so this time there were 100,000 taels of silver, wouldn't they be able to live a beautiful life for another year? And this time with experience, it's not impossible to be a little more restrained, and it's not impossible to live comfortably for two years!

"Hmm!" He Yan nodded and said: "Judging from their boldness, there should be at least this number, but I don't know what their bottom line is...... Big brother, you can try, although there are fifty of them, but since they ask everything, they are willing to pay a thousand taels of silver to buy a toll, and they are still not willing to have disputes and fight with our swords. ”

Meng Rui nodded knowingly, and shouted at Wang Zhiyuan: "One thousand taels of silver?" The labor salary of our opening road is more than that! ”

"This hero, then you make a price, how much do you say?" Wang Zhiyuan already knew about the other party's "counteroffer", and when he discussed with Cao Yi and them before, he had already guessed all kinds of situations, so he asked very naturally.

"That's the number!" Meng Rui stretched out a palm towards Wang Zhiyuan, and his five fingers were separated.

"Five thousand taels of silver?" Wang Zhiyuan asked suspiciously.

Meng Rui shook his head and said, "Fifty thousand taels of silver!" Fifty thousand taels of silver will let you pass safely, and I can escort you on a ride! ”

Even though he had already been mentally prepared, Wang Zhiyuan was still frightened by the other party's lion's big mouth, and couldn't help but sneer: "I said that this master, you are too ruthless, right?" ”

"Ruthless? Or if you give me 5,000 taels of silver, it's okay, and there are 50 people on your side, and 100 taels of silver for each person, isn't it too much? Meng Rui changed his words and said.

Wang Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't expect the other party to be so easy to speak, and after glancing at Cao Yi, he clasped his fists at Meng Rui: "Then thank you to this master!" ”

Then Wang Zhiyuan gave the Taibai guards beside him a look, asked them to lift the box down, and then opened it, revealing the neatly arranged silver ingots inside.

"This master, there are a total of five thousand taels of silver in this box, you can send someone over to count it, or I will have someone send it over!" Wang Zhiyuan said politely.

"No need, just leave it over there, you can go!" Meng Rui shook his head and spoke.

Cao Yi looked at Meng Rui, this gang of mountain bandits seems to be okay so far, and they haven't shown too much ferocity and madness......

Cao Yi nodded at Wang Zhiyuan, meaning that this is the case first, wait and see how to get it, the five thousand taels of silver will be given if it is given, anyway, this valley will definitely be taken down, even if the five thousand taels are used to buy the valley at that time, it is not impossible, if the other party is really a thief, there is a way.

Wang Zhiyuan finally saluted Meng Rui again, and then asked everyone to get ready and leave now.

"Wait!" Meng Rui saw the posture of Wang Zhiyuan and his group, and hurriedly stopped it.

"What else is wrong with this master?" Wang Zhiyuan turned around and asked.

"One hundred taels per person, a total of five thousand taels, you can go, this goods, just stay here!" Meng Ruiyun said lightly.

"Are you kidding?" Wang Zhiyuan is well-informed, and he was also angry at this time, knowing that he was being molested, he asked sharply at this time, he had been a military advisor for many years, and he was angry at this time, and he was also full of majesty.

On the other side, Meng Rui, He Yan and Qiu Quan changed color at the same time, He Yan whispered a few words in Meng Rui's ear, the latter nodded frequently, and then spoke again: "Actually, I just said, either give us 50,000 taels of silver, and you can even leave with people, or just 5,000 taels of silver, all of you can go, we only want money, and we don't want to harm your lives!" ”

"But! We don't have fifty thousand taels of silver! Wang Zhiyuan said coldly.

"If you don't have 50,000 taels of silver, you can pay for the goods, since this gentleman can take such a large caravan to go to business, he must still know that he can make more money if the money is gone, and if his life is gone, there will be nothing!" Meng Rui replied with a smile, it was just what the second brother He Yan taught him, although he didn't understand it, but since the second brother asked him to say so, he would naturally do it.

