Chapter 288 Do it or not!
“what!!”

On the official road, a young girl’s scream was heard, the sound was shrill and could be heard from far away.

From afar, two horse-drawn carriages were galloping on the official road. Behind the two carriages, there were a dozen people on horseback chasing the two carriages.

Just now, an arrow hit the carriage and almost went into the carriage, causing the girl in the carriage to scream.

“call out!”

A few more arrows flew over, and this time they hit the horse pulling the cart right on its buttocks. Although the arrows did not penetrate deeply into the flesh, the horse felt the pain and immediately became violent, stretching its neck and neighing loudly.

The carriage immediately tilted and fell to the ground. The middle-aged man and the two girls in the carriage fell out of the carriage. The middle-aged man was a little fat. After falling out of the carriage, he almost fainted. However, he still endured the pain and shouted to the carriage beside him: “Go, go!”

The other carriage did not dare to stop and continued to move forward.

However, the speed of the carriage was naturally far slower than that of the horses. Soon, another carriage was also stopped. The people on the dozen horses then jumped off the horses and looked at the two carriages they had stopped with teasing eyes.

Among these dozen people, the leader was a man in his thirties with a long scar on his face. After he got off the horse, he immediately made a gesture to his subordinates beside him.

What it means is, don’t be impatient, wait for the subsequent brothers to gather around.

There were eight or nine people in the two carriages in total. Although they were sure to win with more than a dozen people, it would be safer to wait for their companions who were walking behind to catch up.

“Little lady.”

The scarred man looked at the first carriage and grinned, “I told you to stop, why didn’t you? As my woman, how can I let you down?”

The carriage did not overturn. The curtain was opened, and a woman in her twenties looked out and bit her lip. “My lord, we are going to Hezhou to visit Governor Lu and his relatives. There are five carriages in total. The property in three of them has been given to you. Why are you still nagging me?”

“Provincial Governor Lu?”

The man laughed: “If the young lady had said this name two years ago, I would have been so scared that I couldn’t sleep!”

“Now!”

He laughed loudly and said, “The head of the Luzhou governor was twisted off by our general. Is your relative surnamed Lu’s head stronger than that of the Luzhou governor?”

When the woman heard this, her expression became gloomy and her whole body was shaking.

She was from Luzhou. After Luzhou was captured, she managed to escape. She thought she could get away, but she didn’t expect that this rebel group of fifty or sixty people would keep harassing her all the way.

Seeing him like this, the man patted his chest and said, “Don’t be afraid, young lady. I’m different from those fools. I’ve taken in five or six women in the past year or so, and they’re all still alive and well. It’s your blessing to have met me, young lady.”

“If I meet those idiots.”

The man grinned and said, “After they sleep with you, they want to take your life!”

At this point, more than 30 people walking nearby had already surrounded them. Seeing that these people had no room for resistance, the man stopped talking nonsense, pinched his waist and strode forward, saying in a deep voice: “Surrender your hands, and I will spare your lives!”

“If anyone resists, I will kill him immediately!”

After saying that, he strode forward with the knife in hand.

The woman felt a surge of despair in her heart and was about to grit her teeth to speak when she heard the sound of horses’ hooves in the distance on the official road.

She couldn’t help looking into the distance.

The man with the sword drawn could not help but look back, and saw a group of knights running towards them from afar in the distance on the official road.

The leader was a tall and heroic young man. The cavalry team approached quickly. The young man in the lead stopped his horse and caught a glimpse of the scene on the official road.

He paused and asked, “Bandits or robbers?”

According to the man’s original temper, he would have started to curse at this moment, but after seeing the formation of more than a hundred people, he swallowed his curse words and clasped his fists and said: “Brother, we are the righteous army, and we are kidnapping the lackeys of the court.”

“If you are on your way, hurry over there and don’t cause trouble.”

The young man suddenly realized what was going on. He jumped off his horse swiftly, took the bow and arrow from the side of the saddle, and drew the bow and shot the arrow without hesitation.

The man’s face changed drastically and he shouted, “You!”

He shouted and ran left and right, trying to avoid the arrow, but the tall young man didn’t hesitate at all. He drew the bow and shot immediately. The arrow flew and pierced directly into his ribs.

The man yelled and fell to the ground.

