Mountain bandits?
Back when they left the county town, Lu Xuan still remembered what the gate officials said.
Unexpectedly, he really did run into them.
However, Lu Xuan was speechless; if he had been alone, these mountain bandits coming out to rob would have been understandable.
These bandits and vagrants somehow felt like reckless fools; didn't they see that their group was large and powerful?
How dare they?
"Kill them for me!"
The leader of the convoy's escorts, wielding a large knife, jumped directly from the horseback.
As for mountain bandits, there's nothing to say. In all their years of escorting, they've slain countless bandits.
Bandits, robbers, pirates, all of them stained with the blood of innocent civilians, executioners who kill without mercy.
Even the Great Xia court once issued notices requiring local officials to dispatch troops immediately to annihilate bandits without any leniency.
"Damn it, you bunch of bandits, you're courting death, even daring to provoke me!"
Liang Cheng at the back of the convoy also struck at this moment, slashing decisively with a knife, instantly throat-cutting the bandit approaching him.
Fools!
Are you bandits brain-damaged or blind!
Is there no justice left? I'm a government official, and yet you dare to rob even me; these bandits are truly lawless.
Originally, the task of exterminating bandits had little to do with him, a county official, that was the job of county town soldiers.
But the actions of the bandits made Liang Cheng laugh in anger.
His strength in the Refining Flesh Realm was displayed without reservation at this moment.
Before long, under the full assault of Liang Cheng and the convoy escorts, the bandits suffered heavy casualties.
Especially the leader escort in the front, a master of the Bone Refining Realm, most of the bandits died under his sword.
"Damn it, I've hit a tough nut!"
The big man at the back of the bandits cursed under his breath, his eyes filled with fear.
He was the leader of this band of bandits, Brother Hu, and at this moment, he was not feeling well, with a noticeable wound on his stomach, oozing traces of blood.
If he hadn't escaped quickly, he would have had his belly sliced open by that leading escort opposite.
Bone Refining Realm!
There was actually a master of the Bone Refining Realm opposite, a little Qingyun County, with masters of the Bone Refining Realm counted on one's fingers, yet he encountered one!
Damn it, capsized in the ditch, Brother Hu no longer had any fighting spirit. He was only a Martial Artist of the Flesh Refining Realm, no match for a Bone Refining master.
If the opponent was alone, he could have relied on greater numbers to kill them, but now the opponent's manpower was no less than theirs.
Run!
These people were simply not something they could kill; staying here meant only waiting for death.
This was the only thought in Brother Hu's mind; it's also the reason he hadn't died under government sieges.
But before Brother Hu could prepare to flee, several bandits in front were constantly retreating, looking like they were about to run away.
Brother Hu was instantly furious, his eyes filled with viciousness as he looked at the few men trying to run past him.
"Damn it, you useless bunch even dare to run, get out there and fight for me!"
You scoundrels, I haven't even run yet, and you want to escape.
Brother Hu reached out his large hands, grabbing two men close to him.
Then he forcefully threw them forward, and then kicked another man towards them as well.
These moves flowed like water, completed in a few breaths.
After making these moves, Brother Hu ran away without looking back.
The remaining dozen or so bandits saw their leader fleeing, and they also threw away their weapons and fled in all directions.
A few bandits who couldn't run in time tried to surrender, but were ruthlessly eliminated by the convoy escorts.
Because from the moment they saw the bandits, it meant either you die or I live, there was never a notion of surrender.
After dealing with the last bandit who begged for mercy, the leader escort silently glanced forward, where there was a fleeing figure.
Regarding Brother Hu's escape, the leader escort didn't pursue, nor did the others.
As the saying goes, don't chase a cornered enemy; everyone present understood this principle.
Who knows if there would be traps ahead, or if more bandit remnants were lying in ambush there.
"Mr. Liang, I'll take my leave first, when I return to the county town, I will definitely visit and thank Mr. Liang for your assistance."
The leader escort, seeing all the bandits had been dealt with, stepped in front of Liang Cheng and said courteously.
"Where, where, Mr. Liu, you're too kind. Exterminating these lawless bandits is something we ought to do."
Liang Cheng clearly recognized the identity of the lead escorts, not daring to act superior, promptly returned the courtesy.
The opponent was a master of the Bone Refining Realm, a renowned martial arts expert in the county town, being polite to him was all due to his identity as Chief Constable and the face of his father.
After the head escort finished speaking, he shouted to the convoy escorts: "Take our fallen and injured mates with us, we're leaving!"
Swords and knives are blind, in the intense battle with the bandits, casualties were inevitable.
Even Liang Cheng and a few government officials around him were injured, their clothes stained with soaked blood.
One official almost died at the hands of the bandits, but was saved last minute from Lu Xuan's carriage.
By ejecting a rapid seed like a bullet, instantly piercing the bandit's chest, saving the official.
The escort convoy ahead clearly hastened, traveling several times faster than before.
In a blink of an eye, they left Lu Xuan and the rest far behind.
Clearly, they were worried, worried about another bandit ambush attacking them.
"Boss, what do we do with these bodies?"
An official with a look of relief from surviving a calamity, his voice trembling slightly, seemingly not able to shake off the life-and-death struggle scenes just now.
Mainly because they never thought that as county officials, they would one day engage in life-and-death struggles outside the county town with these ferocious bandits.
Liang Cheng glanced at the corpses scattered across the ground, waved his hand, and spoke in a flat tone.
"Don't bother with them, something will naturally clear these bodies away."
"Get ready, head back to the county town immediately and report to Lord County Magistrate."
"Yes, boss!"
The surroundings of the official road were embraced by mountains, and the wilderness deep in the mountains was filled with countless wolves, tigers, leopards, and some mutated ferocious beasts.
These bodies, once night falls, these ferocious beasts will smell the strong scent of blood here.
Frankly speaking, these bodies aren't even enough to fill their teeth.
Under Liang Cheng's command, several officials tossed the obstructing bodies aside, then continued towards Qingyun County as if nothing had happened.
On another front, the remaining bandits, about five or six, were closely following behind a big man, and that big man at the front was Brother Hu who had just escaped.