On the road to Gansu Town, passing by Lei Zhengtang's personal soldiers and horses, there were several waves of caravans of different sizes, as well as convoys pulling heavy plaster, and a few fast horses mixed in the process, no one cared.

Not surprisingly, in the old Yangkou Stone Fort, Ma Gui came forward to entertain the military academy who came to ask for the goods, and after eating and drinking, it was 10,000 taels of silver goods, which were loaded on the back of mules and horses and bundled.

This time, to give Ximen Xiao a face, General Lei's military academy stayed in the old Yangkou Stone Fort for one night, ate a big bowl of mutton in the morning, and left with the meatloaf Shi Shiran.

Ten thousand taels of silver, it hurts the muscles and bones, and the hundred households will not be silent anymore, Xin Weilin faced the greedy military academy, and he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

The rumbling departing horse team, in the dust, in front of the shop, Xin Lilin's helpless gaze was looked at by Ma Gui with a slight wooden face, although he was also angry, but he did not understand the sympathy hidden in that gaze.

At this time, Xiao Ye was taking a group of military family members, on the edge of the vine grass in the hills south of the old Yangkou Stone Fort, searching everywhere for the fruits under the vine branches.

Looking at a few bold men, stepping on thick hardwood boots, their whole bodies wrapped tightly and deep into the vine grass, and carrying out baskets of heavy fruits without the time of a meal, Xiao Ye even showed an envious smile, but he didn't want to be put on the ground by the stinger anymore.

The splash who was messing around in the gravel castle was able to dare to pick fruits, which surprised Xiao Ye; No one is perfect, but the advantage is the advantage, and earning this money is the ability. The Shijia shop is open to purchase vine grass and fruits, which is bound to give the surrounding military households and craftsmen an extra way to live.

No one wants to be accused by the neighbors of eating and drinking, it's not that there is no way to find money, carrying a pouting head to the ground, not everyone is willing to do it; Even if you lease the land of a thousand households, you must have acquaintances to protect you in order to rent a good plot.

In front of everyone's eyes, the news of his appearance in Laoyangkou Tunbao will be seen by those who are interested, so that's fine.

In order to clear the avenue under his feet, a large area of vine grass beside the road, which had sprouted green leaves, was painstakingly cut down by a sharp sickle, collected by craftsmen sent from the mill, loaded and pulled back to the mill, and put into the stone mill.

The rattan grass takes root and is very easy to grow, so Xiao Ye has to take out manpower to ensure the smooth flow between Tunpu and the avenue, and dispose of these cut branches and leaves, so that it can produce a piece of paper, which is better than carelessly putting the craftsman down.

When the saplings of Coptis chinensis trees were transplanted, the area around Tunpu was much more stable, and now there are still too few saplings here.

The shriveled and broken remains of rats, snakes, and hares in the depths of the vine grass indicate that it is not just a simple coma, but also poisoned many times, and the consequences are unpredictable.

The knife is one of Xiao Ye's personal guards, and he is also a slave who was rescued from the grassland and herds horses, he is silent, and he doesn't want to say his name, he just likes to fiddle with a narrow sharp knife, everyone calls him Knife, and after a long time, no one thinks about her name.

Just when the military academy of General Lei was eating and drinking in an inn outside the old Yangkou Stone Fort, Daozi had already taken three brothers from the guard, led two Tartars on horseback, bypassed Gansu Town, and rushed to the road to the east.

The guards were three Mongolian men, and the two Tartars who joined temporarily were also from the Galen tribe, and the knife was a group of six people, and they rode through the town of Gansu on horseback in the starry night, and beside the avenue twenty miles to the west, they turned their horses and drilled into the poplar forest beside the road. It's getting dark.

Here, they want to intercept and kill the extorted military academy horse team, and they also want to give the officials and merchants in Gansu Town, as well as the arrogant Lei Zongbing, a clear understanding; The pie that falls from the sky is definitely not something that can be eaten casually.

