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The squires in Baosheng Fort are in a dispute, and many people think that Inspector Zhao will definitely not be able to save him. Now it is necessary to consider whether it is confirmed that it is only a small group of bandits who have come to commit crimes, or whether the fifth battalion of the left is really going to commit a large-scale crime.

If it is only a small group of bandits, it is fine, but if it is to return to the left 5th battalion to cross the border, then the situation will be very bad. Although the power of the Fifth Battalion has not been so arrogant in the past two years and has weakened somewhat, it is still the best among the rogues, with many soldiers and thieves. If they attack, everyone will have to rely on themselves to protect their families and property.

"A night team should be sent to the mountains immediately to find out the exact information." Hu Principality suggested.

Mei Zhihuan looked at the Qihuang topographic map in front of him, and couldn't understand the danger at hand, once the thousands of Huizuo Fifth Battalions that were originally entrenched in the Yinghuo Mountains of Dabie Shandong came over, it would be a disaster. Mei Zhihuan thought about it almost the same as Hu Gongguo's thoughts, and felt that the old thieves such as Lao Huihui were going to cross the border and go west to Junzhou to join Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, the two thieves.

"Immediately adjust the night and go to the mountains to investigate, I want to know the specific situation." Mei Zhihuan said, "In addition, we will gather all the teams of village warriors, and contact the major families and business houses, so that they can gather the people and horses, this time we are likely to have a tough battle, in addition, the county must also take action, prepare money and food, and also gather some young people." ”

Lu Jinxi nodded again and again. "And when are we going to send troops?"

Mei Zhihuan groaned, "The thieves are powerful, and you can't rush into battle without knowing the situation, otherwise Zhao's inspection will be a lesson from the past." Let's wait until the teams are assembled. ”

At this moment, the family outside reported, "Prince Chunjiang is out asking to see him." ”

Mei Zhihuan was a little surprised, didn't Li Chunjiang recuperate at home at this time, why did he come over.

"Please!"

Li Chunjiang's injury was not too serious, and after the medication, it was only a few days before it affected his walking. He strode into the hall and said anxiously to Mei Zhihuan, "Mei Gong, I just got the news that Jiye has rushed to the rescue of Zhao Patrol with a dozen or so nine-headed bird brothers and one hundred and twenty newly recruited villagers. I heard that there are three or four hundred thieves besieging Zhao Patrol, Mei Gong, please send troops to reinforce Jiye as soon as possible. ”

"What?"

Mei Zhihuan couldn't help but be surprised, when Lu Zhixian told him that when Inspector Zhao sent someone to ask Liu Jun in Taiping Township for help first, he also decided that Liu Jun, who had no soldiers around him, would definitely not take the risk to come to the rescue. Who knows, Liu Jun actually went. He took a dozen or so nine-headed bird team members and one hundred and two newly recruited recruits to go.

He really didn't know whether to say whether Liu Jun was brave or reckless.

But this is not the time to think about this, Liu Jun is a young man he admires very much, if the king dies like this, he will definitely find it difficult to accept.

"Immediately gather the horse team and let them set off immediately to reinforce Liu Jun." Mei Zhihuan shouted loudly.

"Mei Gong, don't be rash." Several squires persuaded. But Mei Zhihuan couldn't listen anymore, and Li Chunjiang said happily, "I'll rush over with them." ”

It will take time to assemble a large group of men and horses, but the team of 200 horses in Baosheng Fort is ready to be on standby. After receiving Mei Zhihuan's order, the horse team quickly assembled, and Li Chunjiang and more than a dozen of his family members also prepared saddle horses and waited on the side.

"Let's go, drive!"

The brigade galloped out of the fort and headed straight north.

The people inside and outside the fort couldn't help but be surprised when they saw this momentum, "The horse team ran out in such a hurry, what happened here?" ”

A well-informed trader hurriedly said to everyone, "You don't know yet, the rogue in the east has been killed, and the Zhao Inspector and his archers of the Hutouguan Inspection Division have been surrounded by thieves, and Liu Jiye, the nine-headed bird who had just exterminated a gang of bandits, rushed over with only a dozen Xiangyong, but I heard that there are hundreds of bandits, no, the prince of Chunjiang came over and asked Mei Gong to ask the horse team as reinforcements, and rushed to reinforce it." ”

"Oh, this Liu Jiye is really bold."

