Jizhou County, Mao County.

Huizhou is one of the three counties in the north of Jiangxi Province, an important town in the Jiangyou region, here is also the northern limit of Jingwang, sixty miles to the north is the Yangtze River, and the official road of Huizhou is also the traffic artery of the Jiangyou region.

A grain transport team is slowly and calmly marching north, because of the heavy rain in the past few days, this grain transport team has been delayed, but because of the urgency of the Huai Wang, they also have to brave the rain to transport grain to Jiangbei.

It is estimated that at dusk, you will be able to go to the city of Huizhou on the bank of the river, load the ship and set off. When they arrived in Jiangbei, the escort of grain and grass would be completed by the logistics troops of the Huai Army, and the task of this grain transportation team would be successfully completed at that time.

More than 1,000 soldiers escorted the grain transport team, escorted 10,000 stone of grain, enough for the Huai Army North Route Army to eat for half a month, not only King Jing attaches great importance to it, even the King of Huai also attaches great importance to it, and specially sent a guard officer to greet it, King Jing also transferred a cavalry team of 500 cavalry from Jizhou, making this grain transport team immense. With a team of 2,000 people, no matter how fierce the mountain bandits are, they don't dare to use their brains.

The president of the grain transport team is Su Xin, a partial general in Ningzhou, who is more than forty years old, and is also a veteran of the battle, who has fought the Turks at the border pass, defected to King Jing in his thirties, and was promoted from a lieutenant to a partial general.

"It's just a few bandits, with such importance?" Along the way, Su Xin didn't think so, and originally stipulated that he had to stay in the city at night, but because of his conceit, he camped every time.

Seeing that they were almost at the river, the powerful mountain bandits lost the opportunity to attack at night, and there was still no movement at all.

The guard sent by King Huai was named Lin Qi, and he was very young. It is also very capable. With a pair of thief eyebrows and mouse eyes, Su Xin looked very unhappy. King Huai likes to reuse young people. This is very similar to King Jing, who thinks he is Bole. In Su Xin's eyes, these young people are just articulate and sycophant.

"There are still fifty miles, Lin Hucao, there is no need to be so nervous, those mountain bandits will not come."

Su Xin saw Lin Qi riding on a horse and looking like he was facing a great enemy, and said a little lightly.

Lin Qi turned around and said, "General Su, don't make a stubble." This time, the emperor specially sent his official to pick up and transport grain, just to prevent further accidents. ”

Su Xin didn't say more, and many people in King Jing's camp also speculated that the matter of the mountain bandits was probably made up by King Jing. Again and again the grain will be transported out of the Lu, turn around to a mountain bandit will be over, if a mistake can be understood, but from the grain from all roads to the north, it will not go all the way, unless the army of the imperial court has been killed to the right of the river, if it is really killed. Even if King Jing doesn't know the way, can King Huai not know?

This time the grain delivery went surprisingly smoothly. is about to arrive in the city of Huizhou, and before leaving, King Jing did not explain anything other than to tell him to ensure safety, it seems that King Jing was forced by King Huai this time, and had to take out food to give the Huai army an emergency.

Su Xin said confidently: "Don't worry, this time the road is peaceful, there will be no accidents." From here to the city of Huizhou, the road is flat, there is not even a mountain, the mountain bandits want to rob the grain and can't find a place to ambush, when the cavalry kills, don't kill them and leave no piece of armor? ”

Lin Qi thought about it, the road from Maoxian to Jizhou is the smoothest, if there were mountain bandits robbing the road, they would have appeared a long time ago, and they dared to stare at the regular army to rob grain, they were tired and crooked!

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More than two miles away, in a wood, a group of people were gathering together to gnaw on dry food, and the first one was a young man, who ate the fastest, and when he had finished eating, he reached out and plucked the beard on his chin, and complained as he plucked: "I have grown so much fur lately, I really hate it!" ”

A sturdy man ran over from afar, and before he got closer, he shouted: "Commander Huo, Commander Huo, those shrimps have entered the net, and they can close the net!" ”

"What's it called!"

The young man drank, got up and kicked the man, who smiled and touched his thigh to dodge a little, not wanting to take a second hit.

This "Commander Huo" is Huo Ill, and the sergeants who follow him in the mountains and forests are not dressed as generals, but are uniformly dressed in rough bandit uniforms, which are either black or green and easy to distinguish, and the task they received is to ambush the grain transport team here.

Huo Zhi said: "Tell me to go down, drink saliva after eating, don't eat what I haven't eaten, and eat again after fighting." Look at you all of you, you are really embarrassed by the face of our Eighth Route Army, faster than their Fifth Route Army, people ran 300 miles on horseback in one night, what about you, you ran 230 miles, how will you mix in the future? ”

An adjutant next to him looked pale and explained: "Commander Huo, this doesn't depend on us, they are the Royal Forest Army, good guys, they have all practiced." We all came out of the mountain nests, and we just learned to ride horses, so it's not easy to run so fast. ”

"Reasonable, isn't it?" Huo Zhi went up with a kick, and the kick made the person beg for mercy.