Dismounted, the reins were tied to the trunk of the tree at will, and the knife was swarthy without any expression, and he took the felt blanket from the saddle and threw it on the ground; Untying the blanket and holding the jet-black and shiny rifle, he lay down and fell asleep.

The three Mongol soldiers behind him looked at each other, and one of them, a short and strong man, reluctantly took out his rifle and climbed to a high place to set up a sentry; Among the four, his marksmanship is the worst, compared to his fists and feet, a knife as fierce as a wolf, not a little worse, and it is better to work hard than to go back to the old fist.

The other two soldiers, sitting not far from the knife, beckoned the two panting Tartars to rest, gnawed a few pieces of jerky, drank a sip of water, and then roared and held the rifle, carefully wiped it with a cloth, and carefully loaded the yellow cancan's magazine into the magazine.

The two Tartars who were with them, gasping for breath with sallow faces, took a felt blanket and spread it on the ground, chewed a few bites of dried meat, and lay down to sleep. The two of them had tuberculosis, and it took too long, and it was good to be able to endure a high fever and rush here from the grassland.

For Huang Hanxiang's promise to give his family a thousand taels of silver, this time to send the job to death, they are happy to do it, anyway, their time is short, before leaving, they can earn some silver taels for the family, and they are satisfied.

"This trip, in the name of horse thieves, kill those military academies, run one, you go to Bailong Lake, dig three months of stones, those two Tartars, can't enter Lei Zhengtang's general's mansion, you go to be a craftsman," the knife lying on the blanket, although his eyes were closed and his breathing was steady, the words explained by the hundred households in his head were constantly rolling.

The military affairs are completed well, the military merits have accumulated in front of others, and those who have been training by the side of hundreds of households for a year and a half may have the qualifications to be released as flag officers.

I didn't look at the dozen or so old brothers and brothers, all of them went out to be flag officers, they were just a few days earlier than the hundred households, and they were not bad.

A breeze swept through the woods, and the knife wrapped himself in an uncomfortable sheepskin jacket, and he rolled over and fell asleep, and he was accustomed to the earthy yellow two-piece clothes compared to the thick winter clothes.

"Knives, knives, here they are," it was nearly noon, and the knife was gently shaken awake, and the moment he opened his eyes, the bolt of his rifle was already on the top of the rifle.

Seeing the square face with a scruffy beard in front of him, the knife quietly pressed the safe, hummed, turned over and sat up, and put the telescope handed over into his arms.

Leaving the two Tartars to watch the horses, chewing dry meat in their mouths, and the knives and the three brethren went down to the side of the avenue on foot, condescendingly occupied a small dirt bag, and looked at the horse team in the distance.

After sleeping beautifully, the knife was a little too good, and he held the rifle with one hand, "Ata, let's try to hit the target, and the color head is still the same?" ”

"No, I keep the military salary to buy wine, and I have to buy silk and green salt for my sister," the big black Atta, who was angry with the urn, knelt on one leg, pulled off the earth-shattering thunder on his waist, and placed it at his feet, and opened the rifle safe.

"You Mongols, don't use your brains, okay?" Muttering softly, the knife held the gun in his left hand, and took out a small piece of broken silver in his right hand, "What's the matter?" Whoever fights with me has more people, and this tael of silver is his,"

However, the three Mongol soldiers who had been harmed by him more than once had already begun to bow their heads and check their weapons; Hit the target within 100 steps, it's better to save it, this girl is a trap, and she is resolutely not tempted.

The guards were paid monthly silver, plus temporary military rewards, and there were all kinds of them, more than a dozen taels per month, and if they encountered a major task, it would be even more, so they gradually had the habit of spending lavishly; Earlier, the Mongols who had just been selected into the pro-guard corps were not tempted to invite them to eat, so that the two wine shops inside and outside the old Yangkou Stone Fort had a prosperous business.

