19: Refugees and robbers on the official road!

The Junling Mountain Range, with its towering mountains crisscrossing, is a vast mountain range located near the official road of Qingyun County.

This official road, which cuts through the Junling Mountain Range, is an important route to Qingyun County, and it is also the only official road that allows carriages to drive normally, surrounded by high mountains.

The sun was high, blazing, and scorching the surrounding peaks and land.

Not far from this official road, many people gathered under a towering tree, avoiding the scorching sun and hiding in ambush.

At this moment, a voice sounded, and a man said to the burly man in the middle of the crowd.

"Brother Hu, do you think anyone will pass by today? We haven't had any business for several days."

"Those sirs are waiting for our harvest. If we don't have any harvest today, then we will..."

Brother Hu, mentioned by the man, was a tall and majestic strong man, with only a small piece of yellow leather clothing wrapped around his upper body, with distinct patterns.

The black patterns on the leather clothing, embedded in the yellow and white fur, were a tiger skin.

Brother Hu's eyes were wide with anger, and he looked at the speaking man with a fierce expression.

The man trembled uncontrollably, not knowing whether he was afraid of Brother Hu in front of him, or the sirs he had just mentioned.

When Brother Hu was asked by him, he was also a little scared, but he didn't show it. Instead, he opened his mouth with a fierce face, pretending to be nonchalant.

"Hmph, I know it without you telling me."

Then, Brother Hu looked fiercely at the official road in the distance.

Finding that no one passed by as usual, Brother Hu's heart began to become anxious.

He cursed in his heart, damn it, if there was no harvest today, he would be miserable.

Recalling those figures that made him fearful, Brother Hu instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

Originally, these people were refugees, who came from Lanshan County, which was closest to Qingyun County.

Unexpectedly, on the way, they met three strangers of unknown origin, who directly attacked them without distinguishing right from wrong to establish their authority.

Then they took all of them in, used them as subordinates, occupied the mountain range in this area, and robbed and plundered people passing by for them.

None of them dared to disobey the orders of those fierce people, because those who disobeyed their orders were already dead, and the grass on their graves was three feet high.

He himself witnessed with his own eyes how those fierce people mercilessly tortured dozens of people who resisted them to death.

So the rest of the people understood that the three fierce people were not joking, and all of them joined them, working for their lives.

Some time ago, because of their banditry, they attracted the attention of Qingyun County, which sent a large number of official soldiers to patrol the mountains and suppress the bandits.

As a result, their original number of nearly two hundred people has now become only a handful, less than a hundred people.

At this moment, a man was seen running down from the opposite high mountain in the distance, rushing towards this side with great effort.

"Brother Hu, someone is coming this way, it looks like there are a few carriages."

"Oh! Is that so, good, good, good!"

Upon hearing this, Brother Hu's face lit up with joy, and he praised repeatedly: "Brothers, did you hear that, someone is coming, all of you cheer up."

Finally, someone came, damn it, if no one came today, the food stored on their mountain would soon be eaten up by those sirs.

"Brother Hu, but there are quite a few people coming, should we send someone back to inform those leaders?"

The man who had just run over spoke again, telling Brother Hu what he had seen.

"Many people?"

Brother Hu stretched out his big hand, grabbed the man who was reporting, and his face showed a fierce light.

"Then what are you still doing, why don't you hurry back to the mountain and inform those sirs?"

"Yes, yes, yes, Brother Hu, I'll go and inform the leaders right away."

The man was a little scared, and after speaking stutteringly, he scrambled away.

Not long after, a series of horse hooves came from a distance, and several carriages slowly approached this side.

There were also many horses around the carriages, as well as people similar to guards accompanying them.

When they got closer and closer, Brother Hu could already clearly see everyone on the other side.

When he saw the people around the carriage behind him, Brother Hu's excited face immediately drooped, like an eggplant hit by frost.

What did he see?

Why were there still imperial Yamen Runners inside, it looked like they were Yamen Runners from the county Yamen.

That's right, the Yamen Runners Brother Hu saw were Liang Cheng and the others, as well as Lu Xuan who was sitting in the carriage.

As for the carriages in front, they were just a chance encounter, a merchant caravan that happened to be passing by and returning to Qingyun County.

The leading escort of the caravan was a famous figure in the county town, whose martial arts realm had reached the Bone Refinement Realm, and he was also one of the top martial arts masters in the county town.

Damn it, I don't care, so what if they are imperial Yamen Runners, I'll still do it.

Brother Hu thought that the food stored on the mountain was almost exhausted, and could only support them for one or two days.

Without further consideration, Brother Hu immediately decisively drew the knife in his hand and said fiercely: "Brothers, there is no turning back now, all of you charge!"

On the official road, Lu Xuan, who was sitting in the carriage, moved his ears slightly and heard the sound coming from a distance on the official road.

Lu Xuan lifted the white cloth curtain of the carriage, looked at the distance with a blank expression, and then said to Liang Cheng, who was riding a horse beside him.

"Liang Cheng, stop first, be careful ahead, there are people ambushing there."

The noisy clatter of horse hooves did not cover Lu Xuan's voice at all.

Liang Cheng, who was beside him, reacted immediately after hearing Lu Xuan's voice, and shouted without thinking: "Everyone stop!"

Liang Cheng's voice was so loud that even the escort caravan in front could hear him.

Suddenly, at Liang Cheng's command, not only did the Yamen Runners beside him stop, but even the escort caravan in front stopped as well.

"There's an ambush ahead, everyone be careful!"

Liang Cheng did not explain much, and directly stated the reason.

In Liang Cheng's mind, Lu Xuan's words had never been wrong.

"An ambush?"

The leading escort at the very front, who was clearing the way, was a middle-aged man of about forty years old. He scanned the surroundings suspiciously.

Before he could react, many figures appeared in the distance on the official road, rushing towards this side quickly, each person holding a broken weapon.

"It's bandits!"

"Immediately be on alert!"

Upon seeing the figures appearing in the distance, the leading escort instantly reacted and quickly shouted to the dozens of guards behind him.

Seeing this, Liang Cheng also drew the weapon from his waist and vigilantly watched the menacing bandits running over from afar.

Bandits?