The hot iron sand sprayed into the big man's eyes, nose, and mouth. The strong man let out a scream, threw the gun away, covered his face with his hands, but was still able to support his body and retreated backwards.
Zhao Liangjian succeeded in the surprise attack, jumped up quickly, rushed forward to pursue him, used all his strength to pick up the steel whip, and smashed it head on.
There was a dull click, and the steel whip hit the strong man's forehead squarely. Under the heavy blow, the forehead bone dented visibly to the naked eye. The severe concussion caused by the impact made the big man lose all his thinking and thinking.
The ability to react.
Zhao Liangjian was hit by the whip and stopped pursuing. He shrank back and retreated to the escort formation.
The two warriors holding shields took a step forward, pinched each other to the left and right, and closed the horizontal formation, covering Zhao Liangjian behind them.
The strong man was still standing there dumbly at this time. The dense capillaries on his head burst one after another, and streams of blood turned the big man's head into a gourd of blood in an instant.
Due to intracranial hemorrhage, two streams of black blood flowed out of the man's nostrils. The man reached out and wiped it, but it was all in vain. More blood immediately flowed out of his nose.
Opposite Zhao Liangjian had thrown away the steel whip at this time, replaced it with a simple knife in his hand, laughed loudly and said: "How? This is a certain family's special skill, it's called, um, it's called this... it's called 'facial'."
The big man stood stunned, coughed, and said with difficulty: "Cough, cough, pickled old dog, don't show... martial ethics."
After saying that, he rolled his eyes and fell hard to the ground.
They became hasty, and all the thieves were stunned. Wu Yanluo was the first to wake up, became angry, thundered, and shouted: "The whole gang comes out and kills them all, leaving no one behind!"
A thief in Wu Yanluo's team immediately blew a long whistle.
Wu Yanluo turned his head and looked at the roadside, waiting for his ambush accomplices to come out.
Zhao Liangjian and Liu Chang heard the thief's whistle and knew that the thief was calling for an ambush. Their hearts tightened at the same time, and they both turned to look at the forest on the right.
Amid the whistle, a clucking pheasant suddenly flew up from the woods beside the road, and then there was a muffled sound in the forest and a cloud of white smoke.
The lingering sound of the whistle dissipated, and there was no ambush that Wu Yanluo expected, nor the continuous gunfire of Liao Sanniang that Zhao Liangjian expected.
No, nothing, and the scene instantly fell into an awkward and weird silence.
The people on both sides looked at each other, looking at each other in confusion. No one knew what happened, and they all felt a little confused. Liu Chang nervously asked Zhao Liangjian: "Senior Brother Zhao, what happened?"
Zhao Liangjian also shook his head in confusion.
After a while, everyone suddenly remembered their own jobs, bodyguards and robbers.
As if they were waking up from a dream, everyone shouted at the same time, raised their swords and guns, and collided with each other in a chaotic manner.
Outside the forest, Zhao Liangjian shouted and yelled, which aroused his thoughts. He instantly recalled ten years of swords and swords, Lingao, and the escort agency.
The branches on the tree opposite swayed, and a broken leaf fell silently. Watching the broken leaf drifting down, Liao Sanniang was actually a little crazy.
At the moment of life and death, you should not be distracted, but your mind is shaken, your emotions are like a bursting river, and you cannot control yourself.
After living in Guangli for seven years, Liao Sanniang went to Lingao and saw a train for the first time, a telegraph for the first time, a post office for the first time, and a bank for the first time.
That day she knew that the escort agency was at an end.
One small train can support several teams of escort cars, but its transport capacity cannot be matched by the mule team.
Deposits and withdrawals are made through banks, and money is transferred to the world.
Post office logistics and delivery, network distribution.
A telegraph can be reached by breathing, and a thousand miles is like the other side.
Liao Sanniang has a keen insight. Although it is difficult to understand everything she saw during her trip to Lingao, she was deeply shocked.
