Chapter 218 I also want to improve!

Chang Wei caught a bandit soldier running around and asked with his eyes wide open: "What happened? Why are there cavalry in the city?"

"Commander-in-chief, something bad has happened! The imperial court's troops are invading!"

After saying this, the soldier tried to escape.

However, Chang Wei saw that he had a lot of gold and silver jewelry in his arms, and he immediately became furious and said, "How dare you steal my gold and silver, you traitor!"

He suddenly raised his arm and slapped the soldier on the head with a free-hand palm strike, killing him.

When Chang Wei turned his head to look at the city again, he found that many places were on fire. The unprepared bandit soldiers could only be slaughtered in front of the well-equipped cavalry.

Soon, he heard a uniform shout coming from the city gate: "Put down your weapons, surrender and you won't be killed!"

Chang Wei used his Qinggong skills to fly to the roof and observe the situation in the city.

After the cavalry, the imperial infantry also charged into the city. The three arms cooperated well and suppressed the unorganized bandit army in the street fighting.

Among the cavalry there was a fierce man who was three times stronger than him, and he killed the commander with two moves.

Chang Wei narrowed his eyes, knowing that even if he rushed out to organize the generals to resist, it would be too late because they had already lost the initiative.

He hammered on the roof unwillingly and suddenly saw the soldier lying on the ground.

"Maybe there is still a chance to turn defeat into victory!" Chang Wei's eyes lit up, and he immediately came down from the roof, dragged the soldier who was beaten to death into the room, and changed his clothes.

In order to make the role look more realistic, he stuffed his gold and silver jewelry into his chest, then took a machete and pretended to run away in panic.

Sure enough, the cavalry discovered him first.

Chang Wei immediately dropped his machete, crouched down with his head in his hands, and stammered, "I am innocent, I surrender, I surrender!"

Seeing how cowardly he was, the soldiers gave up the idea of ​​killing him and instead ordered him to squat with the other surrendered soldiers.

"Yes, yes..." Chang Wei nodded and hunched over among the soldiers.

Because of his usual haughty and arrogant demeanor, which was very different from his humble image at the moment, and the fact that it was dark, the rebel soldiers did not associate the two men together.

Two hours later, the imperial army took control of the entire county. Tang Tian, ​​wearing a third-grade scarlet robe, rode into Yicheng County with Ou Zanghua, protected by a dozen cavalrymen and nearly a hundred sword and shield soldiers.

The smile on Yuda's lips could not be suppressed at all, and he was even half a body length ahead of Ou Zanghua.

He turned around and looked at the Minister of the Honglu Temple beside him, and said cheerfully: "Lord Ou is indeed a talented person who has won the third place in the imperial examination. He successfully tricked the city gate open with a waist badge."

"Just some little tricks, not worthy of such praise from Lord Tang." Ou Zanghua smiled and said modestly.

When Tang Tian heard this, he had a general understanding of Ou Zanghua in his mind. This young man was talented, sensible, and graceful. He could be said to be a perfect scholar-bureaucrat.

In this way, perhaps I could take advantage of it.

He pretended to be arrogant and said: "Master Ou is too modest. Master Ou deserves at least 50% credit for the victory over this bandit group!"

Ou Zanghua was stunned after hearing this and couldn't help but look at Tang Tian.

Mr. Ou has been in office for almost a year, and this person is the first one who dares to snatch the credit from him. He is really brave!
He wanted to see how Tang Tian could snatch it from him!
While the two were still pretending to be nice, they did not notice that a group of surrendered soldiers with their hands tied were walking by on the street under the escort of soldiers.

Chang Wei was hiding in the middle. He glanced at the people who came in on horseback. Was the official in the third-rank scarlet robe the mastermind of this sneak attack?

snort!
He is indeed a corrupt official. He even brings his concubine with him when he goes to war.

Chang Wei secretly began to gather his strength, and when the two passed each other, he suddenly exerted force with his arms. With a "snap" sound, the hemp rope as thick as his index finger was instantly broken.

"You dog officer, prepare to die!"

Chang Wei concentrated all his internal strength into this punch, and even used a free-hand punch in order to break through the non-existent soft armor.

This move has a penetrating force that is irresistible.

Before Tang Tian could react, he was knocked off the horse's back by Chang Wei's punch. The powerful penetrating force broke several of his ribs, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Huh?!"

Ou Zanghua was stunned. How could it be like this after only 50% of his efforts?
After knocking Tang Tian out with one punch, Chang Wei stood still and yelled, "The dog official is dead. Brothers, pick up your weapons and kill this lackey of the imperial court!"

All the soldiers subconsciously looked at Ou Zanghua. Although they had only been with Lord Ou for half a day, he was indeed a man who could convince the others. Ou Zanghua reacted and immediately said loudly: "Those who don't want to die, squat down!"

