Inside the Juzhou Casting Sword Peak Chamber

The atmosphere was a little serious, the main seat was free, and there was a middle-aged man sitting on each of the other two side seats, which were the two worshippers of the Casting Sword Peak, and the younger one was Li Junce, the head of the Li family, and the other was the head of the Qiao family.

Li Junce looked at the person who was seated with him and didn't want to speak, his expression was still a little gloomy, and he looked like an old dog lying on the ground in the countryside.

"Brother Qiao has ignored the big and small things in the peak all these years, especially after the incident last year, he has never asked a word, so do you want to dissuade my brother from acting today?" Li Junce said and tapped his fingers lightly on the table of the conference hall, making a crisp sound.

Seeing that the other party did not respond to his question, he felt that he seemed to acquiesce to his plans in the Sword Casting Peak these days, and the head of the Li family became more and more proud.

"There are still some juniors waiting outside the door, if Brother Qiao has no other suggestions, I can start, it is a matter of whether I forge Sword Peak in the future or not, I hope Brother Qiao will not be rash" Li Junce was afraid that there would be variables in the future, so he emphasized to him again.

The head of the Qiao family finally made a move after this questioning, turned his head to look at the head of the Li family who had already gotten up and went out with a happy face, nodded to him and continued to be silent.

Li Junce, who was originally smiling, saw this response, and his whole face immediately became gloomy, and then he brushed his sleeves away, vaguely remembering that he nodded like this when he encouraged his eldest brother to reorganize the sword appreciation ceremony last year, and he still does this today if he wants to do something.

What he did couldn't move this second brother like this, the head of the Li family took a group of Sword Casting Peak disciples at the door of the council hall and the direct family of the Li family all went down the mountain.

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On April 26, the two horsemen galloped to Jiannan.

Lin Manliu and Ye Dangting followed the eastbound road and turned back the same way, and were about to drive out of Qianzhong, although there were many detours, but according to the direction of the royal horse, they saved a lot of effort to find the way.

After passing through a forest, the vision in front of him suddenly widened, and the young man also saw the Jianmen Pass that he had just walked away from a month ago, the mountain road was steep and leading straight to the mountainside, and the mountains and rocks on both sides stood tall into the clouds, breaking through the sky.

The two walked to a cliff and stopped to rest.

"After passing through here, all the way south, after passing through Rongcheng, it is the southern frontier," Lin Manliu said proudly on the side.

"According to this itinerary, I will be able to return to southern Xinjiang at the beginning of May" Ye Dang listened to the Jianmen Pass in front of him, his eyes looked farther away, as if he wanted to see further, and his thoughts flew into the distance like this.

The two then rode together on the mountain road, and it didn't take long for them to pass through the Jianmen Pass, where there were some Jiannan Dao soldiers who stopped to guard, and after a while, they would encounter a group of patrolling cavalry.

Looking at these soldiers guarding the mountains and fields, the young man began to talk to the old liar on the way forward, the soldiers and bandits he met here at that time and General Li Yanhe, who helped him later.

Ye Dangting just listened silently on the side, looking up at the cloudless blue sky from time to time, the corners of his mouth were shallowly hooked up an arc, and he seemed to be laughing.

Lin Manliu was just about to talk about the place where he had fun, when there were shouts and the sound of horses' hooves galloping from the corner of the mountain road where the two bikes were walking.

"The village is in distress...... ...... in urgent need of rescue" was a bloodied soldier who was riding a horse towards the two of them, shouting this sentence repeatedly, and before the horse could collide with Lin Manliu and Ye Dang, the whole person slipped and fell to the ground.

There were five feathered arrows in the back of this soldier, Lin Manliu hurriedly dismounted to check the soldier's injury, the soldier was still a little angry Seeing that he had met someone, he grabbed the young man's sleeve with trembling hands, and blood gushed out of his mouth from time to time.

"Trouble for you... Send a message to the soldiers stationed at Jianmen Pass...... The attack on Xujia Village, five miles away, was a rebellion by soldiers and bandits..."He tried to finish his words with the young man, but before he could finish speaking, blood had already soaked his throat, making him unable to say anything more.

