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There was a commotion among the dozen or so masked men in the courtyard, but they immediately calmed down, holding steel knives back to back to form a defensive circular formation, concentrating on vigilance and appearing well-trained.

"Big brother, what should I do?" Someone asked in a low voice.

The masked leader had sharp eyes and scolded: "Ge Laozi has fallen into a trap, today is more than auspicious, listen to my orders, rush into the house together, and take Chen Laogen and others inside as hostages; Otherwise, it will be difficult to get out. ”

Everyone nodded, and the formation slowly moved in the direction of the house, Ouyang Xiu waved his hand, and the soldiers slowly approached with knives and guns, slowly compressing the formation of the masked man.

Suddenly, the masked leader in the lead let out a shout: "Kill! ”

The soldiers were startled, but instead of rushing at the masked man, he turned around and slammed on the doors and windows behind him, and even slammed them with knives. Bump.

They thought they would be able to break through the window and enter the room just like they did in the study, but after a few bangs, they were bounced back like a ball hitting an iron plate, and they were dizzy and dizzy.

The doors and windows of the house were obviously nailed to the inside and reinforced, and they could not be broken at all; The masked leader shouted, "Get out of the way!" Reaching out and snatching a steel knife, he turned the handle of the knife with both hands and slammed it fiercely on the edge of the window, and after a few clicks, the window lattice was indeed smashed out of two big holes by this brave guy.

The two big men were overjoyed, jumped up and slammed into it, and they heard two pounces, and two spears poked out of the hole like poisonous snakes, piercing the two big men to the heart.

The masked men looked at the two corpses that had fallen to the ground and twitched like broken pockets, and no one dared to rush up anymore.

Su Jin laughed and said, "Surrender, don't waste your efforts, even if you can get in?" Shall we just burn this house with one fire, and not burn your turtle sons into roasted turtles? ”

The leader of the masked man shouted: "Fight! ”

Raising his sword, he turned around and rushed towards the ranks of officers and soldiers, and the masked men followed, shouting and rushing towards the officers and soldiers.

Ouyang Xiugao shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

The dozens of archers on the roof had already set up arrows and prepared to give the order, and suddenly there was a loud roar, and the condescending arrows were powerful, killing five or six masked people in an instant; However, each person could only shoot one round of arrows, and he could no longer shoot them, because the masked men had already exchanged hands with the officers and soldiers, and if they shot arrows again, they would injure their own people by mistake.

This group of masked men were all tough at hand, and as soon as they fought, several officers and soldiers were cut to the ground, and a few fell down in the blink of an eye, and suddenly the wailing and screaming were loud, and the officers and soldiers were terrified to death, and they retreated one after another, and they were so desperate that they were able to kill a bloody way.

Ouyang Xiu stomped his feet and scolded: "On the top, on the top, the retreaters are engaged in military law." ”

The soldiers clamoured to launch a round of charge, but several more were killed in an instant, and most of the soldiers did not dare to go up again, so they could only wave their swords and guns and shout loudly in the back, but they did not dare to really step forward.

Ouyang Xiu was in a hurry, if he was rushed out of this alleyway, it would be troublesome, and it was very likely that they would escape; More than 100 people can't take a bandit with more than 20 people, and it's a joke to spread it; What's more, if you can't get them, you can't ask for a confession, and you can't know who instructed them to come.

"Special Envoy Su, what should I do?" When it came to the end, Ouyang Xiu could only ask Su Jin, after all, this person had led troops to exterminate bandits, and his experience in fighting was stronger than himself.

Su Jin shouted: "Dynasty, Ma Han, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, go up and block the mouth of the alley, and you must not let them rush to the front yard." ”

Wang Chao and the others were originally standing near Su Jin and Ouyang Xiu as guards, and they were already red-eyed and eager to try, and when they heard this, they picked up the Pu knife and rushed forward like a whirlwind, and at the moment before the masked people were about to rush out of the alleyway, they could resist their forward momentum and block them in the alleyway.

