The officers and soldiers lurking not far away suddenly launched a final charge, and 2,000 people rushed at the bandits of more than 400 people with swords and shouting.

The shouting was so loud that Zhao Xiang knew that these people were just bluffing. No one in the long-term comfortable Xiang army wants to really rush up and fight against the bandits.

The bandits found that the momentum was not right, and before the officers and soldiers could charge and shout, they heard first, and a few of them rushed to the silver box without their lives, trying to take the opportunity to escape with two pieces, but they were directly killed by the archers on the side of Xiaozhi Mountain.

This time, those who want to go along the silver bricks will give up - these people are half bandits and half people on weekdays, and the reason of "staying in the green mountains is not afraid of no firewood" is the clearest, and only by saving their lives can they make a comeback, so they spread their legs and ran away one by one.

The officers and men shouted and chased after them slowly, and the first few teams rushed to follow the route of the bandits unhurriedly under the leadership of the capital. But the van army behind stopped, because they found silver, a whole piece of big silver bricks!

Someone finally couldn't help but stretch out his hand, picked up the silver brick and bit it, although there was a pungent smell, he only spat and lifted the silver brick: "My lord, it's silver!" ”

Zhao Xiang stood on the top of the riverbank wall and shouted: "Don't touch that silver, it's poisonous!" But his words were directly drowned out.

The hundreds of officers and soldiers who remained behind suddenly rushed up like crazy. Silver is a hard currency that is more advanced than copper coins, and a silver brick of this size weighs 250 taels, which is enough to make a family of five live without food and clothing for decades......

If it was just a piece of loose silver, the officers and soldiers would probably just loot it and not do it. If the leaders of the army had stopped it from the beginning, instead of participating in the robbery, it is likely that these officers and soldiers would have calmed down quickly. But the leaders participated in the robbery, and waved steel knives at the disobedient men......

Zhangzhou is a poor place, and the life of the soldiers in poor places is even more difficult, and they don't need to fight at all on weekdays, just do some miscellaneous work, and do more private work for the capital. Leaders in other places can do business, but there is no way to do business here, so they can only exploit their subordinates. Of course, these big-headed soldiers have opinions, and even have deep grievances, but for the sake of a bite to eat, they can recognize it...... But when the leaders swung their knives and grabbed the silver, an old soldier had his throat cut, and blood spurted out, staining the silver red.

So the grudge broke out at this moment, and another veteran who was familiar with him waved his knife and chopped off the hand holding the silver brick on his head.

The tense nerves of the two thousand troops stationed on the river embankment for several days were suddenly broken, and under the stimulation of the silver bricks, the camp was bombed!

The officers and soldiers who were originally running with the bandits heard the sound of fighting behind them, and when they looked back, they understood what was going on. Some of them ordered to stop the pursuit and turn back......

As a result, except for the 800 van troops who chased the farthest, the remaining 1,200 people all participated in the battle for the silver bricks. In fact, not everyone participated, and some onlookers inexplicably became ghosts.

When Li Gang, the chief catcher of Zhangzhou, arrived with more than a dozen servants, there were only fifty or sixty people left in the more than 1,000 Xiang army, and they circled around the corpses with red eyes and steel knives in advance, and as long as they saw that there were still moving, they would cut down one after another until the corpses were motionless.

These people are like demons crawling out of hell, with blood all over their bodies, and they will only turn in circles with their heads down, and they will not see the living people outside the circle, but they will keep spinning and turning in the circle—in the middle of the circle is a silver brick stained with blood.

Li Gang was frightened by this scene, and hurriedly signaled everyone to silence, and led people to come from the bamboo bridge to Xiaozhishan lightly.

There were at least a thousand people on the banks of the river, but not one dared to pant loudly. It is precisely because of this that I didn't dare to tear down the bamboo bridge, for fear that the movement would be too big, and those demons would rush over.

"What's going on?" Li Gang asked Zhao Xiang softly.

Zhao Xiang spread his hands and shook his head to indicate that he didn't know.

Of course he knew, but he felt a little guilty. He ignores the loss of humanity in the face of money.

If he hadn't asked Shi Ding'an and others to go to Zhangzhou Mansion to beat the drum and report that Qian Million had colluded with bandits to plunder Xiaozhi Mountain, Zhao Gongsu probably wouldn't have transferred the garrison that was originally stationed on the river embankment to reel the bandits.

I thought that as long as I dragged on the time, I would wait for the officers and soldiers to come and kill these bandits together. Zhao Xiang felt that the officers and soldiers were not bandits after all, and no matter how 20,000 taels of silver were not snatched in vain, as long as they took care of those heads and commanders, this matter would be successfully over.

However, it was miscalculated.

The bandits ran away to save their lives, but it was the officers and soldiers who came to reel the bandits who grabbed the silver......

Li Gang held his breath and lay behind the wall with Zhao Xiang to observe.

The dozens of bloody men spun and around like that, until it was dusk, and suddenly they fell down one by one and convulsed.

After waiting for another quarter of an hour, those demons didn't move again, and then Li Gang led his men across the bridge to check.

The corpses of those who fell last were cleared out of a strange circle by them, and no one dared to approach those circles.

The corpses everywhere, the blood flowed like a river, and the setting sun shone on the grotesque expressions on those corpses, everything seemed so mysterious.

Several members of the hospital in gas masks put the bloodstained silver bricks into the cart one by one with their rubber gloves - the bandits who were about to run away with the silver bricks were robbed and killed by several captains before they ran far, but the silver bricks remained in place, no one dared to touch them, and finally counted, eighty pieces a piece, no more than a piece, no less.

Zhao Xiang wore a gas mask and confessed to the members of the nursing home: "Quickly push it to the river beach and wash it with water, no one is allowed to take the water in the river!" ”

Li Gang motioned to his subordinates to stop the courtyard, grabbed Zhao Xiang with his hand and asked: "What are you going to do, these are stolen silver, and this head catcher will be brought back to the yamen!" ”

Zhao Xiang took off his mask and sneered, "Lord Li, are you sure you want to bring this silver back?" I persuaded the first bandits, and I also persuaded the officers and soldiers who came later, so that they should not touch the silver, Master Li, are you really sure that you want to treat this silver as stolen silver? ”

Li Gang thought deeply for a little and let his subordinates withdraw, Zhao Xiang he still knows a little about this person, he came to Zhangzhou from Nanyang alone, but no one knows how he came, folklore says that he is a half-immortal master, many strange objects in Xiaozhishan appeared overnight, but he has never heard how these things were transported to Zhangzhou.

Pulled Zhao Xiang aside and asked in a low voice: "This matter is very important, I will take this silver back, it is just a proof, so many people have died, the court will not give up, and the judge will hand over a piece of paper, you and I will be to blame!" ”

Zhao Xiang said with a gloomy face: "I'm just a small citizen, the big money family has gotten through the bandits and wants to take away my family's wealth, how can I do it?" Li Zhutou, if you want to corroborate, I can testify for you, but I advise you not to take this silver. ”

Li Gang didn't plan to take these silvers in the first place, but seeing that those nurses were so careful, he knew that those were not good things, and it was because of these silvers that the Xiang army would fight, and he wanted to live a few more years, so he asked: "How can you testify for me?" ”