On the official road between Pingyang Province, Gaoxian Town and Mengcheng Town, a group of people and vehicles are slowly moving north.

Even if the car beam is added with a thick steel spring, the big car shop is still on the simple avenue in Jinzhong, and people are still about to fall apart. Li Hongde, who was sitting in the big car, was thinking about what kind of rubber wheels Lao Hu said, and it must be very comfortable to sit in that kind of car.

The car slammed into the top again, there was a wail on the car, more than a dozen people covered their buttocks, Li Hongde finally had a seizure, got up and was about to get out of the car, but was pulled by the old Hu opposite.

"Township Officer Li, you are the most precious guarantee in this trip, if you want to get off the car, our brothers have to get off the car......"

Lao Hu was holding a cigarette roll, under the shiny bald head, a fierce face was hidden behind the green smoke, and he couldn't tell whether it was persuasion or intimidation, Li Hongde's heart trembled, and he obediently sat back in his place and buried himself in this pile of red vests again.

It's just an ordinary returnee, but he is called a township official, and he is also taken care of by the dart master in every way, which makes Li Hongde very frightened, but the dart master treats them as goods, and his work and rest are restricted in every way, which makes people very unhappy.

Li Hongde also knew that although his convoy was dragging a large number of tents, canned food, medical supplies and other military supplies, compared with these baggage, the dart masters who escorted the convoy were more concerned about the safety of their returnees. The old man of the dart head said that if he lost a person, the marching supervision made the yamen not only detain their bank, but also downgrade the rating of the dart bureau, which is much more serious than losing the goods.

Of course, these are just cover-ups, the real reason why Li Hongde is obedient and obedient is that, like other red vests, this dart master from Shaanxi Chang'an Dart Bureau is a murderous and unblinking character, and the sharp taste of talking and doing things makes him a flat-headed ordinary man who has never stepped out of the county border for half his life and cannot afford to have a trace of disobedience.

The British Dynasty is too different from the old days, and the existence of a large number of red vests in this crowd rolling north is one of them. Dart board, dart line, dart club, what is called, there is a dart word.

The profession of dart master flourished in the British Dynasty. In the private caretaker home, escorting valuable commercial goods, this is just a small head. More dart masters are active in Nanyang, Tianzhu, Siberia, the Western Regions and even Central Asia, and are employed by colonial companies, exploration companies, and even the Anglo-Chinese military and government, which is essentially a large collection of security guards and mercenaries.

Anglo-Northern Expedition. The regular army was used against the brigade Qing army. and attacking cities, which were used by volunteers to garrison cities, military stations, and passes, and other than that, no regular troops were put in. A large number of auxiliary tasks were contracted to the civilian dart bureau, including general quartermaster escort, security of military and civilian personnel, and even security for officers on duty.

In Li Hongde's view, these red vests are actually part of the British red clothes. This kind of understanding is also normal, Yinghua's dart bureau dart store is quite strict qualifications, must be founded by veterans, or joint ventures, at least one veteran, and the shares must account for more than one-fifty, and the number of veterans in the dart division must be kept above the limit.

In addition to ensuring the close connection between the dart division and the army in terms of laws, as a legal armed force of the people, the dart master also enjoys many preferential treatment that is different from that of the people. For example, most firearms can be legally possessed, military law is applied only when performing tasks, and so on.

In order to support the development of the dart board, the state also extracts a part of the military expenditure every year in proportion to the dart board subsidy. The army and navy handed over a large number of temporary and fragmentary non-combat missions to the dart board, and also fed countless dart boards. The enterprising progress of the colonial company provided a broad space for the development of the dart bureau.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, it was only in consideration of controlling the civilian armed forces and broadening the way out for veterans that the dart bureau was vigorously supported. But after colonizing Nanyang and even Tianzhu, the dart game really ushered in spring. In order to ensure that this burgeoning civilian force is placed under the effective control of the state. Closely linking it to the military is the most important policy.

When the dart masters set foot on the northern land in red vests, consciously or unconsciously. treats himself as a supernumerary red coat, and Li Hongde's feelings for the dart master come from this.

The convoy turned into a section of mountain road, with high slopes and dense forests on both sides, and the speed suddenly slowed down, Lao Hu spit out a puff of smoke, and said to Li Hongde again: "It's not that we are lazy, but we must have half of the dart masters to maintain their physical strength and be prepared to deal with ......accidents."

Li Hongde is muttering, he is about to be turned into tofu scum, what kind of physical strength can this maintain? I heard the noise in the woods on both sides, and the convoy was also clamoring: "Enemy attack!" ”

The unkempt gunshots continued, Li Hongde's face turned pale, and he screamed in his heart......

