The team stopped in Shangyu County for a while and set off again.**

This time, Wang Hai was missing in the team. Because he encountered some trouble temporarily, he had to stay in Shangyu County temporarily. One of his subordinates will be responsible for the lead of the way, and he will catch up later.

The fleet turned at the intersection of Tongming River and Yao River and turned into Tongming River. By the way, this Tongming River was originally called Shiyuan River. Later, the Yuan Dynasty fell. In order to avoid the taboo of "Yuan", the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty ordered all the roads with the characters with the characters of Yuan to change their names or downgrade their names, but did not avoid those with the characters with the characters of Yuan in the prefectures and counties. For example, in the Yuan Dynasty, Xingyuan Road was changed to Hanzhong Prefecture, Kaiyuan Road was changed to Kaiyuan Prefecture, Guangyuan Road was reduced to Guangyuan Prefecture, but Qingyuan County and others did not change their names. Although the government orders were like this, in order to better flatter Shangguan, the name of this small river was changed to Tongming River.

Half an hour later, the fleet stopped in a small town and began to place all the supplies on the ship on the two hired carriages. After the task was completed, the convoy set off again. Due to the limited horses, this time, even Zhengliang had to follow the convoy on foot.

While enjoying the scenery along the way, Zhengliang looked at the group of Wang Hai's subordinates who were responsible for chasing the car. In fact, Wang Hai did not have many subordinates, and there were only twenty sailors left on the boat on the island. This time, only four people followed Zhengliang, and three of them, and the entire convoy was only seven. Most of these people were fishermen who could not survive on the coast, and joined Wang Hai's team driven by interests. Looking at their dark skin, they were obviously poor families who were used to being exposed to the rain.

After leaving the town, the convoy slowly advanced along the official road. As the town became farther and farther away, the surrounding fields became deserted. After a while, Zhengliang stood on a small slope on the road and looked around. It was really desolate./The large area of ​​farmland was abandoned and no one cultivated it. There were several broken houses by the field, and at this moment, there were only ruins left.

"Do you think it's strange?" Wang Hai, the subordinate who was in charge of leading the way for Zhengliang this time, said behind Zhengliang.

"Why is this scene?" Zhengliang nodded. As far as Zhengliang knew, the Ming Dynasty was far from such a situation.

"Oh!" Wang Hai's subordinate sighed and said, "The harvest has not been good in the past few years. In addition, the government has to collect heavy taxes. Many families are unwilling to become slaves of landlords because they cannot pay taxes. In the end, they have to leave their family business and flee to famine, or flee to the mountains to become bandits."

Zheng Liang felt a lot after hearing this. According to his impression, the people were still stable at this time of the Ming Dynasty. But now it seems that no matter in that dynasty, there will always be some social bottoms in dire straits.

The convoy continued to move forward and soon plunged into the mountains. There were two main hills here, one was Qingxian Ridge on the left, which was mainly continuous hilly areas. The other was the much higher Taiping Mountain and Ding Mountain. The road became a little narrow, and both sides were all covered with trees and mountains. It was already afternoon. According to the original discussion, we should take advantage of the sunshine to speed out of the mountain area and enter Yin County on the other side of the mountain.

Just as Zhengliang was enjoying the scenery along the way, he suddenly felt a little white light coming out of the hill on the side of the road. He looked casually, and there was a person buried on the hill. The white light was the last-killing that person carried with him in the sunlight.

"Quick, stop," Zhengliang said to Wang Hai's subordinate who was responsible for leading the way.

Everyone was confused, including Masaru Kinisha Masaru, Akimoto Hidemasaki and Yoshida Shigemasaki who had been following Masaru closely, no one knew why Masaru let everyone stop.

"There is an ambush ahead," Zhengliang said in a low voice.

"Ah?" The subordinates of Wang Hai around him were not calm, but after hearing Zheng Liang's words, someone immediately exclaimed.

Zhengliang secretly called bad things. Have these people seen pirates at sea? Why are they panic when they encounter such a thing?

Sure enough, there was a burst of arrogant laughter on the hillside at this time: "Hahaha, you actually discovered it."

When everyone on the mountain road heard this, they looked up. They saw a bearded man standing on a rock on the hillside on the left. He was holding a final blow in his hand. More than a dozen people stood up one after another on the hills around Zhengliang. At the same time, several bandits were rushing to the front and back of the mountain road, trying to surround Zhengliang and others.

"Everyone hid next to the carriage." Masaru looked at it briefly and found that a few of these bandits were actually holding bows and arrows. He couldn't help but be shocked. Fortunately, these people didn't shoot the arrow just now, otherwise they would have been destined to suffer. Although Masaru and the other two couldn't understand the Chinese that Masaru suddenly spoke, they immediately understood and immediately went to the side of Masaru to hide.

"Hehe, the boss, I'm right. It's a fat sheep. On a hill on the other side, a bandit laughed arrogantly. Looking at his expression, it seemed that the Zhengliang people were about to become lambs to be slaughtered.

"Hahaha, bastard, you did a good job this time. You can pick those things first later," the bearded man cursed with a smile.

Looking at the bandits around him laughing and scolding as if no one was around him. The three close servants surrounding Masayora looked angry. Although they couldn't understand what the other party was saying, they could see from the other party's expression that these bandits were ignoring them, which made them as samurai feel insulted.

"Does there be weapons on the carriage?" As a long-term businessman, Wang Hai cannot not prepare weapons.

"Some, sir, right on the carriage." Wang Hai, the subordinate who had recovered from his fright, who specifically led Zhengliang, immediately replied, and drilled into the carriage. After a while, he took out a few pounces and a bow and arrow from it.

Masayoshi was not polite, and immediately distributed the weapons to his close servants. Judging from the situation just now, Wang Hai's subordinates were no longer reliable and still needed to rely on the strength of his own people. Soon everyone distributed the weapons, Yoshida Shigemasa took the only bow and arrow, while the rest took the final shot.

"Hehe, still want to resist? Young men, kill me." The bandit leader saw Zhengliang who was hiding next to the carriage and began to assign weapons, and immediately shouted. He was not a fool. Even a lamb, a lamb with a horned horn will hurt people. How could he let these fat sheep pick up weapons?

Several bandits who were eager to make contributions immediately rushed around.

"Shengmasa, don't worry about others, your target is that bandit." Seeing the bandit who was coming in the blink of an eye, Masara whispered to Yoshida Shigemasaki, who was preparing to attack the bandit. The latter understood and immediately pointed the arrow at the bandit leader who was still shouting arrogantly on the rocks on the mountain.

As the saying goes, to capture the king first, as long as the other leader is injured, at least your morale will increase. If the other party retreats because of this, it would be even better. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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