Fifty-fourth ultimatum

Hearing the noisy sound of gongs in the rear from afar, Tang Xiangwei reported that a large group of mountain people were chasing along the mountain road, and Pan Luohuan, who was in a hurry, kept urging his men to speed up the march with whips. In addition to panicking after doing something wrong, he was also worried about the "loot" in the sack and wanted to rush back to Wanjiazhai as soon as possible to enjoy it. After a long rush, the soldiers could barely support it, but they were tired and paralyzed by the people who carried the sliding rod and the wine jar, and no matter how much he whipped a few of the people, they just lay on the ground panting. In a fit of rage, Pan Luohuan forced the soldiers around him to carry the sliding rod and the wine vat to hurry, and several of these unlucky bastards were flatterers who had surrounded him before.

The march was greatly accelerated by the whipping, leaving the pursuing mountain people a mile away. It's just that when Pan Luohuan and his entourage arrived at the T-shaped intersection below Wanjiazhai, the open land of more than ten acres was already crowded with dense people, blocking the road to Wanjiazhai tightly, and shouting "Imperial court dog officials, forcibly kidnapping people's girls". Pan Luohuan was furious, so he asked Tang Xiangwei to disperse the crowd. Seeing that Tang Xiangwei hesitated and refused to go, he crossed Tang Xiangwei and gave orders directly to the soldiers, but the effect was not good. Most of the soldiers looked at each other, and only a few jumped forward, only to be frightened back by the roar of the mountain people.

These mountain people shouted rhythmically, emotionally but rationally, especially the one or two hundred strong men with spears and shields, standing seemingly randomly, and on closer inspection, it can be found that it is an offensive and defensive formation, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner under the shouts of a few people behind. In fact, among the hundreds of people blocking the road, in addition to the mountain people who heard the news from several nearby villages, there were also more than 100 soldiers from the Perak Army garrison battalion and the guard team who rushed over from Liuliba. Due to the shortage of supplies, the soldiers of the garrison battalion were not issued uniform clothing, while the soldiers of the guard team changed into the clothes of mountain people according to Ouyang Xuan's order. In fact, not only Tang Xiangwei, but also many soldiers who have been in the army for many years have noticed the unusualness of the mountain people blocking the road, only Pan Luohuan thinks that these mountain people are some rabble, as long as they are driven away, they will scatter.

The road ahead was blocked, and a large group of mountain people chased after them, but Tang Xiangwei and a group of soldiers refused to use knives to deal with these Diao people, but persuaded them to accept the search of the mountain people, which made Pan Luohuan afraid and angry. How dare he let the mountain people search? In a fit of rage, he lashed the soldiers around him with another whip that drove them forward. The whipped soldiers dodged in all directions, and in the blink of an eye, Pan Luohuan's side was empty, leaving only two mules with heavy loads standing abruptly.

At this moment, Ouyang Xuan walked out of the crowd, and he faced Pan Luohuan and the soldiers and said, "Pan Inspection, I am Ouyang Xuan." Shocked to hear that the daughter of Yanfeng was taken captive, the villagers in the mountains were shocked and worried. It was a matter of human life, and I thought that Inspector Pan should have interrogated whether his subordinates had done it, or let the representatives of the villagers check it out to prove his innocence. Otherwise...."

"What else? I'm an official of the imperial court, do you dare to kill the official and rebel? Wait for my uncle to bring the army of Chongqing Mansion to ......" Pan Luohuan interrupted Ouyang Xuan's words, although he was afraid in his heart, he was stubborn.

"The current collapse of the law and order in the imperial court is mostly caused by the misdeeds of you and other rats, and I will make it clear to you today, if you don't hand over someone, you won't be able to walk!" Ouyang Xuan saw that Pan Luohuan was so fierce, and he didn't talk nonsense with him, and retreated into the crowd with a wave of his hand. Seeing Ouyang Xuan gesticulating, Cao Ergou shouted an order, and the Thunderbolt Army soldiers silently walked to the front of the crowd, and set up a triple array in a very short time, still folding the giant shield in front and the spear behind. The extremely strong discipline and obedience shown by this array made Tang Xiangwei sigh and be afraid, the sighing Thunderbolt Army was really a strong army, and he was afraid that he was now standing on the opposite side. And just now he faintly saw that the last row of people were carrying fist-sized round iron balls, and there were people preparing velvet flint, this should be the earth-shattering thunder in Yu Zhu's mouth, I heard him say that if this thing falls in the crowd, it can blow down more than a dozen people at a time.

"Master Pan, I'll be upright, so it's okay to let them take a look....." Tang Xiangwei knew that if there was a fight, not to mention that there would be a steady stream of mountain people coming, even the Thunderbolt army in front of him would definitely not be an opponent for his own people. As long as the grenade is thrown, a large area of the soldiers on his side will be blown down. Although he is not afraid of things and death, it does not mean that he will let his fellow brothers die unexplained and worthless. It's just that before he finished his words of persuasion, he was stopped by Pan Luohuan. Seeing Pan Luohuan's angry and frightened eyes, he seemed to understand something.

Not only did Tang Xiangwei not want to clash, but his soldiers also flinched. On weekdays, Pan Luo Huan regards his subordinates as slaves, and beats, scolds and humiliates him at every turn, and most of the soldiers dare not speak out, and they are beaten and scolded on weekdays, so how can they die for him in vain now? Under the pressure of the Thunderbolt army and the mountain people, the atmosphere of confrontation became more and more tense and depressing, and clashes could occur at any time due to accidental accidents. At this moment, a soldier close to Pan Luohuan broke the silence, and he suddenly dropped his spear and ran towards the Thunderbolts, shouting as he ran, "Man in a sack on the back of a mule......"

Everyone looked in the direction of the two mules, which caused the people standing next to the mules to retreat. Ouyang Xuan saw that one of the mules seemed to be writhing in the sack, so he shouted in a low voice, "Go and untie the sack." Immediately, several Thunderbolt soldiers walked quickly towards the mule, and the surrounding Tang Xiangwei's men did not stop but dodged backwards one after another. Pan Luohuan's face was gray but his mouth was stiff, and he shouted loudly that the sack on the mule's back was an important thing sent by his uncle, and the consequences of opening it without permission were serious. It's just that no one paid attention to his threat, and his stinky mouth didn't shut up until the girl from Yanfeng Village was rescued.

After removing the rags of the gag, the girl's cry rang out, which made the mountain people even more angry, and they wanted to rush up and beat Pan Luohuan. Ouyang Xuan was afraid that he would cause trouble by killing him, so he asked the people of Yanfeng Village to take away the girl, and let the mountain people go back to the village. Although Pan Luohuan did all kinds of evil, he was after all an official of the imperial court and the nephew of Pan Tong, so he only had to expel him back to break Pan Tong's plot to control the mountain. If Pan Luohuan is really killed, there will be no room for maneuver in the matter, and the Thunderbolt Army will not be able to openly oppose Chongqing Mansion now.

The mountain people dispersed one after another, and Ouyang Xuan gave an ultimatum to Pan Luohuan, who was sitting on the ground, and restricted him from leaving the mountain tomorrow. "The people in this mountain are fierce, and revenge will be avenged, if they are still in the mountains after tomorrow, the safety of Pan Gongzi is not guaranteed." After saying that, he left with his people, and he was accompanied not only by the soldiers of the Perak Army, but also by a large number of soldiers from Chongqing Mansion. Tang Xiangwei was in a daze, so he sighed under Yu Zhu's persuasion and followed.