After a long time, no matter how stupid people are, they will taste the opposite, and it will become a bet to eat, compared to marksmanship, compared to throwing thunder, more than fighting, and adding some color, but it is not better than riding, but it has made Atta suffer a big loss; As a result, the Mongolian soldiers and men also learned to be obedient, and the military salary had to be paid to the family, and I had nothing to compare.

The Mongols from the Galen tribe on the south side of Bailong Lake can still calculate the accounts of their hard-earned silver.

The strong are respected, not to mention the wild Tartars, it is very common for the ripe Tartars to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty, even there are Tartar officers in the Ming army, and there are many Tartar officials in the border towns, and Atta They have no psychological barriers; Eat more, eat enough, don't have to spend money on clothing, even if you die in battle, there are spirit cards to worship incense, and hundreds of family members give pensions, this good thing has never been heard of anywhere else, but I am glad about my good luck.

Soon, the knife was no longer entangled in the matter of the color head, and the target appeared. Sighing regretfully, the knife was also half-kneeling on the grass, loaded with silver, and casually put a few magazines on his lap.

"Rumble," on the noonday avenue, the scorching sun was overhead, pedestrians were rare, and a team of a dozen fast horses trampled on a faint cloud of smoke and dust, and came towards the front of the knife; Four mules and horses in the middle of the caravan carry a sturdy bundle of goods.

One mile, eight hundred steps, five hundred steps, when I saw the avenue behind the horse team, a few figures faintly rushed out, and a slight twitch flashed on the indifferent face of the knife, Baihu really wanted to leave these guys behind, and even the back road was cut off.

"Raise your gun," he snapped, and the four-shot rifle was raised, and the swarthy muzzle of the rifle was aimed at the galloping horse, and the cap of the gun was removed.

Although there were only four people, the three Mongolian men knew that compared to hitting a moving target, just one person with a knife, between breaths, could quickly shoot five bullets in one magazine, and at least four rounds could hit the target.

A hundred steps, four or five breaths, the knife can shoot twenty projectiles, then these dozen or so Ming Military Academy, they just need to watch what is missing.

When the horse team approached the mountain bag of the knife, the military academy on horseback also found four people, however, the avenue was bypassed from under the mountain bag, and they could only pass quickly with a whip.

"Speed up and rush over," the military academy headed by the leader, although he was a little angry in his heart, but the goods carried by the mules and horses behind him made him calmly pull out the short fire/gun in his arms, and shouted sharply.

The courage of the horse thief is getting fatter and fatter, seeing that just after Gansu Town, there are people who dare to block the road and rob, well, it is not very similar, at least there is no one on the avenue.

The words were slow, but the speed of the war horses was not slow, and the horses that rumbled up, the heavy hooves of the horses splashed large pieces of dust, and when they were about to approach a hundred paces away, the knife on the high place diagonally pulled the trigger decisively; "Bah,"

The sound of gunfire was heard, and the military academy headed by the military academy, throwing away the fire / gun clutching his chest, crawled on horseback in astonishment; The loose reins made the speed of the war horse gradually stop, and the "ordinary" rolled off the horse.

The horse team that roared past him did not have the slightest nostalgia at all.

"Boom," the gunshot rang out, but the speed of the horse team passed faster and faster, and the other military academies with rich experience in the battle formation did not make a move to rescue the leader, but only knocked the spurs vigorously, and also raised the short fire/gun in his hand, and took off the round shield next to the saddle and raised it in front of his chest.

"Peng, Peng, Peng," the military academy in the smoke of gunfire tried to use fire/guns to strengthen their courage, not caring about the range of thirty paces, as long as they could bring back the mules and horses, their task was completed; Strangling the horse thief, that's later.

The corners of his mouth flicked disdainfully, the knife accelerated the rate of fire, and the three Mongol soldiers also opened fire one after another, "Woo, Woo, Woo, "The gunfire on the mountain bag was loud, and no one could let go of anyone who was close to the avenue under his feet.

Fifteen military academies in the General Lei Army's mansion had large strands of blood blooming on their heads and chests, and in just a hundred steps, they were beaten alive by four rifles, and the war horses were also injured by projectiles, and they fell to the ground with a neigh, provoking the knife to scold vigorously.