What eliminated the escort agency was not the muskets, but transportation and communications.
The people of the Song Dynasty used steel and sleepers to pave roads, and the amount of work was almost the same as digging canals, which depleted the country's power and people's support. This was done by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and was an act of subjugation.
The people of the Song Dynasty are magical. Money comes from money, and iron comes from iron. The more you spend, the more you earn. Stations were built one after another, becoming nodes to revitalize the place. Silver water flows along the railway, nourishing every place.
Water and soil, slogans are painted on the walls of every village: If you want to be rich, build roads first.
At the women's meeting, the leaders of the Song Dynasty were impassioned, their faces flushed, spitting stars visible to the naked eye, and they loudly longed for the dawn of the industrial age. They said: The road of iron is paved in Lingao and will eventually be paved throughout the country.
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The Qing Dynasty entered the customs and changed dynasties. Social stability brought about population growth, market expansion promoted commercial development, the rise of Shanxi merchant bank accounts, and the circulation of large amounts of cash, making Shaanxi the financial center of the Qing Dynasty.
Relying on the ticket number, the escort agency originally had more than 200 years of good times.
The arrival of the Song people changed everything and accelerated the demise of the escort agency and many traditional industries.
According to the original history, after the demise of the escort agency, some practitioners turned to running large car shops and survived for decades.
Qiwei in Guangdong is also working hard to adapt to the new situation, restructuring a security company, running a car dealership, and a hotel chain, which coincides with the large car shop of the old historical escort agency. They reach the same goal by different routes, showing the strong inertia of history.
The next twenty years will not be a change of dynasties, but a compound change of system replacement, technological leap, and ideological innovation. It will be a change of days.
The traditional business model of small workshop-style enterprises in feudal society will be replaced by new industries. Many old industries, represented by escort agencies, will become victims of this earth-shaking revolution. After a short period of existence, they will become a grain of sand in the ocean of history.
Zhao Liangjian shouted the road in vernacular.
The escort can compete with the green forest bandits and negotiate with the bandits.
What the escort said works, because there is a knife in the back.
Escort bureau is a business of people, reputation is the foundation of one's career, reputation is gained by one's ability, and what is sold is art.
When you are robbed and your escort is thrown away, you have to find it with a real sword and a real gun. When your family is robbed, the escort agencies all join forces and share the same hatred until death.
Once you become famous, people will know you, and you will have favors. This is precipitation.
Everywhere they go, the bodyguards have to pay homage to the mountains, send greetings to local powerful people, and give gifts to show respect. The powerful dragon will not suppress the local snake.
The ceremony does not need to be heavy, just one or two boxes of snacks, a few bottles of Song Dynasty wine, and show off your unique skills when leaving, attracting everyone's admiration, and your Taoist reputation is well-deserved. This is the glory of a warrior.
The escorts and gangsters have known each other since then. Next time we meet, we will be friends.
The robbers who sit in the stronghold and the tyrants who sit on the ground are friends. Friends are water, and the escort agency is a fish. Without water, the fish will die.
Whether he is a thief or a bodyguard, when he speaks jargon, laymen will be confused. This gives the speaker the satisfaction of being an insider. Being in the world, he unconsciously feels professional pride and pride.
Troubled times are different, everything is changing at a fast pace, the king's flag is changing on the city wall, today's king may be the head of the leader on the top of the pole tomorrow.
The troubled times cannot be settled, everyone is like flying sand that is swept away in a violent rush, and the false reputation of warriors is blown away like mist, and no one remembers it.
Shouting for darts is for those in the know. In troubled times, there are only armies, rebels, and refugees, but no insiders. You can only shout darts in the vernacular. There is no knife behind the words, and no one will listen to them.
Rogue thieves are like locusts, they will eat the bodyguards and caravans into skeletons. This is not a description, they are real skeletons with blood and muscles.
