Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

It's a pity that the riverside is a little far away from Yuejiazhuang. Although Tao Jun is already hoarse, Kong Yanzhou is sitting in the lobby of Yuejiazhuang drinking fragrant tea and eating fresh fruits at this time, and he can't hear the mournful voice of the leader Tao.

Ximen Qing led his troops to rush to the bank of the river, but did not chase down. Instead, Chen Bing stood on the bank of the river, looking coldly at the dozens of robbers in the small river.Let the glory of killing these robbers be given to Hero Zhou Tong Zhou!

Tao Jun raised his shield and commanded his men to launch a final attack on Zhou Tong in despair.

Chapter 3 and One

Seeing Tao Jun struggling for the last time, Jiang Zhong, Jiao Ting and Brother Qiao Yun followed Ximen Qing's instructions and stood still, looking at Zhou Tong on the other side of the river.

With a long laugh, Zhou Tong drew out five long arrows from his quiver at a time, bent his bow and set up the arrows, and shot them out in succession.The sound of bowstrings continued, and the five young men who were protecting Tao Jun were shot in the face and fell off their horses almost at the same time.

The corpses of these five young men fell into the river, and just as the water splashed, five more arrows came towards them. The four young men around Tao Jun held up their shields in vain, and Zhou Tong shot them all. Fell in the river.

The last arrow came straight towards Tao Jun.Tao Jun was wearing armor all over his body. He held a shield in his left hand to cover his face and chest. He swung the knife in his right hand indiscriminately, trying to deflect Zhou Tong's arrow.

There was only a "poof", the arrow hit something.Tao Jun, who was sweating profusely from nervousness, hurriedly inspected his chest and abdomen, his right hand holding the knife was still groping his face.When he realized that his chest, abdomen and face were not hit by the arrow, he shouted excitedly: "Hahaha~ the master blocked it! The master blocked the sharp archer! Brothers, hurry up!"

A young man behind Tao Jun suddenly shouted to him: "Third Chief, your hand!"

When Tao Jun heard this, he felt a sharp pain in his left arm.He took a closer look, and it turned out that Zhou Tong's arrow had pierced the shield in his hand, and was hitting the arm holding the shield. The arrow pierced through the arm, nailing the shield and Tao Jun's hand together.

That old Zhou Tong, whose hair and beard are all white, is so powerful with one arrow!

Tao Jun let go of his left hand in pain, but screamed and quickly grabbed the handle of the shield.Just because after he let go, the weight of the entire shield was borne by the bow and arrow on the wound on his arm, causing him unbearable pain.

The rest of the gangsters in the river were frightened by Zhou Tong's arrow, and they didn't dare to rush to Zhou Tong with their shields.They dispersed and fled towards the upstream and downstream sides of the creek.

Zhou Tong took his time and shot another round of arrows, and the five fleeing robbers fell down.

At the same time, hundreds of archers suddenly rushed out from behind Zhou Tong, and the leader of them was Zhou Tong's apprentice, Yao Zheng from Yaojiazhuang.After Yao Zheng killed a bandit with one arrow, he shouted to release the arrows, and the archers shot wildly at the fleeing young men up and down the river.

Amidst the screams, the robbers were shot down one after another.

Tao Jun begged heartbreakingly: "Don't shoot the arrows! The villain is willing to surrender! The villain is willing to surrender! The villain is willing to abandon the darkness and turn to the light like the leader Kong!"

It's a pity that Zhou Tong didn't want to let Tao Jun go, his hands were stained with the blood of many people in Xiangzhou.Zhou Tong didn't use Lianzhu arrows this time, but drew his bow fully and shot an arrow. The arrow seemed to have eyes, and it shot towards Tao Jun's shield edge, and shot at his unprotected waist department.

Tao Jun, who was wearing armor, was shot through by the arrow. He was seriously injured and fell off his horse until he sank to the bottom of the river.Tao Jun was wearing heavy armor and was seriously injured. After falling into the water, there was no one around to help him. This guy struggled a few times in the water and drowned alive in the creek.

Before Tao Jun died, although he guessed that Kong Yanzhou betrayed Mou Shan and led himself and Jia Jin into the trap of the officers and soldiers, he thought that Kong Yanzhou was caught when he came to spy on information last time, so he defected and joined the officers and soldiers.Therefore, before he died, he also wanted to surrender and pray for his life like Kong Yanzhou.

