Outside the city of Lintao, the stewards of the major manors saw the fire in the city, and the bell was faintly heard, and the governor was also strange in their hearts, so they hurriedly sent their horses to investigate, and removed the wine and meat in the courtyard, so that the private soldiers and horse thieves were ready to leave at any time.

Many horse thief leaders have been secretly colluding with local Haoqiang for many years, and even many horse thief gangs are supported by Haoqiang himself, and they usually help them do these dirty things, and they are also familiar with the road. Not only did they not resist in the slightest, but they beckoned to their brethren, brought out the horses that had been deposited in the corrals, and hurried to get the matter in order, so that they could get the promised reward earlier.

The stewards of the manor saw that the matter had come to this point, and if they wanted to forcibly leave many horse thieves, lest they cause chaos, so they opened the courtyard door and let the horse thieves in the manor go to Lintao City first, while the private soldiers stayed in the village and continued to wait for the news from the master's family.

Outside the Yao family's largest Zhuangzi, several horse thieves slowly descended the hill, and were about to gallop their horses, but they heard a rapid hoof sound behind them, and the whole hill trembled slightly in the sound of neat horses' hooves stepping on the ground. The horse thieves turned their heads to look behind them, and were about to curse, but they were horrified at the sight.

Under the bright moonlight, countless black shadows galloped down from the hillside, the cold and shining blades reflected the silver knife light, and slashed at the horse thief who could not dodge on the road, the big head and the torch in the hand of the horse thief were all knocked away, and the headless corpse sprayed a large amount of blood, fell off the horse's back, and was immediately trampled into flesh by countless horses' hooves.

For a time, the horse thieves on the avenue were in chaos. The terrified horse thieves fled on horseback, with no intention of obeying their leader's orders. However, the speed of the hundreds of light horsemen who rushed down from the hillside had already increased to the extreme, and it was natural that they could easily catch up with the many horse thieves who had just tried to speed up, and there was only one road leading to the foot of the mountain, and the side of the road was full of rocks, and the horse thieves had almost nowhere to avoid them.

In a few moments, hundreds of light horsemen had reached the foot of the mountain. The wide avenue turned into a bloody road, and the corpses of more than a thousand horse thieves almost completely blocked the road, and none of them were spared.

The leader of the horse thieves strangled the war horse under his crotch and grinned at the middle-aged man beside him: "Xia Guan is fortunate not to be dishonored, how to act in the future, please also ask General Zhuang Feng to show me." ”

"Good Feng Yuan, brave in rushing and killing, and well-dispatched! Here's the matter, if Wu Gong is willing to cut his love, he will definitely take you into his account and command the general's personal guard cavalry camp! General Pingdi Zhuang Feng praised loudly, then turned his head to look at the brightly lit Zhuangzi on the hill, and after a moment of silence, he said again: "There are still more than 1,000 private soldiers in Zhuangzi today, and they are mostly equipped with strong crossbows, so it is not appropriate to take them by force." According to the strategy set by Wu Gong before, half of the soldiers were left here to contain and wait for Di Dao's foot soldiers to arrive. The rest of the soldiers went to Lintao with me, galloped to the aid of Wu Gong, and killed the first evil! ”

Feng Yuan hurriedly gave the order, and after some arrangement, half of the light horsemen reduced their horse speed slightly, and slowly walked towards Lintao City, which was more than ten miles away. On the way, there were constantly small groups of cavalry gathered in, which were the Han cavalry teams that had been assigned to raid various powerful manors.

It wasn't until Feng Yuanzong immediately stepped forward to report that all the twenty cavalry teams had been built, and Zhuang Feng breathed a sigh of relief, immediately beat his horse and sped up, leading the elite cavalry of the Han army dressed as nearly 3,000 horse thieves, and galloped straight towards Lintao County.

In Lintao City, although the heroes who were caught off guard suffered heavy losses, they quickly reacted, and naturally knew that the mastermind behind the scenes was Wu Kuo, the Taishou of Longxi. This Wu Kuai must have been prepared for a long time, and he wants to wipe out all the heroes in Lintao City.

