At the foot of the Black Wind Ridge.

Niu Meng's tall figure is like a majestic iron tower, standing outside the mountain pass under the Black Wind Village.

Behind him, too, stood eighteen black-clad knights with grim expressions.

These eighteen black-clothed knights, among them, there are men and women, old and young, and they are guarding the entrance of the Black Wind Village in different forms.

Niu Meng looked back at the group of black-clothed knights who came with him, his expression was full of pride.

This time, in order to assist Nie Zheng in attacking the Long Knife Gate, Shen Hongyu can be said to have exhausted the core elite of Shen Jiazhai.

The eighteen black-clothed knights who followed Niu Meng to Heifengling were all the core leaders in Shenjiazhai, and the strength of these people was all above the fourth-rank warriors.

Especially the leading Niu Meng, his strength is even stronger.

As the hall master of the first branch of Shenjiazhai, Niu Meng in the entire Qingzhu Ridge, in terms of martial arts strength, except for Shen Hongyu, no one dares to compare with him.

You must know that as early as three years ago, Niu Meng's strength has improved by leaps and bounds after receiving Shen Hongyu's guidance, and now, he is already the peak of the six-rank warrior.

The reason why Shen Hongyu let Niu Meng lead the team this time was obviously because of his trust in his strong strength.

Niu Meng looked up at the sky, the sun had already set, the sky was overcast, it was estimated that it would be half an hour at most, and the sky would be completely dark.

They have been waiting at the foot of the mountain for nearly an hour, and my uncle has not come down the mountain at this time, so is he still worshipping those dead souls?

Just as they were conjecturing, suddenly, everyone suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves galloping from the Black Wind Ridge.

After a while, Niu Meng and the other elites of the Shen family saw that the uncle with a gloomy expression took the lead, leading dozens of elite horses, rolling up the smoke and dust in the sky, and galloping straight down the mountain.

Seeing this scene, Niu Meng and the others were shocked, and hurriedly retreated from both sides of the road into the mountain pass, bowed down one after another, waiting for the arrival of their uncle.

From a distance, Nie Zheng, who was sitting on horseback, saw more than a dozen black-clothed people standing at the entrance of the mountain, with a grim expression, especially the red-faced fierce man with a height of nine feet in the lead, which impressed him even more.

According to this period of time, from the understanding of the public, the red-faced tiger that looks like an iron tower, called Niu Meng, is the first fierce general in Shen Jiazhai and the henchman of Shen Hongyu's henchmen.

It is said that this Niu Meng was the servant picked up and raised by the old village owner of Shen Tiegun back then, and he grew up with Nie Zheng, Shen Hongyu and others since he was a child, so the relationship between them is extremely deep.

After seeing Nie Zheng and his men appear, Niu Meng immediately led the eighteen elites of the Shen family behind him to come forward and salute. "The little ones have seen my uncle!"

"Excuse me!"

Nie Zheng waved his hand, and after riding his horse to the mountain pass, he made a "whoop", grabbed the reins, and fell to the ground with a turnover.

Immediately, Nie Zheng walked quickly to Niu Meng and the others, helped everyone up, and said, "Let you wait for a long time!" ”

Niu Meng grinned and said: "Uncle is serious, Heifeng Village and the Shen family are a family, the blood feud of Heifeng Village is our blood feud, from now on, we will obey my uncle's dispatch, and there will be no dissent!" ”

Hearing this, Nie Zheng nodded with satisfaction, and bowed his hand back: "Thank you for coming to help, Nie is very grateful!" It's not early, let's hurry up and set off. ”

"Yes, uncle!"

After hearing the order, the elites of the Shen family quickly climbed onto their horses and took the lead in rushing to the front door of the team, opening the way for Nie Zheng's men and horses.

Seeing that Niu Meng and the others acted neatly and neatly, without dragging the mud and water at all, Nie Zheng couldn't help but secretly praise in his heart: "What a rare group of elite bandits. ”

The eighteen black-clothed knights who were standing behind Niu Meng just now, although Nie Zheng was a little blind, but judging from the fierce aura emanating from them, this was definitely a group of fierce warrior masters.

Although there are only 19 people, it is enough to block 100.

Otherwise, Shen Hongyu would not have sent them over.

Seeing that Niu Meng had already led eighteen black-clothed knights to rush out of nearly 100 meters first, Nie Zheng immediately waved his hand and coldly ordered: "Brothers, get on the horse and go!" ”

"Yes, Lord!"