The four of them blocked the road like an iron wall, and under the slashing and kicking, the two masked men fell down in response, and the officers and soldiers who had recovered their strength hid behind the flesh shield formed by the four men with spears in their hands, stabbed and stabbed indiscriminately, and stabbed several people again in an instant.

More than half of the more than 20 masked people were killed and wounded, and only seven or eight people remained, and the leading masked man swung his knife to stab Zhang Long in the head, shaking his arm sore, and twisting his body in a hurry to avoid a big gun stabbed by Zhang Long's armpit, and he was in a hurry.

"Rushing back, the alley is narrow and tight, go back to the yard and break through separately, and escape one by one." The masked man in the lead shouted.

When the masked men heard this, they turned around and ran back, and Su Jin shouted, "Release the arrows." ”

The masked man, who had run halfway, was poured down by a rain of arrows, and seven or eight of them were hit by arrows, and two were wounded, and they fell to the ground motionless.

Until this time, they understood that they could not escape today, there were four gate gods in front of them, and there were arrows and arrows to block them, and the front was also dead and the latter was also dead, and it was meaningless to resist.

"Put down your blade, tie your hands and capture, and then resist and kill immediately." Ouyang Xiu came to his senses and shouted majestically.

The masked man in the lead sighed and lowered the knife in his hand, and the sound of the steel knife falling to the ground in Canglanglang continued, and the five masked men who could still stand threw down the steel knife one after another and stopped resisting.

"Tie up!" Ouyang Xiu said: "Count the casualties and let Lang Zhong treat the injured." ”

The battle soon reported that twelve of the twenty-one masked bandits were killed, five were slightly wounded, and four were seriously wounded; Ouyang Xiu's personal guards, together with the seven or eight soldiers guarding the front yard and the miscellaneous servants who had been poisoned by the official post, killed a total of twenty-eight people and wounded nineteen others.

Ouyang Xiu was greatly annoyed, the bandits who had captured more than twenty people were all killed and injured so heavily, and this was still under the situation that Su Jin designed to besiege him; If Su Jin hadn't warned and arranged in advance, he and his nearly 100 guards would have to finish all the games, and cold sweat broke out after thinking about it.

Su Jin stepped forward and arched his hand: "Lord Zhongcheng, I am frightened to teach you, it is unexpectedly that these people are so brave. ”

Ouyang Xiu said angrily: "This account must be counted on someone, Special Envoy Su, you and I don't have to rest, interrogate these people overnight, and then talk about it after taking a confession." ”

Su Jin said: "Follow the orders of adults, but there is still one thing that must be done quickly." ”

Ouyang Xiu said: "The official you said understands that the official has contacted the thirteen forbidden troops sent by the capital to close the Huainan Road and ban food, with a total of 1,300 people, as long as he takes a confession, he will immediately go to Luzhou." ”

Su Jin said: "Then the lower officials can rest assured, my home in Luzhou is estimated to be in a mess, if I can't get to Luzhou as soon as possible, my family is in danger." ”

Ouyang Xiu said: "The news of the loss here is not so fast to Luzhou, when it is no big problem, you don't have to worry, forgive that Zhu Shiyong will not be openly unfavorable to your family, let's act quickly." ”

Su Jin shook his head and said, "That's not true, I can't take this risk." After thinking about it, he turned to Wang Dynasty Ma Han and the others: "The four of you rush back overnight, you must arrive in Luzhou at dawn, you don't have to go to the South Gate Mansion, only go to the new house to protect the old lady and Miss Yan, if something happens, you have to stay up until we arrive." ”

Wang Dynasty Mahan and others agreed in unison, did not dare to delay, and immediately crossed the horse and left; When Ouyang Xiu saw Su Jin's appearance, he knew that he was very uneasy, so he said: "Without further ado, let's go to Luzhou immediately after the interrogation, and we must not go wrong." ”

Su Jin shouted: "Escort the five bandits to the study." ”

A personal guard said: "My lord, these people all have arrow wounds on their bodies, and I am afraid that they need to be treated." ”

Su Jin said angrily: "Heal a fart, whoever confesses to whom he will be treated, if he doesn't confess, he will bleed to death, and if he talks more, he will be tied up with you." ”

The guard stuck out his tongue and didn't dare to speak.

