The group continued to gallop along the official road in the lofty mountains and mountains, and the old knife also took out his binoculars from time to time to observe the movement of the outposts in front.

I have to say that the telescope is indeed a good thing, with this thing in hand, even if the two sides are separated by several miles, they can still see clearly, so although the traces of the rogue detective in front of them appear and disappear from time to time, the old knife and his party are still hanging behind in a hurry.

After running for more than ten miles, the sky gradually darkened, and the old knife found that the other party stopped next to a forest, he raised his hand, and the seven people behind him hurriedly pulled the reins of the horse, and the war horse soon stopped and kept shaking its head in place, and the mouth and nose continued to spit out thick white gas.

The old knife took off the mask covering his face, rubbed his stiff cheeks, took out his binoculars and looked forward again, and found that the thieves in front of him were untying the cloth bags from the saddle to feed the war horses, but he could see clearly, those war horses only ate two bites and stopped.

Seeing this, the old knife suddenly said: "The horses of the thieves are thirsty, and they must stop to boil water to feed the war horses." ”

The scholar and the others also nodded in agreement, because of the huge size of the war horse, this animal not only eats a lot, but also drinks a lot. Drink 15 to 30 litres of water a day, even if you don't exercise, and double the amount of water you use if you exercise vigorously.

And the war horse drinking water is not just to find a stinky ditch or dirty sewage, it must be clean water, and it must not be too cold, otherwise it is easy to cause the discomfort of the war horse and cause diarrhea or illness, from this point of view, the war horse is also a delicate animal.

The old knife was not mistaken, these thieves unsaddled their horses, and they even removed a large iron pot from the saddle, and a few people brought a few large stones from nearby, and a few others collected clean snow from the ground and put them in the iron pot, and some people picked up a pile of dead branches and began to start a fire to boil water.

"Let's go...... Touch it. ”

The old knife casually put a horse cage on his war horse, and then with a wave of his hand, he led the war horse and began to touch it forward.

Time passed little by little, when the old knife touched a few hundred meters away from the outside of the grove, the sky was getting dark, and the thieves who lit a bonfire in the woods to warm the water did not notice it in the slightest, they took out the frozen hard pancakes and baked them around the bonfire, and then ate them with hot water, laughing loudly while eating.

At this time, with the help of the blazing fire, the old knives could clearly see the appearance of these thieves without binoculars.

There were eleven men and eighteen horses, most of whom wore red turbans or wore a crotch (pronounced liǎng dāng, a kind of vest in ancient times). Most of them are made of cloth, and the crotch is sandwiched with cotton, which can be taken by both men and women), or they are dressed in shabby sheep robes.

However, one of the thieves caught the attention of the old knife, this one was a burly man, full of beard, wearing a white felt hat on his head, and a hood armor on his body, which was shoulder-length cotton armor. He had a Pu knife hanging from his waist and a horned bow behind his back, a dress that was popular among low-ranking officers in the Central Plains.

There were also two war horses tethered to this thief, and they seemed to be of decent quality.

Aside from this thief, the other thieves only had waist knives and bows and arrows, and those bows and arrows were still foot bows instead of horn bows, and it was clear that these thieves did not have the ability to shoot arrows immediately.

Not only that, but their horses didn't look very good, short and thin, and could only be used for barely riding.

Despite this, the old knife was also a little impressed by these people.

Don't look at the cavalry in the Jiangning army, they are all one person and two horses, and they can even reach one person and three horses if they don't collect at night, but that's because Yang Feng has a good relationship with Horqin and other grassland tribes, and he can buy a large number of high-quality war horses.

But the folk are different, if anyone has a horse, it is a great thing, which is equivalent to the ordinary family in later generations owning a Mercedes-Benz BMW. These eleven rogues actually owned eighteen war horses, although most of them were not of good quality, but they were enough to impress the old knife.

"Could it be that they are the elite of the old camp of thieves?" The old knife thought to himself.

The Jiangning Army was ordered to quell the rebellion, and the eyes and ears of the Jiangning Army were not collected at night, so they naturally knew the situation of the Liukou very well.

Today's Liukou Feng Gao Yingxiang is the king of Chuang, and there are a total of 13 families and 72 battalions under his command.

These thirteen are Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Ma Shouying, Luo Rucai, He Yilong, He Jin, Xu Chang, Li Wanqing, Ma Jinzhong, Hui Dengxiang, Hengtian Wang, Nine Dragons, and Shuntian Wang.

As for the 72nd Battalion, it is a general name, and the name of its leader is unknown and difficult to count, so most people refer to the 72nd Battalion as the old battalion, which means the most elite men and horses in the Liukou.

