Chapter Twenty-Five: Hindered, Murderous
"After leaving the border of Liangzhou, we will arrive at Bingzhou, so we should be especially careful here." Zhang Taibai reminded.
"What's wrong with the state?" Meng Liu asked.
"This is a ruthless character, otherwise it would not have been used by the emperor to guard the frontier, and most of the thieves in the world come from here." Zhang Taibai explained.
"Tell me about it?"
"You listen to me first, and the state pastor's name is Zhao Ji, who is the nephew of the emperor today, his appearance is not good, he is seven feet tall, and his sword skills are outstanding, according to the records of the people, he once broke the encirclement and suppression of the enemy army of 3,000 people with 300 armor soldiers in a battle, and he also beheaded the enemy general, extremely strong."
"But this Zhao Ji has a quirk." Zhang Taibai lowered his voice when he said this, "Although he is not lustful, he likes to be unadulterated. But if that were the case, the women did not survive the next day when they entered his room. ”
"Why?"
"Uh... It's a quirk in that area. ”
"Understood." Although Meng Liu has no experience in the affairs of men and women, he has heard some of them and understands what Zhang Taibai is talking about.
"What does this have to do with thieves?"
"After all, Bingzhou belongs to the frontier, Zhao Ji is not like King Liang who can let the Beiban come in to do business in his own territory, so few businessmen are willing to come here, Zhao Ji thought of a way, out of thieves will not be exterminated, let those merchants pay money, according to the head of the hand, this place is the only way to go to Liangzhou, no way, it will be like this now."
Meng Liu was surprised: "Then you still let us pretend to be a business trip, what if we are robbed?" ”
"Isn't this just a good test of your current strength, besides, if you don't pretend to be a business trip, it will be difficult for more than 1,000 of us to go out of the city, so we can only go out of the city in batches."
Speaking of this, Meng Liu glanced back at the team, then looked at Zhang Taibai, and said, "What are you going to do with them?" ”
"There is a place called Yicheng in Qingzhou, which is a small city, and after we got into trouble, we took Yicheng as the foundation to establish the Taiping Sect and widely accept the congregation, and these thousand people are our first batch of congregation."
"Taiping Sect?"
"Yes, when the time comes, I will show the immortal art of calling the wind and rain, so that they can be convinced, practice morality, and save the people from fire and water."
"Can you really call the wind and rain?" Meng Liu suddenly thought of the book, "Just rely on that book?" ”
"You'll know when the time comes, the mountain people have their own tricks!" Zhang Taibai laughed.
Zhang Taibai and Meng Liu were walking while talking, and suddenly the horse was tripped, Zhang Taibai rolled off the horse, Meng Liu was indeed safe and sound, patted the horse's back at the moment the horse was tripped, and jumped off the horse. At this moment, more than thirty robbers rushed out of the mountains and forests.
"Stop! Leave money around you and you won't die! Otherwise, let you know how powerful my knife is! The leader was eight feet tall, with a rough body, big shoulders and a round waist, and he was wearing a cloth coat and shouted violently, and the frightened birds scattered in the mountains and forests.
Meng Liu glanced back and found that the people behind him didn't care at all, when it came to bandits, they were no worse than anyone else!
Meng Liu was a little settled in his heart, quickly helped Zhang Taibai up, protected him behind him, and took the halberd to set up a posture.
Zhang Taibai was shocked when he looked at the appearance of the person in front of him, and hurriedly said in Meng Liu's ear: "Be careful, this person is not a thief, he is a general under Zhao Ji, a general named Han Chao, who is good at using double knives." ”
Meng Liu stood with a halberd in his right hand and waited for him.
Seeing Han Chao move first, Meng Liu also rushed forward, the two fought together, Han Chao slashed down with a knife, Meng Liu blocked the halberd but did not expect Han Chao's other knife to kill from the waist and abdomen, Meng Liu turned his body to dodge, Han Chao killed frequently, Meng Liu was hindered by the long halberd was too long to perform, and he was beaten and retreated.
