Bailiyan and his entourage of more than 140 people went south through Guangxin, and there was an endless stream of caravans along the way, and there were more than 30 caravans found before and after in Guangxin's territory alone.

There were more than 50 people on a small scale, and nearly 300 people on a large scale, all of whom had armed guards to protect the safety of the caravan. But the number is very small, some are only a few, and the most are only twenty or thirty. For Huo Xing's moves, a group of horse thieves and mountain bandits of several hundred people, and the scale of the guard of only twenty or thirty people, it is difficult to withstand Huo Xing's plunder.

Thinking of the fact that there were only 200 horse infantry under the command of the city trough transfer envoy, and Huo Xing and the others were at most a fish and a dead net, and there was no great chance of victory. How to increase the combat power of 200 people is already a problem that Bailiyan must consider

It was already dusk when the horses entered the north of Dingyang, and Bailiyan decided to repair on the spot, so that tomorrow to save the horse's stamina through the territory of Dingyang City, if they galloped all the way, in case they collided with the horse thief, the horse would not have stamina.

At night, Song Jie released ten royal guests to act as scouts to reconnoiter the surrounding terrain, and if there is a trail, he must also pay attention to prevent horse thieves from taking advantage of the loopholes to bypass the main road.

"Wei Langzhong, when did you say you could bump into the horse thief?" Fang De asked, chewing on jerky.

"Guangxin officials pass through Dingyang and go straight to Lingling, and it takes six or seven days to ride a horse at a normal marching speed. If it is a rush, it will take three days. The stagecoach gallops 400 miles and flies to report the fastest two days, if it is a caravan, the carriage and horses are very heavy, and it takes ten days to arrive in Guangxin. If a horse thief runs a trade route, it is difficult to say where.

However, Sikong Nan came all the way and did not find any acquaintances of horse thieves in the business trip, judging from this, the horse thieves must still be in the south. ”

After Dingyang City and then to the south will enter the "capital county" is the county territory with the core of the Lingling, and the south of the Dingyang City is bordered by the city, through the city and then walk a few days through Zhaocheng, Mochi two places, after the two places is the Lingling, the horse thief can not go south, or go to other places in the Xianguo, too far but not controlled, so it is only possible to go on the road in Beihai Guangxin.

The next day, the men and horses continued to move south, and it was still early to enter the territory of Hecheng through Dingyang, and there was a rare large area of uncultivated wasteland in Hecheng, which was overgrown with abundant weeds. Although the sun was scorching, it could not stop the hunger and thirst of the war horses, and the people could still hold on, but the horses had not been fed yesterday, and they had already been hungry all the way, so Bailiyan decided to feed the horses on the spot, and at the same time sent scouts to reconnoiter the situation in the south.

There is still no trace of the horse thief all the way through Ding Yangcheng, so continue to the south, the probability of hitting the horse thief will be greatly increased, people are sleepy and the horse is lacking under the sudden encounter, it is difficult to ensure that no matter how powerful the tactics are, there is a time when the horse is fed, which is more conducive to fighting.

Half an hour after feeding the horses, a royal guest scout came to report the news, and a caravan of more than 400 people was found five miles to the south, which was slowly coming north.

According to previous experience, a caravan of more than 300 people belonged to a large caravan, with 1780 carts and more than 4,500 donkeys and horses. This caravan of more than 400 people only had more than 50 chariots and horses, and more than 300 donkeys and horses, and the configuration was seriously abnormal.

"Brother Song, this caravan is very likely to be Niu Gui, Wu Shan and others, you and I will act according to the score, I will go with Sikong Nan to block the road, and you and Tang Zhao, Fang De and other brothers will take a detour to the side."

"But you have to be serious, don't hurt the innocent."

Song Jie, Tang Zhao, Fang De and others divided the men and horses into three according to the calculation, Fang De led more than 40 people to follow Bailiyan and Sikong Nan to block the road, Song Jie and Tang Zhao each brought 50 people, Song Jie was outflanked on the west side, Tang Zhao avoided the horse thief from the east side, and rounded around behind the horse thief.

As long as Baili Yan made a move, Tang Zhao and Song Jie successively attacked from the west and back with a meteor tribulus rope, and then used their blades to cover and kill the horse thief.

Everyone got on their horses and acted separately, Bailiyan led Sikong Nan, Fang De and other less than 50 people to slowly move south, and stopped when they were one mile away from the horse thief, and more than 40 people waved away and stopped in the middle of the pipeline.

Niu Gui, Wu Shan and others, who were leading the horse thief caravan to slow down, saw a group of men and horses scattered to block the way, and Niu Gui couldn't help but smile coldly:

"Wu Shan, there are still people who dare to rob our goods in broad daylight."

"There was a scout who came to report, and a force of forty or fifty cavalry was also found on the west side, equipped with official and army leather armor, maybe it was a county soldier. In recent years, the soldiers and bandits have a family, and it is difficult to guarantee that these county soldiers will not rob the merchants. Wu Shan said worriedly.

Niu Gui disdainfully said:

"The county soldiers still dare to rob us, and they don't look at their virtues. Go, tell the brothers to prepare and prepare, the ancestors went over and shouted, if you dare to rob us, we can't be a bad seed. ”

Niu Gui thought that if the county soldiers dared to extort or even rob them, he would kill this group of county soldiers and cavalry, and by the way, he collected the county soldiers' war vests to replenish himself.

After a while, Wu Shan sent two people to the front of the battle to question, Sikong Nan rode a horse and stood beside Baili Yan, as the field of vision gradually narrowed, Sikong Nan was almost certain that the people who came were the two horse thieves.

"Mr. Wei, the person who came may be Wu Shan and Niu Gui's subordinates."

"Brother Sikong is sure?"

