In late autumn, at noon, the sky was a little overcast.

On the school ground, 1,200 Yifu guards lined up neatly, with yellow horses, bright light armor, tiger helmets, and a long lance in their hands. The forbidden army of the Tang Dynasty, the prince's personal guard, sassy and heroic.

The teammates in room 201 gathered for the first time, Li Qiang, Zhou Fa, Qi Xu, Meng Fei, Qin Xian, and Ding Liang. The two factions of Longhu Mountain and Maoshan are headed by Wang Changsuo and Chen Heming, and there are more than 30 disciples, all of whom ride high-headed horses.

The prince took the elders of the Su branch, Princess Jinyang, Duoduoqi Muge, Cheng Huaimo and others to practice outside the gate of the East Palace.

Today is the second time Li Qiang has met Wang Changsuo, the first time is outside the Shuntian Gate, but that time Li Qiang just saw Wang Changsuo's figure from a distance and fainted. Later, it was His Majesty the Emperor who was reported by Wang Changsuo, and then handed Li Qiang into the hands of the crown prince.

After Li Qiang thanked Wang Changsuo, the other party only said a few polite words, and then continued to put on a cold look and stopped talking.

At noon, more than 1,000 cavalry, passing through Chongrenfang, Shengyefang, Xingqing Palace, out of Chunmingmen, went to Weinan County.

Zhou Fa shouted excitedly on the horse: "Rush, Datang Forbidden Army!" Weinan County, we are coming!"

Guanzhong Plain, thousands of miles of fertile wilderness, now it is almost the end of autumn, the grass and trees are yellow, only the bushes of wild chrysanthemums on the side of the road are proudly blooming. There may be autumn insects chirping in the field from time to time, but they are not too loud.

The autumn colors come from the west, and the sky is full of passes.

Weinan County is only one hundred and forty or fifty miles away from Chang'an City. The more than 1,000 troops led by Li Qiang were all cavalry, and it only took a day and a half to reach the county seat of Weinan County.

The purpose of Li Qiang's trip is to find out the real reason for the disappearance of Weinan County, and to find more than ten waves of scouts who disappeared before.

After a day's march, the team set up camp thirty miles away from Weinan County, not far from the river. Although there were not many people in the army, fences, horse rejections, and corner towers were also erected one by one.

Li Qiang left 1,200 Yifu guards here and handed them over to a forbidden army captain named Sun Jie. There were 1,200 soldiers under Li Qiangyi's command, divided into six lieutenants, with Sun Jie being the oldest. When Li Qiang was not in the army, the whole army listened to Sun Jie's orders.

This time, each soldier brought 15 days of dry rations, and the time and food were sufficient.

According to the information given to him by the prince, Weinan County is just a small county town on the south bank of Weishui, with a city wall of only four meters high, a radius of less than five miles, and a population of 20,000.

In order to find out the truth, Li Qiang decided to make an unannounced visit and be a scout.

Together with the disciples of Longhu Mountain and Maoshan Mountain, his own team entered the city to investigate the situation first. Later, it will be decided whether to transfer troops into the city.

So after settling down the guards of Yifu, Li Qiang took Zhou Fa, Qi Xu and others, and disciples of Longhu Mountain and Maoshan Mountain, a group of nearly forty people, and walked towards Weinan County on foot.

The sun has begun to set in the west, and the sun shines on the clouds, and the glow is even more red.

Li Qiang urged everyone to speed up their pace. Now there is still some way to go from the county seat of Weinan, if you can't catch up before dark, once the city gate is locked, you will have to wait until tomorrow dawn.

Since the last competition in the ring, the disciples of the two factions of Longhushan and Maoshan have had a much better attitude towards Li Qiang. Wang Changsuo didn't talk much, and he carried out the order to the letter. Chen Heming talked a little more and was very cooperative with Li Qiang.

"Plop la la"

Li Qiang and his entourage walked along the official road to the corner of a small hill, and a flock of birds in the green forest was startled and scattered in all directions.

There are people hiding in the woods!

"Stop!"

"Robbery!"

"Don't move!"

......

A large group of ragged men, armed with axes, kitchen knives, and sickles, rushed out of the small hill, with nearly two hundred people, surrounding Li Qiang and others in the middle.

The man at the head, coarse linen clothes, with a bronze mirror hanging on his chest, a full beard, very dense hair, holding a small plate axe, opened his mouth to make a black incision: "I opened this mountain, I planted this tree......

