After Yan Da sent away the people who were unwilling to go down the mountain, he personally brought two henchmen over and asked Zhao Gongzi to send someone up the mountain to receive the materials from the cottage.

After Zhao Chongyang asked about the number of people and materials in the cottage, he asked Yan Da to take more than 50 horsemen and 200 selected infantry to follow the caravan to Tangzhou to accept the reorganization first, and the remaining old and weak followed Shi Xiu to the cottage to carry materials. After arriving at the cottage and loading the supplies, Shi Xiu ordered more than 10 people and more than 30 women guarding the cottage to go with them to the shelter to settle down.

An encounter was completed in less than half an hour, and an infantry general was also accepted, and Zhao Chongyang was in a good mood. After Shi Xiu and the others set off, Zhao Chongyang ordered the convoy to continue moving forward. Along the way, Wu Song and Yan Da cherished each other and soon became good friends. Zhao Chongyang estimates that Yanda's strength should be on par with Shi Xiu, and he is also a good man who promises a thousand gold, which is indeed worth befriending.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, this huge commercial convoy entered Tangzhou......

Zhao Chongyang stayed in Tangzhou for three days, processed a few water jades, and obtained more than 50,000 yuan in cash. The goods wholesaled to the Tang and Hu families were used for coal mines, antiques, and porcelain. The Tang family's commercial business in Tangzhou is done in cooperation with the Hu family, the first household in Tangzhou. Although the monopoly business of Wantong Commercial Bank in Tangzhou, Ruyang, Tanghe and other places was set without the consent of the Hu family this time, the old man Hu Tianxiong, the head of the Hu family, believed in the vision of Tang Yongwang, the head of the Tang family. After looking at the exclusive sales of liquor, perfume, soap, soap, white paper, dapped pen for bookkeeping and other products, all of them are high-end products with novel marketing, and they are also admired by Tang Yongwang's unique business vision. It's literally giving money to both of them. Due to the sale of a large amount of water jade along the road, although Zhao Chongyang has spent huge expenses for more than a month, there has never been a shortage of funds in his hands. No, after arriving in Tangzhou, he sold another hundred good horses and seventy carriages, further expanding the convoy of ore transportation. He also bought hundreds of official slaves in Tangzhou, and also bought dozens of women who were sold into slavery, and bought a restaurant that was in a slump of business. Some people were left here to open a restaurant, and some of the female slaves bought were left to work as waiters in the restaurant. In the end, Tang Long took 200 soldiers and 200 carriages to the mine to transport coal mines.

After arranging everything, Zhao Chongyang, Shi Bao and others continued to advance towards Nanyang with the remaining carriages and supplies. This time, the Tanghu family brought 30 cars and 50 family members with them. The two heads of the family also followed their carriage in a carriage. They want to see in person whether the goods of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce are more popular in Nanyang.

The joint convoy of the two set off at dawn, because they would encounter a strongman robbery on the way, so they wanted to set off early to see if they could arrive at their destination Nanyang earlier. After three hours of travel, the convoy was not far from Xinghua Mountain. The guide of the Hu family persuaded Shi Bao to stop and rest for a while, drink some water, and eat some dry food before setting off. In this way, when passing under the Xinghua Mountain, you will have the strength to fight when you encounter a strong person.

More than half an hour later, the convoy arrived at the foot of Xinghua Mountain. When he was still in Tangzhou, Zhao Chongyang carefully asked the insiders about the terrain under Xinghua Mountain: the right side of the official road is against the mountain, the mountain is a sparse low jungle, no people can be hidden, and there is a dense forest above the mountain. On the left is a river valley with an average height of more than 10 meters. The whole section of the road is seven or eight miles long, and the width of the road is four meters on average. In this situation, Zhao Chongyang stressed that the striker and the team should not be too far away, not more than 200 meters. The defense force of the entire convoy plus the family members of the Tanghu family totaled 500 people. Zhao Chongyang and Shi Bao rearranged the defense. Shi Bao and Pang Wanchun led one hundred and fifty people as the forward, Wu Song and Yan Da led one hundred people as the rearguard, and the remaining two hundred and fifty people protected the convoy in the middle.

Because before leaving, the scouts sent out caught an eyeliner who returned to Tangzhou from Xinghuashan, and according to the eyeliner's confession, when they reported the news that Tangzhou detectives heard to the two left leaders, the two leaders were stunned by the goods of the trading house, especially the glass water jade, which was simply more valuable than gold and jewelry. It takes a few pieces of water jade to deal with, which is tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. Therefore, the brothers Gu Mingcheng and Gu Mingliang are determined to get this batch of goods. Therefore, Gu Mingliang decided to personally go to Qinggangling to persuade Yuan Lang to join forces in one place and launch an attack from three places at the same time, so that the people of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce could not take care of each other. After analysis, Zhao Chongyang, Shi Bao and others also believed that if the number of bandits was large enough, they also believed that attacking from three directions was their best choice.