How did Tao Jun know that Kong Yanzhou originally went to Mushan to join the gang with hatred, in order to completely destroy the Mushan village.With an ally like Kong Yanzhou leading the way, how could Ximen Qing and others need him to be a traitor.

Moreover, it is not the imperial court's army that defeated their Moushan bandits now, but local tyrants and rural soldiers from Yanggu County and Tangyin County.The officers and soldiers might also recruit traitors, absorb thieves and desperadoes into the forbidden army, and the local tyrants who have a sworn enemy with the robbers will never hold back the robbers.

Before dying, Tao Jun and Jia Jin didn't know that they were defeated by Ximen Qing, a guest who visited Yuejiazhuang, so they went to Huangquan in a daze.

Ximen Qing saw Zhou Tong's Lianzhu arrow clearly across a small river, and he was deeply moved.

That old Zhou Tong's continuous arrows were fast and ruthless, almost like an automatic rifle, and each round of shooting could take the lives of five robbers.This is because Zhou Tong is old and frail. I remember he said that when he was young, he could shoot ten arrows in a row, that was really terrifying!

Although Zhou Tong is average in martial arts with guns and sticks, his archery skills of ten arrows in one hand when he was young are enough to make him a killing god on the battlefield.The effect of his killing is like shooting with a submachine gun of later generations, he is really invincible!

Before Tang Long's firearms have made breakthroughs, Ximenqing will have to rely on archers for some time to fight. Now he really wants to have more archery masters like Zhou Tong!

More than 100 archers led by Zhou Tong fired arrows at random, and the remaining robbers in the river were shot like hedgehogs as targets for them to practice archery, and all of them died in the river.

When Tao Daweng led the local villagers to clean up the battlefield and announced that all the Moushan bandits who had invaded this time had been wiped out, and none of them slipped through the net, bursts of cheers erupted inside and outside Yuejiazhuang.

Ximenqing saw that the villagers in Tangyin County who were still holding hoes and sickles yesterday were full of excitement after fighting the robbers with knives, guns, bows and arrows today.

The Mushan bandits once brought a lot of fear to these farmers and villagers, but today's World War I let them know that bandits are also human beings who fear death and can be defeated and killed by them armed with weapons.From now on, they will no longer be afraid of robbers coming to rob them.

There was a touch of blood in the villagers that they didn't even notice. Only Ximen Qing, who had experienced the same scene, saw the same changes in them as the villagers at the foot of Kushu Mountain in Guanzhou.

Ximenqing didn't know that Zhou Tong, who had experienced battles and was familiar with his fellow villagers, also saw that the villagers were not what they used to be.And all these gratifying changes were brought about by his newly sworn brother of the opposite sex who suddenly visited the official Ximen Qing in Yuejiazhuang.Zhou Tong looked at Ximen Qing and his elite subordinates who were not far away, and thought with relief, entrusting Pengju and the others to this righteous brother, I have no worries!

Ximen Qing handed over the task of dealing with the robber's funeral to Yue He, Zhuangzhu and Yao Daweng. The hundreds of locals they recruited were not strong in combat, but they were all good at these chores.

The annihilation and killing of three hundred Mushan robbers this time is also a great achievement for the government.Ximenqing gave all the credit to the two owners, Yue and Yao, and asked them to deal with the county magistrate of Tangyin County and sell favors.

Ximen Qing gave all these benefits to Yue He and Yao Daweng, just to further win over the relationship with these two families, so that the young Yue Fei and his gang of little brothers were willing to board his chariot.

Chapter 3 Infiltrating into Mushan

In late autumn, Mushan is full of red leaves, and the mountain wind blowing from the north is already a bit chilly.In a thatched hut halfway up the mountain, a few young robbers were lighting a fire and roasting two pheasants caught in the woods.

This is a sentry shed set up by the Mushan robbers on the mountain road up the mountain, in order to guard against the officers and soldiers coming to attack the mountain, and to serve as a guard and sentry.Although the guards stationed in Xiangzhou City had never had the pleasure of doing outings around the bandit-occupied Mou Mountain, Liu He, the owner of the Mou Mountain village, insisted on setting up checkpoints on the mountain road.

