RPAGF Chapter 140 Ambush 2
Chapter 140 Ambush 2
Chapter 140 Ambush Part 2
"You're asking for death!" Lin Hu, wielding a broadsword, dismounted.
Taking advantage of Lin Hu's momentary lapse in balance, Wang Wenzhou swung the wooden plank and smashed it down.
Lin Hu smiled faintly, dodged to the side, and then kicked Wang Wenzhou.
"Agh..." Wang Wenzhou screamed as he flew out.
Lin Hu didn't want to kill Wang Wenzhou, even though Wang Wenzhou was unreliable and had tricked them. However, Wang Wenzhou had too many men, and Lin Hu wasn't sure if there were any ambushes ahead. If he captured Wang Wenzhou, he could not only extort a lot of money but also escape unscathed.
Wang Wenzhou wiped the blood from his mouth, got up, and said, "Brothers, let's go!"
Three sedan chair carriers rushed forward carrying wooden planks.
Lin Hu's martial arts skills were too high. In the blink of an eye, he killed a sedan chair carrier with a single slash.
Wang Wenzhou realized things were going badly; he couldn't win a fight! He had no choice but to outsmart the enemy.
Wang Wenzhou ran behind the horse, swung a wooden plank, and stabbed it into the horse's anus. The horse neighed and ran away.
Wang Wenzhou shouted, "Brothers, don't engage in close combat! Let's use ranged attacks and kite him to death!"
The remaining two sedan chair carriers did not understand the principal's meaning, but they understood not to engage in close combat. So they obeyed the principal's order and turned around and ran a few steps.
Wang Wenzhou picked up a fist-sized rock and hurled it at Lin Hu with all his might.
Lin Hu was chasing a sedan chair carrier and didn't notice the stone flying from behind him.
"boom!"
The stone hit Lin Hu on the back of the head, making him dizzy and almost causing him to stumble and fall to the ground.
"Brothers, throw stones! Whoever he chases, run! The other two, throw stones at him!" Wang Wenzhou said hurriedly.
The two sedan bearers immediately understood, bent down, picked up stones, and started throwing them.
Lin Hu was immediately embarrassed. A warrior with full health was being kited by three low-health "archers".
Lin Hu stood still and resisted for a while, but realized that this wouldn't work; he might get crushed to death by the rocks.
Lin Hu looked up at Wang Wenzhou and thought, "To catch the thief, first catch the king."
Thinking of this, Lin Hu endured the flying stones and ran towards Wang Wenzhou.
Lin Hu was enraged. He had originally wanted to capture Wang Wenzhou alive, but now he only needed to kill him with one blow.
When Wang Wenzhou saw Lin Hu chasing after him, he took off running.
Wang Wenzhou looked back and saw two sedan chair bearers following behind Lin Hu, throwing stones as they chased after him.
"Don't run around! Conserve your energy! Do you understand your positioning? You two keep a distance from each other, and if you run around, I'll run around you two. You two hit him as hard as you can!" Wang Wenzhou shouted hurriedly.
The two sedan bearers, having never played the game before and lacking knowledge of positioning techniques, immediately understood after Wang Wenzhou's explanation. "The adult is amazing," they thought, "even in a critical moment, he can still come up with so many ingenious ideas."
So Wang Wenzhou ran ahead, and Lin Hu chased after him with his knife, occasionally getting hit by a few stones. The two sedan chair carriers transformed into artillery, each carrying a pile of stones and firing at Lin Hu.
At this moment, on the main battlefield of the great battle, the "government army" under the leadership of Liu Rushi gradually gained the upper hand, and almost all of Lin Feigang and his men's horses were shot to death by archers.
Several hundred government troops advanced slowly in neat rows, shields in one hand and clubs in the other. The encirclement tightened, and the number of black-clad men from Lin Family Village dwindled with each battle.
Liu Rushi gave the order: "Young Master Qiang, you must immediately ride your horse, gather your men, and then come to surround and annihilate these bandits."
Liu Rushi gave the order calmly, and Wang Qiang nodded in agreement without hesitation.
"Miss Zhang Jiao, take a few people and ride horses to find Wang Wenzhou," Liu Rushi said to Zhang Jiao.