Under the orders of the bandit leaders, the fifty-three iron horsemen, including Nie Zheng, instantly stepped on the rolling dust and followed closely.

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Tanfeng County and Guangji County are all under the jurisdiction of Huangzhou City and belong to one of the ten counties of Huangzhou. Tanfeng County is located in the southeast border of Huangzhou, and Changdaomen is located in Xiaoqi Mountain in the north of Tanfeng County, which is about 200 miles away from Heifengling.

If you are in a hurry at an ordinary pace, it will take at least seven days to get there.

But now Nie Zheng and the others are lightly armed and quickly go into battle, and under the acceleration all the way, it is estimated that they will be able to arrive in three days at most.

Originally, the seventy-two iron cavalry led by Nie Zheng and Niu Meng would be too ostentatious and conspicuous if they crossed Huangzhou and went straight to Tanfeng County.

You must know that people like them are green and reckless, all of them have fierce expressions, cold breaths, and people who know a little bit about the doorway can clearly find that this is definitely not a group of ordinary people.

If it is detected by those eagle dog spies hidden in the people, it is estimated that it will bring a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Besides, crossing Huangzhou City, they will definitely pass through several county towns on the way, and when the time comes, all of them will carry weapons and firearms, and when they enter the city gate, they will definitely be checked out.

Although Nie Zheng and the others were not afraid of the city defense officers and soldiers in the county at all, even if they broke in, those officers and soldiers would not be able to stop them, but they were afraid that the news would reach the ears of the Long Daomen and the Flying Eagle secret agents.

Once the enemy detects the abnormality and sets up an ambush inside the Long Knife Gate, it is estimated that Nie Zheng's plan to level the Long Knife Gate this time is very likely to have an accident.

In order to ensure that they were together smoothly, after a private discussion between Nie Zheng and Niu Meng, in the end, they decided to abandon the dry road and take the waterway to their destination.

And the plan to change to the waterway was prepared by Yi Zixuan of the Shen family a long time ago.

After deciding to take the waterway, at about nine o'clock that night, Nie Zheng gave an order to everyone to temporarily change the route and go to the Luosang River, forty miles away.

The Luosang River is near Longhu Mountain, and it is less than sixty miles away from Heifeng Ridge.

Moreover, the mountain road to the Luosang River is very secret and remote, and it is difficult for ordinary people to find it, besides, Nie Zheng and they are all on the road late at night, who would be so bored to run to the barren mountains and mountains in the middle of the night to hang out?

Besides, the Luosang River belongs to the junction of Huangzhou and Liuzhou, and this river flows along the edge of Huangzhou to the county capital Jiangzhou City, and on the way, the Luosang River happens to pass next to Tanfeng County.

Therefore, traveling from the waterway to Tanfeng County is far safer and more secretive.

At about three o'clock in the morning, Nie Zheng led seventy-two iron horsemen to a secluded river beach by the Luosang River, and immediately everyone turned over and dismounted and came to the riverbank to wait for the boat.

Nie Zheng was escorted by Niu Meng and slowly walked to the river beach.

At this time, the sky was dark, and although there was a faint crescent moon hanging in the night sky, Nie Zheng stood by the river, but he could never get a glimpse of the entire appearance of the Luosang River.

The sound of the river slapping on the river beach is constantly heard in the ears, especially in the middle of the river, the river is rolling and tumbling, which shows that the depth and width of this Luosang River should be quite large-scale, otherwise, how can an ordinary merchant ship be able to drive on the river.

Niu Meng has the strength of the peak of a six-rank warrior, so he is much stronger than Nie Zheng in terms of both ear power and eyesight.

At this moment, Niu Meng stood beside Nie Zheng, looking up and trying to look upstream of the river, hoping to see the boats that came to meet him.

Seeing this scene, Nie Zheng frowned and said, "When will the ship come?" ”

Niu Meng turned around and replied: "According to Mr. Yi's arrangement a few days ago, around midnight today, there will be two merchant ships full of goods, which will go down the river from Longshan to Jiangzhou City, the capital of the county. ”

Hearing this, Nie Zheng's heart moved, and he said, "On those two ships, do they have their own people in charge?" ”

Niu Meng nodded and said, "Well, the person in charge above is a secret agent that Mr. Yi planted in the early years, if there is no one in charge of his own people, it is impossible for other people's merchant ships to stay here, let alone let us of unknown origin go up." ”

"That's right!"

