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After a pause in Shangyu County, the team set off again.

This time, Wang Hai was missing from the team. Due to a little trouble temporarily, he had to stay in Shangyu County temporarily. Leading the way will be handled by one of his men, who will catch up later.

The fleet made a turn at the confluence of the Tongming River and the Yao River, and turned into the Tongming River. In other words, this Tongming River was originally called the first Yuan River, and later the Yuan Dynasty fell, the Ming Dynasty Emperor in order to avoid the word "Yuan", ordered all the roads containing the word Yuan at that time to avoid changing their names or downgrading, but for the state and county containing the word Yuan do not avoid, such as the Yuan Dynasty: Xingyuan Road changed to Hanzhong Mansion, Kaiyuan Road changed to Kaiyuan Mansion, Guangyuan Road was reduced to Guangyuan Prefecture, but Qingyuan County and so on did not change. Although the decree is so, in order to better pat Shangguan's sycophants, later even the name of this small river was changed to Tongming River.

Half an hour later, the fleet stopped in a small town and began to place all the supplies on board the two hired wagons. After the dots were completed, the convoy was on the road again. Due to the limited number of horses, this time, even Masashi had to follow the convoy on foot.

Enjoying the scenery along the way, Zhengliang looked at Wang Hai's subordinates who were in charge of driving the car. In fact, Wang Hai's subordinates were not many, plus the sailors who stayed on the ship on the island, there were only twenty people in total, and this time there were only four people who followed Zhengliang, plus three Zhengliang, the entire convoy was only seven. These people, most of whom were coastal fishermen who could not make a living, joined Wang Hai's team driven by profits. Looking at their dark skin, it is obvious that they are poor people who are used to the sun and rain.

After leaving the town, the convoy slowly moved along the official road. As we got farther and farther away from the town, the surrounding fields became barren. After a little further progress, Masara stood on a small dirt slope on the road and looked around. It's really desolate. Large areas of farmland are left uncultivated. There were a few dilapidated houses on the edge of the field, and now all that remained was ruins.

"Do you think it's strange?" This time, Wang Hai's subordinates, who were in charge of leading the way for Zhengliang, said behind Zhengliang.

"Why is this happening?" Masaro nodded the question. As far as Zhengliang knows, the Ming Dynasty is far from such a situation.

"Hey!" Wang Hai's subordinates sighed and said, "The harvest has not been good in the past few years, and the government still has to collect heavy taxes, many families are unwilling to become the landlord's domestic slaves because they can't pay the taxes, so they have to abandon their family business and flee to the famine, or flee to the mountains to become rogues." ”

Zhengliang was overwhelmed by this. According to his impression, at this time in the Ming Dynasty, the people were quite stable. But now it seems that no matter in that dynasty, there will always be some people at the bottom of the society who are in dire straits.

The convoy continued on its way, and soon after it plunged headlong into the mountains. There are two main hills here, one is the Qingxian Ridge on the left, which is mainly a continuous hilly area, and the other is the much higher Taiping Mountain and Ding Mountain. The road has become a little narrower, and there are trees and mountains on both sides. At this time, it was already in the afternoon, and according to the original discussion, it was necessary to take advantage of the sunshine to speed up out of the mountainous area and directly enter Yin County on the other side of the mountainous area.

Just as Masa-liang was enjoying the scenery along the way, suddenly out of the corner of his eye, he felt a little white light reflected on a hill on the side of the road. At random, there was a person buried on that mountain, and the white light was reflected by the mending knife that the person carried with him in the sunlight.

"Quick, stop," Zhengliang said to Wang Hai's subordinates who were in charge of leading the way.

Everyone was confused, and everyone including Kinoshita Masanao, Akimine Hidemasa and Yoshida Shigemasa, who had been following Masayo closely, didn't know why Masato Michi asked everyone to stop. …,

"There's an ambush ahead," Masarashi whispered.

"Huh?" The surrounding Wang Hai's subordinates were not as calm as Zhengliang, but after hearing Zhengliang's words, some people immediately exclaimed.

Zhengliang secretly called bad things. Have these people ever seen pirates at sea, and how can they panic when they encounter such a thing?

Sure enough, there was an arrogant laugh on the hillside at this time: "Hahahaha, you found out." ”

When the people on the mountain road heard this, they looked up and saw a bearded man standing on a rock on the left side of the hill, holding a mending knife in his hand. And on the hills around Zhengliang, more than a dozen people stood up one after another. At the same time, several bandits were rushing to the front and back of the mountain road, trying to surround the people of Zhengliang.

"Everyone hide next to the carriage" Masato looked at it slightly, and found that among these bandits, several of them were actually holding bows and arrows, and couldn't help but be surprised, just now fortunately these people did not release arrows, otherwise they would be doomed to suffer. Although Kinoshita Masanao and the others couldn't understand the Chinese that Masato suddenly spoke, looking at Masa's gestures, they immediately understood, and immediately flashed to Masan's side to hide.

"Hehe, big boss, I'm not wrong, it's a fat sheep, and on a hill on the other side, a thief laughed arrogantly. Looking at his expression, it seems that the people of Zhengliang are about to become lambs to the slaughter.

"Hahaha, rabbit cub, you did a good job this time, you can pick those things first" The bearded man scolded with a smile.

looked at the bandits around him and laughed and cursed. The three attendants surrounding Masahiro all looked angry. Although they couldn't understand what the other was saying, they could tell from each other's expressions that the bandits were ignoring them, which made them all feel insulted as samurai.

"Is there a weapon on the carriage?" As a long-term businessman, it is impossible for Wang Hai not to prepare weapons.

"Yes, my lord, it's in the carriage," replied Wang Hai's men, who had recovered from the fright, and at the same time drilled into the carriage, and in a short time took out a few knives and a bow and arrows from it.

Zhengliang was not polite, and immediately distributed the weapons to his close attendants, judging from the situation just now, these Wang Hai's subordinates were unreliable, and they still needed to rely on the strength of their own people. Soon the weapons were distributed, and Yoshida Shigemasa took the only bow and arrow, and the rest took the mending sword.

"Hehe, still want to resist? Kill me, little ones," the bandit leader shouted when he saw that the people of Masayo who had been hiding next to the carriage began to distribute their weapons. He is not a fool, even a lamb, a lamb with water chestnut horns can hurt people. How could he let these fat sheep take up arms?

Several bandits who were eager to make meritorious contributions immediately rushed over and surrounded them.

"Shigemasa, don't care about the others, your target is that bandit" Seeing the bandit that he killed in the blink of an eye, Masarashi whispered to Shigemasa Yoshida, who was preparing to shoot the bandit who was rushing in. The latter understood, and immediately pointed the arrow at the bandit leader, who was still screaming arrogantly on the rocks at the top of the mountain.

The so-called capture of the thief first captures the king, as long as the leader of the other party is injured, at least the morale of his own side will be improved. It would be better if the other party retreated because of this. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe to the mobile network (.), reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )……，