Starting from the Tiger Demon Yaksha, the demon immortality

Chapter 79 78 War, Defeated Soldiers, Encounter
Ge Yingyang is not a soft-hearted person.

He drew his bow and shot arrows, killing four or five people who were attacking the convoy in succession. The numbness was finally replaced by fear, and the refugees crawled away.

Many young escorts showed reluctance in their eyes, and Qin Yu unknowingly fell behind the team.

"Brother Li, no, Li Biaotou."

"Can't bear it, huh?"

Li Cunxiao was also touched when he glanced at the babies in the women's arms who had turned blue and purple due to the cold, but he looked expressionless.

As a team leader, you cannot show weakness.

"Qin Yu, these are chaotic times. Being able to protect oneself is already a luxury. Human power is limited, and worldly affairs are beyond our control."

After Li Cunxiao finished speaking, he lightly squeezed the horse's belly and Chili trotted around the escort team.

The pair of tiger eyes not only intimidated the refugees on the roadside, but also made everyone put away their chaotic thoughts and be cautious and alert.

Ge Yingyang couldn't help but admire Li Cunxiao.

As the leader of a dart team, you can be compassionate, but you must know when to act.

The other party's behavior may seem cruel, but it is actually a manifestation of responsibility to the escorts.

Speechless all the way.

It gets dark early in winter, and Li Cunxiao wanted to be safe on his first escort mission, so he took his escorts to stay in the post station as soon as it got dark.

He had studied the entire route carefully.

In addition to the post station where the escort agency usually stayed, he repeatedly asked veteran escorts such as Ge Yingyang and Gao Hu about where to stay and how to obtain supplies in the event of an accident.

Therefore, the journey for the first two days was smooth sailing.

If we have to say what was surprising, it was probably that it was the first time the innkeeper saw such a young escort, and at first he thought it was a fraudulent trick of the robbers.

Once his identity was confirmed, his enthusiasm was overwhelming - he was young and powerful, so he must have a bright future.

We are all on the business road. Making friends might save our lives in the future!

But Li Cunxiao also found that the further he went, the more deserted the post stations and inns on the road became.

Apart from these regular big escort agencies and big business groups, there were almost no other guests in the post station.

Is there a war going on nearby?

"Actually, we're doing fine here. But I heard from a caravan earlier that King Huang's army has reached Bozhou."

"If you continue to go south, you might encounter fleeing soldiers."

The innkeeper sighed. Upon hearing this, Li Cunxiao looked at several old escorts, discussed it again in the evening, and then went to bed.

The next day, the sky brightened and the escort team continued to move forward.

Their destination this time was Yucheng, south of Chuqiu County, which was not far from the border between Songzhou and Bozhou. The journey was expected to take five days.

On the third day, they reached the midpoint between the two places. The inn they had originally planned to stay in was in ruins, and the wooden doors had been removed and used as firewood.

Next to the remaining ashes of the campfire, there are splattered bloodstains, indicating the cruel story that happened.

Fortunately, Li Cunxiao had made preparations early. He bought extra water and firewood at the previous post station and also brought a tent on the carriage.

At night, two groups of people took turns to keep watch. Although it was not as comfortable as staying in the post station, at least they did not have to sleep in the wilderness. The escorts all admired Li's thoroughness.

In the remaining two days, there were no other accidents and they successfully arrived at Zhaojiazhuang, thirty miles away from Yucheng.

The dart team was stopped outside the tall dock.

The person who came out to greet them was a man who looked like a butler, followed by a dozen servants, all of whom were tall and strong, holding swords and guns.

In the distance, inside the three-meter-high city wall, there are four or five watchtowers standing taller than the others, and the archers' eyes are full of vigilance.

The butler said apologetically:
"Captain Li, you all have come so long, we should treat you well."

"It's just that the brothers of the Flying Tiger Escort Agency are all fierce warriors, but the manor is full of women and children. It would be bad if we welcomed them in and caused misunderstandings."

The other side was afraid of the nearly twenty armored warriors in the team.

The Flying Tiger Escort Agency has a good reputation, but the master of Zhaojiazhuang is obviously more cautious and afraid of a disaster.

After all, the bodyguards are at least able to control qi and blood, and Li Cunxiao and Ge Yingyang are at the second level of muscles, and are like demons.

