564 Burning Yangtze River (4)

The county seat of Fuling is not large, and it is located in a mountainous area, so the population in the city is also very limited, and most of it is where the Miao and Wuxi barbarians live, and the Han people are pitiful in it.

During the day, Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang made some purchases in the city, spoke with a foreign accent and wore Han costumes, which seemed out of place with everything here.

At night, Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang stayed in an inn, and they traveled for half a month, often sleeping in the wild, and never had a good night's sleep. This time when they came to Fuling City, they could finally sleep in bed, and the two of them dragged their tired bodies, fell asleep on the bed.

However, when Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang were shopping for things in the city during the day, they were unexpectedly targeted by a group of robbers.

The robber accidentally found that Zhang Fei's money bag was full of heavy money, so he had bad intentions and wanted to keep the money for himself.

So, the robbers secretly followed Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang, and after learning where they were staying, they immediately went back to inform their henchmen, these robbers are all people who want to see money, and they are usually a big criticism of Fuling City. As soon as Fa Zheng left, the thieves revived, and even the newly appointed Fuling County Commander was intercepted by them and killed halfway.

This group of robbers was stationed in the Wuling Mountains outside the city, and there was a stockade on the mountain. It's called Black Wind Village. The owner of the village is called Zheng San. He was a native of Jingzhou, who killed people in Jingzhou in his early years, so he fled here to avoid the pursuit of the Jingzhou government. Later, Zheng San's thief did not change, and began to kill people and sell goods again, and also brought a group of bandits from Jingzhou to form a cottage. He served as the king of cottages, and in this poor and remote land, he became the king and hegemon, and since then it has become a major disaster in Fuling County.

Later, Fa Zheng came to office and used his wits to fight thieves, Zheng San and others were all reckless, and they were played by a series of tricks by Fa Zheng, and they also reached the point of killing each other. Fa Zheng took advantage of the internal contradictions of Zheng San's thief group and attacked each other, and suddenly led the army to attack. In the first battle, Zheng San and others were defeated. It's a pity that Zheng San is too cunning. So much so that he was not able to be caught in the war.

Since then, Zheng San has also disappeared, and he has gone to other places with the remnants. It wasn't until he heard that Fa Zheng had been transferred away that he led his subordinates back and intensified the destruction of Fuling County.

In order to survive, some people were also forced to join Zheng San's army of thieves and became part of the thieves, which further fueled the arrogance of the thieves.

There were about 500 officers and soldiers stationed in Fuling City, and they went to encircle and suppress several times, either Zheng San played hide and seek with the officers and soldiers, or set up ambushes to ambush the officers and soldiers, so that the officers and soldiers returned in vain every time, or lost their troops and lost their generals.

Three days ago, Zheng San had just fought a battle with the official army, killing more than 100 officers and soldiers, and even the county lieutenant was killed, and the remaining more than 200 officers and soldiers quickly withdrew to the city and did not dare to come out again.

Zheng San became even more unscrupulous, and was preparing to capture Fuling County as a base in Jilu, anyway, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, even if Bajun Taishou sends troops to attack, before the official army arrives, they will immediately scatter and run back to the cottage.

In order to occupy Fuling County and show his strength, Zheng San sent three thieves to infiltrate the city today, and stepped on the spot first to see what the strength of Fuling County was.

Coincidentally, one of the thieves accidentally found Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang, and found that they were not locals, with a lot of money on them, and they were also very generous.

The three thieves gathered in a ruined temple according to the agreement, one of them said what he saw and heard during the day, and wanted to attack Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang, and the other two were also people who saw money, as soon as they heard that there was money to be gained, the three of them immediately made a total, and finally decided not to do anything, and killed Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang in the inn.

In the dead of night, the three thieves quietly came to the inn where Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang were staying, gathered in the darkness, and one of them pointed to the two windows on the second floor and said, "They live in the two windows upstairs, we can climb up and enter through the windows." ”

"Whose money bag is it?" One of the thieves asked.

"Uh......" said Thief A, "when he paid during the day, it was the bearded man who paid for it, and the money bag should be on him." ”

Thief B said, "Didn't you say that the bearded man looked like a sidekick?" How could the money bag be on him? Must be on his master. Besides, as you said, the bearded man doesn't seem to be easy to mess with, so let's search his master's room just to be safe. ”

Thief C glanced at Thief A and asked, "Which room does the bearded master live in?" ”

Thief A immediately raised his hand and pointed to a window and said, "In that room." I found it all out, and I can't be wrong. ”

"Okay, you stay here, the two of us climb up, and after taking the money bag, the three of us will divide it equally." Thief B said.