After the two sides fought for more than 20 times, Han Chao seized the opportunity to stick forward and grab the halberd handle with his arm, and stabbed Meng Liu with a big knife in his other hand.
Meng Liu took this opportunity to poke Han Chao's chest with a halberd, Han Chao raised his knife and wanted to resist, but obviously underestimated the arm strength of the Qinglong Halberd and Meng Liu, and directly poked Han Chao's knife into a hole, not to mention, even Han Chao was directly poked in the center and killed on the spot.
Seeing that the leader was killed, the rest of the people hurriedly dispersed.
Meng Liu is feeling uncomfortable now, firstly, he killed someone, and secondly, he was really almost killed by others.
Zhang Taibai stepped forward and said: "This is the case in troubled times, if you don't kill people, others will come to kill you, and you yourself must have an invincible momentum in the world, so that you can get stronger and stronger, and one day you will let those famous generals who have been famous for a long time become the souls of your halberds one by one." ”
Meng Liu looked at Han Chao's corpse, nodded gloomily and said, "I don't want to die, I haven't built a palace for her yet." ”
Zhang Taibai said on the side: "Then let the people who are in front of you die!" ”
Meng Liu didn't speak again, and took out two more horses from the team, one was given to Zhang Taibai, and the other was ridden by himself, and his hand holding the halberd tightened.
"Let's go." Meng Liu said.
Zhang Taibai smiled at this time: "Okay." ”
This is also one of the reasons why Zhang Taibai wants to pretend to be a business traveler this time, that is, let Meng Liu really grow up here in Bingzhou, only by experiencing more such things, he will not be afraid in the future, and he will only let himself be killed, this is the result that Zhang Taibai wants, so Zhang Taibai deliberately asked all the more than 1,000 people who followed them to pretend to be business travelers, and even the weapons were packed into goods and locked in boxes.
As for why Bingzhou is the place with the most thieves, because not long after the pedestrian walked past, there was another nest of bandits, and this nest of bandits was a real bandit.
However, there were about a dozen people, and their tone was very rampant, not to mention the lives of Meng Liu and the others, and they were going to kill Meng Liu when they came up, which caused a group of people behind Meng Liu to laugh.
Meng Liu didn't say much, just said a word to let them leave as soon as possible, if not, they would not be spared, and then stood the green dragon halberd next to the horse, and others looked like a god.
That gang of bandits was not stupid, they knew that Meng Liu was not easy to mess with, so they fled here immediately without saying much.
The thieves who continued for several days dispelled this idea after seeing Meng Liu's halberd, and that night, Meng Liu and the others were resting in the wilderness, and it was said that the flames were everywhere, and a team of hundreds of people came out of the dense forest.
Fortunately, there are night watchmen every night, and every night Zhang Taibai will let a hundred of them wear armor and carry swords, what he is afraid of is at this time, because after Han Chao's death, Zhang Taibai has a heart in his heart.
After Meng Liu was awakened, he immediately turned over and shouted angrily, "Who are you waiting for? Dare to report your name and fight with me! ”
"Lao Tzu is pious."
"Bandits? Your Excellency is a thief of the country? Zhang Taibai shouted at the man.
"Who are you? How will you know me? Wen Qian waved his big hand to stop the person who was about to rush to kill him.
"Below is a disciple of the Taiping Daoist of the Immortal Mountain, the Great Heavenly Master Zhang Taibai." Zhang Taibai said loudly, signaling Meng Liu to calm down with his hand.
"Immortal Mountain?" Wen Qian thought for a moment and asked, "Fart!" How could the people of Immortal Mountain come here, don't fool me! ”
"That's true, go down the mountain this year, otherwise how would I know the name of the Bandit Regiment!" Zhang Taibai explained, "Can Your Excellency get off the horse and have a secret talk? ”
"Okay, since it's a person from Immortal Mountain, it's your own person, brothers, stop!" Wen Qian shouted.