Chapter 197: Exploring the Tiger's Den
The leader cursed as he drew his scimitar and slashed at Ning Jun, who had already grasped the hilt of the sword in his hand, guarding against their rough moves.
Seeing his scimitar coming, Ning Jun pulled out his sword and blocked it, after the scimitar was separated, he stabbed the leader in the chest again, the leader hurriedly dodged, but the placket was stabbed by Ning Jun's sword, and the big hole was cracked open.
Seeing this scene, the other five men all showed their teeth and claws, held scimitars, and quickly got up, two helped the leader, and the other three pounced on Su Qin.
Su Qin didn't allow them to put on a shelf, and the Qingshuang Sword came out of its sheath, took the fencing momentum, and used the three moves of the offensive "Wind", "Ten Thousand Flowers" and "Meteor" in the Heavenly Dance Sword in a row.
The three men in front of Su Qin were all brave and ruthless people with brute strength, where had they learned the ever-changing sword dance tricks, and before they came to their senses, they fell to the ground twice, one rib was broken, one collarbone was broken, they lay on the ground and covered their wounds and groaned.
There was another one who didn't hit the sword, but he was stunned, and after a while, he remembered to attack again, Su Qin stabbed out another sword, and the person turned into a block, and the scimitar hit the Qingshuang sword and was broken in two.
Su Qin's sword momentum was still forward, and a sword hit the man's waist, and he also rolled on the ground in pain.
Quickly eliminated the three men in front of him, Su Qin looked at Ning Jun's fight with the other three, and saw that he had also knocked down one of them, and the leader was still resisting.
Su Qin didn't want to delay time, so he stabbed the leader with his sword, and the leader raised his knife to block, Su Qin didn't wait for the blade to touch, and changed the flat stab to a horizontal cut; By the time the leader had changed his tactics to block again, Su Qin had already reverted to his previous flat stab.
The three changes hidden in Su Qin's sword dazzled the leader and made him dizzy. When he was in a daze, the Qingshuang Sword had already stabbed him in the right chest, and immediately the blood flowed like a torrent of blood, and he fell to the ground.
Ning Jun also successfully solved the remaining man and joined Su Qin in one place.
Ning Jun looked at the robbers lying on the grass, and shouted: "Where did this carriage come from, to say it or not?" ”
Several robbers looked at their leader and didn't dare to speak, Ning Jun was angry at the rudeness of the leader just now, stepped over, and the sword stabbed him in the throat.
Who knows, the leader is the most soft egg, and he immediately crawled to the ground, kept kowtowing, and begged for mercy.
Su Qin then questioned him about the situation, and the leader told Su Qin and Ning Jun everything he knew:
They are a group of robbers who are entrenched in the mountain cottage on the bank of Yishui, specializing in blocking the road and robbing, occasionally breaking into homes and houses, or burglarizing.
In the early hours of this morning, Wu Jing sneaked out and drove the carriage to Luoyang via South Road. Unexpectedly, when the carriage entered the mountain pass, it was discovered by the copycat minions who listened to the news.
Therefore, the robbers, under the leadership of the big leader known as "Thief Xin", quickly descended the mountain and ambushed in the middle, and they did not expect that there was only one fool in the carriage who did not know any martial arts.
When Wu Jing saw the robbers, he was already so frightened that he was paralyzed to the ground. Without much effort, the robbers obtained a large carriage of exquisite workmanship, and found more than 2,000 gold from the carriage, and they were all smiling and ecstatic.
The thief Xin had a mistress who lived in Yicheng on the road ahead, and he got this carriage and wanted to please his mistress in order to use it, so he asked the six robbers to drive the carriage to his mistress.
Unbeknownst to him, the six robbers were so unlucky that they met the owner of the carriage.
Ning Jun looked at the robbers, and Su Qin went to check the items in the carriage, and found that most of the money and property in it had been removed, leaving only a full hundred gold, which was probably given to his mistress by the thief.
Su Qin told Ning Jun about the situation in the carriage, and Ning Jun said: "It is not easy for us to recapture the carriage, this hundred gold is enough for us to spend in Yan Country for a while, why don't we go to Jidu on the road." ”
Su Qin pondered for a moment and said, "Although Wu Jing is very sorry for us, he is the person sent by Xu Gao to follow me after all, if he leaves it alone and returns to Luoyang in the future, how to explain to Xu Gao." ”
"Besides, we still have more than 2,000 gold in the robbers, how can we be willing to let those robbers occupy it for nothing!"
Ning Jun saw that Su Qin had already made up his mind to go back to Gushan to rescue Wu Jing, and he didn't say much, he nodded, and at the critical moment, he could see that he was still a strong man with a heart.
Su Qin tied up the leader, put him in the car, and led the two of them. Ning Jun was in charge of driving the carriage, and Su Qin took care of the little leader and went straight to the mountain.
When the carriage entered the mountain pass, Su Qin asked the little leader to expose his head outside the curtain. The two minions who were watching the wind from the top of the hill soon spotted them.
Seeing that the carriage that had been looted before had returned, and half of the little leader's body was still stretched out, he was very curious, so he ran down the hill to inquire about the situation with the little leader.
How could they have expected that the carriage had been taken back by its original owner, and as they ran down, they shouted loudly to greet the little leader.
Su Qin pulled the little leader's body back. Ning Jun stopped the carriage, and when the two minions who looked at the wind came closer, Ning Jun suddenly drew his sword and stabbed at them, but the poor two people didn't know what was going on in the road, so they were stabbed to the ground.
Su Qin and Ning Jun pulled the two minions behind a big mountain rock and knocked them to the ground, Ning Jun was still a little uneasy, and tied them together to prevent the two from escaping, and reported to the cottage.
After that, the carriage continued its march towards the cottage, and they spared three feet of the hill, and then waded through a small stream, and came to the bottom of a cliff.
The little boss pointed to the top of the cliff and said, "Look, the cottage is up there." ”
Su Qin and Ning Jun looked up from the bottom of the mountain, where could they see any cottages, and they couldn't even see the shadow of a wall.
Su Qin asked the little leader sharply: "Is it really built on top of the cliff?" If you lie to us, I will immediately slash you under this cliff with the power of my sword. ”
The little leader nodded vigorously and said, "It's really up there, you can see the cottage when you go down a path on the right side of the cliff." ”
Su Qin and Ning Jun were suspicious, so they parked the carriage behind a boulder under the cliff, tied the horse's reins, and tied the little leader twice and threw it on the carriage.
Then, the two of them tightened their belts, gathered their robes, and climbed together along the path to the right of the cliff to the mountain.
The trail is narrow, only for three or four people, and steep. They climbed about thirty feet upward, and Ning Jun suddenly heard a sharp whistling sound, and he shouted: "Hide quickly, there are hidden arrows." ”