Chapter 70: The Thief's Messenger

Zheng Dapeng and his wife, who were awakened, went out to take a look, and immediately laughed, drew their swords and rushed forward.

These two people joined forces, and they could already have a draw with Luo Huaping and Liu Dingjian, plus Ouyang Qian, Shangguan Rou, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, and even Sima Long joined the battle with injuries.

In this way, Luo Huaping and Liu Dingjian suddenly couldn't support it, and fled in the direction where Sun Zhong and Sun Renshou were.

Chasing to the exit of the east of the village, Zheng Dapeng suddenly found that his righteous daughter Song Yuanlan was being besieged by Sun Zhong and Sun Renshou, and the situation was in danger. Only then did he give up Luo Huaping and Liu Dingjian, and rushed to help.

Seeing Zheng Dapeng arrive, Geng Qiuwen, Fang Xiaoyun, and Song Yuanlan were all in high spirits and launched a counterattack together.

On the other side, Sima Long and Ouyang Qian's daughters took advantage of Gao Fenglan's opportunity to block Luo Huaping, and the swords came out together, killing the old thief Liu Dingjian to be the first to jump out of the wall.

Seeing this, Luo Huaping knew that tonight's sneak attack had failed, and hurriedly sent a retreat signal.

The momentum of the mountain people suddenly rose. Many of them have been hunting for many years, and they have practiced good archery, and in the face of the crowd of thieves, they have no arrows.

In the midst of the crying father and mother, the bandits threw hundreds of corpses and crawled out of the wooden fence wall.

At the beginning of the war, most of the villagers were afraid of the thieves' viciousness, and after a while, the resurgence of hatred in their hearts gradually replaced fear.

Chai Shaoning and the others were even more furious, and the sword in their hands slashed wildly, killing the Shangyue Bud Cottage.

In a panic, they stepped over the trap set up in the forest on the slope, and were smashed into meat cakes by the villagers' iron hoes in the midst of a miserable howl.

The fierce fighting lasted from midnight until noon the next day. Zheng Dapeng and Chai Shaoning led the villagers to attack the thief's village on the top of the mountain, and burned the Yueya Mountain cottage clean.

The villagers still refused to give up, and spontaneously formed squads to search the mountainous areas in pieces, beating to death one by one the gangsters who had not had time to escape, who were crippled and fell to the ground, and who were unable to resist.

Zheng Dapeng knew that it was not that the villagers were cruel, but that they had suffered the evil anger of the thieves in ordinary times, so how could he suppress the anger of revenge at this time? However, Zheng Dapeng also saw the weakness of the villagers' inability to restrain them, and when they encountered a real battle, they were afraid that it would be difficult to schedule, and if they wanted to compete with the bandits for a long time in the future, it was necessary to stipulate some discipline and conduct some necessary training for them.

It was not until late evening that no living thieves could be found, and the villagers returned to the village one after another.

In this battle, except for Luo Huaping, Liu Dingjian, Sun Zhong, and Sun Renshou, the bandit leaders who escaped with their martial arts, the people and horses brought by them were all wiped out.

The villagers were more than 300 dead and wounded, but compared with the two, it was still a big victory.

In the evening of the same day, Zheng Dapeng summoned the old patriarch Dong, Wang Zhong and others to talk, expressed his thoughts, and began to straighten out the people, selected 800 young and strong villagers, divided them into four teams, and equipped them with captured weapons and Orion's own firewood knives, bows and arrows, elected captains, and prescribed discipline.

Chai Shaoning and the others have also woken up Xiao Ting.

Xiao Ting's internal organs were violently shaken, but fortunately, he protected his heart with internal force before landing, so that it did not hurt the root, as long as he recuperated quietly for a period of time, he would naturally be fine.

Xue Nianci was seriously injured in three places, especially the wound on his back was shocking, from the shoulder blade down to the right buttocks, as long as Sun Renshou's sword penetrated half an inch, it would hurt the bones and internal organs, even if Da Luo Jinxian was afraid that he would not be able to save Xue Nianci's life! A large amount of blood loss had already caused Xue Nianci to fall into a deep coma.

Gao Fenglan pulled out the arrow shaft on Xue Nianci's leg, and Fang Xiaoyun crushed the pill and sprinkled it on Xue Nianci's wounds.

The pill that Qiu Haotian configured for his apprentice was really magical, and with such a long wound on Xue Nianci's back, it actually gradually stopped bleeding, and was wrapped in thick cloth by Gao Fenglan like a zongzi.

After a night, Xue Nianci's wound began to inflame, her whole body was hot, and her life was in extreme danger.

Xiao Ting, who had not recovered from his injuries, could no longer lie down, and he couldn't hide his thoughts, so he rushed into Xue Nianci's room and guarded him with tears.

Everyone knew Xiao Ting's intentions for Xue Nianci, and they knew that Xue Nianci was very likely to not survive this hurdle, so they put aside the taboo between men and women and asked Xiao Ting to take good care of Xue Nianci.

The news of the victory at Yueya Mountain spread quickly, and the people of the Quartet heard the news, and the number of people in the village surged by thousands in just three days, and the team led by Zheng Dapeng and Chai Shaoning also snowballed to 3,000 people.

On the fourth day after the war, the officers and soldiers stationed in Yamashita Castle suddenly arrived.

Chai Shaoning and the others knew that the matter was getting bigger and bigger, and these dog officials were afraid of attracting attention from above, so it was difficult to explain, and besides, they heard that the villagers had won the battle and were in a hurry to grab the credit, so they were all angry.

Zheng Dapeng and Gao Fenglan even disdained to meet that kind of person, so the old patriarch Dong had to take someone out to greet him.

