Huguang, Anlu Prefecture.

Due to the death of Li Hu, a hundred households in brocade clothes under the command of the governor of Huguang, Wang Zhi, the eunuch of Nanjing Town, was ordered to lead a thousand soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to Huguang to clear the anti-thieves.

It's just that after the team arrived in Huguang, this incident that shocked the court was announced to be broken.

Local officials in Huguang confirmed that the incident was committed by a group of bandits named Guoshan Long. Now it has been cleared by the army led by the general army of Huguang, and the thief leader Guoshanlong was killed on the spot by the officers and soldiers.

Wang Zhi knew that this was certainly not the whole truth, but he also knew that things should not be rushed, after all, the people who dared to attack the Governor's Guard were definitely not ordinary people.

Now Huguang's side is determined that it was the dead mountain dragon, even if the imperial court doubts this conclusion, then it is up to him or Liu Zhong, the governor of Huguang, to investigate the matter.

A march of a thousand men in such hot weather is undoubtedly a torture.

Since Wang Zhi came this time under the identity of a messenger, the prefectures and counties he passed through needed to provide supplies, so that they did not need to starve. It's just that Huguang is not a prosperous southeast after all, so the distance between the prefectures and counties is too far, so that they often have to eat and stay overnight.

"Hurry up, everybody! After crossing this bridge, there is the Anlu boundary in front, and when we arrive at Anlu City, we can have a good rest! Li Wei looked at the map and drew cakes to the soldiers.

The team had been camping in the field for several days, and now it was known that they would soon be able to enter the city to recuperate, and many of the young soldiers in particular had a hobby in this area, which led to a marked increase in the speed of the march.

The suspension bridge in front seems to be newly built, although it looks very strong, but the bridge deck is more than ten meters away from the river below, so it is very mad.

Wang Zhi rode a horse and walked behind the team, and at this time took out a pen and wrote on the paper fan: "The slave and maid have led the troops into Anlu, and the scenery along the way is very good, but unfortunately there is no ink in the stomach. The world is called Wang Yue's poetry and writing, presumably he wrote a lot of poems during his residence in Anlu, and set for His Majesty to collect Wang Yue's old works, if you have a good sentence, you will borrow flowers to offer Buddha to Your Majesty! ”

Just after writing the last pen, the suspension bridge in front of it suddenly burst into flames, crackling with oil stains.

"Someone has set fire to the bridge, get out of the bridge!"

"There must be fraud here, everyone be on guard!"

"Enemy attack, enemy attack, quickly protect Lord Guard!"

……

The team did not expect to be attacked at all, and in the face of this sudden situation, a large number of arrows flew from the hillside, and the team that fell behind was suddenly in chaos.

As the ropes of the suspension bridge were broken by the fire, the soldiers and horses who had not had time to leave the bridge let out a roar and then fell like dumplings into the river below.

The rolling river, and now falling from here, I am afraid that it will be more than lucky.

The 1,000 soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were divided into two parts by the broken bridge, the front was the 700 elite led by Li Wei, the Shenji Guard, and the 300 troops led by Wang Zhi in the back.

This was undoubtedly a premeditated operation, dividing their 1,000-strong battalion soldiers into two groups of men and horses who could not take care of the end through the broken bridge, but now it was Wang Zhi's small force that was attacked.

"Damn? Where did the bandits come from? ”

Li Wei, the god guard Qianhu, saw that Wang Zhi's side was attacked across the broken bridge, although he was anxious, but now he couldn't help at all, and he could only watch his subordinates fall down one after another with resentment.

Shout! Shout! Shout!

A large group of masked people appeared on the hillside, and they immediately shot and killed the three hundred divine machine warriors who were intercepted here, and the arrows in the sky fell like raindrops.

Burst! Burst! Burst!

The ranks of the Shenji Battalion have been in chaos, and the vast majority of those who remain here are firecrackers. Since it had just rained last night, they didn't reload their ammunition at all, and at the moment they were a live target.

Yes!

A small leader of the Shenji battalion avoided it, and was shot by an arrow in the thigh, and just as he shouted, an arrow shot through the heart from behind, and he immediately fell to the ground.

Wang Zhi's reaction was quite quick, and when an arrow slashed through his cheek, he dropped the paper fan and pen in his hand, and immediately fled.

Fortunately, he escaped quickly, and his cha was under the care of the archers, and a large number of arrows flew from his position, and his mount fell in a pool of blood after only a few steps.

It's just that there are dozens of soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who didn't shoot in time, but before they can counterattack, they have already fallen to the ground with arrows, and many people are lying on the ground groaning in pain.

