Thief Emperor

Chapter 65 Ambush!

On the battlefield of cold weapons, personal heroism is often very useful.

Especially in small-scale battles, a fierce general can kill the enemy so badly that they are terrified and flee in panic.

The current Li Yun might not be able to perform so well if he were really placed in an army formation, but in this kind of fight between bandits, he is like a killing god!
As long as these enemies don't run away, he can kill more than half of them with this gun alone!
However, in this era, the imperial army could potentially collapse and flee after suffering 30% casualties in battle, not to mention these bandits who had not received systematic training. When Li Yun jumped onto the grain cart, these bandits had already begun to flee in all directions.

Zhang Hu, holding a single knife, chased after them with a roar, and cut down two or three more people, but he could no longer catch up with the others.

Of the more than twenty bandits from the Ten Kings Village, only seven or eight escaped.

Li Zheng also dealt with a bandit from the Ten Kings Village. He came to Li Yun, panting, and asked, "Second... Second Brother, what should we do next?"

"Burned."

Li Yun jumped off the grain cart and ordered, "Unhook the horses and ride away. Burn all the grain carts."

"what?"

Someone exclaimed, "Village leader, it's a pity to burn all this food."

Li Yun looked up at the sky and said, "This place is too close to Lingyang Mountain and too far from Cangshan Mountain. We can't get away without taking all this food. After burning the food, we will immediately return to Cangshan Mountain to prepare for battle!"

Two months ago, there were only about fifty people in the Cangshan village, including a dozen young men from Hexi, but now at the foot of Cangshan, there are about a hundred more farmhands.

These farmhands are certainly not as ferocious and useful as the bandits, but there is no problem in helping to boost morale and fight.

At Li Yun's command, a group of people immediately set the five grain carts on fire. As the fire started, Li Yun took off his mask and put it in his arms, then shouted, "Let's go! Go back to Cangshan!"

……

Just over an hour after Li Yun and others left, a group of more than a dozen horses appeared near the carriage. Leading the group was a man in his forties with a long slanting scar on his face. The man jumped off his horse, took a look at the burning carriage, and his face looked very ugly.

"Did that person really say that they are from Cangshan Village?"

A bandit with a wound on his face lowered his head tremblingly and said, "Yes, Great Village Chief, that man was wearing a mask and clearly stated that he was Li Yun from the Cangshan Great Village."

"Li Yun..."

The middle-aged man stood with his hands behind his back, squinting his eyes, and didn't speak for a long time.

After a long while, a thinner middle-aged man who looked like a scholar lowered his head and reminded: "Captain, two months ago, the guys below caught a suspicious person. After torture, they found out that he was a colleague from Cangshan."

"In order to teach Cangshan a lesson, the second village chief cut off his arm and sent it to Cangshan. Later, someone from Cangshan came and admitted his fault, gave some money to the village, and took the person away."

The scholar sighed and said, "At that time, we all thought that the matter was over, but we didn't expect that they would really regard it as a grudge. It seems that they have been keeping an eye on us for the past two months and even found our grain carts."

The chief of the Ten Kings Camp was named Tong. His colleagues in nearby prefectures often called him Boss Tong. He was well-known among the outlaws in seven or eight prefectures near Xuanzhou, and his nickname on the road was King Lingyang.

At this time, Boss Tong finally remembered something and said, "I remember that there was a village in Cangshan. The village chief was called Li Mazi. I have seen him before, but I heard that Mazi died of illness a few years ago. Then what about this Li Yun..."

The scholar said slowly: "It should be Xiao Mazi."

"If I weren't young and hot-tempered, I wouldn't do such a stupid thing."

"Don't even mention Qingyang. In Xuanzhou, no one has dared to make trouble for you, the village chief, for many years."

"Youthful and energetic..."

Tong Lao Da said, "Young people who are too hot-tempered usually don't live long, Lao San."

The middle-aged scholar bowed his head quickly: "Yes."

"Count all the people."

Tong clenched the steel knife in his hand and said angrily: "If we don't wipe out this pockmarked boy's family business, all the fellows in Xuanzhou will laugh at our Lingyang Mountain!"

The middle-aged scholar who ranked third in the Ten Kings Village nodded quickly: "Yes, I'll go right away."

…………

Cangshan Dazhai.