Next to the beard, there was a follower with a thief's eyebrows, regardless of what the boss was talking about, looking at Li Qiang and the others, his eyes lit up. Nodding excitedly, he muttered to himself: "Fat sheep, fat sheep! There is also a beautiful little lady, who is rich!"

The little lady in the mouth of the follower is Shen Xinyin, the little junior sister of Longhu Mountain.

Shen Xinyin's face turned gloomy and interrupted loudly: "Who are you, what do you want to do?"

The beard headed by the opposite side was interrupted before the cut was finished, and an axe handle smashed on the head of the follower next to him, and said angrily: "Drift your meow, didn't you just see a woman last year? We are thieves, not flower thieves! As the old saying goes, interlacing does not take profit, how many times have I taught you, I don't have a long memory!"

After teaching the follower, the bearded beard took two steps forward and arched his hand: "Don't be afraid, girl, the leader of the axe gang, the rivers and lakes drink the jade-faced flying dragon." Today, I brought my brothers over, just to ask for a fortune, and my brothers are honest people who won't do those dirty things. ”

The jade-faced flying dragon said politely, which was in great contrast with the small plate axe in his hand, and the scene was a little funny for a while.

This jade-faced flying dragon is a citizen of Weinan County, who claims to be a scholar, but in fact he only studied in private school for a few years when he was a child, and later occasionally turned two pages of books when he was farming. It wasn't until a few years ago that he was persecuted by the landlord and took away the last few acres of thin land at home, so that he could not gather in the mountains and forests, and gathered two or three hundred hard-working people. But even if the grass fell, he washed the coarse linen clothes on his body every day.

"Are you really trying to rob us?"

Zhou Fa felt that the so-called axe gang on the other side was a little funny, his clothes were not covered, the kitchen knives were curled, and they were still trembling one by one. I'm afraid don't even start fighting, even if you stand for a while, you will have to pour a large piece on the opposite side.

The jade-faced flying dragon said, "Friends, there are two hundred and seventeen brothers present in our Axe Gang......

Before the words fell, a member of the gang with a vegetable face behind the jade-faced flying dragon couldn't support it, and fell down obliquely.

The jade-faced flying dragon face did not change color, and continued: "We, the two hundred and sixteen brothers of the Axe Gang, are just asking for money and robbing you of a little soup and cake money. If there is a fight, death and injury are inevitable, everyone is a rich son at a glance, our lives are as cheap as grass mustard, you sons are different......"

After the establishment of the Axe Gang, they have been eating the travelers and caravans from Chang'an to Huazhou. Among the bandits, they are considered more regular, and they only rob money, not kill people. After robbing the big head, he will leave a little entanglement for the other party.

It's just that in the past three or four months, there have been significantly fewer caravans and travelers from Chang'an to Weinan and Huazhou, and the cottages are about to break off. Li Qiang and a group of people happened to be sent to the door.

If it was a good year in the past, the jade-faced flying dragon would definitely not come out to rob Li Qiang, after all, there were thirty or forty people, and they were all wearing weapons, so they were not easy to mess with at first glance.

But now in this situation, the jade-faced flying dragon has no choice, and if he doesn't rob it, he will really have nothing to eat. He had no choice but to call out all the brothers in the cottage who could still move, and prepared to do a big job.

The jade-faced flying dragon thought that after all, he had a five-fold numerical advantage, and he was not afraid to fight. And on the other side, there are gorgeous clothes, swords inlaid with gems, and they must all be rich sons. That's a life of any human being worth more than the lives of hundreds of people.

Maybe you don't need to do anything, you can swindle a sum of money, enough for the brothers to eat for two months.

However, what the jade-faced flying dragon didn't expect was that the "rich sons" in his eyes, although they were indeed rich, were all cultivators in famous families, and the saber was not just a decoration like those gentlemen in Chang'an City, but really a weapon that could kill.

After listening to the explanation of the jade-faced flying dragon, Zhou Fa understood in his heart that this group of yellow-faced and thin-skinned robbers could be regarded as planted today. With the appearance of three or two kittens in front of me, I'm afraid that Hadron alone can clean it up. Don't let the strong son do it, just try the cultivation results of the past two months.

Thinking of this, Zhou Fa pulled out the horizontal knife, held down Li Qiang, and walked towards the jade-faced flying dragon alone: "What kind of dragon is it? Let's go through two moves first!"