Chapter Seventy-Five: Ambush

Zhao Zizhong stepped out of the crowd and came to the front of the escort formation. He cried out, "Which of you is the leader, come out and speak." ”

The bandits looked at each other, and a middle-aged man in leather armor spoke: "I am their leader, who are you?" ”

Zhao Zizhong looked at the middle-aged man, he was about forty years old, with a strong figure, several scars on his face, and triangular eyes revealing a fierce light, he should be an old bandit.

Zhao Zizhong took a few steps closer, stared at the middle-aged bandit and said, "My name is Zhao Zizhong, and I am the righteous brother of Cui Daoshu, the head of the Cui family, and now the guards of the Cui family are all commanded by me." Your big boss has been caught by us, and the second boss was slaughtered by us just now, can you still run? ”

The middle-aged bandit shouted hysterically: "If you can't run away, the brothers will die here, anyway, we have killed enough, and now there are still these people to bury us, let's go on the road together!" Hahaha-----"

Zhao Zizhong looked at the bandits who were laughing wildly, and said calmly: "If you let go of the Cui family, I will give you a way out." ”

The middle-aged bandit looked at Zhao Zizhong with fierce eyes, "We don't believe you, you brought the head of the Cui family." ”

Zhao Zizhong smiled contemptuously, "Do you believe it or not, it is impossible to see the head of the family." Or you will kill them all. Anyway, these people in the second room are enemies with the head of the house, and they wanted to seize the property of the head of the house yesterday. ”

Zhao Zi turned back to the guards and said, "Let's go, go hunt down the other bandits." Leave ten men, and in a moment they will kill all the people in the second room, and you will slaughter these miscellaneous pieces. ”

The guards agreed, and they lined up to set off. At this time, Cui Mingde shouted: "Mr. Zhao, you are merciful and compassionate, save us!" ”

Zhao Zizhong said in a sarcastic tone: "Save you? Do I have those good hearts? Wasn't you very capable yesterday? also wanted to oust Cui Daoshu from the position of the head of the family, so as to rob him of his property. I think you should accept your fate and find a good family to reincarnate in the next life. ”

After saying that, he left without looking back, Cui Mingde was completely desperate, closed his eyes and waited for death. The middle-aged bandit rolled his eyes and shouted, "Wait a minute, you said let us go, is it true?" ”

Zhao Zizhong turned around and said expressionlessly: "I just can't bear to kill evil, otherwise what does their life and death have to do with me?" If you want to live, release them immediately, otherwise you and the people of the Cui family will die together, anyway, Lao Tzu is in a bad mood today and wants to kill. ”

The bandits discussed a few words in a whisper, and the middle-aged bandit said: "We can release people, but we must take these people out of Cui's house before we can release them." ”

Zhao Zizhong said indifferently: "You can do whatever you want, we still have to kill people, you can do it yourself!" ”

With that, he turned around and left, and the guards followed in a neat formation. A dozen bandits looked at each other, not knowing what to do. The middle-aged bandit thought for a while, "We each have a hostage, and we will go out of Cui's house first and then make plans." ”

The bandits agreed, carried their looted belongings, and each took a hostage and went out. Cui Mingde was escorted out, turned back to the family members who stayed behind, and shouted: "Run, go to the long house to seek shelter!" The family burst into tears, and under the guidance of a young man, they got up and walked to the place where the longhouse lived.

The bandits cautiously walked out, stabbing their swords across the hostages' necks, looking around as they went. Walked for a long time and nothing happened. Until they left the gate of the Cui family's manor, no one followed, as if they had forgotten them. More than a dozen people in the Cui family were desperate, and some of them cried quietly.

The middle-aged bandit said viciously: "Shut up, otherwise Lao Tzu will kill someone!" ”

The people of the Cui family were so frightened that they didn't speak, and they were honestly escorted forward by the bandits. It was pitch black outside the manor, and a few of the bandits lit more torches and distributed them among the other companions.

One of the bandits asked, "Lin Tou, where are we going?" ”

The middle-aged bandit thought for a while, "Let's walk along the avenue for a while, and if there is no Cui family chasing us behind, everyone will enter the mountains and forests." Then divide the looted possessions and go to each of them to be happy. Anyway, I won't go back to the cottage, the big boss was arrested, the second boss died, the third boss was gone, and the cottage was dispersed. ”

The bandits agreed, and headed south along the avenue. After walking for more than ten minutes, they found that no one had caught up, and the bandits gradually relaxed, and many people no longer put their knives on the hostages' necks, they put down their knives and walked behind the hostages.

After a few more minutes, all the bandits gathered behind the hostages, talking as they went, discussing how to divide the spoils for a while.

Cui Mingde walked tremblingly, secretly scolding Zhao Zizhong in his heart for not saving him when he saw death, he heard the bandits talking about going there to be happy after sharing the spoils, and from time to time some people laughed unscrupulously.

Suddenly, Cui Mingde heard the sound of "jumping, jumping, jumping", and then there was a loud howl of "whoosh, whoosh". It was the arrows that came when they came, and the bandits with torches were shot one after another, and several people let out a miserable howl, and then there was a sound of "plop, plop", and the bandits behind fell to the ground one after another.

