Chapter Thirty-Seven: Kill Some and Spare Some

  The people who fought against Jiro were Li Qin and Jing Qi.

  Li Qīn lowered his head and looked at the battlefield, only to see that this Di bandit had raised one hand with all his might, but it was unclear what he wanted to grab. The light in his eyes slowly disappeared, and the hand he had raised heavily slammed onto the ground, and he died on the spot!

  Li Qīn said in a low voice: "Attention!"

  With a loud "Halt!", the five of them simultaneously shouldered their rifles and stood at attention!

  Wu Danzi rushed out of the forest, still holding Li Qian's wooden bow in his hand. He shouted: "It's over, is it really over? How can it be so fast?"

  He had certainly practiced the spear formation, but usually just followed Li Qian's commands to practice. He never thought that this kind of formation, where they would advance and retreat together, would be so exhilarating in killing enemies, it was exhilarating to the point where he found it hard to believe.

  Wu Xiaosan and Shen Yibei looked at the four corpses on the ground, although they were the ones who killed them, but their shock was even more intense than that of Wudanzi. Because they had experienced it personally, it was even harder for them to believe that killing someone was such a simple thing, really not much more difficult than eating and drinking!

  Li Qindao said: "Is it fast? Isn't it usually like this during regular training? There's nothing special about it!"

  Looking at the corpse with a strange death on the ground, Wudanzi suddenly grinned and said: "What's going on? Wait for me to go up later, don't let me hide in the woods again!"

  Li Qin laughed and said, "Well done!" He bent down to pick up the curved knife that had fallen to the ground, and saw that the back of the knife was thick and the blade was thin. The light emitted by the knife's edge in the moonlight seemed to be flowing, and he praised it, saying: "Good knife! I didn't expect this bandit to use such a good knife, which is several times better than the knives in our government office!"

  Wu Xiaosan and the others picked up the curved knives beside the corpses, and slashed them randomly. Shen Yidao said: "The Di people have a tribe called the Bianbu, which is best at ironwork and forging precious knives. These curved knives should be made by the Bianbu."

  Wu Xiaosan said, "The knives of the Bu department are worth a thousand gold coins and are hard to come by. How can these bandits have one each? Could it be that they are actually people from the Bu department? It doesn't seem like it, the Bu department's Di people have always been wealthy and wouldn't become bandits."

  Li QIN let Wu Danzi go back to find Xiao Ma Chao, the battle here is over, and the children can be picked up. He then led his soldiers to sweep the battlefield, and all of their things were taken as spoils of war and kept for himself.

  Before long, Wu Dang brought Ma Chao back. From a distance, Ma Chao called out: "Uncle Li, have you killed all the bandits?"

  Li Qin smiled and said, "That's natural!"

  Ma Chao dismounted and ran to Li Qian's side, saying: "Uncle Li is so fierce."

  Everyone started to check the spoils of war, a total of six bandits. If they beheaded them, they could take them back to the county to report their merits and get some rewards. There were also six fine horses, six fine curved knives, six bows and six bags of feathered arrows, as well as some five-copper coins and dry rations.

  After a busy night, the darkness passed and the daylight broke through.

  The soldiers gathered up the spoils of war and were about to leave when Wu Dalang suddenly said, "Someone's coming! They're riding horses!" He crouched down on the ground, listening intently, then raised his head after a moment and said, "Five riders."

  Feng Jiao Bing and the others looked at Li Qin together. Li Qin said, "I reckon it's the bandits who didn't catch up after the break-up, fearing trouble, so they're searching around here. Let's enter the forest. Right, drag all the corpses and things into the forest, and drive the horses far away!"

  The Fu Jiao soldiers followed orders and dragged the bandits' corpses and spoils of war into the forest together.

  Li Qindao said: "Wudan, go out of the forest and lead the robbers into the forest. We'll settle them in the forest!"

  Wu Danzi responded with a sound, thinking: "How can it be me again!" Just about to go out, but heard Xiao Ma Chao speaking.

  Ma Chao grasped Li Qian's collar, raised his head and said: "Uncle Li, Xiao Chao also wants to kill the bandits!" Afraid that Li Qian would not agree, he quickly puffed out his small chest and said again: "Xiao Chao is not afraid!"

  Li QIN touched his hair, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Cheng, wait outside the forest. When the robbers come, you run into the woods and shout for help!"

  Ma Chao curled his lip and said: "Can't you call it something else instead of 'saving lives'?"

  Li Qinxiao laughed and said: "Then you call, evil beast, dare to come and fight!" The child is not big, going out to lure the enemy still cares about shouting what, it's really interesting.

  Ma Chao nodded in agreement this time and ran out of the forest, with Li Qian shouting after him not to go too far from the forest, just standing at the edge was fine.

  Five fine horses came galloping, and it was the violent faction that had come to meet Xie Luo Zhan. The leader of the Di people saw the bonfire from afar last night, but now the fire has gone out, emitting wisps of black smoke, yet there is no sign of Xie Luo Zhan and others nearby.

  Before he could rush forward, a small child suddenly shouted: "You beast, dare you come and fight?"

  The Tibetans looked over and saw a small child standing at the edge of the forest, with one hand on his waist and the other pointing at them, shouting. The leader of the Tibetans did not hear clearly and asked his companions: "Is he calling for help? Why doesn't he run away? Where is he from, and why is he yelling at us?"