Another day passed in the noisy air, and the officers and men set up another camp next to the village and settled down.

Although they still hate the officers and soldiers for not saving them when they die, with the government guarding them, the villagers have a lot of peace in their hearts after all.

Early the next morning, a villager came to report that Heihuzhai sent someone to call himself Sun Zhong and Sun Renshou, and wanted to see Zheng Dapeng, a swordsman from Pansong.

Zheng Dapeng didn't know what tricks those two old thieves were going to play, so he led the crowd out to the entrance of the village.

On the mountain road outside the entrance of the village, which is not spacious, there are two black horses standing side by side, and two old thieves, Sun Zhong and Sun Renshou, are dressed in black, carrying a long sword at their waists, and carrying a hard bow behind their backs.

Perhaps this is what the Heavenly Bandit Gang wore when they committed murder.

Zheng Dapeng pointed to the other side with his hand and asked, "Sun Renshou, now that you and I have become enemies, what else do you have to say besides a life-and-death battle on the battlefield?"

Sun Zhong was kind and kind when he was a housekeeper, but now that he has regained his appearance as a thief, his face is gloomy, and his originally handsome and delicate face has become grim and terrifying, and he sits on the horse without saying a word, with an arrogant and vicious demeanor.

Sun Renshou still looked like a profiteer with a smiling face and a thief, and answered with a smile: "Pansong swordsman is both civil and military, and he can be guessed as soon as he guesses." My senior brother and I are looking for you today, and it is on the orders of the lord of my Luo Village that we have come to write a war letter. ”

"War book?" Zheng Dapeng said disdainfully: "Sun Renshou, do you think this is a war between the two countries? A thief like you will inevitably be exterminated sooner or later, so what qualifications do you have to write a war letter?"

"What qualifications do you have?" Sun Renshou looked around contemptuously and said, "If we hadn't been too light on the enemy a few days ago, it would be a matter of two to say whether you guys would be able to stand here now." Taihang Mountain, six villages and eighteen mountains, are full of our people, and you-" Sun Renshou laughed wildly and said: "Just with those officers and soldiers behind you, as well as a group of rabble in the village, you want to exterminate the Taihang heroes that have existed since ancient times, Zheng Dapeng, don't you think it's too wishful thinking?"

"Taihang group of bears?" Song Yuanlan, who was standing next to Zheng Dapeng, heard Sun Renshou belittle her father-in-law, and was angry in her heart, but on the surface, she smiled and said: "Sun Renshou, from Taiyuan Mansion to Taihang Mountain, you specialize in sneaky and unsightly things, and you have always fled in front of my father-in-law, I think you are not even a bear, you can only be regarded as a mouse, it is better to call Sun Mouse." ”

"It's not good to learn to be sharp at a young age. Sun Renshou was not angry, but just sneered at each other: "Taiyuan Mansion, you just relied on the power of the government to win a game." Here, I'm afraid there won't be so much to take advantage of. ”

Zheng Dapeng didn't want to fight with the other party, so he asked directly: "Sun Renshou, tell me what you mean." ”

Sun Renshou looked at Zheng Dapeng with a smile and said, "My village owner heard that you threatened to win or lose ten rounds of bets with the Holy Sword Villa along the way, so I also want to have a ten rounds of bets with Brother Zheng." ”

When the two sides said this, a large number of footsteps behind them sounded accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves. It turned out that it was General Hu in the official camp who heard the news and led his subordinates to rush over.

Song Yuanlan asked Sun Renshou casually: "Sun Mouse, you took over this game on behalf of Lu Yushan, I don't know if you can be his master?"

Sun Renshou looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "Who is Lu Yushan? My Sun is a dignified thief, who has been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for decades, and is invincible, how can he tend to be inflammatory, and make friends with those martial arts masters?"

Song Yuanlan knew that Sun Renshou had seen through his strategy to lure him into the truth, and took the things that the Heavenly Thieves Gang did back then to one person to ensure the safety of Lu Yushan, so she pouted and shamed him: "In the end, they are all rats with hidden heads and tails. ”

Sun Renshou leaned over the horse's head, squinted at Song Yuanlan, and said with a smile: "Are you such an unbearable person when I am Sun Renshou? If you slander him, he will be provoked and deceived? Although Sun is not a good person, he also disdains to do that kind of thing, you want to use me to calculate Lu Yushan, the abacus is very loud?"

Song Yuanlan also laughed and said, "Then you admit that you are Sun Rat?"

Sun Renshou was angry, raised his head and looked at Song Yuanlan coldly: "Girl, there is a kind of competition between us and losers in the ring." ”

Song Yuanlan smiled: "If you say fight, you will fight, what are you, just a sun rat!"

Sun Renshou's eyes flashed cold, but he snorted coldly and endured it, no longer entangled with Song Yuanlan, and asked Zheng Dapeng: "Zheng Dapeng, fight or not, give a happy word." ”

Mr. Hu next to him sat quietly on his horse, with a calm demeanor, but he was forcibly suppressing anger in his heart.

Since the arrival of General Hu Bing, he has been snubbed by Zheng Dapeng and others, and now the enemy and I are talking about each other, but they all ignore him, and even the thieves wrote a war letter, but they also looked for Zheng Dapeng instead of him, the chief soldier, which showed their contempt for him.

However, this General Hu soldier was able to gain a firm foothold in Taihang Mountain, where there were many thieves, not because of the strength of the sword, but because of the ability to meet the source of the left and right, and the yang and the yin to disobey, so he was angry in his heart, but on the surface, he pretended to interject thoughtfully: "The competition in the ring, winning or losing a battle, to avoid the destruction of lives and the injury of innocents, is also a good way to solve things!"