Seeing the catastrophe coming, the powerful no longer cared about the burning mansion, and gathered all the guards and private soldiers in their respective mansions, and many guards protected themselves and their families, and divided a few thieves to search for arson and sneak attacks.

Immediately, they sent their henchmen and nearly 10,000 private soldiers to the pavilion where Wu Kuai stayed, trying to capture him alive and torture him to death, so as to relieve the hatred in his heart. As for the reaction of the imperial court, I can't take care of it at this time, it's a big deal to hold high the anti-flag and fight to the death. Even if he failed in the end, he could retreat with his family to the Huns.

The Yulin Guard and the personal guard battalion hidden in the shadows couldn't help but be anxious when they saw this. Although they only need to hide in the shadows and wait for reinforcements from outside the city to come, they can save their lives, but in this way, the Taishou and more than 100 light horsemen who are in the pavilion post are afraid that their lives will not be guaranteed.

Without any hesitation, more than a thousand soldiers gathered towards the avenue in the city in tacit understanding, and in the hidden places at the corners and alleys of each street, they shot crossbow arrows and incendiary bombs at the private soldiers marching on the avenue. When he ran out of crossbow arrows, he raised his saber and rushed out to slash and kill a few people, and then quickly retreated, greatly hindering the advance of the private soldiers.

The heroes were not stupid, and after receiving the reward from their subordinates, they learned that the thieves who were originally hidden in the shadows were forced to show their traces, and they became more determined to go to the pavilion to arrest Wu Kuo, and immediately ordered their personal guards to urge the private soldiers to speed up their march.

They had already sent people to various manors outside the city, so that the private soldiers and horse thieves outside the city could quickly enter the city to help eliminate the thieves sent by Wu Kuai to set fire to the city. Now, as long as Wu Kuo is captured again, he can end all this as soon as possible.

However, just when the private soldiers paid a lot of casualties and the pavilion was in front of them, through the faint light of the fire, they faintly saw that there was a black-pressed and lightly armored Xuanyi cavalry standing in front of them, which was the personal guard iron cavalry that entered the city with Wu Kuai. Although there were only more than 100 horsemen, after putting on a cone-shaped front formation, the momentum of the soldiers was constantly rising.

In the face of the private soldiers constantly pouring in front, the cavalry general led by shouted: "The Han is mighty!" Kill! ”

"Kill!" More than 100 horsemen shouted loudly, and then followed the horsemen and rushed up to kill.

It is worthy of an elite iron horse, and in just a few hundred steps, the horse speed will be increased to the extreme. The soldiers raised their halberds in their hands, and the entire cavalry array plunged into the dense private soldiers. In the straight and crowded avenue, it was like a sharp blade cutting through the black giant wood, but instead of sawdust, countless black human heads and bright red blood were splashed.

Although the number of private soldiers was large, although the avenue in the city was wide, it was only three zhang, and more than 100 cavalry were enough to block the avenue. The private soldiers in front had to face the sprint of the horse halberd and the slashing of the saber, so they naturally tried to retreat, but the private soldiers behind were driven forward by the leader of the private soldiers and the powerful guards.

On the entire avenue, nearly 10,000 private soldiers were in a mess, and when many private soldier leaders shouted loudly and tried to form a team, a large number of strong men armed with sabers poured out from the streets and alleys on both sides of the avenue, blending into the team, frantically slashing and killing the chaotic private soldiers. As a result, the situation was out of control, and even many private soldiers brandished weapons and slashed everyone around them in order to protect themselves.

The heroes who had settled down gathered in the backyard mansion of the county government at this time, and due to the large number of errand officers and county soldiers patrolling, this place was not affected. The Haoqiang already knew that the county officials must be detained by Wu Kui as a hostage in the pavilion, but they did not care about their life or death, but they just kept sending people to urge the private soldiers to take Wu Kui down quickly.

Especially Lintao Hou Yao Sang, tonight his Hou Mansion was taken care of by Yu Linwei, hundreds of cans of incendiary bombs were thrown into it from all directions, and the huge Hou Mansion turned into a sea of fire in just a moment. Regardless of the many casualties for the time being, the ancestral house of more than 100 years has been turned into ashes in a blink of an eye, and even the ancestral tablets in the ancestral hall have not had time to be invited, how can he not be angry Brahma?

