Spring is coming in the north of the border, so it is not until late April when spring is over in all parts of the Central Plains that spring is coming to an end.

The clouds are light and the sky is high, and the spring breeze brings warmth, which also brings the vitality of the mountains and forests and the fragrance of flowers and trees, making people walking on the official road unconsciously ignore their fatigue and enjoy the bright spring scenery in front of them.

Of course, it would be even better if there were no pairs of eyes full of greed and scrutiny on both sides. Li Ling and the more than 2,000 people who accompanied the escort north all thought so. Although their pace did not stop, their attention was always on both sides of the road. In the mountains and forests that were rising high and lush trees, there were several half-old flags waving, and hundreds of Jinzhou green forest bandits holding weapons and showing fierce eyes were staring at them, just like wolves staring at their prey.

As Li Ling said before, the official road north of Jinzhou is really difficult to walk. Take the road in front of you for example. It would be fine if the road is rugged and narrow, but you have to pass through the mountains. On both sides are dense forests higher than the official road. Walking here is a complete exposure of the target to the thieves. Moreover, because of the need to push a cart to carry food, the team can only walk along this road and cannot pass through the forest, because the terrain there is more complex and steeper, and cars and horses can't pass.

The only benefit may be that this official road is more than a hundred steps away from the mountains and forests on both sides, with at least a buffer. However, once the thieves are determined to kill them, it will still be a problem.

At this time, although the thousands of bandits on both sides did not rush down, they had already followed the way silently for more than ten miles. This was more like hungry wolves stole the opportunity. They were waiting for the opportunity to appear. Once the grain transport team relaxed a little, they would rush over and tear off a large piece of meat.

Chen Daoshou, the general of Fengzhou Army, who was at the forefront of the team, cared about this very much. He sent a small group of people to try to drive away these guys like maggots with bones. As a result, when the person arrived, they quickly hid deep into the mountains and forests, barely engaged in head-on battles with the official army, and had no intention of negotiating, so they followed.

As the journey along the way, from morning to afternoon, the patience of the soldiers was almost gone. Chen Daoshou finally couldn't help but thrust the horse to Li Ling in the middle of the team: "Mr. Li, this will not work. If they follow them, the soldiers will be fine, but these civilians will not be able to hold on. Once the people are in a mess, they will take the opportunity to move, and we will be passive."

Li Ling nodded seriously. He actually saw the other party's intentions, and at the same time he was secretly surprised at the local green forest bandits in Jinzhou. They were brave enough. They dared to try their best to make decisions even though they knew that this was a escort from the official army. The strategy was even more clever. Such a drag-on technique was indeed not something that casual people could deal with.

Perhaps this is also related to their struggles with the border troops for many years to survive. These guys who are most familiar with forest combat have long been able to turn the geographical advantage into their own use. Without these two brushes, they would have dispersed or were wiped out by the government army.

"Do you have a way to talk to their leaders? As long as they don't make trouble this time, I will promise them the benefits at that time." Li Ling pondered for a moment, and still planned to make a little concession.

This was the businessman's thinking, even if he gave up some benefits, he only wanted peace. But Chen Daoshou shook his head: "They don't believe it, and our northern army has no possibility of doing business with them. Before, several villages had been sent to the house because they believed it. "

Well, this road has been blocked by someone long ago. Li Ling curled his lips and could only say, "Then we can only use force to suppress them so that they dare not follow them anymore. General Chen, can your people catch up with them in this environment?"

Chen Daoshou shook his head again: "I'm afraid it won't work. They are very alert and control the distance very well, almost outside the range of our bows and arrows. As for the charge, they can't catch up. Their interspersed and ran far above us in the mountains and forests, and our cavalry could not enter the forest."

Li Ling's expression was even heavier. If he hadn't known that setting fire might have brought him all in, he would have ordered the rockets to ignite the mountains and forests on both sides. Sure enough, the difficulty of transporting grain to the northern border was definitely not something that could be imagined by being in the capital. Whether it was the complex terrain or the attitude of the green forest bandits here, it could not be seen from the previous border terrain map.

Just when he was helpless, Yang Zhen, who was standing beside him, said, "Sir, I have a way to do it. But General Chen has to cooperate first and send someone to rush forward."

"Hmm? Do you really have a way?" Chen Daoshou said a little disbelief. As a general of the border army, he might have some respect for Li Ling, but he didn't take these military officers from the capital seriously. In their opinion, these guys had not experienced real wars, but were just silver-like gun tips.

"You will know it after a try." Yang Zhen looked confident. Seeing this, Li Ling nodded and said, "Then please ask the general to lead someone to rush forward for a while."

