At this time, it was morning, the sun was in the sky behind Zhuang Yuncheng, he looked around, and suddenly his eyes were flashed by a moment of blazing white light, and it was dark in front of him for a moment, and when he recovered, he saw grass moving on the protruding hillside opposite.

"Fluttershy, there's someone on the other side." Zhuang Yuncheng squinted deeply and said.

"I saw it too, and stepped back, afraid they had guns." Fluttershy pulls him back, saying, "It's supposed to be coming for this convoy, let's take a look." ”

After taking a dozen steps back to the curb, with a loess slope behind her, Fluttershy says, "It's a distance that they can't hit with a gun." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng shuddered a little, looking at the approaching motorvoy, worried for them, but also for himself and Fluttershy.

"Brother, you're right here, I'll take a look." With that, she climbed uphill and walked through the woods towards the convoy.

Zhuang Yuncheng took out the gun and said to himself in a panic: "Today, I may really be able to use you." ”

He looks around and finds nothing to cover, so he finds a low place to climb up and cover himself with thorns and bushes, and after a while, he hears the "rumbling" of the leaves and the return of Fluttershy.

"Brother, it's our team."

"Ours?"

"Yes, it's the convoy of silk, herbs, and spices."

"How many people are escorted?"

"Seventeen or eighteen."

Zhuang Yuncheng was angry, and scolded angrily: "Bastards are more than money, more than a dozen truckloads of goods, only a dozen people, reluctant to pay this money, I don't know how to die!" ”

"They're almost there."

"This batch of goods is enough for all the shops under our name to supply for two months, although we only account for 30%, it is also a lot of money, and we must not lose it!" Zhuang Yuncheng said, "No matter what, you can't let this thief be caught off guard, notify them first, it's okay to be prepared, by the way, who is leading the team?" ”

"Old man who is in love with money, Shun An."

"Hmm."

Zhuang and Fluttershy sneak in the direction of the convoy, and when they do, they throw rocks underneath.

Shun An saw that the stone was rolling down the slope, and knew that something was wrong, and everyone immediately reined in the reins, and copied the spears under the carriage, and looked around. There was no movement for a long time, and he was about to continue moving forward, Zhuang Yuncheng shouted: "Shun'an - there are bandits ahead!" ”

The sound was ethereal and long, echoing across the three roads and the sky, revealing its location at the same time.

Only the bandits were heard, and everyone was on alert, lying on the ground.

"Is it Young Master Zhuang?" Shun An asked, lying on his stomach, raising his head.

"Yes!"

At this time, the furious bandits, carrying knives on their backs, rushed down the hill with guns and grabbed the ground, blocking the way, and seeing that the convoy was lying on the ground, covered by goods and stones, they did not dare to attack rashly.

"Drop off the cargo and let you pass!" The bandit leader shouted.

"Don't think!"

The leader of the bandits was angry, squinting his eyes and scolding: "Those two people just now shouldn't be let go easily!" Now that they have a defense, they don't know how many people they will lose if they attack hard! ”

"What should I do?"

"You take three people, clean up those two." Then the leader said to the man on his right, "Take ten men with you, go up to the flank, hear the gunshots, and outflank them." ”

The two teams said yes and went their separate ways.

After a long silence, Fluttershy hears the sound of leaves and whispers, "They're coming." ”

"I see only four people, can you handle it?"

"Okay, you lie here and don't move, I'll lure them away."

"Be careful." Zhuang Yuncheng instructed in a solemn manner.

"Hmm." Fluttershy turns and walks deeper into the bushes, rustling and swaying from side to side as the men hold their breath, slow down, gun in hand, and move towards the foliage.

Zhuang Yuncheng turned his face in the direction of Fluttershy's past, and the heat spread up from the loess avenue, enveloping him, and he lay on his stomach in the bushes, his head tilted, sweat running into his eyebrows and sliding into his eyes, and he was careful to wipe his sweat.

When the sound of gentle footsteps drowned out the sound of Zhuang Yuncheng's heart beating, and in his blurred vision, a few feet appeared, and he didn't dare to look up at all at all, afraid that when he saw their faces, they were also looking over. Thankfully, the feet turned away from each other, when he looked up, brushed aside a few grasses in front of him, and saw the broad backs of the four of them.

"Fluttershy......" he whispered, holding the gun in both hands, blinking to squeeze the sweat out of his eyes, blinking several times in succession, and the back in front of him became clear, so he loaded and aimed it at the back of a person.

"Squeak-" The loading sound was crisp and loud, several people's backs were cold, and they hurriedly turned around, Zhuang Yuncheng bit his lip, his stinging eyes widened, and he instantly pulled the trigger, "Bang-" A gunshot rang out, he couldn't help but close his eyes, his eyes were dark, and his body rolled to the side.

A man twisted his body and fell, but suddenly a bright light crossed the side - the dagger swept over a person's neck, like cutting off a small grass here, leaving a shallow trace, and in an instant, blood splattered and stained red. Before the other two could react, a gun handle slammed into their arm, and Fluttershy kicked them two meters away, leaving them screaming as they fell into the thorns.

Zhuang Yuncheng's ears were buzzing, and all that was in his mind was the distorted face and complicated eyes of the person who was hit by the bullet, and he felt a wave of nausea and kept retching.

"Brother, are you okay?" Fluttershy finds Zhuang Yuncheng in the weeds with one hand on the ground and the other on his chest, retching with his head down.

"It's fine." He holds out a hand, and Fluttershy pulls him up.