"Huh!" Wang Zhiyuan was already really angry at this time, and said slowly word by word: "I don't know if the big boss has heard such a sentence, 'Cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents'!" ”

"How?" After He Yan continued to say a few words in his ear, Meng Rui's face also changed, and he looked at Wang Zhiyuan sharply: "Are you planning to use a sword to speak?" ”

As Meng Rui's words fell, all the bandits raised the weapons in their hands at the same time, and roared in unison, this move was also proposed by the second master, He Yan, and they also deliberately practiced many times for this, usually relying on this neat and uniform action and the moment that can shock their hearts, they can often achieve the effect of surrendering without a fight.

So this time the Lingshan bandits did the same, but this time what surprised them was that although the other party's face changed, they didn't seem to show too much panic.

Wang Zhiyuan looked at Cao Yi again, the latter nodded slightly, stretched out his right hand to Yun Qing beside him, and made a downward splitting motion, which was a signal that Yun Qing was going to speak by force for the last time.

He Yan also narrowed his eyes, looking at Cao Yi who had just made a series of moves, and the person who had been talking to the eldest brother before looked at this young man frequently, but the latter only nodded, so although He Yan was suspicious, he was only suspicious.

But now, when the two sides were about to collapse, the latter actually made a gesture of waving his hand to split, isn't this a declaration of war, so to speak, in this caravan, it is still this young man who has the most right to speak, and he has the final say, it seems that this young man's status is still very high!

Thinking of this, He Yan said to Meng Rui and Qiu Quan: "Big brother, third brother, wait for the war, catch that young man first, he should be the person with the highest status in this caravan, control it, we will at least be invincible this time!" ”

Meng Rui and Qiu Quan nodded, signaling that they knew, Qiu Quan glanced at Cao Yi and asked, "It's that stinky young man, right?" ”

"Hmmm! Although it is not yet clear how strong the guards of the other caravan are, there are fifty people anyway, and we only have seventy people, and if we really fight to the death, our strength will definitely be weakened, so the best way is to capture the teenager alive, let them throw a mouse trap, and then put forward conditions. He Yan glanced at Cao Yi again and explained.

"Understood!" Qiu Quan nodded and said, in the past, they did not do this kind of thing of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and they could often get twice the result with half the effort. However, this is also based on the super martial arts that are far beyond ordinary people.

From the beginning of becoming the third master, to the present, this kind of beheading action of Qiu Quan can be said to be a catch, and it is often captured alive before the other party has time. Finally, coerce the other party to agree to various conditions.

Of course, except for a year or two ago when he was able to meet a caravan with escorts, he used these tricks to deal with the elders of various villages during the rest of this time, and controlled the respected old people in the villages by quickly getting closer, and forced those people in the mountains and wilderness not to act rashly.

Otherwise, these Diao people who grew up in the poor mountains and bad waters still have a bit of blood and combat effectiveness, which will cause damage to the combat power of their mountain bandit team.

"So to speak! You are toasting and not eating, eating and drinking! Meng Rui looked at Cao Yi and said, and then all the bandits stomped on the ground with their feet again, and let out a neat roar again.

Yun Qing looked around at these mountain bandits, with a hint of mockery at the corner of his mouth: "The momentum is very strong, but it's a pity that it has no shape, it's just a show!" ”

"Brother Yun, are you confident? Do you want to send a signal for Gongye Yuanzhou and them to come and support? Cao Yi turned his head and asked.

"Except for the big boss who had been talking to the military advisor, and the other burly man standing next to him, everyone else didn't look very good! There are enough of us 50 people, and we can let them practice their hands! Yun Qing commented confidently.

"Good! Then it's up to you, wait for me and the military advisor to be in the middle, don't go up and make trouble for you! Cao Yi said very self-awarely.

"Haha, then you and the military advisor are in command in the rear!" Yun Qing said with a smile.

