I was very suspicious that the woods battlefield here in Lingxian Mountaineering was a trap, but I found that it didn't make sense in some important links, and Xiang Kang, who once wanted to retreat quickly, was inevitably a little hesitant and hesitant, but as a result, after a slight delay, everyone in the militia team had already followed Feng Zhong and Cui Pai to cross over from Xiang Kang's side, and kept beckoning Xiang Kang to hurry up, Xiang Kang, who was afraid that he was alone, had no choice but to put his doubts aside for the time being and continue to follow the brigade.

Littered with rocks, weeds, tree roots and thorns, they had never been to this forest before, Feng Zhong and Xiang Kang and the others wanted to catch up with the bandits in front of them, of course, it was not an easy task, and that group of bandits was also very cunning, in addition to drilling into the dense trees, they were gradually divided into two groups, fleeing in two different directions, forcing Feng Zhong and Xiang Kang and others to be divided into two ways, one led by Feng Zhong, and one led by Xiang Kang and Cui Pai, respectively, chasing these two groups of bandits.

During this period, the militia under Xiang Kang's command, as well as the pavilion guards brought by Feng Zhong and Cui Pai, all opened their bows and released crossbows, trying to shoot the enemy with crossbow arrows, but because the group of bandits had already thrown down the torches before entering the woods, most of their bodies were hidden in the dark, and the effect was not great, just judging from the screams of the bandits, it should have been shot twice, but unfortunately the sky was too dark to shoot the fatal place, the two bandits who were hit by the arrow gritted their teeth and fled with injuries, and Feng Zhong and Xiang Kang and his party did not achieve further gains. At the same time, because the trees became denser and denser, Xiang Kang, Feng Zhong and others simply didn't even have the opportunity to release arrows when they arrived, and they could only chase with their feet.

Fortunately, although everyone in that gang of bandits had weapons, they didn't have long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows, so while they were trying to catch up, Feng Zhong and Xiang Kang and his party didn't have to worry about being attacked by the enemy with hidden arrows. At the same time, the hard work paid off, and under the desperate pursuit, Xiang Kang and Cui Pai finally gradually approached the enemy, and there was hope to catch up, but at this time, Xiang Kang, who was walking briskly, was extremely unlucky and suddenly stumbled by the roots of the tree on the ground, lost his center of gravity, and fell into a dog in embarrassment, almost breaking his jaw.

"Ahh Oops! ”

It was not Xiang Kang who threw a dog to eat Xiang who screamed, but a subordinate militiaman behind Xiang Kang's side, crawling on the ground and turning his head in confusion, with the light of the torches in the hands of other militiamen, Xiang Kang was surprised to see that the reason why the militia suddenly screamed was that he was shot into the right rib by a sudden arrow, and the sharp arrow pierced into the ribs, and the injury was very serious. The other militiamen beside the militia also exclaimed, "There are hidden arrows, everyone be careful!" ”

"How could there be a dark arrow all of a sudden? That gang of bandits just now didn't release their arrows? ”

Xiang Kang felt strange in his heart, and just when he wanted to struggle to stand up, Xiang Kang quickly thought of a fatal event - if he hadn't accidentally fallen a dog just now, this dark arrow would probably have hit him!

"Coincidence? By chance? Or is it deliberate? Countless questions flashed in Xiang Kang's heart in an instant, and at the same time subconsciously shouted: "Put out the torch!" Watch out for the Dark Arrows! ”

Only the militia under Xiang Kang did what he ordered, but the Daxing Pavilion under Cui Pai was still holding torches stupidly, and Cui Pai, who was about to catch up with the bandits, turned his head and hurried to Xiang Kang and the militia with the arrows with a torch, and asked, "How are you injured?" The Dark Arrow? ”

Sensing the light of the torch shining on him, Xiang Kang didn't have time to think about anything else, almost subconsciously rolled on the spot, and crawled away from the place, and then what happened suddenly scared Xiang Kang into a cold sweat - with a bang, another dark arrow suddenly flew in, and it was nailed to the place where he was lying down just now! Xiang Kang's soul was scattered, and he hurriedly shouted: "Brother Cui, throw away the torch, the enemy's target is me!" ”

was yelled at by Xiang Kang, Cui Pai instinctively knocked the torch in his hand to the tree quickly, and directly smashed the torch, Xiang Kang roared like thunder, and urged Cui Pai's guards to extinguish the torch, and at the same time even rolled and crawled to dodge in the dark, during which another sharp arrow flew in, which also shot near Xiang Kang's location, and accidentally injured a subordinate militiaman. As a result, things came to this point, and the Daxing Pavilion guards, who were afraid of being plotted, hurriedly extinguished the remaining torches, kept their group in the dark, raised their weapons and carefully guarded the surroundings, and finally there were no dark arrows in the dark woods to continue to fly.

