Warring States Eagle

After a pause in Shangyu County, the team set off again. **

This time, Wang Hai was missing from the team.Due to a temporary trouble, he had to stay in Shangyu County temporarily.Leading the way will be undertaken by one of his men, who will catch up later.

The fleet turned at the intersection of Tongming River and Yaojiang River and entered Tongming River instead.In other words, this Tongming River was originally called Shiyuan River. Later, the Yuan Dynasty perished. In order to avoid the taboo of the word "Yuan", the emperor of the Ming Dynasty ordered all the roads containing the word "Yuan" at that time to avoid changing their names or downgrading. Yuan characters are not taboo, such as in the Yuan Dynasty: Xingyuan Road was changed to Hanzhong Mansion, Kaiyuan Road was changed to Kaiyuan Mansion, Guangyuan Road was reduced to Guangyuan Prefecture, but Qingyuan County was not changed.Even though the decree was so, in order to better flatter Shangguan, the name of this small river was changed to Tongmingjiang.

Half an hour later, the fleet stopped in a small town, and then began to put all the supplies on board on the two hired carriages.After the dotting, the convoy hit the road again.Due to the limited number of horses, this time, even Zheng Liang had to follow the convoy on foot.

Admiring the scenery along the way, Zheng Liang looked at the group of Wang Hai's men who were in charge of driving the car.In fact, Wang Hai didn't have many subordinates. Including the sailors who stayed on the ship on the island, there were only [-] people in total. This time, only four people followed Zheng Liang. Only seven people.Most of these people are fishermen who cannot make a living along the coast, and they joined Wang Hai's team driven by profit.Looking at their dark skin, it is obvious that they are all poor families who are accustomed to being exposed to the sun and rain.

After leaving the town, the convoy slowly advanced along the official road.As it got farther and farther away from the town, the surrounding fields became barren.After walking a little further, Zheng Liang stood on a small slope on the road and looked around.It's really desolate to the eye.A large area of ​​farmland is abandoned and no one cultivates it.There are several dilapidated houses beside the field, and now only ruins remain.

"Does your lord find it strange?" Said Wang Hai, who was in charge of leading the way for Zheng Liang this time, behind Zheng Liang.

"Why this scene?" Zheng Liang nodded and asked.As far as Zheng Liang knew, the Ming Dynasty was far from reaching such a situation.

"Hey!" Wang Hai's subordinates sighed and said, "The harvest has not been good in the past few years. In addition, the government has to collect heavy taxes. Many people are unwilling to become the landlord's slaves because they cannot pay the taxes. In the end, they had to Leave your family behind to flee famine, or flee to the mountains and become a bandit."

After hearing this, Zheng Liang was deeply moved.According to his impression, at this time in the Ming Dynasty, the people were still relatively stable.But now it seems.It turns out that no matter in which dynasty, there will always be some people at the bottom of the society who are in dire straits.

The convoy continued on, and soon plunged into the mountains.There are mainly two hills here, one is Qingxian Ridge on the left, which is mainly a continuous hilly area.The other is the much higher Victoria Peak and Dingshan.The road became a bit narrow, and there were trees and mountains on both sides.It was already afternoon at this time, according to the original discussion, it was necessary to take advantage of the sunshine to speed up out of the mountainous area and directly enter Yin County on the other side of the mountainous area.

While Zhengliang was admiring the scenery along the way, suddenly out of the corner of his eye, he felt a little white light reflected from a hilltop on the side of the road.Just take a look, rely on.There are people buried on that mountain top.That white light was just the mending knife that the man was carrying with him reflected in the sunlight.

"Quick, stop," Zheng Liang said to Wang Hai's subordinates who were leading the way.

Everyone was at a loss, including Masao Kinoshita, Hidemasa Akimine, and Shigemasa Yoshida who had been following Masara closely all along, and no one knew why Masara asked them to stop.

"There's an ambush ahead," Zheng Liang said softly.

"Ah?" The surrounding Wang Hai's subordinates were not as calm as Zheng Liang, but after hearing Zheng Liang's words, some people immediately exclaimed.

Zhengliang secretly called it a bad thing.Have these people seen pirates at sea, why are they panicking when encountering such a thing?

really.At this time, there was a burst of arrogant laughter on the hillside: "Hahaha, I was discovered by you."

Everyone on the mountain road looked up upon hearing this.I saw a bearded man standing on a rocky hillside on the left.He also held a patch knife in his hand.On the hilltops around Zhengliang, more than a dozen people stood up one after another.At the same time, several bandits were rushing to the front and rear sides of the mountain road in an attempt to surround Zhengliang and the others.

"Everyone hide next to the carriage." Zheng Liang took a look and found that among the bandits, some of them were holding bows and arrows. He couldn't help being surprised. Fortunately, these people didn't shoot arrows just now, otherwise they were doomed to suffer.Although Masao Kinoshita and the others couldn't understand the Chinese that Zheng Liang said suddenly, they immediately understood when they saw Zheng Liang's hand gestures, and immediately dodged to the side of Ma Shan to hide.

"Hey, Master, I'm not mistaken, it's a fat sheep. On a hilltop on the other side, a bandit laughed arrogantly. Looking at his expression, it seems that Zhengliang and the others are about to become lambs to be slaughtered.

"Hahaha, son of a bitch, you did a good job this time, you'll pick those things first later," the bearded man scolded with a smile.

Looking at the bandits around him, they laughed and cursed as if no one was there.The three servants surrounding Zhengliang all looked angry.Although they couldn't understand what the other party was saying, they could tell from the other party's expressions that the bandits were ignoring them, which made them feel insulted as warriors.

"Are there any weapons on the carriage?" As a long-term merchant, Wang Hai couldn't have not prepared weapons.

"Yes, my lord, it's on the carriage," Wang Hai's men who had recovered from the fright and led the way for Zheng Liang immediately replied. Take the bow and arrow.

Zheng Liang was also polite, and immediately distributed the weapons to his servants. Judging from the situation just now, these Wang Hai's subordinates are unreliable, and they still need to rely on the strength of several of them.Soon everyone distributed the weapons, Yoshida Shigemasa took the only bow and arrow, and the rest took the supplementary knife.

"Hey, you still want to resist? Little ones, kill me!" The bandit leader shouted immediately when he saw the Zhengliang people who hid beside the carriage began to distribute weapons.He is not a fool, even if it is a lamb, a lamb with water chestnuts can hurt people.How could he let these fat sheep take up arms?

The bandits who were eager to do meritorious service immediately rushed to surround them.

"Shigemasa, don't worry about other people, your target is that bandit." Seeing the bandit killed in the blink of an eye, Zheng Liang whispered to Yoshida Shigemasa who was about to shoot the bandit who was rushing to attack.The latter understood, and immediately pointed the arrow at the bandit leader who was still yelling arrogantly on the rock on the top of the mountain.

The so-called capturing the thief first captures the king, as long as the leader of the opponent is injured, at least the morale of his own side will also be improved.It would be even better if the opponent retreated because of this. (to be continued..)

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