As a scout expert who was once able to play thousands of elite border troops in the mountains and forests alone, and finally escaped safely, Yao Gan's ability to keep an eye and hide is naturally top-notch, even if there are hundreds of pairs of eyes in the palace at this time, no one can find his traces.

Although it was Chao Xuan, who was named General Wuwei, who really led these palace guards out to do things this time, not Zhu Ke or Zhu Yan, there were also people around who kept an eye on the nearby movements, and they didn't notice anything.

At this time, Chao Xuan was holding his teeth, and watched with some impatience as Zhu Ke instructed the soldiers to build up some large and small stones, and there were no vines to fix them, and a trap with some lethality was laid out.

After a while, he spoke: "I said that Zhu is in charge, isn't it just to deal with those ten or twenty businessmen, you can afford to spend this effort, and you have set such a trap for them?" ”

"It's always right to be careful." Zhu Ke responded casually, but his face was gloomy, just like the cloudy sky overhead: "If we let them get out again, we will really have no face to go back to see the prince." Moreover, General Chao, you don't want to cause damage to the soldiers in order to kill these Diao people, right? ”

When Chao Xuan saw him say this, he no longer questioned it, and let him toss it. Don't look at this official position and listen to bluffing, or what kind of general, but in fact, this is just a fictitious position, and in terms of real power, it is far less than these two stewards who can be used in front of the prince. So this time, he had already made up his mind that everything would be commanded by these two people, and he would at most assist after the battle began. In this way, there is always some credit for getting rid of those merchants themselves, and if there is a real mistake, the responsibility lies with the two in charge.

At this time, a drop of rain suddenly fell from the sky and fell on the tip of Chao Xuan's nose, making him squint his eyes unconsciously: "This weather is not very conducive to this ambush." If it rains heavily, the bows and crossbows we prepared will almost become decorations, and it seems that their preparation is somewhat reasonable. ”

As if to confirm his thoughts, the rain soon became heavier. It turned out that it was just a raindrop that quickly connected into a line, and finally it became a rain curtain, and it rained down violently, so that the unprepared guards of the palace instantly became a group of chickens in the soup. But even so, they can only spend time here, but they can't find another place to shelter from the rain.

Because their location is now the only way to Xingze County, and the geography of this place is also very suitable for setting traps and ambushes. In a high place, as long as they roll stones and shoot with bows and crossbows, they can easily kill all the targets on the road that fall into the encirclement.

Of course, this rain not only brings disadvantages, but also some advantages, such as this way, there are fewer pedestrians passing here, which is convenient for them to solve quickly. At this time, there was already a group of people walking towards this trap in the rain.

Compared with the unprepared palace guards, these hurried men and horses were much more prepared. When the rain began to fall, they had already changed into their robes and hats, so that their progress would not be delayed, except for some restriction on their vision, and because they wanted to get to the end of the house as soon as possible to rest, the speed of the group became faster and faster.

The sound of horses' hooves came, which suddenly lifted Zhu Yan's spirit: "It should be them who have arrived!" "Half a day ago, someone came with the news, saying that Zheng Lu and his gang had left Kaifeng and came here. Add to this the fact that the weather is now dark, and the fact that ordinary pedestrians cannot afford horses, they quickly came to such a conclusion.

It was already approaching dusk, and the sky was getting darker and darker due to the sudden shower. This makes the people hiding in the mountains and forests only vaguely see the figures of the approaching horse team below, and the people below can hardly find that there is an ambush above.

Seeing this, Zhu Yan's eyes were full of murderous intent, and with a movement of his hand, the knife had slowly come out of the sheath, and the rain flowed down the blade, like blood about to be splashed on it.

Zhu Ke was secretly calculating the distance of the other party's approach, as long as these horses and horses, especially the carriage in the middle, came to the trap, he would ask someone to cut down the vines, push the stones down the mountain, and kill the other party by surprise.

The guards also knew what the leaders were up to, and they were all engrossed, waiting for the order to appear.

But at this moment, a strong wind swept through everyone's side. However, because of the darkness of the sky and the incessant sound of the rain, none of the sergeants noticed this change, and naturally it was impossible to make corresponding defenses. So I saw this black shadow come directly to the front of the rock, and with a brush, it cut off those vines.