Touching Xiang Kang's side through the faint moonlight, Cui Pai just wanted to open his mouth to speak, but Xiang Kang hurriedly whispered: "Be quiet, don't let the enemy hear you talking to me, otherwise my location will be exposed." ”

Cui Pai nodded, lowered his voice and asked, "Brother Xiang, what's going on?" ”

"I don't know." Xiang Kang replied: "But the enemy's target this time is likely to be me, as soon as I reveal my position, someone will definitely shoot me with arrows, and maybe they will directly rush up and kill me." ”

Looking at the two unlucky militiamen who unfortunately took Xiang Kang's arrows in surprise, Cui Pai hurriedly asked in a low voice, "Brother Xiang, what should I do?" ”

Xiang Kang didn't answer, but tried to analyze the reason why the enemy was able to easily identify himself in the crowd, and soon found the answer - he already had a few spare money in his hand because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he bought himself a pair of cowhide armor to wear, which was very different from other militia in terms of clothing. At the same time, he loves stinky beauty, and his hair is combed in a straight bun in the center, while the other militia combs all the right buns for army soldiers according to their own requirements, so that the enemy can easily find himself in the crowd.

Thinking of this, Xiang Kang had a bottom in his heart, quickly took off the cowhide armor on his body, untied his bun again, and asked Cui Pai to help hastily tie a right-side oblique bun, making himself look similar to other militiamen, and then said to Cui Pai: "Brother Cui, don't chase it, this is a trap, we have to go back quickly." ”

"But what about the bandits?" Cui Pai was a little unwilling and said: "Those are all group thieves, and if you catch one, you will be rewarded with fourteen." ”

"Is life mattering, or is money mattering? Do you know how many killers are still lurking in this woods? Xiang Kang asked rhetorically, and said: "Don't worry, as long as these bandits don't run away, when my brothers come tomorrow, I will definitely help you catch them, my gang of brothers are all strong in martial arts, and it is easier to deal with these bandits than to pinch a group of chickens to death." But we have to leave now, or if the person who fires the dark arrows can't do a good job of firing arrows at us, then we will be in big trouble. ”

couldn't resist Xiang Kang, Cui Pai had no choice but to nod, and ordered his men to follow, hugging Xiang Kang to retreat, during which Xiang Kang naturally tried to mix in the crowd, and tried his best to move forward, as much as possible to cover himself through the crowd, and sure enough, he did not attract a sneak attack with hidden arrows, and gradually retreated to the edge of the woods.

was still expected by Xiang Kang, when his group was about to walk out of the woods, two dark arrows flew in succession from the dense woods, and they shot a pavilion pawn of Daxing Pavilion, and also happened to hit the key point of the unlucky pavilion pawn. Cui Pai and the militia were shocked, and hurriedly dragged the seriously injured pavilion pawn who was not dead, stumbled out of the woods, and Xiang Kang, who loved his life, even crawled and crawled, hiding in the crowd of militiamen and escaping for hundreds of steps in one breath, until he was far away from the woods.

Hiding in the crowd of militia and waiting for a long time, it was still in the second half of the night, Feng Zhong and his party scolded and dragged a corpse out of the woods, Xiang Kang and Cui Pai and others stepped forward to ask, only to learn that Feng Zhong and others failed to catch up with the gang of bandits, but only caught the body of a bandit who did not know the identity of the body. At the same time, after seeing Xiang Kang, whose outfit had changed greatly, Feng Zhong also asked strangely: "Brother, why did you get like this?" What's wrong? ”

"Brother Feng, have you encountered a sneak attack with a hidden arrow?" Xiang Kang did not answer the rhetorical question.