Huo Yi finished kicking and relieved his anger, and said in an unkind tone: "This time we are surrounded by the Fifth Route Army, if any of you drag your feet, Lao Tzu will have to take a gun and collapse him!" ”

"Don't mind, don't mind." The adjutant who had just been kicked by Huo Yi came out and said, "You should stop using guns, it is said that those who eat that thing and die will not be reincarnated, and they will go to hell with their tongues plucked." Commander Huo is okay, can he cut off his head with a knife? Let us be heroes in the next life, and then mess with your old man! ”

Huo Yi nodded with satisfaction and said, "Well, then use a knife." He turned his head to one of his subordinates and ordered, "Go and talk to the Fifth Route Army, we didn't shoot, they must not make the first move, this is ...... That's an order. ”

"It's still our army commander who has the ability, and those eight lambs in the five roads also have to listen to the commander's dispatch."

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Time was passing bit by bit, and the grain convoy was about to pass by a grove of trees, which was nearly a mile away from the official road, and it was raining at this time, and the whole forest was in a thick of water vapor, and it was not clear to see.

"If there is an ambush in the forest, I'm afraid it's not appropriate."

Lin Qi, the guard officer, looked at the forest and asked Su Xin, "Do you want to send someone in to check it out?" ”

Su Xinha said with a smile: "Such a small forest, at most three or five hundred people can ambush three or five hundred people, and three or five hundred mountain bandits dare to come out to rob grain?" Do you think they have the guts? ”

Lin Qi took a look, the forest is indeed not big, and it is far away from the official road, and he can't shoot cold arrows if he wants to, even if he has a strong crossbow, I'm afraid that the crossbow arrows will not have the strength to come. Thinking of this, he didn't force it anymore.

The grain convoy continued to move forward non-stop, and the cavalry in the vanguard passed near the mountain forest, but there was still no movement on the other side of the mountain forest. Lin Qi still felt inappropriate in his heart and looked at the direction of the mountain forest, as if he saw a strange brilliance, and heard "Bang bang bang!" There was an almost simultaneous explosion, and a guard who had been riding his horse beside him fell straight from his horse with his chest clutched.

"There's an ambush!"

Lin Qi shouted, and more and more violent explosions came from a distance, the sergeant kept falling off his horse, some of the horses were inexplicably wounded and bleeding, the frightened horses neighed and ran around, and the entire grain transport team became chaotic because of this sudden change.

Su Xin reined in the frightened horse, a little unable to believe the facts in front of him. These are all well-trained war horses, even on the battlefield, the war horses are definitely not so out of control, even these beasts know that the danger is coming, not to mention people, the enemy is like a ghost, without showing up, he can take people's lives thousands of miles away!

What the hell?

This was the first reaction of every soldier in the food transport team, although it was a little drowsy on a rainy day now, but it was just daytime, and it was possible to see hell in broad daylight. As the sound came from afar, they realized that someone might be performing a "demon spell".

"In the woods, kill it!" Su Xin adjusted his horse's head and prepared to command the sergeant to charge in the direction of the mountain forest. But with the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, not only were the horses of the grain transport team mobilizing according to the order, but the bandits in ambush on the other side of the mountain forest had already ridden their horses to meet them.

The one who rushed to the front looked very thin, dressed in turquoise spotted clothes and looked very unusual, but rode his horse forward without holding the reins, holding a stick-like thing, as soon as he raised his hand and fell between his hands, it seemed to emit a fire, and then someone fell on the side of the grain transport team. With Su Xin's experience in the army for so many years, he has never seen anyone riding a horse like this.

"Formation, interception!"

Su Xin drank twice, the grain transport team was worthy of being well-trained sergeants, in such a chaotic situation, the cavalry and infantry all gathered on the side of the mountain bandit cavalry, but as the hundreds of horsemen behind the thin young man raised the "stick" in their hands and made a firelight and sound, the cavalry that formed a defensive formation fell from their horses. Only then did Su Xin realize that in the past, people were looking for scattered targets to fight, but now they are lining up in a line to serve as live targets for others.

"Spread out!"

Su Xin shouted, but the sound was completely drowned out by the chaotic sounds around him, and the mountain bandits over there were already close to the front, and a large number of cavalry were also seen in the distance.

"Withdraw!"

Su Xin shouted, and the horses under the seat suddenly fell forward, and the others had already fallen down, and their bodies seemed to fall apart. And Lin Qi, who was not born in the army, didn't know how to escape by riding a horse in such a situation, and was squeezed off his horse in chaos.

A black vortex enveloped them completely. Only a small part of the cavalry broke through in time, and withdrew to the direction of the county seat of Maoxian. The remaining sergeants of the more than 1,000 grain convoys were all captured, except for a few casualties. After the most general count, Su Xindeng felt that he had no face to live in the world anymore, and more than a thousand regular troops were captured alive by two groups of mountain bandits with zero casualties of less than 500 people.

Disarmed, Su Xin, like the other sergeants, became toothless tigers, and the black iron pipes in the hands of the mountain bandits compared to these captives, as if they would obey the order to correct all the captives on the spot at any time. The young man who took the lead among the bandits was reprimanding his accomplices, as if blaming them for striking too early and robbing him of his credit.

"The king spares his life!" Lin Qi knew at a glance that Lu Dao was born as the son of an official family, and thought that he could ask for his life by paying a ransom at this time.

The young man rushed forward very dissatisfied, and when he went up, he kicked Lin Qi to the ground, and shouted loudly: "You blinding shrimp, who the hell is the king, Lao Tzu is the eighth road!" (To be continued......)