Looking at those unsuspecting rogues sitting around the bonfire to eat, the old knife shook his head and said: "These thieves are too far behind the Manchu Tartars, and they don't even have the least vigilance, do they really think this is their vegetable garden?" ”

The scholar laughed: "Wouldn't it be better this way, we can kill these pieces in just one round." ”

"But don't be careless."

As the only old knife in the team who had fought with Yang Feng against the Manchu Tartars, he gave the order.

"Everybody get ready, check the firearms, the handguns, get ready to change horses. Jiao Zuo, Jiao Wei, you are ready to bomb him! ”

"Whoa!"

Everyone agreed, two of them looked quite similar, at first glance, the two brothers did not accept the night, took out two huge 10,000 enemies from their pockets, unscrewed the lid, revealed the fuse inside, and lit the windproof fire fold in their hands.

Others reloaded their Minnie rifles with ammunition, checked the three-eyed handcuff hanging from their waists, and rammed the barrel a few times with a strip to make sure that the ammunition in the barrel had not fallen out of the muzzle.

After everyone was ready, the old knife picked up the Minnie rifle, looked around at the night and shouted, "Brothers, the meritorious deeds are in the present day, kill the thieves, and catch the mouth alive!" ”

"Kill the thief, catch the mouth alive!"

Several of them roared in an impassioned tone.

"Attack!"

The old knife snorted, slammed the horse's belly, and the war horse under the crotch rushed forward like an arrow from the string, and the other seven Ye Bushu also followed.

As the most elite of the Jiangning Army, their military quality is naturally beyond doubt, the group automatically lined up in a cone formation as soon as they charged, the old knife with the highest force value rushed to the front as an arrow, Jiao Zuo and Jiao Wei were two brothers on the two wings of the team, and the others followed closely behind the old knife and charged at the fastest speed.

The sound of horses' hooves and the snowflakes on the ground immediately alarmed the more than a dozen rogues who were resting.

The reaction of these rogues was not unpleasant, and when they heard the sound of horses' hooves, they immediately jumped up and rushed to the horses on the side.

But in a hurry, they forgot that because it was resting, their war horses had already been unsaddled, whether it was a saddle or weapons and equipment, all of them had been unloaded, where could they be loaded for a while?

The distance of hundreds of meters is not a distance at all for the sprinting war horse, and it can be killed in tens of seconds at most, the burly thief saw that the companions around him were still at a loss to spin in place, and he didn't know whether to get on the horse or run towards the woods, seeing this, he was so angry that he shouted: "I don't care so much, stay here and die, hurry up and get on the horse and run!" ”

After speaking, he ignored others, jumped on the back of the nearest group of war horses, grabbed the reins and clamped the horse's belly, and punched the horse's back with his right hand.

After hearing the leader's words, the other rogues jumped on their horses and tried to flee as if they had just woken up from a dream, but by this time it was too late, and the old knives that had already killed them had already raised their Nimi rifles and pulled the triggers one after another.

"Bang ......"

A series of muffled gunshots rang out, and several thieves who had just wanted to get on their horses were shot and fell in pools of blood.

At this time, the two brothers Jiao Zuo and Jiao Wei ignited the 10,000 enemies in their hands and threw them forward with the help of horsepower, and then pulled the reins of the horse, and the war horse went around to both sides.

"Woohoo......"

Weighing two and a half pounds, the sparkling 10,000 enemies fell into the thieves.

"Boom ......"

With the sound of two violent explosions, almost all the thieves in the woods fell to the ground, and even one or two people were stunned by the sudden explosion, and they did not react for a while.

"Rumble ......"

The sound of horses' hooves sounded again, and it turned out that the night guards were rushing towards the thieves again.

At this time, there were only three rogues still standing on the spot, and looking at the Yebushu who rushed again, they panicked and jumped on the back of the unsaddled horse, took out the weapons on their waists and rushed towards the Yebushu.

It's just that people have advantages and disadvantages, and the war horses are not like this, the inferior horses under their crotch have a congenital disadvantage in the face of the high-headed horses that rush to the front, and they are in a hurry, the original owner wanted them to meet them, but these inferior horses let out a neighing and turned the horse's head and ran to the side.

"Kill ......"

Seeing that the night around him raised their handcuffs and prepared to shoot, the old knife shouted, "Keep your mouth alive!" ”

"Yes!"

The night guards agreed, put away their handcuffs, and drew their weapons from the saddle.

"Kill!"

The scholar rushed to the back of a thief with a saber and slashed at the back of the knife, only to hear a muffled sound, and the rogue was knocked on the back by the back of the knife, and was smashed off the horse, and after rolling on the snow a few times, he never moved again.

The scholar jumped off his horse, drew a handcuff from his waist and aimed it at the rogue who was lying motionless on the ground, and then beckoned the other companions to come and tie him up, and when they tied up the rogue, the other three thieves who tried to escape had also been captured by the other night guards.