"People call it bravery, and he's a good man."

"Chunjiang Gongzi is also good, righteous enough."

"That's right, I heard that Prince Chunjiang and Liu Jiye had already burned yellow paper, cut off the head of the chicken, and knelt on the ground to worship."

Li Chunjiang rode his horse and galloped, not knowing the discussion of the people behind him, he was now full of worry about Liu Jun, for fear that this guy would be killed by thieves. finally met such a good-tempered friend and brother, he didn't want him to die like this.

"Hurry up."

"Hurry up."

Li Chunjiang kept urging the horse team to speed up.

Galloping all the way, from Baoshengbao to the Hutouguan Inspection Division, eighty miles away, Li Chunjiang urged the horse team to arrive in only one hour.

In the yamen of the Hutou Pass Inspection Division, Liu Jun was looking at this official office in the mountains. The yamen of the inspection department is not located in the county seat, nor in the town, but on some key roads in Guanjin, similar to a checkpoint sentry. There are three official halls in the yamen of Hutouguan, one left and right wings, one instrument door, and the left and right corner gates, and there is a wall outside the whole yamen, with a total circumference of eighty zhang, which is not small.

The wall is two feet high and is very tightly arranged.

In normal times, the inspection of the inspection department works and stays here, and the archers also live here. There is even a cell in the courtyard, which is a place where the inspectors are holding for thieves, deserters, and smugglers.

"Team Liu, there is a large horse team galloping from the south, no less than two hundred horses, and they will arrive soon." Wang Qian, who was in charge of guarding outside, ran into the official hall of the yamen to report to Liu Jun.

"A large force of cavalry?" Liu Jun suddenly became nervous. Those who have horses are all elites, whether they are on the side of the official army or the thieves, and the large horse team of 200 horses is a very strong force, and it is by no means the more than 300 rabble they repelled before. But from the south, could it be that they came from Macheng, but they came too quickly.

"Go and see, and let the brethren be on guard and ready to fight."

Fortunately, the yamen of the inspection department is equivalent to a small castle, and behind closed doors, there are more than 100 people guarding it, and the other party is not so easy to attack. However, Liu Jun is not expecting to come to the bandits, but to be his own people.

Liu Jun stepped on the ladder to climb the wall, holding a clairvoyant mirror to look at the approaching horse team, but unexpectedly found a familiar figure.

"Public!"

Liu Jun smiled, at this time he had already seen a lot of familiar faces, many of whom had drunk and chatted together during the last time he suppressed bandits, and he had already recognized the other party as the horse team from Baosheng Fort.

"Lord Zhao, don't worry, it's our own people who are here, the public is here with the Baosheng Fort horse team, the reinforcements are here, we don't have to worry about the bandits anymore." Liu Jun said to Zhao Dagu with a long sigh of relief.

When Zhao Dagu heard that it was his own person, he also sighed, and the whole person laughed. The rest of the archers cheered, and although they had repelled the thieves before, they were still worried that the thieves would come back immediately. Now that so many elite reinforcements have arrived, there is no need to worry about thieves.

"Open the door!" Zhao Dagu shouted, and a group of archers ran over to open the gate of the dead.

Liu Jun took everyone out to greet them.

"Public!" Liu Jun shouted with a smile, Li Chunjiang was covered in dust, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw that it was Liu Jun who greeted him. He rolled over and jumped off his horse and ran over, "Jiye, are you alright?" ”

"Of course it's fine."

Li Chunjiang hit him up and down several times with some surprise, "Didn't you say that you took a dozen old brothers and more than a hundred recruits to rescue Zhao Inspection?" ”

"Yes, but we have rescued people back, let me introduce you to you, this is Inspector Zhao." Liu Jun introduced Zhao Dagu to Li Chunjiang.

