In the faint morning light, a group of Ming cavalry wearing mandarin duck jackets poured into Xujia Village like a torrent, and went straight to the ancestral hall in the village, and the fire that had not been extinguished was the best guide.

Xie Erjian stepped on the horse's pedals with both feet, hunched his waist, his buttocks slightly off the saddle, and the horse ran in the front, followed by the elite cavalry of the two hundred Ming Army.

It is said that Xie Erjian was tied to Governor Sun's camp as a spy at that time, but as soon as Fei Hong's handwritten letter was presented, any misunderstanding was resolved, because Sun Sui recognized Fei Hong's handwriting.

After Governor Sun read Fei Hong's letter, he immediately retreated, carefully questioned Xie Erjian, and combined with the strange behavior of the lead mountain bandits tonight, he immediately decided to send two hundred elite cavalry back to Xujia Village with Xie Erjian, of course, in the name of tracking down the dozens of bandits who escaped.

Xie Erjian led two hundred cavalry to return the original way, but he found traces of the bandit horse team galloping along the way, and until he arrived at Yongping Town, the route was still the same.

At this time, Xie Erjian had already realized that the group of bandits who broke into the camp and escaped from Lead Mountain were most likely headed for Xujia Village, and he was immediately anxious and urged the horses to rush all the way.

The cavalry of the two hundred Ming Army was led by Yu Linsheng of the hundred households, and traces of the thieves were found along the way, so the remaining hundred households were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and the opportunity for meritorious service was in front of them, as long as the horse team of the thieves could be annihilated, this was a great achievement.

What's more, this group of thieves broke out of the camp from the intersection guarded by themselves, and the leader also killed a brother under his command, Yu Linsheng was holding back a bad breath and preparing to take revenge, so he didn't need Xie Erjian to urge at all, it only took three hours to arrive at the nearly 100-mile road, and he rested for half an hour on the way.

Before entering the village, he saw the flames from a distance, Xie Erjian's heart instantly sank to the valley, he thought it was too late, but after rushing into the village, he happened to see the scene of the ancestral hall gate being hit.

"Kill!" Two hundred cavalrymen shouted in unison and pounced on the thieves outside the ancestral hall.

Yu Baihu recognized Li Zhen with a cooked copper stick in his hand at a glance, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, haha, sure enough, it was this bird thief, who rushed over with a horse and a knife, and shouted at the same time: "Brother Xie, the thief who made the stick is left to me!" ”

Xie Erjian slowed down slightly when he heard this, Yu Linsheng accelerated overtake, and raised his waist knife murderously.

At this time, the thieves finally reacted and looked for their horses, because the thieves' horses were tied in a disorderly manner in the surrounding yards or under nearby trees, and the panic became even more chaotic, and some thieves even beat each other in order to fight for horses.

It was in this case that the cavalry of the Ming army was killed, it was simply a one-sided slashing, and some thieves who were lucky enough to ride on horses fled outside the village, and those who could not escape turned back fiercely to meet the battle.

Although the second boss Li Zhen's buttocks were injured, but the injury was not serious, and he even forgot the pain under the danger, and rushed to a horse with a few arrows, and swept away a subordinate who had climbed on the horse's back, turned on the horse, turned the horse's head and ran.

"The thief is gone, eat Lao Tzu's knife!" Yu Baihu shouted, rode his horse and rushed behind Li Zhen, and the bright waist knife was slashed at the back of his head.

Li Zhen hurriedly lowered his head and shrank back, the bun tied up on the top of his head was cut off, and his hair flew in an instant, embarrassed.

Yu Baihu secretly shouted that it was a pity, and when he was about to turn the horse's head and kill it again, Li Zhen had already fled from the passage between the two houses next to him.

At this moment, only a "bang" was heard, and Li Zhen rolled off the horse in response.

A young Ming cavalryman held a fire gun and shouted excitedly: "Haha, I hit, I hit the thief leader Li Zhen." ”

Yu Linsheng was extremely aggrieved and scolded: "Damn, it's cheap for you kid." ”

It is worth mentioning here that at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army had begun to use firearms such as firearms, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, was able to defeat and expel the powerful Mongolian cavalry, which was attributed to firearms.

In the period of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, the Ming army was unprecedentedly powerful, not only established a full-firearms Shenji battalion, but even the local guard station, the firearms equipping rate reached about 10%. Ming Chengzu led such a strong army to fight in the south and the north, and laid a huge territory.

Of course, at this time, the Ming Dynasty has declined, the Ming army is no longer strong, more than 150 years after the founding of the country, the system has begun to corrupt, and the military equipment is lax, which naturally affects the combat effectiveness of the army.