The thieves are not as skilled in martial arts as they are more numerous than the people. The crowds are coming in like a flood, and they are outnumbered. As a result, transportation fails, the escort routes are cut off, and the escort bureau goes out of business.
Before leaving the city, Li Rufeng went to various escort agencies to borrow people. The escort agencies had been out of business for a long time, so everyone was enthusiastic.
Director Li from He Liansheng is rich and can provide food for everyone. This is a good job, but it is a pity that he wants too few people.
Before the arrival of trains and telegrams, the troubled times had already buried the escort agency.
When Liao Sanniang saw those destitute bodyguards, she was overcome with sadness. It was like the sunset of a profession. She was there, and she had a premonition that there would be no more escort professions in the world.
Liao Sanniang blinked and suddenly woke up. The remaining leaves on the opposite side had just left the branches, with only a trace of whereabouts, and time almost did not flow.
It is said that before a person dies, his life will be condensed into a moment. I didn't believe it before, but just now when I heard Zhao Liangjian calling the way, my thoughts were concrete, and the scenes flashed back like a movie, as if I were seeing it with my own eyes.
The past and the future are all in a flash of thought.
It turns out that the legend is actually true.
Warriors are superstitious, and the living body realizes that the state of death is unknown.
Liao Sanniang pulled out the pistol with her right hand, her mind was as calm as a mirror, and she was extremely clear-headed. All the enemy's movements were visible to her eyes. At this moment, the sword and gun were in hand. Life or death was up to me, regardless of good or bad luck.
Through the fish-scale gaps between the leaves, you can vaguely see Zhao Liangjian and his friends outside the forest.
Zhao Liangjian had the courage before he was thirty years old. He used a 13-section tiger tail whip made of red sandalwood. Each section had 12 ridges and was as hard as steel. According to the height measurement, the whip weighed three kilograms and eight taels, which was the heaviest among whips.
, no matter how heavy it is, my wrist can’t bear it.
The thinnest metal whip weighs more than ten kilograms and cannot be used by humans. It can only be used for martial arts, not actual combat.
Zhao Liangjian had a waist injury, so a year ago he stopped using whips and switched to using simple knives.
The thunder whip is made of metal and weighs more than ten kilograms. It relies on steps to move around. When firing, it is held with both hands. When attacking, it is used close to the body to catch the enemy by surprise.
The Senate had a disposable hand-held spray canister many years ago. The effect was almost the same, but the weight was much lighter. However, Zhao Liangjian did not choose to use it.
The Thunder Fire Whip is a reminder of his past years. When using it, he relies on clever tricks to blind his eyes and then makes a sneak attack. It is not a martial skill, but close to a trick, and it is hard to say that he is honest.
However, in the world of martial arts, life and death depend on taking action, and being upright cannot save one's life.
After a few breaths and a gunshot, the two men decided the winner. A sharp whistle sounded outside the forest. The ten ambush soldiers in front of them simultaneously arched their waists and prepared to rush out. The backs of all the thieves were facing Liao Sanniang, as if in an invitation.
Liao Sanniang plugged her ears with cotton in advance. The sound of the gunfire was very loud. Although it would not damage her ears if she heard it directly, it would definitely affect her hearing within a day or two. This is fatal to people who have to face dangerous situations and fight at any time.
Liao Sanniang leaned out from behind the tree, opened the nose of the pistol, took a step forward, and raised her right arm flat to aim. She had extremely strong arms and could shoot with one hand.
Suddenly, a pheasant flew up from Liao Sanniang's feet without any warning. The ambushing bandits were startled by the sudden movement behind them, startled themselves, and looked back at the same time.
People are old and horses are old and slippery. The longer an animal lives, the stronger its ability to adapt to the environment.
Staying still is the natural self-preservation instinct of many animals.
When a hunter or wild beast approaches, old pheasants and hares will not flee immediately, but will hide and observe quietly, waiting for the predator to leave on its own.