Thief A is worried that thief B and thief C will embezzle some money, after all, this is what he found, and it can be divided equally, but it must not be swallowed by them, in case he doesn't go up, the two of them take the money, first one of them divides half of it, and then says that the money bag is not found, then the gain outweighs the loss. So, he hurriedly said: "It's late at night, there's no need to guard it at all, I think, let's go up with the three of us, one more person has more strength, and if something happens, we can deal with it together." ”

Thief B and Thief C didn't have so many crooked thoughts, and they didn't know that Thief A had imagined them as selfish people, but they still felt that what Thief A said was very reasonable, so the three of them discussed it and decided to climb up together and go in to search the money bag.

The second floor of the inn is not very high, and thieves A, B, and C are also lucky, because there is a big tree at the back of the inn, and the trunk of the big tree is very close to the second floor of the inn.

Thieves A, B, and C were all excited in their hearts, feeling that God was helping them this time.

The three men were very agile men, and when they climbed the tree, like three monkeys, they quickly climbed to the tree, and then Thief A volunteered, stepped on the trunk of the tree, approached the inn, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he pushed open the window, and heard a hearty snoring. Seeing that there was no movement inside, he guessed that the person had fallen asleep, so he carefully stepped on the lattice of the window and stepped into the room.

Thief A then beckoned his companions to come in, and when Thief B and Thief C entered the room, the three of them began to tiptoe through the money bags.

However, the three thieves did not know what to do, and a pair of deep eyes were watching their every move in the dark.

After a few moments, thieves A, B, and C searched the whole room, but they could not find the money bag, and they even pushed the dead pig sleeping on the bed, and searched for all the clothes, shoes, and socks, but they could not find the money bag they were looking for.

"Strange, why didn't you find it, could it be that it's not on him?" Thief C said to himself suspiciously.

"Are you looking for this?" Suddenly, a voice came out of the darkness, reflecting the faint moonlight, and a fierce face gradually became clear, a man with five big and three thick, I don't know when Lu Dao appeared by the bedside, carrying a heavy money bag in his hand, was looking at the three thieves.

The three thieves were all taken aback, and they never expected that there was another person in the room, and this person was the person that Thief A said was not easy to provoke.

As soon as the words fell, the three thieves were frightened, after all, they had done something wrong, and their psychological confidence was insufficient, and the three of them ran towards the window in unison, wanting to return to the tree through the window.

I don't know, but when I saw a black shadow quickly flashing in front of the three of them, the fierce face blocked the three of them, and at the same time, the light in the room was also lit, and the person sleeping on the bed was holding a candle to illuminate the room.

"Run!" Thief A shouted, turned and ran towards the door, shouting at the other two thieves.

"Since you're here, don't think about leaving easily." The person holding the money bag was Zhang Fei, seeing that he threw the money bag directly to Xiang Lang who was sitting on the edge of the bed, his hands swung back at will, and the window was closed directly, and he himself jumped out of the door with an arrow, directly blocking the door of the room, seeing the thief A rushing over, reaching out to fight, he grabbed the placket of the thief A's chest, and pushed it forward sharply, thief A stumbled, fell backwards, and hit the thief B and thief C who ran over, and the three thieves collided together, He fell to the ground with a bone.

Before the three thieves got up from the ground, Zhang Fei had already walked over, grabbed a person with one hand with his two arms, like catching a chicken, and grabbed thief B and thief C, but firmly stepped on the body of thief A with one foot, and then, I saw Zhang Fei's arms wave hard, thief B and thief C collided directly together, with a muffled bang, the two people hit each other head to head, and suddenly Venus burst straight up, dizzy for a while, and the skull exuded a huge sense of pain.

Zhang Fei threw Thief B and Thief C on the ground, and Xiang Lang hurriedly took out the rope that had been prepared for a long time, and tied up Thief B and Thief C.

At this time, Zhang Fei stepped on the thief armor, sneered, and said, "Do you think that when you follow me during the day, I don't know anything about it?" You little thieves, dare to spread wild seeds on my head? Don't look at how many pounds and taels you have! (To be continued......)