If someone has evil intentions, how can the servants in the manor resist?

"Manager Zhao, I understand your difficulties."

The man who looked like a housekeeper just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, but then he saw Li Cunxiao's brows raised.

"But dozens of us brothers here, sleeping in the open air, delivered the goods, and yet we don't even have a place to shelter from the wind and rain?"

"Do you look down on our Flying Tiger Escort Agency?"

His tone grew colder as he spoke, and his sharp white teeth spit out long white mists, making him look like a tiger.

The butler shuddered and waved his hands repeatedly:
"Don't dare! Don't dare!"

"Although we can't open the door to welcome guests, I had the farmers vacate ten empty houses yesterday and repaired and tidied them up."

"Once everyone is settled, we'll have a banquet and wine right away. Hot water is readily available!"

"Also, the master knows that all of you brothers have worked hard, so he has given each of you a red envelope of five taels of silver. Please accept it, both escort leaders."

The housekeeper hurried forward, stood next to Chili, and handed a silver note to Li Cunxiao and Ge Yingyang respectively.

Li Cunxiao saw clearly that originally both of them had fifty taels, but after the housekeeper found out that he was the one in charge, he gritted his teeth and took out two ten-tael silver notes from his pocket to make up the total of seventy taels for him.

His expression finally softened.

There were no incidents after that. After everyone was settled in the farmer's house, wine, meat, hot water and dry clothes were quickly delivered.

The escorts were exhausted and didn't care whether they were inside or outside the manor. It was not until the banquet started that someone mentioned the matter.

As long as there was money to be made, most people had no objection. Qin Yu even led the toast, praising Li Biaotou for securing the red envelope for his brothers, which drew applause from the crowd.

Li Cunxiao drank a glass with everyone, but he didn't dare let everyone get drunk, he just wanted to warm them up.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, he let half of the people rest first, and left the other half with him to watch over the delivery of the silver.

This escort mission was to transport the Jiang family's goods. After they were delivered to Zhaojiazhuang, the balance of the payment would be taken back as collateral.

The steward had previously refused to let the escort enter the fort, so Li Cunxiao, naturally, didn't hold back and seized the escort vehicle, forcing the escort to pay for the goods. Master Zhao, probably realizing his mistake, finally came to apologize in person, accompanied by two or three skilled escorts.

But Li Cunxiao was too lazy to listen to his nonsense. He just asked Qin Yu to count the silver, while he looked at the goods unloaded from the escort car for a long time without saying a word.

The Jiang family's specialty, glazed rice, is plump and lustrous, with a luster like glaze. It is said that it was once used as a tribute.

A pound of glazed rice costs a hundred coins, but the price of grain in Chuqiu City has fluctuated several times, and now a pound of brown rice costs only ten coins.

Even so, it was not uncommon for people to sell themselves into slavery because they could not afford food.

In addition to two thousand kilograms of glazed rice, the cart also unloaded a famous Chuqiu wine called Taoxiang, which cost five taels of silver per pot.

They were all wrapped in thick straw and cotton cloth and placed in a box padded with animal skins.

Mr. Zhao spent nearly a thousand taels of silver on escorting the convoy, but in the end he only bought some New Year's goods.

Li Cunxiao thought of the bodies of people who had frozen to death or starved to death on the road, and felt a mixture of emotions.

Silent all night.

The next day, when it was light, Li Cunxiao did not delay. He counted the troops and horses, counted the silver one last time, and then led the team away.

After walking for half a day, everyone had some food and water and continued on their way. It was not until they were near the inn where they were staying that something happened.

Only then did Li Cunxiao understand why Mr. Zhao was so cautious.

Surrounding the post station was a group of defeated soldiers.

The reason why they could be identified as fleeing soldiers was that although these people were in a mess, their clothes were of the same style, and the leader even had a complete set of waist-length two-stage iron armor.

About a dozen defeated soldiers, plus twenty or thirty young and strong men dressed as civilian laborers, surrounded the post station and shouted and cursed.

The innkeeper was no pushover either. He brought five or six men with him, all armed with bows and arrows, and scared the men so much that they dared not come forward for a while.