The tall young man looked at the others with a blank expression.

“Leave a few alive.”

More than a hundred riders had dismounted, drawn their swords, and charged towards the rebels.

The tall young man took the spear from his mount and, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, in just a few moments, nearly forty rebels were killed, leaving only four alive.

The tall young man rubbed the tip of his gun on the clothes of a rebel’s body, wiping off most of the blood on the tip of the gun, then he jumped on his horse and pointed eastward at the two rescued carriages: “Go east from here, there will be no more rebels.” The young woman in the carriage almost collapsed in the carriage. She looked up at the tall young man with tears in her eyes: “Excuse me, benefactor, what is your name?”

“My last name is Li, and I am an official of the imperial court. I won’t tell you my name.”

The one who sat down immediately was naturally Li Yun. He glanced at the seven or eight people calmly and said in a calm voice: “Killing the bandits is my job, don’t mind it.”

Having said that, he was about to urge his horse to leave.

The woman stumbled and got off the carriage, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed, saying: “There are more than 300 people in the Lu family of Luzhou, and only a few of us escaped. If it weren’t for the benefactor’s rescue…”

She knelt down and kowtowed, her forehead touching the ground, shedding tears and said, “I will surely have a miserable end.”

“Thank you so much, my benefactor.”

Li Yun stopped his horse, looked at the woman, and asked, “The rebels are in Luzhou…”

“Killed a lot of people?”

The woman laughed bitterly: “Killing, injuring, looting, and committing all kinds of evil.”

Li Yun nodded silently, turned around to look at everyone, and shouted: “Get on the horse and continue on the road!”

“Tie up these survivors and throw them on the horses!”

At this time, the guard camp around Li Yun could barely be called elite. They quickly followed Li Yun’s orders, tied several living people to their horses, and then more than a hundred people once again rushed forward along the official road.

The young lady of the Lu family stood by the official road, watching Li Yun and his troops disappear into the distance, tears welling up in her eyes once again.

“If the imperial court is full of people like this…”

“How could Luzhou end up like this…”

…………

After entering Luzhou, Li Yun had encountered more than one rebel group, but none of them were large in scale.

Some of them were indeed rebels in Luzhou City who came out to “seek food”, while others were bandits or local thugs who pretended to be rebels and committed atrocities.

Along the way, whenever Li Yun saw someone doing evil, he would help without hesitation and saved quite a few people.

After entering Chao County, Li Yun quickly contacted Zhao Cheng’s troops and arrived at Zhao Cheng’s camp in the evening of the next day.

This camp is relatively hidden. It is not located in the town, but in the wilderness.

In the camp, in addition to Zhao Cheng and the 500 people he brought with him, there were more than 200 uninjured defeated soldiers who were also following Zhao Cheng.

After seeing Li Yun, Zhao Cheng immediately bowed his head and saluted: “General!”

Li Yun patted him on the shoulder and thanked him for his hard work. Then the two of them walked to the tent and sat on the ground.

“Tell me about the situation.”

Li Yun got straight to the point, and Zhao Cheng didn’t waste any time, saying, “I originally thought that this group of rebels intended to capture Jiangnan, but now it seems that they are looting everywhere under the pretext of pursuing General Su’s defeated army.”

“Guangzhou, Shouzhou, Luzhou.”

Zhao Cheng said in a hoarse voice: “They have all been badly harmed.”

“and…”

Zhao Cheng looked up at Li Yun and continued, “Moreover, this rebel army is different from the rebel army in the Central Plains. Although the rebel army in the Central Plains also has some abnormalities, it is said that there is still some military discipline. However, wherever this rebel army goes…”

“Robbery, rape, murder and arson.”

“I did all the bad things I could do.”

“They are completely different from the rebels in the Central Plains. I feel that this rebel group is no longer on the same side as the rebels in the Central Plains.”

Li Yun glanced at Zhao Cheng and asked, “About how many people are there?”

“There are now about 2,000 people occupying Luzhou City, and more than 1,000 people scattered throughout Luzhou. Adding them together, there are probably about 4,000 people.”

Li Yun took a deep breath and said, “I brought a thousand people here.”

“Do you want to do them or not?”

Zhao Cheng clenched his fist and said only one word.

“Dry!”

(End of this chapter)