After the fleet left, Wu Shigong explained his worries to Xue Yongli and several escort leaders. Everyone deliberated and unanimously decided that it was better to be careful.

So, as soon as they left Jining, they all put on armor in the field where there were few people. Not ring-arm iron armor, of course, but leather armor. This time they went out with only leather armor. In addition to this, they also loaded their muskets and handcuffs with gunpowder and bullets, and plugged them with muzzles. The spears were also brought to the back of the horse.

Heavily armed, they still donned the coats of merchants and associates on the outside. Then set off back to Sennosho.

As a result, the carts were empty. Therefore, Wu Shigong's group went very fast. Near dusk, I entered the ground of Guide House. But I didn't expect that in front of the road, not only did there be no sign of "Henan people welcome you", but there was a strange thing.

A hundred paces or so in the distance, a convoy also dressed as a caravan blocked the road. One of the large cars in the convoy was probably damaged by its axles and wheels, and it overturned on the road, blocking the road tightly. The rest of the convoy seemed to be helping, repairing the overturned cart.

Seeing this, Wu Shigong and the others all reined in their horses and stopped. Wu Shigong wanted to arrange two guards to go to the caravan to see the situation. But at this moment, Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe squeezed in front of Wu Shigong's horse and said to Wu Shigong: "My lord, the situation ahead is not right. ”

"How?" Wu Shigong listened to Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe's words, and immediately became vigilant.

"My lord, the caravan has fifty or sixty men, and if their cart breaks down, there is no one to carry it to the side of the road to repair it. It's impossible to block the road. ”

Wu Shigong immediately understood. He and Xue Yongli glanced at each other and nodded. Xue Yongli immediately stuffed the whistle hanging around his neck into his mouth and blew it.

Hearing the whistle, the training of the horse team some time ago showed its effect. The guards immediately formed a line of ten horses according to their own detachment.

At this time, Wu Shigong and their own big car were a little in the way. So, under the command of Xue Yongli, they retreated thirty or forty steps back and then lined up in formation.

Xue Yongli asked the other guards to divide into squads, observing and protecting on the left and right sides and behind, and personally led the guards of the two squads to protect Wu Shigong and the empty horses carrying silver in the middle circle.

Then Xue Yongli ordered: "Yongzi, Liuzi, lead your two teams to kill the thieves in front of you." Remember, don't chase too far. ”

After Xue Yong and Xue Qiang answered, they took their two squads and walked in the direction of the caravan with a team of twenty centaurs. They bypassed the cart that Wu Shigong had just thrown down, picked up their spears, lined up and charged.

Just as Xue Yong and Xue Qiang were charging, a gong sounded on both sides of the road. With the sound of gongs, nearly 200 people rushed out of the fields on both sides of the road that were forty or fifty paces away from Wu Shigong and them, brandishing their weapons and screaming at Wu Shigong and them. And behind Wu Shigong's road, there were also people who blocked Wu Shigong's retreat with a big car.

Wu Shigong scolded in his heart: "Damn! ambushed. Now I have to fight. ”

The faces of all the guards were also very ugly. However, they had been training for a long time, and they were not out of formation at this time, and under the command of Xue Yongli, they all picked up their spears and prepared for battle.

However, these robbers were too close to Wu Shigong. If there was a fight, Wu Shigong and his horses would not be able to run. The cavalry could not be brought into full play. And the number of robbers is large.

Therefore, Wu Shigong thought about it in his heart, and thought: "It seems that my loss this time will be not small." ”

But at this moment, the robbers who were blocking the road in front and dressed as caravans suddenly let out a few screams: "They are all troops! It's the army! ”

The screams made the robbers on both sides of the road stunned, and they all involuntarily stopped and looked at Wu Shigong and them. When they found that Wu Shigong had formed a team of horses, lined up, and held a spear, they were about to rush towards them. The robbers let out another strange scream, and then they all threw down their weapons and fled.

Seeing the robbers flee in all directions, the guards were emboldened. They lined up, let go of their horses, and chased after them. It was nothing short of a massacre. Facing the backs of those who were unarmed and fleeing, the guards only had to touch the tip of their spears lightly, and it was a human life.

However, the guards did not dare to chase too far after all. The situation here is unfamiliar, and it is about to get dark. Therefore, under the command of Xue Yongli, they also chased out a certain distance, and after killing thirty or forty people. Zuihou formed a large circle, surrounding the leader of the robbers and a dozen people around him.