……

The five bandits were tied up like zongzi and pulled into the study, Ouyang Xiu asked one by one, but these five people did not speak, and stood like clay sculptures and wood carvings; Ouyang Xiu was even frightened, and the leather whip was broken four or five, and the gang didn't glance at him out of the corner of their eyes.

Su Jin looked anxious, when was this question a head? So he whispered to Ouyang Xiu: "My lord, you go out and prepare, how about these people handed over to me for interrogation?" ”

Ouyang Xiu rolled his eyes and said: I can't even ask, you can do it?

At this moment, the guards ran in to report that Wang Qinian, the commander of the road, came with soldiers and horses to check what was going on.

Ouyang Xiu knew that it was inconvenient for Su Jin to meet Wang Qinian, so he could only go out to deal with Wang Qinian by himself, and when he saw Wang Qinian, Ouyang Xiu scolded for a while, saying that under the rule of Shouzhou, there were bandits who attacked the official post at night and almost gave away his own life. Fortunately, Lord Qincha is fine, otherwise his family would not be able to eat and walk around.

Wang Qinian hurriedly ordered the curfew in the four cities to search for the remnants of the bandits, and secretly suspected that there was something strange about this matter, but he didn't dare to ask in detail, so he went in disgrace.

Ouyang Xiu returned to the study, but saw that the five confessions had been neatly placed on the desk, and Su Jin was busy blowing on the ink to dry.

There was a scorching smell in the room, and then I looked at the five bandits next to him, one by one, they were on the ground, not human-shaped, except for the eyeballs that could move, I was afraid that the other places could not move.

Ouyang Xiu looked at the confession, and the confession was similar, all of them said that they were instructed by Zhu Shiyong to come to seize the evidence of the bandits, and intended to murder Ouyang Zhongcheng, with a blood-red handprint underneath.

Ouyang Xiu praised: "Su Zhuan has good skills, he has already obtained a confession in this meeting, and the official is willing to bow down, I don't know what kind of hand he used to make the inquiry?" ”

Su Jin smiled and said, "It's nothing, aren't they all heroes?" If the leather whip is broken, he is not afraid, then I will give him a soft one. ”

"How do you get soft?" Ouyang Xiu was still puzzled.

Su Jin smiled but didn't answer, and took the confession and said, "My lord, it's time for us to go, and we'll talk about this matter later." ”

Ouyang Xiu hurriedly ordered the guards to pack up the troops and horses, and sent someone to notify the thirteen forbidden troops gathered outside the city to pull out the camp, and the noise was not until the end of the third watch, and then they set off out of the city.

On the way, Ouyang Xiu couldn't hold it back, so he called the soldiers who stood for the jury in the study and secretly asked him what means Su Zhuan used.

The soldier stammered: "Su Zhuan used a knife to cut more than a dozen cuts on the whole body of those bandits, and ordered the little one to take salt, garlic, and lard and mash them and stuff them into the knife edge. So the envoy Su ordered the little ones to take candles, pick off the pants of those people, and say that they wanted to bake sweet potatoes. ”

"What sweet potatoes to bake?" Ouyang Xiu frowned.

The soldier pointed to his crotch and whispered, "That's it...... It is...... Burn the fuck...... Eggs. ”

"Damn!" Ouyang Xiu almost didn't fall into the ground, this kid is too vicious, no wonder he smelled a scorching smell in the study just now, it seems to be ...... The smell of burning bird feathers.

"Then, all of these guys were recruited." The soldier added.

Ouyang Xiu took a breath and said in his heart: "Then is there anything that you can't recruit?" Hey, this envoy Su, this is a cool official, and I don't know how many people will suffer if this person takes power. ”