"Is this crazy? Is this still Daming? ”

"Damn, these people deserve a thousand cuts!"

"We are the Qincha Guard, do you want to raid the family and exterminate the clan?"

……

In the face of the arrows flying in the sky, the soldiers of the Nanjing Shenji Battalion couldn't believe their eyes, and they hid behind trees or climbed onto the grass, and one of the generals couldn't help but shout towards the hillside.

There are Qincha here, and they are the dignified Qincha guards, and the world seems to have gone crazy when these masked men dare to attack them.

The arrows were ruthless, still falling like raindrops, but they didn't stop because they showed their identity.

Burst! Burst! Burst!

Because the ground here is relatively flat, and the surrounding villagers are diligent in collecting firewood here, there are not many obstacles here, causing the exposed Shenji Battalion soldiers to fall to the ground one after another.

Wang Zhi hid behind a big rock, and at this moment looked at his subordinates who had fallen one after another, but he gritted his teeth with hatred, and couldn't help but wonder if this was still the Huguang of the Ming Dynasty?

In fact, he was still careless, after all, Huguang was the territory of the Ming Dynasty after all.

Even if there were many gentry who dared to attack the team of governors who led a group of only more than 100 people, Liu Zhong's death would bring the imperial court's plan to clear the fields and acres abruptly stopped, so this group of people did have a reason to take this risk.

But he never thought that he would lead a thousand divine machine battalions to come, and this group of people would dare to ambush him, and this group of people would simply ignore the imperial court.

"Kill!"

There were at least 1,000 ambush soldiers on the hillside, and under the cover of arrows, hundreds of masked men with knives suddenly rushed down, and they immediately shouted for killing.

Burst! Burst! Burst!

Wang Zhi couldn't react in the face of the masked man who was suddenly killed, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who were hiding in the trees in front of him were the first to be killed, and the killing methods of this group of people appeared to be very sophisticated.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The Nanjing Shenji Battalion led by Wang Zhi found that this group of people was rushing towards him, but they had already finished loading their ammunition, so they raised their guns and pulled the trigger to return fire.

Burst! Burst! Burst!

The masked men who rushed down avoided it, and the stormtroopers in the front row were shot and fell.

Yes!

A masked man whose face was smashed by lead bullets and immediately rolled on the ground with his face covered.

The Nanjing Shenji Battalion actually has a very strong combat power, if it hadn't been cut into two sections by falling into a trap, the elite led by Li Wei, the commander of the Shenji Battalion, would definitely be able to counterkill this group of masked people.

It's just that there is no if in the world, and now although they have an improved version of the three-eyed gun, they are still at a disadvantage in numbers, and now the enemy army has killed them.

"Kill this dead eunuch, Ben...... This is a hundred taels of silver, and the first card of the Qinglou! "A burly man with a long knife in his hand initiated a bounty.

Bang!

As soon as he finished speaking, a clamor suddenly sounded from the tree.

At some point, a young man as thin as a monkey was already hiding in the canopy of a tree, and when the leader issued a bounty, he gently pulled the trigger.

Burst!

The leader fell to the ground with an extra bullet hole between his eyebrows.

"Thousand ......"

"Big boss!"

"Thousand ...... Big boss! ”

……

The masked men around him saw the leader being shot and fell to the ground, and immediately surrounded him in panic.

"Withdraw!" Wang Zhi realized that it was not the bandits who had just been shot by the little monkey, but that this group of masked men with sophisticated weapons and combat effectiveness were clearly guards, so they chose to retreat to the tunnel.

As he fled, he suddenly noticed an arrow stuck in the grass and took it with him.

"Brothers, don't let them escape, we have to avenge the big boss!" The masked man over there saw that Wang Zhi was about to evacuate, and a leader immediately stood up and commanded.

Shout! Shout! Shout!

The archers in the rear appeared to be well-trained, and when they saw that the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion had been exposed, they shot and killed the gang one after another.

Burst! Burst! Burst!

Due to the hot and humid weather now, and the fact that this time is a mission in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion are unwilling to put on armor, but they have fallen to the ground like live targets at this moment.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

When the Shenji Battalion fled, it did not forget to fight back against the deserters.

Wang Zhi had never fought such an embarrassing battle, and when he saw that the remaining 200 people had lost more than half, he immediately gritted his teeth with hatred.

Burst! Burst! Burst!

It wasn't all the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who fell, as the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion continued to shoot behind, there were also many masked people who chased after them and fell to the ground groaning in pain.