Nie Zheng touched his chin, secretly surprised by the energy that Yi Zixuan possessed, and said in his heart, this Yi Zixuan really has some means, when he was in Heifeng Village before, he was the confidant and think tank of the two old village owners, and Heifeng Village was able to spread its prestige in the Nine Great Villages of Nanhu back then, in addition to the prestige of Nie Shirong and Shen Tiegun, it was inseparable from Yi Zixuan's secret advice.

Now, Yi Zixuan followed Shen Hongyu to Qingzhuling, and he also developed Shenjiazhai in an orderly manner and was in the limelight, which shows that this Yi Zixuan really has some skills.

Seeing Nie Zheng standing beside him, he was suddenly silent, and Niu Meng suddenly spoke: "Uncle, are you still angry about the fact that Miss failed to come?" ”

"What?"

Nie Zheng suddenly came back to his senses from his thoughts, was stunned for a moment, and said, "I'm annoyed with her, this time she sent you to help me, and she did me such a big favor, why should I be annoyed with her?" ”

Hearing this, Niu Meng sighed deeply and said in a low voice: "Miss failed to practice on the sunflower day last month, resulting in retrograde qi and blood, and most of the strength of the whole body was dispersed. Originally, this time Heifeng Village suffered this disaster, Miss would definitely accompany her uncle to take revenge, but she is now weak, and she is afraid that she will not be able to help her uncle when the time comes, and she will become a burden, so she can only stay in Qingzhuling and take care of Heifeng Village for her uncle, and please don't mind my aunt. ”

Nie Zheng was slightly silent for a moment, and said, "These words, did Hongyu tell you to tell me?" ”

Niu Meng laughed and was silent.

Thinking of Shen Hongyu's delicate and flower-like shadow, Nie Zheng felt a trace of warmth in his heart for no reason, and at that moment he sighed softly and slowly turned around and left the riverbank.

"When you get off the boat, remember to let me know."

"Yes, uncle."

Looking at the guilty back of Nie Zheng when he left, Niu Meng felt a trace of relief in his heart, and secretly thought that his uncle and young lady had finally begun to release their suspicions.

Nie Zheng left the river bank with a heavy heart, and slowly walked towards a wood, and on the way, a group of bandit leaders who were feeding the horses bowed to him.

Nie Zheng glanced at it casually, and found that among the crowd, he didn't find Fang Yuanzhi's figure, and suddenly, his brows furrowed: "Where is Fang Yuanzhi?" ”

"He just got his firearm and went out into the woods over there." Zhang Long and Zhao Hu pointed to a forest not far away.

Hearing this, Nie Zheng's heart moved, and he hurriedly walked towards the woods in front of him.

As soon as he entered the woods, from a distance, Nie Zheng saw Fang Yuanzhi, who was holding an SVD sniper rifle, practicing various postures of shooting and moving.

Seeing this scene, Nie Zheng sighed deeply and didn't bother him again.

Since the last time I knocked him unconscious and woke up, all of a sudden, he seemed to be a different person.

Faced with the tragic death of his father and Xiaozhi, he was no longer as crazy and fierce as before.

In the past few days, his whole person seems a little calm and numb, except for coming to Nie Zheng's residence the day before yesterday and begging Nie Zheng to let him join the sniper team, he has never shown the slightest weakness and grief in public.

Nie Zheng knew very well in his heart that mourning was greater than dying.

Fang Yuanzhi will never forget the death of Fang Fatzi and Xiao Zhi, although he did not show the grief in his heart during this time, everyone in the Black Wind Village knew that the hatred and anger that had accumulated in Fang Yuanzhi's heart could not be compared.

He doesn't know martial arts, and he doesn't have the ability, the only way to take revenge with his own hands is to practice the SVD sniper rifle that Nie Zheng taught him.

In the past few days, Fang Yuanzhi has not said a few words to Nie Zheng, but the last words he said to Nie Zheng have made Nie Zheng never forget.

"The owner of the village, as long as you can let me kill that Qiu Chulang with my own hands, my Yuanzhi's life will always be yours, and in the future, I will spend my life to repay your kindness to my family......"

Thinking of this, Nie Zheng shook his head helplessly, then turned around and left the woods.

At this moment, Niu Meng's rough voice suddenly sounded outside the woods.

"Uncle, the ship is coming......"