Chapter 799: The Suppression of Bandits (continued)
When the news of the mountain was unharmed reached the hillside, Li Fu laughed and said, "How? Worried about coming and going, the officers and soldiers are just playing tricks, and there is no ambush at all. Over the past year, the officers and men have been played with by us like cats and dogs, and in order to exterminate us, they have dispatched seven or eight times, and hundreds of officers and men have died. Didn't lift a stone and shoot yourself in the foot. ”
Wang Ru frowned and was silent, and Li Fu patted him on the shoulder provocatively and said, "Brother Wang, Master Wang, I have nothing to say this time." ”
Wang Ru said: "Brother, I always feel that something is wrong. ”
"Strange your size, Brother Yang, brother please take someone to stop this vote at Hutou Cliff, you don't need many people, a hundred brothers are enough."
Yang Qing smiled and said, "Okay, when your brother's will press you down, you will take your brothers to fight quickly." ”
Li Fu spat at the palm of his hand, rubbed his hands and smiled, "Look, okay." The eldest brother only ordered the treasury to be vacated and put the silver. ”
With that, he jumped off the cliff and landed on a rock below, and after a few more leaps, he disappeared into the woodland to the east.
Yang Qinghui turned around and said to Wang Ru: "Brother Wang, let's go and take a look." ”
Wang Ru frowned and said, "Big boss, I always feel a little unstable. ”
Yang Qing laughed and said: "There is nothing unstable, Brother Wang is just too fine, sometimes it is a good thing to be fine, but too much is called indecisive and missed the opportunity." The brothers under the mountain have confirmed that there are no officers and soldiers in ambush, so why are they afraid of him? ”
Wang Ru was speechless, Yang Qing patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "Brother Wang, my brother Li Fu is a little unpleasant, he actually doesn't know that you are the identity sent by the prince's mansion to be stationed on the mountain, and I saw that the wrong person gave you this third position." You measure magnanimity, don't care about him for the sake of my thin face, he is a little excluded from you, but he is definitely a person who can be used by the prince, and you should also say a few kind words when you return to the prince. After a while, I persuaded him, let's pay attention to harmony and make money, and everyone should not make trouble. ”
Wang Ru nodded and said: "Where did the big boss go, how could I be that little chicken belly person, I just think this matter is not appropriate." ”
"Don't say it, brother, it's like thatch three times, and it's tasteless to always say this; Besides, you have to start talking ahead, and it's too late to stop it at the moment, come on, let's go and see; If this silver can be snatched, the prince will be very happy, can we still swallow this? It is still necessary to honor the prince. This is also the urgent need to solve the prince. ”
Wang Ru bowed down and said, "Brother obeys my brother's orders." ”
Li Qing grabbed Wang Ru's arm, and the two went down the stone cliff to the east.
In front of the official road to the east, the convoy is approaching in the direction of Hutou Cliff, the hillside near the left of Hutou Cliff is famous for its steepness, and the official road follows the steep slope and passes into a large dense forest. On the steep slopes, ropes as thick as children's arms tie dozens of thick rolling logs across it. More than a hundred bandits behind the dense forest trees were staring through the gaps in the trees, staring at the official road under the mountain, Li Fu had already arrived here, holding a big tree with excitement in his eyes.
"The second master, here it is, it's time." A bandit came out of breath and ran ape-like from the forest to the west.
Li Fu raised his palm, slashed down with a knife, and shouted in a low voice: "Let go of the rolling wood." ”
More than a dozen bandits raised machetes and cut the thick rope that bound the rolling logs, but listening to the loud rumbling sounds, the thick rolling logs rumbled down the hillside along the specially opened falling passage between the mountains and forests, and the ping-pong slammed all the way down, rolling down the official road with the rotten black soil and fallen leaves in the forest, and in the blink of an eye, the mountain road was blocked tightly.
On the mountain road, people and horses were neighing, and the convoy encountered a sudden change, and before it had time to react, the officers and soldiers and drivers who escorted the car looked at the tumbling and tumbling logs in amazement, and the whole convoy was in a commotion. The short man who was escorting him shouted, "Hold on to the cattle and pay attention to the formation." ”
As he spoke, he listened to the sound of whistles around him, and the strange cries of the forest resounded through the mountains and forests, and the figures swung around the forest with ropes, and in just a moment, more than 100 bandits came out of the dense forest to the periphery of the convoy, and approached with a vicious and vicious smile.