Seeing this, the escorts in the caravan began to breathe rapidly, each of them drew their swords, held their shields, and held their spears at an angle.

Qin Yu clutched the spear, breathing rapidly, recalling Cui Yao's words about the spear and stick being combined in his mind, but his eyes were fixed on the tall figure at the front of the team.

Just wait for the order and everyone will rush out.

"Captain Ge, release the arrows."

Ge Yingyang originally thought that Li Cunxiao was full of hot-blooded energy and would be the first to rush out, but he didn't expect him to be so patient.

He drew the bow and put the arrow on it, then let go. The arrow that had drilled out of the hole pierced the air, making a sharp sound.

The group of defeated soldiers over there were originally planning to rush into the post station, but they heard a strange noise and turned around to look. Their faces changed, and some even shouted:
"The government troops are chasing us! Brothers, run away!"

The other party reacted so strongly only because Li Cunxiao suddenly had an idea. He and Ge Yingyang took off their round-necked robes together, revealing the iron armor underneath.

The cold winter sun, the icy gleam of iron armor, and behind him were nearly twenty fully armed men, all holding swords, shields, and spears, with flying tiger flags fluttering. Suddenly, I thought they were guards from some vassal state.

Seeing the other side collapse without a fight, the morale of the escort agency suddenly soared.

Ge Yingyang and the old escorts guarded the escort silver, while Li Cunxiao took Qin Yu and other young escorts to chase and kill.

They are already defeated soldiers, so it doesn't matter if they see some blood.

After repeatedly emphasizing that civilians should not be killed, Li Cunxiao kicked his horse's belly and Chili rushed out like a black evil spirit.

With the wind blowing, he flew up like a cloud, and soon he caught up with the leader of the defeated soldiers who was wearing double armor. The latter was so frightened that he hurriedly took off his armor.

But when he was halfway through taking off his clothes, Li Cunxiao knocked him unconscious with his scabbard, grabbed him and put him on the horse's back, and in a blink of an eye he was back at the post station.

Almost all the young escorts had their swords stained with blood, and there was not much expression on their faces except excitement.

The civilians had already fled in all directions. When they saw Li Cunxiao coming back with the leader, they cheered loudly as if they had won a victory.

The owner of the post station was even more smiling as he ran over to help Li Cunxiao lead the horse.

"Compared to Shen He, Sanlang is the one who really cares about the lives of his brothers."

Looking at the lively scene in front of him, Qian Yu couldn't help but recall the incident when someone broke Li Cheng's arm in order to show off his strength.

In contrast, Li Cunxiao prioritized safety and did not rely on his own military strength to allow his brothers to attack.

The ones with bones of steel and iron are the members of the Tiger Demon Fist School, not these ordinary bodyguards.

Not to mention being cut by a knife or stabbed by a sword, for ordinary people, an infected wound could be fatal.

"It's called a position when escorting!"

Gao Hu glared at his old friend fiercely, "Captain Li is both brave and resourceful!"

"Tell me, where are you from?"

Li Cunxiao asked in a deep voice. On the ground, the leader of the defeated soldiers had already woken up and forced a smile:
"This general."

".What general? Call me king!"

Yuanbao slapped the civilian in front of him and knocked him to the ground. Wenjie next to him quickly grabbed him.

"Sixth brother, I don't know where these people came from. We've killed all but one of them. Be gentle."

Yuanbao snorted and glanced at the man cowering on the ground.

"Listen carefully! Grandpa, I am the Sixth King of Tiejiao Mountain. You call me a general? You underestimate my status!"

"Seventh Brother, you come and ask."

Wenjie then put on a gentle expression and gently helped Minfu up.

"You were running away in such a hurry that you ran into our camp. Who's chasing you?"

"No, I don't know. We followed the general to grab some dry food, but we ran into the government troops."

"Government troops?"

Wenjie and Yuanbao were shocked when they heard this. "How many people are there? What kind of flag are they flying?"

"There were probably more than ten of them, like a tiger with wings, pulling a few carts."

"More than ten people? That's a bunch of crap government troops!"

Yuanbao was furious and wanted to hit someone again, but Wenjie realized something and showed some joy:

"Sixth brother, could he be talking about the escort vehicle from the Flying Tiger Escort Agency?"

(End of this chapter)