Chapter 268, the main text volume of the most cruel bandit in the Ming Dynasty, the human head tree blossomed and bears fruit. The next morning, Qin Chuan only brought a few red-clothed servants to the yards outside the town that were specially for merchants to live in.

It's time to meet that group of merchants with unknown intentions.

Luo Wentian said that the group of merchants claimed to be from Dingxiang, and was a local small businessman named Zhong. The leader was named Zhong Deguang, who was the second son of the Zhong family.

Luo Wentian inquired that there was indeed a Zhong family in Dingxiang, which opened a cloth shop, grain shop and ironware shop. The transaction was not very big, and the goods were mainly sold to Dingxiang City and the people and military households around him.

The second son of the Zhong family master is indeed named Zhong Deguang. His appearance description is similar to the one he led, not very much like a fake one.

After this group of people arrived in Loufan, their behavior was not much different from other merchants, but the guards looked quite powerful.

However, Luo Wentian went to tell them that after meeting Lord Qin the next day, the yard where the Zhong family caravan lived seemed particularly quiet at night.

It seems that there are most likely problems with this Zhong family caravan.

Qin Chuan was dressed in military uniform, an iron helmet, and a piece of cloth iron armor, which also had a chain mail and a cotton armor.

It's cold now, so it's normal to wear it so thick.

The six Guandi soldiers accompanying him were all wearing three layers of armor, and each of them carried a bunch of iron swallowtail cards.

After arriving outside the yard where the Zhong family caravan lives, I sat down on the chairs arranged in advance ten steps away from the gate.

Behind him was the wall courtyard of another yard, and there was also a yard on both sides of the left and right. Luo Daniu had already led 800 elite troops to ambush behind the surrounding wall courtyard.

After Qin Chuan sat down, Luo Wentian, who was accompanying him, shouted to the yard: "Mr. Zhong, my Lord Qin has arrived. Because of the plague, please forgive me for not being able to come to my house. Please ask my Lord to go out for a lecture."

There was a sound of footsteps in the yard, but the gate of the yard was not open for a long time, and only a shout came from inside: "When my son has not changed his clothes yet, please wait for a moment for Lord Qin and Mr. Luo."

After waiting for about half a quarter of an hour, the gate of the courtyard finally opened, and a young man in a brocade robe and dark-skinned complexion came out, followed by seven or eight strong followers.

"Little student Zhong Deguang, is General Qin Chuan and Lord Qin?"

The young man stopped five steps away from Qin Chuan, then bowed and asked at Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan smiled and said, "I am Qin Chuan, why are you looking for me?"

Zhong Deguang did not rush to respond. A follower next to him leaned into his ear and whispered a few words. Then he looked around for a few more times, and suddenly his face turned grim.

"Kill the Qin thief!"

Zhong Deguang shouted loudly, but did not rush over, but lay on the ground with several followers at the same time.

At the same time, a row of figures suddenly appeared on the wall of the yard behind him, and several figures also emerged from the gate, holding bows and arrows and even crossbow arrows, aiming at Qin Chuan together.

However, the red-clothed servant beside Qin Chuan had already gathered in front of him, and quickly formed a row of shield formations with the swallowtail cards.

Dozens of arrows roared over and shot on the shield formation in one after another. Some were not strong enough to break through the iron sheet on the shield surface and fell to the ground, while others were inserted into the shield, inserting those swallowtail cards like hedgehogs.

Zhong Deguang's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly shouted: "Continue to shoot arrows on the crossbow, and attack the sword and shield. Don't let Qin thieves run away, and kill them by random swords!"

Suddenly a group of people surged out of the yard, and under the command of Zhong Deguang, they quickly formed a simple formation, with swords, shields, hands in front and spears behind, hundreds of people rushed towards Qin Chuan and the shield formations of the Guandi Army with murderous intent.

In the yard behind, someone rushed out and rushed to both sides quickly, trying to block Qin Chuan's retreat.

At this time, a row of heads and dark gun barrels suddenly appeared on the walls of several surrounding yards.

"kill!"