"Sneak attack?" Feng Zhong was asked for a moment and replied, "That gang of bandits either has an axe or a fork, and the best weapons are only swords and knives, so the hidden arrows are sneaking up?" ”

"Sure enough, they came for me."

Xiang Kang's heart sank, and then he told Feng Zhong what happened to him and Cui Pai and his party, but Feng Zhong was of course taken aback when he heard it, and hurriedly asked, "Brother Xiang, what enemies do you have here in Ling County?" They are targeting you like this, do they want your life? ”

"What do you say, big brother?" Xiang Kang asked rhetorically.

Feng Zhong's face changed again, and he didn't say the person's name, just nodded and said, "That's right, he is the most likely, and only he can do such a thing." ”

"Let's go back to Daxing Pavilion first." Xiang Kang said: "This is the boundary of Ling County, we have to guard against him and have a back-up move." ”

Feng Zhong hurriedly nodded in agreement, and hurriedly let everyone gather around Xiang Kang and hurriedly retreat, and at the same time, at this time, Xiang Kang found out that this incident was a corroboration of Captain Shan's troublemaking behind his back - Feng Zhong and the others fished out the body of the bandit, and it was not killed by Feng Zhong's guards or the militia of the lower minister, but by other bandits! At the same time, the reason why he was killed by his accomplices is also very simple, he has a crossbow arrow shot by the subordinate militia inserted in his body, and the accomplice is obviously afraid that he will not be able to escape quickly and be captured alive, so he cut his throat and killed him.

"Nine out of nine were done by Captain Shan, and the officials and bandits colluded to kill me and avenge his son." Xiang Kang came to a conclusion in his heart, and said in his heart: "That gang of bandits should be just a bait arranged by Captain Shan, and the person who released the dark arrow is the real killer, and he wants to blame that gang of bandits for killing me, so that no matter how the government investigates, it will be difficult to trace his head." But this is a bit strange, how could Captain Shan know my situation so well, and know that using this gang of bandits will definitely lure me to death? ”

After thinking about it carefully, Xiang Kang found that this was not too strange, with the intelligence ability of Shan Youwei, it should be easy to know what he was doing to form a militia, and he expected that he would definitely bring the militia over if something happened to Daxingting, and it should not be a difficult matter, and it was reasonable to design and trap himself. But Xiang Kang still felt that something was wrong, and always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with it, but what the specific problem was, Xiang Kang couldn't figure it out for a while.

After returning to Daxing Pavilion smoothly, for the sake of safety, Xiang Kang, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, chose to live with his descendant militia, carefully changed into militia clothes, and changed positions several times when sleeping. Fortunately, nothing else happened after that, and the next morning, when the children of the Xiang family with many good hands hurriedly came to Daxing Pavilion, Xiang Kang finally put his mind at ease and told the children of the Xiang family what happened last night.

Knowing that Xiang Kang was almost killed by a sneak attack last night, the children of the Xiang family, who were generally more united, of course shouted one by one, shouting and shouting that they wanted to go to Lingxian City to find a single right lieutenant to settle accounts. Feng Zhong and Xiang Kang hurriedly stopped them and persuaded: "Brothers, calm down, we just suspect that last night's incident was done by Shan Youwei, but there is no evidence, and we will only give him an excuse to take the opportunity to take you down." ”

After thinking about it carefully, I found that this was also the case, and the children of the Xiang family had no choice but to do it stupidly, Xiang Zhuang also said hatefully: "It's a pity that I wasn't there yesterday, if I was here, I would have to rush into the woods, take down the two little thieves who released arrows, and force them to explain the mastermind behind the scenes!" ”

Hearing this, Xiang Kang's heart moved, and he immediately asked Xiang Zhuang almost without thinking: "Brother, what did you just say?" ”

"I said it's a pity that I wasn't there last night, otherwise even if I was injured, I would have rushed over to take down those two little thieves." Xiang Zhuang replied, and asked suspiciously, "What?" What's wrong with me? ”

Xiang Kang finally knew what was wrong, but Xiang Kang remained silent, just nodded and said, "Thank you, brother, I know that if you were there last night, there would definitely be no such thing." ”

When Xiang Kang said the word 'certainly', his tone involuntarily became a little heavier, but unfortunately Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Guan and other elites of the Xiang family did not hear any of them, and they only greeted the old lady of Shan Youwei and all the female relatives, and swore to avenge Xiang Kang for this arrow.

