There are four city gates in Kushi County, southeast, west and northeast, and each city gate is guarded by a team of soldiers.

The soldiers guarding the city are different from the county yamen runners. When peace occurs in the world, they will take the military pay from the court and temporarily be under the management of the county magistrate. Once the country has internal and external troubles, these soldiers guarding the city will automatically leave the jurisdiction of the county magistrate and are directly ordered by the court. All military generals who obey the orders of the court. The advantage of this is that when wars occur in the country, they can not only better protect the safety of the city, but also prevent internal troubles from easily passing through.

From the south gate, go south. About four or five miles away, there are three forks, one leading to the southwest and the other leading to the southeast. The official road in the middle leads directly to the southwest.

The only official roads are straight, wide and flat. The other two local roads are usually negligible and are bumpy along the way. It is even more difficult to walk on rainy days.

The roadside is full of weeds, and small woods appear in groups of three or three from time to time. Hares rush out from the weeds and pheasants fly up, making people wonder if there are wild animals hiding here in the grass, waiting for an opportunity to attack single passers-by.

Zhou Xiaomo's small village is located five or six miles from the road leading to the southwest.

There are many forks on this road. From time to time, some paths that Zhou Xiaomo and the others have never walked appear at the grass, slowly disappearing into a wild light in people's sight.

It has been a long time since it rained in Qianshi County. The weeds on the roadside were dry and drooped, looking lifeless. A sound of horse hooves passed by. The loess that were trampled on the grass like fog and drizzled on the grass leaves, undoubtedly adding insult to the thirsty weeds.

Several hares rushed out of the weeds and looked at the two horses running not far away. They were stunned until they saw someone on the horse's back and disappeared.

Suddenly, Zhou Xiaomo saw a red light flashing in the grass not far from the left. After swimming a few meters, he disappeared into the moving grass.

This incident was too sudden, as if someone was in the grass in front of the left, slantingly facing the heads of the two of them.

"Well!"

"Well!"

Zhou Xiaomo almost grabbed the reins of the horse at the same time as Park Lie. The two horses made a "snap" neighing sound, raised the front hooves of the horse and stood up.

"not good!"

Park Lie urgently reminded Zhou Xiaomo on the horse's back.

As soon as the sound fell, three sounds of "Swoosh! Swosh! Swosh!" came from the grass.

Zhou Xiaomo was shocked. This was the sound of a heavy arrow.

Suddenly, Zhou Xiaomo felt that the mount under his crotch had shot like lightning, and almost lifted him off the horse. Before he could run far, a horse stumbled in a whine and lifted Zhou Xiaomo off the horse.

"Prince Zhou is careful!"

Before Zhou Xiaomo could stand up, he heard Park Yeo's violent reminder.

After the sound of a heavy arrow, a bone-invading cold air sounded in Zhou Xiaomo's ears with a whistling and sharp sound.

Zhou Xiaomo didn't think about it and rushed to the grass. When his cheeks cooled down, a coolness floated to his face and neck.

“Shall!”

Park Yeol drew out his long sword.

With a "stop" sound, the arrow that was coming towards us was sweeping away.

"Hahaha......"

Amid laughter, seven horses emerged from the grass more than twenty meters ahead. The passengers were all dressed in black, covered in black cloth, wearing straw hats, and only a pair of cold eyes were exposed.

"Hahaha!" The black man in the middle, who was neither wearing a bow nor holding a sword, and wearing a wide black suit, laughed like a broken gong, "I said Mr. Zhou, do you want to be a turtle grandson hidden in the grass layer and not come out?"

"Even if he wants to pretend to be a grandson and doesn't come out of the grass, I have a way to drive him out like a pig."

Another man in black who was holding a Tang sword in his hand laughed sinisterly, grabbed the dark horse under his crotch that was stomping around with four hooves, and then slashed it with a knife.

Zhou Xiaomo could hear that the two people who were speaking were deliberately pinching their throats and speaking from this, they must be someone they had seen.

"Young Master Zhou, don't believe their words, don't come out."

Park Lie held a horizontal knife in his hand and strangled the reins of the horse, and said in a deep voice.

As soon as Park Yeol finished speaking, he heard the sound of horse hooves coming from behind, and then, the loud shouts of Tiesuo and Lai Cai came from behind.

Zhou Xiaomo sighed, stood up from the grass, dusted the soil on his body, tidied up his clothes, and walked out calmly.

"It turns out that the people who know the times are the heroes," the man in black in the middle smiled, "Young Master Zhou is so brave!"

Zhou Xiaomo glanced at his mount, and a heavy arrow almost penetrated its heart. He seemed to be unable to survive. A black eye looked at Zhou Xiaomo and tears came out.

It turns out that people and horses are more gentlemen than gentlemen! Zhou Xiaomo walked forward, squatted down, and reached out to pat his horse's head.

"Young Master Zhou is indeed a character." The man in black holding the Tang sword smiled sinisterly, "Before he died, he was still in the mood to comfort the dying horse. It was indeed extremely courageous, but it was a pity. I could only ask you to report to the King of Hell again."

Zhou Xiaomo stood up and turned around and saw Tiesuo pulling out the Tang Dao. He rode his horse around the expressionless Park Lie. Laicai was pale and had bare hands. Tiesuo clenched the Tang Dao with anxiety and nervousness on his face, and beads of sweat dripped downwards.

Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves behind him started again. Zhou Xiaomo knew that his four people's retreat had all been blocked.

"Hahahahaha!"

Zhou Xiaomo suddenly laughed loudly. When the man in black was stunned in front of him, he instantly assessed the situation between the enemy and us.

Before the laughter fell, Zhou Xiaomo could hear the smell of despair in his laughter.

The strength of the enemy and us is not only huge, but our side has no chance of life at all.

Listening to the sound of horse hooves just now, Zhou Xiaomo judged that at least six or seven horses had to block the retreat of his four people. In addition to the seven men in black opposite, he was at an absolute disadvantage.

As his pride has been expanding recently, Zhou Xiaomo doesn't even have a stick to go wherever he goes, and Laicai is even more powerless, and it's the same whether he has weapons or not.

What's even more terrible is that five of the seven men in black stood twenty meters away holding heavy crossbows. Moreover, he found from Yu Guang that there were at least six or seven archers ambushing the grass layers on both sides. They had already bent their bows and arrows to aim at the four of them. As long as they had the momentum to rush forward, they would be shot into a hedgehog in less than five seconds.

"Tell me!" Zhou Xiaomo reached out to stop him, wanted to step forward, protect the three people behind him with his horse, and then said to the masked man in the middle, "How can you let go of the three people behind me?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The man in black in the middle pinched his throat and smiled strangely. He reached out to pinch the upper edge of the hat and pressed it down, saying, "Young Master Zhou is indeed admirable. Before he died, he could still calmly want to save his entourage."

"So, you agree to the request!" Zhou Xiaomo's eyes were shrinking, but his heart became colder and colder. As soon as he spoke, the man in black could guess his thoughts.
Chapter completed!