In the morning of early May, in a courtyard in the south of Xiangzhou City, an old man walked out of the courtyard pushing several empty baskets.

A sergeant followed him and sent the old man out the door, and the sergeant gave the old man a few taels of silver and waved his hand.

The old man nodded his head in thanks, and at the same time put away the silver with a heart.

After the courtyard door was closed, the old man turned around and pushed the cart with the basket and swayed away.

In a restaurant not far from the other side of the courtyard street, Ran Biao and Yue Changzhong watched such a scene.

The location of the courtyard is very tricky, and it is generally used by the Xiangzhou government to receive distinguished guests, so there are no buildings in the courtyard that can be observed nearby.

The restaurant where Yue Changzhong and Ran Biao are located is the best place to observe this courtyard, but they can only see the courtyard gate.

Looking at the old man who was pushing the basket away, Ran Biao said: "This old man is specially sending materials to this team of sergeants, I have sent my subordinates to observe one, yesterday he sent it once in the middle and evening, and the amount sent was quite large." ”

Yue Changzhong said: "There are so many sergeants in this team who escort the birth gang, and the amount of food delivered at one time will naturally be large, and when they are full of food and drink for this meal, they should set off." ”

Ran Biao nodded: "Yes, according to the information I received, they will leave after noon." ”

Yue Changzhong made a joke intentionally or unintentionally: "Brother Ran is really supernatural, not only does he know that their box contains the birthday compendium for Taishi Chen, but also knows when they arrived in Xiangzhou, and when they will leave?" Isn't it that the sergeant team has Brother Ran's internal response! ”

"Hahaha..."Ran Biao laughed: "What does Brother Yue think?" ”

"So how do I know? I just guessed, otherwise Brother Ran is really too godly, which has to make my brother strange! Yue Changzhong smiled and shook his head.

Ran Biao raised his eyebrows and continued to pretend to be mysterious: "When the matter is done, Brother Yue will naturally know." ”

Listening to the meaning of Ran Biao's words, Yue Changzhong felt that it must be so.

But he didn't ask any more questions.

After noon, the convoy in the courtyard in the south of the city began to drive out one by one, and more than a dozen Rao sergeants took the lead and walked onto the street.

The street leading to the city gate is ten miles away, so it is also called Shili South Street.

"Quick, quick, tie me tightly, tie me up and get on my way, don't delay."

Jiang Ming urged the sergeant to move the boxes while shouting at the carriages to drive out one by one.

Soon, the convoy drove out of the courtyard and headed towards the city gate.

Jiang Ming rode a big horse, constantly walking back and forth on both sides of the team, he shouted to hurry up, but the whole team was walking very slowly.

At this time, it was the time of the lunch break, and the major restaurants on both sides of the street, tea shops, etc., all had people who stopped to rest after lunch.

Sergeants are different from ordinary local officers and soldiers, although sergeants are also ordinary soldiers, but their ranks are higher than ordinary soldiers, and they are all soldiers who have really been on the battlefield.

Although this team of sergeants who came from Zhenxing Mansion to escort the Shengchengang also belonged to the Zhenxing Mansion Xiang Army, they were all on the battlefield and had the rank of sergeant, so they were well-trained and their combat effectiveness was also very strong.

Although few people knew what was inside, even the governor of Xiangzhou didn't know that it was gold, silver and jewelry, so it was even more impossible for ordinary people to know.

But what can be escorted by the sergeant team, what everyone thinks in their hearts, will not be simple.

At the moment, the whispering crowd is talking, what is this?

After the team walked for a while, the dozen or so sergeants who took the lead suddenly stretched out their hands and stopped.

It turned out that not far from the front of the street, more than a dozen people were standing in the middle of the road and watching, and there was the sound of fighting and fighting.

On the street farther away, there were scattered things all over the place, all of which were some window paper, sachets and some playthings, and a car with a broken frame, the wheels of which were all separated, one lying in the middle of the road, and the other was still on the body, turned on its side.

One of the sergeants who took the lead stepped forward to inquire about it, and only then did he learn that a man was pushing a cart and accidentally broke a stall on the side of the road, and when the two failed to negotiate, the man with the cart and the vendor beat up.

At this moment, the onlookers also discovered the team, and many people began to disperse to both sides, but after the crowd had almost dispersed, the two beaten people were still lying on the ground with blue noses and swollen faces, and they were still swearing at each other, and Petts was still cursing and swearing in his mouth.