Meng Rui and the three brothers looked at Yun Qing's contemptuous expression, as well as the ease and ease of talking and laughing with Cao Yi, and they had a bad premonition in their hearts, but they were immediately filled with the anger of the other party despising and looking down on them!

Their group of people have been kings in Lingshan for so many years, and they have never been so despised by others, seeing that the other party is in charge at such a young age, I think it is also the kind of noble son who has not experienced the sinister of the rivers and lakes, let him have a good look at it today, what is called cruelty!

"Brothers! Hack and kill a person and reward a thousand taels of silver! The more you kill, the more you win! This seductive and infectious sentence was said by the second master He Yan, some strategies that can improve morale or combat power are arranged by him, and the big boss Meng Rui doesn't know that he is not as good as the second brother He Yan here, so he has been letting He Yan do it before, which is why this time he gave the order to start the war is the reason why He Yan said.

And these words once again made these mountain bandits shout in unison, and the three groups of people, in three directions, rushed towards Cao Yi and them, who were surrounded in the middle, with their weapons held high.

Facing He Yan's words about killing one person and rewarding him with a thousand taels of silver, Yun Qing's eyes had a cold light, this is really treating their Taibai Secret Guards as a dish that can be easily eaten in his mouth! At that moment, he also shouted in a cold air: "Brothers, there is no forgiveness for killing!" ”

In the face of Yun Qing's order, all the Taibai secret guards, except for Wang Hai Resources and Yun Qing, all of them silently tightened the weapons in their hands, walked a few steps forward, walked to the outside of the carriage, and waited for the mountain bandits to rush up, without making any sound during the whole process, and even there was not much expression on everyone's faces, only perseverance and indifference.

At this time, the mountain bandits who rushed over with a strange scream obviously did not realize the power of the group of caravans in front of them, except for Qiu Quan, who took the lead in rushing over head-on, he saw that Taibai Secret Guard was so calm and could even be said to be ruthless, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more serious.

But at this time, it is no longer that the arrows have to be sent on the crossbow, but they have already opened the bow and have not turned back the arrows, and at the moment they suppressed the inner uneasiness, and rushed straight to the direction where Cao Yi was, if Cao Yi was controlled in his hands, then even if the guards of this caravan were strong, no matter how high the kung fu was, they would have to throw a mouse taboo, if Cao Yi was controlled by them and gave orders randomly, and the other party's guards had to listen, it was the moment when their bandits won the victory.

But just when he was about to get closer, Yun Qing flashed and appeared in the middle of Qiu Quan and Cao Yi's route, directly blocking in front of Cao Yi, completely meeting Qiu Quan, the two approached instantly, and slashed each other's weapons at each other!

Between the lightning and flint, the two exchanged more than a dozen moves in an instant, and for a while, they were even up and down, which surprised Qiu Quan and at the same time made Yun Qing become surprised, both of them were sighing that the other party still had such a strong kung fu person.

However, after fighting dozens of moves again, Qiu Quan was seized by Yun Qing and slashed at the right arm holding the knife, so that the machete in Qiu Quan's hand almost fell to the ground, and he quickly switched to his left hand and planned to continue fighting.

The reason why he suddenly showed his flaws just now was because during the battle, his eyes inadvertently saw that the mountain bandits below them were completely suppressed by these caravan guards one by one.

Even the strength is only slightly inferior, but Meng Rui, a big boss who is far higher than these caravan guards, has been entangled by the three Taibai secret guards, although the strength of a single person is not as good as Meng Rui, but these caravan guards actually know how to attack together, and depending on the situation, they have long been well-trained.

For a while, even Meng Rui had no way to attack again, and slowly entered the defensive situation, not to mention the other mountain bandits, who were completely suppressed, he just swept his eyes like this, and he had already seen that many mountain bandits were at a disadvantage, and even some mountain bandits cut down on the ground, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead!

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