The gunfire stopped, and the scattered war horses on the avenue slowly stopped. The knife picks up the bullet casings on the groundEmpty of bullet shells, a puff of smoke ran down the mountain bag.

Just as they had just descended into the ditch, and before the sergeant who blocked them had arrived, the military academy that had rolled to the ground first was already lying in the barren grass on the side of the road, towards the depths of the green hills, and several turned around and ran into the ravine without a figure.

The pocket watch in Greedy Mo's arms really saved his life.

Three sergeants dressed as ordinary soldiers, hurriedly ran to meet the knives, counted the corpses on the ground, and suddenly everyone's faces were dark gray, and they looked around with red eyes for a long time, and even the two binoculars couldn't find the fish that slipped through the net, so they helplessly cleaned up the battlefield.

On the avenue, after all, it is not a place to stay for a long time.

The four mules and horses carrying the goods were handed over to Huang Fugui who was hiding in the woods, got the knife of the receipt, and hurriedly hid in the forest with six companions; As for Huang Fugui, they didn't even have any interest in talking to him.

Huang Fugui, who was wearing a coarse cloth jacket, looked at the messy corpses on the avenue, the dazzling blood stains, and his face was colorless at this time.

This time he didn't take a fellow with him, and looked at the blood flowing on the side of the ditch beside the road, and pulled the mule and horse away quickly to the east; In order to avoid the disaster, he had to go to a friend's house in the east for a few days.

How Huang Fugui brought the goods back, this is not a matter of worrying about the knife, what he is worried about now is that the two pocket watches in the goods disappeared at the same time as the military school; This time he was sent to the military affairs, he was planted.

The mistake of the knife made the three Mongolian sergeants suddenly refreshed, and they muttered quietly to the other sergeants, very angry that they didn't dare to bet; As for going to the mill to carry stones, it would not be too lonely to have these brothers as companions.

After collecting the uninjured war horses, ignoring the corpses and dead horses on the ground, and cleaning the battlefield roughly, with a wave of the knife, everyone retreated from the avenue. "Peng, Peng," two dull gunshots came, it was the sergeant after the break, with the Huang family's short fire/gun, he killed the two war horses that were wounded in the front and abdomen, and gave up on the spot.

With the six brethren he turned back to the woods, found his horse, and took out a cloth bag from the leather bag on the side of the saddle, and took out a map of the sheepskin.

The three guards, who had arrived to converge, found their rifles and packages from the reserve horses, and quickly checked their equipment.

On the simple map, the knife looked at it for a while, "The closest place here, either Gansu Town, or Manjia Village, if that guy wants to go, he will definitely go to Gansu Town,"

"So, what do you mean by the knife?" A sergeant asked reluctantly, and they also knew that the city tower was on fire, and they would inevitably have to go to the mill, and they would definitely not be polite in their words. Although this matter is mainly based on knives, everyone is a personal guard, and they are still at the same level.

Ignoring the sergeant's tone, the knife took the map into his arms, his eyes narrowed into a line, "They, they will definitely come, let's just wait here, wait for them to come to the door,"

He was the temporary leader of this mission, so since he had made up his mind, the other sergeants must not disobey when there was enough ammunition and dry rations, otherwise it would not be a matter of going back to the mill to work hard.

The group took weapons, and after a short rest, they sneaked back to the side of the avenue again, and laid an ambush in the barren grass opposite the mountain bag. As for the two sick men who had a high fever and kept coughing, they were still waiting in the woods to take care of the war horses.

Sure enough, two hours later, the sun was setting in the west, and the military academy that had run away rushed back with a team of sergeants from Gansu Town, fully armed.

To give face to General Lei, in the absence of a military order, the Gansu Town Guard sent a hundred households, with fifty cavalrymen, in the name of suppressing thieves, under the guidance of the military academy, to gallop along the avenue violently.