"You secretly observe the left and right. In addition to Chen Zixiao, maybe the Khitan people have a secret room hiding nearby." Xu Huai whispered to Xu Wuqi, Zhou Jing, and Han Qi; Niu Er stood on tiptoe and looked at Su Jin stupidly.
The situation on the other side of the building.
If the Khitan people are indeed using a death plan to provoke Tianxiong's generals to massacre and plunder the Tibetan people in Lanzhou, besides Chen Zixiao, there may be core figures lurking nearby to observe whether the situation develops as expected.
What they expected.
Xu Huai's own goal was too obvious. Chen Zixiao would look over from a distance from time to time. He could only stare at the situation of the imperial guards attacking Sujin Tower. Xu Wuqi, Zhou Jing, and Han Qi had to secretly observe the movements on the left and right.
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The combat effectiveness of the soldiers around Ge Boyi is worth seeing, not to mention Ge Yu, Ge Boyi's eldest son and grandson, personally supervising the battle.
Soon I saw thick smoke billowing from the backyard of Sujin Tower. It looked like a Khitan spy who had resisted till the end but could not resist. He must have set the fire at this time to create chaos and break out.
The Tianxiong Army has absolute advantages on both sides, how can it be possible for a fish that slips through the net to escape?
The battle ended quickly, and then dozens of Forbidden Army generals whose armors were stained with blood were seen withdrawing from inside, and the Xiang Army generals on standby carried buckets in to put out the fire; the fire did not spread, and was soon stopped.
extinguished.
One corpse after another was carried out from the Sujin Building. Xu Huai rode a horse in the distance and roughly estimated that nearly fifty strong men dressed as peasants were wiped out, leaving no one alive; and the Tianxiong Army counted those who had been attacked before.
, there were nearly 30 corpses parked in front of Sujin Building. They were considered injured, and it cannot be said that they were getting much benefit.
The Tianxiong Army is currently in absolute control of the situation in Kelan City. Even near Sujin Tower, they have an absolute advantage. They captured Sujin Tower where a small group of enemy forces were entrenched, but at the cost of nearly 60 casualties.
This is definitely not a complete victory.
This also shows from the side that the fighting power of the Tibetan spies who resisted in Sujinlou is definitely not weak.
Ge Yu stood in front of Sujin Tower, his face mostly covered by a silver helmet. He couldn't see his expression clearly, but one could imagine that he, being arrogant and arrogant, would not be satisfied with such a result.
Ge Yu did not stay here for long. A commander of the Tianxiong Army gave a few instructions and soon left with the guardsmen of the Tianxiong Army who had not suffered heavy casualties.
The blockade on East Main Street has not been lifted, and there are still more than 200 soldiers on guard nearby.
Xu Huai didn't want to deal with Ge Yu. Seeing Ge Yu leading the team out of East Street, he walked with Xu Wuqi, Zhou Jing and others to the front of Sujin Building.
"..."
Seeing someone coming to stop him, Xu Huai reined in his horse and pulled out the waist badge of the military attaché overseeing the military envoy.
Last night, there were so many generals of Tianxiong's army having a banquet and having fun in Yinshan Lane. Although few people knew the identity of Duke Lu, the men and horses overseeing the military envoys not only injured them, but also forcibly detained three of them.
, this is visible to all.
One can imagine how the generals of the Tianxiong Army would react to the people overseeing the military envoys!
However, after all, not everyone is Lu Guogong. Xun Yu, the young prince of the Ge family, the commander of the Tianxiong Army who stayed at the scene to clean up the mess, looked gloomy for a while, and finally signaled to the left and right to get out of the way.
"How can General Xu come to East Street in such a leisurely manner? Could it be that he heard some rumors and came to Sujin Tower to enforce military discipline?" Chen Zixiao led his horse over, glanced at the corpses on the ground, and asked Xu Huai
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"Do I have leisure time? What does it have to do with your mother? I have leisure time, and your mother comes to play with me?" Xu Huai glanced at Chen Zixiao, turned a corpse over with his foot, and looked at the deceased's nose.
