After two quarters of an hour, Zhao Dongting and the guards still failed to catch up with Sha Wanli.

Sha Wanli is burly and has a good martial arts skills. He has four arrows inserted into his body and has a palm. He has never declined.

While galloping, the archer could no longer shoot him with arrows.

In this way, before I knew it, I rushed to the continuous city walls. The houses in the village were towering and lined up one after another.

Zhao Dongting and others rode their horses to the front of the city, and there were no signs of Sha Wanli. There were many people holding weapons and torches at the entrance of the village.

Judging from the postures of these people, they are clearly all practicing.

Yue Peng immediately shouted: "Is someone breaking into your village just now?"

Zhao Dongting looked up at the plaque of the village, but thoughtful.

Xiulin Castle

How could Sha Wanli come here?

No one answered the guards.

Yue Peng drove his horse forward a few meters and shouted, "I ask you if anyone broke into your village just now?"

A man with the appearance of a leader replied, "He broke in."

Yue Peng immediately raised his gun and shouted, "Go in with me to get people."

After saying that, at least he had to rush into the village.

But I never thought that those guards of the hamlets would not allow them and would block the door tightly.

Yue Peng said angrily: "We will wait in and arrest the important criminals. How dare you stop me?"

"There's no need to bother the general."

Just then, a hearty laughter came from the inside. Then more than a dozen people walked out of the city.

The person in charge was an old man with white hair in the middle of his forehead. He was holding something in one hand, and it turned out to be Sha Wanli.

At this time, Sha Wanli was already out of breath.

The old man walked out of the gate of the city and threw Sha Wanli's body in front of Yue Pengma, "Is he the criminal the general is looking for?"

Sha Wanli's body rolled on the ground a few times, with his face facing upwards. His eyes were actually widening.

Yue Peng couldn't help but be slightly surprised. Although Sha Wanli was injured, he was very skilled after all. He was killed just after breaking into the city for a short time?

But at this time, the people from the village had already thrown out Sha Wanli's body, so he could only bow and say, "I'm working hard!"

The old man in charge said, "You are polite, General, it is necessary for me to serve the imperial court."

His words were so righteous. Then, his eyes glanced at Zhao Dongting and Li Yuanxiu.

Zhao Dongting looked at the high-hanging plaque "Xiulin Castle" and said to Yue Peng: "Take Sha Wanli's head back and leave!"

Yue Peng cut Sha Wanli's head with a gun and held it in his hand. A group of horse soldiers guarded Zhao Dongting and left quickly.

Along the way, Zhao Dongting frowned.

He was very puzzled how Sha Wanli could have galloped to Xiulin Castle. Is it because of a coincidence?

Not long after walking, more than ten people suddenly rushed over in the night ahead of the road. The speed of running was no longer much slower than that of a horse, and they were very good at lightness.

Yue Peng was shocked and hurriedly stopped him in front.

When those people stopped approaching, they were ragged beggars. The person in charge was Hong Wutian.

Zhao Dongting was slightly surprised and shouted: "Senior Hong, why are you here?"

However, Hong Wutian suddenly knelt on one knee, and then said to Zhao Dongting: "The Beggars' Sect helps Hong Wutian, and brings the elders of the Beggars' Sect to the Lord!"

The beggars behind him also knelt down, "Kow to the Emperor!"

The old beggar who was held hostage by Sha Wanli and accidentally injured Sha Wanli was also among them.

Zhao Dongting smelled some unusual smell and said in confusion: "Senior Hong, are you?"

Hong Wutian stood up and explained with a smile: "Please forgive me. After we discovered Sha Wanli, we deliberately let several elders dress up as ordinary beggars to guard him. He was held hostage in the mountain temple, which was just intentional."

Zhao Dongting was stunned and said suddenly: "Senior Hong is testing me, right?"

Hong Wutian smiled awkwardly, and then said, "The emperor cares about the people of the world and is willing to let Sha Wanli go for my Beggars' Gang. I am also at ease to hand over the disciples of the Beggars' Gang to the emperor. I just don't know if the emperor is willing to include my Beggars' Gang disciples in the army?"

Zhao Dongting was overjoyed and asked hurriedly: "How many disciples are there in the Beggars' Sect?"

Hong Wutiandao: "There are about 10,000 people who are healthy and able to join the army!"

"good!"

Zhao Dongting was even more happy, "I set up a special army of beggars! I will arrange for generals to recruit the children of the Beggars' Gang to join the army tomorrow!"

The elders of the Beggar Gang beside Hong Wutian were all overjoyed when they heard this.

The ordinary Beggar Gang disciples are not like them. They are mostly forced by life and are displaced to join the Beggar Gang. The leader of this trip brought tens of thousands of disciples to Leizhou, and survival has become a problem. If he cannot join the army, he will probably be separated again. Now Zhao Dongting personally promised and set up a special beggar army. In the future, those Beggar Gang disciples can finally be free of food and clothing.

Furthermore, rescuing the country and saving the people is the purpose of the Beggars' Sect in history.

Hong Wutian also bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

After testing Zhao Dongting, he recognized Zhao Dongting, so naturally he was no longer as arrogant as before.

Zhao Dongting asked with a smile: "Her senior Hong and all the elders, have they joined the army with the crowd?"

He was naturally very looking forward to this. Hong Wutian’s Kung Fu is no lower than Li Yuanxiu, and there are also these elders of the Beggars’ Sect. If they were to join, the court would not be so powerless to deal with the people in the martial arts world in the future.

However, Hong Wutian declined politely and said, "I am used to being scattered, so it's better to stay in the world and lead the disciples to continue to resist the Yuan army."

The other elders also meant this, and no one expressed their intention to join the army.

Zhao Dongting was a little expectant, but he didn't feel too disappointed after hearing this. He just now just now just held some hope.

Usually, these people in the martial arts world are unwilling to join the court. After all, they do not know how to manage politics and are not easy to lead troops to fight. Otherwise, there would not be so few masters in the Southern Song Dynasty court.
Chapter completed!