One of the sergeants at the front frowned, drove his horse up, and shouted angrily at the two people: "The government escorts the car, the idle and hot are not waiting to get in the way, if there is any private matter to the side to solve, quickly make way for me." ”

After the two people heard this, they grabbed each other and stood up, but they didn't leave, both of them seemed to be very irritable, and one of them shouted: "The government is amazing, he broke my stall, you let him accompany my stall, I will let him go." ”

Another also scolded: "Dog offal, you smashed my car, you don't compensate me, don't want to leave." ”

The sergeants couldn't take care of this kind of private affairs of the people, so the sergeant said, "Get out of the way, get out of the way." ”

"No" one of them: "What if I let him go and he runs away?" Unless you ask him to pay me something first. ”

"He won't let go, I won't let go, my whole family has been pointing to this car for a living, and now he is broken, don't let him go if he doesn't pay me."

The sergeant was furious, and suddenly pulled out the long knife on his waist: "Obstructing the government's escort car, those who stand in the way, there is no forgiveness, you still don't give way, don't blame me for being ruthless under the knife." ”

The shout of anger shook the two men.

I saw the two of them look at each other, and then slowly let go of each other.

However, at this moment when the sergeant relaxed, the two men suddenly drew a dagger from their waists, and both pounced on the sergeant, because it was only a few steps away, the two of them moved suddenly, quickly, and agilely, and they climbed on his horse at once, and then handed him the dagger, and the sergeant did not react at all, so the two daggers went straight into the sergeant's waist.

The sergeant widened his eyes and slashed out the knife in his hand with the last bit of strength before falling off his horse, but one of them was slashed in the shoulder by him, and fell to Lin with him with a scream, while the other dodged, and when he landed, he grabbed the big knife in his hand and shouted, "Kill..."

Then the man rushed head-on to the sergeant in front of him.

At the same time, dozens of people with big knives suddenly rushed out of the surrounding restaurants, tea shops, various lanes, and a tofu workshop not far away, and pounced on this group of sergeants: "Kill..."

Then, at the end of the convoy, hundreds of people rushed out of a gambling house, and rushed into the ranks of sergeants with all kinds of weapons: "Kill..."

Shouts of killing rang out throughout the street.

Fortunately, the group of sergeants were well-trained, and quickly adjusted their combat posture, jumped off their horses, and fought with the men who rushed out from all directions.

As the leader of the team, Jiang Ming happened to be in the center of the convoy when the incident happened, and when he saw the people rushing out on both sides of the street, he was calm, pulled out the knife on his waist, and cut down four or five people in an instant, and then slashed all the way forward.

Ran Biao and Yue Changzhong also rushed out of a tea shop, Ran Biao held a pair of big knives in his hand, killed from the front and back, and headed towards Jiang Ming, he was so powerful that the sergeants in front of him were cut in half by him.

Yue Changzhong's silver spear was still buried under the big tree by the river, and at this moment he just used a simple spear to pick up the sergeants who were killed one by one, and did not take their lives, but also towards Jiang Ming's position as a colonel

This sudden drastic change shocked the surrounding melon-eating crowd, and then they hugged their heads and ran away, or hid in the house, or found a place to hide, for fear of being injured innocent, and some kind-hearted people even shouted to report to the official quickly.

After a while, the streets were filled with corpses, and blood was everywhere.

Of course, most of the dead are those bandits, and under this kind of chaotic battle, the combat effectiveness of those sergeants is much higher than that of these bandits, often it takes three or four bandits to kill a sergeant, but at the same time at least two bandits will die.

It's just that there is an endless stream of bandits pouring out of all around, and by this time, the number has reached five hundred, and the entire street is basically shrouded in the figures of these bandits.

And the hundreds of sergeants were besieged in it, and only the deafening shouts of killing could be heard.

But compared to Ran Biao, the bandit leader, those sergeants are much weaker, after all, this Ran Biao is strong in martial arts and has infinite strength, and he also picks a lot of people to attack, and a few sergeants will die after a few knives.

In this chaotic situation, most of the sergeants were around each carriage to prevent the bandits from approaching the car.

According to Ran Biao's instructions, the target of these bandits was indeed only these carriages with the Birth Gang, so most of the forces of both sides were concentrated on the carriages.

One side is defending, and the other side is attacking.

At this moment, the battle broke out from the front, and the defense in the rear was naturally weaker, and Xu Kui, the military advisor of Ranjiazhuang, led a group of bandits to attack from the rear, starting from a carriage at the rear.

