As night fell, under the command of Huang Kang, the team unloaded the boxes and arranged the carriage in a circle, with the coachman and entourage in the middle, and the soldiers of the special combat team on the periphery, relying on the carriage to build a temporary fortification.

When it was completely dark, there was silence all around.

Liu Heizi asked the guide: "There are two or three hundred of us, all of them are strong men, I guess the horse thieves don't dare to come, right?" ”

The guide shook his head: "Don't underestimate the greed and guts of these horse thieves. If we don't have these boxes, maybe they'll let us go over and pick other soft persimmons to pinch. But these more than 100 boxes are here, it's hard to say, if you can't keep any of them, let's try the water......"

As if to verify what the guide said, half an hour later, a few torches approached in the distance, and the sound of horses' hooves was heard.

Liu Heizi took a sip: "What's the matter, after a day of traveling, I won't let you sleep peacefully, we hundreds of men dare to make up our minds, these people are poor and crazy, right?" ”

Huang dared to let people extinguish the fire in the middle of the car formation, making it more difficult for the other party to identify the target. Anyway, they are waiting for work, it doesn't matter if there is no fire and lighting, the horse thieves are actively attacking, they must have torches to illuminate, otherwise they will become blind.

In this way, the attacking side is in the light, the defending side is in the dark, and the horse thief is in an extremely disadvantageous position.

The torches hesitated for a moment two hundred paces, then spread out in both directions, forming a semicircle.

"Tsk, these horse thieves still know about the siege, and they thought they would be stupid to climb a line and rush forward!" Huang Dare sneered.

The guide reminded worriedly: "Ladies and gentlemen, be careful, many of the horse thieves are officers and soldiers who have fallen into the grass, have fought battles, and have seen the world, if they are allowed to rush in, it will be troublesome, and we are afraid that none of them will be spared......

Huang Dang and Liu Heizi looked at each other and smiled, and then told the guide: "You put your heart back in your stomach, let alone rush in, they don't even have a chance to get close." Lao Tzu has killed more officers and soldiers than these horse thieves, and the officers and soldiers really don't pay attention to them. ”

A whistle sounded, and the horse thief urged the horse, and increased his speed, and the rumbling of the horse's hooves sounded, and soon approached a distance of about a hundred paces.

The guides and drivers huddled in fright, while the special operations soldiers raised their handcuffs with great calmness and pointed their hands forward, motionless. Although the night is not suitable for shooting, with the torch as a reference, they save a lot of trouble and aim directly at the torch.

Huang Dang stared at the torches, estimating the distance, and never gave an order. Because the special combat team does not need to line up in a dense array to shoot, it is not equipped with a long Qionghai three-year rifle, and the standard equipment is the Qionghai five-year handcuff - in fact, it is a short version of the rifle - which is more flexible to use and is suitable for street battles or encounters, but at the expense of range, the best shooting distance is about 30 steps, so the horse thief must be put close to fight.

The torches were getting closer and closer, and the flames illuminated that the horse thief's face could almost be seen clearly, and Huang Dang gave the order: "Fire!" ”

The dense gunfire of "Woo Woo ......" rang out in an instant, which was deafening.

In the thick smoke, torches fell to the ground one after another, and the screams and neighing of horses from the opposite side came and went. The horse thief obviously didn't expect to come across such a hard idea, and he was in a big mess.

In the chaos, someone shouted: "Ideas pierce hands, there are birds, hurry up!" ”

However, the horse thief was obviously not a well-trained army, and was stunned by this round of shooting, some people hurriedly retreated, but some people couldn't react, and they crashed into it in a daze, and were blocked by the car formation, the mount fell to the ground with a bang, the carriage was knocked out of place, and the knight on the horse flew forward because of inertia, fell heavily into the formation, and fell right next to Huang Kang.

Huang Dang's eyes were quick, he casually threw the handcuff on the ground, drew out a short knife, and plunged it into the man's chest. Blood splattered everywhere, and the man was killed instantly.

The hoofs rumbled, the horse thieves came and went as fast as they could, and in a moment the rest of the people disappeared into the night. Under the light of the torches that have not yet been extinguished, you can vaguely see the corpses of people and horses piled up in front of the car array.

Huang Dang wiped the knife on the corpse's clothes to wipe the blood stains, then retracted it into the sheath, and said disdainfully: "The horse thief is not enough to stuff his teeth. ”

The guide and the coachman were dumbfounded, and the horse thief just retreated?

Liu Heizi said to Huang Dang: "Tomorrow, whatever you say, you have to find a county seat to settle in, otherwise there will be no store in the village in front of you, and there will be a few more groups of people, and the flies will not bite and annoying, so you will want to sleep." ”

"What my brother said is, listen to you." Huang Dare nodded.

Fortunately, after this night attack, no one dared to approach the tiger's whiskers, and the night passed peacefully.

After dawn the next day, the drivers and soldiers reloaded the boxes and prepared to go. Liu Heizi looked at the dozens of corpses on the ground, thought about it, and said to Huang Dang: "There are always unsightly people on the road who will beat us, so it is better to cut off the heads of these people and hang them in the front of the car to deter Xiaoxiao." ”

Huang Dare grinned: "Makes sense. Then he ordered the soldiers to look down the heads of the horse thieves, and put a stick on the wagon, so that they could see it from a long distance.

Although the smell of blood without the nitrate is disgusting, the effect is surprisingly good. Along the way, there were always probes from different forces to peep, and after seeing these dozens of heads, they all withdrew in disgrace, and no large number of horse thieves dared to approach.

After walking for hundreds of miles in one breath, the surrounding people gradually became denser, and they arrived at a county seat in the evening. The guide introduced: "This already belongs to the territory of Kaifeng Prefecture, and the front is Fengqiu County." ”

Liu Heizi waved his hand and ordered: "Enter the city!" Let's get some sleep tonight. ”

At the gate of the city, the guards came up and questioned him. Liu Heizi stepped forward to negotiate: "We are from Pingnanhou of Qionghai Town, and we were ordered to go to northern Shaanxi on business, passing through Guixian, and ask a few brothers to make it convenient." ”

The names of the envoys in Liangguang, Shandong, and even the capital seemed to have lost their deterrent power when they arrived in Henan, and the soldiers did not react, but stared at the box intently, and the greed in their eyes was stronger than that of the horse thief, and Liu Heizi even suspected that if it were not for the fear that they would have hundreds of soldiers accompanying them, they would have robbed the property on the spot.

After Liu Heizi emphasized his intention again, a small flag in the lead retracted his gaze staring at the box, and said in an official tone: "According to the rules, you can enter the city if you pay the entrance tax of 20 wen for one box." ”

Huang Dang asked with a straight face: "What kind of rule is this, why has Lao Tzu never heard of it?" ”

Xiaoqi snorted: "When you get to our territory, you have to abide by our rules, and if you don't want to pay it, please do it." There is a lot of wasteland outside the city, and no money is charged. ”