Lao Hu glanced at Li Hongde, who was lying in the carriage with his head in his arms, and then lit a cigarette roll, and took two puffs before saying to his subordinates: "Start work!" ”

Tang Dazheng, who rushed down from the forest with his brothers, was full of joy, this convoy had twenty or thirty four-wheeled carts, and the ruts were heavy, and they must have been full of goods. Not only are there no red clothes within more than ten miles of the convoy, but even the convoy itself is only escorted by dozens of red vests, and the rest are people with mixed clothes, which is a typical fat meat. What is the origin of the red vest Tang Da has heard of, it is a group of dart masters, what can the dart master do? They're no ordinary bandits.

After staring at the road for several miles, he finally decided to do it on this mountain road, after a chaotic gun, seeing the chaos of the convoy, Tang raised his arms and shouted, more than 100 heroes fought bravely, wielding muskets with bayonets, dancing with ghost head broadswords, shaking shuttle darts, shaking their throats and shouting, hating the wind under their feet, and stepping into the convoy in one step.

Stumbling out of the forest, seeing the people of the convoy and the red vests squatting on the ground, like cattle and sheep to be slaughtered, Tang Da already felt that he had stepped into the clouds.

Kankan stepped onto the road and listened to the whistle, and then the red vest suddenly leaped up, the musket was flat, and the bayonet was shining......

Fluffy ......

Lined up in two rows in front and back, the red vests that were leaning side by side densely burst out of a thunderous row of guns, and Tang Da's mind was suddenly stunned.

The heroes who rushed down from the forest fell down in an instant, gurgling and falling down like rolling stones, including Tang Da, all the survivors shouted in their hearts that they had been fooled, where is this dart master? How can there be a dart master in the world who can line up in the army, this must be dressed in red!

Everyone subconsciously wanted to turn around and run, but they couldn't stop at all, and they saw the red vests on the road holding their guns after a shot, and the bayonets were densely extended, like butcher knives, waiting for them, the cattle and sheep to send their necks to the blade.

"Fight-fight!"

Tang Da regretted that he had finished a round of guns in the forest just now, but then again, they only had twenty or thirty muskets, and this was a dense forest, so they only wanted to scare away these people by the sound of guns. There was no hope that a strong enemy would be defeated by muskets.

What else can I do, it is easy to rush down from the high slope and dense forest, and it is difficult to turn back and escape back. Tightening his grip on the waist knife in his hand, Tang Da's heart suddenly rolled back.

Rumble......

The heroes who rushed down slammed into the bayonet forest, and the howls were endless. One shines under the face. At least more than ten or twenty people fell, but their sacrifice was worth it, and the red vests were only thirty or forty people, and the dense bayonet array was extremely thin. I couldn't bear this momentum, and I scattered in an instant.

That's great! What about the red coats? Today, I took the head of the man in red here, I Tang Da, our "Pingyang Anti-British National Salvation Army" is famous all over the world!

Seeing that the red vest was divided into pieces, it was already a trend of more fighting less. Moreover, it was hand-to-hand combat, and Tang Da's heart qi rose to the peak, so that it ignited the heavenly spirit.

Look, on his left side, there is Yang Squint, who is holding a shuttle dart, and is known as inheriting the Yang family's marksmanship, and on his right, he is Ding Laoba, who is wielding a logging axe, and it is said that his ancestors learned Cheng to bite the golden three-plate axe. And he himself, the eighteen swords of splashing wind that he learned from the wandering monks when he was a child is the basis for him to be able to summon more than 100 heroes.

In front of the three of them, was the bald red vest stunned? The paper cigarette roll in his mouth is still flashing brightly and darkly, and he is still eating cigarettes!?

Before Tang Da's mocking bubble could take shape, it burst in the next two or three moments. Strictly speaking, that's barely two breaths of what happens.

Yang squinted and Ding Laoba rushed to the bald red vest almost at the same time, one left and one right. The pike dart and the axe are all in swing.

The bald head turned slightly sideways, and the short axe grazed his shoulder. The musket with the bayonet was obliquely blocked and deflected the pike.

The bald head jumped up suddenly, his left arm closed his right arm and pushed, the musket in his hand slashed for a very short half a month, and the butt of the gun smashed the eight-sided door of Ding Lao, who had not yet retracted his strength, and the sound of cracked bones spurted out with blood and broken teeth,

Taking advantage of this momentum, the bald head took a step back, his waist bowed down again, and at the same time retracted his elbows and retracted the gun, and Yang's slanted eyes, which had been set up by the shuttle, had just pierced up again.

"Kill!"

The bald head roared, his body bounced off like a bowstring, and the musket slammed forward, with irresistible force, deflected the shuttle dart, and the bayonet stabbed right into Yang's slanted chest.