"Bumping into the Mountain Bear" Liu He was originally an officer of the Song-Liao border garrison of the Volcano Army on Hedong Road. Because he violated the military law, he fled privately to Mount Mu at the southern foot of Taihang Mountain to occupy the mountain and become king.He entangled Ma Fang, Tao Jun, and Jia Jin, the desperadoes in the rivers and lakes, gathered five or seven hundred young men, and suddenly plundered Xiangzhou, Weizhou, and the Anli Army area, and no one could stop him.

Even though the officers and soldiers of the surrounding states have always been cowardly, they never dared to conquer Mou Shan.The owner of the village, Liu He, still set up three sentry posts under the village according to his habit when he was in the army.

The sentry post halfway up the mountain is the last checkpoint, and there are two more checkpoints at the bottom and the foot of the mountain. Therefore, the few young men on duty here don't pay much attention to the sentry and guard, and are busy hunting wild game to comfort themselves.

The mountain wind whizzed past, blowing the flames of the bonfire in all directions, and the fragrance of two roast chickens on wooden sticks also drifted out with the wind.

"It smells so good! Which little bastard roasted the chicken? It made my stomach growl!" A voice suddenly came from the bottom of the mountain road.Immediately afterwards, a group of people appeared on the mountain road and approached the sentry post halfway up the mountain.The one who spoke was none other than Kong Yanzhou, the leader of the five heads of Mushan who was walking in the front.

The robbers who were roasting pheasants in the sentry shed felt unlucky when they saw that Kong Tou had led them back to the mountain.The brothers managed to hunt two pheasants in the forest, but before they could enjoy it, the leader of the hole went back to the mountain!It seems that today this pheasant can only be dedicated to Kong Touling for a tooth-beating sacrifice.

The robbers complained in their hearts, but they ran out with two roasted pheasants full of smiles on their faces, and said courteously to Kong Yanzhou: "Kong leader has worked hard! The little ones just roasted two pheasants, please accept it with a smile. .”

Kong Yanzhou reached out to take a pheasant, took a bite and praised: "It's roasted well! You little ones have such filial piety, and I will reward you all later! Are you the only ones in this sentry shed? Count one less, I can Don’t give me a reward!”

Before Kong Yanzhou finished speaking, another young man emerged from the sentry shed, holding a jug of wine in his hand, and smiled at Kong Yanzhou: "Boss Kong, there is still a villain here! The villain has gone to find wine for the leader. Come late."

The little guy with the roast chicken replied to Kong Yanzhou: "Boss Kong, there are six people here, and they are all here."

"Very good!" Before Kong Yanzhou could finish his sentence, a few people flashed out from behind him and rushed towards the unsuspecting six robbers.

Flashing out from behind Kong Yanzhou, the leader was "Faceless" Jiao Ting.With both fists left and right, he hit the chests of the two robbers, and then kicked one of the robbers to the ground.

Jiao Tingli has big hands and quick hands, and he is the most powerful in unarmed combat.He once killed the flying centipede Wang Daoren with good martial arts in Centipede Ridge with a violent blow. How could these gangsters resist his fists and feet?The three robbers vomited blood and fell to the ground. They could only breathe out, not in.

Although the remaining three gangsters escaped Jiao Ting's killer, they were knocked to the ground by Jiao Ting's followers, unable to resist.

Jiao Ting wrapped his arms around his chest, and after watching the people around him take the lives of three gangsters, he just nodded and praised: "Yue Fei, you guys look pretty good!"

The people around Jiao Ting are Yue Fei, Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, Xu Qing and other teenagers.This time up the mountain, Ximenqing intentionally asked them to follow Jiao Ting and Kong Yanzhou to deal with the sentry in the Mushan village, so as to practice their youthful combat skills.

"Brother Jiao Ting is a good teacher!" Yue Fei and other teenagers saluted Jiao Ting.

"Why, only Jiao Ting taught you how to wait for sumo, and I, Jiang Menshen, didn't teach you to wait?" Jiang Menshen Jiang Zhong came out from the back of the team, joking with Jiao Ting, Yue Fei and others .Because Jiang Zhong's stature was too tall, he could not help but scare the snake, so he did not walk at the front of the team with Kong Yanzhou and others, but hid behind.

Yue Fei and other teenagers clasped their fists to Jiang Zhong and thanked him: "Fei and others have learned these skills, how dare we forget the kindness of Brother Jiang's teaching!"

Jiang Zhong laughed loudly and said: "Yue Fei, I was joking with you! If you want to thank, you should also thank Brother Ximen. I was entrusted by him to teach you martial arts."