Because of this heavy rain, the sediment in the mountains and forests here was somewhat loosened, and it was tossed by this group of sergeants for a long time, and the section near the outside was even less reliable. As soon as the vines that blocked the outside broke, the rocks that had lost their obstruction shook and fell down with a bang, causing the entire mountain to slide straight down.

This change was so sudden that many of the sergeants who were about to rush down were caught off guard, and in the exclamation, many of the soldiers leaning outside actually fell down in embarrassment with those stones......

At this time, the horse team that was rushing here was still almost a stone's throw away from the trap!

When they saw such a sudden commotion in front of them, and there was sand and gravel pouring down, these knights quickly stopped rushing forward, and when they saw clearly that there were actually many guys in strong suits and armed weapons rolling down with the sand and stones, they quickly became vigilant, and drew their swords with their backhands, and put on a defensive posture.

Zhu Ke and the others above were suddenly dumbfounded. They really didn't expect that things would suddenly change like this, seeing that the other party was about to enter the ambush circle, they were actually exposed, and a good ambush battle became an encounter. What was even more demoralizing was that more than a dozen people who rolled down with the sand and gravel had been injured, and they were still sighing and crying out in pain.

Not only did the plan fail to work, but it lost a lot of manpower first, which is really a disadvantage! Chao Xuan couldn't help but pout, these guys really don't know how to use soldiers, if they are all under their own command, it will be impossible to set up any traps in one more move, just set up an ambush here, and it is impossible for this kind of accident to happen.

Zhu Ke's reaction was quite fast, since the conspiracy had been revealed, he could only attack with all his might, and he had to attack before the other party reacted and fled back. So he drew his saber and shouted, "Kill them all!" ”

"Kill!" After this reminder, those palace guards woke up like a dream, threw aside the mutation just now, held their weapons high, shouted and spread their legs and rushed towards the target down the mountain.

And Chao Xuan beside him was so angry that his face turned pale for a while, this group of fools, at this time, actually abandoned the geographical advantage that they had so hard to occupy, if this is the case, then what did they do in this mountain and forest earlier with hard work? But by this time he had no time to correct himself, so he could only shout in vain: "Let me shoot arrows to prevent them from escaping!" "Although the effectiveness and lethality of the crossbow are greatly reduced due to the weather, it can still kill and wound some enemies.

After listening to the words of their commander, many soldiers were quite smart, and quickly stopped, took out their bows and crossbows and shot at the men and horses below. But more people didn't care about it at all, just shouted and rushed down, just thinking about quickly exterminating the team that looked like only one or twenty people, and then went back to receive the reward.

Long before he set off here, Zhu Ke and Zhu had let go of the words, as long as they could succeed in killing these bastards who dared to make the prince angry, they would all get a generous reward of fifty taels of silver, and if they killed one person with their own hands, the reward would be doubled. If you can kill the merchant named Zheng Lu, you will be rewarded with a thousand silver! It is precisely because of such a heavy reward that these palace guards will stay here for a few days, and they will be so dedicated to killing in the rain.

It's just that this makes the whole army look a little messy, although it is two hundred guards, but when it rushes down, it looks like a rabble. In fact, this is also the true appearance of the guard army of the feudal kings in many places today, they are no longer the elite of the army arranged by Emperor Taizu to the side of the feudal king more than a hundred years ago, but just a group of idlers who eat and mix.

"Kill, ......" But even in a rabble, the impact of these many people suddenly falling from the mountain was quite frightening, the rain and mud and sand were splashed in all directions by their trampling, and more than a dozen sharp arrows flew towards the enemy below with a sharp wind, as if they had only collided, and the more than ten knights over there and the carriage they were escorting would be crushed.

In the blink of an eye, the people had rushed down the mountain, came to the official road, and rushed to the knights who were still standing on the spot, only a short distance of three or five zhang.

Seeing this, the palace guards all showed excited smiles, they felt that this credit was already within reach, and the other party was completely frightened, and it was impossible to make any more resistance.

Following them, Zhu Ke and Zhu Yan, who also rushed down the mountain, also showed a cruel smile, now these Diao people in front of them should know that they are afraid, right? But it's too late, if you offend our Zhou Wangfu, there will be only one end, and that is - death!

Only Chao Xuan, who was much slower than them and was still observing on the mountain, suddenly became solemn at this time, and his body shook, and a thought came to his heart: "It's not good, these guys are by no means easy." Their position is so stable......"