"Master Hou, the horse thieves have entered the city, and the black is overwhelming, I'm afraid there are thousands of people!" The head of the Hou Mansion hurriedly entered the interior to report.

When the heroes heard this, they were shocked, and they couldn't help but feel relieved. Wu Kuai's men and horses in all parts of the city must be less than two thousand in total, otherwise they would have already wiped out all the heroes and strong, how could they go to great lengths to steal arson and attack and kill. The nearly 10,000 private soldiers in the city, plus these thousands of horse thieves, will definitely be able to capture Wu Kuo in one fell swoop.

However, the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and after the horse thieves entered the city, instead of attacking Wu Kuo's personal guards, they raised their sabers and rushed towards the more than 10,000 private soldiers on the avenue. The cavalry had an absolute advantage in the face of the cavalry that was not equipped with long weapons, and the private soldiers were already in chaos and had no will to fight, so in just a few breaths, they were all routed, scattered and fled, ignoring the orders of the leaders, and abandoning all the weapons in their hands and the rudimentary leather armor on their bodies, just hoping to escape the pursuit.

When the county government was besieged by thousands of horse thieves, the heroes were stunned. Lintao waited for Yao Sang to lead everyone to the main gate of the county government, and he was about to say something, but he saw the leader of the horse thieves coming out of the crowd, and said with a joke on his face: "Master Hou, I haven't seen you for a long time, but you still have the same demeanor!" ”

"Zhuang Feng, why are you?!" Yao Sang's face was full of surprise, but as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, he hurriedly said, "Since you are also here, why don't you quickly capture Wu Kui?" If we are in trouble, you will not be able to please it! ”

Zhuang Feng smiled faintly and said disdainfully: "Hou Ye has always boasted of his insight into the world, why is he so stupid today, you really think that it is for a small profit, so you ignore you and wait for Xiqiang's ** grain and grass, and are willing to be in the same stream with you?" ”

Yao Sang was shocked when he heard this, and pointed at Zhuang Feng with his finger, trembling with anger.

Zhuang Feng didn't care at all, and ordered loudly: "All of them are killed, but the corpses are still in the county office, set on fire, and don't leave half of the mouth alive!" ”

The cavalry soldiers behind him couldn't wait, and when they heard the order, they immediately raised the sabre in their hands and rushed over fiercely, killing all the powerful and extremely powerful guards in the county office, and then set fire to the Lintao county government.

That night, the entire Lintao City was shrouded in a sound of slashing, and the powerful family members in the city, regardless of men, women, and children, were all slaughtered. All the looted goods and treasures in the mansion were looted by horse thieves, and large swaths of the mansion were burned to ashes by the raging fire.

In the early morning of the next day, Di Dao's foot soldiers, who arrived slowly, entered many Zhuangzi outside Lintao County on the pretext of searching for horse thieves, and escorted all the private soldiers and family members inside to Di Dao to await trial, and I am afraid that they will be subjected to endless labor.

A few days later, Emperor Jing issued an edict, severely reprimanding Longxi Taishou Wu Kuai for his lack of governance, resulting in horse thieves running rampant, mutilating Longxi Haoqiang, and fining him for three years. At the same time, all the officials of Lintao County who were derelict in their duties were sent to Beijing, leaving them to be strictly tried and handled by the Dali Mansion in accordance with the Han law, and a large number of officials were sent to replace the vacant vacancies, so as to clean up the chaotic Lintao.

And Wu Kuai took His Majesty's edict with a smile on his face, but he was just fined for three years, which was really cost-effective. According to His Majesty's acquiescence, there is no need to hand over the capture of the "horse thief" to the state treasury, and the property distributed to him is still more than enough for 30 years, except for the soldiers who have been killed and wounded heavily.

(I don't want to spend too much pen and ink in this kind of place, I don't think it's very interesting, so I'm writing a little brief, everyone's forgive me.) (To be continued.) )