His eyes are deep, but he is undoubtedly a Tibetan citizen.
Zhou Jing, Han Qi, and Niu Er stood next to Xu Huai, staring at Chen Zixiao with eager eyes, while Xu Wuqi squatted over and took a closer look at the details of these corpses.
Chen Zixiao smiled awkwardly, but was not annoyed, and looked at Xu Wuqi, Zhou Jing, Han Qi, Niu Er and others.
Niu Er and Xu Wuqi are strangers, but Niu Er is purely forceful and not worth his time to think about.
These enemy corpses would soon be dragged away by the Tianxiong Army for processing. Xu Wuqi didn't waste any time. He squatted on the ground and inspected the corpses. In addition to looking at the tiger's mouth, wrist and arm joints, etc., he also used his hands to touch the corpse's cervical vertebrae and spine.
, the technique is both accurate and fast.
When Chen Zixiao saw this scene, he frowned slightly. He couldn't remember that there was such a famous person in Tongbai Mountain, so he stepped forward and asked, "This man looks unfamiliar, but is he also from Tongbai Mountain?"
"Don't just pretend to be a fool. You are a respectable person, and you need to be cheap in front of us?" Xu Huai interrupted Chen Zixiao rudely, not giving him a chance to test Xu Wuqi.
The dead soldiers of the Tianxiong Army were neatly placed on one side of the stone street, waiting to be arranged for burial. The corpses of the enemy were piled up in a mess, with blood constantly seeping out.
It was impossible for Xu Wuqi to dig out every corpse and take a closer look. That was also the responsibility of the Supervisory Army Envoy. If he delayed for too long, he might be scolded by the Tianxiong Army generals. He hurriedly looked at a dozen corpses.
He stood up and signaled to Xu Huai that they could go to Sujin Tower to have a look.
Xu Huai signaled Xu Wuqi and Zhou Jing, and Han Qi to go in. He held a razor-sharp knife in front of the courtyard, blocking Chen Zixiao, and asked arrogantly: "The Supervisory Army Envoy wants to check whether there is any indiscriminate killing of innocent people, but with
What does your military and horse supervision department have to do with you?"
The third general of the Tianxiong Army, Ge Huaicong, was stationed in Kelan City, and the sixth general, Zhu Guangwu, and other troops were previously under the control of the Lanzhou Military and Horse Supervisory Department. However, the Yanxi Route Army has been officially organized, and the Tianxiong Army is now
The elite Imperial Guards were all directly controlled by Ge Boyi, the governor of the capital; the Lanzhou Military and Horse Supervisory Department only had the power to control the state-affiliated Xiang army, and the rural soldiers were mainly led by Guo Zhongxiong, the magistrate and the transfer envoy of the West Route Army, and were responsible for the supply of food and fodder.
At this time, Chen Zixiao was regarded as a military official under the Suizhou Military and Horse Supervision Department. At this time, many arrests in Kelan City had nothing to do with him; on the contrary, the county captain had the responsibility of arresting bandits and stealing, and at this time, he had to spare manpower to maintain the situation.
order.
Of course, Chen Zixiao was able to come to Sujin Tower without restriction. He obviously had a good relationship with the generals of the Tianxiong Army, especially the third general of the Tianxiong Army who was stationed in Kelan City.
However, Xu Huai must have stopped Chen Zixiao from entering the Sujin Building. The Tianxiong Army stayed behind to take charge of the scene, but there was no way to help explain. He also recognized Xu Huai from his strong body and arrogant attitude.
Who is Xu Huai?
Unless they really want to cause trouble these days, who would touch the stinging head of an arrow holding a chicken feather?
Seeing that Chen Zixiao had no intention of following him in, Xu Huaicai slowly walked up to the two-story building that was stained with blood. The ground was covered with messes. It was not difficult to imagine dozens of people fighting fiercely in this narrow space.
