The man stood there stunned and shouted, "Accompany me to play with stones and don't go." Zhao Gui secretly rejoiced, but when he thought that the people he brought were all wiped out, he felt very sad in his heart, and then thought that this monster-like giant was going to attack the city tomorrow, he was extremely worried in his heart, and it was destined to be a sleepless night for him.

Han Xiong and Xie Sichun were very happy to talk about the scene just now in the big tent, Xie Sichun asked curiously: "Lord Han, I have never seen that brave tall man in the army tonight, it seems that you seem to know him, I don't know ......who this person is?" Han Xiong stroked his beard and laughed: "Lord Shangshu doesn't know, this person is my adopted son, surnamed Han Mingtong, because of his great strength and courage to kill the evil tiger in the mountains, he is nicknamed Capture Tiger." ”

Xie Sichun asked with more and more surprise: "This person has such a ability, and he can still kill the evil tiger?" Han Xiong said even more proudly: "Speaking of this, it starts when the old man went to the Western Regions as an envoy half a year ago. ”

It turned out that three years ago, when Han Xiong was the assassin of Jingzhou, there was a business trip to Jingyang in Longdong County with a few people in casual clothes, Xiao Baoyin and others had just been wiped out, but there were still a few bandits in the entire Jingzhou who rebelled against the Zhao'an of the imperial court on the top of the mountain, in order to crack down on these separatist forces, the bold and careful Han Xiong did not hesitate to put on makeup to enter the area infested by bandits and horse bandits, in order to find out their bottom number, sphere of influence and the distribution of fortress strongholds.

At that time, it was the height of summer, the sun was scorching and the weather was very hot, Han Xiong and his party were tired walking on the official road lined with poplar trees, but this god really didn't give face, and the dazzling light insisted on not leaving, so that even the wind blowing in front of them was hot. Don't talk about walking at the moment, you are still soaking wet even if you stand still, and the sweat behind your head is running down your neck. 、

Han Xiong saw that the big guy was really reluctant to move forward, so he pointed to the small forest at the foot of a mountain not far in front of him and said, "The big guy is working harder, let's go to the woods in front to rest for a while." As soon as he heard that he could rest, a few of his attendants, who carried them on their shoulders, immediately drove the donkeys and horses happily towards the grove. But when he got closer, Han Xiong secretly said in his heart, although this grove looks small, the branches are dense and very dense, it is easy to hide people in it at a glance, looking at the small slopes on the left and right sides of the grove, it is just like a pincer attack and looking down at the grove from top to bottom, it is too dangerous here, Yang Xiong regrets it a little.

However, a few entourages had already unloaded the burden on horseback at this time, sat down to relax their clothes and untie their belts, and rested while holding a pot of dried beef and other cooked food to satisfy their hunger, and a waiter took a water bag and respectfully handed it to Yang Xiong and said: "Master, you drink saliva, sit down and rest your legs, and you should be able to reach the post station not far from walking more than ten miles ahead." Yang Xiong was inspecting this grove of hidden murderous intentions, and before he could take a sip of the water bag, he only heard a whooshing sound, and with his years of experience in warfare, he knew that it was the sound of a bow and arrow.

He reflexively lowered his head to dodge the arrow, but unexpectedly people shot the water bag in his hand, in this desert Gobi, water represents this life, and losing water is equivalent to chronic death. Therefore, in this desert, as long as the opponent's water resources are consumed, it is basically half of the victory, because without water, the opponent can't even run far, and sooner or later he will die.

The entourage shouted, a thief stepped forward to protect Yang Xiong, and a few people on the side were enjoying the feeling of the cool breeze, Leng Buding was so frightened by this voice that he jumped up, looking for weapons to fight with the thief. At this time, there were two arrows swishing in the depths of the woods, and one of Yang Xiong fell to the ground and died in response to the sound, only to see a flower feather arrow inserted in his **** chest, and he opened his eyes wide and died. Yang Xiong then shouted: "Find a place to hide!" The rest of the people quickly hid behind the trees.