Luo Daniu poked his head out of the wall behind Qin Chuan, shouted for killing, and then jumped over the wall and jumped down.

Two hundred flintlock guns fired at the same time, and a piece of gunfire was rising, and gunfire sounds shook the sky. The Zhong family caravans that rushed out fell down in large areas as if they were mowed grass.

Their wooden shield could not block the bullets of the flintlock rifle within a short distance of about ten steps.

With just one wave of shooting, the Zhong family caravan that rushed out fell down more than half.

The rest of the people were all pale and their feet were frozen.

"kill!"

Luo Daniu shouted again, then dragged a long sword and rushed forward.

Hundreds of elite Guandi army flipped down from the surrounding walls and roared over and killed them.

"Clash, everyone will rush for me. Those who kill Qin thieves will receive 5,000 taels of silver!" Wonderful

Zhong Deguang's face turned pale and he kept shouting, but he ran back to the yard in panic.

But most of his people were already dead under the volleyball round just now, and the rest were already scared. The Guandi Army was killed in a scattered manner with just one charge, and only a few of them fled back to the yard with quick reactions.

Most of the archers on the wall were shot overturned by Guandi Army's muskets, and the rest did not even dare to show their heads.

Soon, the Zhong family caravan outside was almost slaughtered, leaving only a dozen prisoners who were trembling with fear.

Qin Chuan waved his hand to let the red-clothed servants in front of him disperse, and asked the Guandi army to bring the prisoners over.

"Sir, please spare me..."

The dozen or so prisoners knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing.

Qin Chuan rubbed his chin and breathed hard, and said, "Tell me, who are you? Who sent you here?"

A thin man kowtowed quickly and said, "Sir, please spare me. The villain is the brave guard of Zhenwu, and... it was sent by Tongzhi Lord Xu..."

"Zhenwuwei commander Xu Yijie?"

"right."

"What benefits did Xu Yijie give you?"

"White...20 taels of silver will be added to those who are disabled, and the families of the dead will be given thirty taels."

Qin Chuan frowned: "You 400 people, only one person costs 8,000 taels, just 20 taels. Xu Yijie is willing to give out such money?"

"Not only Lord Xu, but also Lord Xue, the commander of Zhenxiwei, and... Prince Ninghua."

"Ha, no wonder."

Qin Chuan laughed for no reason and asked again: "Who is the lord?"

"The villain doesn't know, sir, please spare your life. If the villain says half a lie, thunder will strike you, the villain really doesn't know..."

"Okay, OK."

Qin Chuan waved his hand, then stood up and headed towards the direction of Heishan Fort.

After walking a few steps, he said lightly: "Don't leave anybody, hang his head outside Taiyuan City."

"grown ups……"

The dozen prisoners looked pale.

Qin Chuan did not look back, and took his hand and went straight back to Heishan Fort.

In fact, there is no need to guess at all. The mastermind is Zhu Youjian. This method should have been created by Xu Dingchen or his subordinates.

It’s not that easy to pretend to be a businessman to engage in assassination.

After all, Lord Qin is the leader of one side, so it is impossible for him to meet one merchant at a time. What do you think of Lord Qin?

...

Two days later, a woodcutter went out to chop wood and walked to the famous human head trees west of Taiyuan City, subconsciously glanced at the trees.

With just one glance, the hatchet in the woodcutter's hand fell to the ground with a "clang".

Those few trees had heads full of people.

It's like a flower blooming and bearing fruit.

The woodcutter's face turned pale and he rolled back to Taiyuan City. The news of the human head tree's fruit quickly spread throughout the city.

After Du Yingtang received the news, he sighed inexplicably, and then led his troops out of the city to block the head tree.

He did not forget to send someone to inform the Ninghua Palace, because he had no choice but to have some of the hundreds of heads as guards of the Ninghua Palace and the Jin Palace.

The news soon reached Yangqu, and the Censors and the left and right governors came. They kept silent about this matter and knew everything.

Not long after, the news reached Lu'an Prefecture. Xu Dingchen, who was drinking tea, slammed the tea cup in his hand to the ground.
Chapter completed!