Chapter 21 Not One of Them Escaped

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  After killing two salt smugglers, Zhang Zhun turned around to look for Lei Lao San.

  Lei Lao San raised his steel knife and pounced on Zhang Zhun with a vicious look.

  Zhang Zhun also didn't say a word, gripping the trident and charging forward.

  "Ah!"

  Lei Lao San's steel knife swept over Zhang Zhun's head, cutting off a few strands of hair.

  Yang Yinghua happened to see this scene, was shocked and turned pale, almost cried out in surprise.

  "Hah!"

  Zhang Zhun's left hand thrust out with three sharp fingers, stabbing towards Lei Lao San's lower abdomen.

  "Ah!"

  Lei Lao San hastily sheathed his sword and kicked open the three-pronged door.

  At this time, he had already seen Zhang Zhun's appearance and clearly saw the strange weapon used by Zhang Zhun. Such a strange weapon, he really hadn't seen it before, and the killing intent on it was so intense.

  Zhang Zhun continued to pounce on him.

  Lei Lao San once again clashed with the incoming Triple-Pronged Stab.

  Zhang forced him to the front of the earthwork, with no way to retreat anymore.

  Lei Lao San was both anxious and enraged, so he raised his steel knife and made continuous hacking motions, trying to force Zhang Zhun back.

  However, the three-pronged attack continued to assault him, and before he could even change his move, suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his right calf, and without needing to look down, he knew he had been hit.

  "Hah!"

  Zhang Zhun's right hand three-edged thorn pierced Lei Lao San's right calf.

  Fresh blood immediately gushed out, dyeing red the entire right foot of Lei Lao San.

  Lei Lao San's right calf suddenly felt a sharp pain, his body lost balance, and the steel knife inevitably revealed an opening.

  "Hah!"

  Zhang Zhun took advantage of the situation and didn't show mercy, thrusting his three-edged spear out again.

  This time, the three-edged awl stabbed into Lao San's left thigh, just piercing an artery.

  "Hmm..."

  Lei Lao San grunted and his body lost its balance. He hastily stumbled backward, leaning against the earth mound.

  He, who was stabbed in the thigh, didn't have time to counterattack Zhang Zhun and hurriedly grasped his knife with one hand, while using the other hand to press down hard on the upper part of the wound on his thigh. It seems that he understood a bit about hemostasis. Unfortunately, it's not possible for the wound caused by the triangular blade to stop bleeding easily.

  Two salt bandits near him, finding something amiss, hastily rushed up, attempting to intercept Zhang Zhun and buy time for Lao Da to dress his wound. These two salt bandits were both trusted followers of Lei Lao San, their martial arts skills not weak at all, the two steel knives dancing out a sheet of white light, shielding themselves and Lei Lao San behind the light.

  Zhang Zhun sneered coldly and raised his trident, dancing around with two halberds.

  Lei Lao San, who had fallen to the ground, threw away his steel knife and pressed hard on his thigh, trying to stop the bleeding. He tore off a strip of cloth and tightly bound it above the wound.

  However, having been stabbed in the femoral artery by a three-edged spear, how could he possibly hold it back? Any weapon that pierces the leg's main artery is fatal, let alone the vicious and deadly three-edged spear. The gushing blood was getting more and more severe.

  "Hah!"

  Suddenly, a salted fish was pierced by three prongs and fell down with a thud.

  "Hah!"

  Another salt smuggler was stabbed in the abdomen and fell down with a loud cry.

  Zhang Zhun's side had no other salt smugglers left, they were all surrounded by the Zha Yu team.

  "Who are you?" Lei Lao San realized his life was at stake, and he would definitely be settling accounts here today. However, he refused to give up. He refused to die without a clear understanding of what was happening, so he struggled to ask.

  "Yangjiatun Zhangzhun." Zhangzhun replied coldly.

  Lei Lao San's expression was strange, as if he had never heard of the name Zhang Zhun before. After a moment of silence, he suddenly let out an extremely angry roar: "Wang Shi Xin, I'll haunt you even after I'm dead! And Zhang Zhun, don't think you're off the hook either, you killed me and someone will still come looking for trouble with you!"

  Zhang Zhun's pupils slowly contracted.

  Lei Lao San was indeed lured here by Wang Shi Xin.

  However, judging from Lao San's tone, Wang Shixin seemed to have not told him about Zhang Zhun's affairs, which is why Lao San was so indignant. If he had known about Zhang Zhun earlier, he wouldn't have been so careless. Unfortunately, he no longer has the chance to change his fate.

  Soon, Lao San Lei, who had lost too much blood, quietly took his last breath.

  Zhang looked around and found that most of the salt bandits had been eliminated, leaving only the last three, who were back to back, desperately resisting. Li Jiaxi, Zhang Yatie, Wu Xinshui and other six team members, who had deep grievances against them, launched a fierce attack on them.

  The salt smugglers lived a life of licking blood on the blade, having to deal with possible battles at any moment every day. Those who could survive must have had good reflexes and skills. Once they sensed something was wrong, they would immediately draw their swords, ready for battle. The fish stabbers didn't have many chances to launch surprise attacks.

  However, this group of people who suddenly appeared were really beyond their expectations. They did not think that they would encounter such a fierce enemy here, and they were definitely at a psychological disadvantage. What made them even more flustered was that the ambushers' kung fu and the weapons they used were also very strange.