As he spoke, he drew out his sword and stabbed at Chang Wei, saying, "Revenge for Lord Tang!"

When the surrendering soldiers saw the imperial officers and soldiers drew their weapons, they squatted down obediently. They didn't think they could defeat these guys with weapons with their bare hands.

Chang Wei didn't expect Ou Zanghua to draw his sword so quickly. Even though he retreated in time, he was still stabbed in the shoulder by the sword.

Ou Zanghua took advantage of the situation and leaped up from his horse's back. He stabbed Chang Wei in the air with his sword and a stream of sword energy shot out, aiming straight at Chang Wei's throat.

Chang Wei dodged again, but he was not afraid at all when facing Ou Zanghua who was coming with a sword. Instead, he wanted to get closer to him.

Stab the sword horizontally, thrust the sword in the middle, turn the handle to sweep the sword, turn around and slash the sword, flip over and use the back to slash the sword.

There were four moves in a row, dazzling and unexpected. Chang Wei only had time to avoid the first three moves. The fourth move was fast and hidden. By the time he noticed it, the sword had already pierced his chest.

The soldiers around were stunned. They never expected that the handsome and elegant Lord Ou had such a powerful swordsmanship!

Especially after seeing the murderer who killed Tang Tian in seconds being pierced by a sword, many people shouted excitedly: "Master Ou is mighty!"

"Who... are you?" Chang Wei let out a breath, staring at Ou Zanghua and asked.

Ou Zanghua suddenly drew out his sword, looked at Chang Wei who was half-kneeling on the ground, and said calmly: "Minister Ou Zanghua of the Honglu Temple has been ordered to wipe out you bandits."

Chang Wei was shocked. This man was the Minister of Honglu Temple who destroyed the Eastern Army? !

He straightened his back, stubbornly refusing to fall down: "Then why are you... wearing... a green shirt?"

"Now that we're in Xiangyang, I don't want to have anything to do with someone who stabbed my allies in the back, so I changed into a green shirt. Is there a problem?" Ou Zanghua casually took out a sword flower and sheathed the long sword.

Chang Wei wanted to laugh after hearing this, but unfortunately his body could no longer support such an operation and he eventually died.

Ou Zanghua then looked at Tang Tian and saw him being carried out by several soldiers. His face was as white as paper, his body was crooked, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth.

It's miserable...

"Lord Ou, I have blocked a disaster for you." Tang Tian looked at Ou Zanghua with tears in his eyes and really cried.

He just wanted to get some credit and get promoted. What's wrong with that?

"Master Tang, hold on!"

Ou Zanghua quickly comforted him, "I understand you. I will write down Mr. Tang's heroic deeds in the memorial."

No one expected that Lao Tang, who had suffered a critical hit, could still be alive. He was flying out while spitting blood.

This defense is stacked... a bit high.

"Master Ou, believe me, I have also read Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I am definitely not the kind of person that Lv Ziming is!"

After saying this, without waiting for Ou Zanghua to comfort him, Tang Tian tilted his head and fainted.

This caused another panic among the crowd, and they quickly took him to a room and handed him over to a doctor for treatment.

After finishing all this, Ou Zanghua sat down to rest, but he was a little confused as to why Tang Tian mentioned "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?
If you can’t figure it out, stop thinking about it!
Ou Zanghua never made things difficult for himself. When he raised his sleeves to wipe the sweat off his face, his head suddenly went blank.

Because of the deep impression left by Romance of the Three Kingdoms, after arriving in Xiangyang, Ou Zanghua subconsciously thought of Mr. Luo's description:
After being thanked, he recruited 30,000 soldiers and more than 80 speedboats, and selected those who were good at sailing to disguise themselves as merchants. They all wore white clothes and rowed the boats.

And Mr. Chen in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" wrote:
When Meng arrived at Xunyang, he hid all his elite soldiers and made them wear white clothes and row the oars, dressed as merchants, and traveled day and night until he came to the garrison on the riverside where Yu had stationed his troops. He captured and tied them up, so Yu did not know about it.

The same words, if you change the order, will have a different meaning.

Mr. Luo meant that the soldiers were dressed in white and pretended to be merchants, and Mr. Chen meant that the soldiers took off their military uniforms and put on the clothes of merchants...

Realizing that he might have made a fool of himself, Ou Zanghua looked at Ding Mian standing beside him and asked, "Uncle Ding, why did you see me wearing a green shirt?"

Ding Mian was stunned for a moment before he spoke: "I think Lord Ou must have his reasons for doing this."

"... As expected of Uncle Ding, you have keenly perceived my intentions!"

(End of this chapter)