The yard of the bunkhouse occupies a lot of space. Xu Huai jumped directly from the window of the second-story bunkhouse into the yard behind. There were more than a dozen army generals here putting out residual fires. The cabinets were all broken open, and no one could be seen.
Valuable items remained, except for some copper scattered in the corners of some houses.
"I have touched thirteen enemy corpses. They have been tortured for a long time. Only two of them seem to be proficient in riding and shooting. The others look strong and should be ordinary horsemen. But Su Jinlou this time
Of the more than forty people who were killed, I suspect that at most only seven or eight of them were Khitan people..." Xu Wuqi stood at the door, observing whether there were any clues left inside, and whispered to Xu Huai about him.
I just checked the condition of the body.
Chen Zixiao was secretly with the Khitan people. Even if this time they used a death plan to provoke Tianxiong's army to massacre and loot the Tibetan people, Xu Huai guessed that they could not all use elite Khitan scouts who had been carefully trained for many years.
This has now been initially confirmed.
It was obvious that people like Chen Zixiao used what happened last night to spread news, first inducing fear, dissatisfaction and hostility among the Tibetan people, and then gathered a part of the Tibetan people with intense emotions to Sujin Tower to investigate the Tianmen who entered the East Street to search.
The heroic generals launched a surprise attack.
At that time, there must have been some mahus in Sujin Tower who didn't know about it, but a large number of Tianxiong troops surrounded and killed them. They couldn't escape death when they saw that they had disarmed, so they had to fight to the death.
This also created the illusion that dozens of enemies were fighting stubbornly in Sujin Tower, which provided an excuse for the Tianxiong Army to carry out more severe searches and crackdowns on the Tibetan people in the next step.
If what happened last night had not happened, Xu Huai thought about Wang Fan, Wang Fan might have been able to persuade Ge Boyi and others to look at this matter carefully, but seeing that Ge Yu did not hesitate to kill thirty-one people in Nuanxiang Tower, Ge Boyi asked Zhou
When Qi came to supervise the military envoy's tough stance, Xu Huai knew in his heart that the matter was irreversible.
Or maybe Chen Zixiao already knew about the existence of Duke Lu yesterday. After the county captain learned about the Nuanxianglou incident, he immediately reported it to the one-day-old Supervisory Army Envoy. Was it really Chen Zixiao who facilitated it?
"Did you notice a suspicious person just now?" Xu Huai asked when he saw Zhou Jing walking from the next door house.
"There should be, but it's too well hidden." Zhou Jing shook his head and said.
Chen Zixiao lurked across the border three or four years ago and did not arrive in Lanzhou until late March of that year. Considering that Xiao Linshi had been deposed, even if Chen Zixiao successfully contacted his motherland, it was unlikely that he was a Khitan secret agent in Lanzhou.
The master of the inter-network.
In order to provoke Tianxiong's army to massacre and plunder the Tibetan people, asking several Khitans to willingly sacrifice their lives was not something Chen Zixiao could do at this time.
There must be important Khitan figures in Kelan City, but unfortunately they can't find any clues at the moment; they don't have enough manpower to search.
"Should we inform Mr. Wang?" Zhou Jing asked as he stood in front of the corridor.
Although they hated the style of Duke Lu and the Ge family, it was related to the plan to conquer Yan in the north, and neither Zhou Jing nor Xu Wuqi could just sit back and watch the Khitan people's treacherous plan succeed.
The reason why I kept Chen Zixiao secret was to find out more clues from Chen Zixiao.
Even though it was conceivable that Ge Boyi would most likely ignore their warnings, as long as there was a chance of making up for the defeat, Xu Huai could not think of any reason not to go through Wang Zhen and Wang Fan to warn Ge Boyi...
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Or should he completely give up on the idea of single-handedly saving Fa Yan from defeat?
