The horse's hooves swirled into the mud and rushed over.

"kill--"

Hou Cheng's eyes were red, and he raised his hand on the horse's back and stabbed it with a shot. He fought with the horse thief twice. The horse passed over the other side. When the horse turned around, dozens of Bingzhou soldiers behind him also moved at this time, sprinting towards the horse thieves, and thrusting forward with a long spear.

Woo... Woo...

A low-pitched wolf howl suddenly rang out, and hundreds of horse thieves who formed a formation ran around. Gongsun Zhi fought with Hou Cheng for a few tricks, and while he was back, he rotated his horse's head, ran back and set a distance from the rushing gun forest, turned over to the war horse, pulled the bow, turned around and shot back, and a stroke fell down.

Gongsun Zhi pulled his horse and raised his bow, shouting loudly: "Listen to the wolf howl, hunting--"

Around them, everyone shouted, and the horse's hooves were already sprinting through the soil, divided into three strands to move quickly around this small mound, and instead surrounded dozens of Bingzhou soldiers who rushed over. In the dark night, the running figures were like intertwined torrents, forming a huge circle.

In the middle, when Hou Cheng, who had pulled his horse's head, found that the encirclement had already formed. Looking at the rotational outline in the black, his scalp became numb and tightened, and the iron spear pointed in one direction: "Break through! rush over together."

Dozens of soldiers held spears and leaned against each other on guard. Many of them looked a little frightened. At this time, they heard the general's orders and rushed out in one direction with a roar.

"Don't let them surround..."

"Escape! Fight hard-"

The surging crowd shouted to boost morale. However, amid the rumbling sound of horse hooves around, the hundreds of horse thieves crossed and moved in circles as the other party ran. Hou Cheng and a dozen cavalrymen launched a charge, trying to open a gap.

In the darkness, someone shot an arrow over there and nailed a Bingzhou cavalry directly to death. Then the arrows were like floods opening the gate, and the air was full of whizzing sounds.

Arrows flew over from all directions and plunged into the crowd. The weapons were waving and twitching apart, some of them were nailed to the shield, and most of them plunged directly into the crowd. The neck, chest, abdomen, thighs, blood splashed, and the figure fell down, screaming and crawling on the ground with feather arrows, and then being stepped on by the companions.

"Wow—"

The leading general suddenly covered his shoulders and screamed. An arrow was nailed into his shoulders. The feather tail was still trembling. The war horse under him neighed with a long shrill erection and fell down with a bang. Several arrows were inserted into the horse's belly. Hou Cheng wanted to get up from the ground, but then he found that one leg was pressed under the horse.

In his sight, the horse's hooves were still wandering around, splashing mud and water. He brought fewer and fewer soldiers. Blood gushed into the soil with the corpse. Hou Cheng neighed and broke free from under the horse's belly. However, the weapons in his hand could not be found. He just stood up with his lame legs when a war horse hit him and he was thrown to the ground.

Finally, in the remaining consciousness, there was a voice saying, "Tie him."

The horse's hooves trampled away, and scarlet blood flowed further away in the rain. A few wolf howls came from afar, as if they smelled the blood.

After a while, Hou Cheng woke up in a daze. It was already dawn in his blurry sight, and the rain stopped. There was no smell of blood or corpses around him, and only pairs of wolves staring at him.

The arrow wound on his shoulder has been bandaged. He narrowed his eyes and searched around, and finally frozen on a figure drinking water in front of him: "Do you know, you are causing trouble... Do you know who the person you killed?"

"Who? Emperor?" Gongsun Zhi threw the sheepskin bag to Gao Sheng, and the horse thieves around him burst into laughter.

Hou Cheng, who was choked, stared at his eyes and wanted to say something, but his eyes suddenly turned around and closed his mouth, probably because he had an idea.

"Will you let you run away after saying that... I want to see if you thieves can block Fengxian's Fang Tian Hua Ji...haha..."

A trace of excitement flashed in his eyes, staring at the horse thieves and muttering quietly.

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The spring rain was stopped all night, the gentle wind blew across the city, the white clouds floated in the sky, the sunlight poured from the clouds into the city, and more than ten horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts were traveling in exchange and spreading towards the government office.

The figure who handed the post walked into the prefect's house, where someone was already talking.

"I know what everyone is going to come here. I am the parents here, and I will protect your lives. That group of horse thieves will sooner or later be wiped out. Don't worry, as this matter has been reported to the governor, and I believe there will be a response in a few days."

Guo Zhi's tone was plain, and he tried his best to appease the county sergeant and wealthy clan who had been sending in the letter to him one after another. As for the news of Hou Jie's death in the morning, he had already had a slander in his heart, but he still had to pretend to be shocked.

"Yes, after all, he is the brother of Jianyang Gong. This group of horse thieves have really provoked people who cannot be provoked."

“…I just don’t know who will be sent this time.”

...

There was noisy voice in the hall. Guo Qing drank a sip of tea and listened quietly. He would occasionally echo a few words and talk about his own opinions. Soon after, he sent the group away and returned to the government office to continue working. As for the dead, he no longer needed to worry about the subsequent matters.

...

The sky gradually disappeared, changing day and night, and we went to Jinyang in the south.

"My brother--"

In Ding Yuan's mansion and in the bedroom, Hou broke a few things, sat down and beat the ground, crying bitterly.

"...My brother, I killed the thief like this. If I had known this, my sister would not have let you go... No matter how much money I had, I would not have exchanged your life--"

Ding Yuan stood outside the door with his hands on his back and looked at his crying wife, with a deep expression on his face. Then he strode in and helped her up: "Hou Jie is today, it's not your sister's fault. Look at what good things he has done in Jinyang, and defeated me, Ding Yuan."

"But that's my brother, husband, I'll just beg you to kill that group of horse thieves and avenge Hou Jie." Hou said this, thinking for a while, shook his head and shouted, "And Zhang Liao... If he hadn't colluded with this group of thieves, there wouldn't be this happening today. Kill him too... Kill him..."

Bang-

The woman covered her face, fell to her side by the slap, and her hair was scattered and hung to the ground. Ding Yuan pointed at her: "Your brother is more than dead."

The somewhat angry figure walked back and forth for a few steps, and finally walked out. When he arrived at the front yard, he was about to call someone when he saw Zhang Liao's figure standing at the door and holding his fists.

"Wen Yuan came here just in time. I have something to ask you about Gongsun Zhi, the White Wolf Yuan." He asked this.

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After coming out of the government office, Zhang Liao looked up at the warm spring day, rode his horse slowly across the street, his eyes as if he had crossed the houses and buildings, and looked to the north.

"I've caused a big trouble." He sighed and his voice was low: "Liao doesn't want to see you in different places, but you made a big mistake in the end. I hope Fengxian can show mercy."

The horse's hooves were parked at the entrance of a not-so-large courtyard. Zhang Liao walked over and hesitated to hold the copper ring and was about to knock on it. A familiar sound came from the yard behind the door.

"Lingqi, put the stick down quickly..."

"No...no...ah!! Mom... Daddy is so fierce, come quickly." The young child voice exclaimed as if running.

Zhang Liao stood outside the door, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, then pushed the door and walked in, and a small figure bumped into him.

PS: Second update
Chapter completed!