He grabbed Lin Manliu's sleeve tightly, the already dirty white robe was soaked in blood, and the blood flowed out of the soldier's mouth, and the young man looked up anxiously at the yellow-shirted figure on horseback.

"I'll go to investigate the situation in Yu Village first, you take him to Jianmen Pass to explain the situation to those border soldiers, these injuries may be able to be treated" Ye Dang said immediately, and without waiting for the young man to respond, he had already moved forward.

Lin Manliu also immediately helped the soldier onto his horse, and galloped away in the direction of Jianmen Pass when he came and went.

An hour ago

Xujia Village, five miles away, is a lonely village in the middle of the mountains and forests, and there are no adjacent towns and villages around, so the villagers here need to go out two days in advance to buy the belongings they need, following the start of a nearby town market.

In the early morning of this day, before dawn, there were several more fires outside the village entrance, and more than 20 soldiers and bandits wearing torn armor and hanging swords from their waists or holding guns and halberds surrounded the village gate with torches in their hands.

Shouting that the villagers should give them all the food and money, or else they would set fire to the whole village, the villagers began to panic and not one of them dared to go out to deal with the bandits.

"Why don't you hand over all the money and food quickly, and burn down all your rooms when you are in a hurry!" The leader of the bandits shouted to the village with a torch in his hand.

The sense of despair in the hearts of the villagers was further aggravated by the shouts, some women and children hid in the corner and sobbed, some old people looked at the sky with sad faces, and some upright and young men looked at the farm tools at home and wavered in their hearts.

Just when everyone was at a loss, a young man took his hoe and rushed to the entrance of the village, but before he could break out of the wooden fence at the entrance of the village, he was shot to the ground with bows and arrows by the bandits.

The villagers who were hiding in the house became more and more frightened when they saw this, and just when the leader of the soldiers and bandits was a little impatient and ready to throw the torch in his hand, a military flag was raised not far away, and the word "hot sun" was vaguely written, accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves that shook the ground and thundered.

The leader of the bandits turned to look at the rapidly approaching military flag in the woods, his eyes constricted, and he shouted "bad luck" in his mouth, and then unsheathed his sword and turned his horse's head.

"Brothers, give it to me! It's not too late to kill these officers and soldiers, and then choose some carefully," the leader shouted to his men around him.

After the military flag completely appeared from the woods, it was six Jiannan soldiers wearing armor all over their bodies, and standing at the front was obviously an officer, dressed in armor different from the other five, holding a spear with a bright silver body in his hand and carrying a flag behind him, which looked the same as the flag held by the soldier holding the flag behind him.

"Who dares to cholera the people again! You and the rebels are not yet captured! Soldiers follow me to meet the enemy," the officer said after pointing his spear at the twenty or so cavalry bandits in front of him, and the remaining five people also raised their spears and prepared to meet the enemy.

The battle was about to break out, and the six cavalry soldiers rushed directly to the more than 20 cavalry bandits in front of them after forming a row, and the sound of blade collisions, the neighing of war horses, and the sound of slashing and killing the enemy were all mixed together.

It didn't take long for the six people who came to defend against the enemy apparently well-trained, and the number of thieves surviving was less than half of the beginning, and the leader of the bandits gritted his teeth when he saw this, grabbed the torch that was still burning on the side and threw it directly at the village house.

Then the fire spread to several houses, and the fire spread very quickly, and the leader of the soldiers and bandits laughed and said: "None of you can save you today, and the little ones can grab as much as they can when they retreat into the village with me."

After the leader of the soldiers and bandits threw the torch, another bandit held the torch in his hand and prepared to fuel the fire, and the officer immediately twisted his wrist and threw the spear in his hand directly at the bandit, and the silver spear shot the bandit directly off his horse against the backdrop of the fire.

After the village was burned, the remaining soldiers and bandits rushed into the village to burn and loot regardless of the six cavalry officers and soldiers behind them, and the officers led by the leader immediately began to dispatch and distribute the pursuit and rescue personnel, with themselves as the leader continuing to pursue the remaining soldiers and bandits, and the remaining three rescued the villagers besieged by the fire as much as possible.