At this time, many people ran out of the hillsides on both sides of the woods, and a few of them were still riding horses, shouting and killing in this direction. Damn, this is a horse thief, he must have regarded us as a caravan, and he shouldn't have taken those camels with him when he went out, and he was the daughter-in-law of the pit father. Yang Xiong kept complaining about his wife in his heart at this time, but the urgency of the situation did not allow him to think about it anymore, and immediately shouted: "Absorb and go out of the woods, so as not to suffer the enemy on your back, quickly!" Yang Xiong has also practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he has the strength of a handle, and a cooked copper stick of more than 50 catties was danced by him.

Yang Xiong and he first swept to the leg of the horse he sat down, the horse was not stable, and he swept it forward and planted it directly, the man did not control the rhythm and fell down together, Yang Xiong hit the man directly on the head with a stick, and the pop was the same as hitting the watermelon, and suddenly the ground was red and white. A few followers behind him were already fighting with other horse thieves with knives, and Yang Xiong shouted: "Kill!" So he rushed into the warband.

But no matter how brave and invincible he is, he can't bear the other party's many people, seeing that there are only two retinues left around him, and several other people are tragically killed under the knife of the horse thief, but the loss of this horse thief is heavier than theirs, and he was directly killed more than a dozen people, and the remaining thirty or forty people did not dare to rush in, only to see someone with a bow and arrows, Yang Xiong saw that this was a close combat and planned to use a long-range attack to eliminate his three people, and at this critical juncture, suddenly there was a commotion behind the horse thief, I saw a huge burly man with a huge body and a tall man carrying two sheepskin bags tied up with a horse rope, and I didn't know what was in the sheepskin bag, in short, it was very powerful, and he knocked down one by one.

The horse thieves didn't know where such a grandfather came from, and they were all scared to death by him. Here, Han Xiong took advantage of the situation and shouted and rushed up, and these dozens of people were suddenly defeated and scattered one after another. Yang Xiong looked at the corpse on the ground, and the man was still looking at himself stupidly, when a white-haired old man came out from behind the man, and said to Yang Xiong: "The guest officer was disturbed, the old man is a farmer here, surnamed Ma, and the locals all call me a horse master, this is my grandson, called Ma Tong." I don't know where the guests come from? ”

The remaining two followers were stunned and looked at the Quartet with weapons in their hands, Han Xiong stepped forward and said: "In Xia Yangxiong, he came from Anding and was about to go to his home in Jingyang, but he met a thief when he passed by, and I really thanked my uncle for rescuing me just now." Ma Fuzi said with a smile: "Hey, the guest officer is polite, speaking of which there are bandits here all the year round, and the caravans and pedestrians passing by have suffered from it, but unfortunately those officials and masters have been busy fighting for power and profit over the years, and they can't care about the life or death of our little people, so there are more and more bandits and bandits." ”

Han Xiong didn't dare to pick up, but asked lightly: "Do you know how far away is the nearest post station here?" Ma Fuzi said to Han Xiong very mysteriously: "The old man advises the guest officer not to go to that post station, you are passing by us for the first time, I am afraid that you do not know something, the post man of this post station has long colluded with those bandits and horse bandits, specializing in looting passing caravans and pedestrians, like you are afraid that you will be made into human meat buns." ”

Han Xiong was shocked when he heard this, but he doubted it again in an instant, this old man wouldn't be us, the people in this post station were all appointed by the imperial court, it could not be a thief, and the law and etiquette were not in accordance with the rules, and he was also suspicious of the timing of the appearance of these two strange people. In fact, maybe people really just want to help you and remind you.