  Pain!

  No matter what action they take, the other side has only one move.

  That's it:

  Pierce!

  Upper thrust, lower thrust, forward thrust, backward thrust, left thrust, right thrust, orthodox thrust, reverse thrust...

  The saltos have seen many enemies, but they haven't seen such an enemy before, and they haven't seen such a fierce assassination. For a time, they were at a loss as to what to do.

  Pain!

  Fast and ruthless!

  Both drifting and accurate!

  Faced with such a sudden assassination, the Salt Gangsters didn't even have time to adapt.

  Failure is death!

  Zhang Zhun killed four salt bandits in a row and also took down Lei Lao San. The other fourteen salt bandits were surrounded by the team members and soon eleven of them were stabbed to death. Most people died under the three-edged spear. The remaining three, after resisting for a short time, were also taken down by Li Jia Xi and others.

  The scene was a bloody mess. The triangular awl had one major drawback - its blood-letting effect was too good, often draining the body of all its blood. Under each corpse, a pool of blood would form. The terrain of Liushuigou was like a bow, with the blood flowing towards the center and forming a huge blood pit.

  "Not one of them ran away!"

  "Kill them all!"

  Yang Zhiyuan excitedly came up to report.

  "Good job!"

  Zhang Zhun praised him for a moment.

  This time in battle, Zhang Quan was basically satisfied.

  Fierce and ruthless assassination is indeed unstoppable.

  "What about our casualties?"

  "There were three little ones who got stabbed, but they're not fatal!"

  Zhang Zhun came over to the three injured team members and carefully examined their injuries.

  All three were slashed by the salted steel knife, fortunately, the injury was not fatal. Don't look at the blood flowing all over, it's all the blood splashed from the salted body. The usual combat training had a very good effect, facing the incoming steel knife, they no longer need to go through their brains and can reflexively dodge.

  "It's okay, don't be afraid!"

  "I'm very satisfied with your performance!"

  Zhang Quan comforted these injured team members calmly.

  This time in battle, he was still very satisfied, after all it was Zha Yu's team's first real fight.

  The previous fight with Yang Kun doesn't count.

  The triangular spear showed extremely strong lethality, and the combat effectiveness was quite satisfactory. Those salt bandits were basically killed with one stab. Even if one stab didn't kill them, massive bleeding would quickly make them lose their combat strength. It's like Lei Lao San, Zhang Zhun didn't need to care about his life or death at all, because he knew that after being stabbed twice by the triangular spear, Lei Lao San was absolutely going to die.

  "Gather all the weapons."

  "Gather all the money together."

  Zhang Zhun looked around and said in a low voice.

  Yang Zhiyuan and others have taken action and started cleaning up the battlefield.

  Zhang Zhun came to Yang Yinghua's side.

  The battle erupted, and Yang Yinghua was so frightened that she crouched at the bottom of the earth mound, with her back to the battlefield, closing her eyes and not daring to look. Until the battle ended, she slowly turned around. When she found out that all the salt bandits had been eliminated, she stood up and carefully wiped away the ash on her face. Despite this, her lips still looked extremely pale, obviously still shaken, but when she saw Zhang Zhun, she was overjoyed again. With a mix of fear and joy, her cheeks slowly turned from white to red, becoming even more lovely.

  "It's okay, don't be afraid."

  Yang Yinghua sobbed and said: "I knew you would definitely come to save us, I'm not afraid."

  Zhang nodded and walked over to Yang Rui's side.

  Yang Rui Feng was not seriously injured, just got two bruises on his back when he was delayed by the salt smugglers during the fight. After the battle, he immediately gathered all the captured people together, twenty-three of them, not one less, and none of them were injured.

  Such a result, Yang Rui Feng could not have imagined. He firmly believed that Zhang Zhun would come to rescue them, but in the process of rescuing, something unexpected happened, even if there were many casualties, it was also foreseeable, after all, the other side was a salt bandit! They were all people who were not afraid of death.

  However, it was these salt bandits who were killed by Zhang Zhun and his men in the blink of an eye. Only three members of the Zha Yu team were injured. If not seen with one's own eyes, it would be hard to imagine. Looking at the salt bandit corpses scattered all over the ground, the flowing blood, Yang Rui felt that he still couldn't quite believe it.

  "Captain, all the weapons have been collected."

  Yang Zhiyuan came up to report.

  A total of twenty-five intact steel knives were seized, with some salt bandits carrying two knives each. The quality of these steel knives is not bad, better than the waist knives used by Yang Kun's four followers. It seems that the salt bandits are indeed wealthy!

  "Take everything away!"

  Zhang Zhun said in a low voice.

  Although the guards' usual weapons were bamboo spears and tridents, these steel knives didn't serve much purpose. However, as the team expanded later on, they always came in handy. Not to mention, they were quite sharp for killing fish, sharper than ordinary kitchen knives.

  "Captain, all the money on Salted Fish's body has been collected. After counting, there are about 54 taels of silver and about 13 strings of copper coins."

  Yang Zhiyuan reported again.

  Nineteen salt smugglers, with only over sixty taels of silver on them, were really too poor.

  Isn't Yan Jiao very rich?

  Of course, having some is better than having none.

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