It's just that the masked man has the upper hand in the number of people after all, and the number of people in the Shenji Battalion is too small, and the lethality of the improved three-eyed fire gun in his hand has greatly decreased.

"Wang Gong, I am willing to serve you again in the next life!" After Li Hao, the god guard of the hundred households, decided to take advantage of the terrain to break off, he said to Wang bluntly and sincerely.

Wang Zhi got on his horse, and when he saw that his loyal subordinates were going to die here, he secretly swore in his heart that he would let these pursuers and the behind-the-scenes commanders all go to hell.

Before he escaped far, the sound of Li Hao's tragic death was already heard, and the speed of the chasing soldiers was much faster than expected, this group of masked men was definitely not a bandit.

When fleeing to the hill in front, an abandoned old bridge appeared in front of the road, and the old bridge was paved with wooden planks by the wood-breaking people to pass.

Wang Zhi led the remnants of his horse to cross the bridge and destroy the bridge before the pursuers arrived.

Although he escaped from Shengtian, he did not feel the slightest joy, and the three hundred soldiers of the Shenji Battalion led by him were only the last dozens of remnants.

Wang Zhi began to formally lead the army at the age of sixteen, and took control of the West Factory at a young age, but was ambushed by his own people in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and his loyal subordinates died in battle, which was something he had never experienced.

"An Luwei, Lao Tzu will not destroy you, and you will not be a man!" Wang Zhi clutched the arrow he picked up from the battlefield tightly, but he gritted his teeth with hatred.

It was supposed to be a day and a half of travel, but Wang Zhi and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion hurried away with anger, and they had already arrived at Anlu City in the early morning of the next day.

"What? You've been attacked? Liu Zhong was also furious when he learned that the 1,000 Shenji Battalion soldiers led by Wang Zhi had been attacked at the border of Anlu Prefecture.

In fact, the situation he suffered last time was even more thrilling than Liu Zhong, at that time, it was Li Hu who risked his life to take him out of the encirclement, relying on the riverside river crossing boat to escape the pursuit.

However, the scale of his encounter at that time was much smaller, and the more than 100 guards he led at that time were only about 300 people.

Of course, he couldn't tell how many people came from the other party at that time, in short, he felt very panicked at that time, and even suspected that he was going to die there.

"Although you are a garrison in Nanjing, you can't control the boundary of Huguang, and you don't have the right to count our soldiers of An Luwei! Now His Majesty's wedding is imminent, and I heard that Xishan Jinfeng, this commander has assigned all the soldiers of An Luwei to arrest Jinfeng, can you afford this responsibility? Wang Zhi found An Luwei's commander Sun Long and wanted to thoroughly investigate An Luwei's soldiers, but was sternly rejected by Sun Long, the commander.

An Luwei commanded Sun Long to be an obese middle-aged boy with a pair of small eyes and a ruffian aura on his body, not at all like a general leading troops.

It's just that this is a common thing in the Ming army, like many hereditary martial arts, there are also many hereditary commanders, Tongzhi, thousands and hundreds of households in the local guards.

These people can legitimately become high-ranking guard commanders just by relying on their bloodline, plus a few more years of seniority and luck.

Liu Zhong faintly smelled the smell of gunpowder in the air, and now that Sun Long was in the name of this, it was really difficult to force Sun Long to recall An Luwei, so he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Wang Zhi.

Wang Zhi knew that this attack was inseparable from An Luwei, and now he had to quickly find out the shortage of soldiers, so that he could use this as a breakthrough to find out the people behind the scenes to pay for the lives of the fallen soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, and also to find out the cancer of Huguang for His Majesty.

Facing the obstruction of this commander, Wang Zhi said coldly: "Didn't Ben Qincha discuss with you and immediately follow the orders of the miscellaneous family, otherwise you can't afford the consequences?" ”

"Don't use your identity to pressure the commander! I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, there are people in the court who are in this command, if you dare to obstruct this commander from catching Jinfeng for Your Majesty, you will wait to go back and be your Fengluan......" Sun Long snorted coldly, but he threatened without taking Wang Zhi in his eyes at all.

Bang!

A small monkey-like young man had raised his gun at some point, and with a violent sound, a puff of green smoke immediately rose from the muzzle of the gun.

Burst!

Commander An Luwei, who was still arrogant just now, made Sun Long's eyes widen, looking at the sudden flying lead bullet in disbelief, but he felt that his head suddenly exploded.

Yes?

Liu Zhong couldn't help but swallow and spit secretly when he saw Sun Long, who was lying on his back in a pool of blood after being shot, but he looked at this ruthless man in shock.

(End of chapter)