At this time, the cavalry of the Ming army hung up the firearm, drew out the waist knife and prepared to harvest their spoils, you must know that the Ming army is based on the head of the merit, cutting off the head of a thief is a great achievement, it is estimated that it is possible to promote a hundred households.

Unexpectedly, the cavalryman was happily running over to cut off his head, and Li Zhen, who had fallen to the ground, actually got up and limped to continue running out of the village.

"Haha, straight thief, not dead yet!" Yu Linsheng laughed in surprise and chased after him.

"!" The cavalryman was so angry that he hurriedly turned around and turned over his horse, of course, not to compete with Yu Linsheng, but to chase and kill other bandits, as a small soldier, this is still necessary.

Li Zhen brought fifty bandits this time, and when they attacked the ancestral hall, they killed and injured more than a dozen people, and most of the rest were quickly cut down by the cavalry of the Ming army, and only seven or eight lucky horses escaped from Xujia Village, but they were still shot and killed by the Ming army that was chasing after them.

At this time, the ancestral hall of the Xu family was full of joy, everyone's faces were filled with the joy of the rest of their lives, and some people hugged each other and cried.

Xu Jin and the others walked out of the ancestral hall and burned down the gate, but saw that the corpses of thieves were lying everywhere outside, and they were all headless, and their heads were taken off by the Ming army.

The air was thick with the smell of blood and sulfur, and several gunshots could be heard sporadically in the distance.

Yu Baihu happily rode back to the village, and there was a person lying horizontally behind the saddle, and it was Li Zhen, the second master.

The shot of the Ming cavalry before actually did not hit Li Zhen, but only hit the horse, but Li Zhen broke his right foot when he fell off the horse, so before he could run to the river outside the village, the remaining hundred households caught up and captured.

Yu Linsheng ran to the front of the ancestral hall, threw the thief leader Li Zhen to his subordinates, walked towards Xu Jin and the others, and asked with a big grin: "I am Yu Linsheng of the hundred households of Yiyang Thousand Households, who is Xu Jin?" ”

Xu Jin hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Xu Jin below, thank you to the remaining hundred households for coming to the aid in time and saving hundreds of lives in my Xujia Village, and the people in Xujia Village are grateful." ”

Patriarch Xu Deming also nodded and said excitedly: "Thank you!" ”

"Haha, Xu Case Chief is polite, killing thieves is the duty of our officers and soldiers!" Yu Linsheng patted Xu Jin's shoulder arrogantly, but he was very useful.

This time, the horse team of the bandits was completely annihilated, dozens of horses were seized, and Li Zhen, one of the bandit leaders, was captured.

And all this was because the scholar in front of him sent someone to send a letter to the governor, so Yu Baihu was very pleasing to Xu Jin.

Liu Qingyuan, who was next to him, coughed lightly and said lightly: "Yu Baihu, what is the situation in Lead Mountain now?" Does the Governor have any arrangements? ”

Only then did Yu Linsheng find Liu Qingyuan, the county magistrate wearing a seven-rank official uniform, and hurriedly saluted: "I've seen an adult, but I don't know who this adult is?" ”

Xu Jin introduced: "This is Lord Liu, the commander of Shangrao County!" ”

Yu Linsheng solemnly saluted again: "I've seen the county lord!" ”

Don't look at Yu Linsheng as a military attache of the sixth grade, Liu Qingyuan is the seventh grade, but the dynasty has always respected the martial arts, not to mention the hundred households of the sixth grade, even if the thousand households of the fifth grade have to be saluted in front of the county.

Liu Qingyuan just nodded slightly, the civil official has a sense of superiority in front of the military attaché, which is the pride of being a literati.

Yu Baihu said again: "When the lowly duty was ordered to come, the governor was sending people and horses into the mountains to chase and kill the bandits, and now the situation is unknown, but the governor asked the lowly duty to inform Xu to wait in the village for a few days, don't go back to the county seat for the time being, and the lord will come on a later day." ”

Xu Jin and Liu Qingyuan looked at each other happily when they heard this, so it seems that Governor Sun really attaches great importance to the matter of thieves in Shangrao County.

Liu Qingyuan was originally worried that on his own, even if the thief's confession was tried, there would be nothing he could do with King Ning and Governor Lu, but now when he heard that the governor was going to come in person, he was immediately reassured.

The little slave was also happy, as Xu Jin said, as long as Xun Sui came in person, he could confess his identity and let Sun Sui send troops to escort him back to Huguang'an Luzhou.