The stout officer shouted, "Who are you waiting for? Do you dare to intercept a convoy escorted by officers and soldiers? ”
Li Fu slowly walked down the hillside with a machete in his hand, crossed his legs in the center of the road, and shouted: "Listen to the dog officer, I opened this road, I planted this tree, I want to pass through here, leave my head." ”
The short and sturdy officer was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said: "It turned out to be a group of thieves in the mountains, didn't you obediently put down your sword and surrender when you saw your grandfather Wang?" It was really bold to hit us on the head. ”
Li Fu shouted: "Grandfathers don't want to hurt people's lives, dog officer, if you don't know the times, don't blame me for the big killing, and leave the war horses, weapons, armor, and goods to flee for your life, and save the grandfathers to do it." ”
Before the stout officer could speak, Li Fu waved his hand impatiently, and forty or fifty bandits appeared from the hillside, holding black muskets in their hands and facing the panicked officers and soldiers. The stout officer exclaimed, "You actually have firearms?" ”
Li Fu laughed and said: "I'm afraid, grandpa has a lot of things, don't get out of the eggs obediently, you want to eat iron sand eggs. Son? ”
Wang Yong, a sturdy officer, was quite familiar with current affairs, and when he saw this situation, he immediately made a decision, and said in a loud voice: "Brothers, don't act rashly, don't work hard for these finances, don't resist, these goods will be given to them." ”
Li Fu said with a smile: "Even if you kid still understands some truth, all go to the side of the road and stand and put down your blades; Brothers, hurry up and move the boxes up the mountain; Wan Laosan, staring at these officers and soldiers with a firecracker team, whoever dares to move will give me a damn blow. ”
One of the bandits said loudly, and with forty or fifty bandits with muskets, they forced the officers and men and coachmen who had retreated to the side of the road, and the rest of the bandits rushed up and began to carry the large wooden boxes on the cart. Suddenly, a bandit soldier shouted in panic: "The second master, it's not good." ”
Li Fu turned his head and shouted, "What's all the fuss? Move quickly. ”
The bandit held a few silver ingots in his hand and said blankly: "This is not fucking silver, this is fucking tin foil silver burned to the dead, we are fooled." ”
"Huh?" Li Fu was shocked, rushed up and grabbed the silver ingot in a large wooden box, only to feel that the hand was fluttering, and when he pinched it hard, the silver ingot was clenched into a ball in his hand, like a suffocated balloon, and it became a mess of several paper balls.
"Damn, fooled." Li Fu exclaimed.
Then I heard the stout officer laugh and say, "That's right, these are the pieces of paper and silver that will be sent to you on the road, and you can use them just right, and do it." ”
With the thunderous shouting, the lid of the wooden box above the 20 carts popped up, and a figure stood in each box among the scattered paper and silver ingots in the sky, holding a double-barreled firearm in his hand, and at the same time, nearly 100 officers and soldiers and coachmen quickly pulled out firearms from their waists and opened fire at the dozens of bandits in front of them.
Dozens of bandits with firearms didn't even have time to light the fuse with fire breakers before they were beaten into a hornet's nest by the overwhelming amount of shotguns; And more than 30 bandits carrying boxes on the side of the cart also fell in a pool of blood in an instant. The roar of the huge firearm could not drown out the screaming of a firework bomb swaying into the air, and the fireworks egg burst into the sky with ten thousand small red balls, and the goddess fell like a scattered flower.
Li Fu's reaction can be described as a first-class astuteness, when the accident suddenly happened, he was already a harrier rolled down from the fallen leaves on the side of the road, after the roar of the firearm, he had already hid behind the horizontal and vertical wood, when he poked his head out, most of the more than 100 men he was carrying had fallen, not only was he cold.
Li Qing and Wang Ru, who rushed to the top of the hill to enjoy a good show, were taken aback, they did not expect that this was actually a group of officers and soldiers with powerful firearms, and the silver taels were fake, and there were officers and soldiers hiding in the wooden boxes, all of which showed that they did it on purpose.
Wang Ru reacted and shouted loudly: "Big boss, quickly order the brothers to withdraw to the mountain, we have a plan." ”
Li Qing shouted angrily: "Withdraw? What do you think about? When did our brothers suffer such a big loss? At best, there are only more than 100 officers and soldiers, and I will slaughter them all to relieve the hatred in my heart. ”
Wang Ru stomped his feet and said, "Brother Yang, no, the officers and soldiers are prepared, we can't fight hard." ”
Li Qing shouted angrily: "Shut up, no matter how much you talk, I don't recognize you as a brother." Someone came, passed on my order, all the brothers went down the mountain to attack, and without mercy, they killed all the officers and soldiers. ”
After that, Li Qing stretched out his hand and grabbed the rope hanging from the treetops, and the sturdy figure swung to the bottom of the hillside like an agile ape, and several times the relay rippled, and his body was already dozens of steps away, Wang Ru stomped his feet again and again, and shouted: "Doesn't the musket gun shoot at the officers and soldiers to suppress them?" It is said that when they shoot a round of ammunition, they suppress their firepower, and then approach hand-to-hand combat, we have a lot of people, and we have an advantage in hand-to-hand combat. ”
Dozens of firecrackers fired together, taking advantage of the gap between the Jinyi guards to shoot a round of firearms to suppress them on the north side of the road, dozens of officers and soldiers were pressed next to the cart and could not show their heads, and at the same time, the bandit archers also shot rounds of arrows at the officers and soldiers. In addition to the seventy or eighty who were killed or wounded on the ground, there were still more than 240 heavily armed bandits, and as Wang Ru said, they still had the advantage in numbers.