A dozen or so furry black shadows stood in the field seven or eight meters away from the roadside, and quickly rushed up and exchanged hands with the six bandits who were still standing. The weapons of the two sides collided rapidly, and some people let out a scream.

At this time, someone in the field shouted: "Stand back, protect the hostages." "A dozen or so black shadows quickly retreated, blocking in front of the Cui family." Boom, boom, "The bowstring sounded, and the second round of arrows was fired, and the six bandits were hit by the arrows one after another, and slowly fell to the ground.

Zhao Zizhong came out of the darkness and said loudly: "You protect the hostages and continue to retreat, and the crossbowmen shoot another round to prevent some bandits from playing dead." ”

The guards in furry gilly suits walked out more than twenty meters away with the hostages, and eight crossbowmen cautiously approached the bandits with bows, stopped at a distance of more than ten meters, and shot arrows at the bandits who could still struggle and squirm.

After a while, there were no more bandits. Zhao Zizhong ordered: "Go up with a spear, and each corpse must be stabbed a few times to prevent someone from pretending to be dead." ”

The spearman stepped forward to replenish his gun, and Zhao Zizhong walked towards the hostage. Cui Mingde came back to his senses, knelt on the ground with a "plop", and said ashamedly: "Thank you Mr. Zhao for saving your life, I misunderstood you just now, I really shouldn't have been." ”

The rest of the Cui family also knelt down, and some even kowtowed to Zhao Zi. After the catastrophe, some people began to cry.

Zhao Zizhong helped Cui Mingde up, and Wen Yan said: "Mr. Mingde doesn't have to be like this, we won't die without help, everyone go back immediately, we still have to save people!" ”

Zhao Zizhong left two guards to protect the second room, so he said goodbye to Cui Mingde and ran back. After a while, he ran to the gate of the manor with twenty or so guards. At this time, five black shadows came out of the gate, running wildly for their lives, and a few people behind them chased with torches, shouting: "Stop, gallless rats, I will kill you." ”

Zhao Zizhong ordered the guards to line up and blocked the road. He shouted: "Crossbowmen ready, listen to my orders!" ”

Zhao Zizhong shouted ahead: "Stop, we're going to shoot arrows!" ”

The five black shadows shouted indiscriminately: "Get out of the way, or Lao Tzu will kill you!" ”

Zhao Zi saw that the five people had approached a distance of more than 20 meters, so he shouted loudly: "Shoot!" ”

The crossbowmen fired in unison, and eight arrows flew out, "poof, poof", the arrows only entered the flesh, and four black shadows fell to the ground. Only one man rushed forward with a shout, brandishing his sword to slash the crossbowmen.

The eight crossbowmen hurriedly retreated, and several spears stabbed out like lightning and pierced into the bandit's chest and abdomen. The bandits, held by several spears, let out a howl of despair. Several pikemen worked together and drew their spears. The bandit fell to the ground, convulsing.

Zhao Zi shouted again: "The pikemen went up to replenish the guns, and they were all killed!" ”

At this time, the pursuers from behind ran away, and the leader shouted, "Brother, is that you?" I'm Da Lang! ”

Zhao Zi looked at it again, and An Dalang ran over, carrying a horse lance in his hand, and his face and body were covered with blood.

"Brother, how's the situation on the manor?"

"We are clearing out the bandits, we have killed more than a dozen, and we have arrested a few, and if these few want to escape, I will lead people to chase them out. Boris is leading people to search from place to place. ”

Zhao Zi nodded emphatically, "Let's go in together and go find Boris." ”

The guards killed the bandits, lined up and followed the two brothers towards the manor. After entering the manor, the two led the team to the east, where the Cui family's three- and four-bedroom settlements were located.

When I walked to the door of a large mansion, I saw Boris standing at the door, gasping with a sledgehammer, and the guards were tying up a few bandits.

Zhao Zizhong walked over briskly and asked, "Boris, how are you, are you injured?" ”

Boris shook his head, "It's not hurt, it's just that I'm tired enough." These bandits ran away when they saw us, and it was hard to catch them. ”

An Dalang pouted, "You catch it!" Isn't it all over if it's all slaughtered! ”

Boris smiled bitterly and said: "I'm not a murderer, as long as they don't resist, catch what they can." ”

Zhao Zizhong asked, "Which house is this?" What's going on inside? ”

"It's the territory of the third room, Cui Mingxun and Cui Daoshi, father and son, have already run away, five people were killed inside, and several women were raped."

An Dalang said contemptuously: "This father and son are really like loaches!" If you don't keep your hands, you run away as soon as there is movement, are you prepared? ”

Zhao Zizhong saw that the guards had already tied up the bandits, so he said: "Let's continue to clear the money, and we will talk about other things later, let's go!" ”

Leaving a few guards to guard the bandits, the three of them led the team to continue the search. I saw a lot of corpses along the way, and some people from the Cui family were converging.

Zhao Zizhong asked a few people, and they all said that the bandits had already run away, so they dared to come out.