"I'm going right now!" Zhang Jiao was caught up in the excitement of the fight when she heard Liu Rushi's order. Only then did she remember that the fat man had disappeared. With the fat man's skills, if the enemy caught up with him, he would most likely die a violent death.
"Follow me!" Zhang Jiao waved her hand, and seven or eight yamen runners followed behind her on horseback.
Zhang Jiao searched on horseback for a while and suddenly spotted Wang Wenzhou's sedan chair not far away.
The sedan chair had been smashed. Zhang Jiao felt a surge of fear. Had the fat man already died a violent death?
"Spread out and search! We must find Wang Wenzhou, alive or dead!" Zhang Jiao said.
"Yes, Madam!" The constables quickly split up and went about their tasks.
"Madam, the lord is here!" A moment later, a yamen runner shouted loudly.
Zhang Jiao turned her horse around and galloped quickly in that direction.
When Zhang Jiao ran up to him, she was dumbfounded. She saw Wang Wenzhou standing calmly with his hands behind his back, with a burly man in black standing on his feet.
The burly man in black was none other than Lin Hu. Poor Lin Hu, he was outmaneuvered and killed by Wang Wenzhou and his companions' "kite-flying" tactics.
Zhang Jiao dismounted and walked over to see the man at Wang Wenzhou's feet. Zhang Jiao frowned; this man was highly skilled. Zhang Jiao had just fought him and hadn't won. If it weren't for the several constables who risked their lives to save her, Zhang Jiao would have been killed by this man long ago.
"Wang Wenzhou, did you kill him?" Zhang Jiao asked incredulously.
"Of course!" Wang Wenzhou said arrogantly, "Jiaojiao, you know I'm skilled in both literature and martial arts."
"Which of you killed him?" Zhang Jiao didn't believe Wang Wenzhou's words and turned to ask the two sedan bearers.
The two men shook their heads and said, "This man was killed by Lord Wang through a scheme."
"Really?" Zhang Jiao asked again. She really didn't believe that Wang Wenzhou could kill Lin Hu.
"Really, Madam! Lord Wang is both wise and brave. If it weren't for Lord Wang's plan, we would have died a violent death as well." The two sedan chair bearers flattered Wang Wenzhou.
"Greetings, Your Excellency!" The yamen runners rushed over, dismounted, and paid their respects to Wang Wenzhou.
"Get up, all of you!" Wang Wenzhou waved his hand and asked, "Did the thieves escape?"
“The thieves are already surrounded. Miss Liu is afraid of too many casualties, so she hasn’t dared to attack with all her might. She is attacking slowly to wear down the thieves’ strength,” Zhang Jiao replied.
What?! Wang Wenzhou was somewhat incredulous. The battle had been so fierce; his main force had all fled, yet Liu Rushi had managed to defeat Lin Feigang's men with just three labor camp detachments. Impressive!
“Let’s go, let’s go take a look! Miss Liu was worried something had happened to you, so she specifically asked me to look for you,” Zhang Jiao said.
"Jiaojiao, help me onto the horse. My injury hasn't healed yet, and my legs are swollen from running for so long!" Wang Wenzhou said plaintively.
Knowing that Wang Wenzhou couldn't ride a horse, Zhang Jiao helped him onto the horse first, and then Zhang Jiao mounted herself.
"No way!" Wang Wenzhou said with a smile, "Jiaojiao, you come to the front, I have to sit in the back!"
“You can’t ride a horse?” Zhang Jiao frowned.
"Don't worry about whether I can ride a horse or not! Even if you're riding a horse, it will look like I'm the one riding. It would be so embarrassing if I were in front and people saw me!" Wang Wenzhou's chauvinistic tendencies kicked in again.
"Alright, alright!" Zhang Jiao had no choice but to crawl in front of Wang Wenzhou.
Several yamen runners chuckled secretly; Lord Wang was truly bizarre. This son of a noble family couldn't even ride a horse!
You can't blame the yamen runners for thinking that way. In the Ming Dynasty, the nobles were all hereditary military officers, and it was really shameful not to be able to ride a horse.
Of course, this cannot be blamed on Wang Wenzhou; it can only be blamed on his previous owner being too fat, and an ordinary horse could not support his weight.