Several team leaders behind Li Chunjiang looked at Liu Jun and Zhao Dagu in disbelief, "Didn't you say that there are hundreds of thieves?" ”

"There are indeed hundreds of thieves." Zhao Dagu took the initiative to answer at this time, "At that time, we were chasing a few bandits, but we were ambushed and besieged, and finally trapped on a hill in the north, surrounded by hundreds of thieves at the bottom of the mountain, and the mountain was almost exhausted. At that time, I thought that I would definitely die there, but Brother Liu rushed over with more than 100 brothers, and then fought against bandits who were several times their size at the bottom of the mountain. ”

"That battle, it's really hard to believe. Brother Liu is really amazing, with only more than 100 newly recruited members of the village warrior team for only a few days, each of the team members has a bamboo gun, plus the bird salvo of the old members of the nine-headed bird, and immediately killed the hundreds of thieves and fled, leaving behind fifty corpses, including even seventeen thieves on horseback. ”

A few of the captains of the horse team felt like they were in heaven.

Li Chunjiang was a little convinced, before Liu Jun only took a month to train a group of recruits to kill more than 50 bandits in one fell swoop, and now he took the newly recruited recruits for only a few days to defeat hundreds of thieves, Li Chunjiang felt that it was not too strange.

"Although there are many thieves, in fact, there are only a dozen capable thieves, and the rest are just some old and weak rabble, we have a row of birds to go over, and these earth-shattering people are already frightened and almost faint, and then there are bows and arrows, and spear arrays, the thieves can resist, and as soon as a few leaders die, they will immediately disperse." Liu Jun said with a smile, but it was equivalent to admitting what Zhao Dagu said.

"Let's go, go inside and drink water." Liu Jun dragged everyone into the yamen.

The captains of the horse team followed into the yamen, and as soon as they entered, they saw a pile of things in the playground in the compound. There were a few young men next to him who were wiping lime on it, and a captain walked over and took a closer look, only to find that they were all human heads one after another.

It turned out that the pile was full of human heads, dozens of them, and the young men were pickling them with lime to prevent them from rotting.

Looking at the side, there are also a bunch of captured bandits' flags, armor, knives and guns, etc., and there are several horses tied under the trees on the side, and there are even rows of meat hanging with hooks on one side, and if you look closely, you will find that it is all horse meat.

Now he really believes that Liu Jun has indeed rescued Zhao Dagu and defeated the bandits, and these are all solid evidences in front of him. The horses were captured, and the horse meat must have been brought back by the horses that were wounded or killed on the battlefield, as well as those knives, guns, armor, and even these heads.

"How many were killed?" He asked.

Zhao Dagu replied on the side, "Brother Liu led the team to defeat more than 300 bandits and kill 50, including 17 thieves on horseback. My patrol division killed and injured dozens of enemies before and after, and cut twenty-seven levels! ”

The real seventy-seven heads are a great victory.

"I wonder how many brothers have been killed or wounded?" Li Chunjiang looked at so many gains and hurriedly asked about the casualties.

"Five of Lord Zhao's men were killed in battle, three were seriously injured and disabled, and the rest were lightly wounded. Our nine-headed bird is in better condition, only a few have suffered minor injuries, and there are no casualties. ”

Li Chunjiang only looked back at the nine-headed bird recruits in the courtyard at this time, all of them were strong and tall, especially with a resolute look in their eyes, they were indeed good soldiers. But it is still shocking, Liu Jun actually took these one hundred and two recruits with more than a dozen brothers, and fought with hundreds of thieves, and as a result, he ran away from the thieves, and he basically had no casualties.

God, this Liu Jun and Liu Jiye were born to lead soldiers to fight.

"Aren't you supposed to be recuperating at home now, why did you come here, and you came so quickly?" Liu Jun asked.

"I heard that you brought a hundred or so newly recruited team members to rescue Zhao Inspector, who was besieged by hundreds of bandits, how can I still sit still. As soon as he ran to Mei Gong and said, he sent the horse team. Running and jogging along the way, you end up in vain, and you're already all on your own. ”

Liu Jun hurriedly said, "I thank you very much for coming to reinforcements with the horse team brothers, really." ”

"What are the brothers talking about, okay, I have to send someone back to tell Mei Gong, otherwise he will still be worried about you. But I'm thinking about what kind of wonderful expression Mei Gong will have after the person who reported the news told Mei Gong that you had defeated hundreds of thieves with only a hundred recruits. Li Chunjiang said with a smile.