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Chapter 1160 Convergence

It is really a case of great skill and courage. Niu Chenghu was surrounded by bandits but he did not retreat but advanced instead!

He was seen waving a steel knife and rushing towards the direction where the bandits were gathered. He wanted to maintain close combat with the bandits and blend in among them to avoid becoming the target of public criticism.

  But things don't always go as planned!

Just at this moment, an old thief holding a short iron hammer came forward. With a "bang", Niu Chenghu felt his hands go numb and the steel knife in his hand almost flew out.

During this delay, the bandits retreated one after another, keeping a distance of more than three steps from him. They raised their shields, swords and guns, and successfully surrounded Niu Chenghu again.

The old thief raised the hammer to hit him again. Niu Chenghu swung the steel knife towards him and at the same time bounced to the right, rushing into the group of thieves again with a spear.

However, he still underestimated the fighting qualities of these bandits. Although most of them were servants and menial workers, they had been to the battlefield and seen blood after all.

Niu Chenghu felt a chill in his ribs and said to himself, "Not good."

Looking down, he saw a spear piercing his right ribs, and bright red blood was flowing out from the wound along the spear shaft...

Niu Chenghu had already realized that he would have a hard time escaping the thieves today, but he was not willing to be a lamb to be slaughtered. He made up his mind, grabbed the wooden spear that pierced his body with both hands, and used all his strength to break the spear.

He roared loudly to relieve the pain from his wound, and threw himself to the ground. While the thieves had not yet reacted, Niu Chenghu endured the pain from his wound, grabbed one of the thieves' feet with both hands, and flipped him over.

But before he could get up and grab the thief's weapon, he felt a weight on his back, and then everything went black. He fell to the ground on the road, with a mouthful of dirt.

It turned out to be the child soldier who had attacked him with two iron-bone swords just now. Seeing that his attack was dodged by Niu Chenghu, he was unwilling to give up and quickly chased after him and hit him on the back with a hammer, causing him to spit blood and faint.

However, before he completely passed out, he seemed to hear a very familiar sound of "bang! bang! bang..." However, Niu Chenghu himself could not tell whether he really heard the explosion of his own short gun or it was just his hallucination...

Niu Chenghu's luck was indeed good, or perhaps it was destined by his fate. Although he fainted among the thieves, he did not suffer any serious injuries and was not captured and taken away by the thieves.

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It turned out that the three riders including Zhou Zhongwang, the left sergeant who served as the rear team, were riding their horses and charging forward. They opened fire from twenty steps away from the bandits. Six explosions were heard in succession, and four bandits fell to the ground, wailing non-stop.

The bandits immediately scattered in all directions. No matter how the bandit leader shouted, it was of no avail. The bandit leader, who was holding a big axe, was so angry that he knocked down three bandits in succession. Only then did the bandits calm down a little.

At this time, the leader of the child soldiers holding swords and shields also shouted: "Shoot the horses... Quickly, shoot the horses of the enemy troops with crossbows!"

For a while, crossbow arrows flew everywhere. Although they might not be very accurate amid the chaos among the bandits, with dozens of crossbow arrows fired at the same time, there would always be a blind cat that would catch a dead mouse... Han Zhaohui rode his horse behind the left sergeant Zhou Zhongwang, but he was like a magnet. Neither Zhou Zhongwang nor Han Zhaoyang beside him were hit by the crossbow arrows, but it was different for him.

Han Zhaohui was hit by three crossbow arrows, one in his left shoulder, one in his left arm, and one in his right leg, while the warhorse under him was hit by five crossbow arrows. It staggered and ran less than ten steps with a series of tragic neighs, then fell headfirst on the official road, and actually threw Han Zhaohui, who was hit by three crossbow arrows, four or five steps away.

The bandits were relieved to see that they had defeated a government cavalryman so easily. Someone shouted, "The government troops have run out of cannon fire. Come on, brothers. Kill them and you'll have meat to eat!"

They rushed forward, each holding a sword, shield, gun and axe, and instantly surrounded Zhou Zhongwang and Han Zhaoyang on horseback, making it impossible for them to break through in one go. They were forced to be trapped among the bandits and fight them with swords and guns.

However, Zhou Zhongwang and his men were in a commanding position on their war horses, swinging their two tiger spears left and right continuously, and the bandits finally surrounded the two of them, but they were unable to knock them off their horses for a while, let alone capture them.

But Han Zhaoyang, who fell off his horse nearby, did not have such an advantage. He had just stood up in a daze when he was hit on the back by a big stick. He could not help but spit out a mouthful of blood and fell on the official road again.

Perhaps he was not destined to die. Just when he was on the verge of life and death, a burst of hurried horse hooves sounds came from the north and south sides of the official road. The "dong dong dong" sound of iron hooves hitting the ground kept striking the hearts of nearly a hundred bandits.

On one side were the six riders including Chang Zhengcheng and Xing Jinyin, and on the other side were the five riders including Yan Qiang who were at the rear of the formation. Although compared with the nearly one hundred bandits, the mere eleven riders were indeed nothing.

But that was measured according to the previous standards. After all, it was their first time to fight against the Yongyi Army from Xuanfu, and they were fighting against the most elite Yulin Cavalry. How could they make accurate judgments?

At the shouting of several bandit leaders, they immediately split into two groups to intercept the oncoming government cavalry. This time they were more cautious and all their crossbows were shot at the oncoming horses, rarely shooting at the knights on horseback.

However, the war horses galloped so fast that they were in front of them in a flash. With a series of "bang bang bang..." explosions and smoke rising, the thieves fell to the ground one after another, wailing and screaming.

"Leiyu, Dachengzi, save them!"

After Xing Jinyin shouted, he put away his pistol and replaced it with a tiger spear. Two thieves fell to the ground while he was striking and hitting. Lei Yu was the first to spot Niu Chenghu who had fallen unconscious. He rode his horse and rushed over to use the tiger spear to drive away the thieves.

He Cheng rode up on his horse, dismounted, and lifted up Niu Chenghu's huge body, then mounted his own warhorse. He then mounted the horse again and held Niu Chenghu tightly to prevent him from falling off the horse again.

Chang Zhengcheng, Zhao Xingguang and the other three riders were all injured, but the situation was urgent and they could not care less. They were determined to save their comrades even at the risk of their wounds. They shouted and roared, waving their swords and guns to drive away the bandits around them.

At this moment, they still had Han Zhaohui who had fallen to the ground. Chang Zhengcheng saw that He Cheng had helped Niu Chenghu onto his horse, so he pointed ahead and shouted, "Quick, Zhou Zhongwang is over there, go over and join him!"

At this moment, Yan Qiang and the other five riders also broke through the bandits who were surrounding them and rode quickly to them. When they were less than thirty steps away, he shouted, "Quick, protect Changtou..."