Wu Shigong didn't expect that this battle would be so easy. This level of tension and excitement is not even as good as the false alarm in the fog the last time I came to Guide.

Wu Shigong didn't know: the army was originally the natural enemy of the robbers. At this time, it was not the time when the world was in turmoil in the last years of Chongzhen, and the army was still very powerful for robbers with civilians as the main body.

Therefore, when these robbers found out that Wu Shigong was an army, they instinctively felt afraid. They all thought that Wu Shigong was just a bait, and they had fallen into the army's counter-encirclement. That's why they scattered and fled before they had even fought.

At this time, Xue Yong and Xue Qiang returned to Wu Shigong with the men and horses of their two teams. Just now, when Xue Yong and Xue Qiang were only halfway through the charge, the robbers who had formed a caravan in front had already escaped. The robbers didn't even have time to untie the horses from their carts.

Xue Yong and Xue Qiang didn't dare to disperse the formation and bypass the big cars blocking the road to pursue, so they didn't kill anyone and came back like this.

After seeing them come back, Wu Shigong, who was very interested, asked Xue Yong and Xue Qiang to escort these empty horses carrying silver. With the two squads guarding Wu Shigong and the empty horse, he ran towards the encirclement.

The robbers were in the encirclement, looking in horror at the guards around them. It is estimated that at this time, as long as someone gave the order to surrender, these robbers would have already knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Seeing Wu Shigong coming, Xue Yongli asked Wu Shigong with a relaxed smile: "Uncle, what to do with these little thieves?" ”

"What else can I do? Kill them all. Wu Shigong replied lightly.

Wu Shigong was not interested in bringing these robbers back to Qianhu, and Wu Shigong did not have so much food to feed them. Besides, these little thieves frightened their Grandpa Wu, and they also had to pay the price.

Hearing Wu Shigong's death order, the leader of the robbers was also very tough. He still had a knife in his hand. The leader led three or four people around him with knives and rushed towards Wu Shigong with a shout.

The guards of the two squads who were guarding Wu Shigong's side just now had firecrackers in their hands. As soon as the robbers appeared, they had already compacted the gunpowder and bullets in the barrels of the muskets with iron bars, and ignited the arquebuses with fire mediums. Ready for shooting work.

And now, when they saw the four or five men rushing towards them, they raised their fiery guns and fired a volley of fire, killing them all in a hurry.

When the rest of the robbers saw this, they were so frightened that they knelt down and kowtowed and begged for mercy. Wu Shigong ignored them at all. With a wave of his hand, the guards approached the robbers with their horses, intending to kill them all.

At this moment, in the midst of the cries for mercy, one of the robbers shouted loudly: "Grandfathers, the little ones know where to hide things!" ”

"Oh?" Wu Shigong stopped the guards approaching. He pointed to the robber and said, "You come out first." ”

The robber hurriedly crawled a few steps forward. Wu Shigong then ordered: "The rest are killed." ”

The guards approached again, raised their spears, and stabbed them in a mess. After three or two blows, except for the person who had just shouted, the rest of the robbers fell in a pool of blood.

Then, Wu Shigong came to the body of the robber leader who had been killed. I saw that the bandana of the robber leader was blown away by the fire. Short hair is revealed.

Zhang Biao, who was beside Wu Shigong, spat on the ground and said to Wu Shigong: "Phew! Still a monk. ”

In the Ming Dynasty, both men and women had long hair, and only monks had short hair. Wu Shigong thought to himself: "What kind of world is this! Even the monks came out to rob. Moreover, this road from Jining to Guide is not a national highway, but also a provincial road, right? It looks like the world is going to be chaotic. ”

When Wu Shigong sighed with emotion, Xue Yongli and the others had already pressed the robber and inquired about the place where the robbers hid the stolen goods.

So, Wu Shigong returned to the road with the guards first. First turn the cart blocking the road to the side of the road, and take the cart and horses of the robbers who pretended to be caravans.

Then, Wu Shigong let the guards scatter and threw the bodies of the dead robbers into the empty cart. Moreover, he also packed up more than 100 weapons scattered on the ground and brought them with them.

After all, this road is full of people, and Wu Shigong didn't want some extraneous things to happen when he took the robbers' stolen goods. So, the site was basically cleaned up.

After doing all this, Wu Shigong let the robbers lead the way, and walked towards the place where the robbers hid the stolen goods with the guards and carts.