The dozen or so strong men in Pingshan are all good, so Jiao Ting left it to Ma Ling. Zhending Mansion is a border house, although the people's livelihood is withering, but the population is still large, there are many local heroes, the relationship between the official and private sides needs to be taken care of, Ma Ling can deal with it, these dozen people, plus more than 20 people from the horse team, a total of more than 30 people, can basically operate, after all, recruiting long-term workers is not an illegal thing, according to the law of the Great Song Dynasty is completely possible.

When Jiao Ting went back, he only brought his brother Erwa and three cavalrymen, Ma Ling's good horse was some, and he temporarily borrowed one for Erwa, and Erwa rode a donkey, and it was the first time to ride a horse, but there were also decent ones. A group of five people set off back to Pingshan in the morning, and walked to noon just after Luquan, mainly because the people's livelihood has withered in recent years, the official road has been in disrepair for a long time, and the horses can not let go of running, they can only walk in broken steps, and the bumpy buttocks hurt.

As soon as it was noon, the second baby was a little unbearable, and said, "Brother, my butt hurts, and my stomach is hungry." ”

Jiao Ting glared at Erwa: "Who is shouting to be a soldier, it's so easy to be a soldier, thirsty for the blood of the tip of the knife, and sleepy on the saddle bridge, do you think it's a joke?" Eat it on horseback. ”

The second baby didn't dare to squeak, groped and took out a dry cake and ate it slowly, but the second baby rode a horse for the first time and had to eat, so it was inevitable that she was a little nervous. After walking for a while, I saw a small stream in front of me, and there was an abundance of artemisia grass on the side of the stream.

"The two of you are scattered on duty, and the others feed and drink the horses." Jiao Ting said.

The two soldiers dismounted and dispersed on duty, Jiao Ting and the other three dismounted, first let the war horse graze, and then get some fine materials for the war horse to eat. Erwa said: "Brother, why do you want the horse to eat first, and eat after being a soldier." ”

Jiao Ting said to the other soldier, "You tell him." ”

The soldier said, "I am stupid and don't know how to speak." When marching and fighting, we ride on horses, right, horses must be more tired, so let the horses eat first, and the horses will have strength when they are full. Besides, if the horses are allowed to eat grass, won't people be able to eat, and there won't be much delay. ”

Erwa nodded and said, "Understood, I'll also go and scout my horse." ”

The second baby has experience in herding sheep, and it is easier to put horses, and five horses can be released to a place where the water and grass are fertile, and the horses themselves will choose grass to eat.

Jiao Ting planned to return to Pingshan on the same day, so he had a short rest on the way, and after eating six minutes full, he set off on the road again, and walked only two miles forward, a mountain recess was full of weeds and shrubs, and a narrow official road passed through the woods. Jiao Ting raised his hand and stopped the group, and the three soldiers drew their short crossbows, and the sharp crossbow arrows glistened coldly. Jiao Ting also prepared a forty-pound sledgehammer, and only the second baby asked stupidly: "Brother, what's the situation, I didn't see the enemy." ”

"I didn't see the enemy either, didn't you see that the situation was wrong, a bush like this should be a constant bird call, but the silence here means that there is a problem." Jiao Ting said.

The soldier said, "Someone, come out quickly, or we will set fire to it immediately." ”

In the crisp autumn weather, it is also trivial to burn more than ten miles with a big fire. There was still no movement in the woods, not even a bird's call.

As soon as Jiao Ting signaled, a soldier lit a torch and made a gesture to throw it into the woods, when a group of black-clothed people came out of the woods, neatly and neatly, fifteen on the left and fifteen on the right. Yishui's black clothes, even his hair and face were covered, only two eyes were exposed, and he held a sharp single knife in his hand, and he did not speak, but his cold eyes showed that this group of people was not a gangster with a knife on the street, but a trained knife hand.

Jiao Ting said: "Thirty people, six times the number of people, it seems that they are going to be killed and then fast, the person who hates me Jiao Ting so much seems to be Tian Biao's kid, doesn't it make him lose some face in Lingshou, as for this?" ”

The man in black didn't plan to speak, but when he heard Jiao Ting say that Tian Biao was not, he immediately said: "If you dare to say bad things about my third master, you will cut off your tongue in a while." Let you die in front of the king of Hades, let you understand that the third master wants to kill you not because you made him lose face, it must be the territory of the third master, how can you be allowed to come and rob the strong man, up. ”

Thirty men pounced on them with steel swords, and the three cavalrymen were not polite, and the crossbow arrows flew out, and with a puff, they nailed the three men in black to death. But it takes time for this crossbow arrow to go to Xuan, and the distance between the two sides is too close, and it is too late to go to Xuan, so he pulled out his saber, Jiao Ting jumped off the war horse, and the second baby also jumped down, took a Pu knife, and her face turned pale with fright.

Jiao Ting asked: "You can't do it, you can't get out of the way." ”

Erwa said: "I can't retreat even if I die, I'm not afraid." Kill. ”

Jiao Ting and Erwa fought on foot, three cavalry and horses, and were about to rush up to fight, when they heard someone laughing: "Haha, haha, slow, slow, the main master has not arrived, you will start fighting." ”

The man in black was startled by the voice, and looked up to see two people standing uphill, both tall and burly, one as long as a coal worker, with a swarthy face, a huge beard, and a pair of exaggerated plate axes in their hands. The person next to him is also very scary, the door god is very strong, holding a huge sword in his hand, this sword is out of number, as tall as an ordinary person, it looks like fifteen or sixteen pounds.