Li Yun sat on the tiger-skin chair and called all the people who had a say in the village to the main hall. After explaining the situation to everyone, he patted the table and said, "To put it simply, the enemy may come to our door soon, so we have to fight even if we don't want to!"

"Skinny monkey."

Li Zheng stood up quickly and said, "Second brother, I'm here!" "Go down the mountain now and find the village chief of Lijia Village at the foot of the mountain. Tell him that a large group of bandits may come to Cangshan soon. Those people are murderous. Tell him to take the villagers away for two or three days and come back after three days."

The skinny monkey responded and was about to turn around to do his work, but was stopped by the second in command Yuan Zhengming. Yuan Zhengming, who had not been in charge for a long time, stood up, looked at Li Yun, and said slowly: "Village leader, I shouldn't ask about the affairs of the village, but now that we are facing a powerful enemy, should we stop caring about the village down the mountain? We should focus on defending every important road."

"Let's let the skinny monkey go down the mountain. The people at the bottom of the mountain may not listen to us."

Li Yun frowned, then said in a deep voice: "Skinny monkey!"

Li Zheng didn't hesitate any more and turned away.

Li Dazhaizhu looked up at the second in command and forced a not-so-good smile on his face: "Second uncle, I will naturally deal with the things I caused, so don't worry about me."

"What is this nonsense?"

Yuan Zhengming slammed the table and shouted angrily, "Heizi was killed by someone else, and the feud is over. No one can say that you, Erzi, were at fault in this fight!"

"Since you didn't say I was wrong."

Li stood up, put his hands on the table, and looked at everyone with a fierce look: "Then do everything according to my method, and obey my orders!"

...............

At dusk the next day, Boss Tong arrived at the foot of Cangshan Mountain with eighty or ninety fierce bandits.

Unlike those sent by the state last time, these bandits also roamed in the mountains all year round, and they were in Lingyang Mountain, which is much taller than Cangshan Mountain.

To them, this Cangshan Mountain is not much different from plain land.

"Boss."

The third in command, surnamed Zhou, acted as a military advisor in the Ten Kings Village. He lowered his head slightly and said, "I have asked. The mountain in front is Cangshan Mountain. The village in front is called Lijia Village."

"Enter the village."

Tong Lao waved his hand and said coldly: "Catch two people from the village and take us up the mountain!"

In an unfamiliar terrain, one naturally needs to find someone familiar to lead the way. It is not uncommon for bandits to annex each other, especially as the largest bandit stronghold in Qingyang, Boss Tong can be said to be well versed in this.

So, a group of eighty or ninety people marched into the village in a mighty manner. Some of the bandits already had ferocious looks on their faces, and were ready to kill a few people before going up the mountain to show their blood and build up their momentum.

Lijia Village is not big, with less than a hundred households at most. After seeing the bandits entering the village, the villagers who were still outside immediately rushed home in panic.

The third village chief, whose surname was Zhou, brought four or five bandits with him, kicked open the fence door of a villager's house and walked into the yard with a swagger.

The third village chief said fiercely: "Don't hide, I saw you coming in!"

"Come out and answer my question!"

A trembling voice came from the mud house in the yard: "Great... Great King, our family has no money..."

"Is it up to you to decide whether I have money or not?"

The third village chief was furious. He rushed to the door and kicked it open. Then he cursed: "You ungrateful thing, I want your dog..."

He stopped talking before he even uttered the word "fate".

"what!"

He exclaimed.

Because there were six or seven people hiding in this inconspicuous house, each of them holding a weapon!

The one standing in the front was none other than Zhang Hu.

He stretched out his hand and pulled the third village chief in, then covered his mouth with one hand and stabbed the dagger in his other hand into his chest.

As the third in command became silent, several bandits following behind him rushed in, and Zhang Hu, who was already holding a long knife, rushed out directly. He caught one of them off guard and killed him with one blow!
At the same time, in another house, Li Yun, who was wearing a mask, had killed a bandit with one sword. He threw down his sword, picked up his spear, shouted angrily, and rushed towards the bandits from the Ten Kings Village in front of him.

"kill!"

The bandits from Cangshan Dazhai, dressed in civilian clothes and hiding in Lijia Village, suddenly rose up almost at the same time!

For a moment, the originally quiet and peaceful Lijia Village was filled with shouts and screams!

(End of this chapter)