Chapter 277 New and old grudges
Cao Hua came to the courtyard where Heiyuwei rested in the rain. Jing Feng and others who had just rested in shifts had been awakened, standing on the wall wearing clothes and watching the fire in the distance.
"Governor, there is a fire there. There may be a thief who is causing trouble. Do you want me to wait for help?"
Jing Feng jumped off the wall and saluted.
"Look at the situation first, don't rush to go out, Lao Li?"
"Tao Li went out to find out the news."
Jing Feng didn't sleep well for two days, his eyes were all black, and the remaining Black Feather Guards were almost the same. He stood in various places with his official sword in his hand to guard the surroundings.
Cao Hua was waiting quietly in the corridor. After about a cup of tea, Li Bairen flipped back from outside the courtyard wall, carrying the blood-covered Nine-ring Knife, and furiously said: "Governor, more than a dozen thieves broke into the county town, set fire to the county government, and slashed the yamen runners and the awakened people, threatening to let the governor go out."
"Who is so bold?" Cao Hua's face darkened.
"Just just now, there were many people on the other side. Bei Zhi took a look from a distance, and it seemed to be Li Kui from Liangshan."
"People from Liangshan?"
Hearing that the people were being killed and killed, the Black Feather Guard suddenly became anxious. The people in the Green Forest were in trouble and were under the control of Diankui. This was just under his nose. If the people were killed or injured too much and were dereliction of duty by the people, even Cao Hua and others would be criticized for taking them back to Beijing.
The Black Feather Guard immediately stood up and gathered, preparing to go out to meet these bold turtles.
Cao Hua thought for a little while, raised his hand and took the yellow iron hammer's octagonal copper hammer over, and ordered:
"There are many good players in Liangshan that are difficult to deal with. You can just stay here. I'll go over and see the situation."
Li Bairen and others did not follow him and took the order to take the Heiyu Guard to guard the house so that they would not be taken to their nests.
As for the safety of the governor, it never falls within the scope of the Black Feather Guard.
------
Qi'an County is remote and has long-term bandits outside, so it is not a good place. The county magistrate who can be sent here is usually the life of retirement. But no matter what, he is the official in the eyes of the people. He has no money but still has to do his job. Because of the harsh geographical environment, the court has given more teams than Taiping places.
Normal county governments are in charge of grain, horses, taxes, household registration, police waiting things. There are about fifty people in each department. Qi'an County is relatively large and often cause bandits. The court has provided more constables, about a hundred people. Apart from the literati who holds the pen, only the number of constables who can kill thieves with a knife is only 40.
Cao Hua suddenly came to Qi'an County. The county magistrate ordered the constable to inspect the gates of the county town to prevent the thieves from intruding into trouble Cao Hua. However, the constable was just a local man who knew some martial arts in Qi'an and was not a match for the gangsters in the world.
The old man was stolen by thieves and assassinated. Cao Hua also understood their difficulties and had no intention of blame. But tonight, a large group of people rushed in from the West Gate with great swagger, and rushed directly outside the county government office when they saw someone, shouting "Cao thief returned my brother's life to him," and quickly beat the constable to scatter and flee.
Some people were alarmed and encountered this group of extremely vicious bandits, and immediately suffered.
While the bandits who rushed in at night could not find a place, they directly burned the county government office and caught people from surrounding houses, trying to force Cao Taisui out.
Although there was Li Kui among the people, it was not led by Song Jiang. Song Jiang is still watching in Xuzhou City, thinking about the reunion.
Li Kui was very popular. Cao Hua made a move in the capital, and many brothers died. He felt deeply hatred. While drinking in Xuzhou, he happened to meet Qu Liang, the second leader of the horse gang.
The horse gang is quite special. Most of the people in it are from military backgrounds, and they are originally border troops of the Song Dynasty. When wars broke out, they were afraid of being punished or simply escaped at the last minute. They had nowhere to go and could only become bandits.
Although the number of horse gangs is as small as that of Tie Owl, they are good at fighting and raiding battle formations and cooperate with the battle formation. When they bring them to Shandong, they are much more harmful than the Hundred Sword Alliance, which is still comforting and developing.
Qu Zhe, the leader of the horse gang, was originally a garrison at Waqiao Pass. Once the Liao army attacked, he fled directly and was almost broken by the enemy. Because of this, the garrison at Waqiao Pass was replaced by Yuchi Ying, the eldest son of Duke Zheng, who was the elder brother of Yuchi Hu.
When the guard general escaped at the battle, Zhao Jie was naturally furious and killed all the Qu family members who were left in the capital. Cao Hua was doing this.
Everyone knows Cao Hua's style of conduct. He will catch him and wait for Qiu Hou to ask for a killing, and then he will destroy the door directly.
He escaped and regretted it, and was about to return to the capital to apologize. Quzhe heard that the whole family was killed, so he naturally would not be tried when he returned to the capital. He brought his remaining brother to Shandong and contacted his old subordinates to form a horse gang to prepare for the rebellion of the Song Dynasty. Cao Hua was naturally among the must-kill.
The Qu brothers, who were born in the imperial generals, knew how powerful Cao Hua was, but they were not as brainless as those of the Jianghu people. They brought their subordinates whom they had finally summoned to kill at most a few Black Feather Guards, and they might even be taken to the head of Cao Hua's thousands of troops.
After learning that Cao Hua appeared in Xuzhou, the horse gang began to contact experts and prepared to gather a wave of master-level experts to kill Cao Hua with one move.
The golden sword Qi Hu, the overlord gun Zhang Jin, who is known as the double spear of the north and south, and others, have received invitations to kill the Cao thieves together.
But even though they have reached the level of the leader of a force, it is naturally impossible for them to get hot and go on. Qi Hu from Baidao Village was furious when he heard that his son was beaten. But for the sake of future development, he still had to sit down and wait and see, and be sure that he could kill and profitable before he could take action.
Song Jiang had the same idea. If the court was willing to recruit peace and put the good officials in the border areas and did not do anything, what would happen?
In order to achieve his goal, the horse gang naturally dragged these people into the water. Qu Zhe secretly invited his brothers and confidants to let his younger brother Qu Liang come first. If he can succeed, he can pull all forces into the water.
After entering Qi'an County, Qu Liang, who was the leader, did not directly kill Cao Hua's residence, but burned the county government to kill the local people in order to cause the court's anger.
Recruiting peace, recruiting your mother’s peace!
The night rains are drizzling, and the shouts of killing are everywhere.
Qu Liang, wearing old armor, rode on his horse and held a long halberd in his hand, stabbed the fleeing officials and constables on the street.
The rest of the people also held their own weapons and wanted to smash, burn and kill on the streets.
Li Kui held two axes and laughed wildly, rushed into the house to chop and kill the people who were hiding. No matter men, women, young and old, they would basically die without a complete body when they encountered it.
"Eunuch, come out for grandpa. If you don't come out, grandpa will kill these birds."
"You're looking for death!"
Just as Li Kuisha was rising, a loud shout came.
Chapter completed!