Jiao Ting saw that it was none other than Li Kui and Bao Xu, the two living treasures.

"Who are you, the Tian family in Hebei Province is doing things, and you don't want to die." The man in black said.

Bao Xu bared his teeth: "The two of us specialize in killing, it doesn't matter if you are sweet or spicy, if you dare to attack our people, you will die." ”

Li Kui said to Bao Xu: "You grind and chirp like a girl, you can't kill it." ”

"Kill." The two of them turned their weapons, and then they were followed by a swarm of forty soldiers in civilian clothes, twenty with axes and twenty swords, who came down from the hillside and killed the man in black.

Jiao Ting looked at it and said, "Let's retreat and let them kill." ”

Erwa said: "This is unjust, they are here to help us, let's fight together, right?" ”

Jiao Ting said: "You are right, you should do this, but they can't, this group of people is too fierce to fight, they can't get too close, not to mention that there are only about 30 people, which is not enough for them to fight." ”

Sure enough, Jiao Ting hadn't finished speaking, and the fire had already been picked up over there. Bao Xu ran fast, the big sword swept over, a man in black tried in vain to block with a waist knife, but everything was in vain, the sharp sword with a steel mouth was cut off with a knife, the man in black was cut into two pieces by the waist, blood gushed out, Bao Xu didn't even look at it, the big sword slashed off one of the arms of the man in black behind, ah, the man in black was cut off by Bao Xu waved his head before the scream was over.

Later, Li Kui scolded: "You dare to take the lead, look at me." With a swing of the axe, he chirped left and right, and cut down the three men in black one after another. The group of soldiers with plate axes and swords in the back were also fierce people, decisive in killing, ruthless in their attacks, almost fatal with swords, and few of them were left alive.

More than half of the men in black were killed or injured, and they immediately collapsed, mainly because they were frightened by Li Kui and Bao Xu, so they turned around and ran. But did you run, Yuncheng regimental training has been running since the first day of recruits, so he chased after him with his buttocks, and kept cutting down the people in black one after another, and in a few moments, there were corpses all over the ground. Looking at the people brought by Li Kui and Bao Xu, there were no deaths, and even fewer were injured.

Jiao Ting came over and frowned and said, "You can't work lightly, and you don't even leave a job to ask." ”

Li Kui said: "Who is impatient to ask this, they want to kill people, if we don't kill him, he will kill us, there is no reason to talk about it." ”

Jiao Ting searched the ground and found that a man in black was not dead, so he pulled down his mask and asked, "Where is Tian Biao?" ”

"I don't know." This man is still stubborn.

"You said I'll give you a good time, if you don't say I'll throw you here, the wolf will come after dark, gnaw your bones and click, you can't die, how uncomfortable." Jiao Ting said.

"Okay, I said. In the west of Zhending City, the old store of the Sun family. The man in black said.

Jiao Ting is also a trustworthy person, and as soon as the man in black finished speaking, he called the second baby over and said, "Give him a good time." ”

The second baby's stomach hurt from early vomiting, and the second baby understood why even a brave person like Jiao Ting was unwilling to fight with Li Kui and Bao Xu, the team brought by these two people was too livestock, and the weapons were too fierce. None of these men in black killed were intact, and there were scattered bits and pieces everywhere.

Erwa wheeled the Pu knife, and it was a knife on the neck of the man in black, and the strength was light, and he was not hacked to death. Jiao Ting couldn't stand it anymore, and with a little help, he ended up with the man in black, but Jiao Ting didn't observe it carefully, and there was a trace of cunning in the eyes of the man in black before he died.

Jiao Ting asked, "It's strange, why did you two bring people here." ”

Li Kui pouted: "Brother is eccentric, everything is towards you, I am afraid that you will be in danger in Hebei, you have only been set off for five or six days, and we have come here, and it just so happens that we are in Zhending today." I was going to rest and rest in Zhending, but Ma Ling said that you went back to the village, and we were worried about danger on the road, so we came along. ”

It turned out that after Jiao Ting took leave to go back, Chao Gai began to ponder about Hebei's affairs, in recent years, Hebei has had a poor harvest year after year, coupled with serious land annexation, the people are miserable, and the people's lives are unbearable. Hebei tyrant Tian Hu took advantage of this opportunity to get up, recruited troops, and became a powerful party. Since ancient times, Yan Zhao has been a generous and sad person, and Yan Zhao men are all good soldiers, not to mention that New Jeju Island and Heilong Island need a lot of labor to develop land and raise livestock, so Hebei is a place that cannot be abandoned, but Chao Gai has no ability to meddle in Hebei's affairs, so he can only recruit more strong men from the area of Zhending Mansion, once he recruits strong men in Hebei, it is bound to conflict with Tian Hu's forces. There is a way that a strong dragon is difficult to fight the head snake, Chao Gai was worried that Jiao Ting brought few people, and he was afraid that there would be danger, so he asked Li Kui and Bao Xu to bring forty people over to help, but I didn't expect that when it came, it would really run into something.

Li Kui said: "Jiao Ting, what are you going to do, should we go back to Zhending and handle Tian Biao, or go back to Pingshan Village." ”

Jiao Ting thought for a while and said, "Tian Biao is Tian Hu's third brother, and killing Tian Biao can only cause a war, which is not good for us." I'll go back to Pingshan Village, and you can bring people back to Zhending. I'll come back as soon as I'm done arranging things at home, and we'll discuss it then." ”

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