Yang Xiong arched his hand and said: "Thank you for reminding me, since this is the case, then I will leave first when I am busy on the road." As soon as he turned around and left, the old man called out to him and said: "Slow officer, if you don't dislike it, you might as well go to my humble house today to rest for a while, and tomorrow morning I will let this child escort you through this post station, in fact, you will go more than a hundred miles to Jingyang." ”

Yang Xiong said secretly in his heart: The old fox finally showed his tail, and asked me to go to his house for no reason, is this planning to serve me at night? But there are only three people in his current group, and he must not be able to beat this tall and burly man in the formation just now, and he is hesitating and worrying, when suddenly the sky changes drastically, the black clouds are overwhelming, and the wind is strong, and the weather in the desert is like this, and the thundershowers come and go quickly. But at this moment, Han Xiong's luggage and belongings were still scattered in the grove, and he wanted to pack them up quickly before the wind and rain arrived, so he arched his hand at the horse master and said, "Thank you for your kindness, I will leave first." ”

His original intention was that he was busy packing up his belongings, so he didn't go with Ma Fuzi, but Ma Fuzi thought that he was polite to him, and the sky changed abruptly, so he asked Ma Tong to help Han Xiong, Ma Tong agreed angrily, and also hurriedly helped Han Xiong and the three of them. It took a few people to load the things on the horseback, but due to the lack of manpower, the three of them had to lead three horses and a donkey in each of them, which was really busy.

Ma Fuzi warmly invited him to his house here, and the two entourages under him also looked at him with pleading eyes, Han Xiong was angry at this time, if it wasn't for you arguing to rest, where would you meet a horse thief here, at this time the danger has not really passed, and you have to die yourself to send someone else's knife? Just as he was about to refuse, he saw a heavy rain in the sky instantly, and the group was drenched, and out of helplessness, he could only follow the horse master to his house, which was really unfulfilled.

That night in Ma Fuzi's impoverished home there were two of his grandfather and grandson, it seems that the probability of these two people wanting to rob them is still relatively low, so Han Xiong just relaxed a little and chatted with Ma Fuzi, it turned out that Ma Tong's father was a slave of the barbarians in the Western Regions, fled to this area, and later met Ma Fuzi's daughter, the two fell in love with each other, at that time Ma Fuzi did not agree with this marriage, and then the daughter ran away from home with her son-in-law and eloped. A few years later, because her son-in-law was taken away by Lazhuang Ding and died on the battlefield, her daughter was lonely and had to take Ma Tong, who was only two years old, back to Ma Fuzi's house.

Ma Fuzi can only happily accept this mother and son, after all, blood is thicker than water. Later, his daughter also died of illness, leaving only Ma Tong and Ma Fuzi to rely on each other. But this kid has an amazing amount of food, a meal can do the weight of three or four people, and his relative strength is also very large, one person can do the work of three or four people, at first Ma Fuzi was afraid that he would not be able to support him like this, and then let Ma Tong go to help people, so that he could barely make ends meet. So far, the poor jingle in Ma Fuzi's house has basically been eaten up by this kid.

Han Xiong decided at this time that this old horse should not rob him, and immediately said: "Today, our lives are all thanks to this strong man's rescue, and I have nothing to repay, so much can I give." So he took out his purse and shook out all the silver in it, a total of dozens of taels, which is a lot of money in the remote mountains here. Ma Fuzi immediately refused, Han Xiong saw that he was simple and sincere, so he was excited, and immediately said: "This way, I will leave those three donkeys, anyway, we can't take away such poisonous livestock, you keep one to sell and kill another, so that the life will be slightly better for a period of time in the future." ”

Ma Fuzi's family is indeed poor, and Han Xiong and they all saw it, so they agreed to Han Xiong's request and accepted the three donkeys. That night, the group went to bed early in the dilapidated courtyard of the Ma family. In the middle of the night, Han Xiong was full of urine and wanted to get up to go to the toilet, only to see a few black shadows flashing in outside the window, he suddenly thought that there might be a thief coming in, so he picked up the cooked copper stick leaning against the wall to wake up his sleeping companion, this is he suddenly smelled a burning smell, and secretly said in his heart that it is not good, this is a thief burning the house. Immediately shouted: "Get up, get out quickly, someone is ordering the house, get up quickly!" (To be continued.) )