Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 278
After lighting a fire and eating some hot food, Hu Cai followed Zhao Qi and his team to continue searching down the hill.

While walking, Zhao Qi suddenly stopped, Hu Cai was taken aback, and soon heard a few rustling footsteps in the forest.

He hurriedly asked the peasants and soldiers to squat down together, and the guards who were exploring the road in front also came back at this time, and whispered to Zhao Qi: "Battle Commander, we found traces left by the horses ahead."

"Let's go and have a look." Zhao Qi got up together and Hu Cai quickly followed, Zhao Qi glanced at him, and Hu Cai whispered to him: "I'm familiar with these things, so I can help."

Zhao Qi didn't say anything, when they came to the front, they saw many fallen trees in the forest, apparently someone just passed by.

A few balls of horse dung were frozen on the ground, Hu Cai went up and turned over the horse dung with a branch and said to Zhao Qi: "The horse dung is still fresh, and those people must not have left for too long."

Zhao Qi nodded in agreement, and then said to the people around him: "Let's stop searching along the hills, let's catch up and have a look."

This is already the downstream of the search range, and it is not easy to find any enemies further ahead, and the enemy must have made a big move to ride up the mountain. Hu Cai had no opinion on Zhao Qi's decision, so everyone followed the horse. Step on the traces and go all the way forward

Soon they heard the sound of horses trampling in the woods.

"Why doesn't this horse bark?" A farmer next to him whispered, Hu Cai quickly turned his head to look at him, but the farmer didn't dare to speak anymore, so Hu Cai replied in a very small voice: "Be quiet, The horses of these people must have had a bit on them, and they can walk quietly in such a narrow forest, this group of people came prepared."

"There are quite a few people here." Zhao Qi was also an old horse bandit before, and he knew who was coming just by looking at the fallen tree branches on the side of the road.

Several people were walking forward slowly, when suddenly the people who were looking for the way ahead ran back again.

Zhao Qi frowned instantly, this man ran so fast, something must have happened.

He lowered his voice and asked, "What's wrong?"

"There are people around us!"

"Is anyone there?" Hu Cai became nervous for a moment, and Zhao Qi's expression was also serious.

He looked left and right, and quickly made a judgment: "We are not spying on us, we have mistakenly entered the sentry team of others, and they also have sentries."

The soldiers also panicked at this time, Zhao Qi hurriedly asked the soldiers under him to prepare muskets, Hu Cai thought for a while but stood up and said: "Once the guns are fired in this forest, those people will definitely know our news, think again It will be difficult to find out their whereabouts, why not let me go!"

Zhao Qi glanced at him uncertainly, Hu Cai patted the scimitar on his waist and said, "I'm still prepared to deal with one or two horse bandits."

Zhao Qi thought for a while and nodded, Hu Cai selected two dealers with good skills under his command, and prepared his weapons and rushed forward.

Soon after walking into the forest, he saw a man walking swaying there with a pony specially used for walking through the forest.

Seeing that person's equipment, Hu Cai took a deep breath. The armor on these people is worth a lot of money at least!What is the background of this group of people who can install such good equipment?
He didn't have time to think about it, he looked around and saw that there was no one guarding the man, and immediately Hu Cai rushed up.

The knight riding on the horse under the forest heard the sound of rushing out from beside him, he immediately took out a small bucket and wanted to ring it, asking Hu Cai how could he give him a chance?The scimitar struck out, and in an instant it slashed the man's hand holding Diao Dou.

Then several dealers all rushed forward, pulled the man off the horse at once, pressed the man's mouth one by one, and Hu Cai skillfully stuffed some stones and other things into the man's mouth.

Soon several people pressed the man back to Zhao Qi, Zhao Qi looked at Hu Cai in surprise, it was only time for him to go out for a cup of tea.

Hu Cai also had a proud look on his face. Wouldn't it be easy to grab a tongue with his skill?

Zhao Qi nodded to Hu Cai, and also saw that the armor on that man was unusual, so he asked quickly, "Who did you bring with you, and how did you wear such good armor?"

The bandit from Liangshan glanced at Zhao Qi, and quickly made a gesture of kneeling.

Everyone looked at him, and suddenly the man stretched out his hand and grabbed a big rock on the person next to him. Zhao Qi was startled, and quickly drew out his saber, when the two guards around him were about to go up and hold his hand, But there was no time, the man threw the boulder directly on his head and neck, and there was a loud noise, bleeding from the corner of his mouth, and the man died in the snow just like that.

Seeing this scene, everyone was startled, but then Zhao Qi's eyes narrowed suddenly, and he quickly said to the guards: "Reload all the guns, and then chase forward with me, this guy would rather die." If you refuse to confess your companions, there must be some important person in front of you!"

Hu Cai also reacted at this time, exchanged glances with the dealer and hurriedly followed, and the guards who had quickly reloaded their bullets rushed forward together.

The more you walk in the direction where the bandits came, you will find that the road ahead is extremely wide. It is obvious that the bandits have opened up the road in advance when they came up the mountain.

They are following these paths now, and they are not afraid of being ambushed, after all, there are so many people.

As I was walking, I saw two sentries in front of me. When the two horses saw them, they wanted to go down the mountain in a hurry. It's not easy to turn in a hurry, and it's not as fast as anyone running.

A group of people rushed up first and fired bayonets, and soon subdued the sentry man, and the remaining one quickly jumped off the horse, kicking the ground with both legs and running down.

At this time, the crowd also chased wildly, but Zhao Qi played tricks. After looking at the horse, he didn't use his feet to run down first, but turned the horse around, and then stepped on the horse. The horse followed.

He was born as a horse bandit for many years, and his equestrian skills are very strong, even if he is riding a forest horse in the mountains, he can run very fast.

After running for a while, Zhao Qi realized that there was an open field in front of him. At this moment, the advantage of the speed of the horse appeared. A man with a gun.

When they met Zhao Qi and that person, they were taken aback. The guy was tall and tall, with a helmet on his head and a shining heart mirror on his body. At first sight, he knew that he must be a leader on Liangshan.

Zhao Qi was in astonishment, and shouted, "Thunderbolt and fire, Qin Ming is here!" and brandished an iron whip to fight.

"Qin Ming?" Zhao Qi groaned in his heart. His skills were better than ordinary soldiers. How could he be an opponent against those Liangshan heroes who practiced martial arts since childhood?
At such a short distance, Zhao Qi had no time to fire in a hurry, so he could only hold the bayonet-mounted spear upright and fight the man. Only one round when the man's iron edge swung down, Zhao Qi's hands were directly shaken. Numb, when the horse wanted to run back, the person behind him clamped the horse with his legs, and one got up and swept the iron whip across Zhao Qi's waist and abdomen, and instantly felt a chill on his back, and the other side almost knocked him The whole person is discounted in half.

When he was in fear, he suddenly heard a shout from behind, and saw that Hu Cai also snatched a horse, and suddenly killed it in a diagonal stab.

(End of this chapter)