When Yang's slanted eyes and body softened like a sack, Tang Da, who was two steps behind, was frightened by this roar, and his burning heart not only dispersed, but even his legs and feet were gone, and he actually tripped his left foot and his right foot, and fell on his back.

Before he fell to the ground, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Ding Laoba screaming again, holding his stomach and kneeling on the ground, obviously stabbed through the belly by the bald bayonet.

The buttocks fell to the ground, Tang Da woke up like a dream, and a carp turned over, used his hands and feet together, and fled towards the deep forest. Devil! Red, no, red vest demons!

Watching the guy with the waist knife crawling and running away, the bald old man spat out, and had no intention of pursuing, these guys have not undergone a little hand-to-hand combat training, and in front of these veterans, they are simply scum-like existences. The two guys just now, not only did they not use the right force, but they were full of flaws in their starting and stepping steps, and opponents of this level relied on hand-to-hand combat, and ten more were in vain.

Thinking about the hard years when I first became a soldier, I practiced bayonets in the training camp, I was so tired that I wanted to die, and now I know how good the instructor is, and I admire the bayonet skills created by Wing Chun Niangniang for the red clothes.

In a moment, he cleaned up the two scum, and failed to accumulate a sense of accomplishment, Lao Hu looked in other directions with his gun, and saw the dart masters fighting back to back with the bandits. Basically, they take down an opponent with a single face or an arrow step, and the bandits surrounding them jump up and down like monkeys, constantly playing tricks and shouting for days, but it is not effective at all.

Although the Chang'an dart bureau is not as famous as the Zhenyuan dart bureau in the south of the Yangtze River and the Weiyuan dart bureau in Lingnan, the proportion of veterans in the dart game is surprisingly high. Although there were only about 40 people in their detachment, they were not afraid of hundreds of regular Qing troops, let alone these hundreds of bandits.

The old Hu smiled and raised his musket, and rushed into the group of thieves like a killing god, provoking a bloody storm.

In the carriage, listening to the earth-shattering shouts of killing, Li Hongde raised his head tremblingly, looked around, and his waist gradually straightened.

There was still a scuffle on the road, and to his surprise, it was not his own side that was resisting hard, but the bandits had been surrounded one by one. Not only the red vests were in action, but even the people in the team also participated in the siege with the allotted single knives.

Some thieves threw their knives and surrendered, the red vests were ignored, and several bayonets were put on the body at the same time. The rest of the bandits were desperate, howling and dying.

As soon as the carriage moved, Li Hongde turned his head, but saw a young man with pigtails just getting out of the car, looking sideways, and Li Hongde looked at each other, and the two of them froze at the same time.

The young man should have wanted to sneak away, for fear of attracting the attention of the red vest, but when he saw Li Hongde's attention, his arm was raised high, and a dagger was ready to be attacked.

Originally, Li Hongde's instinctive reaction was to hold his head and fall down, but another thought supported him, why should he be afraid?

Of course, when Lao Hu got out of the car, the short gun stuffed to him was also a bold support, Li Hongde trembled and raised the short gun, the young man froze for a moment, dropped the dagger, raised his hand to surrender, and stammered: "Don't, don't shoot~ shoot!" Small, villain surrender! ”

"We're not red after all, what are we going to do with the captives?"

Lao Hu ordered the injured bandits to be dealt with on the spot, and then complained to Li Hongde.

"The villain is a local! The topography is clear! There must be quite a few people in front of you who want to do it! ”

The young man cried out in fear, and his stammering tone became fluent.

"Well, it might be useful to throw it to the inspector, what's your name?"

In the spirit of the calculation that the legs of flies are also meat, Lao Hu spared the young man's life.

The young man stammered again: "Small, villain Tang, Tang Er......"

In the valley, more than a dozen people who were in a hurry like lost dogs gathered together, and after crying, everyone looked at Tang Da helplessly.

"What is there to complain about? Tang Er is gone, and he must be dead. ”

Tang Da was extremely frustrated, "Let's disperse" The words were on the tip of his tongue, and he was about to spit it out, but his heart was cold.

"The brother who was caught must have confessed to us, and now he is incompatible with Nanban......"

These words also made the people who were retiring and going home to live honestly wake up in horror, that's right, look at this posture, Nanban's collection of Shanxi is unstoppable, they have left a case record, how can they live a stable life under the rule of Great Britain?

"Go to Master Jin, his Annihilation and Fuqing Association has accepted three or five hundred heroes, and our Anti-British National Salvation Army will vote for him."

A resolute brilliance rose in Tang Da's eyes, and he could only go to the dark on this road.