Later, after quietly hearing from Xiang It, Xiang Yang and others why the children of the Xiang family happened to go to a distant place to play yesterday, and why the children of the Xiang family did not rush to Daxing Pavilion overnight to help him, Xiang Kang still did not say anything, but hid this matter deep in his stomach, and there was still a smug smile on the corner of his mouth......

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As Xiang Kang and others expected, the mastermind behind this incident was indeed Shan Youwei, who had a grudge against Xiang Kang for killing his son, and after learning that the assassination plan he had worked so hard to arrange was a failure, Shan Youwei was of course furious, and even beat and kicked the five henchmen who sent him to assassinate Xiang Kang, scolded a bloody dog, and roared angrily: "Waste! Idiot! Useless dog stuff! If you miss the arrow, why can't you rush up and kill him with a sword? Waste Lao Tzu's gold! Waste Lao Tzu's painstaking arrangement! ”

"Master, we didn't think about rushing up and killing him directly." The two family members who were beaten were full of bitterness, and distinguished: "It's that little vertical man is too many people around him and too cunning, we rushed up directly to kill him and didn't know it at all, we could only release arrows to sneak attack, that once I wanted to release only one arrow, he actually immediately guessed that we were specifically targeting him, not only immediately hid in the crowd, but also changed clothes and hair buns, we couldn't recognize him at all when the black light was blind, and then we didn't have this certainty if we wanted to rush up and kill him directly." ”

"Rubbish! Straw bag! Useless dog stuff! ”

The distinction between the two family members only brought more insults and fists and kicks, and the thunderous Shan Right Lieutenant was so angry that he almost wanted to kill these two family members on the spot, but fortunately, Wang Ju, the most trusted henchman of Shan Right Lieutenant next to him, stopped him and persuaded: "Master, forget it, this time it is really that little vertical man is lucky, if he wants to die or not, he will take another way, if he is coming to the small side, the little one will rush up directly to kill him." Master, you also instructed that you can't kill Feng Zhong in a hurry, so as not to make too much trouble and attract the prime minister's side to pursue it with all their might, so we only ran for nothing this time. ”

"But it's not in vain that we're working hard this time." Wang Ju said again: "At least it proves that the little vertical man named Xiang You really wants to help us kill his brother, otherwise he would not have deliberately deceived the gang of broken goods of the Xiang family who dare to fight and kill according to the master's arrangement." It's a pity that we didn't dare to trust him easily, didn't dare to let him know the details of our plan, and let him help us more, otherwise we would definitely succeed this time. But it doesn't matter, as long as we make good use of this Xiang You who took the initiative to send to the door, it will be easy to kill Xiang Kang's little shaft, and there is a chance. ”

"Fart! Is that easy?! Lieutenant Shan scolded angrily: "That little vertical man is already very cunning, and he usually hardly goes out alone, but this time I found that the target we designed was him, and he will definitely be more careful in the future, and it will only be more difficult for us to kill him again!" ”

"Master, of course it's difficult for us to do it, but what if we let Xiang You's vertical man do it directly? Xiang Kang's little shaft is a thousand defenses, can he prevent his own brother? Wang Juyin asked with a smile.

"He has the courage to do it directly, he has already done it, and he still needs to take the initiative to find me here, and ask us to do it, and he will help behind his back?" Captain Shan was even more angry when he heard this.

"Tell him to use the sword directly, he may not have the guts, but if he is asked to poison, he may not dare to agree." Wang Ju said gloomily: "A bottle of Heding Red (arsenic) is enough to kill ten Xiang Kang Xiaozhuzi's dogs." And after that little vertical man dies, the gang of broken goods of the Xiang family will only suspect us, and they will not suspect their own brothers in any case, as long as Xiang You's little vertical man understands this truth, he will definitely dare to do this! ”

"Great idea!" Lieutenant Shan finally applauded the case, and said: "Quietly contact Xiang You's little shaft, send him the poison, and ask him to find an opportunity to poison Xiang Kang's little shaft!" Tell him that as long as he poisons that little vertical boy for the official, the official will not only return to him the handwritten slip he wrote here, but also give him fifty gold, and help him marry that stinky girl of the Yu family! ”