  The Di people were all bewildered, no one knew what was going on. The Di people looked into the distance and saw several war horses grazing in the distance, but the number was not right, and there was actually an extra black horse.

  The leader of the Di people said: "Isn't it that you made another deal last night? Haven't the Han soldiers come yet?"

  Nobody took Ma Chao seriously and nobody went over. They were all searching for their companions who had stayed behind.

  Ma Chao shouted loudly several times, but saw that none of the robbers came over. His small self-esteem was severely frustrated, and he had to follow Li Qian's original order, shouting "Save me!" and turned to run into the woods.

  As soon as this shout was heard, the Di people clearly understood that they had often heard such shouts every time they came out to rob. The leader of the Di people said: "Go and take a look, catch him." He led the remaining three people to go to the horse group, wanting to lead the horses over.

  Ma Chao ran into the forest with small steps and shouted: "Li Shu, bring one over!"

  Li Qindao said: "Good, he's a little hero. Go, climb up that tree and don't come down, I won't let you come down." He turned to the Fu Jiao soldiers and said: "Brothers, get ready!"

  The Tibetan outside the forest jumped off his horse, grabbed a child and ran into the woods with just a swing of his arm, without even drawing his sword.

  Outside, those few Di people had not yet led the horses back when they suddenly heard a heaven-shaking and earth-shattering scream coming from the forest. It was not the voice of that little kid, but rather the voice of an adult male, which was one of their companions.

  The Di people were shocked and exclaimed in unison: "There is an ambush in the forest!" Two Di men immediately turned their horses around, rushed to the edge of the forest, jumped off their horses, drew their swords, and charged into the forest!

  Immediately, two more mournful cries came from the forest, and the cries were mournful. One of the Di people only cried out once and stopped crying, while another Di person's voice changed from high to low, crying for three or four times before stopping.

  The forest returned to its tranquility.

  The leading Di people looked at the only remaining companion, and the companion happened to look back at him. The two stared at each other, both seeing fear in each other's eyes! They looked towards the forest together, the dark and dense forest giving them a chilling feeling, as if there was a monster with razor-sharp teeth and a bloody mouth waiting inside to devour their flesh and blood!

  The leading Di people swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said: "Where did the Xue Luo war go? Where did they go in the end?"

  "The remaining Di people said: 'They should be nearby, their horses are still here!'"

  Two people hesitated, neither of them dared to go over.

  Suddenly, several bursts of laughter came from the forest, high-pitched and somewhat like a woman's voice. Then several men's laughs followed, and someone said a sentence in the Di language. Although I couldn't make out whose familiar voice it was, one word seemed to be "playful joke".

  The two Dais finally breathed a sigh of relief, understanding that it was the Shaluo warriors who had snatched the woman and were hiding in the forest to have fun, then recklessly playing tricks on them.

  The leading Di said: "How did Sha Luo suddenly start joking, he never used to be like this!" He rode his horse and rushed towards the edge of the forest, with the other Di people following behind.

  The two dismounted and entered the forest. The leader of the Di people shouted: "Sheluo Zhan, you caught a woman, is she a Han woman or a Qiang woman?"

  As they walked into the woods, about 20 feet in, a person suddenly jumped out from behind a large tree behind them and let out a strange, shrill laugh. The two Tibetans immediately turned around to look back.

  Then a man jumped out from behind the tree, with long arms and legs, looking like a big monkey, baring his white teeth, making a strange laugh at them, which was exactly the sound they heard outside the forest.

  When they were far away, it was still nothing, but when they got so close, the sound was too scary. Adding to that, the expression of this big monkey scared the two Diao people so much that their hair stood on end, and both of them reached for the curved knives at their waists!

  Suddenly, they stopped their motion of pressing towards the curved knife. The two people lowered their heads and slowly looked at their own bellies. Then they saw that one person's belly had two gun barrels sticking out, while the other was even more unfortunate, with three gun barrels sticking out. Each barrel was dripping with fresh blood - their own blood!

  "Ah——" The two Di people cried out in unison, the spearheads in their bellies were suddenly withdrawn, and they fell to the ground together. Their four legs kicked a few times before they both died at the same time. Until death, neither of them saw who had killed them!

  Li Qindao said loudly: "Good, five more have been eliminated. Brothers, collect the spoils of war and go get the horses outside first!"

  Feng Jiao's soldiers responded in unison, and Wu Danzi ran out of the forest, shouting as he ran: "Shi Zhang, next time you must let me go up too, I can't always be the one to lure the enemy, even women are being used!"

  Shen Yi shouted from behind: "You're pretending to be a woman, it's too scary! I think these two guys were already dead before we stabbed them, they were scared to death by you, and I almost got scared to death by you!"

  Wudanzi laughed and said, "That's easy! Next time we meet the enemy, you all step aside and let me dress up as a woman to take charge!" He ran over to where the horses were gathered and was about to lead them back when he suddenly pointed down the road and shouted, "Shizhang, our reinforcements have arrived!"

  Li Qin listened, came out of the forest, and looked along the road. He saw that the team of soldiers who had come out with him yesterday were running towards this place. He was surprised in his heart, could it be that Tang Biao had discovered something and brought people to support himself? This is impossible!

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  The second update is here! There must be a lot of people on the streets today, with merchants offering big discounts. You brothers and sisters must be tired from shopping? Take a break and watch "Master", and collect it while you're at it, haha!