Yue Changzhong, who was in the crowd, was like a dragon with a spear, and while picking up a few sergeants, he didn't forget to take the opportunity to stab one or two bandits to death from behind, and even many bandits who saw him want to come over were killed by him directly, causing these bandits to die and didn't figure out why they were killed by the second owner.

While Yue Changzhong was fighting, he was also observing his surroundings.

Looking at the bandits who had gradually surrounded the sergeant team, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious in his heart, why hadn't the officers and soldiers of the government appeared yet?

This Jiang Ming will not be so arrogant that he didn't tell the government, right?

If this is the case, then if this continues, there will be few sergeants left alive.

By the time the officers and soldiers of the government heard the news again, I am afraid that the dozen or so carriages would have been hijacked.

Thinking of this, Yue Changzhong scolded in his heart, he had already seen Ran Biao and Jiang Mingzhan together at this moment, he wanted to step forward to help, but when he thought of this, he was a little worried about whether this box contained the real Birth Gang, if it was true, the top priority was to protect the safety of this Birth Gang.

Thinking like this, Yue Changzhong decisively withdrew and went to the rear to kill, and after a while, he came to Xu Kui.

At this moment, only five sergeants in the last carriage of the convoy were resisting stubbornly, and the remaining dozen bandits were attacking.

Xu Kui saw Yue Changzhong coming, and laughed and said, "Brother Yue came just in time, we took this carriage first." ”

Yue Changzhong nodded with a calm face, said no, and jumped directly into the carriage and knocked the sergeant on the carriage away.

That Xu Kui laughed and jumped up.

But he saw that Yue Changzhong was holding the lock of the box with the tip of his gun.

Xu Kui was shocked: "Brother Yue, what are you going to do?" ”

"Gotta see if it's true." Yue Changzhong ignored him, quickly picked the lock of the box, and then opened the box.

Xu Kui also leaned over his face, and when he saw it, he was shocked, only to see that the box was full of vegetables, what cabbage, cucumbers, winter melons and so on!

Seeing this, Xu Kui also quickly picked up several other boxes with the knife in his hand, and similarly, the boxes on this carriage were full of these vegetables.

Xu Kui was a little unacceptable: "This... How can it be? ”

Yue Changzhong was relieved: "We have been tricked." ”

"Medium?" Xu Kui was stunned for a moment.

It was just that suddenly, Yue Changzhong's spear pierced his body.

Xu Kui looked at him incredulously.

Yue Changzhong pulled out his spear, said no, just sneered, stabbed him in the chest again, and then kicked him down.

Xu Kui rolled on the ground a few times, blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, and he used his last strength to point at him with an angry face: "You... You... Traitor..."

Xu Junshi was suddenly killed by the owner of the second village, and several bandits under the carriage were also shocked.

Of course, they also knew that the chest was not gold, silver and jewelry, but some worthless rotten vegetables.

At this time, I saw that the second village owner killed Xu Junshi, and when the first head was the first to react, he ran forward in horror, shouting as he ran: "Zhuang master, we have been tricked, there is no gold and silver jewelry in the box, it is all vegetables, we have been tricked, there is no gold and silver jewelry, the second village master killed Xu Junshi..."

The others also wanted to run, but they were stabbed to death by Yue Changzhong who jumped out of the carriage first.

But the word of the bandit had already spread, and soon, all the bandits knew that there was no gold, silver and jewelry in the chest.

At this moment, those sergeants let go of their hands, simply jumped out of the carriage, and fought with these bandits, and the boxes on the carriage did not need to be guarded

And those carriages, which were no longer guarded by sergeants, also jumped up one after another, and picked open one box after another, and soon, all the boxes on the carriage were opened, all the same, and they were full of vegetables.

When they knew that there were no gold, silver and jewels in these chests, the combat effectiveness of these bandits was greatly reduced, and they had no intention of fighting again, so they thought about fleeing for their lives.

Once this bandit has no will to fight, he can only be chased and killed by these sergeants.

And in front of the convoy, Ran Biao, who was with Jiang Mingzhan, also knew the news.

He was also a little difficult to accept this fact, and after forcing Jiang Ming back with a knife, he jumped into a carriage, grabbed a handful of vegetables from the box, and howled in disbelief: "How is this possible?" That's impossible? What about jewelry? Ahh

Then he slashed to death a sergeant who pounced on him.

At this time, he saw Yue Changzhong who was killed from behind.

It's just that Yue Changzhong killed not a sergeant, but his subordinates.

Looking at the men who died under Yue Changzhong's spear one by one, Ran Biao's pupils were about to split: "Yue Changzhong, it's you..."