"These two people are both holes that have been advanced for three years, and they have dealt with each other no less than 100 times, so they must be recognized."

"Well, when the two of them come to you, you can make a careful identification. If there is no difference, let people blow the horns and prepare for the battle. ”

"No!"

Bai Liyan believes that Sikong Nan will not admit his mistake, and it is better to look carefully just in case, so as not to kill the wrong person.

The two men came on horseback, and were not armoured, but each came with a dry bronze spear, and when they were thirty paces away, they took hold of the reins of their horses, and one of them cried out in a red scarf:

"Who's ahead, why are you blocking our way?"

Baili Yan urged forward and said:

"Guangxin City Trough Transit Envoy was ordered to protect the merchants, recently horse thieves are rampant, rumors of thieves Qiao pretending to be a business traveler in an attempt to get through the customs in confusion, you should quickly get off the horse to accept the investigation, otherwise you should be punished as a thief."

As soon as the words were uttered, the two of them each glanced at each other, and the red scarf man immediately saluted, and said with a smile:

"The villain has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, so he was a transfer envoy."

Before the words fell, a trumpet sounded when he heard the news. The sound of the horn was thick and long, and even if it was two or three miles away, it could still be heard clearly.

Before the two of them came back to their senses, Bai Liyan swished out two sharp arrows from behind him, one left and one right shot the thighs of the two, and the two of them turned over and dismounted one after another with a scream, and only then did they find out in horror that they had been recognized.

Niu Gui and Wu Shan, who were a mile away, heard the unknown sound of the horn and felt that the situation was wrong, and faintly saw that the two people sent in front of them fell off their horses one after another.

"Wu Shan, this group of officers and soldiers is reversed, and they really want to rob our way. You will take a hundred men and slaughter them, and I will lead the rest of the men and wait for the west to go out and kill the other group of men and horses. ”

"Well, be careful."

The two of them rubbed their hands, and ordered all the horse thieves to draw out their hidden weapons, and were about to unload the materials immediately and change to the horses, but they did not see any movement of the officers and soldiers in front of them, on the contrary, at this time, the horses' hooves roared behind them, and Niu Gui fixed his eyes on two hundred steps away.

The sporadic cavalry of the county soldiers came as quickly as stragglers, and they couldn't help but be happy, but they thought that the officers and soldiers were incompetent, and they put up such a formation to try to rob and kill them, but they were even more disapproving, and continued to organize horse thieves to prepare for battle.

At this time, Tang Zhao divided fifty people into a group of twos, each group held a three-zhang long meteor thistle rope, each rope was strung with twenty thistles, and at the same time hung twenty thumb-thick two-foot-long hemp ropes, the lower end of the hemp rope hung with the size of a table tennis ball, and one person held one end of the rope, borrowing the impact of the horse, all the way to the horse thief.

At this time, the horse thieves were on the official road in a column, like a coiled snake, Tang Zhao rushed across with twenty-five groups of meteor thistles, many horse thieves had just ridden the war horse and turned back, and without waiting to open the formation to urge the war horse, a long rope was tied to the iron thistle copper ball and swept over.

The one who was riding on the horse was suddenly overturned to the ground, and the copper ball standing on the ground inevitably hit the body or head, and luckily avoided the first wave, followed by the second and third waves, and the twenty-five groups of meteor tribulus terrestris had a total of five waves to rush and kill.

As soon as the rope felt tight, he immediately took it off, and he didn't love fighting, breaking through the scattered queues of horse thieves and running north to meet Bailiyan, Fang De and others one after another.

Twenty-five groups of five waves suppressed the horse thief in the meteor thistle rope, and in the blink of an eye, more than 200 people who had just turned over the war horse fell on their backs, and more than 100 people were killed and wounded, not counting the injured foot soldiers. Stunned, Niu Gui, Wu Shan and others are like murderous people, and horse thieves who are very good at riding and fighting are also taken aback, where have they seen such tactics.

"Niu Gui, the officials and soldiers are poisoned, and they actually use such means as a means."

"Damn, they are few people, kill me."

Niu Gui was furious, gathered people and horses to regroup and fight again. Without waiting to gain a firm foothold, Song Jie led fifty people on the west side to kill less than 100 paces quickly, without waiting for the horse thieves to adjust the queue, Song Jie's fifty people slowly approached the horse thieves team in a ninety degree turn to the north, but they did not intend to contact the horse thieves at all, but threw out a large package by hand, the package did not pierce the mouth, and a piece of "white face" was immediately scattered in the sky.

Niu Gui, Wu Shan and others raised troops to chase, and suddenly there were wails behind them, and then looked back, everyone was like a fire and was in pain, even Niu Gui and Wu Shan themselves faintly felt that their eyes were burning badly, and all the white noodles were like fire, and they subconsciously came back to their senses, it must be that there was fraud in this white face, which caught them off guard.

When Niu Gui, Wu Shan and others woke up, they only heard the horse's hooves rumbling in the north, Niu Guiqiang endured the burning pain, and faintly saw that the officers and troops in front of him were killing, and the distance was less than 100 steps.

"Fuck." Niu Gui gritted his teeth fiercely: "If you have eggs, kill these turtle grandchildren, kill!" ”

The army's heart has been dispersed, no matter how ruthless Niu Gui is, only forty or fifty people can respond to him at this time, and the others are either injured or killed, or lost their combat strength by the white-faced attack, and in the face of the surging bandit army, the defeat is almost a foregone conclusion.

Bailiyan led more than 40 people from Fang De to open the way with ten groups of meteor tribulus terrestris, Tang Zhao and others followed, Song Jie and others followed Tang Zhao, and more than 140 people rushed into the horse thief formation in three waves. Niu Gui, Wu Shan and others were put down by the meteor Tribulus Terrestris again, and the defeat was a foregone conclusion at this time.