"Okay!" Li Ling said, but Chen Daoshou did not dare to disobey. He clasped his fists and responded decisively, and rode his horse forward. After a few orders, a team of more than a hundred people gathered. He decisively led the way, rushed towards the forest on the left with a round of horse heads.

This action naturally fell into the eyes of the bandits. Seeing him gathering troops to rush towards them, they reacted quickly, pulled back, and soon disappeared into the depths of the forest. Under the lush and dense trees, even if the official army fired arrows at any cost, it would be difficult to hurt them.

After rushing to a certain position on the border army, the mounts could no longer advance. They also stopped for a while and retreated in disappointment. Although they could get off the horse and go into the forest, it was difficult to ensure that the enemy would not set up a trap and kill the game, so for the sake of safety, they had to retreat.

Seeing them retreat, the bandits who had just been hiding in the forest came out again, shouting and whistling, mixed with a lot of laughter and scolding, obviously ridiculing the incompetence of the government army. This performance not only failed to make them feel scared, but also increased their arrogance.

Chen Daoshou turned around with a little breath, thinking about what to say later, when he heard an arrow sounded from the grain truck team. His eyes turned, and he saw Yang Zhenyue beside Li Ling pulling a bow, and a sharp arrow shot towards the mountains and forests on the left like a meteor.

No, it was not an arrow, because just as his eyes were about to settle, Yang Zhen's hand had already pulled the string again, and he flew out the other two arrows one after another.

The three arrows were almost connected in a line, shooting straight into the forest on the left, so fast that the bandits who had just crawled out of the forest had not had time to respond, and they had already flew over a distance of more than 130 steps and shot on the faces of the three men in front and behind the team. One of them hit the left eye, and the arrow entered his eyes. He just raised his body, and after half a scream, he had already come out of the back of his head, and immediately took his life; a forehead was so powerful that it took him to throw him away. After a bang, he screamed and made a mistake, but he was penetrated by an arrow; but the third person could not even scream because it hit his throat, completely cut off his scream, and at the same time he flew back with his body, hitting the trunk behind, nailing his body to death.

Three arrows were shot and killed three thieves with twenty or thirty steps apart, and they all hit the key points... Skills, lethality, judgment... Almost every ability that is extremely important to the archer was fully reflected by Yang Zhen's three arrows, which shocked everyone present, and could not come back to his senses for a long time.

"The village leader...the third leader, the fourth leader..."

The first thing that came to the reaction was the brothers around the three of them. They screamed in shock, as if they had lost their parents. The sound of this spread made the bandits around them feel confused. Some shouted to come forward to check the situation, some howled anger and rushed down regardless of everything, hoping to avenge the leader, but more of them felt cold in their hearts and quickly retreated.

Shoot the man and shoot the horse first, and capture the thief first.

The best way to deal with such green forest bandits is to take down their leader. No matter how many other people there are, they are just a pile of loose sand. In this regard, whether it is the bandits in the Central Plains or the bandits in the frontier, they are actually the same. They are not regular soldiers after all.

It was not until he saw dozens of bandits roaring and rushing over to Chen Daoshou came back from his shock, laughed loudly, and urged the horse to meet him, and other subordinates followed him and rushed over like a tiger pounced on a sheep.

There was almost no suspense in this battle. As soon as Fang joined the battle, he was slaughtered one-sidedly. In just a short moment, the dozens of people had turned into ghosts under the sword. The continuous screams finally destroyed the last defense of the bandits on both sides of the upper side. After a scream, they turned around and ran away like a stray dog, scattering all over the mountain.

With only three arrows shot out, the problem of Green Forest thieves that had troubled the entire team for half a day was solved. At this moment, everyone looked at Yang Zhen with awe, except for awe. Even Chen Daoshou came back and rushed to Yang Zhen, who was still standing beside Li Ling, raised his thumb and praised: "Brother Yang is good at archery, and this time it will be a great eye-opener. Your archery technique that can penetrate Yang by hundreds of steps is rarely an opponent in my northern border army!"

"Haha, General Chen praised it, the trick of being aware of the slightest thing is not worth mentioning." Yang Zhen said modestly.

Li Ling was also surprised: "In the past few years, your archery skills have been much better than before, which is really gratifying. By the way, you just asked them to feint attack just to find the thief leader, right?"

"That's right, shooting and killing ordinary thieves can't scare them off at all, but it's different for the leader who is killing them." Yang Zhen nodded.

"Okay, since the burden has been removed, let's move forward quickly. By the way, after passing Ma'angang, is there any danger behind it?" Li Ling was excited and urged to speed up.
Chapter completed!