Sure enough, when the forward of the convoy was still two or three hundred meters away from walking under Xinghua Mountain, a tall and mighty strong man with three or four hundred people blocked the way of Shi Bao, Pang Wanchun and others. At the same time, a ringing arrow rose into the sky, and hundreds of people rushed out of the forest in the middle of the mountain on the right, and more than 300 strong people appeared behind at some point. It was similar to what Zhao Chongyang expected, and they really put all the people and horses of the convoy under Xinghua Mountain, and then they began to start from the front and back, and the left side was a valley more than ten meters high, and it was impossible for the caravan to escape from this side.

The battle first started from the back of the convoy, and the two brothers Gu Mingcheng and Gu Mingliang who led the attack from the back that is, from the east, took the lead in charging the back of the convoy despite the large number of people. I have long heard rumors in the rivers and lakes that the eldest of the Gu's double dogs barks wildly, and the second barks like a crazy barking dog, ruthless, unscrupulous in doing things, and kills them all, leaving no room for error. In this case, Zhao Chongyang and Shi Bao have already had a strict order: they will be merciless when they encounter these two dogs, and they will kill the killers. On Wu Song's side, there were thirty musketeers who shot accurately, four of whom had been trained in the special training camp and had excellent marksmanship, so Wu Song divided them into two groups, and two of them were in charge of a bandit leader. After a while, the bandit entered 150 steps, and Wu Song shouted, "Fight!" The four of them first killed the two dogs of the Gu clan who took the lead in rushing forward. Then thirty muskets fired in unison, a little closer, and a salvo of crossbows, in just two minutes, hundreds of people and horses of the Gu clan were killed and wounded, and the bandits were leaderless, and they had no will to fight. Wu Song and Yan Da took the opportunity to charge, and the bandits in Xinghua Mountain fled instantly. The two men chased after them with their cavalry and shouted, laid down their weapons, surrendered without killing, and shot all those who escaped. After shooting several people in succession, the remaining more than 300 people all surrendered. Wu Song and the others didn't have time to clean up the battlefield, so they escorted the prisoners and returned to the convoy with the heads of the two dogs. Wu Song asked people to send the heads of the two dogs to the front. Zhao Chongyang saw that the two dogs were ambushed, and the crisis was basically resolved, and he also walked to the front with thirty guards. This time, none of the four little beauties were left behind, and they came from the hands of the four guards to sit and follow.

When the men and horses of Xinghua Mountain were lost, Shi Bao and Yuan Lang were still fighting a war of words. You asked me to take refuge in the cottage, raise the righteousness together, and overthrow the Great Song Dynasty. I let you join the Chamber of Commerce, you don't need to risk rebellion, you can eat fragrant food and drink spicy food. On the right side of the convoy was led by Yuan Lang's younger brother Yuan Kai, and seeing that his brother's men and horses did not charge, he did not move.

Zhao Chongyang ordered the soldier who carried the head to deliver the head of the second dog to Shi Bao, and he himself came to the front row. Shi Bao saw that the heads of the Gu family's two dogs were sent, and was about to further persuade him, Zhao Chongyang walked out of the crowd and said to Yuan Lang: "Brother Yuan, please, I am Zhao Chongyang, the young leader of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, and we invite you to join the Chamber of Commerce for the sake of your brothers and the seven or eight hundred brothers under you." We know that you two brothers are true heroes, real heroes, and we can't bear to see your two heads in different places. Gu's twin dogs are also strong in martial arts, and the bravery of the big dog is probably not under you, and now it has been easily killed by us, and the heads of the two are here, if you don't believe it, you can send someone to check it. Therefore, it is easy for us to kill your two brothers. ”

Yuan Lang said: "Does the young master tell jokes?" We're at least 200 paces apart, and you say it's easy for you to kill me? ”

"I know you won't believe it, so if you put a wooden shield where you are standing now, if my men can penetrate the wood two hundred paces away, does that prove that we are capable of killing you? If we can do it, you can join our chamber of commerce, what Wang Qing can give you, I can also give you, what Wang Qing can't give you, I can also give you. If we can't do it, all the materials worth 200,000 yuan of our fleet will be sent to you, and from now on, Wantong Chamber of Commerce will no longer step into Nanyang. ”

Yuan Lang said: "If I don't dare to bet with you, the rivers and lakes still think that I am afraid of you as a yellow-mouthed child, okay!" Bet! ”

Just do it, Yuan Lang immediately asked people to set up three wooden shields where they were standing, and then he and his cronies flashed aside. Yuan Lang shouted loudly: "There are three wooden shields here, as long as you penetrate one of them, we will all admit it." ”

Zhao Chongyang asked people to bring ammunition from the soldiers with flintlock pistols and hand it to Pang Qiuxia and -branch to Qiu Qiongying, and then motioned to Pang Wanchun for the three of them to shoot. The three of them loaded the ammunition, Pang Wanchun took a slight aim, and began to shoot, only to hear a bang, a wooden shield on the left fell to the ground first, and then two booms, and the wooden shield in the middle and right fell to the ground at the same time.

In less than a minute, the three guns were shot, all of them hit, and Zhao Chongyang said loudly: "Brother Yuan, please send someone to check whether it hits and penetrates." ”

Yuan Lang said: "I don't need to get close to check, I have already seen the wood flying in the sky, and the three wooden shields have been pierced." That's it, willing to gamble and lose. You have such a big killing weapon, I, Yuan Lang, am convinced, and immediately ask my brother to collect his troops and accept the reorganization.