The two who were still alive were pierced into the skin by the thorns with toxins, so that the broken skin was extremely itchy, and they kept scratching, and when they saw Zhuang Yuncheng coming over, they begged for mercy: "Don't kill us." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng saw that their hands were covered with blood and their faces were bloody, and he vomited for a while, turned his face and said, "Hurry up!" ”

The two of them walked and crawled, humming and chirping.

Zhuang Yuncheng stared at their backs and said, "Don't turn back!" I watched from behind, turned around and fired. ”

The two of them agreed indiscriminately, ran desperately, ran to the side of the slope, rolled down and fell on the side of the road, but still got up and ran.

When the leader of the road heard the gunshots, he did not know what to do, until he saw the two men running away, and he knew that the other two were unlucky, and he shouted at the two who had fled: "Stop! ”

They don't look back, they jolt and run faster.

The leader took turns to shoot at them, but he was too far away to miss a few shots, and he was so angry that his cheeks bulged as if they were about to explode.

Fluttershy returns from the two fallen men and says, "They're both dead." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng looked meaningfully at Fluttershy, then at the two corpses, and was silent for a long time before he said solemnly, "It's more than innocent to die." ”

At this time, his mouth was still astringent and bitter, and his chest was churning, so he pinched a petal with a white root and a red flower on the upper part and put it in his mouth, and after a while, he felt a slight sweetness, accompanied by a fragrance overflowing his mouth. Seeing that it worked, he picked one and handed it to Fluttershy, who took it and held it in her mouth, and before she could taste it, she heard the sound of gunshots, and the two ran to the side of the cliff, which was attacked by the bandits, and a dozen people on the front and a dozen people on the side slid down the slope, bringing up a burst of dense loess that overwhelmed the sky, and a dozen horses were so frightened that they jumped around, pulling the goods and scattering them all over the ground.

In the chaos, Shun An rose up to resist, and then there was just a tragic scuffle, with gunshots and shouts echoing endlessly.

"I can't go down yet, I have to wait for the shootout to end." Zhuang Yuncheng couldn't see the situation below clearly, he could only hear the piercing sound of death, he shook his head slowly, and there were words in his mouth: "Heartbroken, this is too ruthless......"

When everyone rushed into the loess dust, the sound of gunfire disappeared, and then it was just the collision of cold weapons, and Zhuang Yuncheng heard the sound of tearing.

"It's time to go down." Zhuang Yuncheng said.

"You're going down too?"

"Go." Zhuang Yuncheng said, looking for the way downhill, at this time the loess dust gradually subsided, and he saw the most hideous person, the most brutal, the leader, and said to Fluttershy, "That's the person, take it." ”

The people here are dead, wounded, Fluttershy walks all the way, they don't dare to move, this leader knows that she is the woman who just let go, he wants to vent his anger, he looks at the knife with his hand, without much hesitation, he rushes over, the knife he raised has not fallen, he is kicked in the wrist, he stumbles, Fluttershy rushes up, pinching his arm and pinning it behind him, he screams, bows down, almost instantly, kicks him on the waist again, he rolls forward a dozen steps away, and finally collapses at Zhuang Yuncheng's feet, eating a mouthful of loess.

Zhuang Yuncheng looked at it, there were only a dozen people left who could stand, Shun'an hunched over, covering the knife wound on his chest, there were only three people left in the caravan, they saw that everything was calm, and they hurriedly ran to Shun'an to help him.

There were also eight or nine bandits here, and when they saw that the boss had fallen, they panicked and didn't know what to do.

Zhuang Yuncheng had never seen such a tragic scene - corpses were lying everywhere, blood was everywhere, some of the people lying on the ground were motionless, some were struggling, they had become ants, was life worthless, he couldn't speak for a long time, and his heart was nauseous.

Fluttershy trampled the bandit leader under his feet, and he gasped for air, Zhuang Yuncheng squinted at him and said, "In that case, there aren't many of you dead." He then handed the gun to Fluttershy, gestured for a look, and turned around, and two seconds later, he heard a gunshot, and without looking, he walked around his corpse and cast a cold gaze on the eight or nine weak-legged bandits.

"What hill are you from?"

"I ...... We are not bandits," said one of the men, trembling, "and we have come to rob this shipment on the orders of Mr. Less." ”

"What Mr. Yu?"

"Mr. Xiao of East China Commercial Bank."

Zhuang Yuncheng didn't know, Shun'an struggled and said: "He is just a lackey of the East China Commercial Bank, there are people behind him, no wonder he dares to intercept our goods." ”

"You know?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked.

"Yes."

Zhuang Yuncheng nodded, looking at the scattered dozens of boxes and people everywhere, he couldn't handle it by himself, and now it would take half a day to send someone back to Beijing at the earliest, so he ordered these nine robbers who could still stand and walk to pack up the goods, take care of everything, and ordered one of his own people to ride back to Beijing, report to Zhong Yuqian and Liu Zhen, and send someone to deal with the endgame.

Then let people vacate a carriage to carry these injured people, looking at those robbers who still have their breath, they are afraid that they will die under the scorching sun, Zhuang Yuncheng can't either, "Self-inflicted, don't live, if you can still persevere, the two people who ran away just now may find someone to save you." He said to himself. The convoy then continued to walk, ready to stop at the post station ahead and wait for the pick-up.

Sure enough, in the evening, Liu Zhen and Zhong Yuqian both came, bringing more than 20 people, Zhong Yuqian took more than a dozen people to escort the convoy to Beijing overnight, and Liu Zhen returned to deal with the scene where he confronted the robbers.

Zhuang Yuncheng and Fluttershy dragged their tired bodies forward for more than a dozen miles, resting in an inn in a town, and then entering the city tomorrow.